The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Here is a perfect example of the chilling effect of overt far-left indoctrination. The Common Application is a convenient way for college-bound high school students to apply to multiple colleges. But it is obviously run by progressive scum, as exemplified by its CEO, Jenny Rickard, who looks pretty much how one would expect; a pinch-faced scold. Her career before she slithered into her current position, starting with her undergraduate days at Swarthnore College (Wow...what a surprise!), suggests that she is perfectly happy with driving anyone to the right of Stalin out of Academia and perhaps out of America.

The obvious problem here is that every kid using the Common Application is going to reveal some part of himself on that application, including in an essay. After reading this letter how many of these kids are going to take the safe route and say nothing about any impure thoughts they might be having? No discussions of freedom and liberty or market economics or how I spent my summers hunting or shooting or serving the poor at my church or a hundred other telltale behaviors.

The hysterical tone and outright lies are simply a tool to intimidate and manipulate anyone who is thinking of applying to college.

The message is clear; wrongthink will be punished. And the rancid bitch who runs this organization will be lauded for her bravery, instead of being hounded from a position of influence over the futures of our youth.

Since Jenny joined Common App in August of 2016, the organization has developed a long-term strategic plan and roadmap and has expanded its access initiatives, including the acquisition of Reach Higher, the college access and success campaign founded by former First Lady Michelle Obama during her time in the White House[...]

Another surprise! She is an Obama fluffer!

The long march through our schools has yielded a monolithic academic culture that ruthlessly tamps down any deviation from the orthodoxy. And that orthodoxy is anti-Western, anti-White, anti-freedom, and anti-individual.

We spent 3,000 years developing a culture that has lifted the world out of Hobbes' "nasty, brutish, and short" life and propelled us to places unimagined just a few hundred years ago. These people want to drag us back down into the muck of a totalitarian hellscape. They had a taste of it in the USSR, China, and the many failed socialist states around the world. And they want that for us.

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 Monkey!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2021 11:00 AM (kTF2Z)

2 Hello monkey!

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at January 12, 2021 11:00 AM (ExV1e)

3 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at January 12, 2021 11:00 AM (OE50I)

4 I'll fetch the otters.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2021 11:00 AM (kTF2Z)

5 And so it begins.
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at January 12, 2021 11:00 AM (OE50I)

---------

I was told that this is how it ends.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2021 11:01 AM (kTF2Z)

6 Yikes... We are so screwed

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2021 11:02 AM (Zmnko)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

8 first ish

and it's stevie nicks and carmen electra...

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 12, 2021 11:03 AM (8D42x)

9 College is a cult.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) has drink taken at January 12, 2021 11:03 AM (yQpMk)

10 We Have Assumed Control.

We Are Neutralizing The Threats.

We Are Enforcing Unity.

Have No Fear.

A New Day Is Coming.

--
DemoTechnoFascists

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2021 11:03 AM (GwkzT)

11 That "stark differences" sentence is some of the worst writing I've ever seen.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 12, 2021 11:03 AM (2HIdp)

12 10th?

Posted by: WarEagle82 at January 12, 2021 11:03 AM (+Kpte)

13 And for those who don't have college-age children and so may not be aware, not only is the Common App a convenient way to apply to schools, it is the ONLY way to apply to many, many schools.

Posted by: bluebell at January 12, 2021 11:03 AM (/669Q)

14 Kids....go to tech school...learn something useful...you'll need it in your future.

Posted by: BignJames at January 12, 2021 11:04 AM (AwYPR)

15 The left is so screwed.
I know it is difficult to see now.

Feelings will be hurt...

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at January 12, 2021 11:04 AM (v2c9/)

16
The line it is drawn / The curse it is cast
The slow one now / Will later be fast
As the present now / Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) has drink taken at January 12, 2021 11:05 AM (yQpMk)

17 Fuck that monkey in particular.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2021 11:05 AM (nOQ/t)

18 We have control
We keep you safe
We are your hope
We are in control.

Posted by: Gaff at January 12, 2021 11:05 AM (jPS2y)

19 "help us all achieve a better world"

Again--this is a CEO writing.

To encourage you to get an education.

She sort of makes her point, just not the way she meant to do so.

This is actual irony, for you kids struggling with the definition of that word.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 12, 2021 11:05 AM (2HIdp)

20 The Common App is not NEARLY as woke as the Coalition Application.

Here is their site:

https://www.coalitionforcollegeaccess.org/

Go ahead. Take a look.

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 11:06 AM (ZfRYq)

21 These children will be informing on their parents in the very near future in order to maintain their grade point average.

Posted by: Derak at January 12, 2021 11:06 AM (k0WjC)

22 Black gets capitalized, but brown doesn't?

What a bizarre world they've created for themselves.

Posted by: spindrift at January 12, 2021 11:06 AM (Q7J8K)

23 Dan Bongino: "I'm hearing that some of the info on the Hunter Biden laptop is pretty devastating."

Um.......so?

NOTHING WILL HAPPEN.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

24 CBD, I'm sure you've been asked this many, many times before, but I wasn't there when it was asked in the past, so...

What is the meaning behind your nic?

Charlie Brown's Dildo?

Not groking it.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated reply.

Posted by: El Jefe ~Blue Zones~POW*MIA~You Are Not Forgotten~ at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (Ae67h)

25 Holy shit new Project Veritas video on this very subject.

https://youtu.be/t1r2rdmWsPE

Posted by: Bert G at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (OMsf+)

26 Has anyone got a link to a photo of this woman? I'm pretty sure she looks exactly like we think, but I'd like to see.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (ZGrMX)

27 I'm encouraging my kids to avoid university. As the dollar goes and the US splits up, a plumber or electrician will be more valuable than a lawyer.

Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (ftFVW)

28 What's the point of going to college if you already know everything?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (kTF2Z)

29 The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado -tempore belli!) at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (N3El/)

30 23 Dan Bongino: "I'm hearing that some of the info on the Hunter Biden laptop is pretty devastating."

WELCOME TO 3 MONTHS AGO DAN!

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (ZfRYq)

31 We're through the looking glass here, people!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (+y/Ru)

32 College is a cult.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

/pedant

It ain't the college so much as the fetish of accredation and certification.

/pedant

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2021 11:08 AM (nOQ/t)

33 21 These children will be informing on their parents in the very near future in order to maintain their grade point average.
Posted by: Derak at January 12, 2021 11:06 AM (k0WjC)

But if you record a college professor they will have you expelled, because they intend to put themselves on top of the power structure.

Posted by: Bete at January 12, 2021 11:08 AM (Ojki1)

34
I am so glad my kids are grown.

I feel for you parents who have school and college-aged kids.
Posted by: SMH at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (MYa8n)

Thanks.

I'm so excited.....

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

35 The first paragraph of that letter is chilling. It's also a huge lie but it serves the purpose of dividing and silencing

Posted by: DitkaCA at January 12, 2021 11:08 AM (kVjCi)

36 14 Kids....go to tech school...learn something useful...you'll need it in your future.
like intersectional ballot adjudication?

Posted by: Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 12, 2021 11:08 AM (sGtp+)

37 wow, just ... wow. that letter is chilling, to say the least. and to think she's "guiding" youth into college is even worse. i weep for the future my son has...

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 12, 2021 11:08 AM (8D42x)

38 These people want to drag us back down into the muck of a totalitarian
hellscape. They had a taste of it in the USSR, China, and the many
failed socialist states around the world. And they want that for us.
Why?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Wi Fuct at January 12, 2021 11:09 AM (HaL55)

39 "help us all achieve a better world"

Again--this is a CEO writing.

To encourage you to get an education.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 12, 2021 11:05 AM (2HIdp)

******

What is the error in her grammar? I don't get it. Or am I missing the point?

Posted by: El Jefe ~Blue Zones~POW*MIA~You Are Not Forgotten~ at January 12, 2021 11:09 AM (Ae67h)

40 I like how a couple of hundred unarmed people (but zip ties!)
were going to undo their fraudulent piece of shit "election" by wandering through the sacred halls of corruption.

Posted by: spindrift at January 12, 2021 11:09 AM (Q7J8K)

41 "Violent white supremicist stormed the Capitol in an attempt to undo a fair and legal election."

They "stormed" the Bastile unarmed. Explain in detail how that would "undo" any election, much less a legal and fair one.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2021 11:09 AM (wjmTS)

42 Just for fun - I have 2 boys who graduated HS in 2019. For various reasons, they have each chosen to take a gap, err, year or lifetime or something.

The silver lining there is I don't have to pay for any college. So there is that.

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 11:09 AM (ZfRYq)

43 Hopefully someone compiles a list of companies that put out statements calling this an "insurrection", or racist, or whatever other bullshit they want to pin on it. I kind of ignored companies putting out George Floyd statements and posting lip service to BLM, because it felt like them all given into industry pressure (which says they're cowards, but not bad) But these statements about the Capitol hill fiasco are companies down right calling 75 million Americans traitors who deserve to be hung, it's far beyond the redline we should all have written in the sand.

Personally I'm getting out of Bank of America by thre end if the month. Thier statement was particularly despicable and i don't want to deal with them any longer. I'd love to move to a credit union, but it's not a very feasible option in NYC (maybe JJ knows one) but from what I've seen I can't find anything about this week or even BLM put out by TD Bank, so they might be my new home for now.

I've boycotted a few places after they pushed Obama shit much tamer than this, so I can hold a grudge.

Posted by: Rbastid at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (kCDub)

44 The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado -tempore belli!) at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (N3El/)

*****

No doubt. No doubt indeed.

Posted by: El Jefe ~Blue Zones~POW*MIA~You Are Not Forgotten~ at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (Ae67h)

45 If your kids have a solid conservative foundation of principled life, the college deep state will seek to damage and destroy it. It's a coin toss if the kids graduate without losing all that you've taught them.

Posted by: BluesFish at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (796i6)

46 A good plumber makes a fine living only knowing skills learned on the job. Apprenticeship programs are the way to go, and you get paid to learn. Cold water on the right, hot on the left, and payday's Thursday.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (I58tH)

47
Mikey Likes 'em - a limerick

Chaos, disruption, gaslighting galore
Some even say it's a new Civil War
But don't pull out your hair
Set aside time to prepare
OODA Loops™!! They're not just for breakfast any more!

Posted by: Muldoon at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (m45I2)

48 Why didn't that memo mention anything regarding prayer as a way of also dealing with these odd times?

Oh yeah, muh chruch and state.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (ch6++)

49 Listen up, monkey boy... I got the good-a lines too:
A-sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife,
Doomed is your soul and a-damned is your life.

Posted by: Lord John Whorfin at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (HI3xr)

50 What is the meaning behind your nic?

Posted by: El Jefe ~Blue Zones~POW*MIA~You Are Not Forgotten~ at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (Ae67h)

A long time ago I was mixing it up with Ace in the comments, and he made the distinction between his own position as the owner of the blog and the commenters, who could say whatever the hell they wanted without consequences. He said, something like, "Hell, you could call yourself 'Charlie Brown's Dildo,' and it wouldn't matter."

And now you know the whole story!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (xT2tT)

51
40 I like how a couple of hundred unarmed people (but zip ties!)
were going to undo their fraudulent piece of shit "election" by wandering through the sacred halls of corruption.
Posted by: spindrift at January 12, 2021 11:09 AM (Q7J8K)

The worst coup attempt in history.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi's Desk Chair. at January 12, 2021 11:11 AM (PtOP4)

52 >Holy shit new Project Veritas video on this very subject.

https://youtu.be/t1r2rdmWsPE
Posted by: Bert G at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (OMsf+)

Maybe this will wake us a few of the more reticent among us who don't understand that they want us broke and dead, and they literally want our kids brainwashed and they think it's funny. It's literal proof of the Sam Hyde quote.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 12, 2021 11:11 AM (poEUH)

53 28 I'm encouraging my kids to avoid university. As the dollar goes and the US splits up, a plumber or electrician will be more valuable than a lawyer.
Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (ftFVW)

It already is in many places as there is such a glut of lawyers many law schools have had to shrink their class maximums knowing graduating a whole bunch of persons trained in suing people what have been put greatly into debt when a school knows their chances for employment is not great is a fantastic way to find themselves fighting those newly trained people in court.

Posted by: Bete at January 12, 2021 11:12 AM (Ojki1)

54 Insurrection... what a lie. Here's an equation: Corona Tyranny + A Stolen Election + Big Tech & MSM Censorship/Gaslighting = A Lot of Justifiable Rage

Trump supporters forcing their way into the Capitol on the 6th is analogous to the abused wife slapping her husband on the face as he approaches to beat her up for the umpteenth time.

The world at large seems to be aghast that the abused wife might strike out while ignoring the many beatings already endured from her bullying husband.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 12, 2021 11:12 AM (pcsoT)

55 These children will be informing on their parents in the very near future in order to maintain their grade point average.

Posted by: Derak at January�

It's already happening.

Did you see the daughter who outed her mom on Twitter as a rally attendee?

Lost her job.

Posted by: It's Happening at January 12, 2021 11:12 AM (AJ/B4)

56 As Politico puts it, a riot that "left five dead."

That elides sooooo much.

Like, on the day of the event, 4 were dead. One shot by the police, and three of medical emergencies caused by the flashbang grenades from the police.

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 11:12 AM (ZfRYq)

57 Two words: Hillsdale College.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 12, 2021 11:13 AM (ufFY8)

58 49 Listen up, monkey boy... I got the good-a lines too:
A-sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife,
Doomed is your soul and a-damned is your life.
Posted by: Lord John Whorfin at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (HI3xr)

It's Bou-Tay BOU-TAY!

Posted by: John Bigboote at January 12, 2021 11:13 AM (PiwSw)

59 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (xT2tT)

Thanks. That's good to know.

I'm leaving the internet today on that note.

All of you have a good day.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at January 12, 2021 11:13 AM (v2c9/)

60 Basically the Left has a bigger barrel then we do.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 12, 2021 11:13 AM (vQJZv)

61 And now you know the whole story!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (xT2tT)

*****

Much obliged, sir. Now it makes perfect sense.

Posted by: El Jefe ~Blue Zones~POW*MIA~You Are Not Forgotten~ at January 12, 2021 11:13 AM (Ae67h)

62 The "stark differences" in the treatment of black and brown "protesters" (a/k/a rioters, looters, arsonists, etc.), compared with MAGA (or even perceived MAGA) protesters, or conservative protesters, has been shocking and wrong, but not for the reasons this letter insinuates.

Blacks and browns, and lots of lefty whites, protesting/rioting under the BLM and antifa flags, have been treated with kid gloves by law enforcement. In most instances, even when caught in the act of rioting, setting fires, smashing up businesses, etc., they are not arrested, and in the cases of the handful who were arrested, they are either not charged or the charges are dismissed within weeks. Politicians either explicitly urge them to keep up the violence (see, e.g., Kamaltoe Harris), or they insist that we must give them "room to riot," and the media treat them like heroic figures.

Compare and contrast to protests by conservatives (such as the Tea Party) or MAGA types, where even the most peaceful and respectful gatherings are treated like Klan meetings by the media, participants are routinely slandered as racists and haters, and politicians called for armed responses.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 12, 2021 11:13 AM (k4dH2)

63 So, some trannie freak hacked parler and collected TB's of data. People who used their smartphones of course gave their GPS data along with anything else given to parler for verification or transaction purposes. @codemonkeyZ warned Bongino weeks ago about this very thing, and got snubbed.

Of course, this little clown is posting everything on twatter (doxxing) and has made the files available to all his antifa chums. This however, doesn't seem to come up against twatter's TOS in the least. Big f'ing surprise.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 12, 2021 11:13 AM (L8ADy)

64 Old and busted: waiting for Jesus to return

New and shiny: waiting for the New Soviet Man to emerge

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 12, 2021 11:13 AM (+y/Ru)

65 I posted a link to an analysis of the Ashli Babbitt video (it was on Epoch Times). The guys breaking the windows were Antifa. The guy filming one of the videos was Antifa. And the guy trying to agitate people was also Antifa. It was pretty interesting.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 12, 2021 11:13 AM (JKNZq)

66 It ain't a riot unless peeps get big screens. Everyone knows this.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (vQJZv)

67 40 I like how a couple of hundred unarmed people (but zip ties!)

were going to undo their fraudulent piece of shit "election" by wandering through the sacred halls of corruption.
by forcing the people's representatives into their small safe spaces, the insurrections sought to create a super-spreader covid event, which is essentially use of a biological weapon and therefore a crime against humanity. they must be punished.

Posted by: Next Week's Front Page at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (v3pYe)

68 Blogger Bookworm has done posts on how the college applications encourage and reward kids for being woke.

The Common App also has five essay prompts, from which the student picks one, all aimed at helping the university see what kind of person the student is outside of test scores and grades. This year's prompts:
-- Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
-- Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?
-- Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act? Would you make the same decision again?
-- Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?
-- Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (bDqIh)

69 Super-good article on Covid-19 hysteria. With charts and everything: https://tinyurl.com/y4pfzgh5

Posted by: lizabth at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (L3Rsz)

70 Maybe, if we took 2 parts Pinochet and 1 part Pol Pot...

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (/3XQC)

71
And they want that for us

But they won't get what they want. One of the left's big flaws is overreach, and another is overconfidence. Put the two together and we'll see just how long they manage to keep 80 million Americans under their thumb.Not long, I guarantee.

Posted by: weew at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (+m+uH)

72 And now you know the whole story!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (xT2tT)
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Now do Masturbatin' Pete.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (OE50I)

73 A long time ago I was mixing it up with Ace in the comments, and he made the distinction between his own position as the owner of the blog and the commenters, who could say whatever the hell they wanted without consequences. He said, something like, "Hell, you could call yourself 'Charlie Brown's Dildo,' and it wouldn't matter."

And now you know the whole story!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (xT2tT)

Rally? that's awesome.

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (8D42x)

74 Old and busted: waiting for Jesus to return

New and shiny: waiting for the New Soviet Man to emerge

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler

What rough beast, indeed.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: There is always More Stupid at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (OUMaO)

75 The protests were Ghandian.

Posted by: Peppermint Patty's Pulsating Paramour at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (yQpMk)

76
So Parler has not only been deplatformed simultaneously by multiple service providers in obvious coordination, all private information and content has been accessed and downloaded by crazed social justice warriors because one of the services suddenly dropped was authentication/security. The hackers I imagine had advance notices and coordination like the rest of them.

I don't think this technological infrastructure the enemy has built is the way to go.

(Why on earth did they use Amazon web services? Incompetence?)

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 12, 2021 11:15 AM (t5m5e)

77 Holy shit new Project Veritas video on this very subject.

https://youtu.be/t1r2rdmWsPE
Posted by: Bert G at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (OMsf+)

Of course since I'm subbed and have notifications turned on on YT, I haven't heard shit. I only get notifications AFTER I've watched a video. Asshoes.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 12, 2021 11:15 AM (L8ADy)

78 We need to realize that facts, history, logic, talk, debate are irrelevant. We are Nazis and thus literally nothing we say or do matters in the slightest.

They will come for us and we will either submit or conquer.

Posted by: dri at January 12, 2021 11:15 AM (gaSe+)

79 And now you know the whole story!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (xT2tT)
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Now do Masturbatin' Pete.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (OE50I)

A sticky subject.

Posted by: Peppermint Patty's Pulsating Paramour at January 12, 2021 11:15 AM (yQpMk)

80 As Politico puts it, a riot that "left five dead."

That elides sooooo much.

Like, on the day of the event, 4 were dead. One shot by the police, and three of medical emergencies caused by the flashbang grenades from the police.

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 11:12 AM
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They've already all painted Ashli as a Q-loving conspiracy kook, so you know....barely a person. The world is better off without her.

(democrat media sentiment, NOT MINE, just so we're clear)

Posted by: reason at January 12, 2021 11:15 AM (CGjum)

81 Soon enough, this same company will develop an app for military recruitment, to ensure the "right" recruits are allowed in.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at January 12, 2021 11:16 AM (6/LtX)

82 Two words: Hillsdale College.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 12, 2021 11:13 AM (ufFY

******

I think there are a few schools that have a course of study based off of the "Great Works" of western civilization. The 100 most influential books.

Posted by: El Jefe ~Blue Zones~POW*MIA~You Are Not Forgotten~ at January 12, 2021 11:16 AM (Ae67h)

83 >oly shit new Project Veritas video on this very subject.

https://youtu.be/t1r2rdmWsPE
Posted by: Bert G at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (OMsf+)

What's weird is that video is like the worst caricature we could make against them, and yet it's real.

"Trump is Hitler"
"Reeducation camps"
"We're so smart here in DC and red states are so stupid"
"I hope they get COVID and die"

Yet it won't matter. Like I said, best we can hope for is that it wakes up the complacent on our side to the danger facing us. Normies are never going to know about it.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 12, 2021 11:16 AM (poEUH)

84
Why on earth did they use Amazon web services? Incompetence?)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 12, 2021 11:15 AM (t5m5e)

Because they are the largest.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi's Desk Chair. at January 12, 2021 11:16 AM (PtOP4)

85 It's a coin toss if the kids graduate without losing all that you've taught them.

(* sigh *). Yep. My son may be salvageable but I fear that my daughter is lost. She seems to seriously believe that we'll all be dead in ten years from climate change.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at January 12, 2021 11:16 AM (qc+VF)

86 72 And now you know the whole story!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (xT2tT)
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Now do Masturbatin' Pete.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (OE50I)

Not with Bea Arthur's dick

Posted by: josephistan at January 12, 2021 11:17 AM (Izzlo)

87 I don't know anyone under 25 that isnt a raving sjw progressive, we will be replaced in a generation.

Posted by: KarlHungus at January 12, 2021 11:17 AM (I0oUO)

88 And now you know the whole story!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM

Except for why the idea of Charlie Brown's having a dildo popped into ace's mind so readily.

Or are we better off not knowing this?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 12, 2021 11:17 AM (ejd/p)

89 But they won't get what they want. One of the left's big flaws is overreach, and another is overconfidence. Put the two together and we'll see just how long they manage to keep 80 million Americans under their thumb.Not long, I guarantee.

I hope you're right but I fear the public schools have done their jobs well. Most kids nowadays agree with this stuff because their teachers believe it and even their parents have bought into it. And they've been indoctrinated that if they doubt then it's because of their inherent racism and white privilege. The brainwashing is ubiquitous and never ending.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at January 12, 2021 11:18 AM (TqblR)

90 In what way were the protestors violent? Name acts of violence committed by the protestors.

In what way were they white supremacists? Please cite examples of white supremacy on display at the protests.

In what way was it an insurrection? Please cite examples of insurrection that took place at the protest.

Now compare and contrast the Trump protest on the 6th with the Minneapolis Floyd protests in May.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2021 11:18 AM (QYoFn)

91 Without liberalism, this scrunt would be out of work.

Posted by: ns. Moose milk, mice milk. Whatever it takes at January 12, 2021 11:18 AM (n/szn)

92 30 23 Dan Bongino: "I'm hearing that some of the info on the Hunter Biden laptop is pretty devastating."

WELCOME TO 3 MONTHS AGO DAN!

Dan is a good man but Faux Nooz has been conning the rubes with similar noise for 4 years. No matter how bad the laptop, everyone knows now that Justice is totally corrupt and nothing will come of it. Find a new way to keep your listeners tuning in.

Posted by: Bill Barr, Deep State Rat at January 12, 2021 11:18 AM (YTBIQ)

93 Maybe consrtvstives should not have abandoned teaching to the limbs?
All those people who were kicked off planes for being put on the noflylidt?
Not true
If they were on the list they never would have been allowed past TSA
They were kicked off planes for causing problems and being assholes

Posted by: Kurt at January 12, 2021 11:19 AM (mJoMP)

94 They are threatening Trump's businesses. So I just took advantage of a nice special and booked some vacation time in one of his magnificent hotels. I also bought some Trump wine- but I am not certain they still have much of an interest in that venture.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 12, 2021 11:19 AM (VpIIl)

95 That was back in the days when Ace would fight with us, tooth and nail.

He'd get all Banny and threaten to take away all of our funs and then he'd come back to apologize and someone would poke him with a sharp stick and it would start all over again

Fun times.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:19 AM (/3XQC)

96 Why on earth did they use Amazon web services? Incompetence?)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 12, 2021 11:15 AM (t5m5e)

Because they are the largest.
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi's Desk Chair. at January 12, 2021 11:16 AM (PtOP4)

AWS is quicker and cheaper to get started on and they have scalability built in. That is why one might start there. On the other hand one is at the mercy of an entity that has no mercy.

Posted by: DR.WTF at January 12, 2021 11:19 AM (AiZBA)

97 72 And now you know the whole story!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (xT2tT)
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Now do Masturbatin' Pete.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (OE50I)

*****

Naw...Masturbatin' Pete is self explanatory.

Posted by: El Jefe ~Blue Zones~POW*MIA~You Are Not Forgotten~ at January 12, 2021 11:19 AM (Ae67h)

98 Maybe consrtvstives should not have abandoned teaching to the limbs?

*spock eyebrow*

Posted by: Peppermint Patty's Pulsating Paramour at January 12, 2021 11:20 AM (yQpMk)

99 My boy went to BCT at Ft Benning in 2007 with the ARNG in his junior year of HS. Senior year of HS he accepted a green/gold ROTC scholarship at a big 10 university.

He said 4 years on campus was more difficult than Ft Benning in June July August, for the daily assault of social justice bullshit.

Posted by: BluesFish at January 12, 2021 11:20 AM (796i6)

100 They are threatening Trump's businesses. So I just took advantage of a nice special and booked some vacation time in one of his magnificent hotels. I also bought some Trump wine- but I am not certain they still have much of an interest in that venture.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 12, 2021 11:19 AM (VpIIl)

******

Trump steaks!

Posted by: El Jefe ~Blue Zones~POW*MIA~You Are Not Forgotten~ at January 12, 2021 11:20 AM (Ae67h)

101 71
And they want that for us

But they won't get what they want. One of the left's big flaws is overreach, and another is overconfidence. Put the two together and we'll see just how long they manage to keep 80 million Americans under their thumb.Not long, I guarantee.
Posted by: weew at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (+m+uH)

We are over 300 days into #TwoWeeks to stop the spread of a virus that is spreading despite our masking, distancing and hiding away and more than a few hope Bidet locks us down hard for another 100.

You may be overestimating America's resistance to bending the knee, especially if government force comes into play.

Posted by: Bete at January 12, 2021 11:20 AM (Ojki1)

102 Did you see the daughter who outed her mom on Twitter as a rally attendee?

Lost her job.
Posted by: It's Happening at January 12, 2021 11:12 AM (AJ/B4)

If mom didn't empty the daughter's room, set the contents on fire and tell the daughter to FOAD forever, I don't have sympathy.

If the daughter lives on her own, tell her never to come within 100 yards of you or you'll call the cops.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2021 11:20 AM (2JVJo)

103 "Two words: Hillsdale College."

Think of how much good Sheldon Adelson could have done if he used his money and founded a college in Vegas that was like Hillsdale. Instead of pissing it away on useless politicians and political causes.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 12, 2021 11:21 AM (qH6FZ)

104 >>Maybe consrtvstives should not have abandoned teaching to the limbs?

You, Sir are the worst.

Posted by: Michele Fields at January 12, 2021 11:21 AM (/3XQC)

105 Holy shit new Project Veritas video on this very subject.

https://youtu.be/t1r2rdmWsPE

It's funny to me how cartoonishly dumb a lot of Our Liberal Betters are. This guy sounds like a Bond villain that was dropped on his head too many times.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 12, 2021 11:21 AM (ZGrMX)

106 Dan Bongino says that Parler was NOT hacked. Your data was NOT compromised.

Only the public comments are public, as intended.

No hack of the Parler systems occured.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

107 The culture war started well before the current civil war

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 12, 2021 11:21 AM (ifmtJ)

108 72 And now you know the whole story!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2021 11:10 AM (xT2tT)
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Now do Masturbatin' Pete.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (OE50I)

Some people just like to fap.

Posted by: Bete at January 12, 2021 11:21 AM (Ojki1)

109 The FBI has Hunter's laptop.

The same FBI that was part of an illegal action to undermine President Trump.

The same FBI that did zero to punish or prosecute anyone involved.

That FBI will do zero to Hunter. He's on their team. I don't care if there's indisputable proof he was on the Grassy Knoll.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 12, 2021 11:22 AM (VpIIl)

110 Also saw the phrase 'MAGA Insurrection' online.

I kinda love it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 12, 2021 11:22 AM (ifmtJ)

111 "Dan Bongino: "I'm hearing that some of the info on the Hunter Biden laptop is pretty devastating." WELCOME TO 3 MONTHS AGO DAN!" blaster

yes, FBI had it for months (not just the porn, but evidence Biden was lying about his direct China dealings, and the bribe money to Hunter) ... they buried it, while for Trump in 2016 they manufactured a false Trump/Russia narrative, while covering up for Hillary. --- idk if Dan was aware earlier ... or if he also just plays his part in the Kabuki theater. Gab seems more free than Parler, if they can get their upgrades done and don't face throttling or choke points from the internet giants, or even the banks.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 12, 2021 11:22 AM (Cus5s)

112 I keep seeing people say the left is going to overreach.

That implies there will be consequences.

There is no institutional opposition. When you control everything there is no pushback.

Posted by: Just Saying at January 12, 2021 11:22 AM (AJ/B4)

113 https://tinyurl.com/ycqhpvue

This will be a new way to use the Internet, one that lets you control your information online. Interesting stuff.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 12, 2021 11:22 AM (JKNZq)

114 Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?

On January 6, 2021, I went to Capitol Hill to overthrow the government. I brought some zip ties, so Congress would know I was serious. After being escorted into the Capitol by police ...

Posted by: spindrift at January 12, 2021 11:23 AM (Q7J8K)

115 >>Maybe this will wake us a few of the more reticent among us who don't understand that they want us broke and dead, and they literally want our kids brainwashed and they think it's funny. It's literal proof of the Sam Hyde quote.

Yeah, the casual joking about separating kids from their parents is sick. Same goes for the blanket "Amercians are stupid."

They never seem to connect the fact that *they* are the ones doing educational programming and then these kids grow up to be "stupid."

WHich is it, PBS, are you educating children so that they're not stupid or did you just admit that your programming helps ensure they are stupid enough to be lorded over by you and your fellow so-called elites?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2021 11:23 AM (bDqIh)

116 21 These children will be informing on their parents in the very near future in order to maintain their grade point average.
Posted by: Derak at January 12, 2021 11:06 AM (k0WjC)

Informing, yes, but not for GPA, for social credit ranking.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 12, 2021 11:23 AM (H8QX8)

117 87 I don't know anyone under 25 that isnt a raving sjw progressive, we will be replaced in a generation.
_________________

They've been marinated in leftist lies since they were toddlers.

And they're still pushing this shit in schools. The NYT's "1619 project" is a pack of historical lies and bullshit that even lefty historians say isn't accurate, but schools still present it as indisputable facts to kids.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 12, 2021 11:23 AM (k4dH2)

118 -------
Now do Masturbatin' Pete.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (OE50I)

When you're a dick.....

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

119 he made the distinction between his own position as the owner of the
blog and the commenters, who could say whatever the hell they wanted
without consequences.

Many times I've thought that poking a certain nic is somewhat disingenuous because the boss may have a nic or 5 that he uses for just such an occasion.
Jesus came to dinner ...

Posted by: old chick at January 12, 2021 11:23 AM (sOete)

120 It's already happening.

Did you see the daughter who outed her mom on Twitter as a rally attendee?

Lost her job.
Posted by: It's Happening

That kid wouldn't be eating.
"Sorry. Mom lost her job. Only so much money to go around. Can only buy so much food. Mom needs to keep up her energy to look for new employment. I sure you'll understand.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2021 11:23 AM (wjmTS)

121 Maybe consrtvstives should not have abandoned teaching to the limbs?

*spock eyebrow*

Posted by: Peppermint Patty's Pulsating Paramour at January 12, 2021 11:20 AM (yQpMk)

noflylidt

Posted by: BignJames at January 12, 2021 11:23 AM (AwYPR)

122 Instead of "Where's Waldo?", let's play "Where's Pelosi's Laptop?"

Posted by: rustbucket at January 12, 2021 11:24 AM (H2lUc)

123
And now you know the whole story!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

-----

which brings to mind this gem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4ZBcXlU9LI

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 12, 2021 11:24 AM (LWu6U)

124 >>There is no institutional opposition. When you control everything there is no pushback.

How quickly we forget that Obama made more grandiose promises, had larger majorities and got very little accomplished in his 2 years with everything on his side.

Biden had more enemies within his party than Obama did.

It is not the end times.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:24 AM (/3XQC)

125 What in the world did we do before government skools.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 12, 2021 11:25 AM (sVFtl)

126 Jenny can't understand normal thinking.

Posted by: Count de Monet in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at January 12, 2021 11:25 AM (4I/2K)

127 (Why on earth did they use Amazon web services? Incompetence?)

Because, even on the right, people bought into the idea that Gab was full of evil people. That's why all the things which have now happened to Parler (other than the data breach) already happened to Gab.

As a result of this idea, the thought that this couldn't happen to them. They were good people...not nazis.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at January 12, 2021 11:25 AM (ExV1e)

128 When you're a dick.....
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

You're a dick all the way -
From your first fap in March
Till you're flaccid in May.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2021 11:26 AM (2JVJo)

129 So many people either clueless or in denial about the Left.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 12, 2021 11:26 AM (H8QX8)

130 Jenny?....for a good time call....

Posted by: BignJames at January 12, 2021 11:26 AM (AwYPR)

131 It is not the end times.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:24 AM (/3XQC
I'm guessing you have enough ammo.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - PHD Cannibal Studies at January 12, 2021 11:26 AM (Dz5W3)

132 130 Jenny?....for a good time call....
Posted by: BignJames

867-5309

Posted by: Rick in SK at January 12, 2021 11:27 AM (FZYNt)

133 It all makes sense now. I was going to waste time calling jackweed Toomey to scream at one his interns over his support for impeachment.

So I googled a phone number that I found and the first search result came up that the number belonged to Arlen Specter.

Posted by: jeannebodine at January 12, 2021 11:27 AM (QWHnR)

134 No hack of the Parler systems occured.
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

I hope so - because I'd think if it was, amazon would have to be complicit in some way.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 12, 2021 11:27 AM (L8ADy)

135 Yeah, the casual joking about separating kids from their parents is sick. Same goes for the blanket "Amercians are stupid."

The lack of awareness of saying he's glad to live in DC instead of somewhere where people are dumb is hilarious.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 12, 2021 11:27 AM (ZGrMX)

136 If the daughter lives on her own, tell her never to come within 100 yards of you or you'll call the cops.

Posted by:�Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing�at January 12, 2021 11:20 AM (2JVJo)

Daughter is grown and lives in another state.

Your state of MA.

Posted by: It's Happening at January 12, 2021 11:27 AM (AJ/B4)

137 And they're still pushing this shit in schools. The NYT's "1619 project" is a pack of historical lies and bullshit that even lefty historians say isn't accurate, but schools still present it as indisputable facts to kids.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer

Silver lining: We're the counter-culture now and they gave us the road map.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2021 11:27 AM (nOQ/t)

138 When you're a dick.....
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

You're a dick all the way -
From your first fap in March
Till you're flaccid in May.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2021 11:26 AM (2JVJo)
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It's the swinginest thing...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 12, 2021 11:27 AM (OE50I)

139 Anybody remember the Turner Movie about Russians taking over and how well Americans dealt with it?

Americans have been conditioned to accept Totalitarianism.

If I hear another faux conservative talk about obeying the 'Law'...... Well, nothing.

The 'Law' is shit. The "law' is lawless. Those charged with enforcing the 'law' are either cowards (Parkland, Vegas), paid mercenaries (Befehl is Befehl) or, in the case of most Judges and prosecutors, criminals themselves.

Believe it or else

Posted by: Uncle Rick at January 12, 2021 11:27 AM (48/MM)

140 How quickly we forget that Obama made more grandiose promises, had larger majorities and got very little accomplished in his 2 years with everything on his side.

Biden had more enemies within his party than Obama did.

It is not the end times.
Posted by: garrett

Yeah. It is. They won't make the mistake of ceding back power again. Hillary was going to be the one. Until they fucked up. No more mistakes.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2021 11:27 AM (wjmTS)

141 You're a dick all the way -

From your first fap in March

Till you're flaccid in May.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2021 11:26 AM (2JVJo)

Very nice. West Side Story.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - PHD Cannibal Studies at January 12, 2021 11:27 AM (Dz5W3)

142 When I was getting my coffee just now, I glanced out my kitchen window, and saw an inverted Old Glory flying about 2 blocks away. Pretty stiff breeze, too, flags standing out straight from the staff.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2021 11:27 AM (mzC78)

143 >>I'm guessing you have enough ammo.

I can take care of myself.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:28 AM (/3XQC)

144 Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.

*******

I remember it like it was yesterday. The morning I turned 26 years old, the sun came streaming in the window of my mom's basement...

Posted by: Muldoon at January 12, 2021 11:28 AM (m45I2)

145 128 When you're a dick.....
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

You're a dick all the way -
From your first fap in March
Till you're flaccid in May.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2021 11:26 AM (2JVJo)

I take it March and May are ex-girl friends....

Posted by: El Jefe ~Blue Zones~POW*MIA~You Are Not Forgotten~ at January 12, 2021 11:28 AM (Ae67h)

146 Blue check "journalist" blames the Jews for Black Wednesday.

https://bit.ly/3smdj0i

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 12, 2021 11:28 AM (+y/Ru)

147 It is not the end times.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:24 AM (/3XQC)

But it's a very different cultural landscape than during Obama. The Left is empowered as never before. Obama is going to look like Gerald Ford once Harris is installed.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 12, 2021 11:28 AM (H8QX8)

148 Except for why the idea of Charlie Brown's having a dildo popped into ace's mind so readily.

Ace is bi-lingual. In Ewok, CharlieBrown'sDildo means keeper of the hundred comment rule on the art thread. It's an expressive language.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at January 12, 2021 11:28 AM (ExV1e)

149 I have a half-sibling who is high school age. I am 29+.

The differences are startling. But, above all else, having your entire life and social interaction based around electronics and apps etc is not healthy. It is not a sustainable social structure at all.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at January 12, 2021 11:28 AM (6/LtX)

150 Ace - serious question. Do you anticipate your ISP will take down AoS?

Posted by: Sirius the Canine Pundit at January 12, 2021 11:28 AM (LBO1U)

151 I mean, you go to almost any college in America and this is what you're going to get constantly anyway so you may as well get a clear statement up front what its going to be like.

But yeah, any boy or girl who writes something correcting that pack of lies and insanity will be marked down as a dangerous crank in need of reeducation with parents who probably should be in camps.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:28 AM (KZzsI)

152 102 Did you see the daughter who outed her mom on Twitter as a rally attendee?

Lost her job.
Posted by: It's Happening at January 12, 2021 11:12 AM (AJ/B4)

If mom didn't empty the daughter's room, set the contents on fire and tell the daughter to FOAD forever, I don't have sympathy.

If the daughter lives on her own, tell her never to come within 100 yards of you or you'll call the cops.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2021 11:20 AM (2JVJo)

Sadly yep. Once you establish yourself as a collaborator that will always be part of your legacy, and trusting a collaborator makes you the fool. It is terrible when it happens in families, but at least you know them now before the sending to camps starts.

Posted by: Bete at January 12, 2021 11:29 AM (Ojki1)

153 >>Yeah. It is.

If you truly believed that you wouldn't be here.

Just take a break for a few days. Go live some life. When you return here, it will still be the same place it has been.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:29 AM (/3XQC)

154 The left goes with sentiment and nice names, being the emotional folks that they are. If you would start a web service, and call it Strength Through Joy,they would be lining up because it sounds so nice. Maybe make an electric car, a KDF model.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 12, 2021 11:30 AM (I58tH)

155
I hope so - because I'd think if it was, amazon would have to be complicit in some way.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 12, 2021 11:27 AM (L8ADy)

He's suing AWS.

One of the things in the lawsuit says that BuzzFeed published a story containing a letter from Amazon about Parler being dropped from their systems BEFORE the letter was actually sent to Parler.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

156 68 Blogger Bookworm has done posts on how the college applications encourage and reward kids for being woke.

The Common App also has five essay prompts, from which the student picks one, all aimed at helping the university see what kind of person the student is outside of test scores and grades. This year's prompts:
-- Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
-- Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?
-- Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act? Would you make the same decision again?
-- Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?
-- Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (bDqIh)

I was never that introspective. I was just a kid having fun...da fuq!

Posted by: browndog at January 12, 2021 11:30 AM (BgMrQ)

157 Did you see the daughter who outed her mom on Twitter as a rally attendee?

Lost her job.
Posted by: It's Happening at January 12, 2021 11:12 AM (AJ/B4)

I don't bear her any grudge for it. In fact I'm proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway.

Posted by: Tom Parsons at January 12, 2021 11:30 AM (awtm/)

158 How quickly we forget that Obama made more grandiose promises, had larger majorities and got very little accomplished in his 2 years with everything on his side.

Biden had more enemies within his party than Obama did.

It is not the end times.
Posted by: garrett

--

You mean accomplished little other than completing the weaponization of the bureaucracy against his political rivals.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 12, 2021 11:30 AM (C+We0)

159 Are they just denying all the violence at the burn loot murder "protests"?

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at January 12, 2021 11:30 AM (rWZ8Y)

160 Daughter is grown and lives in another state.

Your state of MA.
Posted by: It's Happening at January 12, 2021 11:27 AM (AJ/B4)

Of course.

I wish I could leave here and move to America.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2021 11:30 AM (2JVJo)

161 >>If mom didn't empty the daughter's room, set the contents on fire and tell the daughter to FOAD forever, I don't have sympathy.

Ther relationship was already strained because her mom had told her to not go to any antifa riots. Safe bet that relationship was killed with the ratting out to the FBI.
- - -
>>These children will be informing on their parents in the very near future in order to maintain their grade point average

Already happening, though not for GPA: Snitches bragging on reddit

https://tinyurl.com/y6eykhcu

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2021 11:30 AM (bDqIh)

162 Remember the good old days when Republicans controlled bith Houses of Congress and just needed the Presidency to stem the tide of leftism?

Good times, good times.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 12, 2021 11:31 AM (OE50I)

163 Ace - serious question. Do you anticipate your ISP will take down AoS?
Posted by: Sirius the Canine Pundit at January 12, 2021 11:28 AM (LBO1U)

-----------

If Gab ever offers web hosting, the first blog it should host needs to be The HQ.

Posted by: reason at January 12, 2021 11:31 AM (CGjum)

164 I was never that introspective. I was just a kid having fun

Well that, and someone at age 18 is too unformed and young to have had profound life-changing experiences and decisions.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:31 AM (KZzsI)

165 >>You mean accomplished little other than completing the weaponization of the bureaucracy against his political rivals.

I remember the exact same phrases uttered about Nixon.

Again, you are caught in the backwash and it seems as if this all that will ever be.

Relax. When you get spit out the world will still be there.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:31 AM (/3XQC)

166 If you would start a web service, and call it Strength Through Joy,

***
No, "joy" wouldn't work. They hate joy or the idea that anyone is experiencing it. More like "Empowerment through Change."

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 12, 2021 11:32 AM (H8QX8)

167 Geebus, what a letter! And the gall on that woman, with her high and mighty moral dudgeon. Scum of the earth.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 12, 2021 11:32 AM (fIGh5)

168 The hackers I imagine had advance notices and coordination like the rest of them.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 12, 2021 11:15 AM

IIRC, one of the services "accidentally" disclosed in a statement exactly which of their services they had quit providing. In others, they told them exactly where to look.

Posted by: Bert G at January 12, 2021 11:32 AM (OMsf+)

169 AWS is quicker and cheaper to get started on and they have scalability built in. That is why one might start there. On the other hand one is at the mercy of an entity that has no mercy.
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 12, 2021 11:19 AM (AiZBA)

The major cloud providers are Amazon and Microsoft. Google is in that space, too. Then Oracle, IBM kinda.

Amazon is easy. If you have an Amazon account to buy stuff (you know you do) then you can go on AWS and create a server. For free. If you need more stuff, you can just have it billed to your credit card on file.

They have a lot of services that if you had to build it yourself, it would cost you a lot of time and money.

See, used to be, it didn't matter your politics when you did business.

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 11:32 AM (ZfRYq)

170 164 I was never that introspective. I was just a kid having fun

Well that, and someone at age 18 is too unformed and young to have had profound life-changing experiences and decisions.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:31 AM (KZzsI)

Thank you for that. I can't seem to articulate my thoughts the way I want to these days.

Posted by: browndog at January 12, 2021 11:33 AM (BgMrQ)

171 This was an interesting take: the DC riot has scared the daylights out of the Derp Staters.

https://tinyurl.com/y6ptmc8u

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 12, 2021 11:33 AM (fIGh5)

172 116 Informing, yes, but not for GPA, for social credit ranking.
for uptwinkles privileges on farcebook.

Posted by: Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 12, 2021 11:33 AM (sGtp+)

173 Posted by: Tom Parsons at January 12, 2021 11:30 AM (awtm/)

I had to take a double-take on that, since I really do know a "Tom Parsons."

Did Orwell ever give "Parsons" a Christian name in 1984? I don't remember.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2021 11:33 AM (2JVJo)

174 One of the things in the lawsuit says that BuzzFeed published a story containing a letter from Amazon about Parler being dropped from their systems BEFORE the letter was actually sent to Parler.
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

The coordination of these guys shouldn't shock me, but it still does.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 12, 2021 11:33 AM (L8ADy)

175 That Common Application nonsense.
My fancy technical school never used to send regular emails to alumni. Now we get about one a week warning us about the dangers of Climate Change and Insurrection and whatever other nonsense and how Fancy Technical School is dedicated to working so hard against them and appointing some new Directors of Fixing Things. God bless you people who have college-age kids in this environment.

Posted by: Biden's Puddin' at January 12, 2021 11:34 AM (7JtZs)

176 And so it begins.
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at January 12, 2021 11:00 AM (OE50I)

Well hell.
And here I was just waking up and scratching.
Crap. This sleeping in makes me miss the fun.
I need coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2021 11:34 AM (axyOa)

177 171 This was an interesting take: the DC riot has scared the daylights out of the Derp Staters.

https://tinyurl.com/y6ptmc8u
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 12, 2021 11:33 AM (fIGh5)

We can only hope....and hope to frighten them even more.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 12, 2021 11:34 AM (ifmtJ)

178 Maybe, if we took 2 parts Pinochet and 1 part Pol Pot...
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:14 AM (/3XQC)

Pol Pot? Is that the CBD-oil equivalent of Viagra?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2021 11:34 AM (mzC78)

179 You mean accomplished little other than completing the weaponization of the bureaucracy against his political rivals.

And Obamacare.

It's true that we should not underestimate Dems' proclivity for stepping on rakes. But this isn't 2008. To say the zeitgeist has changed is understating it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 12, 2021 11:34 AM (H5knJ)

180 Biden had more enemies within his party than Obama did.

It is not the end times.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:24 AM (/3XQC)

The corporate fascists had yet to coalesce around the Democrat party. They were certainly allies, but didn't act in concert.

Now they do.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2021 11:34 AM (xT2tT)

181 Remember C.S. Lewis's quote about his preferring to be ruled by robber barons than by moral busybodies? Well now we're ruled by robber barons who are moral busybodies. Good times.

Posted by: josephistan at January 12, 2021 11:34 AM (Izzlo)

182 Community College then track into a 4 year school without all that fucking none sense.

Posted by: stourma at January 12, 2021 11:35 AM (dpqRB)

183 Silver lining: We're the counter-culture now and they gave us the road map.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2021 11:27 AM

I've been telling people to read "Rules for Radicals" and start putting it to use.

Posted by: Bert G at January 12, 2021 11:35 AM (OMsf+)

184 which brings to mind this gem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4ZBcXlU9LI
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 12, 2021 11:24 AM (LWu6U)

*****

God, I miss XTRA NORMAL.

Posted by: El Jefe ~Blue Zones~POW*MIA~You Are Not Forgotten~ at January 12, 2021 11:35 AM (Ae67h)

185 This was an interesting take: the DC riot has scared the daylights out of the Derp Staters.

https://tinyurl.com/y6ptmc8u
Posted by: Huck Follywood

If that scared the daylights out of them, wait until next time when the protesters are armed and don't stop because of a Capitol cop.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2021 11:35 AM (wjmTS)

186 Yeah I really don't want to do it but I use Google's cloud for backups of my writing and art because I can't rely on just stuff at home. I have it all backed up on a solid state external drive but its in my home: what if there's a fire?

This was an interesting take: the DC riot has scared the daylights out of the Derp Staters.

2 things.

1) it wasn't a riot, not even remotely close by any insanest definition of the word. It was a rally.

2) Yes, it did. These are people who are almost completely isolated from the consequences of their decisions and the unwashed masses they rule over. They were introduced to a small portion of the anger and frustration people feel. They didn't like it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:36 AM (KZzsI)

187 The differences are startling. But, above all else, having your entire
life and social interaction based around electronics and apps etc is not
healthy. It is not a sustainable social structure at all.

If socialist media came in powder form instead of being a handheld device, it would be outlawed as an addictive substance. Mark of the Beast indeed.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Wi Fuct at January 12, 2021 11:36 AM (HaL55)

188 I remember the exact same phrases uttered about Nixon.

Again, you are caught in the backwash and it seems as if this all that will ever be.

Relax. When you get spit out the world will still be there.
Posted by: garrett
- -

Gee, I was there during Nixon. You're missing the norms and values were still a thing back then and a President acting so much less than LBJ was repugnant. How much mainstream is thinking deplatforming is repugnant? That is, if the MSM even bothered to report it straight?

I know what I'm seeing. Relaxation is what fucked up America to begin with.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 12, 2021 11:36 AM (C+We0)

189 Well now we're ruled by robber barons who are moral busybodies.
Posted by: josephistan at January 12, 2021 11:34 AM (Izzlo)

Well done.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 12, 2021 11:36 AM (H8QX8)

190 You know how the United States came to be the United States?

We need to do that again.

Posted by: creeper at January 12, 2021 11:36 AM (XxJt1)

191 Your word for the day is gaslighting.

Burn Loot Murder is peaceful. An unarmed women getting shot in the capital building is a coup.

Posted by: SkylerKat at January 12, 2021 11:36 AM (SXIn9)

192 Are they just denying all the violence at the burn loot murder "protests"?
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at January 12, 2021 11:30 AM (rWZ8Y)

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That would require a level of introspection, self critique and naval gazing that the the left frankly does not posses.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2021 11:36 AM (8XRCm)

193 An open question:

If you knew of a crime that was going to be committed, who would you tell? What if the police were in on it? What if the FBI was in on it? What if the local media approved? Who would you tell? What recourse would you have?

Posted by: Vyx at January 12, 2021 11:37 AM (ZCiJZ)

194 30 23 Dan Bongino: "I'm hearing that some of the info on the Hunter Biden laptop is pretty devastating."

WELCOME TO 3 MONTHS AGO DAN!

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (ZfRYq)

==================
That laptop has value to us, beyond the election. It is out in the open. Lots of people have copies of the hard drive and the FBI can;t keep it secret forever

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 12, 2021 11:37 AM (fIGh5)

195 I like how she just comes out and call for creating a global society. Not even bothering with an appeal to a better America.

Posted by: Ripley at January 12, 2021 11:37 AM (MxEKc)

196 171 This was an interesting take: the DC riot has scared the daylights out of the Derp Staters.

https://tinyurl.com/y6ptmc8u
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 12, 2021 11:33 AM (fIGh5)

I don't buy it for a second. They are asserting dominance not out of fear but because they can. The peasants got uppity and this is their comeuppance.

Furthermore, why would they be scared when all the levers of power, including tech and media, are enabling them?

This "riot" was over in minutes with not a single building razed. What, exactly, do they have to fear?

Posted by: Grip the Weasel at January 12, 2021 11:37 AM (KbCG3)

197 181 Remember C.S. Lewis's quote about his preferring to be ruled by robber barons than by moral busybodies? Well now we're ruled by robber barons who are moral busybodies. Good times.
Posted by: josephistan at January 12, 2021 11:34 AM (Izzlo)

Awful, but true. You unfortunately nailed it.

Posted by: In Exile at January 12, 2021 11:37 AM (kzzyk)

198 I was never that introspective. I was just a kid having fun...da fuq!
Posted by: browndog

I was not at all woke or political growing up (HS in the 70s,) but even back then I thought there was a strong bias in some things. I remember (still) some essays that you had to read for standardized tests, like the SAT, and they were all fluff and nonsense about minorities and strong women.

You HAD to read it and then answer questions, and I would leave the test thinking that they had picked essays that were written by f-gs. This was the 70s.

Or history books that seemed to make the soviets appear virtuous. I remember a social studies class where they discussed Jimmy Carter, and how misunderstood he was. Or how virtuous it was to have 10 babies and live off welfare.

Again, this was the 70s and just the beginning of the commie infiltration into the schools.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 12, 2021 11:37 AM (LWu6U)

199 Aktually, it was a miniseries produced by ABC called 'Amerika'. As you age, your memory (among other things) fades.

Posted by: Uncle Rick at January 12, 2021 11:37 AM (48/MM)

200 It's true that we should not underestimate Dems' proclivity for stepping on rakes.

Yeah, they will destroy themselves but sometimes it takes a while. The Soviet Union stumbled along for what, 70+ years? Thats several generations before it finally collapsed, and at least partly because the USA was fighting them. Who'll fight to stop the USA?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:37 AM (KZzsI)

201 >>The corporate fascists had yet to coalesce around the Democrat party. They were certainly allies, but didn't act in concert.
Now they do.

I just think that now they feel comfortable admitting it. At no point did they ever rally around the opposition.

I maintain that we are within the Tempest and it is obscurring our perspective. That is all.

Don't get me wrong, I think the possibilty of it spiraling out of control are greater than 2008...but I also believe that there is NOTHING new under the Sun and that we tend to lose sight of that.

Could we be at the point of collapse of the Dynamic Equalibrium? Sure. Are we there yet? I don't think so.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:38 AM (/3XQC)

202 If Gab ever offers web hosting, the first blog it should host needs to be The HQ.

Certainly, Gab could use the hamsters.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at January 12, 2021 11:38 AM (ExV1e)

203 194 That laptop has value to us, beyond the election. It is out in the open.
Lots of people have copies of the hard drive and the FBI can;t keep it
secret forever
steiner will come.

Posted by: Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 12, 2021 11:39 AM (sGtp+)

204 WELCOME TO 3 MONTHS AGO DAN!

There's new, even more horrible stuff coming out but it doesn't matter now. It could have mattered a year ago but the FBI sat on it while Billy Bagpipes sneered at us.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:39 AM (KZzsI)

205 Well now we're ruled by robber barons who are moral busybodies.
Posted by: josephistan at January 12, 2021 11:34 AM (Izzlo)

-----

Nice CS Lewis quote.

But.... too generous.

We ARE being ruled by adult junior high mean girls sitting at their own lunch table.

Robber Barrons imply a talent for business.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2021 11:39 AM (8XRCm)

206 Garrett as the voice of optimism...well, good to see.

Personally, I think things have never been so dark. Maybe not since 1774

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 12, 2021 11:39 AM (ifmtJ)

207 I'm guessing you have enough ammo.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - PHD Cannibal Studies at January 12, 2021 11:26 AM (Dz5W3)

No such animal exists as 'enough ammo'. Those words do not belong together.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado -tempore belli!) at January 12, 2021 11:40 AM (N3El/)

208 Do you think the nets and cable TV going forward will allow any conservative politicians to run political ads?

They will also be banned from access to mass communication like social media, emails and campaign texts.

Posted by: It's Happening at January 12, 2021 11:40 AM (AJ/B4)

209 If we were Nazis, we would be writing marching songs about the murdered lady. It worked for a rabble singing about a pimp. I get so sick of being called a Nazi.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 12, 2021 11:40 AM (I58tH)

210 Did Orwell ever give "Parsons" a Christian name in 1984? I don't remember.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2021 11:33 AM

Chapter II: "Of course it's only because Tom isn't home," said Mrs. Parsons vaguely.

I don't think Smith ever addresses Parsons as "Tom".

Posted by: Chuck C at January 12, 2021 11:40 AM (awtm/)

211 You know how the United States came to be the United States?

We need to do that again.
Posted by: creeper at January 12, 2021 11:36 AM (XxJt1)

Hard to do when "our side" considers the 6th to be an unprecedented attack on democracy and are begging the left not to lump them in with the evil, treasonous Trumpkins.

We might be Sam Adams, but they're Benjamin Church.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2021 11:40 AM (2JVJo)

212 We ARE being ruled by adult junior high mean girls sitting at their own lunch table.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2021 11:39 AM (8XRCm)

Still too generous.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 12, 2021 11:40 AM (H8QX8)

213
The "white hat" stuff was all nonsense (Bannon). There was no plan.

Posted by: Antrim population 32K at January 12, 2021 11:41 AM (ONvIw)

214 ruthlessly tamps down any deviation from the orthodoxy.

Because Progressivism is a RELIGION.

Posted by: GWB at January 12, 2021 11:41 AM (lclUd)

215 95 That was back in the days when Ace would fight with us, tooth and nail.

He'd get all Banny and threaten to take away all of our funs and then he'd come back to apologize and someone would poke him with a sharp stick and it would start all over again

Fun times.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:19 AM (/3XQC)

The gay slap fight was the funniest thread I've ever been on here. It was the epitome of what you just described.

I still miss EoJ.

Posted by: Justsayin' at January 12, 2021 11:42 AM (Fs5vw)

216 That laptop has value to us, beyond the election. It is out in the open. Lots of people have copies of the hard drive and the FBI can;t keep it secret forever

They can keep the kiddie porn bits of it secret for a long time. Anyone publishing that gets popped for distribution. At least until the chomos win out totally and lower the legal age of consent to five.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at January 12, 2021 11:42 AM (SchxB)

217 >>Gee, I was there during Nixon. You're missing the norms and values were still a thing back then and a President acting so much less than LBJ was repugnant

This doesn't make any sense to me. At all. I mean, there are words in there...but there is no meaning.

If for even one second you believe that there is a paucity of morality now that didn't exist then, you are not being honest with yourself.

Remember Kennedy and his family. Did they seem like moral, upstanding Americans?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:42 AM (/3XQC)

218 We ARE being ruled by adult junior high mean girls sitting at their own lunch table.
Posted by: fixerupper

Still too generous.
Posted by: Ordinary American

We ARE being ruled by adult junior high girls having their first period.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2021 11:42 AM (wjmTS)

219 180 Biden had more enemies within his party than Obama did.

It is not the end times.

Posted by: garrett

I still hold (and have since last summer) that Obama is pulling the strings. He is the only figure who has the respect on the left to control the party. He picked Biden. He picked Harris. He is still in charge.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 12, 2021 11:42 AM (LWu6U)

220 If Gab ever offers web hosting, the first blog it should host needs to be The HQ.
Posted by: reason at January 12, 2021 11:31 AM (CGjum)

The HQ has long been hosted offshore.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2021 11:42 AM (mzC78)

221 They are asserting dominance not out of fear but because they can. The peasants got uppity and this is their comeuppance.

Embrace "AND". They're terrified *and* they're asserting dominance because they can.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 12, 2021 11:42 AM (ZGrMX)

222 Anyone who consumed official media and propaganda from totalitarian s**thole states, fortunately for me as an enemy outsider, has to be stunned that the delusional nonsense in that letter is now not uncommon in the US.

And remember, it won't be countered/debunked/obliterated for many young skulls full of mush exposed to it. Not explicitly by any source considered authoritative.

It's far beyond distortion and lies (people who still use the term "bias" for what is barfed into the public square astound me), it's now orwellian inversion.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2021 11:42 AM (OTzUX)

223
Dan Bongino: "I'm hearing that some of the info on the Hunter Biden laptop is pretty devastating."

So what? Anyone who reports on it will be deplatformed.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi's Desk Chair. at January 12, 2021 11:43 AM (PtOP4)

224 As much as I enjoyed refighting World War 2 in the last thread, I really think we should refight The War of Northern Aggression/War of Southern Rebellion in this thread.

Who's with me?!?!?

J/K*

*only a little. It is fun to refight history.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 12, 2021 11:43 AM (0bGEp)

225 I still hold (and have since last summer) that Obama is pulling the strings. He is the only figure who has the respect on the left to control the party. He picked Biden. He picked Harris. He is still in charge.

Obama wasn't in charge of his own administration. He was a figurehead for Jarrett and Rice and Tommy Vietor and all the others.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 12, 2021 11:43 AM (ZGrMX)

226 This was an interesting take: the DC riot has scared the daylights out of the Derp Staters.

That article reads like a feint to me. Nobody in the Deep State gives a shit what anyone else thinks. And they're "scared?" No, they're not. Not at a gaggle of Pantifa pukes running around DC playing pretend revolutionaries.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Wi Fuct at January 12, 2021 11:43 AM (HaL55)

227 As brilliant a businessman as Donald Trump is, I think he was a babe in the woods when it came to politics. He believed the political system still functioned as it was written. He had a plan constructed within that system. But it wasn't in place any more when he got to the White House. I'm not sure he understands even now how corrupt the country is.

Posted by: creeper at January 12, 2021 11:43 AM (XxJt1)

228 Dan Bongino: "I'm hearing that some of the info on the Hunter Biden laptop is pretty devastating."

Um.......so?

NOTHING WILL HAPPEN.
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

OANN this morning ran a short story on either the DOJ or the State department is blacklisting the witness? in Ukraine that testified recently to all the corruption of the Bidens , especially Hunter. Showed a photo of this guy on a witness stand with an enlarged photo of Joe Biden next to him. I did not catch the story, I just saw the chyron stating this and the story was running at the same time.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 12, 2021 11:43 AM (TtZXb)

229 Parler turns out to have had amateur hour coding. Very lax security and easy to hack. One thing they did was leave geolocation on photos and videos. So basically perfectly set up to dox anyone who uploaded any media.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at January 12, 2021 11:43 AM (YIHbn)

230 Gab is just screaming along today. They must have gotten all those new servers put in. They won't run out of capacity now for a while. A while being Thursday!

Posted by: t-bird at January 12, 2021 11:43 AM (dYmWY)

231 **looks at clock**

Time to flush eight hours of my life down the toilet. Off to a useless, worthless job that makes me ever more sour and depressed by the minute.

Sometimes I think I'd almost welcome a good, deadly dose of Kung Flu.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2021 11:43 AM (2JVJo)

232 They can keep the kiddie porn bits of it secret for a long time. Anyone publishing that gets popped for distribution. At least until the chomos win out totally and lower the legal age of consent to five.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at January 12, 2021 11:42 AM (SchxB)

Our side dropped the ball on this. The thing to do was to put the HD image up on Wikileaks with a checksum. Post another one (with checksum) in some other vault . Then let the spergs go for it.

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 11:44 AM (ZfRYq)

233 Hard to do when "our side" considers the 6th to be an unprecedented attack on democracy and are begging the left not to lump them in with the evil, treasonous Trumpkins.

***
And that includes Dennis Prager, VD Hanson and others. Amazing how many unconsciously buy into their narratives.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 12, 2021 11:44 AM (H8QX8)

234 If for even one second you believe that there is a paucity of morality now that didn't exist then, you are not being honest with yourself.

I know you're younger but trust us, things have changed in public morality and what is acceptable among those in power. Kennedy was scum but behind closed doors. Gary Hart was drummed out of his presidential run for having a mistress then Bill Clinton changed everything by refusing to quit and laughing through it all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:44 AM (KZzsI)

235 Do you think Rush might encourage his listeners to "tap the brakes on the DC lynch mob?" Middle of the night thought but if everyone who strongly opposes this crazy you're fired for just attending the rally, not being one of the 1% or less that went into the capitol building and the equally crazy "impeach Trump for inciting a riot" just went "oops thought I saw a deer/dog/cat about to run in front of me and braked so hard I stalled my car" on main roads a few times a week I think the impact would be felt.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 12, 2021 11:45 AM (Aashi)

236 220 If Gab ever offers web hosting, the first blog it should host needs to be The HQ.

Posted by: reason at January 12, 2021 11:31 AM (CGjum)

The HQ has long been hosted offshore.
ewokitania, the former drilling rig just a bit northwest of sealand.

Posted by: Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 12, 2021 11:45 AM (sGtp+)

237 226 This was an interesting take: the DC riot has scared the daylights out of the Derp Staters.

That article reads like a feint to me. Nobody in the Deep State gives a shit what anyone else thinks. And they're "scared?" No, they're not. Not at a gaggle of Pantifa pukes running around DC playing pretend revolutionaries.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Wi Fuct at January 12, 2021 11:43 AM (HaL55)

==========

Maybe, but I can imagine it to be true.

A bunch of crazies got into the Capitol while Congress was in session. How secure are all of their brutalist federal buildings really?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, figuring this whole time thing out with Nolan at January 12, 2021 11:45 AM (LvTSG)

238 Parler turns out to have had amateur hour coding. Very lax security and easy to hack. One thing they did was leave geolocation on photos and videos. So basically perfectly set up to dox anyone who uploaded any media.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at January 12, 2021 11:43 AM (YIHbn)

The weren't hacked.......

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

239 Sig Sauer MPX K Pistol 9mm Luger 4.5" Barrel with PCP Folding Brace 30 Round Polymer Black

$2100

Link in next comment

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2021 11:45 AM (i0wNm)

240 https://bit.ly/39u6xwA

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2021 11:45 AM (i0wNm)

241 Obama wasn't in charge of his own administration. He was a figurehead for Jarrett and Rice and Tommy Vietor and all the others.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 12, 2021 11:43 AM (ZGrMX)

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Cass Sunstein. "Just have to "nudge" the peasants into compliance".

Well Cass.... we're way past nudging and into pushing of a fire escape territory now aint we.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2021 11:45 AM (8XRCm)

242 Additionally to the OANN story, I did catch that the IC says the Urkraine guy testifying is doing so on behalf of Russia, as Russian disinformation. Which Russia says is false, they have nothing to do with this guy.

IC defending Biden and Hunter, as far as I can tell.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 12, 2021 11:46 AM (TtZXb)

243 234 If for even one second you believe that there is a paucity of morality now that didn't exist then, you are not being honest with yourself.

I know you're younger but trust us, things have changed in public morality and what is acceptable among those in power. Kennedy was scum but behind closed doors. Gary Hart was drummed out of his presidential run for having a mistress then Bill Clinton changed everything by refusing to quit and laughing through it all.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:44 AM (KZzsI)

==========

"I can't wait to give him a blowjob as long as he votes right."
-Susan B. Anthony about Woodrow Wilson, for sure

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, figuring this whole time thing out with Nolan at January 12, 2021 11:46 AM (LvTSG)

244 I mean... the justice department deliberately refused to do anything about Hunter Biden's crime-packed sleaze laptop when Trump was in office, why anyone is deluded or demented enough to think somehow they'll act with BIDEN IN OFFICE is completely baffling to me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:46 AM (KZzsI)

245 G'morning, Horde. I just wanted to respond to something from that Halfrican on the Moarning Thread:
#529 - Hour before game time gang. My wife is extremely anxious and
nervous. Just got done speaking with the doctor and for me it was a
relief. She is still nervous and anxious. The human body is incredible and modern medicine is as well.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 12, 2021 09:34 AM

I used to ask a sort of rohrschach test of people: When do you consider that the "modern" age began? It can be a technology, a concept, a belief, whatever. It's completely subjective. My response is: the modern age began when childbirth ceased being a leading cause of death for women.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 12, 2021 11:47 AM (KAi1n)

246 Storming the capitol was an Antifa/DeepState PsyOp, imo. The smashed windows done by antifa guys, they led the way in, and just why the cops seemed to be helping and opening doors, not quite sure. The crowd just sort of followed ... antifa guy encouraging push push push ... definitely several instigators. I don't think any real MAGA did any real violence. Video shows them just hanging out, even casually chatting with the cops. --- But the Narrative was written before the event, to reframe the whole million patriotpeaceful march. Now they just drive the "Violent Attack" narrative all day.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 12, 2021 11:47 AM (Cus5s)

247
This was an interesting take: the DC riot has scared the daylights out of the Derp Staters.

They're not scared at all.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi's Desk Chair. at January 12, 2021 11:47 AM (PtOP4)

248 227 As brilliant a businessman as Donald Trump is, I think he was a babe in the woods when it came to politics... I'm not sure he understands even now how corrupt the country is.
Posted by: creeper at January 12, 2021 11:43 AM (XxJt1)

I agree. A lot of good faith and surprising naivete.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 12, 2021 11:47 AM (H8QX8)

249 As brilliant a businessman as Donald Trump is, I think he was a babe in the woods when it came to politics.

A babe in the woods wouldn't have won the primaries in 2016. Nor would he have survived long enough to re-invent campaigning in 2020. Although, to be fair, Biden also re-invented campaigning...

Posted by: t-bird at January 12, 2021 11:47 AM (ZS2+d)

250 I stumbled on a couple photos from the laptop accidentally.

They are so bad that I can not believe they are real, but did not have the stomach for more than a glance. They were blocked out to hide identity and private parts, but they were way over the top.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 12, 2021 11:47 AM (LWu6U)

251 This doesn't make any sense to me. At all. I mean, there are words in there...but there is no meaning.

If for even one second you believe that there is a paucity of morality now that didn't exist then, you are not being honest with yourself.

Remember Kennedy and his family. Did they seem like moral, upstanding Americans?

Save the condescension for someone who gives a shit about your opinion.

LBJ did ten times worse than Nixon. Yet the comparatively light shit that Nixon did was enough to get him canned. Difference? The public knew about Nixon. They didn't know about LBJ until well after he died. And they were against Nixon because Americans still had decent norms and values. Difference today? The norms and values are no longer mainstream. We are in a society of more overt tribalism than I've ever seen in my life, and we have very little to connect us.

You have a very facile style of analysis.

Cock.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 12, 2021 11:47 AM (C+We0)

252 In any given environment, there can be a LOT "new under the sun" - though it doesn't happen as much as many seem to think.

There are several new, and toxic, things new under our current sun.

The topic of this post, the insane hate propaganda distributed directly to millions of aspiring college students by what is a technical agency, had no analogue anywhere in my lifetime prior to this.

Just one example of hundreds.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2021 11:47 AM (OTzUX)

253 244 I mean... the justice department deliberately refused to do anything about Hunter Biden's crime-packed sleaze laptop when Trump was in office, why anyone is deluded or demented enough to think somehow they'll act with BIDEN IN OFFICE is completely baffling to me.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:46 AM (KZzsI)

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I look forward to the story of the one honest US Attorney getting canned because he decides to look at the charges. The media will hail it as a blow for freedom.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, figuring this whole time thing out with Nolan at January 12, 2021 11:48 AM (LvTSG)

254 If we comport ourselves in a gentile fashion...

@BIZPACReview 6m

Harvard removes GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik from advisory board as part of purge. Here's her response. http://dlvr.it/RqQjDJ

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2021 11:48 AM (nOQ/t)

255 231

Sometimes I think I'd almost welcome a good, deadly dose of Kung Flu.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2021 11:43 AM (2JVJo)

I only feel this way on days that end in the letter "Y."

Posted by: Bete at January 12, 2021 11:48 AM (Ojki1)

256 As brilliant a businessman as Donald Trump is, I think he was a babe in the woods when it came to politics... I'm not sure he understands even now how corrupt the country is.
Posted by: creeper at January 12, 2021 11:43 AM (XxJt1)

Oh I think he gets it now. LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2021 11:49 AM (KuPPp)

257 249 As brilliant a businessman as Donald Trump is, I think he was a babe in the woods when it came to politics.

A babe in the woods wouldn't have won the primaries in 2016. Nor would he have survived long enough to re-invent campaigning in 2020. Although, to be fair, Biden also re-invented campaigning...
Posted by: t-bird at January 12, 2021 11:47 AM (ZS2+d)

He came from a world where if people didn't listen and execute his wishes, he could fire them. The Executive Branch doesn't operate that effectively, and many of the trolls that you rely on to actually do the were were part of the Resistance.

Posted by: In Exile at January 12, 2021 11:49 AM (kzzyk)

258 The HQ has long been hosted offshore.
ewokitania, the former drilling rig just a bit northwest of sealand.
Posted by: Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 12, 2021 11:45 AM (sGtp+)

Ackshually.....

No it lives right here in the USA. Right next to the NSA datacenter.

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 11:49 AM (ZfRYq)

259 And who knew this garret twit was a DeepState Chip Diller?

"Gee, just relax and go get drunk! It'll all be OK when you wake up!!!"

Fuck off.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 12, 2021 11:49 AM (C+We0)

260 No, you don't understand why they went after Nixon. He outed the commies in government. Read up on Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers. That's why they impeached him over nothing.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 12, 2021 11:49 AM (JKNZq)

261 221 They are asserting dominance not out of fear but because they can. The peasants got uppity and this is their comeuppance.

Embrace "AND". They're terrified *and* they're asserting dominance because they can.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 12, 2021 11:42 AM (ZGrMX)

I don't believe that they're terrified, not in the least. They know that conservatives won't rise up and destroy cities.

If Roberts' quote about not taking up the fraud challenge because of riots was true, it proves my points. Not once did he consider there would be riots if he didn't -- and there weren't.

Face it, the deep state literally has nothing to fear.

Posted by: Grip the Weasel at January 12, 2021 11:49 AM (KbCG3)

262 Parler had 80 TB of data, including deleted content accessed by some chick in Europe. Maybe the correct term isnt hacked but the data was accessed and harvested.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at January 12, 2021 11:49 AM (YIHbn)

263 I just don't know how people like Pelosi sleep at night. I know, you will say, upside-down in her bat cave. But really, they know what they have done, and no matter how much they have lied to themselves that it is the right thing, the correct thing, they know it is not. It has to be draining, both physically and mentally to keep going at this hate-ridden capacity.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 12, 2021 11:50 AM (66BnU)

264 My response is: the modern age began when childbirth ceased being a leading cause of death for women.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 12, 2021 11:47 AM (KAi1n)

Coupled with the discovery of penicillin and then other antibiotics.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2021 11:50 AM (xT2tT)

265 246 Storming the capitol was an Antifa/DeepState PsyOp, imo. --- But the Narrative was written before the event, to reframe the whole million patriotpeaceful march. Now they just drive the "Violent Attack" narrative all day.
Posted by: illiniwek
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Yes. and Mark Felt was an FBI hack disgruntled because Nixon was trying to clean up the agency.

This will all come out after the narrative is so solid that it does not matter. I hold that if the public knew who "deep throat" was, Nixon would have finished his term.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 12, 2021 11:50 AM (LWu6U)

266 244 I mean... the justice department deliberately refused to do anything about Hunter Biden's crime-packed sleaze laptop when Trump was in office, why anyone is deluded or demented enough to think somehow they'll act with BIDEN IN OFFICE is completely baffling to me.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:46 AM (KZzsI)

But, but, Honest Ham and Eggers in the FBI...

Posted by: Hannity at January 12, 2021 11:50 AM (Ojki1)

267 Duetche Bank just announced they will no longer do business with Trump or his companies. They have had his accounts since the 1990s.

Signature Bank just announced they are closing two of the President's personal accounts.

Liawatha Warren, now head of the Banking committee, says she will do everything she can to investigate Trump's past business dealings.

Scary shit there folks.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 12, 2021 11:50 AM (oHd/0)

268
249 As brilliant a businessman as Donald Trump is, I think he was a babe in the woods when it came to politics.

His only mistake was believing there were still some patriots inside government.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi's Desk Chair. at January 12, 2021 11:50 AM (PtOP4)

269 Bob Bilderberger, if still here.

To some one that is indoctrinated, you basically have to use the same techniques to deprogram as parents whose child went into a cult.
They have to own their behavior and ideas and the insidious part of indoctrination is that they can no longer see anything but some 'big' purpose to give their life meaning.
For your daughter apparently, it is to 'save' the world from climate change which is noble but the means being proposed will cause suffering and death.
Raising and expressing skepticism might be good along with anecdotes that Rachel Carson lied about the cause of bird deaths in Silent Springs and a lot of people died of malaria as a result. That the solar concentration power project in NV attracts and roasts birds, including endangered species and so forth. You have to introduce the hard concept of tradeoffs for ANY policy and that includes climate change. But it has to be done gently rather than using authority. Skepticism is very corrosive on faith of all kinds which is why Socratic method works.

Posted by: whig at January 12, 2021 11:51 AM (pO7gM)

270 Yeah, it'll all be OK Chip Garret. Hey, why not talk to the CEO of Parler about how his entire business was taken off the market in two days?

But hey, Nixon resigned! That's totes the same.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 12, 2021 11:51 AM (C+We0)

271 The weren't hacked.......

Yeah, that whole story seems like bs to me.

Posted by: Peppermint Patty's Phantom Phallus at January 12, 2021 11:51 AM (yQpMk)

272 That's why they impeached him over nothing.

Well, it wasn't nothing and they didn't impeach him but I get what you are saying: he made enemies of the hard left and they wanted to destroy him for it.

Nixon was a fool, he was going to easily win, especially when the Dems went stupid hard left but he wanted to make sure.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:51 AM (KZzsI)

273 Bill Clinton changed everything by refusing to quit and laughing through it all.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:44 AM (KZzsI)

Well, it's not like I raped anybody.

Well, I did but LOL.

Posted by: Billy Jeff, Rapist at January 12, 2021 11:51 AM (sVFtl)

274 264 My response is: the modern age began when childbirth ceased being a leading cause of death for women.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 12, 2021 11:47 AM (KAi1n)

Mankind would be better off if we died younger.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 12, 2021 11:51 AM (H8QX8)

275 >>I know you're younger but trust us, things have changed in public morality and what is acceptable among those in power. Kennedy was scum but behind closed doors. Gary Hart was drummed out of his presidential run for having a mistress

No. The Mistress was the excuse to rid themselves of Hart. Had nothing to do with a public clamoring to remove him.

Sorry. But Morality isn't a pretend game. Everyone who didn't want to fuck Kennedy or his wife knew he and his family were amoral scumbags.

There was no secret about what he was up to and decorum allowed it to hapen, but in doing so it illustrates that it was not a More Moral time.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:51 AM (/3XQC)

276 Harvard removes GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik from advisory board as part of purge. Here's her response. http://dlvr.it/RqQjDJ
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2021 11:48 AM (nOQ/t)

Well she told them!

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 11:52 AM (ZfRYq)

277 How quickly we forget that Obama made more grandiose promises, had larger majorities and got very little accomplished in his 2 years with everything on his side.
Biden had more enemies within his party than Obama did.

It is not the end times.
Posted by: Garrett
Biden is stupider, growing senile and lazier than Obama, if that can be imagined.
Biden is likely not in charge, regardless of the title of "President". Kamala is just a figurehead, too.
Pelosi is drunk and semi-demented, slipping down the same slide as Joe.
I would look and listen to Schumer above the others. He probably is closer to who actually is wielding power than the rest.
I would agree except for the fact that now Democrats have proven that they can cheat and win elections.
Does voting matter much anymore? And regardless of how many "stalwart, rock-ribbed!" Republicans get elected, we seem to get a lot of the same shit.

I really have no idea what comes next or how bad it will be. But really, these people aren't that smart and not that clever. They will screw up a lot, and even CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC and Fox can't always cover up everything.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at January 12, 2021 11:52 AM (vcOmj)

278 I look forward to the story of the one honest US Attorney getting canned because he decides to look at the charges. The media will hail it as a blow for freedom.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, figuring this whole time thing out with Nolan at January 12, 2021 11:48 AM (LvTSG)

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One of the first things Biden will do is fire all US Attorneys. Yes, the media will hail it as a bold ac t of leadership to clean up the corruption of the Trump years.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2021 11:52 AM (kTF2Z)

279 For the love of God nobody "stormed the capitol" they walked in through open doors. What on earth is wrong with people that they are so willing to buy into the hateful PR spun by their enemies?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:52 AM (KZzsI)

280 No such animal exists as 'enough ammo'. Those words do not belong together.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado -tempore belli!) at January 12, 2021 11:40 AM (N3El/)

True! Every morning and evening I search and buy. Yesterday scored the Glock G43X Heidi wanted and the Kel Tec 2000 sub. 9mm I wanted. Woot!
and ammo for both.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - PHD Cannibal Studies at January 12, 2021 11:52 AM (Dz5W3)

281
Guys.

If you think for a second that anybody in tech, government, the media, law enforcement or the judiciary is going to do anything, ever, that would damage the cause of the left by holding anybody from the left responsible.... your delusional.

Conversely, they WILL undertake any effort, however minute, to harass, vilify, destroy and even kill any of us that remotely threaten them.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2021 11:52 AM (8XRCm)

282 Oh yeah, the good old days when Calvin Coolidge cancelled all his political enemies through misuse of government agencies.

Nothing new, indeed.

eyeball

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 12, 2021 11:52 AM (C+We0)

283 I doubt that Roberts quote. He would only have said something if he only had, at most, 4 votes.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 12, 2021 11:53 AM (KAi1n)

284
One of the first things Biden will do is fire all US Attorneys. Yes, the media will hail it as a bold ac t of leadership to clean up the corruption of the Trump years.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2021 11:52 AM (kTF2Z)

Except Durham, he's untouchable! /sarc

Posted by: Antrim population 32K at January 12, 2021 11:53 AM (ONvIw)

285 Well, it wasn't nothing and they didn't impeach him but I get what you are saying: he made enemies of the hard left and they wanted to destroy him for it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:51 AM (KZzsI)

The irony is, he was pretty liberal.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 12, 2021 11:53 AM (H8QX8)

286 One of the first things Biden will do is fire all US Attorneys. Yes, the media will hail it as a bold ac t of leadership to clean up the corruption of the Trump years.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2021 11:52 AM (kTF2Z)

Including Special Counsel Durham. And no one will say boo about "obstruction of justice."

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 11:53 AM (ZfRYq)

287
For the love of God nobody "stormed the capitol" they walked in through
open doors. What on earth is wrong with people that they are so willing
to buy into the hateful PR spun by their enemies?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:52 AM (KZzsI)

they're shits all retarded?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - PHD Cannibal Studies at January 12, 2021 11:53 AM (Dz5W3)

288 No. The Mistress was the excuse to rid themselves of Hart. Had nothing to do with a public clamoring to remove him.

Dude. You're trying to rewrite history that I lived through. Staahhp.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:53 AM (KZzsI)

289 You know how they say it's not paranoia if they really are after you? I think that was what happened to Nixon.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 12, 2021 11:53 AM (JKNZq)

290 222 Our media has been full of delusions and lies since 2003, and more likely earlier than that. It's just getting more and more disconnected from objective reality to the point you can't not notice it.

Posted by: Gaff at January 12, 2021 11:53 AM (jPS2y)

291 Time to nationalize Facebook, Twitter and Amazon.
Fuckerberg needs to spend quality time in a cell with Bubba and Twitter's twat of a CEO and Bezos need to be the main course at a jail showerfest.

We need Trump.
We are getting the Thief and his whore.

Where ever he goes just start shouting "Thief-in-chief"!!!

Posted by: The Man from Athens at January 12, 2021 11:53 AM (hVbLi)

292 >>Fuck off.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 12, 2021 11:49 AM (C+We0)

OK Keyboard Warrior.

How about you go storm the DNC HQ and earn your Gold Star.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:53 AM (/3XQC)

293 263 washrivergal,
If you have the stomach for it, the FBI released about 200 plus pages through FOIA (on the FBI vault website) explaining criminal and unethical behavior by her family. She was raised to be a sociopath.

Posted by: whig at January 12, 2021 11:53 AM (pO7gM)

294 We've spent some time over the past few days discussing what happens when for-profit corporations align themselves against freedom. The conversation that needs to take place more urgently, however, is the hold that nonprofits hold over America.

Education. Philanthropy. Healthcare.

These are under the hammer lock of the Left, and they will control our lives even more than corporations do. We have the ability, at least in theory, to choose what companies to do business with. We really don't with the nonprofit space.

If you want to know that the cause du jour will be with corporations in five years, I always said look at what the folks at Non-Profit Quarterly are talking about today.

After the Night of the Long Knives over the weekend, I'm shrinking that five year time frame to six months.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 12, 2021 11:53 AM (6xA3t)

295 This Jenny Rickard needs to be at the tender mercies of her "mostly peaceful" protestors.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 12, 2021 11:53 AM (XsgXy)

296 Just heard on news two Capitol cops suspended for pro-MAGA acts (MAGA hat and taking selfies with the peaceful crowd -- sorry, rioting mob) on 1/6 and another 15 being investigated. Some Dem rep. Tim Ryan OH leading the charge it looks like.

News chyron here, probably AP, with the Coupsters' Big Lie, "Parler is booted off the internet by Amazon's web hosting service over its ties to the storming of the U.S. Capitol."

Posted by: andycanuck at January 12, 2021 11:54 AM (ab0zp)

297
Jenny Rickard, who looks pretty much how one would expect; a pinch-faced scold.

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Indeed she does. That face is a deeply disturbing attack on my libido.

And the bitch has the straight-up crazy-eyes. AVOID.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2021 11:54 AM (Bvn1K)

298 No, you don't understand why they went after Nixon. He outed the commies in government. Read up on Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers. That's why they impeached him over nothing.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 12, 2021 11:49 AM (JKNZq)

This. And Nixon had just as cowardly and treasonus a GOP as Trump. When Barry Fucking Goldwater comes in and tells you that you need to resign, then you know the enemy has all of your so-called "allies" bought and paid.

FDR, JFK and LBJ all had "secret" WH taping systems. Kennedy stole the 1960 election. LBJ instigated the Gulf of Tonkin affair.

Read It Didn't Start With Watergate.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2021 11:54 AM (2JVJo)

299 263 I just don't know how people like Pelosi sleep at night.
Posted by: washrivergal

I have been thinking the same thing lately, but people like that (a) convince themselves that they are justified. (b) and live in a fabricated world where they are the heroes.

No. Banish the idea that she is vulnerable to morality. She thinks she is right, and in power, and this is how the game is played, and the other side is worse, and she has to lie to prevent bad things from happening......

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 12, 2021 11:54 AM (LWu6U)

300 How quickly we forget that Obama made more grandiose promises, had larger majorities and got very little accomplished in his 2 years with everything on his side.

Biden had more enemies within his party than Obama did.

It is not the end times.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:24 AM (/3XQC)

Worth repeating. Obama had 65 million rabid fans and we had Mitt Romney. This time, we have a movement and left had to cheat to win.

Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at January 12, 2021 11:54 AM (ftFVW)

301 Duetche Bank just announced they will no longer do business with Trump or his companies. They have had his accounts since the 1990s.

Signature Bank just announced they are closing two of the President's personal accounts.

Liawatha Warren, now head of the Banking committee, says she will do everything she can to investigate Trump's past business dealings.

Scary shit there folks.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 12, 2021 11:50 AM (oHd/0)

Yup

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2021 11:54 AM (KuPPp)

302 The irony is, he was pretty liberal.

Yeah, some people defend Nixon or hold him up as some kind of conservative figure, he was actually kinda centrist left. Him and JFK had very little difference of opinion, Nixon was just a strong anti-Communist when JFK was not so much.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:54 AM (KZzsI)

303 "why anyone is deluded or demented enough to think somehow they'll act with BIDEN IN OFFICE is completely baffling to me."

Patrick Byrne (former Overstock CEO) said he was used as an asset to frame Hillary with a bribe ... it worked, but they dropped it, didn't need it, went after Trump instead (would have wanted kompromat on any Republican as well)

Our DeepState wants to control anyone ... but it is so easy with Clinton/Biden/Obama ... Trump more of a threat to not obey the DS plan. So no, they won't go after Hunter or Joe, because they will follow the plan. (I want to know what their plan is for China and Iran ... Pompeo is talking up his clear eyed vision of the China threat, and just today on the Iran/AlQaeda threats.)

Posted by: illiniwek at January 12, 2021 11:54 AM (Cus5s)

304 Adolph Eichmann was Reinhardt Heydrich's deputy at the Wannsee Conference during which Heydrich informed various high government officials of the Final Solution and coordinated their efforts. Eichmann thought that the attendees would outright reject such an inhuman proposal. When they embraced the policy rather than rejecting it, Eichmann washed his hands of the decision, much like Pontius Pilate did in an earlier age. If no one else of importance objected, then neither would he.

The above is based on Eichmann's statements after the war and as a prisoner in Jerusalem and may be suspect but, too me, it has the ring of truth.

We will each face our Wannsee Conference.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 12, 2021 11:55 AM (+y/Ru)

305 The media will hail it as a blow for freedom.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, figuring this whole time thing out with Nolan at January 12, 2021 11:48 AM (LvTSG)

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you're thinking of soon-to-be firmer Special Counsel Durham? Yeah, our institutions are gone. Justice will be less formal going forward.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 12, 2021 11:55 AM (fIGh5)

306 Well horde. My daughter has arrived and last I saw my wife the docs were finishing up with her surgery. Thank you for all the prayers and well wishes!

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 12, 2021 11:55 AM (0f1jR)

307 >>Dude. You're trying to rewrite history that I lived through.

Sweet. And I guess you were the only one?

Stop pretending that there was some super morality in the recent past where our collective conscience would not allow a Politician seeking to be President to have a sidepiece...when we had a pair of Brothers gangbanging actresses in the oval office 15-20 years earlier.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 11:55 AM (/3XQC)

308 Scary shit there folks.

Posted by: Romeo13

Seems kinda stupid to force a guy who has billions of dollars out of business.

What's he going to do with his money, now? He should spend it on creating a completely new infrastructure and/or on destroying the old infrastructure BAMN.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 12, 2021 11:56 AM (0bGEp)

309 Well horde. My daughter has arrived and last I saw
my wife the docs were finishing up with her surgery. Thank you for all
the prayers and well wishes!

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 12, 2021 11:55 AM (0f1jR)

Great! Prayers will continue!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - PHD Cannibal Studies at January 12, 2021 11:56 AM (Dz5W3)

310 On November 4 I said Trump needed to get his family to a non-extradition country.

I was called a troll.

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 11:56 AM (ZfRYq)

311 Resistance is futile.

Posted by: Thread Winner-Elect Just Lily at January 12, 2021 11:56 AM (mWSad)

312 305 soon-to-be firmer Special Counsel Durham

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sorry, meant FORMER (and not "firmer")

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 12, 2021 11:56 AM (fIGh5)

313 >>Fuck off.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 12, 2021 11:49 AM (C+We0)

OK Keyboard Warrior.

How about you go storm the DNC HQ and earn your Gold Star.

- -

Oh, friend. Keyboard Warrior, huh? 1990, Desert Storm, VP-8. Where were you?

Fuck off with your patronizing shit.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 12, 2021 11:56 AM (C+We0)

314 Yeah, our institutions are gone. Justice will be less formal going forward.

I expect congress to draft new rules for evidence and conviction at the federal level soon. Also to greatly expand the power of federal courts and law enforcement to act as a national police force.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:57 AM (KZzsI)

315 Well horde. My daughter has arrived and last I saw my wife the docs were finishing up with her surgery. Thank you for all the prayers and well wishes!
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 12, 2021 11:55 AM

Excellent news!

Posted by: Bert G at January 12, 2021 11:57 AM (OMsf+)

316 Its not the end times, but we can see it from here.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - PHD Cannibal Studies at January 12, 2021 11:57 AM (Dz5W3)

317
Well horde. My daughter has arrived and last I saw my wife the docs were finishing up with her surgery. Thank you for all the prayers and well wishes!
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 12, 2021 11:55 AM (0f1jR

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You had a long night, man. Congratulations. Get some rest once they have her in the recovery room.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2021 11:57 AM (Bvn1K)

318 Previous thread something was said about B-Den uniting political factions. No need for that, as anybody who watched the 2020 elections should know.

Posted by: Eromero at January 12, 2021 11:57 AM (em79L)

319 bonhomme@239

Trying to convince La Superbeasta she needs this

Posted by: El Superbeasto at January 12, 2021 11:57 AM (EXxBo)

320 Dude. You're trying to rewrite history that I lived through.

Sweet. And I guess you were the only one?

- -

No, I back CRT's recollection. I was there, and paying close attention because Hart is from my home state.

What were you doing at the time?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 12, 2021 11:57 AM (C+We0)

321 Nixon resigned because he found himself in exactly the same position Donald Trump is now in. Even Barry Goldwater was nipping at his heels.

Posted by: creeper at January 12, 2021 11:57 AM (XxJt1)

322 306 Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 12, 2021 11:55 AM (0f1jR)

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bless you and yours!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 12, 2021 11:58 AM (fIGh5)

323 Stop pretending that there was some super morality in the recent past

You're literally engaging in every single logical fallacy that is identified in human existence. I'm not going to engage with you any longer on this topic, because everyone here but you knows how wrong you are.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:58 AM (KZzsI)

324 And that includes Dennis Prager, VD Hanson and others. Amazing how many unconsciously buy into their narratives.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 12, 2021 11:44 AM (H8QX

This.... angers and disappoints me more, almost, than anything else. I thought Prager and VDH had more wisdom than to swallow that nonsense...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 12, 2021 11:58 AM (pcsoT)

325 Enormous damage was done under Obama, a lot of it systemic and a lot of it passive, or nearly passive.

98% of the damage to society, the economy, and rule of law from mass illegal migration has been through passive means - refusal to enforce laws. Not talking "sanctuary" - outright lawlessness, though that of course also only survives because of passive failure to eliminate it - but on the federal level.

Duh.

Even Trump was unable to do much, compared to his agenda and what needed to be done, in this critical area. There's nobody else on the political scene today who can even fake the focus and honest commitment to do anything serious.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2021 11:59 AM (OTzUX)

326 198 . . . Or history books that seemed to make the soviets appear virtuous. I remember a social studies class where they discussed Jimmy Carter, and how misunderstood he was. Or how virtuous it was to have 10 babies and live off welfare.

Again, this was the 70s and just the beginning of the commie infiltration into the schools.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest
_________

I remember one of my history textbooks that would refer to "Henry Kissinger" and then to "Dr. Fidel Castro" on the same page.

Posted by: Furious George at January 12, 2021 11:59 AM (9vQJW)

327 In 2009-10 Democrats still had some adherence to the rule of law and the constitution. So they didnt get too much done with full control. Other than Obamacare of course.

That is ancient history though. Today they will give zero fucks about norms or laws or history. They have power they will use it. And who will stop them? Mitch McConnell? Ben Sasse?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at January 12, 2021 11:59 AM (YIHbn)

328 You're literally engaging in every single logical fallacy that is identified in human existence. I'm not going to engage with you any longer on this topic, because everyone here but you knows how wrong you are.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:58 AM (KZzsI)

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Words of wisdom.

Thanks for the alignment check, CRT. I owe you one.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 12, 2021 11:59 AM (C+We0)

329 No, I back CRT's recollection. I was there, and paying close attention because Hart is from my home state.

Yeah, Gary Hart was a juggernaut, he was probably going to win the nomination. Clinton was a nobody, a lightweight, zero people took him seriously.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:59 AM (KZzsI)

330 Seems kinda stupid to force a guy who has billions of dollars out of business.

What's he going to do with his money, now? He should spend it on creating a completely new infrastructure and/or on destroying the old infrastructure BAMN.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 12, 2021 11:56 AM (0bGEp)

Like most billionaires his assets are a not a big Scrooge McDuck pool full of dollars. He has properties, and a lot of the value in those properties is in the name.

That value in the US is going rapidly to zero. He still owns Trump Tower, for example. If he sells the property, its worth WAY less than it was 5 years ago. Same with everything else. And he's not going to get new loans or financing for new properties.

I expect he can turn this into a few hundred million at best. Probably the Trump Organization gets turned into the Trump International Organization run out of Dubai.

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 11:59 AM (ZfRYq)

331 I saw the ceo of Parler on youtube earlier. He looked scared. Saw Dan Bongino too, and HE looked scared. They both vowed to get Parler up again but neither was very confidence inspiring.

Posted by: Agent Cooper at January 12, 2021 11:59 AM (Dc5Qe)

332 Funny, the people desperate to sell you on the idea that everything is still normal and we haven't careened past the guard rails at this point.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 12, 2021 12:00 PM (poEUH)

333
Well horde. My daughter has arrived and last I saw my wife the docs were
finishing up with her surgery. Thank you for all the prayers and well
wishes!

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 12, 2021 11:55 AM (0f1jR)

+++++
Congratulations!! How wonderful. Finally a bright spot in this very glum time.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 12, 2021 12:00 PM (66BnU)

334 302 The irony is, he was pretty liberal.

Yeah, some people defend Nixon or hold him up as some kind of conservative figure, he was actually kinda centrist left. Him and JFK had very little difference of opinion, Nixon was just a strong anti-Communist when JFK was not so much.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:54 AM (KZzsI)

Bingo. A lot of things Tricky Dick did - from Affirmative Action to wage and price controls, were not conservative or Right at all.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 12, 2021 12:00 PM (XsgXy)

335 On November 4 I said Trump needed to get his family to a non-extradition country.

I was called a troll.
Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 11:56 AM (ZfRYq)

I've been saying Trump will be arrested and Epsteined within a year. And that the "70 million pissed off Trump voters" won't do jack shit.

Haven't been called a troll. Have been chided for repeating the statement, though.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2021 12:00 PM (2JVJo)

336 >>Oh, friend. Keyboard Warrior, huh? 1990, Desert Storm, VP-8. Where were you?

Fuck off with your patronizing shit.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January

You are a true American Hero.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 12:00 PM (/3XQC)

337 Well horde. My daughter has arrived and last I saw my wife the docs were finishing up with her surgery. Thank you for all the prayers and well wishes!
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 12, 2021 11:55 AM (0f1jR)

Praise The Lord.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

338 Enormous damage was done under Obama, a lot of it systemic and a lot of it passive, or nearly passive.

Almost none of it was systemic in the sense of "changing laws and official structures" but it was all behind the scenes. Obama managed to mainstream radicalism, and used the power of the government to get to boardrooms across the nation and force them to care when before they just wanted to make money.

As president he was pretty much a disaster and an incompetent, but as a rabble-rousing extremist who manipulated culture, he was a genius.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 12:01 PM (KZzsI)

339 Congratulations on the new daughter, thathalfrican.

I've heard it said "A baby is God's opinion the world should go on."

Posted by: creeper at January 12, 2021 12:01 PM (XxJt1)

340 >For the love of God nobody "stormed the capitol" they walked in through open doors. What on earth is wrong with people that they are so willing to buy into the hateful PR spun by their enemies?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:52 AM (KZzsI)

This is why we lose. Our own side can't wait to throw us under the bus for a scrap of perceived moral superiority.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 12, 2021 12:01 PM (poEUH)

341
My brother was a chef at a toney restaurant Hart used to eat at. He was routinely such a bastard to the floor staff that they eventually 86'd him for good.

It's HARD to get 86'd as a famous Democrat in the town this happened in. I would have thought it impossible before that. We're talking upscale wine-mom central, here. He worked hard at it though.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2021 12:02 PM (Bvn1K)

342 331 I saw the ceo of Parler on youtube earlier. He looked scared. Saw Dan Bongino too, and HE looked scared. They both vowed to get Parler up again but neither was very confidence inspiring.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at January 12, 2021 11:59 AM (Dc5Qe)

Because Parler is over. It ain't coming back, at least not anywhere near where it was. Their lawsuit is plain - Amazon has killed them, they are asking for redress for that.

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 12:02 PM (ZfRYq)

343 05 soon-to-be firmer Special Counsel Durham

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sorry, meant FORMER (and not "firmer")
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 12, 2021 11:56 AM

Bob Dole can help with that.

Posted by: Bob Dole at January 12, 2021 12:02 PM (ejd/p)

344 In 2007 my oldest started college and we went to her orientation day. The different clubs and athletics had tables in the gym to interest new members. The Diversity club had a bespectacled hippie looking young lady sitting behind it with absolutely no interest by the new students. It's probably the biggest club on campus today.

Posted by: Cosda at January 12, 2021 12:02 PM (cJyz1)

345 Well horde. My daughter has arrived and last I saw my wife the docs were finishing up with her surgery. Thank you for all the prayers and well wishes!
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 12, 2021 11:55 AM (0f1jR)

Prayers work. God is good!

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 12:03 PM (ZfRYq)

346 Their lawsuit is plain - Amazon has killed them, they are asking for redress for that.
Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 12:02 PM (ZfRYq)

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NO STANDING!!!

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2021 12:03 PM (8XRCm)

347 >>Oh, friend. Keyboard Warrior, huh? 1990, Desert Storm, VP-8. Where were you?

Fuck off with your patronizing shit.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January

You are a true American Hero.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 12:00 PM (/3XQC)

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So I guess the answer for you is, what, sitting in high school pretending you had any accomplishments?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 12, 2021 12:03 PM (C+We0)

348 314 Christopher Taylor,
It does not work that way on evidence and trial procedure. Those are codified court decisions more or less. Congress has more power over things like jurisdiction and filing requirements.

The feds have all the power that they want regarding evidence as the whole Russia Russia Russia hoax revealed that the Feebs and political contractors have been abusing the NSA intercept system for years to use as the basis for law enforcement targeting. Michael Cohen is a perfect example--my guess is that they used comm intercepts via a FISA warrant to have him discussing taxi medallion fraud. Then they used subpoena powers and NSL powers to get his banking records, pen register, etc. to justify the subsequent charges and warrants to search his offices.

Posted by: whig at January 12, 2021 12:03 PM (pO7gM)

349 I saw the ceo of Parler on youtube earlier. He looked scared. Saw Dan Bongino too, and HE looked scared. They both vowed to get Parler up again but neither was very confidence inspiring.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at January 12, 2021 11:59 AM (Dc5Qe)

Just listened to his latest podcast. There's no fear in that man. Concern, sure. No fear. He's pissed. He's openly stating that he will end up homeless if that's what's required to fight this bullshit that's being foisted upon America.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

350 In 1993, Clinton had at least 2 cabinet nominees blow up/withdraw over things that wouldn't even be recognized as "problems" today.

When Holder left town in 2000, his name was mud, had a very negative sleazy rep even with Beltway big firm legal types, because of his crude corrupt pardon-shopping at the end of Bubba's 2nd term. He wasn't hear from again until reappearing as ..... the AG! With idiotic, racist trash talk as his re-introduction.

There have been huge, and rapid, shifts in "public morality" and standards, at the national level. All - all - negative, and straight down.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2021 12:03 PM (OTzUX)

351 Well horde. My daughter has arrived and last I saw my wife the docs were
finishing up with her surgery. Thank you for all the prayers and well
wishes!

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 12, 2021 11:55 AM (0f1jR)

Woot!!! Congratulations!!!!

Posted by: Omar, The Tent-Maker at January 12, 2021 12:03 PM (8/7u2)

352 Time to nationalize Facebook, Twitter and Amazon.

That's the nice thing about Fascism. We won't have to nationalize them.

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 12, 2021 12:03 PM (SwCv8)

353 Honestly though RE Parler, you start a site to rival big tech and put your whole site on servers owned by...big tech. What was the expectation there?

Posted by: Agent Cooper at January 12, 2021 12:03 PM (Dc5Qe)

354 I think you are both right about health issues,

but we have entered a new phase in society. In the past a large percentage of the public were farming. That meant the parents raised their kids, and the family unit was the building block of society.

All the health stuff was a boon to that society. But with technology, we entered the modern era where people live in cities. You no longer rely on your children to provide for you as you age, and you no longer interact with your kids every day at work.

Also, in a farming community everyone has to deal with each other, so the communities are stronger and people are more connected.

No, the modern age started when we went from 90% farmers to single digits. Not that farmers are better people, but that the system mankind had created over 1000s of years was optimal for that society, not for the industrial age.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 12, 2021 12:04 PM (LWu6U)

355 Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 12, 2021 11:49 AM (C+We0)

Stop.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2021 12:04 PM (xT2tT)

356 Bingo. A lot of things Tricky Dick did - from Affirmative Action to wage and price controls, were not conservative or Right at all.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 12, 2021 12:00 PM (XsgXy)

Let us not forget:

The E.P.A.

Of all the things he left behind for us, the EPA is perhaps the worst of his legacies.

Posted by: browndog at January 12, 2021 12:04 PM (BgMrQ)

357 Look, Parler doesn't even have a single static html page up saying that they were blindsided by Amazon and that they'll be back.

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 12:04 PM (ZfRYq)

358 >>So I guess the answer for you is, what, sitting in high school pretending you had any accomplishments?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 12, 2021 12:03 PM (C+We0)

Look, you signed up for a job and you got paid to do it.

You want a pat on the back, head on down to the VFW.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 12:04 PM (/3XQC)

359 Hey, at least we got some low level flunky to plead guilty to altering emails. So there's that. Which is nice.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2021 12:04 PM (kTF2Z)

360 Well horde. My daughter has arrived and last I saw my wife the docs were finishing up with her surgery. Thank you for all the prayers and well wishes!

Praise God and congratulations to you both.

Because Parler is over. It ain't coming back, at least not anywhere near where it was.

Gab was in the same place not long ago. They lost their hosting, the site that registered their freaking domain turned on them. Paypal refused to allow funding. Gofundme closed their fundraiser.

Parler doesn't have to go away, if they fight and can get backing. Its just going to be a tough fight.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 12:04 PM (KZzsI)

361 Or history books that seemed to make the soviets appear virtuous. I remember a social studies class where they discussed Jimmy Carter, and how misunderstood he was. Or how virtuous it was to have 10 babies and live off welfare.

Again, this was the 70s and just the beginning of the commie infiltration into the schools.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 12, 2021 11:37 AM (LWu6U)

I graduated HS in 1966 (Hi, Vic!) and during our senior year, we spent an entire marking period studying the evils of communism in our US History class. Such a different time. Our teacher was a former marine. He was one of the best.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 12, 2021 12:04 PM (zkS5c)

362 This was an interesting take: the DC riot has scared the daylights out of the Derp Staters.

https://tinyurl.com/y6ptmc8u
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 12, 2021 11:33 AM (fIGh5)

My kind of model for all this is a company which has built a reputation for quality and customer service, and has a decent amount of assets such as factories and machines. The US after WWII was kind of like that company. The political and educated classes used the cultural, social, and political capital which had been built up as collateral to borrow against, asking for a massive increase in power and influence, much like said company leveraging its assets to borrow a large amount of money for expansion. As long as times were good the debt could be paid, the political/educated classes could provide a stable and prosperous society. However, as time went on, especially after 1990, they became increasingly overleveraged, and hence fragile. 9/11, the dragging on of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the failure to contain ISIS, and the rising threat of China were all shocks which demonstrated that they could no longer service the debt which they'd taken out.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 12, 2021 12:05 PM (jOcSX)

363 Please, everyone watch Bill Whittle's vid 'Home of the Brave '. We all know where America is headed, but if you can't spread the courage, at least don't spread the fear.

Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at January 12, 2021 12:05 PM (ftFVW)

364 Congrats thathalfrican!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 12, 2021 12:05 PM (ifmtJ)

365 Trump seriously needs to get to the UAE.

Posted by: josephistan at January 12, 2021 12:05 PM (Izzlo)

366 >>The differences are startling. But, above all else, having your entire
life and social interaction based around electronics and apps etc is not
healthy. It is not a sustainable social structure at all.

And how! Here's what I've seen my kid struggle with: teens are acutely aware of their social status and the degree to which they are/are not included in various events/gatherings. If you weren't invited to the cool kids party on Saturday night, you might not have even been aware of it until Monday morning when the stories about it were buzzing at school.

Nowadays, you know immediately where and when your classmates are having a good time without out you, as they are tweeting (or whatever) details, pictures and video real-time. Kids are now real-time spectators to the fun they are missing, which makes the feeling of exclusing much more devastating. And no matter how cool you are, how connected, there are always times when others are having fun without out you -- being pushed in your face.

Saw this last July 4th when picking up the kid at a summer ice cream stand . A gal in the group ahead of us was tweeting selfies enjoying her ice cream before it was even paid for.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2021 12:05 PM (bDqIh)

367 Trying to convince La Superbeasta she needs this

Good luck! That thing is sweet.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2021 12:06 PM (i0wNm)

368 Look, you signed up for a job and you got paid to do it.

You want a pat on the back, head on down to the VFW.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 12:04 PM (/3XQC)

- -

You avoiding the answer to a simple question tells us all we need to know.

And now, CBD, I'm done. Thanks.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 12, 2021 12:06 PM (C+We0)

369 346 fixerupper, standing does not work like that. Automatically one has standing to sue regarding contracts. It may be dismissed as a matter of law if the preliminary evidence by the plaintiff shows that the plaintiff is unlikely to prevail in a trial over the breach or that construing the contract, no breach occurred. But, summary dismissal is one of the biggest reasons for appellate reversals as appellate judges often send the case back to the district level for a trial.

The major issue is deep pockets and being able to survive and pay legal fees. But, Amazon and other big corps are white whales just as Big Tobacco was and we have a surplus of lawyers.

Posted by: whig at January 12, 2021 12:06 PM (pO7gM)

370 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 12, 2021 12:06 PM (arJlL)

371 Now, the "elites" are desperate, trying any tactic they can think of to maintain short-term survivability. The goal is to prop everything up long enough to strip the place and bail with their payout.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 12, 2021 12:07 PM (jOcSX)

372
Trump seriously needs to get to the UAE.
Posted by: josephistan at January 12, 2021 12:05 PM (Izzlo)

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Oh, I'm sure if he did, then President Harris would just trade them a port or something to make sure he gets an ice-ax to the skull. Right after Porridgehead pulls an Andropov.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2021 12:07 PM (Bvn1K)

373 rler doesn't even have a single static html page up saying that they were blindsided by Amazon and that they'll be back.

To be fair, we have submitted that change request to Amazon Web Services, but we're told they have quite a backlog.

Posted by: Parler Brain Trust at January 12, 2021 12:07 PM (SwCv8)

374 I agree. A lot of good faith and surprising naivete.

IMHO, PDT was more innocent than naive. That's not a knock on him in any way. He expected the DC drones to follow orders as is done out here in the real world. They refused to do it.
How many more lessons do we need in order to understand why our Founders designed a government to be weak and small and have very little influence in our daily lives? Perhaps when our power is shut off because of a Tweet that Big Sister Tech didn't like? #WASTF

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Wi Fuct at January 12, 2021 12:07 PM (HaL55)

375 There have been huge, and rapid, shifts in "public morality" and standards, at the national level. All - all - negative, and straight down.

Yeah, I mean privately people have always been sleazy. Humanity is sinful no matter what. But publicly there were standards and mores which are utterly gone.

When I was young nobody walked around swearing constantly, you kept that for private areas and special circumstances unless you were in combat. People were kind of ashamed to talk about certain topics in public.

Now people are kind of ashamed to talk about moral decent things and God in public, but are foul and horrible as loudly as they can be, everywhere.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 12:08 PM (KZzsI)

376 fixerupper, standing does not work like that. Automatically one has standing to sue regarding contracts. It may be dismissed as a matter of law if the preliminary evidence by the plaintiff shows that the plaintiff is unlikely to prevail in a trial over the breach or that construing the contract, no breach occurred. But, summary dismissal is one of the biggest reasons for appellate reversals as appellate judges often send the case back to the district level for a trial.

The major issue is deep pockets and being able to survive and pay legal fees. But, Amazon and other big corps are white whales just as Big Tobacco was and we have a surplus of lawyers.
Posted by: whig at January 12, 2021 12:06 PM (pO7gM)

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ummm..... Ok, Cliff Claven.

Tell Woody and Sam and Norm hello for us.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2021 12:08 PM (8XRCm)

377 362 Colorado Alex, that metaphor is true in so many ways.

Posted by: whig at January 12, 2021 12:08 PM (pO7gM)

378 Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2021 12:04 PM (/3XQC)

Now you're just being a dick.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 12, 2021 12:08 PM (2DOZq)

379 Duetche Bank just announced they will no longer do
business with Trump or his companies. They have had his accounts since
the 1990s.

Signature Bank just announced they are closing two of the President's personal accounts.

Liawatha Warren, now head of the Banking committee, says she will do
everything she can to investigate Trump's past business dealings.

Scary shit there folks.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 12, 2021 11:50 AM (oHd/0)
Get your money out of the system while you can people.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at January 12, 2021 12:08 PM (946rW)

380 This reminds me of the 60's TV show, The Outer Limits.

It would start out every week saying "We have taken control of your television."

This is Big Brother shit to the max.. they have taken control.. you will conform..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 12, 2021 12:08 PM (CjFDo)

381 Just dug it out, installed batteries.
Grundig Yacht Boy 400 is online!
Now to find some radio stations. I know those from prior to Y2k aren't online anymore.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2021 12:08 PM (wjmTS)

382 I really have no idea what comes next or how bad it will be. But really, these people aren't that smart and not that clever. They will screw up a lot, and even CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC and Fox can't always cover up everything.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at January 12, 2021 11:52 AM (vcOmj)

Again. Never ever underestimate your enemy.

Who has all the power now? Certainly not us.

Posted by: Justsayin' at January 12, 2021 12:08 PM (Fs5vw)

383 OK since someone did predictions, here are mine.

Obama will start showing his hand by going to a lot of meetings at the WH.

This, to make it clear that he is pulling strings.

And they will do single payer this year.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 12, 2021 12:09 PM (LWu6U)

384 Nowadays, you know immediately where and when your classmates are having a good time without out you, as they are tweeting (or whatever) details, pictures and video real-time. Kids are now real-time spectators to the fun they are missing, which makes the feeling of exclusing much more devastating. And no matter how cool you are, how connected, there are always times when others are having fun without out you -- being pushed in your face.

It's not just teenagers. It's poisoning adults as well.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 12, 2021 12:09 PM (jOcSX)

385 Nood.

Are we sure we didn't nuke England as well at some point?

Posted by: Bete at January 12, 2021 12:09 PM (Ojki1)

386 Like most billionaires his assets are a not a big Scrooge McDuck pool full of dollars.

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It's fun until the first time you go skinny-dipping in it and wind up with a paper-cut on your "anode."

Posted by: Elon Musk at January 12, 2021 12:09 PM (CGjum)

387

Local radio news says the FBI expects riots to start this weekend and go through next week. They claim a group is forming to "storm the Capitol" in DC.

Rush is gone again

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2021 12:09 PM (63Dwl)

388 Look, Parler doesn't even have a single static html page up saying that they were blindsided by Amazon and that they'll be back.

Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 12:04 PM (ZfRYq)

Because their DNS entry was removed as well. You can't put up a page when there's nothing pointing to it.

They're currently working with a supposed 'right leaning host' to get things back online.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at January 12, 2021 12:09 PM (Zz0t1)

389 It does not work that way on evidence and trial procedure. Those are codified court decisions more or less. Congress has more power over things like jurisdiction and filing requirements.

I'm pretty sure the rules for evidence gathering and standards for arresting people are all on the law enforcement side, codified in law. There's a lot they can change which would grant greater power and reach for the federal government.

Most of it would be unconstitutional back in the old days of the republic, but that's not an issue any longer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 12:10 PM (KZzsI)

390 326 198 . . . Or history books that seemed to make the soviets appear virtuous. I remember a social studies class where they discussed Jimmy Carter, and how misunderstood he was. Or how virtuous it was to have 10 babies and live off welfare.

I lived through Carter, and he seemed pretty awful at the time, and he was.

But, FFS, we've now had feckless Bush, malevolent Obama, Trump who had a shot at being the best of the past hundred years and threw it in the crapper with his passive-aggressive persona, and now we get Joe Von Bidenburg and the National Socialist Democrat blob behind him.

Posted by: JEM at January 12, 2021 12:10 PM (8erNz)

391 380 This reminds me of the 60's TV show, The Outer Limits.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry

We control the horizontal

We control the vertical

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 12, 2021 12:10 PM (LWu6U)

392 The Reichstag really *was* burned down by a commie (deranged Dutch one). Which of course had nothing to do with suspending most civil liberties of Germans, and then moving on within a few months to seize unlimited power.

This Capitol nonsense is 99% fabrication and distortion, and is being imposed on the country as truth, or fact.

You have f***ing members of Congress calling on other members to resign, accusing them of being involved with "insurrection". The lazy "oh this is nothing new" view will immediately race back to the 1850s to say, "oh this is nothing new" - which is nonsense. Nothing like it in the modern era.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2021 12:10 PM (OTzUX)

393 334 302 The irony is, he was pretty liberal.

Yeah, some people defend Nixon or hold him up as some kind of conservative figure, he was actually kinda centrist left. Him and JFK had very little difference of opinion, Nixon was just a strong anti-Communist when JFK was not so much.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2021 11:54 AM (KZzsI)

Bingo. A lot of things Tricky Dick did - from Affirmative Action to wage and price controls, were not conservative or Right at all.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 12, 2021 12:00 PM (XsgXy)

Absolutely correct on this one.

Nixon (born 1913), like Reagan (born 1911), was a child of the Depression. FDR made a deep impression on both of them.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 12, 2021 12:10 PM (6xA3t)

394
Yeah, if they bring the financial hammer down on a former President and legitimate businessman like he was a terrorist, it'll probably spark a fairly serious capital flight abroad.

Who the fuck would want to keep their money here after that?

It'll be interesting to see their response if money starts to run. By interesting, I mean "horrible."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2021 12:11 PM (Bvn1K)

395 Please, everyone watch Bill Whittle's vid 'Home of
the Brave '. We all know where America is headed, but if you can't
spread the courage, at least don't spread the fear.

Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at January 12, 2021 12:05 PM (ftFVW)

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Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at January 12, 2021 12:11 PM (946rW)

396 When you SBR a 5.56

https://i.redd.it/njd86hzmyta61.jpg

(not my picture)

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2021 12:11 PM (i0wNm)

397 Ace is awake.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 12, 2021 12:11 PM (kTF2Z)

398 Local radio news says the FBI expects riots to start this weekend and go through next week. They claim a group is forming to "storm the Capitol" in DC.

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Same FBI that said Russian hookers peed on germophobe Trump??

Same FBI that said Richard Jewell blew Atlanta up??

Same FBI that said Hillary Clinton had no criminal intent??

THAT FBI ????

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2021 12:11 PM (8XRCm)

399 Because Parler is over. It ain't coming back, at least not anywhere near where it was. Their lawsuit is plain - Amazon has killed them, they are asking for redress for that.
Posted by: blaster at January 12, 2021 12:02 PM (ZfRYq)

Because they were stupid. They thought that the left didn't see them as Daily Stormer, or 8chan, or Alex Jones, or any of the others who got deplatformed while Bongino hunted for likes and retweets on twitter.

Let's be honest - conservatives (me included, perhaps especially) sat on our asses instead of building an infrastructure to counter all this shit. Now banks are getting involved. We are five years behind where we needed to be for this moment, but it was easier to like and retweet articles about tyranny than do anything.

I am mad, mostly at myself. We let this fucking happen.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 12, 2021 12:12 PM (i4PQl)

400 Get your money out of the system while you can people.

Would love to. Kind of stuck right now, though.

Posted by: t-bird at January 12, 2021 12:12 PM (1fg6a)

401 Get your money out of the system while you can people.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at January 12, 2021 12:08 PM (946rW)

You still haven't answered my question from yesterday. After we take out all that cash, what do we do with it? Hide it in the mattress? Bury it in the back yard? Please tell us.

Posted by: Justsayin' at January 12, 2021 12:12 PM (Fs5vw)

402 350 rhomboid,
It is my contention that the Clintons developed a huge database for political blackmail of opponents. First they used disreputable PI's for their dirt and then official government records were scoured.

The Patriot Act and the move to digital comms along with pervasive databases from commercial companies spying on their customers made it even easier to target and cull out opposition. It was supersized by the Obama administration where you could consider the entire conversion of the federal government happened to expedite domestic spying on opponents. That corruption includes the Gang of 8 which is why Angelo Codevilla calls for getting rid of the whole national security surveillance apparatus.

Posted by: whig at January 12, 2021 12:13 PM (pO7gM)

403 When the prosecutions are complete, we'll have a number (a small number), and specific individuals. None of whom will turn out to have anything to do with MAGA, of course.

This fact will be difficult to find, however, as there is no press, and now the official propaganda organs have zero push-back, strong tail-winds, and no limits.

If VDH and Prager have actually bought into any of this, it adds to the free-fall degradation we're experiencing.

Oh - and I am gonna go out on a limb and guess that being fired from your job for attending a political event in DC is also not "normal", and is, in fact, pretty much something new under the sun.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2021 12:14 PM (OTzUX)

404 We've taken care of everything
The words you hear, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes

It's one for all and all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why

- Some Canadian band...

Posted by: Rhubarb Ranch at January 12, 2021 12:14 PM (N9/qT)

405 >>> This will be a new way to use the Internet, one that lets you control your information online. Interesting stuff.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 12, 2021 11:22 AM (JKNZq)

It uniquely serializes you. It seems like the opposite of secure anonymity. He claims it decentralized your info but seems like it would require hosting for your info.

I think the only safe future will be distributed community based private network where you are identified by a private key resolved through a block-chain. Everyone will own a bit of this and no one can own or interrogate any uniquely identifying element of it but their own.

I think the tools required for this exist but no single dev company would ever create this as it has no value but to each individual in a massive group.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 12, 2021 12:15 PM (i1LKW)

406
Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2021 12:10 PM (OTzUX)

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If anyone has been watching the last five years unfold and thinks that *any* of this is routine or normal is just completely unwilling to accept this new reality. Probably nothing will convince them that they might be in serious trouble until they're in the cattle car. Maybe not even then.

"People have been riding in cattle cars for years. Haven't you people heard of 'hobos?' Sheesh. Put down your hair-lighters, guys."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2021 12:15 PM (Bvn1K)

407 I graduated HS in 1966 (Hi, Vic!) and during our senior year, we spent an entire marking period studying the evils of communism in our US History class. Such a different time. Our teacher was a former marine. He was one of the best.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy

My HS social studies teacher had spent the summer in the USSR (in the 70s) and he talked about that a lot.

I thought he was a nut, since i read the news and understood what was going on in the USSR, but he thought it was just peachy. I am guessing that most other kids did not dismiss him like I did.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 12, 2021 12:15 PM (LWu6U)

408 401 Justsayin'

Talk with your financial planner if you have assets to save. Everyone's plan should address individual problems beyond the limits of the AOS grey boxes.

Do you have a small business with cash laying around? Then perhaps you might just want to splurge on a solar system for power disruptions. Do you have a bunch in 401k's? Then you might want to plan out what to do on withdrawal if the Dems come after them as they have threatened to 'nationalize' them.

Do you bank with the monster mega banks? Be aware that your deposits and cd's and ira's are treated as unsecured loans to that bank. Move it to a credit union that makes safer loans. And so on.

Posted by: whig at January 12, 2021 12:18 PM (pO7gM)

409
keep posting pics of your kids and grandkids!

we need all the facial AI we can sell

Posted by: Facebook at January 12, 2021 12:19 PM (r4bSV)

410 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

OT: it finally occurred to me, "Hey, I wonder if this nic refers to anything historical instead of just being some guy's name?" It does!

Posted by: t-bird at January 12, 2021 12:19 PM (dYmWY)

411 I just don't know how people like Pelosi sleep at night. I know, you will say, upside-down in her bat cave. ...
Posted by: washrivergal at January 12, 2021 11:50 AM (66BnU)

I doubt she's sleeping well at all. I looks like she's been taken into custody. Two days ago, a radio talk show host claimed that a top general - one in a position to know - told him that Pelosi would be arrested Monday. Towards the end of that day's broadcast he also reported quite a few troops being spotted at the Capitol.

The next day, there were no troops and no news item about good ol' Nancy. The talk show host took all kinds of grief, and he swore to never pass along another prediction. Another g-damn hoax!

But by the end of the broadcast word spread about something somebody had noticed. Nancy did not come to work that day. So it's either an incredible co-incidence that Pelosi happened to take a day off from her impeachment frenzy the exact same day that somebody said she'd be arrested, or she's been arrested. Probably, they moved the timeline forward, and those troops spotted help capture her the previous evening.

Posted by: President-Elect Optimizer at January 12, 2021 12:21 PM (hOOi9)

412 Same FBI that said Russian hookers peed on germophobe Trump??

Same FBI that said Richard Jewell blew Atlanta up??

Same FBI that said Hillary Clinton had no criminal intent??

THAT FBI ????

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2021 12:11 PM (8XRCm)
It is almost exactly like they have no credibility and are Chinese agents.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at January 12, 2021 12:22 PM (946rW)

413
Do you bank with the monster mega banks? Be aware that your deposits and cd's and ira's are treated as unsecured loans to that bank. Move it to a credit union that makes safer loans. And so on.
Posted by: whig at January 12, 2021 12:18 PM (pO7gM)

Credit unions and savings and loan companies come under federal laws and scrutiny also. What makes them better?

When the communists come for our money and property, no place is safe. We're living in a whole new reality now.

Posted by: Justsayin' at January 12, 2021 12:23 PM (Fs5vw)

414 Taking a fresh look at precious metals.

Posted by: creeper at January 12, 2021 12:24 PM (XxJt1)

415 Posted by: President-Elect Optimizer at January 12, 2021 12:21 PM (hOOi9)

I am not holding my breath for anything but us to save us. The Lord is always coming again but, thus far, He never has gotten here in time so I do not have to do my homework. On the other hand, if this is true then I will rejoice in my as well prepared as I can make it apartment.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at January 12, 2021 12:26 PM (946rW)

416 Please tell us.

Posted by: Justsayin'

Buy weapons and ammo, lots. Buy gold, liquor, food, water and gasoline. Buy a 25 foot RV and a repair manual and tools for that RV. By a four wheeler.
Buy enough camping gear that you can live outside indefinitely.

Did I mention weapons and ammo?

Posted by: Sharkman at January 12, 2021 12:27 PM (0bGEp)

417 Taking a fresh look at precious metals.

Posted by: creeper at January 12, 2021 12:24 PM (XxJt1)

Gonna' take physical posession?

Posted by: BignJames at January 12, 2021 12:27 PM (AwYPR)

418 Trump supporters forcing their way into the Capitol on the 6th is analogous to the abused wife slapping her husband on the face as he approaches to beat her up for the umpteenth time.

The world at large seems to be aghast that the abused wife might strike out while ignoring the many beatings already endured from her bullying husband.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 12, 2021 11:12 AM (pcsoT)

And they're shocked to wake up and find the bed on fire.

Posted by: Fox2! at January 12, 2021 12:28 PM (Gl29c)

419
414 Taking a fresh look at precious metals.
Posted by: creeper at January 12, 2021 12:24 PM (XxJt1)

Gold is way too high to be a solid investment. Silver maybe.

Posted by: Justsayin' at January 12, 2021 12:29 PM (Fs5vw)

420
Buy weapons and ammo, lots. Buy gold, liquor, food, water and gasoline. Buy a 25 foot RV and a repair manual and tools for that RV. By a four wheeler.
Buy enough camping gear that you can live outside indefinitely.

Did I mention weapons and ammo?
Posted by: Sharkman at January 12, 2021 12:27 PM (0bGEp)

If I were to go in that direction, it would be a tent, two or three practical firearms with a basic load of ammo, food, water for three days, and a pack bicycle much like the NVA used on the HCM trail.

Of course other implements of survival would also be taken, including a freshly stocked first-aid pack.

Posted by: Justsayin' at January 12, 2021 12:38 PM (Fs5vw)

421 White Supremacy. Because the only reason Americans would have to be mad at having their votes thrown in the trash is because they dislike those who don't have their own skin color.

Posted by: CrustyB at January 12, 2021 01:05 PM (qXzGC)

422 Our dear Common Application CEO is apparently unaware that the veracity of a statement is inversely proportional to the number of modifiers appended to statement's subject.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at January 12, 2021 02:16 PM (YPZzQ)

423 "[V]iolent, white supremacist insurrectionists" versus "peaceful Black and Brown protestors." Nope, no bias here. Just move along now; nothing to see.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at January 12, 2021 02:19 PM (YPZzQ)

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