New Realities [KT]

Remember Ace's post a while ago on the essay in Tablet, "Everything is Broken"? Recommended reading.

The article rambles about the Silicon Valley drive to make everything "flat" -- basically, all the same, without place or purpose, because that's the Silicon Valley ideal.
We're no longer rooted in any particular place or culture. Such things are too complicated for FaceBook profiles. The real world has been made to conform with the limitations of the fake digital world -- by removing people's individuality.
It has made them flat, because Google's algorithms cannot try to sell shit to three-dimensional people.

Well, one thing mentioned in that piece is how Silicon Valley has enabled other individuals or groups to quickly transform peoples' views on things like the trustworthiness of Iran or the biological difference between the sexes. On the latter point, this suggests that the media (and everyone else) has to be nimble in keeping up with the latest orthodoxies since Pelosi led her colleagues in removing gendered language from congressional documents and so forth.

Anyway, Assistant Village Idiot has wrestled through an essay by Rod Dreher on Reality vs. Pseudo-Realities which I think relates to the above piece in terms of the speed with which people can come to accept new views of the world. Dreher quotes heavily from a piece by James Lindsay.

Whatever you think of Dreher and Lindsay, I think you should read the piece by Assistant Village Idiot, because I think it is relevant to the current discombobulation of many in the QAnon set, as well as to the increased aggressiveness of The Woke. Here is a quote:

Because "universal compliance" is mentioned, I will insert a long-held thought of mine I think important in this context. We contrast the free market and communism as if they are on all fours, making excuses for the latter because conditions have never been right and the attempts have always been undermined by other forces. But this is precisely the point. Communism works only when it is applied perfectly, without corruption, with wise rulers upon a deeply moral population. When do we expect those conditions to occur? OTOH, The free market works even though it is always applied with imperfect means, some corruption, unexpected events, and incompetent implementation, however slowly and partially that "works" is. So too with Wokeness and the pseudo-realities of the Right, like QAnon.* They cannot work until everyone is made to comply, so the energy is directed into making people comply rather than providing evidence that the machine actually makes widgets. How can we expect it to make widgets when everyone has not yet gotten into line?

Related: Daniel Greenfield, This is how conservatives get erased.

* UPDATE: Commenters have made what I think is a good assessment that typical QAnon enthusiasts do not demand compliance from the entire population. There are some credible reports that some of them reject family members for questioning their theories (suggesting that they are in league with "the enemy" and so forth). And some of their theories seem to require very specific actions on the part of certain other people. We haven't seen the predicted results because those people have not gotten in line with the actions required by the theories.

COVID-19

This is not what he said during his campaign, but Biden now says that there is nothing they can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic.

Fortunately, others will cover for him.

The Military

Biden Tells Freezing Troops Sleeping In Garages To Be Patient Until He Can Get Them Shipped To Iraq.

In the real world, Biden has sent more troops into Syria. I'm not sure that this signals a return to an Obama policy of regime change. Might be a bit premature for that kind of a conclusion. But the historical details at the link are interesting and since this is a Smart Military Blog, I thought it might be an interesting topic for discussion.

Music

A new "thing" on the Internets. Tik Toc Sea Shanties. I kind of wonder how it passes all the censors.

Hope you have a good weekend.
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1 Terrible song

Posted by: MAC SOG'''' at January 23, 2021 11:20 AM (P4Pk9)

2 Hey, I found ya'all. The party moved up here huh.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 23, 2021 11:21 AM (cCxiu)

3 Son of a biotch. I could have been first but I stopped to read the friggin post.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 23, 2021 11:22 AM (JUOKG)

4 I commented on this Twitter exchange earlier, but it really needs to be on the sidebar:
Krugman:
So, what happened to the insurrection? Maybe I'm jinxing it, but the
wave of violence many expected didn't materialize before or on
Inauguration Day; there were hardly any demonstrators. Where did all
the rage go?Greenwald: Oh, gosh, I hope this doesn't mean the
magnitude of the threat has been wildly exaggerated for political gain,
media excitement and ratings, censorship orgies, and laying the
foundation for a new fear-driven Domestic War on Terror to control
politics and information.

Krugman is as good at understanding politics as he is at economic projections.

Posted by: pep at January 23, 2021 11:23 AM (v16oJ)

5 MAC SOG'''' at January 23, 2021 11:20 AM
At least it has some real bass voices, though. Hah.

Posted by: KT at January 23, 2021 11:23 AM (BVQ+1)

6 I think the part of the next 4 years which will bother me the most is listening to the receptacle's voice (and seeing how the media idolizes her).

Posted by: AZ isolated deplorable at January 23, 2021 11:23 AM (gtatv)

7 Wouldn't it be grand if even one reporter asked Slo where his plan was? Guessing they will declare 'rona victory closer to the midterms. Most unserious country ever.

Posted by: Rando East Texas Poster at January 23, 2021 11:23 AM (QgW45)

8 Krugman is as good at understanding politics as he is at economic projections.

Posted by: pep at January 23, 2021 11:23 AM
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They moved the goal posts on the"insurrection" to the impeachment trail. That's when Tump's secret racist white supremacist Army will mobilize and invade DC.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 23, 2021 11:24 AM (JUOKG)

9 Thanks for the Greenfield article and re-upping the Everything is Broken piece. I'll enjoy reading these.

Posted by: Draki at January 23, 2021 11:24 AM (fQbD4)

10 Lonely ...

Posted by: Jean at January 23, 2021 11:25 AM (Xih1H)

11 Would VP Skank do? It's gender neutral, right?

Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 23, 2021 11:26 AM (jvt6t)

12 Since you didn't nood I took care of it for you slackers.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at January 23, 2021 11:27 AM (ju2Fy)

13 Is it too early to drink? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 23, 2021 11:28 AM (sFb+u)

14 I am not sure I can take the new reality, keep thinking it's a nightmare I will wake up from.

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 11:28 AM (Cxk7w)

15 Who advised Biden to send those troops? Hillary?

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 11:29 AM (AwYPR)

16
Larry King, no longer Alive. RIP. See sidebar.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2021 11:30 AM (s2VJv)

17 15 Who advised Biden to send those troops? Hillary?
Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 11:29 AM (AwYPR)

guess i was wrong,. thought hillary would be in a biden admin. i suppose it isn't too late but so far haven't seen anything.

Posted by: Jack Burton, who drives the Pork Chop Express at January 23, 2021 11:30 AM (jW21F)

18 Who is going to break it to the Gen Zers that they are singing about chopping up whales?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 23, 2021 11:30 AM (Wm5SB)

19 If you liked the the Flatness post, someone wrote it out into book form and predicted trouble a while back:

https://tinyurl.com/y44cb88l

Lanier is a left-wing hippie and slightly crazy but was involved in Silicon Valley from early on, so he's on firm ground when he says that a lot of things we take for granted didn't have to be that way.

Posted by: Funkotron at January 23, 2021 11:31 AM (nNv6v)

20 You do know that's a Babylon Bee article, right? About Biden saying they'll all be in Syria and Iraq soon?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:31 AM (oQ94s)

21 Larry King, no longer Alive

I want to be in the lawyer's office when the will is read. Seriously; that's some epic level fighting that's going to happen.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 23, 2021 11:31 AM (sFb+u)

22 Apropos to the new normal, and Willowed:

Five articles at American Thinker today are titled with a question. That seems kinda stoopid, since nobody is allowed to answer any more. I hate 2021.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at January 23, 2021 11:31 AM (OssQ4)

23 You do know that's a Babylon Bee article, right?

Of course. But it is believable.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 23, 2021 11:32 AM (sFb+u)

24 Are Sea Shanties like houseboats, only smaller and more run down??

Posted by: Muldoon at January 23, 2021 11:32 AM (m45I2)

25 You do know that's a Babylon Bee article, right? About Biden saying they'll all be in Syria and Iraq soon?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:31 AM (oQ94s)

So, it's just as accurate as any MSM reporting?

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 11:33 AM (AwYPR)

26 Every time I see Kameltoe Harris I think of The Blue Goose in Panama.

Wonder if she worked there for a time.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 23, 2021 11:33 AM (R/m4+)

27 You do know that's a Babylon Bee article, right? About Biden saying they'll all be in Syria and Iraq soon?
Posted by: BurtTC
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Yes. I have decide that the Bee will now be my primary choice for news...

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 11:33 AM (UUBmN)

28 The only Facebook profile I have is the one they have built for me, which I am sure they have done.

Posted by: fluffy at January 23, 2021 11:33 AM (UnQlg)

29 Mornin' 'Rons and 'Ettes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:34 AM (ynpvh)

30 My Pillow has 66% discount on sheets with the promo code.
Posted by: Braenyard, Patriot dog
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What's the discount code then???

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 11:34 AM (UUBmN)

31 Larry King, no longer Alive
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I want to be in the lawyer's office when the will is read. Seriously; that's some epic level fighting that's going to happen.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 23, 2021 11:31 AM (sFb+u)

Would be hilarious if the will is written like his old columns.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:34 AM (oQ94s)

32 BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:31 AM

Yes. Babylon Bee. Biden has only sent some troops into Syria so far.

Posted by: KT at January 23, 2021 11:35 AM (BVQ+1)

33 30 My Pillow has 66% discount on sheets with the promo code.

Posted by: Braenyard, Patriot dog

----

What's the discount code then???

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 11:34 AM (UUBmN)

Funny if it is "Trump Won"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:35 AM (ynpvh)

34 Is it too early to drink? Asking for a friend.

You stopped?

I have it on good authority that communists drink quite a bit in order to attempt to deal with the insanity. And since we're now a communist country, we may as well drink.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 23, 2021 11:36 AM (HaL55)

35 What's the discount code then???

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 11:34 AM (UUBmN)

Funny if it is "Trump Won"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:35 AM (ynpvh)

The code is: "I'm gonna spam your email from now until the end of time."

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:37 AM (oQ94s)

36 And since we're now a communist country, we may as well drink.

I like the way you think, sir. And I did stop drinking for a bit. The cops get Very Stern with you being behind the wheel while under the influence.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 23, 2021 11:37 AM (sFb+u)

37 When the senate votes for impeachment for the real president, what can they do to him. Being a private citizen, do they have the power to arrest him? Does it set the stage for the trial of insurrection and murder? Do they really want the chaos that would bring?

Posted by: megthered at January 23, 2021 11:38 AM (SM/op)

38 guess i was wrong,. thought hillary would be in a biden admin. i suppose it isn't too late but so far haven't seen anything.
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Sec Def?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 23, 2021 11:38 AM (7Fj9P)

39 Did the MSM notice we invaded Syria yesterday - or was that just an "insertion"?

Posted by: Rando East Texas Poster at January 23, 2021 11:38 AM (QgW45)

40 I have it on good authority that communists drink quite a bit in order to attempt to deal with the insanity. And since we're now a communist country, we may as well drink.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 23, 2021 11:36 AM (HaL55)

i know ye jest but its actually a sad commentary on the communism/socialism form of misery. the libs love to hold up Scandinavia as the place where socialism works- but when you look at the stats concerning alcohol abuse, depression and suicide, it is appalling.
those people are shackled- physically to their broken system and therefore defeated mentally. to think they used to be Vikings.

To think we put a man on the moon.

Posted by: Jack Burton, who drives the Pork Chop Express at January 23, 2021 11:38 AM (jW21F)

41 I've never twitted.
I've never tiktoc'd.
I don't think I'm missing much.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2021 11:39 AM (axyOa)

42 Erf.

Hangover. A little. Well. Ok. Maybe moar than a little.

Coffee.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 23, 2021 11:39 AM (U2p+3)

43 Slainte!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 23, 2021 11:39 AM (HaL55)

44 I'm here.

It's about whales? I thought it was about sex. Huh.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 11:39 AM (sd8p8)

45 Biden has only sent some troops into Syria so far.
Posted by: KT

Has he, though? Or is the DOD just doing whatever they want, like they did under Trump? I can't see Biden standing over a table covered in maps and little markers, surrounded by generals. Strategerizin' and stuff.

Thanks for the content, by the way!

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at January 23, 2021 11:40 AM (OssQ4)

46 37 When the senate votes for impeachment for the real president, what can
they do to him. Being a private citizen, do they have the power to
arrest him? Does it set the stage for the trial of insurrection and
murder? Do they really want the chaos that would bring?

Posted by: megthered at January 23, 2021 11:38 AM (SM/op)

He was impeached when he was still president. The question is whether he can be tried now that he's no longer president. I'd like to see Nancy tried for her seditious language, using the same metrics she used for "covicting" Trump. Would never happen, just like she'd never hang from a gibbet along Pennsylvania Avenue for her crimes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:40 AM (ynpvh)

47 The code is: "I'm gonna spam your email from now until the end of time."
Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:37 AM (oQ94s)

They're using the Republicans' motto?

Seriously, it's impossible to get them to stop. If you want them to stop you have to give them your email address so they can spam you or sell it for others to spam.

The Republicans
Finding new ways to suck each and every day!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 23, 2021 11:40 AM (dWwl8)

48 Sec Def?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 23, 2021 11:38 AM (7Fj9P)

Filled already...or was that JCS?

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 11:40 AM (AwYPR)

49 I can't see Biden standing over a table covered in maps and little markers, surrounded by generals. Strategerizin' and stuff.

Steiner will....you know....the thing.

Posted by: pep at January 23, 2021 11:41 AM (v16oJ)

50 Rod Dreher is a strange unit. He and I corresponded heavily when he worked for the Dallas Morning News. He and I are pretty much identical in terms of temperament (we're both INFP) and general beliefs.

Dreher thinks that Trump is a bad man and a bad president, yet voted for him. In that way, he's consistent.

I still don't understand the Trump hate peculiar to a certain type of Christian.

Posted by: Michael the Texan at January 23, 2021 11:41 AM (9IdCK)

51 BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:31 AM

Yes. Babylon Bee. Biden has only sent some troops into Syria so far.
Posted by: KT at January 23, 2021 11:35 AM (BVQ+1)

And I suppose there's no point in saying (as we'd have to for as long as he's there) that Biden isn't doing anything.

The military industrial complex is its own monster, and has been for some time now. It goes where it wants, it consumes what it wants, it sets its own policy.

The failure of Trump to rein it in was as clear an indication that Presidents don't really run things that we're ever going to get.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:41 AM (oQ94s)

52 Has he, though? Or is the DOD just doing whatever they want, like they
did under Trump? I can't see Biden standing over a table covered in
maps and little markers, surrounded by generals. Strategerizin' and
stuff.

Thanks for our next video!

Posted by: Downfall Parody at January 23, 2021 11:41 AM (cCxiu)

53 11. "would VP Skank do?"

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It does beautifully.

Posted by: Ziba at January 23, 2021 11:42 AM (S1hrL)

54 Zappa was into sea shanties in the late Sixties. Look up "Handsome Cabin Boy". It's an instrumental so SFW.

Posted by: f'd at January 23, 2021 11:42 AM (Z3rue)

55 48 Sec Def?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 23, 2021 11:38 AM (7Fj9P)

Filled already...or was that JCS?

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 11:40 AM (AwYPR)

Sec Def filled by Gen. Lloyd Austin (Ret.). First black Sec Def. Fervently vows to root out any right wing extremism in the military and replace them with trannies.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 23, 2021 11:42 AM (D3cJf)

56 Braenyard, just Bing the phrase "MyPillow discount codes". Several sites collect them and keep them current. I found mine on a CNN page, of all places.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at January 23, 2021 11:43 AM (OssQ4)

57 Would never happen, just like she'd never hang from a gibbet along Pennsylvania Avenue for her crimes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:40 AM (ynpvh)

I try not to use absolutes.

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 11:43 AM (AwYPR)

58 41 I've never twitted.

I've never tiktoc'd.

I don't think I'm missing much.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2021 11:39 AM (axyOa)

Neither have I. I always thought those that used Twitter and their messages should have been called twits, but that's just me.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:43 AM (ynpvh)

59 I would think Bill would be lobbying hard to get H! a position. His style is getting cramped with the Energizer Bunny. H! was pissed when she found out she didn't hit from both sides of the plate.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 23, 2021 11:43 AM (7Fj9P)

60 Cariloha bamboo sheets are the best ever

Posted by: Citizen Khan at January 23, 2021 11:44 AM (qowtl)

61 Krugman is as good at understanding politics as he is at economic projections.

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He's a no trick pony.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2021 11:44 AM (VVEnO)

62 He was impeached when he was still president. The question is whether he can be tried now that he's no longer president. I'd like to see Nancy tried for her seditious language, using the same metrics she used for "covicting" Trump. Would never happen, just like she'd never hang from a gibbet along Pennsylvania Avenue for her crimes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:40 AM (ynpvh)
I didn't realize they had already impeached him. I have been staying away from the news. Now they have to have the pretend trial in the senate. What can they possibly do to him, but they have a free hand now. They could order him to hang for him "crimes".

Posted by: megthered at January 23, 2021 11:44 AM (SM/op)

63 Brandy, you're a fine girl....

(puts bottle down)

Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 23, 2021 11:44 AM (jvt6t)

64 57 Would never happen, just like she'd never hang from a gibbet along Pennsylvania Avenue for her crimes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:40 AM (ynpvh)

I try not to use absolutes.

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 11:43 AM (AwYPR)

I'd have to be proven wrong.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:44 AM (ynpvh)

65 Sec Def?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 23, 2021 11:38 AM (7Fj9P)

Filled already...or was that JCS?
Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 11:40 AM (AwYPR)

Yep, already filled. Some black guy I never heard of before.

Looks like there's a lot of that, people who were underlings for Obama, now getting the big chair. So many of the old names we feared would be back, are not coming back.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:45 AM (oQ94s)

66 My 66% off code was "deal5". Good for all of January.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at January 23, 2021 11:45 AM (OssQ4)

67 When I see Bernie Sanders in front of a computer terminal, I know some shit is about to be broken by the old commie bastard.
>Unleash your powers, MonkeyMan!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 23, 2021 11:45 AM (03n3v)

68 I never had a farcebook or Twitter account. I do read some people's Twitter post though. I read AtC's daily and razorfist.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 11:45 AM (UUBmN)

69 Fine article by Village Idiots Apprentice.

Posted by: Michael the Texan at January 23, 2021 11:45 AM (9IdCK)

70 I like the way you think, sir. And I did stop drinking for a bit. The
cops get Very Stern with you being behind the wheel while under the
influence.

Ain't that the truth. I guess it's the only way to get The Big Guy to watch over me.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 23, 2021 11:46 AM (HaL55)

71 Regarding the military link, "Biden" is going to fuck around and (a) get Israel frontally attacked and (b) cause ISIS attacks to renew on American soil. God bless the troops, but they are expendable pawns whose deaths will be celebrated in D.C. The question is whether this evil even will get covered by the propaganda organs.

The main problem is if the United States is delivered a humiliating military defeat, which is possible, like all evil empires before it the oligarchs will punish the American people as wreckers.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat (Joe Biden Didn't Kill Himself at January 23, 2021 11:46 AM (puu6v)

72 Yeah, I fully realize that by having never, not even once, joined *any* of the anti-social media sites, I've painted a huge target on my back. The Sin of Omission.

Benefit to me though. All those hours I might've wasted on those sites, has been squandered to a much higher purpose, here.

Cheers, Horde! *raises covfefe mug toast*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 23, 2021 11:46 AM (QzJWU)

73 Isn't it he isn't impeached until convicted?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 11:47 AM (sd8p8)

74 62 I didn't realize they had already impeached him. I have been staying
away from the news. Now they have to have the pretend trial in the
senate. What can they possibly do to him, but they have a free hand now.
They could order him to hang for him "crimes".

Posted by: megthered at January 23, 2021 11:44 AM (SM/op)

The impeachment was a soviet-style show trial. No evidence, and when one Congressman quoted Nancy Pelosi, the Twittersphere was ablaze accusing him of inciting violence. FOR QUOTING NANCY. So who's guilty of inciting violence, eh?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:47 AM (ynpvh)

75 Bernie comments on internet memes...
https://tinyurl.com/yywvq6nd
(Picture.)

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2021 11:48 AM (ab0zp)

76 That particular sea shanty is sort of what kicked the whole thing off. Some kid/musician in Scotland was going insane during the lockdown so he started singing shanties. The first one got a bit of traction, but this one went nuts. Within a day or so, a bunch of guys added the harmony (this version) and then somebody took that and did a rave/house version that got a lot of play last week.

Of course now every tik-tok idiot and failed celebrity is doing some sort of sea shanty. It's pretty funny though to see some of the videos of gangsta types singing along to this one, after sneering for the first few seconds. Maybe there's still a glimmer of hope.

Posted by: clutch cargo | with more crushed glass flavor crystals at January 23, 2021 11:49 AM (L8ADy)

77 73 Isn't it he isn't impeached until convicted?

Posted by: Sharon at January 23, 2021 11:47 AM (sd8p

No. Impeachment is the House side of it. Basically, it's the House saying he can be tried for high crimes and misdemeanors by the Senate. So Trump is the only president in US History to be 2x impeached.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:49 AM (ynpvh)

78 Some were speculating that after conviction, trump would lose the SS for life deal. Who knows. The rules mean nothing now. The Constitution is just a novelty in a nice glass case.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 23, 2021 11:49 AM (7Fj9P)

79 Kevin Pollack has his guests do the Larry King Game.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL620BAE89968967AA

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 23, 2021 11:50 AM (LxTcq)

80 To think we put a man on the moon.
Posted by: Jack Burton, who drives the Pork Chop Express at January 23, 2021 11:38 AM (jW21F)

...

We peaked in 1776, apparently

Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2021 11:51 AM (2HIdp)

81 25 You do know that's a Babylon Bee article, right? About Biden saying they'll all be in Syria and Iraq soon?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:31 AM (oQ94s)

So, it's just as accurate as any MSM reporting?
Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 11:33 AM (AwYPR)

More so.

Posted by: Javems at January 23, 2021 11:51 AM (8SSHh)

82 Because the Donks and Dorks are hurtling into uncharted territory, holding an impeachment trial to remove someone from office who has already left office, perhaps we can impeach people before they assume office or commit a high crime and misdemeanor.

Posted by: Mr. Barky at January 23, 2021 11:52 AM (tN5mD)

83 I still don't understand the Trump hate peculiar to a certain type of Christian.

Me neither. It appears to me that just hatred itsownself is on the rise everywhere. Having half the world turn batshit crazy literally overnight makes it difficult to know what to do other than being patient.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 23, 2021 11:52 AM (HaL55)

84 So Trump is the only president in US History to be 2x impeached.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:49 AM (ynpvh)

...

No one will ever be able to remember for what he was impeached, either.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2021 11:52 AM (2HIdp)

85 Yeah, I fully realize that by having never, not even once, joined *any* of the anti-social media sites, I've painted a huge target on my back. The Sin of Omission.
Benefit to me though. All those hours I might've wasted on those sites, has been squandered to a much higher purpose, here.
Cheers, Horde! *raises covfefe mug toast*
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 23, 2021 11:46 AM (QzJWU)

I have a farcebook profile, but literally never go to it unless somebody dies. I thought it was good for reconnecting with military buddies, but even those guys, I don't bother.

Every now and then though, I get a flurry of notices in my email about what everyone I know is saying on the site, and how everyone is reacting to what everyone else is saying. It creates an illusion of things happening, but then when I ask in meat space about updates for people, they're like "Yeah, nothing really happening here."

So farcebook is not only monitoring my lack of activity, it's pretty much lying to me about what everyone else is up to.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:52 AM (oQ94s)

86 68 I never had a farcebook or Twitter account. I do read some people's Twitter post though. I read AtC's daily and razorfist.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 11:45 AM (UUBmN)

I used Face*uck for a while, until my liberal freinds started going off the rails. I tried to argue rationally (I even discussed Supreme Court precedent of the 1930's involving finding a man growing his own grain was found guilty of violating Federal law because his NON-BUYING of grain affected the market and thus was interstate commerce--Wickard vs Filburn). I haven't been on in over a decade and can't even get on with my password as FB wants an updated picture (I'll send you one of my ass with google-eyes on it a**holes!)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:52 AM (ynpvh)

87 As an awareness if this has not been noticed before, it appears that there are trolls creating social media accounts using the AosHQ nics or email account names you have attached to your posts, and doing some real shitty work on the intertoobs.

Posted by: BluesFish at January 23, 2021 11:53 AM (WQZ1O)

88 Meg they impeached him for Russia Collusion? after Mueller found no evidence. Senate of course at that time refused to convict.

Sad that they think they can impeach again now that their cheat has been certified and we are stuck with the fraudulency.

I only hope that a number of LIVs that discounted Trump, start to realize how fake the news is as the phonies praise the senile pervert just as much as they did Barky. Barky could at least coherently read most of his telly prompter lines in a pleasant baritone and look presidential behind the podium. Uncle Joe can maintain no facade.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 23, 2021 11:53 AM (zcKJv)

89 44 I'm here.

It's about whales? I thought it was about sex. Huh.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 11:39 AM (sd8p

"when the tonguin' is done" refers to a process where whale blubber was cut into long "tongues" and rendered into oil in big pots.

Not all that sexy. Although, I did read recently that the only reason Melville hasn't been eliminated from universities (dead white males must be purged), is that the sailing stories are enjoyed by the gay studies departments that like to parse every word and have fantasies about sailors.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 23, 2021 11:53 AM (Wm5SB)

90 Some were speculating that after conviction, trump would lose the SS for life deal. Who knows. The rules mean nothing now. The Constitution is just a novelty in a nice glass case.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 23, 2021 11:49 AM (7Fj9P)

I don't think the SS is anything Trump is worried about. Wouldn't surprise me if he dumps them for his own security, at least they can be trusted.

The video of Obarky, W and Willie C talking about taking the country back and healing was vomit inducing. They're not fooling anybody. YT couldn't keep up with the downvotes on Joe-Joe's videos, they still outnumber upvotes 3x. Considering goolag said they removed downvotes because they were bots, the 10's of thousands of negative comments (where they were left on) beg to differ.

Things are going to start getting really interesting, and soon.

Posted by: clutch cargo | with more crushed glass flavor crystals at January 23, 2021 11:54 AM (L8ADy)

91 82 Because the Donks and Dorks are hurtling into uncharted territory,
holding an impeachment trial to remove someone from office who has
already left office, perhaps we can impeach people before they assume
office or commit a high crime and misdemeanor.

Posted by: Mr. Barky at January 23, 2021 11:52 AM (tN5mD)

I think that was tried of lower-level Goverment employees. J.J. Sefton had some article on it on one of the Morning Reports a week or so ago.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:55 AM (ynpvh)

92 82 Because the Donks and Dorks are hurtling into uncharted territory, holding an impeachment trial to remove someone from office who has already left office, perhaps we can impeach people before they assume office or commit a high crime and misdemeanor.
Posted by: Mr. Barky at January 23, 2021 11:52 AM (tN5mD)

Mark Levin addressed this. They open this can and go through with it, the republican party dies and ANY semblance of a constitutional republic is gone. Then its truly over because that sets the precedent for going after anyone for any perceived crime at any time.
thing is- i think they will do it. because they don't give a fuck and its all about pay back- pay back to Trump and any of his supporters. That will be the opening salvo.

Posted by: Jack Burton, who drives the Pork Chop Express at January 23, 2021 11:55 AM (jW21F)

93 "when the tonguin' is done" refers to a process where whale blubber was cut into long "tongues" and rendered into oil in big pots.

Not all that sexy. Although, I did read recently that the only reason Melville hasn't been eliminated from universities (dead white males must be purged), is that the sailing stories are enjoyed by the gay studies departments that like to parse every word and have fantasies about sailors.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 23, 2021 11:53 AM (Wm5SB)

...

It's pretty crazy that they had bonfires going on those boats.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2021 11:55 AM (2HIdp)

94 84 So Trump is the only president in US History to be 2x impeached.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:49 AM (ynpvh)

...

No one will ever be able to remember for what he was impeached, either.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2021 11:52 AM (2HIdp)

Because he was impeached for "ORANGE MAN BAD" and nothing more. His impeachment documents were basically an editorial on the NYT.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:56 AM (ynpvh)

95 Anyone else experiencing this?

I'm using eBay in lieu of Amazon; I buy an item from some rando seller with about 1,000 transactions in East Osh Kosh; the package arrives with Amazon labels and an Amazon receipt in the envelope. Not one mention of Amazon in the listing of the product.

Happened TWICE this week for me.

WTAH? Does Amazon have its tentacles in EVERY online transaction?!

Posted by: squeakywheel at January 23, 2021 11:56 AM (T2vUn)

96 One of the worst things about impeachment is that nobody understands what impeachment means, and then everybody spends the days/weeks of the impeachment process, arguing about what it means to be impeached, whether someone IS impeached, and how many peaches they get if they are.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:56 AM (oQ94s)

97 84
No one will ever be able to remember for what he was impeached, either.
Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2021 11:52 AM

Um..like, racism? He hated Mexicans or something? He grabbed Nancy Pelosi by the pussy? I think he caused that disease, too. That was definitely the second one.

Posted by: LIV SJW 20 years from now at January 23, 2021 11:57 AM (2ZjvJ)

98 Of course now every tik-tok idiot and failed celebrity is doing some
sort of sea shanty. It's pretty funny though to see some of the videos
of gangsta types singing along to this one, after sneering for the first
few seconds. Maybe there's still a glimmer of hope.
Have they discovered Pirate Metal? Someone here posted a link to the band Alestorm for which I am grateful. They're a hoot and a holler.https://youtu.be/f55CqLc6IR0

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 23, 2021 11:57 AM (HaL55)

99 96 One of the worst things about impeachment is that nobody understands
what impeachment means, and then everybody spends the days/weeks of the
impeachment process, arguing about what it means to be impeached,
whether someone IS impeached, and how many peaches they get if they are.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:56 AM (oQ94s)

They lose their peaches, thus impeachment.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:58 AM (ynpvh)

100 Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen disagrees with your analysis on Scadinavia. Last two videos have been on mental and physical toughness.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 23, 2021 11:58 AM (YynYJ)

101 Good video (linked below) on how the virus has conveniently led us toward this "flattening", or their New Normal, the Great Reset. --- The removal of alternative platforms (conservative/traditional) is the most extreme of flattening measures ... trying to turn us all into economic widgets for their profit, with no room for outside the box thinking (or even inside the old boxes).

https://tinyurl.com/y28pjtop

Posted by: illiniwek at January 23, 2021 11:58 AM (Cus5s)

102 I don't think the SS is anything Trump is worried about. Wouldn't surprise me if he dumps them for his own security, at least they can be trusted.
==========================
I was thinking about that, too. The State is so deep, the SS would be a nice way to keep tabs on Trump. They would have access to every aspect of his life. It would also be a convenient outlet for a Scalia to happen should they get desperate for any reason.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 23, 2021 11:58 AM (7Fj9P)

103 Anyone else experiencing this?

I'm using eBay in lieu of Amazon; I buy an item from some rando seller with about 1,000 transactions in East Osh Kosh; the package arrives with Amazon labels and an Amazon receipt in the envelope. Not one mention of Amazon in the listing of the product.

Happened TWICE this week for me.

WTAH? Does Amazon have its tentacles in EVERY online transaction?!
Posted by: squeakywheel at January 23, 2021 11:56 AM (T2vUn)

Pretty much everyone who sells on Ebay is also selling on Amazon. I don't know how it works, but yeah, I would assume that's the case, that Amazon is the "fulfillment center" for a lot of these merchants, and so where you initiated the transaction is not going to change much how the process goes.

Would be nice if we could get some clarity on who's doing what, but that's not our world. Not anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:59 AM (oQ94s)

104 Posted by: squeakywheel at January 23, 2021 11:56 AM (T2vUn)

...

That's very...interesting.

Is there an order number you could go back to Amazon and lookup?

Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2021 11:59 AM (2HIdp)

105 World's tiniest violin. Union members shocked to find out that Zhou Bai Den is destroying union jobs.

https://bit.ly/3qDz2z0

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2021 11:59 AM (VVEnO)

106 97 84

No one will ever be able to remember for what he was impeached, either.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2021 11:52 AM

Um..like, racism? He hated Mexicans or something? He grabbed Nancy
Pelosi by the pussy? I think he caused that disease, too. That was
definitely the second one.

Posted by: LIV SJW 20 years from now at January 23, 2021 11:57 AM (2ZjvJ)

I doubt he'd ever grab that old horse by the pussy, unless it was 1960's Nancy during JFK's admin. She wasn't bad looking then.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:59 AM (ynpvh)

107 From downstairs
My plumbing leak is the gauge connection, took apart the gauge which is working , taped joints and put back together but still dripping.
Might be a call for FlexSeal. Dryoff, caulk around, sit overnight should be good next day.

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 11:59 AM (Cxk7w)

108 Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:56 AM (oQ94s)

They lose their peaches, thus impeachment.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:58 AM (ynpvh)

But then inflammable means you get MORE flames!

So maybe death by peaches?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:01 PM (oQ94s)

109 For what it's worth, I ordered some Wheat Montana flour from Amazon. It showed up in a Walmart box.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 23, 2021 12:01 PM (YynYJ)

110 The juveniles in the basements listening to sea shanties on Tik Tok don't realize they were used to orchestrate very hard labor, something they will never see.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 23, 2021 12:02 PM (I58tH)

111 I think they are rushing the conviction through before most people realize what a shit show they voted for. Same reason they are pushing the EO's so fast.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:02 PM (UUBmN)

112 89
Not all that sexy. Although, I did read recently that the only reason Melville hasn't been eliminated from universities (dead white males must be purged), is that the sailing stories are enjoyed by the gay studies departments that like to parse every word and have fantasies about sailors.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 23, 2021 11:53 AM

Ahoy, sodomites! It's what developed my three loves: strong young men, boats full of the same, and penetration from behind, both politically and, er, otherwise.

Thinking about Moby Dick, though...I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Captain Will "Jayne Cobb" Kristol at January 23, 2021 12:02 PM (2ZjvJ)

113
It's pretty crazy that they had bonfires going on those boats.
Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2021 11:55 AM (2HIdp)

When you see the size of the boats those guys used to harpoon and chase the whales, compared to the size of the whales themselves it boggles the mind. Those guys had serious guts and/or out of their freaking minds.

Also, if you want to make a Liberal's head explode, explain to them that Standard Oil first produced kerosene which made whale oil obsolete. Standard Oil saved the whales. Green Peace was a hundred years late to the party.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 23, 2021 12:02 PM (Wm5SB)

114 108 Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:56 AM (oQ94s)

They lose their peaches, thus impeachment.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 11:58 AM (ynpvh)

But then inflammable means you get MORE flames!

So maybe death by peaches?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:01 PM (oQ94s)

Both flammable and inflammable peaches.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:03 PM (ynpvh)

115 This ends one of four ways. I think door #1 is most likely, so I'd put my money on it if I had no soul and wished to profit on the unalloyed suffering of billions of people. But I don't so I won't.

1. A dystopian technocratic nightmare of new-feudalism and the ruling class dictating terms from Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Tel Aviv and various other "tech hubs" around the world, implemented quickly and relatively bloodlessly.
2. Flat rejection and, if needed, open rebellion to attempt to restore the old order, implemented quickly and relatively bloodlessly. This won't work ("status quo ante" never does), but the outcome will be wildly *different* from option 1, for better or worse.
3. A slow, grinding conflict ultimately resulting in option #1.
4. A slow, grinding conflict ultimately resulting in option #2.

The war has been started, whether or not shots ever get fired en masse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 23, 2021 12:03 PM (UZVEt)

116 A plumber at my house used a liquid product called 'Dope' to replace a very old rubber ring seal in the toilet pipe, Skip. Maybe look it up and see if it would be suitable?

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2021 12:04 PM (ab0zp)

117 I have heard one of them screeching that they need to arrest Trump for insurrection and murder because of the "riots". I read about the banks closing his accounts and refusing to do business with him. He has f -you money but I don't think he wants to abandon us and he might want a little bit of revenge. The dems are really playing with fire, they may be poking the bear a little too hard.

Posted by: megthered at January 23, 2021 12:04 PM (SM/op)

118 Cause will only be what the Democrats Propaganda Ministry says it is, that's all anyone will know or remember down the road.

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 12:04 PM (Cxk7w)

119 This could explain COVID-19: http://yhoo.it/398Dv6W

That's how Marron got interested. The filmmaker rarely pays attention to X, but the blanket coverage of X touched on a topic she is passionate about - science for hire.

It's the ability of corporations to pay research firms to deliver whatever answer it wants to any question it wants. That usually involves more serious subjects, such as minimizing the links between cancer and pesticides or asbestos. Y hired one of the firms she considers dubious: Exponent.

"Science for hire is such an important issue, it impacts all of us in very meaningful ways," Marron said. "X was getting exponentially more media attention, however, than any other case I'd ever seen. This was a way to share how it operates.

"These firms perform scientific gymnastics and contortions in a dishonest way but it makes people who don't understand to think, well, 'it could have been that way.'"

That's what happened with X.

Posted by: Tall Cool Gentleman in a Black Suit at January 23, 2021 12:04 PM (Do5/p)

120 81 25 You do know that's a Babylon Bee article, right? About Biden saying they'll all be in Syria and Iraq soon?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 11:31 AM (oQ94s)

So, it's just as accurate as any MSM reporting?
Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 11:33 AM (AwYPR)

More so.
Posted by: Javems

The Babylon Bee is America's Paper of Record and Prophecy.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 23, 2021 12:05 PM (nGC1b)

121 I have heard one of them screeching that they need to arrest Trump for insurrection and murder because of the "riots". I read about the banks closing his accounts and refusing to do business with him. He has f -you money but I don't think he wants to abandon us and he might want a little bit of revenge. The dems are really playing with fire, they may be poking the bear a little too hard.
Posted by: megthered at January 23, 2021 12:04 PM (SM/op)
++++
That is the hopeful interpretation. The less hopeful interpretation is that they have seized every lever of power and will do whatever they want until civilization degrades to the point that we get the Dark Ages Redux.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 23, 2021 12:05 PM (UZVEt)

122 111 I think they are rushing the conviction through before most people
realize what a shit show they voted for. Same reason they are pushing
the EO's so fast.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:02 PM (UUBmN)

I believe they are doing it because THEY CAN. They want to totally demoralize the right, the 75-80 Million people that voted from Trump, but their actions will have the exact OPPOSITE effect. Thus their push at the same time to brand Trump supporters as equivalent to Al Qaeda, with, I'm sure, the FBI, CIA, NSA, and other alphabet agencies coming after us.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:05 PM (ynpvh)

123
The war has been started, whether or not shots ever get fired en masse.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 23, 2021 12:03 PM (UZVEt)

So our choice is living in:
Black Mirror universe
or
The Postman/Mad Max

Posted by: Jack Burton, who drives the Pork Chop Express at January 23, 2021 12:05 PM (jW21F)

124 I have pipe dope, used Teflon tape, big joints plumbers use both sometimes. These are a 1/2" and then a 3/8". It has to be necked down

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 12:06 PM (Cxk7w)

125 111 I think they are rushing the conviction through before most people realize what a shit show they voted for. Same reason they are pushing the EO's so fast.
Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:02 PM

They have to do it soon...if it isn't pressing enough to do immediately, they can't justify it at all. Can you imagine holding and impeachment 12 months from now? It would look ridiculous, the the exhumantion and hanging of Cromwell.

I did hear some rumblings that the Republicans might not just be concerned about 2024 presidential election, but that Trump might run for congress in a red district and make life annoying for all of them, which may help explain the desire to remove his ability to run for office, at any cost.

Posted by: Grimmy at January 23, 2021 12:07 PM (2ZjvJ)

126 Both flammable and inflammable peaches.

It's the same thing, only different.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 23, 2021 12:08 PM (HaL55)

127 No one will ever be able to remember for what he was impeached, either.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2021 11:52 AM (2HIdp)

Hurt feewings.

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 12:08 PM (AwYPR)

128 It would be funny if Trump wound up a senator from Florida...lol

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:09 PM (UUBmN)

129 ... It's the ability of corporations to pay research firms to deliver whatever answer it wants to any question it wants. ...
Posted by: Tall Cool Gentleman in a Black Suit at January 23, 2021 12:04 PM (Do5/p)
++++
Not just corporations. Governments do this all the time. "Science for hire" is fine - it's all about who they work for. The problem is that no one works for the customer or the taxpayer, respectively.

A good analogy is bond rating agencies. Who do they work for? The answer has been different over time. Before the banking reforms in the late 70s, they worked for the customer. Not everything got rated, but if a bond *was* rated, the rating was usally paid for by a major institutional investor who wanted to buy a lot of the issue. The ratings companies had a vested interest in accuracy.

After the regulatory change that dictated that pension funds and fixed-income managed portfolios *must* have some amount of highly-rated "investment grade" paper or they couldn't buy, it pivoted. The issuers started paying for ratings or else they couldn't sell. Now who do the raters work for? Now what happens to accuracy?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 23, 2021 12:09 PM (UZVEt)

130 Why do the Democrats hate Western Civilization and everything that makes life good?

Posted by: N.L. Urker at January 23, 2021 12:09 PM (lgiXo)

131 World's tiniest violin. Union members shocked to find out that Zhou Bai Den is destroying union jobs.

https://bit.ly/3qDz2z0
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2021 11:59 AM (VVEnO)

Wait'll the Yoon Yuns find out their pension plans are NOT their pension plans.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:09 PM (oQ94s)

132 Sole reason is to stop him from a 2024 campaign they know won't be stopped.

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 12:09 PM (Cxk7w)

133 The Mooch better stay out of Oklahoma.

Rep. Justin Humphrey has introduced a bill that would create an official Bigfoot hunting season. Humphrey's district in southeast Oklahoma includes the heavily wooded Ouachita Mountains, where they already have a Bigfoot festival there every year and the hope is that these hunting licenses would help increase tourism.

-
When I was a kid, I got a dinosaur hunting license from Vernal UT, near Dinosaur National Monument. For being huge sumbitches, they sure can hide well. I never even got a shot off.

P.S. Last I knew, they had closed the visitor's center that had that magnificent wall of dinosaur bones due to unstable ground. Joe'll probably fix that in the course of his daily affairs as he heals the Earth.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2021 12:09 PM (VVEnO)

134 126 Both flammable and inflammable peaches.

It's the same thing, only different.

Posted by: Backwards Boy at January 23, 2021 12:08 PM (HaL55)

They joys of the English language.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:09 PM (ynpvh)

135 116 A plumber at my house used a liquid product called 'Dope' to replace a very old rubber ring seal in the toilet pipe, Skip. Maybe look it up and see if it would be suitable?
Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2021 12:04 PM

Huh, that shit really does fix everything! I've got plenty lying around, but it ain't cheap, and DON'T let the cops catch you, unless your daddy's at LEAST a congressman!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at January 23, 2021 12:10 PM (2ZjvJ)

136 So our choice is living in:
Black Mirror universe
or
The Postman/Mad Max
Posted by: Jack Burton, who drives the Pork Chop Express at January 23, 2021 12:05 PM (jW21F)
++++
Doors number 1 and 3 lead to the Black Mirror scenario.
Door number 4 likely leads to the Postman scenario.
Door number 2 is ambiguous.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 23, 2021 12:10 PM (UZVEt)

137 #124 Thanks, Skip. I thought you might been a novice like myself.

And now that you mention it, I could see it only being used on larger pipes.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2021 12:10 PM (ab0zp)

138 124 Skip, when applying teflon tape do it in a clockwise fashion on the male thread. When you tighten it go as far as it feels snug. Then give it a half turn more, that will crush the threads insuring a seal.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 23, 2021 12:12 PM (I58tH)

139 might HAVE been (!)

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2021 12:12 PM (ab0zp)

140 Instead of constantly fighting the left everywhere piecemeal over everything it's time to just split.

Posted by: DaveA at January 23, 2021 12:12 PM (FhXTo)

141 That's very...interesting.

Is there an order number you could go back to Amazon and lookup?
Posted by: TexasDan
**
Sure is. On the receipt inside the package, with instructions on how to return/replace an item. I'm thinking of returning it, (a DVD). The whole purpose of using eBay was to avoid Amazon. So infuriating!

Posted by: squeakywheel at January 23, 2021 12:13 PM (T2vUn)

142 And now that you mention it, I could see it only being used on larger pipes.
------
That comment applies to Hunter too!

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2021 12:13 PM (ab0zp)

143 "I still don't understand the Trump hate peculiar to a certain type of Christian."

Melania is Catholic and Trump is the most pro-life POTUS in history. Liberal Christians (both Protestant and Catholic) hate him for it.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 23, 2021 12:14 PM (2BZBZ)

144 142 And now that you mention it, I could see it only being used on larger pipes.
------
That comment applies to Hunter too!

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2021 12:13 PM (ab0zp)

You should see how hunter shovels the snow off of his driveway...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:14 PM (ynpvh)

145 I have to figure out how to hang this barn door hardware I bought for the cabinet we built... I may or may not have made the doors a tad too short.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:14 PM (UUBmN)

146 143 "I still don't understand the Trump hate peculiar to a certain type of Christian."

Melania is Catholic and Trump is the most pro-life POTUS in history.
Liberal Christians (both Protestant and Catholic) hate him for it.

Posted by: JAS at January 23, 2021 12:14 PM (2BZBZ)

The Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden type of Christian.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:15 PM (ynpvh)

147 You should see how hunter shovels the snow off of his driveway...
------
He invites Murkowski over??

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2021 12:15 PM (ab0zp)

148 145 I have to figure out how to hang this barn door hardware I bought for
the cabinet we built... I may or may not have made the doors a tad too
short.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:14 PM (UUBmN)

Can you cut the hardware to fit your door?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:15 PM (ynpvh)

149 When you tighten it go as far as it feels snug. Then give it a half turn more, that will crush the threads insuring a seal.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 23, 2021 12:12 PM (I58tH)

Teflon is really a lube...not a sealant.

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 12:16 PM (AwYPR)

150 Well, it's only fair.

Biden Grants Citizenship To Everyone Who Voted For Him

From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2021 12:17 PM (VVEnO)

151 147 You should see how hunter shovels the snow off of his driveway...
------
He invites Murkowski over??

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2021 12:15 PM (ab0zp)

I think it's a Colombian motiff, but not the Juan Valdez type of Colombian motiff.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:17 PM (ynpvh)

152 I have pipe dope, used Teflon tape, big joints plumbers use both sometimes. These are a 1/2" and then a 3/8". It has to be necked down

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 12:06 PM (Cxk7w)

**********

It's really incredible how air- and water-tight a seal you can make with PVC pipes and glue.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 23, 2021 12:17 PM (44/1o)

153 149 When you tighten it go as far as it feels snug. Then give it a half turn more, that will crush the threads insuring a seal.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 23, 2021 12:12 PM (I58tH)

Teflon is really a lube...not a sealant.

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 12:16 PM (AwYPR)

Doesn't work so well in the bedroom though.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:17 PM (ynpvh)

154 Both flammable and inflammable peaches.
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It's the same thing, only different.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 23, 2021 12:08 PM (HaL55)

But the House only gives you flammable peaches. The Senate has to vote on whether you get inflammable peaches or not.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:18 PM (oQ94s)

155 Teflon is really a lube...not a sealant.
Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 12:16 PM (AwYPR)

IIRC, "teflon tape" isn't really teflon.

I could be wrong.

Posted by: Bumr50 at January 23, 2021 12:18 PM (SEBYZ)

156 So our choice is living in:
Black Mirror universe or
The Postman/Mad Max

You forgot Door #3. The Stand.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 23, 2021 12:19 PM (cCxiu)

157 I am not sure I can take the new reality, keep thinking it's a nightmare I will wake up from.
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 11:28 AM (Cxk7w)

Since I can't do anything and those with power to actually impede our glorious march toward Communism won't (looking at you GOPe cowards), I'm checking out of politics. Mrs. Cop and I are going to Church and praying. I'm reading apologetics and doctrinal books in order to get a deeper understanding of Catholicism. I figure I will end up being a religious dissident.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 23, 2021 12:19 PM (pJWtt)

158 Both flammable and inflammable peaches.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:03 PM (ynpvh)

Dang. Death by Peach Flamb�!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2021 12:19 PM (axyOa)

159 156 So our choice is living in:

Black Mirror universe or

The Postman/Mad Max
You forgot Door #3. The Stand.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 23, 2021 12:19 PM (cCxiu)

Only if the 'Rona gets 100,000x worse.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

160 Only if the 'Rona gets 100,000x worse.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

You funny round eye. We make more.

Posted by: CCP at January 23, 2021 12:21 PM (jvt6t)

161 IIRC, "teflon tape" isn't really teflon.
I could be wrong.

I guess that means I shouldn't have smoked pipe dope for all these years.

Posted by: Plumber with Emphysema at January 23, 2021 12:22 PM (cCxiu)

162 Sealing threads and let's start a gun thread. PO8 Luger barrels were installed in the early days by dipping the threads in iodine, rusting the barrel in place.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 23, 2021 12:22 PM (I58tH)

163 Skip, when applying teflon tape do it in a clockwise fashion on the male thread. When you tighten it go as far as it feels snug. Then give it a half turn more, that will crush the threads insuring a seal.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 23, 2021 12:12 PM (I58tH)

Sexist!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2021 12:22 PM (axyOa)

164 Can you cut the hardware to fit your door?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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The length of the rail the doors hang on is not the issue. The issue is once I hang the rail and attach the rollers to the doors, will the doors hang down enough to not have a gap above the face frame at the bottom.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:22 PM (UUBmN)

165 160 Only if the 'Rona gets 100,000x worse.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

You funny round eye. We make more.

Posted by: CCP at January 23, 2021 12:21 PM (jvt6t)

Wadda ya mean round eye? I associate as a lesbian Japanese Eskimo.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

166 When you see the size of the boats those guys used to harpoon and chase the whales, compared to the size of the whales themselves it boggles the mind. Those guys had serious guts and/or out of their freaking minds.

...

They had a guy whose job was to throw buckets of water on the harpoon rope, because when the whale sounded, the rope is ripped out of the boat so fast it would CATCH ON FIRE.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2021 12:23 PM (2HIdp)

167 Sealing threads and let's start a gun thread. PO8 Luger barrels were installed in the early days by dipping the threads in iodine, rusting the barrel in place.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 23, 2021 12:22 PM (I58tH)

geenyus

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

168 Meg they impeached him for Russia Collusion? after Mueller found no evidence. Senate of course at that time refused to convict.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 23, 2021 11:53
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I thought he was impeached for an Ukrainian phone call?

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at January 23, 2021 12:23 PM (ju2Fy)

169
The length of the rail the doors hang on is not the issue. The issue is once I hang the rail and attach the rollers to the doors, will the doors hang down enough to not have a gap above the face frame at the bottom.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:22 PM

can you raise the floor?

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2021 12:23 PM (DUIap)

170 When I was a kid, I got a dinosaur hunting license from Vernal UT, near Dinosaur National Monument. For being huge sumbitches, they sure can hide well. I never even got a shot off.

P.S. Last I knew, they had closed the visitor's center that had that magnificent wall of dinosaur bones due to unstable ground. Joe'll probably fix that in the course of his daily affairs as he heals the Earth.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2021 12:09 PM (VVEnO)

There are two sides to Dinosaur N.M. One side has the dinosaur bones and whatnot, the other is "just" fascinating landscrape. In fact, as you go into that side, the road on which you are driving is part of the National Monument, but you're basically surrounded by private land for about 20 miles or so. All along that road, there were huge Trump signs flying.

So... Dinosaurs are pro-Trump! Team Biden is gonna dig 'em up and impeach 'em.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:24 PM (oQ94s)

171 Cow's giving kerosene, kid can't read and he's 17
The words he knows are all obscene, but it's alright.

I will get by, I will survive.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 23, 2021 12:25 PM (jvt6t)

172 If anything tightened it, was still dripping so turned it more and got worse. If nothing else just need to drain pressure tank or few gallons and could try again. It doesn't cost anything.

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 12:25 PM (Cxk7w)

173 Lin-duh, can you attach a strip of some sort of trim on the bottom of the doors, to hide the gap?

Posted by: skywch at January 23, 2021 12:25 PM (Y/Ps0)

174 164 Can you cut the hardware to fit your door?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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The length of the rail the doors hang on is not the issue. The issue
is once I hang the rail and attach the rollers to the doors, will the
doors hang down enough to not have a gap above the face frame at the
bottom.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:22 PM (UUBmN)

Could you add a threshold below the doors?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:25 PM (ynpvh)

175 My lib coworker just said "good news! Our county's covid positive rate went down 8%!"

Earlier she was gushing about the inauguration, that she recorded on dvr.

Ok karen

Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at January 23, 2021 12:25 PM (EGSGm)

176 They had a guy whose job was to throw buckets of water on the harpoon rope, because when the whale sounded, the rope is ripped out of the boat so fast it would CATCH ON FIRE.
Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2021 12:23 PM (2HIdp)

Unhuh.
And they also used snipe oil to lube the harpoon barb. When in port they'd organize snipe hunts just for the oil.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2021 12:25 PM (axyOa)

177 The length of the rail the doors hang on is not the issue. The issue is once I hang the rail and attach the rollers to the doors, will the doors hang down enough to not have a gap above the face frame at the bottom.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:22 PM

can you raise the floor?

*****

In all seriousness, a transition piece might work if there's no other option.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 23, 2021 12:25 PM (44/1o)

178 can you raise the floor?
Posted by: AltonJackson
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ALTON!! Good to "see" you around. I was look8ng for the exact wording of you salting quote the other day.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:26 PM (UUBmN)

179
Cow's giving kerosene, kid can't read and he's 17
The words he knows are all obscene, but it's alright.

I will get by, I will survive.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 23, 2021 12:25 PM

I see you got your fist out
say your piece and get out

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2021 12:26 PM (DUIap)

180 Wadda ya mean round eye? I associate as a lesbian Japanese Eskimo.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

In Japanese this is known as Ainu Erren

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 23, 2021 12:27 PM (Wm5SB)

181 My lib coworker just said "good news! Our county's covid positive rate went down 8%!"

****

Gosh, what a surprise.

Or: Wait, doesn't it take four days to two weeks to determine that?

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 23, 2021 12:27 PM (44/1o)

182 Lin-duh, can you attach a strip of some sort of trim on the bottom of the doors, to hide the gap?
Posted by: skywch
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This is what I am thinking about.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:27 PM (UUBmN)

183
Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:26 PM

I have a salting quote? Can you hum a few bars?

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2021 12:27 PM (DUIap)

184
Soon may the Kameltoe come
With her carved up face and her sagging bum
The Deep State Ho does what she's told
The old man's time is through (Hah)

Posted by: Deep State Sea Shanty at January 23, 2021 12:27 PM (t5m5e)

185 would CATCH ON FIRE.
Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2021 12:23 PM (2HIdp)
Unhuh.
And they also used snipe oil to lube the harpoon barb. When in port they'd organize snipe hunts just for the oil.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2021 12:25 PM (axyOa)
...
Ha.
I grew up near the Mystic Seaport Museum. Parents bought annual passes. I shopped for their Christmas presents mostly in that gift shop.
It's true. There was a spot on the gunwhale the rope passed over--no pulley, just the rope rubbing over the wood.
So I guess it's the wood that would (ha) catch fire, not the rope.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2021 12:28 PM (2HIdp)

186 So our choice is living in:
Black Mirror universe or
The Postman/Mad Max

You forgot Door #3. The Stand.
Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 23, 2021 12:19 PM (cCxiu)

I watched about 2 1/2 episodes of Black Mirror, and decided I can't watch this. Too realistic.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:28 PM (oQ94s)

187 Only if the 'Rona gets 100,000x worse. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Puts on tinfoil hat. Rona was a test run. Could you engineer a disease that preferentially leaves 1 race alone? Because if you could, that's what the CCP is working on with vaccinations provided to Bezos, Zukerberg, Gates and a few other useful idiots at tremendous cost.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 23, 2021 12:28 PM (cCxiu)

188 180 Wadda ya mean round eye? I associate as a lesbian Japanese Eskimo.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

In Japanese this is known as Ainu Erren

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 23, 2021 12:27 PM (Wm5SB)

Ainu Erren too. Where did you meet her?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:28 PM (ynpvh)

189 IIRC, "teflon tape" isn't really teflon.

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Like duck-tape isn't really ducks!

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2021 12:29 PM (ab0zp)

190 Alton,
Wasn't it you that talked about salting the ground?
My memory is horrible when it comes to quotes...

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:29 PM (UUBmN)

191 I'll still take Shipping Out To Boston by the Drop Kick Murphy's over any tik-tok sea shanty bullshit.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 23, 2021 12:29 PM (jvt6t)

192 I'm back after reading the linked articles and they are very very good. Scary, but good.
I ended up writing an email to my sons attaching the article. This is what I sent.
This is an outstanding article. Read the whole thing. You may think I am a big C conservative but I have always considered myself a classical liberal.
You may have wondered how the Nazis got all those Jews to meekly get into box cars. Or how the Chinese got all those Uighurs into work camps. Or how Chavez and now Maduro remain in power while people starve.
You may think it can never happen here, but it is already starting. Censorship, inequality before the law, critical race theory mandated in schools and government, biology is a construct. People fervently believe these are necessary to make sure there is no wrong think.
I hope I'm wrong.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 12:29 PM (sd8p8)

193 Speaking of dystopian tropes, B'Gal saved me the movie Johnny Mnemonic on some video channel. It was made in '95 but it's set in 2021 where there's a pandemic that's caused by electronics. A medical company has developed the cure but is withholding it so they can treat it with their products, thus increasing their profits quite a bit and prolonging needless suffering. The first scene shows people wearing masks.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 23, 2021 12:29 PM (HaL55)

194 World's tiniest violin. Union members shocked to find out that Zhou Bai Den is destroying union jobs.

https://bit.ly/3qDz2z0
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2021 11:59 AM (VVEnO)

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There's a house three doors down with a "Proud Union Family!" and a Biden sign.

Going to be hard to not point and laugh whenever I walk by.

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 12:29 PM (a/6Gi)

195 My lib coworker just said "good news! Our county's covid positive rate went down 8%!"

**

Here's a fun website for such things, btw:

covid19.biglocalnews.org/county-maps/

Be sure to switch over to "fatalities" to see why we're masked up and shut down.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 23, 2021 12:30 PM (44/1o)

196 187 Only if the 'Rona gets 100,000x worse. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Puts
on tinfoil hat. Rona was a test run. Could you engineer a disease that
preferentially leaves 1 race alone? Because if you could, that's what
the CCP is working on with vaccinations provided to Bezos, Zukerberg,
Gates and a few other useful idiots at tremendous cost.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 23, 2021 12:28 PM (cCxiu)

Maybe easier to engineer something that takes out the elderly and sick. Hey, wait a minute!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:30 PM (ynpvh)

197 So I guess it's the wood that would (ha) catch fire, not the rope.
Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2021 12:28 PM (2HIdp)

Actually I didn't know this so I've learned something this morning. But I gotta say TD I'm a bit disappointed. I thought sure you'd come back with something about how big the snipe are in Texas.
I used to hunt them up onMt St Helens until the volcano.
Good times. Good times.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2021 12:31 PM (axyOa)

198 James Lindsay's stuff is quite good but, I agree, sometimes the vocabulary is, shall we say, a bit "challenging." However, if you read "Cynical Theories" the book he wrote with Helen Pluckrose, you find the postmodern stuff they quote makes his writing seem like Dick and Jane. That stuff is so jargon-filled that it's unreadable. Plus, you have no idea what the postmodernists are talking about.

Posted by: ruralbob at January 23, 2021 12:31 PM (PqKIk)

199 SMH - Biracial Honkey
----
This made me lol!

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:31 PM (UUBmN)

200 My lib coworker just said "good news! Our county's covid positive rate went down 8%!"

---

Such stupidity should be physically excruciating.

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 12:31 PM (a/6Gi)

201 You funny round eye. We make more.

Posted by: CCP at January 23, 2021 12:21 PM (jvt6t)

Wadda ya mean round eye? I associate as a lesbian Japanese Eskimo.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

Gonna go out on a limb and assume China government documents are not pronoun neutral, and nobody announces their pronouns in public or on email signatures.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:32 PM (oQ94s)

202 Just speaking troof to powah, lin-duh

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 12:32 PM (a/6Gi)

203 Lin-duh, search for "floor transition" to see some options. Lowes, Home Depot, or flooring stores should have lots of choices.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 23, 2021 12:33 PM (44/1o)

204 201 Gonna go out on a limb and assume China government documents are not
pronoun neutral, and nobody announces their pronouns in public or on
email signatures.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:32 PM (oQ94s)

Well their Supreme Leader does whenever his name is mentioned. He goes by Xi.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:33 PM (ynpvh)

205 Plus, you have no idea what the postmodernists are talking about.

Neither do they.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 23, 2021 12:35 PM (HaL55)

206 145 I have to figure out how to hang this barn door hardware I bought for the cabinet we built... I may or may not have made the doors a tad too short.
Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:14 PM (UUBmN)

On a cabinet which is off the ground, that's... unfortunate. if you have a door that touches the floor, it's easy to add a sweep or a threshold to fill the gap and it won't be visibly noticeable.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2021 12:35 PM (V2Yro)

207 Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:32 PM (oQ94s)

Well their Supreme Leader does whenever his name is mentioned. He goes by Xi.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:33 PM (ynpvh)

Keeping eye on you two.....

Posted by: CCP at January 23, 2021 12:35 PM (jvt6t)

208 Being a bit crippled up, I watch entirely to much TV. There was a dedication on for some Inuit SJW. I have never seen such a weird alphabet in all my days.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 23, 2021 12:35 PM (I58tH)

209 Speaking of dystopian tropes, B'Gal saved me the movie Johnny Mnemonic on some video channel. It was made in '95 but it's set in 2021 where there's a pandemic that's caused by electronics. A medical company has developed the cure but is withholding it so they can treat it with their products, thus increasing their profits quite a bit and prolonging needless suffering. The first scene shows people wearing masks.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 23, 2021 12:29 PM (HaL55)

I only remember that I watched it way back when, and that I think I thought it was kinda dumb.

Probably worth a re-watch now.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:35 PM (oQ94s)

210
Wasn't it you that talked about salting the ground?
My memory is horrible when it comes to quotes...

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:29 PM

IIRC, that was AllenG's standard proscription:

Burn it down / scatter the stones / salt the earth where it stood

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2021 12:36 PM (SST+T)

211 "However, if you read "Cynical Theories" the book he wrote with Helen Pluckrose, you find the postmodern stuff they quote makes his writing seem like Dick and Jane. That stuff is so jargon-filled that it's unreadable. Plus, you have no idea what the postmodernists are talking about."

Yes, I tried reading "Cynical Theories," and had to give up. It's like reading a 300 page evisceration of Flat Earth Theory. #woke horseshit, post-modernism and CRT are self-evidently _nonsense_, so why waste hours dissecting them?

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at January 23, 2021 12:36 PM (qpX6U)

212 "I'm reading apologetics and doctrinal books in order
to get a deeper understanding of Catholicism. I figure I will end up
being a religious dissident." Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop
good ... all churches need informed dissidents ... power (in men's hands) always corrupts, in church and in government. Of course the essential doctrine is the Bible itself, all the rest is suspect (of course we don't have original texts, nor do we completely understand the context of the original message as it pertained to the old cultural zeitgeist of the time, but we can try)

Posted by: illiniwek at January 23, 2021 12:36 PM (Cus5s)

213 Well their Supreme Leader does whenever his name is mentioned. He goes by Xi.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:33 PM (ynpvh)

Just got a tip from one of our sources. We're keeping an eye on you as well.

Posted by: FBI at January 23, 2021 12:36 PM (jvt6t)

214 206 145 I have to figure out how to hang this barn door hardware I bought
for the cabinet we built... I may or may not have made the doors a tad
too short.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:14 PM (UUBmN)

On a cabinet which is off the ground, that's... unfortunate. if you
have a door that touches the floor, it's easy to add a sweep or a
threshold to fill the gap and it won't be visibly noticeable.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2021 12:35 PM (V2Yro)

If on a cabinet, add a lip to the bottom at the threshold of the door. Or add a floor on top (hidden floor below for hidin' stuff).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:37 PM (ynpvh)

215 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

I miss AllenG.

Posted by: creeper at January 23, 2021 12:37 PM (XxJt1)

216 Time to see what i can get myself into the rest of the day.

Cheers!

Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 23, 2021 12:37 PM (jvt6t)

217 Probably worth a re-watch now.

I had only seen it in bits and pieces. Now it looks almost prescient. Been on a Keanu kick recently. He's getting really good at picking scripts now IMO.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 23, 2021 12:38 PM (HaL55)

218 lin-duh so this isn't a person door, cut on a kitchen cabinet?

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 12:38 PM (Cxk7w)

219 Kamala The HO.

Posted by: Michael L Blair at January 23, 2021 12:39 PM (yiAMj)

220 219 Kamala The HO.

Posted by: Michael L Blair at January 23, 2021 12:39 PM (yiAMj)

Her pronoun?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:39 PM (ynpvh)

221 Bwahahaha.
Bellingham WA city hall was invaded by protesters advocating for the homeless. The mayor had to escape out the back. City hall trashed.
Dipshit.
Bellingham is where Western Washington university is located. WWU is like a Komsomol and Little Octoberist training academy.
Lesson here: protesting and riots pay.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2021 12:40 PM (axyOa)

222 OK Hordelings, I'ma gonna go abuse my guitar for a while. BBL

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 23, 2021 12:41 PM (HaL55)

223 221 Bwahahaha.

Bellingham WA city hall was invaded by protesters advocating for the
homeless. The mayor had to escape out the back. City hall trashed.

Dipshit.

Bellingham is where Western Washington university is located. WWU is like a Komsomol and Little Octoberist training academy.

Lesson here: protesting and riots pay.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2021 12:40 PM (axyOa)

That's loyal, patriotic protesting, not like the seditious protesting done by Trump supporters (who don't break things and clean up after themselves).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:41 PM (ynpvh)

224 I keep forgetting that the comments section of The American Conservative is a mess.

Posted by: McLurkerson at January 23, 2021 12:42 PM (QqhVI)

225 Kamala The HO.
I'm gonna skip the niceties and go with whore

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2021 12:42 PM (Zmnko)

226 Went to dr coz hearing my heartbeat in my ear was getting frikin annoying
Dr immediately put me back on bp meds coz apparently I'm a walking heart attack about to happen. It does seem to lessen the pulsing sound - msyve it will eventually go away.
Feel so tired since I started taking it though

Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at January 23, 2021 12:42 PM (EGSGm)

227 Shocking the protests were allowed to go on a year and Democrats thought they would stop Jan 20.

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 12:42 PM (Cxk7w)

228 222 OK Hordelings, I'ma gonna go abuse my guitar for a while. BBL

Posted by: Backwards boy at January 23, 2021 12:41 PM (HaL55)

I hear teflon tape is a lube...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:42 PM (ynpvh)

229 Now they're calling the capitol "riot" a "deadly siege".

On Newsmax.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Salute the Marines at January 23, 2021 12:42 PM (PiwSw)

230 >>> 221 Bwahahaha.
Bellingham WA city hall was invaded by protesters advocating for the homeless. The mayor had to escape out the back. City hall trashed.
Dipshit.
Bellingham is where Western Washington university is located. WWU is like a Komsomol and Little Octoberist training academy.
Lesson here: protesting and riots pay.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2021 12:40 PM (axyOa)

Insurrectionists!!!

Posted by: The Eff. Bee. Eye! at January 23, 2021 12:42 PM (TK8Ry)

231 Well their Supreme Leader does whenever his name is mentioned. He goes by Xi.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:33 PM (ynpvh)

Just got a tip from one of our sources. We're keeping an eye on you as well.
Posted by: FBI at January 23, 2021 12:36 PM (jvt6t)

And now we're hearing reports from anonymous sources, there are websites on the internet, even now in the New Era Of Unity, cisgender male racist white supremacists are using secret codes to try to take down our democracy.

Sources say the FBI, which is a totally good and pure organization that only wants to help you stay safe, are sending in their top men to infiltrate these websites, using a complex set of techniques known only as "socks."

Posted by: Corporate Media Industrial Complex at January 23, 2021 12:43 PM (oQ94s)

232 no coincidence that TCM is showing "Black Legion"

got to drum up the fear

Posted by: REDACTED at January 23, 2021 12:43 PM (zZxh0)

233 Maybe easier to engineer something that takes out the elderly and sick. Hey, wait a minute!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:30 PM (ynpvh)

Rona had two goals.

1. Shut the Trump economy down so he could not run on it.

2. Set the legal framework and precedents that during an 'Emergency' your rights are voided, AND, that the Court's will not 'second guess' Executives during an emergency, even won't rule on IF THERE IS an Emergency.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 23, 2021 12:43 PM (oHd/0)

234 Easy homeless solution for all those protestors.

Each protestor take one or two home with them.

There are no problems, only solutions.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 23, 2021 12:43 PM (R/m4+)

235 229 Now they're calling the capitol "riot" a "deadly siege".

almost as bad as Vicksburg

Posted by: REDACTED at January 23, 2021 12:44 PM (zZxh0)

236 >>> 232 no coincidence that TCM is showing "Black Legion"

got to drum up the fear
Posted by: REDACTED at January 23, 2021 12:43 PM (zZxh0)

We know all about them. They like to wear Hawaiian shirts and stuff.

Posted by: The Eff. Bee. Eye! at January 23, 2021 12:44 PM (TK8Ry)

237 Build Back Better must be biden's motto for foreign wars, bc it certainly didn't have any association w jobs in the US, based on the 4MM erased in two days.

Posted by: EveR at January 23, 2021 12:44 PM (R0z7P)

238 235 229 Now they're calling the capitol "riot" a "deadly siege".

almost as bad as Vicksburg

Posted by: REDACTED at January 23, 2021 12:44 PM (zZxh0)

Five died, one killed (by police). Worse than Kent State!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:44 PM (ynpvh)

239 Now they're calling the capitol "riot" a "deadly siege".

It was for Ashli.. She was murdered... The others as far as I can tell died from "natural" causes..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2021 12:45 PM (Zmnko)

240 Is it just me, or does anyone else think that now that Jill Biden has the title of FLOTUS that she will give it up easily to Kameltoe as prez and her hubby as FBOUS? My thoughts are that she will certainly play party politics as long as she gets to keep her crown and sceptre, but once Ole Joe is beyond demented she'll still fight to keep him just cogent enough to enjoy her perks.

Posted by: Robert17 at January 23, 2021 12:46 PM (d4ZWk)

241 IIRC, that was AllenG's standard proscription:

Burn it down / scatter the stones / salt the earth where it stood
Posted by: AltonJackson
---
See, bad memory!
AltonJackson==AllenG....almost the same! Lol!

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:46 PM (UUBmN)

242 240 ...she will certainly play
party politics as long as she gets to keep her crown and sceptre, but
once Ole Joe is beyond demented she'll still fight to keep him just
cogent enough to enjoy her perks.

Posted by: Robert17 at January 23, 2021 12:46 PM (d4ZWk)

It worked for Wilson's wife, didn't it?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:47 PM (ynpvh)

243 You forgot Door #3. The Stand.
Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 23, 2021 12:19 PM

But that would require a *real* plague.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at January 23, 2021 12:47 PM (OssQ4)

244 she'll still fight to keep him just cogent enough to enjoy her perks.

She shouldn't get too comfortable....Joe is out in 6

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2021 12:47 PM (Zmnko)

245 On a serious note, "Build Back Better" appears to be a globalist motto. Some EU countries were using it before Buyden
Probably polled better than The Great Reset

Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at January 23, 2021 12:47 PM (EGSGm)

246 Vmom, sometimes vitamin b12 will boost your energy level.

Posted by: JuJuBee at January 23, 2021 12:47 PM (mNhhD)

247 241 IIRC, that was AllenG's standard proscription:

Burn it down / scatter the stones / salt the earth where it stood

Posted by: AltonJackson

---

See, bad memory!

AltonJackson==AllenG....almost the same! Lol!

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:46 PM (UUBmN)
Old prescription used by the Romans on Carthage.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:47 PM (ynpvh)

248 I had only seen it in bits and pieces. Now it looks almost prescient. Been on a Keanu kick recently. He's getting really good at picking scripts now IMO.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 23, 2021 12:38 PM (HaL55)

Re-watched Constantine not too long ago. It's a decent enough flick, but feels like a smaller version of a much larger story... which I believe it is.

Posted by: Corporate Media Industrial Complex at January 23, 2021 12:48 PM (oQ94s)

249 Hmm. 5th option cor whats coming
Rollerball

Posted by: Citizen Khan at January 23, 2021 12:48 PM (qowtl)

250 Posted by: Corporate Media Industrial Complex at January 23, 2021 12:48 PM (oQ94s)

See, I told you socks are a complex thing.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:49 PM (oQ94s)

251 238 235 229 Now they're calling the capitol "riot" a "deadly siege".

almost as bad as Vicksburg

Posted by: REDACTED at January 23, 2021 12:44 PM (zZxh0)

Five died, one killed (by police). Worse than Kent State!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:44 PM

James Taylor went to France to comfort them after their terrible attack. Maybe we can get CSN together to do "Ohio" again. Wait, the government is the GOOD guy this time? I'm so confused.

Posted by: Republican Hippy at January 23, 2021 12:49 PM (2ZjvJ)

252 249 Hmm. 5th option cor whats coming

Rollerball

Posted by: Citizen Khan at January 23, 2021 12:48 PM (qowtl)

Idiocracy, now with Fascist and Communist Leaders!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:49 PM (ynpvh)

253 Biden is actually CORRECT in saying that "nothing we can do will change the trajectory of the pandemic", and I think it's exactly what Trump's instinct was--and what he was always itching to say.

Of course, HAD he said it, he'd have been accused of not taking it seriously-- and be impeached.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 23, 2021 12:49 PM (HrMC1)

254 lin-duh so this isn't a person door, cut on a kitchen cabinet?
Posted by: Skip
---
Nope, not a person door. We built a 96" x 78" shelving unit/cabinet for the dining room and are hanging the doors on it.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:49 PM (UUBmN)

255 235 229 Now they're calling the capitol "riot" a "deadly siege".
----------------

almost as bad as Vicksburg
Posted by: REDACTED at January 23, 2021 12:44 PM (zZxh0)

Leningrad called and said the 900 days were super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:50 PM (oQ94s)

256 254 lin-duh so this isn't a person door, cut on a kitchen cabinet?

Posted by: Skip

---

Nope, not a person door. We built a 96" x 78" shelving unit/cabinet for the dining room and are hanging the doors on it.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:49 PM (UUBmN)

Hidden floor option.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

257 225 Kamala The HO.
I'm gonna skip the niceties and go with whore
Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2021 12:42 PM (Zmnko)

You are too kind. I refer to her as Kamala the Slut

Posted by: IC - tis the season for election fraud ho ho ho at January 23, 2021 12:51 PM (a0IVu)

258 Isn't it odd that we don't know the name of the person who shot Ashli?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 12:51 PM (sd8p8)

259 Vmom,
Which BP med?

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:51 PM (UUBmN)

260 .
Reader's Digest has a new article out: 'I Am Joe's Diaper'.

Posted by: Dr. Mongo at January 23, 2021 12:51 PM (IU8aO)

261 The Capitol Riot---as well as that Charlottesville fiasco a few years back--were both Deep State ops, designed to induce the exact reaction they both got.
Nothing will convince me otherwise.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 23, 2021 12:51 PM (HrMC1)

262 260 Reader's Digest has a new article out: 'I Am Joe's Diaper'.

Posted by: Dr. Mongo at January 23, 2021 12:51 PM (IU8aO)

A perfect read for the red diaper babies.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

263 Thanks Jujube
I think liver has a lot of B12 - maybe Cannibal Bob can supply me...

Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at January 23, 2021 12:52 PM (EGSGm)

264 On a serious note, "Build Back Better" appears to be a globalist motto. Some EU countries were using it before Buyden
Probably polled better than The Great Reset
Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at January 23, 2021 12:47 PM (EGSGm)

Well Germany seems to think it's a good idea to concentrate people who won't comply to the German Way, in camps.

So they can call it whatever they want. Same thing in the end.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:52 PM (oQ94s)

265 235 229 Now they're calling the capitol "riot" a "deadly siege".

almost as bad as Vicksburg
Posted by: REDACTED

Riots in Seattle are now called "civic events."

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 23, 2021 12:52 PM (U2p+3)

266 I'm so old I remember a bomb going off In Nashville on some important day...

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:52 PM (UUBmN)

267 Kamala is not a slut. She is definitely a ho. A slut does it because she likes to do it. A Ho does it for money or personal gain.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 12:52 PM (sd8p8)

268 226 Went to dr coz hearing my heartbeat in my ear was getting frikin annoying

Dr immediately put me back on bp meds coz apparently I'm a walking
heart attack about to happen. It does seem to lessen the pulsing sound -
msyve it will eventually go away.

Feel so tired since I started taking it though

Posted by: vmom at January 23, 2021 12:42 PM (EGSGm)

Normal after your body got used to the higher BP. Check your BP when you feel tired. Just like people with high blood sugar; when it comes down to a normal range, they feel tired, as they have become accustomed to the higher levels.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:53 PM (ynpvh)

269 Deadly sieges...you rate 'em.

Vicksburg
Petersburg
Leningrad
Stalingrad
US Capitol

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 12:54 PM (AwYPR)

270 Often rails are hidden if a personal door, if it is also the case maybe rails built down and not seen. But if you are seeing the rails the bottom might need to be extended. Rail/ door systems are tricky to get height correct.
Also often the trucks ( for a person door) have adjustments so door can be plumbed as needed.

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 12:54 PM (Cxk7w)

271 Isn't it odd that we don't know the name of the person who shot Ashli?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 12:51 PM (sd8p

Yup.....the shooter, type of gun, type of ammo, black rifle? bump stock? thingee that goes up? extended mag?

Typical leftist reasons for banning gun stuff are missing!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 23, 2021 12:54 PM (R/m4+)

272 Lin-duh, it is losartan

Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at January 23, 2021 12:54 PM (EGSGm)

273 255
Leningrad called and said the 900 days were super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:50 PM

For a "siege" in which the attackers entered the building and free reign through most of it, we saw a shocking lack of murder, rape, looting and desecration. Sometimes, the old ways are still best.

Posted by: The Visigoths at January 23, 2021 12:54 PM (2ZjvJ)

274 Well, gotta run. Enjoy your day!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:55 PM (ynpvh)

275 Actually I didn't know this so I've learned something this morning. But I gotta say TD I'm a bit disappointed. I thought sure you'd come back with something about how big the snipe are in Texas.
I used to hunt them up onMt St Helens until the volcano.
Good times. Good times.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2021 12:31 PM (axyOa)

...

I am a disappointment.

True story; having not grown up in Texas I didn't learn about snipe hunts until I got here.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 23, 2021 12:56 PM (2HIdp)

276 Isn't it odd that we don't know the name of the person who shot Ashli?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 12:51 PM (sd8p

Poor Derek Chauvin. Had he joined the Kapital Kops, shot a white girl who wasn't high on anything other than a windowsill, nobody would know his name either.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:56 PM (oQ94s)

277 While it lays out our current situation nicely, Greenfield's articles misses one major key point.

The battle was lost the moment the election was stolen. It's over, kaput, finito.

There is no remedy to corporations canceling people, or the FAANG giants destroying any and all conservative voices. There's no one stopping the multitude of voices calling for Nazi-like reeducation camps and the forced compliance of all who dared have an opposite viewpoint of the evil democrats.

There is no remedy. Not in the courts, not in congress, not in the department of justice or any law enforcement agency. At this point, I doubt any state would have the balls (other than Texas) to tell these people to GDIAFF.

The game over sign was flashing in November. Greenfield just didn't see it. He will.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 23, 2021 12:56 PM (i9ZF7)

278 Vmom,
I take losartin too. You'll get more use to it as time goes by. I've come to accept that I'll never not feel tired all the time....getting old sucks!

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 12:56 PM (UUBmN)

279 Have they discovered Pirate Metal? Someone here posted a link to the band Alestorm for which I am grateful. They're a hoot and a holler.https://youtu.be/f55CqLc6IR0

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 23, 2021 11:57 AM (HaL55)
Those dudes are probably the best party metal band I ever saw. Try drinking with them, and try keeping up with them. The horde would be humbled. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 23, 2021 12:57 PM (9Om/r)

280 Leningrad for civilian casualties
Stalingrad for military casualties
Vicksburg for pride loss
Petersburg for finality
Capital for propaganda

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 12:57 PM (Cxk7w)

281 Linda, I'm no AoP but two thoughts,

Is it possible to add a spacer when the rollers are attached so the door is a bit lower off the rails w/o creating a gap at the top?

could you tack or glue some trim on the bottom of the doors if its not convenient to put a threshold on the cabinet itself?

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 23, 2021 12:57 PM (zcKJv)

282
Gonna go out on a limb and assume China government documents are not pronoun neutral, and nobody announces their pronouns in public or on email signatures.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:32 PM (oQ94s)

----

In Chinese there are no words for he and she.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 23, 2021 12:58 PM (0s3Ab)

283 267 Kamala is not a slut. She is definitely a ho. A slut does it because she likes to do it. A Ho does it for money or personal gain.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 12:52 PM (sd8p8

An important, but often overlooked distinction.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 23, 2021 12:58 PM (i9ZF7)

284 Deadly sieges...you rate 'em.

Vicksburg
Petersburg
Leningrad
Stalingrad
US Capitol
Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 12:54 PM (AwYPR)

Jericho called and asked if they could horn in on this list.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:58 PM (oQ94s)

285 267 Kamala is not a slut. She is definitely a ho. A slut does it because she likes to do it. A Ho does it for money or personal gain.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 12:52 PM (sd8p

...

What do we call it if I do it for gain but also like it?

Posted by: Kamala at January 23, 2021 12:59 PM (2HIdp)

286 I take losartin too. You'll get more use to it as time goes by. I've come to accept that I'll never not feel tired all the time....getting old sucks!

Yup.. I take metoprolol and losartan and diltiazem for Afib...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2021 12:59 PM (Zmnko)

287 Gonna go out on a limb and assume China government documents are not pronoun neutral, and nobody announces their pronouns in public or on email signatures.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:32 PM (oQ94s)

In Chinese there are no words for he and she.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 23, 2021 12:58 PM (0s3Ab)

See, and I thought the words for he, she, him and her were the same words that mean both crisis AND opportunity!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:59 PM (oQ94s)

288 Leningrad siege didn't get over without some cannibalism

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 12:59 PM (Cxk7w)

289 Jericho called and asked if they could horn in on this list.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:58 PM (oQ94s)

They said thanks for the shout out.

Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 12:59 PM (AwYPR)

290 285 267 Kamala is not a slut. She is definitely a ho. A slut does it because she likes to do it. A Ho does it for money or personal gain.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 12:52 PM (sd8p

...

What do we call it if I do it for gain but also like it?
Posted by: Kamala at January 23, 2021 12:59 PM (2HIdp)

A feminist?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 23, 2021 12:59 PM (i9ZF7)

291 The truth?! YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!

KTVU
@KTVU
State health officials said they rely on a very complex set of measurements that would confuse and potentially mislead the public if they were made public.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2021 01:00 PM (VVEnO)

292 253
Of course, HAD he said it, he'd have been accused of not taking it seriously-- and be impeached.
Posted by: JoeF. at January 23, 2021 12:49 PM

Wait, do people take what Biden says seriously? They at least know it's not really him forming the ideas and policies, right? The man's just a hair more sentient than a ficus.

Posted by: Grimmy at January 23, 2021 01:00 PM (2ZjvJ)

293 AlaBAMA, you and I are on the same page. I'm a little over 29 so will not be significantly affected but it is depressing the think that when the younger generation finally awakens from being Woke, it will be too late.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 01:00 PM (sd8p8)

294 Re-watched Constantine not too long ago. It's a decent enough flick, but feels like a smaller version of a much larger story... which I believe it is.

The series was better, really well done. Of course it got canceled.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 23, 2021 01:01 PM (KZzsI)

295 I take Losartan and B12. The vitamin helps although I still have days where I am just plain old tired.

Posted by: JuJuBee at January 23, 2021 01:01 PM (mNhhD)

296 OK I didn't/won't read the linked articles but .... no, I don't see the need for any 348-dimensional explanation of why people are misinformed, and don't know how to reason. And it has nothing to do with technology, much less "flatness".

It's always been thus, just to a much more limited degree than now, when eroded educational standards and overall an eroding culture have produced a dumbed down populace. It's possible too much stupid fiction has increased the problem in this era.

"Qanon" idiocy is obviously idiocy to anyone who actually knows or understands any of the topics in question, but to those who consume silly fiction all the time, I guess it might seem otherwise.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 23, 2021 01:01 PM (OTzUX)

297 Enjoy your day!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 23, 2021 12:55 PM (ynpvh)

Don't tell me what to do! You're not the boss of me.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 01:01 PM (oQ94s)

298 You all see where asshole is gonna keep Wray as FBI head?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2021 01:02 PM (Zmnko)

299 We're at a very unfortunate place where nobody knows where to go to get information. No one, it seems can be trusted. No one can be confirmed. There is no objective source to get real data from. The press has gone from being cute with the truth and hiding things to just flat out raw invention of events and demanding you believe their lies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 23, 2021 01:03 PM (KZzsI)

300 . I could have been first but I stopped to read the friggin post.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 23, 2021 11:22 AM

As long as you were friggin' in the riggin' whilst you did, all is not lost.

Posted by: The Good Ship Venus at January 23, 2021 01:04 PM (DMUuz)

301 Kamala is not a slut. She is definitely a ho. A slut does it because she likes to do it. A Ho does it for money or personal gain.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 12:52 PM (sd8p8

An important, but often overlooked distinction.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 23, 2021 12:58 PM (i9ZF7)

Small but not insignificant correction though: A slut CLAIMS she likes it, but generally speaking she's just doing it to try to dispel the demons of having been molested as a child.

90% of them. At minimum. I guarantee it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 01:04 PM (oQ94s)

302 Donna I guessed it but morning talk show asked all you need to know about the new administration was two personal selections.
Fauci and Wray

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 01:06 PM (Cxk7w)

303 Maybe easier to engineer something that takes out the elderly and sick. Hey, wait a minute! Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

That theory is real big among the gun toting retirees in soon to secede Texas. They say the US feds know SS and Medicare are insolvent so if they get rid of the ones who use it the most (elderly and sick), problem solved. They say they even paid for the CCP to do it.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 23, 2021 01:06 PM (cCxiu)

304 My artificial Christmas tree is now down. This year is the first year I put the lights on as I set the tree up and removed the same way. Sadly I think most trees come pre-lit now or people buy the real thing so my very late discovery is only useful to me. Oh well.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 23, 2021 01:06 PM (zcKJv)

305 Small but not insignificant correction though: A slut CLAIMS she likes it, but generally speaking she's just doing it to try to dispel the demons of having been molested as a child.

90% of them. At minimum. I guarantee it.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 01:04 PM (oQ94s)

I'm pretty sure more than 10% of women enjoy sex enough to overdo it.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 23, 2021 01:07 PM (HrMC1)

306 Being unable to affect the trajectory of an epidemic is common sense, science, and a century of observational experience. It's conventional wisdom in actual epidemiology, and was last March. A few places kept their heads, remembered this, and their scores will be pretty much the same as those who engaged in the radical experiment of "mitigation" - minus the substantial social, economic, and human costs, of course.

Sweden and Peru's final scores will be similar - there's always a difference, apparently mostly related to how severe the previous few influenza seasons were (i.e. how many medically vulnerable people are available to become fatalities).

And no, "flatness" cannot and is not needed to explain the degree of credulous submissive scientific illiteracy, corruption incompetence and power-madness of institutions, and general dumbing-down that has been on display since last March, and has now culminated in a US not just in decline but hell-bent on decline.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 23, 2021 01:07 PM (OTzUX)

307 Leningrad siege didn't get over without some cannibalism
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 12:59 PM (Cxk7w)

After months of nothing to eat but sawdust bread, a little light cannibalism is to be expected.

By the by, I've mentioned this before, but one of the results of Leningrad was the discovery that fat people starve to death quicker than thin people.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 01:08 PM (oQ94s)

308 Masada rates as a siege.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 23, 2021 01:08 PM (KAi1n)

309 Nah, Burt. Women like sex just as much as men do, but when they behave like men, they are called sluts.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 01:08 PM (sd8p8)

310 I miss Trump.. he really has been silenced...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2021 01:09 PM (Zmnko)

311 Watch: Russia Beginning To Disappear People Nationwide After Large-Scale Protests In Moscow

-
Boy, I'm glad I don't live in tyrannical dictatorship like that!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2021 01:09 PM (VVEnO)

312 You all see where asshole is gonna keep Wray as FBI head?

Insurrection has its rewards.

Posted by: That guy who always says... at January 23, 2021 01:10 PM (W4eKo)

313 Lin-duh, it is losartan
Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at January 23, 2021 12:54 PM

vmom, Losartan is a starter BP drug, mostly because it's cheap. Ask your doctor about another one, maybe irebasartin.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 23, 2021 01:10 PM (DMUuz)

314
On a serious note, "Build Back Better" appears to be a globalist motto.

Doesn't "build BACK" imply that something has been torn down or destroyed by some natural (or unnatural) disaster?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2021 01:10 PM (63Dwl)

315 Masada rates as a siege.
Posted by: SFGoth

Hollywood rates as a sleaze.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 23, 2021 01:11 PM (VVEnO)

316 Liking sex is a typical female thing. Wanting to have dozens of different partners? Nope, not buying that. I think my sex is wired to want to mate for life. Probably males are too, but most of them go through a period of raging hormones that override that.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 23, 2021 01:11 PM (zcKJv)

317 269 Deadly sieges...you rate 'em.

Vicksburg
Petersburg
Leningrad
Stalingrad
US Capitol
Posted by: BignJames at January 23, 2021 12:54 PM

I find your lack of historical perspective, and Western focus, disturbing.

Posted by: Hulagu Khan sacking Baghdad at January 23, 2021 01:11 PM (2ZjvJ)

318 Maybe easier to engineer something that takes out the elderly and sick. Hey, wait a minute! Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

That theory is real big among the gun toting retirees in soon to secede Texas. They say the US feds know SS and Medicare are insolvent so if they get rid of the ones who use it the most (elderly and sick), problem solved. They say they even paid for the CCP to do it.
Posted by: The Walking Dude

If we secede, the money we save instead of sending to Washington, will go to TexMed and TexSS. When we raise tariffs on Dell products leaving Texas, along with oil & gas...

Posted by: rickb223 at January 23, 2021 01:12 PM (0DVOr)

319 Poor Derek Chauvin. Had he joined the Kapital Kops, shot a white girl who wasn't high on anything other than a windowsill, nobody would know his name either.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:56 PM (oQ94s)

Now all these congressmen and Senators on both sides of the aisle, know who shot her and in whose employ he was. They are saying nothing? Why? There is a big story here being hidden by all of them. I understood it happened at the door of the Speaker's suite, so Pelosi's peeps are up to their necks in this.

Posted by: Robinette Biden forevah at January 23, 2021 01:13 PM (ONvIw)

320 Maybe easier to engineer something that takes out the elderly and sick. Hey, wait a minute!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

This was obvious from the get-go and I said-so. Biomarkers. It's the new "plastics".

Posted by: SFGoth at January 23, 2021 01:14 PM (KAi1n)

321 90% of them. At minimum. I guarantee it.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 01:04 PM (oQ94s)

I'm pretty sure more than 10% of women enjoy sex enough to overdo it.
Posted by: JoeF. at January 23, 2021 01:07 PM (HrMC1)

Define "overdo."

No, I'm saying if you are female, and you have serial sex partners, without regard for your mortal soul, you're basically "overdoing" the act of trying to cover up your own shame and guilt.

Now, maybe there's enough feminazi brainwashing going on that plenty of these girls are doing it because they THINK it's what they're supposed to want, so maybe 90% is a bit high.

But it sure as hell wasn't when these feminists started down this path.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 01:14 PM (oQ94s)

322 >>> 299 We're at a very unfortunate place where nobody knows where to go to get information. No one, it seems can be trusted. No one can be confirmed. There is no objective source to get real data from. The press has gone from being cute with the truth and hiding things to just flat out raw invention of events and demanding you believe their lies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 23, 2021 01:03 PM (KZzsI)

"How to Read the News in Totalitarianism" from Sarah Hoyt:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yye5khml

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 23, 2021 01:14 PM (TK8Ry)

323 So all I had to do was break a couple of windows and take some furniture and Troy would have surrendered? Well, fuck me runnin!

Posted by: Agamemnon at January 23, 2021 01:15 PM (kTF2Z)

324 "And no, "flatness" cannot and is not needed to explain the degree of
credulous submissive scientific illiteracy, corruption incompetence and
power-madness of institutions..." rhomboid

I didn't really look closely at what they meant by flatness ... but I took it as just that, dumbing people down to simple memes and PC think, so deeper thinking is rejected. "Wear the Mask" is easy, all that don't comply are to be hated as unruly ruffians, ignorant of the State Truth ... Masks shall make you Free. (and social distancing) ---It is cult think, same with "global warming" ... don't be an "anti-science denier". Their world is flat. (maybe that was just my misunderstanding of what they meant, idk)

Posted by: illiniwek at January 23, 2021 01:15 PM (Cus5s)

325 Army National Guard Mistreated?

Hodgetwins

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

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 01:15 PM (a/6Gi)

326 Probably not a new idea, but here goes.
Biden can shut down fossil fuels. Open the borders. Legalize illegals. Resume the migration of jobs to China and curtail civil liberties. When he has done the Dem dirty work he will be very unpopular and then removed from office. Biden is an unwitting kamikaze.
Harris then takes the office with clean hands. The populace is grateful to have her. The subversion with her name on It will be less unpopular.
Oh, wait. With rigged elections it doesn't matter what the peons think.

Posted by: Delurk Ergo Sum at January 23, 2021 01:16 PM (YwPJG)

327 Nah, Burt. Women like sex just as much as men do, but when they behave like men, they are called sluts.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 01:08 PM (sd8p

Women don't behave like men. Women can't behave like men. If they THINK they're behaving like men, they're wrong.

And the mad desire to TRY to behave like men is a sure sign of mental illness. Every. Time.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 01:17 PM (oQ94s)

328 KT! I read the whole thing and thought you were Ace! Until I saw your name.

Posted by: m at January 23, 2021 01:18 PM (Eoxnv)

329 And the mad desire to TRY to behave like men is a sure sign of mental illness. Every. Time.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 01:17 PM (oQ94s)

How Dare You!

Posted by: Eliot Page at January 23, 2021 01:18 PM (PiwSw)

330 Remember in the early wuflu days when we were reading that the flu targets asians and adult males more severely than women? Of course it was also being compared to the spanish flu. I guess wooflu really is harder on adults than kids which is not a normal flu behavior. Mebbe it is more fatal for men then women with equal co-morbidities, I quit reading anything about it after the 180s started.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 23, 2021 01:18 PM (zcKJv)

331 Pale ride, I disagree. I think females go through the same process looking for that one lifelong partner. I think males want that one lifelong partner too. Raging hormones is part of the process for both genders. Men driven by testosterone to secure a mate while young and vigorous and women by estrogen or rather the biological drive to have children.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 01:18 PM (sd8p8)

332 Poor Derek Chauvin. Had he joined the Kapital Kops, shot a white girl who wasn't high on anything other than a windowsill, nobody would know his name either.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 12:56 PM (oQ94s)

Now all these congressmen and Senators on both sides of the aisle, know who shot her and in whose employ he was. They are saying nothing? Why? There is a big story here being hidden by all of them. I understood it happened at the door of the Speaker's suite, so Pelosi's peeps are up to their necks in this.
Posted by: Robinette Biden forevah at January 23, 2021 01:13 PM (ONvIw)

Could be part of the reason why everyone is talking about this like it was a military operation. In which case, they're pretending the shooter wasn't acting as a Kop, he was acting as a soldier.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 01:20 PM (oQ94s)

333 Gardening thread is up.

Posted by: My life is insanity at January 23, 2021 01:20 PM (Z/jzm)

334 "Burt versus the 'Ettes"

Moar popcorn please

Posted by: SFGoth at January 23, 2021 01:21 PM (KAi1n)

335 If we secede, the money we save instead of sending to Washington, will
go to TexMed and TexSS. Posted by: rickb223
Don't forget our heavily guarded Border with walls defended by armed citizens of a Swiss type military (machine guns and rocket launchers in every closet). And our catch and release program for illegals and criminals (Complimentary1 way bus ticket to sanctuary cities)..You can thank us later LA ,NY, DC and Seattle.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 23, 2021 01:22 PM (cCxiu)

336 It seems to me it's pretty easy to wind up being a slut if you just want attention and the guys in your path aren't interested in anything long term.

Posted by: Methos at January 23, 2021 01:22 PM (kOpft)

337 did TeeJ founce ? with all his Q bullshit

Posted by: grease monkey at January 23, 2021 01:22 PM (g741k)

338 Christopher R Taylor

Remember when we all went to Emergency room parking lots and reported in? Which put the lie to media assertions.

Crowd source the watching is one part of the answer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 23, 2021 01:23 PM (u82oZ)

339 If Trump tried to run again in 2024, it would be a clusterfuck. However, this idea of him running for a safe, red congressional seat and just shitting on both parties is kind of amusing.

Posted by: Republican Party Delenda Est at January 23, 2021 01:24 PM (2ZjvJ)

340 Re-watched Constantine not too long ago. It's a decent enough flick, but feels like a smaller version of a much larger story... which I believe it is.
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The series was better, really well done. Of course it got canceled.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 23, 2021 01:01 PM (KZzsI)

I keep going back and forth, between wanting to take on new series, because they are by their nature, slower and more complete stories, and then getting bored with the whole damn thing, and wanting it over with.

I recently tried starting Breaking Bad. About 4 episodes in, I'm done. I doubt I'll ever try to pick it up again.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 01:24 PM (oQ94s)

341 "Burt versus the 'Ettes"

Moar popcorn please
Posted by: SFGoth at January 23, 2021 01:21 PM (KAi1n)

Nah, they're all going to go up and putter in the gardening thread now.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 01:26 PM (oQ94s)

342 I like the idea of Trump campaigning for Patriots in the Primaries. Once he gets his folks in to the general election, go back an campaign again.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 23, 2021 01:27 PM (2BZBZ)

343 Larry King averaged one marriage for every decade he was alive.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 23, 2021 01:27 PM (xPl2J)

344 Sharon. Maybe. In the past men were expected to wait until they were established to marry so their hormones were raging while they were single. Women used to get married earlier and my personal belief is that our mating drive tends to peak more at college age than H.S. Thus it was only the odd early bloomer (or possibly Burt is correct molested child) that was 'a slut'. In the past most gals were married and just enjoying sex with DH when their hormones peaked.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 23, 2021 01:27 PM (zcKJv)

345 Only the first marriage was valid.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 23, 2021 01:28 PM (2BZBZ)

346 "OTOH, The free market works even though it is always applied with
imperfect means, some corruption, unexpected events, and incompetent
implementation" ----

Communism is a government system, totalitarian in nature. The opposite is government run by the people, via a vote for representatives, and a balance of powers. Liberty (not "capitalism") is the opposite of communism. Free markets happen when the government remains of/by/for the people. That means regulations that stop coercive/dishonest actions in the marketplace ... keep it "free market" (by force of Gov').
---- The monopolies (and fiat currency) and government intervention for markets are how "capitalism" (so called "free markets") can also go wrong, with too little government intervention. BigTech and BigBank have certainly taught us that, as they buy up our government with their wealth. (hence we are an oligarchy, little people have no voice).

Posted by: illiniwek at January 23, 2021 01:28 PM (Cus5s)

347 Hey Burt.
Are you married? I disagree with everything you just said. I was married for 44 years but was a wild child who definitely had my fun before I got married. I have two wonderful kids and a happy extended family.
How dare you judge me.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 01:29 PM (sd8p8)

348 https://www.americanthinker.com/so who ordered the national guard troops stuffed into the icy underground parking garage

No one owning up to it any more than who shot a unarmed civilian in the Capitol.

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 01:30 PM (Cxk7w)

349 339 Republican Party,

John Quincy Adams is the only President who subsequently became a member of the House and used it to rail against the gag rule and slavery.

Andrew Johnson became a senator again for TN after being VP and President. He was met with applause when he returned to the Senate btw.

Posted by: whig at January 23, 2021 01:30 PM (pO7gM)

350 Nothing can be overdone.

Posted by: Sandra Flook at January 23, 2021 01:31 PM (W4eKo)

351 No one owning up to it any more than who shot a unarmed civilian in the Capitol.
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 01:30 PM (Cxk7w)

My guess is Pelosi's office both times.

Posted by: Robinette Biden forevah at January 23, 2021 01:32 PM (ONvIw)

352 "How to Read the News in Totalitarianism" from Sarah Hoyt

Great piece, its stuff we all know but she does a great job of isolating, identifying, labeling, and explaining it all, from a position of experience.

And yeah, crowd sourcing, as long as we can stay connected, at least.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 23, 2021 01:34 PM (KZzsI)

353 So too with Wokeness and the pseudo-realities of the Right, like QAnon. They cannot work until everyone is made to comply

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Qanon is really dumb, but this is a false equivalence. Total garbage, in fact. Compulsion is central to "wokeness" (aka Maoism). The Q lunatics never say "parrot our stupid lunacy publicly or we will destroy you, and believe us - we can. Easily."

This sounds like more of the same old Jonah Goldberg "both sides" cuck shit, to me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 23, 2021 01:35 PM (Bvn1K)

354 Pale rider, I don't think you're wrong except now women wait a lot longe to get married into their 30's. Time change. Social mores change. Women are not expected to be untouched virgins on their wedding day.
People like Burt piss me off. He thinks he knows what women should think. Like we should all adjourn to th3 garden thread because that is a "woman" thing. My guess is that he hasn't done half the things I have done in my lifetime because I never let anyone else tell me who I could be or what I could think.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 01:36 PM (sd8p8)

355 Neither men or women are supposed to sleep around and be slutty. Its immoral and wrong. Sex is supposed to be more than just fun or a thing you do to pass the time. Its relational and famliy-building. Its deeper than just "I think they are hot and I want to cum." We need to recapture that perspective and reject the far left's coarsening and ruining of sexual behavior. We are not animals.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 23, 2021 01:36 PM (KZzsI)

356 "who ordered the national guard troops stuffed into the icy underground parking garage"

and even though the FBI (?) warned of a threat when Trump had his rally, it was ignored. Or worse, cops were actually on stand down, practically inviting crazies (like the ones in the photo ops, mostly anti-/Trumpers) into the White House. --- And Then .. when there was no evidence of threat for inauguration, ordered in 25,000 NG with little prep, and still wants to keep them around for a month. ---Yes, it was some kind of PsyOp ... to frame Trump (and us) yet again for another impeachment. TopMen are in on it ... our intel agencies hard at work, against us.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 23, 2021 01:38 PM (Cus5s)

357 The Q lunatics never say "parrot our stupid lunacy publicly or we will destroy you, and believe us - we can. Easily."

Right, it was pretty much oppositional to the compulsion of wokeness. The whole QAnon thing was "sit back and do nothing because someone else (military intel or whatever) is taking care of it."

Posted by: Methos at January 23, 2021 01:40 PM (kOpft)

358 We need to recapture that perspective and reject the far left's coarsening and ruining of sexual behavior. We are not animals.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 23, 2021 01:36 PM (KZzsI)

I agree and it is healthier, but many, many people are captivated with the idea of a hedonistic lifestyle and deny any negative emotional consequences, or physical ones until they present themselves.

Posted by: Robinette Biden forevah at January 23, 2021 01:42 PM (ONvIw)

359 Sex is also more than just for procreation. It is the basis of a long term fulfilling relationship with deep ties that last beyond the rearing of children. It is more than the act itself. It is about love and caring and making sure your partner knows this.
How do you find this person?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 01:43 PM (sd8p8)

360 Prager is of opinion the women's lib movement turned women onto male hormone rage thinking the sexes are same so women should do what men are programmed to do.
Me personally haven't a clue what women want, and wouldn't begin to speculate on that.

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 01:43 PM (Cxk7w)

361 Its deeper than just "I think they are hot and I want to cum."

Well, I sure won't be asking if YOU have a newsletter.

Posted by: Sandra Flook at January 23, 2021 01:45 PM (W4eKo)

362 Hey sharon! How are you doing?

I don't think he was being judgemental.

I was a tomboy growing up, and even in my early adult years, I was "one of the boys".

That said, I also understood that there were definite differences between myself and the guys I hung out with.

Yes, I made the mistake of thinking I could be like a guy and rack up notches on my bedpost. I learned the hard way.

God forgives, but we still live with the repercussions.

What the left is doing is unholy when they try to erase God's creation.

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 01:45 PM (a/6Gi)

363 Nah, they're all going to go up and putter in the gardening thread now.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 01:26 PM (oQ94s)

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Heh.

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 01:45 PM (a/6Gi)

364 359 Sex is also more than just for procreation. It is the basis of a long term fulfilling relationship with deep ties that last beyond the rearing of children. It is more than the act itself. It is about love and caring and making sure your partner knows this.
How do you find this person?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 01:43 PM (sd8p

Funny how the pursuit of emotional fulfillment has lead to a society far more depressed and unhappy than in the past.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at January 23, 2021 01:46 PM (Zm+LZ)

365 *looks around at all the mines*

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 01:46 PM (a/6Gi)

366 I have to go but one last thought. There is a middle ground between both perspectives. I like to think I successfully made my way through the middle. Have no regrets except losing my husband before we had a chance to be old together.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 01:47 PM (sd8p8)

367 {{{Sharon}}}

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 01:48 PM (a/6Gi)

368 My guess is that he hasn't done half the things I have done in my lifetime because I never let anyone else tell me who I could be or what I could think.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 01:36 PM (sd8p

Which is funny, because that's exactly what you're doing right now. Letting some silly flippant statement I made about going to the gardening thread piss you off.

And I never said anything about you not being able to do what you want, or tried telling you that I know what you think. Indeed, I said EXACTLY the opposite, that when women think they know how men think, or try to act like men, they're wrong.

The extent to which I am bothering you right now, is precisely on you. If it wasn't, you'd just be ignoring me.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 23, 2021 01:48 PM (C7zIl)

369 "The Q lunatics never say "parrot our stupid lunacy publicly or we will destroy you, and believe us - we can. Easily." This sounds like more of the same old Jonah Goldberg "both sides" cuck shit, to me." Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I agree. I decided early on "Q" was a Larp, and supposedly some of "the bakers" were found to be deciding on how to profit from it, once it grew. But while to me it was silly and cryptic, the real force of the movement was people studying up on things like Gates/Fauci and the globalist cabals. --- They became a community, and many stayed in the community while doubting Q was any more than just another on their side. ... The good part of it was uniting people around a cause ... they were more active than most "normies". (and I don't think "Q" ever called for violence, he called for research ... maybe some trusted him too much and really believed, even they actively revealed some dirty parts of the DC cartels)

Posted by: illiniwek at January 23, 2021 01:49 PM (Cus5s)

370 Me personally haven't a clue what women want, and wouldn't begin to speculate on that.
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 01:43 PM (Cxk7w)

Women, overwhelmingly, want a secure long term relationship, but dwell more on the emotional stability than many men. They are often disappointed when the courtship period tapers off and they are confronted with the more quotidian aspects of relationships and the lack of "romance". I used to see this all the time in depressed younger women who could not adjust to the idea that they would not be wooed in the same way they were before marriage or before they moved in with they guy.
Now, not all women fit this description, some are predatory as any guy looking to better their circumstances, but unlike guys they are not looking to run up the numbers.

Posted by: Robinette Biden forevah at January 23, 2021 01:49 PM (ONvIw)

371 Duncanthrax, thanks
I like cheap so I guess I'll wait until the follow up - maybe I will adjust

Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at January 23, 2021 01:50 PM (EGSGm)

372 Women, overwhelmingly, want a secure long term relationship, but dwell more on the emotional stability than many men. They are often disappointed when the courtship period tapers off and they are confronted with the more quotidian aspects of relationships and the lack of "romance". I used to see this all the time in depressed younger women who could not adjust to the idea that they would not be wooed in the same way they were before marriage or before they moved in with they guy.
Now, not all women fit this description, some are predatory as any guy looking to better their circumstances, but unlike guys they are not looking to run up the numbers.
Posted by: Robinette Biden forevah at January 23, 2021 01:49 PM (ONvIw)

The romance addiction(which is a modern problem) is the root of the issue. Two fairly average humans who don't know much about each other or have so-called chemistry can be a perfectly happy couple together. But not if one or the other has unrealistic expectations that they've built up.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at January 23, 2021 01:52 PM (Zm+LZ)

373 Funny how the pursuit of emotional fulfillment has lead to a society far more depressed and unhappy than in the past.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at January 23, 2021 01:46 PM (Zm+LZ)

Yep. And often emotional fulfillment is defined as early relationship excitement and novelty.

Posted by: Robinette Biden forevah at January 23, 2021 01:52 PM (ONvIw)

374 The romance addiction(which is a modern problem) is the root of the issue. Two fairly average humans who don't know much about each other or have so-called chemistry can be a perfectly happy couple together. But not if one or the other has unrealistic expectations that they've built up.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at January 23, 2021 01:52 PM (Zm+LZ)

The media feeds this, like crazy. The "happily ever after" is defined as romantically ever after, which cannot be sustained.

Posted by: Robinette Biden forevah at January 23, 2021 01:53 PM (ONvIw)

375 Hehe.

This just popped up on my playlist:

Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent (12inch)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKlrm2IjwQw

Seems timely considering the topic currently under discussion.

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 01:53 PM (a/6Gi)

376 I'm watching Post Modern Jukebox videos
next up
https://youtu.be/AaSxhKf5pV0

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 01:57 PM (Cxk7w)

377 I'm a chick and I don't understand chicks. It happens

Posted by: Nckate at January 23, 2021 01:57 PM (PGh3U)

378 What is this "free market"-thing of which you speak?

Posted by: Joe Biden's Owners at January 23, 2021 01:58 PM (Ndje9)

379 Most of what a married couple does can no longer be "romantic", bills and childcare are not romantic. They can be frustrating and hard for the most realistic people, but if you add on the need for early relationship fascination, they will overwhelm you.

Posted by: Robinette Biden forevah at January 23, 2021 01:58 PM (ONvIw)

380 Who ordered the national guard troops stuffed into the icy underground parking garage?

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Enough already.

They're soldiers.

They're not sleeping in the mud.

They have their snivel gear, which is more than sufficient.

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 01:59 PM (a/6Gi)

381 I'm a chick and I don't understand chicks. It happens
Posted by: Nckate at January 23, 2021 01:57 PM (PGh3U)

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IKR?

I may not completely understand guys, but most women have me scratching my head.

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 02:00 PM (a/6Gi)

382 Most of what a married couple does can no longer be "romantic", bills and childcare are not romantic. They can be frustrating and hard for the most realistic people, but if you add on the need for early relationship fascination, they will overwhelm you.
Posted by: Robinette Biden
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Having the same hobbies isn't really "romantic" but it is fulfilling...

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 02:03 PM (UUBmN)

383 Romantic gestures a hubby can do for his wife- doing the dishes, gassing up her car, buying her favorite candy unexpectedly etc

Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at January 23, 2021 02:04 PM (EGSGm)

384 Romantic gestures a hubby can do for his wife- doing the dishes, gassing up her car, buying her favorite candy unexpectedly etc
Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at January 23, 2021 02:04 PM (EGSGm)

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Buying her a new Ka-Bar knife.

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 02:05 PM (a/6Gi)

385 My Grandfather would have loved Post Modern Jukebox

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 02:07 PM (Cxk7w)

386 Buying her a new Ka-Bar knife.
Posted by: SMH
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Hubby got me a Benchmade knife and utility boots! **swoon**

Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 02:07 PM (UUBmN)

387 Buying her a new Ka-Bar knife.
Posted by: SMH

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Oh yeah
beejer worthy

Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at January 23, 2021 02:07 PM (EGSGm)

388 I really really have to go.
But, stop dissing romance novels. It is fiction. Everyone knows it is fiction. It is nice however to daydream or get lost in a tale of true love. We read to escape the reality of work, childcare, laundry. Women are different than men. We have different emotional needs. If some of those needs get met by reading romance novels.....actually, my husband loved when I was reading " one of those" books. It usually resulted in him making me very happy.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 23, 2021 02:08 PM (sd8p8)

389 Buying her a new Ka-Bar knife.
Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 02:05 PM (a/6Gi)

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Newsletter?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 23, 2021 02:09 PM (kTF2Z)

390 ---
Having the same hobbies isn't really "romantic" but it is fulfilling...
Posted by: lin-duh at January 23, 2021 02:03 PM (UUBmN)

I agree, but our society favors a more idealized notion of romance. And when you see the guy who "wakes up, scratches and looks for coffee" the bloom is off the rose for many younger women, and the girls with messy hair and no make up can dissatisfy some men who expected the "date" appearance all the time.
IMO, some of the more recent middle aged films are presenting an idealized relationship that doesn't "mature". I have a long term friend who started down this path and became disenchanted enough to take up with some quite frankly weird guy who for now makes her feel like a novelty. Her husband, they are not yet divorced, is a furnishing and remodeler who has a sales focus. She got very upset that husband does not treat her like a customer and turn on the charm on a daily basis. She said "I want him to treat me like that". So she's busy destroying a long term marriage for something that can't be sustained.

Posted by: Robinette Biden forevah at January 23, 2021 02:12 PM (ONvIw)

391 388: Everyone may know intellectually that romance novels and movies are fiction, but at an emotional level they can have unrealistic expectations.

Posted by: Robinette Biden forevah at January 23, 2021 02:15 PM (ONvIw)

392 Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 01:53 PM (a/6Gi)

Is she related to Arlo and Woody?

Posted by: clutch at January 23, 2021 02:16 PM (9UmRs)

393 The romance addiction(which is a modern problem) is
the root of the issue.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Sir, apparently you have neither sense nor sensibility.

Posted by: Jane Austen at January 23, 2021 02:16 PM (KAi1n)

394 I didn't realize they had already impeached him. I have been staying away from the news. Now they have to have the pretend trial in the senate. What can they possibly do to him, but they have a free hand now. They could order him to hang for him "crimes".
Posted by: megthered at January 23, 2021 11:44 AM (SM/op)
Isn't Florida expected to gain a couple of seats from the Census? How long does that take to convert into redistricting?

Posted by: Princess Aura at January 23, 2021 02:17 PM (qyH+l)

395 Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at January 23, 2021 02:07 PM (EGSGm)

Please inform my wife of that.

Posted by: clutch at January 23, 2021 02:18 PM (9UmRs)

396 383 Romantic gestures a hubby can do for his wife- doing the dishes, gassing up her car, buying her favorite candy unexpectedly etc
Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at January 23, 2021 02:04 PM

Sure. It is great when somebody asks What is your love language? and the reply is met generously, shaken, pressed down and overflowing. That would be a great relationship.

But if the answer is met with No, I don't do that, pick something else, anger and bitterness may result. Happiness will be found elsewhere. Abiding in Christ is best.

Posted by: Delurk Ergo Sum at January 23, 2021 02:19 PM (YwPJG)

397 I have never in all my married years been shot with a pistol by my wife, while doing the dishes.
Other times, maybe.

Posted by: navybrat, introspective at January 23, 2021 02:26 PM (w7KSn)

398 Only goal for Democrats is to hopefully prevent him from ever holding office again.
They even tell you it's their goal, and Crack addict Mitch is happy to have that ending as well.
One sticking point might be Chief Justice "Never Trump" Roberts might be ineligible to judge a civilian case.

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 02:27 PM (Cxk7w)

399 So.
To grump a bit.
ICE is told to release everyone in lockup. Over 14,000 illegals. Over 10,000 are known criminals.
Turn 'em loose!
Perhaps the senior leadership needs to be told that whatever happens to my family at the hands of a released illegal may happen to theirs?
Seems fair to me.
Rhetorically speaking of course.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2021 02:28 PM (axyOa)

400 BackwardsBoy, if you're still here, RootX for your tree root/sewer problem. Excellent product, really works. Check it out.

Posted by: tecumsehtea at January 23, 2021 02:29 PM (skoMC)

401 Few years ago kept having blockage of sewer line outside house, septic guys thought tree roots. So dug it up and found no tree roots but cracked completely cast iron pipe. Replaced it with 6" pvc all in a couple hours.

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 02:35 PM (Cxk7w)

402 387 Buying her a new Ka-Bar knife.
Posted by: SMH
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Oh yeah
beejer worthy
Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at January 23, 2021 02:07 PM

Huh. I'm SURE my wife wants a Savage 112 in 338 Lapua.

Posted by: Gun Guy at January 23, 2021 02:36 PM (2ZjvJ)

403 Cutting loose 14,000 illegals largely criminals is not going to end well.

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 02:37 PM (Cxk7w)

404 Cutting loose 14,000 illegals largely criminals is not going to end well.
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 02:37 PM (Cxk7w)

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The people making those decisions will never have to live with the consequences.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 23, 2021 02:38 PM (kTF2Z)

405 http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/china has authorized its coastguard to fire on foreign vessels

The world will see how compromised China Joe is

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 02:47 PM (Cxk7w)

406 Right, it was pretty much oppositional to the compulsion of wokeness. The whole QAnon thing was "sit back and do nothing because someone else (military intel or whatever) is taking care of it."
Posted by: Methos at January 23, 2021 01:40 PM (kOpft)

As opposed to our actively doing what, exactly?

I don't know much about QAnon, but I think I know enough about it to know that the characterization of it being given here is complete nonsense. If anything, I've found probably the best information out there about what's going on hidden amongst the outer shell of nonsense from QAnon types. Practically everybody else is buying into the mainstream gaslighting, and ignoring the facts.

I also know that's they're on the right side, and so deserve to be cut some slack. The good guys seem outnumbered and surrounded, and can use all the help they can get.

Posted by: President Optimizer at January 23, 2021 02:51 PM (hOOi9)

407 I'm pretty sure more than 10% of women enjoy sex enough to overdo it.
Posted by: JoeF. at January 23, 2021 01:07 PM (HrMC1)

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How does one "overdo" sex?

Wankin' it too hard to when the wifey has a headache?

When wifey has her toys set on max?

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 02:56 PM (a/6Gi)

408
Perhaps the senior leadership needs to be told that whatever happens to my family at the hands of a released illegal may happen to theirs?

Several years ago a drunk illegal alien crashed into an Uber car in Indianapolis killing the driver and his passenger, a player for the Colts. The parents of the Uber driver were angry not at the illegal but at the people who pointed out that he WAS illegal.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 23, 2021 02:56 PM (63Dwl)

409 Huh. I'm SURE my wife wants a Savage 112 in 338 Lapua.
Posted by: Gun Guy at January 23, 2021 02:36 PM (2ZjvJ)

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I live in Illinois, collecting disability comp through the VA (though reduced) for depression and anxiety...and I'm a Trump supporter.

I have to make do with knives.

I'm becoming quite adept with throwing knives.

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 02:58 PM (a/6Gi)

410 Today we celebrate the birthday of John Moses Browning, and his Gospel. Sit you down and harken.

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=109699

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 03:02 PM (a/6Gi)

411 The good part of [Q] was uniting people around a cause ... they were more active than most "normies". (and I don't think "Q" ever called for violence, he called for research ... maybe some trusted him too much and really believed, even they actively revealed some dirty parts of the DC cartels)
Posted by: illiniwek at January 23, 2021 01:49 PM (Cus5s)

What, exactly IS the "cause", BTW? From what I've seen lately, it has kind of a religious cult quality to it, although I couldn't describe it, because I ignore that stuff.

I suspect Q (whoever or whatever it might really be) must be SOME sort of insider. The first I heard of the Italian involvement in the election steal seems to have come from a Q-connected source. I was skeptical of that connection, but then I saw a clip where Gen McInerny confirmed the existence of sworn testimony to that effect. I also found out that there's a very anti-Trump faction of the Italian government who is said to have conspired with Obama to undo Trump.
Then there's the "Storm is Coming" thing. On the one hand, it never came. OTOH, all the pieces appear to be in place right now for exactly that.

Posted by: President Optimizer at January 23, 2021 03:04 PM (hOOi9)

412 As opposed to our actively doing what, exactly?

I don't know much about QAnon, but I think I know enough about it to
know that the characterization of it being given here is complete
nonsense.

Optimizer, the discussion was about the equating of QAnon to Woke compulsion. My point was that I don't get how anyone could conclude the Q crowd has made any demands of the rest of us.

Posted by: Methos at January 23, 2021 03:10 PM (kOpft)

413 Well a drink tonight in his memory is due

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 03:12 PM (Cxk7w)

414 From what I've seen lately, it has
kind of a religious cult quality to it, although I couldn't describe it,
because I ignore that stuff.

I saw a discussion recently in which prophetic aspects of the Q stuff were apparently connected to prosperity gospel preachers-basically we're good people so we deserve things to turn out our way-which is 1) pretty anti-Biblical and 2) not the way anything works (Biden's attack on the economy is unlikely to spare anyone but the connected at first, and not even them eventually).

Posted by: Methos at January 23, 2021 03:24 PM (kOpft)

415 It could also be very, very bad depending what hour we're really in. I
don't think we've seen the Man of Lawlessness yet, and, as I recall,
he's supposed to come to power (falsely) promising peace to end a period
of chaos. If we're now entering that chaos, folks being programmed to
flock to the first savior of civilization to appear are being badly
mislead.
If we're merely in another birth pang,
then the "God wins" thing will come as the success of evil tends to
make people more aware of it and more apt to turn from it. But we still
have to go through the 'evil succeeds and times are hard' phase of the
cycle.

Posted by: Methos at January 23, 2021 03:25 PM (kOpft)

416 Cutting loose 14,000 illegals largely criminals is not going to end well.
Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 02:37 PM (Cxk7w)
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The people making those decisions will never have to live with the consequences.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 23, 2021 02:38 PM (kTF2Z)

Silly me. And I always thought the FIRST rule of governance was keeping the people safe.
Not screwing them over.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 23, 2021 03:26 PM (axyOa)

417 https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-echo-chamber-era?t

Mentions how pre election Democrat Propaganda Ministry claimed through sources Russia was going to meddle in the election, yet after the election everything was on the up and up, no interference was made.

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 03:32 PM (Cxk7w)

418 I'm becoming quite adept with throwing knives.
Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 23, 2021 02:58 PM (a/6Gi)
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G.Gordon Liddy's wife had quite a collection of firearms iirc.

Posted by: Braenyard, Patriot dog at January 23, 2021 04:22 PM (PHq7v)

419 405 I think we will fail to respond to Iranian provocation before we're tested by China.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 23, 2021 04:34 PM (rxtQa)

420 I saw a discussion recently in which prophetic aspects of the Q stuff were apparently connected to prosperity gospel preachers-basically we're good people so we deserve things to turn out our way-which is 1) pretty anti-Biblical and 2) not the way anything works (Biden's attack on the economy is unlikely to spare anyone but the connected at first, and not even them eventually).

Posted by: Methos at January 23, 2021 03:24 PM (kOpft)

I DO seem to be seeing that kind of character to it. "Good will prevail over Evil" stuff. I see that in some of the rantings of Lin Wood as well. I take no comfort in that.

So perhaps it's some mid-level intelligence insider, with some off-beat spiritual ideas, essentially starting his own sort of church. There are plenty of Patriotic Americans with all kinds of spiritualism going on that seem pretty bizarre to outsiders. We need all the help we can get vs the Communists infecting all our major institutions.

Posted by: President Optimizer at January 23, 2021 04:43 PM (hOOi9)

421 CHESS/DRESS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at January 23, 2021 05:25 PM (Cxk7w)

422 Before the election there were plenty of YouTube videos of preachers claiming it was God's will for Trump to win. Then it was it's not over, just wait, Trump will win. At least some of those videos seem to have disappeared.

Posted by: Delurk Ergo Sum at January 23, 2021 05:45 PM (YwPJG)

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