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The Morning Report - 1/10/22

Good morning, kids. Start of a new week and while the bad news is the Democrats are not only not going to let their January 6th Pagan rite go, but are going to be ramping it up all the way to November and beyond, the good news is most Americans (real Americans, not illegal aliens nor the hardcore Marxist Democrat base) could give a rat's ass about it, being more concerned with trivial matters like freedom-killing economic hardship and senseless Chinese COVID mania. The globalists stole 2020 and having done so, what's been the result? One solid year of abject domestic and foreign policy disasters, debacles and catastrophes unlike any single or even multiple years in America's now-concluded history. Every decision, edict, executive order or law that brought all this about was done ostensibly for one reason: to reverse everything done in the previous four years by President Trump that brought about the exact opposite: arguably the greatest domestic and foreign policy triumphs in America's now-concluded history.

But it has to be more than that. Or has it? Doing the same things over and over while expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. And yet this is exactly what the Democrats have been doing since forever. Sadly, 99.5% of the GOP fall into this category as well. The GOP is to opposition and reversal as Ashli Babbit and Roseanne Boyland are to terrorism and violent, white supremacist insurrection. I suppose in the end it doesn't really matter if you're a true believer like Titty Caca Cortez or an Elmer Gantry grifter like Cuck Schemer Schumer. The final destination is still a mass grave for any of us who stand in their way.

So, the Democrats will milk the January 6th, 2021 incident -- where all of the violence and destruction was solely caused by FBI agents, DC cops, and their Antifa/BLM confederates in MAGA gear while the hapless fools who followed them in to the Capitol to do nothing more than gawk at the scenery are now being held and brutalized at the hands of Moloch Garland -- forever. They have to, because that's all they have. They're not going to be winning any elections on $6.00/gallon gas, transexual child rapists and Jive Kampf indoctrination, are they? At least not without the assistance of Dao-Min Yen.

The other reason to ramp up J6 fear-mongering is because all the fear-mongering regarding General Tso's Sickness is not working, especially with the revelations from the CDC itself among other places that the latest Phi Beta Kappa variant is essentially no more dangerous than the common cold. But, in the immortal words of Rodgers and Hammerstein, "you've got to be taught to hate and fear."

Until a few days ago, I had never heard the term "Mass Formation Psychosis." There's a phenomenon when something gets hot that all sorts of experts announce themselves on Twitter, when their expertise is about 24 hours old and an inch deep. . .

The conditions to set up mass formation psychosis include lack of social connectedness and sensemaking as well as large amounts of latent anxiety and passive aggression. When people are inundated with a narrative that presents a plausible "object of anxiety" and strategy for coping with it, then many individuals group together to battle the object with a collective singlemindedness. This allows people to stop focusing on their own problems, avoiding personal mental anguish. Instead, they focus all their thought and energy on this new object. . .
. . . So are we in the midst of another madness coming to an end when we least expect it?
What started me on this post was not Mass Formation Psychosis, or the Madness of Crowds, it was this post by Joel Kotkin at Unherd, which proposes what seems most unlikely proposition that the "progressive" march through institutions we are witnessing in real time may be nearing its end, Is this the end of progressive America?

Over the past several decades, the progressive Left has successfully fulfilled Antonio Gramsci's famed admonition of a "long march through the institutions". In almost every Western country, its adherents now dominate the education system, media, cultural institutions, and financial behemoths.
But what do they have to show for it? Not as much as they might have expected. Rather than a Bolshevik-style assumption of power, there's every chance this institutional triumph will not produce an enduring political victory, let alone substantially change public opinion. . .
. . . So there you have it. Mass Formation Psychosis. The Madness of Crowds. And The End Of The Progressive March Through Institutions. All connected somehow. Hope in the midst of despair.
But first, things will fall apart:

Kind of hard to have hope since the falling apart we've been through in this last year alone has been bad enough. Another year of this, let alone three, will kill me.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Hope in the midst of despair. But first, things will fall apart, so get ready."
Mass Formation Psychosis. The Madness of Crowds. And the End of Progressive America
Victor Davis Hanson: "Shut up and keep quiet; that is all ye need to know."
What Makes Riots, Conspiracies, Cabals, and Insurrections "Good" or "Bad?"
Julie Kelly: "During the Trump era, Democrats and Republicans abandoned their traditional positions on federal law enforcement. And with good reason."
What Role Did the FBI Play in January 6?

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

Heather Mac Donald: "Reveling in the anniversary of the Capitol riot, Democrats and the media dubiously brand it a right-wing 'insurrection' -- while ignoring the urban anarchy that began in May 2020."
Insurrections and Double Standards
"University Middle East expert Hussein Mousavian was a former Iranian official."
Princeton Faculty Member Brags About Death Threats Against Trump Admin Envoy
". . . White's suit alleges, she was struck in the head with a baton numerous times, sprayed with mace, punched in the face, and had her hair pulled by Capitol police. The abuse continued even though White was bleeding, visibly in distress, unable to move away from the police or follow any orders to do so, and collapsed more than once."
Jan. 6 Protestor Files Federal Lawsuit for Alleged Beating by Capitol Police
"A significant majority of Americans remain, for now, quietly dispassionate observers to a national, passive acceptance of suddenly usurped authority over our lives and livelihoods."
Fear is the Mind Killer
"Read it and weep."
Think Jan. 6 Was a Big Deal? Here Are 30 Far More Significant Events on That Day in History
"Isn't it funny how 'democracy' always wins when Democrats do?"
Joe Biden's Outrageous, Dishonest Anniversary Speech
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS
FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Gorsuch says [junta] is working to implement nationwide mandate."
Supreme Court Poised to Block Biden's Workplace Vaccine Mandate
"Even though I know the left wing of the court is packed with totalitarians, it always takes my breath away to hear them opine about how the government should be allowed to exercise almost unlimited power over Americans, and their cavalier attitude about the rights of individuals. What I did not expect to hear was Ohio Solicitor General Ben Flowers -- a Republican appointee -- arguing before the court that the state essentially has unlimited power to force individuals to take a vaccination."
Republican-Appointed Ohio Solicitor General to SCOTUS: The State Can Mandate Vaccines for "All Individuals"
"While many sound arguments were made against the OSHA mandates, there is only one that need be made. There is ZERO difference between the vaccinated and unvaccinated as it relates to the contraction and transmission of [Chinese] COVID."
Only One Argument Need Be Made Against the Biden-OSHA Mandates
"The bedrock of modern medicine is informed consent as an ethical principle. I am now informed about the [Chinese] COVID vaccines. I do not consent."
The Legal and Moral Morass of Mandatory Vaccination
Ted Noel, M.D.: "Although the parties were told to prepare only legal issues for the court, that didn't stop ignorant leftist judges from using facts drawn from paranoia and ignorance."
Leftist Supreme Court Justices Abandoned the Law and Made Up Facts
"Before you took this job officially, you emphasizes that one of your primary goals was to restore public trust. But in this time, do you think that it's fair to say that the trust and confidence the public has gone down with the CDC?"
Watch: FNC's Baier Confronts Walensky on Public Losing "Trust and Confidence" in the CDC
"So with [Chinese] COVID now being disproportionately caught -- and presumably distributed -- by the masked and vaccinated, what's the justification for authoritarian mask and vax mandates?" (totalitarian power grab; same as it ever was - jjs)
Let's Shed the Masks and Mandates -- Omicron Stats Show We Can Stop Living in Fear
"Meanwhile, former Biden advisors publish 'endemic [Chinese]COVID' policies in JAMA."
Will Omicron Variant Turn Out to Be Less Deadly Than Seasonal Flu?

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"A vaccine or any other such mandate isn't an end in itself; it is a discovery process. It points the ambitious to the boundaries."
Revenge of the Feeble-Minded
"While the risk to him was and remains near-zero, millions around the world paid the ultimate price for a risk he took with their lives without their knowledge or permission. His policies are still killing us."
Fauci -- and the World -- Agonistes
"Blaming staffing issues, the FDA agreed to release 12,000 pages by the end of January and a 'minimum' of 500 pags a month. However, the group found that number too small, as there are more than 400,000 pages of data needed."
Federal Judge Orders FDA to Release Significantly More Data About Pfizer Vaccine Approval Process
"With vaccine and mask mandates continuing to rule much of the country, Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin want to give people who've already had [Chinese] COVID-19 credit for overcoming the virus." ("I'm coming to join ya, cheeseheads!" - jjs)
Wisconsin Lawmakers Seek to Add Natural Immunity to State's Chinese COVID-19 Rules
"The Dane County mask mandate fight is more than one battle over one resolution. It's a war."
Dane County, WI Tells Fed-Up Residents "Because I Said So" is a Good Enough Reason For Never-Ending Mask Mandates
"Novo Cafe in Westlake Village has defied the Los Angeles County health department for months, keeping indoor and outdoor dining open while refusing to require that employees wear masks."
LA County Sues Local Cafe For Bucking Chinese COVID-19 Rules. Owner:  This Fight Is About Defending Our Freedoms"
"'Natural immunity' no longer considered valid vaccine exemption as goalposts moved."
Second Tennis Star Suffers Similar Fate to Novak Djokavic
"The Australian government canceled 34-year-old Djokovic's visa shortly after he arrived in Melbourne late Wednesday to play in the Australian Open because officials decided he didn't meet the criteria for an exemption to an entry requirement that all non-citizens be fully vaccinated for [Chinese] COVID-19."
Australian Judge Reinstates Tennis Star Novak Djokovic's Visa

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" . . . Dr. Dix -- appointed chairman of the UK government's Vaccine Taskforce last June -- called for a more targeted approach in the deployment of vaccines, a position held by most anti-mandate proponents who have been dubbed 'anti-vaxxers' by the corporate media."
WATCH: Vax Taskforce Chief Says Mass Vaccination "Pointless," Time to Stop Counting Case Numbers
"One virology professor contends that the [Chinese] COVID vaccines are causing the [Chinese] COVID variants."
Are the Vaccinated Harming Their Immune Systems?
Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.: "Why after two years do we not have early outpatient treatment options for patients to keep them far away from IV lines and hospitals? We do have such treatment options, yet they are condemned and disparaged by the medical establishment and media."
Early Outpatient Chinese COVID Treatment -- Why is There Still no Plan?
"Even as positivity rates in nursing homes increase in Connecticut, according to new guidance from the state's Department of Public Health, nursing homes are being asked to accept [Chinese] COVID-positive patients from hospitals."
Is a Chinese COVID Bloodbath Coming to Connecticut?
"And little child shall lead them: According to one teacher's union official in Great Britain, children are refusing in "huge numbers" to wear masks or get twice-weekly tests for [Chinese] COVID, despite government mandates requiring both."
Pushback: Children in England Are Refusing to Wear Masks or Get Tests
"The CDC adjusted its quarantine guidelines in late December, shortening its recommended quarantine period from ten days to five."
Amazon, Walmart Decrease Chinese COVID Leave Times for Employees
"Omicron is the Stephen Baldwin of the China flu family. People say, 'Aw, how cute,' and then no one really expects much. But the liberal panic is in full throttle, despite the lack of deaths. Get the vax or you're gonna kill all the meemaws!"
A Pandemic of the Uneducated: Chinese COVID "Logic" From the left
"In a statement on Sunday, the congresswoman's office announced that she tested positive for the [Chinese] coronavirus after receiving two vaccine doses and a booster shot. The statement did not specify if AOC's symptoms were mild."
Titty Caca AOC Tests Positive for Chinese Coronavirus
"What it's like to catch [Chinese] COVID a day after taking the vaccine."
My Weekend with Chinese COVID (and the Jab)
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"I think it's an historic day for our economic recovery."
Biden: Americans Are Quitting Their Jobs Because They're Moving Up to Better Jobs with Better Pay, Benefit
"Another bad jobs report shows the obvious: Bidenomics is a total disaster."
Biden's Sorry Bid to Spin December's Weak Jobs Report
"Black Americans similarly struggled to regain employment under Obama. The Trump economy, however, saw significant gains for everyone."
Is The Biden 'Recovery' Leaving Black America Behind?
"How is it possible for the public to feel the pain of wasteful government spending if we can pass all the costs on to future generations?"
The Pain of Public Debt
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Under its new anti-prosecution district attorney, Manhattan might be in for more dark days."
Nothing to Bragg About
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"I was just locked out of my account twice and received a DCMA strike as a result of a complaint by" NAIS "for sharing a clip from one of their Kindergarten teacher trainings."
National Association of Independent Schools Tries To Silence Reporting By Whistleblower Paul Rossi on CRT Training Sessions
Meanwhile, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said Wednesday the Chicago Teacher's Union (CTU) was holding students "hostage" in refusing to let teachers go to work Thursday for in-person learning with claims of fears of the spread of [Chinese] coronavirus.
Chicago Teachers Union Delegate Says He Will 'Report' Members Who Attend Work
"The Miami archdiocese restores masks to school and mass attendance, giving in to a media-induced hysteria."
A Crack in the Rock of Peter
"Tennessee governor pushed university to abandon plan after Free Beacon report."
University of Memphis Cancels Plan to Pay Professors to Go Woke, Governor Says
"This might be the best school board video you've seen yet. There's no information on where this took place but it really doesn't matter. It could be Anytown USA, with the growing frustration parents feel with school boards locking them out of meetings or having them arrested falsely or claiming that parents are 'terrorists' who need FBI investigations."
Savage Dad Berates 'Beta' School Board With Perfect Comedic Timing
"Harvard's affirmative action case offers a crucial opening."
Academia's Real Race Problem
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
Mayor Eric Adams: "I believe that New Yorkers should have a say in their government, which is why I have and will continue to support this important legislation"
New NYC Mayor Supports Bill Allowing Non-Citizens To Vote In Municipal Elections
"Despite the CTCL's advocacy for mail-in ballot voting in the 2020 election, Twitter posts unearthed by The National Pulse reveal associates pointing out repeated errors with the fraud-riddled method of voting."
One of Zuckerberg's Mail-In Vote Advocates Declared an Election Illegitimate Over Lost Mail-In Vote Applications
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] is expected to use the issue of voting rights to call for reform of the Senate filibuster rules and condemn Republicans, according to a Politico preview of the speech."
Joe Biden Plans Angry Speech in Georgia Attacking Voting Integrity Laws
"The bill in question is the Freedom to Vote Act, introduced by Democrats in the wake of several election reform bills passed in Republican-controlled states after the 2020 election. It would make automatic voter registration the standard across the nation, give voting privileges to the incarcerated after they finish their sentences, make Election Day a national holiday and expand early and absentee voting."
Pelosi Accuses Republicans of "Undermining Democracy" Over Election Integrity Laws
Great. Now go fuck yourself, Raffensperger. You stabbed us in the back by certifying your electors for Biden and then attacking Trump and us.
WATCH: GA Secretary of State Spars With CBS Host Over Voter ID
"Proposed federal legislation doesn't protect democracy. It protects Democrats."
Stop Calling It a "Voting Rights" Bill
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"[So-called quote-unquote "vice president"] Kamala Harris' new communications director apologized Friday for a more than decade-old tweet in which he questioned why two illegal immigrants were on television rather than being deported"
Jamal Simmons Apologizes For Old Tweet About ICE Deporting Illegal Immigrants
"He may have dazzled much of the global elite with his faux-nerdy magnetism, but real people are affected by Musk's business practices."
Elon Musk: Leading Candidate for Slave-Driver of the Year?
"When Democrats tried to rig the election in 2016 by running a Hillary Clinton campaign operation that included using the vast apparatus of government to lie about the fake Trump Russia story and got Democrats such as Congressional Representatives Adam Schiff, Ted Lieu, Pramila Jayapal to lie about it, Inslee issued no news releases calling it incendiary. Weird."
Washington Governor Jay Inbreed's Feeble Attempt to Be a Tough Guy on Political Speech Is Hilariously Slapped Down
POLITICS
Roger Kimball: "What's certain is not too many Americans will be willing to hand over the honor of choosing the next president to Liz Cheney and her smug, entitled, and repellent confreres."
Trump in 2024? Maybe!
Johnson wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal saying that the decision to run was not "made lightly," discussing how the fact America is in "peril" influenced his choice. "Much as I'd like to ease into a quiet retirement, I don't feel I should," he wrote. "This is a fight for freedom," Johnson wrote. "This is not someone else's fight, this is our fight, and it's a fight we absolutely must win."
Ron Johnson Running For Third Term In Wisconsin
"[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden was the next closest candidate with seven-to-one odds, followed by Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R.) with eight-to-one odds."
Donald Trump Is Betting Favorite To Win 2024 Election
Robert Spencer: "Biden's handlers have clearly taken Obama's dictum seriously: 'Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up.' They're clearly determined to give him as few opportunities to do so as possible. Even at the press conferences he has held, Biden has on several occasions made it clear that the people who are really in charge were keeping him on a short leash."
What's Biden Hidin'? Holds Fewer Press Conferences and Interviews Than the Last Five Presidents
"He looks like a new man -- and one who's gunning for higher office."
Mike Pompeo Loses 90 Pounds: Is a Presidential Run Incoming?
"Supreme Court buffoonery and Pelosi psychodrama this week."
The Supreme Court and Congress Humiliate Themselves
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
". . . Truth Social, which Trump announced in October, is the latest conservative alternative to Big Tech giants like Twitter and Facebook -- many of which have embarked on a right-wing witch hunt over the last year."
Trump's Social Media Platform Set to Launch on President's Day
"Big Tech hates us, and they aren't going to stop."
One Year Ago, Big Tech Declared Open War On America. Here's What's Next
"Big Tech under fire for removing content that questions Biden [junta] [Chinese] COVID policies."
Shareholders Press Google and YouTube To Disclose White House Requests To Scrub Chinese COVID-19 Videos
". . . if someone were searching for "mass formation psychosis," certainly Malone's article would appear at the top, right? He is basically synonymous with the term right now. It appears Bing and Yahoo may think so. But Google, perhaps not so much."
Is Google Search Hiding Robert Malone's Content on "Mass Formation Psychosis?"
"First, let's stipulate to an undeniable truth of history," writes talk host, Steve Deace in a series of Twitter messages about the media, "whoever has control over the flow of information in any society ultimately has control." And it's why Mark Zuckerberg and his cronies want to have a bigger stake in local news.
Zuckerberg's 'Report for America' Is a Media Take Over Dressed Up as Philanthropy
"One jacked off in front of female colleagues and one violated every conflict of interest rule in journalism, lied about it, and got fired, but I'm the issue bc I think the Congressional baseball shooting was covered too lightly and taxes are too high," she pointed out.
XiNN's Mary Katharine Ham's Epic Viral Rant Against Her Network
No, dickhead. It's collaborationist filth like you that are angering the base. Nice unsubtle call for government takeover of non-state-run, independent media.
Kinzinger: "Profit-Driven Radio" Turning GOP Base "Angry, Fearful"
"Earlier that year, several employees sued Whole Foods for allegedly threatening them with termination for wearing BLM masks while at work."
Whole Foods Claims Employees Wearing BLM Masks Violates First Amendment
ABORTION
Andy Ngo, author of the New York Times bestseller Unmasked, identified the abortion rights group as an "Antifa" group that was shouting, "Shut the fuck up!" to the pro-life activists.
"Antifa" Counter-Protest at March for Life Chicago
"A recent New York Times report invites this grim question."
How Many Children Have Been Aborted Due to Flawed Prenatal Screening?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
So, war with the Russians as a distraction for the disaster here at home while the Chi-Coms use it as cover to invade Taiwan since we can't do anything while our army is in heels and transitioning . . .
Blinken: There Will Be "Massive Consequences" if Russia Invades Ukraine
"The tensions between Russia and Ukraine are definitely worth our concern, but another former part of the Soviet Union should also grab our attention . . . Tensions there began on New Year's Day, when the Kazakh government lifted price controls on fuel, leading to a dramatic rise in gasoline prices. Violent protests ensued, and the authoritarian government attempted to crack down not just with police but also with restrictions on internet usage and social media."
What's Going on in Kazakhstan, and Why Should It Matter to the West?
Because they can't blame Jews . . . yet.
UN Human Rights Council Mum on Deadly Violence in Kazakhstan, One of its Members
"Iranian crude exports jumped 40 percent in total as Biden [junta] shuns sanctions enforcement."
Illegal Iranian Oil Shipments to China Skyrocketed in 2021
Daniel Greenfield: "Biden's appeasement leads to the Islamic Republic's attacks on U.S. forces."
While Biden Negotiates, Iran Keeps Trying to Kill Americans
Soleimani was "directly involved in the killing and wounding of many American troops, as well as the murder and kidnapping of Western civilians and the destabilization of the Middle East through his use of terrorist proxy groups," Iranian Americans for Liberty (IAL), a grassroots group of activists opposed to the hardline regime, said in a video released this week. "Soleimani's targeted assassination hasn't just saved American lives but the lives of many from the Middle East too."
Iranian Americans: World a Safer Place After Trump Killed Iran's Soleimani
"Economic instability is the biggest threat facing Iran's theocracy."
The Mullahs and the Iranian Economy
"No to a nuclear Iran. No to the Two-State Solution. No to a bi-national state."
Israel Should Declare 3 No's
"Why should Americans concern themselves with Mexico? Though the media underplays it, what happens in Mexico doesn't stay in Mexico. A review of New Order (Directed by Michel Franco, R, 86 minutes, Neon)
New Order is a Warning to Mexico -- and to America
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Given the stakes, Biden's vaccine mandate should be immediately terminated and those executives who used it to harm their employees should be held accountable."
Is Nuclear Safety Culture Suffering Under the Weight of the Biden Vaccine Mandate?
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
Mayor Eric Adams: "This is going to be one of the worst fires that we have witnessed during modern times."
19 Dead, Including 9 Children, in NYC Apartment Fire
"Chicago's school shutdowns will contribute to its growing child-abuse problems."
The Costs of Closure
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Taxpayer-funded study aimed to explain high rate of HIV in trans women."
Fauci's NIH Division Paid $205,000 for Researchers To Study Transgender Monkeys
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"H.L. Mencken's hobgoblins are busy keeping the populace alarmed."
What the Climate Scare and Pandemic Fearmongering Have in Common
"The end of the pandemic may not alter the new class structure. Green activists see in the lockdowns a model for their preferred strategy of aaving the planet by immiserating the middle class, even though climate change is named as the country's biggest problem by a tiny 4 percent."
Bugs for Thee, Not for Me
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Public-private partnership to develop market and technologies to repair and refuel existing satellites, remove orbital debris."
U.S. Space Force's New "Orbital Prime" Program Focused on Building In-Orbit Services
"Right now the company's future is very much in question. It has delayed all of its commercial suborbital flights until late this year, if then. Meanwhile, Blue Origin is flying commercial suborbital tourist flights, and the orbital space tourism market is ramping up quite successfully. With no ability to enter that orbital market, Virgin Galactic appears to be at a dead end."
Virgin Galactic Stock Crashes
"In the original image, the rock appeared very square as it was on the horizon and silhouetted by the black sky. As is usual in our emotion- and movie-run society, many began to push wild theories about the rock, proposing it was anything from an alien spacecraft to the monolith from the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey."
Yutu 2 Approaches Boulder; Has Now Traveled More Than 1,000 Meters
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Thomas drew controversy last year after the male-to-female transgender athlete shattered women's swimming records."
U-Penn Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas Crushed By Trans Opponent at Swim Meat, er, Meet
"'Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.' -- Fyodor Dostoevsky."
We Need More "Toxic Masculinity"
"Where once was a man with the great hope of fathering and raising a child, surgeons left a faux woman lacking any capacity to procreate."
All Adrian Wanted Was a Family. Transgender Doctors Left Him Despairing and Sterile
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"So why do advertisers ignore the long-standing rules of marketing, and to the detriment of their own financial interests, fill the media space with content that displaces and degrades its biggest market segment?"
Why are Caucasians Vanishing in TV Commercials?
"REVIEW: Greta Thunberg and the Climate Crisis by Amy Chapman."
A Children's Book for Liberals Who Think Children Are Destroying the Planet
"Some films are chilling because their fiction penetrates the agonizing core of reality. The soon-to-be-released Unsilenced is like that."
The Movie Chinese Communists Hate the Most?
"Christ provides cleansing through His sacrifice and grace. Wokeism offers only the barrenness of the grave."
Woke Catholicism Is Inimical to Western Civilization
". . . when the Los Angeles Times dropped the not-so-surprising news that the people behind the Globes -- the Hollywood Foreign Press Association -- were a bunch of junket whores with passports who accepted studio bribes and had no black members to boot, everyone in Hollywood went 'duh' but then had to pretend they were shocked -- shocked! that such corruption could exist."
In Golden Globes Scandal, Real Culprits Were Corporate News Media -- Including NBC
"Clint Eastwood's film is more relevant than ever."
The 15:17 to Paris
HITHER & YON
"Saget was found dead in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, according to local law enforcement. He was 65."
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen "Deeply Saddened" Over Bob Saget's Death
"Throughout history one of the oldest philosophical discussions has concerned the relative contributions of genetic inheritance and environmental factors, nature vs. nurture, to human development."
Edmund O. Wilson and the Nature vs. Nurture Debate
Christian Toto: "Once great Fox sitcom is running on creative fumes. Can the big screen save it?"
Please Put Bob's Burgers Out of Its Misery
"Science vs. Pseudo-Science."
Philosophy and History of Science in the Age of Chinese COVID
"German-Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han offers surprising insights into our contemporary condition."
The Gadfly
FINALLY . . .
"Other video from the incident that was recorded from a slightly different location showed just how close the police and the pilot were when the train made impact with the plane."
L.A. Police Pull Pilot Out of Plane Stuck on Railroad Tracks Right as Train Hits It

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at January 10, 2022 07:26 AM (bVYXr)

2 Happy Monday

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 07:27 AM (yrol0)

3 close!

Posted by: Publius Redux at January 10, 2022 07:27 AM (TSJ1+)

4 Yo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2022 07:27 AM (BFigT)

5 Recovering from COVID. Glad to have survived and earned some immunity.

Posted by: IanDeal at January 10, 2022 07:27 AM (/o2VD)

6 but so far!

Posted by: Publius Redux at January 10, 2022 07:27 AM (TSJ1+)

7 Boker Tov Patriots

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 10, 2022 07:28 AM (GPwVZ)

8 American Spectator puts forward a good defense of Kristi Noem.

https://is.gd/9VbLay

Posted by: Braenyard at January 10, 2022 07:29 AM (WSVNe)

9 My nose is really burning this morning. I can still smell though.

Posted by: f'd at January 10, 2022 07:30 AM (vrz2I)

10 Rotten no nooders.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 07:30 AM (F4b8f)

11 Love your enemies.

Good and,
Hard

Posted by: Marooned at January 10, 2022 07:32 AM (w6hJ9)

12 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at January 10, 2022 07:32 AM (u7pQw)

13 Morning hordlings - from the other side of the world in Hong Kong - where overreaction in shutting down the city has re-commenced due to a handful of Omicron case. Hong Kong has tried to maintain zero covid. I think they are about to learn that not only is that not possible, but was a counter-productive waste of time. As I have said to everyone who listens: In the not too distant future when we learn that shutting people in, out of the sun and fresh air, making them unhealthy from lack of exercise and fearful, as well as making them repeatedly touch their faces due to ridiculous mask guidelines, was the opposite of what should have been done. I expect the Fauci-troll to swing from a lamppost that day. Nay, I demand it!

Posted by: Publius Redux at January 10, 2022 07:32 AM (TSJ1+)

14 163 So they send Sen Mike Rounds out on Sunday to say they look at 60 cases of election fraud and found none.

I think thou dost protest too much.
Posted by: rhennigantx

60 cases where they blocked it in court, the judge threw it out because reasons, or the state didn't cooperate. Yep but no fraud. And AZ/GA, well, the NYT didn't talk about it above the fold, so it didn't happen.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 07:33 AM (F4b8f)

15 Beattie also noted that after landing on the FBIs most wanted Capitol protesters roster as early as January 8,

Epps photo was quietly scrubbed from the list in July.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 07:33 AM (yrol0)

16 Saget- Brain Aneurism, Heart attack, overdose intentional or otherwise.

Performed a show sat night, found dead in hotel Sun afternoon. Cold, stiff, no CPR needed.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 07:34 AM (F4b8f)

17 Thank you, J.J.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 10, 2022 07:34 AM (PTO9s)

18
Fen,
I left you a willowed response on Pixy's thread about ad blockers

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 10, 2022 07:35 AM (IJES/)

19

~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 10, 2022 07:35 AM (K2SnJ)

20 We haven't proven any fraud, but that last election was sketchy as fuck. States need to do everything they can to tighten up election security and prevent what we saw in fall 2020 where state officials made unilateral decisions to alter election law outside of their authority, which left them open to these claims of widespread fraud.

-Senator Trophy

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 07:37 AM (F4b8f)

21 Biden says aloud that our required compliance outweighs freedom,

Its not about freedom or your personal choice, he said hollowly to the nation on September 8, 2020.

They want you to be fearful and cowardly. Stay home and suffer you peasants!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 07:37 AM (yrol0)

22 Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 10, 2022 07:38 AM (w9H27)

23 > U-Penn Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas Crushed By Trans Opponent at Swim Meat, er, Meet

Said it in the ONT last night, will say it again:

Women's sports no longer exist. All that exists now is men's sports and tranny sports.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 07:38 AM (bW8dp)

24 Djokovic won his case...on a technicality be interesting to see what the Aus NAZIs do now.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2022 07:39 AM (ESjRY)

25 The Democrat take on American freedoms, "F*CK YOUR FREEDOMS"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2022 07:39 AM (ESjRY)

26 >>>>They want you to be fearful and cowardly. Stay home and suffer you peasants!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 07:37 AM (yrol0)
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Said in the past - they are getting carried away with themselves

Posted by: Braenyard at January 10, 2022 07:40 AM (WSVNe)

27 18-Thanks, Bif. That was kind of you. I'll go look.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 10, 2022 07:41 AM (O7uCF)

28 The current state of the election fraud investigations - sure you've got tens of thousands of votes where there is no chain of custody and we can't show they came from actual citizens...but you can't prove they were votes for Biden.

Which, of course, is the intent of the secret ballot system.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2022 07:41 AM (ESjRY)

29 ... while the bad news is the Democrats are not only not going to let their January 6th Pagan rite go, but are going to be ramping it up all the way to November and beyond ...

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"Nothing is so permanent as ~~a temporary government program~~ COVID and Reichstag Fireside Theater." -- Zombie Milton Friedman

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 10, 2022 07:41 AM (6Xyqy)

30
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 10, 2022 07:42 AM (DUIap)

31 Colder than a witches elbow this morning. 0 degrees with -21 wind chill. I'm really sick of winter already

And Dobie Gillis died too

Posted by: Pete Seria at January 10, 2022 07:42 AM (7ZQe3)

32 Saget- Brain Aneurism, Heart attack, overdose intentional or otherwise.

Got his booster in Dec.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2022 07:42 AM (ESjRY)

33 > And Dobie Gillis died too

He's hunting poon with brother Jamie in the afterlife.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 07:44 AM (bW8dp)

34 23 > U-Penn Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas Crushed By Trans Opponent at Swim Meat, er, Meet

Said it in the ONT last night, will say it again:

Women's sports no longer exist. All that exists now is men's sports and tranny sports.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 07:38 AM (bW8dp)
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I'll say it again, women swimmers should video themselves extracting a humiliating experience from the faux female.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 10, 2022 07:46 AM (WSVNe)

35 Democrats are not only not going to let their January 6th Pagan rite go

Goat leggings

Posted by: Miklos, PR Advisor to the Biden Family (Hunter supports this) at January 10, 2022 07:46 AM (QzkSJ)

36 Hot Coffee!!!... Fauci A La Lanterne!!!

Posted by: qmark at January 10, 2022 07:46 AM (nGOuT)

37 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 07:46 AM (arJlL)

38 Mornin', all! It's supposed to be tolerable this week and even get above freezing. Ugh, c'mon summer!

Thanks for the newz, JJ!

Posted by: Catherine at January 10, 2022 07:47 AM (ZSsrh)

39
Assless goat leggings . . . Islamic Spanx.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2022 07:47 AM (s2VJv)

40 Not here, below freezing and windy
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 10, 2022 07:48 AM (Nte2K)

41 You are unlikely to get a strong response to trannies from female athletes, because they will be cancelled if they do.

It is the same problem we have throughout our culture.

The left has destroyed or co-opted every organization in their way, and they will annihilated individuals that stand up to it.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2022 07:48 AM (ESjRY)

42 > Free Buffalo Guy!

Buffalo Guy won't you come out tonight
Come out tonight, come out tonight
Buffalo Guy won't you come out tonight
And dance by the light of the moon.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 07:48 AM (bW8dp)

43 And Dobie Gillis died too

He's hunting poon with brother Jamie in the afterlife.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Don't tell me Maynard's working !

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 07:48 AM (arJlL)

44 > You are unlikely to get a strong response to trannies from female athletes, because they will be cancelled if they do.

Yeah, they even have a derogatory nickname for feminazis who don't want to compete or shower with trannies.

TERF. Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 07:49 AM (bW8dp)

45 Thanks JJ !

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 07:49 AM (arJlL)

46 Did Buffalo guy get a longer prison sentence then anyone connected to the summer riots? I'm guessing yes...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2022 07:49 AM (ESjRY)

47 JJ you always do a fine job on this morning report.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 10, 2022 07:49 AM (kEQqf)

48 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 10, 2022 07:50 AM (nR2nR)

49 "In almost every Western country, its adherents now dominate the education system, media, cultural institutions, and financial behemoths."

I would also add "healthcare industry."

Happy Birthday, JJS!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 10, 2022 07:50 AM (PiwSw)

50 TERF. Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist

It is hilarious, of all the movement co-opted into something like trannyism, feminism makes the least sense.

1972: Women can do anything a man can do! And better!

2022: The best woman is actually a man most of the time!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2022 07:51 AM (ESjRY)

51 Hiya Skip's phone !

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 07:51 AM (arJlL)

52 Spent may hours yesterday listening to B'More talk radio podcasts, during the trip up to Casa de MiL.

Generally speaking, if a black Baltimore resident calls in to talk radio, one can pretty safely assume that they are not a Republican, nor a huge Donald Trump fan.

Yet when it came to discussion of election integrity, and separately the discussion of covid cases, and trust in our medical betters...

Let's just say that the left seems to be pissing off folks.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 10, 2022 07:52 AM (PTO9s)

53 Did Buffalo guy get a longer prison sentence then anyone connected to the summer riots? I'm guessing yes...
Posted by: 18-1

Impersonating a buffalo is a SERIOUS CRIME !

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 07:52 AM (arJlL)

54 Good morning, y'all.

This RCMP officer sent on unpaid leave for not taking the jab goes off in a letter.

Still reading it.

https://tinyurl.com/32sh4x49

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 10, 2022 07:52 AM (A8K24)

55 Management of non-hospitalized patients with acute COVID-19 should include providing supportive care, considering the use of COVID-19-specific therapy for patients who have a high risk for disease progression, taking steps to reduce the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission (including isolating the patient), and advising patients on when to contact a health care provider and seek an in-person evaluation.

Go Home and Die!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 07:52 AM (yrol0)

56 Over the past several decades, the progressive Left has successfully fulfilled Antonio Gramsci's famed admonition of a "long march through the institutions". In almost every Western country, its adherents now dominate the education system, media, cultural institutions, and financial behemoths.

But what do they have to show for it?

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"There's ~~an app~~ a Little Red Book for that." -- Your New CCP Overlords

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 10, 2022 07:52 AM (6Xyqy)

57 Did Buffalo guy get a longer prison sentence than anyone connected to the summer riots? I'm guessing yes...
Posted by: 18-1
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*Nods*

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 10, 2022 07:53 AM (A8K24)

58 > Impersonating a buffalo is a SERIOUS CRIME !

In his defense, he claimed that he was actually impersonating Amy Klobuchar.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 07:53 AM (bW8dp)

59 The piece which you spotlighted, from Legal Insurrection and written by Prof. William Jacobson, is one of the best pieces he's ever written - I recommend everyone go read it in full. He does note "The Madness of Crowds", first published in 1841, and includes one of it's greatest all time quotes:
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 07:53 AM (evAgx)

60 The answer to "sports" and trannies is to do away with the mens and womans classifications altogether and just have whatever sport(s) open to everyone.

The transgendered can "sink or swim" on their own merits against other transpeople, men and woman on more or less equal terms.

"Sports" as a whole will either survive, or die anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2022 07:54 AM (BFigT)

61 Kind of hard to have hope since the falling apart we've been through in this last year alone has been bad enough. Another year of this, let alone three, will kill me.

News Flash: We are already dead. The Constitutional Republic ended on 2021 Jan 6. The "long march" was a death march.

SCOTUS is really going to flip a coin to determine if those of us dwelling here are human beings or are the State's chattel? I think that is a clear indication that we are no where near the propositions of humanity in any of the founding documents.

The foundational concept that We the People are made in the Image of God has been replaced with the principles of "Life Unworthy of Life" is a complete rejection of Consent of the Governed, human dignity and God-given/Natural Rights.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 07:55 AM (+LCoQ)

62 Good morning, y'all.

This RCMP officer sent on unpaid leave for not taking the jab goes off in a letter.

Still reading it.

https://tinyurl.com/32sh4x49
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy

Saved it !

Hiya SMH !

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 07:55 AM (arJlL)

63 MIT says lightning decreased because of the lockdowns.
Maybe lightning is just feeling a little under the weather.

Posted by: f'd at January 10, 2022 07:56 AM (vrz2I)

64 Hey y'all.

Does anyone need a good freelance Racial arsonist who's willing to work cheap? I've running a special discount now for new clients!

Posted by: Joy Reid at January 10, 2022 07:56 AM (PiwSw)

65 I think that is a clear indication that we are no where near the propositions of humanity in any of the founding documents.

The patriots responded to a 1% tax and "common sense gun control" with a revolt.

Yes, the lack of representation was in there as a cause as well though...does anyone think normal people in America have representation any more?

Oh...and the revolutionary war happened in the middle of a small pox epidemic and it stopped nothing.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2022 07:56 AM (ESjRY)

66 Go Home and Die!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 07:52 AM (yrol0)

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"Just take a pain pill or something." -- President DogEater, now coasting through his 3rd term on the way toward eclipsing FDR

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 10, 2022 07:57 AM (6Xyqy)

67 On the plus side, The Wide Latina certainly showed her deep understanding of the impact of Covid on our children.

Nothing instills confidence in our judicial system like basing a court ruling on obviously false information.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 10, 2022 07:57 AM (PTO9s)

68 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 07:58 AM (DU+/6)

69 It is hilarious, of all the movement co-opted into something like trannyism, feminism makes the least sense.

1972: Women can do anything a man can do! And better!

2022: The best woman is actually a man most of the time!

How about:
2020: The best women have Y chromosomes.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 07:58 AM (+LCoQ)

70 These surgeries amount to fraud in so many ways. Medical doctors and surgeons have never objectively proven the effectiveness of any gender-affirming technique in relieving the mental stress - termed "gender dysphoria" - of a trans-identifying person.

And they never will. The first MD who tries to publish that study will be fired and have his licenses and board certifications revoked for being anti trans bigot.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 07:58 AM (F4b8f)

71 Buffalo guy got 41 months in prison I believe.

Good Monday morning horde!

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 10, 2022 07:59 AM (nxdel)

72 "There's an app a Little Red Book for that." -- Your New CCP Overlords
Posted by: ShainS
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"Yeah, about that..." -- 2nd Amendment

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 10, 2022 07:59 AM (A8K24)

73 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Black unemployment rose from 6.5% to 7.1% while that of other groups (Hispanic, White, Asian) fell.

And that what about 80% of Blacks vote for in every election. More poverty. More crime. More graft.

And they really got it this time around.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 08:00 AM (yrol0)

74 what Reuben H said @61 !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (9CuDT) at January 10, 2022 08:00 AM (9CuDT)

75 64 Hey y'all.

Does anyone need a good freelance Racial arsonist who's willing to work cheap? I've running a special discount now for new clients!

Posted by: Joy Reid at January 10, 2022 07:56 AM (PiwSw)

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Call me, sista' ... I'm always looking and suddenly have numerous openings at the moment.

Posted by: Kamala, Vice THROATUS at January 10, 2022 08:00 AM (6Xyqy)

76 we are finally able to articulate Gramscii's error, the fatal error that he and the rest of the left could never see. Yes, they could take over the institutions, and they have done that brilliantly - but what do they do once they take them? Gramscii and his followers thought they would produce a Brave New Generation of Leaders, who would install the Marxist Utopia - but instead, they're producing mob of inarticulate, irrational simpletons. What's the good of controlling anything when you turn everything you touch into garbage? Now of course people may bring up Foreign Powers, but the truth is that we, and I include the american Gramsciians here and all of our politicians for the last 80 years or so, have done this to ourselves. We can't blame this on anyone but us.

but the astounding, hope raising part is to realize that having won everything, they have won nothing at all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:00 AM (evAgx)

77 Nobody ever said judges had to be good at math. Or anything else for that matter.

Posted by: f'd at January 10, 2022 08:01 AM (vrz2I)

78 Hey JT : )

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 10, 2022 08:01 AM (A8K24)

79 The current state of the election fraud investigations - sure you've got tens of thousands of votes where there is no chain of custody and we can't show they came from actual citizens...but you can't prove they were votes for Biden.

Because we all know that the Democrat Party members counting the votes were all in the tank for Donald Trump.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 08:01 AM (+LCoQ)

80 sent my 2 driveway condition testers out this morning

yep, dad, totally glazed

one slid 100 ft on his belly before stopping

probably not good for his weeny

Posted by: REDACTED at January 10, 2022 08:02 AM (us2H3)

81 Morning, Horde...how goes it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 10, 2022 08:02 AM (YIVH2)

82 Lightning is ... pining for the fjords ?

G'mornin' Horde !

4 below zero in WI this morning !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (9CuDT) at January 10, 2022 08:02 AM (9CuDT)

83 Will Omicron Variant Turn Out to Be Less Deadly Than Seasonal Flu?

I am in far more physical distress over my seasonal cedar allergy then I have ever been over any variant of covid. This despite the fact that I shop for groceries daily and eschew masks.

I went through allergy shots for years. By the logic of covid, that I still suffer is because all of you didn't. Lunacy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 10, 2022 08:02 AM (nR2nR)

84
And they never will. The first MD who tries to publish that study will be fired and have his licenses and board certifications revoked for being anti trans bigot.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 07:58 AM (F4b8f)

I believe we need to work for the day when any medical professional who offers to do such an operation is sentenced to a minimum of 10 years at hard labor, in prison. They should be regarded the way Mengele was regarded.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:03 AM (evAgx)

85 70 These surgeries amount to fraud in so many ways. Medical doctors and surgeons have never objectively proven the effectiveness of any gender-affirming technique in relieving the mental stress - termed "gender dysphoria" - of a trans-identifying person.

And they never will. The first MD who tries to publish that study will be fired and have his licenses and board certifications revoked for being anti trans bigot.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 07:58 AM (F4b8f)

I understand the L people.
I understand the G people.
I understand the B people.

But the T people seem to make the case the G and L should not exist. That they should transform into the opposite sex.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 08:03 AM (yrol0)

86 "probably not good for his weeny"

Use it like an arresting hook, and go for the three wire.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 10, 2022 08:03 AM (PTO9s)

87 ... One solid year of abject domestic and foreign policy disasters, debacles and catastrophes unlike any single or even multiple years in America's now-concluded history. Every decision, edict, executive order or law that brought all this about was done ostensibly for one reason: to reverse everything done in the previous four years by President Trump ...
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Sort of. I think there is more to it than that, JJ, and it goes back much longer. The world they're now working to build so obviously - a technocratic oligarchy with a massive dependent class of pseudo-slaves - has been in the works for a few generations now. Trump was a setback, and a dangerous one. He reminded people that they are people, citizens and not subjects. His official changes and progress were important but modest, but his unofficial changes - the changes in perception - are the real danger.

They're trying to erase Trump, but far more than that they need to beat down the people to make them take it. They have to do much more than erase his policy changes, they need to erase his message. They need to redo maybe 15 years or so of erosion in spirit, and they have to do it fast.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

88 I found it interesting that AP and Reuters simultaneously published stories saying that mass formation psychosis does not exist.

One hell of a coincidence.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2022 08:03 AM (5kI0z)

89 Has anyone heard whether O'CrazyHo-Tittycaca's soyfriend also has Chinese Lung Rot?

I doubt they're actually fucking. For one thing, no woman has ever gotten wet for that pudgy manlet. Including her.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 08:04 AM (bW8dp)

90 THROATUS newest hire, a comms director I think, had to apologize for some sort of racist or homophobic tweet he put out years ago. He had been on the job for just 24 hours when the old tweet was discovered.

Top men

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2022 08:04 AM (BFigT)

91 77 Nobody ever said judges had to be good at math. Or anything else for that matter.
Posted by: f'd at January 10, 2022 08:01 AM (vrz2I)

I actually believe all 5 conservative Justices either knew at the time, or were quickly informed, of the outrageousness of Sotomayer's lie.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:04 AM (evAgx)

92 "Impersonating a buffalo is a SERIOUS CRIME !
Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 07:52 AM (arJlL) "

but impersonating a Ball Eagle is worse !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (9CuDT) at January 10, 2022 08:04 AM (9CuDT)

93 It is rather amazing that everything we said about this scam and op from the very beginning was bang on accurate, too bad it took some on our side two solid years to come around.

As they say, better late than never.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 10, 2022 08:04 AM (Avp4z)

94 > They should be regarded the way Mengele was regarded.

Especially if they do it to children.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 08:05 AM (bW8dp)

95 88 I found it interesting that AP and Reuters simultaneously published stories saying that mass formation psychosis does not exist.

One hell of a coincidence.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2022 08:03 AM (5kI0z)

It's one of those funny things where all the attempts to disprove only confirm the truth of its existence.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:05 AM (evAgx)

96 Nobody ever said judges had to be good at math. Or anything else for that matter.
Posted by: f'd

Like judgement ?

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:06 AM (arJlL)

97 "I actually believe all 5 conservative Justices either knew at the time, or were quickly informed, of the outrageousness of Sotomayer's lie."

To be a fly on the wall in chambers after that little mis-statement.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 10, 2022 08:06 AM (PTO9s)

98 Hey JT : )
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:06 AM (arJlL)

99 59 The piece which you spotlighted, from Legal Insurrection and written by Prof. William Jacobson, is one of the best pieces he's ever written - I recommend everyone go read it in full. He does note "The Madness of Crowds", first published in 1841, and includes one of it's greatest all time quotes:
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 07:53 AM (evAgx)

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Reading it now; here's an early gem:

"As mass formation progresses, the group becomes increasingly bonded and connected. Their field of attention is narrowed and they become unable to consider alternative points of view. Leaders of the movement are revered, unable to do no wrong."

Does that remind you of anyone?

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 10, 2022 08:06 AM (6Xyqy)

100 96 Nobody ever said judges had to be good at math. Or anything else for that matter.
Posted by: f'd

Like judgement ?
Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:06 AM (arJlL)

Sometimes we have other skills...

Posted by: Judge Dredd at January 10, 2022 08:06 AM (PiwSw)

101 Hiya Mannix !

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:06 AM (arJlL)

102 I actually believe all 5 conservative Justices either knew at the time, or were quickly informed, of the outrageousness of Sotomayer's lie.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:04 AM (evAgx)

yeah, this and probably all of them knew it was a lie, including the wide latinx

and yet, no one called her on it

Posted by: REDACTED at January 10, 2022 08:07 AM (us2H3)

103 Good morning! RE: the SCOTUS decisions - I think it will be interesting to see who writes the opinions for the majority and the minority. If the Wide Latina gets the pen, it will just further demonstrate that her appointment was nothing more than an AA set aside.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 10, 2022 08:08 AM (VmY0m)

104 > Leaders of the movement are revered, unable to do no wrong.

That's one thing that's better about having Dopey Joe, IMO.

There was way too much culty bullshit around Barky.

No one is in the Biden cult. They all know he's a stumblebum.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 08:08 AM (bW8dp)

105 The conditions to set up mass formation psychosis include lack of social connectedness and sensemaking as well as large amounts of latent anxiety and passive aggression.
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I hadn't heard this expression when I started thinking about this, but the lack of connection - the "atomization" we've been seeing for a decade or so, with serious acceleration over the past couple of years - has been an obvious problem. I have described this is a a social-scale anomie.

Per Wikipedia, which does a serviceable job in this case, it "is a social condition defined by an uprooting or breakdown of any moral values, standards or guidance for individuals to follow. Anomie may evolve from conflict of belief systems and causes breakdown of social bonds between an individual and the community ... E.g. alienation in a person that can progress into a dysfunctional inability to integrate within normative situations of their social world ..."

This has usually been an individual concept, and came to the fore in (and the term was invented for) the study of suicide. But the last several years have struck me as a form of civilization-scale anomie, an increasingly-complete unmooring.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:08 AM (DU+/6)

106 Makes me glad that I grew up before the tweeting/i-phone generation so I don't have to apologize for stupid stuff I may have said 35 years ago and also that I didn't take goofy selfie "duck lips" or sticking my tongue out pictures-which seems to be a craze for all the stars. It's very unattractive.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 10, 2022 08:08 AM (k49Sx)

107 88 I found it interesting that AP and Reuters simultaneously published stories saying that mass formation psychosis does not exist.

One hell of a coincidence.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2022 08:03 AM (5kI0z)
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Musk alluded to it as a global mind virus.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 10, 2022 08:09 AM (WSVNe)

108 Hiya, JT.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:09 AM (DU+/6)

109 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 07:53 AM (evAgx)
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Reading it now; here's an early gem:

"As mass formation progresses, the group becomes increasingly bonded and connected. Their field of attention is narrowed and they become unable to consider alternative points of view. Leaders of the movement are revered, unable to do no wrong."

Does that remind you of anyone?

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Next sentence is even more apt:

"Left unabated, a society under the spell of mass formation will support a totalitarian governance structure capable of otherwise unthinkable atrocities in order to maintain compliance."

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 10, 2022 08:09 AM (6Xyqy)

110 Next sentence is even more apt:

"Left unabated, a society under the spell of mass formation will support a totalitarian governance structure capable of otherwise unthinkable atrocities in order to maintain compliance."
Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 10, 2022 08:09 AM (6Xyqy)

Robespierre's ghost just texted me to say, "Yeah, bruh."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2022 08:10 AM (/EuRN)

111 They're trying to erase Trump, but far more than that they need to beat down the people to make them take it. They have to do much more than erase his policy changes, they need to erase his message. They need to redo maybe 15 years or so of erosion in spirit, and they have to do it fast.

It would help things if the Boomers would die off. Can't have any memory of freedom, economic mobility, natural patriotism, faith and human flourishing.

I don't know about how flexible Gen-X is their tolerance for Communism, they may just as well be the last Generation that is worth anything.

Millennials and Zoomers are a complete lost cause. Outside of the home-schooled, the Elect and those born with inherent character, the extent of their disapproval of the socialist dystopia they claim they want is merely in the form of whining and occasionally setting someone else's property on fire.

They are likely going to need to work up another targeted depopulation scheme or wait a few more years.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 08:11 AM (+LCoQ)

112 Left unabated, a society under the spell of mass formation will support a totalitarian governance structure capable of otherwise unthinkable atrocities in order to maintain compliance.

1930s Germany...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 10, 2022 08:12 AM (VmY0m)

113 They're trying to erase Trump, but far more than that they need to beat down the people to make them take it. They have to do much more than erase his policy changes, they need to erase his message. They need to redo maybe 15 years or so of erosion in spirit, and they have to do it fast.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

They're already too late. They've lost, and I believe they know it, even though they won't admit it, and most can't see it yet. That's why they are getting so frantic - they still have the power to cause chaos and destruction; but they no longer have the power to win.

"Every battle is won before it is fought" - Sun Tzu. We've already won, therefore we need have no fear of the coming battle.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:12 AM (evAgx)

114 Will Omicron Variant Turn Out to Be Less Deadly Than Seasonal Flu?

*

Spoilers:

The entire COVID-19 Alpha through Zeta was less deadly than seasonal flu.

It was made to appear more deadly, and that's what happens when you threaten medical licenses for off-label therapies while not treating patients and telling them to come back when they are about to die so that your hospital can collect $40K.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - CDC releases COVID study proving masks don't do sh1t, literally not even 2% change at January 10, 2022 08:12 AM (hsOar)

115 I found it interesting that AP and Reuters simultaneously published stories saying that mass formation psychosis does not exist. ...
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2022 08:03 AM (5kI0z)
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It's likely a censorship game. The concepts underlying "mass formation psychosis" all already exist like the "anomie" concept. There's nothing new there but the combination. And it seems to fit, which means it is likely a partial or possibly (though I doubt it) complete explanation for what's going on.

And what must *not* be permitted is an explanation, because an explanation - even if incomplete and low-resolution - might make people start thinking about solutions, and anything that might reduce atomization is unacceptable to the technocrats. The notion needs to be suppressed to stop people from thinking about it possibly getting uppity and recommending changes. It's a nice, easy term to censor, and they *will* censor it.

Is it correct? Probably, at least to some degree. But the real problem is that any solutions coming from that problem statement will be inimical to the technocratic planners' ambitions and desires. Even if it's *wrong,* it has to be suppressed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:13 AM (DU+/6)

116 how many more justices do the dims have hiding in the woods all over the country

that are like Merrick Garland, posing as moderates

Garland is a complete kook, worse than the wide latinx

Posted by: REDACTED at January 10, 2022 08:13 AM (us2H3)

117 No one is in the Biden cult. They all know he's a stumblebum.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 08:08 AM (bW8dp)

They believe in a Real Presence, though.

Biden may be just a stumblebum, but at the words of the high priests (journalists), this lowly cracker is transubstantiated into a living god who must be obeyed.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2022 08:14 AM (/EuRN)

118 "Malfunctioning space heater" sparked fatal NYC fire that killed 19, incl. 9 kids.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:15 AM (UHVv4)

119 103 Good morning! RE: the SCOTUS decisions - I think it will be interesting to see who writes the opinions for the majority and the minority. If the Wide Latina gets the pen, it will just further demonstrate that her appointment was nothing more than an AA set aside.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 10, 2022 08:08 AM (VmY0m)

I think Clarence Thomas writes the decision; unless Roberts decides to make it 6-3 so he can tone it down a little by writing it himself.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:15 AM (evAgx)

120 JJS quotes a writer at Unherd, which I heard of only recently, and another article at Unherd is also worth reading, "America Is Controlled By Secrecy". The author argues that the Deep State bureaucracy is maliciously abusing the classification process to keep everyday oversight out of the public view.

What does it mean when President Biden declares an event in which four people died, all of them Trump supporters and only one by violence, the "worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War," and The New York Times marks the anniversary by proclaiming that "Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now"? The implication is politics as permanent crisis, which sounds strikingly like a definition of war.

This obvious threat inflation, which should be familiar after September 11, is used by governments and private corporations alike to award themselves more unaccountable power. To work, it relies on the public being cowed by the expertise and authority of institutions that operate in secret. These methods have proved to be highly effective for defending the power of America's bureaucracies.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 08:15 AM (Mtn20)

121 Harvards admission program was neither unconstitutional nor unlawful, even though Burroughs acknowledged that race was determinative for

45 percent of all admitted African American and Hispanic applicants.

You cannot own both a Race card and Ivy League card.

You need to turn one in!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 08:15 AM (yrol0)

122 They're already too late. They've lost, and I believe they know it, even though they won't admit it, and most can't see it yet. That's why they are getting so frantic - they still have the power to cause chaos and destruction; but they no longer have the power to win.

"Every battle is won before it is fought" - Sun Tzu. We've already won, therefore we need have no fear of the coming battle.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:12 AM (evAgx)
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I think it's far too soon to declare victory, Tom. There are still many battlefields and many more battles that have not yet begun. They can still win. Killing 10% or so of the opposition might do it. Impoverishing, disarming and enslaving the opposition might do it, too. There is a lot of room for ruin and death and despair.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:16 AM (DU+/6)

123 This has usually been an individual concept, and came to the fore in (and the term was invented for) the study of suicide. But the last several years have struck me as a form of civilization-scale anomie, an increasingly-complete unmooring.

Nothing new here. In the Old Testament Scriptures, this phenomena is described "each man did what was right in his own eyes".

This statement sort of sets up the narratives that follow so that the reader may understand that the events were framed in a culture of "civilization-scale anomie".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 08:16 AM (+LCoQ)

124 > Garland is a complete kook, worse than the wide latinx

If you want to have some fun with a commie, ask him why Merrick Garland, the Smartest Lawyer in the World, has yet to issue any indictments for insurrection, sedition, or treason for the January 6 demonstrations. Those are all indictable crimes, and it's been a year.

Looks like the only options are:

1) Garland is a fuckup
2) No such crimes occurred

("both of the above" is also valid)

If they persist with the "insurrection" crap, suggest that they forward their evidence to Merrick Garland, the Smartest Lawyer in the World, because he apparently can't find any.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 08:17 AM (bW8dp)

125 67 On the plus side, The Wide Latina certainly showed her deep understanding of the impact of Covid on our children.

Nothing instills confidence in our judicial system like basing a court ruling on obviously false information.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 10, 2022 07:57 AM (PTO9s)

No, you misunderstand. She has already decided her vote before hearing a single argument; she's just making up some shit now to justify it.

*how stunning, how brave, taking it to The Man*
**fact checks not required**

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 10, 2022 08:18 AM (F0YaR)

126 It's a shame that the acronym for "moral equivalent of war" is MEOW... Actually, no, not a shame, really. It's flippin' hilarious.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2022 08:18 AM (/EuRN)

127 115 Is it correct? Probably, at least to some degree. But the real problem is that any solutions coming from that problem statement will be inimical to the technocratic planners' ambitions and desires. Even if it's *wrong,* it has to be suppressed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:13 AM (DU+/6)

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I think it's little different from what we've seen over the past 20 years or so. People so dedicated to narrative that they'll believe anything said by trusted sources.

It's just more intense now because it's become about viral contagions and personal health. Threaten someone's health, like their pocketbook, and they get particularly emotional. Convince someone that an unmasked five year old who waves at them from three feet away is trying to murder them, and you've got someone as convinced of that as "Trump wants to have sex with his daughter". It's just far more important to them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 08:18 AM (LvTSG)

128 Joe Biden Plans Angry Speech

What is a day that ends in day, Alex?

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 08:18 AM (yrol0)

129 The intent of the J6 commission is to find a way to prevent conservative republicans from being on the ballot in November, using the insurrection clause, and the plan is to do this after the primaries, so that no republican will be on those ballots. This is the same playbook they used against Tom DeLay. How else can the democrats remain in power, unless they cancel the election?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2022 08:18 AM (5kI0z)

130 Biden may be just a stumblebum, but at the words of the high priests (journalists), this lowly cracker is transubstantiated into a living god who must be obeyed.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2022 08:14 AM (/EuRN)

throughout history, religions die when their adherents can no longer hide the fact that the Idols which they worship have feet of clay.

it's been pointed out that both the AP and Reuters are attacking the idea of Mass Formation Psychosis - but who listens to them anymore besides the woke religion's faithful? Everyone else has tuned them out, and everyone who now knows of Mass Formation Psychosis expected those two outlets to say that. So, AP and Reuters have accomplished nothing, they are like sheep bleating in the fields.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:19 AM (evAgx)

131 More from the Jacobson piece at Legal Insurrection: "Even before Biden's botched Build Back Better initiative, American progressives faced opposition to their wildly impractical claims about achieving 'zero Covid' and 'zero emissions', confronting 'systemic racism' by defunding the police, regulating speech, and redefining two biological sexes into a multiplicity."

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Which reminds me: has Biden fulfilled his promise to cure cancer yet?

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 10, 2022 08:19 AM (6Xyqy)

132 No one is in the Biden cult. They all know he's a stumblebum.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 08:08 AM (bW8dp)
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Sure, but it doesn't matter. A charismatic and popular leader is hugely helpful and they'd like to get back to that, but they can hold the line without it. They have all the institutions and their base ideas of postmodern nonsense are worshiped adequately by virtually everyone with a public voice.

Biden is a joke and everyone knows it. Even his supporters likely know it (at least largely so). But the power behind the throne isn't, and the proxies with name recognition can hold the line for a bit. A cult of personality is very useful to get things started, but you can survive without it. The USSR is a prime example. The leader is always "strong like bull" and other such inanity, but the Politburo overcame weak leaders.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:19 AM (DU+/6)

133 Russian military planes evacuate 1,400 Russia citizens from Kazakhstan. So removal by Yak, I guess.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:19 AM (UHVv4)

134 125 No, you misunderstand. She has already decided her vote before hearing a single argument; she's just making up some shit now to justify it.

*how stunning, how brave, taking it to The Man*
**fact checks not required**
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 10, 2022 08:18 AM (F0YaR)

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So have the conservatives on the Court. Oral arguments are pretty much last stage in it all, and even in the minds of "honest" justices that wait for everything, they have something like 98% of what they need by the time oral arguments start.

The problem isn't that Sotomayor made up her mind, it's that she's a barely functioning retard with immense power, placed there with the help of 9 Republicans, 7 of which are no longer in Congress. The last 2 (Graham and Collins), should be asked hard questions about her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 08:20 AM (LvTSG)

135 I did see some CDC bin on teevee today trying to ramp down covid panic
The nooz talking heads seemed uneasy

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at January 10, 2022 08:20 AM (lCui1)

136 "Taxpayer-funded study aimed to explain high rate of HIV in trans women."

**********

Is there any chance that the high rate of HIV has something to do with putting one's penis in a place it was not meant to be?

And by that I mean in a Mason jar on the mantel.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 10, 2022 08:20 AM (m45I2)

137 If they persist with the "insurrection" crap, suggest that they forward their evidence to Merrick Garland, the Smartest Lawyer in the World, because he apparently can't find any.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 08:17 AM (bW8dp)

That's a double edged sword, perhaps. Why isn't Hillary Clinton in jail? Why isn't Dianne Feinstein in jail? Why aren't Adam Schiff or Eric "Fang Bang" Swalwell in jail? Because they're innocent? Because there's no evidence?

Because the people who send people to jail decided not to do so. It has nothing to do with guilt or innocence. It's simply not politically expedient to bring the J6 fiasco to a close, so they don't. That's all there really is to it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2022 08:21 AM (/EuRN)

138 Pelosi's InSuRrEcTiOn CiRcUs has but one goal: pin the event and deaths on Trump. Whether or not actual charges are brought up is irrelevant. The goal of the "bipartisan" 1/6 committee is to gin up some bullshit reason why Trump should be disqualified from ever wading into politics again.

The GOP is onboard with this as they will never, ever let him lead the party again. This gives them an out. And further dilutes Trump's influence on Republicans and their agenda.

This is known as "winning" in GOP-speak.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2022 08:21 AM (BFigT)

139 During the SCOTUS argument I went a little off the rails about Flowers, the Ohio solicitor. Such a POS, but unsurprising (I guess) govern who his lousy governor is.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 08:21 AM (Mtn20)

140 Good morning, y'all.

This RCMP officer sent on unpaid leave for not taking the jab goes off in a letter.

Still reading it.

https://tinyurl.com/32sh4x49
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 10, 2022 07:52 AM (A8K24)

Excellent read -- thank you, SMH!

Posted by: Doof at January 10, 2022 08:21 AM (mZUr4)

141 You are allowed to lie as long as it pushes the lefts agenda. That is why "Doc Schmidt" can blather lies about the vaccines safety and not lose his GI fellowship and that LA childrens hospital doc can implore parents to vax their kids or "they will get covid again and again and again and again and again and end up on a ventilator like thousands of other california kids right now!"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 08:22 AM (F4b8f)

142 Correction to 131: That was Jacobson quoting Joel Kotkin.

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 10, 2022 08:22 AM (6Xyqy)

143 Joe Biden Plans Angry Speech

What is a day that ends in day, Alex?
Posted by: rhennigantx

"My fellow Americans :

I've come before you today to discover who shit my pants."

"And why"

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:22 AM (arJlL)

144 Songwriter Marilyn Bergman, who wrote "The Way We Were" and Good Times theme, dies at 91.

Al Gore claims he actually wrote "The Way We Were".

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:22 AM (UHVv4)

145 No one within the conservative universe that I know of has offered a way of contending with the Left, period. Never mind one that shows how to avert the "falling apart" or factors it into the equation. It would seem that the falling apart, like the drunk hitting rock bottom, is both inevitable and necessary.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2022 08:23 AM (H8QX8)

146 And by that I mean in a Mason jar on the mantel.
Posted by: Muldoon

Pickled pepper?

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at January 10, 2022 08:24 AM (lCui1)

147 BRENNAN: Only U.S. citizens do currently vote in elections, but go on.

Statewide, a total of 11,737 potential non-U.S. citizens were identified as being registered to vote. Of these, 327 records were identified in Collin County, 1,385 in Dallas County, 3,063 in Harris County, and 708 in Tarrant County. So far, Dallas County has canceled 1,193 of these records, with Tarrant County canceling one. Neither Collin nor Harris have canceled any potential non-voting records.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 08:24 AM (yrol0)

148 ... Everyone else has tuned them out, and everyone who now knows of Mass Formation Psychosis expected those two outlets to say that. So, AP and Reuters have accomplished nothing, they are like sheep bleating in the fields.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:19 AM (evAgx)
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Unless they're starting a rollout. It starts with some academic papers (usually) and then those get translated into press articles. Then come the thinkpieces. Then come occasional references in the TV news. Then come the hour-format exposes on the "surprising roots of X." Then come the open discussion on the "dangers of X and those misinformed by it" by the politicians. The overall volume of coverage ramps up. Then it will be the subject of some grotesque monologues on late night for their handful of viewers. Then comes it being the butt of the joke in throwaway lines in sitcoms. Etc.

Sure, the AP has limited reach anymore, but if it's just the early stage of a rollout, everyone will know the term within six months as it is treated seriously and then lampooned. No one serious could consider it seriously.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:24 AM (DU+/6)

149 >>>Why isn't Hillary Clinton in jail? Why isn't Dianne Feinstein in jail? Why aren't Adam Schiff or Eric "Fang Bang" Swalwell in jail? Because they're innocent? Because there's no evidence?
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Even more to the direct point about civil insurrection, why isn't Bob Creamer or George Soros? The Ford Foundation? ACTBlue? The funders are accomplices before hte fact, and Creamer (I imagine) helped organize the busses and brick deliveries.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 08:25 AM (Mtn20)

150 ...and yet, no one called her on it
Posted by: REDACTED at January 10, 2022 08:07 AM (us2H3)
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I would think they avoid directly confronting another justice in public as a matter of propriety.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 10, 2022 08:25 AM (0TVNF)

151 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 10, 2022 08:17 AM (bW8dp)

the guy is really, really pissedabout his SCOTUS rejection

He seems to be a little unstable at the moment

I guess posing for 30 years as a moderate and then failing to get the ring was too much for him

Posted by: REDACTED at January 10, 2022 08:25 AM (us2H3)

152 "New estimate predicts up to 5 million American workers could be home sick this week due to Covid-19."

Talk about the future imperfect tense!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:25 AM (UHVv4)

153 I think it's far too soon to declare victory, Tom."

Well, that's what you tell your soldiers at 5 in the morning, when you are all going to go over the top at 6. But it's not just an "aspirational" statement - the progs truly have failed! Everything they have tried is blowing up in their faces. Vote bill by killing the filibuster? Dead. BBB? Manchin stuck yet another stake through it's heart this weekend. Jan 6 hoo ha? A total flop last week, no one outside DC cares. Attempts to keep conservatives off the ballot? No way, they needed to have it done already, it can't be done with an election coming so soon. Covid? Even that is failing as God and Nature are showing everyone that it's now nothing more than the flu.

All of their offensives have failed, and they're out of ideas.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:25 AM (evAgx)

154 "I actually believe all 5 conservative Justices either knew at the time, or were quickly informed, of the outrageousness of Sotomayer's lie."

I bet they all roll their eyes when Wide Latinx speaks

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at January 10, 2022 08:25 AM (lCui1)

155 76 we are finally able to articulate Gramscii's error, the fatal error that he and the rest of the left could never see. Yes, they could take over the institutions, and they have done that brilliantly - but what do they do once they take them? Gramscii and his followers thought they would produce a Brave New Generation of Leaders, who would install the Marxist Utopia - but instead, they're producing mob of inarticulate, irrational simpletons. What's the good of controlling anything when you turn everything you touch into garbage? Now of course people may bring up Foreign Powers, but the truth is that we, and I include the american Gramsciians here and all of our politicians for the last 80 years or so, have done this to ourselves. We can't blame this on anyone but us.

but the astounding, hope raising part is to realize that having won everything, they have won nothing at all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:00 AM (evAgx)

The Democrats and the Deep State are the dogs that finally caught the car.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 10, 2022 08:26 AM (mdjgu)

156 The problem isn't that Sotomayor made up her mind, it's that she's a barely functioning retard with immense power ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 08:20 AM (LvTSG)
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Talk about a widely-applicable statement...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:26 AM (DU+/6)

157 "New estimate predicts up to 5 million American workers could be home sick this week due to Covid-19."

Talk about the future imperfect tense!
Posted by: andycanuck

How can they be homesick if they're home ?

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:27 AM (arJlL)

158 150 ...and yet, no one called her on it
Posted by: REDACTED at January 10, 2022 08:07 AM (us2H3)
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I would think they avoid directly confronting another justice in public as a matter of propriety.
Posted by: IrishEi at January 10, 2022 08:25 AM (0TVNF)

allowing a lie to stand as the truth is wrong

at any time, in any venue

Posted by: REDACTED at January 10, 2022 08:27 AM (us2H3)

159 Seems to me the whole context of the discussion (it certainly wasn't a debate with facts and evidence) in front of the SCOTUS was centered on the severity of the Fauxi virus as opposed to whether or not the federal gummint actually had the authority to compel citizens to have medical treatment based on some threat, real or perceived. Did I miss that?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 10, 2022 08:27 AM (VmY0m)

160 WuFlu Theatre continues in Red China as 14-million people partially locked-down in Tianjin over 14 positive tests.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:27 AM (UHVv4)

161 "found it interesting that AP and Reuters simultaneously published stories saying that mass formation psychosis does not exist. ... "

Which is exactly what you would expect during a mass formation psychosis event.

Posted by: f'd at January 10, 2022 08:27 AM (vrz2I)

162 156 The problem isn't that Sotomayor made up her mind, it's that she's a barely functioning retard with immense power ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 08:20 AM (LvTSG)
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Talk about a widely-applicable statement...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:26 AM (DU+/6)

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Fat joke.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 08:27 AM (LvTSG)

163 149 >>>Why isn't Hillary Clinton in jail? Why isn't Dianne Feinstein in jail? Why aren't Adam Schiff or Eric "Fang Bang" Swalwell in jail? Because they're innocent? Because there's no evidence?
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Even more to the direct point about civil insurrection, why isn't Bob Creamer or George Soros? The Ford Foundation? ACTBlue? The funders are accomplices before hte fact, and Creamer (I imagine) helped organize the busses and brick deliveries.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 08:25 AM (Mtn20)

Because for us, it's still early in 1943, and those questions are like asking "Why isn't Himmler in jail? Why not Goebbels?" They still control the institutions, and as long as they do the Criminals will remain in charge. They are failing, but it still takes time for the conceptual to transform into reality.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:28 AM (evAgx)

164 All of their offensives have failed, and they're out of ideas.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:25 AM (evAgx)
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But they're not out of power. They have vast reservoirs and reserves of that. And there's still that one idea, that 20th century idea involving camps and incinerators and mass graves. That's never the first choice, that's always the choice when they run out of other options. And I do not for a moment believe that it is off the table.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:28 AM (DU+/6)

165 Whats Biden Hidin?

Pants Full Of Shit!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 08:28 AM (yrol0)

166 "Savage Dad Berates 'Beta' School Board With Perfect Comedic Timing"
Ridicule- This is how it's done. Straight out of Rules for Radicals.
F&F has been having a lot of parents on that are running for state office or school boards.

Let 2022 be the year of the parents.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 10, 2022 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

167 Aussies pass 1-million mark of "confirmed" C-19 cases. [So, positive tests.] Meanwhile, an Aussie judge has reinstated the Serbian tennis player's visitor's visa.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:29 AM (UHVv4)

168 allowing a lie to stand as the truth is wrong

at any time, in any venue
Posted by: REDACTED

Didn't Will Rogers say " A lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on " ?

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:29 AM (arJlL)

169 160 WuFlu Theatre continues in Red China as 14-million people partially locked-down in Tianjin over 14 positive tests.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:27 AM (UHVv4)

I don't believe anything out of China. I suppose it's believable that they've locked down 14 million people, but it might have just been because some locals criticized Xi.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:29 AM (evAgx)

170 Small signs the pandemic is over:

Zicam™ commercials return to TV.

This is MCCCA country!

(*Make the Common Cold Common Again)

Posted by: Muldoon at January 10, 2022 08:30 AM (m45I2)

171 That's never the first choice, that's always the choice when they run out of other options. And I do not for a moment believe that it is off the table.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:28 AM (DU+/6)

Zerg rush, YOLO charge, call it what you will, it can still be a real bitch to defend against.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2022 08:30 AM (/EuRN)

172 Why are Caucasians Vanishing in TV Commercials?

--

Wow, the article says that whites in America, not including Hispanics, are now only 57.8% of the population. That's a bit shocking if true.

Of course, it's been glaringly obvious, not just in TV commercials, but in magazines and catalogs as well, that whites have been greatly reduced visually. It's so in-your-face in some of my mail catalogs that I wind up just throwing them in the trash, unperused. Which means items unpurchased. Oh well.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 10, 2022 08:31 AM (sVtYq)

173 Everyone else has tuned them out, and everyone who now knows of Mass Formation Psychosis expected those two outlets to say that. So, AP and Reuters have accomplished nothing, they are like sheep bleating in the fields.

Worse. AP and Reuters confirmed Mass Formation Psychosis. Remember, the theory just isn't a presentation of symptoms, it also provides the "How" - which holds the Enemedia in a dominant role doing exactly what AP and Reuters is doing with this latest demonstration of gas lighting.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 08:31 AM (+LCoQ)

174 Everything is falling apart ....

Someone mentioned the LED streetlights turning violet; experts are baffled. But, you can't help but see them once you notice ....

Going on two years of virtual "schooling." I took live video remote learning classes in college 20 years ago and can tell you it's near impossible to learn. Millions of children have had untold amounts of vital education stolen from them in the most fertile learning years ....

Grammar and spelling errors in published works that would have been unheard of 10 years ago. And no one seems to notice or care ....

Posted by: Well at January 10, 2022 08:32 AM (PMwVR)

175 As AP or CP say, "Uganda's schools reopen, ending longest Covid school disruption in the world," I guess they shut down in Spring of 2020.

BTW, if it's safe in Uganda now, I'm sure Chicago can make it too.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:32 AM (UHVv4)

176 > All of their offensives have failed, and they're out of ideas.

I'm not sure this is a true statement. Opinion, yes.

The Democrats have succeeded in leveraging COVID to cause real and lasting damage to the economy, around half the population's mental health, and accelerated inflation... all things that while they can be "undone" will take a totally different administration to do so. That doesn't seem likely anytime soon. This, from a Democrat's perspective, is a win.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2022 08:32 AM (BFigT)

177 Google is the Devil.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 10, 2022 08:32 AM (sVtYq)

178 Sure, the AP has limited reach anymore, but if it's just the early stage of a rollout, everyone will know the term within six months as it is treated seriously and then lampooned. No one serious could consider it seriously.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:24 AM (DU+/6)

The mainstream will consolidate around the idea that it is a "far right" term; to label it as semantic indicator of extremism.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2022 08:32 AM (H8QX8)

179 "Joe Biden Plans Angry Speech
Posted by: rhennigantx"

According to his aids he is carrying the voting rights fight into the "belly of the beast." I'd expect language like that describing a WWII allied attack on Berlin or some cold war op against a deadly enemy. That is how they view much of the country and they come right out and say it publicly.

After that Jan 6 speech I no longer have the slightest sympathy Biden's increasing embarrassing decline. I want to see him humiliated in front of the whole world.

Posted by: Ripley at January 10, 2022 08:32 AM (MxEKc)

180 >>> Garland is a complete kook, worse than the wide latinx
=============
He would look most comfortable in a Gestapo uniform. Not kidding, he looks like a proto-Nazi.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 08:33 AM (Mtn20)

181 Aussies pass 1-million mark of "confirmed" C-19 cases. [So, positive tests.] Meanwhile, an Aussie judge has reinstated the Serbian tennis player's visitor's visa.

All of that Totalitarian isolation, masks, forced drugging, concentration camps and other forms of dehumanization and degradation in pursuit of Zero Covid are working out splendidly!

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 08:34 AM (+LCoQ)

182 But they're not out of power. They have vast reservoirs and reserves of that. And there's still that one idea, that 20th century idea involving camps and incinerators and mass graves. That's never the first choice, that's always the choice when they run out of other options. And I do not for a moment believe that it is off the table.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:28 AM (DU+/6)

No it isn't, and you make a good point. BUT - putting something like that in place requires true Leadership, and Talent, and Focus. Name anyone in the Dem Leadership structure today who has those qualities. They're finding, to their shock, that putting a pack of geriatric imbeciles in power (together with a low-IQ streetwalker) doesn't give one any of the qualities you need to actually run a government and implement policies.

This, btw, is what made the Nazis so frightening; they were not just evil, but they were to put together a group of highly intelligent, functional, capable men who were dedicated to that evil, it was the core of their power. The Modern Left can only look at what they were, and weep with envy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:34 AM (evAgx)

183 166 "Savage Dad Berates 'Beta' School Board With Perfect Comedic Timing"
Ridicule- This is how it's done.
***
He'll be targeted soon, probably by the IRS. He's a small business owner, I understand. Not for long.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2022 08:35 AM (H8QX8)

184 168 allowing a lie to stand as the truth is wrong

at any time, in any venue
Posted by: REDACTED

Didn't Will Rogers say " A lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on " ?
Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:29 AM (arJlL)

he also said "propriety is the main cause of indegestion"

Posted by: REDACTED at January 10, 2022 08:35 AM (us2H3)

185 he also said "propriety is the main cause of indegestion"
Posted by: REDACTED at January 10, 2022 08:35 AM (us2H3)

In my case, it's lebanon bologna.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2022 08:35 AM (/EuRN)

186 179 After that Jan 6 speech I no longer have the slightest sympathy Biden's increasing embarrassing decline. I want to see him humiliated in front of the whole world.
Posted by: Ripley at January 10, 2022 08:32 AM (MxEKc)

=========

I see the Bully Pulpit as a force multiplier. If the President has the people behind him, he can use his power as the leader of the executive branch to lean on the legislative branch to do his will and, by extension, the will of the people.

With the dominance of large money donors over the past decades, the power of the pulpit has diminished overall. Lawmakers are less likely to be influenced by their voters now than ever, it seems.

Biden planning an "angry speech" to get legislation done means that he's lashing out. Polling isn't on his side, so he's quite literally, in terms of how Congress works, just an old pundit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 08:35 AM (LvTSG)

187 allowing a lie to stand as the truth is wrong
at any time, in any venue
Posted by: REDACTED at January 10, 2022 08:27 AM (us2H3)
~~~~~

Yeah, I'm not saying it's the right thing to do, just that it is what they do.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 10, 2022 08:35 AM (0TVNF)

188 180 >>> Garland is a complete kook, worse than the wide latinx
=============
He would look most comfortable in a Gestapo uniform. Not kidding, he looks like a proto-Nazi.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 08:33 AM (Mtn20)

The "woke" movement itself is Proto-Nazism, there's no better way to describe it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:36 AM (evAgx)

189 According to Kinzinger, those radio shows turned the base into this angry, fearful and victimized group of people. He added Trump and the base fed off each other.

4/25/1995

President Clinton Monday denounced the loud and angry voices that inflame the public debate and called on the American people to speak out against the purveyors of hatred and division.

Kinzinger, get some new material dude!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 08:36 AM (yrol0)

190 According to his aids he is carrying the voting rights fight into the "belly of the beast." I'd expect language like that describing a WWII allied attack on Berlin or some cold war op against a deadly enemy. That is how they view much of the country and they come right out and say it publicly.
===============
He hesitates not a bit at calling his political opponents names. Witness his "back in chains" speech to the NAACP, I think it was, or his attacks on Justice Thomas in the confirmation hearings. Biden had a limited nasty brain before dementia set it, so now, he must be a ready-to-rage old crank.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 08:36 AM (Mtn20)

191 Didn't Will Rogers say " A lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on " ?

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:29 AM (arJlL)

I think that was Mark Twain....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 10, 2022 08:37 AM (Q9lwr)

192 As the ideas fail and the rhetoric turns rancid, the brute force will ratchet up.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2022 08:37 AM (H8QX8)

193 Didn't Will Rogers say " A lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on " ?
Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:29 AM (arJlL)

Joe can barely get his pants on before he needs clean Depends.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 08:38 AM (yrol0)

194 Someone mentioned the LED streetlights turning violet; experts are baffled. But, you can't help but see them once you notice ....

I read that as Turning violent

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:38 AM (arJlL)

195 This, btw, is what made the Nazis so frightening; they were not just evil, but they were to put together a group of highly intelligent, functional, capable men who were dedicated to that evil, it was the core of their power. The Modern Left can only look at what they were, and weep with envy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:34 AM (evAgx)
++++
They have most of the structure they need. They don't have a strongman at the front of it all. I suppose we'll find out whether that's necessary.

But another problem, I think, is that their catastrophic policy failures last year means they didn't advance the ball much - but they haven't retreated from anything. Perhaps the line has been held, but not pushed back. And that means they can (and will) try again. And again. And again. Not a single one of them has been removed from power, not a single agency executive fired, not a single press organization destroyed. Their power base is unchanged.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:39 AM (DU+/6)

196 Someone mentioned the LED streetlights turning violet; experts are baffled. But, you can't help but see them once you notice ....

**

If anyone asks why you're hesitant to get the new genetic injection, ask them why no one knew the streetlights would turn purple.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - CDC releases COVID study proving masks don't do sh1t, literally not even 2% change at January 10, 2022 08:39 AM (Kt1w/)

197 "All these evil right wingers need to stop being angry and divisive!"

"Biden needs to get more angry and name names!"

FFS....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2022 08:39 AM (/EuRN)

198 Brandon's SEC going full Marxist. They want to try and force private companies to comply with all the public listing rules. Hint: They don't have the authority. Sound familiar?

They are doing this because private companies dont have to comply with their "climate change" garbage, invasive disclosure rules, woke boardroom rules and the entire Democrat Left Wing Marxist agenda. In fact they've chosen not to go public usually because of that nonsense.

Even though IPO's remain relatively strong some of the best companies have decided to stay private. It's easier for them to keep control of their company and use private investment to fund their usually very profitable operations. We call this "capitalism".

Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2022 08:39 AM (/Nl5q)

199 The Democrats have succeeded in leveraging COVID to cause real and lasting damage to the economy, around half the population's mental health, and accelerated inflation... all things that while they can be "undone" will take a totally different administration to do so. That doesn't seem likely anytime soon. This, from a Democrat's perspective, is a win.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2022 08:32 AM (BFigT)

Chaos from 2022 through 2024, while they still hold the Presidency, is not a "win" for anyone, certainly not for them. But this is exactly what I see coming. As Jacobson said at the end of his piece, "So Get Ready, I am." I've been repeating the refrain that We will Win, but War is still coming. And we are going to take casualties.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:39 AM (evAgx)

200 Tudor Dixon is running for governor of Michigan and made this video which shows the hypocrisy of the Left regarding January 6.
IT'S OK WHEN DEMOCRATS DO IT-

Tudor Dixon
@TudorDixon
We EXPOSED Governor
@GretchenWhitmer
AGAIN last night on Fox News.
Everybody knows she is the Queen of Hypocrisy here in Michigan. Not everybody knows that she is also Michigan's original "Insurrectionist".
DO NOT Retweet this. She will HATE that.

https://tinyurl.com/3t88c46c

Posted by: redridinghood at January 10, 2022 08:40 AM (NpAcC)

201 >>>Convince someone that an unmasked five year old who waves at them from three feet away is trying to murder them, and you've got someone as convinced of that as "Trump wants to have sex with his daughter". It's just far more important to them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford
--------------

High school band must lip sync to recorded music.
No blowing all that air through those instruments.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 10, 2022 08:40 AM (WSVNe)

202 All of their offensives have failed, and they're out of ideas.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:25 AM (evAgx)

Not so. There's still heavy machine guns and ditches. -- The DNC (probably)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 10, 2022 08:40 AM (nR2nR)

203 Nearly 8,000 people detained in Kazakhstan during violent protests.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:40 AM (UHVv4)

204 Someone mentioned the LED streetlights turning violet; experts are baffled. But, you can't help but see them once you notice ....

I've been noticing some of these, it's bizarre.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:40 AM (evAgx)

205 A lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on " ?

*******

I blame it on those danged button-fly jeans.

/The Truth

Posted by: Muldoon at January 10, 2022 08:40 AM (m45I2)

206 Chaos from 2022 through 2024, while they still hold the Presidency, is not a "win" for anyone, certainly not for them. But this is exactly what I see coming. As Jacobson said at the end of his piece, "So Get Ready, I am." I've been repeating the refrain that We will Win, but War is still coming. And we are going to take casualties.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I want a fucking body count of the left. I want left bodies stacked like cordwood. No hyperbole.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2022 08:41 AM (uXonU)

207 all things that while they can be "undone" will take a totally different administration to do so.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2022 08:32 AM (BFigT)

Not just a different administration, but one with a ferocious will perhaps twice that of Trump's.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2022 08:41 AM (H8QX8)

208 Didn't Will Rogers say " A lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on " ?

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:29 AM (arJlL)

I think that was Mark Twain....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Well, I'm sure glad you got off yer deathbed to correct me......

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:41 AM (arJlL)

209 Good morning all. It's Monday, and I see Optimism vs Pessimism engaged in a Battle Royale here at AoS. Carry on.

Posted by: kraken at January 10, 2022 08:41 AM (6Je/Q)

210 Going on two years of virtual "schooling." I took live video remote learning classes in college 20 years ago and can tell you it's near impossible to learn. Millions of children have had untold amounts of vital education stolen from them in the most fertile learning years ....

Help me understand the form of remote schooling a score of years ago. How much of it was simply watching videos and scratching out answers on a form?

Given the amount of technology dumped into podcasting and generating watchable video content by lay people in the past few years, I was sort of hoping that a merger of expert systems, quality video with animations, a level of interaction (like when messing with CAD systems), introducing elements of gaming and challenges all of that psychological stuff that draws people into Farmville and MafiaWars... would be part of computerized curriculum.

We have the technology and with billions of people on this planet, likely can find someone with skills to pass on.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 08:41 AM (+LCoQ)

211 I despise the utilitarian arguments for the vaccines. I don't give a rat's ass whether it is effective. The jack-booted thugs of government do not have the right to force me to get it.

And I am (modestly) pro-vaccine. Get it if you want...don't get it it if you don't want. I don't care.

But government force in furtherance of a mandate is antithetical to a free society.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 10, 2022 08:42 AM (Q9lwr)

212 There's video on Twitter of a march this weekend by a "Federal Patriot Front" in Chicago (which is, of course, MAGA country). They're all so obviously Feds that it hurts (identical khakis and unmarked LEO-style jackets). What's the endgame here, have them commit some atrocity and then make Republicans declared illegal in response?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2022 08:42 AM (AIhUY)

213 Even though IPO's remain relatively strong some of the best companies have decided to stay private. It's easier for them to keep control of their company and use private investment to fund their usually very profitable operations. We call this "capitalism".
Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2022 08:39 AM (/Nl5q)

I've recently started looking into trading equities again, rather than just dumping my shit into ETFs and forgetting about it.

... What the hell happened to stocks? It's all either ADRs for foreign chip makers, financial services, or general money-shuffling bullshit. Where are all the companies who actually *do* anything? Companies with a name you may have actually heard of if you're not an active stock trader?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2022 08:42 AM (/EuRN)

214 Happy Monday!

Ever wonder what would happen if social media went down for a week? Would it break the spell, not being able to plug into the protective cocoon of group think and bias confirmation? No twitter trends to tell you who to rage at today, what talking points to repeat and retweet and on and on? No desperate quest for likes and friends. . .?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2022 08:42 AM (URNdm)

215 211 But government force in furtherance of a mandate is antithetical to a free society.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 10, 2022 08:42 AM (Q9lwr)

==========

"I see the problem in your thinking..."
-At least 3 justices on SCOTUS

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 08:42 AM (LvTSG)

216 >>>Chaos from 2022 through 2024, while they still hold the Presidency, is not a "win" for anyone, certainly not for them. But this is exactly what I see coming. As Jacobson said at the end of his piece, "So Get Ready, I am." I've been repeating the refrain that We will Win, but War is still coming. And we are going to take casualties.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:39 AM (evAgx)
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Yup. Gird your loins boys and girls we must fight them to beat them.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 10, 2022 08:42 AM (WSVNe)

217 I think the "Lia" loss was a setup. The argument against xim was that xe was born a male and benefitted from 18 years of muscle mass boosted by testosterone. Now that xe has xlost to a f to m trans who has not had hormones yet, then, by golly, your argument is invalid! I noticed they didn't post times for the events.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 08:42 AM (F4b8f)

218 209 Good morning all. It's Monday, and I see Optimism vs Pessimism engaged in a Battle Royale here at AoS. Carry on.
Posted by: kraken at January 10, 2022 08:41 AM (6Je/Q)

It's a battle royal among the half-full glass, the half-empty glass, and the collection of shards.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2022 08:43 AM (H8QX8)

219 I've been noticing some of these, it's bizarre.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:40 AM (evAgx)
++++
It's a "manufacturer defect." What that defect is doesn't ever seem to be referenced. It's probably in a technical journal somewhere.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:43 AM (DU+/6)

220 Yeah, I'm not saying it's the right thing to do, just that it is what they do.
Posted by: IrishEi at January 10, 2022 08:35 AM (0TVNF)

I knew what you meant

I just really hate subsituting propriety for the truth

and you probably do too

Posted by: REDACTED at January 10, 2022 08:43 AM (us2H3)

221 "Someone mentioned the LED streetlights turning violet; experts are baffled."

Experts can stop being baffled.
Manufacturer has already stated that there is a component failure which only appears after several years of operation.
So, like the Covid vaccine, if one only runs a shortened testing procedure, sometimes defects go undetected.

And let me tell you, these failing lights are allover the country. We have them in our tiny town of Summerville. And we have them here in B'More as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 10, 2022 08:43 AM (PTO9s)

222 Not just a different administration, but one with a ferocious will perhaps twice that of Trump's.
Posted by: Ordinary American

We ain't got one. On the bench or in the wings.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2022 08:44 AM (uXonU)

223 >>>Gramscii and his followers thought they would produce a Brave New Generation of Leaders, who would install the Marxist Utopia - but instead, they're producing mob of inarticulate, irrational simpletons.
===============
He just called the junta stupid! Hahahaha! Totally dude! Even though they have the powers of the State on their side!

They are.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 08:44 AM (Mtn20)

224 Because the whites stopped having big families.

Except those rad-trad Catholics that go to a Latin Mass.

Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too at January 10, 2022 08:44 AM (rDgjh)

225 >>I blame it on those danged button-fly jeans.

/The Truth

*ahem*

Posted by: skinny jeans at January 10, 2022 08:44 AM (URNdm)

226 Good morning all. It's Monday, and I see Optimism vs Pessimism engaged in a Battle Royale here at AoS. Carry on.

Its Happiness Management:

Happiness = Reality ÷ Expectations

Keep your expectations low and no matter how crappy reality shows itself, it doesn't take down your happiness.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 08:45 AM (+LCoQ)

227 Not a single one of them has been removed from power, not a single agency executive fired, not a single press organization destroyed. Their power base is unchanged.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:39 AM (DU+/6

If you'll allow me a visual analogy, I see the leadership as a pinnacle of hard rock, standing on top of a mountain of sand. And the ocean is washing away the sand, a little bit more each day. When the pinnacle falls, there will be nothing left underneath them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:45 AM (evAgx)

228 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at January 10, 2022 08:45 AM (x8kT3)

229 According to the Reuters article that came out today,

' "Mass formation psychosis" is not an academic term recognized in the field of psychology, nor is there evidence of any such phenomenon occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple experts in crowd psychology have told Reuters.'

OK. Now look up 'repressed memory' and 'neurasthenia'. They were terms recognized in the field of psychology, and they were always junk science.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 10, 2022 08:45 AM (/I6xA)

230 209 Good morning all. It's Monday, and I see Optimism vs Pessimism engaged in a Battle Royale here at AoS. Carry on.
Posted by: kraken at January 10, 2022 08:41 AM (6Je/Q)

It's a battle royal among the half-full glass, the half-empty glass, and the collection of shards.
Posted by: Ordinary American

and sharts

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:45 AM (arJlL)

231 ZOD!!!!

Posted by: kraken at January 10, 2022 08:45 AM (6Je/Q)

232 >>I think the "Lia" loss was a setup. The argument against xim was that xe was born a male and benefitted from 18 years of muscle mass boosted by testosterone. Now that xe has xlost to a f to m trans who has not had hormones yet, then, by golly, your argument is invalid! I noticed they didn't post times for the events.

Gah -- probably right.

Posted by: skinny jeans at January 10, 2022 08:46 AM (URNdm)

233 217 I think the "Lia" loss was a setup. The argument against xim was that xe was born a male and benefitted from 18 years of muscle mass boosted by testosterone. Now that xe has xlost to a f to m trans who has not had hormones yet, then, by golly, your argument is invalid! I noticed they didn't post times for the events.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 08:42 AM (F4b8f)

I agree. This 'loss' was pre-arranged.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 10, 2022 08:46 AM (/I6xA)

234 ... Manufacturer has already stated that there is a component failure which only appears after several years of operation. ...
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 10, 2022 08:43 AM (PTO9s)
++++
High-latency failures are a big problem and are hard to deal with. I've dealt with any number of them myself over the years - things that fail only after a year or more of operation, or fail in really unexpected ways but only after time has passed and usually with other conditions to confound diagnosis.

When it's a street light or a network switch, it's expensive and embarrassing but not particularly dangerous. For some other things, though, high-latency failure can be much more dangerous.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:46 AM (DU+/6)

235 >>>No twitter trends to tell you who to rage at today, what talking points to repeat and retweet and on and on? No desperate quest for likes and friends. . .?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2022 08:42 AM (URNdm)
----------------

Go out in public. Meet people face to face. Hot air. Heavy breathing. Much CO2
Joy to the world, all the boys and girls...

Posted by: Braenyard at January 10, 2022 08:46 AM (WSVNe)

236 The left is going to reach unimaginable levels of crazy going into the midterms. I don't think it is even possible to predict what they will do or how far they will push.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 08:47 AM (F4b8f)

237 223 >>>Gramscii and his followers thought they would produce a Brave New Generation of Leaders, who would install the Marxist Utopia - but instead, they're producing mob of inarticulate, irrational simpletons.

==========

Turns out that, despite what communists say, they don't want an educated populace. Educated populaces are harder to control. So, they take control of the education systems and get them to produce credentialed dullards that will always do as they're told.

It's almost like everything communists say are lies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 08:47 AM (LvTSG)

238 "The Modern Left can only look at what they were, and weep with envy.
Posted by: Tom Servo"

The left does not have a charismatic strongman that can lead their lemming but they have the nerdy tech lords that create and feed the mass psychosis. Works out better for long term control and stability of the regime. When Stalin died so did much of the worst of the communist state internal oppression. The new regime wont have that problem, any figurehead will do.

Posted by: Ripley at January 10, 2022 08:47 AM (MxEKc)

239 "Someone mentioned the LED streetlights turning violet; experts are baffled."

How absolute F'ing stupid do you have to be to consider yourself an "expert" and be baffled at component failure?

What were some of their other options?

Space Aliens? 5G interference? Climate Change? Mass Formation Psychosis?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 08:47 AM (+LCoQ)

240 If you'll allow me a visual analogy, I see the leadership as a pinnacle of hard rock, standing on top of a mountain of sand. And the ocean is washing away the sand, a little bit more each day. When the pinnacle falls, there will be nothing left underneath them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:45 AM (evAgx)
++++
I hope you're right.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:47 AM (DU+/6)

241 Yes, Ian S.: The F.I.B. marches again, comrades, in Chicago although they left the Tiki torches at home!
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/
1480229223549841412

Brendan Gutenschwager @BGOnTheScene
Patriot Front breaking off from the March for Life, with some carrying shields and wearing shin guards as they march through Grant Park in Chicago. One of their members is photographing press that are taking pictures/videos
https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/
1479921664360169478

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:47 AM (UHVv4)

242 And let me tell you, these failing lights are allover the country. We have them in our tiny town of Summerville. And we have them here in B'More as well.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

We have 2 on US 82 between Bonham and Sherman, Tx and one on the Dallas N Tollway coming off of Westbound IH-635 in Dallas.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2022 08:48 AM (uXonU)

243 236 The left is going to reach unimaginable levels of crazy going into the midterms. I don't think it is even possible to predict what they will do or how far they will push.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 08:47 AM (F4b8f)

==========

Live productions of Cats on the Capitol steps?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 08:48 AM (LvTSG)

244 @172

>>Wow, the article says that whites in America, not including Hispanics, are now only 57.8% of the population. That's a bit shocking if true.

It shouldn't really be that surprising, diminishing the white population of the United States has been the primary purpose US immigration policy since Ted Kennedy's 65 immigration overhaul.

Quite frankly, I'm surprised it's not lower.

The US will be an Hispano-Asian majority country in roughly 15 years at the rate of legal and legal immigration.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 10, 2022 08:48 AM (wj03l)

245 217 I think the "Lia" loss was a setup. The argument against xim was that xe was born a male and benefitted from 18 years of muscle mass boosted by testosterone. Now that xe has xlost to a f to m trans who has not had hormones yet, then, by golly, your argument is invalid! I noticed they didn't post times for the events.

correct it was a setup by Penn and Yale. The Poison Ivies REALLY want to be able to win women's sporting events via male athletes, and they're so clever look what they did hear! it wasn't obvious AT ALL!

Will's time for the 100 was a joke, he dogged it. he's actually been dogging all his races but he always still wanted to win so not enough to lose, except yesterday, to shut everyone up so the Ivies can punish other DI women's sports with lots o' trannies.

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 10, 2022 08:48 AM (j9HX3)

246 Our tranny beat your tranny, hosers!

@ClayTravis
Penn's transgender swimmer lost to Yale's transgender swimmer in a hotly contested women's Ivy League 100 meter race.

https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/
1479957588431286278

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:48 AM (UHVv4)

247 >>>Gramscii and his followers thought they would produce a Brave New Generation of Leaders, who would install the Marxist Utopia - but instead, they're producing mob of inarticulate, irrational simpletons.

Gramsci's biggest fan was Mayor Pete's dad, and, well, Pete has done nothing but fail as Sec. of Transportation. . . has he even shown up for the job?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2022 08:48 AM (URNdm)

248 my god - here not HEAR

lol I need more coffee

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 10, 2022 08:48 AM (j9HX3)

249 248 my god - here not HEAR

lol I need more coffee
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 10, 2022 08:48 AM (j9HX3)

========

Hear here. Here here. Hear hear. Here hear.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 08:49 AM (LvTSG)

250 "Children in England Are Refusing to Wear Masks or Get Tests"

Never mind the bollocks.

Posted by: ZOD at January 10, 2022 08:49 AM (x8kT3)

251 I don't think it is even possible to predict what they will do or how far they will push.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 08:47 AM (F4b8f)

I agree. There is no limit. One of our problems has always been the failure of imagination in this respect.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2022 08:49 AM (H8QX8)

252 They're all so obviously Feds that it hurts (identical khakis and unmarked LEO-style jackets). What's the endgame here, have them commit some atrocity and then make Republicans declared illegal in response?

Posted by: Ian S.

Yes

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2022 08:49 AM (5kI0z)

253 my god - here not HEAR

lol I need more coffee
Posted by: Black Orchid

Mebbe they heard something too ?

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:50 AM (arJlL)

254 "Someone mentioned the LED streetlights turning violet; experts are baffled."

Baffled? I've seen older LED-lit keyboards with programmable-color LEDs lose one of the primaries (red, green, or blue) pretty regularly. The result is that you don't (and can't) get the color you programmed.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2022 08:50 AM (0A/JS)

255 "What were some of their other options?

Space Aliens? 5G interference? Climate Change? Mass Formation Psychosis?"

If one were bored, and chose to type 'Purple Street lights' into the search engine of their choice...
one would find 5G interference, and planned illumination in order to detect non-vaccinated people as at least two of the less bizarre suggestions offered.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 10, 2022 08:50 AM (PTO9s)

256 Turns out that, despite what communists say, they don't want an educated populace. Educated populaces are harder to control. ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 08:47 AM (LvTSG)
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As you see time and again throughout history. My favorite example of this because it is so easy to understand is Korea. The Korean written alphabet is interesting in that it is phonetic and follows fairly strict rules. This is extremely odd for Asia, especially back when the alphabet was created.

And that's the key. It was created. The emperor was having a problem with the clergy. Almost everyone was illiterate because Korea (not unusually) used Chinese as a written language. It's hard and complicated and requires years of study and was inaccessible to the peasants. The clergy usually had to go tell the peasants about whatever was written down. So the emperor sends out an order that the clergy doesn't like, and they can just say whatever they want.

So he ordered a new alphabet and then went on a literacy campaign to break the other power center by bypassing them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:51 AM (DU+/6)

257 I think Black Light street lights have a futur.

Posted by: kraken at January 10, 2022 08:51 AM (6Je/Q)

258 Well, I'm sure glad you got off yer deathbed to correct me......

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:41 AM (arJlL)

I got better!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 10, 2022 08:52 AM (Q9lwr)

259 "What the hell happened to stocks? It's all either ADRs for foreign chip makers, financial services, or general money-shuffling bullshit. Where are all the companies who actually *do* anything? Companies with a name you may have actually heard of if you're not an active stock trader?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2022 08:42 AM (/EuRN)"

Democrats have destroyed the equity markets. Almost Nobody wants to put up with their Left Wing rules which rob them of their independence and profitability. There are now over 950 private companies valued at over $1 billion and up. Companies that choose to do an IPO are mostly trading below the offering price in the first year. Public Companies with ongoing operations get stripped of a fair chunk of their profitability complying with all the SEC garbage. They also are getting decisions taken out of their hands and are continually bombarded with gadfly lawsuits. For what? Access to the public market? That's why many of the beat companies are saying no thanks, we'll go private. It's just not worth it.

This SEC proposal is garbage and it's just going to chase people further out of the markets- maybe even to foreign jurisdictions.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2022 08:52 AM (/Nl5q)

260 Remember: only *YOU* can prevent Mass Formation Psychosis!

Posted by: Omicron Bear at January 10, 2022 08:52 AM (QjjNy)

261 When it's a street light or a network switch, it's expensive and embarrassing but not particularly dangerous. For some other things, though, high-latency failure can be much more dangerous.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:46 AM (DU+/6)

Yeah, I saw that with the AE-35 unit.

Posted by: HAL at January 10, 2022 08:52 AM (PiwSw)

262 Well, I'm sure glad you got off yer deathbed to correct me......

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:41 AM (arJlL)

I got better!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Get back on the cart!

(Seriously, glad to hear you are better)

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2022 08:52 AM (uXonU)

263 Lin Wood needs to be run out on a rail. As if he couldn't get anymore crazy-
Lin Wood Makes Outrageously Insane Claim That Sidney Powell Is A Man

"Mike Flynn is not a good man... neither is Sidney Powell... I mean, he's a she... or she's a he, I don't know. Neither is Tracy Beanz. I'd watch out for Chad..."

https://tinyurl.com/mwfa2hhx

Posted by: redridinghood at January 10, 2022 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

264 Well, I'm sure glad you got off yer deathbed to correct me......

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:41 AM (arJlL)

I got better!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Glad to here it !

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:52 AM (arJlL)

265 Turns out that, despite what communists say, they don't want an educated populace. Educated populaces are harder to control. So, they take control of the education systems and get them to produce credentialed dullards that will always do as they're told.

Communism is the triumph of laziness and complete lack of character because its underlying presumption is that someone else (e.g. Centralized Government) will cure all that ails you. Because Communism has no expectations of individualism or individual achievement, everyone mails it in. "They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work".

The school systems are riddled with Communists who view their gigs as sinecures. The pay is not on competency but on the number and quality of post graduate degrees and certifications (but mostly on what the union can negotiate for you).

So of course the schools will crank out absolute garbage because one teacher in Elementary school is responsible for only 1/12th of a given student's education, and even less when that kid moves to high school.

Not My Problem attitude prevails.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 08:53 AM (+LCoQ)

266 If anyone wants to truly understand the nature and scope of what has been done to the country, download the DHS 2019 Immigration Yearbook...

https://tinyurl.com/yjb8yrnv

Peruse the tables starting at page 12 and everything will become illuminated.

One thing of note, the two Bush's oversaw the greatest increases of immigration in the history of the country.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 10, 2022 08:53 AM (wj03l)

267 I bet the Falun Gong movie gets very limited release in the USA. The Chicoms will go slightly nuts.

Anyway, it's based entirely on a fiction ( The film's lead character, Wang (played by Ting Wu), is based on Wang Weiyu, a survivor of China's prisons and labor camps. )

Everyone knows no one survives those camps, their organs get harvested and then the remainder is shot. Nice people, those CCP types.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 08:53 AM (Mtn20)

268 Good morning guys - any update on Oregon Muse?

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 10, 2022 08:53 AM (j9HX3)

269 When half the country doesn't trust the accuracy of elections, it's time for something radical to bring the confidence back.

Republicans should push for returning to the Constitution in regards to presidential elections. On the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, the election is held. No votes are allowed before or after that day. Nothing is mailed in. Votes are made in person and counted in front of members of both parties.

Get back to basics, regain the trust, then work from there.

Posted by: jwest at January 10, 2022 08:53 AM (/BlEx)

270 256 Turns out that, despite what communists say, they don't want an educated populace. Educated populaces are harder to control. ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 08:47 AM (LvTSG)

But they very much want you to go to college. From there, as Breitbart said, you emerge stupider, more controllable and deeply in debt. Win, win, win for them.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2022 08:54 AM (H8QX8)

271 The left is going to reach unimaginable levels of crazy going into the midterms. I don't think it is even possible to predict what they will do or how far they will push.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 08:47 AM (F4b8f)
~~~~~

This is absolutely true. Was in the company of several lefty loon friends this weekend, and their psychosis is worsening, not abating. When someone in the group admitted to not being vaccinated, a few of the nuts whipped out N95 masks. Of course they removed them to take a drink or a have bite to eat but that's okay because it is well known that the virus cannot strike during those activities.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 10, 2022 08:54 AM (0TVNF)

272 Kinzinger, get some new material dude!
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 08:36 AM (yrol0)

Saying "My only wish is to sip at the penis of the left while robbing the taxpayer blind" lacks the gravitas needed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 10, 2022 08:54 AM (nR2nR)

273 Communism - " They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work". ( Staement of a Soviet clerk in the early 60's.)

Posted by: kraken at January 10, 2022 08:55 AM (6Je/Q)

274 Well, I'm sure glad you got off yer deathbed to correct me......

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 08:41 AM (arJlL)

I got better!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

CBD cheated the hospital out of their SPIFF for deaths.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 08:55 AM (+LCoQ)

275 Re. Pat Saget's death...

@Cernovich; 7h
Full House was set in San Francisco. SF was seen as clean, forward thinking, and artsy. Now it's being abandoned. That's how fast society falls.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:55 AM (UHVv4)

276 The clergy usually had to go tell the peasants about whatever was written down. So the emperor sends out an order that the clergy doesn't like, and they can just say whatever they want.

Where have we heard that before?

*cough Trump cough*

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2022 08:55 AM (uXonU)

277 you've got someone as convinced of that as "Trump wants to have sex with his daughter". It's just far more important to them.

Amusingly, they rejected Trump and in turn voted for someone who DID have sex with his own daughter - at least according to the daughter.

Are we still in the "believe all women" phase, or back to "women lie about that stuff all the time"?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2022 08:57 AM (ESjRY)

278 >>273 Communism - " They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work". ( Staement of a Soviet clerk in the early 60's.) Posted by: kraken at January 10, 2022 08:55 AM (6Je/Q)

The French have a useful phrase (used it in grad thesis on Saudi) to describe this false-labor:

"emploi fictif."

Posted by: ZOD at January 10, 2022 08:57 AM (x8kT3)

279 As I reported above...

Avi Yemini @OzraeliAvi; 7h
#BREAKING: Federal Circuit Court judge Anthony Kelly has ordered the immediate release of tennis world no.1 Novak Djokovic from immigration detention after OVERTURNING the federal government's decision to cancel his visa.

Djokovic won.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:58 AM (UHVv4)

280 Help me understand the form of remote schooling a score of years ago. How much of it was simply watching videos and scratching out answers on a form?
---
Community College has a remote campus. Some live classes but, they had a satellite connection for video. Camera on us in the classroom, camera on the professor who was teaching on the main campus. He could hear us and everything.
So, it was live. There were like 5 of us there. But, it was still garbage for holding your attention and interaction.
There is no way any but the best and most driven students learned anything from these Zoom classes.

Posted by: Well at January 10, 2022 08:58 AM (PMwVR)

281 >>SF was seen as clean Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:55 AM (UHVv4)

For Zod to poop on.

Posted by: ZOD at January 10, 2022 08:58 AM (x8kT3)

282 When it's a street light or a network switch, it's expensive and embarrassing but not particularly dangerous. For some other things, though, high-latency failure can be much more dangerous.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:46 AM (DU+/6)

The hardcore left, which we've been talking about, has been implementing policies with the greatest high-latency failures of all time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 08:59 AM (evAgx)

283 #279 addendum...

Novak Djokovic @DjokerNole; 41m
I'm pleased and grateful that the Judge overturned my visa cancellation. Despite all that has happened, I want to stay and try to compete @AustralianOpen

I remain focused on that. I flew here to play at one of the most important events we have in front of the amazing fans.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:59 AM (UHVv4)

284 Amusingly, they rejected Trump and in turn voted for someone who DID have sex with his own daughter - at least according to the daughter.
==================

Gah, did she actually say it went so far as sex? Oh lord, that poor kid. I guess I thought he made her take showers with him but I admit I glossed over the details after that point.

So, how about those Mets?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 08:59 AM (Mtn20)

285 I remain focused on that. I flew here to play at one of the most important events we have in front of the amazing fans.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:59 AM (UHVv4)
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He loves that tournament. I think something like nearly half of his major wins have been there.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 09:01 AM (Mtn20)

286 "Of course they removed them to take a drink or a have bite to eat but that's okay because it is well known that the virus cannot strike during those activities.
Posted by: IrishEi"

Went skiing this past weekend. In the snack bar/lodge the seating was removed from the high tables so you had to stand while eating. The low tables/benches still had chairs. Apparently covid does not attack you if your remain standing.

Posted by: Ripley at January 10, 2022 09:01 AM (MxEKc)

287 So, how about those Mets?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

They're not in the Super Bowl this year.

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 09:01 AM (arJlL)

288 I see Brian Kilmeade is aiming to be the replacement for Chris Wallace at FOX News, he's going out of his way to be the vocal opposition to Trump and everyone else that bought into the "big lie" about the election.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 10, 2022 09:01 AM (4thlk)

289 Djokovic won.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:58 AM (UHVv4)

My fantasy is that he quits tennis and becomes a movement leader.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2022 09:01 AM (H8QX8)

290 >>Djokovic won.

Awesome.
Meanwhile, a soccer player had a heart attack on the field in the middle east. Amazing all the heart problems super fit athletes are suddenly having, huh?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2022 09:01 AM (URNdm)

291 Went skiing this past weekend. In the snack bar/lodge the seating was removed from the high tables so you had to stand while eating. The low tables/benches still had chairs. Apparently covid does not attack you if your remain standing.
Posted by: Ripley at January 10, 2022 09:01 AM (MxEKc)
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You're double protected if you're standing and also rioting over weird racial communist ideas.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 09:02 AM (DU+/6)

292 263 Lin Wood needs to be run out on a rail. As if he couldn't get anymore crazy - Lin Wood Makes Outrageously Insane Claim That Sidney Powell Is A Man.

Lin Wood is the right's Gloria Allred.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 09:02 AM (evAgx)

293 The F.I.B. marches again, comrades, in Chicago although they left the Tiki torches at home!
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/
1480229223549841412

My favorite is the people insisting that they're real patriots and we're all Jonah Goldberg for thinking they're FIB.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2022 09:02 AM (Yqpb4)

294 Most LED lights have the ability to operate at different wavelengths right? Thus the "warm" or "cool" bulbs you can buy. I have one in the master bathroom that has like 5 or 6 options for the "color" of the light. It ranges from a very white down to a yellow-ish color when switched.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2022 09:03 AM (BFigT)

295 271 The left is going to reach unimaginable levels of crazy going into the midterms. I don't think it is even possible to predict what they will do or how far they will push.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 08:47 AM (F4b8f)

yes and what will drive them even more nutz is their important goto peeps will not want their fingerprints on this shit sammie

even Bammy has sent Big Mike out in his stead.

I mean, how many times can one go out and say" I'll take it as a personal insult if you don't go out and vote for X" and then X loses

Posted by: REDACTED at January 10, 2022 09:03 AM (us2H3)

296 Djokovic's sin was no jab, yes?

Posted by: kraken at January 10, 2022 09:03 AM (6Je/Q)

297 I see Brian Kilmeade is aiming to be the replacement for Chris Wallace at FOX News, he's going out of his way to be the vocal opposition to Trump and everyone else that bought into the "big lie" about the election.
Posted by: lowandslow at January 10, 2022 09:01 AM (4thlk)
~~~~~

Haven't watched F&F in a long time. What'd he say?

Posted by: IrishEi at January 10, 2022 09:03 AM (0TVNF)

298 L.A. Police Pull Pilot Out of Plane Stuck on Railroad Tracks Right as Train Hits It

LA Coroner attributed his death to COVID-19.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 09:03 AM (yrol0)

299 Google is the Devil.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 10, 2022 08:32 AM (sVtYq)

So is FOOOOZball

Posted by: Bobby Boucher's Momma at January 10, 2022 09:04 AM (mZUr4)

300 So, how about those Mets?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 08:59 AM (Mtn20)

Thank you!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 10, 2022 09:05 AM (Q9lwr)

301 Gramsci's biggest fan was Mayor Pete's dad, and, well, Pete has done nothing but fail as Sec. of Transportation. . . has he even shown up for the job?

That role is pure harmless and powerless sinecure. Note that Trump parked a Communist Chinese agent in that department simply so that Mitch McConnel would not be a total ass.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 09:05 AM (+LCoQ)

302 Another famous disease-spreader...
Jenna Ellis @JennaEllisEsq; 18h
The point isn't that Geraldo is double-vaccinated and boosted and has covid.

The point is that he disgustingly and mercilessly railed against the unvaccinated, calling them "selfish," because they can get and spread covid.

Well, buddy, so can you.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 09:05 AM (UHVv4)

303 Those wreckers and saboteurs with private companies dodging common sense financial reform. We will have to force all companies with a value > $1 million must be publicly traded and comply with all SEC regulations.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 09:05 AM (F4b8f)

304 " Apparently covid does not attack you if your remain standing."

I thought the science clearly showed that the Covid could not get you if you were seated and eating.
And if one put their fork down, and was preparing to stand, that one should mask up.

Perhaps a different variant.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 10, 2022 09:05 AM (PTO9s)

305 @disclosetv

NEW - Qatar: During the Al Wakra Club match against Al Rayyan the player Othman Coulibaly suffered a heart attack, per statement of the football club

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2022 09:06 AM (URNdm)

306 "Apparently covid does not attack you if your remain standing.
Posted by: Ripley "

Wait, its not that. Covid does not attack you if you are seated in a low chair/table but does if you are on a stool /high chair. Weird. How does it know the difference?

Posted by: Ripley at January 10, 2022 09:06 AM (MxEKc)

307 Most LED lights have the ability to operate at different wavelengths right? Thus the "warm" or "cool" bulbs you can buy. I have one in the master bathroom that has like 5 or 6 options for the "color" of the light. It ranges from a very white down to a yellow-ish color when switched.

Right. It's been a popular thing in PC peripherals for years, to the point where you basically can't build your own system without getting at least some parts that light up in programmable colors.

As I've said above, I've seen older components with that feature lose the ability to change to the entire color range over time.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2022 09:06 AM (aUxYo)

308 Brian Kilmeade is a creepy muppet looking MF and dumb as sack of dirt.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 10, 2022 09:06 AM (Y5qcH)

309 Lin Wood needs to be run out on a rail. As if he couldn't get anymore crazy - Lin Wood Makes Outrageously Insane Claim That Sidney Powell Is A Man.

I'll bet he says Sidney Poitier was black next.

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 09:06 AM (arJlL)

310 Interesting weekend. My son's HS friend, Jordan, killed his buddy by shooting him in the chest over a disagreement over ownership of a pair of tennis shoes. Jordan then shot another man in the eye while trying to car jack his car. Somehow this guy lived. Fortunately, my wife and I gave my son a week with two of his buddies at a ski resort in VA so he missed Jordan's attempts to contact him. My son returned only to find out that Jordan had gone full stupid. Quite a lesson. Oddly, Jordan and Keb (the kid killed over shoes) had visited our house the night before around 2:00 AM. My wife called the cops and they confirmed it was Jordan and Keb. I am so grateful my son was in the mountains snow boarding. OBT - Jordan and Keb are black.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 10, 2022 09:06 AM (bGkHK)

311 Most LED lights have the ability to operate at different wavelengths right? Thus the "warm" or "cool" bulbs you can buy. I have one in the master bathroom that has like 5 or 6 options for the "color" of the light. It ranges from a very white down to a yellow-ish color when switched.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2022 09:03 AM (BFigT)
++++
They use arrays of LEDs with different color temperatures to achieve the color they want. I sort of wonder if the "purple street lights" problem is because of the green LEDs failing early, leaving only red and blue.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 09:06 AM (DU+/6)

312 308 Brian Kilmeade is a creepy muppet looking MF and dumb as sack of dirt.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 10, 2022 09:06 AM (Y5qcH)

========

I believe Ace beat him in court many moons ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 09:07 AM (LvTSG)

313 Biden's appeasance of Iran is taking place mostly out of public view, since news organizations ignore it.

But it is ongoing. I know it sounds extreme and maybe even tin-foil hat level loony, but Biden might well tacitly give up Trump's life to their thirst for revenge. Iran demanding it and (shockingly) Biden hasn't condemned the idea.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 09:08 AM (Mtn20)

314 >>Jordan and Keb. I am so grateful my son was in the mountains snow boarding.

Wow. That is intense.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2022 09:08 AM (URNdm)

315 Djokovic won.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 08:58 AM (UHVv4)

Won-ish. Now Aus is weighing whether to deport him or acknowledge natural immunity to the public.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 09:08 AM (F4b8f)

316 Critique of the AP's "fact check" on mass hysteria...

Christopher F. Rufo @realchrisrufo
Fact-checking is truly the lowest form of journalism.

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/
1480296458788036610

The result is a system of official knowledge that is utterly fake, allowing NPR Americans to repeat meaningless epistemological markers--"fact checked!" "peer-reviewed!" "I f*cking love science!"--and smugly, often wrongly, consider the matter settled.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 09:08 AM (UHVv4)

317 I got better!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

****

Is it true you had a temperature of 134° and were kept sealed in your room for three straight days, but emerged more tender than ever?

Posted by: Muldoon at January 10, 2022 09:08 AM (m45I2)

318 "Haven't watched F&F in a long time. What'd he say?"
Posted by: IrishEi at January 10, 2022 09:03 AM (0TVNF)

Basically anyone that questions the election results, like Trump, are purposely doing to hurt the country. The leftist sites are the only ones talking about it, he's their new hero.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 10, 2022 09:10 AM (4thlk)

319 Djokovic's sin was no jab, yes?
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Yes, comrade.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 09:11 AM (UHVv4)

320 314 >>Jordan and Keb. I am so grateful my son was in the mountains snow boarding.

Wow. That is intense.
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It pays to have two parents. My son is realizing this today. He starts his senior year in college next fall. He is seeing what happens to kids that have no plans beyond HS.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 10, 2022 09:11 AM (bGkHK)

321 >>> I believe Ace beat him in court many moons ago.
~~~~~

???

Posted by: IrishEi at January 10, 2022 09:11 AM (0TVNF)

322 scanning around lefty (ie, MFM) news sites this morning - a growing realization that Manchin really has killed the BBB, and all of their hopes for "Climate Change" legislation. (which is what a particular set of Big Donors is desperate for, for the same old reasons as always) So now a host of op/ed pieces are being put out about how climate change activists need to find New Ways! to enact their legislative and regulatory dreams.

Here's a line that articulates the height of their Scientific Prowess:
"Racial justice has become a galvanizing tool for slowing the expansion of fossil fuels." (From Vox)

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 09:11 AM (evAgx)

323 So is FOOOOZball
Posted by: Bobby Boucher's Momma at January 10, 2022 09:04 AM (mZUr4)
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What a great character that was! Kathy Bates is a fantastic actor.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM (Mtn20)

324 I wonder if we will ever get the true story of what happened in Kazakhstan?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

325 I figured the LED issue was simply cheap Chinese crap failing early like everything else they produce. Our little town put in several newer street lights with LEDs. They're only a couple months old, but I'll have to see if they go purple too.

Weird that they end up on that end of the spectrum and not just quit working altogether.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM (BFigT)

326 Christopher F. Rufo @realchrisrufo
Fact-checking is truly the lowest form of journalism.

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/
1480296458788036610 ...
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 09:08 AM (UHVv4)
++++
Heh. From NPR:
"Mass-formation psychosis" is not an academic term recognized in the field of psychology, nor is there any evidence of such a phenomenon occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple experts in crowd psychology have told Reuters and the Associated Press.

That is actually a fascinating little blurb. It isn't a term that is "recognized in the field of psychology" and therefore it doesn't exist. Despite its non-existence, though, you don't have to worry about it because experts say it isn't happening. If it isn't real - and if it's not a mainstream academic term in their own language, then it doesn't by definition - then why refute it? Why go to your cadre of academic experts to debunk something that isn't real?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM (DU+/6)

327 >>Jordan and Keb are black. Posted by: Puddin Head at January 10, 2022 09:06 AM (bGkHK)

Both young men have been acquired; they are currently in custody of Imperial Gorilla Penal Camp 7-B. You may submit a brief summarizing your grievances and suggested penalties. The suspense for this offer is midnight 1/12.

Posted by: ZOD at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM (x8kT3)

328 It was Kilmeade who sued Ace? Douche. But, yes the thing that always puts me off about the killmeister is that he has that look about him as if he is mystified that 2+3 and 3+2 can both equal 5.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM (F4b8f)

329 324 I wonder if we will ever get the true story of what happened in Kazakhstan?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

It was them Uzbeks acting up.

Posted by: kraken at January 10, 2022 09:13 AM (6Je/Q)

330 a few years from now, the bailout of people suffering from being vaxxed is gonna be lit

Posted by: REDACTED at January 10, 2022 09:13 AM (us2H3)

331 Basically anyone that questions the election results, like Trump, are purposely doing to hurt the country. The leftist sites are the only ones talking about it, he's their new hero.
Posted by: lowandslow at January 10, 2022 09:10 AM (4thlk)
~~~~~

What an idiot. Likely has to do with the network not allowing any talk of voter fraud, just as Newsmax does.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 10, 2022 09:13 AM (0TVNF)

332 "I wonder if we will ever get the true story of what happened in Kazakhstan?"

Right wing Trump supporters fomenting an insurrection, again?

S/

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 10, 2022 09:13 AM (PTO9s)

333 Funny, that's not the Brian Kilmeade I see on Fox.

Posted by: Ziba at January 10, 2022 09:13 AM (S1hrL)

334 The left will not fall easily, some hard leftists are calling themselves jacobins fir good reasons.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 10, 2022 09:15 AM (ONvIw)

335 333 "I wonder if we will ever get the true story of what happened in Kazakhstan?"

Right wing Trump supporters fomenting an insurrection, again?

S/
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Kazakstan houses the world's largest dump of nuclear waste. Its a very big country. I can see why the Russians were Johnny on the Spot getting involved.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 10, 2022 09:15 AM (bGkHK)

336 #315 Yes; I guess we'll have to see.

9News Australia @9NewsAUS; 36m
Djokovic still faces a major hurdle to stay in the country, with Immigration Minister Alex Hawke saying that he was considering whether to cancel the tennis star's visa again.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 09:15 AM (UHVv4)

337 The Indians/Guardians had a 20 year prospect keel over and suddenly die in Miami in the pre-Christmas period. Speculation was quickly focused on the jab, but no announcement on cause of death has been made (last I looked). Dade County routinely tells the public this kind of info, so I wonder why this case is different.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 09:15 AM (Mtn20)

338 Asterisk people are the worst!

Posted by: kraken at January 10, 2022 09:15 AM (6Je/Q)

339 >>328 It was Kilmeade who sued Ace?

Brian Kilmeade has a face ready-made for transitioning.

Posted by: ZOD at January 10, 2022 09:16 AM (x8kT3)

340 I'm probably confusing insane people with similar names.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford

That's because there's so danged many !

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 09:16 AM (arJlL)

341 Weird that they end up on that end of the spectrum and not just quit working altogether.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM (BFigT)
++++
LED failure is usually binary, but there are a ton of LEDs in those bright light arrays. You see this all the time with LED traffic signals. It goes from a full circle to a circle with several dots missing, to a circle with many dots missing, to a circle with only a few dots left. This is easiest to see in the early phases during dusk, when there's enough ambient light to provide contrast, but its low enough to make the signals really stand out.

This is one of the reason roads departments love LED traffic signals. They cost less to operate but they also don't fail all at once like a traditional light bulb, so they can schedule replacement as they start to go out and do so pretty predictably, rather than having to send a truck out whenever a bulb blows. The major downside is that they run fairly cool and so snow can much more easily obstruct signals in areas that get a lot of snow.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 09:16 AM (DU+/6)

342 I wonder if we will ever get the true story of what happened in Kazakhstan?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

Given that we never get the true story about anything, I'm guessing no.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 10, 2022 09:16 AM (nR2nR)

343 Posted by: Ian S.

Ace picks on people with incomplete names ?
Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 09:14 AM (arJlL)
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I believe the rule still holds, years later: No discussion of this guy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 09:17 AM (Mtn20)

344 That is actually a fascinating little blurb. It isn't a term that is "recognized in the field of psychology" and therefore it doesn't exist. Despite its non-existence, though, you don't have to worry about it because experts say it isn't happening. If it isn't real - and if it's not a mainstream academic term in their own language, then it doesn't by definition - then why refute it? Why go to your cadre of academic experts to debunk something that isn't real?

NEWS FLASH: Each and every psychological term, at some point in history didn't exist!

Before Malone pushed it, the term was "Mass Delusional Psychosis". I think the "Delusional" part is too easily recognized and characterized by hoi polloi to be offensive so the "Delusional" was replaced by "Formation".

So that will make it all better.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 09:17 AM (+LCoQ)

345 emploi fictif aka window watchers

Posted by: Ziba at January 10, 2022 09:17 AM (S1hrL)

346 LED's require rare Earth elements that China has a near monopoly on. The US used to be the world leader on rare Earth's, but we shutdown all the mines.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 10, 2022 09:18 AM (Y5qcH)

347 >>It was Kilmeade who sued Ace?

Don't think so -- but I am not going to type the name of the person who did, he was/is crazy IIRC(?) and should not be mentioned.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2022 09:18 AM (URNdm)

348 >>Kazakstan houses the world's largest dump of nuclear waste. Its a very big country. I can see why the Russians were Johnny on the Spot getting involved.

It looks an awful lot like what what went down in Ukraine in 2014 only this time it was stopped.

I think the former KGB agent has leverage.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2022 09:18 AM (ZLI7S)

349 (In particular, they were trying to get a court to publicly release Ace's identity).
Posted by: Ian S.

I thought he was Elvis ?

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 09:18 AM (arJlL)

350 350 LED's require rare Earth elements that China has a near monopoly on. The US used to be the world leader on rare Earth's, but we shutdown all the mines.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 10, 2022 09:18 AM (Y5qcH)

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Are those shovel ready jobs?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 09:18 AM (LvTSG)

351 324 I wonder if we will ever get the true story of what happened in Kazakhstan?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

I wonder if we will ever get the true story of what happened in the United States?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 10, 2022 09:19 AM (fs1hN)

352 More to the point on the NPR article, there's another internal contradiction I didn't see in real time. If "mass-formation psychosis" is not an acknowledged academic term or phenomenon, how can their cadre of experts refute it? By their own admission, they have no expertise. The term and condition aren't real, acknowledged or understood by academic psychologists and so how can academic psychologists be expert enough to refute it? They can at best describe their opinions, informed by related study, to explain why they doubt it is a thing - but they can't conclude that it isn't, either, because by their own terms they're not experts in mass-formation psychosis.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 09:19 AM (DU+/6)

353 So is FOOOOZball
Posted by: Bobby Boucher's Momma at January 10, 2022 09:04 AM (mZUr4)
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What a great character that was! Kathy Bates is a fantastic actor.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM (Mtn20)

Yes she is. Of particular note is her performance in the movie version of Stephen King's "Misery"

Posted by: Doof at January 10, 2022 09:19 AM (mZUr4)

354 Ace is Carlos

Posted by: REDACTED at January 10, 2022 09:19 AM (us2H3)

355 324 I wonder if we will ever get the true story of what happened in Kazakhstan?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

It's not even clear what has happened yet; but it does seem likely that it was a "power struggle inside the ruling elites". It points out the foolhardiness of jumping into battle too early; apparently a number of militant groups were waiting to jump in on any unrest. It looks now like they have all been liquidated.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 09:19 AM (evAgx)

356 Mass Psychology of Fascism

Posted by: Ziba at January 10, 2022 09:20 AM (S1hrL)

357 >>That is actually a fascinating little blurb. It isn't a term that is "recognized in the field of psychology" and therefore it doesn't exist. Despite its non-existence, though, you don't have to worry about it because experts say it isn't happening. If it isn't real - and if it's not a mainstream academic term in their own language, then it doesn't by definition - then why refute it? Why go to your cadre of academic experts to debunk something that isn't real?

Huh. Sure sounds like mansplaining to me!
Oh wait -- is that not officially recognized by the APA or the latest DSM?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2022 09:20 AM (URNdm)

358 His sin was both no jab and getting the coof and recovering. The official Aus position is that natural immunity does not exist. The only protection against the coof is the jab. So, if they make an exception and allow him in sans jab, they have to acknowledge natural immunity as a government. Now that a judge has freed him, the government must either allow for natural immunity, or deport the #1 tennis player and effectively ban him from the Australian open for the next 3 years. That will taint the next open winners and harm the event for years.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 10, 2022 09:20 AM (F4b8f)

359 The major downside is that they run fairly cool and so snow can much more easily obstruct signals in areas that get a lot of snow.

In return though, fewer birds' nests are in the warmer light cavity.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 09:20 AM (+LCoQ)

360 359 Ace is Carlos
Posted by: REDACTED at January 10, 2022 09:19 AM (us2H3)

Carlos DANGER!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2022 09:20 AM (evAgx)

361 The RCMP officer who got the boot over covid sounds like a great guy. I hope he finds his way here.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 09:20 AM (Mtn20)

362 Holly macro noodles and cheese.

Wining or deading? Place your bets.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 10, 2022 09:20 AM (2mzVZ)

363 The real problem is very clearly "mask formation psychosis" ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 09:21 AM (DU+/6)

364 *Pace* William James, there is no "moral equivalent to war." Thank goodness.

Those who use the phrase unironically signal their intention to engage in tyranny.

Posted by: Brett at January 10, 2022 09:21 AM (cpCFS)

365 Basically anyone that questions the election results, like Trump, are purposely doing to hurt the country. The leftist sites are the only ones talking about it, he's their new hero.
Posted by: lowandslow at January 10, 2022 09:10 AM (4thlk)

I just posted that Texas has over 11k illegals registered to vote. In 5 counties we found 220k DEAD people that could have voted in Nov 2020.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 09:21 AM (yrol0)

366 Byron York
@ByronYork
1h
'Omicron Makes Biden's Vaccine Mandates Obsolete.' From
@WSJopinion
: 'Mandating a vaccine to stop the spread of a disease requires evidence that the vaccines will prevent infection or transmission...'

https://tinyurl.com/3kma3bta

Posted by: redridinghood at January 10, 2022 09:22 AM (NpAcC)

367 Are those shovel ready jobs?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 09:18 AM (LvTSG)

More like those giant trucks with 8 ft diameter tires. You have to process alot of rock.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 10, 2022 09:22 AM (Y5qcH)

368 The topic is closed.

Ace has few rules, but that is one of them.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 10, 2022 09:22 AM (Q9lwr)

369 It was them Uzbeks acting up.
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Well, they are the weak link in the Great Chain of Socialism!

Don't give them booze or matches.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 10, 2022 09:22 AM (UHVv4)

370 What is it like to be a member of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and be openly heckled and booed by honest laity at the March for Life?

Ask Cardinal Cupich of Chicago, he knows!

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 10, 2022 09:22 AM (2RBkF)

371 375 It was them Uzbeks acting up.
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Well, they are the weak link in the Great Chain of Socialism!

Don't give them booze or matches.
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I think Turkministan is where the wild ones reside.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 10, 2022 09:23 AM (bGkHK)

372 "It isn't a term that is "recognized in the field of psychology" and therefore it doesn't exist. "

Excellent.

Now let's do Gender disorders.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 10, 2022 09:23 AM (PTO9s)

373 Ace is Carlos

Ace is Gunther, the guy who sang that "Oooh! You touch my tra-la-la!" song.
Posted by: Ian S.

!

Posted by: JT at January 10, 2022 09:23 AM (arJlL)

374 Dang. Ivy League swimming pools must have various and sundry lopped-off and subsequently discarded genitalia floating around. Like that island of plastic debris out in the Pacific. You DO NOT want to draw Lane 6 in the semifinals!

Posted by: Muldoon at January 10, 2022 09:23 AM (m45I2)

375 I wonder if we will ever get the true story of what happened in Kazakhstan?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

Probably The Duran will cover it.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 10, 2022 09:24 AM (y7DUB)

376 At ZH:

Kazakhstan Denies US-Funded 'Military Biological Lab' Seized By Rioters After Russia Claims Potential Pathogen Leak

Wonderful. Fauci rebooted the franchise.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 10, 2022 09:24 AM (UuD2k)

377 >>It's not even clear what has happened yet; but it does seem likely that it was a "power struggle inside the ruling elites". It points out the foolhardiness of jumping into battle too early; apparently a number of militant groups were waiting to jump in on any unrest. It looks now like they have all been liquidated.

That's what it looks like on the surface but I think there is more to it. It didn't get as much play but Hunter and Joe were as entwined in corruption in Kazakhstan as they were in Ukraine. And so was Soros.

I'm sure our loyal and trustworthy members of the intel community were involved as well.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2022 09:24 AM (ZLI7S)

378 What is it like to be a member of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and be openly heckled and booed by honest laity at the March for Life?

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They should be marching for the environment.

- Commie Pope

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at January 10, 2022 09:24 AM (sX1BW)

379 The face diaper nonsense is not dead yet among businesses. I went to a small independent shoe repair shop that I've used in the past with success. "Mask required" sign on the door I ignored, as a lot of places still have that up but don't bother me. And the N95-masked lady behind the glass-shielded counter didn't seem to mind for 5 minutes. Then, suddenly, she "remembered." "You need to put on a mask." "Why? I've been here for 5 minutes already, and you have your face diaper and shield. Speak up, I can't hear you." "We have to! It's Going Around!"

"Fine, if you don't want my money," I said, and strode out. Later I left a Yelp review of the shop, warning sensible people about the policy. Then I called some other places, and they are okay with no muzzle. Ha.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 10, 2022 09:25 AM (txdEq)

380 Dang. Ivy League swimming pools must have various and sundry lopped-off and subsequently discarded genitalia floating around. Like that island of plastic debris out in the Pacific. You DO NOT want to draw Lane 6 in the semifinals!
Posted by: Muldoon at January 10, 2022 09:23 AM (m45I2)
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Make the pools ten times as deep. It will have no effect on the competition, but still deals with the problem since the solution to pollution is dilution...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 09:25 AM (DU+/6)

381 "Omicron Makes Biden's Vaccine Mandates Obsolete.' "

The Supreme Court will be the last to know.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2022 09:25 AM (H8QX8)

382 " I wonder if we will ever get the true story of what happened in Kazakhstan?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

There are many plausible reasons including certain intelligence agencies letting the Chinese and Russians know we still have a hand to play. Both of those countries have restive and often suppressed ethnic minorities or bordering nations they spend a lot of time keeping in line, and who are not predisposed to their authoritarian rule.

We might have an idiot and Marxists running our country at the moment. But existential threats are threats to every one of us.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2022 09:25 AM (/Nl5q)

383 Are those shovel ready jobs?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 09:18 AM (LvTSG)

Friedman when observing a canal project in India dug with shovels. When asked why they did not use modern equipment the politician said it was a job creation project.

Friedman said then give then spoons.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 09:25 AM (yrol0)

384 His sin was both no jab and getting the coof and recovering. The official Aus position is that natural immunity does not exist.
====================
You are right, the Aussie government has an internal contradiction to deal with. I think they allowed 26 players to make the same argument, and most were permitted entry on that basis. So, the federal authorities were stretching a point and allowing natural immunity for the tennis players, but Australians themselves do not get the same break (as you say). Djokovic became the focal point and the Karen blowback embarrassed the hell out of the government. Even a few players revealed themselves Karen-ish (Andy Murray's brother for one), and started whining.

Lets see what happens next.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 09:26 AM (Mtn20)

385 I figured the LED issue was simply cheap Chinese crap failing early like everything else they produce. Our little town put in several newer street lights with LEDs. They're only a couple months old, but I'll have to see if they go purple too.

Weird that they end up on that end of the spectrum and not just quit working altogether.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM

All of my LED flood lights in the kitchen and living room turned purple this year. I put them in five years ago. Never noticed it until one bulb went out and I replaced it. Huge difference. Had to replace everyone of them.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at January 10, 2022 09:26 AM (bVYXr)

386 380 Dang. Ivy League swimming pools must have various and sundry lopped-off and subsequently discarded genitalia floating around. Like that island of plastic debris out in the Pacific. You DO NOT want to draw Lane 6 in the semifinals!
Posted by: Muldoon at January 10, 2022 09:23 AM (m45I2)

The Gonad Gyre.

Posted by: Roy at January 10, 2022 09:26 AM (9S/pB)

387 385 Friedman when observing a canal project in India dug with shovels. When asked why they did not use modern equipment the politician said it was a job creation project.

Friedman said then give then spoons.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2022 09:25 AM (yrol0)

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That's one of my favorite Milton Friedman stories.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 09:26 AM (LvTSG)

388 Friedman said then give then spoons.

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Such a great story. So obvious. So ignored.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at January 10, 2022 09:26 AM (sX1BW)

389 >>discarded genitalia floating around. Like that island of plastic debris out in the Pacific

The Island of Misfit Sex Dolls.

"Nobody wants a RealDoll that squirts seaweed!"

Posted by: ZOD at January 10, 2022 09:26 AM (x8kT3)

390 Kazakstan houses the world's largest dump of nuclear waste. Its a very big country. I can see why the Russians were Johnny on the Spot getting involved.

And it is where the Russians launch their space stuff (until the east coast location is complete); uranium is mined in Kazakstan yet processed in Russia; has the largest common border between nations; and a very significant percentage of the population is ethnic Russian.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 10, 2022 09:26 AM (+LCoQ)

391 "Omicron Makes Biden's Vaccine Mandates Obsolete.' "

The Supreme Court will be the last to know.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2022 09:25 AM (H8QX

One trillion dead children, and you people are pushing this lie!

Posted by: "Justice" Sotomayor at January 10, 2022 09:27 AM (FJYfm)

392 " I wonder if we will ever get the true story of what happened in Kazakhstan?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)
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The Big Guy got his 10 %, I don't doubt.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 10, 2022 09:27 AM (Mtn20)

393 That's one of my favorite Milton Friedman stories.

Such a great story. So obvious. So ignored.

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Uh oh. TJM and I are in sync today.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at January 10, 2022 09:27 AM (sX1BW)

394 "The face diaper nonsense is not dead yet among businesses."

It will never be dead. Never. This is one of those cases when a mass psychosis-related superstitious custom takes on an immortal life of its own.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2022 09:27 AM (H8QX8)

395 Political disagreements in Kazakhstan are lit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2022 09:28 AM (BFigT)

396 393
Uh oh. TJM and I are in sync today.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at January 10, 2022 09:27 AM (sX1BW)

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*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 09:28 AM (LvTSG)

397 Heh. From NPR:
"Mass-formation psychosis" is not an academic term recognized in the field of psychology, nor is there any evidence of such a phenomenon occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple experts in crowd psychology have told Reuters and the Associated Press.

**

The witch trials never happened.

Also if a man puts on a wig he's a woman.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - CDC releases COVID study proving masks don't do sh1t, literally not even 2% change at January 10, 2022 09:29 AM (/BX3R)

398 The face diaper nonsense is not dead yet among businesses.

It will never be dead.

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There are far too many cases of people just complying. Mostly to avoid confrontation. But I have noticed it really isn't being enforced. Most people have lost the energy. They may make a request for all to wear, but that is it. Having seen this, I'm surprised at the number of people willing to just comply.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at January 10, 2022 09:30 AM (sX1BW)

399 >>when a mass psychosis-related superstitious custom takes on an immortal life of its own.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2022 09:27 AM (H8QX

Millenia from now, Martian archaeologists will puzzle over 21st-century human relief carvings in stone that, for a very brief period, include humans concealing their lower faces with masks. What could it mean? Why did it start? When did it stop?

Posted by: ZOD at January 10, 2022 09:30 AM (x8kT3)

400 "Mass-formation psychosis" is not an academic term recognized in the field of psychology, nor is there any evidence of such a phenomenon occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple experts in crowd psychology have told Reuters and the Associated Press.

You didn't see nothin'

Posted by: Luca Brasi at January 10, 2022 09:30 AM (FJYfm)

401 Art nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 10, 2022 09:30 AM (PiwSw)

402 I hope they deport Novak. Then maybe he'll stop blathering about how much he wants to play in the tournament, realize the nature of the enemy not just to tennis but to the world of free men, and become the Curt Flood of tennis.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2022 09:30 AM (H8QX8)

403 Did someone say there was a bio-weapons lab leak in Kstan?

Posted by: davidt at January 10, 2022 09:31 AM (g98Pl)

404 Also if a man puts on a wig he's a woman.

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Also a member of an Ivy School "women's" swim team.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at January 10, 2022 09:31 AM (sX1BW)

405 Ain't been keeping up, when is SCOTUS supposed to rule on the mandates?

Posted by: lowandslow at January 10, 2022 09:31 AM (4thlk)

406 One trillion dead children, and you people are pushing this lie!
Posted by: "Justice" Sotomayor

We don' need no steenkin' badges

Posted by: The Wide Latina and her Glowie Federales at January 10, 2022 09:31 AM (QzkSJ)

407 397. mass hysteria is a better term

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 10, 2022 09:31 AM (ONvIw)

408 >>And it is where the Russians launch their space stuff (until the east coast location is complete); uranium is mined in Kazakstan yet processed in Russia; has the largest common border between nations; and a very significant percentage of the population is ethnic Russian.

Kazakhstan has huge deposits of all kinds of minerals. It is the source of the countries wealth and just like with oil in Ukraine various oligarchs and rich people around the world have been jockeying for control for years.

Frank Giustra, a rich Canadian mining magnate, was involved with the Clinton's during the Uranium One scam at the same time he and Bubba were doing deals in Kazakhstan.

There's a lot more here than just a grassroots uprising and just like Ukraine it goes well beyond the borders to include our ever present globalist criminals.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2022 09:32 AM (ZLI7S)

409 Ain't been keeping up, when is SCOTUS supposed to rule on the mandates?
Posted by: lowandslow at January 10, 2022 09:31 AM (4thlk)
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Yesterday. "Supposed to" being the operative words since the mandate already went into effect at midnight.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 10, 2022 09:35 AM (0TVNF)

410 409 Ain't been keeping up, when is SCOTUS supposed to rule on the mandates?
Posted by: lowandslow at January 10, 2022 09:31 AM (4thlk)
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They'll vote to conditionally allow them this week.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2022 09:37 AM (H8QX8)

411 "Yesterday. "Supposed to" being the operative words since the mandate already went into effect at midnight."
Posted by: IrishEi at January 10, 2022 09:35 AM (0TVNF)

Of course. Screw the millions of people affected by it, we'll get to it when we get to it.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 10, 2022 09:38 AM (4thlk)

412 "Some films are chilling because their fiction penetrates the agonizing core of reality. The soon-to-be-released Unsilenced is like that."

The Movie Chinese Communists Hate the Most?

Reading this article and the description of how the CCP operated with Falun Gong makes me realize that the American government, intelligence community, mass media, social media have all gotten their training from the CCP. And are using CCP techniques to smear and harrass Americans. Scary shit. Though it makes sense, since every institution in the USA is now controlled by the left. But now it seems that they are all controlled by either the CCP or leftists trained in CCP tactics. Again, scary shit to realize that instead of America trying to help the world depose cultures like Communist China, America is becoming more like Communist China.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 10, 2022 09:47 AM (Do5/p)

413 Posted by: Kurt at January 10, 2022 09:51 AM (mY8+J)

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Only a racist would think that the black guy who was directing people into the capitol with ties to antifa was a black guy in white makeup.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 10, 2022 09:53 AM (LvTSG)

414 Reuters had a fact check of "Mass Formation Psychosis", complete with Psychologists who claimed there is no such thing.

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2022 10:13 AM (RHGPo)

415 Sure, the AP has limited reach anymore, but if it's just the early stage of a rollout, everyone will know the term within six months as it is treated seriously and then lampooned. No one serious could consider it seriously.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2022 08:24 AM

Yep, just reference what they did with turning HCQ into "fish bowl cleaner" and turning Ivermectin into "horse paste". They will work to do the same with mass formation psychosis.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 10, 2022 11:00 AM (Do5/p)

416 Reuters had a fact check of "Mass Formation Psychosis", complete with Psychologists who claimed there is no such thing.

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2022 10:13 AM

Yep, and then Twitter took that and trended it with the message "experts say 'mass formation psychosis' does not exist".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 10, 2022 11:02 AM (Do5/p)

417 An 'expert' is a stain on a sheet.

Posted by: aelfheld at January 10, 2022 12:32 PM (Zy9Yy)

418 Douglas Murray - The Madness of Crowds
seems to tie in with the current mindset of the West

Dr. Richard Swensen - Hurtling Towards Oblivion examines the possibility that it's too late for America, but we won't care anyway, since we're awash in "bread and circuses," immersed in technological trinkets, games, gambling, movies, fine dining and sports.

Stolen election? Snore. Aborted baby parts for sale? Yeah, whatever. Shacking up? Gotta be free. Blow your ears off with ubiquitous trash rock music every damn place on the planet? Don't be such a square. High heel marches for military men? Well, why not?

Where was I...? Oh forget it...time for The View.

Posted by: Ju at January 10, 2022 12:37 PM (aTmM/)

419 Dr. Strangelove is one of the greatest films ever made. Certainly one of the most timeless and most quotable!

Posted by: JBirks at January 10, 2022 01:32 PM (FQF07)

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