The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 12/14/21

Good morning, kids. Tuesday and as we continue into the 90th week of the two weeks to flatten the curve, there's no end in sight to this madness. And madness it is. Because the powers that be just couldn't abide to have their plans to reshape the world for the betterment of humanity and their bank accounts, but mostly their bank accounts, derailed by the hoi polloi in the form of a loud, orange-complected nouveau riche boor from Queens, millions of us have been turned into crack-monkeys, hooked on fear and conditioned to surrender our freedom to the State in exchange for promises of perpetual safety.

The good news is that there are still millions more of us who are completely fed up with this garbage, and are venting that rage all over the world. Naturally, you wouldn't know it from the media which either embargoes the story completely or otherwise demeans and slimes the people as science-denying spreaders of plague who are to be shunned. Or worse.

First up, the Supreme Court of the United States once again urinates down our throat and tells us it's champagne.

It's getting harder and harder to expect that the Supreme Court will protect religious liberty against relentless attack from Democrats. Today brings another example, with SCOTUS declining to issue a stay of a NY vaccine mandate for healthcare workers that lacks a religious exemption. The exemption was recently removed.
The case is Dr. A. v. Kathy Hochul (who replaced Andrew Cuomo when he resigned). Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch would have granted the application. That's it. No Kavanaugh. No Barrett. And of course, No Roberts. Needless to say, the "liberal" block didn't break ranks, they almost never do.

This is why Roe v. Wade ain't really going anywhere. Frankly, the Texas decision the other day, pun intended, split the baby in half. I thought they were going to overturn it totally but in any case it's more muddle and confusion, but I digress. Psaki-Psircling back to Kathy Hochul, who one should remember was Angel of Death Cuomo's lieutenant governor for his entire time in office and obviously got the gig because she was a Renfield-esque sycophant. So, with zero threat in any real meaningful definition of that word from an even less deadly variant of the classic Chinese COVID which in real terms was essentially bad flu, Hochul issued another mask mandate. New Yorkers were less than pleased.

The new statewide rules, put into effect largely to stem the tide of a surge in cases upstate, where vaccination rates are poor, went into effect just three days after she announced the order on all businesses that don't require their workers, customers or visitors to present proof of vaccination against [Chinese] COVID-19.
One Manhattan hedge-fund manager called Hochul's order -- which at first was met with confusion about whether it applied to offices as well as retail and service businesses -- "shortsighted, in that people were told they have to get a vaccine."
"These mask mandates hinder the desire people have to get back to the office and further delay the revitalization of Midtown and downtown office life," the financier said."If people want to wear masks, they can wear masks, but we have to let individuals make their own risk-taking decisions and stop making those decisions on their behalf."
The hedge-funder added: "And that might be necessary at the beginning of a pandemic -- but two years later, it reeks of authoritarianism."

Same shit, different coast with Gavin Newsom. But I guess Larry Elder really is a Klansman so grab your ankles, California because you're getting it up the sigmoid without lube. Once again.

Surprisingly, one blue state governor is bucking the trend.

Colorado Democrat Gov. Jared Polis declared the coronavirus emergency "over" in an interview Friday, proclaiming that in an era of widely available vaccines, it's people's "own darn fault" if they get sick.
"Everybody had more than enough opportunity to get vaccinated," Polis told Colorado Public Radio. "Hopefully, it's been at your pharmacy, your grocery store, a bus near you, [or at] big events. At this point, if you haven't been vaccinated, it's really your own darn fault."
Polis made the comments while explaining his refusal to reimplement a statewide mask mandate as have other Democrat governors in Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Illinois, and New Mexico, each of which include mask requirements despite vaccination status, according to a MultiState tracker. Mandates passed by Democrat governors in California and New York exclude the vaccinated but not people with natural immunity due to prior infection.

While Polis uses verbiage to derogate and rip his constituents - which really is kind of craven and cowardly considering he outright states the pandemic "over" - the fact that he declared it over should not be overlooked. If anyone does get sick, there is no blame because as stated above this is a virus that the vast majority of people who are infected and become symptomatic will NOT die from.

The problem, though, is that people are not ready or there is no one leader to rally around and just take to the streets and engage in either mass strikes or mass acts of civil disobedience. Certainly, if the Klain/Kalorama Klown Kommittee running Joey Softserve will sick the DOJ on parents protesting mind- and body-rape of their children at the brainwashing centers posing as schools, let alone persecute and imprison ordinary citizens for a staged Reichstag Fire last January 6th. Surely, arresting people for protesting the lockdowns and forcible injections and claiming to be a threat to public health is a snap.

This cannot go on. It cannot be allowed to go on. And the actions of SCOTUS now underscore that body's total corruption and fealty to this junta. We shall see what the elections next year will bring us, vis a vis, if Dao-Min Yen will be in play. Meh, if a shadow government can convene before the last election and manufacture an "orange revolution," what can't they do when they actually are in control of the whole shooting match?

UPDATE: So evidently Hoch-Cuomo is talking out the side of her ass?

New York Governor Kathy Hochul undermined her own statewide mask mandate on Monday by revealing that she would not force counties to comply with the mandate.
"We have left this to the counties to enforce. We hope that counties will enforce it," Hochul told reporters. "We expect that they will, we hope that they will, it's in the best interest of public health. But it also comes down to individual businesses doing the right thing as well. We're asking businesses to protect their customers and to protect their employees". . .
. . . With several counties not enforcing the mandate, it's almost as if the mandate doesn't exist -- at least if you live in a county with Republican leadership.

So then, what's the friggin' point? We'll see if Hoch-Cuomo punishes GOP counties in some manner. You have to believe she and her henchman are figuring that angle.

The End of America: 100 Days That Shook the World available here.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"While people have lost their rights, global elites have benefited."
Have Americans Surrendered Their Liberties on the Bill of Rights' 230th Anniversary?

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

Julie Kelly: "Preventing defendants from telling juries exactly what happened on January 6 is the Justice Department's latest attempt to cover up pervasive police misconduct."
Justice Department Moves to Conceal Police Misconduct on January 6
"Once again, the regime persecutes enemies to cover for its own evils."
Malig-Nancy Pelosi's January 6th Select Committee Hoax
"The January 6 Commission is a kangaroo court spectacle designed to distract you from your original and perfectly legitimate questions about election integrity."
The PowerPoint Mutiny and Democrat Deflection
"Woke communism is turning our country into a totalitarian police state."
Rittenhouse, Smollett, and the Big Lie Eating Away at America
"Jussie Smollett is a microcosm of the cowardly, narcissistic, prideful, and nihilistic behavior that has permeated throughout much of the Democrat-controlled black community."
Jussie Smollett and the Power of Black Male Victimization
"Not fitting their narrative."
Waukesha Feels Abandoned After Horrific Democrat-Leftist Inspired Terror Attack
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Gorsuch dissent: "Those who cite medical reasons are exempt. But no comparable exemption exists for individuals whose sincere religious beliefs prevent them from taking one of the currently available vaccines. It seems New York is one of just three States to have a scheme like this."
Supreme Court Refuses To Halt NY State Healthcare Worker Vaccine Mandate Lacking Religious Exemption
Michael Walsh: "The long struggle over socialized medicine is now essentially over. Going forward, expect the slogan 'My body, my choice' and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to be relegated to the ash heap of history -- all in the same of 'public safety.'"
Omicron Unleashes New Wave of Hysteria, With Rule by Decree in Force
"That's pretty offensive."
Aussie PM Compares Vaccinated People to Sheep
"European governments are trying to force the unvaccinated out of public life. Ordinary people are fighting back."
Protests Intensify Across Europe as Amidst Forced Vaccination Plans
"Americans are returning to normal despite the media's attempts to drum up alarm over the supposedly 'highly transmissible' Omicron variant of [Chinese] COVID-19."
Still No Deaths From Omicron, and Americans Are Getting On With Their Lives
"'Everybody had more than enough opportunity to get vaccinated,' Gov. Jared Polis said. 'If you haven't been vaccinated, it's really your own darn fault.'"
One Democrat Governor Admits the Chinese COVID Emergency Is Over: If You Get Sick, It's Your "Own Darn Fault"
"If people want to wear masks, they can wear masks, but we have to let individuals make their own risk-taking decisions and stop making those decisions on their behalf." The hedge-funder added: "And that might be necessary at the beginning of a pandemic -- but two years later, it reeks of authoritarianism."
Hard to Mask Disgust: Desk Jockeys Rip Cuomo-with-Tits Hochul's New Mandate
But Larry Elder's really a Klansman. Sorry, California.
Gavin Newsom to Reimpose Universal Mask Mandates in California, Even for Vaccinated
"Wide distribution of rapid-result antigen test kits can help end the pandemic."
Finally, Another Weapon Against Chinese COVID
"Those who can see where this is going should do what they can to make sure Britain and America remain beacons of hope."
Vaccine Mandates Abroad Suggest Ominous Lessons
Lloyd Billingsley: "Merry white coat supremacy Christmas, everybody."
Chinese COVID's Winnipeg-Wuhan-Galveston Connection
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"There is, however, a partisan divide. Just 39 percent of Democrats say inflation is a very serious problem, while 76 percent of Republicans do. Sixty percent of independents say inflation is a serious problem."
Poll: Most Americans Say Economy Is Getting Worse and Inflation Is a 'Very Serious' Problem
"Economic illiteracy at the White House is getting more and more expensive."
The High Price of Bidenomics
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"We can't guarantee your safety. It is really, really out of control. I said it to people before, it's like that movie Purge, you know, instead of 24 hours to commit your crime, these people have 365 days to commit whatever they want."
Head of LAPD Police Union Warns Tourists Away
"Psaki later refused to address more specific instances of crime, like someone torching Fox News' Christmas tree last week in New York City."
WATCH: Piss-Hockey Psaki's Dodge When Pressed About Rising Crime Rates Across Country
"The funds will compensate over 500 gymnasts -- including Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman."
Gymnasts, Larry Nassar Abuse Survivors Reach $380 Million Settlement
Selectively reporting or downright ignoring crime based upon race is a dangerous gambit in the hands of a partisan media with a political ax to grind."
The Whitewashing of Black Crime
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Thank you for your request to opt [your child] out of all SEL and Bullying Lessons. I understand your concerns, but I do want to let you know that parents generally do not have a right to opt out of the public school curriculum for their children except for Family Life Education."
Loudoun County Allowed Student To Opt-Out Of Critical Race Theory-Inspired Lessons
"This is yet another case of politically motivated prosecution by the Office of Student Responsibility and Community Standards."
Saint Louis University Threatens To Boot Student For Hanging Up Conservative Speaker's Flyers
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"'What New York is doing to the former president is an outrage,' said Trump lawyer Bruce Castor."
Trump Impeachment Attorney Slams New York AG Investigation Into Former President as "Smear Prosecution"
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Research shows programs that separate small children from their parents reduce children's learning and increase their aggression, risky behavior, and later likelihood of committing crimes.
Democrats' Massive Entitlement Plans Include Banning Christians From Government Childcare
"So oppose the vehement fascist, but oppose the polite Zionist too. They are not your friends. They will not be there for you when you need them. They will take your friendship and throw your Palestinian brothers and sisters under the bus."
CAIR Official: "Islamophobia is a Well-Funded Conspiracy" by Rich "Zionist Organizations"
"Played out at Canada's largest school board."
Groundbreaking Win Against Palestinian Anti-Semitic Propaganda
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"The alliance of mainstream Democrats with communism is becoming obvious." (becoming? - jjs)
After appearing to twerk on stage alongside two other women, DeBarros fully stripped the top half of her body to the Disney song "Let It Go," the outlet reported.
Left-Wing House Candidate Strips To Disney Song In Raunchy Burlesque Performance, Resurfaced Video Shows
$1 TRILLION "INFRASTRUCTURE" SELLOUT, $3.5 TRILLION SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION, DEBT CEILING/BUDGETARY INSANITY
"Manchin indicated that he did not share Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's December 25 timeline to pass the bill."
Manchin Pushes Further Cuts, Transparency To Build Bolshevism Biggerer Bill, Citing Inflation, CBO Score
POLITICS
"Will [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden's weakness in his own party doom the possibility of a second term?"
I&I/TIPP Poll: 60% Of Republicans Want Trump To Run In 2024; Just 37% Of Dems Want Biden To
Robert Spencer: "Don't believe your lyin' eyes."
Jill Biden Says Old Joe Biden is Sharp as a Tack. She Wouldn't Lie, Would She?
"Trump has feuded with Kemp since the election last year, arguing that the Georgia governor he backed in 2018's election battle both in the primary and general was insufficiently loyal to him as the now former president challenged election results throughout Georgia."
Poll: Trump-Backed David Perdue Takes Commanding Lead Over Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in Primary
"The [junta's] crisis is a governance-model crisis. It anticipated a Biden boom, an end to the pandemic, a triumphant return to international normalcy and so many things that didn't happen. Rather than questioning their faith, it was simply easier to blame the unmentionable man in Florida. Yet one has to change, and for Somebodies, even on the downslope, that is the hardest thing to do."
Strategic Self-Deception Is No Substitute for Competence
Robert Spencer: "Harris has done at least one good thing: she 'irritated the progressive left by urging migrants not to come to the U.S. during the trip to Central America, prompting the California Latino Legislative Caucus to issue a statement criticizing the message.'"
Kamala Harris Insists She Really Isn't as Useless as She Seems
"The perennial candidate's recently announced withdrawal from the New York attorney general's race means Teachout has a shot at stealing Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke's title as the biggest failure among active Democratic politicians."
Zephyr Teachout Challenges Beto O'Rourke for Title of Biggest Dem Failure
"Of the 46 presidents of the United States there are three that can be considered indispensable to the nation's enduring existence as a free people; they are George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump."
Donald Trump, the Right President at the Right Time
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"The bombshell emerged from Facebook's court battle with John Stossel, who is suing the company for defamation over its decision to add 'fact check' labels to the libertarian pundit's videos about climate change."
Facebook Admits in Court That 'Fact Checks' Are Just Opinion
"Not surprisingly, Time picked Musk apparently for all the wrong reasons, focusing on the modern leftist and Marxist agenda that despises success and now dominates the culture of most mainstream media outlets."
Time Magazine Names Elon Musk as its Person of the Year
"The bigger question is, have the residents who have fled San Francisco learned from their experience watching their beloved liberal utopia deteriorate before their eyes, or will they continue to support Democrats who support the same policies that destroyed the city they loved?"
Leftism Is Destroying San Francisco, AP Concedes
"FCC nominee Gigi Sohn cannot cherry-pick from her checkered record."
Partisans as Gatekeepers
"Ironically, The Young Turks also appear to be in breach of a YouTube ban on content from Steve Bannon's War Room."
Genocide-Denying Leftists Falsely Claim Steve Bannon Told His Audience to Have "White Babies"
Visitors to the "Mass killings under communist regimes" Wikipedia entry were greeted with a disclaimer that the page "is being considered for deletion" for a myriad of reasons including neutrality issues and factual inaccuracies.
Wikipedia Threatens to Purge "Communist Mass Killings" Page, Cites Anti-Communist Bias
"It would be nice if a Sunday show didn't do what 90 percent of the news media do every other day of the week."
Goodbye, Chris Wallace, and Hello (Maybe) to a Better Sunday News Show
"CNN's Jake Tapper lectured Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar for not reprimanding GOP Sen. Ted Cruz for going maskless at Bob Dole's funeral last week."
Watch Jake "Fake Yapper" Tapper Prove He's More of a Partisan Hack Than Aann Actual Democrat Senator
SECOND AMENDMENT
"Giffords PAC backs Florida Dem, blasts Rubio."
As Support for Stricter Gun Laws Wanes, Demings Touts Gun-Control Group's Endorsement as 'Honor'
"Gavin Newsom is leading the way."
A Clever Way for Leftists to Achieve Gun Control?
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
"The final drone strike before the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan erroneously killed multiple civilians -- including seven children."
U.S. Military Will Not Punish Any Officials For Drone Attack Killing Seven Afghan Children
I keel you! Softly.
A Kinder, Gentler Taliban? Afghan Leaders Want Us to Think So
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"I don't believe in coincidences."
State Dept. Denies Cutting Taiwan Minister Video Feed After Map Showed Country in Different Color Than China
"Blinken was speaking from Liverpool, where G7 foreign ministers on Sunday sent a unified message to Putin, warning of severe economic sanctions -- 'massive consequences -- in the event Russian troops invade Ukraine."
Blinken: 'Hard to See' Gas Flowing Through Nord Stream 2 If Russia Renews Aggression Against Ukraine
"Taiwan, in the center of the first island chain, would be a key factor in whether China's military must operate defensively or could operate offensively."
Why Taiwan is the Lynchpin of China's Quest for Global Dominance
Robert Spencer: "Above all, Trump clearly doesn't understand the jihad imperative that will make any genuine peace deal impossible. . . Still, he accomplished more to bring peace to the Middle East than any other president since the founding of the modern state of Israel. If he was just lucky, every president should have that kind of luck."
Trump: Netanyahu "Never Wanted Peace," Abbas "Wanted to Make a Deal More Than Netanyahu"
"In their way, they're as foolish as a kneejerk interventionist like Sen. Roger Wicker."
Isolationists Aren't Conservatives
"This is what thousands of French women go through every day."
French Anti-Mass Migration Activist Sexually Assaulted by an African Migrant
"Things could have ended a lot, lot worse."
The Soviet Union Died 30 Years Ago Because Mikhail Gorbachev Was a "Coward" and Refused to Arrest the "Traitors"
"One small step for a man, one giant leap for. . . the Mullahs?"
Meet the New Iranian President of the Norwegian Parliament
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Afghanistan vet says 'gender advisers' nothing more than 'liberal pet projects.'"
Biden Joint Chiefs Nom Embraces 'Gender Advisers' for Troops
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"Meanwhile, flash mob robbers hit a Los Angeles gun store. . . and get away in BMWs."
Food Waste Is California's New Nanny State Target
"Are New York courts amending the state's foreclosure moratorium on their own?"
This Is Not the Law
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Our rulers have recently completed another greendoggle on foreign shores, flying in on their private jets to congratulate one another on their plans to deprive us of liberty and property; life, too, if they're all up for it. How much easier it would be for them if we all just died."
The Shape of Things to Come
"One in every six consumer products touts sustainability claims. So should you trust what is on the label?"
Renewable? Sustainable? Dissecting Green Buzzwords
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Russia, as part of the continuing barter deal with NASA for seats on the capsules of both countries, has selected rookie astronaut Anna Kikina to be the first Russian to fly on a Dragon capsule."
Russia Selects First Astronaut Fly on Dragon
"The full list of signatories at this moment: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, South Korea, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, and the United States."
Mexico Signs Artemis Accords
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"In the name of 'dismantling' sexual 'power structures,' queer theorists must make things that were once taboo (like sexualizing children) no longer taboo."
Defending Pedophilia is the Logical Conclusion of Queer Theory
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Last month, Che used his "Weekend Update" segment to mock Kyle Rittenhouse, stating, "hopefully he got all of that shooting out of his system before he becomes a cop."
Watch: NBC's Saturday Night Live Jokes About Roger Stone's Cancer-Stricken Wife Getting Gang-Raped
"Rowling is fabulously famous and wealthy, and she owes almost all of it to the Western canon. And now, she appears to be awake to the threat from the globalist-communists as they seek to erase that brilliant tradition and subsume the continent into their new world order."
Did J.K. Rowling Just Get Red-Pilled?
"DEI bureaucracies and the politicization of American identity."
Destructively Embracing (Group) Identities
Christian Toto: "It starts with VP Kamala Harris, but you may be surprised who else made the list."
Meet the Untouchables -- The Public Figures Mainstream Comics Won't Mock
HITHER & YON
"The critics rave about a woke masterpiece but the American public doesn't seem to agree with a film that gives them the middle finger."
Steven Spielberg's West Side Story Sees Critics and Paying Audiences Part Ways
"In Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, The Marines and Breaking of America's Empire, reporter Jonathan M. Katz details the history of U.S. imperialism and dollar diplomacy."
Before Ike's Warning About the Military-Industrial Complex, There Was Smedley Butler's

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 14, 2021 07:43 AM (XiSig)

2 not first.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 14, 2021 07:43 AM (bVYXr)

3 Top 10! Now to read the stuff.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 14, 2021 07:46 AM (4olE8)

4 According to Polis's logic, if you take the miraculous and scientifically-sound jab and get pericarditis, "it's your own damn fault." What a disgusting gasbag.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 14, 2021 07:47 AM (H8QX8)

5 Who you calling kid whippersnapper? Excellent stuff, top shelf as per usual.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * 21rst century schizoid hominid at December 14, 2021 07:47 AM (wKuhn)

6 LOL, blinken threatening putin they will pull the approval for the nordstream pipeline if they invade Ukraine.

Good luck with that.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 14, 2021 07:48 AM (bVYXr)

7 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 14, 2021 07:49 AM (Do5/p)

8 Hiya

Posted by: JT at December 14, 2021 07:49 AM (arJlL)

9 Willowed again. Sigh.

Good morning all!

Posted by: Rosasharn at December 14, 2021 07:49 AM (yEBFM)

10 Hiya JJ !

And thank you !

Posted by: JT at December 14, 2021 07:49 AM (arJlL)

11 Look for Polis to do a complete 180... that kind of rhetoric cannot stand. "It's your own damn fault"... well, no, not according to TPTB. If you don't comply with the mandates of Your Betters, you are literally a danger to humanity. A walking Typhoid Mary. And not just for the coof, it is the lynchpin of all of collectivist/globalist branding: Non-Compliance is a Dangerous Threat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2021 07:50 AM (/EuRN)

12 Commenting present

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 14, 2021 07:51 AM (LXmEi)

13 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 07:51 AM (yrol0)

14 12 Commenting present
Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 14, 2021 07:51 AM (LXmEi)

Awww, you shouldn't have.

And here I didn't even get you anything.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2021 07:52 AM (/EuRN)

15 This may have been linked before - "Where I Live, No One Cares About COVID":

https://tinyurl.com/3245zttv

"I don’t know how to put this in a way that will not make me sound flippant: No one cares. Literally speaking, I know that isn’t true, because if it were, the articles wouldn’t be commissioned. But outside the world inhabited by the professional and managerial classes in a handful of major metropolitan areas, many, if not most, Americans are leading their lives as if COVID is over, and they have been for a long while."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at December 14, 2021 07:52 AM (Dc2NZ)

16 Good morning and Happy Birthday, JJ!

Posted by: Doof at December 14, 2021 07:52 AM (mZUr4)

17 Commenting present
Posted by: Skip's Phone

Aww...you shouldn't have !

Posted by: JT at December 14, 2021 07:52 AM (arJlL)

18 With regard to that Supreme Court decision re the New York mandate, I'm really surprised Clarence Thomas didn't join in the dissent.

Posted by: bluebell at December 14, 2021 07:52 AM (wyw4S)

19 The only Steven Spierberg movies I've seen are Jaws, ET and Schindler's List. That was enough.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2021 07:52 AM (81K7o)

20 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at December 14, 2021 07:53 AM (EjmvJ)

21 That's it. No Kavanaugh. No Barrett.

Thanks, Mitch & the Federalist Society! (and does that sound like a lousy bar band)

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 14, 2021 07:53 AM (Bmy3R)

22 'morning all.

Polis is correct: covid is over. Just in time to bring out the new planpanic for mid-terms.

Posted by: itsacookbook at December 14, 2021 07:53 AM (yPxXc)

23 Besides 1/2 the Supreme Court are Marxist the other half is scared to face up to them and their armies

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 14, 2021 07:54 AM (LXmEi)

24 How fitting that a dude who made his fortune telling long-winded meandering yarns about nothing in particular is named "Spiel"-berg.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2021 07:54 AM (/EuRN)

25 21 That's it. No Kavanaugh. No Barrett.

Thanks, Mitch & the Federalist Society! (and does that sound like a lousy bar band)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 14, 2021 07:53 AM (Bmy3R)

Mitchell Puckett and the Union Crap.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2021 07:55 AM (/EuRN)

26 Polis was too gutless to stop counties from imposing mask mandates. Like mine.

His polling must be in the tank for him to go as far as he did, but he's too much of a far-left nincompoop to go all the way.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 14, 2021 07:55 AM (Bmy3R)

27 Defending Pedophilia is the Logical Conclusion of Queer Theory

"Good morning, Acme Equipment Rentals? I need a wood chipper for about a month. What do you require for a cleaning deposit?"

Posted by: NR Pax at December 14, 2021 07:55 AM (4olE8)

28 "fact checks" are just opinion?

LOL

Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too at December 14, 2021 07:55 AM (rDgjh)

29 Morning again, all.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2021 07:55 AM (BAKdv)

30 That's a great article, Eris. Thank you. Where I live no one cares about Covid either. And by "where I live" I mean my actual house. The rest of the area here, well.

Posted by: bluebell at December 14, 2021 07:56 AM (wyw4S)

31 Gorbachev knew what we are learning - trying to hold together a vastly disparate group of states with an illogical common bond (communism) requires more force and capital than is available to the task. As the core (and logical) ethos of America continues to vanish, our betters will learn the same thing. The intervening years of spying, terror and gulags are just death throes.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 07:56 AM (QZ/dC)

32 28 "fact checks" are just opinion?

LOL
Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too at December 14, 2021 07:55 AM (rDgjh)

"Opinion Checks"

As in, "Best get your mind right, Lieber Genossen".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2021 07:56 AM (/EuRN)

33
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 14, 2021 07:56 AM (DUIap)

34 B-b-b-but...Any Homely Ferret is a LiTeRaL hAnDmAiDeN !!!!!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 14, 2021 07:56 AM (Bmy3R)

35 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2021 07:52 AM (81K7o)

The only Spielberg movies I like are 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'Duel'.

Posted by: dantesed at December 14, 2021 07:57 AM (88xKn)

36 It continues

Posted by: IanDeal at December 14, 2021 07:57 AM (ULGdC)

37 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 07:57 AM (DU+/6)

38 "Muh Gorsuch" turned out to be the only good one.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 14, 2021 07:57 AM (Bmy3R)

39 Of course Roe v Wade isn't going anywhere. That was a given. Just like Kavanaugh and ACB are a given.

Posted by: Ziba at December 14, 2021 07:59 AM (S1hrL)

40 Frankly, the Texas decision the other day, pun intended, split the baby in half. I thought they were going to overturn it totally but in any case it's more muddle and confusion, but I digress
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The SCOTUS has devalued itself greatly. They still play kingmaker, but they know that status lasts only so long as they don't piss off the Deep State and Party too much. Those groups *will* buck them, and they know it. So they do what they've been doing and just muddle through and pretend. It's absurd.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 07:59 AM (DU+/6)

41
Willowed

The big box office is dying because Hollywood makes nothing but total garbage. Nobody wants to see "woke" anything. Couple that with garbage movies overall, boring and trite stupidity, unimpressive "stars," abysmal remakes, complete lack of originality...all I can say is die. The sooner the better.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 14, 2021 07:36 AM

Can't wait for all the actors and actresses to be replaced by CGI characters.

I sometimes wonder if movies were actually much better under the Hays Code. Since screenwriters and directors couldn't just depend on the cast taking their clothes off, monotonously cursing or killing each other in a bloodbath, things like character development, pacing and plot were better developed than nowadays.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2021 07:59 AM (/U27+)

42 Gorsuch of the tranny decision is not a "good" one.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 08:00 AM (QZ/dC)

43 Since screenwriters and directors couldn't just depend on the cast taking their clothes off, monotonously cursing or killing each other in a bloodbath, things like character development, pacing and plot were better developed than nowadays.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2021 07:59 AM (/U27+)

You're no fun.

Posted by: Shakespeare, Marlowe, etc. at December 14, 2021 08:01 AM (/EuRN)

44 California voted twice for Gruesome. Let them wear masks and rejoice!

Posted by: Ziba at December 14, 2021 08:02 AM (S1hrL)

45 "Fact check" whether Speelberg is a freek or not. A dandy Metropolis of a Rabbit Hole or a Strawberry Field, even. Pack a lunch and don't forget your towel.

Posted by: klaftern at December 14, 2021 08:02 AM (taPSh)

46 I saw Reeks Of Authoritarianism open for The Cure back in '85.

Posted by: f'd at December 14, 2021 08:02 AM (Tnijr)

47 Sodomites love pedophilia and Pedophilia loves sodomites.

Slippery slope and all that. Just let them get married and everyone will be happy.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 14, 2021 08:02 AM (/1l9x)

48 ... But outside the world inhabited by the professional and managerial classes in a handful of major metropolitan areas, many, if not most, Americans are leading their lives as if COVID is over, and they have been for a long while."
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at December 14, 2021 07:52 AM (Dc2NZ)
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You can see this in sharp relief where I live. The situation is weird in that my town is fairly "managerial class" - lots of scientists and academics - due to its company town history. It's also Republican, which is odd, but there are lots of these types around. The part of the big city nearest my city is the upscale part full of similar people. In my town, lots of masks and COVID-worried.

If I drive the other direction, though, to the small town on the other side of where I live (which is where I go to the hardware store and various other tasks), it's all blue collar and surrounded by semi-rural tracts. There, life is normal. I can drive five miles toward the bigger city and get deeper into COVID land, or drive five miles the other direction and COVID doesn't exist at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

49 Just let them get married and everyone will be happy.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 14, 2021 08:02 AM (/1l9x)

It's just not fair that my ficus can't be on my health insurance.

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at December 14, 2021 08:04 AM (/EuRN)

50
You're no fun.
Posted by: Shakespeare, Marlowe, etc. at December 14, 2021 08:01 AM (/EuRN)

Ah, ha. Point taken. Yeah, Titus Andronicus was the John Wick movie of its time.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2021 08:04 AM (/U27+)

51 There comes a time when you do have to give up what you consider your individual right of making your own decision for the greater good of society, Dr. Anthony Fauci

Orwell said it would be a boot. But instead is a fine supple leather loafer in size 6 and half, narrow!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 08:04 AM (yrol0)

52 Cultural decline is reflected in theater, movies, etc. Think the steps from say, Cole Porter to Lil Nas - even the sidebar revered Paul McCartney (dick) went from A Day in the Life to Silly Love Songs in a decade. Entropy is a bitch.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 08:05 AM (QZ/dC)

53 proclaiming that in an era of widely available vaccines, it's people's "own darn fault" if they get sick.

*

It's so weird how it's mostly just 80 year olds dying, isn't it?

Gosh, I wonder why that isn't talked about more?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 14, 2021 08:05 AM (XSoJN)

54 18 With regard to that Supreme Court decision re the New York mandate, I'm really surprised Clarence Thomas didn't join in the dissent.
Posted by: bluebell at December 14, 2021 07:52 AM (wyw4S)

? Pretty sure he did.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 14, 2021 08:05 AM (4thlk)

55 30 That's a great article, Eris. Thank you. Where I live no one cares about Covid either. And by "where I live" I mean my actual house. The rest of the area here, well.
Posted by: bluebell at December 14, 2021 07:56 AM (wyw4S)
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LOL, in Republic of Eris we follow the science.

Tweeville is remarkably sane and it warms my heart to see throngs of people out on the town enjoying the holidays. Happy maskless kiddies gamboling about!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at December 14, 2021 08:06 AM (Dc2NZ)

56 Good morning morons and thank you JJ

Morons take note of anyone who blathers on about this"insurrection" nonsense. We will need to know whom must be brought to justice when the time comes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 14, 2021 08:06 AM (EZebt)

57 41 The big box office is dying because Hollywood makes nothing but total garbage.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 14, 2021 07:36 AM

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The box office died because of the pandemic response that closed down theaters for a year. It really didn't help that CA and NY were some of the last to open their theaters at all.

What we're seeing now is that any movie designed for audiences that aren't just looking for roller coaster rides are failing. This is typically referred to as the adult mid-budgeted picture (yeah...$100 million is right about mid-budgeted these days). The Last Duel and West Side Story are the two biggest examples of this where the movies were designed for older audiences almost exclusively, and they both bombed horribly.

Why is it that Black Widow, Shang Chi, and (egads) Eternals does at least reasonably well (with projections of the new Spider Man movie being astronomical right now with a $500 million opening weekend prediction), but The Last Duel and WSS fail? Because the older audiences are still afraid of going to the theater but the younger are significantly less afraid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 08:06 AM (LvTSG)

58 While Polis uses verbiage to derogate and rip his constituents - which really is kind of craven and cowardly considering he outright states the pandemic "over" - the fact that he declared it over should not be overlooked.
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Polis is a slimy weasel with totalitarian ambitions, but he is also weak and foolish. He historically has just followed whatever Newsom and Pritzker do with a 2-3 week delay. This is the first significant deviation from that, and I suspect it has to do with his polling (though that's just a guess). Colorado is a big state utterly dominated and ruined by the Front Range. Polis is trying to split the baby, in that he's not going to do the hardcore state-level stuff but he will do nothing to intervene against the counties letting their freak flags fly.

Like everything else in Polis' entire history and character, this is a lukewarm, split-the-difference response tinged with his own towering mediocrity.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:06 AM (DU+/6)

59 And I think I saw it stated on the ONT:

They wanted us to have Sweden, and they're beginning to realize we're going to get China.

Congratulations, dumbasses.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 14, 2021 08:07 AM (XSoJN)

60 Morning, y'all. Fresh hell, served piping hot. Thx, jjs.

"Economic illiteracy at the White House is getting more and more expensive."
>> The High Price of Bidenomics

The Left lives in A world, just not THE world. OCare will reduce your medical expenses by $2500. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Printing dollars actually reduces inflation. Mandates actually make you freer.

Sigh.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 14, 2021 08:07 AM (F0YaR)

61 The only Steven Spierberg movies I've seen are Jaws, ET and Schindler's List. That was enough.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

(Psst.....1941 !)

Posted by: JT at December 14, 2021 08:07 AM (arJlL)

62 I find Barrett and Kavanaugh deeply repugnant, more so than usual this morning. They are stand-ins for the whole DC edifice of grubby but gilded careerism and cowardice. That pasty-faced Kavanaugh with his pussy tears, instead of seeking righteous masculine vengeance against his vicious Javerts, makes pathetic groveling appeasement gestures. As for the squeaky-voiced fraud and squish Barrett parading her trophy family and proclaiming her great love and fealty for the Constitution, FOAD. Who will put their country and the Constitution over their golden sinecures and Georgetown cocktail parties? They make me sick.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 14, 2021 08:07 AM (H8QX8)

63 "'Everybody had more than enough opportunity to get vaccinated,' Gov. Jared Polis said. 'If you haven't been vaccinated, it's really your own darn fault.'"

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Question for Polis: Whose fault is it if a vaccinated person gets sick from Wuhan Flu? Since they get infected at what appears to be an even higher rate, it's a pertinent question this pukeface needs to answer.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 14, 2021 08:08 AM (sVtYq)

64 Subsidiarity is generally a good thing... so maybe half a tepid cheer for Polis? Craven shitweasel though he may be?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2021 08:08 AM (/EuRN)

65 And here I was thinking that it's hard to see gas pumping through Nord Stream 2 because the pipes were opaque.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 14, 2021 08:08 AM (TeFIe)

66 And deliberately trying to exclude part of your potential audience and then patronizing them because they don't speak Spanish seems like a really bad idea.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2021 08:09 AM (poMoX)

67 Subsidiarity is generally a good thing... so maybe half a tepid cheer for Polis? Craven shitweasel though he may be?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2021 08:08 AM (/EuRN)
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Polis has likely never heard the word, let alone know what it means. He's a weasel who is trying to split the baby on this matter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:09 AM (DU+/6)

68 Finishing out my basement and have run into numerous out of stock issues past few weeks. Today's empty shelf item: Drywall metal corner bead. Four stores I went to are out. WTF? I may have to use that garbage vinyl type or wait until it is back in stock, whenever that may be.

Fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: Ripley at December 14, 2021 08:10 AM (MxEKc)

69 Someone here mentioned The Bulwark site yesterday.
and I checked it out:

Trump tried to kill Biden with covid at first debate.
Pelosi is not buying another mansion in FL and so what if she does.
Fox News anchors begged Trump to call off the "insurrection."
Mark Meadows is a jerk (that actually is probably true)
Long live the center Left.

etc. etc.

NB: The Bulwark professes it is non partisan.

Posted by: Ziba at December 14, 2021 08:10 AM (S1hrL)

70 Facebook Admits in Court That 'Fact Checks' Are Just Opinion

IANAL - doesn't that make them fraud?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at December 14, 2021 08:10 AM (EjmvJ)

71 Testing if I can post or if I'm having a copy/paste issue.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 08:10 AM (z5Vrg)

72 Polis has likely never heard the word, let alone know what it means. He's a weasel who is trying to split the baby on this matter.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:09 AM (DU+/6)

True, but just hearing anything that is even slightly redolent of the idea of Liberty out of one of their mouths is noteworthy in its own right.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2021 08:11 AM (/EuRN)

73 Part of the matrix was being trained to think the theater "experience" or the live stadium "experience" was better. In a world of small screen (TV or device) literates, this is found to be not true.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 08:11 AM (QZ/dC)

74 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

75 We shall see what the elections next year will bring us, vis a vis, if Dao-Min Yen will be in play. Meh, if a shadow government can convene before the last election and manufacture an "orange revolution," what can't they do when they actually are in control of the whole shooting match?

Wretched Whitmer is up for re-election in 2022. Going to be interesting to see what Michiganders do. The scrunt triumvirate of Whitmer-Nessel (AG)-Benson (SoS) needs to go. If Michiganders do not oust them, I fear that Wretched will go full-Newsom or full-Hochul. If that happens, I will have to look into moving out of the state to a state which has been reliably GOP-led.

Considering (1) my company has been work-from-home since March 2020 and intends to stay that way indefinitely and (2) I live in an apartment, I have the option to work from anywhere and move when my lease ends.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 14, 2021 08:12 AM (Do5/p)

76 Our government as a whole has been corrupted and is completely useless to the Free American. We're heading toward full on communism at neck break speeds. There's no one in DC to stop them and save us and our country.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

77 I always shake my head whenever the Right declares victory over a supreme court appointment. More often than not, you'll get a guy that might do Big Government your way. Until he or she "evolves".

If you really want freedom - the winning move is to lessen the power of the judiciary rather than trying to control it. Because you will never control it for long.

Posted by: Through the Glass at December 14, 2021 08:12 AM (Fv8UY)

78 15 This may have been linked before - "Where I Live, No One Cares About COVID":

https://tinyurl.com/3245zttv

...............

Just got back from 4 days in Vegas. Stayed at a well know hotel with signs all over about masking required. Noticed maybe 10% compliance. People didn't even pretend either by having it under chin. Just didn't mask period and there was no enforcement whatsoever. Pretty cool to see.

Posted by: Molly k. at December 14, 2021 08:13 AM (lRCH1)

79 NY and California voters are getting their blue politics and politicians good and hard. We keep saying there will have to be a lot of pain before any number of us truly wake up to the totalitarians robbing us of our freedom and liberty. Maybe this is the match that lights the dynamite because there's no way around these ridiculous, insane policies. They're affecting everyone in these miserable states. Blind sheep aside, and there are plenty of them, I can only hope a great awakening is happening.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 14, 2021 08:13 AM (sVtYq)

80 Eris' link is a good read. Much of it is already innately known by morons, but this is a good point:

I am always tempted to ask the people who breathlessly quote what various public-health authorities are now saying about masking and boosters whether they know how the National Institutes of Health defines a "problem drinker"?...(This is to say nothing of cannabis, which is of course still banned at the federal level.) My point is that sophisticated adults are generally capable of winking at overly stringent guidelines. In the case of COVID, many are not.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 14, 2021 08:13 AM (XSoJN)

81 Did J.K. Rowling Just Get Red-Pilled?
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No. Don't bet on it, don't count on it, don't get deceived by it. She's still a lefty, she's just wise to the trans debacle and the risks it represents. I'll take an ally wherever I can find one, but it doesn't extend beyond this issue.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:13 AM (DU+/6)

82 That's talking recent trends in box office, of course. The longer term problem that Hollywood has largely decided to forget about is that in the 70s the box office was significantly more robust in terms of type of films that won, and in the 40s the actual percentage of people who went to the theaters was significantly higher.

The 80s broke Hollywood's ability to diversify and television killed Hollywood's ability to dominate mass media at the level is used to (the rise of things like streaming aren't helping either, but they haven't been as damaging yet as television).

The interesting thing to watch right now is Disney. The went wholehog into streaming, particularly with their added fee release of Mulan on Disney+. They touted the numbers big at the time. It was a big success for them, but they stopped reporting numbers on new releases that followed the strategy until Shang-Chi when they decided to release it exclusively in theaters, calling it an experiment.

Disney's own actions tell me that they don't think streaming can financially support the kinds of movies they want to make, with potential for billion dollar revenue. Disney+ means just more content, not more money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 08:13 AM (LvTSG)

83 They (the elites) lie because they get away with it. Who bitches about Obamacare anymore? People have become inured to worse care for higher fees in over a decade - we are no longer a free people as our minds were enslaved some time ago.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 08:13 AM (QZ/dC)

84 It's almost like the Founders knew that Tyranny wasn't just a staffing issue.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2021 08:13 AM (/EuRN)

85 If you really want freedom - the winning move is to lessen the power of the judiciary rather than trying to control it. Because you will never control it for long.
Posted by: Through the Glass at December 14, 2021 08:12 AM (Fv8UY)

Concur. Abolish or nullify the SCROTUM.

They have caused enough misery and are anti-freedom zealots.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 14, 2021 08:14 AM (/1l9x)

86 79 NY and California voters are getting their blue politics and politicians good and hard. We keep saying there will have to be a lot of pain before any number of us truly wake up to the totalitarians robbing us of our freedom and liberty. Maybe this is the match that lights the dynamite because there's no way around these ridiculous, insane policies. They're affecting everyone in these miserable states. Blind sheep aside, and there are plenty of them, I can only hope a great awakening is happening.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 14, 2021 08:13 AM (sVtYq)

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The people most likely to vote against politicians imposing these measures are leaving the state in greater numbers than those who would vote for them.

These states will only get bluer and crazier. Also less populous.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 08:14 AM (LvTSG)

87 Facebook Admits in Court That 'Fact Checks' Are Just Opinion

IANAL - doesn't that make them fraud?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at December 14, 2021 08:10 AM

Shouldn't Facebook then be forced to label their "Fact Checks" differently? Or put some kind of disclaimer? i.e., "Note: Fact Checks are opinions only." or some such.

Better yet, just get rid of the "Fact Check" altogether and allow people to do the research on their own.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 14, 2021 08:15 AM (Do5/p)

88 Well can't seem to quote from the pjmedia article but it seems to have contradictory quotes from Trump.

1st it alleges that Trump blames Netanyahu for not having a peace deal between Israel and Palestine. The quote here says 'I don't think Bibi ever wanted to make peace'. In the sense of not really thinking a deal would work and generally pushing for a one-state solution, probably true. Not quite the same as blaming him for the lack of a deal though.

The second quote 'I have been told by everyone that it's not doable. Sheldon Adelson said it's not doable. And Sheldon was a great deal-maker. He said it's impossible.'

Well that seems to suggest Trump didn't think a deal was possible either. Also odd that a book on the Abraham Accords has this segment on Palestine. Typically only Democrats think of Palestine as the key to peace in the Middle East.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 08:15 AM (z5Vrg)

89 81 Did J.K. Rowling Just Get Red-Pilled?
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No. Don't bet on it, don't count on it, don't get deceived by it. She's still a lefty, she's just wise to the trans debacle and the risks it represents. I'll take an ally wherever I can find one, but it doesn't extend beyond this issue.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:13 AM (DU+/6)

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Doesn't mean she can't be red pilled about other things, but right now, yeah, I've seen nothing to indicate that she still thinks the people should be unarmed in the face of an all powerful state that decides most of what you do in life as long as she agrees with it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 08:15 AM (LvTSG)

90 Hundreds of female gymnasts who were sexually abused by former doctor of the national gymnastics team Larry Nassar have agreed to a $380 million settlement with U.S.A Gymnastics and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee.

Now do the complicit and cowardly FBI!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 08:16 AM (yrol0)

91 "Our rulers have recently completed another greendoggle on foreign shores, flying in on their private jets to congratulate one another on their plans to deprive us of liberty and property; life, too, if they're all up for it. How much easier it would be for them if we all just died."

The WEF has been remarkably open about their plans. I guess the members of the press believe that they're not in the die group.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at December 14, 2021 08:16 AM (EjmvJ)

92 We hear alot about the dissent in the NY mandate case, but what was the logic behind the majority opinion other than "Fuck you, comply"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 08:16 AM (E8EsG)

93 Part of the matrix was being trained to think the theater "experience" or the live stadium "experience" was better. In a world of small screen (TV or device) literates, this is found to be not true.
Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts

75" High Def 4k tv's for under $1k killed that.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2021 08:16 AM (BAKdv)

94 Part of the matrix was being trained to think the theater "experience" or the live stadium "experience" was better. In a world of small screen (TV or device) literates, this is found to be not true.
Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 14, 2021 08:11 AM (QZ/dC)
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The theater experience is cool. The screen is big and the sound is good and it's a shared experience which is also usually a good thing.

But the real offset isn't the small screen, I don't think. I think it is the big screen at home. If you have a room big enough, you can get a good 70" TV set and decent surround sound system for about $1,500 nowadays. For a family of four, that's about a dozen movie nights at the theater. A screen that big with a decent surround sound setup is awfully close to the "real experience" of the theater, sans the excitement of going out for an event.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:17 AM (DU+/6)

95 Morning peeps.

Some of here have always thought the "Plan" being used by the leftists also included Korporate Amerikka as an instrument for what I call Policy Enforcement. It started a long time ago but really went off the rails years ago with the bathroom debate and the transgenders. Target was one of leaders in allowing anyone to use any restroom based on their own self identity. It's progressed from there. For all practical purposes the bathroom issue was resolved in favor of the transgenders by Korporate Amerikka.

Now, there are mask and vaccine mandates. Put in place as a corporate policy and supported by the government. Those that argue the legal aspects of this are totally missing the point. We've seen several instances where corporate policy has been challenged and let stand. The courts are in on this, on behalf of the government. It's really not a question whether or not mandates are legal or can be enforced... they're policy and Korporate Amerikka with the junta's support are running this show.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 14, 2021 08:17 AM (BFigT)

96 Morons take note of anyone who blathers on about this"insurrection" nonsense. We will need to know whom must be brought to justice when the time comes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Add to that the ones who are silent about the DC Gulag . My RINO Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers comes to mind.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * 21rst century schizoid hominid at December 14, 2021 08:17 AM (wKuhn)

97 "The big box office is dying because Hollywood makes nothing but total garbage.
Posted by: Lady in Black "

It doesn't help that practically every movie not explicitly made for small children is filled with endless profanity. It adds nothing to the movie, is far in excess of what is used in real life and gets offensive quickly. Who writes these script with endless f-bombs. Do they think that is edgy and cool?

Posted by: Ripley at December 14, 2021 08:18 AM (MxEKc)

98 Good morning!

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 14, 2021 08:19 AM (nxdel)

99 If you get sent to the Barrel, it's your own darn fault.

Posted by: Jared Polis at December 14, 2021 08:19 AM (a3Q+t)

100 "I am always tempted to ask the people who breathlessly quote what various public-health authorities are now saying about masking and boosters whether they know how the National Institutes of Health defines a "problem drinker"?..."
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Like when your security clearance interviewer is a Mormon. Happened to a friend of mine. She said she had maybe two drinks a week. He drew closer and asked "Do you think you have a problem with alcohol?"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at December 14, 2021 08:19 AM (Dc2NZ)

101 I don't think the GOP has learned anything or changed one bit since Nov '20. We might be better off in the long run with another 2 years of full dem control.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 08:19 AM (E8EsG)

102 My point is that sophisticated adults are generally capable of winking at overly stringent guidelines. In the case of COVID, many are not.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 14, 2021 08:13 AM

Aye, they're more like guidelines than actual rules. *wink*

Posted by: Captain Hector Barbossa at December 14, 2021 08:20 AM (Do5/p)

103 Korporate Amerikka with the junta's support are running this show.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 14, 2021 08:17 AM (BFigT)

There's a word for that I think... begins with an "f", seems to be slipping my mind just now.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 14, 2021 08:20 AM (H8QX8)

104 Has everyone had their six servings of carbohydrates per the food pyramid today?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 14, 2021 08:21 AM (XSoJN)

105 Who writes these script with endless f-bombs. Do they think that is edgy and cool?
Posted by: Ripley at December 14, 2021 08:18 AM

Sometimes they're just mfing ad-libbed.

Posted by: Samuel L. Jackson at December 14, 2021 08:21 AM (a3Q+t)

106 94 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:17 AM (DU+/6)

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I have a counterintuitive thought on this.

People thought the theatrical experience was dead with the rise of big screen tvs (that have been around for, what, 20 years?), but the price point drop to affordable accelerated the thinking. And then the pandemic happened and we could get "theatrical" releases on our great tvs at home for like $20. Theaters were dead.

Except that they're not. They're dead for movies appealing to older audiences, but comic book movies, the current king of the multiplex, have been doing reasonably well over the past six months in theaters, despite the media's continued pandemic porn.

Why? Why is Spider-Man projected to have a $500 million opening? Because the home theater experience isn't actually all that great. You need to get the settings right to make it look good (not all do). You still have distractions, they're just diff ones. And the control you have over the experience ends up being an actual detriment. It's less immersive because you can just pause any time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 08:21 AM (LvTSG)

107 It doesn't help that practically every movie not explicitly made for small children is filled with endless profanity. It adds nothing to the movie, is far in excess of what is used in real life and gets offensive quickly. Who writes these script with endless f-bombs. Do they think that is edgy and cool?
Posted by: Ripley at December 14, 2021 08:18 AM (MxEKc)
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Yeah, they do. I think a lot of screenwriters think they're Andrew Dice Clay. But ADC only worked for a while before he flamed out because it is shocking but it isn't really that appealing.

Writing solid children's content that is entertaining and appealing to children while also telling a good story that is also simultaneously compatible with (or even appealing to) adults is a very hard thing to do. Pixar under John Lasseter was brilliant at doing this and Pixar even remained largely good after his departure. It seems like when it comes to children's content, there's Pixar and then there's "other."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:22 AM (DU+/6)

108 Now do the complicit and cowardly FBI!
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 14, 2021 08:16 AM (yrol0)
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The FBI merely created and/or concealed crimes and covered up the Capital Police killing innocent people, like Roseanne Boylan. Without "Me Too" involved, no settlement.

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden, My Diaper Runneth Over at December 14, 2021 08:22 AM (raQcc)

109 Why? Why is Spider-Man projected to have a $500 million opening? Because the home theater experience isn't actually all that great. You need to get the settings right to make it look good (not all do). You still have distractions, they're just diff ones. And the control you have over the experience ends up being an actual detriment. It's less immersive because you can just pause any time.

*

I'll add something to that. Lots of young people want to go out. Lots of adults want to stay home.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 14, 2021 08:22 AM (XSoJN)

110 Korporate Amerikka with the junta's support are running this show.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 14, 2021 08:17 AM (BFigT)

It is simply the so-called State Capitalism that the crunchier of the marxist-leninists always warn against, not realizing that any collectivist system inevitably becomes State Capitalism. Capitalism isn't an "-ism", it's just what naturally happens whether you like it or not. Collectivism isn't possible without a State to direct the collective. Yadda yadda, horsies and duckies: True Communism is impossible and will always devolve into State Capitalism. Capitalism with only one Capitalist. In other words: Tyranny.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2021 08:22 AM (/EuRN)

111 I had a deep sense of unease from Barrett right from the start. Her statement after her confirmation made it all the worse when she was more interested in basically announcing she was not duty-bound to the ideals of the president who put her there. I just found it odd at the time to even signal such a thing, but in hindsight, I think her purpose was to wink and nod to "all the right people" that she was not aligned with Trump, and thus not in truly upholding the Constitution as we all believe a justice should be. She's a snake. A Karen. JMO.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 14, 2021 08:23 AM (sVtYq)

112 109
I'll add something to that. Lots of young people want to go out. Lots of adults want to stay home.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 14, 2021 08:22 AM (XSoJN)

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Yeah. The plandemic didn't kill the people's desire to socialize and do things together.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 08:23 AM (LvTSG)

113 Willard Fen....

Well, now that everybody is gone to TMR, here are some funny text fails by moms:

https://tinyurl.com/2p9cdm9p
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Posted by: JT at December 14, 2021 08:24 AM (arJlL)

114 Barrett is yet another conservative appellate judge who made a hard left turn as soon as her ass hit the scotus chair.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 08:24 AM (E8EsG)

115
Better yet, just get rid of the "Fact Check" altogether and allow people to do the research on their own.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 14, 2021 08:15 AM (Do5/p)

Just WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, mister?

- Your Intellectual Betters

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

116 We might be better off in the long run with another 2 years of full dem control.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 08:19 AM

Shut your Commentator mouf! Are you trying to scare away the rubes?

Say, have we mentioned the very attractive 5 to 1 match currently available for your donation today?

Posted by: GOPe at December 14, 2021 08:25 AM (a3Q+t)

117 "Liz Cheney reads bombshell Jan 6th messages -- Including panicked message from Don Trump Jr."

https://tinyurl.com/mskcyzxr

Posted by: redridinghood at December 14, 2021 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

118 Why? Why is Spider-Man projected to have a $500 million opening? Because the home theater experience isn't actually all that great. You need to get the settings right to make it look good (not all do). You still have distractions, they're just diff ones. And the control you have over the experience ends up being an actual detriment. It's less immersive because you can just pause any time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison ...
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All true. I suspect that theaters are largely dead, with big tentpole movies and a few smaller releases to fill in the schedule being the only things that will be found in theaters for the time being. The giant spectacular movies are still better in theaters. Big setpieces and major visuals still work better in that environment. I have a good home theater setup, and my viewing experience of "Dunkirk" is barely acceptable. Some movies (like that one) really need a theater. For others, the social/shared aspect is significant, like we see with some of the blockbusters (all of which have been superhero movies recently). But for probably 90% of movies, the theater is irrelevant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:25 AM (DU+/6)

119 The food pyramid?? Is that still around?

Posted by: dantesed at December 14, 2021 08:26 AM (88xKn)

120 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 08:21 AM (LvTSG)

I still go to theaters for the big screen experience when it counts, like Dune. But for the kind of smaller, dialog-driven movies us 29-year-olds like, a more intimate, pants-optional venue is preferred.

I used to drive a long way to see quirky/foreign/oddball films, but now I don't have to. So I guess I'm contributing to the decline of movie attendance.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at December 14, 2021 08:26 AM (Dc2NZ)

121 It is more of a dodecahedron now.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 08:26 AM (E8EsG)

122 In terms of cursing, there's really two things at play.

The first is the influence of David Mamet and Quentin Tarantino. This mostly influenced movies designed for men where dialogue suddenly needed to be filled with profanity in order to gain a level of edgy.

The other thing is the rating system. The PG rating is for kids now, purely. The PG-13 rating is seen as largely for adult children with its dominance by lighter action fare since the 80s.

The R rating? That's for adults. How do you get an R rating, though? Well, you can say fuck twice and get it. Or you can say fuck once in a sexual context, and you'll get it. Or you can kick someone in the head (a leftover from 70s Kung Fu era that is pretty much the sole reason The Matrix got an R). Or you can breach some kind of level of sex and violence that's hard to measure because the MPAA isn't terribly consistent. What's the easiest way? Say fuck a few times.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 08:27 AM (LvTSG)

123 Just got back from 4 days in Vegas. Stayed at a well know hotel with signs all over about masking required. Noticed maybe 10% compliance. People didn't even pretend either by having it under chin. Just didn't mask period and there was no enforcement whatsoever. Pretty cool to see.
Posted by: Molly k. at December 14, 2021 08:13 AM (lRCH1)

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They win when people comply.

They win when people lose respect for the law.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 14, 2021 08:27 AM (EZebt)

124 I'll add something to that. Lots of young people want to go out. Lots of adults want to stay home.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 14, 2021 08:22 AM (XSoJN)
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And then there's the people stuck in the middle (like me) who want to go out but don't really know anyone. I'm working on that, but a movie theater isn't the venue for that. You can't meet people at a movie. You go to a movie with people you already know. Add in the dreck coming out of Hollywood and it's doubly bad. I used to go to movies by myself just because I liked going to the movies. The product being put out is often so lousy that I don't bother anymore, especially if there's nobody to go with. What's the point?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:27 AM (DU+/6)

125 CCP issues rebuttal to Biden's Democracy Forum:

They're coming after us and the Chinese people are "happy" with their democratic government.

(courtesy of Global Securities newsletter)

Posted by: Ziba at December 14, 2021 08:29 AM (S1hrL)

126 "Liz Cheney reads bombshell Jan 6th messages -- Including panicked message from Don Trump Jr."

https://tinyurl.com/mskcyzxr
Posted by: redridinghood at December 14, 2021 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

This is such crap. He asked for the National Guard and PELOSI overruled him.

The whole thing is a load of bullshit.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

127 Yeah. The plandemic didn't kill the people's desire to socialize and do things together.

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Oh, I certainly want to go spend $50+ to take the wife (not kids) to watch a movie here and there, but after about 30-35 years old I'd much rather have a bunch of folks over to the house to watch a game or a bonfire.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 14, 2021 08:29 AM (XSoJN)

128 What's the easiest way? Say fuck a few times.
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Dayyyum, I wonder what the rating is for the HQ.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at December 14, 2021 08:29 AM (Dc2NZ)

129 Is Sundowner closer to giving a malaise speech, or will he go down the Nabobs of Negativism route...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 14, 2021 08:30 AM (flINI)

130 118 Some movies (like that one) really need a theater. For others, the social/shared aspect is significant, like we see with some of the blockbusters (all of which have been superhero movies recently). But for probably 90% of movies, the theater is irrelevant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:25 AM (DU+/6)

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I think a lot of people keep up with Marvel simply because it's "what you do", it's how you keep up with the cultural conversation. It's becoming harder with more obscure characters and more options including the TV shows (I still think Marvel is in decline with the last hurrah being the next Spider-Man movie, probably why Marvel is desperate to keep Sony making the movies with Tom Holland right now), but it's probably still being propped up by that. I keep waiting for something else to come along and supplant Marvel. It's kind of boring at this point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 08:30 AM (LvTSG)

131
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They win when people comply.

They win when people lose respect for the law.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 14, 2021 08:27 AM (EZebt)

That's true psychobabble.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

132 The Supreme Court found slavery Constitutional.
After the 13th, they found the imprisonment of Japanese for no crime committed Constitutional.
Recently, they found a law requiring you work for free for several weeks a year for an insurance company Constitutional.

The Supreme Court has rarely protected the freedom of the people.
They have always protected the state.
And now the state is indistinguishable from a political party ....

Posted by: Lrrr at December 14, 2021 08:31 AM (jIL4c)

133 Good morning hordelings. Thanks for the infuriating links, JJ. I think.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 14, 2021 08:31 AM (45fpk)

134 The food pyramid was deemed cultural appropriation.
I think it's now the food pie chart (minus the pies).

Posted by: Ziba at December 14, 2021 08:31 AM (S1hrL)

135 Wonder where Cheney will wind up when her foul, fat self gets dumped by the voters*. She deserves nothing short of a galactic, highly embarrassing loss.

* I truly hope...

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 14, 2021 08:31 AM (sVtYq)

136 Rowling has the luxury of keeping her leftist views while slamming the idiocy of her side's extremists because she has money.

There is no red pilling at all. She just knows that she can fight back without consequences to her bank account.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 14, 2021 08:31 AM (4olE8)

137 I'll add something to that. Lots of young people want to go out. Lots of adults want to stay home.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 14, 2021 08:22 AM

Because young people want to go out to get away from their adults (parents) and adults want to stay home to not have to run into all the young people who are out.

For young people, going out is an adventure. For adults, going out is a chore.

Granted with the rise of technology and social media to stay in touch, I think young people are going out less. But I could be wrong on that?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 14, 2021 08:32 AM (Do5/p)

138 120 I used to drive a long way to see quirky/foreign/oddball films, but now I don't have to. So I guess I'm contributing to the decline of movie attendance.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at December 14, 2021 08:26 AM (Dc2NZ)

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Yeah, I was predicting that theaters would come back near the beginning of the pandemic. The big spectacles need that revenue that streaming will never be able to provide.

But the smaller ones? Movies like Belfast that were made for a few million dollars? A token theatrical release that pulls in half a million followed by a contract with a streaming service could put the production in the black really quickly. It takes a lot of financial pressure off of some of these smaller films, and it'll become the path of least resistance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 08:32 AM (LvTSG)

139 I just found it odd at the time to even signal such a thing, but in hindsight, I think her purpose was to wink and nod to "all the right people" that she was not aligned with Trump, and thus not in truly upholding the Constitution as we all believe a justice should be. She's a snake. A Karen. JMO.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 14, 2021 08:23 AM (sVtYq)

Good observation, and quite common among many of Trump's appointments and people he championed. Those subtle signs of public disdain for Trump were always a sure sign of who people were and where they stood.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 14, 2021 08:32 AM (H8QX8)

140 Kind of amused by my son's take on the Waukesha attack in that word among his peers (union members in Madison suburb) is that it is the (R) judge's fault for setting the low bail.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 14, 2021 08:32 AM (MIKMs)

141 129 Is Sundowner closer to giving a malaise speech, or will he go down the Nabobs of Negativism route...
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 14, 2021 08:30 AM (flINI)

Neither. He will go on a rant that the problems are our own fault because we didn't support him enough.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 08:32 AM (E8EsG)

142 Mornin', all!

1. With the NY decision (not to grant a stay) and others, the SCOTUS is telling y'all to move. I don't like it, but they will let the states do whatever the hell they want, but the Meat Puppet will be stopped because of states' rights, which all of a sudden matter for some reason.

2. TJM is right. I used to be a movie junkie, but I never loved comic books and don't care to see them as movies. The last three movies I saw were They Shall Not Grow Old, Jewell, and Unplanned. All were good, but only Unplanned drew significant crowds. Gen X and up just don't bother with the theaters; so Hollyweird will go with what brings the $$$.

Posted by: Catherine--who generally doesn't curse. at December 14, 2021 08:32 AM (ZSsrh)

143 Wonder where Cheney will wind up when her foul, fat self gets dumped by the voter

CNN +

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 14, 2021 08:33 AM (BFigT)

144 128 What's the easiest way? Say fuck a few times.
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Dayyyum, I wonder what the rating is for the HQ.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at December 14, 2021 08:29 AM (Dc2NZ)

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NC-17.

Joe Mannix's picture selection is what keeps it from needing to be released without a rating.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 08:34 AM (LvTSG)

145 It's pretty clear to see Republicans don't have a plan. The idiot pretending to be majority leader doesn't have a legislative plan. For anything. By now we should have at least seen the outline for a new Contract with America. Specific pieces of legislation for the major issues impacting our country that Republicans will be moving through Congress if they gain a majority. Instead we get platitudes, tv appearances and conspiring with Democrats to pass garbage like the phony infrastructure bill. We get Mitch McConnell working with his buddy Schumer to further crush any dissent to the Uniparty.

This is why the GOP loses. There is a massive opportunity to do good things. To really pull together the strong coalition of voters that have recently come into the party. Instead they sit back and watch, too afraid or too dumb to realize now is the time for planning and action, not pedestrian navel gazing. It's a complete disgrace the GOP can't actually mimic the voters and instead chooses their own echo chamber and donor class.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 08:34 AM (voHIS)

146 135 Wonder where Cheney will wind up when her foul, fat self gets dumped by the voters*. She deserves nothing short of a galactic, highly embarrassing loss.

She'll land in clover whatever happens. Her loss will be seen as cachet in some circles.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 14, 2021 08:34 AM (H8QX8)

147 Cheney was supposed to have been dumped six months ago.

It will take a forklift to dump her now.

Posted by: Ziba at December 14, 2021 08:34 AM (S1hrL)

148 What's a Zephyr Teachout?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 14, 2021 08:35 AM (fs1hN)

149 NC-17.

Joe Mannix's picture selection is what keeps it from needing to be released without a rating.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 08:34 AM (LvTSG)
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Wouldn't it be "R?" I thought that no amount of foul language or violence could push a movie into NC-17 territory, and that only graphic sex could do so.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:35 AM (DU+/6)

150 The food pyramid?? Is that still around?
Posted by: dantesed

Hillary ate it.

Posted by: JT at December 14, 2021 08:35 AM (arJlL)

151 The Supreme Court has rarely protected the freedom of the people. They have always protected the state. And now the state is indistinguishable from a political party ....

Posted by: Lrrr at December 14, 2021 08:31 AM

Mark Levin: Let's look at some quick facts. In 1856, the Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott that slavery is the law of the land compelled by the Constitution. It is not compelled by the Constitution. Even in the free territories, slavery is the law of the land. In 1896 the Supreme Court decided in Plessy vs. Ferguson that separate but equal is equal. That's not what the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment says! And in 1944, the Supreme Court - by the way, I don't give FDR and Earl Warren a pass on this. The Supreme Court upheld in a very short opinion the internment of American citizens mostly Japanese-Americans, the removal from their homes on the Pacific Coast, moving them to the interior and they upheld that. So we have slavery, segregation, the internment of American citizens. The Supreme Court was on the wrong side of all those.

https://bit.ly/2NKP0pC

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 14, 2021 08:35 AM (Do5/p)

152 Manchin Pushes Further Cuts, Transparency To Build Bolshevism Biggerer Bill, Citing Inflation, CBO Score

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So if he gets some superficial cuts for appearance sake, will he support this POS? Yes, we're really hanging by one thin hair.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 14, 2021 08:35 AM (sVtYq)

153 What's a Zephyr Teachout?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 14, 2021 08:35 AM (fs1hN)
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That was my thought, too! I figured it was some union thing like "the Zephyrs are hosting a teach-out protest against ..." but no. It's a name. Like London Breed or Reality Winner.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:36 AM (DU+/6)

154 149 Wouldn't it be "R?" I thought that no amount of foul language or violence could push a movie into NC-17 territory, and that only graphic sex could do so.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:35 AM (DU+/6)

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The ratings board is inconsistent.

We're also on the wrong side of the political divide.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 08:36 AM (LvTSG)

155 The Russian cosmonaut chosen to fly on the next SpaceX crew is a babe. She will be a popular visitor to the space station, I predict.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 08:36 AM (raQcc)

156 We are not recovering from this pandemic because the unvaccinated and others who are not enthusiastic enough about the build back better plan are ruining the happiness and prosperity for everyone. It is time to aggressively confront those who do not support the Biden presidency both in words and actions by any means necessary. And by any means, I mean ANY means.

-Future FJB

What? No, I did not tell people to get violent. You are misrepresenting what I said

--Future future FJB.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 08:37 AM (E8EsG)

157 There is a massive opportunity to do good things. To really pull together the strong coalition of voters that have recently come into the party.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 08:34 AM (voHIS)

Indeed, the greatest political opportunity for Republicans in our time. A modern version of Gingrich would be spinning this living hell under the democrats into gold. Cowardice and stupidity rule.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 14, 2021 08:38 AM (H8QX8)

158 The Russian cosmonaut chosen to fly on the next SpaceX crew is a babe. She will be a popular visitor to the space station, I predict.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 08:36 AM (raQcc)
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Zero-G sex is:
1. Awkward and unpleasant
b. Exciting and thrilling
iii. Power of and

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:38 AM (DU+/6)

159 Rowling has the luxury of keeping her leftist views while slamming the idiocy of her side's extremists because she has money.

There is no red pilling at all. She just knows that she can fight back without consequences to her bank account.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 14, 2021 08:31 AM (4olE

*********
Sometimes this is the first step to red-pilling as you're able to see what conservatives have been dealing with by being silenced. By Rowling experiencing being canceled by the Left her eyes have been at least opened to how vicious the Left can be if you don't espouse their point of view.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 14, 2021 08:38 AM (NpAcC)

160 158 Zero-G sex is:
1. Awkward and unpleasant
b. Exciting and thrilling
iii. Power of and
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:38 AM (DU+/6)

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Requires a lot more velcro than you'd expect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 08:39 AM (LvTSG)

161 And what did Liz Cheney release in a text by Trump Jr. that was so important. I would think whatever it is he could sue her over that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2021 08:39 AM (poMoX)

162 Indeed, the greatest political opportunity for Republicans in our time. A modern version of Gingrich would be spinning this living hell under the democrats into gold. Cowardice and stupidity rule.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 14, 2021 08:38 AM (H8QX

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Cowardice and stupidity? Yes, likely. Being on the same team is a big factor, too, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:39 AM (DU+/6)

163 Better yet, just get rid of the "Fact Check" altogether and allow people to do the research on their own.

What are you, some sort of alphabetic conspiracy theorist? NEVER do your own research, NEVER think critically.

Posted by: The MFM at December 14, 2021 08:39 AM (ELgVT)

164 Barrett and Kavanaugh are a complete disgrace. While I understand they may see this as a states rights issue, at what point do they actually see it as intruding on the Bill of Rights? Apparently, never and that presages some very bad rulings for those who believe in the Constitution as written. We won't get any substantive ruling on Roe. It's pretty clear they are cowards who hid as orginalists to get on the bench. Ditto the 2A ruling coming up in the Spring. I suspect we will not get a clear, decisive ruling, but another waffling tribute to their own vanity and the liberal DC cocktail crowd they crave more then liberty.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 08:40 AM (voHIS)

165 The idiot pretending to be majority leader doesn't have a legislative plan. For anything. By now we should have at least seen the outline for a new Contract with America.

Because they assume they have already won the midterms.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 08:40 AM (E8EsG)

166 Defending Pedophilia is the Logical Conclusion of Queer Theory
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Remember how all the right-thinking conservatives assured us there was no slippery slope from gay marriage?

Notice how not one of the super-religious conservative politicians has ever whispered a word on overturning Obenfell?

Posted by: Lrrr at December 14, 2021 08:41 AM (jIL4c)

167 And what did Liz Cheney release in a text by Trump Jr. that was so important. I would think whatever it is he could sue her over that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2021 08:39 AM (poMoX)

Nothing of any significance. I mean, if you take the Jr. texts. He said Trump needed to make a statement. He didn't for 3 hours. OOOOooooh. Whooptee dooo. He called for the NG and PELOSI said no.

They're not going to mention that........

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

168 So we have slavery, segregation, the internment of American citizens. The Supreme Court was on the wrong side of all those.

https://bit.ly/2NKP0pC
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

That should give EVERYONE a warm fuzzy.

/s

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2021 08:42 AM (BAKdv)

169 I don't think the GOP has learned anything or changed one bit since Nov '20. We might be better off in the long run with another 2 years of full dem control.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

NOOOOOOO!!

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2021 08:42 AM (2z133)

170 Because they assume they have already won the midterms.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 08:40 AM (E8EsG)
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Further proof that they are loyal to their Party, not the voters.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 14, 2021 08:43 AM (EZebt)

171 Because they assume they have already won the midterms.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 08:40 AM (E8EsG)

Correct. They're coasting on the assumptions of our outrage and lack of options. They'll make noises about doing this and that but it's all the same old tune.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 14, 2021 08:43 AM (H8QX8)

172 Kevin McCarthy disgusts me. Liz Cheney should have been expelled long ago. Republicans stand for nothing at all, except is supporting nobs for McCarthy's own path to Speaker. What a pig. Fuck those people in particular.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 08:44 AM (raQcc)

173 "Indeed, the greatest political opportunity for Republicans in our time. A modern version of Gingrich would be spinning this living hell under the democrats into gold. Cowardice and stupidity rule.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 14, 2021 08:38 AM (H8QX

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Supposedly McCarthy has met with Gingrich. Apparently the Village Idiot isn't listening or is too dumb to figure it out. Maybe he needs to ask Frank Luntz for help. To my bewilderment Trump also continues to support McCarthy. That seem extraordinarily bad judgment and I'm starting to wonder if the GOP has what it takes to really win for the people in 2022 and 2024. We desperately need new leadership and we are getting the same stale, old, dull, group of has-beens.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 08:44 AM (voHIS)

174
What are you, some sort of alphabetic conspiracy theorist? NEVER do your own research, NEVER think critically.
Posted by: The MFM at December 14, 2021 08:39 AM (ELgV

Because it's OUR job to tell you what to think!

- Mika Jizzinski

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

175 Zephyr Teachout is a far leftist lawyer. She lost the last political race which she was in and she decided to pull out of the race for AG this time because Letitia James is going to stay as AG-presumably to go after Trump and family-and not run for Governor.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2021 08:45 AM (poMoX)

176 McCarthy haas proved time and again he is not the right leader. He has no such qualities. The problem is the House Caucus is just as weak and cares more about their committee assignments then the people.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 08:46 AM (voHIS)

177 171 Correct. They're coasting on the assumptions of our outrage and lack of options. They'll make noises about doing this and that but it's all the same old tune.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 14, 2021 08:43 AM (H8QX

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The House can't do much on its own. The House and bare control of the Senate can't do much either. Yeah, it's a bit of a meme, but it's also true.

The best we were ever going to see from a Republican victory in 2022 was stopping any legislative achievements from Biden, and I think we're going to get that. There's a very small chance that we could even get new leadership in the Republican caucus (it's no greater than 5%, I'd say, but there is a chance).

Any kind of movement in terms of actual legislation is going to come from the Republican nominee in 2024 (cough, Trump, cough).

So, you know what Republicans having no plan now does? It gifts the policy mantle to Trump in 2024 without a fight. I'm not too worried about this outcome.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 08:47 AM (LvTSG)

178 To my bewilderment Trump also continues to support McCarthy. ...
Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 08:44 AM (voHIS)
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Trump has proven over and over he is not a good people picker. Sometimes his options are limited.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 14, 2021 08:47 AM (EZebt)

179 Indeed, the greatest political opportunity for Republicans in our time. A modern version of Gingrich would be spinning this living hell under the democrats into gold. Cowardice and stupidity rule.

They are still playing early 2000's ball. It is better for fundraising to be the opposition party. Dems are playing to win. Republicans are playing for fundraising pitches. Who cares if we are all imprisoned in a fascist totalitarian hell, we are ready to fight for YOU if you send us $100 today!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 08:47 AM (E8EsG)

180 Polis is trying to split the baby, in that he's not going to do the hardcore state-level stuff but he will do nothing to intervene against the counties letting their freak flags fly.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

*******

I think you are right Mannix. In a way, Polis is doing a Pontius Pilate, washing his hands of the hard decisions. And in addition to unleashing the Karen Counties like metro Denver, Boulder and Pitkin, on the other side he is probably relying on private businesses and the feds to continue to push for vax mandates. He probably is up against some budget constraints (TABOR) that are squeezing him as well. It wouldn't surprise me if he and his gay-married gay boyfriend adopt another set of his-and-his matching designer gay babies as a Jedi hand wave distraction.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 08:47 AM (m45I2)

181 Due to the tornado(s) and loss of public records, will those areas effected even have midterms?

Democrats are already on it, probably.

Posted by: Ziba at December 14, 2021 08:48 AM (S1hrL)

182 JK Rowling most certainly expects damage to her bank account, but that isn't her pressing concern. Risk to her family is, she says. Adding more security is something she can pay for, and she says she is doing so, but Rowling recognizes most people persecuted by these crazy people cannot afford it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 08:49 AM (raQcc)

183 How does Disney expect mothers to explain Elsa's reported "girlfriend" in Frozen III to their daughters? Great way to kill a franchise.

Posted by: Fox2! at December 14, 2021 08:50 AM (qyH+l)

184 Passing this awful bill in order to reduce inflation would be roughly comparable to putting out a house fire by spraying it with kerosene.
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That will work, after a fashion, When the house burns down, the fire usually goes out...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:51 AM (DU+/6)

185 It wouldn't surprise me if he and his gay-married gay boyfriend adopt another set of his-and-his matching designer gay babies as a Jedi hand wave distraction.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 08:47 AM (m45I2)
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Ah, the "Buttigieg Maneuver"...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 14, 2021 08:51 AM (YIVH2)

186 Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 14, 2021 08:43 AM (EZebt)

Your hash is a great business idea.

Get all of your government assistance fast, convenient and in one place with EZebt!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 08:51 AM (E8EsG)

187 It's cute that some of you youngsters think there's an actual difference between the two 'wings' of The Uniparty.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 14, 2021 08:52 AM (a3Q+t)

188 A screen that big with a decent surround sound setup is awfully close to the "real experience" of the theater, sans the excitement of going out for an event.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:17 AM (DU+/6)

And it means you can wear, or not, whatever you want. You can have whatever snacks/drinks you want. You don't have to put up with people texting, or talking, or whatever.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at December 14, 2021 08:52 AM (EjmvJ)

189 Polis told Colorado Public Radio. "Hopefully, it's been at your pharmacy, your grocery store, a bus near you, [or at] big events.

*****

He has inadvertently identified the likely point-of-care sites for ALL healthcare in the coming Utopia.

Need a Pap smear? Contact your local auto mechanic.

Prostate exam? Meat counter at the supermarket!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 08:52 AM (m45I2)

190 "Trump has proven over and over he is not a good people picker. Sometimes his options are limited.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 14, 2021 08:47 AM (EZebt)"

We have options in the House and with a new crop of Republicans coming in there is a chance for new leadership. However Trump's support for McCarthy has allowed him to use GOP fundraising for his preferred candidates. That is people who will vote for him as leader. There is no pressure being put on McCarthy to produce a plan. He is horrible at articulating the few goals we actually have. A blind man can see all of this, but not Trump. He's too busy launching f bombs and talking about the last election instead of the way forward.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 08:52 AM (voHIS)

191 "And the actions of SCOTUS now underscore that body's total corruption and fealty to this junta. "

If Orange Man Bad decides to run for a third elected term, the battle between him and China's Number 1 Whore ---aka Broken Old Crow ---will exceed the ferocity of battles with more overt Communists. Especially concerning SCOTUS nominees. ......it will be a real rat fuckin.

Posted by: Voter theater. at December 14, 2021 08:52 AM (FCPbW)

192 If another lefty mod goes marching through Kavanaugh's neighborhood to intimidate him, I will no longer feel any anger towards the mob.

Let the squish come out and take a knee on his front lawn to the mob. Worthless Quisling.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 14, 2021 08:53 AM (TNyrE)

193 I'm starting to wonder if the GOP has what it takes to really win for the people in 2022
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Ummmm....no.

Posted by: Magic 8 Ball at December 14, 2021 08:53 AM (raQcc)

194 OA at 62

I am in total agreement. They can both go float in the ocean eternally as far as i am concerned. Roberts can just FOAD.

Posted by: Eli Cash at December 14, 2021 08:53 AM (Rcw54)

195 Notice how not one of the super-religious conservative politicians has ever whispered a word on overturning Obenfell?
Posted by: Lrrr at December 14, 2021 08:41 AM (jIL4c)

I guess we will just have to teach them to wear the ribbon!

Posted by: Bob The Sodomite From Seinfeld at December 14, 2021 08:53 AM (tMjLZ)

196 mob, not mod.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 14, 2021 08:54 AM (TNyrE)

197 How does Disney expect mothers to explain Elsa's reported "girlfriend" in Frozen III to their daughters? Great way to kill a franchise.
Posted by: Fox2!

In the first Frozen, they had to sneak a gay family in. By frozen 3, the main character is going to have a lesbian sex scene. Progress!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 08:54 AM (E8EsG)

198 When I hit refresh, the image up top flashes just long enough for me to recognize a woman's head.

But when I scrolled up, I got the full Monty. Now I'm going to have nightmares.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 14, 2021 08:55 AM (dfRN6)

199 Walker argued that pedophiles should be destigmatized by identifying them as "minor-attracted persons" ("MAPs") rather than the pejorative term "pedophile," because attraction to children is a sexual orientation and not immoral.
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There's an obvious problem right there. The word "pedophile" is not itself pejorative. It is descriptive. From the Greek, "pedo" is from "pais" which is "child" and "phile" is from "philos" which is "loving." Pedophile means ... a person who is attracted to (or "loves," albeit perversely) children. In other words, it is the same as a "MAP."

The word itself is not pejorative, it's *connotation* is negative and it is often used as a pejorative, but it isn't actually one. As such, the critical theorists on this get it wrong yet again. Pedophiles aren't despised by normal people because the word used to describe them is a pejorative, the word used to describe them became a pejorative *because* normal people despise them. If they pull of their linguistic trick with switching over to "MAP" then that, too, will become a pejorative because the critical theorists fucked up cause and effect.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 08:56 AM (DU+/6)

200 Even if Trump runs and wins, these assholes like broken old crow already took sides in nov 2020. They will not turn and help him in any way.

Posted by: Eli Cash at December 14, 2021 08:57 AM (Rcw54)

201 Remember how Barrett was going to "stand up for religious liberty"? Good times. Good times.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 08:57 AM (voHIS)

202 Walmart and CVS are trying to take over primary care. It will be the single biggest healthcare disaster since 2020.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 08:57 AM (E8EsG)

203 ♫ ♪

Do you want to build a snow-tran?

/Frozen 3

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 08:57 AM (m45I2)

204 We have options in the House and with a new crop of Republicans coming in there is a chance for new leadership. However Trump's support for McCarthy has allowed him to use GOP fundraising for his preferred candidates. That is people who will vote for him as leader. There is no pressure being put on McCarthy to produce a plan. He is horrible at articulating the few goals we actually have. A blind man can see all of this, but not Trump. He's too busy launching f bombs and talking about the last election instead of the way forward.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 08:52 AM (voHIS)
Even Having evolved into a Trump Groupie methinks you have point.
THE game--if you really are serious about running for your 3rd elected term --is to get YOUR House--literally and figuratively --in order. Trump imho needs to pursue the House Speakership for a number of reasons. Personally I don't want to hear Trump bellyache about getting stabbed by House R's that are McCarthy's progeny. Take true Command Trump! Stop whining.

Posted by: Voter theater. at December 14, 2021 08:57 AM (FCPbW)

205 Let the squish come out and take a knee on his front lawn to the mob. Worthless Quisling.
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Its pretty bad when you kneel to Corey Booker.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 08:58 AM (4vi12)

206 For me, Liz Cheney is a clear bright line. She is no Republican, Trump or otherwise. If the House caucus does not expel her after yesterdays performance they have zero business being in charge of the House. Let the Democrats rule.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 08:58 AM (raQcc)

207 So how many moar pumps and dumps by Junta Wall Street before Christmas?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 08:59 AM (4vi12)

208 Muddled rulings from SCOTUS are a way to accrue more power to the court. They are designed to keep the issues coming back, where they can poke prod and tweak them endlessly. Like demented doctors endlessly torturing their patient and never finding a cure, because what's the fun in that?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 14, 2021 09:00 AM (fs1hN)

209 Polis told Colorado Public Radio. "Hopefully, it's been at your pharmacy, your grocery store, a bus near you, [or at] big events.

*****

He has inadvertently identified the likely point-of-care sites for ALL healthcare in the coming Utopia.

Need a Pap smear? Contact your local auto mechanic.

Prostate exam? Meat counter at the supermarket!
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 08:52 AM (m45I2)

Don't forget barbershops, where it all started.

Posted by: Zombie Floyd the Barber at December 14, 2021 09:00 AM (4I/2K)

210 202 Walmart and CVS are trying to take over primary care. It will be the single biggest healthcare disaster since 2020.
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Really makes a kid want to take on $1M in student loans to become a doctor and find youself working for a drug store.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 09:00 AM (4vi12)

211 Liz Cheney is a representative for the Deep State, Pentagon, CIA, FBI, defense contractors, etc. She might as well be the representative for DC because she doesn't do shit for Wyoming.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 14, 2021 09:00 AM (UuD2k)

212 Since the Pretend Governor of NY launched this latest salvo against the people we've had numerous people quit. It was the last straw and they're moving out of state because according to them "this is never going to end". We can barely get anyone to come back into midtown as it is because of crime and all the other COVID tyranny. This is the Rubicon for some people.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 09:00 AM (voHIS)

213 As a conservative, I don't expect the Supreme Court to become an activist court for the right no more than I wanted it to be an activist court for the left.

The people need to stand up against this unconstitutional decree. The Legislatures and the myriad local governments.
In New York, the state legislature has given up it's power to the Governor's Office and ignores the people they represent.

Stop looking to the Supreme Court to save this country. It can't and it won't.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2021 09:01 AM (Hudry)

214 SCOTUS has always been a rubber stamp for what the DC establishment wanted. You're fooling yourself if you think they are a power balancing force.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 14, 2021 09:02 AM (UuD2k)

215 Kind of amused by my son's take on the Waukesha attack in that word among his peers (union members in Madison suburb) is that it is the (R) judge's fault for setting the low bail.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 14, 2021 08:32 AM (MIKMs)
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Actually, you can thank Democrat DA John Chisholm and his commissioner Cedric Cornwall for that-
https://tinyurl.com/yckr4n8e

Posted by: redridinghood at December 14, 2021 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

216 Really makes a kid want to take on $1M in student loans to become a doctor and find youself working for a drug store.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 09:00 AM (4vi12)

Hey mister! Can you fix the RedBox outside? Are my pictures ready for pickup? Where's the batteries? Etc.

Posted by: That Annoying Guy/Gal at the Drug Store at December 14, 2021 09:03 AM (4I/2K)

217 201 Remember how Barrett was going to "stand up for religious liberty"? Good times. Good times.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 08:57 AM (voHIS)

It's what the Leftist feared most about her (remember Feinstein's baleful pronouncement about her?). Rather amusing in a sick way.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 14, 2021 09:03 AM (H8QX8)

218 Man, there is no variant of the image at the top that is pleasant - but today's is pretty high on the revulsion index.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:03 AM (DU+/6)

219 I wouldnt call the SC activist for supporting a persons right to a religious belief. But maybe thats where we are at in 2021.

Posted by: Eli Cash at December 14, 2021 09:03 AM (Rcw54)

220 Trump failed for exactly this reason, he counted on people inimical to our interests to rule after winning in 2016 and to win in 2020. I understand you have to depend in some part on "Republicans", but not expelling Cheney sends a terrible message about what perfidy the party accepts.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 09:04 AM (raQcc)

221 Hey mister! Can you fix the RedBox outside? Are my pictures ready for pickup? Where's the batteries? Etc.
Posted by: That Annoying Guy/Gal at the Drug Store at December 14, 2021 09:03 AM (4I/2K)
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I call BS on this. Nobody uses "mister" anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:04 AM (DU+/6)

222 221 Hey mister! Can you fix the RedBox outside? Are my pictures ready for pickup? Where's the batteries? Etc.
Posted by: That Annoying Guy/Gal at the Drug Store at December 14, 2021 09:03 AM (4I/2K)
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I call BS on this. Nobody uses "mister" anymore.
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Sabu or hey you works.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 09:05 AM (4vi12)

223 I have a different perspective on why Kavanaugh and Barrett turned down the chance to weigh in on the New York mandates; I believe (and this is from reading a lot of what they said) that they're focused on devolving a lot of Federal Control back to the States - and part of that is saying that if a State wants to do something stupid under State Law, backed by that State's Supreme Court, then fine, the Feds won't interfere.

That's what I think the final Abortion decision is going to be, generally speaking.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2021 09:05 AM (evAgx)

224 Man, there is no variant of the image at the top that is pleasant - but today's is pretty high on the revulsion index.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:03 AM (DU+/6)

She's no Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS that's for certain.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated & Unmotivated Voter at December 14, 2021 09:05 AM (4I/2K)

225 This is why the GOP loses. There is a massive opportunity to do good things. To really pull together the strong coalition of voters that have recently come into the party. Instead they sit back and watch, too afraid or too dumb to realize now is the time for planning and action, not pedestrian navel gazing.�
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It's pretty clear the consultant class has sold them that they will be a target if they do anything. So, they're going to do nothing, run on nothing and ... win?

The lowest hanging fruit and up to 20% of the Democrat's coalition is up for grabs-- the working class. The core power base of the enemy is vulnerable. And the GOPe is ... trying to win the tranny vote.

Posted by: Lrrr at December 14, 2021 09:05 AM (jIL4c)

226 Remember how Barrett was going to "stand up for religious liberty"? Good times. Good times.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 08:57 AM (voHIS)

Remember, in an unprecedented move, when Owebama called out the SCJ's in his SOTU speech?

Yeah, next Republican needs to do that, bigly.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

227 For a little historical perspective, the Contract For America was released 6 weeks before the 94 midterms not a year before the midterms.

It was reported back in May that Trump was meeting with Gingrich, Graham, Meadows and other Congress types to develop a new CFA as a legislative roadmap for 2022 and beyond. At the time Gingrich said the plan would not be released until we got closer to the race because it was too soon to know all the hot button issues.

https://tinyurl.com/3rtcnpu4

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2021 09:06 AM (ZLI7S)

228 We can barely get anyone to come back into midtown as it is because of crime and all the other COVID tyranny.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 09:00 AM

You say that like it's a Bad Thing.

Posted by: William DiBlasio at December 14, 2021 09:06 AM (a3Q+t)

229 And what did Liz Cheney release in a text by Trump Jr. that was so important. I would think whatever it is he could sue her over that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2021 08:39 AM (poMoX)

Jr said that Sr needed to go on TV to condemn this. A tweet by the Capitol police was insufficient. Of course, in hindsight, we know that the even was over around the time that anyone heard about it but I guess this shows that the Trumps wanted to bring down the government or something.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at December 14, 2021 09:07 AM (EjmvJ)

230 The Fed is meeting today to decide what to do with transitory inflation. My guess they will agree to do very little given their real employers don't want to cuz they stole an election. If I am right, NASDAQ should rally.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 09:07 AM (4vi12)

231 I don't want SCOTUS to be activist in any sense. I want them to hold the line against assaults on The. Bill of Rights. Indeed it should be the legislature who protects the people from such a grotesque assault on their liberty. But if they don't- then what? When you are ruled by a tyranny of a majority, what options do they have? How far must that tyranny go on trampling peoples constitutional liberty for SCOTUS to actually get off their fat asses and draw a bright line on where tyranny ends and freedom begins? Apparently with the current court, there is no bright line. Only a bunch of legal Maneuvering and obfuscation that's too hard for the plebes to understand. It's a disgrace and Barrett, Kavanaugh and Roberts should be ashamed to show their faces. Cowards all.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 09:07 AM (voHIS)

232 If Republicans run single-issue state races in 2022 saying only they will break the Teachers Unions, I bet they draw a lot of Democrat voters.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 09:08 AM (raQcc)

233 Who was the domatrix outfit up at the top originally for j(Is is from a movie? because it's now been used for Cuomo, Stacy Abrams, I believe, Hochul and a few others. Hochul is a petite woman. She would not be wearing the same clothes as Abrams
And yes, I get the point you were making. It's very clclear. I just didn't know where the image originally came from.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2021 09:08 AM (nwvuS)

234 "Transitory inflation." "Two weeks to flatten the curve."
Potato, potahto.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 14, 2021 09:09 AM (H8QX8)

235 >>And yes, I get the point you were making. It's very clclear. I just didn't know where the image originally came from.

Probably from garrett's dating records.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2021 09:09 AM (ZLI7S)

236 Trump as speaker would be a great tryout for 2024. I support trump but lets see if we can get something done now instead of 2024. Put him in there and let him loose. If he puts points on the board, he should be the nominee. Enough with the bs emails, fundraising etc. Thats just 2020 all over.

Posted by: Eli Cash at December 14, 2021 09:09 AM (Rcw54)

237 It's a disgrace and Barrett, Kavanaugh and Roberts should be ashamed to show their faces. Cowards all.

And Roman Catholics. Like their Pope, enemies of Freedom and Liberty.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 14, 2021 09:09 AM (+LCoQ)

238 Nearest I can figure scotus didn't have a plaintiff damaged (fired) for religious refusal.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at December 14, 2021 09:10 AM (lyOh6)

239 Really makes a kid want to take on $1M in student loans to become a doctor and find youself working for a drug store.
Posted by: Puddin Head

Worse than that. You will be treated by a 23 year old "C" student who went to nursing school then got her "NP" in online classes. Every cough needs a Zpack and sore throat needs Amox. If a lab value is flagged with an "L" or "H" you need to go to the ER or get a million dollar specialist workup.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 09:10 AM (E8EsG)

240 237 And Roman Catholics. Like their Pope, enemies of Freedom and Liberty.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 14, 2021 09:09 AM (+LCoQ)

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I'm unclear. Are you calling all Catholics enemies of Freedom and Liberty?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

241 I call BS on this. Nobody uses "mister" anymore.

Not true. Certain CoBs, like Mr. Humanitarian and Mr. Dildo, are frequently called that here.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 14, 2021 09:10 AM (a3Q+t)

242 Who was the domatrix outfit up at the top originally for j(Is is from a movie? because it's now been used for Cuomo, Stacy Abrams, I believe, Hochul and a few others. Hochul is a petite woman. She would not be wearing the same clothes as Abrams
And yes, I get the point you were making. It's very clclear. I just didn't know where the image originally came from.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2021 09:08 AM (nwvuS)

To be fair, all leftist commie lunatics are fat pigs, regardless of physical stature, so.....

Is the image ignorant cow Rosie O'Donnell from that one movie that also had Dana Delany in it?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

243 We are trying to win the battle against GOVERNMENT MANDATED VACCINES on religious grounds. That is the weakest of all arguments.

For me, the strongest argument is that government CAN NEVER mandate a vaccine. Ever. Yes, it goes to basic liberty, regardless of what religion you are. The government can't mandate what goes into my body. The tyranny of Public Health is still tyranny.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2021 09:10 AM (Hudry)

244 I don't want SCOTUS to be activist in any sense. I want them to hold the line against assaults on The. Bill of Rights.
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the SCOTUS opinion you complain about was based on Federalism, and the majority said this is more appropriately a question of state power, so your argument probably should probably be directed at whether or not Hochul has this authority under the state Constitution.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 09:11 AM (raQcc)

245 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
1h
CNN's
@donlemon
"Why does Jen Psaki continue to call on Fox in the briefing room?"
"Why should they be able to take part in a legitimate press briefing and legitimate journalism?"
"Why did they even allow Fox to pretend in the briefing room they're a real news organization?"

https://tinyurl.com/phtt58w3

Posted by: redridinghood at December 14, 2021 09:11 AM (NpAcC)

246 For me, the strongest argument is that government CAN NEVER mandate a vaccine. Ever. Yes, it goes to basic liberty, regardless of what religion you are. The government can't mandate what goes into my body. The tyranny of Public Health is still tyranny.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2021 09:10 AM (Hudry)

They've been mandating vaccinations in children and infants for generations........

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

247 And Roman Catholics. Like their Pope, enemies of Freedom and Liberty.
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We should never have allowed the Irish in.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 09:12 AM (4vi12)

248 What's the latest on Pope Francis? Actually, I consider Benedict as my Pope.

Posted by: dantesed at December 14, 2021 09:12 AM (88xKn)

249 I'm unclear. Are you calling all Catholics enemies of Freedom and Liberty?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 09:10 AM (LvTSG)
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sounds like he is

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 09:13 AM (raQcc)

250 I have a different perspective on why Kavanaugh and Barrett turned down the chance to weigh in on the New York mandates; I believe (and this is from reading a lot of what they said) that they're focused on devolving a lot of Federal Control back to the States - and part of that is saying that if a State wants to do something stupid under State Law, backed by that State's Supreme Court, then fine, the Feds won't interfere.

So if a State decides in reimplement slavery, all is good, right?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 14, 2021 09:13 AM (+LCoQ)

251 244 I don't want SCOTUS to be activist in any sense. I want them to hold the line against assaults on The. Bill of Rights.
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That bird flew the coops a century and half ago.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 09:13 AM (4vi12)

252 Actually, I consider Benedict as my Pope.

Amen.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 14, 2021 09:13 AM (+LCoQ)

253 249 I'm unclear. Are you calling all Catholics enemies of Freedom and Liberty?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 09:10 AM (LvTSG)
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sounds like he is
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 09:13 AM (raQcc)

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It's either that, or he's being very unclear that he's just talking about those three. I'm open to that second option being the case.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 09:13 AM (LvTSG)

254 I have a different perspective on why Kavanaugh and Barrett turned down the chance to weigh in on the New York mandates; I believe (and this is from reading a lot of what they said) that they're focused on devolving a lot of Federal Control back to the States - and part of that is saying that if a State wants to do something stupid under State Law, backed by that State's Supreme Court, then fine, the Feds won't interfere.

That's what I think the final Abortion decision is going to be, generally speaking.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2021 09:05 AM (evAgx)

Hope you are correct. Truly.
The DC Leviathan the Founders tried to prevent has in fact been unleashed on The States.

Posted by: Voter theater. at December 14, 2021 09:14 AM (FCPbW)

255 250 So if a State decides in reimplement slavery, all is good, right?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 14, 2021 09:13 AM (+LCoQ)

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The 13th Amendment would make that kind of difficult.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

256 244 I don't want SCOTUS to be activist in any sense. I want them to hold the line against assaults on The. Bill of Rights.
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the SCOTUS opinion you complain about was based on Federalism, and the majority said this is more appropriately a question of state power, so your argument probably should probably be directed at whether or not Hochul has this authority under the state Constitution.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 09:11 AM (raQcc)

The 14th applies the Bill of Rights to the states.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 09:14 AM (z5Vrg)

257 Worse than that. You will be treated by a 23 year old "C" student who went to nursing school then got her "NP" in online classes. Every cough needs a Zpack and sore throat needs Amox. If a lab value is flagged with an "L" or "H" you need to go to the ER or get a million dollar specialist workup.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

******

Cat. Ass Johnson is right!

/Muldoon Johnson

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 09:15 AM (m45I2)

258 They've been mandating vaccinations in children and infants for generations........

I know that. And it is wrong. That is not a valid argument for expanding vaccine mandates.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2021 09:16 AM (Hudry)

259 243 We are trying to win the battle against GOVERNMENT MANDATED VACCINES on religious grounds. That is the weakest of all arguments.

For me, the strongest argument is that government CAN NEVER mandate a vaccine. Ever. Yes, it goes to basic liberty, regardless of what religion you are. The government can't mandate what goes into my body. The tyranny of Public Health is still tyranny.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2021 09:10 AM (Hudry)

I agree. The religious exemption always seemed too narrow and concessionary to me.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 14, 2021 09:16 AM (H8QX8)

260 I call BS on this. Nobody uses "mister" anymore.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:04 AM (DU+/6)

These guys do!!

https://youtu.be/nKhN1t_7PEY

Posted by: Doof at December 14, 2021 09:17 AM (mZUr4)

261 Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
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Posted by: redridinghood at December 14, 2021 09:17 AM (NpAcC)

262 I agree. The religious exemption always seemed too narrow and concessionary to me.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 14, 2021 09:16 AM (H8QX

There is nothing in the Constitution that prohibits a state mandate to take vaccines or gene therapy or any other medical treatment. The 1st and 14th ought guarantee a religious exemption though.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 09:17 AM (z5Vrg)

263 appropriately a question of state power, so your argument probably should probably be directed at whether or not Hochul has this authority under the state Constitution.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

State Constitutional authority rises from the federal constitution. A state can not restrict a right enshrined in the federal constitution. If they could, then a state could just outlaw firearms.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 09:17 AM (E8EsG)

264 Ack! My eyes! I am scarred for life.

I hope I can read after that assault on the rods and cones.

Posted by: Flyover at December 14, 2021 09:18 AM (Rbu5d)

265 The Perdue over Kemp article Breitbart I was struck by how hapless Georgia Republicans are. Does Kemp really not understand how he got into this mess? It's a perfect illustration of what is ahead in the House, with Kevin McCarthy an exact analogy to Brian Kemp.

Except, Kemp lives with a woman. That's one difference.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 09:18 AM (raQcc)

266 "Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 09:11 AM (raQcc)"

And at what point does a state legislature acting as a tyranny of the majority cross that line and intrude on The Bill of Rights? Apparently for this court (other then Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch) that is never.

I believe they should always give deference to the state where there are clear 10th Amendment issues. But the issue is that cases such as this involving fundamental religious liberties subvert other constitutionally protected rights a state simply can't legislate away. Ergo that's not SCOTUS lending credence to the 10th Amendment. It's abandoning a principled and very specific defense of The Bill of Rights.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 09:19 AM (voHIS)

267 I'm unclear. Are you calling all Catholics enemies of Freedom and Liberty?

Yeah, because I'm a huge believer that all things can be understood in broad, universal univariant equations with binary results. (sigh)

The battles between Rome and Protestants have included the idea of central control vs individualism. Rome has always been very central control oriented and around it is a culture of cram down on the lower classes.

Calvinist Protestant thought place salvation as a matter of Election, Rome has a complicated and fluid formula of Faith plus Works. These are diametrically opposite fundamental understanding of human nature.

The Founders were definitely more Protestant, and there was huge amounts of suspicion, even as late as JFK that a Roman Catholic would have a "national" allegiance with Rome than with a Constitutional Republic.

Now do all Roman Catholics subscribe to that? Of course not, for many it is a family tradition. (Clarence Thomas is RC too)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 14, 2021 09:19 AM (+LCoQ)

268 250 I have a different perspective on why Kavanaugh and Barrett turned down the chance to weigh in on the New York mandates; I believe (and this is from reading a lot of what they said) that they're focused on devolving a lot of Federal Control back to the States - and part of that is saying that if a State wants to do something stupid under State Law, backed by that State's Supreme Court, then fine, the Feds won't interfere.

So if a State decides in reimplement slavery, all is good, right?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 14, 2021 09:13 AM (+LCoQ)

I think they should have stood up for religious liberty; so I wish they would have overturned it the way Gorsuch, Thomas, and Alito wanted to. But I think I understand how the two most recent members, knowing that they are getting ready to make one of the biggest shifts in Judicial doctrine ever experienced in this countries history, are trying to get some political cover by saying "See? We sided with the left here." I can see them saying next year "We approve of Mississippi approving it's own standards for abortion just like we approved of New York's setting it's own standards on mandates."

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2021 09:19 AM (evAgx)

269

I know that. And it is wrong. That is not a valid argument for expanding vaccine mandates.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2021 09:16 AM (Hudry)

I actually don't have much issue with the vaccines they've been requiring for kids because they're actual vaccines. However, from this point forward, I don't trust the medical community as far as I can throw them, so......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

270 Tough to have any compassion for Rowling. She toed the damn communist line for fucking years and just now figured out what that shit is about? Gimmeafukkin break.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 14, 2021 09:19 AM (o2MD2)

271 Home theater vs big screen.

Part of it is Covid and people staying home

Part of it is the movie. Saving Private Ryan. Dunkirk. Yes, much better in theater. But movies for the kids, the excitement of going to the movies has been replaced by electronics. Playstation, etc. Kids are more attuned.

Perhaps the biggest reason other than cost is: it once took 5-6 months for it to show up on HBO. Now, 3-4 months max. You were "missing out" if you hadn't seen a "blockbuster " in the theater.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 14, 2021 09:19 AM (J+Qkj)

272 I agree. The religious exemption always seemed too narrow and concessionary to me.

It hinges on another one of those assumptions that is no longer true - that the Right will agree with the contemporary definition of religion.

If one's religion mandates they get to take a shit in my yard - rest assured, their religious liberties will not be observed.

Posted by: Through the Glass at December 14, 2021 09:19 AM (Fv8UY)

273 248 Some scuttlebutt seems to be that Pope Francis has cancer and may step aside sometime in 2022, but that may just be spin from someone at the Vatican, which after al is a government, after all.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2021 09:19 AM (XK7X3)

274 >>Except, Kemp lives with a woman. That's one difference.

And Perdue is quite likely to win.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2021 09:20 AM (ZLI7S)

275 267 Now do all Roman Catholics subscribe to that? Of course not, for many it is a family tradition. (Clarence Thomas is RC too)
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 14, 2021 09:19 AM (+LCoQ)

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So...Catholics are generally evil haters of freedom and liberty except the exceptions which makes you not at all a bigot.

Got it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 09:20 AM (LvTSG)

276 State Constitutional authority rises from the federal constitution.
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You have it exactly backwards, Cat. Federal authority arises from grants of power from the states and the people. Unless the Supremacy clause comes into play, it stays that way (or should).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 09:20 AM (raQcc)

277 I thought Don Lemon, though not very smart, is smarter than this. The reason why FOX and Doocey are 'allowed' in the press briefing is just for show. Doocey gets to ask his question, sometimes cleverly put, and get conservatives to cheer, then Psaki gets to deny, deflect or sometimes respond with a clever (to libs anyway) rejoinder and the libbies cheer. It's for our entertainment, not for our enlightenment. Without it, it's like SNL without an opening skit, it has to be in there otherwise it's not SNL.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 14, 2021 09:20 AM (fs1hN)

278 Question: If the R's take the House and Senate, do you think they will have election fraud committees to investigate election fraud?

I'm thinking, no.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 14, 2021 09:20 AM (Y5qcH)

279 "...put into effect largely to stem the tide of a surge in cases upstate, where vaccination rates are poor..."

So Cuomo-lite is punishing the proles for daring to think for themselves. Typical.

Posted by: Flyover at December 14, 2021 09:20 AM (Rbu5d)

280 >>>And Perdue is quite likely to win.
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You mean, beat Abrams? I hope so.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 09:21 AM (raQcc)

281 Religious wars are fun.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 14, 2021 09:22 AM (i9ZBi)

282 270 People have political epiphanies all the time. It starts with one thing and then gains momentum. Brandon Straka is an example. It doesn't mean that Rowling will have a complete turnaround but she might.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2021 09:22 AM (W4z6N)

283 The Founders were definitely more Protestant, and there was huge amounts of suspicion, even as late as JFK that a Roman Catholic would have a "national" allegiance with Rome than with a Constitutional Republic.

Now do all Roman Catholics subscribe to that? Of course not, for many it is a family tradition. (Clarence Thomas is RC too)
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 14, 2021 09:19 AM (+LCoQ)

Thanks to our roots in England, our society inherited the hundreds of years of animosity between Catholics and Protestants in England, Scotland, and Ireland. The 16th and 17th centuries were particularly vicious.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2021 09:22 AM (evAgx)

284 Some scuttlebutt seems to be that Pope Francis has cancer and may step aside sometime in 2022
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They are going to need a nursing home for gaggles of retired Popes pretty soon.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 09:23 AM (raQcc)

285 Don Lemon is really the dumbest fucker on TV. Hands down.

He's openly calling for the White House to violate the First Amendment because he doesn't agree with their politics.

Fuck you, Don. You're a communist prick and I hate you for it.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

286 Redirecting issues of State vs. Federal power to SCOTUS really shouldn't be necessary if the state legislators knew anything about how the Republic was supposed to work in the first place. But we've got generations of idiots running the country instead.

It does present an interesting dilemma for the Feds however. What to do when a state, say Florida, does what's in it's best interests but not what the Feds wanted? What if it's a lot of states? Itching for a fight...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 14, 2021 09:23 AM (BFigT)

287 As seen on FB: LOL!
PARKING TICKET: My wife and I went into town and visited a shop. When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. We went up to him and I said, "Come on man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?" He just ignored us and continued writing the ticket.
I called him an "a**hole." He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn-out tires.
So my wife called him a "s*ithead." He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing more tickets.
This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote. He finally finished, sneered at us and walked away. Just then our bus arrived, and we got on it and went home.
We always look for cars with Biden stickers. We try to have a little fun each day now that we're retired. It's so important at our age!!!

Posted by: SMOD at December 14, 2021 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

288 I actually don't have much issue with the vaccines they've been requiring for kids because they're actual vaccines...

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Mentioned before, but apparently the big push to get school kids vaccinated is so they can get it on the regular "real" vaccine schedule and it automatically grants government-enforced lifetime limitations on damages to $300K/person/lifetime or something similar.

Lots of incentive there.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 14, 2021 09:24 AM (XSoJN)

289 Who else is a little turned on by the picture at the top?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 14, 2021 09:24 AM (VNGpB)

290 Some scuttlebutt seems to be that Pope Francis has cancer and may step aside sometime in 2022
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Just know the next one will be worse. They'll never go back.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

291 State Constitutional authority rises from the federal constitution. A state can not restrict a right enshrined in the federal constitution. If they could, then a state could just outlaw firearms.

Part of the condition of being a member State is the adoption of being a Constitutional Republic, not mob rule, a totalitarian State or a democracy.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 14, 2021 09:24 AM (+LCoQ)

292 The battles between Rome and Protestants have included the idea of central control vs individualism. Rome has always been very central control oriented and around it is a culture of cram down on the lower classes.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 14, 2021 09:19 AM (+LCoQ)

Subsidiarity and nationalism. The Catholic Church has always regarded itself as a body of churches (the whole council thing, ecumenical and the more common smaller models is republican in structure). There is arguably a selfish interest in encouraging nationalism and the division of large empires but that's been consistent as well.

Religious doctrine is unified and unchaneable (infallible as it were).

Justification and sanctification (referred to in the Council of Trent as the first and second justifications respectively) aren't that complicated. The first is by faith, the second is by works and/or purgatory.

All are invited vs predestination and rejection of free will is pretty opposite yes.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 09:24 AM (z5Vrg)

293 285 Don Lemon is really the dumbest fucker on TV. Hands down.

He's openly calling for the White House to violate the First Amendment because he doesn't agree with their politics.

Fuck you, Don. You're a communist prick and I hate you for it.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

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I remember when we were calling for Trump to kick Jim Acosta and CNN out of the White House briefing room.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

294 If a lab value is flagged with an "L" or "H" you need to go to the ER or get a million dollar specialist workup.

*******

♫♪
I've got algo-rhythm
I've got templates
Got Best Practices™, who could ask for anything more?

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2021 09:24 AM (m45I2)

295 If Abrams loses, Georgia is racist!

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2021 09:24 AM (2z133)

296 And Perdue is quite likely to win.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2021 09:20 AM (ZLI7S)
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He may win the primary, but I worry about his ability to beat Stacey Abrams since he couldn't beat Ossoff in his senate run.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 14, 2021 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

297 Rome has always been very central control oriented and around it is a culture of cram down on the lower classes.
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The Roman Catholic Church is mostly Roman.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 09:25 AM (4vi12)

298
~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 14, 2021 09:25 AM (K2SnJ)

299 Trump's endorsement record is 137-3.
He's already the kingmaker.
Building an army ...

That also tells you just how insane the NeverTrump are to think they are EVER going to be back in charge.

Posted by: Lrrr at December 14, 2021 09:25 AM (jIL4c)

300 Tough to have any compassion for Rowling. She toed the damn communist line for fucking years and just now figured out what that shit is about? Gimmeafukkin break.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 14, 2021 09:19 AM (o2MD2)
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I get this, but the same is true for Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibi. I guess I welcome the support, even if she is late to the battle.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 09:26 AM (raQcc)

301 Don Lemon is really the dumbest fucker on TV. Hands down.

He's openly calling for the White House to violate the First Amendment because he doesn't agree with their politics.

Fuck you, Don. You're a communist prick and I hate you for it.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)
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That's a bottomless well. Don Lemon is very stupid. But is he really stupider than Brian Stelter or Chuck Todd? The depths of stupidity in television news are unmeasurable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 14, 2021 09:26 AM (DU+/6)

302 I'm not even halfway through Joe Rogan's interview with Dr. Peter McCullough and discovering that I am not nearly as informed on the virus as I thought I was. Stunning revelations. And terrifying.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 14, 2021 09:26 AM (0TVNF)

303 I was told Amy Coney Barrett was an originalist. (I get that Kavanaugh isn't)

Posted by: jeff at December 14, 2021 09:27 AM (nf4HY)

304 And at what point does a state legislature acting as a tyranny of the majority cross that line and intrude on The Bill of Rights?

As the country was originally founded ? Hardly ever.

The notion of "incorporation" - the Supreme Court acting as the defender of the Bill of Rights - was entirely invented by the Supreme Court and given to itself. Prior to that - the Bill of Rights was primarily a check on Federal Power - and little more.

Posted by: Through the Glass at December 14, 2021 09:27 AM (Fv8UY)

305 you need to go to the ER or get a million dollar specialist workup.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 09:10 AM

In case of a rampant -ism, you'll need to get a million dollar wokeup.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 14, 2021 09:28 AM (a3Q+t)

306 That also tells you just how insane the NeverTrump are to think they are EVER going to be back in charge.
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They have endless amounts of billionaire dollars to burn through. They won't go away.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 09:28 AM (4vi12)

307 hey y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at December 14, 2021 09:28 AM (Adlwz)

308 If DeSantis really does send those illegals that were originally sent to Florida by Dopey Joe along to Delaware, Martha's Vineyard, Hamptons, etc (pretty please make it so!), do these blue states sue Florida to cease and desist? I'm thinking that they would be right and they would win. But if Florida then turns around and sues Biden and the Fetid Feds, he would lose.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 14, 2021 09:28 AM (fs1hN)

309 UK is refusing to release details about the one and only worldwide Omicron death. Just that he had omicron and died. So, lock down, boost up, and be afraid!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2021 09:28 AM (E8EsG)

310 Thanks to our roots in England, our society inherited the hundreds of years of animosity between Catholics and Protestants in England, Scotland, and Ireland. The 16th and 17th centuries were particularly vicious.

Through all of that we get the Separation of Church and State doctrine that is found only in a letter authored by Thomas Jefferson to the Bradbury Baptist church because they greatly feared that the religious persecution they escaped from Europe would follow them to the New World.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 14, 2021 09:28 AM (+LCoQ)

311 306 That also tells you just how insane the NeverTrump are to think they are EVER going to be back in charge.
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They have endless amounts of billionaire dollars to burn through. They won't go away.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2021 09:28 AM (4vi12)

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This is why Liz Cheney and Chris Christie are going to run for president in 2024. They know they can raise tens of millions of dollars from these donors, spend a fraction of it in the face of the Trump juggernaut, and pocket most of the money afterwards as unspent campaign funds.

They're grifters, and they're only grifting the donor class that will lose more influence the more they do shit like this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

312 The lead paragraph From TheHill regarding Wallace:

"Chris Wallace's surprise departure Sunday from Fox News has shaken up the Washington media landscape and prompted new questions about the direction of the network's news programming as one of its most trusted journalists leaves for its fiercest competitor."

The DC bubble: It's real and its spectacular.

Posted by: WisRich at December 14, 2021 09:29 AM (G0vdT)

313
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I remember when we were calling for Trump to kick Jim Acosta and CNN out of the White House briefing room.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 14, 2021 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

He assaulted an intern.......and we asked him to be replaced, not for CNN as a whole to be banned. Well, me anyway....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 14, 2021 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

314 >>You mean, beat Abrams? I hope so.

Now that 2020 is safely behind him even Kemp has announced he is shocked, shocked!, that there were a great deal of "irregularities" in Fulton County and beyond and he is calling for more state level oversight.

I don't think GA will be able to get away with the same level of cheating in 2022 that they did in 2020. They've already re-instituted Jim Eagle voting laws and I would bet they won't be able to get away with locking out Republican and Independent poll watchers to allow Democrats to count votes at 2 in the morning.

The RNC has been largely useless for years but they did flood VA with poll watchers and lawyers to try and head off any games there and they got a R governor in a Dem +10 race against a big time Clinton operative. Trump wants GA badly. He thinks that was ground zero for his loss so I bet he will go hard there in 22.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2021 09:29 AM (ZLI7S)

315 287 Posted by: SMOD at December 14, 2021 09:23 AM (RHGPo)
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I loved that. Thanks!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 09:30 AM (raQcc)

316 "Strategic Self-Deception Is No Substitute for Competence"

All of the Junta's Exec Branch nominees and appointees are hard-core partisans, selected because Klain knew they would happily and ruthlessly work to make their organizations as woke as possible, and enact Green New Deal policies. Managerial experience, and relevant subject experience, were not required.

Posted by: Gref at December 14, 2021 09:30 AM (AMIL/)

317 Reuben,

I think RC are just as.committed to freedom and liberty as Protestants are-at least the practicing ones who are not leftist are. You can see that from the conservative RC site, Church Militant. Of course conservative RC have very strong views about doctrine as conservative Protestants do but we have more in common than what divides us in my opinion, and it should not divine us. It is one Lord after all

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2021 09:30 AM (1DwaP)

318 The Roman Catholic Church is mostly Lutheran.

Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too at December 14, 2021 09:30 AM (rDgjh)

319 ART NOOD

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 14, 2021 09:30 AM (LXmEi)

320 >>He may win the primary, but I worry about his ability to beat Stacey Abrams since he couldn't beat Ossoff in his senate run.

They didn't stop cheating 1 month after the November elections. The rules are different now.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (ZLI7S)

321 312 "Chris Wallace's surprise departure Sunday from Fox News has shaken up the Washington media landscape and prompted new questions about the direction of the network's news programming as one of its most trusted journalists leaves for its fiercest competitor."

Fiercest competitor? That's fake news. "Most used punching bag", more like.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 14, 2021 09:32 AM (raQcc)

322 Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do. For every social activity ought of its very nature to furnish help to the members of the body social, and never destroy and absorb them.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 14, 2021 09:33 AM (z5Vrg)

323 UK is refusing to release details about the one and only worldwide Omicron death. Just that he had omicron and died. So, lock down, boost up, and be afraid!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

**

(lays $100 bill on table)

At least 80 years old and dying of something already.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 14, 2021 09:34 AM (XSoJN)

324 All are invited vs predestination and rejection of free will is pretty opposite yes.

That is its own conversation, my point is that there is reason as for why some Catholics will characterize Protestants as the "Land of Ten Thousand Popes".

Some of the mainline denominations do adopt some of the top-down hierarchy as Rome, but at the denominational level.

All that said, I would take a Phyllis Schlafly type Roman Catholic on the court than any Protestant I know of today.

Some people just get it.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 14, 2021 09:34 AM (+LCoQ)

325 For me the strongest legal argument against mandatory COVID vaccines is as follows:

One of our basic civil liberties is to seek redress for damages against others who have caused us harm.

Everyone has the ability to waive such redress, but the consent must be knowing and informed.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2021 09:34 AM (Hudry)

326 The federal government has TAKEN away our civil liberty to seek redress against the drug companies. You can't seek redress if the vaccines hurt you or if it doesn't work.

The government cannot deprive me of that individual civil liberty.

A person who voluntarily takes the vaccine assumes the risk and consents to waiving the right to redress.

But a person who has the VACCINE FORCED ON THEM has given NO SUCH CONSENT TO WAIVE THE RIGHT OF REDRESS IN THE COURTS and therefore it is against their civil rights.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2021 09:35 AM (Hudry)

327 Kids want to go to the theaters to get away from the parents who might not approve of doing a couple doobies before watching a movie.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 14, 2021 09:35 AM (Fs5vw)

328 And when I go on the Church Militant site I see lots of discussion absolutely opposed to vaccine mandates and other terrible overreach by the governments worldwide. That doesn't mean I need to agree with them about -and I don't-that Protestants only participate in the Lords Supper as a memorial.However, in this fight for liberty we must all stand together. There are Christians of various stripes as well as non Christians in the NJ conservative group I belong to and arguments about religion have never come up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2021 09:36 AM (VTaoZ)

329 Investopedia:
Demand-pull inflation is the upward pressure on prices that follows a shortage in supply, a condition that economists describe as "too many dollars chasing too few goods."

Posted by: SMOD at December 14, 2021 09:37 AM (RHGPo)

330 I haven't seen this on the news yet, but last night, the 5th Circuit affirmed the injunction directing DHS to reinstate the remain-in-Mexico policy (aka MPP)
See 117-page decision here:
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/ pub/21/21-10806-CV1.pdf

Posted by: no at December 14, 2021 09:41 AM (vUoRw)

331 He's too busy launching f bombs and talking about the last election instead of the way forward.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2021 08:52 AM

There is no way forward without addressing the stolen election.

Imagine a Super Bowl where the refs explicitly threw the game in favor of one team. Not talking "questionable" calls, but outright cheating that everyone saw. And it was known that it was because the league hated that team and was not going to let them win a Super Bowl again.

The solution is not to ignore that and plan "a way forward". The solution is to address the cheating and make sure that never happens again.

If you ignore it and agree that it is acceptable, there is no way forward. There is no possible way to win when you accept that the rules are rigged against you.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 14, 2021 09:42 AM (Do5/p)

332 Walmart and CVS are trying to take over primary care. It will be the single biggest healthcare disaster since 2020.

You mean Dollar General is taking over health care, right? CVS closing 900 stores across the country. Dollar General taking over the structures.

Walmart is another story. Alarming.

Healthcare for the elites only!

Posted by: Ziba at December 14, 2021 09:44 AM (S1hrL)

333 ACB is an original, all right. What a performance she put on. Duped everyone -- even her kids.

Posted by: Ziba at December 14, 2021 09:49 AM (S1hrL)

334 New York State could very well elect a Republican Governor next year. If not for New York City voters in 2018, the excellent Republican Marc Molinaro would have been Governor there. Now he's running against the woke Antonio Delgado in the heavily Republican Ulster County for a Congressional seat.

Posted by: Victoria at December 14, 2021 10:01 AM (sFBNj)

335 175...Zephyr Teachout is a far leftist lawyer. She lost the last political race which she was in and she decided to pull out of the race for AG this time because Letitia James is going to stay as AG-presumably to go after Trump and family-and not run for Governor.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2021 08:45 AM (poMoX)

Her middle name is "Rain."

No, really. I looked her up.

Posted by: Flyover at December 14, 2021 10:06 AM (Rbu5d)

336 191...If Orange Man Bad decides to run for a third elected term, ...
Posted by: Voter theater. at December 14, 2021 08:52 AM (FCPbW)

I think Eric Trump will run.

Posted by: Flyover at December 14, 2021 10:10 AM (Rbu5d)

337 332 Walmart and CVS are trying to take over primary care. It will be the single biggest healthcare disaster since 2020.

You mean Dollar General is taking over health care, right? CVS closing 900 stores across the country. Dollar General taking over the structures.

Walmart is another story. Alarming.

Healthcare for the elites only!
Posted by: Ziba at December 14, 2021 09:44 AM (S1hrL)

I thought the DMV will eventually run our healthcare.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 14, 2021 10:38 AM (Uwkvn)

338 Were I in charge of a State, City, or heck, even rhe President, my approach to COVID at this point would be identical. Vaccines have been available for free, everywhere, for long enough at this point, that if anyone hasn't gotten it, it's because they've chosen not to. We can't protect people from their own decisions forever. If, indeed, the unvaxxed are at risk from COVID, that's their choice. Time to move on. Pandemic over. If people die, they die. That's cold-hearted, perhaps, but it's reality. Move. The. Fuck. On.

Posted by: Goober at December 14, 2021 11:35 AM (Hgvgt)

339 Jared Polis is up for re-election in 11 months. He, or one of his advisors, sees the writing on the wall and knows that vax mandates are low-hanging fruit for the picking during campaign season. He's vulnerable anyway as native Coloradans are free-spirited people and get increasingly suspect of transplants (like Polis) every day. Mandates that Polis extended over and over have devastated a lot of businesses like restaurants that employed native residents.

Posted by: Ricky Bobby at December 14, 2021 02:46 PM (l7udz)

340 As your employer, if you choose to not get vaccinated, you'll have to look for a new job. But you're not fired, it's your choice.

As your employer, if you choose to not suck my penis, you'll have to look for a new job. But you're not fired, it's your choice.

As your employer, if you choose to self-identify as female or black or anything I don't like, you'll have to look for a new job. But you're not fired, it's your choice.

As your employer, if you choose to have an abortion, you'll have to look for a new job. But you're not fired, it's your choice.

And suddenly every leftist is completely on the side of employers, what a coincidence!

Posted by: ChrisW at December 14, 2021 02:47 PM (zFMsi)

341 Vax mandates need to be challenged on 4th amendment grounds. Medical decisions are private matters, and enforcing a mandate to take a "vaccine" that's no more effective than a seasonal flu shot requires an unwarranted search of a citizen's person and effects. State governments are still subject to the 4th amendment and have no business trying to dictate medical decisions - especially for a treatment of such dubious effectiveness.

Posted by: Ricky Bobby at December 14, 2021 02:51 PM (l7udz)

342 I've got to put long hard shafts that ejaculates fluid into every employee that I think needs to have them or they'll need to find a new job.

It's ok when government does it.

Posted by: ChrisW at December 14, 2021 04:26 PM (zFMsi)

343 I saw the headline pic, totally not expecting that, and exclaimed: "Why would you do that?"

Then I looked at the author. Yup. (((Sefton.))) Every goddamned time.

Posted by: rold at December 15, 2021 10:02 AM (KHx0C)

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