The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 8/23/21

Good morning, kids. The start of a new week and the dueling nightmares of the catastrophe in Afghanistan and right here in the nation formerly known as the United States of America deepen and darken. The fact that the people who caused the former are the ones that caused the latter should come as no surprise. For those that need proof, it comes in the form of not some pierced, purple-haired, Cheeto-finger-stained Antifa goon or from an equally braindead but ridiculously wealthy celebrity but from someone who is supposed to be the exact opposite.

Exhibit A for today is General Michael Hayden, former Director of the NSA and Director of the CIA -- under George W. Bush.
Hayden's Twitter feed reveals how very deeply and profoundly this former military officer and government official hates that half (or more than half) of America that voted for Trump. He shows the same animosity we saw with Peter Strzok when he wrote his married girlfriend that he could "smell" the Trump supporters at Walmart.

JoeyG @PSHredmen Replying to @Nhsheikh8Sheikh and @GenMhayden -- Can we send the MAGA wearing unvaxxed to Afghanistan, no use sending that plane back empty?
Gen Michael Hayden @GenMhayden -- Good idea
He thinks it's a wonderful idea to flood America's communities with young Afghan men:

Steve Cortes @CortesSteve -- Raise your hand if you want this plane landing in your town? America paid unimaginable costs in Afghanistan because of uniparty globalists who dominated the Bush & Obama administrations. No more...
Gen Michael Hayden @GenMhayden -- You bet.
As a reminder, young Afghan men were responsible for the majority of the huge number of sex crimes in Germany and Austria after Angela Merkel invited them into Europe. But Hayden, who probably lives in a leafy enclave safe from poorer neighborhoods, thinks it would be great for them to live in your neighborhood. . .
. . . But here's the thing about Hayden: This guy is not a Democrat. He considers himself a standard-bearer of true Republicanism. He is the perfect reminder that there is a monoparty in Washington, D.C., one that ranges politically from slightly left to far left. Trump challenged that establishment and the establishment tried to destroy him -- and, with January 6 as the weapon, is trying to destroy Trump's supporters too.

So, let's see. Leave thousands of actual Americans and perhaps a relative handful of legitimate Afghani nationals who are not of the dark age bent to become the next Tehran 52, or Terry Anderson or, worse, William Buckley or Daniel Pearl while at the same time, bringing in planeloads of unvetted "refugees" where some could be the next Omar Mateen, Nidal Hassan, Richard Reid or the 9/11 Twenty. But why fret about that when we have no more southern border where tens of thousands of third world Latin American peasantry are flooding the nation?

Sefton, you're overreacting and exaggerating! 99.5% of those coming here both on foot and standing room on C-5A Galaxies are perfectly harmless. Statistically zero in the words of Biden's ventriloquists. Only 200-235 potential flight students who only want to learn how to fly the plane but not land or takeoff. So, we'll get our hair mussed but it's for the greater good, right?

Let's compare and contrast to the mass hysteria of masks, lockdowns and vaccinations, shall we? The original Chinese COVID-19 was proven to have an IFR that was only a fraction of one percent. Which means that if you got infected and actually became symptomatic you have something like a 99.5 or 99.6% chance of getting over it. And yet we are being tortured with the constant drumbeat that this thing is an extinction-level Andromeda Strain plague that requires vaccination of every man, woman and child despite the fact that the virus itself mutated and that the vaccines are probably at best useless. I'm not going to get into the whole history of this madness but the salient point is that those who are engaging in this campaign of fear and now pushing for forced compliance of every man, woman and child are cut of the same cloth as those who directed our foreign policy that resulted in what has played out in Afghanistan.

They don't care. America and the American citizen, culture and way of life are to be exterminated and replaced with whatever mad vision they have for a global society-cum-gulag. Michael Hayden is Anthony Fauci is Vanilli Milley is John Brennan is Anthony Blinken is George Bush is Lois Lerner is Jonathan Gruber is Peter Strzok and on and on and on.

Which leaves us -- where? Kyeyune is right, I think, that the technocratic promises of our administrative masters have been exploded. What is happening in Afghanistan is only one instance of how hollow those promises are turning out to be. Once upon a time, the bureaucrats -- the Bidens and Blinkens as far as the eye can see -- were "believed to be able to mobilize science and reason and progress to accomplish what everyone else could not, and so only they could secure a just and functional society for their subjects, just as only the rightful kings of yore could count on Providence and God to do the same thing." Yes, these ideas are essentially metaphysical because all political legitimacy, in the end, rests on something transcendent -- a matter of belief, not simply calculation.
Kyeyune thinks that the "epoch of the liberal technocrat is now over," that the "bell has well and truly tolled for mankind's belief in their ability to do anything else than enrich themselves and ruin things for everyone else." Maybe so. Yes, inertia is a powerful force. The institutions we've been living with are likely to persist, more or less hollowed out, for some time. And what might replace that technocratic dream is a question that admits of markedly different answers, many unpalatable. (How many speak English? A troubling question, that.)
Francis Fukuyama was, I believe, about as wrong as it is possible for a pop political philosopher to be when he predicted the "end of history" and the efflorescence of liberal democracy everywhere and forever.
Of course, Fukuyama is a Hegelian, which at least partly explains his silliness. What is happening now in Afghanistan, and in America because of Afghanistan, is another in a long line of counterexamples to Fukuyama's thesis. It may, however, turn out to be a more fundamental challenge than anyone could have foreseen even a few weeks ago. For that, we have the bumbling, mentally incontinent Joe Biden to thank, he and his clown car of self-absorbed spiritually adipose bureaucrats who prance about in a cloud of self-importance, shedding disaster like dandruff.

The more they are exposed, the more they are determined to control us or destroy us. Maybe they'll get rid of Biden or he'll get an ice cream headache grand mal seizure. And that leaves us with Kamala. Makes no difference. We are not impeaching, 25th Amendmenting or necessarily voting our way out of this. Not a pretty picture of what's over the horizon.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Prayers for the victims and all affected.
Severe Flooding In Tennessee Leaves At Least 8 Dead, 40 Others Missing

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"Erasing the line between government and private enterprise. Ensuring only government-approved messages are heard. Squashing dissent. Intruding government into every aspect of our lives."
Does the Definition of "Fascism" Apply to the Biden Junta?
Roger Kimball: "In Afghanistan, the technocratic legitimacy of our administrative masters is being exploded."
The Rotten Edifice Revealed
Victor Davis Hanson: "A cognitively challenged Biden is pulled in every direction, by left-wing politicos collecting their debts, by his own spite, by his trademark narcissism, and by his hatred of all things Trump."
The Drossy Touch of Joe Biden
David "Spengler" Goldman: "John Quincy Adams said that America 'goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.' He never imagined that America would go abroad to create monsters. The Endless War crowd is now coming out of the woodwork to argue that endless wars are better than what Biden served up in Afghanistan."
Goldman: The Dr. Frankensteins of Foreign Policy

BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER

"The Brits would call this an indecent proposal, and to their credit, have slapped it away."
82nd Airborne Commander Tells Brits to Stop Rescuing Stranded Nationals Because They're Making the US Look Bad?
"America has suffered its worst self-inflicted humiliation and the free world is less safe -- all because of his dumb decisions. And he laughs?"
Joker Joe Biden Can't Laugh This Afghanistan Debacle Off
. . . for $2,000 a head and 10% to the Big Guy.
Biden: "Any American Who Wants to Come Home, We Will Get You Home"
"In Biden's remarks to the press Friday, he was either openly deceiving the American people or he is completely unaware of conditions in Kabul."
Biden Is Lying. We Are Going to Leave Behind Thousands of Americans in Afghanistan
"[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden Provides an Update on his Administration's Response to Hurricane Henri, as well as an Update on the Evacuation of American Citizens, SIV Applicants and Their Families, and Vulnerable Afghans." (live blog from our friends at Legal Insurrection who endured this for us - jjs)
Biden To Address Nation On Tropical Storm Henri (Oh, and Afghanistan, too)
"The first ever activation of CRAF occurred between Aug. 1990 to May 1991 to help Operations Desert Shield/Storm. It was used again from Feb. 2002 to June 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to the Pentagon."
Pentagon Activates Civil Reserve Air Fleet For Third Time In History To Aid In Afghanistan Evacuation
Fired by Trump makes him the ideal choice in the eyes of the junta.
Deep State Failure: Russ Travers, Fired by Trump, Is in Top Afghan Evacuation Role Under Biden
"The airport has been in chaos since the Taliban seized the capital on Aug. 15 as US and international forces try to evacuate citizens and vulnerable Afghans."
Germany Reports Firefight Breaks Out at Kabul Airport Involving Western Forces
"It seems these evacuations are a concerted plan to flood the US with unvetted migrants, Cloward-Piven style, some of whom may hurt or kill Americans."
Afghanistan Evacuations -- But Who Exactly is Being Evacuated?
"[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden estimated during an interview published Aug. 19 that between 50,000 to 65,000 Afghans must be evacuated, meaning roughly 250-325 of these could be flagged, if the trend continues."
Small Percentage Of Afghan Refugees Flagged Through Security Screenings For Possible Ties To Terrorism

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"Khalil Haqqani, a senior commander of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network, has a $5 million bounty on his head."
Taliban Appoint al-Qaeda Linked US-Most Wanted Terrorist as Kabul Security Chief
"Secretary of State Antony Blinken not only doesn't take the question as silly. He seems to have anticipated it and has a dodge ready to go. He expected it. And he flatly refused to answer it. Sometimes the refusal to answer is all the answer one needs."
Does Joe Biden Even Know What's Going On? Watch SecState Blinken Refuse to Say
Robert Spencer: ". . . And in the process, creates the Biden Monument."
Taliban Mocks Iconic Iwo Jima Photo
"Rep. Gallagher: 'It's up to Congress to make sure the Taliban does not walk away with a windfall.'"
Biden Junta Has No Plan to Keep Cash Out of Taliban's Hands, GOP Lawmakers Say
"Trump's Afghanistan withdrawal plan was delayed; now we must pray that the remaining Americans don't pay the ultimate price."
Remember What They Did to Daniel Pearl
"The Taliban had announced with much fanfare after the fall of Kabul that they would respect all women's rights granted by the Koran. Needless to say, few believed that was a good omen for women in Afghanistan."
Taliban Sets Woman on Fire for "Bad Cooking"
"Rebecca Dick won acclaim for defending terrorists at Guantanamo Bay." ("you dick!" - jjs)
Liberal Lawyer Freed Taliban Commando on Frontlines of Kabul Surge
Daniel Greenfield: "The problem wasn't that Biden had the wrong views, it's that he was the typical case of a D.C. echo chamber politician who repeated whatever slogan he thought would get him ahead."
Biden's Long History of Betrayals in Afghanistan

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"The world's dumbest [junta] outdoes itself."
The Drooling Class
"George W. Bush's duplicity about crucial facts in 2001 made it impossible for Americans to properly understand the struggle against al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Taliban, and other Muslim groups."
The Long Shadow of Bush's Bushwa
"Our careless abandonment of Afghanistan to the ravening Taliban speaks to the type of nation we've become."
Perfidy in Kabul
"The time has come for America to reaffirm the purpose of the military."
Was It Worth It? A 19-Year Combat Veteran on the War in Afghanistan
"Our worthless elite were not always, and will not always be, in charge."
How the Lizard People Took Over America's War
Sean Davis: "The architects of the nation-building policies from Afghanistan to Iraq are failures and should be treated with the same disdain reserved for flat-earthers or bloodletters."
After Afghanistan, No More Moral Blackmail From Failed Global Interventionists
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"The news. . . raises questions about the government's power grab and abuse of authority using January 6th as pretext."
FBI "Finds Scant Evidence" of Jan 6 Insurrection Plot, Killing Off Another Anti-Trump Media Hoax
"In the penultimate segment of the Friday edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight, he asked, 'Why is the FBI exonerating people?' And there is a very disturbing answer."
Tucker Carlson Sees Coverup Plot Behind Announcement FBI Found Little Evidence of Coordination Among Jan. 6 Demonstrators
"A terror threat from foreign Muslims doesn't advance the Left's political agenda. An internal threat that gives them greater power and control does."
The "American Taliban" Bogeyman
"No injuries were reported in the shooting."
Portland Protesters Clash in Wild Shootout After Proud Boys Reunion
"Both provide vital services."
Cops and Docs "Can't Get No Respect"
"Conservatives are being called to service and must change their ways."
Taking Action
"While our troops showed up and did their jobs, the same can't be said for our nation's political and military leadership."
American Soldiers Did Their Jobs. It's the Politicians That Failed Them
". . . just read what a former high-level government official from the Bush administration has to say. (spoiler alert: undescended, shriveled, cancerous testicle Michael Hayden - jjs)
If You Want to Know How Much the Deep State Hates You. . .
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
"FDA approval will solidify the two-tiered system that will separate those who have been vaccinated from those who haven't. No doubt the approval will spur some people to get vaccinated who were on the fence previously, but as far as leading to a mass movement toward vaccinations, it's not likely."
FDA Set to Give Full Approval of Vaccine as States Contemplate Requirements and Restrictions
"The state of Oregon is forcing me to contradict what I think is best for myself and my baby or face losing my job and health coverage when I need it most."
5 Months Pregnant, I Face Losing My Job and Health Care for Choosing Not to Get a Chinese COVID-19 Injection
Glenn Greenwald: "All the servants fully masked. The almost-entirely old, white, rich crowd of DCCC donors free to go maskless as they're served."
Video Shows Hordes of Maskless Attendees at Malig-Nancy Pelosi Fundraiser
". . . Not if liberal Catholics have their way."
Will the Church Defend Conscience Rights in the Age of Chinese COVID?
"Dobbs added that people isolating due to a positive [Chinese] COVID-19 test don't need a negative test to end their quarantine, but do need to be 'fever free for at least 24 hours with improvement of other symptoms.'" (what a complete and utter farce - jjs)
Mississippi Says to Isolate After Testing Positive for Chinese COVID-19 or Face Up to 5 Years In Prison and a Fine
"The regime's logic is flawed and can be undone."
Vaccine Passports and Systemic Racism
"If we ever want to live free, really truly free, we must stop putting on a mask just to avoid confrontation despite knowing that at this point, it's all a farce."
Wisconsinites Take Legal Action Against Dane County's Mask Tyrants, But This Fight is Bigger Than the Courtroom
I expect this insanity in New York, but Alabama? Sad.
Alabama Doctor Says He Will Not Treat the Unvaccinated
"On vaccines, natural immunity, and mandates."
Science Matters -- And So Do Individual Rights
"The science behind the danger of experimental vaccination."
To Understand the Chinese COVID Vaccine and the Delta Variant, Check Out the Chickens

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"Fort Detrick is 7,500 miles away from first [Chinese] COVID outbreak."
Chinese Embassy Calls For WHO Investigation of U.S. Lab
"A person told The Sydney Morning Herald the deaths have 'distressed' the shelter volunteers because they 'had [Chinese] COVID-19-safe measures in place to handle the dogs.'"
Chinese COVID Lockdown Insanity -- Australian Rescue Dogs Shot To Prevent Volunteers From Traveling To Get Them
Katie Hopkins: "Parents' presence not permitted."
Australia Begins Mass Vaccination of Children
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Someday, historians will marvel that anyone ever took seriously the argument that these two regimes bore any relation to one another."
"Jim Crow 2.0" is Imaginary -- And Divisive
"[Malig-] Nancy Pelosi wants to force California's absurd and corrupt voting system on the rest of the nation."
Reject Federal Takeover of Elections -- Again
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"What messages is the district trying to inculcate in our children?" (hat-tip to commenter MTF - jjs)
1st Graders Will Be Taught Thanksgiving and Independence Day Symbolize America's Depravity
"The left wants to deprive parents of a voice in their children's education, even as they deprive those same children of useful skills and actual knowledge."
Parents Have the Right to be Vocal
"A Colorado Springs school board banned critical race theory from being taught after a black father gave an impassioned speech against it."
WATCH: Colorado School Board Bans Crackpot Disg-Race Theory After Black Father's Fiery Speech
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"As thousands gathered at French's funeral, their message of solidarity was clear: America cannot tolerate such senseless slaughter."
After the Vicious Murder of Chicago Police Officer Ella French, What's Next, America?
"$1,000 per month to violent youths for not committing violent crimes." (this is discrimination; everyone should get one large per month to not kill anyone! - jjs)
De Bolshevik Brings "Pay Not to Slay" Program to New York City
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"That the Left's warrant against the church reeks of vengeance against the Creator is something that nobody is supposed to notice in today's post-truth Woke World."
Church and State -- Not Church Versus State
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu used money from his campaign account to funnel more than $15,000 since 2018 to his wife's school board campaign, as reported by RedState."
Psycho Anti-American Maoist Ted Lieu Reportedly Funneled $15,000 of His Campaign Funds to Wife's School Board Campaign
ANGEL OF DEATH CUOMO RESIGNATION, NURSING HOME SCANDAL, SEXUAL ASSAULT & OTHER DEM GOV SCANDALS
"Gov exploits loophole to raise millions from outside Michigan for non-existent recall election."
Wretched Whitmer Hates "Out-of-State Interest" Money, Unless It's Spent To Help Her
"The Democrat National Committee did not respond to a request for comment on whether it supports NGP VAN's decision to allow Cuomo to fundraise on the platform."
Democrat National Committee's Top Data Firm Stands by Angel of Death Cuomo
POLITICS
"Pre-election concerns that [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden wasn't physically or mentally up for his new job at age 78, the oldest-ever chief executive, are now settling in."
Poll Finds Most Voters Believe Biden Not All There, Aides Doing His Job for Him
"Tens of thousands turned out to hear Trump as he lambasted Biden and his generals, and cut to the heart of what wokedom really is."
Trump's Alabama Rally Gave Us a Powerful Phrase for the Ages
"If America could survive a James Buchanan or a Jimmy Carter, we can make it through the Biden years. This nation is more resilient than we usually give it credit for being. But Biden's arrogant stupidity is making us question everything that makes us an exceptional nation."
Can America Survive Another Three Years, Five Months of So-Called Quote-Unquote "president" Joe Biden?
"The Afghanistan debacle has temporarily taken our eyes off debacles-in-the-making here at home."
Three and a Half More Years of Biden-Harris
"Americans in Taliban controlled Kabul face constant threats from terrorists. Meanwhile, Pelosi is using the annual DCCC fundraiser to convince vulnerable House Democrats to pass agenda items, such as the so-called infrastructure bill."
Vulnerable Democrats Attend Ritzy DCCC Fundraiser While Americans Are Trapped in Afghanistan
"Which will cease first, the absurdities of the Biden [junta], or the United States itself?"
Everything Is Not All Right
"My name is Joe Biden, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair."
Joe Biden, Sinking Into the Sand
Thad McCotter: "The deep state's ability and willingness to attack a president of either party with impunity is not just a problem for that politician; it constitutes a peril for our free republic." (assuming the attacks are baseless, Thad - jjs)
The Deep State Comes for the Big Guy
"There's not much use speculating about how Democrats will jettison Biden. It will be done in plain view. The real game will be how the media publicly deal with the ouster and replacement."
Stand-by for the Real Insurrection. . . by the Democrats
"Crime, homelessness, illegal immigration, and poverty are now hallmarks of the formerly Golden State."
California's Recall Effort to Remove Elitist Governor Gavin Newsom
"California needs not only a good governor but also a competent state legislature."
A Recall Alone Won't Fix Golden-State Governance
Here comes the smear machine. They are scared shitless not just that Newsom is toast but that not a Republican but an actual conservative will win.
California Investigating Larry Elder's Financial Disclosure
"Because envy is ever-present, a society's ability to achieve greatness depends on its ability to control this highly destructive emotion."
Envy as the Path to Political Power
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"The 'melting pot' was never merely assimilation or simple surrender to the dominant type, as is popularly supposed."
Canary in the Coal Mine of America's Future
"The lawsuit was filed after Biden announced in January that he terminated the policy. However, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas officially ended it in June."
Federal Appeals Court Orders Biden to Resume "Remain in Mexico" Policy
Michelle Malkin: "The last thing America needs is the compounded chaos of 30-thousand refugees."
Endless Wars = Endless Refugees
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
. . . Mostly when he has the questions and pre-digested answers on crib sheets.
Biden's Communications Director: "The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Never Shies Away From Taking Questions"
"Shapiro won such widespread approval for his discussion of Critical Race Theory, the January 6 riot, and falsely labeling one's political opponents as terrorists that Nance claimed (without evidence) that 'bots' drove the online acclaim."
WATCH: Malcolm Nance Can't Get Over Devastating Ben Shapiro Debate
"Remember this the next time you read a New York Times story about, well, anything."
This Ridiculous Headline Proves the New York Times Knows Nothing About Anything
"No longer is the left screaming 'My body! My choice!' Then that mantra for abortion worked to garner it political support from naive followers. Now the mantra is 'Your body is ours! Let us do to it what we want or we will oppress you!'"
Today's Blacklisted American: Unvaccinated Students at Quinnipiac University to be Punished
SECOND AMENDMENT
"More than two dozen GOP House members released a comment criticizing a proposed rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)."
Republicans Slam ATF for Attempting to Alter Legal Definition of "Firearm"
"The government's decades-long mission to terrify the public from owning firearms is the most dangerous delusion forced on the American people."
Guns, Germs, and Feelz
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"ECOSOC members wield considerable influence, tasked among other things to fill leadership posts on a range of U.N. agencies, including the Commission on Status of Women and Commission on Narcotic Drugs."
Taliban Poised to Inherit Seats on UN Bodies Dealing With Women's Rights, Cultural Heritage, Narcotics?
"What exactly do the Mullahs want from the Taliban?" (Rosato Bros. vs Frankie Five-Angels? - jjs)
With the U.S. Out of Afghanistan, Will Iran Move In?
"Biden's rhetoric and proclaimed compassion is meaningless as bad actors pay attention to action. Biden's incompetence has made the world a more dangerous place."
Biden's Weakness Will Result in Aggression
"Now that the US has pulled up its drawbridge, how will the Free World defend itself?"
After America
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"It remains unclear if any department operations were affected by the breach, but a source familiar with mass evacuation of thousands of Americans and Afghans from Kabul said Operation Allies Refuge has 'not been affected.'"
Report: State Department Hit with Cyber Attack, Extent of Breach Unclear
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"[Chinese] Covid-19 lockdowns exposed cities' deep-seated financial troubles."
An Epidemic of Bad Budgeting
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The company's e-commerce model gave it a massive advantage during the pandemic."
Amazon's Turn to Department Stores Is a Blow to the Retail Industry
"New White House rules would raise prices for both freight carriers and consumers."
Biden Rail Policy Puts U.S. Economy on the Wrong Track
"'We're living in poverty and being told it's tradition,' said Chasity Anelon, who lives in a remote southwest Alaskan village effectively banned from development."
Residents in Alaskan Village Pray For Pebble Mine
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"The extreme green agenda is a misanthropic pathology that deludes the young and uninformed, and empowers profiteers and tyrants."
A Green Conundrum for the Golden State
"Climate Science, like all other science, is not settled, and to argue otherwise is downright unscientific."
Where the Sun Don't Shine: Climate Alarmists' Thinking
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"The optics for Blue Origin remain ugly. Not only does the company appear more interested in fighting court battles than building spaceships and rockets, it now is acting to prevent others from doing so."
NASA Freezes Work on SpaceX's Lunar Lander Version of Starship
"A British judge today dismissed entirely the lawsuit filed by billionaire Anders Povlsen, who had been trying to block the construction of a spaceport in Sutherland, Scotland, a region where he owns thousands of acres and is involved in many environmental issues. Povlsen instead has been lobbying to have a spaceport instead built in the Shetland Islands, by a company he has invested in."
British Court Dismisses Billionaire's Lawsuit Against Sutherland Spaceport
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Prayers", IYKWIMAITYD.
Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson and Wife Hospitalized with Chinese Coronavirus
"How a large portion of a society becomes mentally ill."
Video: Totalitarianism and Mass Psychosis
"Three Asian-American authors offer interesting perspectives on how America can, and ought to be, an example to the world and how to stand up to their school boards."
The Celestial Empire Fights Back
"REVIEW: Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story.
At the Scene of the Crime
"How many Afghans saw America as representing a deeply moral and spiritual force?"
Time To Rise Again: How America Recovers
"Country music singer and songwriter Travis Tritt is calling for freedom amid governments and private companies mandating [Chinese] COVID-19 vaccines."
Country Star Travis Tritt Rails Against Vaccine Mandates With Call for "Unified Front Against Them"
Christian Toto: "The far-left host is booed, beaten by Gutfeld and revealed as a partisan hack."
Did Stephen Colbert Just Have His Worst Week -- Ever?
"You can tell you are being ruled by that special kind of madman called an ideologue when there are questions you are not allowed to ask."
Asking the Questions We Can't Ask
"Can meritocracy survive?"
Crucible of the Talents
HITHER & YON
"The antifederalists believed the more control government had over money and force, the more disconnected it would become from the will of the people."
What We can Learn from the Anti-Federalists
"Fifty years ago, journalist Gary Allen set out to write a book to prove conservative anti-communists wrong. What he found instead blew his mind."
None Dare Call It Conspiracy
FINALLY...
Rod Gilbert, the Rangers all-time leading scorer passed away yesterday at 80. RIP.
Rangers Legend Remembers Rod Gilbert: "No One Better"

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:37 AM

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1 The news is very Monday-ish. Top of the morning to the horde.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 06:37 AM (iGK4s)

2 Resolute.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at August 23, 2021 06:38 AM (MkuC5)

3 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 06:38 AM (T7iTv)

4 5

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 23, 2021 06:39 AM (JUOKG)

5 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at August 23, 2021 06:39 AM (u7pQw)

6 Thank you, J.J.

AAA

HB-Day!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 23, 2021 06:39 AM (snOKo)

7 Michael Hayden sat across from me once on an Amtrak train. He looked like an angry man, though totally gay, honestly.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 06:39 AM (iGK4s)

8 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 06:40 AM (yrol0)

9 Yeah Buddy! Top o' the morning.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at August 23, 2021 06:40 AM (rrDCc)

10 Did Gen. Hayden's eye twitch while he was saying this?

That's a "tell." His eye twitches whenever he is lying.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 23, 2021 06:40 AM (xopIz)

11
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 23, 2021 06:42 AM (DUIap)

12 "Severe Flooding In Tennessee Leaves At Least 8 Dead, 40 Others Missing"

I think it's up to 22 dead now.

* cackles *

Posted by: f'd at August 23, 2021 06:43 AM (Tnijr)

13 Oh damn that was supposed to be my Veep Throat sock.

Posted by: f'd at August 23, 2021 06:44 AM (Tnijr)

14 Why aren't the Aussie polizei in lockdown too?

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 23, 2021 06:44 AM (xopIz)

15 Happy Monday!

Here's the obvious point about Afghan refugees: our 20 year attempt at nation-building and implementing democracy failed spectacularly, so why the Hell would anyone now think that these same people who #Resisted in their Afghan communities will magically land in America and embrace it in ours?

They rejected us completely. These people will reject assimilation just as completely. And it's the same neocons and bleeding heart Lefties who are selling both of these narrative.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 23, 2021 06:44 AM (bDqIh)

16 Whether or not the Afghans being evacuated are good people is totally beside the point.

The point is, running away so fast from the country means our government left Americans by the thousands behind, surprised our fighting partners and left them, and left behind all weapons and records. We cannot vet anyone, because we left the only means to do so in Kabul.

Our imbecilic and chaotic retreat weakened America in the eyes of the world, and means every single Afghan on our rescue flights are people the Taliban put on that flight. Is that so hard to understand?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 06:44 AM (iGK4s)

17 Anyway I suppose Kamala will jet back to Tennessee to show her deep concern for the citizens of the United States.

Posted by: f'd at August 23, 2021 06:45 AM (Tnijr)

18 But why fret about that when we have no more southern border where tens of thousands of third world Latin American peasantry are flooding the nation?...
They don't care. America and the American citizen, culture and way of life are to be exterminated and replaced with whatever mad vision they have for a global society-cum-gulag.
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The latter answers the former. And as to the latter, it is increasingly legitimate to reframe that into the past tense. The "parentheses" of the country (the blue coasts and their offshoots into the Interior - places like Chicago and Denver) are virtually there already.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 06:45 AM (Jsjd7)

19 Good morning.

More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at August 23, 2021 06:45 AM (88xKn)

20 "Prayers", IYKWIMAITYD.

He's on the list!

Posted by: f'd at August 23, 2021 06:46 AM (Tnijr)

21 Boker Tov Patriots

Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 23, 2021 06:46 AM (GPwVZ)

22 The more they are exposed, the more they are determined to control us or destroy us. Maybe they'll get rid of Biden or he'll get an ice cream headache grand mal seizure. And that leaves us with Kamala. Makes no difference.

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No, it doesn't. This is why those engaging in Biden Watch timelines somewhat miss the point. It's fun to make fun of that stupid fool, but whether he stays or goes on whatever timeline makes no difference at all to me. The hell they're unleashing on us will continue. They're all one-in-the-same and they are legion. This is where the true problem lays.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 06:46 AM (O+I8R)

23 >>Our imbecilic and chaotic retreat weakened America in the eyes of the world, and means every single Afghan on our rescue flights are people the Taliban put on that flight. Is that so hard to understand?

No, it isn't, especially after watching ISIS send their fighters into Europe as refugees and then brag about it across social media. One could assume that it is these ISIS "refugees" who are now torching churches and other constant attacks against their host countries.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 23, 2021 06:47 AM (bDqIh)

24 Anthony Blinken dodged the question when Piss Wallace asked if Joe Biden is in touch with reality.

It looked scripted between the two of them. Blinken completely threw Biden under the bus, on national TV.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 06:47 AM (iGK4s)

25 We stopped fighting them over there so we could fly them over here.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at August 23, 2021 06:47 AM (MkuC5)

26 why the Hell would anyone now think that these same people who #Resisted in their Afghan communities will magically land in America and embrace it in ours?
They rejected us completely. These people will reject assimilation just as completely. And it's the same neocons and bleeding heart Lefties who are selling both of these narrative.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 23, 2021 06:44 AM (bDqIh)
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No one thinks that they will embrace our moral and civilizational positions. Some of them are willing to lie about it on camera, but no one believes it. The people doing this have one major regret from the past decade, and it's that Europe got radically transformed by Islamist savages but we didn't. They want a violent underclass - for now. The violent underclass will subdue and subjugate - with an assist from the state - our native, relatively peaceful underclass.

I suspect they're banking on being able to control the new underclass once it vanquishes the old. I think they will be surprised.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 06:48 AM (Jsjd7)

27 25 We stopped fighting them over there so we could fly them over here.
Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at August 23, 2021 06:47 AM (MkuC5)

They are going to become untouchable, a la George Floyd and Trayvon.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 06:48 AM (s2VJv)

28 Centurylink.net's headline today: Trump booed in Alabama. Funny, it wasn't Trump, but another rep who suggested people "move on" from election fraud fights. Read the room, dude.

Posted by: Catherine at August 23, 2021 06:48 AM (wakSB)

29 Before the idiocy of Chris Wallace made me stop watching, Fox News Sunday had fat fuck Hayden on a lot. He was an oddball with a definite appetite for cock. And typical of what GWB inflicted on the country.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 06:49 AM (y7DUB)

30 Mornin' Mo-rons!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at August 23, 2021 06:49 AM (5eKd3)

31 We will quickly discover how long the country can survive when it abandons all of its core principles.

Posted by: iandeal at August 23, 2021 06:50 AM (MGjjz)

32 We aren't really the nation formerly known as the United States of America. We are the United States of America, a nation that used to be a republic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 06:50 AM (Jsjd7)

33 בוקר טוב Morons and thanks JJ

They want to replace this country with a utopian vision. Each Marxist has their own individual one he or she dreams of imposing on the rest of us.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2021 06:50 AM (EZebt)

34 "FBI "Finds Scant Evidence" of Jan 6 Insurrection Plot, Killing Off Another Anti-Trump Media Hoax"

Funny. The last words that Liz Cheney and Chuck Todd exchanged before her Sunday appearance on Meet The Press ended were something to the effect of Chuck wanting to have Liz come back to the program to discuss Jan 6. This after the FBI report was dumped the Friday before, and while the news cycle was consumed with Biden's Afghanistan failure.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 23, 2021 06:50 AM (mdjgu)

35 As seen on twitter...

Greg Abbott is Mitt Romney. Realizing that makes it clear why the border is wide open in Texas.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 06:51 AM (iGK4s)

36 We will quickly discover how long the country can survive when it abandons all of its core principles.
Posted by: iandeal at August 23, 2021 06:50 AM (MGjjz)
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I don't know when the clock started, but I suspect we'd have to go back to 9/11 or possible 1991, maybe even 1984. But let's take the conservative figure. We're at 20 years so far. The key distinction between then and now is that now everyone knows it.

So we're a generation into the post-principles version. We might get one more before everything falls to pieces. Things move fast now, and I think we're beyond the inflection point - so the rate will keep accelerating.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 06:52 AM (Jsjd7)

37 Before the idiocy of Chris Wallace made me stop watching, Fox News Sunday had fat fuck Hayden on a lot. He was an oddball with a definite appetite for cock. And typical of what GWB inflicted on the country.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 06:49 AM (y7DUB)

People like Hayden, and muller, and yada yada yada show why a permanent deep state bureaucracy is dangerous

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 23, 2021 06:52 AM (GPwVZ)

38 Off to face the world, I guess . . . Thanks for the newz, JJ! Everyone smile big when you see my maskless face!

Posted by: Catherine at August 23, 2021 06:53 AM (wakSB)

39 Great point JJ. Most of the new Afghan arrivals will live in peace, but the Bell Curve always works and there will be 'more than zero' who kill/rape/marry their offspring/etc...

The standard we have heard from the left for almost 2 years now is "If it saves just one life, it's worth it."

Let's now apply that standard to our new arrivals.

Posted by: 496 at August 23, 2021 06:54 AM (U1eOr)

40 About the only thing that will help restore us in the short term is isolationism on a level that even Japan would say "Dude! You're going way too far."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 23, 2021 06:54 AM (PvQcL)

41 Willowed:

So the Taliban has said its August 31, period

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That's seems like a weird thing for the losing team to demand.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 06:54 AM (wqFd7)

42 It looked scripted between the two of them. Blinken completely threw Biden under the bus, on national TV.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 06:47 AM (iGK4s)

What did Blinken say?

Posted by: dantesed at August 23, 2021 06:54 AM (88xKn)

43 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2021 06:55 AM (OCTRt)

44 A deadly gunfight broke out at Afghanistans main airport early Monday, with an Afghan guard killed and several others injured as US and German soldiers exchanged fire with unidentified gunmen, officials said.

How do you spell spiraling out of control

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 23, 2021 06:55 AM (GPwVZ)

45 "Rep. Gallagher: 'It's up to Congress to make sure the Taliban does not walk away with a windfall.'"

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Too late. I think they already have.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 06:56 AM (O+I8R)

46 "$1,000 per month to violent youths for not committing violent crimes."

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They'll be able to buy nicer guns with that money.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 06:56 AM (wqFd7)

47 Maybe...just maybe, the people of Afghanistan looked at our new woke American values, and our message of 'We want you to be like us', and said Nah bro...we're good.

IOW, did our insistence on wokeism cost us the war?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 23, 2021 06:56 AM (snOKo)

48 How do you spell spiraling out of control
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 23, 2021 06:55 AM (GPwVZ)
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A-F-G-H-A-N-I-S-T-A-N

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 06:56 AM (Jsjd7)

49 Greg Abbott is Mitt Romney. Realizing that makes it clear why the border is wide open in Texas.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 06:51 AM (iGK4s)

The GOP never purges itself of carpetbaggers like Mutt. No matter how many times he disgraces himself, some dogshit state party will make sure he's gainfully employed in some elected role. It it wasn't Utah it would be someplace else. It's like a death wish.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 06:56 AM (y7DUB)

50 44 A deadly gunfight broke out at Afghanistans main airport early Monday, with an Afghan guard killed and several others injured as US and German soldiers exchanged fire with unidentified gunmen, officials said.

How do you spell spiraling out of control
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 23, 2021 06:55 AM (GPwVZ)

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Their violence is just speech. Our speech is violence.

Posted by: 496 at August 23, 2021 06:57 AM (U1eOr)

51 "Rep. Gallagher: 'It's up to Congress to make sure the Taliban does not walk away with a windfall.'"

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I don't think Blackhawks, fighter jets, anti-mine personnel carriers, and who knows how many tens of thousands of really nice 4x4 trucks "walk"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 06:57 AM (wqFd7)

52 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 06:57 AM (arJlL)

53 How do you spell spiraling out of control
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 23, 2021 06:55 AM (GPwVZ)
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No, I doubt it. The moment we decided to pivot to "hearts and minds" and "nation building" without the necessary preliminaries - like the abject destruction and slaughter of Afghanistan until they capitulated entirely and cried Uncle - we lost the war.

The wokeism bred a lot more resentment and likely has had some accelerating and amplifying effects on this phase of it, and has helped cost us an orderly withdrawal that maintains national honor and integrity.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 06:58 AM (Jsjd7)

54 The argument that I hear a lot is that we have to bring Afghans here because they risked their lives to work with us and we owe them...something.

If we leave them to fend for themselves, the next time we need local help, there won't be any because we can't be trusted.

How about there is no next time? Ever consider that?

Apparently it's a nope.

Posted by: MJ at August 23, 2021 06:58 AM (zwDuR)

55 29 Before the idiocy of Chris Wallace made me stop watching, Fox News Sunday had fat fuck Hayden on a lot. He was an oddball with a definite appetite for cock. And typical of what GWB inflicted on the country.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 06:49 AM (y7DUB)

do I have to pay for this or is this advert for free ?

Posted by: Fat Fuck Hayden at August 23, 2021 06:59 AM (uCLWI)

56 "$1,000 per month to violent youths for not committing violent crimes."
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They'll be able to buy nicer guns with that money.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 06:56 AM (wqFd7)
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First the government took over the numbers racket, now they're taking over the protection racket.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2021 07:00 AM (EZebt)

57 I don't think Blackhawks, fighter jets, anti-mine personnel carriers, and who knows how many tens of thousands of really nice 4x4 trucks "walk"
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 06:57 AM (wqFd7)

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I'm remembering the VW ad from 5 - 10 years ago where the guy really wanted a specific model on the lot. When someone came to test drive it he licked the handle to claim it as his.

Buncha talibans running around licking handles on helicopters and humvees.

Posted by: 496 at August 23, 2021 07:00 AM (U1eOr)

58 Good morning hordelings. I've always loved Travis Tritt.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 23, 2021 07:00 AM (45fpk)

59 The Insurrection:

Bivalve leaves amid great pomp and circumstance. Think of it is a pre-funeral celebration on a scale to make JFK's sycophants green with envy -- Hunter in a purple leisure suit and a funny looking hat, saluting as the empty hearse rolls by...

Kamala ascends the throne, after jumping from the back of the hearse like a Las Vegas showgirl from a birthday cake.

Her first announcement is to designate her new vice presidential selection:

Hillary Clinton.

Guess what happens next...

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at August 23, 2021 07:01 AM (MkuC5)

60 hiya, JT!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at August 23, 2021 07:01 AM (u7pQw)

61 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 23, 2021 07:02 AM (ZIoLS)

62 42 What did Blinken say?
Posted by: dantesed at August 23, 2021 06:54 AM (88xKn)
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He was twice asked if Biden understands what is happening and ostentatiously dodged the question both times. Here is an example.

https://tinyurl.com/dja4m8s8

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 07:02 AM (iGK4s)

63 " "$1,000 per month to violent youths for not committing violent crimes."

Is this program limited to only violent youth?

Cause I'm willing to not shoot folk for $1,000 a month.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 23, 2021 07:02 AM (snOKo)

64 >>Her first announcement is to designate her new vice presidential selection:

Hillary Clinton.

She's not that stupid. She'll pick someone like Buttigeig, who is Obama 2.0.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 23, 2021 07:02 AM (bDqIh)

65
Severe Flooding In Tennessee Leaves At Least 8 Dead, 40 Others Missing

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But! But!! Tropical Storm Henri!!!1!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 23, 2021 07:02 AM (/U27+)

66 They are going to become untouchable, a la George Floyd and Trayvon

Hopefully because they're 6 feet under.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 23, 2021 07:03 AM (BFigT)

67
Guess what happens next...
Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG

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Take a Deep Breath. You'll Cry.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 23, 2021 07:04 AM (/U27+)

68 Guess what happens next...
Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at August 23, 2021 07:01 AM (MkuC5)

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They impeach Trump again?

Posted by: 496 at August 23, 2021 07:05 AM (U1eOr)

69 Is this program limited to only violent youth?

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I'm pretty sure you can read between the lines on it.

If not eventually Biden will make a statement proclaiming that they're just as non-violent as white youth.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 07:05 AM (wqFd7)

70 Buncha talibans running around licking handles on helicopters and humvees.
Posted by: 496 at August 23, 2021 07:00 AM (U1eOr)
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Probably. Much of it probably won't be used. Ground vehicles and small arms and armor certainly will be. Helicopters, drones, comms, advanced missiles, etc. that were left behind will probably not be used by the Taliban, at least not much. Those require gobs of infrastructure and engineering to keep running. It is more likely that this kind of equipment will be sold off - either to rogue states for their own use or to places like Iran, China and Russia so those countries can use them for intelligence purposes.

And the cash will flow directly to the Taliban, which they will use to cement control at home and sponsor whatever deadly hijinks they wish to sponsor. There is a decent chance that the next big attack on the US will have been paid for by selling off our own equipment to our enemies and rivals.

Well done, chaps. Well done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 07:05 AM (Jsjd7)

71 The firefight at the airport reported as a blurb is what worries me, people are going to get nervy now. Fuck the politicians and commanders, but pray for the kids in the 82nd and others that they don't have to fight their way out of Kabul lacking a serious amount of their normal battle order.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 23, 2021 07:05 AM (oWBc3)

72 The first Afghan refugees evacuated to Fort McCoy have arrived in Wisconsin.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 23, 2021 07:05 AM (45fpk)

73 >>"All the servants fully masked. The almost-entirely old, white, rich crowd of DCCC donors free to go maskless as they're served."

Ah, yes, how perfectly this illustrates the Democrat party.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 23, 2021 07:05 AM (bDqIh)

74 Five days after testing positive for Covid, Abbott tests negative.

News completely blanks on the fact the tests don't work.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2021 07:05 AM (OCTRt)

75 I suspect they're banking on being able to control the new underclass once it vanquishes the old. I think they will be surprised.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 06:48 AM (Jsjd7)
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I was thinking along the same lines this morning. They cannot be governed by our ruling class in any meaningful sense of the word. Something WILL give. And it won't be pretty.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 23, 2021 07:06 AM (ZIoLS)

76 well duh!

In fact, there are upwards of 20 unindicted co-conspirators from the January 6 incident, and a good number of these may have been ringleaders on the FBI payroll, escaping prosecution for acts that were worse than the crimes for which others have been prosecuted.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 07:06 AM (yrol0)

77 "All the servants fully masked. The almost-entirely old, white, rich crowd of DCCC donors free to go maskless as they're served."
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The facelessness of the serving class is part of the kink. It's the best and easiest way to dehumanize others.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 23, 2021 07:07 AM (ZIoLS)

78 The first Afghan refugees evacuated to Fort McCoy have arrived in Wisconsin.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 23, 2021 07:05 AM (45fpk)

The Daily Mail says 65,000 total.

https://tinyurl.com/sjr2pmxb

Posted by: golfman at August 23, 2021 07:08 AM (hOMhY)

79 FBI "Finds Scant Evidence" of Jan 6 Insurrection Plot, Killing Off Another Anti-Trump Media Hoax

So why are trespassers continuing to be held in solitary as an "ongoing threat to the nation"?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 07:08 AM (T7iTv)

80 "The Fort McCoy community is proud to join U.S. Army North, U.S. Northern Command and the Department of Defense team in supporting the State Department with this mission," the Facebook post said. "We look forward to the opportunity to treat our temporary guests with the utmost respect and Wisconsin hospitality as they commence their Special Immigrant Visa process."

It's not clear how long the refugees will stay at Fort McCoy.

The Facebook post was signed by Brig. Gen. Chris Norrie.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 23, 2021 07:08 AM (45fpk)

81 72 The first Afghan refugees evacuated to Fort McCoy have arrived in Wisconsin.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 23, 2021 07:05 AM (45fpk)

allahs will

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 07:08 AM (yrol0)

82 >>"Dobbs added that people isolating due to a positive [Chinese] COVID-19 test don't need a negative test to end their quarantine, but do need to be 'fever free for at least 24 hours with improvement of other symptoms.'" (what a complete and utter farce - jjs)

Seems one way to stop this farce is to stop taking the random covid tests. If you're not showing symptoms, why take the test? They have been used forced testing (to fly, attend events, etc.) as a way to goose their Total Cases numbers that perpetuate the Pandemic Panic train/

Posted by: Lizzy at August 23, 2021 07:09 AM (bDqIh)

83 Deep State Failure: Russ Travers, Fired by Trump, Is in Top Afghan Evacuation Role Under Biden

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What, Benghazi Hillary wasn't available?

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 23, 2021 07:09 AM (07GNa)

84 The Daily Mail says 65,000 total.

https://tinyurl.com/sjr2pmxb

Posted by: golfman at August 23, 2021 07:08 AM (hOMhY)

geez louise

Posted by: grammie winger at August 23, 2021 07:09 AM (45fpk)

85 General Michael Hayden was originally appointed by Bush but he supported Biden in the last election. He claims he is an independent but he is a Democrat in all but name only and he is not WAS.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2021 07:09 AM (mpXpK)

86 Afghan refugees is exactly what that clusterfuck at Fort Hood needs.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 23, 2021 07:10 AM (oWBc3)

87 here in weatern MA, Henri was no more than rain and not even a heavy rain.

not even enough to put out fire in the hair on the forecasters

Posted by: REDACTED at August 23, 2021 07:10 AM (uCLWI)

88 77 "All the servants fully masked. The almost-entirely old, white, rich crowd of DCCC donors free to go maskless as they're served."
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The facelessness of the serving class is part of the kink. It's the best and easiest way to dehumanize others.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 23, 2021 07:07 AM (ZIoLS)

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The elite don't care about their hypocrisy. Their true believers will justify if any which way.

The rest? It's got to be opening eyes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:10 AM (LvTSG)

89 Local storm in Tennessee kills 22. Yesterday a global warming fueled hurricane slammed into the coast of Rhode Island, Shirley I missed all the stores of the hundreds dead because of it.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 23, 2021 07:10 AM (eZXXh)

90 >Her first announcement is to designate her new vice presidential selection:

Hillary Clinton.

She's not that stupid. She'll pick someone like Buttigeig, who is Obama 2.0.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 23, 2021 07:02 AM (bDqIh)

She's easily that stupid as is Mayor Choad. She needs someone who knows how to do things which isn't the South Bendover Fairy Prince. Unfortunately The Beast would make her hire a series of full time food tasters.

The current administration is a clusterfuck as far as the eye can see.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 07:11 AM (y7DUB)

91 The elite don't care about their hypocrisy. Their true believers will justify if any which way.

The rest? It's got to be opening eyes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:10 AM (LvTSG)
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Until Fauci demands eye masks as the next step in combating COVID-19...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 07:11 AM (Jsjd7)

92 geez louise
Posted by: grammie winger at August 23, 2021 07:09 AM (45fpk)

So far...

Posted by: golfman at August 23, 2021 07:11 AM (hOMhY)

93 89 Local storm in Tennessee kills 22. Yesterday a global warming fueled hurricane slammed into the coast of Rhode Island, Shirley I missed all the stores of the hundreds dead because of it.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 23, 2021 07:10 AM (eZXXh)

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Like the Category 1 hurricane that hit New Jersey in 2012 that was the most damaging hurricane in the history of the planet ever?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:11 AM (LvTSG)

94 The rest? It's got to be opening eyes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:10 AM (LvTSG)

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Nobody is as blind as the one who refuses to see.

Posted by: 496 at August 23, 2021 07:11 AM (U1eOr)

95 Not that money matters anymore, but one can only imagine the cost to the American taxpayer for taking care of the masses of Afghanis coming our way. Where are they housing them all in places that have everything they need...furniture, dishes, etc.? Who's feeding them? Clothing them? Paying for medical care? Schooling? I'd have to guess the near entirety will have left Hellholeistan with nothing but the clothes on their backs. There won't be many ready to apply for jobs here, I'd assume. And the gov't benefits will be ongoing and perpetual. Not even counting the 1.6 million illegals since January alone who are equally draining our system. It's just staggering to comprehend. I guess I should feel more gracious than I do.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 07:12 AM (O+I8R)

96 90 She's easily that stupid as is Mayor Choad. She needs someone who knows how to do things which isn't the South Bendover Fairy Prince. Unfortunately The Beast would make her hire a series of full time food tasters.

The current administration is a clusterfuck as far as the eye can see.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 07:11 AM (y7DUB)

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Kamala's also one of those people who doesn't understand her own lack of ability. "Just put me in charge," will be enough for her own self-justification.

Getting someone like Buttigieg whom she probably doesn't respect at all, as her VP will probably be an ideal thing for her mental state. She'll have someone less capable than her as her number 2 to make her feel better about her own ability.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:13 AM (LvTSG)

97 >>I suspect they're banking on being able to control the new underclass once it vanquishes the old. I think they will be surprised.

I think it's more like Obama's Fast and Furious: "Never let a crisis go to waste" evolved into "Never wait for a crisis when you can create one."

This explained it back when Obama opened up the border: Importing Revolution - https://tinyurl.com/49rf3fym

The motives behind moving whole populations via executive fiat break down into two main categories. One is to prevent revolution and unrest by moving and quarantining what are considered indigestible peoples in order to weaken their resistance to the powers that be. . .

But there is a second reason for moving people around, and that is to foster revolution by actively promoting unrest. The goal is to achieve "fundamental transformation" of a country by tearing down existing structures, replacing them with a new order of government.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 23, 2021 07:14 AM (bDqIh)

98 Greg Abbott is Mitt Romney. Realizing that makes it clear why the border is wide open in Texas.
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Exactly.
He has no interest in doing anything for the people who elected him.
What would a real man have done after that judge ruled against him? Appeal it, but keep doing what you promised and also issue another order-- all the things the Dems do every day to give their constituent what they voted for.

But "our" guy whines and pouts (for show) cause the mean judge said "no."

Posted by: Mrm88 at August 23, 2021 07:15 AM (jIL4c)

99 Five days after testing positive for Covid, Abbott tests negative.
News completely blanks on the fact the tests don't work.
Posted by: rickb223

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They'll insist it was because he was vaccinated.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 07:15 AM (wqFd7)

100 99 Five days after testing positive for Covid, Abbott tests negative.
News completely blanks on the fact the tests don't work.
Posted by: rickb223

**

They'll insist it was because he was vaccinated.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 07:15 AM (wqFd7)

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While, at the same time, insisting that Abbott wants to ban vaccines in Texas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:16 AM (LvTSG)

101 As COVID-19 cases rise in Mississippi, the states Department of Health on Friday sent out an alert warning those who test positive for COVID-19 to isolate for 10 days or face up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.

Now do herpes and HIV.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 07:17 AM (yrol0)

102 She's not that stupid. She'll pick someone like Buttigeig, who is Obama 2.0.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 23, 2021 07:02 AM (bDqIh)

No, she's smarter than you think. She has no intention of holding on to the presidency. Not when she can sell the vice president job to the highest bidder and take an abrupt stage left to go lay on a beach, making 20%.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at August 23, 2021 07:17 AM (MkuC5)

103 So what we know today - the CIA is running the country. They're buttboy Obama was their puppet (not surprising since his Grandparents were CIA Operatives and mommy was a State Dept flunkie). It was the CIA that organized the Vote Fraud and Inserted the Wuhan FLu into America to allow the steal. It was the CIA that created BLM and Anti-Fa with the FBI in charge of minding and monitoring them. All of this was blessed by the corporate and govermental co-conspirators because they thought the CIA was Competent. And now we realize that the CIA was just defeated by a handful of goatfuckers. Its panic time among the Best and Brightest. Stay Calm. All Is Well!

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 23, 2021 07:17 AM (/MaDp)

104 The rest? It's got to be opening eyes.

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They've got PhDs and are friends with people with PhDs and other educated world leaders, so they know what's best.
- 40% of Democrat voters

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 07:17 AM (wqFd7)

105 I see nothing happening currently that doesn't register pretty darned bleak right now. I can't find even the tiniest ray of light. Amazing how much absolute damage an illegitimate election can do.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 07:18 AM (O+I8R)

106 Not that money matters anymore, but one can only imagine the cost to the American taxpayer for taking care of the masses of Afghanis coming our way.

Ya mean they're not gonna get jobs ?

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 07:18 AM (arJlL)

107 And the cash will flow directly to the Taliban, which they will use to cement control at home and sponsor whatever deadly hijinks they wish to sponsor. There is a decent chance that the next big attack on the US will have been paid for by selling off our own equipment to our enemies and rivals.

Well done, chaps. Well done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 07:05 AM (Jsjd7)

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In the aftermath of this Afghanistan fustercluck, my default response now is "cui bono?"

Of course there are numerous answers, but then I thought "who benefits from the liberation of the poppy fields?" Ah, one of the Biden Junta's biggest supporters -- the Mexican Cartels. That 10% for The Big Guy is looking better and better ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 23, 2021 07:18 AM (07GNa)

108 Hiya Hans !

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 07:18 AM (arJlL)

109 I'm sort of intrigued with the CRAF program. So domestic carriers are authorized or required to operate outside of their normal airports. I'm guessing that parking the plane will be no big deal, but its everything in between that seems rather brittle.

What happens if these domestic carriers require maintenance on these bases? Parts? Technicians? Certifications? Who pays? I can't imagine the airlines sending in their newest and best aircraft.

Food service is a huge thing to organize considering what is halel and food allergies; along with sorting baggage. I'm pretty sure that bribes and politics will determine who sits in the front seats and who gets crammed in middle sets of cattle class.

Are they going to enforce that petty mask crap? What will the onboard service look like? Sit on your ass and deal with the seventeen hour flight with what you brought?

Maybe they have worked out these issues over the past two experiments.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 23, 2021 07:18 AM (+LCoQ)

110 lol JT

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at August 23, 2021 07:18 AM (MkuC5)

111 I guess I should feel more gracious than I do.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 07:12 AM (O+I8R)
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No, you shouldn't. There is nothing charitable about what's happening. These are actions being taken by disconnected, contemptuous rulers to favor some groups over their own people, while compelling their own people to pay for it until they can't do it anymore and everything falls apart.

This is not humanitarianism and it never has been. It's slow-motion murder of their homeland and their own people by using the false, co-opted notions of "humanitarianism" as a fig leaf to cover their crimes.

Anger and resentment, while dangerous when they metastasize, are useful feelings and they appropriately apply here. Graciousness would be entirely inappropriate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 07:19 AM (Jsjd7)

112 "The more they are exposed, the more they are determined to control us or destroy us."

Therein lies the challenge of our time. Typically when a socially destructive political agent is exposed, we confidently await the next electoral reckoning and correction. We don't expect the destructiveness to accelerate according to its own aggressive confidence of invincibility.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 23, 2021 07:19 AM (DH2LB)

113 For those is doubt, remember CNN is the CIA.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 23, 2021 07:20 AM (/MaDp)

114 106 Not that money matters anymore, but one can only imagine the cost to the American taxpayer for taking care of the masses of Afghanis coming our way.

Ya mean they're not gonna get jobs ?
Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 07:18 AM (arJlL)

I read lifetime cost of about $600k.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 07:20 AM (yrol0)

115 Maybe they have worked out these issues over the past two experiments.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 23, 2021 07:18 AM (+LCoQ)
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When photos leak out, it will be of unmasked Afghans being served halal in-flight meals by stewardesses in hijabs.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 07:20 AM (Jsjd7)

116 106 Not that money matters anymore, but one can only imagine the cost to the American taxpayer for taking care of the masses of Afghanis coming our way.

Ya mean they're not gonna get jobs ?

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 07:18 AM (arJlL)

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"Biden Junta Announces Creation of New Federal Agency Bureaucracy and Begins Recruiting for Department of Pedophile Grooming and Goat-Fucking ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 23, 2021 07:21 AM (07GNa)

117 JJS links the story of Rebecca Dick, the expensive white shoe lawyer who represented Guantanamo terrorists. All over America her story was repeated. Many such superficial lawyers think they are John Adams. They are not, instead they are all Lynne Stewart and deserve her fate.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 07:22 AM (iGK4s)

118 The GOP never purges itself of carpetbaggers like Mutt. No matter how many times he disgraces himself, some dogshit state party will make sure he's gainfully employed in some elected role. It it wasn't Utah it would be someplace else. It's like a death wish.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 06:56 AM (y7DUB)

State parties are filled with remora who only hope to feed off whatever the sharks will permit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 07:22 AM (T7iTv)

119 Taliban Sets Woman on Fire for "Bad Cooking"

Well, if the Taliban "refugees" bring that here a lot of American women are going to be warm for the rest of their lives.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2021 07:23 AM (DpkTQ)

120 Pelosi needs to be kicked in the teeth. Excuse me, dentures. That posh fundraiser with scads of wealthy people, unmasked, while the servants, the hired help, had to be masked, is just infuriating. All of these "do as I say..." images need to be plastered on billboards coast to coast. People need to open their eyes, for the love of G*d.

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

121 "Anger and resentment, while dangerous when they metastasize, are useful feelings and they appropriately apply here."

Entirely correct.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 23, 2021 07:24 AM (DH2LB)

122 They are not, instead they are all Lynne Stewart and deserve her fate.

When the enemy negotiates to free prisoners of war it is a pretty standard affair.

What do you call it when people from your own country do this on behalf of the enemy though?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2021 07:25 AM (DpkTQ)

123 "The Taliban had announced with much fanfare after the fall of Kabul that they would respect all women's rights granted by the Koran. Needless to say, few believed that was a good omen for women in Afghanistan."

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I misread that as by the Karen.

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 23, 2021 07:25 AM (07GNa)

124 Seems odd that the Left wants to import plane loads of what one could argue are rather homophobic, transphobic and misogynistic men into our country.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 23, 2021 07:26 AM (snOKo)

125 The rest? It's got to be opening eyes.
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No. It won't.

There are no "reasonable Democrats." We gotta stop pretending there is this great mass of voters that regularly vote D but will-- if only we completely own them with logic, and facts, and reason; pointing out their inconsistencies and fallacies-- they're going to vote R.

The Democrats base are Loyalists. They want a monarchy. And all the lies, hypocrisy, etc.? The king is the law and can't break the law. You're just proving to them why we need to just officially make them royalty.

Posted by: Mrm88 at August 23, 2021 07:26 AM (jIL4c)

126 "Biden Junta Announces Creation of New Federal Agency Bureaucracy and Begins Recruiting for Department of Pedophile Grooming and Goat-Fucking ..."

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There's nothing wrong with that! Stop living in the 1950s. Anyway, we have no right to impose our morals on anyone else!

-- Stupid American College Students

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 07:26 AM (O+I8R)

127 125 There are no "reasonable Democrats." We gotta stop pretending there is this great mass of voters that regularly vote D but will-- if only we completely own them with logic, and facts, and reason; pointing out their inconsistencies and fallacies-- they're going to vote R.

The Democrats base are Loyalists. They want a monarchy. And all the lies, hypocrisy, etc.? The king is the law and can't break the law. You're just proving to them why we need to just officially make them royalty.
Posted by: Mrm88 at August 23, 2021 07:26 AM (jIL4c)

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Remember how Trump got a whole bunch of lifelong Democrats to vote for him? Or was that not a thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:27 AM (LvTSG)

128 Seems odd that the Left wants to import plane loads

For a while the left has used a strategy to specifically increase terrorism/crime threats to then argue we need more government control over society to deal with the greater threat...which they instead turn on...us.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2021 07:28 AM (DpkTQ)

129 For those is doubt, remember CNN is the CIA.
Posted by: Puddin Head at August 23, 2021 07:20 AM (/MaDp)
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Do you have any theories about the CIA proliferating crack in the Black community?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2021 07:29 AM (EZebt)

130 The king is the law and can't break the law

The left has been making this argument since they found out Bill Clinton was a rapist. But it has indeed been getting worse every year.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2021 07:29 AM (DpkTQ)

131 When the enemy negotiates to free prisoners of war it is a pretty standard affair.

What do you call it when people from your own country do this on behalf of the enemy though?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2021 07:25 AM (DpkTQ)

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Out: "Veni, Vidi, Vici."
In: "Vichy, Vichy, Vichy."

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 23, 2021 07:29 AM (07GNa)

132 It appears the Taliban were never taught to tie their boots.

https://tinyurl.com/yyb5h7dc

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 07:29 AM (yrol0)

133 As COVID-19 cases rise in Mississippi, the states Department of Health on Friday sent out an alert warning those who test positive for COVID-19 to isolate for 10 days or face up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.

Now do herpes and HIV.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Shit, just do the seasonal flu.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2021 07:29 AM (OCTRt)

134 Carlson says the FBI announced it "found scant evidence" of organized insurrection, undercutting the DOJ narrative, for only one reason. The FBI was the "organizing organization" and wants to avoid being exposed in court. Just like the Whitmer case.

Sounds very reasonable to me.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 07:30 AM (iGK4s)

135 State parties are filled with remora who only hope to feed off whatever the sharks will permit.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 07:22 AM (T7iTv)

Sounds like the Mike DeWine biography.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 07:30 AM (y7DUB)

136 For a while the left has used a strategy to specifically increase terrorism/crime threats to then argue we need more government control over society to deal with the greater threat...which they instead turn on...us.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2021 07:28 AM (DpkTQ)

Crisis, opportunity. Could anything be more monotonous? And yet we never seem to learn.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 23, 2021 07:30 AM (DH2LB)

137 Will the local Mickey D's come out with the Mc Goat to cater to the new residents?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 23, 2021 07:30 AM (eZXXh)

138 As COVID-19 cases rise in Mississippi, the states Department of Health on Friday sent out an alert warning those who test positive for COVID-19 to isolate for 10 days or face up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.

Posted by: rhennigantx

The softening up before going full Aussie.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 23, 2021 07:31 AM (DH2LB)

139 130 The king is the law and can't break the law

The left has been making this argument since they found out Bill Clinton was a rapist. But it has indeed been getting worse every year.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2021 07:29 AM (DpkTQ)

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Remember the movie Frost/Nixon? The bit in the trailer where David Frost gets Nixon to admit that he thinks of himself as a king by getting him to say, "If the president does it, then it's not illegal?"

Who knew the movie was aspirational instead of condemnation?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:32 AM (LvTSG)

140 Not that money matters anymore, but one can only imagine the cost to the American taxpayer for taking care of the masses of Afghanis coming our way.

Ya mean they're not gonna get jobs ?

I personally knew one Afghan (Afghani = currency) who spoke English, was a teacher in Afghanistan and ended up in the D/FW area teaching - that is, until some "honor student" gunned him down and let his wife and young daughter be wards of the State.

Considering the shit we have as teachers now, perhaps it would be better to have the Afghan men teach in our schools. They certainly will be skilled in dealing with unruly students.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 23, 2021 07:32 AM (+LCoQ)

141 Pelosi needs to be kicked in the teeth. Excuse me, dentures. That posh fundraiser with scads of wealthy people, unmasked, while the servants, the hired help, had to be masked, is just infuriating. All of these "do as I say..." images need to be plastered on billboards coast to coast. People need to open their eyes, for the love of G*d.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 07:23 AM (O+I8R)
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People who work = unclean

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2021 07:32 AM (EZebt)

142 I read lifetime cost of about $600k.

***

I'm guessing that is for one individual.

Think about it in terms of welfare daddies. One less George Floyd or Trayvon Martin saves $50-$100K per year per child directly, and in 18-20 years will save the same amount again and again with THOSE children's children.

I'd imagine one George Floyd (assuming he's not responsible for billions of dollars in damage and murders nationwide) is directly responsible for ten to twenty million dollars of spending to support his baby mommas and offspring while he's still alive, and who knows how much if you take it out to five or six generations.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 07:33 AM (wqFd7)

143 The Allen West story is about to get bigger.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2021 07:33 AM (MnU31)

144 As COVID-19 cases rise in Mississippi, the states Department of Health on Friday sent out an alert warning those who test positive for COVID-19 to isolate for 10 days or face up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.

**

That's a great way to get the pandemic under control.

Soon we'll see a 90% decrease in testing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 07:34 AM (wqFd7)

145 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:32 AM (LvTSG)
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IIRC Nixon actually said that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2021 07:34 AM (EZebt)

146 "The Allen West story is about to get bigger."

As in 'Blow up in the Left's face' bigger?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 23, 2021 07:35 AM (snOKo)

147 Just so people know, there are doctors that claim that in flexible timeline (2-10 years) everyone who has taken the j@b will die. They also claim that the j@b will k1ll more people than the disease. Is that true? No one knows, since there are NO long term trials.

We do know that usual approval for this sort of thing takes up to a decade. Why is there a rush for an injection for a disease that 99%+ people survive? Why are they approving this so quickly? And why are they requiring us to get this? When was the last time the populace of the WORLD was required to do something like this? Answer: never.

They want us de@d. And we will comply, since we don't want to lose our jobs and our lifestyle.

Posted by: shibumi at August 23, 2021 07:35 AM (4EIFd)

148 Good news! Stephen Colbert just had his worst week ever. Always like to see the bad guys going into the dust.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 07:35 AM (iGK4s)

149 Will the local Mickey D's come out with the Mc Goat to cater to the new residents?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby

They will just re-label the McRib. Not like it's pork or anything.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2021 07:36 AM (OCTRt)

150 143 The Allen West story is about to get bigger.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2021 07:33 AM (MnU31)

If it turns out that his wife wasn't drinking, and the Dallas police harassed her because her husband is running against Abbott, this is going to get a lot bigger.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 23, 2021 07:36 AM (mdjgu)

151 145 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:32 AM (LvTSG)
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IIRC Nixon actually said that.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 23, 2021 07:34 AM (EZebt)

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I'm sure he did. However, Hollywood decided to make a movie about it with ominous undertones (and overtones, it's not a subtle movie) at the height of the W presidency. Their editorial choices, to put it one way, are curious in retrospect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:36 AM (LvTSG)

152 The Allen West story is about to get bigger.

And Leon's getting larger.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 07:36 AM (Bmy3R)

153 Border patrol agents are saying they feel like Uber drivers dropping off illegals all across states.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 23, 2021 07:37 AM (NpAcC)

154 As COVID-19 cases rise in Mississippi, the states Department of Health on Friday sent out an alert warning those who test positive for COVID-19 to isolate for 10 days or face up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.

So when does this ten day unjudicated house arrest officially being? The day of symptoms? A statistical as to the date of first infection? The date the "test" was run? The date the "test" result was received by the victim?

And what test? The one with a greater than 60% rate of false positives or the one that can't distinguish between flu and CoViD?

I'm guessing that this is completely unenforceable and is implemented purely as a a tool for targeted prosecution to tie people up in process.

And to remind the fine people of Mississippi that there is a giant, cruel boot pressed upon their necks.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 23, 2021 07:37 AM (+LCoQ)

155 Mrs Vice President, they say over 1000 children were crushed to death in that orphanage collapse. Do you have any com-

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha huuuuuuuu Aaaaaaaahh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ahhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhh. Nobody cares more about the kids than i do. Tragedy, yadda yadda blah blah whatever. Fill in a nice quote. You know how it should go.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 23, 2021 07:38 AM (TayrX)

156 Soon we'll see a 90% decrease in testing.

GOOD

that btw is the ONLY way this will end

stop freaking "testing"!!!!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 23, 2021 07:38 AM (j9HX3)

157 The Allen West story is about to get bigger.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2021 07:33 AM (MnU31)
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How so??

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 07:38 AM (iGK4s)

158 And Leon's getting larger.
Posted by: Guy Smiley

LOL !

That's never not funny !

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 07:38 AM (arJlL)

159 Do you have any theories about the CIA proliferating crack in the Black community?

The CIA at one time in the 1950s explored the idea of buying the entire world's existing stock of L.S.D., from the Swiss, as the claim was they were worried about it falling into the wrong hands.

As it turned out though, they ended up using it both covertly and overtly on Americans in America. It was considered an occupational hazard of working at the CIA. The agents who were tasked to observe people who were dosed unbekownst to them (this was routine, and very cruel) were also dosed unbeknownst to them. The US government imported a lot of scurvy scientists in the 1940s and 1950s and they headed up the chemical and biological warfare agencies and worked in secret. The 1960s "hippie movement" was an Operation.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2021 07:38 AM (Z3TUG)

160 They will just re-label the McRib. Not like it's pork or anything.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2021 07:36 AM (OCTRt)

"McFour-Meat-Slurry with Added Textured Vegetable Protein" doesn't poll well.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 07:38 AM (Bmy3R)

161 It is pathological how these people laugh at tragedy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 23, 2021 07:39 AM (TayrX)

162 At this point I would believe anything attributed to the CIA. Probably did it with the help of the FBI.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 23, 2021 07:40 AM (TayrX)

163 Border patrol agents are saying they feel like Uber drivers dropping off illegals all across states.
Posted by: redridinghood

Then quit. It's not like you're doing your job now.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2021 07:40 AM (OCTRt)

164 Saw some reference in the comment to the "Allen West story." What is that? I must have overlooked that in the links. Sorry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2021 07:40 AM (ai5jE)

165 Rod Gilbert, one of my sports heroes as a kid. He was part of the NY Rangers' GAG line (Goal A Game) with Jean Ratelle and Vic Hadfield.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 23, 2021 07:40 AM (DH2LB)

166 163 Border patrol agents are saying they feel like Uber drivers dropping off illegals all across states.
Posted by: redridinghood

Then quit. It's not like you're doing your job now.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2021 07:40 AM (OCTRt)

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"I will follow every order to subjugate you as long as I keep my pension."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:41 AM (LvTSG)

167 [From the VDH essay:] "Thanks to the president of the United States, terrorists and nation-state enemies can now shop for arms and train there without hindrance."

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Are we talking about Obama and Iran, or Biden and Afghanistan?

Yeah, I know, a distinction without a difference ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 23, 2021 07:41 AM (07GNa)

168 Stop the testing. Stop the yammering.

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 07:41 AM (S1hrL)

169 As COVID-19 cases rise in Mississippi, the states Department of Health on Friday sent out an alert warning those who test positive for COVID-19 to isolate for 10 days or face up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000. ...
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 07:17 AM (yrol0)
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A test. Not a diagnosis, but a positive test. Which has been used - very wrongly - as shorthand for "cases" since day 0.

A positive test on 45 PCR cycles that is likely a false positive. A positive test from a process that cannot distinguish between SARS-CoV-2 and influenza.

In short, a positive test from a process that is deeply flawed and unreliable, and absent a diagnosis, will result in ruinous fines and jail time if you do the right thing and ignore it if you have no symptoms and no diagnosis. And where the hell did they get 10 days? At the beginning, we didn't know the incubation period. We do now, and it is usually within three days, perhaps five. Not ten.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 07:42 AM (Jsjd7)

170 They're pulling out all stops to destroy Larry Elder. Media and state working hand in glove. Pure Stalinism.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 23, 2021 07:42 AM (DH2LB)

171 I really hate it when FedEx's online package tracking suddenly shits the bed.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 23, 2021 07:43 AM (snOKo)

172 Mornin', all,

My visit to a Walmart in the far suburbs went partly well and otherwise poorly. Mask notices were up, and I carried my doctor's letter, but nobody stopped me or said a word as I shopped. However, there were no checkout counters manned. I had to use the damned self-checkout thing, which I hate because it takes me longer; WM is saving money on labor but not passing that on to me; and I hate having my picture on the screen while I do this.

(more . . .)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 07:43 AM (/XOcP)

173 170 They're pulling out all stops to destroy Larry Elder. Media and state working hand in glove. Pure Stalinism.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 23, 2021 07:42 AM (DH2LB)

A high-tech lynching.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 23, 2021 07:43 AM (mdjgu)

174 Good morning horde

Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicus (oEn12) at August 23, 2021 07:44 AM (fQLrM)

175 170 They're pulling out all stops to destroy Larry Elder. Media and state working hand in glove. Pure Stalinism.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 23, 2021 07:42 AM (DH2LB)

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Because voting doesn't matter?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:44 AM (LvTSG)

176 As COVID-19 cases rise in Mississippi, the states Department of Health on Friday sent out an alert warning those who test positive for COVID-19 to isolate for 10 days or face up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.

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That's a great way to get the pandemic under control.
Soon we'll see a 90% decrease in testing.

Agreed. Sort of like risking losing all of your firearms because the shrink you saw last week because of some random panic attacks turns your name in to the Red Flag enforcers.

But in this case, it is no big loss, smart people have already discovered and are ready to follow the Suppressed medical protocols for avoiding and mitigating CoViD infection. All the hospitals now offer is a place to get even sicker and die - no need to get a physician, who is terrified at losing her license, or a hospital whose ethics team is made of ZPG sociopaths, to declare a diagnosis that just happens to align with the State Narrative.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 23, 2021 07:44 AM (+LCoQ)

177 I see that fresh hell is waiting for us again. Ugh.

Posted by: Ladyl at August 23, 2021 07:44 AM (TdMsT)

178 I had to use the damned self-checkout thing, which I hate because it takes me longer; WM is saving money on labor but not passing that on to me; and I hate having my picture on the screen while I do this. ...
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 07:43 AM (/XOcP)
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And then, when use a credit card, you're now in the facial recognition database, complete with identifying information that binds your face to your legal identity with great ease.

But don't worry! You can be sure that the system is private and secure and won't be used as a part of the gigantic integrated panopticon being built by state and industry.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 07:45 AM (Jsjd7)

179 stop freaking "testing"!!!!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 23, 2021 07:38 AM (j9HX3)

Disease so deadly you need a test to know if you have it

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 23, 2021 07:45 AM (/6GbT)

180 161 It is pathological how these people laugh at tragedy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 23, 2021 07:39 AM (TayrX)

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"Tragedy is in the eye of the beholder." -- Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Fauci, and Associates

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 23, 2021 07:46 AM (07GNa)

181 Walmart, cont.:

So after checking out I looked up the manager. "Why are there no checkout people?" "Ya can use the self-checkout, sir." "Sure, but why are there no open checkouts?" "Covid, sir." "What do you mean? Everybody is dead?" "The associates come in later in the day." "Like when?" "Covid, sir."

All she could say was "Covid . . . covid . . covid . . ." It was like talking to a parrot with a WM vest on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 07:46 AM (/XOcP)

182 If you kill someone in NYC, in lieu of your $1000 payment that month, you will receive a $1000 voucher for a lawyer.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 23, 2021 07:46 AM (TayrX)

183 Then quit. It's not like you're doing your job now.

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My brother, who's currently a US Marshal, used to be a border patrol agent. He hated the job because everything revolved around the politics of it all, not doing the actual job. He made very good $ though.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 07:46 AM (O+I8R)

184 "Created Equal" is a fantastic documentary on Clarence Thomas's life. Highly recommended.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 07:46 AM (iGK4s)

185 And then, when use a credit card, you're now in the facial recognition database, complete with identifying information that binds your face to your legal identity with great ease.

But don't worry! You can be sure that the system is private and secure and won't be used as a part of the gigantic integrated panopticon being built by state and industry.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021

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I paid cash, which I'm sure they hate.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 07:46 AM (/XOcP)

186 Now that America has seen all week long photos of the A refugees trying to escape clinging to airplanes,
getting beaten and shot at, who is going to object when they start showing up in our communities? No one will because not who we are. We have no control over the narrative. We have no control over who's getting in. Media says naught about Americans trying to get home. Have any of them made it back?

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 07:46 AM (S1hrL)

187 Hiya vmom !

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 07:46 AM (arJlL)

188 The saddest part of the Hayden "why send the planes back empty" comment is that...if the call went out that Trump voters were needed and allowed to go to Afghanistan to help rescue Americans...many of us would go despite the blazing stupidity of this country's leaders.

Posted by: thesgm at August 23, 2021 07:47 AM (rVZv7)

189 Yesterday the free MLB game to watch was the Giants/A's game in Oakland.

Essentially two home games in one, the Coliseum was pretty packed with over 30,000 people in the stands.

I kept watching the crowd, and I barely saw any masks. I mean...like 5. That's obviously not an inventory of everyone, but large crowd shots where I could discern faces revealed very few masks.

Interesting...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:47 AM (LvTSG)

190 The Allen West story is about to get bigger.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2021 07:33 AM (MnU31)

If it turns out that his wife wasn't drinking, and the Dallas police harassed her because her husband is running against Abbott, this is going to get a lot bigger.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 23, 2021 07:36 AM

I just heard that story on the radio coming back from the gym. Sure sounds like she was targeted by the Cops to me. He is pi$$ed and rightly so.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 23, 2021 07:47 AM (JUOKG)

191 Stop shopping at wal mart.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 23, 2021 07:47 AM (TayrX)

192 Hiya Ladyl !

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 07:47 AM (arJlL)

193 Because voting doesn't matter?

Well ... just in case. Can't be too careful!!

Destroy any decent individuals, any sane candidates, before they can even get close to getting on the ballot. Rinse, lather, repeat.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2021 07:48 AM (Z3TUG)

194 All she could say was "Covid . . . covid . . covid . . ." It was like talking to a parrot with a WM vest on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 07:46 AM (/XOcP)
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I think that is Wal-Mart SOP. My mom wanted to get a watch battery replaced. Their jewelry department refused. This is typical, and it happened before COVID and not just at Wal-Mart but at places like Kohl's, too. The reason is because their people are usually not very skilled and if they didn't sell the watch originally, they won't service it because if they screw up and break it, they can't just give you another one off the shelf. That's the real reason.

The cited reason they gave to my mom? COVID. They won't service a watch because of COVID. Which makes no sense at all, but whatever. It's become a boilerplate answer for everything that might make a normal person say, "wait just on damned minute here, what the hell is going on and why is everything fucked up?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 07:48 AM (Jsjd7)

195 On another note, I did want to apologize to the local Episcopalians by saying they had nothing in their outside banner about Christ. I read too fast They do. This is what it says. The capital letters were not in capitals on the sign. They were, however, highlighted in yellow:

Persevere in RESISTING EVIL. and seek and serve Christ IN ALL PEOPLE, Strive for JUSTICE and PEACE. respect the dignity of EVERY HUMAN BEING. This is what we promise in our baptismal vows. BLACK LIVES MATTER.

I'm assume the BLM bit has been up since the George Floyd incident. It seems a little out of place now since respect the dignity of all human beings indicates that,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2021 07:48 AM (ai5jE)

196 I had to use the damned self-checkout thing, which I hate because it takes me longer; WM is saving money on labor but not passing that on to me; and I hate having my picture on the screen while I do this.

(more . . .)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

The only reason I like the self checkout thing?
No one in that store wants out of there faster than I do. That schlub that's an hour into their 8 hour shift? They don't give a flip how fast or slow they check you out.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2021 07:49 AM (OCTRt)

197 Every day they update their list of what is funny.

They try so hard not to be normal...they become another normal that is so very much more predictable

If they were a puzzle box...all the peices would be gray boxes.

If they were dog food...they'd be Gains Burger.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 23, 2021 07:49 AM (Lln9q)

198 As COVID-19 cases rise in Mississippi, the states Department of Health on Friday sent out an alert warning those who test positive for COVID-19 to isolate for 10 days or face up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.

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OTOH, let's empty the prisons to protect the little dears from teh Covids! Then fill those prisons up with those with Covid.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 07:49 AM (O+I8R)

199 "All the servants fully masked. The almost-entirely old, white, rich crowd of DCCC donors free to go maskless as they're served."

Sipping white wine at a fundraiser means you are sophisticated. And that means you don't need a mask. The new rules.

Posted by: Ripley at August 23, 2021 07:49 AM (MxEKc)

200 Wifey keeps worrying because she's seeing stories in the "news" of the unv*xxed dying and regretting it. I had to remind her that 160 million people haven't been v*xxed. I'm not 100% against the v*x but I'm not dying to get it either.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 07:49 AM (WpyXV)

201 The GOPe has always had it in for Allen West, starting with how they redistricted him out of his Florida job with the US House. If anyone had carte blanche to use the race card against those fat pasty piles of shit it's him; but they count on him not doing it.

He should push Wheels off the cliff for this latest insult.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 07:49 AM (y7DUB)

202 There will be at least one general that defies Bidens stupidity and will get fired.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at August 23, 2021 07:49 AM (buTO7)

203 A Sky News guest pointed out all the ribbons that a modern American general wears on his chest. Thoroughly Modern Millay has a chest full of medals. General Eisenhower wore only a single line of medals. At least we haven't gone as far as the N Korean generals who have them up and down their chest/sleeves and pant legs. (yet)

Posted by: Colin at August 23, 2021 07:49 AM (gfP64)

204 The cited reason they gave to my mom? COVID. They won't service a watch because of COVID. Which makes no sense at all, but whatever. It's become a boilerplate answer for everything that might make a normal person say, "wait just on damned minute here, what the hell is going on and why is everything fucked up?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Can she take it to a jeweler ?

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 07:49 AM (arJlL)

205 Stop shopping at wal mart.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 23, 2021

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I do it only rarely, when they have something that I can't find at all somewhere else. We have a regional grocery chain that, while a bit more $$$ than WM, does NOT use that stupid self-checkout "Peek-a-boo, we photograph you" technology. I go there 90% of the time. About 6% of the time I pick up essentials at Dollar Tree.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 07:50 AM (/XOcP)

206 I paid cash, which I'm sure they hate.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 07:46 AM (/XOcP)
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They sure do. I rarely use a credit card in person. Cash is still relatively private. I use other people's rewards/membership cards - so that isn't bound to me, either. (Look in the white pages and find a phone number. The odds are good that it's in the grocery store discount club already,)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 07:50 AM (Jsjd7)

207 194 The reason is because their people are usually not very skilled and if they didn't sell the watch originally, they won't service it because if they screw up and break it, they can't just give you another one off the shelf. That's the real reason.

As a young man, I worked at a department store with that same SOP. I think most places are the same. Customers used to bitch long and loud about it.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 07:50 AM (Bmy3R)

208 "If it turns out that his wife wasn't drinking, and the Dallas police harassed her because her husband is running against Abbott, this is going to get a lot bigger. "

Wait...a black woman may have been targeted by police?

I wonder how the black community will respond to this one.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 23, 2021 07:50 AM (snOKo)

209 The only reason I like the self checkout thing?
No one in that store wants out of there faster than I do. That schlub that's an hour into their 8 hour shift? They don't give a flip how fast or slow they check you out.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2021

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They're still quicker at it than I am.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 07:50 AM (/XOcP)

210 I'm shocked...shocked I tell ya...

@JackPosobiec

Cuomo abandoned his dog Captain at mansion after governor departed

https://tinyurl.com/yfpfyap7

Posted by: Tami at August 23, 2021 07:50 AM (cF8AT)

211 I have posted this several times:

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.

Le Bon

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 07:51 AM (yrol0)

212 The refugees will be filled with sleepers.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 23, 2021 07:51 AM (2o90I)

213 212 The refugees will be filled with sleepers.
Posted by: artisanal ette at August 23, 2021 07:51 AM (2o90I)

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I'm pretty sure sleeping pills are legal in the United States and we don't need drug mules for them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:52 AM (LvTSG)

214 I just heard that story on the radio coming back from the gym. Sure sounds like she was targeted by the Cops to me. He is pi$$ed and rightly so.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 23, 2021 07:47 AM (JUOKG)

From the news report that I read, the results of the alcohol and drug test won't be coming back for several weeks (?!). If that is indeed the case, I think that Abbott is in trouble. I can't imagine that it would take more than a couple of days to get a definitive result.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 23, 2021 07:52 AM (mdjgu)

215 Can she take it to a jeweler ?
Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 07:49 AM (arJlL)
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Of course, which she did. The problem wasn't getting the watch serviced - the problem was being lied to with the same generic excuse everyone uses to justify everything going to pot. She was - and remains - furious about it and hasn't stepped into Wal-Mart since. She knows when she's being lied to (usually), and she really resents it. It was a lie that ultimately red-pilled her and made her stop being a squishy default lib.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 07:52 AM (Jsjd7)

216 Facebook your info, your activity, tracks your movements, everything about you to make money. Then it used that money to help the democrats steal the election. Not GOTV efforts. No. They placed drop boxes in heavily dem areas to facilitate the fraud.
I am the only person i know who has quit it completely, deleted the app.
But how will I know what that person I went to high school is doing? What about the funny cat memes?
Zuckerberg wants you dead. He will use his platform to send you to a prison camp.
But... funny memes!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 23, 2021 07:53 AM (TayrX)

217 This idea of "Mass Psychosis" explaining suburban Democrats leaving reality behind and supporting crazy totalitarianism is a very good idea. It also gives my hope, because mass psychosis can go away as suddenly as they arrive. The Salem witch trials came to a sudden such end, when people started waking up and realizing how terrible their actions had become.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 07:53 AM (iGK4s)

218 >>Not that money matters anymore, but one can only imagine the cost to the American taxpayer for taking care of the masses of Afghanis coming our way.

The cost is this: they will crowd out Americans in need of assistance from their local communities' government and private charities.

See: Portland Maine's Somalis crowding out locals who need assistance: https://tinyurl.com/49rf3fym

Posted by: Lizzy at August 23, 2021 07:53 AM (bDqIh)

219 Walmart, cont.:

So after checking out I looked up the manager. "Why are there no checkout people?" "Ya can use the self-checkout, sir." "Sure, but why are there no open checkouts?" "Covid, sir." "What do you mean? Everybody is dead?"

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Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicus (oEn12) at August 23, 2021 07:53 AM (fQLrM)

220 Disease so deadly you need a test to know if you have it

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Just like before the vaccine.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 07:54 AM (wqFd7)

221 Wifey keeps worrying because she's seeing stories in the "news" of the unv*xxed dying and regretting it.

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It's ludicrous to believe there are people in such dire shape, moments from death, just wishing to get their last breaths out to declare they wish they'd had taken the "vaccine." Then have those proclamations sent to the news wires where it's run non-stop, like Hunter on crack. Yeah, I do not believe it. Why, it's almost like it's BS to get more people to inject themselves with the Frankenjuice.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 07:54 AM (O+I8R)

222 Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
And the Australian officials who slaughtered these dogs in the name of COVID -- to stop people from leaving their home to bring them to a shelter: all over *7* cases -- should be prosecuted for animal cruelty. This is the authoritarian mindset unleashed:

https://tinyurl.com/95m9jyd4

Posted by: redridinghood at August 23, 2021 07:54 AM (NpAcC)

223 200 Wifey keeps worrying because she's seeing stories in the "news" of the unv*xxed dying and regretting it.

She's reading the panic porn.

Just before dying a horrendous death, he looked up at me and gasped: "I was wrong! Please give me the vax! Dr. Fauci was right about everything. Trump is a bad orange man! Also, Biden won the election fair and square, and Epstein killed himself. BLEH! (dies)"

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 07:54 AM (Bmy3R)

224 "All the servants fully masked. The almost-entirely old, white, rich crowd of DCCC donors free to go maskless as they're served."
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The facelessness of the serving class is part of the kink. It's the best and easiest way to dehumanize others.

Its actually worse. Once they discovered the psychological damage due to widespread and prolonged mask wearing, they decided to make it a permanent feature in the dehumanizing and subjugating of the victims of their deliberate torment.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 23, 2021 07:54 AM (+LCoQ)

225 Wifey keeps worrying because she's seeing stories in the "news" of the unv*xxed dying and regretting it. ...
Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 07:49 AM (WpyXV)
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How do they regret anything when they're dead?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 07:55 AM (Jsjd7)

226
so after 20 years in A-Stan we have decided to fight them here? is that it?

moslems are the shittiest of refugees and Afghans and Somalais are 2 of the worst

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 23, 2021 07:55 AM (bTQ72)

227 Victor Davis Hanson: "A cognitively challenged Biden is pulled in every direction, by left-wing politicos collecting their debts, by his own spite, by his trademark narcissism, and by his hatred of all things Trump."

obligatory if this were Trump in office

they tried to get him "six ways from Sunday..." - but they finally accomplished a coup as it was not working

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 23, 2021 07:55 AM (2o90I)

228 And then, when use a credit card, you're now in the facial recognition database, complete with identifying information that binds your face to your legal identity with great ease.

But don't worry! You can be sure that the system is private and secure and won't be used as a part of the gigantic integrated panopticon being built by state and industry.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

I have a CHL. The government has my face and prints already.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2021 07:55 AM (OCTRt)

229 226
so after 20 years in A-Stan we have decided to fight them here? is that it?

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Gonna steal that

Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicus (oEn12) at August 23, 2021 07:56 AM (fQLrM)

230 Stop the testing. Stop the yammering.
Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 07:41 AM (S1hrL)

I know I have never tested positive.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 07:56 AM (T7iTv)

231 I have a CHL. The government has my face and prints already.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2021 07:55 AM (OCTRt)
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Yup, me too (not the CHL - mine was because I was an IRS systems guy for a little while).

But thankfully, the government systems are pretty closed off and incompatible and very hard to use. The commercial systems are more pervasive and likely more generally useful. If the state wants you, they've got you. If the general Complex wants you, those commercial systems are very useful indeed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 07:56 AM (Jsjd7)

232 The refugees will be filled with sleepers.

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Rest easy, Artisanal Ette. The FBI will be keeping tabs on them...

/s

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 07:57 AM (O+I8R)

233 Wifey keeps worrying because she's seeing stories in the "news" of the unv*xxed dying and regretting it.

Because when the body is shutting down its internal organs and processes and the palliative drugs have fogged the mind to the point of near coma, it is then and only then when the world's most profound thoughts and insights are muttered through the mouth of the dying.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 23, 2021 07:57 AM (+LCoQ)

234 She was - and remains - furious about it and hasn't stepped into Wal-Mart since. She knows when she's being lied to (usually), and she really resents it. It was a lie that ultimately red-pilled her and made her stop being a squishy default lib.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021

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Good to hear. I've been furious at WM's employees and practices for a long time. The one closest to me, I am certain, makes a point of hiring the stupidest warm bodies they can find in the metro area . . . and in this metro area, that's really saying something.

I'd thought the store in the far suburbs would be better. Ha.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 07:57 AM (/XOcP)

235 I bet hackers would fuck zuck up except..i guess...most hackers are leftist. BUT...remember that movie Fallen with Michael Douglas?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 23, 2021 07:57 AM (Lln9q)

236 because mass psychosis can go away as suddenly as they arrive.

"Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" is available online, and free. A quick short read, one quote I think is probably from that, goes something like "People go insane en masse, but they only regain their sanity one by one."

It is true the leftists know that sentiment can turn on a dime, this is ultimately why they can never brook any dissent whatsoever. Too risky.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2021 07:58 AM (Z3TUG)

237 From the news report that I read, the results of the alcohol and drug test won't be coming back for several weeks (?!). If that is indeed the case, I think that Abbott is in trouble. I can't imagine that it would take more than a couple of days to get a definitive result.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

That's bullshit. If they can restrain your movements immediately, then they need a fucking test that shows results immediately.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2021 07:58 AM (OCTRt)

238 I know I have never tested positive.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 07:56 AM (T7iTv)
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I assume the implication is that you've never been tested. This is a very good way to frame that statement. It's like when Ted Cruz dodged the Canadian question during the primary (and I am still suspicious about that) when he said he has never owned a Canadian passport.

Well no shit. No one owns a passport. Passports belong to the government in all cases - and as a lawyer, he knows that and did a very clever and artful dodge on the question.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 07:58 AM (Jsjd7)

239 I was worried about all the news reports on Americans left behind in Afghanistan, but I see John Harwood, CNN's White House correspondent, tweeted that 39K have already been flown out. We may still have Americans in peril, but the spin is safe again.

Posted by: Downcast at August 23, 2021 07:58 AM (JjMWb)

240 Rest easy, Artisanal Ette. The FBI will be keeping tabs on them...

More like giving them primary positions and assignments within the organization.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 23, 2021 07:58 AM (+LCoQ)

241 The Salem witch trials came to a sudden such end, when people started waking up and realizing how terrible their actions had become.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 07:53 AM (iGK4s)

They had a moral backstop in their society, certain fundamental and concordant principles. I'd say we have lost ours for the most part; those most bound up in the psychosis are the least likely to reappraise their conduct. No experience with appraisal in the first place.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 23, 2021 07:58 AM (DH2LB)

242 Remember when Sheriff Joe was the big, bad tough who was gonna make sure there was no fraud in trillion-dollar bailout?

Anyway, Sheriff Joe says we're gonna stay in Afghanistan longer.

Taliban says, "no bro, you go"

So, in 9 days, who you betting on?

Posted by: Mrm88 at August 23, 2021 07:59 AM (jIL4c)

243 >>>I know I have never tested positive.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Also, masks don't work, according to another study I saw this weekend. But we already knew that.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 23, 2021 08:00 AM (bkUtD)

244 So after checking out I looked up the manager. "Why are there no checkout people?" "Ya can use the self-checkout, sir." "Sure, but why are there no open checkouts?" "Covid, sir." "What do you mean? Everybody is dead?"
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I may have smiled as I said it. But the "manager" didn't take it as a joke.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 08:00 AM (/XOcP)

245 242 Remember when Sheriff Joe was the big, bad tough who was gonna make sure there was no fraud in trillion-dollar bailout?

Anyway, Sheriff Joe says we're gonna stay in Afghanistan longer.

Taliban says, "no bro, you go"

So, in 9 days, who you betting on?
Posted by: Mrm88 at August 23, 2021 07:59 AM (jIL4c)

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We will still have 10,000 troops in Afghanistan in 2024. The pullout will remain a fiasco and even Biden won't have actually accomplished it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 08:00 AM (LvTSG)

246 Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 07:54 AM (O+I8R)

The stories claim it's family members speaking for them. Which I totally believe because it's the kind of shit lefties do.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 08:00 AM (WpyXV)

247 Cause I'm willing to not shoot folk for $1,000 a month.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 23, 2021 07:02 AM (snOKo)

I think there's a requirement to have been involved in a fatal shooting.

1k a month vs three hots and a cot on Rikers.

Posted by: Fox2! at August 23, 2021 08:00 AM (qyH+l)

248

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 08:00 AM (/XOcP)

249 The VDH essay mentions "The Squad" a couple of times.

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I'm in the middle of reading for the first time David Horowitz's autobiography "Radical Son" -- and did not know that the "The Squad" was the name of the Black Panthers murderous thug hit squad controlled by Huey Newton.

I see now why the modern version has thus dubbed themselves this ... with their intent to beat and murder the whole of America this time.

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 23, 2021 08:00 AM (07GNa)

250 "Taliban says, "no bro, you go"

So, in 9 days, who you betting on?"

You be here twenty year...

You go now.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 23, 2021 08:01 AM (snOKo)

251 That's bullshit. If they can restrain your movements immediately, then they need a fucking test that shows results immediately.

Its a suppression technique. They make it very clear to you that whatever you are doing outside the State, against the State or not for the State will be frustrated by an immediate test that will absolutely show a positive, even if it takes fifty cycles to trigger.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 23, 2021 08:01 AM (+LCoQ)

252 . . . for $2,000 a head and 10% to the Big Guy.
Biden: "Any American Who Wants to Come Home, We Will Get You Home"

Every Democrat and NeverTrumper will applaud when it eventually comes out that Joe paid the Taliban mega-bucks to not kill Americans and to allow them to get to the airport. That's known as ransom. The US Government policy forever has been not to pay ransom for Americans. Returning to normal under Joe!

Posted by: Gref at August 23, 2021 08:01 AM (AMIL/)

253 It's ludicrous to believe there are people in such dire shape, moments from death, just wishing to get their last breaths out to declare they wish they'd had taken the "vaccine." Then have those proclamations sent to the news wires where it's run non-stop, like Hunter on crack. Yeah, I do not believe it. Why, it's almost like it's BS to get more people to inject themselves with the Frankenjuice.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 07:54 AM (O+I8R)

***

Complete with pictures and heart wrenching stories of sorrow and loss. Not buying it... It's all bullshit.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 23, 2021 08:02 AM (flINI)

254 I guess Nancy didn't say anything important at the outdoor dinner. I watched it frame by frame and many were talking or phone watching while she spoke about Gods know what. Beautiful home (Manson) in the background. She seemed rather small in the picture while she babbled. I wonder what the blue caps some were wearing said.

Posted by: Colin at August 23, 2021 08:02 AM (gfP64)

255 Former NBA All-Star Andrew Bogut Explains How Digital Influencers are Bought Off to Spread COVID-19 Submission Propaganda
"Whoever you are, why don't we hear you speaking up? The silence is deafening," Bogut asked other influencers with large social media followings.
"Let me give you the reason why: Last year, about three or four months into this pandemic, I got a message from somebody. I'm not going to name who it was or where it came from. I got offered money to put out a public service announcement for you everyday plebs to stay home," he added.
"Athletes that are in leagues all around Australia and even the world to an extent, I know for Australia for a fact because people reach out to me, have been muzzled," he said.
"Athletes that are on contract in our biggest leagues in Australia...They're being told you are not to make anti-lockdown, anti-government statements on social media. Period. No matter how drastic they are because it affects our league staying open and you getting a salary," Bogut added.
https://tinyurl.com/dy5jhybc

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 23, 2021 08:02 AM (2o90I)

256 Wifey keeps worrying because she's seeing stories in the "news" of the unv*xxed dying and regretting it.

**

Ask her to look up why they stopped animal testing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 08:03 AM (wqFd7)

257 Biden: "Any American Who Wants to Come Home, We Will Get You Home"
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LOL how many don't want to come home? I'm guessing it will be the number that don't come home.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 08:03 AM (WpyXV)

258 For the unexplained and seeming unexplainable:

Corollary #1 to Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to stupidity or malice that which is adequately explained by herd insanity.

Corollary #2 to Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to stupidity, malice or insanity that which can only explained by extreme mendacity.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at August 23, 2021 08:03 AM (MkuC5)

259 Since some hospitals are saying they're considering vaccine status when you're in need of treatment, I was wondering if that will apply to any other situation. Will the heart attack patient who is relatively healthy and trim get treated before a heart attack patient who is obese and eats a diet of fast food? If they're using the "outcomes" as an excuse, that would apply to anything then, calling into question one's BMI, diet, lifestyle, etc. Are they going to go there??? If not, they cannot justify 2nd class treatment to those non-vaccinated.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 08:03 AM (O+I8R)

260 ...then people started waking up and realizing how terrible their actions had become.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 07:53 AM (iGK4s)

I don't see them waking up and shrugging off their psychosis. In fact, they seem to be getting worse. Every day it's a new insanity. The latest will be the wholesale acceptance of A refugees in the tens of thousands coming here and being welcomed as if we know they all are harmless. How dare we think otherwise? We OWE them, and so on.

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 08:04 AM (S1hrL)

261 Good morning.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated American at August 23, 2021 08:04 AM (4I/2K)

262 The problem wasn't getting the watch serviced - the problem was being lied to with the same generic excuse everyone uses to justify everything going to pot.

The aspect of all this which is currently pissing me off the most are the signs everywhere - "Due to a rise in covid cases, the CDC recommends masking".

First, they're positive tests...not cases. Second, if you want that to stop...quit importing sick people.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 08:04 AM (T7iTv)

263 "omplete with pictures and heart wrenching stories of sorrow and loss. Not buying it... It's all bullshit. Posted by: Truck Monkey Report"

Which is why a heart wrenching Lifetime movie will be coming out soon to help spread the message to vax deniers.

Posted by: Ripley at August 23, 2021 08:05 AM (MxEKc)

264 Biden: "Any American Who Wants to Come Home, We Will Get You Home"
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LOL how many don't want to come home? I'm guessing it will be the number that don't come home.
Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 08:03 AM (WpyXV)

Come, mister tolly-bon, tolly me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2021 08:05 AM (Y5qcH)

265 The stories claim it's family members speaking for them. Which I totally believe because it's the kind of shit lefties do.

--

It is the kind of thing leftists do. IOW, it's a lie. Because that's all they do.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 08:06 AM (O+I8R)

266 All the big box retailers have facial recognition throughout the store now.
Which they match to you at checkout to see what you bought.
Cash or credit.(Don't think you're being sneaky paying cash.)
Because--for now-- it's to gather data on product placement. Move the items you purchased next to items you might purchase if you saw it at the same time.

But, it's just a click to send that video to the government. Or Antifa, etc.

Posted by: Mrm88 at August 23, 2021 08:06 AM (jIL4c)

267 LOL how many don't want to come home? I'm guessing it will be the number that don't come home.

**

That's their out.

When they start dying, the left will say "they didn't want to come home"

Also, like Benghazi, we couldn't get there in time.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 08:06 AM (wqFd7)

268 moslems are the shittiest of refugees and Afghans and Somalais are 2 of the worst

Yeah, when a branch of your nation's former military has a song that includes slaughtering muslims in the name of furthering peace and prosperity, you have to think that there has been a dramatic loss of knowledge in the intervening years.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 23, 2021 08:06 AM (+LCoQ)

269 No, Biden does not need to be impeached, impeachment is a political process.

What Biden, his advisors, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff have done, is the crime of treason, giving aid and comfort to an enemy during time of war. There is zero problem with finding witnesses to this overt act, as is required by the Constitution, for conviction.

This is a federal crime which may be prosecuted anywhere in the United States. Hanging these traitors will serve as a lesson for future leaders.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 23, 2021 08:06 AM (gxcpb)

270 Are they going to go there??? If not, they cannot justify 2nd class treatment to those non-vaccinated.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 08:03 AM (O+I8R)

Seems that might be a way to combat workplace mandates, why this vax and not the other ones

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 23, 2021 08:07 AM (/6GbT)

271 "Now that the US has pulled up its drawbridge, how will the Free World defend itself?"

After America
________

Makes me wonder, given how few troops we actually had in Afghanistan, surely there are many other countries which, if they think it necessary, could handle it.

One benefit, if the world has time, might be that some countries will actually start providing for their own defense. IIRC, the Brits were the only other country in NATO which actually met the spending they had committed to, at least regularly.

(Of course, there is the question of whether we want Germany armed again. Hasn't always worked well.)

Posted by: Eeyore at August 23, 2021 08:07 AM (7X3UV)

272 @257 ... those "who want to come home..."

Yeah, what's with that disclaimer? I mentioned it last week how Biden uses that phrase to cover the fact that those who get left behind "WANTED" to get left behind. FTS. No one wants to stay there. It's idiotic to suggest that or believe that. But Biden says it every time. No one in media has called this out. Odd, isn't it?

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 08:07 AM (S1hrL)

273 another highly respectable doc labeling what he is seeing as horrific and madness - no kidding, really good read.

Microbiologist Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi Explains COVID Jab Effects
https://tinyurl.com/4crpbadx
Bhakdi's Medical Credentials
Bhakdi graduated from medical school in Germany in 1970. After a year of clinical work, he joined the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology, where he remained for four years as a post-doc.
There, he also began researching immunology. Eventually, he ended up chairing the department of medical, microbiology and hygiene at the University of Mainz, where he worked for 22 years until his retirement nine years ago. During that time, Bhakdi also worked on vaccine development, and says he's "certainly pro-vax with regards to the vaccinations that work and that are meaningful."

and conservativetreehouse
With Pfizer Likely to Get FDA Approval Monday It's Worth Remembering Pfizer and Moderna Lost The Clinical Trial Control Group Testing Vaccine Efficacy and Safety
https://tinyurl.com/p9k33tup

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 23, 2021 08:08 AM (2o90I)

274 Be fair to the muzzies. Afghanistan was like this ages before Mahound.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 23, 2021 08:08 AM (7X3UV)

275 ... What Biden, his advisors, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff have done, is the crime of treason, giving aid and comfort to an enemy during time of war. There is zero problem with finding witnesses to this overt act, as is required by the Constitution, for conviction. ...
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 23, 2021 08:06 AM (gxcpb)
++++
Is it?

If there is any evidence - and I doubt there is, at least none that can be found - that the fucked up withdrawal was deliberate, then this might be true. If it was not intentional and planned but instead was the consequence of mendacity and incompetence, then it isn't treason - and impeachment and removal is probably the technically correct answer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 08:09 AM (Jsjd7)

276 Why should we believe or trust the FDA? That's what I ask. Hubby says I'm too cynical. I say that's the reality we're in.

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 08:10 AM (S1hrL)

277 Ask her to look up why they stopped animal testing.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 08:03 AM (wqFd7)

Thanks. I am done arguing with her about it. Not that we've argued much but she's scared and we rarely argue about anything. She's smart and has to make her own decision. I know she's still torn but the mental mindfuck psy op news works on most people.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 08:10 AM (WpyXV)

278 If not, they cannot justify 2nd class treatment to those non-vaccinated.

Well, since they are already telegraphing their intent not to treat, does that now allow me to be exempt from paying health insurance premiums? The Junta has already suggested that all of that Medicaid/Medicare money that has been forcefully extracted from your paycheck will be denied you if you haven't taken the Mark of the Beast.

Can I get a refund on all the monies paid?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 23, 2021 08:10 AM (+LCoQ)

279 >>>If there is any evidence - and I doubt there is, at least none that can be found - that the fucked up withdrawal was deliberate, then this might be true.

Biden returns Afghanistan to the terrorists, and he thinks everything's jake. No muss, no fuss. I'm leaning toward deliberate.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 23, 2021 08:11 AM (bkUtD)

280 I'm not an attorney, but I think that's a legal dodge from State.

You have to express a willingness to come home. You have to contact them, so to speak. If you don't, well, I guess you don't exist as far as that goes.

I've read that US passport holders were not required to register with State upon arrival, nor were they required to notify State upon departure. Now, I can understand some reasoning behind that. On the other hand, I can understand the reasoning of "R U fricking crazy??"

So this is one reason for the claims that nobody knows how many Americans are stuck there. But I think it's telling they aren't saying "We'll get Americans out", but the curiously weaselly "Any American who wants to", there's a reason for that kind of word salad.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2021 08:11 AM (Z3TUG)

281 Larry Elder responds-with Tucker Carlson-to evil racist editorial in the LA Times which calls Elder the "Black face of white supremacy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3IRAT-4coQ

I send some money to Trump's campaign when he was first running. I think I will send some to Larry Elder. Certainly Gavin Nuisance is going to get a whole lot of money

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2021 08:11 AM (ai5jE)

282 "Now that the US has pulled up its drawbridge, how will the Free World defend itself?"
After America
++++
The free world no longer exists. Everything is a slave state now, some worse than others. It is past tense.

And eventually, sometime in the future, during the worst of the slaughter and privations to come, the shrewder among us will wake with a start in the depths of the night and silently rue the end of the Pax Americana.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 08:11 AM (Jsjd7)

283 Just before dying a horrendous death, he looked up at me and gasped: "I was wrong! Please give me the vax! Dr. Fauci was right about everything. Trump is a bad orange man! Also, Biden won the election fair and square, and Epstein killed himself. BLEH! (dies)"
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 07:54 AM (Bmy3R)

Your forgot Timmy fell in the well!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 08:11 AM (yrol0)

284 "The Part Time President Must Go"

The Spectator is right, except to say a worse person is lined up right behind him, a frightening person. Harris got zero votes and evidently understands nothing at all.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 08:11 AM (iGK4s)

285
what if the taliban start open warfare on the 31st? that is the end of the agreement

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 23, 2021 08:11 AM (bTQ72)

286 Weird how U.S. companies want to avoid any liability for bad outcomes if you get the vaccine. The courts have already proven favorable to the idea if you make it a condition of employment, you own that decision and are fully liable. That line doesn't change if the FDA approves the vaccine. You are still intervening in a person's medical care.

You know it's also funny that as the virus changes, it's becoming less deadly. That follows the genesis of most viruses. So- why the push?

Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2021 08:12 AM (VpIIl)

287 Radio news today keeps reporting 1 out of 500 Americas has dies of covid. Put on your mask, get your vax. Eleventy!!!

I guess that sounds scarier than 99.8% of American have not died of covid? Or easier for the LIV's to understand?

Posted by: Ripley at August 23, 2021 08:12 AM (MxEKc)

288 278 If not, they cannot justify 2nd class treatment to those non-vaccinated.

Well, since they are already telegraphing their intent not to treat, does that now allow me to be exempt from paying health insurance premiums? The Junta has already suggested that all of that Medicaid/Medicare money that has been forcefully extracted from your paycheck will be denied you if you haven't taken the Mark of the Beast.

Can I get a refund on all the monies paid?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 23, 2021 08:10 AM (+LCoQ)

And there is the other side of the two-edged sword of the word "entitlements."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 08:13 AM (s2VJv)

289 With Pfizer Likely to Get FDA Approval Monday It's Worth Remembering Pfizer and Moderna Lost The Clinical Trial Control Group Testing Vaccine Efficacy and Safety
https://tinyurl.com/p9k33tup
Posted by: artisanal ette at August 23, 2021 08:08 AM (2o90I)

It's funny. When Pfizer first announced they were going for FDA approval in June (IIRC), it was noted that it would take anywhere from 6-8 months. That gets approval to Dec 2021 - Feb 2022. Then it was announced that it was being fast-tracked, and it would get the approval in September. Now, with the fiasco in Afghanistan, we are getting approval as early as today.

Coincidence?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 23, 2021 08:13 AM (mdjgu)

290 Israel seems to be digging itself a very big grave.

Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson

1/ They will spin this as hard as possible, but it is awful news. Up to 15 Israelis who are a week out from the third dose have already died? 88 are very sick?
Understand:
A) The denominator here will be in person-DAYS - that's how little time has passed since boosters started.
As he explains in so many words, they will ramp up those unvaxxed that are dying, but those that are unavaxxed were more than likely too frail or sick to get the initial doses in the first place, hence, death. There seems to be a very willing population to take this in Israel in the first place. Unlike France.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 23, 2021 08:13 AM (2o90I)

291 >>>The free world no longer exists. Everything is a slave state now, some worse than others. It is past tense.

Absolutely correct. America is gone, and it's never coming back. Get rid of Biden, and Harris replaces him. We're finished as a country, and the best we can do is find a halfway decent red state to live in.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 23, 2021 08:14 AM (bkUtD)

292 But, it's just a click to send that video to the government. Or Antifa, etc.
Posted by: Mrm88 at August 23, 2021 08:06 AM (jIL4c)

FIB: But we will only request if it is really really really necessary, and then only after judicial review!

Later.... Walmart processed 327,000 FIB requests for customer data last year....

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 23, 2021 08:14 AM (TayrX)

293 Posted by: artisanal ette at August 23, 2021 08:08 AM (2o90I)

Thanks for the link.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 23, 2021 08:14 AM (DH2LB)

294 286 Weird how U.S. companies want to avoid any liability for bad outcomes if you get the vaccine. The courts have already proven favorable to the idea if you make it a condition of employment, you own that decision and are fully liable. That line doesn't change if the FDA approves the vaccine. You are still intervening in a person's medical care.

You know it's also funny that as the virus changes, it's becoming less deadly. That follows the genesis of most viruses. So- why the push?
Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2021 08:12 AM (VpIIl)

The original Peking Pox is more than likely gone, having mutated into some other form. Just like every other virus has done for two billion years. The vaccines now being pushed are at best useless.

And yet. And yet...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 08:15 AM (s2VJv)

295 It's ludicrous to believe there are people in such dire shape, moments from death, just wishing to get their last breaths out to declare they wish they'd had taken the "vaccine." Then have those proclamations sent to the news wires where it's run non-stop, like Hunter on crack. Yeah, I do not believe it. Why, it's almost like it's BS to get more people to inject themselves with the Frankenjuice.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2021 07:54 AM (O+I8R)

Now let's do this with the 10's of thousands that die from the flu each year.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 23, 2021 08:16 AM (2o90I)

296 I sent some money to Elder. He's going to need it to fight the fraud. I saw Newt over the weekend essentially say that Democrats are already engaged in massive mail-in and ballot harvesting fraud, and that Pelosi was going out to fundraise specifically to provide money for that operation. Imagine electoral fraud so widespread and organized, you fundraise for it.

They will need lawyers to challenge every ballots legitimacy. Democrats have turned California into a Banana Republic

Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2021 08:16 AM (VpIIl)

297 287 Radio news today keeps reporting 1 out of 500 Americas has dies of covid. Put on your mask, get your vax. Eleventy!!!

I guess that sounds scarier than 99.8% of American have not died of covid? Or easier for the LIV's to understand?
Posted by: Ripley at August 23, 2021 08:12 AM (MxEKc)

How many have died because of common flu? COPD? Heart disease? Cancers?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 08:16 AM (s2VJv)

298 Apple went woke and the Apple Store in Portland is the result

https://tinyurl.com/ytsvsj69

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 08:16 AM (iGK4s)

299 Future investigations:

Ding ding ding! Bank robbery!

FBI office: *click-click* *click-click* *click-click* Got him, boys! Sending the gos coordinates to you now!"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 23, 2021 08:16 AM (TayrX)

300 Radio this morning: hospitals on Cape have the highest number of people with covid since the "beginning" of the pandemic.

But they were sophisticated, vaxed, masked, and cared about other people!

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 08:16 AM (S1hrL)

301 >>>Now let's do this with the 10's of thousands that die from the flu each year.
Posted by: artisanal ette

Exactly. The flu kills as many every year, and we're not running around with masks during flu season.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 23, 2021 08:16 AM (bkUtD)

302 Wokeism or wokery?

Posted by: SFGoth at August 23, 2021 08:17 AM (KAi1n)

303 The story that the unvaxxed are begging for the jab on their death beds comes from a Veterinarian.

When the claim started their were no COVID cases in her county hospital either.

But...the lie continues.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2021 08:17 AM (DpkTQ)

304 "Now that the US has pulled up its drawbridge, how will the Free World defend itself?"

Every country that depends on the US for any aspect of its defense needs to be worried. Joe will claim fighting to help any country "is not in America's National Interest" if Joe believes that's the best domestic political stance for HIM. Same for Kamala, Nanzi, Buttplug, or any of Out Betters.

Posted by: Gref at August 23, 2021 08:17 AM (AMIL/)

305 So hoist up the Gay Pride sail
See how the main sail sets
Call for the Biden ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I want to go home, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up
I want to go home

Posted by: The Sandbox Boys at August 23, 2021 08:17 AM (4I/2K)

306 The books I read over mumblemumble years ago are a mashup of what I'm reading in your report this morning, JJ. 1984, Atlas Shrugged, The Captains And The Kings, and even The Hobbit series. But the one that really is scary.....is Revelations. That's the one we're about to step into. May GOD preserve us.

Posted by: Eromero at August 23, 2021 08:17 AM (0OP+5)

307 "Conservatives are being called to service and must change their ways."

Taking Action
___________

Probably correct, but easier said than done. Lefties love to do this shit, it's who they are. And many on our side dislike it intensely. So the question is how to get people to "change their ways." Just saying we have to isn't going to cut it. (Remember Alinsky's principle that your people have to LIKE what they are doing.)

One thing would be to look at the areas where we've been successful. Two are on guns and abortion. In both, we've succeeded at least to the point that GOPe types are afraid to come out wholly on the wrong side. Those who do, well, they lose.

Note the two are quite different. Defending guns means keeping what we want. Opposing abortion means getting rid of something we hate.

How to learn from those (and any others), I'm not the guy to say. I am just too resistant to motivational efforts of every kind. I can't help saying "But that's not strictly true."

Posted by: Eeyore at August 23, 2021 08:17 AM (7X3UV)

308 Average age of death from Wu Flu in the US was 82 last time I checked.

Which is higher then the average life expectancy.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2021 08:18 AM (DpkTQ)

309 Just saw a school bus come up the street. Been a long time.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 08:19 AM (Bmy3R)

310 Wifey keeps worrying because she's seeing stories in the "news" of the unv*xxed dying and regretting it.

--

Deathbed conversion of the heretic is a standard trope in any religion
Next will be the miraculous healing via booster shot

Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicus (oEn12) at August 23, 2021 08:20 AM (fQLrM)

311 And eventually, sometime in the future, during the worst of the slaughter and privations to come, the shrewder among us will wake with a start in the depths of the night and silently rue the end of the Pax Americana.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 08:11 AM (Jsjd7)

Basically revert to the norm of all human history and that is the 99% live short miserable lives building monuments for the 1%.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 23, 2021 08:20 AM (+LCoQ)

312 Hi JT!!!

Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicus (oEn12) at August 23, 2021 08:20 AM (fQLrM)

313 308 Average age of death from Wu Flu in the US was 82 last time I checked.

Which is higher then the average life expectancy.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2021 08:18 AM (DpkTQ)

The death tolls I am convinced are being fudged by the CDC and hospitals. Funny how the Lefties all nodded their heads when Obama claimed doctors performed needless amputations and other procedures in order to collect Medicare money. But tell the same lefties that hospitals are lying about causes of death in order to get big money from the government for each alleged COVID case.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 08:20 AM (s2VJv)

314 How many kids between 4-11 years old have expired from assho Chyna flu?

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 23, 2021 08:21 AM (/6GbT)

315 "The original Peking Pox is more than likely gone, having mutated into some other form. Just like every other virus has done for two billion years. The vaccines now being pushed are at best useless.

And yet. And yet...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 08:15 AM (s2VJv) "

It gets worse. The vaccine is less efficacious over time and they have not even tested the third "booster". So they have no idea how long the vaccine actually works. It also does not prevent you from carrying the vaccine or getting it. You can still get COVID, but they're pushing the vaccine makes it more mild. Really? Because the people who recovered from COVID have better outcomes with all the mutations so far.

They want to know why people call it vaccine tyranny? Because we can read, digest facts, determine our own personal risks and probable outcomes.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2021 08:21 AM (VpIIl)

316 Getting killed by the Taliban or falling off the plane. Which is worse?

Biden as President or Harris. Which is worse?

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 08:21 AM (S1hrL)

317 the LA Times which calls Elder the "Black face of white supremacy"

Time for blacks to snap their fingers and break the spell they've been under since Landslide Lyndon declared it so. Gruesome Threesome is trash and it's time for Elder to kick it out.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 08:21 AM (y7DUB)

318 Just saw a school bus come up the street. Been a long time.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 08:19 AM (Bmy3R)

I'm back! I'm back in the saddle again!

Posted by: Mr. Tyler, schoolbus driver at August 23, 2021 08:22 AM (4I/2K)

319 Now, with the fiasco in Afghanistan, we are getting approval as early as today.

Coincidence?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 23, 2021 08:13 AM (mdjgu)
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I think it is a coincidence. I called this two weeks ago, long before Afghanistan blew up the way it did. The DoD issued a vax mandate for all servicemen. They are forbidden from doing so for an unapproved vaccine. Law is dead, but that law was caused by something still raw and pretty scary: the Anthrax vaccine debacle.

The moment they announced the mid-September vax mandate for the armed forces, I said that we would have FDA approval by the end of August at the latest, and possibly as soon as a week. It was longer than a week, but we're going to beat the end-of-August deadline.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 08:22 AM (Jsjd7)

320 Look to your left, then look to your right, then look at the person in front and back of you, and all of the diagonals, then stand up on your seat and look around the room. One of you potentially might be at risk of getting seriously ill or even dying from COVID! Get the jab! Do it NOW! Don't make me force you!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 23, 2021 08:22 AM (TayrX)

321 301 >>>Now let's do this with the 10's of thousands that die from the flu each year.
Posted by: artisanal ette
Exactly. The flu kills as many every year, and we're not running around with masks during flu season.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 23, 2021 08:16 AM (bkUtD)

Just think how many more flu cases we would have each year and how many more would die from the flu if we tested for it and counted deaths like we were testing for Covid.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 23, 2021 08:22 AM (G2zl5)

322 For some time anyone that died with a positive COVID test *OR* flu like symptoms was counted as a COVID death. Actually I think that is likely still the case.

So that's how you got someone dying in a traffic accident being counted as a COVID death.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2021 08:22 AM (DpkTQ)

323 317 the LA Times which calls Elder the "Black face of white supremacy"

Time for blacks to snap their fingers and break the spell they've been under since Landslide Lyndon declared it so. Gruesome Threesome is trash and it's time for Elder to kick it out.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 08:21 AM (y7DUB)

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It was written by a black woman. She seems really scared of a black man that doesn't think like her. Weird, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 08:22 AM (LvTSG)

324 Belarus is forcing Afghan migrants over the Polish border at gunpoint as tyrant Alexander Lukashenko plays 'dirty game' to destabilise the EU
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now why would pushing afghan migrants into EU, destabilize the EU?

what are we doing bringing tens of thousands here?

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 23, 2021 08:23 AM (bTQ72)

325 "Now that the US has pulled up its drawbridge, how will the Free World defend itself?"

They may have pulled up the drawbridge, but they left the back gate open.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2021 08:23 AM (VpIIl)

326 sent some money to Elder. He's going to need it to fight the fraud. I saw Newt over the weekend essentially say that Democrats are already engaged in massive mail-in and ballot harvesting fraud, and that Pelosi was going out to fundraise specifically to provide money for that operation. Imagine electoral fraud so widespread and organized, you fundraise for it.

They will need lawyers to challenge every ballots legitimacy. Democrats have turned California into a Banana Republic
Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2021 08:16 AM (VpIIl)
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I sent him money too even though I know that California is probably a lost cause. I look at California as a motivating factor to protect my own state from turning into a criminal enterprise run by the Democrat party.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 23, 2021 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

327 On the plus side, the FDA is one of the less-awful gov't letter agencies. Grading on a curve.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 08:23 AM (Bmy3R)

328 Biden as President or Harris. Which is worse?
Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 08:21 AM (S1hrL)

Is shitting your pants during a funeral worse than giggling throughout it?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 08:23 AM (y7DUB)

329 324 Belarus is forcing Afghan migrants over the Polish border at gunpoint as tyrant Alexander Lukashenko plays 'dirty game' to destabilise the EU
*****
now why would pushing afghan migrants into EU, destabilize the EU?

what are we doing bringing tens of thousands here?
Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 23, 2021 08:23 AM (bTQ72)

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They're going to Poland? They'll probably end up good Catholics in a year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 08:24 AM (LvTSG)

330 It's ludicrous to believe there are people in such dire shape, moments from death, just wishing to get their last breaths out to declare they wish they'd had taken the "vaccine.

You mean you don't believe they're saying, "Forgive me, Jesus. I should have followed the science and taken the vaccine"?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2021 08:24 AM (ai5jE)

331 You know it's also funny that as the virus changes, it's becoming less deadly. That follows the genesis of most viruses. So- why the push?
Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2021 08:12 AM (VpIIl)

The people closest to you on the tree of tyranny are pushing the vaccine because they are incapable of independent thought.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 08:24 AM (T7iTv)

332 I send some money to Trump's campaign when he was first running. I think I will send some to Larry Elder. Certainly Gavin Nuisance is going to get a whole lot of money
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2021 08:11 AM (ai5jE)

I mailed my ballot vote for him in last week. I know it will go into the black hole of fraud as evidenced by what we are seeing. Rampant fraud everywhere. The USPS is in on it. The guy they recently found in his car asleep (probably on drugs) was a fluke find by the cops. They found drugs, guns and a crapload of ballots. Does that mean the drug cartels are involved in the fraud?

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 23, 2021 08:25 AM (2o90I)

333 There was a prophecy that a simple man from humble beginnings would walk among us, spend 50 years as a public servant before being elevated to a high government position where he would bless the nation and save it from a ravenous disease.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 23, 2021 08:25 AM (TayrX)

334 For some time anyone that died with a positive COVID test *OR* flu like symptoms was counted as a COVID death. Actually I think that is likely still the case.

So that's how you got someone dying in a traffic accident being counted as a COVID death.
Posted by: 18-1

That's why anyone who dies after receiving the jab gets counted as jab caused death. Fair is fair.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2021 08:25 AM (OCTRt)

335 Belarus is forcing Afghan migrants over the Polish border at gunpoint as tyrant Alexander Lukashenko plays 'dirty game' to destabilise the EU

I thought refugees are boons for the country they end up in? The FNM keeps telling me that.

So...shouldn't this story be "Belarus Tyrant is dumb accidentally helping the EU by giving them all his sweet, sweet refugees?!?"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2021 08:25 AM (DpkTQ)

336 333 There was a prophecy that a simple man from humble beginnings would walk among us, spend 50 years as a public servant before being elevated to a high government position where he would bless the nation and save it from a ravenous disease.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 23, 2021 08:25 AM (TayrX)

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Simple Jack?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 08:25 AM (LvTSG)

337 Nobody in the history of ever has said "Please give me a preventative vaccine for the thing that I am currently dying from and therefore already have."

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 08:25 AM (Bmy3R)

338 Remember the current death rate from the flu (pneumonia and influenza/P&I without COVID) as tracked by the CDC is 8.56%.

Remind me- what is the current COVID death rate?

Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2021 08:26 AM (VpIIl)

339 Kamala's also one of those people who doesn't understand her own lack of ability. "Just put me in charge," will be enough for her own self-justification.

Getting someone like Buttigieg whom she probably doesn't respect at all, as her VP will probably be an ideal thing for her mental state. She'll have someone less capable than her as her number 2 to make her feel better about her own ability.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 07:13 AM (LvTSG)

Kamala will order Buttplug to get her some coffee every time they are in a meeting in the White House. She will get a dog, so she can order Buttplug to walk it for her.

Posted by: Gref at August 23, 2021 08:26 AM (AMIL/)

340 Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who has been staying with one of his sisters in Westchester County in the final days of his third term, recently has asked staff members at the Executive Mansion if anyone would like to keep his dog, Captain, who has remained at the state-owned residence after the governor moved out last week. Two State Police sources told the Times Union on Saturday that the governor had recently asked mansion staff members if anyone would be interested in caring for the dog.

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 08:26 AM (RHGPo)

341 Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2021 08:16 AM (VpIIl)

If he loses I hope he will challenge every ballot. he seems like an intelligent man so I hope that he knows he needs to do that. If he wins you can bet Newsome will be challenging every ballot

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2021 08:26 AM (ai5jE)

342 >>>Just think how many more flu cases we would have each year and how many more would die from the flu if we tested for it and counted deaths like we were testing for Covid.
Posted by: Buzzion

We had a death counter for Iraq, but not for the flu. Funny how that works.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 23, 2021 08:27 AM (bkUtD)

343 You want your freedom? Do what we say, when we say it, and every time we say it!

Posted by: The CDC at August 23, 2021 08:27 AM (CTJwJ)

344 How many have died because of common flu? COPD? Heart disease? Cancers?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 08:16 AM (s2VJv)

19 and under is 361 for 2020/21 to date. CDC has yet to research comorbidities.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 08:27 AM (yrol0)

345 Stopped clock is right twice a day ...

Liz Cheney says Americans "probably being held hostage" because of Biden

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 08:27 AM (RHGPo)

346 It was written by a black woman. She seems really scared of a black man that doesn't think like her. Weird, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 08:22 AM (LvTSG)

Kind of like the "conservatives" who voted for Biden.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 08:27 AM (y7DUB)

347 There are no flu deaths because of masking, lockdowns, and social distancing.

There are constant outbreaks of COVID because people aren't masking, lockingdown, and social distancing.

Posted by: The FNM at August 23, 2021 08:28 AM (DpkTQ)

348 Today's darkly amusing political sign. They STILL have this up 7 months after the election:

Unity over division.
Biden and Harris 2020

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2021 08:28 AM (ai5jE)

349 Apple went woke and the Apple Store in Portland is the result

https://tinyurl.com/ytsvsj69
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 08:16 AM (iGK4s)

I wonder if anyone has told them that fences don't work.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 08:28 AM (T7iTv)

350 Good morning, JJ, good morning, Horde,

"None Dare Call It Conspiracy" is my go-to recommendation for folks who are new to conspiracy fact.

No tinfoil hats or shape-shifting lizard people. Just facts.

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 23, 2021 08:28 AM (qV0bc)

351 "Biden as President or Harris. Which is worse?
Posted by: Ziba"

Harris is more likely to try and do some things one her own without Deep State supervision (like Biden apparently did with the Afghan withdrawal) and would be far more of a fuck-up. It will be fun to watch though, from a distance. .

Posted by: Ripley at August 23, 2021 08:28 AM (MxEKc)

352 I don't know if more people die from Covid or car accidents but I am a hell of a lot more worried about some idiot running into me than I am about the Wuflu.

Posted by: f'd at August 23, 2021 08:28 AM (Tnijr)

353 How many have died because of common flu? COPD? Heart disease? Cancers?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 08:16 AM (s2VJv)
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Don't forget dementia. I know several people who's parents or grandparents in nursing homes were fine and dandy in February of last year and then slid into dementia by late summer. Is it due to isolation and lockdown? I don't know. It sure isn't helping. I suspect there's been a dementia spike that tracks neatly to the lockdowns, but I don't know how to pull that data.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 08:29 AM (Jsjd7)

354 259 Since some hospitals are saying they're considering vaccine status when you're in need of treatment, I was wondering if that will apply to any other situation. Will the heart attack patient who is relatively healthy and trim get treated before a heart attack patient who is obese and eats a diet of fast food?

***

Remember all the years when some people were castigated for suggesting that maybe homosexuals should modify their behavior so that they didn't run such a high risk of contracting AIDS? Maybe stop f*cking multiple random dudes in bathhouses, highway rest stops, etc.?

Those people were slammed as bigots and h8ters. Then as AIDS became non-lethal, gays went from promiscuous sex to actually having "bug chasing" parties where they deliberately tried to infect one another, because hey taxpayers are paying for the HIV/AIDS medications, so why not? But still, nobody should dare criticize their behavior, because . . . shut up, everybody has the right to live as they choose.

But different rules now for the rest of us, of course.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 23, 2021 08:29 AM (k4dH2)

355 You know it's also funny that as the virus changes, it's becoming less deadly. That follows the genesis of most viruses. So- why the push?
Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2021 08:12 AM (VpIIl)

With DeSantis's Regeneron stations across FL, he will prove there are indeed treatments and that the vaccine is not needed. That is why the rush. Money. This was a smart move by DeSantis regardless of all of the questions of why this particular drug. Be it ivermectin, hcq, the various cocktail recipes, if it proves to be able to stop this in its tracks, everyone will know they killed innocent people for bigpharma$

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 23, 2021 08:29 AM (2o90I)

356
Relevant art is up.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 08:29 AM (s2VJv)

357 " For some time anyone that died with a positive COVID test *OR* flu like symptoms was counted as a COVID death. Actually I think that is likely still the case. "

In their own data the CDC has three categories for reporting. The one you always hear is "Total Deaths". But there are two other categories "Probable Deaths" and "Confirmed Deaths". For example, NYC starts with total deaths around 33,000. By the time your get to confirmed deaths it's down around 5,500...

Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2021 08:29 AM (VpIIl)

358 345 Stopped clock is right twice a day ...

Liz Cheney says Americans "probably being held hostage" because of Biden
Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 08:27 AM (RHGPo)

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This just shows how much of a clusterfuck the Afghanistan pullout is for Biden. His own partisans like Liz Cheney are calling him out for it.

No one is going to pull any voting lever specifically because of it. However, it does feed into the narrative that the Democratic Party foisted a geriatric moron with questionable judgement to be president of the United States in the most questionable election since the 60s.

I'm still waiting for the media to realize that's the narrative it's been pimping nonstop for a couple of weeks now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 08:30 AM (LvTSG)

359 I sent some money to Elder.

Good for you, Marcus!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2021 08:30 AM (ai5jE)

360 352 I don't know if more people die from Covid or car accidents but I am a hell of a lot more worried about some idiot running into me than I am about the Wuflu.
Posted by: f'd at August 23, 2021 08:28 AM (Tnijr)

When alar on apples was the big worry about 50% of soccer moms would not by apples or apple sauce for the offspring. About 50% of those had not had their car seat inspected for correct installation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 08:30 AM (yrol0)

361 340 Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who has been staying with one of his sisters in Westchester County in the final days of his third term, recently has asked staff members at the Executive Mansion if anyone would like to keep his dog, Captain, who has remained at the state-owned residence after the governor moved out last week. Two State Police sources told the Times Union on Saturday that the governor had recently asked mansion staff members if anyone would be interested in caring for the dog.
Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 08:26 AM (RHGPo)

Never surprises me when it becomes obvious that pets are nothing more than props to politicians and they don't actually care about them. My beagle is a handful and he got out of my parents pen when I was there for something at my younger sisters house. After getting him back in and coming back my older sister made a joke like it would be better if he hadn't gotten back in. She quickly realized that I found zero humor in it from the way I looked at her. That's caring about a pet vs. a politician's "who wants this dumb dog?"

Posted by: Buzzion at August 23, 2021 08:31 AM (G2zl5)

362 Tony Blair has blasted Joe Biden's 'imbecilic' decision to withdraw US troops from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, calling the President's scuttle "tragic, dangerous and unnecessary" and claiming the move had "every Jihadist group round the world cheering".

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 08:31 AM (RHGPo)

363 Apple went woke and the Apple Store in Portland is the result

https://tinyurl.com/ytsvsj69
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 08:16 AM (iGK4s)
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It's gonna be great when the Antifa types turn those gates into lobster traps and just use them to turn the Apple Store into a prison for the bourgeoisie wreckers until Antifa can get around to formally holding them as hostages or just killing them for fun.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 08:31 AM (Jsjd7)

364 363 It's gonna be great when the Antifa types turn those gates into lobster traps and just use them to turn the Apple Store into a prison for the bourgeoisie wreckers until Antifa can get around to formally holding them as hostages or just killing them for fun.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 08:31 AM (Jsjd7)

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"This is not a trial. This is a sentencing hearing."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 08:32 AM (LvTSG)

365 Two State Police sources told the Times Union on Saturday that the governor had recently asked mansion staff members if anyone would be interested in caring for the dog.

Just like the Clintons leaving the White House and sticking Betty Currie with taking care of Socks the cat after The Beast "wrote" a book about letters kids sent the feline. A worse fate was in for Buddy, the chocolate lab named after one of Slick's trash kin, hit and killed by a car because Clenis didn't interrupt watching porn to get a Secret Service drone to walk him.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 08:34 AM (y7DUB)

366 Speaking of "None Dare Call It Conspiracy":

If you take a Gary Allen approach to Covid 19, you'll start bumping into the same names and same organizations over and over again.

All of them sketchy to flat out evil.

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 23, 2021 08:35 AM (qV0bc)

367 If there is any evidence - and I doubt there is, at least none that can be found - that the fucked up withdrawal was deliberate, then this might be true. If it was not intentional and planned but instead was the consequence of mendacity and incompetence, then it isn't treason - and impeachment and removal is probably the technically correct answer.

The treason is supplying weapons and other material to the enemy. Sorry, thought that to be so obvious that I didn't have to point it out.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 23, 2021 08:45 AM (+nx4w)

368 >>>Unity over division.
Biden and Harris 2020
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I still see cars with Bernie and Warren stickers on their cars.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 23, 2021 08:46 AM (VWp7G)

369 >>And the Australian officials who slaughtered these dogs in the name of COVID -- to stop people from leaving their home to bring them to a shelter: all over *7* cases -- should be prosecuted for animal cruelty. This is the authoritarian mindset unleashed:

Yikes -- seems there's a small step from killing unclean dogs to dispatching others who are unclean.

That's what's so alarming, in addition to the horrid shotting of dogs not harming anyone. The shelter had covid protocols in place -- this was not a problem they needed the police to "fix."

Posted by: Lizzy at August 23, 2021 08:49 AM (bDqIh)

370 @AP

BREAKING: All New York City public school teachers and other staffers will be required to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

https://tinyurl.com/yzsxpnhj

Posted by: Tami at August 23, 2021 08:56 AM (cF8AT)

371 Leftists at the Forward are comparing Afghanistan to the Holocaust, so prepare for them to "deploy our legacy " to demand more open borders and unlimited refugees.

Posted by: CN at August 23, 2021 08:56 AM (ONvIw)

372 Companies considering a push to make vaccines a condition of employment are trying to get out from any liability for that decision. That tells you all you need to know. There are also employees who are quitting, simply because they don't like some of the maneuvering in that direction.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2021 09:23 AM (VpIIl)

373 I can't believe any conservative really thinks Elder will win in Ca.

Posted by: There it is at August 23, 2021 09:24 AM (DE7Lc)

374 "BREAKING: All New York City public school teachers and other staffers will be required to get vaccinated against the coronavirus."

Now do Hepatitis and AIDS.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2021 09:26 AM (VpIIl)

375 De Bolshevik Brings "Pay Not to Slay" Program to New York City
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Everyone who receives this money will be robbed of it by those who don't. Guaranteed, this:

https://tinyurl.com/rsnbrnkm

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 23, 2021 09:42 AM (OssQ4)

376 if you came home from work and there was a giant jar on your front porch that contained 10 thousand m and ms with a warning label that said caution: 100 of these m and ms each contain a lethal dose of poison are you going to bring it in your house or throw it in the garbage and then when you call your wife to tell her about it are you going to say "somebody left some m and ms on our front porch" or are you going to say "somebody left some poisoned m and ms on our front porch"

Posted by: sound awake at August 23, 2021 09:57 AM (rCBpR)

377 Posted by: sound awake

The poisoned m+ms analogy is equally and perfectly applicable to both Covid "vaccines" and Afghani "refugees".

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 23, 2021 10:09 AM (OssQ4)

378 "Michael Hayden is Anthony Fauci .... and on and on.. "

I think it can be said that Nation Building is the Gain of Function research of politics.

Posted by: George V at August 23, 2021 10:19 AM (U2Tva)

379 It's obvious why Justin Trudeau called Hillary. He wasn't getting his calls returned by Biden and his Foriegn Minister was getting PR bullshit from the SOS! Canada formerly (?) had troops there and was supplying airlift planes, so he had legitimate concerns.

So he called someone who might have the inside scoop on Biden that he could not get from official sources. Would love to have overheard that call, right Bob at the NSA?

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 23, 2021 10:49 AM (IAPGA)

380 Well, if we sent a bunch of PDT "anti-vaxxers" to Afghanistan, I'm guessing they'd get a lot more productive things done than Gen. Playpen and in a lot less time.

Posted by: DougT at August 23, 2021 12:13 PM (Dky//)

381 We went to Afghanistan and told people how great it would be if they threw out the Taliban and adopted our vision of government. Some of them believed us, adopted our vision, and went to work for us. Then our government betrayed them. But they accepted the vision of American that you and I hold. They were fighting against the Muslim hard-liners. Are these the people we WANT here? The ones who believe in the America as we want it to be? Could it be that Biden doesn't want those Afghans because they hold the wrong politics?

Posted by: Richard at August 23, 2021 02:35 PM (6KoNE)

382 # 222 - redridinghood at August 23, 2021 07:54 AM

With regard to shooting the rescue dogs to keep the contemptible citizens from disobeying orders:

Here in the USA we've had at least one similar instance of "You *WILL* respeck Our Authoriteh!!"

Search the Webz for "Giggles the fawn" in Kenosha, WI back in 2013. Somebody found an abandoned fawn & brought it to a no-kill shelter, which made arrangements to send the little critter to a wildlife rehab center (so it could be taught to live in the wild). Wisconsin Dept of Natural Resources raided the place - FOURTEEN agents, with guns drawn - seized the fawn, took it out back and killed it. Cuz you stupid citizens are not supposed to meddle with Our Precious Wildlife.

Posted by: Doo-Dah, Doo-Dah at August 23, 2021 04:15 PM (b7mVC)

383 Hayden demonstrates the military has been corrupt since at least since 1965. Vietnam destroyed more than the country. It created an army where the pathway to success was not winning wars but obeying orders and following orders.

Posted by: Betsy at August 24, 2021 02:48 AM (EcD5Y)

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