The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 8/20/21

Good morning, kids. The weekend is here and with the entire nation of Afghanistan, along with billions of dollars in military hardware as well as tens of thousands of American lives being handed to our enemies on a silver platter, the alleged "president" of the United States, Joe Towelette Biden, has called a lid and is going back on vacation. Can you blame the guy? Our southern border is wide open, our economy is heading towards collapse, our cities are no-go zones for even Dirty Harty and Snake Plissken, when they're not being brainwashed to hate their country and their heritage, our kids are being traumatized with perpetual masks and isolation, our freedom of speech, self-defense and now movement is being eviscerated on the pretext of a virus being fear-porn'd as plague, and on and on and on. Yes indeed, undoing nearly 2,000 years of human development is hard work, especially for a man with the mental capacity of a fern.

Alluding to yesterday's question about incompetence over ideology or vice versa is moot. Biden going back to his bowl of Galantamine 'n Cream in Delaware has me convinced that the nightmare that is unfolding on the other side of the globe is most definitely enemy action. And when I say enemy, I mean Biden's handlers and everyone who conspired to rig and steal the 2020 election -- perhaps even the People's Republic of China itself.

The pattern is clear for those who wish to see. Simply put, the left thinks America is not only evil, but irredeemably so. Hence, any policy, be it foreign or domestic, that weakens our nation-state should be pursued, the goal being that the nation-state will eventually corrode to the point of collapse. They don't care that the hollowed-out dystopia will be long past its desirability for subjugation, so long as they get to be in charge. As Lord Varys said of Littlefinger, "He would see this country burn if he could be king of the ashes" . . .
. . . What started with Woodrow Wilson finally came into full force and in open view under Obama. Every time he could, Obama favored strict Islamist regimes over Western-friendly governments. Whenever overseas pro-democracy demonstrators flew American flags, Obama reflexively sided with their oppressors. He removed sanctions from Cuba and Iran and asked for nothing in return. The JCPOA, the Paris Accords, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership were specifically designed to weaken American power behind the flimsy guise of noble causes.
What would strike the neutral observer as unabashed idiocy comes across as cold, deliberate Machiavellianism to anyone reading between the lines of Obama's head swivel speeches. Obama is a mechanical Leftist, harboring the paint-by-number faculty lounge dictums of America as a negative historical force. Hence, almost every action he took was to weaken that force. Through this lens, one can see the pattern clearly, and his actions make perfect sense. . .
. . . Biden can't be pro-American or anti-American or anything in between because he lacks the capacity to formulate a value system necessary to organize and prioritize such concepts.
Not so for every bureaucrat underneath him who was at best complicit, at worst a willing executioner, of his disastrous Afghanistan pullout. The same fool-me-once suspicion that Americans apply to the supposed 99.99998% of FBI field agents who, we are assured, are disgusted at their "few bad apples" who tried to overthrow a presidential election... yet from whose noble ranks emerged not a single whistleblower... should now be applied with equal force to the Pentagon. . .
. . . We just let the pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong, Cuba, and Iran know that they don't have our support, other than the occasional week-too-late hashtag. We just let our allies in Taiwan, Ukraine, South Korea, and Israel know that we folded like wet paper to illiterate pedophiles in pickup trucks, so good luck against the million-man professional armies who are busy reassessing the futility of your current ceasefires. We just showed that, contrast to the dictum of "leave no man behind", we will leave every man, woman, and child behind who, be they American or Afghan, civilian or military, ever lifted a finger to help us. We will literally let them fall off our planes. . .
. . . The left, including its swamp bureaucrats who administer our wars, has no qualms with what happened in Kabul. They support Biden's grotesque withdraw not in spite of its consequences for America, but because of them. They want to see America humbled and weakened on the world stage. They want our enemies to outmaneuver us. They want us to lose our global leverage. . .
. . . This was all deliberate. . . What happened in Kabul was deliberate. In fact, I would argue it went far better than most leftists dreamed it would. . . Far from being a tragedy, our abandonment of Afghanistan was one of the left's biggest foreign policy successes.

Read the whole thing. It's a cold, but necessary, slap in the face that even I needed. In the not too recent past, the political divide over even some of the most hotly contested of third-rail issues did not mean that both sides did not have at the very least a modicum of respect for the political norms, boundaries and rules in which they operated. Politics at one time did indeed end at the water's edge. But the reality is we are no longer debating issues; we are debating the validity of the existence of our way of life. Meh, if you look at the actions of Teddy Kennedy, arguably the most destructive politician in post-war America until the coming of Obama, the will to destroy goes back a long, long way. The Hart-Celler act that flooded the country with illegal alien registered Democrats in 1965 and the close-to-treasonous trip to the Soviet Union where he promised to help derail Ronald Reagan's SDI are just two prime examples.

And speaking of immigration, legal or otherwise:

The United States, Europe, and other countries about to be saddled with a massive refugee surge spent countless billions and sacrificed the lives of their young men to build a country out of the rock and ruin of Afghanistan. They took bread out of the mouths of their own people and filled VA hospitals with the wounded, inside and outside, in a sacrifice that Afghans squandered.
The blame game over the fall of Afghanistan will go on for years, but the simple fact of the matter is that the majority of the Afghan military surrendered to the Taliban or ran away. Any debt here is owed to us by the Afghans. We have paid our debts in blood and treasure. The Afghan refugee crisis shows that the Taliban still have any number of ways that they can hurt us even once we have left Afghanistan. Their ability to turn the refugee tap on and off will allow not only the Jihadists, but their allies in Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey to blackmail us and our NATO allies by using Afghan refugees as a weapon. That's a weapon we have to take away.
America is already staggering under the massive weight of illegal aliens arriving south of the border. We cannot accommodate the illegal aliens we have, let alone hundreds of thousands of people arriving from a stone age society whose values are fundamentally at odds with our own.
The Biden [junta] created the Afghan refugee crisis. It should not expect Americans in Texas, Wisconsin, Virginia, and anywhere else it's plotting to dump its new wave of aliens, to shoulder the burden for a crisis that it created. The collapse of Afghanistan is one disaster. An Afghan refugee surge would be a second disaster. We can survive the collapse of Afghanistan, we can't survive the collapse of America.

No doubt about it. It's deliberate. If the boot in the groin was the 2020 election, and the sucker punch in the face was the purging of political opposition on the pretext of the January 6th Capitol Reichstag Fire, then the disaster in Afghanistan is now a hobnail boot curb stomping. We can talk all we want about impeachment and elections and what have you; the only way we are going to ever stop this let alone turn it around is if Leftists are removed from every level of government - from the White House down to the most obscure department of every agency. And that is going to take some heavy lifting, for all definitions of that phrase.

Meanwhile, as all that was going on, evidently there was some sort of bomb threat at the Capitol yesterday. I guaran-damn-tee you that Afghanistan or no Afghanistan, if the perp had even stepped in to Trump Tower 30 years ago for five minutes just to take a leak, this would be front page news for the next 10 days.

Oh, and it looks as if you will have to get vaccinated if you ever want to get on an airplane ever again. With any luck, America will run out of jet fuel so this won't be a big deal. How long before you have to show your internet searches or voter registration?

Have a good weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"The left doesn't consider the fall of Kabul and the betrayal of our allies to be a tragedy. Rather, this is deliberate foreign policy strategy, and it's right on track."
The Afghanistan Debacle is Exactly What the Left Wanted
"Adding extreme social leftism to the usual political greed and stupidity has been catastrophic, from the military to education to border security."
Leftists Are Living in a Fantasy World While Burning the Real One to the Ground
Daniel Greenfield: ". . . And after Taliban win, millions of Afghan migrants may head to U.S. and Europe."
Any Afghan Migrants Who Reach America or Europe are Undeportable

BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER

This is definitely not incompetence. This is deliberate enemy action by the entity that controls the American government.
Joe Biden Plans Exit for Vacation in Delaware After Speech on Afghanistan Disaster
"He walked away from Afghanistan. He walked away from the border. He walked away from U.S. strength through energy independence. He walked away from Americans struggling with the inflation he has created and made worse through irresponsible, profligate spending with no end in sight. Joe Biden creates catastrophe. And then Joe Biden walks away."
Joe Biden Walks Away From His Catastrophes. Is He a Moral Monster?
"In an exclusive statement to The National Pulse, Former President Donald J. Trump slammed Joe Biden's State Department for terminating a Trump-era program that would have assisted with the safe evacuation of American citizens from Afghanistan."
"Biden Leaves Them Behind": Pres. Trump Blasts Biden's Catastrophic Afghanistan Miscalculations Exposed By National Pulse
"And what will they want when they realize in a couple of weeks that they have been handed thousands of valuable hostages who can be ransomed, sold to eager buyers in Beijing, Moscow, and every cartel headquarters in Mexico, or paraded before cameras for horrifying executions designed to terrify the American public as cells spring into deadly action on our shores after being planted here by al Qaeda, ISIS and dozens of other terrorist groups who have been infiltrating this country through the Southern border since Biden knocked down Trump's wall? Yes, read that paragraph again."
The Coming American Hostage Crisis in Afghanistan
"Sent via the State Department's confidential dissent channel, the memo warned that the Taliban would quickly gain control of Afghanistan and 'offered recommendations on ways to mitigate the crisis and speed up an evacuation.'"
Report: State Department Memo Warned of Afghanistan Collapse Back in July
"Everything that hasn't been destroyed is the Taliban's now."
Taliban Seized 40 Aircraft, Thousands Of Armored Vehicles And Guns, DOD Officials Reportedly Say
"The White House wrote in a statement paying 'tribute to the humanitarian workers and everyone on the ground advocating for and delivering life-saving aid to the most vulnerable every day.'"
Joe Biden Celebrates World Humanitarian Day Amid Afghanistan Collapse
Kash Patel: "We handed our entire plan to the incoming Biden [junta] during the lengthy transition. The new team simply wasn't interested.
I Ran Team Trump's Afghan Withdrawal -- Biden's Attempt to Blame Us is Just Sad
"We're going to do everything we can to continue to try to deconflict [coordinate with the Taliban] and create passageways for them to get to the airfield."
Defense Secretary: US Military Not Currently Able to Go Beyond Kabul Airport to Rescue People
"[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden and Gen. Mark Milley drastically overstated the size of the Afghan army in recent weeks, claiming it had more than 300,000 soldiers at its disposal when it in fact had less than 200,000, according to a Pentagon Inspector General report."
Biden and Milley Inflated Afghan Army Numbers, Pentagon Report Shows
"The Biden [Junta] is charging Americans $2,000 or more for a ticket out of Afghanistan after the botched troop withdrawal forced U.S. citizens to flee the country."
Biden Junta Tells Americans Stranded in Afghanistan to Pay for Their Own Flights Home
"The Biden [junta] has attempted to deflect blame for the fall-out in Afghanistan, but Americans aren't buying it."
Americans Blame Biden, Not Trump, For Afghanistan Debacle: Poll

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Mere days after the fool said "they seem friendly."
Watch: Taliban Fighters Charge at XiNN's Ward, Crew with Gun
"Sharia law and that is it."
Taliban Commander Says Afghanistan To Have "No Democratic System At All"
"One would surmise from Biden's characterization of the Taliban having an 'existential crisis' that he believes the group that has a history of violently subjugating women might reconsider such a position in order to be welcomed on the international stage."
Biden Claims Taliban "Going Through Sort of an Existential Crisis"
"The Taliban says it's not the same militant group it was 20 years ago. Indeed, it is a charm offensive that is hard to believe. Their takeover of Mazar might have been bloodless this time around, but if history is anything to go by, the Taliban rules with an iron fist." (it's the same one it was 1,500 years ago - jjs)
Charm Offensive: What the Taliban Said to Me as They Escorted Me Out of an Afghan City
"Where are the feminists? Afghani women face actual oppression unlike the fake oppression women supposedly endure in America."
Afghani Women Protest Against the Taliban Amid Crackdown
"A witness said that 'hundreds of people' came out onto the streets and several were killed after the Taliban started shooting at the crowd, triggering a stampede. It was not immediately clear which event caused the deaths."
CHAOS CONTINUES: Taliban Open Fire on Afghanis Celebrating Independence Day (independence from the Brits, or Cinqo de Ikeeeelyou! - jjs)
Today's No-Shit-Sherlock Dept. entry.
CIA: "Afghanistan Largest Producer of Opium;" "Opiate Trade . . . is a Key Source of Revenue for the Taliban"
"Special inspector general says 'every agency experienced annual lobotomies' for 20 years."
"Strategic Confusion" in Afghanistan
"Joe Biden had originally planned to have our troops out by September 11 in the hopes of gaining political advantage for the symbolism of that date as a new milestone to celebrate victory. Now, the Taliban have turned the tables, and have turned September 11, 2021, into a day of humiliation for Joe Biden and our country."
Taliban Humiliates Joe Biden Again With Symbolic Troop Removal Demand

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"Biden ignored requests from NATO ally and United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson to speak about the Afghanistan crisis for more than 24 hours this week."
Biden Leaves Ally UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Dark on Afghanistan for More Than a Day
"Biden Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says US military lacks 'capability' to extract Americans."
France Deploys Special Forces To Rescue Citizens Stranded in Afghanistan
"The Taliban's rapid victory will have a devastating impact around the world." (they didn't win; we handed it over to them - jjs)
Afghanistan's Tragic Collapse and the Death of U.S. Influence
"During the infamous June 16 meeting with Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected any role for American forces in Central Asian countries near Afghanistan, according to senior U.S. and Russian officials."
RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE? Putin Threw Monkey Wrench in Biden's Afghanistan Plan
"Along with libertarian Charles Koch, Soros provides funding for the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, an isolationist outfit founded to 'bring an end to America's age of endless wars and to reduce the nation's military footprint around the world.'"
Nazi Collaborator and Convicted Felon Soros Gives $500 Million To Help Refugees While Pushing Afghan Pullout That Sparked Humanitarian Crisis
"What we should never do again -- and what we have to focus on instead."
The Lesson of the Afghanistan Debacle
"Own it. Live 'your truth.' This is who you are. This is your legacy as much as it is Biden's."
Dear Leftists, I Hope You Can't Live With Yourselves
"It's time for a late-stage empire to sober up a bit and refocus on building a functioning nation-state here on the home front."
After Afghan Debacle, Stop the Nation-Building Crusades Once and for All
"In the face of actual violence from real terrorists, the best our tech and media elite can do is mutter inane platitudes."
The Afghanistan Debacle Has Exposed the Moral Bankruptcy of the West
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"We don't know what his motives are at this time. This really is an ongoing situation."
Suspect in Standoff Near U.S. Capitol Surrenders After Bomb Threat
"When it's a psycho with ties to the Democrat Party, we're all expected to carry some blame. When it's someone with GOP ties, they make it about Trump and the rise of white supremacy."
The Media Wanted 'Both Sides' To Take Blame For James Hodgkinson. Will They Do The Same With Ray Roseberry?
"The reported initiative is 'just the latest example of the Biden [junta's] continued disregard for American civil liberties.'"
Rep. Jordan Demands DHS Admit Whether it Plans to Use Contractors to "Spy" on Americans' Social Media
Julie Kelly: "Joe Biden, his Justice Department, and the news media don't care how many lives they destroy in this process. In fact, the more, the better."
A Life Destroyed for 'Parading' at the Capitol
"Linda Menk, a 71-year-old grandmother of four, said she was approached by a pair of FBI agents for her attendance at the Jan. 6 Trump rally."
71-Year-Old Grandmother Visited By FBI Over Attending January Trump Rally
"So we have straight-up Marxism being taught at taxpayer expense to the men and women who will soon be serving as officers in the United States Air Force. Is it any wonder we end up with useless buffoons like Gen. Mark Milley -- a war commander more concerned with studying 'white rage' than winning wars -- in charge at the Pentagon?"
Air Force Academy Cadets Forced to Watch BLM Video
"In the video, she complains about students who refuse to get vaccinated and can be heard claiming that the virus would 'end in five seconds' if people got inoculated."
WATCH: Utah Teacher Calls Donald Trump "Literal Moron" in Chemistry Class Rant, Gets Placed on Leave
"A staffer for former Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams retweeted a post that compared the United States government to the Taliban."
Tank Abrams Staffer Deletes Retweet Likening US Government To Taliban
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
"The New York Congressman sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) lobbying the agencies to only allow Americans vaccinated against [Chinese] COVID-19 on domestic and international flights."
Dems Intro Bill Banning Unvaxxed Americans From Flying
The unionized burger-flippers at the TSA can't even catch a cold let alone terrorists and criminals. You have to be really dumb to get caught. Know how to fake the info on the cards if you're going to do this.
Florida Couple Busted for Using Fake Chinese COVID-19 Vaccination Cards to Fly to Hawaii
"Sure, nobody had ever heard of Covid 2-1/2 years ago, and UW didn't require the shots then because they didn't exist, but all of a sudden the teaching hospital's attitude has flipped. The shot is not a choice, but a command. It's a policy. A policy that doesn't seem to be written down anywhere, apparently."
Seattle Hospital to Heart Transplant Patient: Get a Chinese Covid Shot or Drop Dead
"Multiple studies have now shown that the plastic barriers, common everywhere from grocery stores to restaurants to schools, impede air flow and redirect germs from one person to another."
It Turns Out Those Plastic Barriers Put Up To Stop Chinese COVID-19 May Actually Make It Easier To Spread
"I was no problem working in the healthcare system over the last 18 months without a vaccine. But now, all of the sudden, I'm a threat to public health? Tell me where this makes sense. "All of you sitting up here with your masks on, you know that those masks don't do anything."
Registered Nurse Quits over California Vaccine Mandate: "Now All of the Sudden, I'm a Threat to Public Health"
"Wearing a mask to 'save lives' even though nobody is dying from [Chinese] COVID is on caliber with calling a man 'she' because he playacts as a woman."
I'm Not Going to Wear a Mask in a County Where No One is Dying of Chinese COVID
"In the lawsuit, the business owners argue that the 'vaccine mandate is arbitrary and capricious due to the fact that it targets certain establishments but not others with no rationale whatsoever.'"
NYC Businesses Sue DeBolshevik Over Vaccine Mandate
"Those 361 children represent 0.0587 percent of the total 614,531 [Chinese] COVID deaths in the United States."
CDC Has Not Tracked the Co-Morbidities of the 361 Children 17 and Under Who Died of Chinese COVID
"For one, the immunity of those who have recovered from [Chinese] COVID and their ability to transmit the virus are not proven to be different than that of the vaccinated."
Why Forcing Unvaccinated Students to Wear Cloth Masks is Anti-Science
"Legislators have written a bill to prohibit businesses from requiring [Chinese] COVID-19 vaccination, but can't pass it unless Gov. Noem calls a special session."
Why Won't Gov. Kristi Noem Let South Dakota Ban Vaccine Passports?

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"If you know someone who has plans to protest, the police believe you are obligated to talk them out of it, or rat them out. This sounds like something the SS, KGB, and FBI would do."
Australia Building Quarantine Camps as Military Goes Door-to-Door to Enforce Lockdown Orders
"Propaganda outlets, government officials launch social media campaign to link [Chinese] COVID-19 to American lab." (did they get William Hung to record it? - jjs)
Chinese Promote Rap Song Blaming US for Chinese Coronavirus
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Should the panel determine that Fulton County did not handle the administration of the 2020 election properly, the Secretary of State's office is empowered to take over election administration duties in that county. Such a decision could come before the end of 2021 and in time for the 2022 midterm elections."
Georgia Election Board Votes to Begin Review: Could Result in Takeover of Fulton County's Elections
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Legal scholars say mandates could force law schools to violate federal law."
American Bar Association Poised To Mandate Diversity Training, Affirmative Action at Law Schools
". . . "claims she had to affirm statements she disagreed with in order to progress in the mandatory training."
Employees in One Missouri School District Sue Over "Equity Training," Claiming its Unconstitutional
"There are direct parallels between what happened in China during the Cultural Revolution and what is happening right now in America."
CRT: America's Cultural Revolution
"CRT is an enrichment scheme perpetrated by self-proclaimed 'victims.'"
Money, Power, and Revenge: The Truth About "Critical Race Theory"
"The Minnesota principals who signed onto this Marxist indoctrination program are most concerned with pitting students against one another based on nothing but their racial attributes."
Marxist Minnesota Principals "Making Good Trouble in Education"
"[Chinese] COVID-19 restrictions, changing curricula, and declining academic standards are some of the reasons many families have decided to start homeschooling."
Homeschooling Is Surging Across America. Homeschoolers Told Us Why
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"The senators said Americans were disturbed to learn that agents weaponized surveillance powers for political purposes, and should see the whole investigation."
Senate Republicans Urge Attorney General To Release Durham Report On Crossfire Hurricane
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Biden's choice for Poland ambassador is MSNBC host's brother."
Chinese Government Advisory Group Paid Mark Brzezinski $1,000 for Speech
"Dem candidate's lobbying shop collected $1.3 million from Turkish government."
Turkey Paid "Punk" McAuliffe's Firm To Lobby US Against Recognition of Armenian Genocide
If she really is guilty, then so be it. But I can smell a frame-up a mile away.
Lauren Boebert Under Scrutiny After Possibly Misusing Thousands In Campaign Donations
POLITICS
"Her Vice Fraudulency Harris is also losing favor with voters. Only 41 percent view her favorably, while a clear majority of 56 percent view her unfavorably. Back in April, her favorability rating was five points higher at 46 percent. Her unfavorable rating was also five points lower at just 51 percent."
Majority of Voters Don't Believe Joe Biden Will Finish First Term
"If the Democrats want to keep the 2024 presidential election within reach, they have to move fast. The first step will be getting rid of Biden."
Ejecting Biden
"It certainly isn't Joe Biden and his team at the White House, who have all been hiding behind each other and using vacation time to cower from the press."
Who is Running the US Government Right Now? Because it Sure Isn't Joe Biden
Rabbi Dov Fischer: "There's a musical in Joe Biden's future."
The So-Called Quote-Unquote "president" America Deserves, the Mess We Saw Coming
"On Wednesday, Trump gave yet another hint that he plans to run for president again in 2024, telling Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, 'You are going to be very happy' about the decision, but that he can't officially announce it because of campaign finance laws."
Trump Hints at His Plans for 2024
"Power to the people, unless it puts progressives out of power."
The "Illegitimate" Recall
"Attendees paid thousands to enjoy cocktails while local hospitals complained of 'bursting at the seams.'"
"Punk" McAuliffe Holds Martha's Vineyard Fundraiser as Chinese COVID Hits Island Hard
"It's not just Trump-supporters, and it's growing by the day."
How Big Is the Angry Majority?
"Joe Biden got where he is because he's willing to do things others are not. That should scare you."
Biden's Vortex Is Likely To Sink Us All
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"This man is presiding over a humanitarian catastrophe." (takes one to preside over one - jjs)
Hold Alejandro Mayorkas Accountable
"Rather than being an exceptional end to an otherwise successful campaign, recent events reveal the flawed strategy that preceded them."
Refugee Plans Repeat the Mistakes of the Afghanistan Campaign
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Robert Spencer: "And so it was that a Taliban spokesman was asked Tuesday about the Taliban's commitment to the freedom of speech, which is rather like asking Josef Stalin about his commitment to safeguarding capitalism in the Soviet Union. The Taliban spokesman, however, responded with a deft bit of whataboutery that showed he wasn't some bumpkin who just rode into Kabul on a donkey to see the big doings."
Taliban Spox Gives Epic Response When Asked About Free Speech: "Ask Facebook"
"Taliban leaders used social media to help take control of Kabul." (like the Dems used it last November - jjs)
Twitter Automatically Recommends Users Follow Taliban Accounts
"Agency says company must sell WhatsApp, Instagram."
FTC Files Antitrust Suit Against Facebook
"Apple used to value customer privacy. No more."
Apple's Endgame
"am not Catholic but I do know the church's most basic tenets, which are pro-life and insist that marriage must be between a man and a woman in order to properly raise children. Anyone with the slightest intellectual honesty knows that the Democratic Party opposes those tenets in word and deed, and has for decades. To make believe otherwise is to believe in fantasy, something that the leadership in the Catholic Church has become very good at in recent years. Altman was simply calling them on it."
Today's Blacklisted American: Priest Removed by Catholic Church for Condemning Democrats Who Violate Catholic Teachings
"It was an outbreak of anti-Semitic violence. You wouldn't have known it from the media coverage."
Media Ghosts of the Crown Heights Riot
ABORTION
"A federal appeals court upheld a Texas law banning the most common form of second-trimester abortion Wednesday, a ruling that a lower court dubbed 'an undue burden on a large fraction of women.'"
Texas Can Ban Most Common Form of Second-Trimester Abortion
"The law also grants the right of personhood to unborn children."
ACLU Attacks Arizona Law Restricting Abortion for Genetic Abnormalities
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Jack Posobiec: "A senior Biden [junta] official said Thursday that American policy on Taiwan has not changed despite Joe Biden appearing to suggest the United States would defend the island if it were attacked."
White House Walks Back Biden's Statement About Defending Taiwan, Says He Misspoke
CHANGE! "We need not only the importance of the ROK-U.S. alliance, but also an attitude of self-defense that our country will protect itself."
South Korea's Ruling Party Wants Faster Transfer of Military Control from U.S.
"It's likely that the historically unpopular [so-called quote-unquote "vice president"] hopes to (selfishly) distance herself from the catastrophic withdrawal, of which even friendly media has been critical, while more partisan voices call for impeachment."
Can't Make This Up: AWOL for a Week, Kamala Harris Is Now High-Tailing It Out of D.C., Jetting Off to VIETNAM
"Expect the opposite of anything he predicts."
Biden's Defective Foreign Policy Instincts
Caroline Glick: "The likelihood that Hezbollah will start a major war against Israel has increased significantly."
What Did Hezbollah Learn This Month?
"Israeli military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Amnon Shefler did not comment on any possible military actions against the shipment but said it is 'an Iranian scheme to export its revolution and promote its proxies.'"
Hezbollah Warns US, Israel Not To Attack Iranian Shipment Headed To Lebanon
"Lessons for Western leaders to never capitulate to the regime."
Separatist Sentiment In Iran Is Rising
"We are home in Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, and for as long as the sun rises in the east, we will be staying!"
A Jewish Message to the Terrorists of the World
"The Unholy Alliance forms the 'People's Anti-Fascist Front.'"
India: New Jihad Group Courts Leftist Support
"Why China will never have the world's preeminent economy."
No Home for Innovation
$1 TRILLION "INFRASTRUCTURE" SELLOUT, $3.5 TRILLION SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION
Kabuki-bukkake theatrics, but hey, you never know.
House Moderates Threaten to Blow Up Biden's $3.5 Trillion Partisan Spending Plan
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
Good recap of what's happening except the idiotic line about "climate change." The fires are most likely a toxic mix of Leftist environmental policy of no controlled burns and terrorist "direct action," i.e. arson.
National Forests Close as California Wildfires Surge
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"If we don't stop our runaway national debt, it will require much higher taxes and dramatic cuts in spending."
Our $28 Trillion National Debt Is Coming Due
"An ambitious new book examines the roots of innovation and economic prosperity -- and their consequences."
Growing Pains
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Two stories today mark what appears to be a growing political campaign focused on squelching by any means possible the continued unparalleled success of the company SpaceX. And the simultaneous publication of both stories on the same day also suggests that this campaign is deliberately timed to force the FAA to shut down SpaceX at Boca Chica."
The Knives Aimed at SpaceX Are Getting Sharpened
"Today's cool image from Mars is cool both for what is visible in the photo and for what is not, the latter of which might turn out to be a discovery of importance."
A Weak Avalanche Season on Mars?
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Condoms, bananas, deviancy, and gender fluidity as education."
The Odious Campaign to Sexualize Children in Public Schools
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Event should be oriented around liberal priorities because 'because [conservatives are] all in anyway.'"
America's 250th Birthday Will Be a "Commemoration," Not "Celebration" in Virginia Because Leftists Don't Think It's Worth Celebrating
Dennis Prager: "The Left has made truth a non-issue in America."
"This Is Manifestly Not Saigon" -- and Our Society of Lies
Christian Toto: "Did the host's dishonest spin on Biden's Afghanistan policy cost him in the ratings?"
Gutfeld! Takes Down Truth Denier Colbert in Late Night Wars
"Marriage better supports individual and social wellbeing, and the government can and should reinforce its value through economic incentives. Cohabitation, not so much."
Cohabitation Isn't as Good as Marriage, and the Law Shouldn't Pretend It Is
HITHER & YON
"I flew to Entebbe as an Israeli officer, and returned as a Jew."
Rami Sherman: A Portrait of a Hero

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1 happy fricking friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 06:32 AM (yrol0)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2021 06:32 AM (U7wke)

3 Preweekend morning reading. Thanks JJ

Posted by: iandeal at August 20, 2021 06:32 AM (MGjjz)

4 West coast first

Posted by: Getting the banned back together at August 20, 2021 06:32 AM (bKoeu)

5 Happy Friday, one and all.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2021 06:32 AM (mHXIr)

6 morning horde. top 10

coffee is on but not ready so i'll use the content to rage start the morning.

thanks for everything JJ

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 20, 2021 06:33 AM (8D42x)

7 Corgis called.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2021 06:33 AM (U7wke)

8 When did the phrase 'women and children ', become 'women and girls'? The media is on this.

Is it because little boys, (pre-men) are to be forgotten?

Posted by: Redenzo at August 20, 2021 06:34 AM (E7vND)

9

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 20, 2021 06:35 AM (K2SnJ)

10 Present

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2021 06:35 AM (BFigT)

11 Hey yall! What say we git in our trucks and all go skeet shooting at the DA Airport? YEE HAH!

Posted by: Billy Bubba Ray Bob at August 20, 2021 06:35 AM (Tnijr)

12 Dan Greenfield actually understands we owe the Afghans nothing. Honestly, I wouldn't shed a tear if we decided to send back the ones who "helped" us. If doesn't show us to be feckless. It means we aren't saps and our "allies" need to actually do something.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at August 20, 2021 06:37 AM (EpDzw)

13 Just saw a story at Redstate saying that our government is charging 2000 to get you out of Afghanistan. Really, that's what it said.

Even I have trouble believing that.

Of course, everyone who pays, that's 200.00 to Joe.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 20, 2021 06:37 AM (7X3UV)

14 He walked away from Afghanistan.
He walked away from the border.
He walked away from U.S. strength through energy independence.
He walked away from Americans struggling with the inflation he has created and made worse through irresponsible, profligate spending with no end in sight.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 06:38 AM (yrol0)

15 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at August 20, 2021 06:39 AM (u7pQw)

16
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 20, 2021 06:39 AM (DUIap)

17 Thank you, J.J.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 20, 2021 06:39 AM (3D/fK)

18
Good morning, Hordians.

Let's get out there and enrage the lunatics by living a good life today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2021 06:39 AM (/U27+)

19 Good morning morons and thanks again JJ for your analysis

Be warned. Showing your papers makes you a willing accomplice in this fascist wet dream.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2021 06:41 AM (EZebt)

20 "Let's get out there and enrage the lunatics by living a good life today."

And drinking beer and doing burnouts on Capital Hill!

Posted by: Billy Bubba Ray Bob at August 20, 2021 06:41 AM (Tnijr)

21 Good morning all. Dare I read the news? Nah, better get back to work...

Posted by: Rosasharn at August 20, 2021 06:42 AM (yEBFM)

22 19 Good morning morons and thanks again JJ for your analysis

Be warned. Showing your papers makes you a willing accomplice in this fascist wet dream.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2021 06:41 AM (EZebt)

I have a fake vaccine card. I may have to fly come December or January. Let's hope we have a jet fuel shortage...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 06:43 AM (s2VJv)

23 He walked away from Afghanistan.
He walked away from the border.
He walked away from U.S. strength through energy independence.
He walked away from Americans struggling with the inflation he has created and made worse through irresponsible, profligate spending with no end in sight.

And is killing us with Communism and hate in the name of CoViD.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 06:43 AM (+LCoQ)

24 When did the phrase 'women and children ', become 'women and girls'? The media is on this.

The Left is all about division when they keep mouthing the word "unity".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 06:45 AM (+LCoQ)

25 We can talk all we want about impeachment and elections and what have you; the only way we are going to ever stop this let alone turn it around is if Leftists are removed from every level of government - from the White House down to the most obscure department of every agency.

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I appreciate this sentiment and know it's true. But it's a fool's errand to hang my hat on it as my salvation. In reality, it's not going to happen, given the makeup of half of America. We will never, ever be at a point where enough people can see where we're going (total societal and financial collapse). And that's just for those who are well-meaning, but LIV. There are countless millions in our midst who are anti-American. With millions more coming illegally and from the ME who are not exactly friendly to America's founding ideals. We have to face that and figure out how to go forward. Leftists are entrenched in every level of gov't. And it's because of the voters that we're at this awful place, fraudulent elections notwithstanding.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 06:45 AM (O+I8R)

26 "When did the phrase 'women and children ', become 'women and girls'? The media is on this."

They rape women and girls. Little boys are just for fun and it's not rape rape.

Posted by: f'd Fully Vetted Facts at August 20, 2021 06:47 AM (Tnijr)

27 "If we don't stop our runaway national debt, it will require much higher taxes and dramatic cuts in spending."

Or collapse of the dollar, which I believe is the real goal.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 06:47 AM (+LCoQ)

28
Unfortunately, Friday is no-music day for me. And here I am with, for once, nothing I'm compelled to do this morning.

Got to get the back 40, which is seriously overgrown, mowed this afternoon. This will not be fun.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2021 06:47 AM (/U27+)

29 Huh? You, J.J., think I needed another slap in the face to understand history and how dire our prospects are? Another dong punch, another axe to the head, another steam roller...

Actually, no. I don't. Amazing how many think most are somewhat lacking in understanding of the effect democrats have had on America since day one.

Posted by: Cringe Biscuit at August 20, 2021 06:48 AM (Eus9b)

30
So what happened to the guy who was going to take out four blocks of DC?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2021 06:48 AM (/U27+)

31 We unfortunately need to start disentangling the American people from the American government.

Posted by: Zek at August 20, 2021 06:48 AM (w/5KC)

32 You have no need to know my private health information. Now get my fucking coffee.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2021 06:48 AM (EZebt)

33 29 Posted by: Cringe Biscuit at August 20, 2021 06:48 AM (Eus9b)

Yes. I was addressing you and only you.

Sheesh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 06:49 AM (s2VJv)

34 Hiya

Posted by: JT at August 20, 2021 06:49 AM (arJlL)

35 from the Pixy thread, still relevant:

"101 if you assume active malice with intent to destroy then everything in the news makes perfect sense.

just sayin' ..

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (YjYuE) at August 20, 2021 06:28 AM (YjYuE) "

'bout time for this to be widely realized & fully understood.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (YjYuE) at August 20, 2021 06:50 AM (YjYuE)

36 Hiya Rosasharn !

Posted by: JT at August 20, 2021 06:50 AM (arJlL)

37 Where is that dipshit joo hater I missed out on yesterday morning? Oh Colonel! Looking for you!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2021 06:50 AM (EZebt)

38 GP says today is the big earth-shattering reveal for the AZ audit.

Which means it's a popcorn fart.

Posted by: Mrm88 at August 20, 2021 06:50 AM (jIL4c)

39 So Ollie North says we left behind all the names and addresses of people working with us, right at the embassy. What did they burn, the evidence of graft?

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 06:50 AM (ONvIw)

40 I want to bring over Pixy's mention of the OnlyFans thing, because it's more broadly relevant. They're not stupid, they're being forced to ban "adult content" by the payment processors (Square, PayPal, Mastercard, and Visa). This is exactly what happened to Gab and Parler, and to the GoFundMe for Kyle Rittenhouse.

The difference is now that liberals are outraged over this "attack on sex workers". I hesitate to describe a bored college girl selling photos of her boobs as a sex worker, but it's interesting to me that there's a growing left/right consensus that a lot of what the global elites are doing is stupid.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 06:50 AM (6XLoz)

41 Time for a Convention of the States?

Posted by: itsacookbook at August 20, 2021 06:51 AM (yPxXc)

42 Buckle up kiddies! Make Obama proud. We have big plans to make you better global citizens!

Posted by: Chair of the Biden Junta at August 20, 2021 06:51 AM (oLXwS)

43 We have to face that and figure out how to go forward. Leftists are entrenched in every level of gov't. And it's because of the voters that we're at this awful place, fraudulent elections notwithstanding.

I can't help but believe that the only reasonable route is through a re-emergence of federalism, and even further decentralization within each State since the urban centers are hell bent on being a perpetual dystopia.

Its happening in Florida. At the State level, they are doing all they can to keep the non-urban areas relatively free; its the urban areas that are competing to see who can replicate a lower level of Dante's Hell.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 06:51 AM (+LCoQ)

44 "So what happened to the guy who was going to take out four blocks of DC?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh"

They gonna put him deeper than Boss Hogg in Cletus's butt.

Posted by: Billy Bubba Ray Bob at August 20, 2021 06:51 AM (Tnijr)

45 Waiter this Hell seems stale. Have any that's fresh?

Also Happy Birthday JJ!

Posted by: blaster at August 20, 2021 06:51 AM (mbFEM)

46 I sent a note to my congresscritter McCaul asking him to ask Crenshaw how his desire to send our troops back into harm's way in a country we quit on is any different than Dan acting as the officer in the trenches with a whistle in WWI? Bring the 82nd home and put them at the Southern border.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 20, 2021 06:51 AM (oWBc3)

47 So what happened to the guy who was going to take out four blocks of DC?

He's back at his job in the J. Edgar Hoover building this morning, probably.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 06:52 AM (6XLoz)

48 Not so for every bureaucrat underneath him who was at best complicit, at worst a willing executioner, of his disastrous Afghanistan pullout. The same fool-me-once suspicion that Americans apply to the supposed 99.99998% of FBI field agents who, we are assured, are disgusted at their "few bad apples" who tried to overthrow a presidential election... yet from whose noble ranks emerged not a single whistleblower... should now be applied with equal force to the Pentagon. . .
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Never again will I listen to a single word from someone who talks about the "99% of good guys" or the "ham and eggers" or the "bad apples at the top." No. No sale, no bid, no quarter.

This is who they are. And what they are is monstrous.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 06:52 AM (3p5uk)

49 "GP says today is the big earth-shattering reveal for the AZ audit."

About 5:30 on a Friday afternoon so all the Media outlets can talk about it all weekend.

Posted by: f'd at August 20, 2021 06:53 AM (Tnijr)

50 25-well said. American voters must take the blame for it all but they wont. They will curse the politicians and keep on doing what brought us here.

Separation is the only political issue that matters now and its a big one.

Posted by: Some jerk at August 20, 2021 06:54 AM (zcT9k)

51 CHAOS CONTINUES: Taliban Open Fire on Afghanis Celebrating Independence Day (independence from the Brits, or Cinqo de Ikeeeelyou! - jjs)
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I've never gotten that. Afghanistan wasn't part of the British Empire. The Brits pretty much had control over foreign policy, after the 2nd Afghan War, but that's it. And that amounted to little but excluding the Russians.

The 2nd war is worth reading about. The Brits won, and did it right, once Roberts took over. No attempt to rule that hellhole.

BTW, Roberts also reversed a later disaster, in S Africa.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 20, 2021 06:54 AM (7X3UV)

52 And is killing us with Communism and hate in the name of CoViD.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 06:43 AM (+LCoQ)

We're being destroyed in the name of Obama, and his Kalorama crowd. Covid is just one of the stupid tools we should all see through, just like antifa and blm, and "men are woman". He's the great deceiver if there ever was one. As Charles Krauthammer said "lawless". There is not a law of man or God that appealed to him.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 06:54 AM (ONvIw)

53 Remember when that guy said something about "my muslim faith" and how he'd stand with Muslimism if there was a choice to be made?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Afghanistan's the same as Biden increasing insulin costs because Trump did it at August 20, 2021 06:55 AM (95YDO)

54 Watched "Created Equal" last night. Clarence Thomas has been a gift from heaven to this country, and the documentary on his life was hugely uplifting. He is a great man, and a great example for all of us.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 06:55 AM (oLXwS)

55 The divorce is gonna have one heck of an argument over division of assets. It won't be clean state line divisions.

I think it will just end up like Rwanda.

Posted by: blaster at August 20, 2021 06:55 AM (mbFEM)

56 So what happened to the guy who was going to take out four blocks of DC?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2021 06:48 AM (/U27+)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 20, 2021 06:55 AM (GPwVZ)

57 Good morning horde

Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicus (oEn12) at August 20, 2021 06:55 AM (v5Vn+)

58 That bill the Donks introduced, forcing unvaxxed off international flights is where the little golden star on people's left breast will be leveraged from.

Good Morning & Happy Birthday J.J.

Nice line up for the day's reading.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (VcFUs) - at August 20, 2021 06:56 AM (VcFUs)

59 Oh, and it looks as if you will have to get vaccinated if you ever want to get on an airplane ever again. With any luck, America will run out of jet fuel so this won't be a big deal. How long before you have to show your internet searches or voter registration?
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Oh, never, I reckon. The piecemeal approach to all these restrictions is because the Complex was still pretending to abide by the rule of law. That era is coming to an end, and they will no longer pretend. They'll be more comprehensive and simplify things greatly soon.

What I envision is something like zones based on distance. In your local zone - say, 50 miles from your home address or to the edge of an urban area - there is unrestricted movement unless the state affirmatively places you on house or neighborhood arrest, probably related to a crime real or imagined. After that, though, you'll need to cross a checkpoint and that will require an internal passport. Passports will be granted only to VIPs and Complex affiliates in good standing. One-off, single-use travel passes - say for a vacation or bereavement - will be issued on demand and only if you pass a background check.

That will be far simpler.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 06:56 AM (3p5uk)

60 49 "GP says today is the big earth-shattering reveal for the AZ audit."

About 5:30 on a Friday afternoon so all the Media outlets can talk about it all weekend.
Posted by: f'd at August 20, 2021 06:53 AM (Tnijr)

It's sad to think that it's all a ruse and that they were "pretend" investigating, but if you have earth shattering news, you get it out. You don't play coy games.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 06:56 AM (ONvIw)

61
Rwanda Sykes. Comedienne....

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 06:56 AM (s2VJv)

62 We are ruled over by a carelessly hostile occupying junta

Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicus (oEn12) at August 20, 2021 06:57 AM (v5Vn+)

63 The Media Wanted 'Both Sides' To Take Blame For James Hodgkinson. Will They Do The Same With Ray Roseberry?
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That's been the model at least since 1963. Probably earlier, but that's not a side of history I've ever looked at. But it wasn't a Commie who shot JFK, it was "the climate of hate". Remember that?

Posted by: Eeyore at August 20, 2021 06:57 AM (7X3UV)

64 "Buckle up kiddies! Make Obama proud. We have big plans to make you better global citizens!"

I remember when that phrase "global citizen" was an occasional, ungrammatical curiosity.

After a few years it seemed to seep into more and more contexts, and ultimately became part of the universally taught K-12 school curriculum and part of the Unquestioned Assumptions that have since superceded American civilization and our Constitution --like the "Nation of Immigrants" clause that mandates unlimited admission of Third World migrants.

Posted by: Zek at August 20, 2021 06:57 AM (w/5KC)

65 Have Rancid Talib and the brother lover from MN said anything critical about the administration not getting the women and children out and away from the Taliban?

Posted by: PAgirlinNC at August 20, 2021 06:57 AM (chKrD)

66 Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 20, 2021 06:55 AM (GPwVZ)

He seemed impaired. It's very easy to convince someone with paranoid ideation that he has a good reason to be paranoid and that he is in danger. Even easier than convincing a pol that they are smart and important.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 06:58 AM (ONvIw)

67 The CDC is proposing changing the requirements of "fully vaccinated". It could be 2 booster shots (3 total), but with a little imagination it could be 2 booster shots and a copy of Mao's Little Red Book or 2 booster shots and a "clean bill of voting history health".
Not a comforting thought.

Posted by: An Ordinary Citizen at August 20, 2021 06:58 AM (XjOU1)

68 I blame Afghanistan on the Peter Principle. Jake Sullivan, Austin, Milliey, whoever was general in Kabul (Kelly?), Winken Blinken.... All of them have been promoted by the voters way past their capabilities.

Evil, yes. Superficial, absolutely. Lack life experience? Yup. Overeducated and self-impressed? Sure. Democrat thought leaders are like these people. The beneficiaries of too much wealth and not enough struggle.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 06:59 AM (oLXwS)

69 "Sharia law and that is it."
Taliban Commander Says Afghanistan To Have "No Democratic System At All"

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You mean Pelosi and that ridiculous, embarrassing chowderhead Price idiot didn't make an impact on the Taliban? Why, it's sheer madness. Don't they know the might and power America wields? They just told this pathetic country's "leaders" to pound sand.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 06:59 AM (O+I8R)

70 The Hart-Celler act that flooded the country with illegal alien registered Democrats in 1965 and the close-to-treasonous trip to the Soviet Union where he promised to help derail Ronald Reagan's SDI are just two prime examples.
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Senators working in broad daylight against the interests of the United States in collaboration with her enemies is commonplace. Jay Rockefeller and John Kerry both did this as well (though with Iran, not the USSR).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 06:59 AM (3p5uk)

71
GP says today is the big earth-shattering reveal for the AZ audit

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Uh huh.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2021 06:59 AM (/U27+)

72 >>How long before you have to show your internet searches or voter registration?

Dude, this will all be centralized with Digital ID.
They are using vaccine passports/checks to implement China's social credit system, total tracking with one stop shopping for shutting down the "deplorables" -- who ever that week's deplorables are defined as.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2021 07:00 AM (bDqIh)

73 Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 06:59 AM (oLXwS)

Even John McCain found Blinken to be incredibly wrong for the country. I wish he'd have said why.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 07:00 AM (ONvIw)

74 They don't care that the hollowed-out dystopia will be long past its desirability for subjugation, so long as they get to be in charge. As Lord Varys said of Littlefinger, "He would see this country burn if he could be king of the ashes".
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I have always put this a different way, but it amounts to the same thing: "I don't care how shitty the hill is, so long as I am king of it."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 07:01 AM (3p5uk)

75 NASA isn't sending the best women into space.
https://tinyurl.com/yj5d8cct

It looks like she drilled a small hole in a Russian module. Theory is she wanted to head home. A woman on the moon. What could go wrong?

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at August 20, 2021 07:01 AM (EpDzw)

76 Hate to sound crass... but at this point, if the tollybon, isis, hamas, or any other terrorist group were to hit DC or any of the other liberal east coast cities would anyone care? I have a feeling that there won't be another 9/11 type outpouring of support and there will not be widespread support for yet another foreign entanglement. Our garbage elite have turned most of the country against them.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 20, 2021 07:02 AM (flINI)

77 ++++
I have always put this a different way, but it amounts to the same thing: "I don't care how shitty the hill is, so long as I am king of it."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 07:01 AM (3p5uk)

They are getting royally compensated. 3T in rare earth metals pays a lot of graft, but Xi could renege and what could they do? Nothing. Just like the GOP agreeing to a one time massive fraud.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 07:03 AM (ONvIw)

78 Watched "Created Equal" last night. Clarence Thomas has been a gift from heaven to this country, and the documentary on his life was hugely uplifting. He is a great man, and a great example for all of us.

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Too bad he didn't make it into the African-American History Museum in DC. They "ran out of room." Can't put everybody in there, ya know.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 07:03 AM (O+I8R)

79 ...zones based on distance. In your local zone - say, 50 miles from your home address or to the edge of an urban area - there is unrestricted movement unless the State...

May explain why this huge push to have a limited fleet of short-range transportation powered by the fickle winds of non dispatchable electricity.

The problem with that is, there are still guns, and also even Communist China isn't at that level of surveillance. Also leaving this shithole won't be an issue because that which makes up shithole nations is moving in, and quite frankly the current set of residents are pretty crappy citizens too.

What this does is make even former shithole countries more acceptable in comparison. Doesn't matter how great your healthcare is in the former United States - you can't get it unless you are up to date with the mandated vollies of Government Mystery Jab.

You can't use static analysis here, friend.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 07:03 AM (+LCoQ)

80 The report in the "NY Post" on the potential bomber said that he had some some "issues" and that his mother recently died. Gee, maybe he wasn't a potential terrorist-just a man who had some issues during the Covid stuff and needed to see a therapist. And anyway, I'm not Southern (He's from NC) but the ways they quote his words and cadence make it sound like he was auditioning for a part on the "Andy Griffith Show"
And "The South will rise again!"? The Fibbies couldn't get a better plant if they wanted to. I'm suspicious. Another distraction from Afghanistan.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 07:03 AM (ai5jE)

81 Truck Monkey. They will mourn and blame Trump.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 20, 2021 07:04 AM (2NHgQ)

82 Went to Gwinnett County, GA school board meeting, which last year flipped to Dem control, like the rest of the county. Angry parents managed to get the mask mandate lifted at the end of last school year but they happily slapped it on again with the Delta panic Meeting was about 2/3 patriots and 1/3 progs/libs, about the same ratio as the 30 speakers allowed. Lots of good speakers on our side and lots woke insanity on their side. Best was a black mother who went on a tirade about elite white speaking for her because she supposedly has no voice Listening to progs repeat the idiot talking points and even announce their preferred pronouns, BLM slogans, Love is Love etc... was painful. Seeing/reading it on the internet is bad but even worse in person, especially when it was students doing it. They are brain dead.

Good meeting but I fear it is all 20 years too late. Parents are pissed and getting organized but the libs are in control of the schools and full of hate and contempt for us. No minds were changed in room, including the school board. No reasoning is possible with the wokes. It further confirmed for me we are headed for either a civil war or tyranny.

Posted by: Ripley at August 20, 2021 07:04 AM (MxEKc)

83 296,000 people 39 and under have died in 2020/2021.
Of those 10,492 died with COVID.

There are about 136 million in the US under age 39.

So the chances of dying in the last 2 years is about 0.2%.
The chances of dying from COVID are 0.0077%.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 07:04 AM (yrol0)

84 >>The CDC is proposing changing the requirements of "fully vaccinated". It could be 2 booster shots (3 total), but with a little imagination it could be 2 booster shots and a copy of Mao's Little Red Book or 2 booster shots and a "clean bill of voting history health".
Not a comforting thought.

Since when is the CDC in control of our freedom?
THAT is what is so upsetting about the vaccines. They are a tool for control, the means through which they will completely change the concept of freedom in our society, how we see eachother (Ewww! Other people are a health threat!), etc.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2021 07:04 AM (bDqIh)

85 Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 07:03 AM (O+I8R)

That really was a fine documentary.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 07:04 AM (ai5jE)

86 Jake Sullivan is illustrative of how fucked we are. How does a 44 year old with no real job experience other than working for Breyer, Obama and Hillary and with Yale and Oxford on his CV become the head of the NSA?

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 20, 2021 07:04 AM (oWBc3)

87 Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 06:59 AM (oLXwS)

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Exactly none of those you name were "promoted by voters." They were bureaucrats promoted because of their membership in the junta, by venal Marxists.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2021 07:05 AM (EZebt)

88 "Why China will never have the world's preeminent economy."
No Home for Innovation
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Maybe. The presentation was plausible. But I couldn't help thinking of similar ideas we had about Japan before 1941. They had some unpleasant surprises in store for us then.

They do things differently. That MAY cripple them. But it's far too easy to believe that our way is the only real way. It ain't necessarily so.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 20, 2021 07:05 AM (7X3UV)

89 And "The South will rise again!"? The Fibbies couldn't get a better plant if they wanted to. I'm suspicious. Another distraction from Afghanistan.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 07:03 AM (ai5jE)

He was probably someone with longterm issues. His video sounded like a very mentally disorganized person. And it's very simple to convince someone like that that their fears are true and even worse than they believed.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 07:06 AM (ONvIw)

90 Hate to sound crass... but at this point, if the tollybon, isis, hamas, or any other terrorist group were to hit DC or any of the other liberal east coast cities would anyone care?

Heck, if a bunch of tollybon in a truck loaded with nukes rolled up to me and asked for direction to Washington DC I would give them the best directions, a thermos of coffee and say a prayer for them, then go back to my own business.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 07:06 AM (+LCoQ)

91 Stephen Miller made a fantastic, much underappreciated point last night on Newsmax, to wit: the Taliban is deciding who sits in every single seat on every single plane the United States flies out of Kabul.

As Miller said: We have zero capability to vet anyone. None. Biden handed ALL the records over to the Taliban. Not only did he decide to abandon thousands of Americans for public beheadings, he decided (actively, consciously decided) to import terrorists to America.

The "domestic terror threat level" is going to rise, and be elevated for a long while. They are ramping up conditions for a police state.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 07:06 AM (oLXwS)

92 For some reason, Biden running away from everything reminds of "Brave Sir Robin" from Monty Python.

I suppose we could start calling him "Brave Sir Biden" as one way to mock his cowardice and fecklessness.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 20, 2021 07:06 AM (ZIoLS)

93 And "The South will rise again!"? The Fibbies couldn't get a better plant if they wanted to. I'm suspicious. Another distraction from Afghanistan.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 07:03 AM (ai5jE)

We'll find out he was encourage by an FBI agent/informant.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at August 20, 2021 07:07 AM (EpDzw)

94 You can't use static analysis here, friend.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 07:03 AM (+LCoQ)
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Oh, I know it. Essentially, I just envision a fully-blown totalitarian endpoint for all this. The specifics I will probably get wrong, as will most others, but that's where we're going to end up. A hybrid of 1984 and Brave New World, with a drug-addled, dependent populace in a brutal top-down totalitarian structure.

That won't last long, though. It can't. It will collapse shortly after they fully implement it.

It does make me want to sell my house, liquidate all of my property, convert my cash to gold and flee to Thailand or the Philippines, though.

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

95 Apple delaying return of employees to HQ until at least January.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 20, 2021 07:07 AM (G6Kvw)

96 > "Where are the feminists? Afghani women face actual oppression unlike the fake oppression women supposedly endure in America."

Don't worry, Afghani Women! Any Moment now Moochelle will put out a strongly worded tweet in support!

Posted by: Joe Wagner at August 20, 2021 07:08 AM (EwF4y)

97
How does a 44 year old with no real job experience other than working for Breyer, Obama and Hillary and with Yale and Oxford on his CV become the head of the NSA?
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 20, 2021 07:04 AM (oWBc3)

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He had good patrons.

How does a 78 year old with no real job experience other than being a senator and a VP become POTUS?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2021 07:08 AM (/U27+)

98 Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2021 07:05 AM (EZebt)
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I disagree: promoting Biden, Pelosi and Democrat political leadership is the same ass promoting those ideologies.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 07:08 AM (oLXwS)

99 Posted by: Ripley at August 20, 2021 07:04 AM (MxEKc)

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It's sad that's where we are. But we are. I know it's impossible for the vast majority of parents to pull their kids out of these foul indoctrination chambers, but it's becoming a necessity.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 07:08 AM (O+I8R)

100 The "domestic terror threat level" is going to rise, and be elevated for a long while. They are ramping up conditions for a police state.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 07:06 AM (oLXwS)

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White guys here weren't taking the bait, so we'll import some white guys who will.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 07:09 AM (ulgTA)

101 The CDC is proposing changing the requirements of "fully vaccinated". It could be 2 booster shots (3 total), but with a little imagination it could be 2 booster shots and a copy of Mao's Little Red Book or 2 booster shots and a "clean bill of voting history health".
Not a comforting thought.

Basically it is, at this point, is bowing a knee to Ba'al. With your submission you are consenting to let the State stick in to your body anything they want, as much as they want and for as long as they want.

You are dead to yourself and God and fully slave chattel to the State.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 07:09 AM (+LCoQ)

102 The "domestic terror threat level" is going to rise, and be elevated for a long while. They are ramping up conditions for a police state.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 07:06 AM (oLXwS)

This is not incompetence, it's by design. Even my husband, who likes to give elected leaders the benefit of a doubt with respect to malign intent, said "nobody could fuck up every last detail, unless they wanted to". He has finally come round to the idea that Biden has some sort of dementia.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 07:09 AM (ONvIw)

103 "Where are the feminists? Afghani women face actual oppression unlike the fake oppression women supposedly endure in America."

**

IIRC the Alexandria Cortez tweeted out support for National Librarians Day.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 07:10 AM (ulgTA)

104 "Where are the feminists? Afghani women face actual oppression unlike the fake oppression women supposedly endure in America."

Don't worry, Afghani Women! Any Moment now Moochelle will put out a strongly worded tweet in support!
Posted by: Joe Wagner

#BringBackOurGirls!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2021 07:10 AM (OCTRt)

105 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:10 AM (Zz0t1)

106 97
How does a 78 year old with no real job experience other than being a senator and a VP become POTUS?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2021 07:08 AM (/U27+)

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The good old fashioned American way: smoky backrooms and voter fraud.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:11 AM (LvTSG)

107 #BringBackANYRepublican

They've been SILENT, the fucks.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:11 AM (Zz0t1)

108 Kangaroo land is FUCKED:

If you have a loved one you believe is going to protest this weekend, you are obliged to talk them out of it.
If you know someone who attends an illegal gathering this weekend, you must call crime stoppers.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 07:11 AM (yrol0)

109 "Apple delaying return of employees to HQ until at least January.Posted by: Jen"

I like that the tech companies that helped engineer the panic and shutdowns can't get their employees back into the office (which are suppose to be even better than being at home) . Let Them Burn

Posted by: Ripley at August 20, 2021 07:11 AM (MxEKc)

110 I must admit, Obama was actually not a failure. He transformed the military leadership and service academies to fully Woke. He finished the job of corrupting leadership at the DoJ, FBI, and Intel agencies. And his Dept of Education pushed schools further left.

So what if Obamacare failed.

Posted by: JM in Florida at August 20, 2021 07:12 AM (HCeRP)

111 103 "Where are the feminists? Afghani women face actual oppression unlike the fake oppression women supposedly endure in America."

**

IIRC the Alexandria Cortez tweeted out support for National Librarians Day.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 07:10 AM (ulgTA)

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"Can't oppose everything. I was gonna say something about the Chinese having slaves, but I felt like 20 black people dying at the hands of police in all of 2020 was far more important."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:12 AM (LvTSG)

112 How does a 78 year old with no real job experience other than being a senator and a VP become POTUS?

That is a trick question!!

The Constitution is long dead. The former United States has been overthrown by a Leftist junta. They administrate by their own "rules", have no charter of organization and have the ethics and coherency of Lord of the Flies.

They can invent any title now and any role now. We are outside Rule of Law/

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 07:12 AM (+LCoQ)

113 "Where are the feminists? Afghani women face actual oppression unlike the fake oppression women supposedly endure in America."
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Oh this one is easy. They're in the 90s. Back then, the feminists were openly calling for a war of aggression against the Taliban because of their brutal oppression of women.

But this is not the 90s. Now, the feminists have dropped all of their ancillary concerns to focus on what has always been their core mission: the destruction of family and sex norms and the destruction of market capitalism in favor of a socialist state-controlled society.

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

114 I disagree: promoting Biden, Pelosi and Democrat political leadership is the same ass promoting those ideologies.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 07:08 AM (oLXwS)

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I enjoy reading your comments Huck, but the exact same thing could be said about Most of Trump's personnel decisions.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2021 07:13 AM (EZebt)

115 Worse than being in a war is being stuck in a war unable to fight, in a state of suspended animation conscious but paralyzed. This is where we are. The Left is at war with us and America and few on our side in a position of influence can acknowledge it much less raise arms against it. As a result, we're being slaughtered where we stand, watching our entire legacy and its attendant freedoms, the inherent presumption of liberty, stripped away from us.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2021 07:14 AM (DH2LB)

116 Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 07:06 AM (ONvIw)

Sounds like it-"long term issues" and somebody put him up to it. Any anyway, you'd have to not be in your right mind to think that Joe is going to return your call. He didn't even return the calls of Boris Johnson.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 07:14 AM (ai5jE)

117 "Where are the feminists? Afghani women face actual oppression unlike the fake oppression women supposedly endure in America."

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American feminists are as hollow as their brain pans. They are all show. Their record at defending women is spotty and conditional, and they stay completely mum depending on the political advantage or disadvantage of any situation. They're political, IOW leftists. They're not "for women" in a universal sense. They never have been. They don't give a rat's hiney about the fate of these Afghani women and girls.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 07:15 AM (O+I8R)

118 I disagree: promoting Biden, Pelosi and Democrat political leadership is the same ass promoting those ideologies.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 07:08 AM (oLXwS)

Exactly. You can't vote for far left, dictatorial socialists without promoting far left, dictatorial socialism.
Yes, voters are often too ignorant to look at someone's ideology, but they promote it even if they vote for "the cut of their jib".

The blind Obama worship is far bigger and more dangerous than any other politician. With no reason, except the promise of "charisma" and "racial healing", people overlooked everything else about the man and threw themselves at his feet.

I recall on election night 2008, one newscaster saying "we know nothing about the man", after it was a fait accompli. Obama was always a religious figure, here and abroad.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 07:15 AM (ONvIw)

119 Pickup truck guy really likes weed.

Posted by: blaster at August 20, 2021 07:16 AM (mbFEM)

120 Nazi Collaborator and Convicted Felon Soros Gives $500 Million To Help Refugees While Pushing Afghan Pullout That Sparked Humanitarian Crisis
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A good illustration of the fact that bad guys' ideas are usually not so coherent as we like to take them to be. Not that Soros is worth shit. Rather, like most people, his ideas aren't all that clear and consistent. So you will get mixed crap like this. (He has fans in Eastern Europe, because he gave money to post-Soviet democratic causes, for instance.)

This applies, to a weaker degree, to the Koch brothers, too.

Because we are rational animals, our actions are necessarily directed toward particular ends. But because our rationality is imperfect, so is that direction. Which is why I so love both philosophy and history. Just don't conflate them.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 20, 2021 07:16 AM (7X3UV)

121 @charliespiering 5m

At 1:00 pm Biden will deliver remarks about Afghanistan

At 2:00 pm he leaves the White House to resume his vacation in Delaware

"deliver remarks"...doesn't sound like "answer questions".

Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 07:16 AM (cF8AT)

122 "Because we are rational animals,"

That would be nice if it were true.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2021 07:17 AM (DH2LB)

123 Kangaroo land is FUCKED:

If you have a loved one you believe is going to protest this weekend, you are obliged to talk them out of it.
If you know someone who attends an illegal gathering this weekend, you must call crime stoppers.
Posted by: rhennigantx

I was going to. But then I got high.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2021 07:17 AM (OCTRt)

124 Interviewed with an Australian company last night. Well, just the recruiter. Guy lives in Sydney, and he hasn't left his house in two weeks.

I wonder if I got this job, would they ever fly me out ot Australia?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:17 AM (LvTSG)

125 Just saw on OAN that Hamas put out a statement congratulating the Taliban on defeating Joe Biden.

Also, the actual Taliban posted a meme on Twitter where the virgin leftist yells about women's rights while the Islamic Chad has his 4 wives make him a sammich. I will have no sides left if things this funny keep happening.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 07:18 AM (6XLoz)

126 The nice thing about CRT in schools is the teachers dont have to teach and the principals dont have to govern.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 07:18 AM (yrol0)

127 "deliver remarks"...doesn't sound like "answer questions".
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 07:16 AM (cF8AT)

***

"buy a shotgun... buy a shotgun"

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 20, 2021 07:18 AM (flINI)

128 ". . . our cities are no-go zones for even Dirty Harty and Snake Plissken . . ."

Get me John Wick.

Posted by: 57 States at August 20, 2021 07:18 AM (iNTrk)

129 Sounds like it-"long term issues" and somebody put him up to it. Any anyway, you'd have to not be in your right mind to think that Joe is going to return your call. He didn't even return the calls of Boris Johnson.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 07:14 AM (ai5jE)

I wouldn't dream of calling anyone. This guy was chosen just like the one in Nashville was.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 07:18 AM (ONvIw)

130 "deliver remarks"...doesn't sound like "answer questions".
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 07:16 AM (cF8AT)
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It isn't, and he won't. I do wonder how he's going to look and I will try to watch it today when he comes on. He held up very well (for him) on Monday, his interview with ABC wasn't great but he was fairly lucid. Today will mark his third address in one week, and that's a lot for him. He's probably burning out and the drugs needed are probably more dangerous (or more dangerously concentrated). He really needs 3-4 days of rest between major engagements, and he hasn't been getting it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 07:18 AM (3p5uk)

131 >>After that, though, you'll need to cross a checkpoint and that will require an internal passport. Passports will be granted only to VIPs and Complex affiliates in good standing. One-off, single-use travel passes - say for a vacation or bereavement - will be issued on demand and only if you pass a background check.

With Digital ID they connect your state and national-ssued ID to your bank account, health records, social media logins, and more. Al lthey'd need to do is set it up so that should you travel outside of your zone (or do whatever they thhink is bad) and they shutdown access to your money, etc.. This is China's social credit system, where people who have misbehaved in some way are prevented from riding a bus. Total control. No police needed.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2021 07:19 AM (bDqIh)

132 At 1:00 pm Biden will deliver remarks about Afghanistan

He's going to talk about his son Beau, isn't he?

Posted by: dantesed at August 20, 2021 07:19 AM (88xKn)

133 Why Won't Gov. Kristi Noem Let South Dakota Ban Vaccine Passports?
_________

She coulda been a contenda, instead of a bum, which is what she is.

Or is she actually one of the rigid libertarians? Could be.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 20, 2021 07:19 AM (7X3UV)

134 Why do we have 10k or 10s of 1000s of Americans in Afghanistan? Who are these people? Deep Staters? Private military? NGO actors? War profiteers? Private contractors? Why didn't they get out before Bagram closed on July 5th, which was known?

Why is it our military's job to protect these people making serious bank over there? These people know before hand that they have to get out before the military gets out, and many sign contracts stating this.

So again why is our military being used to protect special interests of this class of people who ignored the deadline to get out? When did our military become a force to protect these private contractors? This is very new in our nation's history like 20 years old new.

This is a manufactured crisis and I don't trust the NeoCons or NeoLiberals running this crisis and offering up solutions.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 20, 2021 07:19 AM (KkcCI)

135 well now, i kind of wish i had stayed distracted by work. except the vaccine to fly will prevent me from working. fuck. i might be forced into it at this point. i've managed to survive this long without it.

maybe we DO need the taliban to take over the world. i just hope i'm here long enough to watch the fucker behead those in charge first....

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 20, 2021 07:19 AM (8D42x)

136 You are dead to yourself and God and fully slave chattel to the State.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 07:09 AM (+LCoQ)

I do not see getting a vaccination as being dead to God.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 20, 2021 07:19 AM (45fpk)

137 Posted by: Eeyore at August 20, 2021 07:16 AM (7X3UV)

Soros' comments about Xi lead me to believe that Soros will not be getting his cut.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 07:20 AM (ONvIw)

138 American feminists are as hollow as their brain pans. They are all show. Their record at defending women is spotty and conditional, and they stay completely mum depending on the political advantage or disadvantage of any situation.

*

Why, it's almost like they openly accept and acknowledge that all of their strength and power comes from men who are willing to tolerate them.

Men *still* control them.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 07:20 AM (ulgTA)

139 Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2021 07:13 AM (EZebt)
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With a difference being that Trump, much as he wished differently, did not represent a different party. Mainstream Congressional Republicans are hard to differentiate from Democrats, except maybe at the margins.

Even if Trump sought to promote Republicans, he certainly did not do so in the military or embed his people in the deep state extra-Constitutional agencies. He failed at that and, given the level of animosity he faced from those forces, it is certainly understandable why.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 07:20 AM (oLXwS)

140 >>At 1:00 pm Biden will deliver remarks about Afghanistan

Oh this should be informative.
Not.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2021 07:20 AM (bDqIh)

141 126 The nice thing about CRT in schools is the teachers dont have to teach and the principals dont have to govern.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 07:18 AM (yrol0)

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"We have a choice before us. We can either figure out why our average student reads 5 grade levels behind, doesn't know what a fraction is, and couldn't tell you the history of their own household much less the country, and fix that. Or...stay with me here, we can become entitled shits, refuse to teach any of that, and just promote grievances among the population to make them as miserable as us."

"Fuck the patriarchy for not publishing my novel and forcing me to teach!"

"Yeah! Fuck them for not giving me a position at Harvard that my Gender Studies professor told me I was entitled!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:20 AM (LvTSG)

142 "Worse than being in a war is being stuck in a war unable to fight, in a state of suspended animation conscious but paralyzed. Posted by: Ordinary American"

Exactly. Going to that school boards meeting last night drove that point home for me yet again. The woke members of the school board, a couple in particular are openly pushing for formal teaching of CRT and 1619 and and all the rest. They hate us and proudly post it on social media without consequences. My tax dollars at work

Posted by: Ripley at August 20, 2021 07:21 AM (MxEKc)

143 Will either Infrastructure bill pass? I pray they both fail.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 20, 2021 07:21 AM (ZHVt1)

144 ...it's interesting to me that there's a growing left/right consensus that a lot of what the global elites are doing is stupid.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 06:50 AM (6XLoz)

I suspect that the left's opinion on the subject is that attempting to erase conservatives is fine but I should be allowed to be paid for being a nipple influencer.

They care when it negatively affects them but only for as long as it negatively affects them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2021 07:21 AM (U7wke)

145 Biden telling staff he wants to go back to Delaware. Hasn't been sleeping well this week. Thinks he will be more functional if he stays over at home in Wilmington.

Seen this with my kiddos. They get grumpy and tired and want to sleep in their own beds.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 07:22 AM (yrol0)

146 110 I must admit, Obama was actually not a failure. He transformed the military leadership and service academies to fully Woke. He finished the job of corrupting leadership at the DoJ, FBI, and Intel agencies. And his Dept of Education pushed schools further left.

So what if Obamacare failed.
Posted by: JM in Florida at August 20, 2021 07:12 AM (HCeRP

He succeeded in his plan to destroy law and make people believe falsehood over truth. If you can make people believe that men are women, there is nothing you can't force on them.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 07:23 AM (ONvIw)

147 At 1:00 pm Biden will deliver remarks about Afghanistan

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He's going to crow about the current rescue mission that has already transported x-number of Americans out. He'll focus on nothing but that and the "media" will call it a success and isn't he a military genius for getting us out of this bad situation...and at a remarkable rate? And many people will believe it. No questions will be taken. No remarks on how many are still stranded. How many are at risk. How many $billions lost in military equipment. He'll preen, walk off, and the "media" will take it from there.

Cynical, I am.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 07:23 AM (O+I8R)

148 ...This is China's social credit system, where people who have misbehaved in some way are prevented from riding a bus. Total control. No police needed.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2021 07:19 AM (bDqIh)
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Yup, that's another option. It would require a digital currency, though, and that's a hard thing to implement in the US for two big reasons. The first is identity politics. Minorities, and especially American blacks, don't use the banking system so much and run cash lifestyles. The assholes in the Complex even came up with a name for this: "underbanked." That is a challenge, though probably surmountable.

The second is Eurodollars. Huge amounts of American money is overseas, sometimes in use as a local or national currency. That money has to be able to repatriate or it becomes worthless and it all falls apart. Digital-only currency will destroy repatriation. The Dollar must fail as reserve currency before it can happen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 07:23 AM (3p5uk)

149 >>American feminists are as hollow as their brain pans. They are all show. Their record at defending women is spotty and conditional, and they stay completely mum depending on the political advantage or disadvantage of any situation.

Feminism from it's beginning was all about Socialism, not empowering women. They probably care more about all the "sex workers" who will be "put out of work" with the OnlyFans updated terms of content than the women raped and murdered by the ~~Taliban in Afghanistan~~ Afghan refugees dumped in America's small towns.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2021 07:23 AM (bDqIh)

150 FTSB -Texas federal judge Trumps Hawaii judge.

All I can say is it's about fucking time.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 20, 2021 07:23 AM (yQpMk)

151 After f*cking up Afghanistan so badly they'll have to come down extra hard on law abiding American grandmothers who donated to the wrong political party.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 07:23 AM (ulgTA)

152 This didn't get reported much, but Chuck Schumer tried to pass the "For The People Act" at 3:30 AM Wednesday under a procedure where no opposing votes means it passes. The only Republican who showed up was Ted Cruz. (Cruz did stop it, since his 1 opposing vote killed it).

Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 07:24 AM (6XLoz)

153 At 2:00 pm he leaves the White House to resume his vacation in Delaware

Bai Den vacays while Afghanistan burns.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2021 07:24 AM (OCTRt)

154 With a difference being that Trump, much as he wished differently, did not represent a different party. Mainstream Congressional Republicans are hard to differentiate from Democrats, except maybe at the margins.

I should have said: Trump was not allowed to represent a different party. The entrenched GOP is uniparty first, and not America First, with the Senate leadership the absolute worst.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 07:24 AM (oLXwS)

155 He really needs 3-4 days of rest between major engagements, and he hasn't been getting it.

Being President is not for the feint of heart. I'm still somewhat in awe of Trump's staying power day to day.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2021 07:25 AM (BFigT)

156 At 1:00 pm Biden will deliver remarks about Afghanistan

At 2:00 pm he leaves the White House to resume his vacation in Delaware

???

He will only read prepared remarks like a deer in the headlights for 5 minutes. What are the other 55 minutes for? Someone to wipe his ass

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 20, 2021 07:25 AM (GPwVZ)

157 "If the Democrats want to keep the 2024 presidential election within reach, they have to move fast. The first step will be getting rid of Biden."

Ejecting Biden
_________

There was a similar article at Red State recently. This one was better. The RS one actually posited that they couldn't get rid of Joe, because with Kamala in the WH, the Senate would be 50/50, and therefore no VP could be confirmed. This article points out that with Romkursky, that isn't so.

Of course, I am not committed to the notion that elections still matter. I hope they do. But too many on the right watch politics as a game. "Oh, boy! This will be good for us!" And I don't mean just the pseudocons at the Bullpatch.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 20, 2021 07:25 AM (7X3UV)

158 Here's your Friday chuckle...

@BillHemmer 40m

Kate Bedingfield from the White House LIVE on
@msnbc: "The President never shies away from taking questions."

Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 07:25 AM (cF8AT)

159 He's going to crow about the current rescue mission that has already transported x-number of Americans out. He'll focus on nothing but that and the "media" will call it a success and isn't he a military genius for getting us out of this bad situation...and at a remarkable rate? And many people will believe it. No questions will be taken. No remarks on how many are still stranded. How many are at risk. How many $billions lost in military equipment. He'll preen, walk off, and the "media" will take it from there.

Cynical, I am.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 07:23 AM (O+I8R)
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I won't bet against this. And the remarkable rate might even be true - it'll just be Afghans, not Americans.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 07:25 AM (3p5uk)

160 151 After f*cking up Afghanistan so badly they'll have to come down extra hard on law abiding American grandmothers who donated to the wrong political party.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 07:23 AM (ulgTA)

Afghanistan went down the way it was supposed to. The only problem was we weren't supposed to be shown as many details. So it was the media that screwed up

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 07:25 AM (ONvIw)

161 I suspect that the left's opinion on the subject is that attempting to erase conservatives is fine but I should be allowed to be paid for being a nipple influencer.

They care when it negatively affects them but only for as long as it negatively affects them.

Sure, but this is where we're terrible on strategy. Use these people to help overthrow the elites, *then* go all Trotsky on them.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 07:26 AM (6XLoz)

162 How many are at risk. How many $billions lost in military equipment. He'll preen, walk off, and the "media" will take it from there.

Cynical, I am.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Upwards of 10k.
81 billion in military equipment.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2021 07:27 AM (OCTRt)

163 From Newsmax's Emerald Robinson a few days ago (article at the link) https://tinyurl.com/5jdcnutb

One of the lessons that Europe learned during the refugee crisis was that AFGHAN MEN were responsible for a huge number of gang rapes in public. In broad daylight.

The Afghans are so barbarous that 6 EU countries automatically deport them.

The Afghan refugees were "motivated by a deep and abiding contempt for Western civilization. To them, Europeans are the enemy and their women are legitimate spoils, as are all the other things one can take from them: housing, money, passports."

"Their laws don't matter. . . ultimately, their civilization is going to fall anyway to the horde of which one is the spearhead. No need to assimilate, or work hard--these Europeans are too soft to seriously punish you for a transgression. Their days are numbered."

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2021 07:27 AM (bDqIh)

164 At 1:00 pm Biden will deliver remarks about Afghanistan

Is there an over/under on if he actually says the "LEAVE NOW" from the teleprompter this time?

Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 07:27 AM (6XLoz)

165 Kate Bedingfield from the White House LIVE on
@msnbc: "The President never shies away from taking questions."

Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 07:25 AM (cF8AT)

They lie outrageously knowing full well that they won't be called out. They might as well say that Biden himself flew the rescue planes out of Afghanistan. No one would object.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 20, 2021 07:27 AM (45fpk)

166 This didn't get reported much, but Chuck Schumer tried to pass the "For The People Act" at 3:30 AM Wednesday under a procedure where no opposing votes means it passes. The only Republican who showed up was Ted Cruz. (Cruz did stop it, since his 1 opposing vote killed it).
Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 07:24 AM (6XLoz)
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Seriously? Only *one* Republican could haul his ass into the office to put a stop to that shit? Was it planned in secret? Probably.

Here's the thing about it being a secret plan, though: there's still no excuse. It's clear what's going on and how people are playing the game now. There should be at least one Republican senator on the floor at all times. Draw straws, and do it as shift work. If there's an emergency, activate your phone tree and filibuster until the rest of your caucus shows up. If they *aren't* doing this, they are even more worthless than I thought.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 07:28 AM (3p5uk)

167 I really hope Biden doesn't listen to the warmongers - he fucked up, but let's not double down on a very bad hand.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 20, 2021 07:28 AM (oWBc3)

168 Afghanistan went down the way it was supposed to.
**

I agree. This is purposeful to weaken us and shift global power to China.

10% for the Big Guy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 07:28 AM (ulgTA)

169
Being President is not for the feint of heart. I'm still somewhat in awe of Trump's staying power day to day.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2021 07:25 AM (BFig

Trump thrived on being a high powered exec, spent his life prepping for the role. Biden was a lazy ass senator and an even lazier VP. Then he had four years of virtually no work at all. Add the previous brain issues, and you have someone who cannot be brought up to speed. And he didn't need to be, as Kalorama is in charge.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 07:28 AM (ONvIw)

170 167 I really hope Biden doesn't listen to the warmongers - he fucked up, but let's not double down on a very bad hand.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 20, 2021 07:28 AM (oWBc3)

==========

In 2024 there will be 10,000 American troops in Afghanistan.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:29 AM (LvTSG)

171 "Their laws don't matter. . . ultimately, their civilization is going to fall anyway to the horde of which one is the spearhead. No need to assimilate, or work hard--these Europeans are too soft to seriously punish you for a transgression. Their days are numbered."
Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2021 07:27 AM (bDqIh)
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What evidence is there that these Afghan invaders are wrong?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 07:29 AM (3p5uk)

172 Seriously? Only *one* Republican could haul his ass into the office to put a stop to that shit? Was it planned in secret? Probably.

***

This is why it will be safe for the Democrats to put Karmella in as President.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 07:29 AM (ulgTA)

173 I wonder if I got this job, would they ever fly me out ot Australia?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:17 AM (LvTSG
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One of my Godchildren has been stuck in Australia and hoping to get home next month.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 07:29 AM (oLXwS)

174 I'm beginning to feel like red stapler guy from Office Space.

Posted by: Gwenn at August 20, 2021 07:30 AM (9Gr7n)

175 Kate Bedingfield from the White House LIVE on
@msnbc: "The President never shies away from taking questions."

Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 07:25 AM (cF8AT

The gaslighting is purposeful.

Posted by: blaster at August 20, 2021 07:30 AM (mbFEM)

176 I really hope Biden doesn't listen to the warmongers - he fucked up, but let's not double down on a very bad hand.

*

The airstrikes against assets they left behind will kill a few thousand women, children, and remaining Americans. On video.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 07:30 AM (ulgTA)

177 Or is she actually one of the rigid libertarians? Could be.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 20, 2021 07:19 AM (7X3UV)

I don't think a rigid libertarian would use "The NCAA will sue us!" As the reason to not ban mentally ill dudes from competing against real girls.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 07:30 AM (G2zl5)

178 That fucking idiot who wants to ban unvaccinated people from flying can kiss my lily white ass. I bet it will make the airlines happy. No more overcrowded flights! Plenty of space now!

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 20, 2021 07:31 AM (nxdel)

179 Maranatha. I'm out. See y'all on the Book Thread.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 20, 2021 07:31 AM (PiwSw)

180 Kate Bedingfield from the White House LIVE on
@msnbc: "The President never shies away from taking questions."
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 07:25 AM (cF8AT
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How preposterous. This is absurd to the max. This isn't even gaslighting at this point, because they're not trying to convince. They're just lying openly and brazenly and daring someone to call them on it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 07:31 AM (3p5uk)

181 At 2:00 pm he leaves the White House to resume his vacation in Delaware

Bai Den vacays while Afghanistan burns.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2021 07:24 AM (OCTRt)

Where's the "opposition party" to call his senile ass on the carpet? Sucking Gas Chamber cock?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:31 AM (y7DUB)

182 There was a similar article at Red State recently. This one was better. The RS one actually posited that they couldn't get rid of Joe, because with Kamala in the WH, the Senate would be 50/50, and therefore no VP could be confirmed. This article points out that with Romkursky, that isn't so.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 20, 2021 07:25 AM (7X3UV)

All they have to do is offer Mitt the VP slot as a unity replacement.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at August 20, 2021 07:31 AM (EpDzw)

183 174 I'm beginning to feel like red stapler guy from Office Space.
Posted by: Gwenn at August 20, 2021 07:30 AM (9Gr7n)

Remember what he did at the end?

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2021 07:31 AM (DH2LB)

184 He was probably someone with longterm issues. His video sounded like a very mentally disorganized person. And it's very simple to convince someone like that that their fears are true and even worse than they believed.
Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 07:06 AM (ONvIw)

how long until we find out he had been contacted by an FIB agent in the last year...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 20, 2021 07:32 AM (8D42x)

185 Anthony Blinken was confirmed with majority repuke vote. There is no opposition party. Blinken will pay no price for ANY disaster he'll be involved in... just like Joetato

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 20, 2021 07:32 AM (flINI)

186 Have any of you come across doctors or dentists who will not treat you without proof of vaccination?

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2021 07:32 AM (DH2LB)

187 This didn't get reported much, but Chuck Schumer tried to pass the "For The People Act" at 3:30 AM Wednesday under a procedure where no opposing votes means it passes. The only Republican who showed up was Ted Cruz. (Cruz did stop it, since his 1 opposing vote killed it).

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I caught that early this morning when I looked over the ONT. Unreal! Not just unreal that Cruz was the only one who stayed to stop that, but that that diabolical b*stard Schumer attempted it. This is how they plan to govern from here on out. Our civil norms in Congress have been blown apart. They aren't returning. They will do anything to get what they want "passed" now. Whatever it takes. This will be the way forward any time the Democrats have a majority. Schumer deserves to be boiled in acid.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 07:32 AM (O+I8R)

188 Posted by: Jewells45 at August 20, 2021 07:31 AM (nxdel)

Hi, Jewells. Anymore news on your brother? FenSpouse and I have been praying for him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 07:33 AM (ai5jE)

189 @disclosetv

JUST IN - FBI at this point believes the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups, Trump, or prominent supporters, but has found "scant evidence" it was an "organized plot".

https://tinyurl.com/yh9x4yr8

Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 07:33 AM (cF8AT)

190 Shameless Miss Lindsey. Says he is afraid if the left ever got power, then hands them power. You mewling quim. Not giving a sh*t even as you speak.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2021 07:34 AM (EZebt)

191 Kate Bedingfield from the White House LIVE on
@msnbc: "The President never shies away from taking questions."

Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 07:25 AM (cF8AT)
====================

Not that anyone needs reminding, but this is more Big Lie shit.

Biden has been interviewed exactly nine times since going into the junta, twice by old friend and Democrat Party Spokeman Snuffleugapus. Biden never takes ropeline questions. Trump interacted with the press nearly every day, and had been interviewed at this point over 50 times, and many of those interviewers were overtly hostile.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 07:34 AM (oLXwS)

192 Have any of you come across doctors or dentists who will not treat you without proof of vaccination?

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This worries me greatly, OA. There was someone on a thread last night that said they have an upcoming colonoscopy in October, but were being forced to show their vaccination before the procedure would take place.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 07:34 AM (O+I8R)

193 186 Have any of you come across doctors or dentists who will not treat you without proof of vaccination?
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2021 07:32 AM (DH2LB)

Not where I live, and have not heard reports of any here. My PCP is very sympathetic concerning not getting the jab...

Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 07:34 AM (6Je/Q)

194 159. Have to disagree. The only reason Biden is doing another scripted statement is because the media is hammering on him with particular emphasis by the foreign press. The Democrats are perfectly capable of doubling down on stupid by having Biden blabbing in front of a microphone. They are not going to suddenly become sycophants again. They appear ready to move on to Harris.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 20, 2021 07:34 AM (G6Kvw)

195 Framing the Afghanistan debacle into a "win" for Democrats is actually kinda' smart. A lot of LIV's and nominal Democrats will shake their heads and lament the situation only because they don't fully grasp the implications. Telling them this was exactly what *biden and the Democrats wanted will force them to either acknowledge this, or not.

Personally I think there's so much disorganization inside this fractured administration that nobody knew/knows what's going on day to day. Either way, the Democrats own this shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2021 07:35 AM (BFigT)

196 That fucking idiot who wants to ban unvaccinated people from flying can kiss my lily white ass. I bet it will make the airlines happy. No more overcrowded flights! Plenty of space now!
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 20, 2021 07:31 AM (nxdel)
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And a bloodletting on their books. This won't actually be caused by a vax requirement. Most people have had a shot anyway, if the statistics are to be believed. They can probably still fill planes. The real problem - as we see with masks and over the past year - is that flying is being made so much more miserable than ever before. Everyone is on edge and everyone is pissed off. I flew last month and everyone is angry. Hard eyes behind facemasks, little or no conversation, everyone is rude - staff and customer - there are big placards up about how you need to be less mean and not break the rules, etc.

Vax requirements will just make it all that much worse. Flying used to be miserable. Now it's hell and getting worse. That's bad for business. It's only a matter of time (if this continues) that they all get consolidated and then nationalized as a state carrier or two. That's probably what they want anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 07:35 AM (3p5uk)

197 Seriously? Only *one* Republican could haul his ass into the office to put a stop to that shit? Was it planned in secret? Probably.

Cruz was one of the only Repukes who could be trusted to vote against it.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:35 AM (y7DUB)

198 Have any of you come across doctors or dentists who will not treat you without proof of vaccination?

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2021 07:32 AM (DH2LB)

Rev has a Dr. appointment Wednesday. When I made the appointment, they did not ask about vaccinations. However, he does need to show his vaccination card to get into the nursing home to visit parishioners there.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 20, 2021 07:35 AM (45fpk)

199 This worries me greatly, OA. There was someone on a thread last night that said they have an upcoming colonoscopy in October, but were being forced to show their vaccination before the procedure would take place.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 07:34 AM (O+I8R)

Now that's funny. They'll stick a camera up your poop-chute, but are worried about a virus.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 20, 2021 07:35 AM (UuD2k)

200 Talking with my dad, he knew going into areas in SE Asia and South America that if he got caught, nobody would come for him because that was his duty and job of the US government's military. And he didn't get paid mid 6 figures either. He volunteered. We left 1000s of POWs and MIAs in SE Asia who were legit US military.

Why are these "private actors" so privileged as to miss the deadline to get out, which was before July 5th that it is causing all of this chaos? Who are their bosses since it's not the tax payer? Why can't they be named?

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 20, 2021 07:35 AM (KkcCI)

201 JUST IN - FBI at this point believes the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups, Trump, or prominent supporters, but has found "scant evidence" it was an "organized plot"
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Tami, it goes without saying I suppose and we all know the truth: What organization was there was done by the FBI itself.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 07:36 AM (oLXwS)

202 That fucking idiot who wants to ban unvaccinated people from flying can kiss my lily white ass. I bet it will make the airlines happy. No more overcrowded flights! Plenty of space now!

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They can also enjoy their 40% drop in air passengers.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 07:36 AM (O+I8R)

203 Morning glories.

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 20, 2021 07:36 AM (ACjI+)

204
He will only read prepared remarks like a deer in the headlights for 5 minutes. What are the other 55 minutes for? Someone to wipe his ass
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 20, 2021 07:25 AM (GPwVZ)

55 minutes to sit down, rest, be reminded of who and where he is, give him some soft serve ice cream, wipe his butt, THEN head to Delaware for his much earned vacation.

Dementia is hard and takes a lot out of a man.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:36 AM (Zz0t1)

205 Vax requirements will just make it all that much worse. Flying used to be miserable. Now it's hell and getting worse. That's bad for business. It's only a matter of time (if this continues) that they all get consolidated and then nationalized as a state carrier or two. That's probably what they want anyway.

yeah it's easier than nominally being in the "private sector" ...they expect results there!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 20, 2021 07:36 AM (j9HX3)

206 The RS one actually posited that they couldn't get rid of Joe, because with Kamala in the WH, the Senate would be 50/50, and therefore no VP could be confirmed. This article points out that with Romkursky, that isn't so.

>>>>>

With Romney? What a load of complete and absolute bull shit. Biden's far left psycho terrorist appointees aren't getting confirmed with 51 votes. They're getting confirmed with 60+. Anyone that thinks a vacant VP slot would only get confirmed with 51-54 votes is delusional and requires a psych evaluation because they clearly have no grasp on reality.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 07:36 AM (G2zl5)

207 Nice pic, JJ.

So fitting.

And how sad is it that dementia faced fucktard is PRESIDENT.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:37 AM (Zz0t1)

208 If it is under 1200 miles away, I will drive. Flying sucks nowadays.

Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 07:37 AM (6Je/Q)

209 Tami, it goes without saying I suppose and we all know the truth: What organization was there was done by the FBI itself.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 07:36 AM (oLXwS)

I think that's the 'scant evidence' part.

Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 07:37 AM (cF8AT)

210 That's probably what they want anyway.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 07:35 AM (3p5uk)
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Yup. "We" the unwashed masses are not supposed to fly--that's reserved for the "elites." We are supposed to stay home and not drive anywhere unless absolutely necessary. Or take the train/bus if we need to go long distance.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 20, 2021 07:37 AM (ZIoLS)

211 The women in this photo series of people left behind looks like Selma Hayek 30 years ago. I vote we do everything possible to bring her back.

https://nypost.com/2021/08/19/some-of-the-

americans-allies-trapped-in-afghanistan/

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 07:38 AM (s2VJv)

212 I've HAD Covid. You can take your vaccines and shove them up your ass. I don't NEED them. I have the NATURAL stuff.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:38 AM (Zz0t1)

213 189 @disclosetv

JUST IN - FBI at this point believes the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups, Trump, or prominent supporters, but has found "scant evidence" it was an "organized plot".

https://tinyurl.com/yh9x4yr8

Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 07:33 AM (cF8AT)

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Well, I guess they found out that the Capitol Police that held the doors open weren't part of the plot?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:39 AM (LvTSG)

214 Why are these "private actors" so privileged as to miss the deadline to get out, which was before July 5th that it is causing all of this chaos? Who are their bosses since it's not the tax payer? Why can't they be named?

Pepe I have a feeling this mil contractor types can't be named b/c their names are all Al-Something or Muhammad-something OR they're in the IC

either way I am not too exercised about these "innocent US civilians"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 20, 2021 07:39 AM (j9HX3)

215 In a way, it would be almost better to believe this American Thinker piece is correct and the Afghan debacle was an engineered debacle, pure evil and malevolence. Bit it's not. This is the A Game for the Pentagon, intelligence community, State Department and permanent bureaucracy. Yes, they are that fucking stupid. Most policymakers in that town and the managerial elite are an even more retarded version of John Kerry, if that even is possible.

D.C. richly deserves to become a fireball and every miserable life their snuffed out. Since that won't happen, we need to start rapidly divorcing ourselves from the Banana Empire.

Also, memo to State: Most Americans hate the Woke bullshit let alone Stone Age gatherers. Hard to believe, I know. Please kill yourselves.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 20, 2021 07:39 AM (9oKed)

216 Have any of you come across doctors or dentists who will not treat you without proof of vaccination?
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2021 07:32 AM (DH2LB)

Before I was operated on I was afraid I'd have to be vaxed only they didn't say a damn thing about it. Real doctors unlike the likes of Fauci.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:39 AM (y7DUB)

217 FTSB -Texas federal judge Trumps Hawaii judge.

All I can say is it's about fucking time.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 20, 2021 07:23 AM (yQpMk)
*************
One thing I have learned is how critical it is that we get conservative judges in our courts. For years many of my friends were of the impression that it didn't matter what judges were elected or appointed because the judges for the most part would follow the law. Now these same friends realize the importance of this as well as electing conservative school board members.
It's a shame it took this long to finally come to that realization.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2021 07:39 AM (NpAcC)

218 J6 was coordinated by the Feds

Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicus (oEn12) at August 20, 2021 07:40 AM (v5Vn+)

219 I do not see getting a vaccination as being dead to God.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 20, 2021 07:19 AM (45fpk)

I assumed the point was not getting the vaccine but accepting the authority of the government to order you to get the vaccine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2021 07:40 AM (U7wke)

220 The women in this photo series of people left behind looks like Selma Hayek 30 years ago. I vote we do everything possible to bring her back.

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She really does! Beautiful girl.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 07:40 AM (O+I8R)

221 Biden basically living in Willimington tells you they're in an utter panic.
Because there are no public visitor logs there; that's where the people who are really in charge give him his orders.

If things were going well, like they planned, they would be comfortable with him at the WH for days at a time, beyond the reach of the courier messengers.

They're not meeting there to be clever and hide that fact from the world-- every major country knows exactly who comes and goes there. They're doing it to hide that fact from us.

Posted by: Mrm88 at August 20, 2021 07:40 AM (jIL4c)

222 216 Have any of you come across doctors or dentists who will not treat you without proof of vaccination?
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2021 07:32 AM (DH2LB)

Before I was operated on I was afraid I'd have to be vaxed only they didn't say a damn thing about it. Real doctors unlike the likes of Fauci.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:39 AM (y7DUB)

Had a physical last May. Doc asked if I had the vaccine and when he said no, he seemed not to give a shit and we went from there.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 07:40 AM (s2VJv)

223 I just flew this week. Turrible. Between the retards at the tsa doing security theater to the nasty ass flight stewardesses telling you to adjust your mask every sweep down the aisle it is almost untenable. I agree... if it is under 1000 miles I will drive.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 20, 2021 07:40 AM (flINI)

224
JUST IN - FBI at this point believes the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups, Trump, or prominent supporters, but has found "scant evidence" it was an "organized plot".

https://tinyurl.com/yh9x4yr8

Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 07:33 AM (cF8AT)

JUST IN: The FBI is buttfuckingly incompetent and should be beat with a tire iron.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:40 AM (Zz0t1)

225 Fenelon thank you! He's back home and doing fine. He is on BP and cholesterol meds, probably for the rest of his life. All tests came back negative thankfully. Thanks so much for your prayers!

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 20, 2021 07:40 AM (nxdel)

226 31 We unfortunately need to start disentangling the American people from the American government.
Posted by: Zek at August 20, 2021 06:48 AM (w/5KC)

This ^^^^

With "Covid!!11!!" It should've become apparent to everyone how entrenched the gov't really is in their lives, and the urgent need to disentangle oneself to the greatest extent possible.

Anecdotally, the wine moms around here are starting to get it, but can't possibly imagine, say, voting Murphy out of office in October.

Posted by: Dark Helmet at August 20, 2021 07:41 AM (Oka5v)

227 206 With Romney? What a load of complete and absolute bull shit. Biden's far left psycho terrorist appointees aren't getting confirmed with 51 votes. They're getting confirmed with 60+. Anyone that thinks a vacant VP slot would only get confirmed with 51-54 votes is delusional and requires a psych evaluation because they clearly have no grasp on reality.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 07:36 AM (G2zl5)

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A VP vote would be the kind of very public vote that would draw a lot of attention.

Very different politics from the deputy secretary to some department.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:41 AM (LvTSG)

228 Anecdotally, the wine moms around here are starting to get it, but can't possibly imagine, say, voting Murphy out of office in October.

Posted by: Dark Helmet at August 20, 2021 07:41 AM (Oka5v)

November**

Posted by: Dark Helmet at August 20, 2021 07:41 AM (Oka5v)

229 a way, it would be almost better to believe this American Thinker piece is correct and the Afghan debacle was an engineered debacle, pure evil and malevolence. Bit it's not. This is the A Game for the Pentagon, intelligence community, State Department and permanent bureaucracy. Yes, they are that fucking stupid. Most policymakers in that town and the managerial elite are an even more retarded version of John Kerry, if that even is possible. ...
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 20, 2021 07:39 AM (9oKed)
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This is my take. Some of it was deliberate - like turfing Trump's plan and not implementing anything until far too late to matter because the Mil/IC complex was sure Biden would reverse the withdrawal. But for the most part, I think they're grossly incompetent to the point of being disastrous and we're seeing them at their best.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 07:41 AM (3p5uk)

230 One thing I have learned is how critical it is that we get conservative judges in our courts. For years many of my friends were of the impression that it didn't matter what judges were elected or appointed because the judges for the most part would follow the law. Now these same friends realize the importance of this as well as electing conservative school board members.
It's a shame it took this long to finally come to that realization.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2021 07:39 AM (NpAcC)

*waves enthusiastically*

Posted by: Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett at August 20, 2021 07:41 AM (Zz0t1)

231 Oh yes, I remember Ordinary American.

Posted by: Gwenn at August 20, 2021 07:42 AM (9Gr7n)

232 With Romney? What a load of complete and absolute bull shit. Biden's far left psycho terrorist appointees aren't getting confirmed with 51 votes. They're getting confirmed with 60+. Anyone that thinks a vacant VP slot would only get confirmed with 51-54 votes is delusional and requires a psych evaluation because they clearly have no grasp on reality.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 07:36 AM (G2zl5)
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Ding. Ding. Ding. The confirmations are the major comparison point for me, and it's humiliating.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 07:42 AM (3p5uk)

233 Sefton:

I agree wholeheartedly; China is probably behind this. it was Diana West who first suggested that far larger powers were behind Obama than just Soros.

Posted by: ahem at August 20, 2021 07:43 AM (66w/5)

234 On second thought, if we can't stuff the ballot boxes, if these election reforms go thru...we might NEED the Electoral College!

Posted by: The Left at August 20, 2021 07:44 AM (l0Lgi)

235 "During the infamous June 16 meeting with Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected any role for American forces in Central Asian countries near Afghanistan, according to senior U.S. and Russian officials."
RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE? Putin Threw Monkey Wrench in Biden's Afghanistan Plan

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So, this is Putin's version of the Monroe Doctrine?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:44 AM (LvTSG)

236 Joe, I am of themopinion that what we see unfolding is a combination of a master plan and gross incompetence... the story of Obama, and the Marxists, always, IMO. That is why what we witness is so often baffling.

Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 07:44 AM (6Je/Q)

237 Ding. Ding. Ding. The confirmations are the major comparison point for me, and it's humiliating.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 07:42 AM (3p5uk)

***

Correct! 28 republitards voted to confirm Blinken.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 20, 2021 07:44 AM (flINI)

238
Had a physical last May. Doc asked if I had the vaccine and when he said no, he seemed not to give a shit and we went from there.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 07:40 AM (s2VJv)

They're still requiring masks and limiting visits here, but the vax thing doesn't seem to be a big issue yet. Especially if you're IN for Covid. Go in when you see symptoms and they're treating and releasing.

Wait too long, however, lung clots, pneumonia and a lengthy stay.

Posted by: Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett at August 20, 2021 07:45 AM (Zz0t1)

239 You know pick-up truck guy tried out for the role of Sling Blade. He was turned down for for not being believable enough.

Posted by: Gwenn at August 20, 2021 07:45 AM (9Gr7n)

240 does romney have sex thru a hole in the sheet with his wife. I heard good mormons do that?

romney is a ratfucker, so we do know about that

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 20, 2021 07:45 AM (bTQ72)

241 218 J6 was coordinated by the Feds
Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicus (oEn12) at August 20, 2021 07:40 AM (v5Vn+)

And the "Whitmer kidnapping plot" and probably Nashville and Vegas.
Antifa is a subsidiary as nothing else could explain the closeness of the Alcoffs to high donks, and why Joseph Alcoff was never prosecuted. He's IC.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 07:45 AM (ONvIw)

242 Damn sock.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:45 AM (Zz0t1)

243 Posted by: Jewells45 at August 20, 2021 07:40 AM (nxdel)

I am glad to hear the positive news, (Praise the Lord!) and you don't have to thank me for prayers, dear. It is a privilege
to pray for people. Everyday I wake up and thank God for blessings. One of them is to have the ability to see and hear and to speak, and one of the ways I can use those abilities is to pray. I think the pray-ers here, are glad to offer their prayers .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 07:45 AM (ai5jE)

244 Have any of you come across doctors or dentists who will not treat you without proof of vaccination?
Posted by: Ordinary American

Nope. Was at the dentist yesterday. Never came up.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2021 07:46 AM (OCTRt)

245 235 So, this is Putin's version of the Monroe Doctrine?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:44 AM (LvTSG)

The way things are going, we'll be handing back Alaska to them in 5 years or less.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 07:46 AM (s2VJv)

246 Oh, and it looks as if you will have to get vaccinated if you ever want to get on an airplane ever again.

Makes sense. Why waste the fuel on somebody who isn't at risk for blood clots?

Posted by: t-bird at August 20, 2021 07:46 AM (2nFxy)

247 Pepe I have a feeling this mil contractor types can't be named b/c their names are all Al-Something or Muhammad-something OR they're in the IC

either way I am not too exercised about these "innocent US civilians"
Posted by: BlackOrchid

It really is strange that people are not asking these questions about who makes up the 10s of 1000s, ,who are their bosses, and what companies or NGOs do they represent?
And when did our military become exclusive for fighting for these NGOs and private companies?

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 20, 2021 07:46 AM (KkcCI)

248 Joe Biden Walks Away From His Catastrophes. Is He a Moral Monster?

This is thinking way too small.

Joe Biden is nothing more than a figure head. He is not in control.

It is not one man who is a moral monster, it is the Left in general which is the moral monster.

Everyone from Fauci to Bill Gates to every Democrat Governor to everyone in the CDC and FDA and WHO to everyone in teachers' unions and school boards to military leaders to everyone in the media to everyone in social media and tech companies to everyone in Hollywood and sports leagues and the NCAA and universities across the country.

All those people have been involved in pushing COVID policies, pushing Critical Race Theory, supporting domestic terrorism through antifa and Black-Lives-Matter, supporting the suppression of dissent of anything related to COVID-19 (masks, lockdowns, vaccines, HCQ, Ivermectin, etc) and supporting the destruction of the last remaining recourse of a free society - free and fair elections - with their support of the rigged and stolen election of Nov 2020.

People need to stop focusing on Biden. This is the result of the long march through the institutions.

Posted by: Tall Cool Gentleman in a Black Suit at August 20, 2021 07:46 AM (Do5/p)

249 159. Have to disagree. The only reason Biden is doing another scripted statement is because the media is hammering on him with particular emphasis by the foreign press. The Democrats are perfectly capable of doubling down on stupid by having Biden blabbing in front of a microphone. They are not going to suddenly become sycophants again. They appear ready to move on to Harris.
Posted by: Jen the original at August 20, 2021 07:34 AM (G6Kvw)
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They may be willing to move onto her, but I am seeing many calling her out on FB for ignoring the Southern border crisis and Afghanistan.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2021 07:46 AM (NpAcC)

250 It might not be a tragedy if our parasitic "allies" decouple from the U.S. defense umbrella after 3/4 of a century.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at August 20, 2021 07:46 AM (Dc2NZ)

251 Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 07:09 AM (ulgTA)

Your nic bears repeating throughout the weekend and beyond.

THEY CANCELED THE FOREIGN POLICY DEBATE. Trump's strongest areas were in economic and foreign policy. What did the press hammer him on in the debates? COVID. Every single debate. The press (and the Presidential Debate Commission) did everything they could to distract from Trump's strengths and give succor and cover for Biden.

The clearest opportunity for the LIV to make a choice that would have impacted the events that just transpired in Afghanistan was the contrast between the GEOTUS and the FICUS. They didn't want that to happen.

I blame the GOPe, of course. I blame the Democrats, of course. But I reserve my incandescent rage for the Fourth Estate. They truly are Enemies of the People. I can't stand them.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 20, 2021 07:46 AM (mdjgu)

252 Malice or incompetence? Both are bad. I guess malice is worse.

Incompetence at least might get something right accidentally.

Malice will keep trying for the worst possible outcome even after slow Joe is out to pasture.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at August 20, 2021 07:47 AM (oSy3T)

253 "I just flew this week. Turrible. Between the retards at the tsa doing security theater to the nasty ass flight stewardesses telling you to adjust your mask every sweep down the aisle it is almost untenable. I agree... if it is under 1000 miles I will drive.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report"

I flew overseas this summer. Miserable as always, with the added burden of covid test within 72 hours of flying, both ways, plus signed heath affidavit. Which is just the shit and expense you want to be running around trying to get for the whole family when you are preparing for a big flight. My flying days may be over, which it seems is what they want.

Posted by: Ripley at August 20, 2021 07:47 AM (MxEKc)

254 @msnbc: "The President never shies away from taking questions."
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 07:25 AM (cF8AT)
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Not that anyone needs reminding, but this is more Big Lie shit.
Biden has been interviewed exactly nine times since going into the junta, twice by old friend and Democrat Party Spokeman Snuffleugapus. Biden never takes ropeline questions. Trump interacted with the press nearly every day, and had been interviewed at this point over 50 times, and many of those interviewers were overtly hostile.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 07:34 AM (oLXwS)

Don't forget that the press needs to submit all questions they want to ask ahead of time.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 07:47 AM (G2zl5)

255 249 They may be willing to move onto her, but I am seeing many calling her out on FB for ignoring the Southern border crisis and Afghanistan.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2021 07:46 AM (NpAcC)

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Well, it's not like this presidency is a complete disaster from top to bottom or anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:47 AM (LvTSG)

256

romney is a ratfucker, so we do know about that
Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 20, 2021 07:45 AM (bTQ72)

The perfect size for Mr. Needledick.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:47 AM (Zz0t1)

257 And it's because of the voters that we're at this awful place, fraudulent elections notwithstanding.
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Yes Yes Yes

I keep telling people it's not the politicians - it's the assholes who put them there. They are the problem. I don't see a solution.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 20, 2021 07:47 AM (IytoW)

258 252 Malice or incompetence? Both are bad. I guess malice is worse.

Incompetence at least might get something right accidentally.

Malice will keep trying for the worst possible outcome even after slow Joe is out to pasture.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at August 20, 2021 07:47 AM (oSy3T)

Bingo.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 07:47 AM (s2VJv)

259 It seems there was another AoS hiccup......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:47 AM (Zz0t1)

260 Day 8 of the Afghanistan Hostage Crisis

Posted by: Marcus T at August 20, 2021 07:47 AM (VpIIl)

261 The "America's 250th Birthday" link is broken.

But, yeah, it'll be a time more appropriate for mourning than celebration.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 20, 2021 07:47 AM (DTX3h)

262 Oh, and it looks as if you will have to get vaccinated if you ever want to get on an airplane ever again.

Or are here illegally.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 07:48 AM (+LCoQ)

263 Linda Menk (JJS link above) is a 72 year old grandmother of four who lives in a small Georgia town. She needed a POLICE ESCORT to attend school board meetings after local leftists found out she attended the Jan 6 rally in Washington.

That exemplifies to me how deeply leftists are embedded in America.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 07:48 AM (oLXwS)

264 And it's because of the voters that we're at this awful place, fraudulent elections notwithstanding.
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Yes Yes Yes

I keep telling people it's not the politicians - it's the assholes who put them there. They are the problem. I don't see a solution.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 20, 2021 07:47 AM (IytoW)

Us neither.

Posted by: Dominion Voting Machines at August 20, 2021 07:48 AM (Zz0t1)

265 What happens when the Dems realize the lowest percentage of vaccinated are of the POC-American community?

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 20, 2021 07:48 AM (/aiGx)

266 My doctors do not ask about vaccination, but I do have to wear a mask to get inside the building.

That was a couple of weeks ago. It might be different now, though.

A trip to the mall yesterday and over 50 percent of the people were masked, voluntarily.

Posted by: Ziba at August 20, 2021 07:48 AM (S1hrL)

267
Just an observation here in my neck of the woods:

Six people (three male, ages 61 to 69- three female, pretty much the same ages) all hospitalized with covid. All vax'ed.

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at August 20, 2021 07:49 AM (K2SnJ)

268 As Bitter Clinger always says, Never Attribute to Incompetence That Which Can Be Attributed to Malice.

It's double-think to say "I believe they have cleverly schemed their way into power, but once in power their cleverness stopped. It's a plan, a plan to destroy, and there is nothing you can do to stop it.

If anything the Taliban have shown a roadmap of sorts for defeating Democrats, endure the overwhelming force and wait until they have exhausted all will and resources to oppress (from their perspective) and then resume control.

Will much be lost during the period of oppression? Yes. But as long as your freedom-loving American heart persists, the enemy will never triumph and extinguish your will. It is the way of the Sovereign above to preserve His remnant, and this time is no different.

If the last 4 or 5 decades allowed us the peace to relax, the next 4 or 5 will require diligence in teaching generation after generation the principles of human freedom so that they never perish from the earth.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 20, 2021 07:49 AM (YA914)

269 ++++
This is my take. Some of it was deliberate - like turfing Trump's plan and not implementing anything until far too late to matter because the Mil/IC complex was sure Biden would reverse the withdrawal. But for the most part, I think they're grossly incompetent to the point of being disastrous and we're seeing them at their best.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 07:41 AM (3p5uk)
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They're political, and were not willing to buck the Biden administration's stupidity.

Things might have been different if Milley, Lloyd Austin and the head of the CIA all resigned on the same day due to the White House's insistence on bungling the withdrawal.

Posted by: Revenant at August 20, 2021 07:49 AM (ydlAE)

270 265 What happens when the Dems realize the lowest percentage of vaccinated are of the POC-American community?
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 20, 2021 07:48 AM (/aiGx)

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What's more interesting is what happens when those demanding the deaths of the unvaccinated are confronted with the idea that they're wishing for the deaths of a very large percentage of the black population.

Haven't seen it happen yet, though. I'm not surrounded by monsters like that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:50 AM (LvTSG)

271
there was a 42yo alleged prostitute killed in NYC this weekend.

are there 42yo pro-hoes? that seems old,

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 20, 2021 07:50 AM (bTQ72)

272 Take a good look at the video of Taliban holding American small arms. Realize that a trained eye can tell by the way they are carrying/operating M4's and M16's, those guys were trained. That is, we were training the Taliban.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 20, 2021 07:50 AM (VpIIl)

273 261 The "America's 250th Birthday" link is broken.

But, yeah, it'll be a time more appropriate for mourning than celebration.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 20, 2021 07:47 AM (DTX3h)

Fixed. Thanks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 07:50 AM (s2VJv)

274 Will I be able to trade all my airline miles for gruel in that camps?

Posted by: Unjabbed in Seattle at August 20, 2021 07:50 AM (wFQsY)

275 Day 8 of the Afghanistan Hostage Crisis

Its not a Hostage Crisis, it is a "few broken eggs to make an omelet".

The wide open southern border is to bring chaos into North America. The totally and deliberately created "crisis" in AF is to initiate another million man surge into Europe to complete the transformation and crash there.

Its war against the West, sponsored by the Davos Division of China Inc.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 07:51 AM (+LCoQ)

276 A VP vote would be the kind of very public vote that would draw a lot of attention.

Very different politics from the deputy secretary to some department.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:41 AM (LvTSG)

His cabinet appointees aren't moderates.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 07:51 AM (G2zl5)

277
are there 42yo pro-hoes? that seems old,
Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 20, 2021 07:50 AM (bTQ72)

GILF's are a thing, you know......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:51 AM (Zz0t1)

278 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

Good news for me today - I have an unexpected day off, so am going to run some errands and then hop on the Harley and ride, baby, ride.

Hope you all have a lovely day. If you have a moment to keep me in your thoughts, please ask that my usual self-hatred and depression that says, in the grand moments, "this will never last" doesn't show up today.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 20, 2021 07:51 AM (2JVJo)

279 No, Mormons do not have sex with their wives through a whole in a sheet. BTW, this silliness was also said about Orthodox Jews too. Mitt Romney would be the same self serving person were he a Roman Catholic, a Presbyterian, Jew or any other faith tradition. It has nothing to do with his Mormonism, as there are fine Mormons here on this board and elsewhere in the world:

https://tinyurl.com/n4zxynmx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 07:51 AM (ai5jE)

280 279-Hole, not whole.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 07:52 AM (ai5jE)

281 Take a good look at the video of Taliban holding American small arms. Realize that a trained eye can tell by the way they are carrying/operating M4's and M16's, those guys were trained. That is, we were training the Taliban.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 20, 2021 07:50 AM (VpIIl)

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran......

- Zombie John McCain

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:52 AM (Zz0t1)

282 "What happens when the Dems realize the lowest percentage of vaccinated are of the POC-American community"

They know. I think that is the only thing stopping them from a vax-port where they have control. They are trying to figure an exemption for systemic racism.

Posted by: Ripley at August 20, 2021 07:52 AM (MxEKc)

283 It's the ideology that drives the incompetence. When your worldview is 180 degrees out of phase with reality everything you do and every decision you make is guaranteed to be not just wrong but catastrophically so.

I guess they would have to know that what they're doing is wrong to actually be competent. In that case, they are willful enemies acting with malice aforethought.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 07:53 AM (s2VJv)

284 Malice or incompetence? Both are bad. I guess malice is worse.

Incompetence isn't an unbroken string of bad (for us) choices going back decades.

Posted by: t-bird at August 20, 2021 07:53 AM (lIIT7)

285 280 279-Hole, not whole.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 07:52 AM (ai5jE)

Po-ta-to, Po-tah-to....

Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 07:53 AM (6Je/Q)

286 >> This didn't get reported much, but Chuck Schumer tried to pass the "For The People Act" at 3:30 AM Wednesday under a procedure where no opposing votes means it passes. The only Republican who showed up was Ted Cruz.

Holy Sh#t that is sneaky!
Nationalizing the vote, fundamentally changing how elections are facilitated at 3:30am with no one there to stop it?!

There's nothing they won't do.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2021 07:53 AM (bDqIh)

287 276 A VP vote would be the kind of very public vote that would draw a lot of attention.

Very different politics from the deputy secretary to some department.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:41 AM (LvTSG)

His cabinet appointees aren't moderates.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 07:51 AM (G2zl5)

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They're not, you're right, but the political bomb of voting for a new VP is so unusual and would draw so much attention that Mitch would happily use the opportunity to stretch his cred with the base. Turning it into a long fight to help boost fundraising, at the very least. Getting a win in the VP fight would change surprisingly little in the Senate and the administration as well (yes, the tie breaker vote is gone, but it's not as huge a thing as being made out), so it would be a big public fight where he could come out looking good to the base.

It's different.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:53 AM (LvTSG)

288 What happens when the Dems realize the lowest percentage of vaccinated are of the POC-American community?
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 20, 2021 07:48 AM (/aiGx)

They're counting on the enemedia and BurnLootMurder tools to not point that out.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:53 AM (y7DUB)

289 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 20, 2021 07:51 AM (2JVJo)

Have a fun day and try to live and enjoy things in the moment.

I pray for blessings in your life everyday.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 07:54 AM (ai5jE)

290 Agree with Frontpage 100%. Tired of hearing all the propaganda about how we owe Afghanistan, like 20 years of our tax dollars isn't enough.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 20, 2021 07:54 AM (7MBHe)

291 Just an observation here in my neck of the woods:

Six people (three male, ages 61 to 69- three female, pretty much the same ages) all hospitalized with covid. All vax'ed.
Posted by: Swamp Rabbit

I'm not hearing about too many unvaxxed people in the hospital. I'm hearing about a ton of vaxxed people in the hospital.

Almost like the vaxx doesn't work.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2021 07:54 AM (OCTRt)

292 No, Mormons do not have sex with their wives through a whole in a sheet. BTW, this silliness was also said about Orthodox Jews too. Mitt Romney would be the same self serving person were he a Roman Catholic, a Presbyterian, Jew or any other faith tradition. It has nothing to do with his Mormonism, as there are fine Mormons here on this board and elsewhere in the world:

https://tinyurl.com/n4zxynmx
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 07:51 AM (ai5jE)

My wife worked for a company that was Mormon own and managed. Greedy, dishonest fucks, they were. Gave me a lesson on their structure.

I'll be keeping my distance until I meet once that can prove different.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:54 AM (Zz0t1)

293 I caught that early this morning when I looked over the ONT. Unreal! Not just unreal that Cruz was the only one who stayed to stop that, but that that diabolical b*stard Schumer attempted it.

I don't want to sound like I'm standing up for the shitheads in the Senate but... it's entirely possible that they work shifts to prevent this nonsense. Given that only 1 vote is needed to prevent unanimous consent, the entire GOP delegation doesn't need to be present.

By working shifts, it would prevent the Dems from being able to exhaust the GOP by continuous use of this nonsense and then ram things through.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2021 07:54 AM (U7wke)

294 *ones

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:54 AM (Zz0t1)

295 Mormons do wear funny underwear though, true?

Posted by: jabless and jobless at August 20, 2021 07:55 AM (wFQsY)

296 Funny Underwear opened for someone somewhere...

Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 07:55 AM (6Je/Q)

297 293 I don't want to sound like I'm standing up for the shitheads in the Senate but... it's entirely possible that they work shifts to prevent this nonsense. Given that only 1 vote is needed to prevent unanimous consent, the entire GOP delegation doesn't need to be present.

By working shifts, it would prevent the Dems from being able to exhaust the GOP by continuous use of this nonsense and then ram things through.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2021 07:54 AM (U7wke)

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Theory:

Schumer tried to pass the bill while Cruz was there as failure theater for his base, knowing that Cruz would block it.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:56 AM (LvTSG)

298 If a SCOTUS slot opened up tomorrow, Biden could nominate someone that makes Ruth Bader Ginsberg look like Scalia, and they would receive 65 or more votes in the senate.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 07:56 AM (G2zl5)

299 =========

Theory:

Schumer tried to pass the bill while Cruz was there as failure theater for his base, knowing that Cruz would block it.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:56 AM (LvTSG)

Not far fetched. Having an upcoming primary from AOC has him scrambling a bit, I would imagine.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:57 AM (Zz0t1)

300 I'll be keeping my distance until I meet once that can prove different.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:54 AM (Zz0t1)

Unfortunately my experience also in business.

Posted by: jabless and jobless at August 20, 2021 07:57 AM (wFQsY)

301 Any reports on how many A refugees have come in?

France took in a whopping 85. We will take in tens of thousands, the Left's liberal guilt complex hard at work.

Posted by: Ziba at August 20, 2021 07:57 AM (S1hrL)

302 They're not, you're right, but the political bomb of voting for a new VP is so unusual and would draw so much attention that Mitch would happily use the opportunity to stretch his cred with the base. Turning it into a long fight to help boost fundraising, at the very least. Getting a win in the VP fight would change surprisingly little in the Senate and the administration as well (yes, the tie breaker vote is gone, but it's not as huge a thing as being made out), so it would be a big public fight where he could come out looking good to the base.

It's different.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:53 AM (LvTSG)

Just like with Merrick Garland!

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 07:57 AM (mbFEM)

303 If a wealthy family accumulated serious debt, the smart thing for them to do is sell off the excess land, art collection, antique cars and family jewels to pay the debt off and invest in income producing activities.

Time for the U.S. to do the equivalent of that.

Posted by: jwest at August 20, 2021 07:58 AM (/BlEx)

304 the sound of fear from the incompetents - headlines

CDC Director Walensky: There is an "Increased Risk of Severe Disease Among Those Vaccinated Early" (VIDEO)

mRNA vaccine inventor speaks out on 'Tucker' after YouTube deletes video of him discussing risks
'The government is not being transparent with us about what those risks are,' said Dr. Robert Malone

U.S. officials reviewing possibility Moderna vaccine is linked to higher risk of uncommon side effect than previously thought
h/t washington post via msn.com

The NY Times reported this:
Israel, Once the Model for Beating Covid, Faces New Surge of Infections
In contrast to past epicenters of infection in Israel's crowded, considerably less-vaccinated ultra-Orthodox communities, this scourge largely took hold in very well-vaccinated, center-course suburbs.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 20, 2021 07:58 AM (2o90I)

305
For 20 years we've had stupid TSA drones at airports making us take off our shoes and belts and basically treating taxpayers like dumb cattle. We'll submit to "Papiere, bitte!" without much fuss.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2021 07:58 AM (/U27+)

306 299 Not far fetched. Having an upcoming primary from AOC has him scrambling a bit, I would imagine.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:57 AM (Zz0t1)

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It doesn't even need to be about his own personal election chances.

It's just about keeping the base engaged and donating.

"We would have managed this but for those rascally Republicans! Dontae today (with 5x matching!) and we'll vote out those Republicans and bring voting rights to everyone!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:58 AM (LvTSG)

307 Wow....now THAT'S a TROLL...

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:58 AM (Zz0t1)

308 If it is under 1200 miles away, I will drive. Flying sucks nowadays.
Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 07:37 AM (6Je/Q)

I may, or may not

, live in Texas. 1200 miles don't scare me none.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2021 07:58 AM (U7wke)

309 Cynical, I am.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 07:23 AM

To be so cynical, too young, you are.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 20, 2021 07:58 AM (a3Q+t)

310
It's double-think to say "I believe they have cleverly schemed their way into power, but once in power their cleverness stopped. It's a plan, a plan to destroy, and there is nothing you can do to stop it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 20, 2021 07:49 AM (YA914)

It's not something along those lines.

In order to pull off the steal, the Democrats needed a coalition of powerholders broader than any one Democrat could call in favors for. In consequence, we have a rule by an oligarchy. Big Tech, Disney, Deep State, Wall Street, Urban political machines, etc. If they lose major parts of that oligarchy, they lose power. In consequence, all the major players have veto power. That's why you see things like the waffling back and forth about lockdowns, some players want them, others don't, so the status quo tends to hold. It's just rule by a dysfunctional committee.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at August 20, 2021 07:59 AM (z5Vrg)

311 299
Not far fetched. Having an upcoming primary from AOC has him scrambling a bit, I would imagine.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:57 AM (Zz0t1)

I'd have thought Jellobrain Gillibrand would be a much easier target. But Schemer is old, white and Jewish by birth. Out with the old in with the new just like Joe Crowley minus the Jewish bit. But Schumer would still be more formidable than Crowley was.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 07:59 AM (s2VJv)

312 ========

It doesn't even need to be about his own personal election chances.

It doesn't NEED to be, but it is. Always. He's NOBODY without his senate seat.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:59 AM (Zz0t1)

313 My doctors do not ask about vaccination, but I do have to wear a mask to get inside the building.

Hospitals and clinics are run by Fauci types. You know how they say A and B students work for C students...

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:59 AM (y7DUB)

314 Schumer tried to pass the bill while Cruz was there as failure theater for his base, knowing that Cruz would block it.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:56 AM (LvTSG)

But doesn't Schumer very much want to pass it?

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2021 07:59 AM (DH2LB)

315 Now having failed in Afghanistan, we will try to prove the success of liberal universalism at home, with 30,000 or 50,000 or 100,000 refugees soon arriving.

So was up this AM and looking at refugee cost. Moving a person from a Middle Eastern Country to the US is about a negative $600k drain on the economy. Then add in about another $1 Million lifetime family cost in benefits.

This could easily cost $100 Billion!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 07:59 AM (yrol0)

316 Huh. Usually not awake before the Morning Report is in the can. This is good to see it live.

Posted by: jabless and jobless at August 20, 2021 07:59 AM (wFQsY)

317 Huh. Usually not awake before the Morning Report is in the can. This is good to see it live.
Posted by: jabless and jobless at August 20, 2021 07:59 AM (wFQsY)

Welcome!

Hope you find a job, soon.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 08:00 AM (Zz0t1)

318 If you won't fit inside their algorithm, you'll be removed from the equation.

Social media isn't meant to connect you, it's intended to control you.

Posted by: Mrm88 at August 20, 2021 08:01 AM (jIL4c)

319 315 Schumer tried to pass the bill while Cruz was there as failure theater for his base, knowing that Cruz would block it. Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:56 AM (LvTSG)

But doesn't Schumer very much want to pass it?
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2021 07:59 AM (DH2LB)

=========

Is that what Democrats think of Mitch McConnell and things like the ACA repeal?

It also doesn't really matter if he wants it to pass as long as he knows that it won't. So, he just puts on a show of trying, the base is happy with him and angry at the enemy (Cruz). All the while, Cruz gets to paint himself as a hero to us because he stopped it.

It's all theater.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 08:01 AM (LvTSG)

320 Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:54 AM (Zz0t1)

I can imagine that would be upsetting. I am sorry for that experience. However you've "met" other Mormons . They're here on this board, although I don't know if you'd ever meet them in real life. I would imagine the decent, honest family loving Mormons would feel as bad about their dishonest co-religionist as the rest of us would feel about the greedy and dishonest people in our own faith traditions.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 08:01 AM (ai5jE)

321 How can you be sure that an aborted baby isn't trans? Isn't abortion potentially causing violence against a transperson?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 20, 2021 08:02 AM (TayrX)

322 I would like the record to show what I said about people that think a vote for a new VP wouldn't get a lot of republicans on board having no grasp on reality and the guy arguing against it thinks Prometheus is a good movie.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 08:02 AM (G2zl5)

323 Here are a couple of promises from Psaki-hockey in her first White House Press Briefing, the evening of Jan. 20, 2021. Both have reached their expiration date. The first one long ago, but it's especially damning now.

"If the president were standing here with me today, he would say he works for the American people," Ms. Psaki said. "I work for him, so I also work for the American people, but his objective and his commitment is to bring transparency and truth back to government, to share the truth, even when it's hard to hear."

Also, Jenny promised the White House Press Corps daily White House Press Briefings, except on weekends, unlike the previous Administration according to her. This week, there has been one Press Briefing, on Tuesday. A Press Briefing is not currently scheduled today. (I do not have a direct quote for this one; my source is an NYT article.)

Posted by: Gref at August 20, 2021 08:02 AM (AMIL/)

324 Incompetence at least might get something right accidentally.

Malice will keep trying for the worst possible outcome even after slow Joe is out to pasture.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at August 20, 2021 07:47 AM (oSy3T)

Incompetence would explain a minimal level of "glitches" in the withdrawal. Even the guy in the bomb truck functioned at a higher level that the military, the State department, and our highest "leadership"? No. Plus I'm not buying that Europe knew nothing. If they spy on Trump, they spy all the time. I call bullshit. This is all CYA.

The idea that we pulled out while still replenishing supplies is just sinister, btw, and is further evidence of coordination. I suspect this is a Turkey-Iran-Obama thing. I still don't get why Wray is 100% on board with this, but then Obama is a religious figure.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 08:02 AM (ONvIw)

325 316 Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 07:59 AM (yrol0)

At least the illegal aliens from latin America are at worst violent criminals and at best illiterate peasants. 100,000 Afghanis are not only third world but third century in their mindset.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 08:03 AM (s2VJv)

326 I mention this again, because BehindTheBlack talks about it today, but the FAA might well stop SpaceX from using their Boca Chica facility for launches, including the one we are all waiting for, the Starship orbital test launch. It is ready to go and only waits for FAA permission. But "environmentalists" are trying to stop that launch, and shut down Boca Chica entirely.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 08:03 AM (oLXwS)

327 In my nic is a link to a blog I read (100% fed up) that gives information on where Jake Sullivan- spokesman and advisor to Biden-is from. Scary.

Posted by: Chillin the most at August 20, 2021 08:03 AM (lonOK)

328 I can imagine that would be upsetting. I am sorry for that experience. However you've "met" other Mormons . They're here on this board, although I don't know if you'd ever meet them in real life. I would imagine the decent, honest family loving Mormons would feel as bad about their dishonest co-religionist as the rest of us would feel about the greedy and dishonest people in our own faith traditions.

The interesting thing is that if you substituted another major religion for "Mormon" on this board, there would be mass outrage and a ban-hammering in the works.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 20, 2021 08:04 AM (YA914)

329 Whole house generators: One big one to power everything? Or- Two less big ones: one for critical things that need constant power, and one for less critical that can be shut down at night.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 20, 2021 08:04 AM (TayrX)

330 Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 07:58 AM (Zz0t1)

Troll seems very obsessed with gays.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 08:04 AM (ai5jE)

331 100,000 Afghanis are not only third world but third century in their mindset.
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So there is some common ground, right?

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 20, 2021 08:04 AM (/MaDp)

332
I hope all you anathemized heretics, schismatics and pagans aren't going to be bashing religions this morning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2021 08:05 AM (/U27+)

333 Morning Horde, thanks JJ.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at August 20, 2021 08:05 AM (khAeP)

334 I'm sure J.J. linked this, but worth a read if you haven't read.

Mass Psychosis Is the Most Viable Explanation for What We're Seeing in America Today
https://tinyurl.com/6e6zcrnr

I don't know what to say anymore.
Heading to hospital today for my crap.
FWIW, I read a nurse's account of how they were/are partly protecting themselves (amongst all the other precautions they take): xylitol mouthwash and nasal spray every two hours. She claims her team has never been affected yet they see covid patients all day. Who knows if it is true or if it works. Internet. /shrug

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 20, 2021 08:05 AM (2o90I)

335 This could easily cost $100 Billion!
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 07:59 AM (yrol0)

Just put it on our tab.

Posted by: D.C. at August 20, 2021 08:05 AM (uw6Dz)

336 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2021 08:05 AM (/U27+)

I laughed. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 08:06 AM (ai5jE)

337 333
I hope all you anathemized heretics, schismatics and pagans aren't going to be bashing religions this morning.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2021 08:05 AM (/U27+)

Are we allowed to if we're blasphemers?

Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 08:06 AM (G2zl5)

338 Hope you find a job, soon.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 08:00 AM (Zz0t1)

Thanks amigo. I am retired but the nic still works since I believe my wife will be forced out soon, as will many others who wont submit. It's OK. I want her home permanently. 28 years and she's still my best bud. Shes groovy...ya know for a crazy ette.

Posted by: jabless and jobless at August 20, 2021 08:06 AM (wFQsY)

339 Fen -

Did you get my e-mail ?

Posted by: JT at August 20, 2021 08:06 AM (arJlL)

340 If a SCOTUS slot opened up tomorrow, Biden could nominate someone that makes Ruth Bader Ginsberg look like Scalia, and they would receive 65 or more votes in the senate.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 07:56 AM (G2zl5)
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true

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 08:07 AM (oLXwS)

341 Posted by: artisanal ette at August 20, 2021 08:05 AM (2o90I)

What is happening at the hospital, if you care to share?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 08:07 AM (ai5jE)

342 One of the beauty's of Trump as president was him doing things both sides said for years couldn't be done, low hanging fruit promised to the people but never picked.
Low hanging fruit.
Now, it appears that we're actually surrounded by enemies masquerading as fellow citizens doing things that would be considered enemy action a decade ago.
They are seemingly everywhere.
It is an overripe orchard.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2021 08:07 AM (z79tQ)

343 Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog

Jamaicans protest pride flag at the US embassy. They call it cultural imperialism and accuse the US of imposing its values on them. They're exactly right, of course.

https://tinyurl.com/956vte59

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2021 08:07 AM (NpAcC)

344 327 I mention this again, because BehindTheBlack talks about it today, but the FAA might well stop SpaceX from using their Boca Chica facility for launches, including the one we are all waiting for, the Starship orbital test launch. It is ready to go and only waits for FAA permission. But "environmentalists" are trying to stop that launch, and shut down Boca Chica entirely.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 08:03 AM (oLXwS)

Elon is not dumb. He's got a plan B.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 08:07 AM (mbFEM)

345 Wow... using " anathematized heretics" in a sentence!!! Hat tip to Hadrian!

Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 08:07 AM (6Je/Q)

346 Posted by: JT at August 20, 2021 08:06 AM (arJlL)

No; I haven't looked at that account for a few days. When did you send it?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 08:08 AM (ai5jE)

347 Good Morning!

Let's smile and be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (GRDrZ) at August 20, 2021 08:08 AM (GRDrZ)

348 Golly that truck bomb story went quiet quickly, no? Can we read anything into it based on how quickly the media dropped it?

Posted by: 496 at August 20, 2021 08:08 AM (VJsqe)

349 are trying to stop that launch, and shut down Boca Chica entirely.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 08:03 AM (oLXwS)

Probably that cock-pump Bezos behind that enviro group. If you can't compete with a better product, get the iron boot of government to shut down your competition.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 20, 2021 08:08 AM (TayrX)

350 All we see in and around Afghanistan is deliberate and will continue to push the Communist agenda forward until we the non-Communist take to the streets and other public venues. Event then the outcome is not certain. But for sure we cannot keyboard our way to victory. Kinetic , highly visible, lawful action is the only way we slow the Left down and ultimately defeat their current dominance over us.

Posted by: Voter theater. at August 20, 2021 08:08 AM (xXx5y)

351 348 Good Morning!

Let's smile and be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (GRDrZ) at August 20, 2021 08:08 AM (GRDrZ)

Or I can exist... my mere existence is an affront to many...

Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 08:09 AM (6Je/Q)

352 Theory:

Schumer tried to pass the bill while Cruz was there as failure theater for his base, knowing that Cruz would block it.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 07:56 AM (LvTSG)

Not to dismiss your theory... I thought this was a scheduled vote. He may have arranged someone to be there to "tie his hands".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2021 08:09 AM (U7wke)

353 Social media isn't meant to connect you, it's intended to control you.
Posted by: Mrm88 at August 20, 2021 08:01 AM (jIL4c)
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Social media was intended to give college kids a way to profile each other and vote on their classmates' appearance. It was venal and vain, not commanding and controlling.

It rapidly pivoted it, though, once they figured out what they had.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 08:09 AM (DCdYk)

354
What is happening at the hospital, if you care to share?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 08:07 AM (ai5jE)

post cancer radiation follow up today. bloodwork before next lung scan. Looking for any damage to organs and lungs. Nothing major. Just don't want to go in a hospital right now. You tell them via app you arrived, then they call you into hospital when time. Thanks Fen.

Off I go.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 20, 2021 08:09 AM (2o90I)

355 to be bashing religions this morning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2021 08:05 AM (/U27+)

Are we allowed to if we're blasphemers?

Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 08:06 AM (G2zl5)

We aren't going to use the "caste the first stone" line are we? That just ruins everything. And I'm tired of hitting myself with stones.

Posted by: jabless and jobless at August 20, 2021 08:09 AM (wFQsY)

356 330 Whole house generators: One big one to power everything? Or- Two less big ones: one for critical things that need constant power, and one for less critical that can be shut down at night.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 20, 2021 08:04 AM (TayrX)

One big to power everything. The logic and circuits and installation for 2 different ones is doable but no doubt very expensive.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 08:09 AM (mbFEM)

357 349 Golly that truck bomb story went quiet quickly, no? Can we read anything into it based on how quickly the media dropped it?
Posted by: 496 at August 20, 2021 08:08 AM (VJsqe)

They found his social media before 4chan did.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 08:10 AM (G2zl5)

358 you know what i don't get, how in the ever loving fucking hell did the WHOLE WESTERN WORLD go fucking commie all at once?

I mean, ok, serious tin foil hat time. I used to laugh about the one world order / rothschild / whatever horseshit, but NOW, now i figure there is some sort of organized horseshit behind it all.

AND IT'S NOT THE JEWS, just to be clear.

i mean, the only way you get western europe, america, australia, etc to go full fucking stasi / kgb is some sort of mass plot. i just can't imagine the size and scope that was required to get this to happen.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 20, 2021 08:10 AM (8D42x)

359 Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2021 08:07 AM (NpAcC)

That's great! Good for them. Whose dimwitted idea was it-or was a consortium of lame brains who thought putting up rainbow flags at all the embassies was a good idea? Kyle Smith (I know! I know!) had an essay about this in the NY Post several days ago. It was a good essay.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 08:10 AM (ai5jE)

360 I should come up with a boob centered religion, I imagine it would need to be well rounded and uplifting though. Something you could wrap your hands around,you know?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 20, 2021 08:10 AM (eZXXh)

361 No; I haven't looked at that account for a few days. When did you send it?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Yisterday

Posted by: JT at August 20, 2021 08:10 AM (arJlL)

362 Biden appears to completely lack empathy for people being destroyed by the policies of his administration.
Does that signify dementia, or is it simply consistent with the corrupt bastard he's always been.
The third possibility is that he's essentially comatose.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 20, 2021 08:11 AM (cSyAR)

363 They found his social media before 4chan did.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 08:10 AM (G2zl5)

Leftists already had his FB likes. He liked some proTrump group. And a BUNCH of weed groups.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 08:11 AM (mbFEM)

364 322 How can you be sure that an aborted baby isn't trans? Isn't abortion potentially causing violence against a transperson?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 20, 2021 08:02 AM (TayrX)

Rush used to say the discovery of the Gay Gene would end abortion that day!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 08:11 AM (yrol0)

365 Wow... using " anathematized heretics" in a sentence!!! Hat tip to Hadrian!

Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 08:07 AM (6Je/Q)

Huh, I read "anesthetized." Worked for me.

Posted by: jabless and jobless at August 20, 2021 08:11 AM (wFQsY)

366 If China decides to invade Taiwan, I expect North Korea will also start one with SK, forcing us right away into a two-front problem in Asia. The world could change very rapidly, after Afghanistan.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 08:12 AM (oLXwS)

367 Elon is not dumb. He's got a plan B.
Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 08:07 AM (mbFEM)
++++
His Plan B is seaborne launch. They already do recovery-at-sea through their automated flat-top barges (they call them "drone ships"). They have leased - last time I checked - and end-of-useful-life oil platform for conversion into a seaborne launch platform. If that works, he can launch from the sea, which has many benefits around positioning (and avoidance of EPA and other US government interference). He still does his manufacturing here - for now - and they can still fuck with him, though. I suspect he's planning around assembly and manufacturing elsewhere, but I sure don't know.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 08:12 AM (DCdYk)

368 "One would surmise from Biden's characterization of the Taliban having an 'existential crisis' that he believes the group that has a history of violently subjugating women might reconsider such a position in order to be welcomed on the international stage."

Right, because typically the victors of wars agree to the demands of the losers of wars.

The Taliban can now claim to the world that they not only defeated, but utterly humiliated arguably the greatest military in the world.

And people think they're going to feel any sort of need to change their ways?

FFS...

Posted by: Tall Cool Gentleman in a Black Suit at August 20, 2021 08:12 AM (Do5/p)

369 361 I should come up with a boob centered religion, I imagine it would need to be well rounded and uplifting though. Something you could wrap your hands around,you know?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 20, 2021 08:10 AM (eZXXh)

Honkerism or Breastipalian.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 20, 2021 08:12 AM (YA914)

370 SHOCK: President Biden didn't notify our allies of his decision to abandon Afghanistan. The UK parliament holds the President of the United States in contempt. Biden has permanently damaged our relationship with NATO and the EU and undermined our reputation around the world.

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 08:12 AM (RHGPo)

371 >>If a wealthy family accumulated serious debt, the smart thing for them to do is sell off the excess land, art collection, antique cars and family jewels to pay the debt off and invest in income producing activities.

Time for the U.S. to do the equivalent of that.

You mean sell it to Gates, Bezos, and China.
Yeah, that'll make things better right quick!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2021 08:13 AM (bDqIh)

372 371 SHOCK: President Biden didn't notify our allies of his decision to abandon Afghanistan. The UK parliament holds the President of the United States in contempt. Biden has permanently damaged our relationship with NATO and the EU and undermined our reputation around the world.
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 08:12 AM (RHGPo)

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The adults are back in charge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 08:13 AM (LvTSG)

373 If China decides to invade Taiwan, I expect North Korea will also start one with SK, forcing us right away into a two-front problem in Asia. The world could change very rapidly, after Afghanistan.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Taiwan has nukes.

Posted by: JT at August 20, 2021 08:13 AM (arJlL)

374 Or Nasa is trying to shut down Boca. Ahhh, gee. You know, WE have a launch facility in FL you can use. Only $10 mil/ month rent. You also have to pay $1000/ hr engineering consult fee for a minimum of 1000 hrs before any attempted launch.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 20, 2021 08:13 AM (TayrX)

375 kraken

You are fine by me. The teacher in me wants to bring the Left into the light of reason. But there are an obedient religion of unreason. Who wants conformity and submission to falsehoods. Because most are mediocre.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (GRDrZ) at August 20, 2021 08:13 AM (GRDrZ)

376 AMERICA IS BACK !!

UK Parliament Holds Biden in Contempt for Afghanistan Withdrawal

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 08:13 AM (RHGPo)

377 Whole-house generator theory question. I have looked into it and it is mega-expensive but potentially doable for me if I go Natural Gas to fuel it. That still leaves me grid-dependent (albeit a different grid), though. Is it even worth doing with a utility dependency?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 08:13 AM (DCdYk)

378 I tell people that there is no way that the Apollo project would pass the environmental review today. I've been saying it for years.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 08:13 AM (mbFEM)

379
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

______________________

Two years ago I did one big one. It's been great

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at August 20, 2021 08:14 AM (K2SnJ)

380 378 Whole-house generator theory question. I have looked into it and it is mega-expensive but potentially doable for me if I go Natural Gas to fuel it. That still leaves me grid-dependent (albeit a different grid), though. Is it even worth doing with a utility dependency?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 08:13 AM (DCdYk)

========

Have you investigated the bicycle power option?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 08:14 AM (LvTSG)

381 367 If China decides to invade Taiwan, I expect North Korea will also start one with SK, forcing us right away into a two-front problem in Asia. The world could change very rapidly, after Afghanistan.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 08:12 AM (oLXwS)

Time for Taiwan, RoK and Japan to nuke up, if they have not done so already. Israel might be available.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 08:14 AM (s2VJv)

382 I use a little Linux virtual machine for Ace and politics and whatnot. I made it too little. I ran out of disk space three weeks ago (literally, zero bytes free). I couldn't expand the disk without shutting down, which I didn't want to do. So I decided to treat it as an experiment and see how long it could run without disk space.

I found my answer: right around a month.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 08:15 AM (DCdYk)

383 For home generators, I would recommend those with multi fuel capacities...

Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 08:15 AM (6Je/Q)

384 The church hierarchy was then corrupt and refused to follow the plain words in the bible. Many priests rebelled, and ended up being forced to form their own churches independent of that corrupt hierarchy. The time may be coming when modern priests like Altman will have to do the same.

More power to you Brother.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 08:15 AM (yrol0)

385 "He walked away from Afghanistan. He walked away from the border. He walked away from U.S. strength through energy independence. He walked away from Americans struggling with the inflation he has created and made worse through irresponsible, profligate spending with no end in sight. Joe Biden creates catastrophe. And then Joe Biden walks away."

He does it because he is convinced he did the right thing. No other choice was possible. Why would he have to think-again about a perfect choice? Everything will proceed and succeed, on the auto-pilot he programmed with the words in his EOs and edicts. If you can't see that, Fat, you are a lot dumber than I expected.

Posted by: Gref at August 20, 2021 08:16 AM (AMIL/)

386 384 For home generators, I would recommend those with multi fuel capacities...
Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 08:15 AM (6Je/Q)

Liberal Tears and Anguish?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 08:16 AM (yrol0)

387 Good morning, JJ, good morning, Horde,

*taps microphone*

*feedback*

"Wolverines."

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 20, 2021 08:16 AM (RA74j)

388
I'm trying to get some electrical work done here and I can't get anyone to come out and give us a quote. Same with getting a water softener and doing some remodeling. Nobody even returns my calls.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2021 08:16 AM (/U27+)

389 @ 335 Mass Psychosis Is the Most Viable Explanation for What We're Seeing in America Today
https://tinyurl.com/6e6zcrnr
=================

Maybe the psychosis will wear off.... Lord, I hope so.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 08:17 AM (oLXwS)

390 387 384 For home generators, I would recommend those with multi fuel capacities...
Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 08:15 AM (6Je/Q)

Liberal Tears and Anguish?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 08:16 AM (yrol0)

Lol...

Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 08:17 AM (6Je/Q)

391 You mean sell it to Gates, Bezos, and China.
Yeah, that'll make things better right quick!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2021 08:13 AM (bDqIh)

Russia tried that after the fall of Communism. It didn't work as well as they thought it would.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 20, 2021 08:17 AM (mdjgu)

392 383 I use a little Linux virtual machine for Ace and politics and whatnot. I made it too little. I ran out of disk space three weeks ago (literally, zero bytes free). I couldn't expand the disk without shutting down, which I didn't want to do. So I decided to treat it as an experiment and see how long it could run without disk space.

I found my answer: right around a month.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 08:15 AM (DCdYk)

Is there a good tutorial on how to do this? Which Linux etc? PS I am on WIN10

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 08:17 AM (yrol0)

393
"For the People"
Takes me back to the 90's and a radio show that only tin foil hat, conspiracy theorists, such as myself, listened to.
Another example of the evil leftists taking something good and flipping it to something bad?

Posted by: TeeJ at August 20, 2021 08:18 AM (PDYxO)

394 So what did Americans get from 9/11?

What did the Taliban get from 9/11?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 20, 2021 08:18 AM (+YKns)

395 Time for Taiwan, RoK and Japan to nuke up, if they have not done so already. Israel might be available.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 08:14 AM (s2VJv)
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All three are probably capable. Korea and Japan are certainly capable. There are a lot of good reasons to *not* have nukes - primarily because they are an exorbitant cost center but they are also a security concern. Why have your own nukes when you can use ours?

That math changed pretty dramatically within a week following the 2020 farce of an election. I would be shocked if they didn't start crash nuke development programs by then. If they did, they probably have working weapons coming on line about now or during the next quarter. There are still delivery problems (missiles are hard), but in an existential crisis they can also shove one into the hold of a passenger jet liner and blow it up near the target. That would be a suicide mission for the pilot, but it would work.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 08:18 AM (DCdYk)

396 378 Whole-house generator theory question. I have looked into it and it is mega-expensive but potentially doable for me if I go Natural Gas to fuel it. That still leaves me grid-dependent (albeit a different grid), though. Is it even worth doing with a utility dependency?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 08:13 AM (DCdYk)

There are WHG's that have NG/propane fueling. You have a permanent connection to your gas line, and hoses to connect to external propane tanks.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 08:18 AM (mbFEM)

397 Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I put in a whole house generator from Kohler. It runs on a propane tank. I have two weeks of power in a 250 gal tank. The rental of a propane tank is less than $100 per year in rural Kansas.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (GRDrZ) at August 20, 2021 08:18 AM (GRDrZ)

398 It almost seems Kamala Harris is going to decline the presidency when she gets the call.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (cSyAR)

399 @363

It's not only Biden who lacks empathy; the entire Left/Democrat party lacks empathy and doesn't GAF about Americans dying in AF. We are on a very slippery slope. Biden is horrible; the Kamel will be worse.

Posted by: Ziba at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (S1hrL)

400 i mean, the only way you get western europe, america, australia, etc to go full fucking stasi / kgb is some sort of mass plot. i just can't imagine the size and scope that was required to get this to happen.
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 20, 2021 08:10 AM (8D42x)

More like "slowly, then suddenly." Covid was just the excuse needed for the killshot.

Posted by: Dark Helmet at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (Oka5v)

401 Nobody even returns my calls.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2021 08:16 AM (/U27+)

Apparently they dont know who you are. Did you tell them Hadrian the Seventh?

Posted by: jabless and jobless at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (wFQsY)

402 You are probably right blaster. Thanks

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (TayrX)

403 When I see WIN10... my brain translates it as Wino 10 for some reason...

Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (6Je/Q)

404 They found his social media before 4chan did.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 08:10 AM (G2zl5)

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I hate to flaunt my ignorance, but what do you mean? I don't understand the significance of what you're saying.

Posted by: 496 at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (VJsqe)

405
anyone else notice biden went from old-man-blue-white to tan in a day??

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (bTQ72)

406 Is there a good tutorial on how to do this? Which Linux etc? PS I am on WIN10
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 08:17 AM (yrol0)
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There are many. I recommend spending the money and buying VMware Workstation. It works much better than the open-source alternatives (namely Oracle VirtualBox, though it also works pretty well). I use Ubuntu and "bridged networking" in combination with a VPN inside the VM. It really isn't too complicated and it works well.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (DCdYk)

407 The NATO allies are really pissed that N'ger Joe didn't bother to notify them.

Apparently, Joe ACTED UNILATERALLY

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (RHGPo)

408 Kabul is falling and Commiela heads to Saigon.

Smartest people in the room!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (yrol0)

409 If a SCOTUS slot opened up tomorrow, Biden could nominate someone that makes Ruth Bader Ginsberg look like Scalia, and they would receive 65 or more votes in the senate.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 07:56 AM (G2zl5)

As frustrating as Kavanaugh is, it beats that pervy creep Merrick Garland in that spot.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 08:20 AM (y7DUB)

410 The San Diego nurse, "Heather," is a hero. She calls out the board of supervisors -- "Every one of you knows masks don't work"! We need more people like her!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 20, 2021 08:20 AM (/XOcP)

411 I wish someone would invent a wood/coal burning generator.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 20, 2021 08:20 AM (YA914)

412 363 Biden appears to completely lack empathy for people being destroyed by the policies of his administration.
Does that signify dementia, or is it simply consistent with the corrupt bastard he's always been.
The third possibility is that he's essentially comatose.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 20, 2021 08:11 AM (cSyAR)

Yes.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 20, 2021 08:20 AM (DTX3h)

413 345 327 I mention this again, because BehindTheBlack talks about it today, but the FAA might well stop SpaceX from using their Boca Chica facility for launches, including the one we are all waiting for, the Starship orbital test launch. It is ready to go and only waits for FAA permission. But "environmentalists" are trying to stop that launch, and shut down Boca Chica entirely.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 08:03 AM (oLXwS)

Elon is not dumb. He's got a plan B.
Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 08:07 AM (mbFEM)
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So they're going is piss off the only guy who can get NASA astronauts to the ISS?

Posted by: WisRich at August 20, 2021 08:20 AM (G0vdT)

414 use a little Linux virtual machine for Ace and politics and whatnot. I made it too little. I ran out of disk space three weeks ago (literally, zero bytes free). I couldn't expand the disk without shutting down, which I didn't want to do. So I decided to treat it as an experiment and see how long it could run without disk space.

I found my answer: right around a month.

*

I fell into that trap as a new user.

Mint is set up to default to near daily, if not daily, backups. That eats up a lot of space very quickly.

Shift that to a monthly or weekly backup and it makes life a lot easier.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 20, 2021 08:20 AM (kJC5X)

415 Apparently they dont know who you are. Did you tell them Hadrian the Seventh?
Posted by: jabless and jobless at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (wFQsY)
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Yeah, we know it. The seventh. Feh. Call me when you're Hadrian the First. We only have time for OG Hadrians around here.

Posted by: Those Contractors at August 20, 2021 08:20 AM (DCdYk)

416 I don't think that NASA is trying to shut down SpaceX they already launch from Cape Canaveral and they are the only US based transport to the ISS.

It's more of a Hank Rearden deal.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 08:21 AM (mbFEM)

417 404 When I see WIN10... my brain translates it as Wino 10 for some reason...
Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (6Je/Q)

How to call role at the drunk tank:

Wino 1
Wino 2...

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 08:21 AM (yrol0)

418 I put in a whole house generator from Kohler. It runs on a propane tank. I have two weeks of power in a 250 gal tank. The rental of a propane tank is less than $100 per year in rural Kansas.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (GRDrZ) at August 20, 2021 08:18 AM (GRDrZ)

We got a lot of sun where I am. Are there solar and propane gens?

Posted by: jabless and jobless at August 20, 2021 08:21 AM (wFQsY)

419 Mint is set up to default to near daily, if not daily, backups. That eats up a lot of space very quickly.

Shift that to a monthly or weekly backup and it makes life a lot easier.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 20, 2021 08:20 AM (kJC5X)
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Ah, yes. Backups stored on the same device. A solid plan if ever there was one (/sarc).

I don't back this thing up at all. It doesn't matter. It's disposable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop) at August 20, 2021 08:21 AM (DCdYk)

420 Posted by: artisanal ette at August 20, 2021 08:05 AM (2o90I)

It's not psychosis at all, it's being fed organized lies, and they are well organized and constant. There is no "delusion" there is propaganda. Pretending it's an illness, normally means one can recover (schizophrenia is for life, btw). This is more like a less preposterous, but more constant, "War of the Worlds" broadcast. The result of a constant drumbeat of fear inducing lies is not delusional, though it seems fun to say so. This is far worse.
I am no fan of calling evil illness. It's not. Mao was not ill, he was evil. The same with Stalin, Hitler, etc.
I despise the bullshit that "nobody who wasn't mentally ill would kill someone" seems to be imbedded in our society. It's false at best, and it gives them a false out and limits blame and consequences.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 08:21 AM (ONvIw)

421 Once, I had a patient who was very dangerous and it was purely ideological. There was no delusion, no psychosis, no history of depression or bipolar, but there was a mad rush among the MSWs to call him "sick", because "nobody in their right mind would do that". I was happy to hand him over to the leos, and was glad I finished my documentation and history before they could pretend to find evidence of "illness".

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 08:22 AM (ONvIw)

422 412 I wish someone would invent a wood/coal burning generator.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 20, 2021 08:20 AM (YA914)

"Say, Watt?"

- - James Watt

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 08:22 AM (s2VJv)

423 I should come up with a boob centered religion, I imagine it would need to be well rounded and uplifting though. Something you could wrap your hands around,you know?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 20, 2021 08:10 AM (eZXXh)

make sure all the followers are perky...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 20, 2021 08:22 AM (8D42x)

424 thanks Joe

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 08:22 AM (yrol0)

425 Posted by: Those Contractors at August 20, 2021 08:20 AM (DCdYk)

I guffawed.

Posted by: jabless and jobless at August 20, 2021 08:22 AM (wFQsY)

426 Whole-house generator theory question. I have looked into it and it is mega-expensive but potentially doable for me if I go Natural Gas to fuel it. That still leaves me grid-dependent (albeit a different grid), though. Is it even worth doing with a utility dependency?

*

Consider a little camper with AC instead?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 20, 2021 08:22 AM (kJC5X)

427 407 There are many. I recommend spending the money and buying VMware Workstation. It works much better than the open-source alternatives (namely Oracle VirtualBox, though it also works pretty well).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (DCdYk)

For Windows (and possibly Linux) users, I think VMware Player is still free for personal use if one wants to put up with mild nagging.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 20, 2021 08:23 AM (DTX3h)

428 Maybe the psychosis will wear off.... Lord, I hope so.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 20, 2021 08:17 AM (oLXwS)

Uh, psychosis doesn't wear off; it gets worse if left untreated. Our situation is the latter.

You might want to read W. Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism.

Posted by: Ziba at August 20, 2021 08:23 AM (S1hrL)

429 "Say, Watt?"

- - James Watt
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2021 08:22 AM (s2VJv)

....

Lol.

You know what I mean!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 20, 2021 08:24 AM (YA914)

430 Re whole house generators - I like the concept but as I expect to be selling this house within 3 years, I am not making that investment. I have a portable gasoline generator and a "doghouse" I built for it, and have it connected to a manual transfer switch. It has powered our critical circuits for 10 hours in the past year.

When we leave this generator can come with us.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 08:24 AM (mbFEM)

431 358 349 Golly that truck bomb story went quiet quickly, no? Can we read anything into it based on how quickly the media dropped it?
Posted by: 496 at August 20, 2021 08:08 AM (VJsqe)

They found his social media before 4chan did.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 08:10 AM (G2zl5)

All of the story headlines I've seen begin with "Trump supporter..." Why do we never see headlines for crime stories begin with "BLM-supporter..." or "AOC supporter..."? I'm baffled. I cannot imagine why there are never headlines like those for crime stories.

Posted by: Gref at August 20, 2021 08:25 AM (AMIL/)

432 For Windows (and possibly Linux) users, I think VMware Player is still free for personal use if one wants to put up with mild nagging.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 20, 2021 08:23 AM (DTX3h)
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Yeah, but Player only lets you run VMs IIRC - you can't create them or modify them (say, to add memory or disk).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop) at August 20, 2021 08:25 AM (DCdYk)

433 'Obama Variant' Strikes Martha's Vineyard: Super-Spreader Birthday Bash Overwhelms Island's Only Emergency Room

At least the former prez got to party with celebs at his mansion

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 08:25 AM (RHGPo)

434 Hezbollah Warns US, Israel Not To Attack Iranian Shipment Headed To Lebanon

I would call Navsec and tell him Target Practice in ON!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 08:25 AM (yrol0)

435 from Insty:

NASA agrees to pause SpaceX lunar contract until November after Jeff Bezos Blue Origin files suit.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 20, 2021 08:25 AM (j9HX3)

436 Biden looks like Mr wheelchair in tv Star Trek.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 20, 2021 08:25 AM (RlSZN)

437 363. In his case both. The "selfish old person" stereotype has some basis in fact. Changes in judgement abilities, certainly.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 08:26 AM (ONvIw)

438 Oh, and those plastic "shields"? Not only are they probably unhealthy, they make it almost impossible to hear what the persons behind them are saying. Especially if they have face diapers on. I've been either stepping around the fake barrier to talk to clerks, or saying outright, "I can't understand you. You have something in front of your face."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 20, 2021 08:26 AM (/XOcP)

439 345 Wow... using " anathematized heretics" in a sentence!!! Hat tip to Hadrian!

Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 08:07 AM (6Je/Q)

I'm struggling to think of where I've come across that word outside of that comment and the lyrics to Megadeth's, "The Conjuring."

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 20, 2021 08:26 AM (DTX3h)

440 Obama Variant' Strikes Martha's Vineyard: Super-Spreader Birthday Bash Overwhelms Island's Only Emergency Room

*

I bet it's a sophisticated emergency room.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 20, 2021 08:26 AM (kJC5X)

441 from Insty:

NASA agrees to pause SpaceX lunar contract until November after Jeff Bezos Blue Origin files suit.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 20, 2021 08:25 AM (j9HX3)
++++
Ah, corporatism. Ain't it grand?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop) at August 20, 2021 08:26 AM (DCdYk)

442 How much mobile traffic does ACE lose because the site is more or less inoperable on an iPhone?

Posted by: Winston Smith at August 20, 2021 08:26 AM (VhV9q)

443
Troll seems very obsessed with gays.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 08:04 AM (ai5jE)

Most gays usually are.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

444 jabless and jobless

The ROE for solar is just not there. Needs a lot of energy storage. You ca have dual systems, but that adds complexity. Propane is stored sunshine, from a long time ago. Much more compact and robust system.

A Malcom Wells style underground home may be the ultimate answer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (GRDrZ) at August 20, 2021 08:27 AM (GRDrZ)

445 Posted by: Winston Smith at August 20, 2021 08:26 AM (VhV9q)

.....

Turn off JavaScript.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 20, 2021 08:27 AM (YA914)

446 Oh, and those plastic "shields"

*

The ones that distribute powerful blasts of air above and beside the wearer instead of safely into a cupped hand?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 20, 2021 08:28 AM (kJC5X)

447 443
Troll seems very obsessed with gays.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 08:04 AM (ai5jE)

Most gays usually are.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

Came dialed up to eleventy, he did....

Posted by: kraken at August 20, 2021 08:28 AM (6Je/Q)

448 Oh, and those plastic "shields"? Not only are they probably unhealthy, they make it almost impossible to hear what the persons behind them are saying. Especially if they have face diapers on. I've been either stepping around the fake barrier to talk to clerks, or saying outright, "I can't understand you. You have something in front of your face."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 20, 2021 08:26 AM (/XOcP)
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Yeah. I find myself stooping to talk through the cash hole. Defeat the purpose much?

My local Ace Hardware did the bare minimum to comply to asinine county rules. When those expired back in April, all that shit came down. No more shields, no more masks, nothing. Maybe a quarter of customers are masked, but their workforce - mostly young people with a couple of old-timers who I suspect own the place and really know their shit - demasked on day zero. It is hands-down the most normal place in the county.

And it's a neighborhood hardware store that has been there for a long time, which is an added bonus. I love proper hardware stores.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop) at August 20, 2021 08:28 AM (DCdYk)

449 Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 20, 2021 08:10 AM (8D42x)

More like "slowly, then suddenly." Covid was just the excuse needed for the killshot.
Posted by: Dark Helmet at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (Oka5v)

i get the slowly, then suddenly. It's the widespread global scope that is got me stuck. i just didn't fathom that it could be EVERYWHERE at once.

I agree Covid was the kill shot, but fuck me, how much planning and work went into this one.

i suppose from their perspective, they're sad to have missed out on eastern europe and scandinavia.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 20, 2021 08:28 AM (8D42x)

450 Why is Kamala going to Vietnam?

Posted by: Ziba at August 20, 2021 08:28 AM (S1hrL)

451 Should have left after isama got whacked, but tio lucrative - contractors getting gazzilions to "train nonexistent Afgan military and nonexistent Afgan police. Plus NGOs fir women and children ..,

Posted by: runner at August 20, 2021 08:28 AM (w45mR)

452 I hate to flaunt my ignorance, but what do you mean? I don't understand the significance of what you're saying.
Posted by: 496 at August 20, 2021 08:19 AM (VJ

Typically internet sleuths find these but jobs social media pages and start exposing them as soon as possible. Usually right in the middle of the media fantasizing about it being a right wing nut job. So my speculation is that this time the media/deep state found his crap first and since they can't be sure it all got scrubbed for the proper narrative they're going to quietly let it die on the vine.

If you want other speculation. They're worried about the congressional baseball assassin getting brought up again with his connections to democrat politicians.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 20, 2021 08:29 AM (G2zl5)

453 We got a lot of sun where I am. Are there solar and propane gens?
Posted by: jabless and jobless at August 20, 2021 08:21 AM (wFQsY)

Yes and yes. Above note I recommend NG/propane for a WHG. If I were buying a new portable generator today it would be tri-fuel gasoline/NG/propane.

Solar "generators" are really batteries. I don't think the ROI on anything being sold as a solar genrator today proves out. A solar array with a bank of batteries makes sense for a full off-grid power option but for standby power it doesn't.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 08:29 AM (mbFEM)

454 432 Yeah, but Player only lets you run VMs IIRC - you can't create them or modify them (say, to add memory or disk).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop) at August 20, 2021 08:25 AM (DCdYk)

Ah. I haven't created/modified a VM under Player in years so I may be out of the loop.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 20, 2021 08:29 AM (DTX3h)

455 Biden looks like Mr wheelchair in tv Star Trek.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 20, 2021 08:25 AM (RlSZN)

Only in his case it would be Christopher Piker.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 20, 2021 08:29 AM (VwHCD)

456 441 from Insty:

NASA agrees to pause SpaceX lunar contract until November after Jeff Bezos Blue Origin files suit.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 20, 2021 08:25 AM (j9HX3)
++++
Ah, corporatism. Ain't it grand?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop) at August 20, 2021 08:26 AM (DCdYk)

=========

"This is the definition of capitalism!"
-Capitalism, A Love Story by Michael Moore

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 08:29 AM (LvTSG)

457 Why is Kamala going to Vietnam?
Posted by: Ziba at August 20, 2021 08:28 AM (S1hrL)

Sit on an AA gun, perhaps?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

458 The ROE for solar is just not there. Needs a lot of energy storage. You ca have dual systems, but that adds complexity. Propane is stored sunshine, from a long time ago. Much more compact and robust system.

A Malcom Wells style underground home may be the ultimate answer.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Very fee things beat gasoline/petroleum for output.
Sorry. I don't trust inbred hillbillies to run at home thorium reactors.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2021 08:29 AM (OCTRt)

459 Wilhelm Reich should be taken with a 50lb bag of rock salt. Even a cursory reading about his life should damage his credibility.

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 08:29 AM (ONvIw)

460 Rollercoaster....

"Say, Watt?"

Posted by: JT at August 20, 2021 08:30 AM (arJlL)

461 Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 20, 2021 08:10 AM (eZXXh)

Go with Diana of Ephesus-the Fertility Goddess. I believe she is pictured as a statue with many breasts.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 08:30 AM (ai5jE)

462 My wife worked for a company that was Mormon own and managed. Greedy, dishonest fucks, they were. Gave me a lesson on their structure.

I'll be keeping my distance until I meet once that can prove different.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt

The Mormon Church is worth 50 billion as of 2018 or 2019.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 20, 2021 08:30 AM (vcXlp)

463 A federal appellate court refused late Thursday to delay implementation of a judge's order reinstating a Trump administration policy forcing thousands to wait in Mexico while seeking asylum in the U.S.

President Joe Biden had suspended former President Donald Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy on his first day in office and the Department of Homeland Security said it was permanently terminating the program in June, according to the court record. U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk last week ordered that the program be reinstated Saturday.

The Biden administration appealed to the 5th U.S. Circuit Appeal in New Orleans and asked for a delay in re-implementing the program, formally known as Migrant Protection Protocols, pending appeal. The administration argued in briefs that the president has "clear authority to determine immigration policy" and that the Secretary of the Department of Homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas, had discretion in deciding whether to return asylum seekers to Mexico.

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 08:31 AM (RHGPo)

464 NOOD!

Hottie Art.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

465 Consider a little camper with AC instead?

Better yet....

One with AtC !

Posted by: JT at August 20, 2021 08:31 AM (arJlL)

466 Their data clearly show that innovations and the patents that protect them greatly enrich innovators and contribute to income inequality but it is equally clear that innovation lifts all incomes and increases social mobility across the board.

Thus the most innovative states exhibit not only the most extreme income inequality but also the greatest social mobility.

CRT destroys this idea with EQUITY. Gates had an OS and business suite that worked just OK, he wealth cost me nothing. Bezos got the book to my front door easier than a trip to Barnes, his wealth cost me nothing.

We have about 150 Million people that have no problems with Pelosi, Schumer, and Biden literally SUCKING money out of the economy with ZERO return, but they infinite hatred for people that work hard, save their, and support themselves.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 08:31 AM (yrol0)

467 @459

I anticipated that.

Posted by: Ziba at August 20, 2021 08:32 AM (S1hrL)

468 Posted by: Winston Smith at August 20, 2021 08:26 AM (VhV9q)

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Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2021 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

469 Re generators, your service lines regulate the size of the possible generator in kw and placement. On solar, aside from panels is the necessary battery storage for bad weather and night use. Off grinders can make a whole house solar work but it generally requires a very low power budget lifestyle and propane etc for heated water and heat.

Posted by: whig at August 20, 2021 08:32 AM (pO7gM)

470 450 Why is Kamala going to Vietnam?
Posted by: Ziba at August 20, 2021 08:28 AM (S1hrL)

Its was easier than going on TV and saying FUCK YOU to 330 Million Americans.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 08:32 AM (yrol0)

471 agree Covid was the kill shot, but fuck me, how much planning and work went into this one.

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You have to admire that it worked. I never thought something with so many moving parts would.

It's amazing to consider, and to realize how law abiding America is and how it can be used against the population.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 20, 2021 08:33 AM (kJC5X)

472 The western fires look like about 80% arson. (Loud knocking at the door) Nope, sorry... AGW, 100%.

Posted by: klaftern at August 20, 2021 08:33 AM (r4sI4)

473 433 'Obama Variant' Strikes Martha's Vineyard: Super-Spreader Birthday Bash Overwhelms Island's Only Emergency Room

At least the former prez got to party with celebs at his mansion
Posted by: SMOD

The Obama Variant is politically correct way of stating "Fecal to Oral Variants"

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 20, 2021 08:34 AM (vcXlp)

474 An Oklahoma mother of 11 flew to Afghanistan earlier this month to rescue 10 members of the country's all-girls robotics team, and hoping to save more as the Taliban takes power in Kabul.

https://tinyurl.com/nrat2hry

Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicus (oEn12) at August 20, 2021 08:35 AM (v5Vn+)

475 You have to admire that it worked. I never thought something with so many moving parts would.

It's amazing to consider, and to realize how law abiding America is and how it can be used against the population.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 20, 2021 08:33 AM (kJC5X)

very, very true. i mean, i can't figure out how they pulled it off. it's fucking impressive from a dispassionate view. but how they got so many leaders, and regular people to go along and not question it is just... stunning.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 20, 2021 08:35 AM (8D42x)

476 Surprisingly, not a lot of discussion over at DU about Biden and his Afghanistan success. COVID, mostly, and a hodge-podge of random race baiting and "Trumpster" mocking. However, the post below is gold. Shows how deluded the left is, and more importantly, how much they hate you. If they honestly believe the crap in the post, they definitely want us locked up or dead.

'The Afghans wouldn't fight for their country". GUESS WHO ELSE won't fight for theirs? Republicans.
https://democraticunderground.com/100215761138

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground Liaison at August 20, 2021 08:35 AM (yRiVv)

477 466 rhennigantx

Profound observation.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (GRDrZ) at August 20, 2021 08:35 AM (GRDrZ)

478 Space X has helped the whole World just by existing.

The best kind of success.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 20, 2021 08:36 AM (RlSZN)

479 Jewells , happy to hear your brother is back home. Same story with my brother. He will be fine as long as he checks BP at home daily and and takes his meds. Diet too thats the hard part, LOL

Posted by: Jen the original at August 20, 2021 08:40 AM (ejh1p)

480 Posted by: RandbotFan at August 20, 2021 07:57 AM (7E3C4)

He seems nice.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 20, 2021 08:41 AM (yQpMk)

481 I agree Covid was the kill shot, but fuck me, how much planning and work went into this one.

i suppose from their perspective, they're sad to have missed out on eastern europe and scandinavia.
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 20, 2021 08:28 AM (8D42x)

Yeah I realized after I hit "post" the first time, I should've expanded a bit, but writing out my entire thought process here probably won't translate well into pixy. Suffice it to say I'm guessing very little, if any planning & coordination among cities/states/countries went into the Covid response. Leftists think alike, act alike. They don't need to see a memo or anything like that - one makes a move and the rest just move in lock-step.

Posted by: Dark Helmet at August 20, 2021 08:42 AM (Oka5v)

482 This is a nice story. Polish Olympian auctions off Silver medal to help pay for a baby's (not hers) heart surgery. Someone won it but gave the medal back. She apparently is a devout RC and lovely. If they don't have a picture of her in the article check it out elsewhere:

tinyurl.com/tbkdr6u6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 08:44 AM (ai5jE)

483 'The Afghans wouldn't fight for their country". GUESS WHO ELSE won't fight for theirs? Republicans.
https://democraticunderground.com/100215761138

*looks at GOP*

well, they're not wrong

Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicus (oEn12) at August 20, 2021 08:46 AM (v5Vn+)

484 482 Good morning, Fenelon

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 20, 2021 08:49 AM (RA74j)

485 482 This is a nice story. Polish Olympian auctions off Silver medal to help pay for a baby's (not hers) heart surgery. Someone won it but gave the medal back. She apparently is a devout RC and lovely. If they don't have a picture of her in the article check it out elsewhere:

tinyurl.com/tbkdr6u6
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 08:44 AM (ai5j

It was great to read. Not much similarity between her and Rapinoe, is there?

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 08:50 AM (ONvIw)

486 484 482 Good morning, Fenelon
Posted by: callsign claymore at August 20, 2021 08:49 AM (RA74j)

Good morning. Any other illuminating "fiction" to suggest?

Posted by: CN at August 20, 2021 08:52 AM (ONvIw)

487 Yeah I realized after I hit "post" the first time, I should've expanded a bit, but writing out my entire thought process here probably won't translate well into pixy. Suffice it to say I'm guessing very little, if any planning & coordination among cities/states/countries went into the Covid response. Leftists think alike, act alike. They don't need to see a memo or anything like that - one makes a move and the rest just move in lock-step.
Posted by: Dark Helmet at August 20, 2021 08:42 AM (Oka5v)

yeah, i suppose that's possible too

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 20, 2021 08:53 AM (8D42x)

488 It's amazing to consider, and to realize how law abiding America is and how it can be used against the population.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 20, 2021 08:33 AM (kJC5X)

It was the same trait that turned Germans into monsters.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at August 20, 2021 08:57 AM (zMbtP)

489 Great, Kirby is going to work on "deconflicting" the situation. After all, violence is bad, even in war (we are in a war, Kirby) and especially violence with guns. Guns are icky, even for soldiers!

Posted by: pj at August 20, 2021 08:57 AM (G1dq6)

490 486 Hey CN! Hope you and yours are well.

Fiction, no. But illuminating fact, yes -- Gary Allen's "None Dare Call It Conspiracy."

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 20, 2021 09:16 AM (RA74j)

491 Almost like he's saying, "My work is done here!"

Posted by: leber at August 20, 2021 09:40 AM (MxeFh)

492 What is cancel culture. Did I win?!

@CNN 3m

Mike Richards, the new host of "Jeopardy!", says he has stepped down after controversial remarks he made about women and others resurfaced

https://tinyurl.com/yjf2xsu4

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