The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Trust is a powerful thing, but once lost is difficult to regain. The problem is that for many on the normal side of the political/social bell curve, trust is reflexive, because we ascribe our own views on appropriate conduct to those on the other end of that curve. Even one of our more successful politicians, whose suggestion that we "trust, but verify" is axiomatic, trusted, didn't verify, and we got the The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, and look how well that turned out.

Parler's New Hosting Provider Bans All 'Hateful Material', Setting the Stage for Massive Censorship

"We specifically reserve the right to refuse to provide the Service to customers or End Users engaged in dissemination of material that may cause us to be subject to attacks on our network, or that while technically legal, run counter to our corporate principles," SkySilk wrote in their terms of service.

We trust and trust and trust. Or maybe we are willfully blind to the reality of our political enemies, that they are corrupt beyond measure, and will do and say anything to achieve their goals.

A more reasonable mantra would be, "Hope for the best but plan for the worst," because I can't seem to remember any significant political or social compromise from which we didn't get the absolute worst.

Winston Churchill was vilified for his harsh evaluations of Adolph Hitler, right up until Hitler did exactly what Churchill had long predicted. Can one argue after the fact with his estimation of Hitler?

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

That is a man who is confident that he understands his enemies.

Until we channel Sir Winston and expect the Democrats and their Brown Shirts to behave the way they always have and the way they say they will, we will continue to lose ground in the battle for America.

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 First???

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 16, 2021 11:00 AM (lSpWa)

2 second

Posted by: mr wizard at February 16, 2021 11:01 AM (g741k)

3 rd

Posted by: mr wizard at February 16, 2021 11:01 AM (g741k)

4 5

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 16, 2021 11:01 AM (JUOKG)

5 Impeach 4 5

Posted by: mr wizard at February 16, 2021 11:01 AM (g741k)

6 Why does anyone need any of those twit/fb/parler sites?

Posted by: BignJames at February 16, 2021 11:02 AM (AwYPR)

7 not first

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 16, 2021 11:02 AM (LvTSG)

8 Any disagreement with the Biden administration is obviously hateful.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2021 11:03 AM (63Dwl)

9 Gab says "Told you so."

Posted by: Lizzy at February 16, 2021 11:03 AM (bDqIh)

10 Yeah, average America needs to wake up and realize Washington means to enslave those they don't kill.

Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at February 16, 2021 11:03 AM (2SdPm)

11 News for those who can hear their show: Walton & Johnson, my favorite conservative comedy talk show hosts (34 years now!), have started up a forum website. It's called "Walton & Johnson Uncensored": https://wjuncensored.com/

Even if you can't hear their show locally, you can go to iHeart Radio and maybe some other sources. Very funny, very pro-Trump. Have a look at the forums. I mentioned and posted a link to Ace of Spades there. You can discuss other stuff besides politics too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 16, 2021 11:03 AM (lSpWa)

12 Texas blue norther

Posted by: yoeman at February 16, 2021 11:04 AM (BYNHj)

13 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 16, 2021 11:04 AM (arJlL)

14 Brown shirts were careful to co-opt minorities this time. You're a racist if you don't support all this shit.

Posted by: Paul Ryno and the 2 year pause on integrity. at February 16, 2021 11:04 AM (ONvIw)

15 th!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 16, 2021 11:04 AM (dkvcO)

16 Great post, CBD !

Posted by: JT at February 16, 2021 11:04 AM (arJlL)

17 I guess Gab is the last man standing.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2021 11:04 AM (yQpMk)

18 Rolling blackouts in NM courtesy of Xcel Energy and Governor Grisham. We've had weather worse than this several years ago and didn't have power issues then.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at February 16, 2021 11:04 AM (ZSK0i)

19 Gab rumble and Parler are all working. Is the leftist chokehold loosening?

Posted by: LASue at February 16, 2021 11:05 AM (Ed8Zd)

20 Parler's decision was made strictly for profit. Investor's profit. IMO they sold out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 16, 2021 11:05 AM (3H9h1)

21 Rolling blackouts in NM courtesy of Xcel Energy and Governor Grisham. We've had weather worse than this several years ago and didn't have power issues then.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at February 16, 2021 11:04 AM (ZSK0i)
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Dang, not even a month into the Biden residency and the Californification of the power grid is already on track?

Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at February 16, 2021 11:06 AM (2SdPm)

22 Preach it, monkey.

Posted by: Lebron Horowitz at February 16, 2021 11:06 AM (UFgOG)

23
Rolling blackouts in NM courtesy of Xcel Energy and Governor Grisham. We've had weather worse than this several years ago and didn't have power issues then.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy

The greener the energy the blacker the blackouts.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2021 11:06 AM (63Dwl)

24 calls for a meltup of taxes

Posted by: yoeman at February 16, 2021 11:06 AM (BYNHj)

25 Trust is not damaged. Trust is shattered, and the fault lines keep radiating further and further out. It is no coincidence that we now see articles about the failure of institutional trust. Increasing numbers of people are decreasingly trusting of increasing numbers of institutions.

This is bad. This is real bad. The system grinds to a halt without trust. But it will happen. Trust has been shattered because everyone in any position of authority lies all the time. To regain trust, they don't have to stop lying. The liars need to be publicly removed and then their replacements have to not lie for at least a generation. They need to be proven out time and again for a long while before trust can be restored.

That will not happen. We will just continue to arc toward a zero-trust environment, and eventually the system will collapse as a result.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2021 11:06 AM (UZVEt)

26 23 The greener the energy the blacker the blackouts.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2021 11:06 AM (63Dwl)

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Praise Gaia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 16, 2021 11:06 AM (LvTSG)

27 Wow, Rush will be off the air again today. I know last week was treatment week, but he was out a few days before that as well.
I pray for Rush to be healed, but if it is not to be, I hope and pray for a quick and merciful end.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 16, 2021 11:06 AM (N39Ws)

28 Damn useless HOA. Sent out an e-mail yesterday around 1 PM telling folks what to do to avoid frozen and busted water pipes. This is after 3 days of below zero temps. Just now they sent out an e-mail stating that because of a busted water pipe, they have to shut off water to the whole community. It's just the way the water pipe system is set up that if they have to shut off the water to one unit, it affects the whole community. Useless ass hats. I'm glad they got voted off the island, they've been useless since they were hired. Their term is up March 1.

Posted by: Old Blue - Round Headed Bald Kid at February 16, 2021 11:07 AM (VNmG1)

29 Pennsylvania's got so hot here lately we've got ugly hillbilly boys playing banjos on bridges.

Posted by: Neo at February 16, 2021 11:08 AM (3aI0K)

30 26 23 The greener the energy the blacker the blackouts.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2021 11:06 AM (63Dwl)

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Praise Gaia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 16, 2021 11:06 AM (LvTSG)

But Jobs. Lots and lots of Green jobs! All the workers on the Keystone pipeline project and other fossil fuel projects will have smarter choices!!

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 16, 2021 11:08 AM (N39Ws)

31 Doveryay, no proveryay

Closest I can come with my keyboard.

Posted by: Archer at February 16, 2021 11:08 AM (gmo/4)

32 "Life will find a way"

Make your own social media networks, check
make your own news media, check
Make you own banks, ??

Life will find a way.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 16, 2021 11:08 AM (Vxu+H)

33 People are willing to trust tho they know they're at risk.

They hope that somehow the person isn't lying to them cause then they'll have to do something or what the person is promising won't happen and they want it to.

So they suspend disbelief and that's how grifters work. They make the mark convince themselves of the grifter's honesty or his promise will be made good.

It's laziness that keeps us coming back for more. Just want to face all the work necessary (and possible bloodshed) when we find our government is lying to us and doesn't intend to stop. And the people we elect to represent us soon find out who they really represent.

Look at what they did; took away committee spots and threaten to dismiss. that's what happens when you don't go along.

Posted by: jakee308.com at February 16, 2021 11:08 AM (fXh1h)

34 California power seeping into Texas and New Mexico....

My sympathies!

Posted by: Loki at February 16, 2021 11:08 AM (KqiMr)

35 45 degrees here in NJ, the snow melting like crazy. Yay

Posted by: Paul Ryno and the 2 year pause on integrity. at February 16, 2021 11:08 AM (ONvIw)

36 Dang, not even a month into the Biden residency and the Californification of the power grid is already on track?

Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at February 16, 2021 11:06 AM (2SdPm)

It's been at work here longer than that. When Gov. Grisham assumed office here a couple of years back, the first thing she did was start going green (windmills, etc., etc.).

Looks like it's paying "dividends".

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at February 16, 2021 11:09 AM (ZSK0i)

37 Emerald Robinson showing some nice cleavage this morning! (newsmax)

Posted by: Doodad at February 16, 2021 11:09 AM (SnLSx)

38 There is another trust problem: vicarious trust. We use vicarious trust a *lot.* The internet, for example (SSL certificates) are built on a formalized system of vicarious trust (I see the green lock icon, which means the site is what it says it is, and someone else - like Verisign - has confirmed that. I trust Verisign, therefore I trust the site. It's vicarious trust).

But we informally use vicarious trust all the time. "X is reliable and vouches for Y, and therefore I trust Y." But it cuts both ways. The press used to hold a position of handing out vicarious trust - the paper quoted the figure, and I trust the paper, so I trust the figure - but that has been shattered. The government is in the vicarious trust business, too, but it has been shattered.

System lying not only breaks the institutions, it breaks the vouchsafes. If you have vicarious trust in the system - and we do - then system dishonesty actually leaves with *no* trustworthy sources because they all pollute each-other.

Welcome to zero trust. It's a bitch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2021 11:09 AM (UZVEt)

39 sounds like Parler is being naive as ever

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 16, 2021 11:10 AM (nUhF0)

40 Trust is not damaged. Trust is shattered, and the fault lines keep radiating further and further out. It is no coincidence that we now see articles about the failure of institutional trust. Increasing numbers of people are decreasingly trusting of increasing numbers of institutions.

This is bad. This is real bad. The system grinds to a halt without trust. But it will happen. Trust has been shattered because everyone in any position of authority lies all the time. To regain trust, they don't have to stop lying. The liars need to be publicly removed and then their replacements have to not lie for at least a generation. They need to be proven out time and again for a long while before trust can be restored.

That will not happen. We will just continue to arc toward a zero-trust environment, and eventually the system will collapse as a result.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

i'm reminded of the bit on societal trust from "last centurion". a VERY insightful read, and entertaining but damn if he didn't nail a lot of how society works, or fails to. and you're right, lost trust will never be regained with the current group in power.

but i suspect that's how they want it...

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 16, 2021 11:10 AM (8D42x)

41 I believe in the worst. I always have.

But there aren't enough of me in this country to make a difference (and there's a phrase I never thought I'd say).

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 16, 2021 11:10 AM (2JVJo)

42 Hey. I'm a government skeptic. Inclined to misbelieve anything the gov't says or does yet it's taken me 50 years to finally realize that the entire Congress is a fake. Put there to fool the people so they won't rebel.

That's why even a whiff of rebellion scares the heck out of them cause they know it's a delicate balance and all that has to happen is a preference cascade and a million or 2 people decide "f**k this. I'm going outlaw" and the entire edifice comes down.

Oh they'd fight it but we have the numbers.

Posted by: jakee308.com at February 16, 2021 11:11 AM (fXh1h)

43 Wow, Rush will be off the air again today. I know last week was treatment week, but he was out a few days before that as well.
I pray for Rush to be healed, but if it is not to be, I hope and pray for a quick and merciful end.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 16, 2021 11:06 AM

I suspect the end is near for rush. Sad and I am pretty sure his conservative talk radio "empire" will fall apart after his death.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 16, 2021 11:11 AM (JUOKG)

44 Hateful things are things that democrats disagree with.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 16, 2021 11:11 AM (pw+jk)

45 "Hate speech is any speech that disagrees with my political preferences, now bake that cake hater."

Sue the f*ckers into oblivion, and if the courts play games with precedent then run on impeaching judges.

Posted by: sven at February 16, 2021 11:12 AM (Lzpvj)

46 That will not happen. We will just continue to arc toward a zero-trust environment, and eventually the system will collapse as a result.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I think you're correct. And the zero trust is such a multifaceted stone that it's hard to take on.

Posted by: Paul Ryno and the 2 year pause on integrity. at February 16, 2021 11:12 AM (ONvIw)

47 Dang, not even a month into the Biden residency and the Californification of the power grid is already on track?

Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at February 16, 2021 11:06 AM

I have been assured by multiple governmental organizations in Texas that the power grid for the State is reliable and can cope with any situation.

Apparently I have been misinformed.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 16, 2021 11:12 AM (JUOKG)

48 Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

One man or woman can make a difference. I have seen it.

Maybe not Empire wide like Churchill, but in local networks. You would be someone I would trust.

Enough local networks can change things.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 16, 2021 11:12 AM (u82oZ)

49 PDT should take over the EIB network.

I would listen.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 16, 2021 11:13 AM (W2Pud)

50 I hope Parler is also establishing its own IT infrastructure and staffing to support itself on the side, because it sure doesn't look like they will survive relaying on hosting companies.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 16, 2021 11:13 AM (ch6++)

51 39 sounds like Parler is being naive as ever

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 16, 2021 11:10 AM (nUhF0)

Has anyone heard or seen anything from Dan Bongino about this...or anything about Parler in general recently?

Posted by: Tami at February 16, 2021 11:13 AM (cF8AT)

52 I meant to say "we don't want to face what we'll have to do if the system is lying to us"

Posted by: jakee308.com at February 16, 2021 11:14 AM (fXh1h)

53
Welcome to zero trust. It's a bitch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2021 11:09 AM (UZVEt)

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There was a link on Insty recently to a fisking of some journalist lamenting the loss of gatekeeper status. It was a marvel of undeserved self-importance.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 16, 2021 11:14 AM (uTOih)

54 >>Parler's decision was made strictly for profit. Investor's profit. IMO they sold out.

Apart from whatever decision they made up to the point that Amazon deplatformed them, once dropped from their hosting site, they were put in a very poor negotiating position - likely accept censorship demands from the few hosts willing to work with them, or stay down until they build their own. By design. They did this to Gab, they do it to other apps: give them time to establish a business, pull the rug out unless they agree to be micromanaged by Big Tech.

They SHOULD have known this would happen and protected themselves. Think that is the point at which greed and/or arrogance destroyed them, not whatever they gave away in recent days in order to save their business.

But also, yeah, they were a greedy data farm to begin with.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 16, 2021 11:14 AM (bDqIh)

55 But there aren't enough of me in this country to make a difference (and there's a phrase I never thought I'd say).
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 16, 2021 11:10 AM (2JVJo)

I've always been an imagine the worst case scenario and plan accordingly to the best of your power sort of person. This time, however, the options are really the devil or the deep blue sea.

Posted by: Paul Ryno and the 2 year pause on integrity. at February 16, 2021 11:14 AM (ONvIw)

56 telegram > parler

Posted by: shmoe at February 16, 2021 11:14 AM (CJtAX)

57 53 Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 16, 2021 11:14 AM (uTOih)

Insty is as hard as a wad of chewed up bubblegum....

when it all falls to sh*t Salem should take a bow.

Posted by: sven at February 16, 2021 11:15 AM (Lzpvj)

58 Lack of a pragmatic voice online will lead to more miscalculations on the Left. Who have 149 years of failure on their policy side.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 16, 2021 11:15 AM (u82oZ)

59 I agree with the punk monkey, but it's near-impossible to be more cynical than I already am.

Posted by: pookysgirl has BTDT but never got a t-shirt at February 16, 2021 11:15 AM (xRons)

60 Crudely Mimeographed Newsletters ftw

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 16, 2021 11:16 AM (Bmy3R)

61 A commenter at Insty's yesterday said Snerdley had made a comment that implied Rush didn't have too long to go. Sorry, I can't recall or paraphrase the comment more.

Posted by: andycanuck at February 16, 2021 11:16 AM (d6he9)

62 Y'all will love my reasonable and rational tyranny! I promise you riches, a stress-free public life, freedom of a type, and security! Plus, free Mandarin lessons.

Posted by: The Man Behind The Joe Biden Screen at February 16, 2021 11:16 AM (nkc1K)

63 The Man Behind The Joe Biden Screen

You lie.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 16, 2021 11:16 AM (u82oZ)

64 I think we will get a nice, final broadcast from Rush, that is likely in the works now.

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

65 My thing is fairly simple: Expect the "Elites" to want to control the agenda, and to have their own interest be their primary purpose for everything they do. And when there is a benevolent intent, just let them be. If their intent is malevolent, then no mercy must be shown, for that is the basic pact: We let you "govern" us, and in return you don't f**k us over. If you're going to f**k us over, then we're going to make it really really hard for you to "govern."

Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2021 11:17 AM (oQ94s)

66 Giving a cell number to Parler will prove to be an error.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 16, 2021 11:17 AM (nkc1K)

67 64 I think we will get a nice, final broadcast from Rush, that is likely in the works now.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at February 16, 2021 11:16 AM (6/LtX

He always said he'd tell us if it was time to panic. Did he?

Posted by: Paul Ryno and the 2 year pause on integrity. at February 16, 2021 11:17 AM (ONvIw)

68 Has anyone heard or seen anything from Dan Bongino about this...or anything about Parler in general recently?

Nope. And neither Parler nor Gab will ever be able to compete until the pub-lick begins to see Parler and Gab like they see Twatter links. I don't believe I've ever seen one. It's all Twatter all the time.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 16, 2021 11:18 AM (HaL55)

69 66 Giving a cell number to Parler will prove to be an error.

That's what the little voice in back of my brain told me way back when. And why I never signed up.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 16, 2021 11:18 AM (Bmy3R)

70 Mandarin lessons seals the deal for me.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 16, 2021 11:18 AM (pw+jk)

71 I suspect the end is near for rush. Sad and I am pretty sure his conservative talk radio empire will fall apart after his death.
Posted by: Mister Scott

I am ready. I am able. And I am sooo brilliant.

Get ready!

Posted by: Ben Shapiro at February 16, 2021 11:19 AM (KqiMr)

72 And to be clear, I was commenting on the original article. The fisking shredded it (though it was like shooting fish in a barrel)

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 16, 2021 11:19 AM (uTOih)

73 67. Who is panicking?

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at February 16, 2021 11:19 AM (6/LtX)

74 Parler is not ready for prime time and it appears, learned nothing from its de-platforming. Use Gab instead.

Posted by: Revenant at February 16, 2021 11:19 AM (Z7rbj)

75 PDT should take over the EIB network.

Holy smokes, that would be a game changer. You would see the whole establishment, left and "right," go all out to shut it down. It would rip off a lot of masks in a way that couldn't be hand-waved away.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 16, 2021 11:20 AM (qc+VF)

76 56 telegram > parler
Posted by: shmoe

saw something that some leftist had bought telegram but that seems fake nooz
found out it is a company based in Dubai
how sad that that makes it posdibly more free than a silicon valley company
*lolsob*

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 16, 2021 11:20 AM (nUhF0)

77 I am ready. I am able. And I am sooo brilliant.

Get ready!
Posted by: Ben Shapiro at February 16, 2021 11:19 AM (KqiMr)
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Did you ask me? The answer is, "No!"

Posted by: Meggie Mac at February 16, 2021 11:20 AM (2SdPm)

78 My power was off for about 1.5 hours this morning (northern Panhandle of Texas). Outdoor temp was -2F, indoor temp dropped from 65F to 52F in that time. I don't quite understand the point of the planned blackout if my heater is going to run for 1.5 hours or longer without going off to bring the temp back up to 65F instead of running intermittently to maintain the temp. Somebody please explain to me the point.

Posted by: huerfano at February 16, 2021 11:20 AM (DzhEB)

79 69 66 Giving a cell number to Parler will prove to be an error.

That's what the little voice in back of my brain told me way back when. And why I never signed up.
Posted by: Guy Smiley

same here

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 16, 2021 11:21 AM (nUhF0)

80 Clouding up for our second snowstorm in as many days. Temp is minus 1 here in Oklahoma City. Will be bone freezing cold until Saturday or Sunday.

Posted by: Justsayin' at February 16, 2021 11:21 AM (Fs5vw)

81 Maybe we need to stop thinking we're battling for America.

Start thinking we're battling for our own lives. Because that's what really is at stake. But folks don't want to do that because it means a very dangerous path must be taken and so far the threat to our lives is not real.

We can see it's outlines but faintly. More now than in the past but still faint. If they can back off for a while the lines may disappear and everyone goes back to the way it was. But that will be very thin and easily broken again.

We must as individuals make the choice to live as slaves or die free. And that's a very heavy decision to make. What to do after you make that decision is next hardest.

Posted by: jakee308.com at February 16, 2021 11:22 AM (fXh1h)

82 It is fine to ask what kind of country are we leaving the next generation. What kind of capital will we leave? It looks more and more like hunger games.

Posted by: Grail Knight at February 16, 2021 11:22 AM (Tf6et)

83 Somebody please explain to me the point.

The point is to make you and everyone else suffer. That's what communism does. That's all it does.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 16, 2021 11:22 AM (HaL55)

84 Part of the problem with Parler (beyond them wanting your phone number, first born, etc) is that it isnt easily viewable by lurkers. Like here, lots of people just want to lurk and look.

Parler is closed. So I dont bother. And so no reason to grow their audience.

Twitters positive was that it was a breaking news source in the beginning. If you arent open, you cant spread your influence.

Posted by: Loki at February 16, 2021 11:22 AM (KqiMr)

85 J.J. Sefton would be a worthy replacement for Rush. As would DJT Jr. or Sr.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 16, 2021 11:22 AM (u82oZ)

86 Hey, since it's snowing out, how about some music?

"Hawaiian Sleighride" by Mason Williams (he of "Classical Gas" fame):

https://tinyurl.com/lrrehhfm

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 16, 2021 11:22 AM (2JVJo)

87 Somebody please explain to me the point.
Posted by: huerfano at February 16, 2021 11:20 AM (DzhEB)
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Komrades, we have someone complaining about the power ration being increased from 10 Kilowatts to 8 Killowatts! We must do something about this heresy!

Posted by: Politburo USA at February 16, 2021 11:23 AM (2SdPm)

88 Tami, regarding Bongino:

On Parler's front-end message page Bongino wrote that they were going to FIGHT!, FIGHT!, FIGHT! (Or words to that effect.)

Posted by: French Jeton at February 16, 2021 11:23 AM (85zsD)

89
Or maybe we are willfully blind to the reality of our political enemies, that they are corrupt beyond measure, and will do and say anything to achieve their goals.

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Exactly this. Anybody who still thinks we can co-exist peacefully in a political system with these people is just delusional.

But, even many of us who do understand their corruption and criminality still drastically underestimate the lengths to which they'll go. And that's actually understandable, to me. If you're raised in an advanced Western society with minority rights, the rule of law, and a republican form of government, it seems impossible that a major party would commit mass-murder.

But they desperately want to. That desire is barely contained beneath the surface. It emerges more every day, and sooner rather than later, they'll have the means to carry it out. Anybody who thinks that mass-killing is off the table or out of the question in the coming years needs to reevaluate that idea... these people are power-mad monsters, absolutely no better or different than Stalinists and Maoists. Just operating within a system that was able to restrain their ambitions for a period of time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2021 11:23 AM (0WKYs)

90 Has Britain's Romney, BloJo, sent Churchill's bust back to the USA yet -- perhaps for safe-keeping in the Obama Presidential Outhouse?

Posted by: ShainS at February 16, 2021 11:23 AM (WqPYg)

91 I just got in from shoveling snow. Or, rather, I just got in from watching Rev shovel snow. Up to my knees, no joke. Thankfully the nice young girl from next door came out with her snowblower and did our driveway first. Nice people in Wisconsin.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 16, 2021 11:24 AM (45fpk)

92 That's what the little voice in back of my brain told me way back when. And why I never signed up.
Posted by: Guy Smiley

same here
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 16, 2021 11:21 AM (nUhF0)
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Yup. I have enough trouble with cell phone spam as it is.

Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at February 16, 2021 11:24 AM (2SdPm)

93 mark steyn is a good guest host for rush

Posted by: shmoe at February 16, 2021 11:24 AM (CJtAX)

94 Prolly said already, Parler is a french word. Why would anyone be surprised they surrendered.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2021 11:24 AM (oQ94s)

95 He always said he'd tell us if it was time to panic. Did he?
Posted by: Paul Ryno and the 2 year pause on integrity. at February 16, 2021 11:17 AM (ONvIw)
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Reminds me of an economics-focused interview show from the UK in 2010 at the very start of what became the EU sovereign debt and banking crisis. They had on a smooth Princeton economist talking about how things were probably going to be okay and then a British hedge fund manager named High Hendry threw cold water all over them:
https://youtu.be/3oZtPK6hqLU?t=53

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2021 11:24 AM (UZVEt)

96 Did you ask me? The answer is, No!
Posted by: Meggie Mac

I am no ghoul. I am the future of cuckserv, I mean conservative radio.

Listen to me or be expelled into the darkness.

Hahahahahaha!

Posted by: Ben Shapiro at February 16, 2021 11:25 AM (KqiMr)

97 Grateful I have a gas furnace, fireplace, and cooktop right now. All the master planned assembly line homes with electric everything and the aesthetic electric fireplace must be pretty cold.

Posted by: brak at February 16, 2021 11:25 AM (cG+eD)

98 saw something that some leftist had bought telegram but that seems fake nooz
found out it is a company based in Dubai
how sad that that makes it posdibly more free than a silicon valley company
*lolsob*
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 16, 2021 11:20 AM (nUhF0)
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I'd trust a UAE company over a Silicon Valley company, absent other data.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2021 11:26 AM (UZVEt)

99 Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

"Hawaiian Sleighride" by Mason Williams (he of "Classical Gas" fame)

Thank you. I like it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 16, 2021 11:26 AM (u82oZ)

100 The day Rush is gone will be a day I don't take lightly. I don't think anyone here would take it lightly. But I know there will never be another Rush. He is not going to be replaced as that will not be possible. He has been a constant even for those who don't listen regularly. I recall first hearing him at college. He was on almost every bus that used to pick us up. It was Harvey and Rush. I am sure that would be considered a hate crime now

How normals ceded so much ground I will never fully comprehend. I understand it in theory as there are always two sides. But if this were a tug of war, we would be on the cusp of the mud pit. Hell, we probably got dragged through three mud pits and are on the cusp of the fourth.

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2021 11:27 AM (gkHkW)

101 I liken, in a fashion, Trump to Churchill. Not intellectually, or in stature, but rather in circumstance.

Churchill warned the people of the dangers, felt contempt for appeaser Chamberlain, and stepped in to try and straighten out the mess, which he did.

But, before the martial war even ended, the Socialists conducted political war on Churchill, and he was ousted.

Posted by: Mike Hammer , etc., etc. at February 16, 2021 11:27 AM (ELgVT)

102 Rush, im here, ready rested and rino

Posted by: JEB! at February 16, 2021 11:27 AM (CJtAX)

103 When parler was back up yesterday, I tried to logon to my account. Nothing.... tried to recover my password... nothing. It won't send me an email for password recovery. Anyone else with this experience? I can't access my account...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 16, 2021 11:28 AM (pcsoT)

104 Dang, not even a month into the Biden residency and the Californification of the power grid is already on track?

Pedo Joe did promise a Dark Winter.

Posted by: shibumi at February 16, 2021 11:28 AM (tjZg/)

105 Exactly this. Anybody who still thinks we can co-exist peacefully in a political system with these people is just delusional.

But, even many of us who do understand their corruption and criminality still drastically underestimate the lengths to which they'll go. And that's actually understandable, to me. If you're raised in an advanced Western society with minority rights, the rule of law, and a republican form of government, it seems impossible that a major party would commit mass-murder.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2021 11:23 AM (0WKYs)

This is the basic point for which Gina Carano was cancelled. That this is what it looks like, when a totalitarian regime is looking to consolidate their power, they will create enough hatred of the "Other" that the average person under their spell will believe in the rightness of their cause, and will actively work with the State to implement their solutions.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2021 11:28 AM (oQ94s)

106 Brisk and chilly (29 F.) here in Da Swamp. The sun is starting to come out and we may rise above freezing before 2 pm. Then back down to 30 or so tonight, and up to 58 (???!!!) on Wednesday.

When I hear or read people saying, "I like it warm," I mark them. When they bitch about 95 F. .in August, I say cheerfully, "This is the weather you wished for so devoutly in February! Bwahahah!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 16, 2021 11:29 AM (lSpWa)

107 I still think they should have named the site Parlay, not Parler. Give it that pirate-y feeling.

I haven't been able to log back into Parler since its reboot. All I see is the creepy new alien-looking logo. Why did they replace the big red P?

Posted by: squeakywheel at February 16, 2021 11:29 AM (iDGpQ)

108 what shall we do when Rush inevitably passes? I don't mean in terms of replacing him - he's irreplaceable.
But to mark his passing and honor his life?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 16, 2021 11:29 AM (nUhF0)

109
Power is still out here in Brazoria County. Centerpoint says 104% of homes in my zip code are out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 16, 2021 11:30 AM (UJgXw)

110 CBD, we're not willfully blind. We're simply incapable of conceiving what the Deep State is actually doing until we see them do it.

Posted by: creeper at February 16, 2021 11:30 AM (XxJt1)

111 Goldstein! Goldstein! Goldstein!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at February 16, 2021 11:30 AM (ZSK0i)

112 I think 'we' lost the battle for america a LONG time ago....in fact I think its been a sham all along.

Posted by: Bumkin at February 16, 2021 11:30 AM (9GgkI)

113 This is the basic point for which Gina Carano was cancelled. That this is what it looks like, when a totalitarian regime is looking to consolidate their power, they will create enough hatred of the "Other" that the average person under their spell will believe in the rightness of their cause, and will actively work with the State to implement their solutions.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2021 11:28 AM (oQ94s)

Its also about, 'we have destroyed a President, just think what we can do to you Peasant!'

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2021 11:30 AM (oHd/0)

114 How normals ceded so much ground I will never fully comprehend.
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Complacency. Conservatives are not, by nature, socio-politically driven, The Left are, 24/7.

Posted by: Mike Hammer , etc., etc. at February 16, 2021 11:30 AM (AytXr)

115 When parler was back up yesterday, I tried to logon
to my account. Nothing.... tried to recover my password... nothing. It
won't send me an email for password recovery. Anyone else with this
experience? I can't access my account...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 16, 2021 11:28 AM (pcsoT)

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Yeah, we're working on it.

Posted by: FBI Directer Christopher Wray at February 16, 2021 11:30 AM (nkc1K)

116 Posted by: brak at February 16, 2021 11:25 AM (cG+eD)

Regret to inform you that all of them probably use electric to control their temp and electrical to ignite the flame.

I thought the same thing until I realized that the only thing that would work would be the top burners. The oven is controlled by a thermostat and piezo electric starter. The top burners can be turned on and ignited manually but not the oven.

What I've done is buy a bunch of dedicated propane tanks and a two burner stove that takes propane.

Even then there's a limit on how long that would last.

Oh and the Gas company surely uses electric to control the gas line and even emergency generators have a time limit due to lack of fuel.

Posted by: jakee308.com at February 16, 2021 11:31 AM (fXh1h)

117 when a totalitarian regime is looking to consolidate
their power, they will create enough hatred of the "Other" that the
average person under their spell will believe in the rightness of their
cause, and will actively work with the State to implement their
solutions.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2021 11:28 AM (oQ94s)

And that's where the Church Militant comes into play.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 16, 2021 11:31 AM (45fpk)

118 I could see Mark Steyn taking over for rush, God bless him. But I think Steyn is too lazy for that.

Rush was a powerhouse. I listened to him way back when right after he moved to KFI Los Angeles as he began to expand the EIB network.

As a young man I was blown away, and thought that Rush was so good. Who could ever replace him when he eventually died? I expected rush to go on for decades.

And he did. And now we are at that end. And maybe the end for many things. I am sure rush tried not to think of the disaster that is occurring. I praise him for holding off the darkness for so long.

It is ironic that the darkness comes as Rush is ready to move to the Light, returning his talent m, that like all things, was on loan from God.

God Bless Rush. I will miss you and what you have done for us.

Posted by: Loki at February 16, 2021 11:31 AM (KqiMr)

119 I don't know if this was already brought up, but a video clip has surfaced showing an LA County health inspector "dancing" after (wrongly) shutting down a drinking establishment on Superbowl Sunday.

https://tinyurl.com/ywhpnxn8

Link goes to The Blaze.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 16, 2021 11:31 AM (6UvYI)

120 Just saw on Insty that a startup company is introducing chocolate-flavored black power cereal. The pieces are shaped like fists, because of course they are. That's quite a virtue signal.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 16, 2021 11:31 AM (ZGrMX)

121 "When parler was back up yesterday, I tried to logon to my account.
Nothing.... tried to recover my password... nothing. It won't send me an
email for password recovery. Anyone else with this experience? I can't
access my account."

The same. It never was that great but at least I could log on. I hate to shit on Dan Bongino but he always promotes these things when they aren't ready.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 16, 2021 11:32 AM (qH6FZ)

122 Vous �couterez l'homme de Chicago. Les paysans ignorants ne savent rien de la production d'�lectricit�.

Posted by: Monsieur Le Pipe at February 16, 2021 11:32 AM (MFIrZ)

123
GODDAMNED MOTHER FUCKING "ROLLING BLACKOUTS" BECAUSE 25% of OUR ELECTRICAL GRID IS WINDTURBINES AND HYPOID GEAR OIL GELS UP.

CALL IT WHAT IT IS. RATIONING.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 11:32 AM (8XRCm)

124 Complacency. Conservatives are not, by nature, socio-politically driven, The Left are, 24/7.
Posted by: Mike Hammer , etc., etc. at February 16, 2021 11:30 AM (AytXr)
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That, and normal Americans have jobs, families, etc. Leftists seem to not have time to work, because they're too busy with politics.

Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at February 16, 2021 11:32 AM (2SdPm)

125 are they texan if they dont run their house and truck on crude oil straight from the well?

Posted by: shmoe at February 16, 2021 11:32 AM (CJtAX)

126 That this is what it looks like, when a totalitarian regime is looking to consolidate their power, they will create enough hatred of the "Other" that the average person under their spell will believe in the rightness of their cause, and will actively work with the State to implement their solutions.

One thing in our favor, if we have the wit to recognize and use it, is time. Even with the centuries of anti-Semitism in German history, it took Hitler years (he expressed the desire to exterminate the Jews as far back as 1920), careful, tentative steps (the T-4 program) and years of Goebbels' and Streicher's propaganda to actually get the death camps up and running.

There is a chance to stop the left, but I fear the right hasn't the stomach or, frankly, the desire. Too many on this side are like Teh Donald and still believe in the fiction of a constitutional republic.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 16, 2021 11:33 AM (2JVJo)

127 I still think they should have named the site Parlay, not Parler. Give it that pirate-y feeling.

I think they did. Isn't that how you'd pronounce "parler" in Froggish? Ace?

Posted by: Oddbob at February 16, 2021 11:33 AM (qc+VF)

128
CALL IT WHAT IT IS. RATIONING.
Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 11:32 AM (8XRCm)

_________

*cheery voice*

It's the new normal!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 16, 2021 11:33 AM (UJgXw)

129 110 CBD, we're not willfully blind. We're simply incapable of conceiving what the Deep State is actually doing until we see them do it.
Posted by: creeper at February 16, 2021 11:30 AM (XxJt1)

Sadly, some of us predicted this shit, but were told we were just conspiracy theorists, and to sit down and shut up, as that could NEVER happen in America!

America exceptionalism was used as a dues ex machina, to argue away any threat... because it can't happen here, because our government, police, and military, are good of GOOD PEOPLE!!!!

Yet those of us who have bothered to read history, knew that American Exceptionalism was based on an attitude, and nothing more. Destroy that attitude??? and we are no longer exceptional.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2021 11:33 AM (oHd/0)

130 CALL IT WHAT IT IS. RATIONING.

It's not even rationing, the rich intend to take away access to electricity (among other things) from everyone that isn't them.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 16, 2021 11:34 AM (ZGrMX)

131 123
GODDAMNED MOTHER FUCKING "ROLLING BLACKOUTS" BECAUSE 25% of OUR ELECTRICAL GRID IS WINDTURBINES AND HYPOID GEAR OIL GELS UP.

CALL IT WHAT IT IS. RATIONING.
Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 11:32 AM (8XRCm)

Rationing was the goal all along.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 16, 2021 11:34 AM (Zm+LZ)

132 Deleted my Parler account as soon as I heard the site was back up. Exploring Gab now, which seems much better positioned to fight leftist tech tyranny.

Posted by: Liberty at February 16, 2021 11:34 AM (JMHvr)

133
My Texas Adventure: my entire neighborhood has had no power for over 24 hours now. At midnight it turned on for 10 minutes, then turned off again. What a tease! Thank Heaven and preparation that we can keep 4 rooms warm with nat gas burners - stove, gas logs, and 2 old style room heaters, so that lets us go on. I was washing dishes this morning the old fashioned way, by boiling water and putting it in a pan, wash by hand! I set a gallon of tea outside to freeze solid and put it back into my fridge since it's been off for a day, turning it back into an icebox. So, we survive, but it's sure annoying. Came down to a place downtown with power to get back on my email!

a dark irony is that the power shortage is in large part because Texas built so many wind powered generators over the last 10 years. When the temperature got below 10 degrees in West Texas, the generators all froze and all wind power in the state shut down; that's the source of the greatest shortage. What a great supply - it works until you absolutely, positively need it, and then it's guaranteed to shut down until you don't really need it anymore.
Brilliant plan.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 16, 2021 11:35 AM (trdmm)

134 How normals ceded so much ground I will never fully comprehend. I understand it in theory as there are always two sides. But if this were a tug of war, we would be on the cusp of the mud pit. Hell, we probably got dragged through three mud pits and are on the cusp of the fourth.
Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2021 11:27 AM (gkHkW)

My theory? Someone, somewhere convinced our side that we do not use force, ever; we do not fight back, ever; we do not use scare tactics; we go along to get along; we are civilized and obey the law to the letter. No one ever taught the left any such things. No one has ever pushed back on them. It's no different than a parent who never disciplines their child then can't figure out why the child grew up to be a willful rotten brat.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma, 3 months later and I still feel like I was hit with a 2X4 at February 16, 2021 11:35 AM (8/7u2)

135 *cheery voice*

It's the new normal!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 16, 2021 11:33 AM (UJgXw)

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Fucking third world countries ration electricity.

Thanks greeny weenies... you stupid stupid motherfuckers.

*seethes*

Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 11:35 AM (8XRCm)

136 Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 11:32 AM (8XRCm)

Sis in Texas has had no power since 4 PM yesterday.

Not expected to get power back today.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2021 11:35 AM (oHd/0)

137 https://tinyurl.com/ywhpnxn8

Link goes to The Blaze.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 16, 2021 11:31 AM (6UvYI)
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I mentioned it yesterday, but, these "inspectors" don't have to do this. They could show up at an establishment, do their best, "I don't see any gambling here" impression while shooting the breeze with the staff or owners, or, heck go sit in their car and do nothing, and, they'd remain employed.

These people shut down businesses because they relish the power they wield.

Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at February 16, 2021 11:35 AM (2SdPm)

138 120 Just saw on Insty that a startup company is introducing chocolate-flavored black power cereal. The pieces are shaped like fists, because of course they are. That's quite a virtue signal.
________________

We chose fists because they are a symbol of tolerance and compassion, which is obviously what we're all about, you white supremacist h8ter!!!

Posted by: Lefty cereal company at February 16, 2021 11:36 AM (k4dH2)

139 There is a chance to stop the left, but I fear the right hasn't the stomach or, frankly, the desire. Too many on this side are like Teh Donald and still believe in the fiction of a constitutional republic.

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Yes.

If we were going to rise, it would have happened now and long before Trump became President.

But thankfully Gina Carano will be OK!

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone GAF. Talking to myself until I talk to nobody. at February 16, 2021 11:36 AM (TB7HE)

140 Grateful I have a gas furnace, fireplace, and cooktop right now. All the master planned assembly line homes with electric everything and the aesthetic electric fireplace must be pretty cold.
Posted by: brak
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I know of an HOA, where the developer proudly boasted, 'All Electric!'. Yeah...the entire neighborhood has been without power for days at a time during winter storms. One friend has 4 kerosene heaters and 20 gallons of kerosene that he keeps on hand, just to keep the pipes from freezing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer , etc., etc. at February 16, 2021 11:36 AM (1vynn)

141 So New Parler is just Twitter but with a side of conservative grift.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 16, 2021 11:36 AM (hS+kz)

142 Are you having trouble signing on to Parler?

That's what happened to me when I tried to sign up last year. No email, no support, no recovery of user name or email or password.

Just nothing. I think it was always a scam. Meant to garner a few bucks and data about people. Then Amazon wanted a cut and cut them off when they wouldn't share.

Trump is guilty of the same thing. He should've known that he couldn't trust anyone from the previous admin. He should've been prepared to be attacked by the Gov't itself esp. the Alphabets.

He should've been prepared for the Dems stealing the election. He said it would happen then did nothing about it.

It's difficult to change ones mind set. We must conclude they are THE Enemy. The only one who can really hurt us.

Posted by: jakee308.com at February 16, 2021 11:36 AM (fXh1h)

143 GODDAMNED MOTHER FUCKING "ROLLING BLACKOUTS" BECAUSE 25% of OUR ELECTRICAL GRID IS WINDTURBINES AND HYPOID GEAR OIL GELS UP.

CALL IT WHAT IT IS. RATIONING.
Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 11:32 AM (8XRCm)

And a warning. Immortan Joe can turn the lights and heat on, he can turn the lights and heat off.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2021 11:37 AM (oQ94s)

144 I don't know if this was already brought up, but a video clip has surfaced showing an LA County health inspector "dancing" after (wrongly) shutting down a drinking establishment on Superbowl Sunday.

Now, imagine a person on the right doing that to an institution on the left. By the following Monday, that person would be doxxed, SWATted, outed and forced to resign.

The owner / owners of that brewery should have put the bitch through a plate glass window as an example. But they didn't, accepted her "authoratah," and, even though the confusion was cleared up, let her leave under her own power.

And that is why I fear the left will be successful in their pogrom against the right. Violence is their first resort while it is our last.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 16, 2021 11:37 AM (2JVJo)

145

All good things gotta come to an end
And it's the same with the wildwood weed

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2021 11:37 AM (63Dwl)

146 *cheery voice*

It's the new normal!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 16, 2021 11:33 AM (UJgXw)
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Meet the new normal. It's the same as the old awful.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2021 11:37 AM (UZVEt)

147 If I hadn't made sure I had still had nat gas heat backup, I would have been like my neighbor cross the street who spent the night in the front seat of his car with the engine running. I thought about inviting him in, briefly; I might have if he wasn't still on parole.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 16, 2021 11:37 AM (trdmm)

148 140

Dumb question but dont you need electricity to turn the gas fireplace on?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 16, 2021 11:38 AM (hS+kz)

149 Parler is a data harvesting operation, data sold to Conservative, Inc. grifters. No serious person would even consider it; at least use a burner phone instead of your regular one, maybe use an encrypted email service like ProtonMail if you do. Come join the Ace of Spades Gab group:

https://gab.com/groups/407

Posted by: Monty James at February 16, 2021 11:38 AM (Zqz9o)

150 And a warning. Immortan Joe can turn the lights and heat on, he can turn the lights and heat off.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2021 11:37 AM (oQ94s)

Who run Barter Town?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2021 11:38 AM (yQpMk)

151 151 And a warning. Immortan Joe can turn the lights and heat on, he can turn the lights and heat off.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2021 11:37 AM (oQ94s)

Who run Barter Town?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2021 11:38 AM (yQpMk)

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I was always a Bullet Farm kind of guy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 16, 2021 11:39 AM (LvTSG)

152
Dumb question but dont you need electricity to turn the gas fireplace on?
Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 16, 2021 11:38 AM (hS+kz)

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No. Nor gas heat. It's just a pilot light. You can touch it off with a match.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2021 11:39 AM (0WKYs)

153 Someone needs to tell TX lefties, when they start screaming about lack of heat and power, that this is exactly what they were told would happen and ask why they are surprised?

Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at February 16, 2021 11:39 AM (2SdPm)

154 Mares eat oats and goats eat oats and little lambs eat ivy.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 16, 2021 11:39 AM (03n3v)

155 Dumb question but dont you need electricity to turn the gas fireplace on?
Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 16, 2021 11:38 AM (hS+kz)

No

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 16, 2021 11:40 AM (6T57Y)

156 There ain't much Texans can do about the power grid today but once this passes you should be up in arms about it. Starting with your Governor, don't let him off the hook.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 16, 2021 11:40 AM (qH6FZ)

157 All right, I am going to sign off before my BP spikes again. I have to work until 10, so I am already in a foul mood.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 16, 2021 11:40 AM (2JVJo)

158 No. Nor gas heat. It's just a pilot light. You can touch it off with a match.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2021 11:39 AM (0WKYs)
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There is still some electricity involved. Hot water heat requires electricity for the thermostats and possibly a pump. Forced-air still needs the fan to run or that toasty warm air in the furnace can't be distributed.

But those are things that you *can* run off a genset, unlike electric heat which is far too demanding.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2021 11:40 AM (UZVEt)

159 So fixerupper isn't hypoid merry!

Posted by: andycanuck at February 16, 2021 11:40 AM (d6he9)

160 There is a chance to stop the left, but I fear the right hasn't the stomach or, frankly, the desire. Too many on this side are like Teh Donald and still believe in the fiction of a constitutional republic.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 16, 2021 11:33 AM (2JVJo)

I think one of the methods of fighting back is to put the spotlight on the evil. Cummo's New York nursing home thing is unfolding before us. When Californica can't keep the lights on, when Biden's "policies" tank the economy, or get us tangled up in more international "adventures," we can focus on the evil behind it, and maybe... just maybe wake up enough people to the rot on the left.

Because as much as I don't trust anybody on the right, I'm more or less resigned to the fact that we're going to be "governed" by autocrats and oligarchs. I just would prefer they be autocrats and oligarchs that don't want me dead.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2021 11:41 AM (oQ94s)

161 >>Now, imagine a person on the right doing that to an institution on the left. By the following Monday, that person would be doxxed, SWATted, outed and forced to resign.

Doesn't the copy of the shutdown order given to the brewery owner indicate the name of the dancing, happy inspector?

Posted by: squeakywheel at February 16, 2021 11:41 AM (iDGpQ)

162 >>I don't know if this was already brought up, but a video clip has surfaced showing an LA County health inspector "dancing" after (wrongly) shutting down a drinking establishment on Superbowl Sunday.

https://tinyurl.com/ywhpnxn8
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Reminds me of the owner of Sunda River Brewery in Maine recounting when he took the state to court after they tried to shutdown his restaurant, he refused, and then they fined him daily. He said the State rep was laughing and triumphant.

These people are drunk on the power covid has given them.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 16, 2021 11:42 AM (bDqIh)

163 Embargo. On.

Posted by: Master Blaster at February 16, 2021 11:42 AM (ZSK0i)

164 161 >>Now, imagine a person on the right doing that to an institution on the left. By the following Monday, that person would be doxxed, SWATted, outed and forced to resign.

Doesn't the copy of the shutdown order given to the brewery owner indicate the name of the dancing, happy inspector?
Posted by: squeakywheel at February 16, 2021 11:41 AM (iDGpQ)

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"I destroyed someone's livelihood! I'm so happy!"

*scowls*
-Man who just had his livelihood destroyed

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 16, 2021 11:42 AM (LvTSG)

165 So fixerupper isn't hypoid merry!
Posted by: andycanuck at February 16, 2021 11:40 AM (d6he9)

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*side eye*

Ok... Ill allow it.

*resumes pissy tantrum throwing*

Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 11:43 AM (8XRCm)

166
Because as much as I don't trust anybody on the right, I'm more or less resigned to the fact that we're going to be "governed" by autocrats and oligarchs. I just would prefer they be autocrats and oligarchs that don't want me dead.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2021 11:41 AM (oQ94s)

If we can erode enough of the existing system(which the Left is all too eager to do as well with their shitty policies), other competitors will spring up. Mexico's federal government vs the cartels for example.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 16, 2021 11:43 AM (Zm+LZ)

167 Stable, secure comms needs to be a decentralized peer-to-peer thing. Period. As long as it's all going through one set of servers, run by one company, the temptation of power will be too much to resist.

But decentralization doesn't make for investors getting richer off monetized everything so none of the tech guys wants to follow through with it.

Posted by: CppThis at February 16, 2021 11:43 AM (zcf1k)

168 Tom Servo, glad to hear you and yours are warm -- didn't know fellow Texans have had no power for 24 hours! Power here in the Hill Country has gone on and off since yesterday. Some folks have zero water.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 16, 2021 11:44 AM (i3LfQ)

169 Rationing was the goal all along.

All part of The Great Reset. Our government is transitioning our nation into a third world. Uber rich and poor. Guess what? We're all going to be poor. We'll eat Frankenmeat and bugs, and die from easily preventable diseases. THAT'S what you get when you cede power to the globalists.

But hey, no more mean Tweets from Trump. So the Left is fine with it.

Posted by: shibumi at February 16, 2021 11:44 AM (tjZg/)

170 We are now a post-trust society.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 16, 2021 11:44 AM (ifmtJ)

171 161 The left also has, as Sara Jacob's puts it, an enabling media ecosystem

Posted by: CN at February 16, 2021 11:45 AM (ONvIw)

172 Every one of you who thinks you knew X about the political situation but Donald Trump didn't are awfully naive and a bit narcissistic. If you knew all this stuff and such, why were you fucking around here rather than contacting Trump and offering your services?

Posted by: SFGoth at February 16, 2021 11:45 AM (KAi1n)

173 170 We are now a post-trust society.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 16, 2021 11:44 AM (ifmtJ)

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I trust that this is true.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 16, 2021 11:45 AM (LvTSG)

174
Hot water heat requires electricity for the thermostats and possibly a pump.

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I stand corrected... I think you could bypass the thermostat, but yeah, the pump's an issue. Duh.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2021 11:45 AM (0WKYs)

175 And a warning. Immortan Joe can turn the lights and heat on, he can turn the lights and heat off.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2021 11:37 AM (oQ94s)

Who run Barter Town?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2021 11:38 AM (yQpMk)

I was always a Bullet Farm kind of guy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 16, 2021 11:39 AM (LvTSG)

Better than being a bunch of old hippy lesbos trying to grow crops in sand.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2021 11:45 AM (oQ94s)

176 Power blinked twice last night but it's still on. Thank you, Ozarks Electric.

Not a cloud in the sky ATM. But the snow cover will keep temps from rising much. And the break is evidently going to be brief. Next round rolls in tonight.

Posted by: creeper at February 16, 2021 11:45 AM (XxJt1)

177 I wonder if lefties who voted for Chyna Joe thinking America would be a calmer, less chaotic and stressful place, are now starting to clue in?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 16, 2021 11:46 AM (nkc1K)

178 169 The Qualcomm heiress will have her truth commissions first to decide who will live and who will die.

Posted by: CN at February 16, 2021 11:47 AM (ONvIw)

179 FYI, when my wife and I move, no matter where we go, a backup generator for the house will be in the budget.

Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at February 16, 2021 11:47 AM (2SdPm)

180 regaining trust is like getting virginity back.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 16, 2021 11:47 AM (trdmm)

181 I wonder if lefties who voted for Chyna Joe thinking America would be a calmer, less chaotic and stressful place, are now starting to clue in?
Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 16, 2021 11:46 AM (nkc1K)
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In fairness, it is less chaotic. The ruination of the country is proceeding along in a very orderly fashion indeed, with no opposition whatsoever.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2021 11:47 AM (UZVEt)

182 Every one of you who thinks you knew X about the political situation but Donald Trump didn't are awfully naive and a bit narcissistic. If you knew all this stuff and such, why were you fucking around here rather than contacting Trump and offering your services?

Posted by: SFGoth at February 16, 2021 11:45 AM

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Hell, why did it take Trump to unmask everyone in the first place?!

We should have been pushing back years before this. But no, let's instead worry about Twitter.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone GAF. Talking to myself until I talk to nobody. at February 16, 2021 11:47 AM (TB7HE)

183 Fuck that monkey in particular.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 16, 2021 11:47 AM (QjGTg)

184 We are now a post-trust society.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 16, 2021 11:44 AM (ifmtJ)

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I trust that this is true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 16, 2021 11:45 AM (LvTSG)

ISWYDT

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 16, 2021 11:47 AM (ifmtJ)

185 177 I wonder if lefties who voted for Chyna Joe thinking America would be a calmer, less chaotic and stressful place, are now starting to clue in?
Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 16, 2021 11:46 AM (nkc1K)

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"It's the wreckers and hoarders' fault that we're not calm. Joe should crush them!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 16, 2021 11:48 AM (LvTSG)

186 Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2021 11:41 AM (oQ94s)

If we can erode enough of the existing system(which the Left is all too eager to do as well with their shitty policies), other competitors will spring up. Mexico's federal government vs the cartels for example.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 16, 2021 11:43 AM (Zm+LZ)

Maybe a second look at a cartel type system?

I mean, if one is afforded a certain amount of freedom to live as one sees fit, without anyone hassling you as long as you stay off their turf, is that really worse than a cabal in a Kapital, imposing rules for everyone, on nearly every damn thing we do?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 16, 2021 11:48 AM (oQ94s)

187 Fucking third world countries ration electricity.

Thanks greeny weenies... you stupid stupid motherfuckers.

*seethes*
Posted by: fixerupper

Look on the bright side.... If you wanted to totally discredit the renewable energy horseshit, What better way to do it than during a giant winter storm with frigid temps and those precious wind turbines and solar panels being useless. People all over the country are seeing reports of how those green energy miracle cures are failing to handle the extreme weather. And a lot of them are thinking, no fucking way I want to be dependent on that shit.
This is opening some eyes.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 16, 2021 11:48 AM (Vxu+H)

188 177 not till the irredeemable are punished and bleeding

Posted by: CN at February 16, 2021 11:48 AM (ONvIw)

189 they are simply scarier than we
runs on fear
millions of dead on a wasteland
global

Posted by: yoeman at February 16, 2021 11:48 AM (BYNHj)

190 I know out constitutional republic has been ailing for a really long time, over any number of issues. But man, Ross Perot was so correct in 1992. The country really had no chance to remain the same after NAFTA.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at February 16, 2021 11:48 AM (6/LtX)

191 I wonder if lefties who voted for Chyna Joe thinking America would be a calmer, less chaotic and stressful place, are now starting to clue in?

Nope. Pedo Joe declared an emergency in TX which frees up federal money. He's saving TX. He's a good guy.

Also... "weather." Can't plan for it, can't do anything about it. Except throw money, which their Lord and Savior Pedo Joe is theoretically doing.

/all hail Pedo Joe!

Posted by: shibumi at February 16, 2021 11:49 AM (tjZg/)

192 But decentralization doesn't make for investors getting richer off monetized everything so none of the tech guys wants to follow through with it.
Posted by: CppThis at February 16, 2021 11:43 AM (zcf1k)

Which is why they crushed the dark mail movement years ago.

They cannot allow secure communications.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2021 11:49 AM (oHd/0)

193 the other way trust is like virginity; they're both lost by doing the same thing to someone else.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 16, 2021 11:49 AM (trdmm)

194 Posted by: yoeman at February 16, 2021 11:48 AM (BYNHj)

Terrible haiku.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2021 11:49 AM (yQpMk)

195 The power to my house goes out randomly on clear sunny days. No relation to the weather. Just crappy infrastructure. Probably at least once a week. Lasting a few minutes to a few hours.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 16, 2021 11:49 AM (ks90t)

196 All part of The Great Reset. Our government is transitioning our nation into a third world. Uber rich and poor. Guess what? We're all going to be poor. We'll eat Frankenmeat and bugs, and die from easily preventable diseases. THAT'S what you get when you cede power to the globalists.

But hey, no more mean Tweets from Trump. So the Left is fine with it.
Posted by: shibumi at February 16, 2021 11:44 AM (tjZg/)

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This. It's not a big secret, either. You can go read the WEF's information about it. This isn't Build-a-berger or Illuminati/Knights Templar silliness. These are world leaders telling you what's going to happen. They're very open about the whole thing.

They're killing capitalism and tanking your dollar. There will be EXTREMELY rich people, and then the rest of us. There will be no middle class. All that money you saved? Those 401Ks you're worried about them "taking"? They don't have to tax or take a single thing. All they've got to do is make those dollars worthless. And they're well on their way. $2T is nothing to the feds. They'll do it every year if they want. Guess what happens to your little $400K retirement savings when they do?

Posted by: Lysenko's Wonder Kulaks at February 16, 2021 11:49 AM (hsOar)

197 Fucking third world countries ration electricity.

They also order the military to surround the Capitol, and out the former leader on trial.

This is us now.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 16, 2021 11:49 AM (Bmy3R)

198 Hey Fauchi (spit), splane something. With all those unmasked folks in the Capitol awhile back, how come I haven't read of them or Dim/Rinos dropping like flies from the China flu?

Posted by: Dingbat at February 16, 2021 11:50 AM (2tblE)

199 You know what I'm fucking full up with? The Conservative Class telling everyone that comparisons to Hitler and the Holocaust are now out of bounds.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 16, 2021 11:50 AM (ifmtJ)

200 Posted by: shibumi at February 16, 2021 11:49 AM (tjZg/)

Ah, but this event will be used to argue for MORE government control to combat CLIMATE CHANGE!!!

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2021 11:50 AM (oHd/0)

201 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2021 11:39 AM (0WKYs)

Some furnace valves will shut off the pilot if there's no electricity.

Plus the pilots can be hard to get to. But you are correct you can get the pilot to light but with no power when the heater gets hot and the blower doesn't come on then it shuts down.

Better to have an emergency gennie. No THAT you can get them to run off of Nat Gas which would be best of both worlds. Expensive tho.

Buy a wood stove.

Posted by: jakee308.com at February 16, 2021 11:50 AM (fXh1h)

202 194
Terrible haiku.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2021 11:49 AM (yQpMk)

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Interesting review of The Godfather.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 16, 2021 11:51 AM (LvTSG)

203 Well, time to start pulling fence posts and replacing them.

yay!

Later!

Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at February 16, 2021 11:51 AM (2SdPm)

204 I wonder if lefties who voted for Chyna Joe thinking America would be a calmer, less chaotic and stressful place, are now starting to clue in?

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The ones who are putting on three masks?

Posted by: Lysenko's Wonder Kulaks at February 16, 2021 11:51 AM (hsOar)

205 199 You know what I'm fucking full up with? The Conservative Class telling everyone that comparisons to Hitler and the Holocaust are now out of bounds.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 16, 2021 11:50 AM (ifmtJ)

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You, sir, are worse than Hitler.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 16, 2021 11:51 AM (LvTSG)

206 @redsteeze

Ladies and gentlemen, Aaron Rupar

https://tinyurl.com/ybnjtfvk

Posted by: Tami at February 16, 2021 11:51 AM (cF8AT)

207 They also order the military to surround the Capitol, and out the former leader on trial.

This is us now.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 16, 2021 11:49 AM (Bmy3R)

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YOU sir.... are NOT helping my pissy disposition. At all.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 11:51 AM (8XRCm)

208 mimeograph machine > parler

Plus the added benefit of that intoxicating aroma of fresh mimeographs!

Posted by: Archer at February 16, 2021 11:51 AM (gmo/4)

209 199 It's racist unless you are an official victim group.

Posted by: CN at February 16, 2021 11:51 AM (ONvIw)

210 The other thing is, no one here really knows what "they" (*obviously* some monolithic hive-mind/Borg thing) think. Most of you are interpreting things through your own lenses, your own filters, your own psychology, and your own prejudices (in a larger sense). But you don't know and rather than fill certain parts of the map with "unknown, but possibly Y", you fill in the terrain you want/expect. Awfully 1930's French IYKWIMAITTYD.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 16, 2021 11:51 AM (KAi1n)

211 108 what shall we do when Rush inevitably passes? I don't mean in terms of replacing him - he's irreplaceable.

But to mark his passing and honor his life?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 16, 2021 11:29 AM (nUhF0).

Be nice if there was a way to pool any donations from the Horde and donate it to whatever charity is mentioned (if there is one) in Rush's obit. Have it donated on behalf of the AoS Horde.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 16, 2021 11:51 AM (N39Ws)

212 Like Pogo said, "We have seen the enemy, and it is us". The true enemy are those Americans bent on destroying this country, destroying it's founding, and destroying those of us who oppose them. They are not the devil, but they are surely doing his work on Earth.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2021 11:52 AM (ynpvh)

213 >>> 193 the other way trust is like virginity; they're both lost by doing the same thing to someone else.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 16, 2021 11:49 AM (trdmm)

I also have trust issues.

Posted by: Toobin's right hand at February 16, 2021 11:52 AM (ks90t)

214 And so it begins....

@Breaking911 12m

NEW: VP Kamala Harris has been taking calls with world leaders on behalf of Pres. Joe Biden

She recently spoke with Pres. Emmanuel Macron of France and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau

Posted by: Tami at February 16, 2021 11:52 AM (cF8AT)

215 The Conservative Class telling everyone that comparisons to Hitler and the Holocaust are now out of bounds.

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Ummm..... pretty sure Ive been called a NAZI since 2016.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 11:52 AM (8XRCm)

216 172

Trump fucked up bigly on many fronts. Stop building him up as some infallible god. He did great things but he fucked up and did not learn any lessons.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 16, 2021 11:52 AM (hS+kz)

217 We really need a once a month prep post. I don't want the Horde to be like the clueless folks on social media. Everyone can take a few precautions to stay warm when the power goes out. And everyone should be thinking about problem areas to fix long term. We bought a house with electric heat and stove. We put in propane for the stove and a propane fireplace. The fireplace did not have a fan so it worked fine when the power went out. Not everyone can do that, but there are still measures you can take to be comfortable.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 16, 2021 11:52 AM (5HBd1)

218 215 The Conservative Class telling everyone that comparisons to Hitler and the Holocaust are now out of bounds.

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Ummm..... pretty sure Ive been called a NAZI since 2016.
Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 11:52 AM (8XRCm)

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I'm pretty sure the right side of the country has been called Nazis since about 1941.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 16, 2021 11:53 AM (LvTSG)

219 Six more inches of snow in the last few hours. On the bright side, the temperature is up to 15degF.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 16, 2021 11:53 AM (03n3v)

220 FYI, when my wife and I move, no matter where we go, a backup generator for the house will be in the budget

Been thinking about this during the times that I can't read the HQ because of the rolling blackouts but I'm not quite convinced of the economics of spending $5-10K to avoid a couple days of discomfort and inconvenience once every few years. Current house doesn't have gas service but we're moving in a couple of months to one that does so it would be more feasible.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 16, 2021 11:53 AM (qc+VF)

221 NEW: VP Kamala Harris has been taking calls with world leaders on behalf of Pres. Joe Biden

She recently spoke with Pres. Emmanuel Macron of France and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau

And so it begins....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 16, 2021 11:53 AM (Zmnko)

222 Anyone catch Rick Perry on Tucker last night?

This asshole was out of power, running his house on a generator and continued to say that Texas and the country needed a "diversified" mix of energy production.

How about sticking to what works?

Nukes and natural gas fired turbines. This isn't rocket science.

Posted by: jwest at February 16, 2021 11:53 AM (/BlEx)

223
She recently spoke with Pres. Emmanuel Macron of France and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau
Posted by: Tami at February 16, 2021 11:52 AM (cF8AT)

___________

Idiot talks to idiots.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 16, 2021 11:53 AM (UJgXw)

224 You know what I'm fucking full up with? The Conservative Class telling everyone that comparisons to Hitler and the Holocaust are now out of bounds.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 16, 2021 11:50 AM (ifmtJ)

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You, sir, are worse than Hitler.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 16, 2021 11:51 AM (LvTSG)

*gets the hose*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 16, 2021 11:53 AM (ifmtJ)

225 NEW: VP Kamala Harris has been taking calls with world leaders on behalf of Pres. Joe Biden

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Lids on lids.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 11:54 AM (8XRCm)

226 She recently spoke with Pres. Emmanuel Macron of France and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau

Wonder if she used that annoying cackle/laugh of hers

Posted by: It's me donna at February 16, 2021 11:54 AM (Zmnko)

227
My solar-powered generator won't work!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 16, 2021 11:55 AM (UJgXw)

228 I'm pretty sure the right side of the country has been called Nazis since about 1941.

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I'm betting right about when McCarthy made his 100% correct observation.

Posted by: Lysenko's Wonder Kulaks at February 16, 2021 11:55 AM (hsOar)

229 The problem with wood stoves is that most insurance companies will cancel your home insurance if you rely on wood heat. And there's that EPA nonsense where they keep trying to outlaw wood stoves.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 16, 2021 11:55 AM (5HBd1)

230 President Harris was talking to P.M. Blackface a couple of weeks ago.

Posted by: andycanuck at February 16, 2021 11:55 AM (d6he9)

231
So.

All you Texans that left cans of "soda" in your cars now understand why we Yankees call it "pop".

Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 11:56 AM (8XRCm)

232 205 199 You know what I'm fucking full up with? The Conservative Class telling everyone that comparisons to Hitler and the Holocaust are now out of bounds.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 16, 2021 11:50 AM (ifmtJ)

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You, sir, are worse than Hitler.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 16, 2021 11:51 AM (LvTSG)

I'm tired of the complaining, especially from our side, about the Nazi Germany comparisons - especially with regards to Gina Carano - because she was exactly, 100% correct with what she tweeted.

That being said, I'm afraid that we'll never be able to explain this particular analogy in such a way as to not lose the underlying message within the explanation of it. Because of this, I think we should use another historical analogue which is more recent, and probably even more apt than the German one.

Rwanda, 1994. The Hutu elite gave a signal over the radio, and with that, Hutu neighbors started slaughtering their Tutsi neighbors.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 16, 2021 11:56 AM (hKTv8)

233
Did La Harris talk to them in French?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 16, 2021 11:56 AM (UJgXw)

234 210 The other thing is, no one here really knows what "they" (*obviously* some monolithic hive-mind/Borg thing) think. Most of you are interpreting things through your own lenses, your own filters, your own psychology, and your own prejudices (in a larger sense). But you don't know and rather than fill certain parts of the map with "unknown, but possibly Y", you fill in the terrain you want/expect. Awfully 1930's French IYKWIMAITTYD.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 16, 2021 11:51 AM (KAi1n)

Well they are people you can meet and talk to. For the most part at the top they're f***ing retarded bubble people. Degenerate morons who follow the ramblings of lunatics and misanthropes for the most part. The rest of the hierarchy is more diverse but not unfamiliar character types.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 16, 2021 11:57 AM (Zm+LZ)

235 229

My insurance company charges me a premium for having a wood burning fireplace. It is almost never used. If I were to replace it with a gas powered one I would save a few hundred bucks a year on insurance. It would pay for itself in a few years.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 16, 2021 11:57 AM (hS+kz)

236 Lefty moral righteousness taking some hits, now that "Joe Biden" is in charge

https://tinyurl.com/3c9trtrv

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 16, 2021 11:57 AM (nkc1K)

237 199 You know what I'm fucking full up with? The Conservative Class telling
everyone that comparisons to Hitler and the Holocaust are now out of
bounds.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 16, 2021 11:50 AM (ifmtJ)

It's difficult not to use such analogies when their actions in the present follow the actions of the past so closely, and is in fact the same pattern repeated in other places as well to a similar end.

Just compare them to whom they truly follow, their father, the devil. They are doing his work.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2021 11:57 AM (ynpvh)

238 We should have been pushing back years before this. But no, let's instead worry about Twitter.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

I've done what I can. I litigated in support of real property rights at the local and state level. Hell, my former boss had his house picketed for it.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 16, 2021 11:57 AM (KAi1n)

239 229 The problem with wood stoves is that most insurance companies will cancel your home insurance if you rely on wood heat. And there's that EPA nonsense where they keep trying to outlaw wood stoves.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 16, 2021 11:55 AM (5HBd1)

That's a fact, Jack.

Even if you don't heat your house with wood, the insurance companies hate wood burning fireplaces. We had all five of ours converted to natural gas and saved about $900/year on the insurance bill.

Posted by: jwest at February 16, 2021 11:57 AM (/BlEx)

240 I wonder if lefties who voted for Chyna Joe thinking America would be a calmer, less chaotic and stressful place, are now starting to clue in?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Lefties? Lefties?

Couldn't care less what they're shivitzing about.

The NeverTrumper pseudo-right on the other hand....

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 16, 2021 11:58 AM (QjGTg)

241 I've read a little bit about this Times hit job on Star State Codex. Let's see - the Star State Codex guy voted for Biden and Sanders, is basically a SF lib atheist, but he challenged a few SJW beliefs so now the Left is gunning for him? And Andrew Sullivan, Cathy Young and Christina Hoff Sommers are all upset about it.

Cry me a river. You all voted for Biden - did you idiots actually think the Dems want to stop this and protect free speech? These educated imbeciles keep thinking that there are a large number of "reasonable leftists" who will speak out against censorship. That's like believing in Santa Claus. I don't feel one bit sorry for any lib who is targeted by the leftist hate mobs.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V at February 16, 2021 11:58 AM (HabA/)

242
He did great things but he fucked up and did not learn any lessons.

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No, he's not an infallible god, obviously. He did what he could, which was more than anyone else has, though.

The fact of the matter is that there's no "lesson to be learned." Except that the system is corrupted beyond repair and there is no electoral means to stop the Left. At no point was there some strategy Trump could've employed to take control of the government, because it is entirely out-of-control.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2021 11:58 AM (0WKYs)

243 Even if you don't heat your house with wood, the insurance companies hate wood burning fireplaces. We had all five of ours converted to natural gas and saved about $900/year on the insurance bill.

Great till they ban Natural gas.. And it's coming

Posted by: It's me donna at February 16, 2021 11:58 AM (Zmnko)

244 I have gas AND a wood stove.

Posted by: Jean at February 16, 2021 11:59 AM (Xih1H)

245 226 She recently spoke with Pres. Emmanuel Macron of France and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau
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What about? BJ's? Neither of those would be interested

Posted by: Dingbat at February 16, 2021 11:59 AM (2tblE)

246 I wonder why no one ever mentions hydroelectric power.

Posted by: creeper at February 16, 2021 11:59 AM (XxJt1)

247 Texans are losing it...

https://tinyurl.com/y8t2a48n

Posted by: Tami at February 16, 2021 12:00 PM (cF8AT)

248 To get here has been a multi step process. One of the core, early, "successes" of the left was to differentiate right and leftwing "hate".

I believe 20 years ago most leftists would have included antifa or BLM as a "hate group"

Separating it this way then allows them to "crack down on hate" first on people that actually fit the bill like real White Supremacists then to Alex Jones types, then to everyone that isn't kneeling for them.

The way to answer is this then is to use the same tactic against leftwing groups in red states. Start arresting anyone that went to a BLM protest and charge them with insurrection. Deny government employment to anyone involved with antifa, etc.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2021 12:00 PM (qlFIA)

249 227 My solar-powered generator won't work!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 16, 2021 11:55 AM (UJgXw)

I have solar panels across most of my south-side-facing roof, bought when both Kalifornia and the Fed offered huge cash-back and tax write-offs. For me, the return, based on electricity rates of when I got them, was about 10 years after all those discounts (which I paid for anyway through my taxes, so what the hell, right? Might as well). Otherwise it would not have made any sense. But you're right; they don't work very well in cloudy weather or the dark when you'd need the power most to keep warm, and no, batteries for it never made economical sense.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2021 12:00 PM (ynpvh)

250 I wonder why no one ever mentions hydroelectric power.

It requires dams and .. The Fish!

Posted by: idiot environmentalist at February 16, 2021 12:00 PM (Zmnko)

251 Degenerate morons who follow the ramblings of lunatics and misanthropes for the most part.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Have you ever had sex outside of marriage? If so, you're a degenerate. Ever had a blowjob? That's sodomy, you sodomite. How far do you want to take the purity test?

Posted by: SFGoth at February 16, 2021 12:00 PM (KAi1n)

252 Trump fucked up bigly on many fronts. Stop building
him up as some infallible god. He did great things but he fucked up and
did not learn any lessons.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 16, 2021 11:52 AM (hS+kz)
what lessons should he have learned?

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2021 12:00 PM (gkHkW)

253 220 FYI, when my wife and I move, no matter where we go, a backup generator for the house will be in the budget

------------------------------------- If you are thinking about a generator -- here are some ideas. After a couple of back-to-back ice storms years ago, Mrs OCiS insisted on a generator. I bought a portable gas generator with 9000+ watts of generating power with a 30 amp feed, plus some 120v outlets. To patch it into the house, get an electrician to install a 30amp plug on the outside of your home. At the panel, put in a manual interlock switch. This prevents you from backfeeding to the utility. Now you can control 100% of your panel with what you want to run. Your morning needs may be different from afternoon, evening and night time. Yes you have to manually flip breakers but for me that is nothing because of the flexibility I have. Why a portable generator? If times get really really bad and you have to bug out, presuming you have a truck or trailer, you can take it with you.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 16, 2021 12:00 PM (N39Ws)

254 If you are unfamiliar with the lithium battery packs, you should research them. Jackery is the big name, but there are others. All the monitoring tools are built in and they are very portable. You can charge by 110, 12v, and solar. Depending upon the size, you can run a lot of appliances. I mentioned using these to run an electric blanket, but they can power LED lights and charge your electronics. I wouldn't call them cheap but they would work even for apartment dwellers.

As for wood, there are a number of companies making tent stoves. These would be great as backup heat in an RV. Might even get away with one as backup in a house. Could at least take the chill off.

There is just so much stuff out there that would be great as a backup for a power outage. It just takes some research.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 16, 2021 12:01 PM (5HBd1)

255 I wonder why no one ever mentions hydroelectric power.
Posted by: creeper at February 16, 2021 11:59 AM (XxJt1)

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Dammed if I know.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 12:02 PM (8XRCm)

256 I like a crackling fire on a cold winter night. But is it messy as hell and can get really stinky too. We use our maybe 5 times a year on Christmas or whatever. But it is nice to have if the power ever goes out.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 16, 2021 12:02 PM (hS+kz)

257 212 Like Pogo said, "We have seen the enemy, and it is us". The true enemy are those Americans bent on destroying this country, destroying it's founding, and destroying those of us who oppose them. They are not the devil, but they are surely doing his work on Earth.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2021 11:52 AM (ynpvh)

This is true, but culpability is also shared with those who stand by and no nothing as long as their precious 401(k) keeps going up. A lot of hosed-up millennials probably could have been redeemed in the 2010s if they had options other than wallowing in the proglib academia/NGO swamp or becoming paycheck-to-paycheck property of our corporate frenzz.

Posted by: CppThis at February 16, 2021 12:02 PM (zcf1k)

258 251 Degenerate morons who follow the ramblings of lunatics and misanthropes for the most part.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Have you ever had sex outside of marriage? If so, you're a degenerate. Ever had a blowjob? That's sodomy, you sodomite. How far do you want to take the purity test?
Posted by: SFGoth at February 16, 2021 12:00 PM (KAi1n)

No. I'm fine with taking it all the way, but that's not the point here. I mean they're extremely out there on the decadence spectrum. And this is nothing new for the end period of a civilization's lifespan. As you'll note many of these behaviors are dysfunctional.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 16, 2021 12:02 PM (Zm+LZ)

259 231 So.

All you Texans that left cans of "soda" in your cars now understand why we Yankees call it "pop".

Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 11:56 AM (8XRCm)

My MIL, god rest her soul, left a can of diet soda on the floor in the back of my car. I didn't realize it was there until I head something rolling around hitting the metal on the bottom of the passenger seat. Realizing what it was, I slowed down as I got to work, and just as I was making my last turn, POP! I saw a gusher of diet soda emanating from the can. The gash in the can went from stem to stern, leaving essentially no soda. I still have the can.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2021 12:03 PM (ynpvh)

260 Texans are losing it...

https://tinyurl.com/y8t2a48n

Posted by: Tami at February 16, 2021 12:00 PM (cF8AT)

the chance this Texans lives in a Blue area is 100. He reminds me of a humorous Texan whisky commentator. That guy is from a very blue part of Texas too.

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2021 12:03 PM (gkHkW)

261 This won't be well received, but the problem is that free speech isn't protected on the internet. And by free speech I mean the right to openly hate Jews and minorities and gays and anyone else you want to hate for reasons that are ignorant or just because you want to get a rise out of people.

This blog, for instance, removes anti-Semitic comments and overtly racist comments because, and I have the greatest of confidence in this, the COBs and the boss are great people and abhor that kind of language and thought process.

But there also is a second, ancillary reason. They also know that the blog could be deplatformed and removed from existence if it is determined by those that control tech that it is unacceptable.This is reality.

Once it has been determined that certain words are forbidden, the only question is really when they get around to your particular lexicon.

The line for free speech is drawn at one's right to hate openly, once that line has been crossed we are just negotiating the price.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 16, 2021 12:03 PM (0RFCO)

262 The other thing is, no one here really knows what "they" (*obviously* some monolithic hive-mind/Borg thing) think. Most of you are interpreting things through your own lenses, your own filters, your own psychology, and your own prejudices (in a larger sense). But you don't know and rather than fill certain parts of the map with "unknown, but possibly Y", you fill in the terrain you want/expect. Awfully 1930's French IYKWIMAITTYD.

***

Related, did you see the "Every song you love was written by the same two guys" article?

Find what people like, pick what resonates with their boring predictable tastes and characteristics, and make an assembly line of music:

https://bit.ly/2OKb9rS

Posted by: Lysenko's Wonder Kulaks at February 16, 2021 12:03 PM (hsOar)

263 I posted it last night, but here it is again. Real time BPA balancing load stats:

https://bit.ly/3rTXLzu

Yes, hydro works.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 16, 2021 12:04 PM (5HBd1)

264 "That is a man who is confident that he understands his enemies."

Some of them. In the end it counted for fuckall, considering the current state of the UK. It was the enemies within that did them in, and they are destroying far more thoroughly than a bunch of Germans with a stick up their butt ever could.

The only reason Hitler has been the go-to standard for evil in the first place is because the Commies will not only never forgive his betrayal, but because doing so conveniently directs attention away from their prior agreement with him and their role as an aggressor in WW2.

Posted by: someguy at February 16, 2021 12:04 PM (y5gzn)

265 the chance this Texans lives in a Blue area is 100. He reminds me of a humorous Texan whisky commentator. That guy is from a very blue part of Texas too.
Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2021 12:03 PM (gkHkW)

***

Texas is going to be blue as shit once Biden's amnesty goes through.

You've got to admire their planning.

Posted by: Lysenko's Wonder Kulaks at February 16, 2021 12:04 PM (hsOar)

266 232 ...I think we should use
another historical analogue which is more recent, and probably even more
apt than the German one.

Rwanda, 1994. The Hutu elite gave a signal over the radio, and with
that, Hutu neighbors started slaughtering their Tutsi neighbors.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 16, 2021 11:56 AM (hKTv

Unfortunately the only way I remember who was the aggressor in that genocide was is by remembering a BAD joke in which the punchline was Tutsi-rolls.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2021 12:05 PM (ynpvh)

267
Anyone catch Rick Perry on Tucker last night?

This asshole was out of power, running his house on a generator and continued to say that Texas and the country needed a "diversified" mix of energy production.

How about sticking to what works?

Nukes and natural gas fired turbines. This isn't rocket science.
Posted by: jwest

He also talked about FUSION as if it were something that actually existed and in use.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2021 12:05 PM (63Dwl)

268 Well, in the wonderful rabbit hole of the internet I came across the story of a man who was a preacher, healer and prophet (He died in 1962) named William Branham and who had visions. Apparently one of his vision might have been of a woman President-a very destructive one-and also the catering destruction of the US. as part of the end times I should add that Brother Branham seemed to have a genuine evangelical belief in Chris gift for healing and that he didn't approve of women usurping what he thought were mens' roles (and no, I'm not going to argue about it) so his visions are interesting to say the least.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 16, 2021 12:05 PM (VP4Cd)

269 252

For one stop hiring swamp creatures. Barr? RUFKM? And there 100 other examples.

And yes mean twitter. It is stupid but it was used to beat him over the head repeatedly and was an unnecessary distraction in a daily basis. And no it was not some 6D chess strategy. It made the LIV middle of the road types think he was loco.

And the biggest lesson he should have learned is that in politics you need friends. Scorched earth does not succeed. When he most needed help to prove the fraud nobody had his back.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 16, 2021 12:06 PM (hS+kz)

270 253 220 FYI, when my wife and I move, no matter where we go, a backup generator for the house will be in the budget

I bought a 100KW natural gas generator a few months ago for the restaurant and our new building. It was used with 138 hours on it, that used to be the standby generator for a pump house. All in all, I've got about $3800 into it. The automatic switch gear that came with it retails for about $15,000 and the generator new is $45,000, so I think I got a pretty good deal.

Posted by: jwest at February 16, 2021 12:06 PM (/BlEx)

271 So.

All you Texans that left cans of "soda" in your cars now understand why we Yankees call it "pop".

Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 11:56 AM (8XRCm)

real Texans call it Coke.

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2021 12:06 PM (gkHkW)

272 Darrell Harris,

Yes. And they paved the way for that signal with a step by step process of identity politics and increasing hostility against Tutsis. *** And that propaganda process is being worked against Trump supporters right now. *** Horde, please read "Left to Tell" by Rwanda genocide survivor Immaculee Ilibagiza. We are being set up.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 16, 2021 12:06 PM (i3LfQ)

273 He also talked about FUSION as if it were something that actually existed and in use.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2021 12:05 PM (63Dwl)

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Wurd!

~Gorilla Glue Girl

Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 12:06 PM (8XRCm)

274 I wonder why no one ever mentions hydroelectric power.
Posted by: creeper
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Dammed if I know.
Posted by: fixerupper
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Well it's flooded with controversy.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 16, 2021 12:06 PM (QjGTg)

275 Happy, happy. Joy, joy. Coldest temps in over a century = three days of rolling, unannounced blackouts. Had one this morning. Now have everything possible plugged in and charging. Global warming, my ass.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- Bitterly clinging to the deplorable life at February 16, 2021 12:07 PM (NL33G)

276 I love a wood fire, and have a fireplace in my home. But you can't turn a fireplace 'off'. You can let it go out, and the coals go cold, but that takes many hours.

Posted by: DB- just DB at February 16, 2021 12:07 PM (iTXRQ)

277 And the biggest lesson he should have learned is that in politics you need friends. Scorched earth does not succeed. When he most needed help to prove the fraud nobody had his back.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 16, 2021 12:06 PM (hS+kz)

The fraudsters were busy being backed by China.

Posted by: CN at February 16, 2021 12:07 PM (ONvIw)

278 He also talked about FUSION as if it were something that actually existed and in use.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2021 12:05 PM (63Dwl)

I'm glad I'm not the only one that caught that.

And this guy was the fucking Energy Secretary.

Fuck.

Posted by: jwest at February 16, 2021 12:07 PM (/BlEx)

279 Meant "evangelical Belief in Christ" and a gift for healing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 16, 2021 12:08 PM (VP4Cd)

280 "Every song you love was written by the same two guys" article?

I don't love any of those songs. I don't even like any of them.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 16, 2021 12:08 PM (Bmy3R)

281 >I wonder why no one ever mentions hydroelectric power.
Posted by: creeper

it's mean to the feeshes

Posted by: DB- just DB at February 16, 2021 12:08 PM (iTXRQ)

282 the chance this Texans lives in a Blue area is 100.

Aw, the guy's not taking himself seriously so I'm willing to cut him some slack. Now, if he were in Oklahoma on the other hand...

Posted by: Oddbob at February 16, 2021 12:08 PM (qc+VF)

283 I remember it by, "Toot, toot, Tutsi, so long," and "Hutu, Hutu, do you think you're killin'!"

Posted by: andycanuck at February 16, 2021 12:09 PM (d6he9)

284 Stop hiring swamp creatures means hiring people that won't be confirmed. Stop tweeting means that you are totally locked out of communicating with the public. He went out of his way to campaign for GOP candidates that promptly stabbed him in the back.

The GOP does not understand why Trump was elected, which is why they think that people will support their RINO candidates again. They hate Trump voters and wish we would go away, so they can be graceful losers again.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 16, 2021 12:09 PM (5HBd1)

285 nood, if it wasn't mentioned

Posted by: CN at February 16, 2021 12:09 PM (ONvIw)

286 Have you ever had sex outside of marriage? If so, you're a degenerate. Ever had a blowjob? That's sodomy, you sodomite. How far do you want to take the purity test?
Posted by: SFGoth

But have you ever had a blowjob within marriage (real man women marriage)?

Posted by: Jean at February 16, 2021 12:09 PM (Xih1H)

287 "Every song you love was written by the same two guys" article?

I don't love any of those songs. I don't even like any of them.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 16, 2021 12:08 PM (Bmy3R)

***

Yeah, I know. Same here. They're not talking to everyone. But it gives you some insight into the industry and human nature.

Posted by: Lysenko's Wonder Kulaks at February 16, 2021 12:09 PM (hsOar)

288 I'm glad I'm not the only one that caught that.
And this guy was the fucking Energy Secretary.
Fuck.
Posted by: jwest at February 16, 2021 12:07 PM (/BlEx)
-----
There's THREE things we need to fix this.

1. Nuclear.
2. Fusion.
3.
3.

3. Ummmm well.... you know.... the THING....

Posted by: fixerupper at February 16, 2021 12:09 PM (8XRCm)

289 Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 16, 2021 12:06 PM (hS+kz)

At this point I'm not sure what good it does to be an armchair quarterback, but if you want to find some way to contact Trump and tell exactly what he did wrong and what he should have done I'm sure he'll pay rapt attention.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 16, 2021 12:10 PM (VP4Cd)

290 Steyn up on Rush. As much as I like him as a guest host I have a bad feeling about this. He has been out almost two weeks.

Posted by: Ripley at February 16, 2021 12:10 PM (MxEKc)

291 Wood run. Back in a bit.

Posted by: creeper at February 16, 2021 12:10 PM (XxJt1)

292 I bought a 100KW natural gas generator a few months ago for the restaurant and our new building. It was used with 138 hours on it, that used to be the standby generator for a pump house. All in all, I've got about $3800 into it. The automatic switch gear that came with it retails for about $15,000 and the generator new is $45,000, so I think I got a pretty good deal.
Posted by: jwest

Did you have a mask on? That was a robbery

Posted by: Jean at February 16, 2021 12:10 PM (Xih1H)

293 286 Have you ever had sex outside of marriage? If so, you're a degenerate. Ever had a blowjob? That's sodomy, you sodomite. How far do you want to take the purity test?
Posted by: SFGoth

I feel bad now...

Posted by: jwest at February 16, 2021 12:11 PM (/BlEx)

294
Rwanda, 1994. The Hutu elite gave a signal over the radio, and with
that, Hutu neighbors started slaughtering their Tutsi neighbors.

Interahamwe has a long mustache

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2021 12:11 PM (63Dwl)

295 293 286 Have you ever had sex outside of marriage? If so, you're a degenerate. Ever had a blowjob? That's sodomy, you sodomite. How far do you want to take the purity test?
Posted by: SFGoth

I feel bad now...
Posted by: jwest at February 16, 2021 12:11 PM (/BlEx)

Repent and stop drinking poison. Pretending it isn't poison doesn't help anything.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 16, 2021 12:12 PM (Zm+LZ)

296 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2021 12:05 PM (63Dwl)

too bad, I kind of liked him but that sounds like he was a legit jagoff their. And when did natural gas become the standard of legit home heating. As i recall, in the North East, they use heating oil for the real cold. Not saying everyone should switch to that, I am still waiting on the Global Warming. But I do recall they use heating oil in New England and other really cold places because, well, it works.

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2021 12:12 PM (gkHkW)

297 252 what lessons should [Trump] have learned?

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2021 12:00 PM (gkHkW)

1. Many Americans are only mildly interested in politics. He did well in 2016 because he talked about jobs and the economy--things that matter to the marginally-interested--but the 2020 campaign leaned heavily on rallies to fire up the base. This was an obvious blunder.

2. The "yah fiahd" shark-tank model may work in the sleazy real estate world but it's a haven for sycophants and backstabbers who, in politics, have access to very powerful tools. Trump should have figured this out after the first few incidents, but he didn't and so his own hand-picked lackeys were one of his greatest threats throughout his term in office.

3. The pandemic and its lockdowns caused real hurt for real people, and while doing what he could to keep the economy going was the right move the constant grandstanding and rambling press events turned off many voters. His popularity was already waning in the summer, but rather than take a more conciliatory "we'll get through this together" tack he mostly ignored conditions on the ground and scheduled more rallies for his dudes.

Posted by: CppThis at February 16, 2021 12:14 PM (zcf1k)

298 Steyn up on Rush. As much as I like him as a guest host I have a bad feeling about this. He has been out almost two weeks.

Posted by: Ripley at February 16, 2021 12:10 PM (MxEKc)

not to get into this, but i do like Steyn. Another good one is Chris Plante. But there is no replacing Rush. If when the time comes, and I hope it is a long time from now, Steyn would not be a bad choice.

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2021 12:14 PM (gkHkW)

299 The line for free speech is drawn at one's right to hate openly, once that line has been crossed we are just negotiating the price.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 16, 2021 12:03 PM (0RFCO)

You believe that "hate" is the line for free speech?

Nope.

The line for free speech is they are allowed to say what they want, and they are allowed to control what everyone else says. That's the line.

They are the most openly hateful fucks on the planet and they give us daily proof.

Posted by: ... at February 16, 2021 12:14 PM (yq1z2)

300 262 Related, did you see the "Every song you love was written by the same two guys" article?

Find what people like, pick what resonates with their boring
predictable tastes and characteristics, and make an assembly line of
music:

https://bit.ly/2OKb9rS

Posted by: Lysenko's Wonder Kulaks at February 16, 2021 12:03 PM (hsOar)

Those two guys must be very old, since my music likes include classical, opera, ragtime (thanks, Grandma), as well as some of the more modern styles of 70's rock and 80's, with some 40's thrown in for good measure (Thanks, Dad).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2021 12:15 PM (ynpvh)

301 267 Anyone catch Rick Perry on Tucker last night?

Posted by: jwest

He also talked about FUSION as if it were something that actually existed and in use.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2021 12:05 PM (63Dwl)

We've used fusion before. See the Bikini Atoll.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2021 12:16 PM (ynpvh)

302 the constant grandstanding and rambling press events turned off many voters
-------

Yet the media couldn't find any. All the people at Town Halls were lifelong D's. Where were all the disaffected voters? Should have been easy to rustle some up. Make a few famous.

Posted by: ... at February 16, 2021 12:17 PM (yq1z2)

303 Steyn up on Rush. As much as I like him as a guest host I have a bad feeling about this. He has been out almost two weeks.
Posted by: Ripley at February 16, 2021 12:10 PM (MxEKc)

I pray for Rush, but a couple things to remember--he has already outlived his diagnosis. He shouldn't even be here today.
Second, we were told that his treatment is palliative at this point.

I don't think we'll be hearing him on the radio anymore, but I pray I'm wrong.

Posted by: JoeF. at February 16, 2021 12:18 PM (HrMC1)

304 We will continue to lose ground until we start shooting the brownshirts.

Posted by: bob at February 16, 2021 12:18 PM (TV+ih)

305 "Trump fucked up bigly on many fronts. Stop building him up as some
infallible god. He did great things but he fucked up and did not learn
any lessons."/ /Well, perhaps YOU could step up and lead the movement. You have certainly demonstrated that talent and ability here.../ eye roll/

Posted by: lurker at February 16, 2021 12:22 PM (i2PCS)

306 Posted by: CppThis at February 16, 2021 12:14 PM (zcf1k)

i have my criticisms as well. He could have used better terms at times in his speeches. He could have been a bit more Reaganesque if you will. But he won and those that tried to play to the press lost, not once, not twice, but every time. Check out Dole, Bush Sr., McCain, and Romney.

I don't buy a lick he failed over Corona. What has been shown that he failed on the issue? They used this to finish him. If people believe in the idea of God being "on their side" in major events, that certainly does not work in politics.

Trump was in your face and never backed down. Sure he could have adjusted a few things at certain times. But could that not be said about anyone, at anytime? Trump was right the media and Deep State was against him. If anything, he played that down.

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2021 12:22 PM (gkHkW)

307 It isn't about Parler, though. It's about the coordinated campaign to deplatform a single site. And it f'ing worked. So now the Wokists are going against Baen Books. They are filing multiple complaints of hate speech on Baen forums with the server providers. Larry Correia has details on MonsterHunterNation.
We need to learn how to fight this shit. Ace WILL be on the list to target at some point.

Posted by: Daa of Night at February 16, 2021 12:22 PM (rJ15v)

308 The pandemic and its lockdowns caused real hurt for real people, and while doing what he could to keep the economy going was the right move the constant grandstanding and rambling press events turned off many voters. His popularity was already waning in the summer, but rather than take a more conciliatory "we'll get through this together" tack he mostly ignored conditions on the ground and scheduled more rallies for his dudes.
Posted by: CppThis at February 16, 2021 12:14 PM (zcf1k)

I disagree.

How can anyone with a straight face say Trump's Covid updates "were grandstanding?" He shared the stage with Birx and Fauci and that Surgeon General nonentity.
He also had scientists and business leaders up on stage sharing the spotlight, and of course Pence.
CUOMO was the grandstanding one, and the media couldn't get enough of him.

Also, whenever trump tried to sound positive, like saying "we'll get over this", the media would say he was wishing Covid away and not taking it seriously.

His handling of Covid was one of his greatest achievements --and he was NEVER going to get credit for it.

Posted by: JoeF. at February 16, 2021 12:24 PM (HrMC1)

309 304 We will continue to lose ground until we start shooting the brownshirts.
Posted by: bob at February 16, 2021 12:18 PM (TV+ih)

Shooting brownshirts may or may not become necessary, but it is absolutely necessary that non-leftists get organized and push back. If just one of our corporate frenzz got broken by a several million customer strong boycott, the others would take note and be far less keen on kowtowing to the SJWs in the future. If a get-out-the-vote campaign ousted a few terrible politicians at the local and state level, the resulting safe haven for those who want to be left along would be a powerful symbol that it's possible for people to exist outside the swampy miasma of corrupt uniparty statism.

I rage all day everyday that I'm not able to lead such a charge, but the simple truth is that engineers like me are good at speccing out the system but very bad at selling it, because our people skills resemble a honey badger on PCP.

Posted by: CppThis at February 16, 2021 12:26 PM (zcf1k)

310 Trump was in your face and never backed down. Sure he could have adjusted a few things at certain times. But could that not be said about anyone, at anytime? Trump was right the media and Deep State was against him. If anything, he played that down.
Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2021 12:22 PM (gkHkW)

Exactly. They were never going to give him credit no matter what he did. It was the media with their often stupid, inane and idiotic questions--asked repeatedly every day who turned those briefings into a circus.
Not Trump.

Posted by: JoeF. at February 16, 2021 12:27 PM (HrMC1)

311 His handling of Covid was one of his greatest achievements --and he was NEVER going to get credit for it.

Posted by: JoeF. at February 16, 2021 12:24 PM (HrMC1)

they used all leverage to defeat him and us. We saw it, we commented on it, but we could not stop it.

Posted by: Quint at February 16, 2021 12:28 PM (gkHkW)

312 Guess who signed that immigration act in 1986?

Conservative Lion Reagan.

Posted by: Michael at February 16, 2021 01:18 PM (MOTel)

313 "Trust" is for lazy minds. It is the Conservative's "feelz" zone.

Posted by: jbspry at February 16, 2021 01:29 PM (ATe9j)

314 CCP This I must totally disagree!

Posted by: AnnaS at February 16, 2021 02:32 PM (wVJ0d)

315 Definitely hateful to tell the truth about Democrat election stealing. That's actually terrorism. Straight from the mouth of King George III.

Posted by: Alec Rawls at February 16, 2021 03:41 PM (wh9C3)

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