The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 8/12/21

Good morning, kids. Thursday and we're just coming apart at the seams. With a $1 trillion so-called "infrastructure" bill that tees up the $3.5 reconciliation bill that destroys our economy, way of life and freedom while entombing what's left of this nation in the vault of socialist horror and Chi-Com/Islamic global domination, it's neck and neck between SMOD and Cloward-Piven.

I don't even know where to begin with this insanity but here's one example that just makes you want to scream:

Joe Biden began his [so-called quote-unquote "presidency"] by destroying one of the few sectors in America that was still working after [Chinese] COVID lockdowns and that was benefitting Americans -- the oil and gas industry. Within what seemed like minutes, oil and gas prices shot up. Now, Joe Biden has listened to Americans crying out for succor from the economic fallout from his decisions. His [junta], therefore, has announced that . . . OPEC+ countries (Muslim Gulf states and Russia) should increase their oil and gas production to export to America. At this point, you must believe that the Democrats are pursuing a Cloward-Piven strategy of destroying America entirely so that they can rebuild it as a third-world socialist nation under the control of a cadre of rich, White leftists. . .
. . . Biden and his fellow Dems, however, have no decency. And when you have no decency, you have your National Security Advisor announce that the United States wants OPEC+ (Muslim Gulf nations and Russia) to increase oil and gas production

Not quite two years ago, for the first time in decades America became a net exporter of oil thanks to PIEOTUS Trump going all in on fracking and opening up of Federal lands for exploration. With that technology we have IIRC the second largest reserve of oil and natural gas on the planet, perhaps at least a 300-year supply -- now, lying fallow.

Moving on to something completely different but just as enraging, after spouting the outrageous lie about President in Exile Trump telling people to inject Lysol and drink bleach to cure them of the Peking Pox, Piss-Hockey Psaki let this telling bit of insanity emerge from her whore mouth:

Leftists are utterly detached from reality. They think people can magically change sex, accept that there are over 100 genders, put their faith in filthy and porous masks against infinitesimally small viruses, are certain that being lenient with criminals will lessen crime, and believe that socialism just hasn't been done right. Given all that, perhaps it shouldn't be so surprising that Jen Psaki, the most vapid and snarky press secretary ever, seemed to state in all seriousness that the Taliban need "to make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the international community":

.@PressSec: "The Taliban also has to make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the international community."
The Taliban are very clear about their role: It is to be a leading edge of a worldwide Islamic caliphate.

That Piss-Hockey can be so utterly clueless is just remarkable. But it's not that she's stupid; it's just that she grew up and was educated by faculty lounge eggheads whose worldview is 180 degrees out of phase with reality. Multiply her by 99% of DC, the media, the arts and a growing cross section of business and society, such as it is, at large. That's why Bro-Fo Omar/Nur/Burqawitz/Ikeeelyou is a Congressman and why an Earth Liberation Front terrorist may very well be confirmed as the Secretary of the Interior but why some guy who was allowed in to the Capitol on January 6th and did nothing more than take a selfie sitting at Malig-Nancy Pelosi's desk represents "the greatest threat to our precious democracy since the Civil War."

In case you've already forgotten, as most people have, Miles Taylor shot to a kind of fame in September 2018, when he wrote an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times that was one of the first open acknowledgments that there was a coterie of federal bureaucrats that is determined to thwart Trump's agenda by any means possible: "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration: I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations."
Taylor followed that up in November 2019 with the ostentatiously anomymous book A Warning, one of the first publications in what became a cottage industry of Trump-is-stupid-and-evil books. A Warning was credited to "A Senior Trump Administration Official"; both the op-ed and the book gave rise to a great deal of speculation as to who the author really was: John Kelly? John Bolton? Mike Pence? The disappointment was palpable when Anonymous turned out not to be a senior Trump administration official at all, but just little Miles Taylor, a thirtysomething former chief of staff to the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. That's right: a nonentity. . .
. . . What Taylor is doing is tilling the fertile soil for the Left to portray all who oppose it as potentially violent extremists, or just outright violent extremists even if they've never espoused violence, and accordingly to criminalize dissent from its agenda. Taylor predicted: "You're going to see that because radicalized elements of the Republican party now represent a bigger threat to our democracy than organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIS ever did."
This breathtaking exercise in moral equivalence shows that Taylor knows as little about al-Qaeda and ISIS as he likely does about Republicans and conservatives; perhaps sensing how hysterical he sounded, he immediately began walking his statement back: "Not necessarily to human lives, but a bigger threat to our democracy than those terrorist groups ever did, because these are. . . political institutions that are attacking our democracy, trying to rewrite the rules, and irrevocably breaking our bonds as Americans, and they're doing it all from the inside. It's something that our enemies could never have even dreamed of."
No one seems sure who first said it, maybe Joseph Goebbels, but in any case it's a tried-and-tested Alinskyite tactic: accuse your enemy of what you're doing. Miles Taylor has learned the lesson well, and found an eager Leftist audience for his "insurrectionist" red meat. All he lacks is the insurrection. That's where framing us comes in.

That fuckin' guy Obama. The son-of-a-Stalinist was right when he proclaimed "we're on the verge of fundamentally transforming America." Here we are nearly 13 years later and he sure as hell was right. LoPecia Pressley, the doppelganger of Corey Booker's undescended testicle, crowing about these multi-trillion-dollar madness . . .

Care is infrastructure. Climate justice is infrastructure. Housing is infrastructure.

. . . just confirms the illusion of any sort of opposition from the GOP, who is allowing this to happen. They don't give a shit about our destruction, so long as they can make a buck off of it. But what good is all that graft if there's no country left to spend it, and the animals they let loose on all of us finally come after them?

All this multifaceted chaos is not just faculty lounge stuff. We are beginning to see the collective craziness filter down to disruptions in our everyday lives.
Airliners cannot take off due to fuel shortages. Automobiles, houses, gas, and lumber are in short supply.
Consumers can't get their roofs fixed or their houses painted or the trees trimmed as employers plead to their idle government-subsidized employees to come back to work.
No one knows whether our laws even still exist -- or at least exist haphazardly depending on who breaks them.
Thieves steal with brazen impunity. The police predicate arresting suspects on criteria that have nothing to do with breaking the law.
Scared Americans have lost faith in the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, the CDC, and most of the federal bureaucracies that are as politicized as they are increasingly incompetent.
What started out as elite woke nonsense now warps everyone's daily life. If we don't wake up from wokeness, we will continue on our sure trajectory to self-inflicted, systemic paralysis -- followed by civilizational collapse.

Brace for impact.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Victor Davis Hanson: "What started out as elite woke nonsense now warps everyone's daily life."
American Armageddon
"We aren't a normal society, and the timid reticence of the elite whenever a charge of political incorrectness is launched is one of the sure signs of abnormality."
The Fears of the Elite
"The unholy alliance of Big Business and Big Government." (also known as "fascism" - jjs)
Progressives' "Green Energy" Boondoggle Based on Fantasy and Greed

CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

"'Maynard's alleged offenses "show that he is particularly dangerous, even among arsonists,' the federal prosecutors said. Ironically, Maynard in November was concerned about President Trump's supposed propensity for violence."
California Professor Accused of Starting Wildfires Predicted Trump Would "Get Violent" if He Lost 2020 Election
"Brownshirts of Biden and Fauci."
Pastor Maced At Portland Prayer Rally Alleges Police Complicit In Antifa Ambush
Robert Spencer: "What Taylor is doing is tilling the fertile soil for the Left to portray all who oppose it as potentially violent extremists, or just outright violent extremists even if they've never espoused violence, and accordingly to criminalize dissent from its agenda. . . No one seems sure who first said it, maybe Joseph Goebbels, but in any case it's a tried-and-tested Alinskyite tactic: accuse your enemy of what you're doing. Miles Taylor has learned the lesson well, and found an eager Leftist audience for his "insurrectionist" red meat. All he lacks is the insurrection. That's where framing us comes in."
Former "Anonymous" Trump Official Says Trump Supporters Are a Bigger Threat Than Al-Qaeda and ISIS
"He was convicted of handing out explosives and arson. Here is the kicker: He was stupid enough to boast about it while live-streaming on Facebook." (I would have thought Facebook's "truth detectors" would have erased that entry - jjs)
Felonious Punk Gets Nine-Year Sentence, Longest Yet For a BLM-Antifa Thug (I saw Felonious Punk open for Thelonious Monk at the Blue Note in '71 - jjs)
"For the Left, banning Trump supporters on social media isn't enough."
Mark Dice Video: Arrest Americans for Questioning the 2020 Election?
"Establishment gaslighting and threats from the Biden regime's increasingly unhinged national security surrogates is itself becoming a radicalizing agent."
The Biden Junta's Extremism Is Fuel For Domestic Unrest
Rabbi Dov Fischer: "A life full of authenticity and integrity can counter the Left's racist accusations against honest Americans."
Don't Anyone Dare Lecture Me About Race
GOP SENATE $1 TRILLION "INFRASTRUCTURE" SELLOUT, $3.5 TRILLION SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION
"I think the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] deserves a lot of credit for getting the Democrats open to reaching a bipartisan agreement on this bill." (go to hell - jjs)
Mitch McChinless Praises Joe Biden for Successful Infrastructure Deal
Recall Yasser Arafat at the UN in 1974, holding an olive branch in one hand and a revolver in the other. Or Vito Corleone and Luca Brasi making an "offer he can't refuse" to Johnny Fontaine's manager.
Will Manchin and Sinema Stand Strong Against Pressure to Spend Another $3.5 Trillion?
"The blueprint propels a legislative process seeking to create the largest expansion of the federal safety net in nearly 60 years. When the House returns from recess next week, committees in both chambers will begin making the vision come to fruition."
American Socialism Takes Another Step Toward Permanence: Senate Passes $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan
"Establishment Democrats and Republicans and their corporate media mouthpieces view the American taxpayer as an ATM to fund their priorities."
Republican Betrayal on Fake Infrastructure Bill
It's neck and neck now between SMOD and Cloward-Piven.
Doppelganger for Cory Booker's Undescended Testicle, LoPecia Pressley, Takes Victory Lap, Declares "Climate Justice Is Infrastructure" After GOP Caves to Biden Hoax Bill
"If the House approves (and it will), taxpayers will be on the hook for $3.5 trillion in leftist policies affecting every aspect of American life."
The Senate Passes the Bernie Sanders Wish List
"Biden's $3.5 trillion budget was written by a socialist -- and it shows."
They're All Socialists Now
Sen Tom Cotton: "They want to teach our children that America is not a good nation, but a racist nation. Those teachings are wrong, and our tax dollars should not support them."
Anti-CRT Amendment Passes After Manchin Votes With Republicans
We have not had a two-party system for the past 30 years or so. Maybe never, really. Lies. Filthy lies. At least Donald Trump exposed it.
Senate Democrats Advance Their "Generational Transformation" With Republican Help
Molly McCaughey: "The bill includes grants to install solar or wind technologies and generate jobs in areas decimated by closing coal mines or coal-fired electric plants. Here's the catch: When contractors bid, the bill says minority-owned businesses will get selected first. Bad news for small-time white contractors in depressed areas. The same is true for the bill's proposals to improve traffic patterns in cities. Contractors and subcontractors get priority only if they're owned by minorities or women. White male business owners can take a hike. Americans should be outraged -- but not surprised. After all, Biden's American Rescue Plan Act, passed in March, also put into place an ugly system of discrimination against whites."
Biden "Infrastructure" Bill Chock Full of Anti-White Racism
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
CDC = Certifiably Deranged Control-Freaks
CDC Recommends Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine for "Pregnant People" Based on "New Evidence"
"We want to have our own right and have our own decision to decide to wear a mask or not. That's why I'm here today and that's the right that I have to make that for my child as a recommendation."
Protests Erupt in Tennessee and Kentucky over Mask Mandates and Forced Vaccinations
"Psaki said that Biden 'still doesn't trust Donald Trump, but he does trust scientists' and gives credit to scientists and experts who worked to develop the vaccine during Trump's presidency."
Shameless Lying Slag Piss-Hockey Psaki Says Trump Told People to Inject "Poison" to Cure Chinese COVID
"Taken to court?!" How about dissolving the union and firing every damn teacher and administrator who defies you?! It is time to declare the judiciary useless at best and an enemy at worst. The Left has crossed the Rubicon. Time to shove the Rubicon up its ass.
Abbott Fires Back At Those Defying Mask Mandate Ban: They "Will Be Taken to Court"
"The Florida Department of Health called out the CDC for its error."
CDC Corrects "Mistake" with Florida's Weekend Chinese COVID Numbers
"O'Farrell, in a statement, 'tried' to clarify that it is 'not a vaccine mandate' but noted that 'We need to stop fighting the science and start fighting the virus.'" (you can have the car in any color, so long as it's black? - jjs)
L.A. City Council Unanimously Votes Vaccination Requirement for Indoor Public Spaces

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I simply refuse to believe this. This is akin to the polls in late October of '16 that called for Hillary in a 50-state landslide.
Fox News Poll: Americans Support Vaccine Mandates and Passports
"The White House has consistently ruled out returning to the lockdowns of 2020, but has indicated that they would be open to certain types of restrictions if recommended to them by the experts."
Hawaii Reimposes Chinese COVID-19 Restrictions Despite Seven-Day Average of Zero Deaths From the Chinese Virus
"New public health order applies to public and private K-12 schools."
Newsom Announces Mandate Requiring 320,000 CA Teachers and School Staffers to Get Chinese COVID-19 Vax or Test Regularly
"That activist organization told Breitbart News that Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, which oversees NIAID, should be fired from her post."
PETA Slams NIH for Grants Dooming Beagles to Parasite Experiments
"There is no such thing as a personal choice in a pandemic."
Liberal Prof Cries Over Lack of Mask Mandate
"Keep your school-supply receipts because it won't be long before the CDC flip-flops again to satisfy the demands of people who don't have your child's best interest in mind."
It's Only a Matter of Time Before the CDC Shuts Down Your Child's School
"Abbott's office said they are working with the Office of the Attorney General to enforce the order but did not offer any specific plan of action." (dissolve the Dallas county government - jjs)
In Blue Dallas County, Leftist Officials Defy Gov. Greg Abbott's Ban On Mask Mandates

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"In a statement, Pfizer said it 'expect[s] to be able to develop and produce a tailor-made vaccine against that variant in approximately 100 days after a decision to do so, subject to regulatory approval.'"
Biden Junta Concerned as Mayo Clinic Study Shows Pfizer Vaccine Dropped to 42% Effective
"Malone, who has experienced censorship himself, said the CDC is censoring people by 'using these incredibly powerful new tools to suppress any dissent or discussion. 'It's bizarre. It's rewriting history. It's rewriting the language in a very Orwellian way, and then applying that punitively in using authoritarian measures.'"
Immunologist, mRNA Pioneer Urges Health Experts to Adjust Chinese COVID-19 Policies
"Why isn't good news about [Chinese] COVID ever shared with the public?"
Three Charts the Delta Variant Scaremongers Don't Want You To See
"A review of the evidence."
Do Masks Work?

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"The Edwards persona had Facebook and Twitter accounts, both of which have been deleted."
Chinese Media FABRICATED "Swiss Biologist" Who 'Claimed US Had Pressured WHO into Investigating Wuhan Covid Lab Leak Theory'
"The Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly asserted that the Chinese coronavirus -- which originated in central Wuhan, China, in late 2019 -- is actually American in origin."
Wild Goose Chase: China Floats Florida as True Chinese Coronavirus Origin
"With [Chinese] COVID as the excuse, the state in which Australia's most populous city is located has taken the lockdown to manic, paranoid extremes."
Totalitarian Madness Comes to Australia's New South Wales
Happened in Germany. To me, all things considered, she's a hero.
Anti-Vax Nurse Injects 8,600 With Saline Instead of Chinese COVID Vaccine: Police
ANGEL OF DEATH CUOMO RESIGNATION, NURSING HOME SCANDAL, SEXUAL ASSAULT & OTHER DEM GOV SCANDALS
Daniel Greenfield: "From Harvey Milk to Andrew Cuomo. . . "
The Human Rights Campaign's 40 Years of Colluding With Sexual Predators
"My administration will be fully transparent when I am governor. I am not governor yet."
Kathy Hochul Hints That She Will Release NY Nursing Home Data
"The media played cheerleader instead of investigator, enabling a powerful man to exploit women and elderly people for personal pleasure and political points. Who else are they covering for?"
How Many Other Angel of Death Cuomos Are Elites Covering For?
"At the time of this publication, Navratilova has not responded."
"My In-Laws Died': Janice Dean, Tennis Superstar Go At It On Twitter Over Angel of Death Cuomo and PIEOTUS Trump
"ActBlue remains [a] haven for Democrat sex criminals, pedophiles, and wife beaters."
10 Scandal-Plagued Democrats Who Remain on ActBlue
"The former Governor is the personification of liberal hypocrisy, narcissism, and media manipulation."
The Liberal Establishment Ran Interference for Angel of Death Cuomo Until They Couldn't
"He clearly figures the public will forget the sorry details. It's the Legislature's duty to see that he suffers the full consequences for his actions. Cuomo hopes to mount a comeback someday. Heck, he even hasn't admitted any real wrongdoing, even when it comes to harassment. His legal team was still attacking his accusers minutes before he announced his resignation."
Impeach Angel of Death Cuomo Anyway -- So He Pays the Full Price for His Crimes
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Clearly, you've made your point. You no longer value me or many other teachers you've employed in this county."
Loudoun County Teacher Resigns: "I Quit Being a Cog in a Machine" That Pushes "Highly Politicized Agendas"
"We've lost sleep trying to figure out why would a person do this."
Elementary School Allegedly Created "Black Classes" to Segregate Students. One Parent Is Fighting Back
"A brief look at the progressive agenda in education reveals that critical race theory is just the latest in a long series of attempts to deform and ultimately fracture the country."
The Hundred-Year Road To CRT
"This is not acceptable. Our children go to school to be challenged in academics and prepared for the future. If students aren't meeting standards, it's up to our leadership to find a way to reach them, not simply lower the bar."
Parents Beware: Lowering the Bar on Education Standards Is Happening at the Federal, State, and Local Level
"Despite these modern progressives' positions of privilege and systemic advantage, a new constitutionalist critique of progressivism prevents them from claiming final victory."

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Police said Flores kicked a hospital officer in the groin and then continued to resist arrest and demand to see her son."
Mother of Sub-Human Animals Charged With Killing Cop Goes to Hospital to See Her Spawn, Gets Handcuffed for Allegedly Attacking Security
"Carlton Waterhouse has come under fire for racially driven politics."
Biden Nominee Praised Movement to Defund Police in Interview With Chinese State TV
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Well, clip my joy buzzer and call me Fatima.
Bro-Fo Omar/Nur/Burqawitz/Ikeeelyou's Office Claims Pro-Israel Lobby is Putting Her "Life at Risk"
"We aren't even a full year into Biden's [junta] and the IRS is already returning to the Obama era's politically discriminatory practices."
Biden's IRS is a Partisan Weapon in the War on Religious Freedom
"Jack Phillips' persecution is a chilling emblem of a legal system disfigured by the elevation of unfettered egoism over civility and the common good."
What Happened When a Craftsman Refused to Sell Me the Wedding Ring of My Dreams
"[Junta] report omits references to Palestinian government's calls for violence and support for BDS."
Biden Junta Decision to Hide Info About Palestinian Terrorism From Congress Broke Law, Watchdog Says
"Supporting vile Palestinian propagandists and their western enablers."
The Ford Foundation and Anti-Semitism
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"In the months after the crime, Newsom not only signed new financial protections for PG&E into law, his office hired private lawyers in New York who wrote the legislative language."
Report: Newsom's Office Protected Electric Company After It Caused Deadly California Fires
POLITICS
"Interestingly enough, Pelosi is putting the vulnerable members at risk by calling them back. Still, Pelosi threatened many times that she would not take up the infrastructure bill in the House until the Senate finishes the trojan horse-like reconciliation package that costs trillions of dollars and is filled with many radical left agenda items." (they pass this garbage and electoral politics have no meaning anymore; we will have been transformed - jjs)
Report: Malig-Nancy Pelosi Considers Sacrificing Vulnerable Democrats by Pulling them Off Campaign Trail Early to Advance Swamp Agenda
"Live by the ballot harvesting, die by the ballot harvesting: Democrats will mail ballots to the 'unsophisticated' voters who most want Newsom gone."
California Gov. Gavin Newsom Facing "Wall of Apathy" in Recall Voting
"Will California's recall election herald seismic changes for the state -- and the country?"
Golden State Reckoning
"The problem for the Democrats is that she is unelectable. It's the fake laughter, the handmaidenly comportment around Biden, the car-crash interviews and the complete inability to succeed at any of the tasks she has been handed, from immigration to vaccination.Not for nothing was billed the "most unpopular vice president in 50 years" by UK broadsheet The Daily Telegraph. She's so unpopular that Hillary Clinton staffers, of all people, reportedly have been consulted for likability lessons." (Dao-Min Yen sez, "I got this covered" - jjs)
Dems Shudder at "Kamala 2024"
"The Democrat party has never shed its racist past."
A Racial Reckoning for the Democrats
"The past year's devastation reveals elite special interest groups as liberalism's master."
Liberalism Drops Its Mask
Long essay from a self-proclaimed progressive, but much of his venting is on target and shows the scales falling from his eyes.
What Happened to "Yes We Can?" Politics of Victimhood Has Replaced Hope and Optimism
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Rep. Andy Biggs: "Secretary Mayorkas is a threat to the sovereignty and security of our nation."
Republican Congressman Files Articles of Impeachment Against DHS Secretary
Margot Cleveland: "It is unsurprising the Biden [junta's] apologists seek to spin his use of Title 42 expulsions because the truth shows how his border policies have caused the immigration crisis."
XiNN Caught Lying About Biden Junta's Illegal Immigration Fiasco
Tucker Carlson: "Why would an NGO have control over U.S. government policy? But in fact, it's happening and we can prove it."
Biden's DHS Keeps Illegal Alien Felon in U.S. at Behest of "Abolish ICE" Activist
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Slate magazine founders and editors including Jacob Weisberg -- whose podcast company produces shows including Ibram Kendi's 'Be Antiracist' show -- have participated in trips to China sponsored by the China-United States Exchange Foundation: a Chinese Communist Pary-linked group courting journalists for 'favorable coverage.'"Teen Webzine Slate Magazine's Editorial Board Took CCP-Sponsored Trips To China
"It was a terrible mistake with terrible racist implications." ($13.75, in a plain brown wrapper - jjs)
American Booksellers Association Implements New "Oversight" to Prevent Accidentally Promoting Authors Like Candace Owens
"YouTube is once again curbing free speech, this time censoring Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., for disagreeing with the government."
YouTube Will Censor You if You Disagree With the Government -- Even if You're In the Government
"Meet the libelous 'Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism.'"
My Goodness, Am I Really Assisting a Violent Extremist?
ABORTION
"U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra violated federal conscience-protection laws when they told the Department Of Justice to drop a lawsuit against a hospital that forced a nurse to assist an elective abortion, Republican lawmakers said in a Wednesday letter."
GOP Lawmakers Accuse Biden Officials of Working at the "Behest of the Abortion Lobby," Ignoring the Law
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The department has denied allegations of 'slow-walking its response.'"
Lawmakers Accuse State Dept. of Blocking Efforts To Restore Internet to Cubans
I'm more concerned with the takeover if this country and how to eject the traitors who did it.
Fall of Kabul Imminent: Taliban Could Take Over Afghanistan Within Weeks
"Authoritarian governments could use software to hunt political dissidents."
China Could Abuse Apple's Child Porn Detection Tool, Experts Say
"Seeing bodies on the street is an every day thing."
North Korea Defector Yeonmi Park Details Horrors of Life in Communist Dystopia
"U.S. vaccine diplomacy appeals to Philippine leader Duterte more than China's bullying tactics."
After Flirting With China, Philippines Back In U.S. Camp
"With all of the illusory glitz and glitter of a nation hoping to rule the world, China's lure of gleaming gold medals will be a garish attempt to hypnotize the masses and erase its failure to preserve human dignity."
Boycott the Beijing 2022 Olympics
"What makes it even worse is that she says it even as news is emerging from Afghanistan about mass murder and child sex slaves."
Piss-Hockey Psaki's Utterly Inane Comment About the Taliban Defies Belief
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"'American Airlines is providing the Chinese with a means of accessing [passengers] while they're basically held as a captive audience,' J. Michael Waller told The Federalist."
American Airlines Risks US National Security by Partnering With China-Owned TikTok
"Experts warn America's outdated nuclear arsenal threatens national security."
White House Gives in to Liberal Push to Stall Nuclear Modernization
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Muslim Federation advertises job positions for terror-linked Miami madrassa."
Do You Want to Be a Teacher at a Private School Led by an "ISIS Imam?"
"Will the 'investigation' include the Qur'an and Hadith?"
Germany Will Spend $41 Million to "Discover" Causes of Present-Day Anti-Semitism
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"The federal debt did not surpass $1 trillion until fiscal 1982. . . Over the last 39 years, the debt has ballooned, from $1.1 trillion to $28.4 trillion."
Da Nang Dickweed Blumenthal: "No," $28.4 Trillion in Federal Debt is Not Too Much
"Even as saner minds on the left condemn packing the Supreme Court, the true believers are still seeking ways to permanently alter the federal judiciary."
Court-Packing: The Left Mounts a Pincer Movement
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Today, I'm pleased to share more good news with the American people," Biden said during a press conference on Wednesday. "The latest report on consumer price shows, the prices show, that we've expanded some easing, excuse me, the expected easing we thought was going to come has increased, that we are, we've seen a good monthly report." (do you speak jive? - jjs)
Biden On Consumer Price Index Showing Prices Rising at Fastest Pace Since 2008: "A Good Monthly Report"
"They [the junta] refuse to acknowledge that spending $5 trillion we don't have on pandemic relief has anything to do with the jump in prices. They can spin the inflation threat any way they wish, they're not fooling the American people."
Prices Continue to Rise as Inflation Becomes More Than a "Temporary'"Problem
"Some conditions are right for a repeat of the persistent rising prices of the 1970s."
Is Inflation Here to Stay?
"Sometimes, it seems as if the left's plan is simply to randomize politics in the hope that something, anything, utterly destroys America."
Joe Biden Broke America's Oil Production -- And Now He Does This
"The Biden [junta] tasked National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to urge OPEC nations to increase their production." (the world is rolling on the ground and laughing its ass off at us - jjs)
Biden White House: We Are Not Trying to Increase Domestic Oil Production to Lower Gas Prices
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Here's a detailed and intimate picture of where we are going and what it will look like."
My Hospital Stay Showed We're Careening Toward Socialized Medicine
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Far too many scientists have been afraid to test climate doomsday narratives."
Climate Scientists Admit Exaggerated Warming
"Federal subsidies for electric vehicle charging stations enrich insiders."
Are Electric Vehicle Charging Grants the Next Energy Boondoggle?
"Rest easy and let the weatherman have his fit."
Scared to Death by the Climate (or Why I Love Beer)
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Meanwhile, China's main spacecraft maker is developing a human landing system for lunar missions."
Elon Musk Offers SpaceX to Make NASA Spacesuits for Proposed Moon Mission
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
They're coming for - and in - our children. . .
Photo Of Child Surrounded By By Men In Bondage Gear Wins Award By Dutch Pride Organizers
"Look at your life and prioritize what's most important to you. If finding someone to love who will love you back matters, focus your energies there."
Why Women Should Pursue Marriage Just as Intentionally as a Career
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"As the left smears America as irredeemably racist and evil, Asian-American excellence is the embodiment of the American dream, proving, once again, that the American promise is alive and well."
Asian-American Excellence Embodies the American Dream and Threatens Leftist Racism, New Book Argues
Christopher Rufo: "The firm teaches employees that capitalism is fundamentally racist, then asks them to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities."
Intersectional AmEx
"[Chinese] COVID-19 has highlighted the human need for intimate connection and good friends and the desire to be part of a shared community."
Loneliness and Chinese COVID-19
Christian Toto: "Sex, power and corruption aren't enough to coax Hollywood to tell this sordid story."
Why We Won't See Andrew Cuomo: The Movie

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:32 AM

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1 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 06:32 AM (EjmvJ)

2 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 06:32 AM (yrol0)

3 Horde!

Posted by: iandeal at August 12, 2021 06:33 AM (MGjjz)

4 Corgis called.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 06:33 AM (EjmvJ)

5 Posting early is infrastructure!

Posted by: NR Pax at August 12, 2021 06:33 AM (mHXIr)

6 Thank you J.J.
You are a strong man.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 06:34 AM (2o90I)

7 Morning. Have a great day.

Posted by: Rosasharn at August 12, 2021 06:34 AM (yEBFM)

8 Morning all - thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2021 06:34 AM (mD/uy)

9 So it appears that the Vaccines That Work*, are approaching the effectiveness of the flu vaccine and and in some studies, they are hovering in the low 30's.

Which is not surprising, given the nature of respiratory viruses mutation and modulation.

I mean, it is what it is.

The most shocking thing is the men and women of "Science," acting shocked at any of this.

Which is universally an act.

And now they are recommending a 3rd dose.

Insanity.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2021 06:35 AM (moFdV)

10 I've solved all my problems by listening to a Battle Of The Bands between the Four Tops and the Temptations while reading JJ. My morning is improved!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2021 06:35 AM (rKT+Z)

11 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at August 12, 2021 06:35 AM (u7pQw)

12 Mornin' Mo-rons!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at August 12, 2021 06:36 AM (XO5tw)

13 Professor Firebug had an EBT card that they used to track him. I guess professorships don't pay that well anymore.

Posted by: f'd at August 12, 2021 06:37 AM (Tnijr)

14 If buggering children is the new hotness, aren't there a whole bunch of priests and deacons who are owed an apology by the smarmy atheist barbarians?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2021 06:37 AM (6FeV1)

15 @PressSec: "The Taliban also has to make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the international community."

I think we have to confront the possibility the Press Secretary is dumb as a rock

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2021 06:37 AM (rKT+Z)

16 "it's neck and neck between SMOD and Cloward-Piven"

(raises hand)

I'm sorry but... I have "Chernobyl" on my Apoc Bingo Card.
That's a misprint, right? Moose out front said to ask inside.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 12, 2021 06:38 AM (49Exr)

17 Brace for impact.

I do not know what will be the trigger for this, but God help us when it does.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 06:39 AM (2o90I)

18 BINO stopped in this morning to tell us that Lindell's Symposium will set back election reform for years.

Posted by: f'd at August 12, 2021 06:39 AM (Tnijr)

19 @15

>>I think we have to confront the possibility the Press Secretary is dumb as a rock.

Not dumb, just completely out of his mind.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2021 06:39 AM (moFdV)

20 American Greatness and American Thinker are so important to all of us right now.

(after J.J. of course

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 06:40 AM (2o90I)

21 That's why Bro-Fo Omar/Nur/Burqawitz/Ikeeelyou is a Congressman and why an Earth Liberation Front terrorist may very well be confirmed as the Secretary of the Interior but why some guy who was allowed in to the Capitol on January 6th and did nothing more than take a selfie sitting at Malig-Nancy Pelosi's desk represents "the greatest threat to our precious democracy since the Civil War."

Yeah....I'm having a hard time keeping the fast moving destruction of America straight in my head, so having this list helps.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2021 06:40 AM (rKT+Z)

22 "The same is true for the bill's proposals to improve traffic patterns in cities"

Aw fuck, more traffic circles.

Posted by: f'd at August 12, 2021 06:40 AM (Tnijr)

23 BINO stopped in this morning to tell us that Lindell's Symposium will set back election reform for years.
Posted by: f'd

Because nothing sets back election reform like asking for election reform.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2021 06:40 AM (mD/uy)

24 Good morning horde and happy birthday JJ

If you proceed from the basis the #junta is a traitorous Marxist cabal, analyzing their policies is much simpler.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2021 06:41 AM (EZebt)

25 Gotta hand it to 'em. They're every bit as evil as I said they were 50 years ago.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at August 12, 2021 06:41 AM (MkuC5)

26 About 40,000 children, some as young as four years old, are working long hours in Congolese cobalt mines.

Solar is Slave power. No diff than cotton in 1850.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 06:42 AM (yrol0)

27 @PressSec: "The Taliban also has to make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the international community."

First item on our agenda is Subtitles:

https://tinyurl.com/mp9wecmp

Posted by: Turkish Taliban PressSec at August 12, 2021 06:42 AM (49Exr)

28
Ice cream for Hadrian is infrastructure.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2021 06:42 AM (/U27+)

29 @18

The thing that will set back election reform more than anything is not confronting the reality that most elections in most locales are rigged to one extent or the other.

Also, it's election day, not election week, month or in some locales, election quarter.

All voting must be conducted, tabulated and certified within a 24 hour period.

Anything else is masturbation.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2021 06:43 AM (moFdV)

30 Willowed:
After the Forest Service put a tracker in Professor Firebug's car they followed him around putting out the fires he started.

Sometimes you wish the Forest Service would show a little initiative and either shoot the asshole or at the very least securely zip tie him and toss him into a fire he started.

Tow and auction off the car to pay for pizza.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 06:43 AM (+LCoQ)

31 Sigh Boker Tov Patriots

I have to buy a rifle

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 12, 2021 06:43 AM (AXKZd)

32 If buggering children is the new hotness, aren't there a whole bunch of priests and deacons who are owed an apology by the smarmy atheist barbarians?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2021 06:37 AM (6FeV1)

Yup...and don't forget all the government skool teachers who have raped and sodomized their way from K-12. Their unions give awards for this now I believe.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 12, 2021 06:44 AM (/1l9x)

33 American Express goes all in on hating whitey: https://tinyurl.com/84rytafw

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2021 06:44 AM (6XLoz)

34 Fox "News"Radio yesterday was leading their hourly news updates with the statement "More inflation, but not as much".

Posted by: f'd at August 12, 2021 06:44 AM (Tnijr)

35 Maybe their Super Sly Stratagery is to use up all of OPEC's oil and saving ours so we will rule the World!

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 12, 2021 06:45 AM (CcljO)

36 I think we have to confront the possibility the Press Secretary is dumb as a rock
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2021 06:37 AM (rKT+Z)

I was going to say dumb as a box of paper clips.

Posted by: dantesed at August 12, 2021 06:45 AM (88xKn)

37 Cat Ass Trophy's post yesterday is spot on; COVID and climate change are whatever the Marxists need them to be vno logic required, only emotion. Fear and Hate are therr only two that matter to them, and they are masters at it

Posted by: ErikInTexas at August 12, 2021 06:45 AM (71o8T)

38 I see "voting advocates" are getting worried about the upcoming redistricting for House seats. Some even fear republicans will engage in gerrymandering!

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 12, 2021 06:46 AM (JUOKG)

39 I simply refuse to believe this. This is akin to the polls in late October of '16 that called for Hillary in a 50-state landslide.
Fox News Poll: Americans Support Vaccine Mandates and Passports

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I don't know what to think, JJ. I want to think it's BS, because I don't trust Fox any more than I do any other network. And they're all on board the vaccine train (toot toot!). But for the past year, I've also watched normal people lose their ever-loving minds and fall prey to this barrage of fear pron. They believe everything they hear, even when a large % of them already know not to trust the media.

I only got half way through the links this morning. So flipping depressing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2021 06:46 AM (O+I8R)

40 If buggering children is the new hotness, aren't there a whole bunch of priests and deacons who are owed an apology by the smarmy atheist barbarians?

According to Cambridge University, the normalization of buggering children isn't going well as they'd like, so they're going to switch focus temporarily to buggering animals.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2021 06:46 AM (6XLoz)

41 Now, Joe Biden has listened to Americans crying out for succor from the economic fallout from his decisions. His [junta], therefore, has announced that . . . OPEC+ countries (Muslim Gulf states and Russia) should increase their oil and gas production to export to America.
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The seventies. Again. But worse. We were held in thrall to Arab oil then for lack of better options. Now we have better options, yet we are in thrall once more because the elite *want* us in thrall.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 06:47 AM (3p5uk)

42 Trying to get OPEC and Russia to increase oil production to save their sorry asses might work if they had the slightest bit of respect or fear of America but they don't anymore. They will laughs their asses of as we twist in the wind and they raise prices.

Time to batten down the hatches.

Posted by: Ripley at August 12, 2021 06:47 AM (MxEKc)

43 from Victor's piece

A society whose leaders are so easily cowed is heading toward a dark fate. To watch our prestigious academic chiefs bow down to a pack of irate 20-year-olds is to feel the American spirit drain away.

It is as anti-American as it gets. America used to cherish freedom. This is the complete opposite. The bullies are everywhere. Fear has replaced Freedom.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 06:47 AM (2o90I)

44 Good morning, Horde.

Thank you, JJ for the excellent essay and aggregation of the news.

Posted by: Ladyl at August 12, 2021 06:48 AM (+4oV5)

45 China Could Abuse Apple's Child Porn Detection Tool, Experts Say

No shit. Thank goodness we have experts looking out for us.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 06:48 AM (EjmvJ)

46 In a statement, Pfizer said it 'expect to be able to develop and produce a tailor-made vaccine against that variant

***

Yay.

How about the other 14,000+ that are currently in humans?

And the ones in the animals?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 06:48 AM (ZLyax)

47 Well that was weird. I didn't do a strikethrough.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 06:48 AM (ZLyax)

48 No one knows whether our laws even still exist -- or at least exist haphazardly depending on who breaks them.
Thieves steal with brazen impunity. The police predicate arresting suspects on criteria that have nothing to do with breaking the law.
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The second line answers the first. The law still exists, it is just that lawbreakers don't as such. Lawbreaking is not an objective standard anymore. Now to be "wrong" is to be a lawbreaker - and they will find some law and throw the book at you when desired. To be "right" is to be law-abiding, regardless of what you do.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 06:49 AM (3p5uk)

49 "Because nothing sets back election reform like asking for election reform."
Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2021 06:40 AM (mD/uy)

Well duh. It's like dividing by zero.

Posted by: Turkish NASA "where diversity is our strength" at August 12, 2021 06:49 AM (49Exr)

50 "we've expanded some easing, excuse me, the expected easing we thought was going to come has increased"

I think he was talking about his Metamucil.

Posted by: f'd at August 12, 2021 06:49 AM (Tnijr)

51
"If buggering kids is wrong, I don't wanna be white, er, right..."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 12, 2021 06:49 AM (s2VJv)

52 "The Taliban are very clear about their role: It is to be a leading edge of a worldwide Islamic caliphate."

The taliban never really cared much about the global caliphate. Mostly they just want to run their corner of the world. As with any group, you can always find outliers within it.

Posted by: f2000 at August 12, 2021 06:49 AM (PWcd9)

53 Ah, the [ s ] was in the quote.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 06:49 AM (ZLyax)

54 Mitch McConnell literally turns my stomach. What a worthless piece of garbage he is.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2021 06:49 AM (O+I8R)

55 Our corporate and media masters really don't know what they're doing. Neither does this administration. We just bounce from one disaster to another. Sooner or later we have to get near that cliff.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2021 06:49 AM (BFigT)

56 Moron Robbie. Look at the original line in the post. The strike through is built into it.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 12, 2021 06:50 AM (6RcPt)

57 So there are 14,000+ variants in humans, and it's confirmed that deer and other animals are transmitting the sh*t out of their variants which may or may not be the same as our variants.

But we're going to get a booster in a few months for the variant that no longer exists.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 06:50 AM (ZLyax)

58 I think we have to confront the possibility the Press Secretary is dumb as a rock
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I was going to say dumb as a box of paper clips.
Posted by: dantesed

I say, I say, The girl has the intellect of a pine cone.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2021 06:51 AM (mD/uy)

59 I can't get too exercised about Newsom and PSE&G. California has guaranteed endless bad fires because of its environmental policies, and holding power companies liable for legislative stupidity is par for the course in CA. That PSE&G is pushing back makes sense.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 06:51 AM (Q9lwr)

60 >I think we have to confront the possibility the Press Secretary is dumb as a rock.

Not dumb, just completely out of his mind.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2021 06:39 AM (moFdV)

I'll admit that whore is hideous to everybody except idiots with redhead fetishes but she's arguably female.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 06:51 AM (y7DUB)

61 Mark Bauerlein's piece is what I quoted above.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 06:51 AM (2o90I)

62 Fauci should be in Gitmo

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 06:52 AM (2o90I)

63 Care is infrastructure. Climate justice is infrastructure. Housing is infrastructure.

And there goes another word straight down the toilet.

There is always a significant lag behind when a word has been completely hijacked and left devoid of any meaning, and the time the general population accepts this change.

"infrastructure", when vocalized by these fools, is now a mere trigger word to conjure up the emotion of blanket undirected socialist wealth transfer with the stolen reputation of responsible public and private physical necessity.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 06:53 AM (+LCoQ)

64 54 Mitch McConnell literally turns my stomach. What a worthless piece of garbage he is.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2021 06:49 AM (O+I8R)

I kept pointing out that people were wrong to praise him for the judicial appointment. First that is a bare minimum of his job. Second he was allowing the slow walking of Trump's executive appointments and never called a recess to allow Trump to do recess appointments. Third he knew most of e judges he appointed would wind up being big government loving corporatist stooges.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 12, 2021 06:53 AM (6RcPt)

65 "I think the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] deserves a lot of credit for getting the Democrats open to reaching a bipartisan agreement on this bill." (go to hell - jjs)
Mitch McChinless Praises Joe Biden for Successful Infrastructure Deal

This SOB is spitting on all of us.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 06:53 AM (2o90I)

66 VDH's list that Sefton excerpted (which is the meat of the article, IMO) brings something immediately to mind: the Soviet Union. This is USSR shit. Roving elites who are above law and punish peasants who are always guilty. Shortages of everything. Money that doesn't work. Increasing terror and poverty.

That isn't America, and thus we aren't in America. Not anymore. We're in some chimeric mutant that developed in the fallout. This isn't *normal* here. Point out this abnormality to all who will listen. Don't let people get comfortable with this "new normal" and think that it is acceptable or, well, normal. It isn't.

Few will listen. The curse of Cassandra.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 06:53 AM (3p5uk)

67 I think the CDC will pass the lockdown mandate. They've already shown they can pass unrelated real estate investment legislation outside of Congress. I'm betting something in the ruling against them said something helpful like "outside of your purview"

Which lockdowns because COVID won't be.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 06:54 AM (ZLyax)

68 Only $110 billion of the $1.2 trillion is for highways, roads, bridges and major projects.

Is it really? Or is it $110 Billion to pay back money illegally stolen via Obamacare and other tricks. The gas tax trust money is just being replaced.

There is no real new spending.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 06:54 AM (yrol0)

69 Greetings fappers and fappees. What fresh hell awaits us this day?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 12, 2021 06:55 AM (HaL55)

70 "For the Left, banning Trump supporters on social media isn't enough."
Mark Dice Video: Arrest Americans for Questioning the 2020 Election?
"Establishment gaslighting and threats from the Biden regime's increasingly unhinged national security surrogates is itself becoming a radicalizing agent."
The Biden Junta's Extremism Is Fuel For Domestic Unrest

Watching all of this domestic abuse of good citizens tells me that no one is watching the real enemies. We know they are letting the real thugs and feral animals destroy the country, but what about the international threats? Something big will come. The Chinese virus was the first attack. What is next?

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 06:55 AM (2o90I)

71 I was truly astounded when Barack Obama came along and proved he was a bigger dipshit than Jimmie Carter. I didn't think that was possible. And now we have Gropey Joe. Could it get any worse? Kamala?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 12, 2021 06:55 AM (lmujo)

72 So there are 14,000+ variants in humans, and it's confirmed that deer and other animals are transmitting the sh*t out of their variants which may or may not be the same as our variants.

Since the face diaper is a demonstration of selfless care for the health and the safety of others, Clay Jenkins and other assholes are probably going to require face masks on deer and other animal reservoirs.

If not, why not?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 06:55 AM (+LCoQ)

73 Robbing Peter to pay Ba'al.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2021 06:55 AM (6FeV1)

74 Watching all of this domestic abuse of good citizens tells me that no one is watching the real enemies. We know they are letting the real thugs and feral animals destroy the country, but what about the international threats?

OK, draw me a picture of a foreign enemy that is worse than our domestic ones.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 06:57 AM (+LCoQ)

75 I was truly astounded when Barack Obama came along and proved he was a bigger dipshit than Jimmie Carter. I didn't think that was possible. And now we have Gropey Joe. Could it get any worse? Kamala?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 12, 2021 06:55 AM (lmujo)
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Harris might be moderately worse because she is still cogent, but it won't be a big difference. Keep in mind what we all know: that Biden is an incompetent and does nothing. He is controlled utterly by the politburo. Harris will likewise be a puppet for the ruling council behind the scenes. She's not totally senile and still has some agency so she might do some things slightly differently, but on balance I suspect there will be no effective change when she takes over.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 06:57 AM (3p5uk)

76 BINO stopped in this morning to tell us that Lindell's Symposium will set back election reform for years.
Posted by: f'd

Because nothing sets back election reform like asking for election reform.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2021 06:40 AM (mD/uy)

How much of the GOP takes money from Dominion? Why does any red state use their dogshit machines?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 06:57 AM (y7DUB)

77 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 06:53 AM (3p5uk)

Exactly. The sooner we all grasp that reality, the better.

Posted by: Ziba at August 12, 2021 06:58 AM (S1hrL)

78 OK, draw me a picture of a foreign enemy that is worse than our domestic ones.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 06:57 AM (+LCoQ)
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Communist China. Still. Though the margins are compressing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 06:58 AM (3p5uk)

79 CDC = Certifiably Deranged Control-Freaks
CDC Recommends Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine for "Pregnant People" Based on "New Evidence"

This is genocide. Here is that Canadian doctor on Laura Ingraham of all places, telling it like it is. We are killing people on purpose at this point. Part 2 is particularly good as it explains how the variant (just like the French Nobel Immunologist told us almost 2 years ago) is being created by the vaccinated and natural immunity is the best defense. You know they know this.

Dr. Byram Bridle -- We made a mistake...
https://tinyurl.com/fzzjn9ux

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 06:58 AM (2o90I)

80 "Mark Dice Video: Arrest Americans for Questioning the 2020 Election?"

no kidding; I heard a yammerhead advocating this a few days ago.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (YjYuE) at August 12, 2021 06:59 AM (YjYuE)

81 However bad you imagine the near term future will be, it will probably be worse. And stupider.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2021 06:59 AM (6FeV1)

82 I was truly astounded when Barack Obama came along and proved he was a bigger dipshit than Jimmie Carter. I didn't think that was possible. And now we have Gropey Joe. Could it get any worse? Kamala?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 12, 2021 06:55 AM (lmujo)

Once, we stood on the shoulders of giants. Now we lie under the feet of midgets.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 06:59 AM (EjmvJ)

83 Communist China. Still. Though the margins are compressing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 06:58 AM (3p5uk)

Aside from the epicanthic folds, what's the difference?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 07:00 AM (Q9lwr)

84 One has epicanthic folds, the other has emphatic folds.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 07:01 AM (ZLyax)

85 I was truly astounded when Barack Obama came along and proved he was a bigger dipshit than Jimmie Carter. I didn't think that was possible. And now we have Gropey Joe. Could it get any worse? Kamala?

Gropey Joe needs to accelerate his decline if Kamala is going to be named 47 (or will that be 46.5).

At this point it is a race to see what dies first and I'm not so sure that this paper thin veneer of civilization will live until the end of this year.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 07:01 AM (+LCoQ)

86 Call the Infrastructure Bill what it really is. Stop being the deceitful cowards that you are, Congress. It's a socialism bill. It's a full-frontal fundamental transformation bill of America. G*d help us. I've never wanted anything more than for some of us, in lucky states, to secede. I really believe it's all we have left, considering half the country is completely insane and so ready to throw their freedom in the trash, along with ours. The stupidity is astounding and has been, frankly, shocking. I just can't believe what I'm seeing unfold.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2021 07:01 AM (O+I8R)

87 Communist China. Still. Though the margins are compressing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 06:58 AM (3p5uk)

Aside from the epicanthic folds, what's the difference?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 07:00 AM (Q9lwr)

The Chi-Coms are more competent than the Biden circus.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2021 07:01 AM (6XLoz)

88 Senate Democrats just passed our budget resolution to provide historic investments in American jobs, American families, and the fight against climate change, Schumer wrote.

It puts us on track to bring a generational transformation to how our economy works for average Americans.

You will own nothing, you will be nothing, and you will owe everything.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 07:01 AM (yrol0)

89 The change when Harris takes over will be significant in one area; the threat from white insurrectionists. Harris, the first "black" female president will have many options available to her to beat back the threat posed by all those that question the election outcome, defy mandates and generally oppose her administration. She'll take it personally. Expect the crackdown to be mighty.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2021 07:02 AM (BFigT)

90 You will own nothing, you will be nothing, and you will owe everything.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 07:01 AM (yrol0)

It sounds better in the original Italian.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2021 07:02 AM (6FeV1)

91 "but what about the international threats? Something big will come. The Chinese virus was the first attack. What is next?"

Well if you're Russia, you can't just sit back and let China absorb ~~Smaug's~~ America's treasure. That would solidify their position as the world's dominant power for generations. And free them up to pivot West into Russia.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 12, 2021 07:02 AM (49Exr)

92 Aside from the epicanthic folds, what's the difference?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 07:00 AM (Q9lwr)
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The level of control at all levels is still different. The central government is almost indistinguishable, but at other levels it is more variable. Unlike the CCP, the domestic Party doesn't have all boots on the ground in all places. They cannot quite yet openly slaughter with impunity. We don't have slave camps yet.

The margins are compressing, though, and these will be true here within five years if trends continue. As it stands, though, right now and at this moment, the CCP is still worse because their reach is greater.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:02 AM (3p5uk)

93 @76

>>Why does any red state use their dogshit machines?

Same reason Blue states use Dominion machines, voting cannot be left up to the voters and Democracy needs to be fortified.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2021 07:03 AM (moFdV)

94 what Joe Mannix said above.

pure Soviet stuff, and accelerating out of control, w zero pushback.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (YjYuE) at August 12, 2021 07:03 AM (YjYuE)

95 The refusal of Fox 'New" to cover Lindells' Cyber Symposium should confirm that the only thing Fox is good for is conning those wanting the truth.

OAN is really distinguishing itself with its coverage of the Lindell crusaders.

Posted by: Voter theater. at August 12, 2021 07:03 AM (xXx5y)

96 1/6 was the Arrogants "John Brown Raid"
Their FBI running a plot to stir the nation to war.

9 months later comes their provocation, demanding their enemy fire on their Fort Sumpter, a red October.

Posted by: Mrm88 at August 12, 2021 07:03 AM (jIL4c)

97 You will own nothing, you will be nothing, and you will owe everything.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 07:01 AM (yrol0)
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When a man owns nothing and is dependent on someone else for all he uses, that man is a slave.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:03 AM (3p5uk)

98 Watching Fauci with those young influencrs was beyond cringy. Not least because of the youth sucking up to this govt bureaucrat. WTF? When we were young we disliked/distrusted all authority figure. We didn't distinguish much between Dem/Repub/schools official/police or some govt health expert. They were all mostly ignored and/or mocked and now these youth putting are him on a pedestal like some celebrity-god? Imagine what some politician that was actually charismatic do with their young skulls of mush.

Posted by: Ripley at August 12, 2021 07:04 AM (MxEKc)

99 "the variant (just like the French Nobel Immunologist told us almost 2 years ago) is being created by the vaccinated and natural immunity is the best defense. You know they know this."

I honestly don't think their world-view lets them accept that even if all the evidence says so. To them, they are the autocratic masters of the universe, bending nature (especially human nature) to their will. To reason that their efforts to save us all from their own creation is doomed by nature is to reason that they are not as powerful as they believe themselves to be.

Posted by: f2000 at August 12, 2021 07:04 AM (PWcd9)

100 I just read that the U of Nebraska is requiring all returning students, staff, and faculty to be saliva tested at the beginning of Fall semester UNLESS MEDICALLY EXEMPT FROM SALIVA TESTING.

Is there such an exemption? I have never heard that one.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at August 12, 2021 07:05 AM (aW5/6)

101 "OAN is really distinguishing itself with its coverage of the Lindell crusaders."

I watched some of that yesterday and they are doing what needs to be done with the data they can get. Whether or not it will have any impact remains to be seen.

Posted by: f'd at August 12, 2021 07:05 AM (Tnijr)

102 Pentagon: Service Members Can Request Exemptions From COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

https://tinyurl.com/2b76muk5

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 07:05 AM (2o90I)

103 "the variant (just like the French Nobel Immunologist told us almost 2 years ago) is being created by the vaccinated and natural immunity is the best defense. You know they know this."

**

Maybe the most jarring part of all of this is seeing how useless high school and college educations have been.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 07:05 AM (ZLyax)

104 "9 months later comes their provocation, demanding their enemy fire on their Fort Sumpter, a red October.
Posted by: Mrm88 "

History repeating itself is a thing.

Posted by: f'd at August 12, 2021 07:06 AM (Tnijr)

105 >>>Once, we stood on the shoulders of giants. Now we lie under the feet of midgets.

>I want to see some of those dwarf bullfighters put Dr. Fauci down and give him a good reckoning.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 12, 2021 07:06 AM (lmujo)

106 97 You will own nothing, you will be nothing, and you will owe everything.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 07:01 AM (yrol0)
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When a man owns nothing and is dependent on someone else for all he uses, that man is a slave.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:03 AM (3p5uk)

==========

"Yeah! Like, I don't own my own labor because the man has to 'pay' me for it. That makes me a wage slave!"
-College student

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:06 AM (LvTSG)

107 Communist China. Still. Though the margins are compressing.

Communist China at least has aspirations of being a Great superpower. The CCP isn't strangling its own population with horrible energy policies. China is building real infrastructure. China is trying to preserve its own culture (albeit with Maoist seasoning). China still wants to manufacture and sell goods and increase wealth. China doesn't have its decadent and perverted population trying to kill off the productive population.

The monsters we have now make China look good in comparison.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 07:06 AM (+LCoQ)

108 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:06 AM (Zz0t1)

109 Heartbreaking, agonizing. I shift between seething rage and a sense of not caring anymore (which I'm sure is a sort of learned helplessness response to preserve sanity). To have descended from Trump who cared about the country and under whom I woke up every morning with hope and without worry about America, to this political anthrax targeting our hearts and souls is just... beyond words.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2021 07:06 AM (DbihG)

110 When a man owns nothing and is dependent on someone else for all he uses, that man is a slave.

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I was watching an old Bonanza episode last night. A free black man echoed that same thought when offered some kind of assistance. "A man who cannot take care of himself will never be a free man."

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2021 07:07 AM (O+I8R)

111 ... but what about the international threats? Something big will come. The Chinese virus was the first attack. What is next?
Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 06:55 AM (2o90I)
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Probably not much. A continued grinding down of American influence and power. What happens after that depends in large part on us.

If we remain a cohesive - under a boot at the point of a gun, but cohesive nonetheless - state, the next major blow that topples us will likely be economic. The dollar will collapse the moment enough people stop using it for international settlements. When that happens, our import-dependent real economy shatters. Goods will skyrocket in price while our services - our largely useless services, in the absence of a domestic goods economy - stop being so lucrative simultaneously.

If we do not remain cohesive and we drop into domestic warfare, the next blow will likely be military. Some country will realize that they can just push on an edge and cause the whole structure to collapse. If there is a new civil war, it will be resolved by an outsider.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:07 AM (3p5uk)

112 We didn't distinguish much between Dem/Repub/schools official/police or some govt health expert. They were all mostly ignored and/or mocked and now these youth putting are him on a pedestal like some celebrity-god? Imagine what some politician that was actually charismatic do with their young skulls of mush.
Posted by: Ripley at August 12, 2021 07:04 AM (MxEKc)

You obviously are too young to remember the JFK years.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:07 AM (y7DUB)

113 Canada Planning COVID-19 Vaccine Passport for International Travel

I hate this country

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 07:08 AM (2o90I)

114 When a man owns nothing and is dependent on someone else for all he uses, that man is a slave.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:03 AM (3p5uk)

Slave is such an ugly word. We prefer Super Elite Reasonable Person, SERF for short.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:08 AM (EjmvJ)

115 Once, we stood on the shoulders of giants. Now we lie under the feet of midgets.

**

There was a great photo of a Honda CB750 on an ONT a couple of months ago. The text said, roughly:

50 years ago the owners manuals told people how to check the valve clearances. Today they tell people not to drink the water in the battery.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 07:08 AM (ZLyax)

116 Good morning hordelings. Every year for the past 20 years (except Covid 2020), my daughter has gone to Milwaukee's Summerfest. Mostly to see REO Speedwagon yet again. Anyway, she is not going this year. They are requiring vaccination cards or proof of negative Covid tests. She'll skip it, thank you very much. And she's vaccinated BTW. Just doesn't want to show papers.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 12, 2021 07:09 AM (45fpk)

117 Imagine what some politician that was actually charismatic do with their young skulls of mush.
Posted by: Ripley at August 12, 2021 07:04 AM (MxEKc)

Kill a bunch of .

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:09 AM (EjmvJ)

118 114 Slave is such an ugly word. We prefer Super Elite Reasonable Person, SERF for short.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:08 AM (EjmvJ)

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We could just call them blanks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:09 AM (LvTSG)

119 69 Greetings fappers and fappees. What fresh hell awaits us this day?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 12, 2021 06:55 AM (HaL55)

{{{Backwards Boy}}}

I'm almost afraid to look...

Posted by: Ladyl at August 12, 2021 07:10 AM (+4oV5)

120 Dammit...angle brackets just won't work.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:10 AM (EjmvJ)

121
Oh, go ahead and spend away! That's all ANY of those in DC know how to do and WANT to do!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2021 07:10 AM (4rXjl)

122 Good morning, JJ, good morning, Horde,

* scans a lot of great content *

So, C19 is still communism in hospital scrubs...Fauci and friends are still bent on violating the Nuremberg Code...

Has the CDC started an expedition to find the Ark of the Covenant yet?

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 12, 2021 07:10 AM (KleQB)

123 Slave is such an ugly word. We prefer Super Elite Reasonable Person, SERF for short.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:08 AM (EjmvJ)

Ummmm... what if you chose "Fella" instead of person.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 12, 2021 07:10 AM (G2zl5)

124 50 years ago the owners manuals told people how to check the valve clearances. Today they tell people not to drink the water in the battery.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 07:08 AM (ZLyax)

Progressive evolution.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2021 07:10 AM (DbihG)

125 I just read that the U of Nebraska is requiring all returning students, staff, and faculty to be saliva tested at the beginning of Fall semester UNLESS MEDICALLY EXEMPT FROM SALIVA TESTING.

Are they also testing for TB? Hep A/B? polio? smallpox? anthrax? DM-68, H5N1, Ebola, leprosy, black plague every other influenza known to man?

If not, why not?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 07:10 AM (+LCoQ)

126 Let's see how the Dolt's minions plan to screw us today. Federalising all parking meters under the EPA?

Posted by: klaftern at August 12, 2021 07:11 AM (r4sI4)

127 >>>Harris, the first "black" female president will have many options available to her to beat back the threat posed by all those that question the election outcome, defy mandates and generally oppose her administration.

>So will Sturgis be cancelled next year or Barack Obama's birthday soiree?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 12, 2021 07:11 AM (lmujo)

128 We just need to get out there and vote harder, you guys.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:11 AM (Zz0t1)

129 116 Good morning hordelings. Every year for the past 20 years (except Covid 2020), my daughter has gone to Milwaukee's Summerfest. Mostly to see REO Speedwagon yet again. Anyway, she is not going this year. They are requiring vaccination cards or proof of negative Covid tests. She'll skip it, thank you very much. And she's vaccinated BTW. Just doesn't want to show papers.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 12, 2021 07:09 AM (45fpk)

Good for her.

Posted by: Ladyl at August 12, 2021 07:11 AM (+4oV5)

130 All of you put too much thought in to why people are so cowed by the chinese lung rot. They have been told it may kill them. They don't want to die. It's very simple. Do not overthink what's going on. It's fear, pure fear of death. They cannot think past that.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2021 07:11 AM (6OlKO)

131 I simply refuse to believe this. This is akin to the polls in late October of '16 that called for Hillary in a 50-state landslide.
Fox News Poll: Americans Support Vaccine Mandates and Passports

Two things. People like us have stopped watching or giving a crap about Fox News and are not part of this faux poll.

And lying is their way to try to convince more people to believe. That is why shutting down anyone that questions any of this is so important to them. The doctors shouting out about the vaccine are snuffed out. The people talking about the fake election are snuffed out. If people see there are more of them that believe the vaccine is a farce and the lockdowns are a farce and the mask mandates are a farce and that Trump won, they lose.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 07:11 AM (2o90I)

132 Even in hotspots such as Texas, 10% of ICU beds are available, as are 20% of inpatient beds.

Most hospital systems need around 90% occupancy to be profitable.

There will be a big bailout needed for the major companies within a year or so.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 07:12 AM (yrol0)

133 Anybody know where I can get an in home wuhan flu test?

Posted by: Infidel at August 12, 2021 07:12 AM (VDqwV)

134 Slave is such an ugly word. We prefer Super Elite Reasonable Person, SERF for short.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:08 AM (EjmvJ)
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Heh. There are two big differences between a serf and a slave. A slave can be sold and a serf can't be, and a serf (usually) can gain his freedom if he flees and stay fled for some amount of time (classically, a year and a day).

Neither will be true in our new institutionalized, state-owned slavery. If you flee and stay fled, you'll still be sent to a camp when they eventually find you. If you get transferred to another district or a camp, you *will* go or you will die. Just because you don't have one master who owns you doesn't mean you're not a slave. Indeed, being owned by the state is worse because there is no chance whatsoever of getting a "good master" - but such men *did* exist in legacy slave and serf systems.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:12 AM (3p5uk)

135 50 years ago the owners manuals told people how to check the valve clearances. Today they tell people not to drink the water in the battery.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 07:08 AM (ZLyax)

Idiocracy. 50 more years, instruction manuals will be all pictures, no one will understand them and nothing of value will get done, ever again.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:12 AM (Zz0t1)

136 So, an obvious result of all these vaccine mandates is that blacks will become less involved in the places where they are implemented.

What does the NAACP do when it's found out that, all of a sudden, blacks have lost x% of their population in colleges?

I think we all know what: act like it's not happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:13 AM (LvTSG)

137 Every year for the past 20 years (except Covid 2020), my daughter has gone to Milwaukee's Summerfest. Mostly to see REO Speedwagon yet again. Anyway, she is not going this year. They are requiring vaccination cards or proof of negative Covid tests.

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Good for her, grammie. I see this kind of thing expanding. I pray, I really do, that these entertainers (be it concerts, sporting events, etc.) literally tank in $ales.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2021 07:14 AM (O+I8R)

138 What does the NAACP do when it's found out that, all of a sudden, blacks have lost x% of their population in colleges?

I think we all know what: act like it's not happening.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:13 AM (LvTSG)
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Nah, that's old school. Now, they'll just say that things have never been better and the black man is freer than ever but there is still so much more to be done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:14 AM (3p5uk)

139 "What is shocking to me is that the police (were) involved in this setup," he said. "It was a total setup on Christian women and children, fathers, to come in a peaceful assembly just to worship God. And the police set these people up for the beating of a lifetime."

Does anyone doubt this is true? Not me. Portland Police leadership working with Antifa doesn't surprise me in the least.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2021 07:14 AM (rKT+Z)

140 130 All of you put too much thought in to why people are so cowed by the chinese lung rot. They have been told it may kill them. They don't want to die. It's very simple. Do not overthink what's going on. It's fear, pure fear of death. They cannot think past that.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2021 07:11 AM (6OlKO)

Rough way to live your life. Whats next alar on apples?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 07:14 AM (yrol0)

141 I think we all know what: act like it's not happening.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:13 AM (LvTSG)

That and blame racist white supremacists Republicans.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 12, 2021 07:15 AM (mbFEM)

142 There was a great photo of a Honda CB750 on an ONT a couple of months ago. The text said, roughly:

Syncing the carbs on those bikes was a BITCH, boy......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:15 AM (Zz0t1)

143 Psaki is your standard sorority slut who's aged out of whatever looks she has, but doesn't have the brains to back up her arrogance.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at August 12, 2021 07:15 AM (jOcSX)

144 Anybody know where I can get an in home wuhan flu test?

**

Shot of bourbon and a cigar. If you can taste the booze and smell the smoke...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 07:15 AM (ZLyax)

145 {{{Ladyl}}} I know what you mean. It just keeps getting worse every day, doesn't it?

Remember that old saying, "If you don't look, you won't get scared." Yeah, that.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 12, 2021 07:16 AM (HaL55)

146 Maybe the most jarring part of all of this is seeing how useless high school and college educations have been.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 07:05 AM (ZLyax)

Today, HS's purpose - beyond employing a vast number of reliable communist voters - is the "prepare" students for college. Most college degrees, assuming one finishes, are in areas in which no rigor existed from the get-go.

I remember doing recruiting after I had been with my current employer a couple years. I told one of the more senior managers that I was a bit intimidated interviewing someone with an advanced degree since I only held a BS. They told me to not be since most of the interviewees didn't really know more than someone with a bachelor degree...they were just more impressed with themselves.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:16 AM (EjmvJ)

147 50 years ago the owners manuals told people how to check the valve clearances. Today they tell people not to drink the water in the battery.

--

I LOL'd, but it's so true. Don't put that plastic bag over your child's head. It's not a toy! Here's how to use shampoo: put it in your hair and add water, then rinse. Tide Pods are not for human ingestion.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2021 07:16 AM (O+I8R)

148 Will Manchin and Sinema Stand Strong Against Pressure to Spend Another $3.5 Trillion?
________

No and I don't know.

Manchin is just the Democrat's Lindsay Graham. Sinema, I'm guessing, is working to be their McCain, thinking that in AZ, "maverick" is a good look.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 12, 2021 07:17 AM (7X3UV)

149 133 Anybody know where I can get an in home wuhan flu test?
Posted by: Infidel at August 12, 2021 07:12 AM (VDqwV)

Around here (NoVa) any pharmacy has them. Including the ones in grocery stores.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 12, 2021 07:17 AM (mbFEM)

150 All of you put too much thought in to why people are so cowed by the chinese lung rot. They have been told it may kill them. They don't want to die. It's very simple. Do not overthink what's going on. It's fear, pure fear of death. They cannot think past that.

This. I have a co-worker who lost one of their parents (who was not that old) to Covid, and they understandably don't want to hear the data about how it's not that deadly.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2021 07:17 AM (6XLoz)

151 All of you put too much thought in to why people are so cowed by the chinese lung rot. They have been told it may kill them. They don't want to die. It's very simple. Do not overthink what's going on. It's fear, pure fear of death. They cannot think past that.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 12, 2021 07:11 AM (6OlKO)
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Right. Where the surprise comes (or the disappointment, perhaps) is the cognitive dissonance that this position now requires. The bodies are *not* piling up like cordwood. Most people do not know someone who was killed by the 'Vid. Most people themselves have not gotten it (or it was not serious).

Those hard, cold realities do not square with the fear of a murderous superbug that's lying in wait to kill you. The inability of people to reconcile the reality with the narrative and find that they say different things is the disappointing part of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:17 AM (3p5uk)

152 They're ALL the things!

@ElectionWiz

"You're all racist, you're nazis, you're zionists, you're KKK, you're Proud Boys." Radical Left protesters gather at Fox News HQ in NYC.
https://tinyurl.com/yhdewwk2

Also video of them burning the flag with a pic of Tucker...
https://tinyurl.com/yj9q2x82

Posted by: Tami at August 12, 2021 07:17 AM (cF8AT)

153 "A review of the evidence."
Do Masks Work?

Everything was a lie.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 07:18 AM (2o90I)

154 I LOL'd, but it's so true. Don't put that plastic bag over your child's head. It's not a toy! Here's how to use shampoo: put it in your hair and add water, then rinse. Tide Pods are not for human ingestion.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2021 07:16 AM (O+I8R)

My personal favorite:

https://tinyurl.com/pd3vkusf

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:18 AM (Zz0t1)

155 Republican Betrayal on Fake Infrastructure Bill
_________

It's ever more obvious that they don't want to win.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 12, 2021 07:18 AM (7X3UV)

156
If there is a new civil war, it will be resolved by an outsider.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

This is guaranteed. A sovereign country's collapse is not a spectator's sport.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2021 07:18 AM (4rXjl)

157 148 Manchin is just the Democrat's Lindsay Graham. Sinema, I'm guessing, is working to be their McCain, thinking that in AZ, "maverick" is a good look.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 12, 2021 07:17 AM (7X3UV)

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The McCain mold of maverick is to deny your side all large political victories in the name of bipartisanship.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:18 AM (LvTSG)

158 Today, HS's purpose - beyond employing a vast number of reliable communist voters - is the "prepare" students for college. Most college degrees, assuming one finishes, are in areas in which no rigor existed from the get-go

**

I can't cite the court case (Duke Power vs ???), but a strong case can be made that they replaced job testing that was deemed illegal because racism.

Now you need these expensive credentials that don't prove sh*t beyond you could take out a loan for a diploma.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 07:18 AM (ZLyax)

159 yup, not even a year gone by and myohmy how different everything has gotten ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (YjYuE) at August 12, 2021 07:19 AM (YjYuE)

160 151 Those hard, cold realities do not square with the fear of a murderous superbug that's lying in wait to kill you. The inability of people to reconcile the reality with the narrative and find that they say different things is the disappointing part of it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:17 AM (3p5uk)

==========

Living in SC, I think most people I see have come to accept that covid isn't really that dangerous.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:19 AM (LvTSG)

161 I LOL'd, but it's so true. Don't put that plastic bag over your child's head. It's not a toy! Here's how to use shampoo: put it in your hair and add water, then rinse. Tide Pods are not for human ingestion.

We should ban such warnings and let Darwin run wild. It would solve so many problems.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2021 07:20 AM (6XLoz)

162 "Milwaukee's Summerfest... They are requiring vaccination cards or proof of negative Covid tests"

Which are not 100% effective. Which means they know some people will get infected, and some of them will die.

"Summerfest attracts approximately 800,000 people each year... including the 23,000-capacity Amphitheater."

https://tinyurl.com/pje4h5ks

As I said last thread, they say this crisis is so dangerous that we must surrender freedom for security. And yet it's not dangerous enough to cancel "The World's Largest Music Festival".

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 12, 2021 07:20 AM (49Exr)

163 I remember doing recruiting after I had been with my current employer a couple years. I told one of the more senior managers that I was a bit intimidated interviewing someone with an advanced degree since I only held a BS. They told me to not be since most of the interviewees didn't really know more than someone with a bachelor degree...they were just more impressed with themselves.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:16 AM (EjmvJ)
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When I was interviewing candidates, I would read the "education" section but I didn't care. I was more concerned with experience, and more concerned still with how the candidate would handle my test questions. I would interview to determine baseline knowledge, but what we really needed were people who could think. I did a lot of scenarios drawn on the white board and I would ask the candidate to provide solutions. All were open-ended with lots of possible answers. I just wanted to see how they approached problems.

The only time I specifically asked about education level was for a candidate - and someone who became a friend, which is nice - that had a doctorate in astrophysics. Guy was a literal rocket scientist.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:20 AM (3p5uk)

164 My personal favorite:

https://tinyurl.com/pd3vkusf

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That's redirecting me to Shutterstock's main page.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2021 07:20 AM (O+I8R)

165 Those hard, cold realities do not square with the fear of a murderous superbug that's lying in wait to kill you. The inability of people to reconcile the reality with the narrative and find that they say different things is the disappointing part of it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:17 AM (3p5uk)

Yet I know many that were effected by the vaccine.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 07:20 AM (2o90I)

166 spot-on, MoronRobbie, Duke Power is at the root of it.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (YjYuE) at August 12, 2021 07:20 AM (YjYuE)

167 139 "What is shocking to me is that the police (were) involved in this setup," he said. "It was a total setup on Christian women and children, fathers, to come in a peaceful assembly just to worship God. And the police set these people up for the beating of a lifetime."

Does anyone doubt this is true? Not me. Portland Police leadership working with Antifa doesn't surprise me in the least.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2021 07:14 AM (rKT+Z)

PDT inauguration visitors sent to streets blocked by fences.
Same with Armed Service members blocked from entering gates.
Cruz and wife sent out back of building into crowd.
Repub Convention in Austin (2000 I think) police forced all attendees to walk down street where they could be ambushed. Austin police had no rooftop surveillance.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 07:21 AM (yrol0)

168
This. I have a co-worker who lost one of their parents (who was not that old) to Covid, and they understandably don't want to hear the data about how it's not that deadly.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2021 07:17 AM (6XLoz)

There's no question the risk of death with Covid exists. However, the numbers show that the shutting down of the world was NOT necessary and those with co-morbidities should take extra precautions. The rest have a higher risk of dying in a car crash.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:21 AM (Zz0t1)

169 I can't cite the court case (Duke Power vs ???), but a strong case can be made that they replaced job testing that was deemed illegal because racism.

Now you need these expensive credentials that don't prove sh*t beyond you could take out a loan for a diploma.

They absolutely replaced "racist" testing. And Obama's takeover of student loans eliminated the "you could take out a loan for a diploma" test. But business hasn't yet come up with a replacement test.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2021 07:21 AM (6XLoz)

170 Slave is such an ugly word. We prefer Super Elite Reasonable Person, SERF for short.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:08 AM (EjmvJ)

Ummmm... what if you chose "Fella" instead of person.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 12, 2021 07:10 AM (G2zl5)

1. "Fella" is a gendered term - don't oppress me.
2. Having an acronym which accurately reflects the words used is also oppression.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:21 AM (EjmvJ)

171
I remember doing recruiting after I had been with my current employer a couple years. I told one of the more senior managers that I was a bit intimidated interviewing someone with an advanced degree since I only held a BS. They told me to not be since most of the interviewees didn't really know more than someone with a bachelor degree...they were just more impressed with themselves.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I'm not seeing that shovel flying, college boy!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2021 07:22 AM (4rXjl)

172 133 Anybody know where I can get an in home wuhan flu test?
Posted by: Infidel at August 12, 2021 07:12 AM (VDqwV)

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LabCorp will Fedex a test to your house, which you self-administer and Fedex back (in the envelope they provide with the test). A day later, you can get the report online. Easy peasy.

https://tinyurl.com/n9c8m2b7

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2021 07:22 AM (rKT+Z)

173 "This is guaranteed. A sovereign country's collapse is not a spectator's sport."

Even our own Revolutionary War. France didn't come to our aid out of the goodness of their heart. They sought to rule us.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 12, 2021 07:22 AM (49Exr)

174 As I said last thread, they say this crisis is so dangerous that we must surrender freedom for security. And yet it's not dangerous enough to cancel "The World's Largest Music Festival".

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Lefty Kevin Cronin needs to earn some of that sweet, sweet capitalist money.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2021 07:22 AM (O+I8R)

175 There's no question the risk of death with Covid exists. However, the numbers show that the shutting down of the world was NOT necessary and those with co-morbidities should take extra precautions. The rest have a higher risk of dying in a car crash.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:21 AM (Zz0t1)
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Not since the lockdowns! Fewer passenger miles are driven now, so risks are reduced! Yet another example of great externalities resulting from essential public health policy!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:22 AM (3p5uk)

176 I've been reading and hearing about the "rent moratorium" for quite a while but I really don't know what is really happening out in the real world.

I'm paying my rent and I don't know anybody who is saying that they are not. Are there people not paying their rent in any number?

I would think that would completely collapse a lot of local financial systems rather quickly as the banks get much of this money and they aren't going to forgo many paydays.

What gives? Is this just bullshit? Are people paying their rent anyway and the press is making a big deal about it?

Posted by: pawn at August 12, 2021 07:22 AM (l46Tt)

177 The Left would like us to believe that we don't have to die...of anything. Stupid people like that idea.

Posted by: Ziba at August 12, 2021 07:23 AM (S1hrL)

178 168 There's no question the risk of death with Covid exists. However, the numbers show that the shutting down of the world was NOT necessary and those with co-morbidities should take extra precautions. The rest have a higher risk of dying in a car crash.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:21 AM (Zz0t1)

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If you're old and/or really fat, be careful. Otherwise, treat it like the flu and just don't lick doorhandles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:23 AM (LvTSG)

179
1. "Fella" is a gendered term - don't oppress me.
2. Having an acronym which accurately reflects the words used is also oppression.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:21 AM (EjmvJ)

I'm not your buddy, guy.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:23 AM (Zz0t1)

180 145 {{{Ladyl}}} I know what you mean. It just keeps getting worse every day, doesn't it?

It's not just this. It's that there is no commensurate resistance within the establishment, no picket lines, no inspiring skirmishes or rallying victories even at the margins. It's a pure beat down.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2021 07:23 AM (DbihG)

181 ==========

If you're old and/or really fat, be careful. Otherwise, treat it like the flu and just don't lick doorhandles.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:23 AM (LvTSG)

*remembers back to the NBA player licking microphones during a presser*

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:24 AM (Zz0t1)

182 Australia is proof when Big Govt owns your healthcare, they own you.

Everyone on Medicare/Medicaid is a slave.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 07:24 AM (yrol0)

183 Idiocracy. 50 more years, instruction manuals will be all pictures, no one will understand them and nothing of value will get done, ever again.

The military has been doing that for decades. They even have comic books for the Category 4s in how to open the hood of a HMMWV. Now what someone of that skill level would do under there is yet another thing.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 07:25 AM (+LCoQ)

184 "OAN is really distinguishing itself with its coverage of the Lindell crusaders."

I watched some of that yesterday and they are doing what needs to be done with the data they can get. Whether or not it will have any impact remains to be seen.
Posted by: f'd at August 12, 2021 07:05 AM (Tnijr)

I thought Lindell was going to have a big announcement of some sort. I haven't heard of any yet.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 07:25 AM (2o90I)

185 I hear the NVA just took Hue and are headed south.

No wait. I meant the Taliban just took Kunduz and are headed south.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2021 07:25 AM (EZebt)

186 "A brief look at the progressive agenda in education reveals that critical race theory is just the latest in a long series of attempts to deform and ultimately fracture the country."

The Hundred-Year Road To CRT
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Was glad to see the author remembered John Dewey. Too many think this all dates from the 60s, or at most, the Frankfurt school.

That's like thinking the Civil War started with Gettysburg. I know I'm a broken record on this, but it goes back further, and Dewey was the Godfather of the family. What a scum.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 12, 2021 07:26 AM (7X3UV)

187 I'm not your buddy, guy.

Damn right.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 12, 2021 07:26 AM (HaL55)

188 "when Big Govt owns your healthcare, they own you"

Anybody who has been seriously injured on the job and been subjected to Workers Comp knows this and boy do they.

Posted by: pawn at August 12, 2021 07:27 AM (3LjS+)

189 "The McCain mold of maverick is to deny your side all large political victories in the name of bipartisanship."

Worse, he did it to be popular with the media so they would go easier on him when he ran for President. I laughed my ass off when they turned on him anyway. What a fool.

Remember that loser in High School who abandoned life-long friends for a chance to sit at the Cool Kids Table? John McCain.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 12, 2021 07:27 AM (49Exr)

190 I'm not understanding this thing about job testing deemed illegal. My daughter has to demonstrate both written knowledge and hands-on skill to get certification in one of her areas of interest. She's taking the exam in September. I asked if it was just a written test and she said, no, she had to demonstrate proficiency.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 12, 2021 07:28 AM (45fpk)

191 186 "A brief look at the progressive agenda in education reveals that critical race theory is just the latest in a long series of attempts to deform and ultimately fracture the country."

The Hundred-Year Road To CRT

Read Bella Dodd's "School of Darkness." She writes about this going on in the 30s.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2021 07:28 AM (DbihG)

192 "but what about the international threats? Something big will come. The Chinese virus was the first attack. What is next?"

Well if you're Russia, you can't just sit back and let China absorb Smaug's America's treasure. That would solidify their position as the world's dominant power for generations. And free them up to pivot West into Russia.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 12, 2021 07:02 AM (49Exr)

Both Mexico and Canada will completely collapse if the US does. That is why watching this is so bizarre.

Everyone is watching this trainwreck and shrugging.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 07:29 AM (2o90I)

193
So it appears that the Vaccines That Work*, are approaching the effectiveness of the flu vaccine and and in some studies, they are hovering in the low 30's.

Yep, and that's why any "booster" is a no go for this kid. I'll look after my own health, thank you very much.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2021 07:29 AM (4rXjl)

194 If you're old and/or really fat, be careful. Otherwise, treat it like the flu and just don't lick doorhandles.

Even there we ignored Chesterton's Fence and brought on more Idiocracy. Coins, door handles even tableware made of silver were designed with oligodynamic materials that are natural germ neutralizing metals.

This was a time when people died in their 30s and 40s over disease, they were serious about finding ways to reduce this problem. Now we use germ friendly materials and don harmful face coverings.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 07:30 AM (+LCoQ)

195 I see where Baltimore and Oregon are in a race to see who can create the most worthless High School diploma.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 12, 2021 07:30 AM (3D/fK)

196 Everyone is watching this trainwreck and shrugging.
Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 07:29 AM (2o90I)

A kind of worldwide anomie.

Maybe mankind has reached a kind of end.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2021 07:31 AM (DbihG)

197 I'm not your buddy, guy.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:23 AM (Zz0t1)

I'm not your guy, pal.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 12, 2021 07:31 AM (6RcPt)

198 hey y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at August 12, 2021 07:31 AM (oSy3T)

199 Idiocracy. 50 more years, instruction manuals will be all pictures, no one will understand them and nothing of value will get done, ever again.

I keep going back to classical music. Nothing like some of the great works will be possible in the future. Great inventions? Nope.

Just incestual financial relations to stay above the fray.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 07:31 AM (2o90I)

200 195 I see where Baltimore and Oregon are in a race to see who can create the most worthless High School diploma.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 12, 2021 07:30 AM (3D/fK)

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They're going to produce the best cannon fodder. Just the best, most luxurious cannon fodder.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:32 AM (LvTSG)

201 They would not fear death if they had either real faith or accomplishments.

They have neither, and cling to their miserable life, torturing it for meaning.

Through fear and hate, they pretend stretching their final seconds imparts purpose.

Posted by: Mrm88 at August 12, 2021 07:32 AM (jIL4c)

202 I hear the NVA just took Hue and are headed south.
No wait. I meant the Taliban just took Kunduz and are headed south.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2021 07:25 AM (EZebt)
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This reminds me of something. I like a lot of the old Sci-Fi radio dramas from the fifties and sixties. There are archives of these, and they are recorded "as broadcast" - including break-ins when they happened. As I was listening to one, there was a breaking news cut wherein the program was interrupted to inform people that the Korean War had just begun. It was surreal to hear it so much later, and I can only imagine how terrifying that must have been in real life, in real time and in context.
https://youtu.be/48lR6o2EN0s?t=1360

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:32 AM (3p5uk)

203 There simply is no reason a state grand jury in Kentucky, when the GOP remtakes the governor's mansion, cannot indict Bitch his despicable wife and send them both to prison.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 12, 2021 07:33 AM (0kPjF)

204 So it appears that the Vaccines That Work*, are approaching the effectiveness of the flu vaccine and and in some studies, they are hovering in the low 30's.

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And this is where the "media" comes in...to point the finger of blame on the unvaccinated. If you're vaccinated and you catch the China Cootie Bug, revenge must be taken out on those who have made it happen: the unclean, unvaxxed. That is already happening. It will intensify as people keep catching the cooties, even though they're "protected" with the vaccine that doesn't protect them. Not the vaccine's fault, mind you. It's your knuckle-dragging, anti-science neighbor who chose not to inject themselves with the prescribed mystery juice.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2021 07:33 AM (O+I8R)

205 Mind boggling that the Democrats are getting away with more and more with the help of the feckless frauds who call themselves Republicans.

2022 is still on my laughing list.

Posted by: Ziba at August 12, 2021 07:33 AM (S1hrL)

206 Heh. There are two big differences between a serf and a slave. A slave can be sold and a serf can't be, and a serf (usually) can gain his freedom if he flees and stay fled for some amount of time (classically, a year and a day).

Neither will be true in our new institutionalized, state-owned slavery. ...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:12 AM (3p5uk)

Point of order. You act like definitions matter in our brave, new world. Why do you hold on to these delusions?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:33 AM (EjmvJ)

207 I thought Lindell was going to have a big announcement of some sort. I haven't heard of any yet.

I believe it got delayed until today. I don't know why.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 12, 2021 07:34 AM (nxdel)

208 Piss-Hockey Psaki's Utterly Inane Comment About the Taliban Defies Belief
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You just don't understand how nuanced she is.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 12, 2021 07:34 AM (7X3UV)

209 I'm not your guy, pal.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 12, 2021 07:31 AM (6RcPt)

But I'm your huckleberry

https://tinyurl.com/p4vmexxb

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 12, 2021 07:35 AM (49Exr)

210 Anti-CRT Amendment Passes After Manchin Votes With Republicans

That amendment will be deleted from a final House-Senate joint version of the bill, for the Senate to vote up or down, if it gets that far.

Posted by: Gref at August 12, 2021 07:35 AM (AMIL/)

211 Thanks Huck.

Posted by: Infidel at August 12, 2021 07:35 AM (VDqwV)

212 Point of order. You act like definitions matter in our brave, new world. Why do you hold on to these delusions?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:33 AM (EjmvJ)
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Because they do. The rulers will ignore them and say that black is white and that slavery is freedom, but it doesn't make it so. Knowing the definitions is important, because if you don't then you won't know when you're being lied to. You might not be able to do anything about it, and you might be killed anyway, but you will at least know what the lies are and who is telling them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:35 AM (3p5uk)

213 "Mind boggling that the Democrats are getting away with more and more with the help of the feckless frauds who call themselves Republicans."

The Establishment Party (E)

Jokes on us.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 12, 2021 07:36 AM (49Exr)

214 Oh, OT since we're past 100 and CBD can't get upset...

Over the weekend my wife fell and suffered a compression fracture of her T12 vertebrae. No surgery is required but she's in a lot of pain. Prayers would be appreciated.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:36 AM (EjmvJ)

215 Maybe mankind has reached a kind of end.

It's quite likely. I'm seeing things happening all over the world at the same time which I've never seen before in all my 29 years on this rock. It's not so much the nature of the things themselves, it's the world-wide scope of it that I find rather surprising.

I can't help but see at least some prophecies being fulfilled these days. Some girding of loins is in order now.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 12, 2021 07:36 AM (HaL55)

216 American Booksellers Association Implements New "Precrime Agency" to Prevent Accidentally Promoting Authors Like Candace Owens

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 07:36 AM (yrol0)

217 Over the weekend my wife fell and suffered a compression fracture of her T12 vertebrae. No surgery is required but she's in a lot of pain. Prayers would be appreciated.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:36 AM (EjmvJ)
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I hope she gets through it and that her convalescence is as rapid and painless as possible!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:37 AM (3p5uk)

218 Prayers up for IUTHADN's wife.

. Those are incredibly painful.

Posted by: Catherine at August 12, 2021 07:37 AM (RILHI)

219 Will Manchin and Sinema Stand Strong Against Pressure to Spend Another $3.5 Trillion?

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Will Wiley Coyote Catch That Roadrunner?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 12, 2021 07:37 AM (d9FiS)

220 "Mind boggling that the Democrats are getting away with more and more with the help of the feckless frauds who call themselves Republicans."

The Establishment Party (E)

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That's good. I think I'm going to start replacing their D and R designations with the "U." Uniparty.

Mitch McConnell (U-KY)
Lindsey Graham (U-SC)
Chuck Schumer (U-NY)

What's the difference at this point? It's literally what they are.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2021 07:38 AM (O+I8R)

221 Car kidnapping in broad daylight. Car thieves jump in car stopped in traffic, throw driver out, and drive off.
In upper middle class CT town.

Posted by: Ziba at August 12, 2021 07:38 AM (S1hrL)

222 Prayers would be appreciated.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:36 AM (EjmvJ)

Of course. May the healing hand of God touch your wife and restore her to wellness, and alleviate her pain.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 12, 2021 07:39 AM (45fpk)

223 Posted by: Infidel at August 12, 2021 07:35 AM (VDqwV)

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happy to help.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2021 07:39 AM (5kAgn)

224 Over the weekend my wife fell and suffered a compression fracture of her T12 vertebrae

Prayers sent. That's very painful.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 12, 2021 07:40 AM (nxdel)

225 Car kidnapping in broad daylight. Car thieves jump in car stopped in traffic, throw driver out, and drive off.
In upper middle class CT town.
Posted by: Ziba at August 12, 2021 07:38 AM (S1hrL)
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Carjacking is back, and better than ever. Remember the extremely violent early 90s? When better cars had doors that locked automatically once they went into gear? Yeah, there was a reason for that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:40 AM (3p5uk)

226 Oh, OT since we're past 100 and CBD can't get upset...

Over the weekend my wife fell and suffered a compression fracture of her T12 vertebrae. No surgery is required but she's in a lot of pain. Prayers would be appreciated.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:36 AM (EjmvJ)

Not the art or weekend thread, but I'm betting news such as this wouldn't be shunned, regardless.

That's terrible. Prayers are on their way up.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:40 AM (Zz0t1)

227 Over the weekend my wife fell and suffered a compression fracture of her T12 vertebrae. No surgery is required but she's in a lot of pain. Prayers would be appreciated.

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Oww! I'm so sorry to hear that. I will pray for her.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 12, 2021 07:40 AM (O+I8R)

228 Doppelganger for Cory Booker's Undescended Testicle, LoPecia Pressley, Takes Victory Lap, Declares "Climate Justice Is Infrastructure" After GOP Caves to Biden Hoax Bill

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Shorter: Infrastructure Motherf*cker!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 12, 2021 07:40 AM (d9FiS)

229 So it appears that the Vaccines That Work*, are "approaching the effectiveness of the flu vaccine and and in some studies, they are hovering in the low 30's."

I'm thinking the unvaxed will develop immunity/antibodies that are more effective against the future variants and those vaccinated will not develop them and ironically will be more at risk. (Does that make medical sense?) The govt. experts might be starting to think along these lines but cannot allow that to happen. Everybody must be vaxed and face the same risks. Corona death equity. We must all be in this together!

Posted by: Ripley at August 12, 2021 07:40 AM (MxEKc)

230 Prayers up for Mrs. Different Nic, Different Nic.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 12, 2021 07:40 AM (HaL55)

231 Car kidnapping in broad daylight. Car thieves jump in car stopped in traffic, throw driver out, and drive off.
In upper middle class CT town.

Posted by: Ziba at August 12, 2021 07:38 AM (S1hrL)

They're holding the car for ransom?

Posted by: BignJames at August 12, 2021 07:41 AM (AwYPR)

232 We had a lot of success with my mom using kyphoplasty for a compressed fractured vertebrae. Most orthopedists don't go there. But it really does work beautifully and is out-patient.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at August 12, 2021 07:41 AM (ySQBZ)

233 Car kidnapping in broad daylight. Car thieves jump in car stopped in traffic, throw driver out, and drive off.
In upper middle class CT town.
Posted by: Ziba at August 12, 2021 07:38 AM (S1hrL)

Democrats have turned life into a real Grand Theft Auto IV environment.

Well done.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:41 AM (Zz0t1)

234 Christopher Rufo was on Tucker last night talking about American Express and their new equity training of their employees. You are not allowed to use phrases like "I don't see color," "we are all human beings," and everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough." As the article says, these are considered "microaggressions" against their black colleagues.
Christopher Rufo said that he has13 other Fortune 500 companies that he plans on exposing in the next few weeks.
To me it is looking like companies are trying to purge all conservatives from the workplace either by requiring vaccine passports or with the equity/CRT courses. They see how easy it's done by Big Tech and now feel emboldened. They either want them fired or for them to quit.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 12, 2021 07:42 AM (NpAcC)

235 You might not be able to do anything about it, and you might be killed anyway, but you will at least know what the lies are and who is telling them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:35 AM (3p5uk)

The leftist academician Paolo Freire called that "naming your world," because knowledge is power.

Posted by: Ziba at August 12, 2021 07:42 AM (S1hrL)

236 I'm not your buddy, guy.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:23 AM (Zz0t1)

I'm not your guy, friend.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:42 AM (EjmvJ)

237 You just never know what you're going to see on twitter...

@CBSNews

Indonesian army ends "two-finger virginity tests" on female cadets

https://tinyurl.com/yfcjhpcu

Posted by: Tami at August 12, 2021 07:42 AM (cF8AT)

238 1. "Fella" is a gendered term - don't oppress me.

In Western gendered languages, the short 'a' is often the feminine form, whereas "Fellow" would be masculine.

If using the modern -"ix" suffix to neuter the term you would get fellix which when spoken sounds a lot like "phallix" which will trigger too many people.

I propose, to handle the new sensibilities, and to encourage adoption, combine the feminine short 'a' with the masculine long "io" and get a word that sounds like "fellatio" and now you will be a hero of the Left for coining a new term.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 07:43 AM (+LCoQ)

239 Hawaii Reimposes Chinese COVID-19 Restrictions Despite Seven-Day Average of Zero Deaths From the Chinese Virus

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You can't be too careful!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 12, 2021 07:43 AM (d9FiS)

240 @204

It's not even fault of the vaccines.

I believe the attempts at creating the vaccines are legitimate and not part of the larger Op, scam and conspiracy.

The problem with creating a general purpose vaccine for cold and flu is the fact that as viruses circulate through populations, they mute, modulate and create different strains that create unique spike profiles, receptor binding domains and every different variable and permutation that can be imagined and cannot be accounted for and ameliorated in a population of 7 billion people.

It's as FA Hayek cautioned about in the Pretence of Knowledge except applied to science and medicine and not economics.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2021 07:43 AM (moFdV)

241 unelectable
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Another word which after 2020 means absolutely NOTHING.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2021 07:43 AM (kmxth)

242 Car thieves jump in car stopped in traffic, throw driver out, and drive off.

Don't most cars lock automatically? Mine does and it's 5 years old. wth?

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 12, 2021 07:43 AM (nxdel)

243 I'm not understanding this thing about job testing deemed illegal. My daughter has to demonstrate both written knowledge and hands-on skill to get certification in one of her areas of interest. She's taking the exam in September. I asked if it was just a written test and she said, no, she had to demonstrate proficiency.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 12, 2021 07:28 AM (45fpk)

**

I'm no employmentologist, but I think certain testing is acceptable (what is 2+2) after you've already chosen a pool of candidates, but other questions (have you ever gotten fired for being a slack-ass loser who repeatedly comes in late shuffles off all your work on other employees or calls in sick every payday) are racist.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 07:43 AM (ZLyax)

244 If you're old and/or really fat, be careful. Otherwise, treat it like the flu and just don't lick doorhandles.

Even there we ignored Chesterton's Fence and brought on more Idiocracy. Coins, door handles even tableware made of silver were designed with oligodynamic materials that are natural germ neutralizing metals.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 07:30 AM (+LCoQ)

And Vampires. Don't forget the vampires.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 07:43 AM (2o90I)

245 If it saves just one pineapple!!! *hic* Stay safe.

Posted by: Hawaiian Suburban Wine Moms at August 12, 2021 07:44 AM (W4eKo)

246 Wonder from exactly where the "last helicopter" will depart Kabul?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2021 07:44 AM (EZebt)

247 Just remember everyone. Think for yourself. Ask questions. And then get your shot.

A PhD (and hospital worker) told you to.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 12, 2021 07:44 AM (G2zl5)

248 You can't be too careful!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 12, 2021 07:43 AM (d9FiS)

They are also mandating that everyone close their windows at night to keep the bad vapors from entering homes and causing malaria.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 07:44 AM (Q9lwr)

249 Prayers would be appreciated.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:36 AM (EjmvJ)
************
Sending prayers for your wife.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 12, 2021 07:44 AM (NpAcC)

250 Off to my dental appointment....infrastructure.

Posted by: BignJames at August 12, 2021 07:45 AM (AwYPR)

251 So if one can get the vaccine, and then become infected, and contagious without any symptoms..

Have we not in essence created an entire group of Typhoid Marys?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 12, 2021 07:45 AM (3D/fK)

252 We had a lot of success with my mom using kyphoplasty for a compressed fractured vertebrae. Most orthopedists don't go there. But it really does work beautifully and is out-patient.

My mom had it done twice. Immediate relief and she went home later that day.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 12, 2021 07:45 AM (nxdel)

253 I'm no employmentologist, but I think certain testing is acceptable (what is 2+2) after you've already chosen a pool of candidates, but other questions (have you ever gotten fired for being a slack-ass loser who repeatedly comes in late shuffles off all your work on other employees or calls in sick every payday) are racist.

Moron Robbie - that makes sense. Thank you.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 12, 2021 07:45 AM (45fpk)

254 I'm no employmentologist, but I think certain testing is acceptable (what is 2+2) after you've already chosen a pool of candidates, but other questions (have you ever gotten fired for being a slack-ass loser who repeatedly comes in late shuffles off all your work on other employees or calls in sick every payday) are racist.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 07:43 AM (ZLyax)
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Competence testing is allowed. The last time I did a job hunt, I used a placement firm. That didn't work out, but they had me go through a pretty comprehensive skills battery. A few employers who interviewed me did the same. I did it to my candidates as open-ended scenario questions. You are allowed to determine skill level.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:45 AM (3p5uk)

255 We had a lot of success with my mom using kyphoplasty for a compressed fractured vertebrae. Most orthopedists don't go there. But it really does work beautifully and is out-patient.

**

If that's the one where they use the medical equivalent of that spray-foam stuff you buy at Lowes:

+1

I knew a guy who was bedridden, couldn't walk, and in a HUGE amount of pain for weeks, went to the doctor and had this concrete material injected, and he walked out and was back to normal almost immediately.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 07:46 AM (ZLyax)

256 "They are also mandating that everyone close their windows at night to keep the bad vapors from entering homes and causing malaria."

The old ways are best ways.

Hey....anybody seen the jar of leeches I had?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 12, 2021 07:46 AM (3D/fK)

257 "Mind boggling that the Democrats are getting away with more and more with the help of the feckless frauds who call themselves Republicans."

The Establishment Party (E)

An unnecessary distinction since there is no opposition party - just call it "The Party".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 07:47 AM (+LCoQ)

258 256 Hey....anybody seen the jar of leeches I had?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 12, 2021 07:46 AM (3D/fK)

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I'll trade you one for a healing crystal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:47 AM (LvTSG)

259 I thought Lindell was going to have a big announcement of some sort. I haven't heard of any yet.

I believe it got delayed until today. I don't know why.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 12, 2021 07:34 AM (nxdel)

First the commies tried to stop the event by cutting the power. They had a back up plan I heard.
Then Tina Peters, the Mesa Colorado Clerk had her office raided while she was travelling to the Lindell symposium.

People are trying hard to stop him from telling the truth.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 07:47 AM (2o90I)

260 I have a co-worker who lost one of their parents (who was not that old) to Covid, and they understandably don't want to hear the data about how it's not that deadly.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2021 07:17 AM (6XLoz)

There's no question the risk of death with Covid exists. However, the numbers show that the shutting down of the world was NOT necessary and those with co-morbidities should take extra precautions. The rest have a higher risk of dying in a car crash.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:21 AM (Zz0t1)

We were lied to every step of the way by the likes of Fauci. Where were the seasonal flu deaths that were standardly reported in prior years? Everything was Covid mania. I can usually tell when someone's conning me and I've constantly felt that about Covid reporting.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:47 AM (y7DUB)

261 They are also mandating that everyone close their windows at night to keep the bad vapors from entering homes and causing malaria.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 07:44 AM (Q9lwr)

The miasma will get us all!!!!!!

Posted by: Buzzion at August 12, 2021 07:47 AM (G2zl5)

262 The old ways are best ways.

Hey....anybody seen the jar of leeches I had?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 12, 2021 07:46 AM (3D/fK)
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:: raises hand with a shamed face ::

I had them, VIA. They were next to my sickbed and the doctor who bled me to rebalance my humors accidentally downed them when he used their bowl to hold my excess blood. Apologies.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:47 AM (3p5uk)

263 Report: Malig-Nancy Pelosi Considers Sacrificing Vulnerable Democrats by Pulling them Off Campaign Trail Early to Advance Swamp Agenda
__________

Even assuming they can't pull off a steal as they did in 2020*, they will try some other way to hold on. I'm guessing they will challenge quite a few of the races they lose. And - wonder of wonders - they will be able to find judges willing to inject themselves into politics. Enough to keep out enough that they still have a majority of those in. Then they will decide whom to seat.

Crazy? Sure. But crazy = true nowadays.

*And do not forget 2018.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 12, 2021 07:47 AM (7X3UV)

264 So if one can get the vaccine, and then become infected, and contagious without any symptoms..

Have we not in essence created an entire group of Typhoid Marys?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 12, 2021 07:45 AM (3D/fK)

**
Shut up because that's not Science and everyone knows the unvaccinated are the big drivers of the virus needing to mutate to survive conditions in bodies that haven't changed very much in the last two years.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 07:47 AM (ZLyax)

265 Prayer for complete and speedy healing for Mrs. nic

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2021 07:48 AM (EZebt)

266 Because they do. The rulers will ignore them and say that black is white and that slavery is freedom, but it doesn't make it so. Knowing the definitions is important, because if you don't then you won't know when you're being lied to. You might not be able to do anything about it, and you might be killed anyway, but you will at least know what the lies are and who is telling them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:35 AM (3p5uk)

Sounds like something a wrecker would say. You can expect a visit from the People's Peace and Love Enforcement Brigade.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:48 AM (EjmvJ)

267 Sounds like something a wrecker would say. You can expect a visit from the People's Peace and Love Enforcement Brigade.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:48 AM (EjmvJ)
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Doubtless.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:48 AM (3p5uk)

268 I am careful anymore discussing anything viru related with anyone... potentially anyone is ready to get pissed off in some way or other.... and political affiliation/leanings have not a lot to do with it, in my experience.

Posted by: kraken at August 12, 2021 07:49 AM (6Je/Q)

269 I'm no employmentologist, but I think certain testing is acceptable (what is 2+2) after you've already chosen a pool of candidates, but other questions (have you ever gotten fired for being a slack-ass loser who repeatedly comes in late shuffles off all your work on other employees or calls in sick every payday) are racist.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 12, 2021 07:43 AM (ZLyax)
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There should always be some way for the candidate to demonstrate their competency in the desired skillset. That right there is the test. In most of the interviews I've participated in, the candidates usually have to provide a presentation of some kind and might even have to perform a specific task. As long as all candidates are held to the same standard, there usually isn't any problem with that.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 12, 2021 07:49 AM (ZIoLS)

270 I've been vaxed and I reserve the right to go maskless and infect other people

suck it up, losers

Posted by: Karen at August 12, 2021 07:50 AM (YK4Qh)

271 "Apologies."

No problem.

These things happen.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 12, 2021 07:50 AM (3D/fK)

272 157 148 Manchin is just the Democrat's Lindsay Graham. Sinema, I'm guessing, is working to be their McCain, thinking that in AZ, "maverick" is a good look.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 12, 2021 07:17 AM (7X3UV)

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The McCain mold of maverick is to deny your side all large political victories in the name of bipartisanship.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:18 AM (LvTSG)
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Sure. But since she's a Democrat, I'm not too worried. I don't have much faith in Sinema, but I do have more than in Manchin.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 12, 2021 07:50 AM (7X3UV)

273 Preliminary census numbers shows us evil racist white folks are down to about 60% of the population. If you look schools it probably already well under 40%, and far less in the large cities. No wonder Dems are so confident and in your face. I often hear demographics is not destiny. I hope they are right but history does not support that.

Posted by: Ripley at August 12, 2021 07:50 AM (MxEKc)

274 270 I've been vaxed and I reserve the right to go maskless and infect other people

suck it up, losers
Posted by: Karen at August 12, 2021 07:50 AM (YK4Qh)

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I am okay with this because the disease isn't that bad. In fact, we're not even seeing an increase in deaths with this new wave of cases. Power on, Karen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:50 AM (LvTSG)

275 Have we not in essence created an entire group of Typhoid Marys?

That has been my argument since January when the let the cat out of the bag by characterizing the mRNA injections as therapeutics not as a prophylactic.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 07:50 AM (+LCoQ)

276 Donating blood is the modern equivalent to leeches.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:51 AM (y7DUB)

277 Indonesian army ends "two-finger virginity tests" on female cadets

https://tinyurl.com/yfcjhpcu

Posted by: Tami at August 12, 2021 07:42 AM (cF8AT)

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Infrastructure!

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden at August 12, 2021 07:51 AM (vwpaZ)

278 "Piss-Hockey Psaki's Utterly Inane Comment About the Taliban Defies Belief"

Her Idiocracy-level statement will not defy belief by the Idiocracy-level Democrat base. And it will be loved by the Media's international relations "experts." That is all that matters, now, to the Biden Junta on foreign affairs topics. Their base has been conditioned to believe that strongly-worded diplomatic statements from the US and maybe France, too, will make any country bend to our will.

That's a result of decades of prosperity and of no military threat to the continental US. The freedom to believe our foreign affairs can be done with clever words pixie-dust.

Posted by: Gref at August 12, 2021 07:51 AM (AMIL/)

279 There should always be some way for the candidate to demonstrate their competency in the desired skillset. That right there is the test. In most of the interviews I've participated in, the candidates usually have to provide a presentation of some kind and might even have to perform a specific task. As long as all candidates are held to the same standard, there usually isn't any problem with that.
Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 12, 2021 07:49 AM (ZIoLS)
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I had once proposed - tongue in cheek - that the entire technical interview at my old company should consist of a single task. The candidate has 90 minutes to install Gentoo Linux on a workstation, get it online and play a YouTube video with sound. All they were given were the source CDs and a manual.

The only way to pass the interview would be to sweep the materials to the floor, stand up, shout, "Fuck you, it can't be done" and then storm out of the interview.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:52 AM (3p5uk)

280 273 Preliminary census numbers shows us evil racist white folks are down to about 60% of the population. If you look schools it probably already well under 40%, and far less in the large cities. No wonder Dems are so confident and in your face. I often hear demographics is not destiny. I hope they are right but history does not support that.
Posted by: Ripley at August 12, 2021 07:50 AM (MxEKc)

Remind me again how mixed race people shake out in the Counting Game???

Posted by: kraken at August 12, 2021 07:52 AM (6Je/Q)

281 How much of the GOP takes money from Dominion? Why does any red state use their dogshit machines?
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 06:57 AM (y7DUB)

In the state to your north, apparently our Senate majority leader, a R, signed off on Dominion a few years ago but does not answer for it.

I assume he was paid.

Posted by: clutch at August 12, 2021 07:52 AM (9UmRs)

282 Hmmm, someone here mentioned yesterday that some Chinese guy was buying up land in Texas. Wonder if this is him?

https://tinyurl.com/eck5hc7v

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 12, 2021 07:52 AM (nxdel)

283 Indonesian army ends "two-finger virginity tests" on female cadets

Swallow that whole halal sausage. Take it all down.

Posted by: Nipples Cuomo at August 12, 2021 07:52 AM (CareB)

284 Car kidnapping in broad daylight. Car thieves jump in car stopped in traffic, throw driver out, and drive off.
In upper middle class CT town.
Posted by: Ziba at August 12, 2021 07:38 AM (S1hrL)

I was at a BB&B yesterday. Black guy comes in, loads up a cart, walks out. Manager runs out after him and grabs the handle of the cart. Guy takes off the top item and keeps walking.

Lady with a very butch haircut inside the store says, "Does he think he's in San Francisco?"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:52 AM (EjmvJ)

285 278 Her Idiocracy-level statement will not defy belief by the Idiocracy-level Democrat base. And it will be loved by the Media's international relations "experts." That is all that matters, now, to the Biden Junta on foreign affairs topics. Their base has been conditioned to believe that strongly-worded diplomatic statements from the US and maybe France, too, will make any country bend to our will.

That's a result of decades of prosperity and of no military threat to the continental US. The freedom to believe our foreign affairs can be done with clever words pixie-dust.
Posted by: Gref at August 12, 2021 07:51 AM (AMIL/)

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She's repeating establishment nonsense. She's not making it up. Remember how the base of all Middle East policy for more than 30 years has been trying to get Israel to think of its place in the international community in order to keep it from actually dealing with Palestine?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:52 AM (LvTSG)

286 Remind me again how mixed race people shake out in the Counting Game???
Posted by: kraken at August 12, 2021 07:52 AM (6Je/Q)
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Nervously.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:53 AM (3p5uk)

287 Maybe mankind has reached a kind of end.

It's quite likely. I'm seeing things happening all over the world at the same time which I've never seen before in all my 29 years on this rock. It's not so much the nature of the things themselves, it's the world-wide scope of it that I find rather surprising.

I can't help but see at least some prophecies being fulfilled these days. Some girding of loins is in order now.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 12, 2021 07:36 AM (HaL55)

Hence, love and cherish your loved ones. Protect them.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 07:53 AM (2o90I)

288 morning horde. a mid week day off is a lovely thing. too bad i had to come back to the office today.

i need to be a cabana boy for some exceptionally rich woman...

anyway, coffee is ready. now to the content.

enjoy your day

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 12, 2021 07:53 AM (8D42x)

289 ManBallsOnChin has already been caught covering his whore daughter's EpiPen scam. Do better, West Virginia.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:53 AM (y7DUB)

290 I am careful anymore discussing anything viru related with anyone... potentially anyone is ready to get pissed off in some way or other.... and political affiliation/leanings have not a lot to do with it, in my experience.

More likely coincidence. One's position on the Wuhan Death Miasma and all of the legend and myth around it has everything to do with information sources and respect for data.

If you don't need data or evidence, then the view will be totally emotional and tribal.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 07:54 AM (+LCoQ)

291 If some of the Hollywood elites had to go to jail for "bribes" so their kids could get into an elite college then Ted Lieu needs to be held to the same standards.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 12, 2021 07:54 AM (NpAcC)

292 We need to make 'Unvaccinated Lives Matter' yard signs.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 12, 2021 07:55 AM (3D/fK)

293 Posted by: Tami at August 12, 2021 07:17 AM (cF8AT)

Nazi Zionists are really the worst.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2021 07:55 AM (kmxth)

294 "Remind me again how mixed race people shake out in the Counting Game??? Posted by: kraken"

Dems will remind them they must vote against white racists or they are one.

Posted by: Ripley at August 12, 2021 07:55 AM (MxEKc)

295 Without Trump, we would have won in Afghanistan. We were that close *holds two fingers an inch apart*.

Posted by: Liz Cheney at August 12, 2021 07:55 AM (vwpaZ)

296 Mylan Labs Manchin is a piece of shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2021 07:56 AM (CareB)

297 Hence, love and cherish your loved ones. Protect them.

That's excellent advice that I plan to follow.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 12, 2021 07:56 AM (HaL55)

298 then Ted Lieu needs to be held to the same standards.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 12, 2021 07:54 AM (NpAcC)

What's that you say? "Same standards"?! White supremacist!

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2021 07:56 AM (DbihG)

299 295 Without Trump, we would have won in Afghanistan. We were that close *holds two fingers an inch apart*.
Posted by: Liz Cheney at August 12, 2021 07:55 AM (vwpaZ)

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lol

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:56 AM (LvTSG)

300 "those vaccinated... will ironically will be more at risk. Does that make medical sense?"

It does if Antibody-Dependent Enhancement occurs: "when the antibodies generated during an immune response recognize and bind to a pathogen, but they are unable to prevent infection. Instead, these antibodies act as a 'Trojan horse,' allowing the pathogen to get into cells and exacerbate the immune response."

https://tinyurl.com/yt842bru

I'm in over my head here - publius can explain it better, But short version (I think) is that the vax creates binding (good) and non-binding (not good) antibodies. There weren't enough binding anti-bodies being created so they had to amp the dosage to reach a certain level, which unforunately increased the already higher levels of non-binding antgi-bodies even higher. It's the non-binding that cause ADE.

In two examples (chidlren's medicine) from the link:
- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV): In clinical trials, children who were given the vaccine were more likely to develop or die from pneumonia after infection with RSV.
- Measles: Children who were vaccinated and later became infected... developed high fevers, unusual rash, and pneumonia

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 12, 2021 07:56 AM (49Exr)

301 She's repeating establishment nonsense. She's not making it up. Remember how the base of all Middle East policy for more than 30 years has been trying to get Israel to think of its place in the international community in order to keep it from actually dealing with Palestine?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:52 AM (LvTSG)

Yes. And the current Democrat base eats that stuff up.

Posted by: Gref at August 12, 2021 07:57 AM (AMIL/)

302 @196

>>Maybe mankind has reached a kind of end.

Not really mankind but The Anglo Sphere.

The Anglo Sphere masterminds that are running the world are, in the main, insane childless atheists, pedophiles and sexual deviant monsters that are hellbent on dragging everyone into the abyss.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2021 07:57 AM (moFdV)

303 The Romans did it right. Build a large amphitheater,
provide the citizens entertainment, and the citizens forget all their problems. And the emperor can sit up high and do what he wants, and the people are busy just watching the show, and getting free stuff.

Posted by: Colin at August 12, 2021 07:57 AM (gfP64)

304 Climate Scientists Admit Exaggerated Warming

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For the children!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 12, 2021 07:57 AM (d9FiS)

305 You just never know what you're going to see on twitter...

@CBSNews

Indonesian army ends "two-finger virginity tests" on female cadets

https://tinyurl.com/yfcjhpcu
Posted by: Tami at August 12, 2021 07:42 AM (cF8AT)

Just when so many Democrat politicians were preparing to become Indonesian army recruiters.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 07:58 AM (EjmvJ)

306 I admit to being shocked Ghislaine Maxwell's name hasn't popped up in the Hunter Biden saga. They seem made for each other. Also, how is she still alive?!?!

Posted by: Zombie Jeffrey Epstein at August 12, 2021 07:58 AM (vwpaZ)

307 303 The Romans did it right. Build a large amphitheater,
provide the citizens entertainment, and the citizens forget all their problems. And the emperor can sit up high and do what he wants, and the people are busy just watching the show, and getting free stuff.
Posted by: Colin at August 12, 2021 07:57 AM (gfP64)

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We have the largest amphitheater in history. We have the Internet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:58 AM (LvTSG)

308 306 I admit to being shocked Ghislaine Maxwell's name hasn't popped up in the Hunter Biden saga. They seem made for each other. Also, how is she still alive?!?!
Posted by: Zombie Jeffrey Epstein at August 12, 2021 07:58 AM (vwpaZ)

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Bill Barr isn't AG?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:58 AM (LvTSG)

309 The only way to pass the interview would be to sweep the materials to the floor, stand up, shout, "Fuck you, it can't be done" and then storm out of the interview.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 07:52 AM (3p5uk)
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Hey, understanding the limitations of the job is a very important part of DOING the job!

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 12, 2021 07:58 AM (ZIoLS)

310 >>What Taylor is doing is tilling the fertile soil for the Left to portray all who oppose it as potentially violent extremists, or just outright violent extremists even if they've never espoused violence, and accordingly to criminalize dissent from its agenda.

He's not alone - not by a longshot.
Between this and the "death cult"/'we should wihhold healthcare and other freedoms from vaccine resistant" they are stting the table for something awful. Intentionally.

This is evil.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 12, 2021 07:59 AM (bDqIh)

311 307 303 The Romans did it right. Build a large amphitheater,
provide the citizens entertainment, and the citizens forget all their problems. And the emperor can sit up high and do what he wants, and the people are busy just watching the show, and getting free stuff.
Posted by: Colin at August 12, 2021 07:57 AM (gfP64)

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We have the largest amphitheater in history. We have the Internet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:58 AM (LvTSG)

The comment of the week.....

Posted by: kraken at August 12, 2021 07:59 AM (6Je/Q)

312 I had once proposed - tongue in cheek - that the entire technical interview at my old company should consist of a single task. The candidate has 90 minutes to install Gentoo Linux on a workstation, get it online and play a YouTube video with sound. All they were given were the source CDs and a manual.

The only way to pass the interview would be to sweep the materials to the floor, stand up, shout, "Fuck you, it can't be done" and then storm out of the interview.

The Kobayashi Maru test... how futuristic.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 12, 2021 07:59 AM (+LCoQ)

313 So is the Indonesian army going to go to a one finger virginity test then?

Posted by: Buzzion at August 12, 2021 07:59 AM (6RcPt)

314 If some of the Hollywood elites had to go to jail for "bribes" so their kids could get into an elite college then Ted Lieu needs to be held to the same standards.

Ted Lieu is a one person stereotype buster that all Asians are smart.

I didn't have any dog in the fight but was amused that people paying the bribe were prosecuted but never heard a fucking thing happening to the recipients of the payoff.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 08:00 AM (y7DUB)

315 We had a lot of success with my mom using kyphoplasty for a compressed fractured vertebrae. Most orthopedists don't go there. But it really does work beautifully and is out-patient.

Will look into it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2021 08:00 AM (EjmvJ)

316 I have a co-worker who lost one of their parents (who was not that old) to Covid, and they
Posted by: Ian S. at August 12, 2021 07:17 AM (6XLoz)
There's no question the risk of death with Covid exists. However, the numbers show that the shutting down of
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:21 AM (Zz0t1)
We were lied to every step of the way by the likes of Fauci. Where were the seasonal flu deaths that were
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 07:47 AM (y7DUB)

And remember there is no test for "covid" or any new "variant". The tests were ALSO finding the flu in the results. But you did not know which or what. Tens of thousands die from the flu every year. Both the elderly and very young were always targets of the flu. Supposedly the chinavirus targeted mostly the elderly or the obese. Subtract flu sufferers from whatever this chinese virus was. We will never know how many truly died of the chiesevirus because it is mixed up in the flu numbers.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 08:01 AM (2o90I)

317 "Maybe mankind has reached a kind of end."

More and more, I find myself looking around my neighborhood (Maryland) and wondering if these people really deserve to be free.

I AM certain I would not enlist in the Marine Corps again and risk my life for them. They treat Memorial Day as a party weekend.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 12, 2021 08:01 AM (49Exr)

318 Morning. That Legal Insurrection piece on Newsom linked to Dave in Fla's thread from the other day and quoted paragraph 3 in full. Nice! (Fvck, i just admitted i read some of the content.)

Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n/FKWJm) at August 12, 2021 08:01 AM (KAi1n)

319 Dems will remind them they must vote against white racists or they are one.

I still have trouble grokking that people can be made so superficial and shallow as to allow others to manipulate them so easily. It's like everybody's Bullshit Radar has been permanently disabled and no one is able to think for themselves any longer.

WASTF and I still can't figure out how it happened.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 12, 2021 08:01 AM (HaL55)

320 No one will ever write a book about the Biden press office and entitle it "The Best And The Brightest"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2021 08:01 AM (iw5VC)

321 I can't help but see at least some prophecies being fulfilled these days. Some girding of loins is in order now.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy

Yes. Quit ye like men, and march forward.

It's practically thrilling, the battle being on our doorsteps, and openly. Now our mettle (as Christians) is tested.

Quit ye like men.

Posted by: lizabth at August 12, 2021 08:02 AM (L3Rsz)

322 >>Maybe mankind has reached a kind of end.

"Our point exactly! Time to start the tech integration plans!!"

-- Ghoulish Tech billionaire Transhumanists, who used to pursue this tech with Epstein and his MIT pals on the down-low

Posted by: Lizzy at August 12, 2021 08:03 AM (bDqIh)

323 No' I'm not for the 3.5

but maybe a 1.5, even 2.0

depending on the Manchin admendment

Posted by: Manchin at August 12, 2021 08:03 AM (YK4Qh)

324 Heh. There are two big differences between a serf and a slave. A slave can be sold and a serf can't be, and a serf (usually) can gain his freedom if he flees and stay fled for some amount of time (classically, a year and a day).

Serfs were sold with the land, like trees and Wildlife.

Posted by: Fox2! at August 12, 2021 08:03 AM (qyH+l)

325 How many more would die from the flu every year if flu deaths were counted the same way Covid deaths were. If the flu was tested for the same way we did Covid testing (you know those that show zero symptoms getting tested weekly) how many multiple flu pandemics would we have every year?

Posted by: Buzzion at August 12, 2021 08:03 AM (6RcPt)

326 Have we not in essence created an entire group of Typhoid Marys?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 12, 2021 07:45 AM (3D/fK)

How do you think every other vaccine confers protection?

The polio vaccine doesn't magically create an impermeable barrier against the poliovirus! It gives the body the information necessary to mount a defense against the virus once it is infected!

The data are showing that the CCP flu vaccines are reasonably effective. It just isn't the magic bullet that the authoritarians are claiming. It helps. Just like the flu vaccine. It's too bad it isn't fantastic like some other vaccines, but it's better than nothing for at-risk populations. For kids and young people? It's dumb and a waste of resources, and the risks of the vaccine may outweigh its benefits.

We all need to separate the political from the medical!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 08:03 AM (Q9lwr)

327 I'll admit that whore is hideous to everybody except idiots with redhead fetishes but she's arguably female.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 06:51 AM (y7DUB)

As an idiot with a redhead fetish that whore may have the capacity to actually ruin redheads for me. Though I hate to defer that much power to the useless social climbing bint.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2021 08:04 AM (kmxth)

328 I am gonna say this once more. It's increasingly clear that we revisit the Declaration of Independence.

That hallowed document contains the remedy for the resolution of the issues confronting us. Read it.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 12, 2021 08:04 AM (KATBx)

329 Serfs were sold with the land, like trees and Wildlife.
Posted by: Fox2! at August 12, 2021 08:03 AM (qyH+l)
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True enough. But he couldn't be sold to a different master in a different estate or district.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 08:04 AM (3p5uk)

330 326

We all need to separate the political from the medical!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 08:03 AM (Q9lwr)

Your view on immunity after recovering from virus?

Posted by: kraken at August 12, 2021 08:05 AM (6Je/Q)

331 The Obama Effect.

The 14-day change in COVID-19 cases in Dukes County, MA (Martha's Vineyard): +1,829%

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 12, 2021 08:05 AM (d9FiS)

332 WASTF and I still can't figure out how it happened.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 12, 2021 08:01 AM (HaL55)

Like bankruptcy. Slowly over time, then suddenly.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2021 08:06 AM (DbihG)

333 331 The Obama Effect.

The 14-day change in COVID-19 cases in Dukes County, MA (Martha's Vineyard): +1,829%
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 12, 2021 08:05 AM (d9FiS)

===========

They're sophisticated.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 08:06 AM (LvTSG)

334 Serfs were attorned to the land, like tenants. Slaves aren't.

Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n/FKWJm) at August 12, 2021 08:06 AM (KAi1n)

335 326
We all need to separate the political from the medical!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 08:03 AM (Q9lwr)

Tell that to the NIH. And what's about to come here that's the same damn thing. Plato, Hobbes, More and Marx knew that the most effective way to control people is to control their access to healthcare.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 12, 2021 08:06 AM (s2VJv)

336 Today's linked VDH essay is pretty darn great reading.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2021 08:06 AM (iw5VC)

337 As an idiot with a redhead fetish that whore may have the capacity to actually ruin redheads for me. Though I hate to defer that much power to the useless social climbing bint.
Posted by: ... at August 12, 2021 08:04 AM (kmxth)

Ok you have officially attained the acceptable redhead fetish level in which you aren't a blithering idiot with poor to nonexistent standards. Further scrutiny is not warranted.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 08:07 AM (y7DUB)

338 It's like everybody's Bullshit Radar has been permanently disabled and no one is able to think for themselves any longer.

WASTF and I still can't figure out how it happened.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 12, 2021 08:01 AM (HaL55)

Because hundreds of billions of dollars has been sunk in psy ops, emotional manipulation, and mind control research - much of it likely under the guise of "marketing" - and it has been used on us with increasing force and ubiquity for several decades. That is really the answer.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2021 08:07 AM (kmxth)

339 I had a similar test years ago when I ran a computer store. A prospective technician would be give a broken PC with the instruction "fix it". I expected them to either know right off what to do without asking, or be able to figure it out on their own in a reasonable amount of time.

If they started asking me or other techs questions about it though it was a strong disqualifier. (is that a word?)

Posted by: f'd at August 12, 2021 08:08 AM (Tnijr)

340 Insufficient Data 358

The are 927 Core Based Statistical Areas in the US. So about one third how so low Flu cases they are statistically ZERO.

PS There are over 500 that are rated minimal. This is for period ending 7/30.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 08:08 AM (yrol0)

341 How many more would die from the flu every year if flu deaths were counted the same way Covid deaths were. If the flu was tested for the same way we did Covid testing (you know those that show zero symptoms getting tested weekly) how many multiple flu pandemics would we have every year?
Posted by: Buzzion at August 12, 2021 08:03 AM (6RcPt)

Exactly. That is why there are using the word "cases" now.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 08:08 AM (2o90I)

342 Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
If you don't fight mask mandates, eventually you will get vaccine mandates.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 12, 2021 08:08 AM (NpAcC)

343 Your view on immunity after recovering from virus?

Posted by: kraken at August 12, 2021 08:05 AM (6Je/Q)

I'm not an immunologist or even a physician, so my opinion is worth what you are paying for it...

But, it seems like natural immunity is significantly better. And vaccinating people who have already had CCP flu is fucking stupid. A waste of resources and a risk that is unnecessary.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 08:08 AM (Q9lwr)

344 @338

>>Because hundreds of billions of dollars has been sunk in psy ops, emotional manipulation, and mind control research.

MKUltra is real and it's spectacular.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2021 08:08 AM (moFdV)

345 344 @338

>>Because hundreds of billions of dollars has been sunk in psy ops, emotional manipulation, and mind control research.

MKUltra is real and it's spectacular.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2021 08:08 AM (moFdV)

========

It was better when it starred Jesse Eisenberg, and it wasn't very good then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 08:09 AM (LvTSG)

346 343 Your view on immunity after recovering from virus?

Posted by: kraken at August 12, 2021 08:05 AM (6Je/Q)

I'm not an immunologist or even a physician, so my opinion is worth what you are paying for it...

But, it seems like natural immunity is significantly better. And vaccinating people who have already had CCP flu is fucking stupid. A waste of resources and a risk that is unnecessary.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 08:08 AM (Q9lwr)

Thank you for your response, CBD.

Posted by: kraken at August 12, 2021 08:10 AM (6Je/Q)

347 What is painful to me personally is listening to my parents. My dad an old Navy guy. They are getting close to the ends of their lives and witnessing this and they can't let it go. I keep telling them to stop watching. Live and enjoy what days they have left. Let the young take over, etc. They will always vote. They never missed a day. But what they are seeing after living such a life and sacrificing is killing them.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 08:10 AM (2o90I)

348 "The Anglo Sphere masterminds that are running the world are, in the main, insane childless atheists, pedophiles and sexual deviant monsters that are hellbent on dragging everyone into the abyss."

And really, they are vying against their Betters in the Anglo Sphere for power, using minorities as proxies. It's an ancient dilemma - the kind of men you want in power don't want power.

Also sorry but next time, we don't make Barbarians citizens of Rome. This is twice now, at least.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 12, 2021 08:10 AM (49Exr)

349 There are millions that had the wuFlu that got the shot. Fucking ridiculous.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2021 08:12 AM (CareB)

350 Thank you for your response, CBD. Now go home and get your fvcking shinebox.

Posted by: kraken at August 12, 2021 08:10 AM (6Je/Q)

FIFY

[It's like I don't know you people any more!]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 08:12 AM (Q9lwr)

351 Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani says Gov. Andrew Cuomo will "resurrect himself in some way" because he's "smarter and more talented" than other disgraced pols.

"Andrew will resurrect himself in some way. He's a very, very tough guy, determined guy. He's a fighter."

"He'll find some way to resurrect himself."

I see Cuomo running for Senate against Schumer.

Posted by: SMOD at August 12, 2021 08:13 AM (RHGPo)

352 @348

I just want to be able to tend my garden and be left alone, but that apparently is too much to be asked.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2021 08:13 AM (moFdV)

353 Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 08:10 AM (2o90I)

I'm sorry your parents are so stressed. It seems that some people are so afraid to die, that they're scared to live. I hope this will not be the case for them.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 12, 2021 08:14 AM (45fpk)

354 Not trying to conflict the political with the medical.
I'm actually trying to understand this. My probably flawed understanding is that once someone with the vaccine becomes re-infected, the symptoms may be so mild that they are actually unaware of the fact that they are both infected and contagious.

A less likely situation if a non-vaccinated individual becomes infected and contagious.

So on one hand you have an individual saying that they feel like crap, and should take the day off, and on the other hand you hav a person not altering their daily life, and leaving a trail of illness behind them.

But then I also don't remember if they ever resolved if an unvaccinated asymptomatic individual was contagious or not.

So lots of questions on my part. Yet not a lot of medical knowledge in my brain.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 12, 2021 08:14 AM (3D/fK)

355 Nobody will be left alone.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2021 08:15 AM (CareB)

356 And remember there is no test for "covid" or any new "variant". The tests were ALSO finding the flu in the results. But you did not know which or what. Tens of thousands die from the flu every year. Both the elderly and very young were always targets of the flu. Supposedly the chinavirus targeted mostly the elderly or the obese. Subtract flu sufferers from whatever this chinese virus was. We will never know how many truly died of the chiesevirus because it is mixed up in the flu numbers.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 08:01 AM (2o90I)

CDC or FDA plan to roll-out new tests late this year that can distinguish between COVID and flu. (Influenza bugs are not corona-bugs.)

I'm not sure this is good. And I hate it when people say "But how many peopled die of flu every year without a big worry or any special prevention measures?"

Because Fauci has already floated the idea of mask-wearing during flu season, and because the Karens could get all-aboard a "Masks 24/7 Forever Because Flu And Corona!" train. Recall that children ARE vulnerable to severe illness from the flu. Jeebus.

Posted by: Gref at August 12, 2021 08:15 AM (AMIL/)

357 347 What is painful to me personally is listening to my parents. My dad an old Navy guy. They are getting close to the ends of their lives and witnessing this and they can't let it go. I keep telling them to stop watching. Live and enjoy what days they have left. Let the young take over, etc. They will always vote. They never missed a day. But what they are seeing after living such a life and sacrificing is killing them.
Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 08:10 AM (2o90I)

The fear and panic has put my Mom in the hospital twice. Actually shaking and convulsing.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 08:15 AM (yrol0)

358 We have the largest amphitheater in history. We have the Internet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 07:58 AM (LvTSG)

In that case, we should hope the Internet goes down.
Maybe people will pay attention then, but it's probably too late, imo.

Posted by: Ziba at August 12, 2021 08:15 AM (S1hrL)

359 my guess is they will buy Manchin off

what's couple of hundred million ?

Posted by: REDACTED at August 12, 2021 08:16 AM (YK4Qh)

360 JJ, you do yeoman's work every single day. That being said...this is all really fucking depressing.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 12, 2021 08:16 AM (II3Gr)

361 That is why there are using the word "cases" now.
Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 08:08 AM (2o90I

Someone earlier gave a good breakdown of all the non scary outcomes under the umbrella of "cases" which all the enemedia news readers are exclusively reporting. When Thucydides talked about the plague in the Peloponnesian war he only reported deaths because that was the only thing that mattered. Maybe the Athenians or Spartans would have disposed of turds like Fauci more effectively.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 08:17 AM (y7DUB)

362 Going forward, being left alone will involve planning, positioning,and resources, more than ever before.

Posted by: kraken at August 12, 2021 08:17 AM (6Je/Q)

363 "Andrew will resurrect himself in some way. He's a very, very tough guy, determined guy. He's a fighter."

No, Rudy, the correct term is sociopath.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2021 08:17 AM (DbihG)

364 CDC or FDA plan to roll-out new tests late this year that can distinguish between COVID and flu. (Influenza bugs are not corona-bugs.)

I'm not sure this is good. And I hate it when people say "But how many peopled die of flu every year without a big worry or any special prevention measures?"

Because Fauci has already floated the idea of mask-wearing during flu season, and because the Karens could get all-aboard a "Masks 24/7 Forever Because Flu And Corona!" train. Recall that children ARE vulnerable to severe illness from the flu. Jeebus.
Posted by: Gref at August 12, 2021 08:15 AM (AMIL/)

I still say is that the PCR test is just looking for a strand of data.

It would be liked multiplying your phone number 40x and then looking for the sequence 1 2 3 4 5 6. It is eventually going to happen.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 08:17 AM (yrol0)

365 There are those that always bring up India - pre vaccine as an example of a "variant"

This explains it:

When vaccines that don't provide robust immunity are overused, they allow viruses to mutate in potentially hazardous ways. COVID variants with measurably different behavior emerged in mid-December 2020, which coincides with the rollout of the first COVID shots
While variants were identified in various areas before the shots were introduced in those same regions, vaccine makers were conducting large-scale trials on thousands of people in those areas well before the shots became available to the public, and before variants were detected
The COVID shots do not prevent infection or transmission, hence the variants created inside vaccinated individuals will spread. This hypothesis was confirmed in a 2015 study, which found that "imperfect vaccination can enhance the transmission of highly virulent pathogens"
Research shows fully vaccinated individuals who develop breakthrough infections with the Delta variant have the same viral loads as unvaccinated individuals infected with this virus, hence both groups can spread the infection to the same degree

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 08:18 AM (2o90I)

366 >I think we have to confront the possibility the Press Secretary is dumb as a rock.

Possibly. She is definitely *not* good at spin. Which is odd, because that's what a spokesman should excel at - selling the BS so well you have your audience thanking you.

Back shen she was in Obama admin and spokesman for State Dept (IIRC), AP's Mike Lee used to tear her narrative apart so wonderfully. She would be a stuttering, useless mouthpiece repeating the talking points robotically, as if repeating them would magically make them coherent and believable. It didn't, it never does, but that's what Jen does when challenged -- she gets brittle and b#tchy, and doubles-down on the talking points. The opposite of competent.

So. . she must have other qualities that have gotten her to the top of her profession in DC? Maybe she's so amoral and loyal they know they can send ol' Jen out no matter what kind of sh#tshow she witnesses in the West Wing.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 12, 2021 08:18 AM (bDqIh)

367 "In that case, we should hope the Internet goes down.
Maybe people will pay attention then, but it's probably too late, imo."

Remember the Amish meme?

Reporter: Why hasn't Covid-19 effected the Amish community so much?

Amish guy: We don't have TV or internet.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 12, 2021 08:18 AM (3D/fK)

368 What is painful to me personally is listening to my parents. My dad an old Navy guy. They are getting close to the ends of their lives and witnessing this and they can't let it go. I keep telling them to stop watching. Live and enjoy what days they have left. Let the young take over, etc. They will always vote. They never missed a day. But what they are seeing after living such a life and sacrificing is killing them.
Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 08:10 AM (2o90I)
+++++
That is where my mom is, and it troubles me greatly. My dad is furious and despondent about the state of the world, but he isn't taking it personally. My mom is. She has apologized to me multiple times for leaving the world to me so much worse than she found it and is borderline suicidal over what these people have done to the world. It's as enraging as it is sickening.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 08:19 AM (3p5uk)

369 Baghdad Bob.

Except it's not short for "Robert". It's a hairstyle.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2021 08:19 AM (/EuRN)

370 Amazingly, Biden polls terribly on immigration and his economic policies, especially Oil and Gas policies and inflation, but - despite those numbers - the Democrats are undeterred, and even double/triple down with trying to rush socialism through the Congress. Even more amazingly, Republican Senators support these bills.

Only one conclusion possible: No one cares what the voters think.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2021 08:20 AM (w9pTo)

371 Research shows fully vaccinated individuals who develop breakthrough infections with the Delta variant have the same viral loads as unvaccinated individuals infected with this virus, hence both groups can spread the infection to the same degree
Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 08:18 AM (2o90I)

I think the HPV is one of those types of vaccines. There will be very dangerous, fast cancer causing viri in the future.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 08:20 AM (yrol0)

372 Andrew will resurrect himself in some way. He's a very, very tough guy, determined guy. He's a fighter."

No, Rudy, the correct term is sociopath.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2021 08:17 AM (DbihG)

Don't forget these are the people on our nominal "side". Listen to the way Demoncrats and some R's talk about good solid law abiding conservatives. Then submit yourself to this trash.

Oh wow the rapist nursing home killer is a "tough determined guy". FUCK YOU YOU ASSHOLE

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2021 08:20 AM (kmxth)

373 Possibly. She is definitely *not* good at spin. Which is odd, because that's what a spokesman should excel at - selling the BS so well you have your audience thanking you. ...
Posted by: Lizzy at August 12, 2021 08:18 AM (bDqIh)
++++
Yeah. Spin is the Press Secretary's *job.* The Secretary is a spin doctor.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 08:20 AM (3p5uk)

374 370 Only one conclusion possible: No one cares what the voters think.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2021 08:20 AM (w9pTo)

=========

They didn't care in 2009 and we got the Tea Party. They didn't care with Obama and we got Trump.

We'll see what happens when they don't care now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 08:21 AM (LvTSG)

375
My folks are long gone and though I'd give anything to see them again, I am grateful to G-d they are not around to see this.

I'm also thankful to not have children. It would be horrible for them to have to come of age in a destroyed nation and unbearable if they turned into little Jen Psaki's and Titty Cacas.

If that happened, I would quite literally stick my head in an oven.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 12, 2021 08:21 AM (s2VJv)

376 And really, they are vying against their Betters in the Anglo Sphere for power, using minorities as proxies. It's an ancient dilemma - the kind of men you want in power don't want power.

Someone here will remember whom to attribute this quote to since I still need moar coffee: "Those who value freedom do not desire power. Those who value power do not desire freedom."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 12, 2021 08:21 AM (HaL55)

377 Only one conclusion possible: No one cares what the voters think.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Well, honestly, why should they?

Posted by: Dominion Voting Machines at August 12, 2021 08:22 AM (GZ/yK)

378 July fundraising numbers:
@GovRonDeSantis -over $4M
@CharlieCrist - approx. $270,000
@NikkiFried - approx. $130,000

Posted by: redridinghood at August 12, 2021 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

379 >>"Andrew will resurrect himself in some way. He's a very, very tough guy, determined guy. He's a fighter."

Like Anthony Weiner and other disgraced politicians -- he has no valuable skillset. In other words, he's DESPERATE and without any other options. The book deal was likely meant to assist him in transiotioning out of politics. Too bad he'll likely be chasing his 2020 covid press conference limelight for the rest of his career.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 12, 2021 08:22 AM (bDqIh)

380 378 July fundraising numbers:
@GovRonDeSantis -over $4M
@CharlieCrist - approx. $270,000
@NikkiFried - approx. $130,000
Posted by: redridinghood at August 12, 2021 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

=========

I guess even Hollywood isn't dumb enough to fund DeSantis' opponents.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 08:22 AM (LvTSG)

381 @372

In Giuliani's defense, he's quite old and seemingly has lost at least 40 pct of his marbles.

He was a great mayor though.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2021 08:22 AM (moFdV)

382 Some of my age peers have not responded well to Covid, including some with advanced sciency degrees.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 08:22 AM (y7DUB)

383 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 12, 2021 08:14 AM (3D/fK)

My guess is that the disease and its contagiousness lies on a bell curve, and I doubt there is much difference between a mild case in a vaccinated person and a mild case in an unvaccinated person.

The real problem is that we have lost sight of basic public health guidelines, which have been sacrificed on the altar of fascist power grabs and cocksucking little bureaucratic gnomes who masturbate to each mandate they utter.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 08:23 AM (Q9lwr)

384 Possibly. She is definitely *not* good at spin. Which is odd, because that's what a spokesman should excel at - selling the BS so well you have your audience thanking you. ...
Posted by: Lizzy at August 12, 2021 08:18 AM (bDqIh)

Lucky for her she doesn't have to be. She reaches the same bar for press secretarying that Fake Biden does for holding a standard conversation, let alone being president. The searing incompetence is part of the kink I am sure.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2021 08:23 AM (kmxth)

385 If you go to:

Frankspeech dot com

they ask you for an email address and phone #, which I am not doing. There appears to be no way around that except that you can go to :

xyz.frankspeech dot com

and you can see the entire site.

If you want a good stream of Cyber Symposium today it's there.

Posted by: f'd at August 12, 2021 08:23 AM (Tnijr)

386 The Swiss embassy in China has urged Chinese media to take down articles and posts it says contain "false" news.

In a Twitter post, the embassy said an alleged Swiss biologist who had been quoted in Chinese media in recent days likely did not exist.

State media outlets were among those that carried articles with comments from "Wilson Edwards" on the origins of Covid-19 and the WHO's independence.

Many outlets have since removed any reference to him.

Posted by: SMOD at August 12, 2021 08:23 AM (RHGPo)

387 Woo-hoo, a tropical storm Fred is heading my way Monday morning.

Local news people talking about the end of times again just like the last storm.

Posted by: dantesed at August 12, 2021 08:23 AM (88xKn)

388
We all need to separate the political from the medical!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 08:03 AM (Q9lwr)

And this is why we're fucked, because that WON'T happen. They've tasted the sweet nectar of tyranny and want more of it.

This is 95% political and has very little to do with the health of human society.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

389 The book deal is probably how they convinced him to resign.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2021 08:24 AM (kmxth)

390 Maybe she's so amoral and loyal they know they can send ol' Jen out no matter what kind of sh#tshow she witnesses in the West Wing.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 12, 2021 08:18 AM (bDqIh)

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Great insight, Lizzy. I agree. Being able to shamelessly say yesterday that Trump poisoned people should, in any normal world, end her career, but her dependability washed that sin away instantly.

It may also be true that she is no dumber than the people she represents. The administration is full of ideologues, not thinkers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2021 08:24 AM (w9pTo)

391 388
We all need to separate the political from the medical!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 08:03 AM (Q9lwr)

And this is why we're fucked, because that WON'T happen. They've tasted the sweet nectar of tyranny and want more of it.

This is 95% political and has very little to do with the health of human society.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

Is not that the point of socialized medicine. It is all about politics.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 08:24 AM (yrol0)

392 Hasn't the Cuomo Crime Family been a product of the state machine where they never faced any pushback? I don't recall the chief meatball, Mario, facing any serious opposition.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 08:26 AM (y7DUB)

393 Anyone see the conservative comedian on Newsmax this morning? She did a great impersonation of Pissaki.

Posted by: Ziba at August 12, 2021 08:26 AM (S1hrL)

394 Dr. Geert Vanden Bosche,4 whose resume includes work with GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, published an open letter5 to the World Health Organization, March 6, 2021.

In the letter, Bosche warned that implementing a global mass vaccination campaign during the height of the pandemic could create an "uncontrollable monster" where evolutionary pressure will force the emergence of new and potentially more dangerous mutations.

"There can be no doubt that continued mass vaccination campaigns will enable new, more infectious viral variants to become increasingly dominant and ultimately result in a dramatic incline in new cases despite enhanced vaccine coverage rates. There can be no doubt either that this situation will soon lead to complete resistance of circulating variants to the current vaccines," Bossche wrote.6

people have been ignoring the science

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 08:26 AM (2o90I)

395
Is not that the point of socialized medicine. It is all about politics.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 12, 2021 08:24 AM (yrol0)

Well, yes. The end game, if you will.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

396 Agree that Rudy has crossed the threshold of needing to retire from public life. He is out Bidening Biden.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 12, 2021 08:27 AM (tBcsf)

397 Can you imagine the deranged leaps you have to take to act on the view that you have to destroy people's livelihood, lie, cheat, steal, and destroy, kill millions, enslave billions, and finally you'll be able to help people and make them happy?

I don't understand. This is Romans 1 levels of delusion.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 12, 2021 08:27 AM (7MBHe)

398 Posted by: redridinghood at August 12, 2021 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

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LOL- wasn't it just two weeks ago that some idiot pollster was trying to convince the world that Crist is beating DeSantis?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 12, 2021 08:27 AM (w9pTo)

399 "My folks are long gone and though I'd give anything to see them again, I am grateful to G-d they are not around to see this."

Likewise.

My mother was a woman of Christian faith and went out serenely. My father, though not of the same outward faith, went out similarly.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 12, 2021 08:27 AM (DbihG)

400 Hey....anybody seen the jar of leeches I had?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 12, 2021 07:46 AM

That reminds me, I should schedule an appointment to release some bad humors with a bleeding.

Posted by: Biergood at August 12, 2021 08:28 AM (FQWHA)

401 Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2021 08:22 AM (moFdV)

I know Bender I'm just so tired of being understanding of the ones on our side who roll out the red carpet for the villains who tyrannize us daily.

I want 10,000 fighters like Trump but I would settle for maybe 3 of them.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2021 08:28 AM (kmxth)

402 the omniBus bills get packed full of garbage, but now they are omniFreightTrains ... much more than could fit on a bus. And it is not just pork, it is a full Woke Remaking of America.

China is a BigThreat, but we should not ignore the globalist DeepState. They have BigBank, IMF, BIS ... IMF, a week ago or so, just "printed" $650B SDR Allocation of speacial drawing rights. This is for the World ... and mostly beyond my understanding. Except they seem to be making their own "money" ... maybe a path to some global control of currencies, one of their big goals. A step toward removing the USD as reserve currency?

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2021 08:28 AM (Cus5s)

403 " Everything from the State, Everything for the State".... not just an academic verbal exercise here now....

Posted by: kraken at August 12, 2021 08:29 AM (6Je/Q)

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Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 08:29 AM (3p5uk)

405 There is a difference between spin and outright lying.

I can tell the truth to make you believe the truth
I can tell the truth to make you believe a lie
I can tell a lie to make you believe the truth
i can tell a lie to make you believe a lie.

The second is spin. It's what any good propagandist can do.
The fourth is what lazy hacks like Psaki do.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 12, 2021 08:29 AM (/EuRN)

406 ...Thus, the use of leaky vaccines can facilitate the evolution of pathogen strains that put unvaccinated hosts at greater risk of severe disease."

This research was reported in a number of mainstream media publications, including Live Science,9 Newsweek10 and National Geographic.11 Quanta Magazine also took a deep dive into it in May 2018, closing the article with the following observation:12

"... the most crucial need right now is for vaccine scientists to recognize the relevance of evolutionary biology to their field. Last month, when more than 1,000 vaccine scientists gathered in Washington, D.C., at the World Vaccine Congress, the issue of vaccine-induced evolution was not the focus of any scientific sessions.

Part of the problem, [disease ecologist Andrew] Read says, is that researchers are afraid: They're nervous to talk about and call attention to potential evolutionary effects because they fear that doing so might fuel more fear and distrust of vaccines by the public..."

ya think?
And these are leaky vaccines.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 08:29 AM (2o90I)

407 404 Comment Not Found
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 08:29 AM (3p5uk)

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Noice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 12, 2021 08:29 AM (LvTSG)

408
So. . she must have other qualities that have gotten her to the top of her profession in DC? Maybe she's so amoral and loyal they know they can send ol' Jen out no matter what kind of sh#tshow she witnesses in the West Wing.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 12, 2021 08:18 AM (bDqIh)

Jen's amorality and loyalty are precisely why she was hired for the Press Secretary job. Everything she says is Democrat dogma and internal poll-tested BS verbiage that the Dem base will love to hear. Her main job is to spout it out with a look of sincerity, not of disbelief. Also, I've looked into Jen's background, and I believe she is a hard-core Progressive. Making it even easier for her to lie without a care.

Posted by: Gref at August 12, 2021 08:30 AM (AMIL/)

409 I want 10,000 fighters like Trump but I would settle for maybe 3 of them.
Posted by: ... at August 12, 2021 08:28 AM (kmxth)

Assemble the myrmi-Dons. We sail to war.

Posted by: Warai-otochilles at August 12, 2021 08:30 AM (/EuRN)

410 Both my parents are gone. My greatest worry is my teenage son. What will his future and that of his generation be? I'm constantly battling the brainwashing he gets from peers and the Internet.

Posted by: Ziba at August 12, 2021 08:30 AM (S1hrL)

411 397 Can you imagine the deranged leaps you have to take to act on the view that you have to destroy people's livelihood, lie, cheat, steal, and destroy, kill millions, enslave billions, and finally you'll be able to help people and make them happy?
I don't understand. This is Romans 1 levels of delusion.
Posted by: squid_hunt at August 12, 2021 08:27 AM (7MBHe)

Miranda.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 12, 2021 08:30 AM (6RcPt)

412 The thread of art be here

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 12, 2021 08:31 AM (3D/fK)

413 NOOD CONFUSING ART

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2021 08:31 AM (3p5uk)

414 My guess is that the disease and its contagiousness lies on a bell curve, and I doubt there is much difference between a mild case in a vaccinated person and a mild case in an unvaccinated person.

The real problem is that we have lost sight of basic public health guidelines, which have been sacrificed on the altar of fascist power grabs and cocksucking little bureaucratic gnomes who masturbate to each mandate they utter.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2021 08:23 AM (Q9lwr)

Bell curves are indispensable for understanding any social sciences. What are the chances that any pretty boy dipshit news readers understand one fucking thing about them?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 12, 2021 08:31 AM (y7DUB)

415 Nood...equine art.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2021 08:31 AM (m+jkK)

416

Enjoy your day!
Tomorrow is TGIF already.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 12, 2021 08:32 AM (2o90I)

417 @401

I do too, but history shows that paradigm shifting fighters come around infrequently.

There have been literally only 5 or 6 politicians worth a damn in the last 150 years. And it typically runs in 30 year cycles.

We aint due until 2046, and I'll be dead by then, so you're on your own.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2021 08:32 AM (moFdV)

418 I just want to be able to tend my garden and be left alone, but that apparently is too much to be asked.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2021 08:13 AM (moFdV)

It is, but I don't fault you for it. We all just want a limited government that doesn't step on our throats as we pursue a fulfilling personal life. It's a Catch 22, and I think even the Founders knew that the best system they could come with would only delay the inevitable tyranny and fall.

It's a lot like the Boy Scouts - if you let people self-select for leadership position, you get men who want to be around boys for all the wrong reasons. The parents have to sacrifice time from home and work instead of outsourcing it to strangers.

Maybe next time (if there is one) we institute a mandatory draft for civil service. "It's your turn to serve 18 months on the school board, Bob. Otherwise Bill Ayers will seat himself as chairman for life"

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 12, 2021 08:33 AM (49Exr)

419 >>Lucky for her she doesn't have to be. She reaches the same bar for press secretarying that Fake Biden does for holding a standard conversation, let alone being president. The searing incompetence is part of the kink I am sure.

Remember Obama's initial press sec. Bob Gibbs?

After watching that guy in action I came to suspect that the incompetence is intentional -- you put someone up there day after day who can;t provide any substantive answers and the WH press stops expecting much. Wich is perfect: you train them to accept nothing. You can get away with so much more when the WH press in charmed into accepting nothing.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 12, 2021 08:36 AM (bDqIh)

420 419.

Totally agree, except "charm" is not an attribute of Pissaki.

Posted by: Ziba at August 12, 2021 08:39 AM (S1hrL)

421 "Part of the problem, [disease ecologist Andrew] Read says, is that researchers are afraid: They're nervous to talk about and call attention to potential evolutionary effects because they fear that doing so might fuel more fear and distrust of vaccines by the public.."

Not being honest with us is what sows fear and distrust.

The CDC issues a statement and my first thought now is "what's their angle this time?" I have to read between the lines to get at the truth, as if I was reading Pravda. DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. That's not how this is supposed to work.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 12, 2021 08:39 AM (49Exr)

422 >>The real problem is that we have lost sight of basic public health guidelines, which have been sacrificed on the altar of fascist power grabs and cocksucking little bureaucratic gnomes who masturbate to each mandate they utter.

. . . and a megalomaniacal tech billionare who have spent the last decade or so worming his way into ever global health organization with authority over vaccines, as well as apparently the FDA. Bill Gates is obsessed with vaccinating the world to save the planet -- and gee, look at 2021: you will be forced into getting vaccinated to "save the planet."

Posted by: Lizzy at August 12, 2021 08:40 AM (bDqIh)

423 Hoyt, re #418, i became a broken record saying that, especially "outsourcing".

Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n/FKWJm) at August 12, 2021 08:40 AM (KAi1n)

424 >>Totally agree, except "charm" is not an attribute of Pissaki.

Heh, I meant Obama - but in general, he and people like Gibbs, Psaki are inexplicably adored by the press.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 12, 2021 08:41 AM (bDqIh)

425 "maybe Joseph Goebbels, but in any case it's a tried-and-tested Alinskyite tactic: accuse your enemy of what you're doing."

This seems to work on much of the public ... maybe due to normalcy bias. America is distracted, likes to remain blissfully ignorant. So as these massive attacks on our country happen within, they look to blame "the other". But more and more, the DC Cartel is making it clear ... They (deplorables, and now most of America) are the problem, submission to Full Woke will not let them hide in blissful ignorance for long.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2021 08:41 AM (Cus5s)

426 After watching that guy in action I came to suspect that the incompetence is intentional -- you put someone up there day after day who can;t provide any substantive answers and the WH press stops expecting much. Wich is perfect: you train them to accept nothing. You can get away with so much more when the WH press in charmed into accepting nothing.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 12, 2021 08:36 AM (bDqIh)

You nailed it!

Posted by: Gref at August 12, 2021 08:41 AM (AMIL/)

427 John Kennedy describe the "infrastructure" bill thusly; Chuck Schumer received $12 billion for a tunnel to nowhere. Louisiana received $100 million for infrastructure but also got $130 million in new taxes on their petro-chemical industry. How is that a good deal? He also lamented that only a fraction of the bill was really infrastructure.

These Vichy Republicans can all go light themselves on fire. People are sick of this garbage.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 12, 2021 08:42 AM (VpIIl)

428 I've already reacted to not being left alone, by working within to change the system at my LOCAL level. Here is where it must start and thus far has been peaceful.

If peaceful changes then so be it. My oath to protect and defend is still going to be fulfilled as best I can manage. As long as I have breath.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 12, 2021 08:46 AM (KATBx)

429 "You're going to see that because radicalized elements of the Republican party now represent a bigger threat to our democracy than organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIS ever did."

His "democracy"? God, I hope so.

Posted by: Lost My Cookies at August 12, 2021 09:36 AM (Jpg9a)

430 429 "You're going to see that because radicalized elements of the Republican party now represent a bigger threat to our democracy than organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIS ever did."

His "democracy"? God, I hope so.
Posted by: Lost My Cookies at August 12, 2021 09:36 AM (Jpg9a)

I was thinking exactly the same thing. If opposing this illegitimate junta makes me an insurrectionist, I will wear that appellation proudly.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 12, 2021 09:58 AM (s2VJv)

431 "Not being honest with us is what sows fear and distrust.

The CDC issues a statement and my first thought now is "what's their angle this time?" I have to read between the lines to get at the truth, as if I was reading Pravda. DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. That's not how this is supposed to work."

Create an environment where no rational person would have trust in their pronouncements. Continue to make pronouncements and subsequently act surprised when no rational person trusts them. Lather, rinse, repeat. Stupidity or malignant intent?

Posted by: Dooood at August 12, 2021 10:06 AM (XtkZj)

432 Loved Trump demanding justice for Ashli Babbitt.

Posted by: rcocean at August 12, 2021 10:28 AM (evE25)

433 JJ, you linked to an article in which PETA blasts the NIH for experimenting on beagles. You teased the link with this quote from the article:
"That activist organization told Breitbart News that Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, which oversees NIAID, should be fired from her post."
I don't know if you're blasting PETA, or blasting NIH, by posting this link. But your quote certainly mocks PETA in a very subtle way. Maybe too subtle for some here. The point is (and PETA shows their ignorance) that Francis Collins is a man.

Posted by: bradc at August 12, 2021 10:30 AM (DJiWb)

434 China, after saying COVID came from pangolins, then sea kraits, then from Italy, then from the USA, is now saying COVID came from Florida. Sounds like the way OJ is still looking for the killer(s) of his ex.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 12, 2021 11:00 AM (ynpvh)

435 "Happened in Germany. To me, all things considered, she's a hero:
Anti-Vax Nurse Injects 8,600 With Saline Instead of Chinese COVID Vaccine"

A hero? Really? The post-Trump destruction of conservatism continues.

Posted by: John at August 13, 2021 02:58 PM (lJvwW)

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