Michael Anton: Why Do Those Who Claim The Election Wasn't Rigged Require Us to Confirm That Claim For Them?

Why, if this is so obviously a "fact," are some people so insecure about it?

Why Do the Election’s Defenders Require My Agreement?
The purpose of voting today is to give a democratic veneer to an undemocratic regime--not to give the people a say in the direction of their government.
By Michael Anton
February 23, 2021
Recently, I appeared as a guest on Andrew Sullivan's podcast. Sullivan is vociferously anti-Trump, so I expected us to disagree--which, naturally, we did. But I was surprised by the extent to which he insisted I assent to his assertion that the 2020 election was totally on the level. That is to say, I wasn't surprised that Sullivan thinks it was; I was surprised by his evident yearning to hear me say so, too.
Which I could not do.
Sullivan badgered me on this at length before finally accusing me of being fixated on the topic, to which I responded, truthfully, that I was only talking about it because he asked. As far as I’m concerned, the 2020 election is well and truly over. I have, I said, "moved on."
So I thought. Then I received two emails from a friendly acquaintance who is a recognized Republican expert on elections that suggested he, too, is troubled by my lack of belief. Then came two other data points, which I noticed only after the first draft this essay had been completed. Ramesh Ponnuru snarked (snark seems to be the go-to, indeed the only, device his in literary quiver) that one of the anomalies I cited in my most recent article in the Claremont Review of Books had been "debunked" by the partisan left-wing FactCheck.org. While I appreciate the insight into the sources from which National Review editors get their "facts" these days, the quote provided admits that the statistic I cited is, well, accurate. Ponurru naturally ignores all of the other points raised in my earlier article.
Jonathan Chait wrote yet another (his 12th?) article denouncing me, for this same sin of disbelief. Why did he bother? Is there even a remote chance that a single one of his New York magazine readers either read my article or encountered its argument? Or is he worried that the "narrative" of the election is so fragile that it needs to be shored up?
I wanted to move on, I really did. But when Left (Chait), center (Sullivan), faux-right anti-conservative ankle-biter (Ponnuru), and genuine, if establishment, Right (my correspondent) all agree that my lack of belief is a problem, I wondered why this should be so, and the following observations came to mind.

This gets at it:

Or is he worried that the "narrative" of the election is so fragile that it needs to be shored up?

A correspondent who listened to the Andrew Sullivan podcast tells me that Sullivan is so frothingly committed to his fantasies that he sounds legitimately mentally ill.

Andrew Sullivan Freakout Advisory level: Elevated

Remember, this is the same guy that claimed that Sarah Palin was wearing a fake pregnancy suit to cover up the real pregnancy in the family.

But now he's very, very worried about Conspiracy Theories taking root!

Posted by: Ace at 12:17 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 24, 2021 12:17 PM (kTF2Z)

2 On the podium.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 24, 2021 12:17 PM (ohOLP)

3 I called the otters.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 24, 2021 12:17 PM (kTF2Z)

4 Not the otters!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2021 12:17 PM (zExdh)

5 Also, Trump was not required to concede for Slo-Joe to be inaugurated, but they sure did want that, badly.

Posted by: huerfano, culturally appropriating at February 24, 2021 12:18 PM (DzhEB)

6

More Judy. Less Merrick.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2021 12:19 PM (s2VJv)

7 Same reason you've got to call that bearded dude in a dress "ma'am"

Posted by: Lysenko's Wonder Kulaks - Call your parents. And can blue cities be less black? at February 24, 2021 12:19 PM (Kt1w/)

8 The left and anti-Trumpers are not acting like they won.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2021 12:19 PM (Z+JNA)

9 They need people to believe that the election was on the level so that they can push the narrative that Trump was somehow so awful that he drove away critical voting blocs. The GOPe wants to get rid of populism and Trumpism and go back to the good old days of pre-2016, and the left wants to keep the state level GOP from getting any funny ideas about cracking down on mail-in voting or other tricks used by the left.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 24, 2021 12:19 PM (jOcSX)

10 Isn't there some auto-ban feature around Sullivan in Pixy's code?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (LvTSG)

11 Or is he worried that the "narrative" of the election is so fragile that it needs to be shored up?

This is a corollary to "you will be made to care."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (s2VJv)

12
Whoa, whoa, whoa... Sullivan is still around? I figured he dried up and blew away in the wind years ago. I didn't know he was even still alive.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (0WKYs)

13 the Chinese and a Billionaire, whose name shall not be spoken, are causing all of this.

of course Mitch and his grubby brethren don't have to take the money but they do because they are greedy little worms who don't give two shits about anyone else.

Posted by: Shoey at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (hmNVd)

14 Wife thinks Sullivan looks like a young Lenin in that pic.

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (AwYPR)

15 That Crowder clip on the sidebar pretty much confirms there was a conspiracy in NV to steal the state. Fake voters at non-existent addresses, which go to the dead letter office? Was there a group effort, bc that's what it appeared to be to me. Who obtained all those undeliverable ballots?

Posted by: EveR at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (R0z7P)

16 10 Isn't there some auto-ban feature around Sullivan in Pixy's code?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (LvTSG)

Ace must be working magic behind the scenes to bring us this post.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (9mfKN)

17 Also the election was stolen, with GOP help.

Biden was not lawfully elected and was installed only as a result of fraud.

It bears saying, every day.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (ifmtJ)

18 10 Isn't there some auto-ban feature around Sullivan in Pixy's code?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (LvTSG)

"Auto-ban? Jawol!"

- - Kraftwerk

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (s2VJv)

19 the Chinese and a Billionaire, whose name shall not be spoken, are causing all of this.

Anyone heard from Jack Ma lately?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2021 12:21 PM (Z+JNA)

20 Outnumbered has really been good since they revamped the show. Today it's Emily Campagno, Harris Faulkner, Dan Bongino, Kennedy and Kimberly Klacik on the show.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2021 12:21 PM (NpAcC)

21 Yeah we're all still breathlessly waiting for the endless demographic and statistical information about the election breakdowns, and the pundits discussing them.

Funny how none of that showed up after the election like always before huh?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (KZzsI)

22 Not the otters!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2021 12:17 PM (zExdh)

How YOU doin?...

Posted by: The Otters at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (8D42x)

23 I've coined a new term for those defending the election: "fraud deniers."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (YqDXo)

24 The left whined for years after the 2000 election, but Bush and co. just ignored it and got on with the business of running the country. It's very telling that the powers that be are so obsessed with making everyone drop whatever else they might be doing and start endlessly sieg-heiling the election commissions.

Posted by: CppThis at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (zcf1k)

25 They want us to say it was all fine and dandy even if we don't think it was. As long as you conform you are good.

Posted by: f'd at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (XWafw)

26 It really is remarkable that their behavior is so similar to that seen in a religious quarrel. Are we to expect a reprise of the Thirty Year's War?

Posted by: pep at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (v16oJ)

27 I've noticed this as well, you are not allowed to think the election was stolen, which it damn sure was. They didn't even try to hide it.
But it will be necessary for each of us speak the lie, just for their "feels".

Posted by: navybrat, semper paratus at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (w7KSn)

28 Government is their religion. If their government is illegitimate, their god is illegitimate. And that just can't be so.

Posted by: 4 at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (KnJdm)

29 " They need people to believe that the election was on the level so that they can push the narrative that Trump was somehow so awful that he drove away critical voting blocs. "

That, and they--like the Soviet Union did--need you to say out loud it was legit, even when you know it wasn't, to make you complicit. There's that great Theodore Dalrymple quote that's relevant: "I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control."

Posted by: Rick C at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (eqaFC)

30 Also, the modern political class is largely a cargo cult who only know how to game the system to get their jobs, either political hires or elected, but not how to deal with new or unique problems. For the left every ME dust up can only be solved by a two-state solution, and every economic problem requires raising the minimum wage. For the right every foreign policy is based around free trade with dictatorships and continual US deployments to keep the current status quo from collapsing.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (jOcSX)

31 Cue that Game of Thrones quote about how any man who has to tell you that he is king is no actual king.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (DXFDM)

32 But 2016 was guaranteed stolen when Russians hacked the Michigan voting machines and changed vote totals.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (LvTSG)

33
Alternate post title:

The 2020 Election Was Brave, Stunning, and Beautiful. Don't You Agree, Election-o-phobe?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (NugC9)

34 "I find your lack of faith disturbing."

- Darth Sully

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (dfRN6)

35 21 Yeah we're all still breathlessly waiting for the endless demographic and statistical information about the election breakdowns, and the pundits discussing them.

Funny how none of that showed up after the election like always before huh?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (KZzsI)

Was really looking forward to this years We need to abandon everything we believe in order to reach out to minorities election debrief.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 12:23 PM (9mfKN)

36 I've noticed this as well, you are not allowed to think the election was stolen, which it damn sure was. They didn't even try to hide it.
But it will be necessary for each of us speak the lie, just for their "feels".
Posted by: navybrat

Piss on their "feels".

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2021 12:23 PM (Z+JNA)

37 Listen, they told us how they would steal the election, we watched them steal it in real time, they even bragged about how they stole the election, now they are using their muscle and force multipliers to essentially outlaw what every Democrat was going on about for the last four fucking years.

And they've largely been successful.

Watch any Tim Pool video post, the amount of tap dancing and hedging he has to do to discuss anything involving the election is nauseating.

But, there it is.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2021 12:23 PM (73NTg)

38 Isn't there some auto-ban feature around Sullivan in Pixy's code?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (LvTSG)

Why would there be?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2021 12:23 PM (Q9lwr)

39 31 Cue that Game of Thrones quote about how any man who has to tell you that he is king is no actual king.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (DXFDM)

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*cue video of Tyrion vomiting*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:23 PM (LvTSG)

40 Andrew Sullivan knowingly pursued unprotected sex when he knew he was HIV positive. He is the scum you find on the bottom of scum.

Posted by: C 137 at February 24, 2021 12:23 PM (2DOZq)

41 When Gerbilopoulous demanded that Rand Paul state that the election was legit, I guess Rand did ok by pointing out what the role of a journalist is supposed to be but I'd have preferred him asking "why is that so important to you" and "where was this skepticism toward The Beast's insistence on Russian interference". And then call him a cunt for extra credit.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 24, 2021 12:23 PM (y7DUB)

42
Bruce Jenner is a woman!
But it is imperative YOU agree and affirm he's a woman.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 24, 2021 12:23 PM (NugC9)

43 Whoa, whoa, whoa... Sullivan is still around? I figured he dried up and blew away in the wind years ago. I didn't know he was even still alive.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (0WKYs)

I thought AIDS might have finally got him.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 24, 2021 12:24 PM (YqDXo)

44 38 Isn't there some auto-ban feature around Sullivan in Pixy's code?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (LvTSG)

Why would there be?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2021 12:23 PM (Q9lwr)

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Just comments I've read over the years. Maybe around the name of his site. I've never tested it.

Half the rules around here are half-myth anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:24 PM (LvTSG)

45 and of course they insist that we confirm their want. otherwise, it leave open doubt, and there can be no doubt in the state comrade.

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 24, 2021 12:24 PM (8D42x)

46 As predicted by Salty Cracker, the Steven Crowder Youtube clip from yesterday has been taken down by Jack. Even verification of phony addresses cannot be spoken about. This is third world shit hole stuff.

Posted by: fly gal at February 24, 2021 12:24 PM (6CtMt)

47 The Left are definitely bold.

Posted by: C 137 at February 24, 2021 12:24 PM (2DOZq)

48 Just comments I've read over the years. Maybe around the name of his site. I've never tested it.

Half the rules around here are half-myth anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:24 PM (LvTSG)

Definitely not a myth!

~ 100 comment rule in the art thread

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 12:24 PM (9mfKN)

49 What makes me most sick is all Republicans like McConnell had to do was give a little lip service to fraud they've been talking about since Tammany Hall, but that's how much they hated Trump to where they now pretend it's like a Roswell theory or something. Like it has no place to even discuss and it has never been a concern of theirs.

At least Dems went along with Russia to help Hillary save face, and that really was batshit crazy. Voter fraud is a proven fact.

I feel like I have no political home. Republicans suck and I'm not gung ho on Trump and that shit show either.

Posted by: Dig Dug at February 24, 2021 12:24 PM (YsTC1)

50

You must send me pictures of your clean bunghole, to prove to me that you wiped!

Posted by: A. Sullivan, Truther at February 24, 2021 12:24 PM (XItA/)

51 What is especially sad is that every single pre-election analysis gave benchmarks for what Trump needed to win and he exceeded all of them. But we're supposed to believe somehow Biden was so vastly popular and beloved that tens of millions of extra voters flooded the polls to overcome that.

Joe freaking Biden. Who ran the worst, most pathetic campaign in human history.

The funny thing is, even pollsters who lean left have shown repeatedly that most people in America think the election was rigged.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (KZzsI)

52 It is weird, how intent the lefties are that we acknowledge the election was fair.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (aSGq2)

53 Not only do they demand we're prove it, but when we show them definitive proof they ban us so that they can bury the evidence.

If the evidence was such BS they should welcome it so they can disprove it as lies, but when they do thier best to hide that information, that's all the proof that's needed to sow that it's correct.

We see that shut finally happening with HCQ now, they banned the information because the evidence proved it was very good at helping Covid patients, but they banned any mention of it so that they can inflate the body count, now suddenly it's been flipped and proven to work more effectively than anything else, so that they can claim Biden cured the world.

Posted by: Rbastid at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (C5Azw)

54 I see four lights.

Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (63Dwl)

55 Dems cheat every election. Anyone who claims otherwise is an idiot or a liar.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (y08AY)

56 Cue that Game of Thrones quote about how any man who has to tell you that he is king is no actual king.Or this: 'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.'- Margaret Thatcher

Posted by: pep at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (v16oJ)

57 Not the otters!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2021 12:17 PM (zExdh)

How YOU doin?...
Posted by: The Otters at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM

*narrows eyes...reaches for flamethrower*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (zExdh)

58 Why Do Those Who Claim The Election Wasn't Rigged Require Us to Confirm That Claim For Them?
......

Because they know that we know that they know.

Posted by: wth at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (v0R5T)

59 The left and anti-Trumpers are not acting like they won.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2021 12:19 PM (Z+JNA)

Even Emmy award winning Nipsy Cuomo isn't that good at acting.

Posted by: LASue, aka Les White at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (Ed8Zd)

60 The idea of a mom defending a young woman's honor is truthful. As is claiming that gay men lead a dangerous and damning lifestyle. As is, additionally, obviously realizing this election is beneath most Third World standards.

Andrew Sullivan is only comfortable with the truth when it doesn't hit him, personally.

Posted by: trev006 at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (0HpOW)

61 Yea... there's been a push to get this whole "rigged election" narrative debunked and swept under the rug ASAP. It's obviously being directed by our betters and propagated through the MFM.

To which I again go back to my opinion that the media is enemy number one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (3H9h1)

62
it's The Big Lie (for the "greater good")

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 24, 2021 12:26 PM (NugC9)

63 Steven Crowder put up a video yesterday where he had his guys go to physical addresses people officially voted from, which do not exist.

Twitter locked his account for posting a link to his video, then unlocked his account, but locked down the tweet in a way that you can't quote tweet it.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 24, 2021 12:26 PM (YYlyE)

64 Oh, this is a good one by Anton!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2021 12:26 PM (bDqIh)

65 Yeah we're all still breathlessly waiting for the endless demographic and statistical information about the election breakdowns, and the pundits discussing them.

Funny how none of that showed up after the election like always before huh?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 12:22 PM (KZzsI)

GOP: "We need to adjust our policies to appeal to traditionally Dem groups!"
Trump: "Ok, how about we stop allowing massive illegal immigration which drives down wages for poor workers, and stop shipping blue-collar jobs overseas to China."
GOP: "Preposterous! We could never do that. I'm sure that black voters will be happy to support us if we just get rid of that icky abortion plank in our platform!"

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 24, 2021 12:26 PM (jOcSX)

66 56

Smart too. Anyone who brags who smart they are or puts others down for not being smart enough is not smart.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 24, 2021 12:26 PM (y08AY)

67 The want to put all of us in a helmet cage and put a hungry rat in it.

Posted by: C 137 at February 24, 2021 12:26 PM (2DOZq)

68 56 Cue that Game of Thrones quote about how any man who has to tell you that he is king is no actual king.Or this: 'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.'- Margaret Thatcher
Posted by: pep at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (v16oJ)

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Power is an illusion. A shadow on a wall. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:27 PM (LvTSG)

69 62
it's The Big Lie (for the "greater good")
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 24, 2021 12:26 PM (NugC9)

The greater good.

~ People of Gloucestershire

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 12:27 PM (9mfKN)

70 All the lying wears people down. I KNOW the election was stolen... I've read the articles and looked at the statistics and read the Texas lawsuit. So I'm aware of a lot of the facts; but I KNOW because my gut tells me. And it tells me so because of how the so-called "winners" have been acting. Where, for example, are all the usual post-election analyses of voting demographics and patterns?? It's not there... no one wants to analyze the data because it flies in the face of their "perfect election" gaslighting. If they true and fairly won, they would delight in rubbing the proof in our face. Instead: Just push the narrative and insist you believe. It's like a religion...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 24, 2021 12:27 PM (pcsoT)

71 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:24 PM (LvTSG)

There is no "auto-ban" feature on the blog. There are two or three words that can't be used in comments, but that is it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2021 12:27 PM (Q9lwr)

72 It's important in any totalitarian state that the people be willing to repeat any lie, and they are expected to believe.

Posted by: brak at February 24, 2021 12:27 PM (cG+eD)

73 So has the other side ever given a reason how Biden surpassed the vote totals of the Milk Chocolate Messiah's so immensely? I avoid Big Media intensely, so I have never sought out the answer from them or the political taking head class.

Was it because suppressed voters no longer felt overly suppressed? A huge spike in 18-22 year olds who registered AND voted Dem? Naturalized citizens who all registered and voted Dem?

They should be forced to give me the answer to my (and others) simple question if they want my compliance.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 24, 2021 12:28 PM (ch6++)

74 Ellipses posted it yesterday or so, but imagine you're watching political happenings in another country. Cities burn over the summer leading up to an election, one side's rioters are free to murder and loot while their political opponents are thrown under the jail for self defense, the election happens and it's highly contested with open and obvious fraud and illegality occurring, states, cities, and courts change rules and refuse to hear cases, a car explodes and seems to change the momentum of the voting investigation, the new president takes office and is surrounded by troops and razor wire, the last president is immediately drug into court and destroyed, people who questioned the outcome of the election are sued, literal lists of supporters of the old president are compiled...

What happens next?

Posted by: Lysenko's Wonder Kulaks - Call your parents. And can blue cities be less black? at February 24, 2021 12:28 PM (Kt1w/)

75 Sullivan sounds legit crazy? Really??

*Recalls him going off the deep end investigating Sarah Palin's OBGYN records*

Yeah, off his meds crazy is SOP.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2021 12:28 PM (bDqIh)

76 Why Do Those Who Claim The Election Wasn't Rigged Require Us to Confirm That Claim For Them?

It's a power thing. By being forced to repeat the lie, you're demonstrating your subjugation to them.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 24, 2021 12:28 PM (y+09W)

77 71 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:24 PM (LvTSG)

There is no "auto-ban" feature on the blog. There are two or three words that can't be used in comments, but that is it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2021 12:27 PM (Q9lwr)

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The more you know.

*does rainbow between hands*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:28 PM (LvTSG)

78 11 Or is he worried that the "narrative" of the election is so fragile that it needs to be shored up?

This is a corollary to "you will be made to care."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (s2VJv)

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You will be made not only to say that 2 + 2 = 5 ... but to actually believe it, comrades! [h/t 1984]

Posted by: ShainS at February 24, 2021 12:28 PM (yngc4)

79 It's a conundrum. A veritable quandary.

Posted by: wth at February 24, 2021 12:28 PM (v0R5T)

80 Anyone who brags who smart they are or puts others down for not being smart enough is not smart.

The smarter you are, the dumber you feel that you are. Its like wisdom. As you grow and gain wisdom, all you learn is what a fool you are and how little you have learned.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 12:28 PM (KZzsI)

81 Ancient Self Willowing -

Two threads ago. I spent a whole 2 minutes composing this, so now you get to suffer for my art:

Gazing at Charles Oliver Cromwell
Suffered a personal bombshell
While he still hated the toff
In his bath could never scrub off
His terrible traitorous qualm's smell

You're welcome!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 24, 2021 12:28 PM (EERbD)

82 Methinks they doth protest too much.
Vehement and vociferous demands that others agree with their view usually indicates that their view is not backed up by facts or they are very weak.
Otherwise as ace says; why bother.
Winners do not have to proclaim themselves winners.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2021 12:28 PM (z96ye)

83 If they true and fairly won, they would delight in
rubbing the proof in our face. Instead: Just push the narrative and
insist you believe. It's like a religion...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 24, 2021 12:27 PM (pcsoT)

They have shown zero proof of legitimacy.

Posted by: 4 at February 24, 2021 12:29 PM (KnJdm)

84 It's a power thing. By being forced to repeat the lie, you're demonstrating your subjugation to them.
But what if you're one of those people for whom the shame is part of the kink?

Posted by: pep at February 24, 2021 12:29 PM (v16oJ)

85 Obama once punched a Nazi. Now you can too!

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2021 12:29 PM (lETtf)

86 Trump Won.

You don't win all but one 1 out of 19 pivot counties and lose the electoral college.

I think part of the push that it's all a "Big Lie" is that they're insecure in their belief and in other part that some know Joe had it stolen for him and have to push back to keep an cloud of illegitimacy from overcasting the admin.

Posted by: Serious Cat at February 24, 2021 12:29 PM (700n7)

87 On Outnumbered-
Ex-Cuomo Aide accuses Cuomo of sexual harassment. He wanted to play strip poker and showed her a cigar box given to him by Bill Clinton and made sexual innuendos about it.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2021 12:29 PM (NpAcC)

88 Twatter suspending Crowder for his video post of the "non address" votes is part of a daily tell from the leftist big tech. If Biden won by historic numbers, they'd just be laughing at us. Instead, we either kneel or are purged from public discourse.

I'm starting to believe Mike Lindell's assertion that Trump won by over 100M votes. These guys are scared to death. Mitch? We're coming for you, you goiter necked cyst.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at February 24, 2021 12:30 PM (46GDR)

89 All I need to see is that damn usb stick

Posted by: Jean at February 24, 2021 12:30 PM (Xih1H)

90 Same reason you've got to call that bearded dude in a dress "ma'am"
Posted by: Lysenko's Wonder Kulaks

Exactly.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at February 24, 2021 12:30 PM (OssQ4)

91 If you have small children and live in a blue state or city?
MOVE. NOW.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2021 12:30 PM (z96ye)

92

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 24, 2021 12:30 PM (K2SnJ)

93 Anyone with an Intarwebz connection-tube and two functioning brain cells to rub together knows that the election was stolen. I'm not about to say it wasn't when the evidence is out there for all to see and for the Demoprogs to ignore. Hell, even my leftarded neighbor lady axed me if I "believed" the election was stolen. I replied "You sound as though you're asking me if I believe in the Tooth Fairy." She didn't like that because she's a big Puddinhead O'Biden supporter.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at February 24, 2021 12:30 PM (HaL55)

94 I see ONE finger.

Posted by: Winston Salem at February 24, 2021 12:30 PM (63Dwl)

95 If they true and fairly won, they would delight in
rubbing the proof in our face.

That's why I feel sort of sad for the trolls. They are so dumb, ignorant, and foolish that they honestly think Trump was defeated. They really think its true and come here to crow about it. All that ends up looking is pathetic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 12:30 PM (KZzsI)

96 auto-da-fé

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM (vJCwr)

97 Sullivan is as dementia'd as Joe.

the 2020 election was looted

Posted by: x4 at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM (oA+QO)

98 There is no "auto-ban" feature on the blog. There are two or three words that can't be used in comments, but that is it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2021 12:27 PM (Q9lwr)

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"Argh! He said that word! Aaaaargh, stop saying it! Wait, now I said it! Aaaargh, now I said it again! AAAARGH!!"

- The Knight Who No Longer Says "Ni!"

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM (dfRN6)

99 87 On Outnumbered-
Ex-Cuomo Aide accuses Cuomo of sexual harassment. He wanted to play strip poker and showed her a cigar box given to him by Bill Clinton and made sexual innuendos about it.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2021 12:29 PM (NpAcC)

That is the kind of dumb poop that only happens in movies. Or should only happen in movies. Imagine somehow thinking that would be a smooth-move.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM (9mfKN)

100 What happens next?

Posted by: Lysenko's Wonder Kulaks - Call your parents. And can blue
cities be less black? at February 24, 2021 12:28 PM (Kt1w/)

If they are not sufficiently affluent, they start *types* *deletes*.

Posted by: 4 at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM (KnJdm)

101 Yup - the cheese is off his cracker:

@sullydish

Extinction level event. No democracy can survive this level of delegitimization by one major party.

Welcome to 2017, pal!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM (bDqIh)

102 The difference between right wing conspiracy theories and leftwing conspiracy theories is this. FNM will air the kookiest RW theory version to mock it. FNM pushes the LW conspiracy theory (Jan 6 demonstration was an insurrection, with MAGA peeps planning to kidnap congress critters) as factual narratives.

Journalism schools should be abolished. Forbid networks from paying someone to talk about science unless they at least have a B.of S. Forbid them from talking about politics unless they have a law degree. Thats a pretty low bar. Actually I don't want the corrupted DS to make rules on this. I just want viewers to point and laugh at idiots spouting nonsense.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM (Aashi)

103
... and the difference between all this and the "Clap your hands if you believe in faeries!" plea in "Peter Pan" is what, exactly?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM (pNxlR)

104 The Crowder video gave the path to prove voter fraud: get the voter lists and prove a vast number of the voters are phantom voters. If Ronna "Useless" Romney wasn't a hand-maiden for Mitch, that's what she would be doing.

Posted by: EveR at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM (R0z7P)

105 68 56 Cue that Game of Thrones quote about how any man who has to tell you that he is king is no actual king.Or this: 'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.'- Margaret Thatcher
Posted by: pep at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (v16oJ)

==========

Power is an illusion. A shadow on a wall. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:27 PM (LvTSG)

You know what does equal power? Power. Power equals power. Crazy, huh? But the type of power? Doesn't matter as much as you'd think. It turns out, everything is oddly balanced.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM (Zm+LZ)

106 Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM (LvTSG)

107 C'mon Ace, be reasonable, Sullivan just wanted to perform a gynecological exam on Palin in the name of SCIENCE. Besides, we should celebrate the kind of unparalleled diversity represented by a gay man who is so keenly interested in pussy.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM (H5knJ)

108 @87

I don't know who or what turned the switch on Cuomo, but it's been turned.

Which is a fascinating illustration of how Game of Thrones works.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM (73NTg)

109 They are insecure for a good reason, acting like 8 year olds caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
If I were them I would never have a good night's sleep, ever again. Such is the scope of their perfidy.

Posted by: navybrat, semper paratus at February 24, 2021 12:32 PM (w7KSn)

110 "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."--George Orwell, "1984"

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at February 24, 2021 12:32 PM (Ndje9)

111 The accusers name is Lindsey Boylan.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2021 12:32 PM (NpAcC)

112 Is this part of the power thing? To make regular people believe that 2+2=5, that they believe the most unbelievable things so they are continually off balance and easier to control?

Or is that giving the would-be puppet masters too much credit?

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone GAF. Talking to myself until I talk to nobody. at February 24, 2021 12:32 PM (Ve//x)

113 >>>
The 2020 Election Was Brave, Stunning, and Beautiful. Don't You Agree, Election-o-phobe?

hah, that's it!

Posted by: Kristen Powers, at the top of the progressive stack, ma! at February 24, 2021 12:32 PM (5+1A/)

114 Of all states why did the NYT pick Georgia to highlight on election night? They showed three states only. Georgia wouldn't even be in the top 10 to show. Unless they knew something. They knew.

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2021 12:32 PM (lETtf)

115 I'm starting to believe Mike Lindell's assertion that Trump won by over 100M votes.

Consider how many votes they flipped from Trump to Biden to pump that count up. Trump won by a huge landslide, which I figured he would, if he won at all. The fraud was jaw dropping, so much so that human minds start to rewrite history because it can't be believed things really went that blatantly and shockingly obvious.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 12:32 PM (KZzsI)

116 You'll think what we tell you to think!

Posted by: Mrs. & Mr. Mika at February 24, 2021 12:32 PM (DMUuz)

117 I think Anton hits part of it - but not all of it. Yes - he's right - for some, this outrage is a tactical move, designed to end the discussion and move on, because they see no advantage from any honest examination of just how shady the 2020 Election counts went down.
For others, I think it's more complicated. The shrillness of their reactions contain quite a bit of desperation. It's the same kind of response that some put off here whenever secession is discussed - and I think the two groups share something in common. A true, gut wrenching fear of the unknown. Both cohorts desire to maintain the status quo - no matter how illegitimate it's proven to be - rather than risk the resulting outcome being worse.
Said simpler - as long as there's still some items on the store shelves that they can trade currency for - neither group wants to hear any talk about stolen elections or dissolving governments. They just want to trade their cash for bread. And they'd really prefer it if we kept any comments about the Weimar Republic, Banana Republics, or failing Republics to ourselves.

Posted by: Nutbush City Limits at February 24, 2021 12:32 PM (NWyC0)

118 I've coined a new term for those defending the election: "fraud deniers."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

I wish this rhetoric would become standard.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at February 24, 2021 12:33 PM (OssQ4)

119 It's truly bizarre that what people think about the election is so important. One must be forced to agree. So when do they break out the thumb screws and the rack?

Posted by: Northern lurker at February 24, 2021 12:33 PM (lgiXo)

120 >You must send me pictures of your clean bunghole, to prove to me that you wiped!
Posted by: A. Sullivan, Truther at February 24, 2021 12:24 PM (XItA/)

I swear to you, I just saw an ad on Reddit this morning that had a Wojack that was wearing a t-shirt that said something like "ASK ME ABOUT MY CLEAN BUTTHOLE". I think it was trying to sell a bidet, but honestly I scrolled by in horror pretty quickly.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 24, 2021 12:33 PM (DXFDM)

121 "Argh! He said that word! Aaaaargh, stop saying it! Wait, now I said it! Aaaargh, now I said it again! AAAARGH!!"

- The Knight Who No Longer Says "Ni!"

- -

And STOP SAYING JEHOVAH!!!

OW! Who hit me?!

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone GAF. Talking to myself until I talk to nobody. at February 24, 2021 12:33 PM (Ve//x)

122 It also ends any debate about undoing all of the 2020 election tweaks slipped in by the Democrats.

If you can't allege election fraud, then you have no arguement against, say, national mail-in voting forever.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2021 12:34 PM (bDqIh)

123 I don't remember PDT ever conceding. Did he, ever ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 24, 2021 12:34 PM (AKJpt)

124 Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at February 24, 2021 12:30 PM (46GDR)
Those are what are called "wattles".

Goiters are much bigger a bit higher and obvious they are not neck skin.
If you ever seen one you'll understand. Goiters were prevalent in my neighborhood until the war when better nutrition advice filtered down from the military thus iodized salt which pretty much has done away with the condition except for out right ignorance.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2021 12:34 PM (z96ye)

125 Remember, this is the same guy that claimed that Sarah Palin was wearing a fake pregnancy suit to cover up the real pregnancy in the family.

Yeah, Sullivan is not as smart as a box of rubber bands.

Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2021 12:34 PM (88xKn)

126 I'm starting to believe Mike Lindell's assertion that Trump won by over 100M votes.

Consider how many votes they flipped from Trump to Biden to pump that count up. Trump won by a huge landslide, which I figured he would, if he won at all. The fraud was jaw dropping, so much so that human minds start to rewrite history because it can't be believed things really went that blatantly and shockingly obvious.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 12:32 PM (KZzsI)

**

The masks were part of it. It's easy to see how it was all connected. Make people believe masks work. Force it. Push it everywhere. Masks masks masks. Masks work. Masks.

Biden won.

Posted by: Lysenko's Wonder Kulaks - Call your parents. And can blue cities be less black? at February 24, 2021 12:34 PM (Kt1w/)

127 J J Sefton highlighted the money quote in the article in the Morning Report:

"The purpose of voting today is to give a democratic veneer to an undemocratic regime --not to give the people a say in the direction of their government."

Posted by: Wethal at February 24, 2021 12:34 PM (ZzVCK)

128 Excitable Andy was the David French of the last decade.

I had almost stopped thinking of him at all.

Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at February 24, 2021 12:34 PM (6uwIl)

129 "In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at February 24, 2021 12:34 PM (Ndje9)

130 Because it's not enough to be an independent adult will full freedom of will and action. You have to make Daddy see he was wrong!!!

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 24, 2021 12:35 PM (Wm5SB)

131 123 I don't remember PDT ever conceding. Did he, ever ?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 24, 2021 12:34 PM (AKJpt)

I mean, neither did Hilary.

*shrug*

There may or may not be a point to this post. I am leaning toward not a point....

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 12:35 PM (9mfKN)

132 The smarter you are, the dumber you feel that you are. Its like wisdom. As you grow and gain wisdom, all you learn is what a fool you are and how little you have learned.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 12:28 PM (KZzsI)

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"The more I know, the less I understand ...
All the things I thought I'd figured out, I have to learn again."

Of course, Knowledge =/= Wisdom as our modern-day "elite" so aptly demonstrate on a daily basis.

Posted by: ShainS at February 24, 2021 12:35 PM (yngc4)

133 What's stupid is if they just got on with it, as the R's did in 2000, all but the most hardcore fringe partisan types would quickly forget. But by constantly drawing attention to it they remind the public of their own insecure venality.

Posted by: CppThis at February 24, 2021 12:35 PM (zcf1k)

134 The Truth is the enemy and Facts are a menace...

Posted by: TryHardNeckBeard at February 24, 2021 12:35 PM (ergrq)

135 My tiny part of North Texas is creeping back to normal. Took my 8 yr old to little league practice Monday and Tuesday and there were no masks in attendance nor was anything mentioned about GD masks on any communication. Now just waiting for the frikkin boy scouts troop and cub scout pack to catch up.

Posted by: Mishdog at February 24, 2021 12:36 PM (cqAUI)

136 I'm starting to believe Mike Lindell's assertion that Trump won by over 100M votes.

I think these kind of assertions are why we will over time lose the PR war over what happened this election.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 24, 2021 12:36 PM (H5knJ)

137 I think everyone everywhere since the last election knows that it's on shaky grounds at best.

If they were confident, they've would've thrown open the doors and said check-away!!!

Had their own people there had Trump's people there, and then would've laughed at and mocked Trump mercilessly for the next 20 years. He'd be dead as a future political force.

Bu-u-u-t, no. They locked everything up, hid the ballots to prevent a recount and verification of the results. Threatened, etc. Blocked legal remedies. Established a30,000 man Pretorian Guard Preezy Senile. And are literally now trying to ruin and/or kill Trump.

No, even if they had won the 2020 election 100% legitimately, and I suppose it's possible, every single thing that they're doing makes it look like they 100% cheated and defrauded the American voting public.

Stupid really. Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 24, 2021 12:36 PM (EERbD)

138 The Left needs to legitimize the illegitimate election so that they can do it again in 2022 without any questions or pre-watch. What will be their excuse for not allowing observers within 30 feet next time? To tell you the truth, doesn't matter, I don't even know why they pretend to count, just throw out a number and the sheep and courts will follow.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 24, 2021 12:36 PM (r+sAi)

139 Have these idiots completely forgotten all the shrieking and wailing and resisting the left did for four years?

Posted by: Northern lurker at February 24, 2021 12:36 PM (lgiXo)

140
Do my eyes deceive me, or are the wokeful now going for the scalp of the ~~poor victim~~ blessed recipient of Senator Cory Booker's fierce heterosexuality, Rosario Dawson? Will he not be her shield and mighty sword arm?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 24, 2021 12:36 PM (pNxlR)

141 Seems to me any state legislature revising voting laws to introduce integrity should start by looking at the state's banking laws, to understand see how integrity in the eyes and pocketbooks of the citizens is established in that arena. Adapt the banking integrity features to the voting system. I believe that would get rid of Dominion-type proprietary systems for starters.

Posted by: Gref at February 24, 2021 12:36 PM (AMIL/)

142 I like how he highlights the overuse of "Our Democracy!TM"
I would take it further: aside from the (deliberate) obfuscation of our republic with a democracy, there is the deliberate process of making people hear a "Big D" in every "small d" context. By endless repetition of "democracy", and "democratic" coupled with "ideals", "traditions", "values", it cements for the proles used to a diet of media both corporate and social that the only ideals, traditions, values in the country are somehow rightfully Democrat ones.

Posted by: barbarausa at February 24, 2021 12:37 PM (W7IZQ)

143 I think my response to this stuff is going to be "who won the 2018 Georgia governors race?"

Posted by: Buzzion at February 24, 2021 12:37 PM (Pyr3S)

144 139 Have these idiots completely forgotten all the shrieking and wailing and resisting the left did for four years?
Posted by: Northern lurker at February 24, 2021 12:36 PM (lgiXo)

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That was fine because Trump really did steal that election by sharing polling information with someone in Russia once.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:37 PM (LvTSG)

145 The Gif of Christ on the cross is extremely offensive always and even more so when it is posted during Lent. I would expect to see something like that posted by a rabid Democrat, not by Ace or his fellows.

Please remove that image Ace. If it stays up I have to choose between this website or Christ and that is no contest.

Thank you.

Posted by: Josh at February 24, 2021 12:37 PM (ZYbKo)

146 "The reason the establishment doesn't care to hide the iron fist anymore is they've bet the farm. They're all in. This makes them extraordinarily vulnerable to any challenge they can't suppress with groupthink, like a new pandemic, foreign policy crisis, economic meltdown or disaster. They are not in control but they think they are."--Wretchard

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at February 24, 2021 12:37 PM (Ndje9)

147 Biden cancels Trump's 'Operation Talon' Program that Targeted Sex Offenders Living in U.S. Illegally

https://bit.ly/2ZKU1EL

More proof Dems are pedophiles.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2021 12:37 PM (Z+JNA)

148 Like being forced to recite some mentally ill person's preferred pronouns, many times completely made-up words. You must comply with their falsities and frauds and assert their legitimacies. Or else.

Posted by: Lady in Black - GODSPEED Rush Limbaugh at February 24, 2021 12:37 PM (O+I8R)

149 Your thoughts are dangerous.

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (lETtf)

150 auto-da-f(black diamond)
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM

Auto-da-fuq?

Pretty much my reaction to all news outlets these days.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (zExdh)

151 My oil stocks are up bigly this week.

Posted by: YAS! at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (CrsmZ)

152 All of the facts stated are accurate, however your claims are hereby declared discredited.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (OskcI)

153 Your thoughts are literal murder.

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (lETtf)

154 What will be their excuse for not allowing observers within 30 feet next time?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

Guy, next time they won't even bother with an excuse.

If they really feel the need to scrounge up one; Sunspots, air pressure, the dog ate it, was that wrong?, etc.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (Rvt88)

155 151 My oil stocks are up bigly this week.
Posted by: YAS! at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (CrsmZ)

Curiously they're still lagging their normal relation to oil prices a good bit.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (Zm+LZ)

156

Biden was not lawfully elected and was installed only as a result of fraud.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021)

Milky Loads Andy is correct in asserting that the election was "lawful," but that is a far cry from legitimate or honest.

The ballots for Biden surreptitiously received and counted in the dark were real, official, and legitimate ballots when they were mailed out. The processes used to accept the ballots did not include signature verification, and those envelopes were destroyed, making any checking impossible. This was also "lawful" under the system in place.

Anton is correct in viewing the inauguration as legal and properly conducted according to the system in place, while at the same time being wholly founded on a fraud, but a legal, verified and proper type of fraud.

These are really two people talking past one another.

Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (SFOr6)

157 >>The Crowder video gave the path to prove voter fraud: get the voter lists and prove a vast number of the voters are phantom voters. If Ronna "Useless" Romney wasn't a hand-maiden for Mitch, that's what she would be doing.

Yup. He also encouraged others to pick off where his team left off.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (bDqIh)

158 Elections are well and truly over.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (nakwk)

159 My oil stocks are up bigly this week.
Posted by: YAS! at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (CrsmZ)

Same here. I wish I'd trusted my gut to buy more a few months ago.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (jOcSX)

160 The Navarro report is scathing.
The number of credible witnesses (that were not afraid to come forward, including the dominion techie and the truck driver) is astounding.
And the footage, all of it, including this one

Exclusive: The TCF Center Election Fraud -- Newly Discovered Video Shows Late Night Deliveries of Tens of Thousands of Illegal Ballots 8 Hours After Deadline
https://tinyurl.com/ck876pkk

are absolute proof.

They can gaslight me all they want. We all know Trump won.

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (bbdhK)

161 The other thing that's infuriating about the GOPe Ostrich in the sand stance on election fraud, is that DeSantis*, Scott and Kemp had to beat back efforts to steal their elections.

Also the Donks "vote harvested" every GOP rep in Orange County out of their seats.

Bottom line, the GOP is an illegitimate political party, they don't even care about maintaining power in even a relative manner.

* Not saying Kemp is GOPe just that they tried to steal his election.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2021 12:39 PM (73NTg)

162
Out: Question Authority
In: Do Not Question Authority

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2021 12:39 PM (lETtf)

163 The Inquisition was a bad, terrible, no good thing--the most evilest time ever until Democrats take their shot at it.

Posted by: Northern lurker at February 24, 2021 12:39 PM (lgiXo)

164 It is weird, how intent the lefties are that we acknowledge the election was fair.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (aSGq2)

That's why it's so important that Sidney Powell and the My Pillow guy don't knuckle under to Dominion's dogshit lawsuits. I know some of the cobs, and maybe even ace, are buds with the American Thinker guy but he's in the wrong line of work by not having taken steps to preclude issuing groveling apologies to those crooked bastards.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 24, 2021 12:39 PM (y7DUB)

165 My employer is keeping us all safe by continuing >= 15% office occupancy through June. I like working from home and will insist on 80% from home when/if they ever get over the germ paranoia, but sheesh.

In the meantime they apparently were not capable of having a decent HA system for our authentications to log into the processing computers and going on 4 hours outage for that. But, while they haven't made infrastructure extra reliable they have a dedicated DIE/DEI staff member encouraging everyone to fixate on any slight that might have been due to some ism.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at February 24, 2021 12:39 PM (Aashi)

166 This is a very good point. I would never insist on people stating that gravity exists.

Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at February 24, 2021 12:40 PM (FWn1L)

167
The Gif of Christ on the cross is extremely offensive always and even more so when it is posted during Lent. I would expect to see something like that posted by a rabid Democrat, not by Ace or his fellows.

Please remove that image Ace. If it stays up I have to choose between this website or Christ and that is no contest.

Thank you.
Posted by: Josh

Fuckoff.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 24, 2021 12:40 PM (NugC9)

168 I don't remember PDT ever conceding. Did he, ever ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 24, 2021 12:34 PM (AKJpt)

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No: "America will never be a socialist country."

Yes: "We will have a peaceful transition [to communism]."

Posted by: ShainS at February 24, 2021 12:40 PM (etE+3)

169 Shouldn't "gobsmacked" be on the advisory?

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 24, 2021 12:40 PM (nakwk)

170 Arghh. I meant to put in the less than symbol not the greater than. Way to make my rant meaningless.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at February 24, 2021 12:40 PM (Aashi)

171 FEDERAL INDEPENDENCE 115 GR FMJ 9MM AMMUNITION 1000 ROUNDS; $720; https://bit.ly/37LTiaJ

Posted by: bonhomme at February 24, 2021 12:40 PM (YYlyE)

172 Curiously they're still lagging their normal relation to oil prices a good bit.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 24, 2021 12:38

Unfortunately yes.

Posted by: YAS! at February 24, 2021 12:40 PM (CrsmZ)

173 Then came two other data points, which I noticed only after the first draft this essay had been completed. Ramesh Ponnuru snarked (snark seems to be the go-to, indeed the only, device his in literary quiver)
------------------
Lots of people have this snark-centric nature now.

This is an example of the Twitterization of life.

Posted by: zmdavid at February 24, 2021 12:40 PM (xqRaG)

174 The number of credible witnesses (that were not afraid to come forward, including the dominion techie and the truck driver) is astounding.

Yeah there were hundreds of affidavits filed, hundreds of eyewitnesses and whistle blowers. And ignored. Almost all the cases brought to court, judges simply refused to hear because they're all in on the steal

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 12:40 PM (KZzsI)

175
The Gif of Christ on the cross is extremely offensive always and even more so when it is posted during Lent. I would expect to see something like that posted by a rabid Democrat, not by Ace or his fellows.

Please remove that image Ace. If it stays up I have to choose between this website or Christ and that is no contest.

Thank you.
Posted by: Josh

And during fake black history month, too!

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 24, 2021 12:40 PM (NugC9)

176
For the left every ME dust up can only be solved by a two-state solution, and every economic problem requires raising the minimum wage. For the right every foreign policy is based around free trade with dictatorships and continual US deployments to keep the current status quo from collapsing.

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My read?

For the Left, every policy is a reflection of their reflexive hatred of this country, and no matter what, they pick whatever will cause the most misery for us.

For the Fake Right (actually center-left), every policy is a reflection of their reflexive greed, and no matter what, the pick whatever will most benefit the donors who keep them shitting in high cotton.

YMMV.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 12:41 PM (0WKYs)

177 Don't they understand that if they make voting worthless, people will have to resort to other means to effect their defense from the government.

When you make peaceful revolution impossible,
you make violent revolution inevitable.

Guess who said that.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2021 12:41 PM (z96ye)

178

Josh is obviously new to the HQ. Fuck off, Josh. It's Andrew Sullivan on the cross. Get over it.

Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 12:41 PM (SFOr6)

179

Why the never ending impeachment of Trump?
Because he won.

Why the never ending witch hunt to destroy Trump?
Because he won and would win again.

Why try to ad a clause or force two impeachments to try to stop Trump from running again?
Because he won and would win again.

They are so afraid they are p'ing themselves daily.

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2021 12:41 PM (bbdhK)

180 Biden's gaffes and dementia continue a pace. Can't get through one session via video and teleprompter without F'ing it up. He may have said the "N" word the other day right in the middle of a sentence. It will get to the point where his media beards will have a really hard time covering up his failing health and mental state.

Posted by: Cheri at February 24, 2021 12:41 PM (oiNtH)

181 Because getting you to go along with the lie means they have power over you.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 24, 2021 12:41 PM (j3npP)

182 Down off that cross, Josh. We need the wood.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 24, 2021 12:41 PM (nakwk)

183 wasn't this dude's gay trawl-name 'Milky Glutes' or something to that effect

Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at February 24, 2021 12:41 PM (uS2EJ)

184 IIRC Biden "won" by 43,000 votes.

Posted by: Lysenko's Wonder Kulaks - Call your parents. And can blue cities be less black? at February 24, 2021 12:42 PM (Kt1w/)

185 Josh, if you think that's bad you should see the Chess Thread!

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone GAF. Talking to myself until I talk to nobody. at February 24, 2021 12:42 PM (Ve//x)

186 I remember a time when I somewhat liked when Sullivan had to say.

Posted by: Northern lurker at February 24, 2021 12:42 PM (lgiXo)

187

When is the State of the Union address?

Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 12:42 PM (SFOr6)

188 "...judges simply refused to hear because they're all in on the steal"

Which is why they should never again enjoy a pleasant day or a restful night.
Notice the restraint I have exercised there...

Posted by: navybrat, semper paratus at February 24, 2021 12:42 PM (w7KSn)

189 >>Lots of people have this snark-centric nature now.

This is an example of the Twitterization of life.

Started with Jon Stewart and The Daily Show.
No argument, just make a face, hand gesture or snark in response and have your friends clap.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2021 12:42 PM (bDqIh)

190 Yeah there were hundreds of affidavits filed, hundreds of eyewitnesses and whistle blowers. And ignored. Almost all the cases brought to court, judges simply refused to hear because they're all in on the steal
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 12:40 PM (KZzsI)
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I hope they're simply ignored and not retaliated against.

Posted by: zmdavid at February 24, 2021 12:42 PM (xqRaG)

191 "The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world."--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at February 24, 2021 12:42 PM (Ndje9)

192 It is 100% a lie. I am not a dummy and I will go to my grave knowing that. Many fairly to very successful, otherwise mainstream people I know well enough to share secrets have acknowledged the same to me.

The only real debate among anyone with a light on upstairs, though unspoken, is whether the rigging of the election was a good thing.

And if you believe the rigging of the election was a good thing, you must vehemently argue against it for two reasons: 1) to show you are one of the "good guys" and part of the educated technocracy, and 2) to avoid letting the mask slip in front of the dummies/non-technocrats.

Anyone who truly believes in their heart that this was a well-executed election that Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Minnesota managed fairly and legally is an imbecile. But it is hard to tell that camp apart from the in-their-own-mind-well-intentioned liars.

Posted by: Turnout Man at February 24, 2021 12:43 PM (7CyhL)

193 imp

Don't know or care.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 24, 2021 12:43 PM (u82oZ)

194 If they really feel the need to scrounge up one; Sunspots, air pressure, the dog ate it, was that wrong?, etc.

superconductivity, incipient stalls, the writings of Rick Riordan?, etc.

Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at February 24, 2021 12:43 PM (FWn1L)

195 It's gaslighting all the way down.

Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2021 12:43 PM (Ef23Y)

196 "Russia hack the 2016 election to make Trump win!"
- the Left

"Trump destroyed this country's institutions!"
- the Left

"The 2020 elections were the safest and most ironclad elections in the history of forever!"
- also the Left

Posted by: Azathoth at February 24, 2021 12:43 PM (8Uzxt)

197 Redridinghood. I refuse to watch Fox. What they did election night to the country is unforgivable. They were in on stealing the election and trying to assuage that by putting what few conservatives they allow to remain in employ in a scripted show with rules about whose name can be said and what subjects can be discussed to what length is not better but part of the continuing ruse by Fox to siphon viewers from OANN and Newsmax while following the Dems new rules outlined in the recent committee letter to media.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 24, 2021 12:43 PM (B94oO)

198 I'll make a prediction. The dems will win more seats in the senate and will expand their majority in the house.

This plan has already been set into motion.

Posted by: Justsayin' at February 24, 2021 12:43 PM (Fs5vw)

199 I miss when Andy Sullivan was this site's whipping boy. Good times, good times.

I guess that he and his spirochetes aren't even relevant anymore.

My concern level remains at Taupe.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2021 12:43 PM (yQpMk)

200 Josh is a member of the David French branch of the "Christian" church.I'd like to see French define Christianity. Be interesting to see and we'd also then have something to smack him with when he starts claiming he speaks for them.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2021 12:43 PM (z96ye)

201 My oil stocks are up bigly this week.
Posted by: YAS! at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (CrsmZ)

Curiously they're still lagging their normal relation to oil prices a good bit.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 24, 2021 12:38 PM (Zm+LZ)

I think this is future prospect buying. Biden insane energy policies, esp, the upcoming stuff, guarantees that we'll be paying a premuim for "other countries" oil when the green crap fails miserably, which it will.

In the meantime, my tech stocks are being murdered in broad daylight(!).

Posted by: naturalfake at February 24, 2021 12:43 PM (EERbD)

202 I pledge allegiance
To the flag
And the legitimacy of the 2020 election
And to the Biden
For whom was elected
One nation
Under Joe
With justice
And equality
For all

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2021 12:43 PM (OskcI)

203 Now just waiting for the frikkin boy scouts troop and cub scout pack to catch up.

Posted by: Mishdog at February 24, 2021 12:36 PM (cqAUI)

They are a beat-down, pussified org, sorry to say. We are through after this year.

Posted by: 4 at February 24, 2021 12:43 PM (KnJdm)

204 Out: Question Authority
In: Do Not Question Authority

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2021 12:39 PM (lETtf)

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Out: Dissent is Patriotic!
In: Dissent is Insurrectionist and Domestic Terrorism!

Posted by: ShainS at February 24, 2021 12:44 PM (yngc4)

205 (When I said "vehemently argue against it" I meant: convince others of the legitimacy, which is only proven to the advocate by the oath of their target in joining the conspiracy.)

Posted by: Turnout Man at February 24, 2021 12:45 PM (7CyhL)

206 When do the left, the GOPe and the media start taking conservatives to prison to force them to recant their concerns about the election and perhaps step on a picture of Donald Trump?

Posted by: Northern lurker at February 24, 2021 12:45 PM (lgiXo)

207 Has Andrew Sullivan stopped talking about Sarah Palin's uterus? Or does he still froth about that occasionally?

Posted by: pst314 at February 24, 2021 12:45 PM (mbIBQ)

208 Started with Jon Stewart and The Daily Show.
No argument, just make a face, hand gesture or snark in response and have your friends clap.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2021 12:42 PM (bDqIh)

I'll never forgive that sawed off cocksucker for giving that numbnuts Colbert media exposure.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 24, 2021 12:45 PM (y7DUB)

209 When is the State of the Union address?
Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 12:42 PM

From time to time.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2021 12:45 PM (zExdh)

210

Josh obviously has this bookmark confused with the Anchoress or some shit. This is AOS, man. We've moved ace away from being reflexive anti-religion (which was probably a reaction to the moral majority grifter assholes in the 1980s/1990s), but we're not going to get any further.

Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 12:45 PM (SFOr6)

211 That cartoon is exactly how i picture Ace.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2021 12:45 PM (OskcI)

212
Is David French or Erick Erickson donning a "Josh Delecto" sock to post on the HQ, now?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 12:45 PM (0WKYs)

213 Why does a god need a starship?

Posted by: banana Dream at February 24, 2021 12:46 PM (4tN2f)

214
Please remove that image Ace. If it stays up I have to choose between this website or Christ and that is no contest.

Thank you.
Posted by: Josh

No, you would have chosen already, you True Believer, you. You didn't give up virtue signaling for Lent, I see.

Bye ... putz!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 24, 2021 12:46 PM (pNxlR)

215 Lots of people have this snark-centric nature now.

This is an example of the Twitterization of life.

Started with Jon Stewart and The Daily Show.
No argument, just make a face, hand gesture or snark in response and have your friends clap.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2021 12:42 PM (bDqIh)

Yup. If there are future historians, they will be able to chart the slide of this country's demise pretty precisely.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 24, 2021 12:46 PM (ifmtJ)

216 Long commodities.

Posted by: ShainS at February 24, 2021 12:46 PM (yngc4)

217 When is the State of the Union address?
Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 12:42 PM

As soon as Joey can find Union on the map.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2021 12:46 PM (axyOa)

218 A correspondent who listened to the Andrew Sullivan podcast tells me that Sullivan is so frothingly committed to his fantasies that he sounds legitimately mentally ill.

Andrew Sullivan Freakout Advisory level: Elevate----

Well we all knew that about him already. There's a reason. The first Corgi Migration was lgf readers making a home here because he was clearly nuts.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 24, 2021 12:46 PM (z79tQ)

219 Cory Booker's beard deserves exactly as much support as she lent to Gina Carano.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 24, 2021 12:46 PM (DXFDM)

220 The Gif of Christ on the cross is extremely offensive always and even more so when it is posted during Lent.

So if he waits until after Easter to post it, you'll be *less* offended?

Ok, sure.

Like then you'll only have to choose between your Everlasting Savior and the Sunday Book Thread?

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 24, 2021 12:46 PM (X1Iup)

221 213 Why does a god need a starship?
Posted by: banana Dream at February 24, 2021 12:46 PM (4tN2f)

Because he built this city on rock and roll?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 24, 2021 12:47 PM (ifmtJ)

222 Ace, if there isn't more busty lesbian porn posted soon I'm going to have to move on to another site.

Posted by: Lysenko's Wonder Kulaks - Call your parents. And can blue cities be less black? at February 24, 2021 12:47 PM (Kt1w/)

223 When is the State of the Union address?
Posted by: imp

The state of the union address will also be false and non-existent.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2021 12:47 PM (Rvt88)

224

imp

Don't know or care.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

No, my point was that there isn't going to be one, since they can't trust Biden to talk for more than 10 minutes at any given stretch.

Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 12:47 PM (SFOr6)

225 Josh. You must be here by mistake.

Go back to instagram.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2021 12:47 PM (z96ye)

226 >>I'd like to see French define Christianity. Be interesting to see and we'd also then have something to smack him with when he starts claiming he speaks for them.

He kinda did by default by defining "Christian nationalism" (Christianity is not that).

Go to this moning;s EMT and there's a link to a Federalist piece on Christian nationalism -- the author used French's definition as her starting point.

*spoiler alert: it probably exactly what you'd expect it to be

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2021 12:47 PM (bDqIh)

227 Please remove that image Ace. If it stays up I have to choose between this website or Christ and that is no contest.

Thank you.
Posted by: Josh at February 24, 2021 12:37 PM (ZYbKo)

It wasn't just Christ who was crucified.

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2021 12:47 PM (bbdhK)

228 157 Lizzy

Wish someone could organize and crowdsource a voter fraud task force of folks who would like to make a difference. I think there would be plenty of volunteers, but there would need to be an administrator in order not to replicate actions, plus provide link to lists.

Posted by: EveR at February 24, 2021 12:47 PM (R0z7P)

229 OK, it appears I'm wrong, and Andrew Sullivan is totally still alive. Wow. I hadn't heard anything of him in years, and people like him don't clam up til they're dead, so I figured the terminal suckitis finally got him.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 12:47 PM (0WKYs)

230 227 It wasn't just Christ who was crucified.

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2021 12:47 PM (bbdhK)

=========

I am Spartacus!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 12:48 PM (LvTSG)

231 @JackPosobiec

BREAKING: Steve Scalise is entering the FBI report showing that the shooter who tried to assassinate him was an MSNBC viewer who deeply believe Republicans were Russian agents

https://tinyurl.com/y72zfdxt

Posted by: Tami at February 24, 2021 12:48 PM (cF8AT)

232 Yup. If there are future historians, they will be able to chart the slide of this country's demise pretty precisely.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 24, 2021 12:46 PM (ifmtJ)

If the current trajectory continues, there will be no future historians.
Emoji's will tell our story.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 24, 2021 12:48 PM (z79tQ)

233 It's not even Christ's body on the cross. That's either Jim Caviezal or Willem Dafoe I assume.

Posted by: Buzzion at February 24, 2021 12:48 PM (Pyr3S)

234 Please remove that image Ace. If it stays up I have to choose between this website or Christ and that is no contest.

Thank you.

--

Hmmm. A pre-flounce?

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2021 12:48 PM (Rvt88)

235 What was the name of Sullivan's old blog? Was it something like The Daily Buggering?

Posted by: Northern lurker at February 24, 2021 12:48 PM (lgiXo)

236 And during fake black history month, too!
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 24, 2021 12:40 PM (NugC9)

John McCain is barely in his grave!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 24, 2021 12:48 PM (ifmtJ)

237 The dems will win more seats in the senate and will expand their majority in the house.

They'll take the Senate in 2022, the machine was too engaged to defeat Trump to pull it off this time.

No argument, just make a face, hand gesture or snark in response and have your friends clap.

Post a meme and pretend you made an argument.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 12:48 PM (KZzsI)

238 Please remove that image Ace. If it stays up I have to choose between this website or Christ and that is no contest.

Thank you.

Posted by: Josh at February 24, 2021 12:37 PM (ZYbKo)

If I have to choose between Josh or this website, so long.

Posted by: 4 at February 24, 2021 12:49 PM (KnJdm)

239 Lots of people have this snark-centric nature now.
This is an example of the Twitterization of life.
Started with Jon Stewart and The Daily Show.
No argument, just make a face, hand gesture or snark in response and have your friends clap.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2021 12:42 PM (bDqIh)

Pfft! Yeah, right, Lizardbreath. Tha-a-a-at's what happened!

*rolls eyes*

*Makes Blue Steel face*

Posted by: naturalfake at February 24, 2021 12:49 PM (EERbD)

240
Sullivan also has AIDS? Seriously? How long? How is this guy still prattling on at America? WTAF?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 12:49 PM (0WKYs)

241
I'll make a prediction. The dems will win more seats in the senate and will expand their majority in the house. This plan has already been set into motion.
Since the GOP is perfectly happy as a minority party - and their top priority is still to purge any Trumpians from their ranks - I really don't see what would stop the DNC from doing so.

Posted by: Nutbush City Limits at February 24, 2021 12:49 PM (NWyC0)

242

It wasn't just Christ who was crucified.

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2021 12:47 PM (bbdhK)
=========
I am Spartacus!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Beat me to the punch by >

LOL, always look on the bright side of life!

Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 12:49 PM (SFOr6)

243 re: So has the other side ever given a reason how Biden surpassed the vote
totals of the Milk Chocolate Messiah's so immensely? I avoid Big Media
intensely, so I have never sought out the answer from them or the
political taking head class.
Not only, that, from what I understand, his numbers were down (as expected) across most of the board. So, not only did those few counties exceed expectations, they did so in such a way that the otherwise low overall numbers still managed to exceeded historical numbers. Everyone was super enthused to vote for Biden! So enthused, in fact, that they apparently all decided to carpool together.

Posted by: Simple Stevo at February 24, 2021 12:49 PM (SOV+T)

244 If the current trajectory continues, there will be no future historians.
Emoji's will tell our story.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 24, 2021 12:48 PM (z79tQ)

Yeah, poo emoji's. That's my fear, that everything is winding down. The singularity of stupid.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 24, 2021 12:49 PM (ifmtJ)

245 Sullivan was never more than amusing at times. A featherweight - like most "pundits" - on anything substantive of importance. Kind of a shallow stylist with emotional problems.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2021 12:49 PM (OTzUX)

246 It will get to the point where his media beards will have a really hard time covering up his failing health and mental state.
Posted by: Cheri at February 24, 2021 12:41 PM (oiNtH)

I'd say we've gotten to that point. I have to wonder how much we've not seen. A lot of what we're seeing is stuff that's just too public to avoid. I wonder about smaller appearances and meetings. How many people are scared on a daily basis, and can't say anything?

So, how's that SOTU address coming along Mr. Biden?

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at February 24, 2021 12:49 PM (46GDR)

247 That image of AS on the cross is an Allahpundit original, n'est pas? I'm so old, I remember when that guy was funny.

Posted by: mrp at February 24, 2021 12:50 PM (Pqytn)

248
2
13 Why does a god need a starship?
Posted by: banana Dream at February 24, 2021 12:46 PM (4tN2f)

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If only you believe like I believe, baby (if only you believe like I believe) ... We'd get by --
If only you believe in miracles (if only you believed in miracles so would i) ...

Posted by: ShainS at February 24, 2021 12:50 PM (yngc4)

249 The SOTU was already given. It was the greatest speech ever orated in history. The world was moved. Left and right united. Everyone agrees it was Biden's finest moment. Now stop talking about it, we have an economy to fix and a pandemic to stop.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2021 12:50 PM (OskcI)

250 With justice
And equality
For all

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2021 12:43 PM (OskcI)

In keeping with the current junta, I think you meant 'equity', not 'equality'.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at February 24, 2021 12:50 PM (ZSK0i)

251 "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. Joe Biden was legitimately elected."--Pres. Eisenhower's farewell address, January 17, 1961

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at February 24, 2021 12:50 PM (Ndje9)

252
Like then you'll only have to choose between your Everlasting Savior and the Sunday Book Thread?
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix

Don't paint him deeper into his corner of self-righteousness!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 24, 2021 12:50 PM (pNxlR)

253 >>When is the State of the Union address?

"The state of the union is: We're in a dark winter, it's going to get much worse before it gets better. America has never truly lived up to its promise, but as long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden."

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2021 12:50 PM (bDqIh)

254 187. Next year. 1st year presidents do not give state of the union addresses.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 24, 2021 12:50 PM (B94oO)

255 I think you meant 'equity', not 'equality'.

Oh, they mean equity, for sure. But they'll keep saying equality to fool the rubes.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 24, 2021 12:51 PM (X1Iup)

256 It is a very fragile narrative they peddle. That is indeed why they need to badger people into making false assertions. The election was rigged, fraught with fraud and unconstitutional meddling. There is more than enough factual materiality to back up those claims. They just don't want to hear it because they're planning on using it again, in future elections. In addition, Democrats and their defenders keep repeating they have some kind of mandate for the disaster they're undertaking on our country. Nothing could be further from the truth. That's before we get to their January 6th Fiction, which they want to use as an additional device to complete their despotic march against any opposition.

Keep in mind almost none of the fraud or unconstitutional meddling claims have been heard by impartial judges on substance. They've been dismissed on procedural points. That doesn't sound like a secure, tried, reasoned review. It sounds like a parade of political buffoons who are insecure in the fact that once people hear the truth they'll be marched off into exile.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2021 12:51 PM (Ks/+3)

257 The 2021 State of the Union speech will be sponsored by Jeff Dunham.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 24, 2021 12:51 PM (8Uzxt)

258
After what Republicans did this last four years, particularly this last year, the Dems don't need to cheat. I mean, they will, they're Dems, but the GOP can't win anymore, because they pulled off their masks.

Finally.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 12:51 PM (0WKYs)

259
The State of the Union was given last night.
It was the greatest State of the Union I ever saw.
It was better than Cats.
The election is real.

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2021 12:52 PM (lETtf)

260 187. Next year. 1st year presidents do not give state of the union addresses.

And biden won't be giving it then either.. He won't be the faux-president

Posted by: It's me donna at February 24, 2021 12:52 PM (Zmnko)

261 Mommy! Help! There's no state called "Union" on my lil tigger's U.S. Atlas book

Posted by: Joey Bidet, Stupor Genius at February 24, 2021 12:52 PM (gmo/4)

262
It's gotten real sandy in here, it seems -- there are a lot of lines being drawn in it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 24, 2021 12:52 PM (pNxlR)

263 I think you meant 'equity', not 'equality'.

Oh, they mean equity, for sure. But they'll keep saying equality to fool the rubes.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 24, 2021 12:51 PM (X1Iup)

I think they meant "And rent boys for all".

Posted by: naturalfake at February 24, 2021 12:52 PM (EERbD)

264 257 The 2021 State of the Union speech will be sponsored by Jeff Dunham.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 24, 2021 12:51 PM (8Uzxt)

Thats the I keeeel you puppet guy, right?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 12:52 PM (9mfKN)

265 Who are you and why are you in my bedroom?
--President Senile Joe giving the SOTU address.

Posted by: Northern lurker at February 24, 2021 12:52 PM (lgiXo)

266 >>> Lots of people have this snark-centric nature now. This is an example of the Twitterization of life. Started with Jon Stewart and The Daily Show.
No argument, just make a face, hand gesture or snark in response and have your friends clap.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2021 12:42 PM (bDqIh)

And it is a decades old stale and moldy bit, and the Institutional Right is stuck there. Because there's no one left to tell them, "you know that shit isn't funny anymore". Because we've left them and they left us. They're just an intimate circle of jerkers who are not capable of adapting to the reality of things.

I can't hear them anymore because they are too damned far behind me.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 24, 2021 12:52 PM (4tN2f)

267 Sidney Powell says she is not finished, lots of evidence still to come out. And Millie Weaver has a real good video on how coordinated the January 6th PsyOp was, to stop Trump's "stop the steal" efforts. Momentum was largely with Trump, then it turned on a dime with the "Insurrection" and Impeachment. ... lots of forces went into that ... deeper ties going even into McCain's old team and the Lincoln Project as an anti-Trump "psyop" with destructive/subversive (illegal) intent.

Millie Weaver, PsyOp the Steal -- https://tinyurl.com/yukp83s5

Posted by: illiniwek at February 24, 2021 12:53 PM (Cus5s)

268 231. So a typical Democrat?

Posted by: Jen the original at February 24, 2021 12:53 PM (B94oO)

269

It's fun to have these bouts of venting at noob self-righteous posters, that's for sure.

This place must have gotten seen in some very dark and dreary corners of the intertubes to get dour, sanctimonious scolds coming here and presuming to lecture us morons.

Go back to Plymouth, Puritan!!!

Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 12:53 PM (SFOr6)

270 The Gif of Christ on the cross is extremely offensive always and even more so when it is posted during Lent.

-
It's always appropriate to offend Christian Nationalists. It's only POC, feminists, perverts, and Swedish meatballs who cannot be offend even if we must burn all of western civilization.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 24, 2021 12:53 PM (VVEnO)

271 That doesn't sound like a secure, tried, reasoned review. It sounds like a parade of political buffoons who are insecure in the fact that once people hear the truth they'll be marched off into exile.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2021 12:51 PM (Ks/+3)

Winner! Congratulations, get on the train.

Posted by: Turnout Man at February 24, 2021 12:53 PM (7CyhL)

272 LOL Cat Ass I guess I'm not that original after all

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2021 12:53 PM (lETtf)

273 . Forbid them from talking about politics unless they have a law degree. Thats a pretty low bar.
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM (Aashi)

i disagree about this part. don't let them speak on politics IF they have a law degree. or have ONLY been in govt or politics or media. if you haven't spent at least 10 years in the "real world" you don't get to spout on politics on TV.

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 24, 2021 12:53 PM (8D42x)

274 That image of AS on the cross is an Allahpundit original, n'est pas?

If it were not the context and memory of when and hot it was used, I could be kind of annoyed with the image, too. But since its mocking Andrew Sullivan's debauched self pity and pretending he's being misused for being called on his insanity, yeah, I get it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 12:53 PM (KZzsI)

275 The two groups most loudly proclaiming the election was not rigged are the media and politicians. And I can think of no two groups, at any time in history, but especially now, that are less trustworthy on any topic.

Posted by: Cantankerous at February 24, 2021 12:54 PM (GSJ9/)

276 Andrew Sullivan and the fraud deniers are like some woman obsessed about her looks and asks you "Do these pants make me look fat?"

Telling the truth or even thinking the truth is unacceptable to them

Posted by: Ripley at February 24, 2021 12:54 PM (MxEKc)

277
I thought somebody else got the butt-flu. Maybe I thought it was Hitchens.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 12:54 PM (0WKYs)

278 163 The Inquisition was a bad, terrible, no good thing--the most evilest time ever until Democrats take their shot at it.
Posted by: Northern lurker at February 24, 2021 12:39 PM (lgiXo)

Yeah, but what a show!

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 24, 2021 12:54 PM (Wm5SB)

279 The greater good.

~ People of Gloucestershire

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 12:27 PM (9mfKN)

Are you sure about that?

[places toothpick in mouth]

Posted by: Sgt. Nicholas Angel, Sandford PD at February 24, 2021 12:54 PM (ZSK0i)

280 247 That image of AS on the cross is an Allahpundit original, n'est pas? I'm so old, I remember when that guy was funny.

Posted by: mrp at February 24, 2021 12:50 PM (Pqytn)

-----

When I found and started reading Ace back around 2015 I had already been a regular commenter at HotGas.
There was even some speculation by other commenters over there that Ace and AllahPundit were the same person. Hah!

Posted by: ShainS at February 24, 2021 12:54 PM (yngc4)

281 but the GOP can't win anymore, because they pulled off their masks.

Finally.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

My, nominally, Rep rep is truly astonished at the questions and comments he gets from his constituents. He's a first timer - one of the surprise replacements of Ryan's gang exiting the House. The rep is struck dumb that we want a conservative representative. Not kidding.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2021 12:54 PM (Rvt88)

282 Anyone who's offended at Ace's site is free to cancel their subscription at any time.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 24, 2021 12:54 PM (8Uzxt)

283 The 2021 State of the Union speech will be sponsored by Jeff Dunham.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 24, 2021 12:51 PM (8Uzxt)

Thats the I keeeel you puppet guy, right?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 12:52 PM (9mfKN)

Yup, and Walter, who looks like Biden but makes much more sense.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 24, 2021 12:54 PM (ifmtJ)

284 How about somebody submit a list of all the shit they find offensive and can't tolerate ? That way, I can go straight to doing that - rather than have to guess. I hate guessing. Thanks in advance.

Posted by: Nutbush City Limits at February 24, 2021 12:55 PM (NWyC0)

285 Simple Stevo, WI is a good example of what you're talking about. Joe sagged behind the hag's 2016 numbers across the state, significantly (3-4%, as I recall). But .... in Dane and Milwaukee and other other county, exceeded her numbers by utterly implausible %s, double digit. Something that doesn't happen in elections, and has never been seen.

Like you and other former near-lifetime Beltway veterans I know, I have further tightened my fake news blackout, so maybe I missed it - but has anyone, anywhere, addressed the bizarre and historically unique thing about 5 key states (and only those) stopping their vote count processes? That is one thing that seems simple enough.

The fanatical and unserious protests about the election being anything close to normal or having the appearance of integrity is a redundant reminder of how shallow, irresponsible, and worthless so much of the political class, pundit class, and American population is.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2021 12:55 PM (OTzUX)

286 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 12:53 PM (KZzsI)

I am gonna buy you a cross next year for Christmas mom, that way whenever you feel unappreciated you can climb up there an crucify yourself!

~ Father in The Ref

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 12:55 PM (9mfKN)

287 I'll make a prediction. The dems will win more seats in the senate and will expand their majority in the house.

This plan has already been set into motion.
Posted by: Justsayin' at February 24, 2021 12:43 PM (Fs5vw)

I'd like to see 435-0

The only thing standing between those democrats and you is us. You have to vote for us!

To which I reply; Moooove bitch, get out da way, get out da way.
You're the thing standing between them and us, but you're facing us!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 24, 2021 12:55 PM (z79tQ)

288 If Jesus would have been put to death in an electric chair, would we have church steeples with electric chairs on top?

Posted by: Justsayin' at February 24, 2021 12:56 PM (Fs5vw)

289 Unintentionally perfect....

@TIME

"No president has entered the White House with as clear a focus on Alzheimer's disease as Joe Biden. The commitment and attention on Alzheimer's at the highest levels of our elected leadership is long overdue," write
@mariashriver and George Vradenburg

Posted by: Tami at February 24, 2021 12:56 PM (cF8AT)

290 Fortunately, there's an Offense Free Part of AOSHQ.

Just click the lowest button on the right.

It leads to a blank page.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 24, 2021 12:56 PM (EERbD)

291 Like you and other former near-lifetime Beltway veterans I know, I have further tightened my fake news blackout, so maybe I missed it - but has anyone, anywhere, addressed the bizarre and historically unique thing about 5 key states (and only those) stopping their vote count processes? That is one thing that seems simple enough.

Exactly.. If this was a "landslide" for biden why wasn't it echoed in the other States?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 24, 2021 12:56 PM (Zmnko)

292 Are you sure about that?

[places toothpick in mouth]
Posted by: Sgt. Nicholas Angel, Sandford PD at February 24, 2021 12:54 PM (ZSK0i)

Yes, I have fired my gun into the air while yelling AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 12:57 PM (9mfKN)

293 The State of the Union speech will be a deepfake situated in the Oval Office. Hope some hacker with a sense of humor can insert Pelosi tearing up Joe's speech.

Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at February 24, 2021 12:57 PM (FWn1L)

294

There was even some speculation by other commenters over there that Ace and AllahPundit were the same person. Hah!
Posted by: ShainS

This is wholly false. Morons of a more - ahem - rarified vintage remember they went and saw Brokeback Mountain together with Karol.

Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 12:57 PM (SFOr6)

295 If Jesus would have been put to death in an electric chair, would we have church steeples with electric chairs on top?

Maybe a lightning bolt, like Zeus. Using the cross is like Revolutionary Soldiers turning "Yankee Doodle Dandy" into a patriotic song: you meant it for evil but it was for good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 12:57 PM (KZzsI)

296 Whenever there's a thread I don't appreciate I just go away for a while and nobody misses me, which is fine.

Posted by: Northern lurker at February 24, 2021 12:57 PM (lgiXo)

297 Posted by: Tami at February 24, 2021 12:56 PM (cF8AT)

This isn't from the Bee?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 24, 2021 12:57 PM (Zmnko)

298 "How about somebody submit a list of all the shit they find offensive and can't tolerate..."

I'll start:
1) There is a supreme being and boy is he pissed.

Posted by: navybrat, semper paratus at February 24, 2021 12:57 PM (w7KSn)

299 When I was growing up they instituted rating systems and warnings under the noble and logical pretense of protecting children.

Now we're told that adults need to be protected, and that children are adults.

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2021 12:58 PM (lETtf)

300 Posted by: Justsayin' at February 24, 2021 12:56 PM (Fs5vw)

Well they already have lightning rods.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2021 12:58 PM (z96ye)

301 >>Wish someone could organize and crowdsource a voter fraud task force of folks who would like to make a difference. I think there would be plenty of volunteers, but there would need to be an administrator in order not to replicate actions, plus provide link to lists.

Ali Alexander did that after the election, specifically when a woman on twitter (Lauren a.k.a."SomebitchIknow") shared that someone had voted on behalf of her mom (since her mom had moved to anaother state and gotten married). Her mom was tipped off by one of the new Zuck-funded orgs texting her on election day asking if she had voted in her old state yet. Ali and Lauren asked people to check old voter registrations if they had moved or recently changed names (married/divorced) and uncovered a lot.

So, there's a will and at least one (likely many) already in place.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2021 12:58 PM (bDqIh)

302 289 Unintentionally perfect....

@TIME

"No president has entered the White House with as clear a focus on Alzheimer's disease as Joe Biden. The commitment and attention on Alzheimer's at the highest levels of our elected leadership is long overdue," write
@mariashriver and George Vradenburg
Posted by: Tami at February 24, 2021 12:56 PM (cF8AT)

It's like he's fighting Alzheimer's all day every day.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 24, 2021 12:58 PM (Wm5SB)

303 This isn't from the Bee?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 24, 2021 12:57 PM (Zmnko)

Nope. Lol!

Posted by: Tami at February 24, 2021 12:58 PM (cF8AT)

304 Sullivan was never more than amusing at times. A featherweight - like most "pundits" - on anything substantive of importance. Kind of a shallow stylist with emotional problems.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2021 12:49 PM (OTzUX)

He got a lot of traction with the left by claiming to be a "conservative" so the libs could claim to like a "real conservative". Total phony which I pointed out to those dickweeds.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 24, 2021 12:58 PM (y7DUB)

305 They have their dogma and gospel but we are the religious nutters.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2021 12:58 PM (gKO1F)

306 Great, now I've got the We Built This City earworm.

Posted by: spindrift at February 24, 2021 12:59 PM (h5TKJ)

307 You have been accused of murder, you have been accused of treason.

How do you plead ....... Lord Cuomo?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2021 12:59 PM (yQpMk)

308 Great, now I've got the We Built This City earworm.

Ah.. Damn

Posted by: It's me donna at February 24, 2021 12:59 PM (Zmnko)

309 As a severe Christian who has voted for Christ in every election, I feel that I can no longer be associated with a naughty, saucy boy like Mr. O'Spades.

Sincerely,

Posted by: Lamb Rogan Josh at February 24, 2021 01:00 PM (H5knJ)

310 State of the Union will be inline online. What's that web number?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 24, 2021 01:00 PM (63Dwl)

311 >>There was even some speculation by other commenters over there that Ace and AllahPundit were the same person. Hah!

And I sometimes wondered is BSG was Allahpundit, LOL

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2021 01:00 PM (bDqIh)

312 306 Great, now I've got the We Built This City earworm.
Posted by: spindrift at February 24, 2021 12:59 PM (h5TKJ)

....
.... ON ROCK AND ROOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 01:00 PM (9mfKN)

313

LOL @ Lamb Rogan Josh

Mr. Delecto, is that you?

Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 01:00 PM (SFOr6)

314 ARICEPT SHIT MY PANTS!

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 24, 2021 01:00 PM (VBf02)

315 O'Reilly's old fuck buddy K Powers in that tweet goes "feels like whataboutism which i don't entertain"

Holy fuck we are ruled by the dumbest people on the planet.

Posted by: Dr. DJ3Way at February 24, 2021 01:01 PM (bhPL1)

316
Like you and other former near-lifetime Beltway veterans I know, I have further tightened my fake news blackout, so maybe I missed it - but has anyone, anywhere, addressed the bizarre and historically unique thing about 5 key states (and only those) stopping their vote count processes?

-------

That's the thing. There's a shit-ton of evidence of fraud. But I didn't need that. On election night, when the news jerks all announced gleefully that swing states where Trump was ahread had suddenly stopped counting, I knew the fix was in. I just laughed to Lady YD, and shut off the TV.

She's not even political at all, and she just said "Oh, screw this. I'm never voting again, if this is how it's going to be."

Any idiot could see what was happening, and anyone who says they couldn't is a liar, just pulling for their team.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 01:01 PM (0WKYs)

317 When I was growing up they instituted rating systems and warnings under the noble and logical pretense of protecting children.
Whenever Tipper Gore agreed with Susan Baker on anything - I knew nothing good was going to come out of it. Those two See You Next Tuesdays never learned the first thing about business. Namely - minding their own and staying out of other people's.

Posted by: Nutbush City Limits at February 24, 2021 01:01 PM (NWyC0)

318 Exactly.. If this was a "landslide" for biden why wasn't it echoed in the other States? - ----- It's me donna.===========
Most emphatically, why wasn't it reflected in the House races? Republicans picked up at least 15 SEATS IN 2020.

Posted by: mrp at February 24, 2021 01:01 PM (Pqytn)

319 Michael Anton's article is excellent.

Posted by: LASue, aka Les White at February 24, 2021 01:01 PM (Ed8Zd)

320
Great, now I've got the We Built This City earworm.

Posted by: spindrift at February 24, 2021 12:59 PM (h5TKJ)

Could be worse. could be Tie Me Kangaroo Down!

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2021 01:02 PM (z96ye)

321 "And we just lost the beat."

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2021 01:02 PM (gKO1F)

322 If every voter stayed away from the polls the next election what would the pre-determined result be?

Posted by: Northern lurker at February 24, 2021 01:02 PM (lgiXo)

323 The D's continue to demand the election investigations stop, bc if the phantom voters are purged and there is actually oversight to stop it in the future, they might not win again.

Posted by: EveR at February 24, 2021 01:02 PM (R0z7P)

324 Anyone who's offended at Ace's site is free to cancel their subscription at any time.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 24, 2021 12:54 PM (8Uzxt)

No refunds.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2021 01:02 PM (yQpMk)

325 Millie Weaver, PsyOp the Steal -- https://tinyurl.com/yukp83s5
Posted by: illiniwek at February 24, 2021 12:53 PM (Cus5s)

Meh. She's putting blame in weird places.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 24, 2021 01:03 PM (ifmtJ)

326 321 "And we just lost the beat."
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2021 01:02 PM (gKO1F)

We got the beat!

~ The Go-Gos

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 01:03 PM (9mfKN)

327 On newsmax, the Capitol Hill hearing, pigs have flown. Soledad Obrien is testifying on how Media lies and what to do about it. Pointing at Newsmax, Fox and OANN. This is unbelievable. Simply unbelievable.

Posted by: Stellastwocents at February 24, 2021 01:03 PM (cRbt7)

328 Michael Anton's article is excellent.

It is.. The only disagreement I have with him is the moving on part.. biden will never be my president

Posted by: It's me donna at February 24, 2021 01:03 PM (Zmnko)

329 Republicans picked up 15 seats in the House, in an election where President Trump had 90 %+ support from Republicans.

Posted by: mrp at February 24, 2021 01:03 PM (Pqytn)

330 No refunds.

Yeah because the toilet paper the memberships is printed on is valuable.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2021 01:03 PM (gKO1F)

331 Any idiot could see what was happening, and anyone who says they couldn't is a liar, just pulling for their team.
They told us for at least three months in advance that they were going to change the results.

Posted by: Nutbush City Limits at February 24, 2021 01:04 PM (NWyC0)

332 327 On newsmax, the Capitol Hill hearing, pigs have flown. Soledad Obrien is testifying on how Media lies and what to do about it. Pointing at Newsmax, Fox and OANN. This is unbelievable. Simply unbelievable.
Posted by: Stellastwocents at February 24, 2021 01:03 PM (cRbt7)

It is completely believable, and I am only surprised that it took this long.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 01:04 PM (9mfKN)

333 "As far as I'm concerned, the 2020 election is well and truly over."

There was no election in 2020.

Posted by: CrustyB at February 24, 2021 01:04 PM (qXzGC)

334 Anyone who's offended at Ace's site is free to cancel their subscription at any time.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 24, 2021 12:54 PM (8Uzxt)

No refunds.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2021 01:02 PM

Heeeyyy!!!
I have a cardboard membership! Don't no one mess with my cardboard membership!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2021 01:04 PM (axyOa)

335 Things I find offensive and will not tolerate:

-Stealing a presidential election then ordering everyone to pretend it was not stolen.
-Sophistry praised as if it is reason and truth
-Hypocrisy
-Brutalization or abuse of children
-Spite or mockery of God

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 01:04 PM (KZzsI)

336
Whataboutism (n)
The accusation leveled at you when you beat a leftist in an argument. See also: Racism

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2021 01:04 PM (lETtf)

337 Tim Carney
@TPCarney
"Enough is enough," declared Jeremy Levine, a featured speaker at the teachers union rally. "You will not sacrifice our lives, disrupt our communities, and endanger our students for what? Test scores? Or a few folks to get their free babysitters back?"

-
Yeah, free babysitting is all you do. Well, that and brainwashing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 24, 2021 01:05 PM (VVEnO)

338 "...in an election where President Trump had 90 %+ support from Republicans."

And he was an incumbent with more than 50% approval ratings.

Posted by: navybrat, semper paratus at February 24, 2021 01:05 PM (w7KSn)

339 Even Handsy Joe told us he had the best cheatin' team ever.

Posted by: mrp at February 24, 2021 01:05 PM (Pqytn)

340 I have a cardboard membership! Don't no one mess with my cardboard membership!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2021 01:04 PM (axyOa)

Is that not the one with ampersand privileges?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 01:05 PM (9mfKN)

341 323 The D's continue to demand the election investigations stop, bc if the phantom voters are purged and there is actually oversight to stop it in the future, they might not win again.

No worries Amiga we will put the dems over the top

Posted by: Millions of new voting "Americans." at February 24, 2021 01:05 PM (Zmnko)

342 When is the State of the Union address?
Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 12:42 PM

As soon as Joey can find Union on the map.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2021 12:46 PM (axyOa)

"Whaddaya mean, I have to wear a dress?," Joey Mush Brain Biden

Posted by: LASue, aka Les White at February 24, 2021 01:05 PM (Ed8Zd)

343 301 TY, Lizzy! Hope there is a coordinated effort to prove all the swing states were stolen. The Ali project sounds like an excellent start.

Posted by: EveR at February 24, 2021 01:06 PM (R0z7P)

344 335 Things I find offensive and will not tolerate:

-Stealing a presidential election then ordering everyone to pretend it was not stolen.
-Sophistry praised as if it is reason and truth
-Hypocrisy
-Brutalization or abuse of children
-Spite or mockery of God
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 01:04 PM (KZzsI)

=========

And the Dutch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 01:06 PM (LvTSG)

345 Lizzy, Matt Braynard, I think his name is - Voter Integrity Project - quickly assembled a small team and, using only publicly available info (registrations, vote results, change-of-address database - which I think was created precisely for this purpose), examined the ballots in several key states.

He said he's doing a more in-depth version of this right now.

As I recall he found far more illegal votes counted in GA (out of state, dead, and my favorite - under-age!) than the official "margin" between the candidates.

And this was a very quick look. NV, the sleeper here in the sense that the Clark County abuses were truly Zimbabwe-like (switching off signature matching process, kicking out GOP observers), and there as I recall Matt quickly found huge numbers of illegal votes counted.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2021 01:06 PM (OTzUX)

346 Or a few folks to get their free babysitters back?"

-
Yeah, free babysitting is all you do. Well, that and brainwashing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 24, 2021 01:05 PM (VVEnO)

Free? FREE????!!
Wow.

Posted by: LASue, aka Les White at February 24, 2021 01:06 PM (Ed8Zd)

347 "Bugs Bugs! Bugs! Bugsbugsbugs! Bugs! Shitbastard! The View From Your Window Thanks to Nii'ainy'glathh'hurk, from Yoggoth. Painting Your Walls"
-----------
That's one weird ad, Ace, at the bottom of the Sullivan-civilian-mortars link!

Posted by: andycanuck with 27% more banner ad malware at February 24, 2021 01:06 PM (d6he9)

348 Joey Bidet shows up in a union suit

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2021 01:06 PM (gKO1F)

349
"The state of my Union suit is awful. I forgot to unbutton the back and it smells like a sewer in this thing."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 01:06 PM (0WKYs)

350 "The State of the Union is schlonged."

Posted by: ShainS at February 24, 2021 01:07 PM (CtltA)

351 And the Dutch.

Damned dykebillies and their wooden shoes, if I have to see one more blue and white piece of china, I'll scream!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 01:07 PM (KZzsI)

352
348 Joey Bidet shows up in a union suit
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2021 01:06 PM (gKO1F)

349
"The state of my Union suit is awful. I forgot to unbutton the back and it smells like a sewer in this thing."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 01:06 PM (0WKYs)

-------

Horde mind, LOL.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 01:07 PM (0WKYs)

353 Is that not the one with ampersand privileges?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 01:05 PM

Damned Skippy! And three free tildes a month!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2021 01:07 PM (axyOa)

354 Assent is Patriotism!

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2021 01:07 PM (lETtf)

355 you do realize that the French are now freer than we are?

And are speaking out about it.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2021 01:07 PM (z96ye)

356 Yeah, yuk it up McCarthy....it's so effin' funny....

@cspan

Q: Do you believe former President Trump should speaking at CPAC?

@GOPLeader: "Yes he should."

@RepLizCheney: "That's up to CPAC....I don't believe that he should be playing a role in the future of the party or the country."

McCarthy: "On that high note, thank you very much."

Video: https://tinyurl.com/yapg2da8

Posted by: Tami at February 24, 2021 01:08 PM (cF8AT)

357 Free? FREE????!! Wow.

Over $10K a student, per year, now in my neck of the woods. Yeah - free, my ass.

Posted by: Nutbush City Limits at February 24, 2021 01:08 PM (NWyC0)

358
Democrats have only +7 in the House.

but they rule like they have +100

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 24, 2021 01:08 PM (NugC9)

359 Free? FREE????!!
Wow.
Posted by: LASue, aka Les White at February 24, 2021 01:06 PM (Ed8Zd)

Seriously. Tell that to my property taxes.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 24, 2021 01:08 PM (Ez6QX)

360 >>> Could be worse. could be Tie Me Kangaroo Down!
Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2021 01:02 PM (z96ye)

Hey did you know that the kookabura sits in the old gum tree? Eating all the gumdrops he can see? Laugh kookabura laugh kookabura save some more for me.

earworm war begun has it

Posted by: banana Dream at February 24, 2021 01:08 PM (4tN2f)

361 On newsmax, the Capitol Hill hearing, pigs have flown. Soledad Obrien is testifying on how Media lies and what to do about it. Pointing at Newsmax, Fox and OANN. This is unbelievable. Simply unbelievable.
Posted by: Stellastwocents at February 24, 2021 01:03 PM (cRbt7)

Someone has taken unauthorized control of the earpiece!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 24, 2021 01:08 PM (guGkK)

362 Auto-da-fuq?

Meant auto-da-fe, but the blog choked up on the accent mark over the e.
Nothing new: religious fanatics have employed them since the Inquisition.
"Do you accept human-driven climate change?"
"Do you accept that Joe Biden was fairly elected?"
"Show you accept our beliefs by wearing this ribbon/mask."
"Show you accept our beliefs by using this pronoun."
Etc. etc.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at February 24, 2021 01:08 PM (vJCwr)

363 Earworm?

Kajagoogoo "Too shy"

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2021 01:09 PM (gKO1F)

364 Democrats have only +7 in the House.

but they rule like they have +100

Didn't 10 0r so "Republicans vote with the Dems to impeach ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 24, 2021 01:09 PM (Zmnko)

365 I have a cardboard membership! Don't no one mess with my cardboard membership!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2021 01:04 PM (axyOa)

Hit the tip jar, you can move up to Laminated Cardboard level, with perks not available to regular cardboard members.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 24, 2021 01:09 PM (z79tQ)

366 WHO WON'T WEAR THE RIBBON?!?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2021 01:09 PM (yQpMk)

367 Over $10K a student, per year, now in my neck of the woods. Yeah - free, my ass.
Posted by: Nutbush City Limits at February 24, 2021 01:08 PM (NWyC0)

That is just what they get from the state here. That does not include what they get directly from property taxes.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 01:09 PM (9mfKN)

368 They built this city on block and troll.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 24, 2021 01:10 PM (63Dwl)

369 How about somebody submit a list of all the shit they find offensive and can't tolerate ? That way, I can go straight to doing that - rather than have to guess. I hate guessing. Thanks in advance.
Posted by: Nutbush City Limits
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Sure, I'll kick the list off, for starters:

1. Hellmann's Mayonnaise
2. Maple syrup on french toast
3. Crossbows

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2021 01:10 PM (DMQdU)

370 55 Dems cheat every election. Anyone who claims otherwise is an idiot or a liar.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (y08AY)

The globalists do.
It's not just the Dems.. otherwise the GOP wouldn't have allowed the loos of the senate and house seats that we lost with found votes.

Posted by: Inogame at February 24, 2021 01:10 PM (EILju)

371 This is why they are pulling out all the stops to prevent Trump from running in 2024.
They know that by then, EVERYONE will know the 2020 election was stolen, and Trump will win in a cakewalk.

Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:10 PM (HrMC1)

372 If Anton has simply "moved on" from what appears to be a massive systemic collapse of election integrity, and is without doubt a massive collapse of constitution process and rule of law in terms of election process, then that makes him look unserious. And I'm being polite.

If he thinks the election was likely stolen - which is the only logical and defensible position, given the facts - then how can he "move on"?

Kind of stupid, actually. More style and social positioning substituting for serious analysis.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2021 01:10 PM (OTzUX)

373 but they rule like they have +100
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 24, 2021 01:08 PM (NugC9)

You can do that when your caucus actually votes as a solid block.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 01:10 PM (9mfKN)

374 Democrats have only +7 in the House. but they rule like they have +100.

In all fairness, when you include all the GOP dickheads that don't disagree with their agenda, it's a substantially larger margin.

Posted by: Nutbush City Limits at February 24, 2021 01:10 PM (NWyC0)

375 Does your chewing gum lose it's flavor on the bedpost overnight?

If your mother says don't chew it do you swallow it in spite?

Can you catch it on your tonsils and heave it left and right?

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2021 01:10 PM (z96ye)

376 It's the same shit they've been doing for years, for example with Obama's birth certificate, and climate change. There's something really really REALLY fishy about the circumstances of Obama's location of birth. Maybe he is, as his supporters insist, a natural-born U.S. citizen. But I don't remember a presidential candidate in all of American history having such a hard time producing, instantly, an absolutely bulletproof birth certificate. Yet liberals demand that you affirm the legitimacy of Obama's certificate, or else you're branded a "birther." Same with global warming or climate change or whatever bullshit term they're using now: The evidence for AGW is, at best, shaky. Yet if you don't confirm the liberal narrative, you're a "denier." It's just their way of, to use their language, "otherizing" you. If they could, they'd force you to wear a colored arm band. But they can't, so a rhetorical simulacrum will have to do.

Posted by: Shane McGowan's Liver at February 24, 2021 01:11 PM (aPMiQ)

377 Things I find offensive and will not tolerate:

-Stealing a presidential election then ordering everyone to pretend it was not stolen.
-Sophistry praised as if it is reason and truth
-Hypocrisy
-Brutalization or abuse of children
-Spite or mockery of God
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 01:04 PM (KZzsI)

And the Dutch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 01:06 PM (LvTSG)

Carnies!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 24, 2021 01:11 PM (ifmtJ)

378 Dems cheat every election. Anyone who claims otherwise is an idiot or a liar.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 24, 2021 12:25 PM (y08AY)

The globalists do.
It's not just the Dems.. otherwise the GOP wouldn't have allowed the loos of the senate and house seats that we lost with found votes.
Posted by: Inogame at February 24, 2021 01:10 PM
(EILju)

I agree, and for all we know maybe the Bush's DID steal Florida from Gore.

Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:11 PM (HrMC1)

379 IIRC, Sullivan was pinched for possession of marijuana while hanging out in Provincetown. While that in itself is no big deal, if you're a green card alien waiting for citizenship, any brush with the law could jeopardize that process. All of those fawning Atlantic articles that he wrote during the Obama years gave him some pull with the immigration authorities, and he got his citizenship.

Andrew Sullivan owes his US citizenship to Obama (and, by extension, Biden). Because of this, he has chosen his side, and no evidence that might shatter that illusion can be countenanced by him.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 24, 2021 01:11 PM (4tiP2)

380 -Stealing a presidential election then ordering everyone to pretend it was not stolen.
-Sophistry praised as if it is reason and truth
-Hypocrisy
-Brutalization or abuse of children
-Spite or mockery of God

I'd ditch hypocrisy. Kinda the jaywalking of moral offenses. Something that everyone is so guilty of that it loses any bite. And so in the eye of the beholder that it seems to only be a failing in one's opponents.

I'd replace it with either:

a. Communism. As Paul reputedly said in his lost epistle to the Laodiceans, "Kill a commie for Christ."

b. Failing to return shopping carts to the cart bin. We can't have civilization if you are just going to leave these lying around the parking lot.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 24, 2021 01:11 PM (H5knJ)

381 If he thinks the election was likely stolen - which is the only logical and defensible position, given the facts - then how can he "move on"?

Kind of stupid, actually. More style and social positioning substituting for serious analysis.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2021 01:10 PM (OTzUX)

Well he could be resigned to the notion of permanent one party rule. But it is more likely that it's what you say.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 24, 2021 01:11 PM (Zm+LZ)

382 When an obvious biological male tells me he is really a woman I have absolutely no requirement whatsoever to join him in his insanity. Likewise, I am absolutely not required to believe that President Trump lost the election. In fact, he did not lose the election and is STILL President, and will be for the next four years. So there.

Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2021 01:11 PM (gjvwR)

383 They built this city on a fault line.

Posted by: wth at February 24, 2021 01:12 PM (v0R5T)

384 Space-based solar power in the news, brought to you by those really, really smart guys at the Naval Research Lab.
https://tinyurl.com/u4p62zta

Posted by: pep at February 24, 2021 01:12 PM (v16oJ)

385 >>Matt Braynard, I think his name is - Voter Integrity Project - quickly assembled a small team and, using only publicly available info (registrations, vote results, change-of-address database - which I think was created precisely for this purpose), examined the ballots in several key states.

Oh yes, thanks! Braynard's research pairs better with what Crowder did because Crowder's team went to the listed addresses and confirmed (with pictures) that the addresses flagged as false based on the db checks were in fact false.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2021 01:12 PM (bDqIh)

386 375 Does your chewing gum lose it's flavor on the bedpost overnight?

If your mother says don't chew it do you swallow it in spite?

Can you catch it on your tonsils and heave it left and right?

Fish heads, fish heads roly poly fish heads. Fish heads, fish heads eat um up yum.

Posted by: It's me donna at February 24, 2021 01:12 PM (Zmnko)

387 Inauguration year presidents give statement to joint session of congress, not a State of the Union address. It is usually in February but has not been announced yet. They will release some video at the most or just ignore it as unimportant. No way they are going to let Biden loose for for an hour or so. They are counting on him being gone by 2022 State of the Union. .

Posted by: Ripley at February 24, 2021 01:12 PM (MxEKc)

388 The 2021 State of the Union speech will be sponsored by Jeff Dunham.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 24, 2021 12:51 PM (8Uzxt)

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Dunham will come. #twoweeks

Posted by: ShainS at February 24, 2021 01:12 PM (CtltA)

389 356 Tami

Too bad someone didn't tell Liz, 75 million folks don't think she should have a voice anywhere, at anytime, either.

Posted by: EveR at February 24, 2021 01:12 PM (R0z7P)

390
If he thinks the election was likely stolen - which is the only logical and defensible position, given the facts - then how can he "move on"?

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I have. If I thought there might be a legal or electoral redress for this, I'd still be all over it. But there isn't. The system is wholly corrupt, and there is no recourse to restore the integrity of this or any other election.

So, ya gotta get on down the road to the next thing. The old ways are no longer operative, and it's time to consider the alternatives instead of dwelling in the past.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 01:12 PM (0WKYs)

391 I read some of the Gulag Archipelago and A.S. noted at length how obsessed the authorities were at getting people to sign "confessions" to their "crimes" pretty much by any means necessary. It's how they "proved" the "legitimacy" of the "crimes". Same thing here - the Harris-Biden Junta is "legitimate" because everyone is forced to swear to it.

Posted by: Eat The Eloi at February 24, 2021 01:13 PM (RGRIY)

392 Earworm?

Kajagoogoo "Too shy"

"Napalm sticks to little children"

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not scanning your email to sell you stuff like Google does. at February 24, 2021 01:13 PM (SchxB)

393 Carnies!
Smallish hands - smell like cabbage.

Posted by: Nutbush City Limits at February 24, 2021 01:14 PM (NWyC0)

394 Or maybe Limdahl and "Never ending story"

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2021 01:14 PM (gKO1F)

395 It's like he's fighting Alzheimer's all day every day.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here

Lost in No Man's Land.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 24, 2021 01:14 PM (VVEnO)

396 I read some of the Gulag Archipelago and A.S. noted at length how
obsessed the authorities were at getting people to sign "confessions" to
their "crimes" pretty much by any means necessary. It's how they
"proved" the "legitimacy" of the "crimes". Same thing here - the
Harris-Biden Junta is "legitimate" because everyone is forced to swear
to it.
Excellent point.

Posted by: pep at February 24, 2021 01:14 PM (v16oJ)

397
Christ Almighty,

Two cucks, romney and cotton, propose a $10 min wage with mandatory e-verify.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 24, 2021 01:14 PM (NugC9)

398 I agree, you can't just "move on" as if nothing significant just happened and we get on with our lives. The Democratic and Republican Parties just colluded to destroy every democratic remnants we had in our republic, and the constitution to boot. They did it officially, with Supreme Court backing. That's like "moving on" from the Weimar Republic collapsing and a brutal murderous dictatorship taking over. Oh well, what can you do? Just gotta keep on keepin on!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 01:15 PM (KZzsI)

399 Earworm?

Kajagoogoo "Too shy"

"Napalm sticks to little children"
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not scanning your email to sell you stuff like Google does. at February 24, 2021 01:13 PM

Baby shark, do do do do do do, baby shark....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2021 01:15 PM (zExdh)

400 Good news, everybody!

"Bruce Springsteen on Wednesday pleaded guilty to downing shots of tequila with fans at a New Jersey park -- as prosecutors dismissed charges of DWI and reckless driving in his November arrest."

Posted by: andycanuck with 27% more banner ad malware at February 24, 2021 01:15 PM (d6he9)

401 395 It's like he's fighting Alzheimer's all day every day.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here

I guess he had a zoom "meeting" with Trudeau and slurred his words or some such thing.. Must have been his "stutter" that he's had since he was a child

Posted by: It's me donna at February 24, 2021 01:16 PM (Zmnko)

402 I sent that article to many of my friends.

At the start of 2016, I'd never heard of Anton. Now a big fan.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 24, 2021 01:16 PM (7X3UV)

403 Reading the tweets responding to Crowder's video on non-existent voters was... enlightening. The most common "defense" was "All you found were dozens of fraudulent addresses in an election decided by hundreds of thousands of votes? THAT'S NOT PROOF!"

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Posted by: pookysgirl, forever a Rush Baby at February 24, 2021 01:16 PM (XKZwp)

404 >>Two cucks, romney and cotton, propose a $10 min wage with mandatory e-verify.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE E-VERIFY WILL BE USELESS AFTER BIDEN GIVES 40+MILLION ILLEGALS AMNESTY.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 24, 2021 01:16 PM (bDqIh)

405 Point of order, that would be severely conservative cuck Mitt Romney.

Posted by: Nutbush City Limits at February 24, 2021 01:16 PM (NWyC0)

406 Joey Bidet

Zoom SOTU speech.

And he turns on the cat filter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2021 01:16 PM (gKO1F)

407 The Dem SOBs know Biden is a drooling F**kStain and now know he is clueless/dangerous.....

Don't trust Dementia Joe because he might pull a General Ripper to save our precious bodily fluids from the COVID 19 Virus........

https://hannity.com/media-room

Posted by: James "Buster" Hymannd at February 24, 2021 01:16 PM (TdWJo)

408 If he thinks the election was likely stolen - which is the only logical and defensible position, given the facts - then how can he "move on"?

------

I have. If I thought there might be a legal or electoral redress for this, I'd still be all over it. But there isn't. The system is wholly corrupt, and there is no recourse to restore the integrity of this or any other election.

So, ya gotta get on down the road to the next thing. The old ways are no longer operative, and it's time to consider the alternatives instead of dwelling in the past.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 01:12 PM (0WKYs)
***

This is also why you cannot find ammo anywhere. I kind of go with YD here, although my thoughts of alternatives and the next thing are not pretty.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2021 01:17 PM (axyOa)

409
"Napalm sticks to little children"

All the children in the world
Red and yellow black and white
They are precious when alight
Napalm sticks to children of the world

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 24, 2021 01:17 PM (63Dwl)

410 12
Whoa, whoa, whoa... Sullivan is still around? I figured he dried up and blew away in the wind years ago. I didn't know he was even still alive.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (0WKYs)'
_______
More likely, part of a quilt.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 24, 2021 01:17 PM (7X3UV)

411 b. Failing to return shopping carts to the cart bin. We can't have civilization if you are just going to leave these lying around the parking lot.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 24, 2021 01:11 PM (H5knJ)

You know there's a whole study on that, and a theory of law growing up around it?
I'm not sure where I read it, but it's a thing. This week, or last. Eh, I'm sure we've "moved on"
Nevermind

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 24, 2021 01:17 PM (z79tQ)

412 Two cucks, romney and cotton, propose a $10 min wage with mandatory e-verify.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 24, 2021 01:14 PM (NugC9)

Add no change to that minimum for 20 years
And if the e-verify actually has teeth, then I might consider it.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 01:17 PM (9mfKN)

413
I read some of the Gulag Archipelago and A.S. noted at length how obsessed the authorities were at getting people to sign "confessions" to their "crimes" pretty much by any means necessary. It's how they "proved" the "legitimacy" of the "crimes". Same thing here - the Harris-Biden Junta is "legitimate" because everyone is forced to swear to it.
Posted by: Eat The Eloi at February 24, 2021 01:13 PM (RGRIY)

------

Indeed, it was very important to them.

On that note, I'd encourage Morons to look into the highly effective "disintegration measures" employed by MfS, because it is almost exactly the approach our government and corporate sectors are taking (though of course with some American flourishes).

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 01:17 PM (0WKYs)

414

If Anton has simply "moved on" from what appears to be a massive systemic collapse of election integrity, and is without doubt a massive collapse of constitution process and rule of law in terms of election process, then that makes him look unserious. And I'm being polite.

Posted by: rhomboid

I disagree. We have two choices. We either accept that the election is over (legit or not) or we don't. "Don't" doesn't mean bitching about it on the internet or in interviews. It means something far, far more serious and far more significant to one's life, fortune and sacred honor.

I have personally decided that it is not yet time to "not accept" this temporary travesty, and your mileage may vary. But "not moving on" entails far more than vain and empty verbal posturing. I do not believe, strategically or otherwise, that we are in a general position to "not accept" the results of what happened in November. Again, YMMV

Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 01:17 PM (SFOr6)

415 404 >>Two cucks, romney and cotton, propose a $10 min wage with mandatory e-verify.

Ten dollars? Where do they pay less than that already?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 24, 2021 01:17 PM (Zmnko)

416 Joey Bidet

Zoom SOTU speech.

And he turns on the cat filter.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2021 01:16 PM (gKO1F)

"I'm here judge, I'm ready to proceed....I'm not a President."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 24, 2021 01:17 PM (ifmtJ)

417 b. Failing to return shopping carts to the cart bin. We can't have civilization if you are just going to leave these lying around the parking lot.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 24, 2021 01:11 PM (H5knJ)

Leaving them out is a "full employment act" for the kids who need jobs.

Additionally, it gives the kids inside a break to go outside...

Posted by: browndog at February 24, 2021 01:17 PM (BgMrQ)

418 Move on! Good God Anton is only upset because the left won't let him move on. He wants to lie down and quietly accept the left's ending honest elections in this country. He is upset only because the left won't let him move on, they require his sanction for the crime they committed. He, we all, should be railing and protesting, and fighting this rape of the Constitution. No one on the right should be moving on.

Posted by: BurkeanMama at February 24, 2021 01:17 PM (CYk5a)

419 To be correct - boneless pork rectum Mittels Rombley

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2021 01:17 PM (gKO1F)

420 It's not that the election was stolen that bothers me the most.

It's that the populace at large has accepted it and allowed the media and their congress to ignore it.

That's what makes me weep at night.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2021 01:18 PM (z96ye)

421 Dead skunk in the middle of the highway, dead skunk in the middle of the road, Hold your noooose!

Posted by: andycanuck with 27% more banner ad malware at February 24, 2021 01:18 PM (d6he9)

422 99 87 On Outnumbered-
Ex-Cuomo Aide accuses Cuomo of sexual harassment. He wanted to play strip poker and showed her a cigar box given to him by Bill Clinton and made sexual innuendos about it.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2021 12:29 PM (NpAcC)

That is the kind of dumb poop that only happens in movies. Or should only happen in movies. Imagine somehow thinking that would be a smooth-move.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 12:31 PM (9mfKN)

I posit a Moronette would respond like this:

"If I thought a man like you could truly satisfy me, the offer of a card game would be unnecessary."

Posted by: Mr. Barky at February 24, 2021 01:18 PM (hKi6n)

423 The images that play on the inside of Andi Sullivan's eyelids 24/7 are:

1. A man's hairy prolapsed asshole.

2. Sarah Palin's uterus with a tiny sign hanging therein that says: "Baby Onboard!"

No wonder he's crazy as a shithouse rat.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 24, 2021 01:18 PM (UYTqZ)

424 but they rule like they have +100
As they should. If only there was an opposition party in this country that could do that if they had all three branches of govt. But uniparty FTW.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 24, 2021 01:18 PM (r+sAi)

425 In 2020 the dems, deep state, media, and big tech pulled out all of the stops to make sure Trump was not re-elected. Massive mail-in ballot dispersals hav long been a goal of democrats, and Covid provided the excuse to push it through. Why would they push so hard for laws reducing verification of mail-in ballots except to make cheating easier?

Sequestering of Biden and all negatives stories about Hunter were essential so people would not see how demented and corrupt was their candidate. Yet, still, they needed the chicanery of five corrupt democrat cities to pull off the win.

Any neutral observer would have tons of questions about this election including, wow, we've never had so many mail-in ballots; how did that go? Why were so many Republican poll watchers kicked out of voting centers? What explains the pause in 5 cities, followed by massive spikes in votes for Biden? Instead, the media every talking head rushed to state unequivocally that everything was kosher. Back to observation one: they pulled out all stops because the left, and all who profit off of China, were threatened by Trump. They are adamant because they or their bosses are being paid to be so.

Posted by: iandeal at February 24, 2021 01:18 PM (iEpAM)

426 421 Dead skunk in the middle of the highway, dead skunk in the middle of the road, Hold your noooose

Stinkin' to high heaven

Posted by: It's me donna at February 24, 2021 01:19 PM (Zmnko)

427 endanger our students

Lol - what danger? COVID does nothing to young people. Last time I checked, teens were something like 20 times more likely to off themselves than die of COVID ... even assuming the WuFlu numbers are accurate.

Posted by: spindrift at February 24, 2021 01:19 PM (h5TKJ)

428 Or a few folks to get their free babysitters back?"

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Yeah, free babysitting is all you do. Well, that and brainwashing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 24, 2021 01:05 PM (VVEnO)

Why do they always say "free" ? We paid 8k to our local school district last year. Our Catholic cost less for 2 kids. People do pay taxes so their kids can get an education.

Covid isn't even the most dangerous thing for teachers. Teachers get beat up and threatened all the time by their students. And that's been going on since the 70s (my dad kept a wooden paddle under his desk for protection when he started teaching). I hate hearing this crap about fearing for their lives. They are just lazy.

Posted by: Mishdog at February 24, 2021 01:19 PM (cqAUI)

429 417 b. Failing to return shopping carts to the cart bin. We can't have civilization if you are just going to leave these lying around the parking lot.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 24, 2021 01:11 PM (H5knJ)

Leaving them out is a "full employment act" for the kids who need jobs.

Additionally, it gives the kids inside a break to go outside...
Posted by: browndog at February 24, 2021 01:17 PM (BgMrQ)

It's freezing outside.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 24, 2021 01:19 PM (Zm+LZ)

430 And this was a very quick look. NV, the sleeper
here in the sense that the Clark County abuses were truly Zimbabwe-like
(switching off signature matching process, kicking out GOP observers),
and there as I recall Matt quickly found huge numbers of illegal votes
counted.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2021 01:06 PM (OTzUX)

=======For me, the greatest disappointment was the total failure of every single safeguard that was put in place to prevent election fraud. State secretaries of state rubber stamped fraud. State legislatures rubber stamped fraud. County election officials rubber stamped fraud. Governors rubber stamped fraud. US Senate rubber stamped fraud, the House of Representatives rubber stamped fraud, the US federal courts rubber stamped fraud, our illustrious MSM ... It was like watching the finale of that Kurt Russell movie, where he lands the 747 on the runway of a municipal airport, the jest smashing through every barrier.

Posted by: mrp at February 24, 2021 01:19 PM (Pqytn)

431 At first I thought this was a parody acct., like @Titiana McGrath but she's dead serious...

https://tinyurl.com/y8545mfp

Posted by: Tami at February 24, 2021 01:19 PM (cF8AT)

432 Ten dollars? Where do they pay less than that already?
Probably in the Romney and Cotton households, to whomever drew the short straw and is stuck being their domestic help. Excuse me, that would be in the severely conservative Romney household.

Posted by: Nutbush City Limits at February 24, 2021 01:20 PM (NWyC0)

433 >>> 384 Space-based solar power in the news, brought to you by those really, really smart guys at the Naval Research Lab.
https://tinyurl.com/u4p62zta
Posted by: pep at February 24, 2021 01:12 PM (v16oJ)

"A solar panel in space is collecting energy that could one day be beamed to anywhere on Earth"

If you think about it, didn't the Death Star just beam energy to Alderaan?

Posted by: banana Dream at February 24, 2021 01:20 PM (4tN2f)

434 I agree, you can't just "move on" as if nothing significant just happened and we get on with our lives. The Democratic and Republican Parties just colluded to destroy every democratic remnants we had in our republic, and the constitution to boot. They did it officially, with Supreme Court backing. That's like "moving on" from the Weimar Republic collapsing and a brutal murderous dictatorship taking over. Oh well, what can you do? Just gotta keep on keepin on!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 01:15 PM (KZzsI)

I still believe the truth is going to come out, but it will happen unexpectedly, and it will be like Columbo---some piece of evidence left at the scene of the crime....
but until that moment comes, you have to "move on" if only for your sanity.

Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:20 PM (HrMC1)

435 There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Posted by: pookysgirl, forever a Rush Baby at February 24, 2021 01:16 PM (XKZwp)

=============
Also --

"It is easier to fool someone than to convince them that they have been fooled."
- Mark Twain

Posted by: Doof at February 24, 2021 01:21 PM (mZUr4)

436 The looks on the faces of his Beagles are comedy gold.

"Dad's off his meds again."

Posted by: Sharkman at February 24, 2021 01:21 PM (UYTqZ)

437 334 Anyone who's offended at Ace's site is free to cancel their subscription at any time.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 24, 2021 12:54 PM (8Uzxt)

Is this a good time to renew our Platinum Plans?

Posted by: TryHardNeckBeard at February 24, 2021 01:21 PM (Lp34m)

438 YD, different point, really.

Anton is bringing up the fact that these dimwit authoritarians like Sullivan are obsessed with getting their Vyshinskiy confessions about the election's integrity. He himself recognizes the many many anomalies, which is merely a careful way to point to the many gross irregularities of process that cannot be denied.

But he's "moving on" with respect to the most basic function of a representative republic? If a presidential election can be stolen - and crudely, in plain sight, and involving a complete detonation of the constitution WRT process (thanks, SCOTUS!!! for essentially endorsing this de facto revision of the constitution) - then what's the stuff he's going to "move on" *to*?

Obviously there's no republic and no political process at all if elections are rigged. Whatever things he thinks about any other topics are moot and quaint, if there is no actual representative government.

I'll amend my snark. Lazy, shallow, styling and social positioning.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2021 01:21 PM (OTzUX)

439 Nothing says power like a solar powered laser

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2021 01:22 PM (gKO1F)

440 I have. If I thought there might be a legal or electoral redress for this, I'd still be all over it. But there isn't. The system is wholly corrupt, and there is no recourse to restore the integrity of this or any other election.

I agree YD. We have to step away from our hopelessly corrupt federal govt. And yet remain steadfast, remembering the promise of our Founding, and try to make a difference locally.

The US Federal Government WILL collapse. It is possible - a slim hope - that it can do so without destroying the country. The way forward to is to work OUTSIDE of the diseased part, isolate it as much as possible. It's thrashing around right now, basically death throes. Just stay out of range and hang on tight.

the reason this is "global" is because the massive generation called baby boomers was a global postwar phenomenon (except in Eastern Europe, which is NOT in the same mess as the West, interestingly).

We are going through utterly inevitable upheaval as the Earth reclaims a generation who honestly did "create reality" ...via sheer numbers.

Soon, we're gonna need quality over quantity, and to be quick on our feet, lest they drag us all along.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 24, 2021 01:22 PM (j9HX3)

441 >>Two cucks, romney and cotton, propose a $10 min wage with mandatory e-verify.

See???
Compromise???
Government at work, diligently seeking common ground for the good of the People!
Reaching across the aisle...working together for a brighter and better tomorrow.

Gawd...I gag myself.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2021 01:22 PM (axyOa)

442 And, Braynard crowdfunded his research, which was a great way to help his initial project. Because there are multiple states involved, though, it would be helpful, it seems, if individuals who live there could visit those locations and prove they are not residential; not just use Google, produce an actual photo as evidence. He used phone calls to verify voters with a somewhat small response, but this could be 100% verified w locations.

Posted by: EveR at February 24, 2021 01:22 PM (R0z7P)

443 Dead dog in alley. Tire treads on burst stomach.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2021 01:22 PM (yQpMk)

444 Whoa, whoa, whoa... Sullivan is still around? I
figured he dried up and blew away in the wind years ago. I didn't know
he was even still alive.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 24, 2021 12:20 PM (0WKYs)

This is where I am. No idea he is still alive...

Posted by: Timon at February 24, 2021 01:22 PM (q4X5T)

445 Why don't we d-d-d-do it in the road?

Posted by: Dead Skunks Everywhere at February 24, 2021 01:23 PM (jvt6t)

446 If you think about it, didn't the Death Star just beam energy to Alderaan?
Posted by: banana Dream at February 24, 2021 01:20 PM (4tN2f)

Damn slackers still haven't paid their power bill.

Posted by: Emp. Palpatine at February 24, 2021 01:23 PM (RGRIY)

447 It's not that the election was stolen that bothers me the most. It's that the populace at large has accepted it and allowed the media and their congress to ignore it. That's what makes me weep at night.
Realistically, what can we do at the moment ? The GOP didn't want to defend their own candidate, and Team Trump made pretty much a mess of it. It's damn near impossible to help those that won't help themselves. YD's got the right of it, I think. Quit trying to drag along a Republic that's already dead. Get about the business of thinking about what's next.

Posted by: Nutbush City Limits at February 24, 2021 01:23 PM (NWyC0)

448 Harris will deliver the SOTU. It will be heralded as groundbreaking to have a woman deliver it. And they will all pretend that it's not because Biden is rapidly deteriorating and would not be able to handle the speech at that time of day.

Posted by: Buzzion at February 24, 2021 01:23 PM (Pyr3S)

449 Well you could touch yourself when you think about...

"Ken, stop playing with yourself."

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2021 01:23 PM (gKO1F)

450 The election was stolen.

Posted by: Count de Monet in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 24, 2021 01:23 PM (4I/2K)

451 For me, the greatest disappointment was the total failure of every single safeguard that was put in place to prevent election fraud. State secretaries of state rubber stamped fraud. State legislatures rubber stamped fraud. County election officials rubber stamped fraud. Governors rubber stamped fraud. US Senate rubber stamped fraud, the House of Representatives rubber stamped fraud, the US federal courts rubber stamped fraud, our illustrious MSM ... It was like watching the finale of that Kurt Russell movie, where he lands the 747 on the runway of a municipal airport, the jest smashing through every barrier.

Posted by: mrp at February 24, 2021 01:19 PM (Pqytn)

Because all those people who were in charge of those "safeguards" were either in on it- OR-they weren't in on it but wanted NO part in "helping" Trump , and revealing how corrupt the system really is.

Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:23 PM (HrMC1)

452 =======For me, the greatest disappointment was the total failure of every single safeguard that was put in place to prevent election fraud. State secretaries of state rubber stamped fraud. State legislatures rubber stamped fraud. County election officials rubber stamped fraud. Governors rubber stamped fraud. US Senate rubber stamped fraud, the House of Representatives rubber stamped fraud, the US federal courts rubber stamped fraud, our illustrious MSM ... It was like watching the finale of that Kurt Russell movie, where he lands the 747 on the runway of a municipal airport, the jest smashing through every barrier.

Posted by: mrp

This times a Brazilian! Every. Safeguard. Failed.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2021 01:23 PM (Z+JNA)

453 WaPo:In China, some U.S. personnel have complained about being subjected to anal swab tests for the coronavirus by Chinese authorities, said U.S. officials. The invasive technique has been heralded by Chinese doctors as more effective than a nasal swab despite the unpleasant nature of the procedure. In response to questions about the anal swab testing of U.S. officials, a State Department spokesman said the department was "evaluating all reasonable options" to address the issue with the aim of preserving the "dignity" of U.S. officials "consistent with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations."

Posted by: SMOD at February 24, 2021 01:23 PM (3aI0K)

454 It was more forgivable in the past for mom with her arms full of groceries and a minivan with kids jumping up and down trying to convince her to stop at NcDonald's on the way home to not put the cart away, because there weren't those convenient corrals to stick the cart in nearby. You had to roll the wonky metal thing all the way back to the store with one wheel spinning free and the other barely turning.

But these days, yeah.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

455 Mary Hill
Used to hang out
In Cherry Hill Park....

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2021 01:23 PM (axyOa)

456 Dead dog in alley. Tire treads on burst stomach.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2021 01:22 PM (yQpMk)

Rorschach, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 24, 2021 01:24 PM (ifmtJ)

457 Harris will deliver the SOTU. It will be heralded as groundbreaking to have a woman deliver it. And they will all pretend that it's not because Biden is rapidly deteriorating and would not be able to handle the speech at that time of day.
Posted by: Buzzion at February 24, 2021 01:23 PM (Pyr3S)

Wouldn't be surprised, but she'll blow it.

Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:24 PM (HrMC1)

458 I wonder if the MSM journalists realize that once all the journalists to the right of them are silenced, they will be next.

Eventually you will be the right-most no matter how left you are.

Posted by: zmdavid at February 24, 2021 01:24 PM (xqRaG)

459

It's that the populace at large has accepted it and allowed the media and their congress to ignore it.

That's what makes me weep at night.
Posted by: jakee308

There's a big difference between accepting the current state of affairs and being content with it. Are the defenders inside a besieged castle "content" with it? No, and they will act when they can. But sallying forth to get mown down by the enemy is not a tactically sound course of action. I do believe most people are in the "besieged" mindset.

Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 01:25 PM (SFOr6)

460 Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2021 01:23 PM (Z+JNA)

Or was allowed to fail......

Posted by: Jak Sucio at February 24, 2021 01:25 PM (jvt6t)

461 WaPo:In China, some U.S. personnel have complained about being subjected to anal swab tests for the coronavirus by Chinese authorities, said U.S. officials. The invasive technique has been heralded by Chinese doctors as more effective than a nasal swab despite the unpleasant nature of the procedure. In response to questions about the anal swab testing of U.S. officials, a State Department spokesman said the department was "evaluating all reasonable options" to address the issue with the aim of preserving the "dignity" of U.S. officials "consistent with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations."

Posted by: SMOD at February 24, 2021 01:23 PM

Is this for real? I thought it was all BS?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2021 01:25 PM (axyOa)

462 "For me, the greatest disappointment was the total failure of every single safeguard that was put in place to prevent election fraud. State secretaries of state rubber stamped fraud. State legislatures rubber stamped fraud. County election officials rubber stamped fraud. Governors rubber stamped fraud. US Senate rubber stamped fraud, the House of Representatives rubber stamped fraud, the US federal courts rubber stamped fraud, our illustrious MSM ... It was like watching the finale of that Kurt Russell movie, where he lands the 747 on the runway of a municipal airport, the jest smashing through every barrier." - mrp

Perfectly stated. But you left out SCOTUS putting the final finishing touch on it all this week by formally signaling that wholesale, nearly comically unconstitutional violation of election process (state legislatures not allowed to set the rules) is just fine. Even Thomas' dissent was limp and utterly inappropriate to the scale of what just happened.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2021 01:25 PM (OTzUX)

463 Common knowledge that dementia sufferers have better mornings than evenings and staying in familiar surrounding with no surprises is also better.

Sound familiar?

I'm laughing wondering at the timing. Will Joe deteriorate too fast and necessitate Harris stepping in and ruining her chances for two terms?Will they try to bluff it out if he collapses too soon?

That's what we should be worrying about. Harris is scarier than Joe is. For a number of reasons.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2021 01:25 PM (z96ye)

464 Biden will deliver the STFU

Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:25 PM (HrMC1)

465 Wouldn't be surprised, but she'll blow it.

Willie Brown, "that wouldn't be a first."

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2021 01:25 PM (gKO1F)

466 Eventually you will be the right-most no matter how left you are.
Posted by: zmdavid at February 24, 2021 01:24 PM (xqRaG)

Can you imagine the crazy we're about to be subjected to?

Posted by: Jak Sucio at February 24, 2021 01:26 PM (jvt6t)

467 @JackPosobiec

The Democrats have now brought in a British professor to tell us how America should censor free speech

https://tinyurl.com/y7x69y5o

Posted by: Tami at February 24, 2021 01:26 PM (cF8AT)

468 This is the problem with progressives.

Let's look at gays. It started with tolerance. Ok, not a problem. But then you have to not only tolerate it, but espouse it. Embrace it. And if you don't, well, they have the courts make you do so. Gay marriage will be the law of the land per judges who are not elected. Because, if it were up to the states, gay marriage would never have happened.

This has been happening for at least 3 decades. So, it should not be surprising that they insist that we bend and embrace an election that was CLEARLY stolen. Not enough to tolerate it. You will be made to embrace and espouse it.

Posted by: charlotte the sailor RIP Mr. Limbaugh at February 24, 2021 01:26 PM (jMEOg)

469
Perfectly stated. But you left out SCOTUS putting the final finishing touch on it all this week by formally signaling that wholesale, nearly comically unconstitutional violation of election process (state legislatures not allowed to set the rules) is just fine. Even Thomas' dissent was limp and utterly inappropriate to the scale of what just happened.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2021 01:25 PM (OTzUX)

Not that I'm cutting any of the Justices any slack, but they were just NOT going to go THERE. Does anyone REALLY think they were going to overturn the election?

Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:26 PM (HrMC1)

470 Well, that's why they had to wait until this election to pull out the full fraud. They WANTED to in past elections, but couldn't quite do it because there were still some safeguards in place. After long enough, they managed to remove every last one. 2000 taught them that they had to control every level to pull it off.

Now they do.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2021 01:27 PM (KZzsI)

471 Wouldn't be surprised, but she'll blow it.
Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:24 PM (HrMC1)

It is where most of her experience ~~kneels~~ lies.

Posted by: Buzzion at February 24, 2021 01:27 PM (Pyr3S)

472 @JackPosobiec

The Democrats have now brought in a British professor to tell us how America should censor free speech

https://tinyurl.com/y7x69y5o
Posted by: Tami at February 24, 2021 01:26 PM (cF8AT)

King George III ?

Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:27 PM (HrMC1)

473 More live virus in your feces than your mouth.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2021 01:27 PM (z96ye)

474 If you think about it, didn't the Death Star just beam energy to Alderaan?
Posted by: banana Dream

Was it really Vader's problem that they were in position to receive said energy?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2021 01:28 PM (Z+JNA)

475 Is this for real? I thought it was all BS?
Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2021 01:25 PM

In this instance, it's HS.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2021 01:28 PM (DMUuz)

476

The US Federal Government WILL collapse. It is possible - a slim hope - that it can do so without destroying the country. The way forward to is to work OUTSIDE of the diseased part, isolate it as much as possible. It's thrashing around right now, basically death throes. Just stay out of range and hang on tight.
Posted by: BlackOrchid

This is an astute and correct observation. Buy lots of small barterable goods, like pawn shop jewelry.

Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 01:28 PM (SFOr6)

477 It's stunning to me talking with Beltway types, even many who considered Trump's re-election critical for various reasons. Some don't even understand the constitutional framework for presidential elections, the safeguards and back-ups, weren't even aware of them.

There is so, so, so much desperate normalcy bias and desperate clinging to now totally outmoded assumptions.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2021 01:28 PM (OTzUX)

478 Wash your hands

Posted by: Count de Monet in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 24, 2021 01:28 PM (4I/2K)

479 Can you imagine the crazy we're about to be subjected to?
It's going to be relatively short term - because the stupid bastards can't keep it all together for very long. Now, if some well-meaning yet naive folks can be convinced to quit trying to hold the Republic together, when our best course of action is to let it fall apart, we can hasten this process along and minimize the suffering.

Posted by: Nutbush City Limits at February 24, 2021 01:29 PM (NWyC0)

480 Gawd...I gag myself.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2021 01:22 PM (axyOa)

You too?

Posted by: Ron Jeremy at February 24, 2021 01:29 PM (z79tQ)

481 Is there a line Joe could cross that would force the MSM to acknowledge his dementia?

Posted by: Northern lurker at February 24, 2021 01:29 PM (lgiXo)

482 Wouldn't be surprised, but she'll blow it.
Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:24 PM (HrMC1)

It is where most of her experience kneels lies.
Posted by: Buzzion at February 24, 2021 01:27 PM (Pyr3S)

Of course, I knew what I wrote, but also I have a feeling it won't go over well with people.
It will dawn on even the stupid that "something ain't right."

Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:29 PM (HrMC1)

483 "Ken, stop playing with yourself."
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2021 01:23 PM

It is God!

- Kent

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2021 01:29 PM (zExdh)

484 > ..."total failure of every single safeguard that was put in place to prevent election fraud"

I'm not sure there were safeguards so much as we thought there was. Even so, IMO the safeguards, such that they were obviously had been established to be weak links and easily worked around by some pretty obvious fraud.

It's really hard to objectively look at the election data and NOT come to the conclusion it was rigged.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 24, 2021 01:29 PM (3H9h1)

485 I thought somebody else got the butt-flu. Maybe I thought it was Hitchens.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Christopher Hitchens died of lung cancer several years ago. I never really understood his charm that some people had for him, but he suffered terribly.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at February 24, 2021 01:29 PM (vcOmj)

486 Not that I'm cutting any of the Justices any slack, but they were just NOT going to go THERE. Does anyone REALLY think they were going to overturn the election?
Posted by: JoeF.

They had two choices. Do or do not do their job.
They chose to not do their job. They chose poorly.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2021 01:30 PM (Z+JNA)

487 King George III ?
Cromwell. (He banned Parliament too.)

Posted by: andycanuck with 27% more banner ad malware at February 24, 2021 01:30 PM (d6he9)

488 Nood South Dakota AG

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 24, 2021 01:30 PM (9mfKN)

489 Not that I'm cutting any of the Justices any slack, but they were just NOT going to go THERE. Does anyone REALLY think they were going to overturn the election?
Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:26 PM (HrMC1)

Considering how they've used Marbury v Madison to meddle in every other fucking thing the Founders didn't want them to, it's far from inconsistent.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 24, 2021 01:30 PM (y7DUB)

490 Buy lots of small barterable goods, like pawn shop jewelry.
Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 01:28 PM (SFOr6)

Airliner shots of booze. By the bucketful.

Posted by: Ron Jeremy at February 24, 2021 01:30 PM (z79tQ)

491 There is so, so, so much desperate normalcy bias and desperate clinging to now totally outmoded assumptions.

it is falling away

that process will become more rapid, to Nutbush's point. people - even the boy-scout types - are waking up. hopefully in traditional American fashion we will move through the most painful stages quickly.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 24, 2021 01:30 PM (j9HX3)

492 Can you imagine the crazy we're about to be subjected to?

The Horde can "imagine" it, but not the other 350M

Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:31 PM (HrMC1)

493 Governor Andrew Cuomo has created a culture within his administration where sexual harassment and bullying is so pervasive that it is not only condoned but expected. His inappropriate behavior toward women was an affirmation that he liked you, that you must be doing something right. He used intimidation to silence his critics. And if you dared to speak up, you would face consequences.

That's why I panicked on the morning of December 13.

While enjoying a weekend with my husband and six-year-old daughter, I spontaneously decided to share a small part of the truth I had hidden for so long in shame and never planned to disclose. The night before, a former Cuomo staffer confided to me that she, too, had been the subject of the Governor's workplace harassment. Her story mirrored my own. Seeing his name floated as a potential candidate for U.S. Attorney General -- the highest law enforcement official in the land -- set me off.

Posted by: Lindsey Boylan at February 24, 2021 01:31 PM (3aI0K)

494 @JackPosobiec

The Democrats have now brought in a British professor to tell us how America should censor free speech

https://tinyurl.com/y7x69y5o
Posted by: Tami at February 24, 2021 01:26 PM (cF8AT)

King George III ?

Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:27 PM (

So, going forward every city in America with a population over...say...50k, must have a muzzie mayor.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2021 01:31 PM (axyOa)

495 486
They had two choices. Do or do not do their job.
They chose to not do their job. They chose poorly.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2021 01:30 PM (Z+JNA

===========

"But it was so much easier!"
-Roberts, in a final plea

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 24, 2021 01:31 PM (LvTSG)

496 443 Dead dog in alley. Tire treads on burst stomach.

You people don't seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME!

Posted by: Rorschach at February 24, 2021 01:31 PM (Bmy3R)

497 Is this a good time to renew our Platinum Plans?
Posted by: TryHardNeckBeard at February 24, 2021 01:21 PM

Try to be less &.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2021 01:32 PM (DMUuz)

498 Perfectly stated. But you left out SCOTUS putting
the final finishing touch on it all this week by formally signaling that
wholesale, nearly comically unconstitutional violation of election
process (state legislatures not allowed to set the rules) is just fine.
Even Thomas' dissent was limp and utterly inappropriate to the scale of
what just happened.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2021 01:25 PM (OTzUX)

=======
Because I consider that ruling a placeholder for the whole enchilada, which will take place if/when HR 1 is passed and is placed on the US Supreme Court's docket for constitutional review. No wiggle room there for Roberts, Barrett, and Kavanaugh when that case is decided.

Posted by: mrp at February 24, 2021 01:32 PM (Pqytn)

499 Two things.
1- The Democrats are embarrassed at how far they had to go to get the "correct" result.
2- There are some on the Left who have come to believe they can 'declare' reality. When they say something, the universe re-orders itself to make their proclamations truth.

Disputing the election goes against both.

Posted by: JB1000 at February 24, 2021 01:32 PM (Kf5r9)

500 Posted by: Northern lurker at February 24, 2021 01:29 PM (lgiXo)

Whipping his dick out and taking a piss on the podium during a press conference.

Hey! Maybe that's why he hasn't had one yet.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2021 01:32 PM (z96ye)

501

Airliner shots of booze. By the bucketful.
Posted by: Ron Jeremy

Good call. That will get you a few loaves of bread I'd imagine.

Posted by: imp at February 24, 2021 01:32 PM (SFOr6)

502 Not that I'm cutting any of the Justices any slack, but they were just NOT going to go THERE. Does anyone REALLY think they were going to overturn the election?
Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:26 PM (HrMC1)

Considering how they've used Marbury v Madison to meddle in every other fucking thing the Founders didn't want them to, it's far from inconsistent.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 24, 2021 01:30 PM (y7DUB)

You are right, but Marbury v Madison wasn't going to cause unprecedented massive civil unrest.

Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:32 PM (HrMC1)

503 Hitch, for all his flaws, really hated the Clintons.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 24, 2021 01:32 PM (y7DUB)

504 The election results have become a matter of Faith.

And all heretics must repent, or burn.

That is where we are at in America.

Posted by: Romeo13, former Inebriated Nautical Professional at February 24, 2021 01:33 PM (oHd/0)

505 Rorschach?? I was told there would be no tests.

Posted by: andycanuck with 27% more banner ad malware at February 24, 2021 01:33 PM (d6he9)

506 King George III ?

Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:27 PM (HrMC1)

Right? That's a man, baby!

Posted by: Tami at February 24, 2021 01:33 PM (cF8AT)

507 >>> For me, the greatest disappointment was the total failure of every single safeguard that was put in place to prevent election fraud.
Posted by: mrp at February 24, 2021 01:19 PM (Pqytn)

You are right and moreover the mechanisms of those "safeguards" are still there but we all know that they only work in one direction. It's a one-way valve to ensure one-way "progress".

Posted by: banana Dream at February 24, 2021 01:33 PM (4tN2f)

508 he Democrats are embarrassed at how far they had to go to get the "correct" result.
2- There are some on the Left who have come to believe they can 'declare' reality. When they say something, the universe re-orders itself to make their proclamations truth.

Disputing the election goes against both.
Posted by: JB1000 at February 24, 2021 01:32 PM (Kf5r9)

Something else in gnawing at them. I wouldn't say it's guilt...but it's probably fear that they are eventually going to be found out

Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:34 PM (HrMC1)

509 Wouldn't be surprised, but she'll blow it.
Posted by: JoeF.

Well, that's what she does.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at February 24, 2021 01:34 PM (vcOmj)

510 There is no excuse for SCOTUS not doing its job. Its actual, legitimate job (which is about 1/10 of what it does). They either apply and defend the constitution and the law, or (as in this case) they actively abet their complete destruction (no hyperbole).

If you accept the cowardice, or stupidity, of a court or justice who is afraid of ruling on clear facts and the constitution, on the central process of our system, then you're not serious about any of it.

The tiny, tiny, invisibly small character of most in the Beltway and in the political class cannot be excused. Their proper action wouldn't in itself "overturn the election", but they should be prepared to overturn elections 8 times a day if warranted - if they aren't, they have no business being on any court or in any serious job.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2021 01:34 PM (OTzUX)

511
Joe Biden is at the "Don't hug Grandpa too hard" stage of life.

Posted by: portlandon at February 24, 2021 01:35 PM (+oR7L)

512 You are right, but Marbury v Madison wasn't going to cause unprecedented massive civil unrest.
Posted by: JoeF. at February 24, 2021 01:32 PM (HrMC1)

You mean like Troops in DC, or barbed wire in the Capital?

Or collecting information illegally even about Congressmen who happened to be in DC on a certain day.

Or creating a fictional White Supremacy Conspiracy? So you can double down an take guns away?

Or ordering all the Anti Constitutional Covid Crap?

Posted by: Romeo13, former Inebriated Nautical Professional at February 24, 2021 01:36 PM (oHd/0)

513 My two favorite games right now are Red Dead Redemption II (published by evil Rockstar Games who also publish GTA) and Hunter: Call of the Wild. In RDRII you shoot, beat, and kill people. In H:CotW you shoot deer, bear, boar etc. In RDRII, I have no qualms about.robbing and killing the guilty, the innocent, and the semi-innocent. In H:CotW, however, I feel a twinge of guilt shooting pixel deer etc., particularly the small, cute roe deer.

So I'd be like, "Thank God! There's eyeglasses in my car!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 24, 2021 01:37 PM (VVEnO)

514 Something else in gnawing at them. I wouldn't say it's guilt...but it's probably fear that they are eventually going to be found out
Posted by: JoeF.

Sometimes, a really psychotic criminal really wants to show what he has done, and get caught.
Just to show the world how scary and awful he actually is. It's kind of a personal validation.
The Democrats aren't a singular person, but I think some of them actually want to get up in front of a microphone and brag about how they stole the election, and dare anyone to do anything about it. That article in "Newsweek"? a couple of weeks ago is close to that.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at February 24, 2021 01:37 PM (vcOmj)

515 Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2021 01:34 PM (OTzUX)

Petition for redress under the Law?

Morte.

Posted by: Romeo13, former Inebriated Nautical Professional at February 24, 2021 01:37 PM (oHd/0)

516 The best thing you can do when the weather warms up is print out "Trump Won" on paper and tape it all around your city

Posted by: Dr. DJ3Way at February 24, 2021 01:52 PM (bhPL1)

517 Tbeh aren't acting like they won. They're acting like they have stolen loot.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at February 24, 2021 01:52 PM (ySQBZ)

518 They don't experience guilt or shame.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at February 24, 2021 01:54 PM (ySQBZ)

519 493
While enjoying a weekend with my husband and six-year-old daughter, I spontaneously decided to share a small part of the truth I had hidden for so long in shame and never planned to disclose. The night before, a former Cuomo staffer confided to me that she, too, had been the subject of the Governor's workplace harassment. Her story mirrored my own. Seeing his name floated as a potential candidate for U.S. Attorney General -- the highest law enforcement official in the land -- set me off.
Posted by: Lindsey Boylan at February 24, 2021 01:31 PM (3aI0K)

While Cuomo was killing thousands of elderly patients, you stayed quiet Lindsey. You let Cuomo kill people, when you had the power to destroy his political career. Now he is a threat to Kamala, you come forward.

Don't think we can't see through you Lindsey.

Posted by: BurkeanMama at February 24, 2021 01:58 PM (CYk5a)

520 THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!

Posted by: William Hailey at February 24, 2021 01:59 PM (ORKG7)

521 17> Also the election was stolen, with GOP help.

Biden was not lawfully elected and was installed only as a result of fraud.

It bears saying, every day.

EVERY DAY! GOT IT!

Posted by: sidney at February 24, 2021 02:04 PM (+fjIe)

522 376. Exactly. Beat me to it. It's a shifting of the burden of proof. With Obama, or any presidential candidate, they at least have to meet an initial burden of proof that they are a natural born citizen. Once they do, the burden shifts to anybody denying it. Obama ran for office and was sitting in office for four years before he produced anything. When people ask me if I believe he was a natural born citizen, I just asked them if they were there to catch him when he dropped from his mother's uterus. Because if they weren't, they don't know any more than I do.

Posted by: SaltyDonnie at February 24, 2021 02:29 PM (9ehqp)

523 >Two cucks, romney and cotton, propose a $10 min wage with mandatory e-verify.

They'll end up supporting $15/hr with no e-verify and will call it a victory for bipartisanship.

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 24, 2021 02:31 PM (G/mW5)

524 In earlier totally not insane Sullivan history, he waxes eloquently on:

"the beauty and mystery and spirituality of . . . anonymous sex," he wrote. And "on a personal level, I have never been in a long-term romantic relationship, and am perfectly happy without one." https://tinyurl.com/yhme4kc9

Posted by: Charles at February 24, 2021 02:34 PM (l7rT0)

525 Is there a Lefty out there that does not require lobotomy. Convince me I'm wrong.

Posted by: I am not corey Booker at February 24, 2021 03:47 PM (EcD5Y)

526 I've seen video of vote coubters filling in votes, pulling iut bags of new vites after they clear out poll wathers and pictures of them putting up what looks to be construction paper to obscure the view of poll watchers. Don't tell me the vote was on the up and up.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 24, 2021 04:01 PM (3TihK)

527 It is a struggle session where you must admit the lie as they do over and over and over.

Posted by: Valiant at February 24, 2021 04:06 PM (3MiF8)

528 From the evidence I have seen, the voting machines could easily have been compromised, and it matters quite a lot. In this, I disagree with the author of the article. As for the rest - yeah, the alleged "winners" do protest too much, methinks.

Posted by: Thomas Parker at February 24, 2021 05:50 PM (otYtA)

529 I don't know if it's been mentioned in the previous 600 comments...but, the first rule of stolen election is, don't talk about the Stolen election.

Posted by: zbull at February 24, 2021 09:08 PM (S2pGP)

530 Is this the same bareback sex pushing HIV Positive Brit import?????

Posted by: Corner Stone at February 24, 2021 10:09 PM (Gzt/W)

531 .......

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