Gallup: Biden Falls to Lowest Approval Yet

Just one point shy of Trump's approval -- and Trump had the media making up Russiagate lies about him. Brandon's been supported and lied for by the media.

During his first year in office, an average of 48.9% of Americans approved of the job President Joe Biden was doing. Biden's job approval ratings started relatively strong at 57%, but by September had plunged to 43%. A new Gallup poll finds 40% of U.S. adults approving of the job he is doing, his lowest to date.
Among post-World War II presidents elected to their first term, only Donald Trump had a lower first-year average rating, at 38.4%. Bill Clinton's first-year average was similar to Biden's, but all other first-year presidents averaged 57% or better.
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After a messy U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in late August, marred by a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport that killed 13 U.S. troops, his approval fell further and has yet to show signs of improvement. In the latest survey, 40% of Americans approve and 56% disapprove of the job he is doing, as the U.S. is plagued by the highest inflation in four decades and another surge of COVID-19 cases, this time fueled by the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

It is in the context of this disaster -- and Biden's last loyal constituency, the press, complaining that they are no longer content to cover up for him while he hides in Delaware -- that Brandon will attempt to "reset" his failed presidency with a press conference in which he will change literally nothing about his disastrous policies.

He'll just rely on his, get this, "empathy and compassion" to win over the public.

Or at least the press.

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said that "for a long time, we saw that Biden no matter what was given the benefit of the doubt from the American people, who would say, 'He's a good guy. He's trying his best.' "
But Afghanistan, she said, proved to be "his first major hit."
"That was the moment where Biden himself looked callous, uncaring, incompetent, and failed in a key moment of leadership," McDaniel said. "The rest has been attrition by covid and inflation and other things. Right now most Americans are frustrated you can't get a test, you can't get anything you think the Biden administration should have been reasonably prepared for."
'He seems weak'
"Old." "Incoherent." "Lazy." "Sleepy Joe."
These were among the first descriptions that came to mind for 10 suburban women swing voters who gathered late last year for a virtual focus group conducted by Democratic pollster Celinda Lake on behalf of several liberal organizations. The results were reviewed by The Post on the condition of anonymity to protect the identity of the participants and the groups.
Asked to elaborate, the women in the focus group said it seemed like "he's trying," but that Biden shuffles and frequently seems to lose his train of thought. Biden is "wishy-washy" in standing up to his own party, one woman said, explaining that she thought the president seemed more like an actor in a "supporting role."
"He doesn't convey being strong to me," she said. "He seems weak."
Others offered suggestions: "If he needs a nap beforehand, take that, because we need him to be there for us."
In an attempt to overcome such criticism, the administration has begun to change its messaging strategy, allowing Biden to more frequently speak directly to Americans who are struggling, a top official said. Aides believe Biden's capacity for empathy comes through in such appearances.

Are you kidding me? He comes across as what he is, an old, senile, angry and bitter man who has inappropriate outbursts when challenged or inconvenienced in any way.

The press hid his dementia from us. They're continuing to hide it from us.

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Biden's tone has changed as well. In two high-profile speeches this month -- one to mark the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and the other to push for voting rights legislation -- the president took a more forceful approach, directly challenging Trump and Republicans.

And oh yeah, what a triumph that was. A speech so rancid that even the rancid Dick Durbin had to concede that "maybe it went a bit too far."

The more aggressive posture heartened Democrats who think Biden spent his first year too bogged down in the minutiae of legislating and insufficiently focused on leadership. Some allies griped that Biden -- a senator of nearly four decades -- was behaving more like the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman he once was than the president. Several times, Biden traveled to Capitol Hill to push one of his legislative goals, only to get thwarted by members of his own party.

The Washington Post continues babbling -- they really think that Biden's "tone" in his disastrous Georgia speech was helpful.

It pleased hardcore, bitter-ender leftwing partisans -- like the Washington Post "journalists" spinning for Brandon here.

It alienated key allies (like Manchin and Sinema) and further convinced Americans that Biden was out-of-touch, focused only on his own inside-baseball partisan obsessions, and filled with bitter senile distemper.

Unbelievable:

White House officials and other Democrats also argue that Biden inherited an epic mess from his predecessor and deserves credit for a range of victories, from helping to vaccinate nearly 75 percent of Americans against the coronavirus with at lease one dose and reopening the majority of schools to passing both a $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan and a bipartisan infrastructure bill.
"It's important to take stock of where we've come," said Jen O'Malley Dillon, a deputy White House chief of staff. "This isn't a time to, you know, spike the football; there's a lot of work ahead. But there is also just a really strong story to be told about what's happened in this administration over the last year and the president's focus on covid and on the economy and passing legislation to help the American people directly in their lives."

While Brandon continues obsessing over his plan to federalize voting laws, the public has shifted hard to preferring Republicans on the most important issues:

Michael McAdams
@M_McAdams

NEW POLITICO/Morning Consult Poll
On the issues that matter most, Republicans hold commanding leads.
R's in Congress are favored over Dems to handle:

The economy (47%-34%)
Jobs (45%-35%)
Immigration (45%-37%)
National Security (49%-32%)

Per that poll, Biden is at 40% approval, 56% disapproval.

The Gallup and Politico polls have brought the RCP average to new lows:

Tom Bevan
@TomBevanRCP
New polls from Gallup and Politico/Morning Consult have driven Biden's job approval to a new low of 40.9% in the RCP Average this morning.
On the same day 4 years ago, Trump's approval was 40.1% and headed upward from his all-time low of 37.0% on December 13. If Biden doesn't improve his standing, Trump's approval rating will eclipse Biden's by the end of January.

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1 Foist?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2022 12:16 PM (oHd/0)

2 I'll go get em

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 19, 2022 12:16 PM (opHsK)

3 What can you do when you're Brandon?

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022 12:17 PM (XHhHI)

4 Unexpectedly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 12:17 PM (dNqv+)

5 Limbo Meat Puppet.

Posted by: Catherine at January 19, 2022 12:17 PM (ZSsrh)

6 Clearly, when you are this unpopular its time to completely rebuild the system!

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2022 12:17 PM (oHd/0)

7 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2022 12:18 PM (arJlL)

8 Since Biden really seems to hate us, I guess that means the feeling is mutual.

Posted by: blaster at January 19, 2022 12:18 PM (9otr5)

9 I thought he was already below 40%.

Posted by: f'd at January 19, 2022 12:18 PM (vrz2I)

10 LOL

Posted by: Hillary at January 19, 2022 12:18 PM (QYPq3)

11 Is shrieking incoherently at people who think differently than you being forceful?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 19, 2022 12:18 PM (awmcV)

12 This is with the media trying in vain every day to prop him up.
DJT had the media trying to destroy him every day.
And they're not done yet.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 19, 2022 12:19 PM (jTmQV)

13 the correct question should be "what would you think of Joe Biden if he weren't half senile?"

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem at January 19, 2022 12:19 PM (Ynyl9)

14 >>>R's in Congress are favored over Dems to handle:

The economy (47%-34%)
Jobs (45%-35%)
Immigration (45%-37%)
National Security (49%-32%)

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No mention of the Afghanistan pullout? We ridin' with Biden on that one?

Posted by: 496 at January 19, 2022 12:19 PM (VJsqe)

15 40%

Yeah - That's a lie.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2022 12:19 PM (iKRmB)

16 It'll be hilarious when they try to unleash BLM again and all it does it burn down blue cities once more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:19 PM (LvTSG)

17 It's the true believers that frighten me. So out of touch with reality - and so willing to use violence to destroy any opposition.

Posted by: Iris at January 19, 2022 12:20 PM (DibdT)

18 He'll just rely on his, get this, "empathy and compassion" to win over the public.

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"I feel your pain, fat."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:20 PM (LvTSG)

19 I thought he was already below 40%.
Posted by: f'd at January 19, 2022 12:18 PM (vrz2I)

Yes, so did I. And I don't think I knew Trump's approval was that low his first year.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 19, 2022 12:20 PM (Ez6QX)

20 So the guy who gave us "Look, Fat" and "My IQ is probably a lot higher than yours" is going to show us his empathy and his touch with the common man.

Good luck with that.

Posted by: Wally at January 19, 2022 12:20 PM (FJYfm)

21 40% from gallup in a poll of adults? Gonna go out on a limb here and say his real approval is in the low 30's.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:21 PM (bVYXr)

22 Biden is following the usual leftist pattern: pretend to be nice and friendly, then when things aren't working, get mad and mean spirited. Remember Obama?

No mention of the Afghanistan pullout?

While I think polling is trash, there are reasons why Astan wouldn't be part of this, such as "its over with so congress has no say" and "we would rather just forget all that and put it behind us because it is so humiliating and miserable to think about"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:21 PM (KZzsI)

23 Maybe they will make people like them better if they set up interstate travel restrictions on the unvaccinated.

Posted by: blaster at January 19, 2022 12:21 PM (9otr5)

24 Good point that Sundowner can't stay above water in polls yet had the entire Democrat Propaganda Ministry looking out for him.
I keep hoping daily he blows a fuse.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 19, 2022 12:21 PM (opHsK)

25 16 It'll be hilarious when they try to unleash BLM again and all it does it burn down blue cities once more.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:19 PM (LvTSG)

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Maybe they could change things up... go for suburbs or non-blue cities.

They may regret that decision, but they could at least try.

Posted by: 496 at January 19, 2022 12:21 PM (VJsqe)

26 If BLM wants to burn down a major blue city, at this point, I would watch it happen and eat popcorn.
Stupidity should hurt.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 19, 2022 12:21 PM (jTmQV)

27 The economy (47%-34%)
Jobs (45%-35%)
Immigration (45%-37%)
National Security (49%-32%)

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Team Red v Team Blue.

It was always going to come back. Now...what are you going to do about it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:21 PM (LvTSG)

28 >>Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said

Blah, blah, blah -- what are you and the RNC DOING to take advantage of Broken Brain Biden's failed presidency?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 19, 2022 12:21 PM (URNdm)

29 >>Gallup: Biden Falls to Lowest Approval Yet

his appeal's becoming more selective

Posted by: DB - the king is a fink at January 19, 2022 12:21 PM (geLO8)

30 Several times, Biden traveled to Capitol Hill to push one of his legislative goals, only to get thwarted by members of his own party.

Too bad for Bidet that Paulie Ryno retired. He'd have whipped any stray demorats right into shape, including Joe-nema.

Posted by: kallisto at January 19, 2022 12:21 PM (DJFLF)

31 From the last thread Oil Drum Cars
389 Thai motors.

https://youtu.be/_2C4piakVJ0
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 12:14 PM (FVME7)

I want one. They look like old fashion race cars

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 12:22 PM (DzyXv)

32 MSM

telling the truth for a brief moment so as to reserve their right to lie most of the time

I mean, fuck em with white hot brabed wire

with a rubbing alcohol chaser enema

Posted by: REDACTED at January 19, 2022 12:22 PM (us2H3)

33 He should "Pivot to Jobs." That worked so well for Obama, I mean, he Pivoted to Jobs 20 or 30 times in his eight years.

Posted by: JB1000 at January 19, 2022 12:22 PM (Lnkex)

34 He'll just rely on his, get this, "empathy and compassion" to win over the public.

Dog-faced pony soldiers hardest hit.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 19, 2022 12:22 PM (3YVs3)

35 Scrapping traffic laws ought to fix what ails us.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022 12:22 PM (XHhHI)

36 19 I thought he was already below 40%.
Posted by: f'd at January 19, 2022 12:18 PM (vrz2I)

Yes, so did I. And I don't think I knew Trump's approval was that low his first year.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 19, 2022 12:20 PM (Ez6QX)

This is why poll chasing can get you in trouble.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 12:22 PM (dNqv+)

37 I thought he was already below 40%.

Depends on the polling company. Thus, why I don't trust polling and neither should you.

I mean, its easy, cheap content for news organizations and bloggers, but it doesn't mean anything ultimately.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:22 PM (KZzsI)

38
But PredictIt has Biden up by 20%!!!!!

*RIP Intrade... and OM*

Posted by: In before the troll at January 19, 2022 12:22 PM (n+4am)

39 Joe Biden keeps shitting on me.

Posted by: The Bed at January 19, 2022 12:22 PM (a5d7/)

40 The media destroyed their credibility under Trump, like they did under Bush. They just don't have the ability to get any back because they have to keep lying just to keep Sniffin' Joe afloat.

Posted by: Flyguy at January 19, 2022 12:22 PM (3VEjQ)

41 Like I said yesterday, I think Just Joe will stutter:

I don't think you are ALL racist, and you would understand that if you stopped watching Fox News in between humping your sisters.

Posted by: blaster at January 19, 2022 12:22 PM (9otr5)

42 That worked so well for Obama, I mean, he Pivoted to Jobs 20 or 30 times in his eight years.

Nobody would let him be clear, it wasn't his fault.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:22 PM (KZzsI)

43 Pivot to strippers

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 19, 2022 12:22 PM (XvPQV)

44 His base is down to neurotic suburban wine-moms and commie college profs. I'd say his *real* approval is in the low 30s.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 19, 2022 12:23 PM (NgqoH)

45 And I doubt today's phony presser will help him any.
He will lie like rug
He will blame Trump
He will only ask the people on his list
If will be short
He will lie
He will read pre-prepared answers
He will mumble and bumble
He will lie

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 19, 2022 12:23 PM (Irn0L)

46 42 That worked so well for Obama, I mean, he Pivoted to Jobs 20 or 30 times in his eight years.

Nobody would let him be clear, it wasn't his fault.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:22 PM (KZzsI)

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That was me. Sorry.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:23 PM (LvTSG)

47 Again, polls are for strippers.

Posted by: observer at January 19, 2022 12:23 PM (/MLBm)

48 MSNBC's Scarborough: ' Biden Decided To Govern As A Leftist. It Has Failed Miserably'

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Geez, dude! Tell me something I don't know.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 12:23 PM (FVME7)

49 That was the moment where Biden himself looked callous, uncaring, incompetent, and failed in a key moment of leadership
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That was four-five MONTHS AGO!

Posted by: President Charlie Foxtrot at January 19, 2022 12:23 PM (XHhHI)

50 He'll just rely on his, get this, "empathy and compassion" to win over the public.

He's doing a bang up job, so far. /s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 19, 2022 12:23 PM (k49Sx)

51 Whenever I see a price increase of something at the store, I say out loud, hoping people will hear me: "Thanks, Creepy Joe!"

Which reminds me: The heralded and feared price increase took effect at Dollar Tree this week. Everything in the store with a few exceptions like chewing gum and baking soda is now $1.25.

Of course, everything in other stores is up by close to 25% too, so it evens out, right???

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 12:23 PM (txdEq)

52 I'm sticking to my prediction that Biden is gone before the mid-terms. They can't keep covering for him and his administration's incompetence. I suspect that there is a lot of pressure to clean house, as evidence by the sudden push for a "reset" on issues like COVID. But firing his admin wholesale is impossible. The only way you get that big of a change is to have Harris take over and put "her" people into those positions.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 12:23 PM (wmDcS)

53 44 His base is down to neurotic suburban wine-moms and commie college profs. I'd say his *real* approval is in the low 30s.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 19, 2022 12:23 PM (NgqoH)

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And black women.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:23 PM (LvTSG)

54 When you quote a news story that says "President Joe Biden" in the text, you really ought to add (sic.) after "President."

You're quoting their error, and you wouldn't want it to appear that it's your mistake.

Posted by: TrollBot5000 at January 19, 2022 12:23 PM (1dzqn)

55 MSNBC's Scarborough: ' Biden Decided To Govern As A Leftist. It Has Failed Miserably'
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I thought he switched parties for more leftism.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (XHhHI)

56 "...marred by a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport that killed 13 U.S. troops"

Have our crack intelligence officials determined a motive yet for that one or is it still a mystery?

Posted by: Ripley at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (PTDkx)

57 Know what's kind of funny? A year into Brandon and those "Trump Tariffs" on Chinese goods are still in place. And yet one never hears a whimper from the MFM or NeverTrump about that Muh-Normz-destroying, anti-Free-Trade Threat to Our Democracy anymore.

NT in particular had their panties in a Gordian knot over it.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (njfCw)

58 What can you do when you're Brandon?
Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022 12:17 PM

Resigning and committing seppuku in disgrace would be a good start.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (HhfIU)

59 So, is this similar to how the public perception of Jimmy Carter morphed from 1976 to 1980?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (LvTSG)

60 We must never, ever consider that maybe people don't think much of the Democrats' proposals. Maybe we just don't like how they want to rework the country and the economy.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (5HBd1)

61 When will polling be declared insurrectionist?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (awmcV)

62 May the Democrats sink to the Challenger Deep in popularity.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (l/AxH)

63 So "almost nobody wants this agenda, but we donk leaders want it anyway" (as Biden is not in charge). So do they throw up their hands and quit, try to introduce it more slowly (while aware that some might want them held accountable for the criminality of their actions), or do they double down with a ferocious intensity ( disagree with us and you're terrorists we can kill like Ashli)?

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (ONvIw)

64 56 "...marred by a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport that killed 13 U.S. troops"

Have our crack intelligence officials determined a motive yet for that one or is it still a mystery?
Posted by: Ripley at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (PTDkx)

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Protesting Obamacare.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (LvTSG)

65 I thought he was already below 40%.

Posted by: f'd at January 19, 2022 12:18 PM (vrz2I)

Yeah, I'd bet they're still fudging the #s upwards.

Posted by: BignJames at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (AwYPR)

66 so this poll was of adults , not likely voters?

Posted by: kallisto at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (DJFLF)

67 Which reminds me, what does F. Joe have to be bitter about? He's made it to the top of the heap; he's president at last. Does he not know that? Or did he expect everybody in government to kneel before him every day -- and that's what's disappointing him?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (txdEq)

68 Do black women really like Biden? I mean he's creepy, pasty, old, gropes children, keeps saying stuff like "negro", those stories about black children fascinated with his leg hairs...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (KZzsI)

69 I thought he was already below 40%.

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He's nowhere near 40%.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (FVME7)

70 Blah, blah, blah -- what are you and the RNC DOING to take advantage of Broken Brain Biden's failed presidency?

Posted by: Lizzy

Aesop's fables are appropriate analogy here.

The GOPe is King Log---they rely on doing nothing of consequence for voters or the American people. Only wealthy donors and the mainstream media get their attention and love.

The Dems are King Stork and we are the poor frogs getting gobbbled up.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (dCGWj)

71 The media liked to brag that they could drive a persons approval ratings up or down by up to 15% either way. I say give them full credit. If Bidens approval is at 40% in the polls, lets adjust for bias and estimate that the real number is probably closer to 25%. If Trumps approval was also 40% lets do the same and estimate that it probably was 55% after allowing for media bias.

Posted by: Billll at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (6vao5)

72 so this poll was of adults , not likely voters?
Posted by: kallisto at January 19, 2022

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Yeah, but adults of what species?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (txdEq)

73 How Low Can Joe Go?

Stay tuned.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (WmGrA)

74 I'll bet Biden approval rating among OPEC members is pretty high.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (Ynyl9)

75 67 Which reminds me, what does F. Joe have to be bitter about? He's made it to the top of the heap; he's president at last. Does he not know that? Or did he expect everybody in government to kneel before him every day -- and that's what's disappointing him?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (txdEq)

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He wants to be FDR. Expect him to outright threaten court packing before his term is up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (LvTSG)

76 The only thing Biden can spike the football with is roofies.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 12:26 PM (6FeV1)

77 55 MSNBC's Scarborough: ' Biden Decided To Govern As A Leftist. It Has Failed Miserably'
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I thought he switched parties for more leftism.
Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (XHhHI)

He fears the consequences of his support and is choosing to pretend to a sort of neutrality

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 19, 2022 12:26 PM (ONvIw)

78 40%?! Atlas is impressed.

Posted by: t-bird at January 19, 2022 12:26 PM (8DRUP)

79 Wasn't there a poll within the past couple of days saying like 50% of Democrats wanted internment camps (not euphemisms) for the unvaccinated.

'If only Stalin knew!' was always an ironic statement and the same is true today. These people are not just misinformed- they are fucking evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 12:26 PM (dNqv+)

80 He wants to be FDR. Expect him to outright threaten court packing before his term is up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (LvTSG)

Didn't he actually make that threat last year?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 19, 2022 12:26 PM (XvPQV)

81 I don't understand any talk about his empathy and charisma. Are they just making that up?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 19, 2022 12:26 PM (awmcV)

82 He wants to be FDR. Expect him to outright threaten court packing before his term is up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (LvTSG)

? He threatened it before his term even started!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 12:26 PM (6FeV1)

83 Expect him to outright threaten court packing before his term is up.

He already did so several months ago.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:26 PM (KZzsI)

84 That tired old man they selected President.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 19, 2022 12:27 PM (l/AxH)

85 When "sound compassionate" comes up on his teleprompter he will read it aloud.

Posted by: 496 at January 19, 2022 12:27 PM (VJsqe)

86 We are always told that Biden got 80 million votes, and President Trump got 75 million votes. So, realistically, how many people were "prevented" from voting due to repressed voting? It makes no sense. And if 150 million people voted, and could figure out the complex voting laws, maybe the people who couldn't figure out how to vote are really not mentally capable of choosing a candidate to vote for?

Posted by: Chillin the most at January 19, 2022 12:27 PM (ZpuGY)

87 Starbucks no longer requiring their employees to get the Jab

It's over Johnny

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 12:27 PM (DzyXv)

88 I wonder if FJB even knows his approval numbers. I sincerely doubt it.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 19, 2022 12:27 PM (XSRBF)

89 How Low Can Joe Go?

Stay tuned.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (WmGrA)

Joe do the limbo!

Posted by: BignJames at January 19, 2022 12:27 PM (AwYPR)

90
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (LvTSG)

FDR with LBJ's Great Society II, Electric Boogaloo

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 19, 2022 12:27 PM (NgqoH)

91 So, is this similar to how the public perception of Jimmy Carter morphed from 1976 to 1980?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (LvTSG)

I think there was still a lot of goodwill towards Carter at this point of his presidency, because the economy had been crappy for a good 5 years before Jimmy got to office. I think Carter wasn't completely destroyed until Iran showed what a feckless incompetent he was.

Posted by: Wally at January 19, 2022 12:27 PM (FJYfm)

92 When will polling be declared insurrectionist?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (awmcV)
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We're working on it.

Posted by: TOTALLY NOT Ray Epps or nothing at January 19, 2022 12:27 PM (XHhHI)

93 84 That tired old man they selected President.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 19, 2022 12:27 PM (l/AxH)

He's still just a sock for kalorama

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 19, 2022 12:27 PM (ONvIw)

94 29 >>Gallup: Biden Falls to Lowest Approval Yet

his appeal's becoming more selective
Posted by: DB - the king is a fink at January 19, 2022 12:21 PM (geLO

his approval rating is one louder.

Posted by: Roy at January 19, 2022 12:27 PM (liGXF)

95 He wants to be FDR. Expect him to outright threaten court packing before his term is up.

Yeah, fudge packing is a part of my Broke Back Better plan. Everyone takes it up the ass. For America. And The Thing. You know?

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 19, 2022 12:27 PM (3YVs3)

96 Scrapping traffic laws ought to fix what ails us.
Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022

***
A quarter of the people I see driving on the streets ignore 100% of the laws now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (txdEq)

97 So, is this similar to how the public perception of Jimmy Carter morphed from 1976 to 1980?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM

The hostage issue is pretty much what did in JC.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (bVYXr)

98 The totalitarian Demo-tards are concerned about approval ratings the same way the Fascists and Commie dictators are.
What's Xi's approval rating?
Maduro?
Castro?
They don't give a flying f'k. They are sure the press and Dominion Voting Systems will pull them through this rough patch.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (lGrs1)

99 He wants to be FDR. Expect him to outright threaten court packing before his term is up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (LvTSG)

He refused to say whether he supported it in the run up to the election. He would deflect and say that was made up by Fox News.

Then after the election he said he was for it.

Then he said hey I am going to have a "bi-partisan" commission study this.

So he's already pretty much been on every side of the issue.

Posted by: blaster at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (9otr5)

100 He's a creepy, mean-spirited, senile, angry, demented, child-fondling evil old bastard. He's always been a nasty piece of shit, now he's just a senile sundowning nasty piece of shit. He doesn't have the capacity for empathy.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (II3Gr)

101 'If only Stalin knew!' was always an ironic statemen

I always took Obama's repeated "this is not the man I knew" refrain about allies and cronies who were monsters and crooks to be the modern version of that. What? My pastor who preached sermons like this every freaking week is a hateful anti-American communist racist? Not the man I knew!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (KZzsI)

102 Maybe they could change things up... go for suburbs or non-blue cities.

Only if they are looking for a way to get rid of BLM. There wouldn't be many of them left after that.

Posted by: azjaeger at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (JKIfY)

103 87 Starbucks no longer requiring their employees to get the Jab

It's over Johnny
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 12:27 PM (DzyXv)

But Carhartt is? What the actual fuck?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (dNqv+)

104 Just wait until rezident retard and his minions start to blame the media for his cratering numbers. They're already going after "his followers."

I'm hoping for an epic, backstabbing fuckfest from the left that ends in this administration's complete collapse.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (BFigT)

105 I'm sure he'll be seen as 'strong' when he shuffles out to the podium and stumbles through talking points from two or three weeks ago.

He will make one big honest statement, though.

He'll refer to Donny Two Scoops as President Trump at some point.

Posted by: MJ at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (zwDuR)

106 74 I'll bet Biden approval rating among OPEC members is pretty high.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem

Not necessarily, their petrodollars are worth less in inflationary times.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (dCGWj)

107 Carter's low was 28:

https://bit.ly/3nGNebh

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (5HBd1)

108 104 Just wait until rezident retard and his minions start to blame the media for his cratering numbers. They're already going after "his followers."

I'm hoping for an epic, backstabbing fuckfest from the left that ends in this administration's complete collapse.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (BFigT)

==========

It'd be fun if corporate fascism was turned on the most loyal of Democratic cheerleaders in the media as corporate media purged them all for their lack of true belief.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (LvTSG)

109 97 So, is this similar to how the public perception of Jimmy Carter morphed from 1976 to 1980?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM

The hostage issue is pretty much what did in JC.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (bVYXr)

That, and disco music.

Posted by: Roy at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (liGXF)

110 Joe would answer your questions but he doesn't want to say anything that would make him lose Matlock time.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (XHhHI)

111 >>>He's a creepy, mean-spirited, senile, angry, demented, child-fondling evil old bastard. He's always been a nasty piece of shit, now he's just a senile sundowning nasty piece of shit. He doesn't have the capacity for empathy.
Posted by: Insomniac

A thousand times this.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (XSRBF)

112
Looks like I'm gonna' have to do the right thing, and take over in 2024

~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (K2SnJ)

113 He'll refer to Donny Two Scoops as President Trump at some point.

He just did last week.

Posted by: t-bird at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (8DRUP)

114 6 Clearly, when you are this unpopular its time to completely rebuild the system!
__________

First you have to blow up the old system, which is what Our Globalist Masters (and their hand puppets, like Slow Joe) are busy working on now.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (k4dH2)

115 re 79: yes, a Rasmussen poll. link here:

https://tinyurl.com/bdf48wxs

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (Ynyl9)

116 >>Biden's tone has changed as well. . . the president took a more forceful approach, directly challenging Trump and Republicans.

Uh, that's not the whole picture.
Biden has been demonizing half the country on a regular basis, smearing them as "a pandemic" (if unvaccinated) and/or domestic terrorists for simply voting for the other guy, not wanting Congress-dictated voting rules, not wanting their local public school teaching their kids to hate.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (URNdm)

117 Carter's incompetent handling of the economy and his sweater speech telling everyone to turn their thermostat down did him tremendous damage as well. Like the Biden team, the leftist response to the economic damage they cause is always "well its your fault anyway and you should just learn to suck up, buttercup"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (KZzsI)

118 The only way you get that big of a change is to have Harris take over and put "her" people into those positions.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 12:23 PM (wmDcS)

What people? They've all jumped ship. Her entire staff is a handful of college interns and a sassy Maine Coon with a laptop.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (6FeV1)

119 So, is this similar to how the public perception of Jimmy Carter morphed from 1976 to 1980?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM

The hostage issue is pretty much what did in JC.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (bVYXr)

We got hundreds of millions of hostages this time.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (XvPQV)

120 It's perfectly fair. The media lied about Trump like when they said he paid Russian hookers to piss on him and they lied about Biden like when they said 40% approve of him.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 12:30 PM (FVME7)

121 The hostage issue is pretty much what did in JC.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (bVYXr)

That and his incompetence.

Posted by: BignJames at January 19, 2022 12:30 PM (AwYPR)

122 Just wait until rezident retard and his minions start to blame the media for his cratering numbers. They're already going after "his followers."

The media has one job and they are failing in spectacular fashion.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 19, 2022 12:30 PM (awmcV)

123 The hostage issue is pretty much what did in JC.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (bVYXr)

Kinda. It was a general "everything is going to shit" and the hostages were the icing on the cake. They sent in the "elite Delta Force" and they ended up wrecking their aircraft in the Desert, killing Americans and not even getting a chance to rescue any.

Posted by: blaster at January 19, 2022 12:30 PM (9otr5)

124 from last thread -

I'd never been in a mosh pit before; I was slamming guys left and right (football forearm shivers) trying to keep them off of this little coworker of mine. The floor was a river of beer and grime, and as we were leaving I noticed my white sneakers were completely black and trashed.

reminds me of time I went to a club, not realizing it had shifted gears. I was expecting the usual dance music and crowd, instead I ended up in a pit. I was so upset about what happened to my bone colored pumps that nite.

Posted by: kallisto at January 19, 2022 12:30 PM (DJFLF)

125 Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said that for a long time, we saw that Biden no matter what was given the benefit of the doubt from the American people, who would say, 'He's a good guy. He's trying his best.'

Damn. Biden even lost the RNC?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 19, 2022 12:30 PM (4Om93)

126 I hope he does a SOTU address. It'll be hilarious

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 19, 2022 12:30 PM (XSRBF)

127 re 110: Matlock or Moloch?

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem at January 19, 2022 12:30 PM (Ynyl9)

128 84 That tired old man they selected President.

Posted by: Anna Puma

Don Henley just blamed the wrong guy a couple of decades early.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2022 12:30 PM (dCGWj)

129 Not sure how people can get such buyer's remorse.

Democrats: "Meat is killing the planet and we must stop eating meat."

Independent voter: "I can't believe bacon is $10. What could be causing it?"

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 19, 2022 12:30 PM (7F9te)

130 >That and his incompetence.
Posted by: BignJames at January 19, 2022 12:30 PM (AwYPR)

But mostly incompetence...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 19, 2022 12:31 PM (NgqoH)

131 Democrats - The socio-political equivalent of Covid. They make sick and kill anything that they touch.

Posted by: Anon at January 19, 2022 12:31 PM (2s5ij)

132 86 We are always told that Biden got 80 million votes, and President Trump got 75 million votes. So, realistically, how many people were "prevented" from voting due to repressed voting? It makes no sense. And if 150 million people voted, and could figure out the complex voting laws, maybe the people who couldn't figure out how to vote are really not mentally capable of choosing a candidate to vote for?
Posted by: Chillin the most at January 19, 2022 12:27 PM (ZpuGY)

I would like to meet one - just one - voter who asserts that their vote was disenfranchised in a national election. I want the media to produce this person on camera, and on the record. I've always heard this spoken about in generalities, but they've never trotted out such a person to be interviewed. What - they don't have any ID, or any proof of residency that was rejected by a polling place?

I've never believed this, and I'm shocked that the GOP doesn't double dog dare the DNC to produce such a person.

Ok, maybe I'm not that shocked.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 19, 2022 12:31 PM (2DdD8)

133 No mention of the Afghanistan pullout?

That's because Afstan means/meant nothing to them. The soldiers who died? pffft. Meaningless and replaceable. We've got all these trannies and gays over here just chomping at the bit to join up. They don't poll on that subject because they themselves have forgotten all about it. It doesn't matter because to them it never mattered.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at January 19, 2022 12:31 PM (BjGT6)

134 The only way you get that big of a change is to have Harris take over and put "her" people into those positions.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile

And make sure they position her for success!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 12:31 PM (FVME7)

135 >.I always took Obama's repeated "this is not the man I knew" refrain about allies and cronies who were monsters and crooks to be ...

No, he said that about Michelle

Posted by: DB - the king is a fink at January 19, 2022 12:31 PM (geLO8)

136 But the culture was ready to make fun of Carter for being hapless. SNL made fun of Carter for Three Mile Island.

No one dares make fun of Biden in the culture.

Posted by: blaster at January 19, 2022 12:31 PM (9otr5)

137 He's always been a nasty piece of shit, now he's just a senile sundowning nasty piece of shit.

Yeah. He's always been like this. He has always been mean, stupid, bullying, child-groping, racist, and awful. Everyone knows this and has always known it about him. They pretend otherwise right now because that's part of the political game but he's a terrible human being who needs Jesus in the worst way.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:31 PM (KZzsI)

138 But Carhartt is? What the actual fuck?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (dNqv+)

It's a terrible policy, overall.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 12:31 PM (6FeV1)

139 Sorry OT but how old was OM?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 19, 2022 12:31 PM (RJMSR)

140 The hostage issue is pretty much what did in JC.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (bVYXr)

We got hundreds of millions of hostages this time.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (XvPQV)

Ukraine seems likely to be Biden's "Iran Moment." I could imagine a scenario where the Russians invade, the US tries to support the Ukrainian government with supplies and weapons and intel, the Russians shoot down a US transport, and things spiral out of control until there's a major battle between US and Russian forces... and we lose.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 12:31 PM (wmDcS)

141 The Kabul botching probably broke Biden's self-confidence. It seems like one of the few things he actually pushed for against most of his advisors' preferences. And it was a disaster, which is not unexpected because Biden is dumb, incompetent, and generally everything he touches becomes worse for it.

He's basically given up on making his own decisions now (which given the advance senility and on-going stupidity is a good idea in concept) and is doing whatever the staffers/Jill want. But that means the consensus/average view of the 20 dumbest libs on twitter is exactly what Biden will be doing at any given moment.

Posted by: Match Checksout at January 19, 2022 12:31 PM (dYe5S)

142 59 So, is this similar to how the public perception of Jimmy Carter morphed from 1976 to 1980?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:24 PM (LvTSG)

Carter was not nearly as badly perceived in 1978 as Biden in in 2022. It was the malaise speech in July, 1979, firing the entire cabinet, the Iran hostage crisis, the failed hostage rescue, and the 1980 recession with high inflation. Even then Carter was still polling higher than Sniffy Joe.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 19, 2022 12:32 PM (vN+oL)

143 Uh, that's not the whole picture.
Biden has been demonizing half the country on a regular basis, smearing them as "a pandemic" (if unvaccinated) and/or domestic terrorists for simply voting for the other guy, not wanting Congress-dictated voting rules, not wanting their local public school teaching their kids to hate.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (URNdm)

Yes, and I think the kalorama gang realizes that this is their only big chance to force through their dictatorial plans and will go full throttle.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 19, 2022 12:32 PM (ONvIw)

144 Carter's incompetent handling of the economy and his sweater speech telling everyone to turn their thermostat down did him tremendous damage as well. Like the Biden team, the leftist response to the economic damage they cause is always "well its your fault anyway and you should just learn to suck up, buttercup"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (KZzsI)
---
Also
1. Rabbit attack
2. Malaise
3. We have to consider that our best days may be behind us.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022 12:32 PM (XHhHI)

145 40% approve of Biden's performance?

Posted by: mr tmz at January 19, 2022 12:32 PM (m/Gc2)

146 So, empathy is like looking at your watch several times while the soldiers your policies killed are wheeled by?
I'm not the most empathetic person but I totally thought it meant something else, so who knows.

Posted by: Fool Otto at January 19, 2022 12:32 PM (DB16e)

147 It's a terrible policy, overall.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 12:31 PM (6FeV1)

-----
ISWYDT

Posted by: 496 at January 19, 2022 12:32 PM (VJsqe)

148 I'm still rooting for stroking out on live teevee.

I'm a horrible person. And right now, I really don't gaf.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 19, 2022 12:32 PM (bbc5g)

149 Isn't he even starting to lose the neverTrumpers?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 19, 2022 12:32 PM (awmcV)

150 He's a creepy, mean-spirited, senile, angry, demented, child-fondling evil old bastard. He's always been a nasty piece of shit, now he's just a senile sundowning nasty piece of shit. He doesn't have the capacity for empathy.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 19, 2022

***
Hey, now. The scorpions in the Arizona-Sonora Desert speak well of him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 12:32 PM (txdEq)

151 Matlock or Moloch?
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem

Does it eat hotdogs?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 12:32 PM (FVME7)

152 re 188: "her people" will probably still be picked by Valerie Jarrett.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem at January 19, 2022 12:32 PM (Ynyl9)

153 In the SC Yankee refugee camp that I live in Biteme's disapprovals are in the mid-90s

Posted by: Regular joe at January 19, 2022 12:32 PM (njVMJ)

154 No one dares make fun of Biden in the culture.

Because they believe, rightly so, that unless its a 100% constant full court press in every outlet to protect and promote the left, then the right gains ground. They know that nobody actually likes their policies or them, so they have to constantly beat that drum.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM (KZzsI)

155 Covid? They have to come down with an iron fist, or start something bigger to refocus the people on. Do not discount a war. They are Democrats.

Posted by: kraken at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM (6Je/Q)

156 Just got back from the range. I needed to let off steam. Anyway.. holy fucking hell it cost me $51!!! Ammo was $30 a box and range fee $19 plus my targets. I can't afford that. I just can't. Going to the range will now be a treat once a month. Unreal.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM (nxdel)

157 Note the lie in this statement:
"from Afghanistan in late August, marred by a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport that killed 13 U.S. troops".

Had it be completely truthful it would have added:
"Brought thousands of unvetted Afghans to the US and left Americans in the hands of the Taliban."

That's how you turn American against the Military as well as the *resident* in Chief.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM (CCwsu)

158 >>The hostage issue is pretty much what did in JC.

Biden has the benefit of being a DC insider vs. Carter.
Just imagine what Biden's poll numbers would be without the DC bubble and the MSM propping him up.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM (URNdm)

159 123 The hostage issue is pretty much what did in JC.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (bVYXr)

Kinda. It was a general "everything is going to shit" and the hostages were the icing on the cake. They sent in the "elite Delta Force" and they ended up wrecking their aircraft in the Desert, killing Americans and not even getting a chance to rescue any.

Posted by: blaster

This time, Biden and the Dems already have two hostage crises--they are either in DC jails or left in a hostile Afghanistan.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM (dCGWj)

160 rats, meant 118 (me at 152)

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM (Ynyl9)

161 Carter's low was 28:

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (5HBd1)

I think that was just Ga.

Posted by: BignJames at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM (AwYPR)

162 Ukraine seems likely to be Biden's "Iran Moment." I could imagine a scenario where the Russians invade, the US tries to support the Ukrainian government with supplies and weapons and intel, the Russians shoot down a US transport, and things spiral out of control until there's a major battle between US and Russian forces... and we lose.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 12:31 PM (wmDcS)

Media will blame it on Trump. Because Russia, Russia, Russia.

Posted by: Roy at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM (liGXF)

163 Fuck Joey Mumbles.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM (o2MD2)

164 I always took Obama's repeated "this is not the man I knew" refrain about allies and cronies who were monsters and crooks to be the modern version of that. What? My pastor who preached sermons like this every freaking week is a hateful anti-American communist racist? Not the man I knew!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (KZzsI)

Yeah, this is a valid point too. This cold is making me gobble MP4's black jelly beans so I have been dipping out more than usual. Something I was thinking about when I woke up:

We assume that a lot of people, if the media actually honestly reported what was going on would reject the commies wholesale. That may be a miscalculation.

Another example: College. The Russian History class I was going over the early days of Stalinism (think Kulaks, wreckers and hoarders.) The prof was talking about the persecution of the Kulaks who were demonized simply because they owned some land and maybe a cow or two. One of the students (an American) pipped up and said 'But... they were Kulaks!' as if that excused it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM (dNqv+)

165 162
Media will blame it on Trump. Because Russia, Russia, Russia.
Posted by: Roy at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM (liGXF)

=========

If Trump hadn't had that illegal phone call with the guy in Ukraine, none of this would have happened.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:34 PM (LvTSG)

166 Count the votes! Count the votes! Count the votes!

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 19, 2022 12:34 PM (yQpMk)

167 >>I'm still rooting for stroking out on live teevee.
I'm a horrible person. And right now, I really don't gaf.

I am right there with ya, nurse!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 19, 2022 12:34 PM (URNdm)

168 Bert Lance resigning didn't help Carter's popularity.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 19, 2022 12:34 PM (RJMSR)

169 75% of American are vaccinated against Covid? Are they pulling those numbers from the same people who swear Biden received 81 million votes?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 19, 2022 12:34 PM (5pTK/)

170 Ukraine seems likely to be Biden's "Iran Moment." I could imagine a scenario where the Russians invade, the US tries to support the Ukrainian government with supplies and weapons and intel, the Russians shoot down a US transport, and things spiral out of control until there's a major battle between US and Russian forces... and we lose.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 12:31 PM (wmDcS)

Ukraine and Taiwan are both in danger of a shooting war.

If we try to fight the Russians on the ground, we will likely lose. If we limit our involvement to just air superiority...Russia might lose. Might, low odds, but better than sending ground troops.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 19, 2022 12:34 PM (XvPQV)

171 Also
1. Rabbit attack
2. Malaise
3. We have to consider that our best days may be behind us.

Yeah. Carter was just bad at his job, as probably everyone in Georgia tried to tell people. He came across as a nice humble guy who just wanted to do right, but in truth is a nasty anti-Semite.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:34 PM (KZzsI)

172 Damn. Biden even lost the RNC?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 19, 2022 12:30 PM (4Om93)

Lol. No small effort to accomplish that.

Posted by: 7man at January 19, 2022 12:34 PM (qwO6y)

173 Carter was not a good President, but I believe he certainly had more compassion and empathy than Biden did, and he was not completely crooked, mean spirited and senile.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 19, 2022 12:34 PM (k49Sx)

174 Carter had Billy. Biden has Hunter.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 12:34 PM (FVME7)

175 52 I'm sticking to my prediction that Biden is gone before the mid-terms. They can't keep covering for him and his administration's incompetence. I suspect that there is a lot of pressure to clean house, as evidence by the sudden push for a "reset" on issues like COVID. But firing his admin wholesale is impossible. The only way you get that big of a change is to have Harris take over and put "her" people into those positions.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 12:23 PM (wmDcS)

Joe will never resign with Kameltoe on the bench

they will have to replace her first and that requires a majority of both the house and the senate

if they are to do this, they had better move their blinking arse

Posted by: REDACTED at January 19, 2022 12:35 PM (us2H3)

176 Couldn't have happened to a nicer piece of shit imo. His approval rating shouldn't be above 25% if the liberal press weren't propping his senile ass up. Fucking cocksuckers!!

Posted by: Al Swearingen at January 19, 2022 12:35 PM (4og8o)

177 Media will blame it on Trump. Because Russia, Russia, Russia.
Posted by: Roy at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM (liGXF)

Sure they will, but it won't matter. Trump has been gone a year and people will see that it's clearly Biden's responsibility. A few hardcore leftist might believe the anti-Trump narrative, but they'll believe anything.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 12:35 PM (wmDcS)

178 ... Brandon will attempt to "reset" his failed presidency with a press conference in which he will change literally nothing about his disastrous policies.

-------

Double down on senile, Joe -- you know you want to! Announce that you're canceling all future elections too, if it saves just one tree ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 19, 2022 12:35 PM (Psqzc)

179 149 Isn't he even starting to lose the neverTrumpers?

Posted by: N.L. Urker

Not really, they are just embarrassed that their idiocy has been exposed. They still favor the Biden junta policies and like their true Dem friends, want a better salesperson for them.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2022 12:35 PM (dCGWj)

180 A rally around the flag will boost my approval.

Soon.

Posted by: Biden at January 19, 2022 12:35 PM (d/sTT)

181 I believe if with the free tests he sent out a coupon for free peanut butter shake at Dairy Queen, that would help.

Posted by: No one in particular at January 19, 2022 12:35 PM (5aWFq)

182 What people? They've all jumped ship. Her entire staff is a handful of college interns and a sassy Maine Coon with a laptop.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022

***
I'd trust the Maine Coon before I'd trust KH.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (txdEq)

183 75% of American are vaccinated against Covid? A

one dose only

Posted by: kallisto at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (DJFLF)

184 I always took Obama's repeated "this is not the man I knew" refrain about allies and cronies who were monsters and crooks to be the modern version of that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:28 PM (KZzsI)
---
Criticizing Obama is not who we are as a people.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (XHhHI)

185 The folks at Yahoo! refuse to give it up. They had "supposedly" a cross-section of six or so voters and only one (a minimum-wage Trump voter) was REALLY unhappy w Joe.

Posted by: EveR at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (MUpk6)

186 180 A rally around the flag will boost my approval.

Soon.
Posted by: Biden at January 19, 2022 12:35 PM (d/sTT)

============

"Paying $20 for a burger at McDonald's is patriotic. Be patriotic."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (LvTSG)

187 I always took Obama's repeated "this is not the man I knew" refrain about allies and cronies who were monsters and crooks to be the modern version of that. What? My pastor who preached sermons like this every freaking week is a hateful anti-American communist racist? Not the man I knew!

In fairness, men at a bathhouse or gloryhole probably are more amiable, for certain definitions of amiable.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (3YVs3)

188 156 Just got back from the range. I needed to let off steam. Anyway.. holy fucking hell it cost me $51!!! Ammo was $30 a box and range fee $19 plus my targets. I can't afford that. I just can't. Going to the range will now be a treat once a month. Unreal.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM (nxdel)

Expense is why I do things like tear out weeds and vines when I'm angry enough. It's free, it's mildly destructive, and if I run out or vines, the neighbors are happy to let me rip to my heart's content if I toss them in the road.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (ONvIw)

189 Brandon will attempt to "reset" his failed presidency with a press conference in which he will change literally nothing about his disastrous policies.

-------

Double down on senile, Joe -- you know you want to! Announce that you're canceling all future elections too, if it saves just one tree ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 19, 2022 12:35 PM

He is supposed to do a press conference today IIRC.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (bVYXr)

190 Carter had Billy. Biden has Hunter.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 12:34 PM (FVME7)

Billy was the smart one...and Amy.

Posted by: BignJames at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (AwYPR)

191
Do black women really like Biden?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:25 PM (KZzsI)

No, of course not. Their support is about 10% "Obama picked him as VP so he must not be totally bad" and 90% "Anything is better than an icky Republican".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (n+4am)

192 If we try to fight the Russians on the ground, we will likely lose. If we limit our involvement to just air superiority...Russia might lose. Might, low odds, but better than sending ground troops.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 19, 2022 12:34 PM (XvPQV)

The major risk I see is the US trying to move a carrier battle group into range to support the Ukrainians or Taiwan, and ending up taking a beating by Russian or Chinese airforces and forced to withdraw.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (wmDcS)

193 Carter did broker the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. It has lasted for over 40 years. I can't downplay that accomplishment.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (RJMSR)

194 Couldn't have happened to a nicer piece of shit imo. His approval rating shouldn't be above 25% if the liberal press weren't propping his senile ass up. Fucking cocksuckers!!
Posted by: Al Swearingen at January 19, 2022

***
If they weren't propping it up in 2020, he wouldn't be in the Oval Office now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (txdEq)

195 60% of people are racist white supremacists who hate democracy. Obviously.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 19, 2022 12:37 PM (TE0rY)

196 If we try to fight the Russians on the ground, we will likely lose. If we limit our involvement to just air superiority...Russia might lose. Might, low odds, but better than sending ground troops.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 19, 2022 12:34 PM (XvPQV)

"If we limit our involvement to just air superiority..." wishcasting. You don't win jack unless you have someone on the ground, with a gun in hand, saying "this is mine".

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 19, 2022 12:37 PM (CdZ4i)

197 The only way you get that big of a change is to have Harris take over and put "her" people into those positions.

--

And she is no less leftwing crazy than Grampie Diddlefingers. Their hard leftism won't be denied and they won't recalibrate their "final push" for America. She would be zero improvement, except for the racism shield she would immediately have.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 19, 2022 12:37 PM (sVtYq)

198 All is Well! Stop it with your malaise, America!! Accept my empathy, you ingrates!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden Screaming Into His Diaper at January 19, 2022 12:37 PM (3YVs3)

199 I went to two different groceries this morning - more empty shelves than I have ever seen before. One young woman was even taking pictures of it to send to her husband.

Shirley the BiXen regime's policies have nothing to do with that.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 19, 2022 12:37 PM (mD/uy)

200 I'm still rooting for stroking out on live teevee.

-
I want him to whip it out and start Toobin at his press conference.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 12:37 PM (FVME7)

201 Carter was not a good President, but I believe he certainly had more compassion and empathy than Biden did, and he was not completely crooked, mean spirited and senile.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 19, 2022 12:34 PM (k49Sx)
---
If a snake could grin it would look like Joe Biden.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022 12:38 PM (XHhHI)

202 Russia is a shithole 3rd world country. Stop giving a duck about it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 19, 2022 12:38 PM (TE0rY)

203 And the idiotic comments by McDaniel confirm how effed America is. Americans are frustrated that they can't get a test?? Jeebus.

Enjoy your agony and decline, and America. You've chosen it. Both through what you demand, or tolerate from, Dems, and the GOP, both.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 19, 2022 12:38 PM (OTzUX)

204 145 40% approve of Biden's performance?

Posted by: mr tmz

Those are mainly Dems that have been shielded so far from reality.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2022 12:38 PM (dCGWj)

205 10 suburban women swing voters

LOL.

If THEY seem to be waking up, then maybe there is hope.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 19, 2022 12:38 PM (ufFY8)

206 my guess is Biden rides this out, pulling an LBJ after the midterms

then the rush to the dim shitshow will really begin

I'm betting that Bernie is the nominee

Posted by: REDACTED at January 19, 2022 12:38 PM (us2H3)

207 What people? They've all jumped ship. Her entire staff is a handful of college interns and a sassy Maine Coon with a laptop.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 12:29 PM (6FeV1)

No shit. Hence why "her" is in quotation marks. It will be whomever the DNC wants, but the point is that they need an excuse to clear out the current failures without making it look like an admission that Biden's cabinet is full of morons.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 12:38 PM (wmDcS)

208 If you've lost Starbucks...

Axios @axios; 4m
NEW: Starbucks drops worker vaccine mandate after Supreme Court ruling

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 19, 2022 12:38 PM (UHVv4)

209 Billy was the smart one...and Amy.
Posted by: BignJames at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (AwYPR)
---
Well, Amy knew about nuclear proliferation.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022 12:38 PM (XHhHI)

210 A dark nasty part of me secretly wishes that 81M people really did vote for Biden. No more mean tweets! Anything is better than Orang Mun!

You pulled that lever. You thought, deliberated, made a choice, and went with it. And now everybody and everything is fucked. Because of you. Personally.

So maybe just stay the hell home next time, huh, Karen?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 12:39 PM (6FeV1)

211 198 All is Well! Stop it with your malaise, America!! Accept my empathy, you ingrates!!!
Posted by: Joe Biden Screaming Into His Diaper at January 19, 2022 12:37 PM (3YVs3)

-----
"I'm going to give you my empathy, baby, and you're going to take the whole load"

Posted by: 496 at January 19, 2022 12:39 PM (VJsqe)

212 Billy was the smart one...and Amy.
Posted by: BignJames

Well, Amy was an expert on nuclear proliferation don'tcha know.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 19, 2022 12:39 PM (mD/uy)

213 I bought what was left of the egg noodles yesterday. I have to have egg noddles.

Posted by: No one in particular at January 19, 2022 12:39 PM (5aWFq)

214 suburban women swing voters

dim key party vote

Posted by: REDACTED at January 19, 2022 12:39 PM (us2H3)

215 >He is supposed to do a press conference today IIRC.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (bVYXr)

"press conference". You mean tightly scripted appearance where the answers to reporter's questions are teed up on the teleprompter.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 19, 2022 12:39 PM (NgqoH)

216 Just got back from the range. I needed to let off steam. Anyway.. holy fucking hell it cost me $51!!! Ammo was $30 a box and range fee $19 plus my targets. I can't afford that. I just can't. Going to the range will now be a treat once a month. Unreal.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM

My gun range offers memberships. I bought an annual pass for $525. The math works out for me because I go at least once a week and some weeks three times. The standard pistol fee is $20 an hour.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:39 PM (bVYXr)

217 Axeman - the Hordemind is strong!!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 19, 2022 12:39 PM (mD/uy)

218 without making it look like an admission that Biden's cabinet is full of morons.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 12:38 PM (wmDcS)

That's exactly what they need!

Pinch morons!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 12:40 PM (6FeV1)

219 Where are all these shortages at, Horde? Serious question.

Posted by: kraken at January 19, 2022 12:40 PM (6Je/Q)

220 If Russia takes back every one of the stans, Ukraine, Belarus and whatever the fuck else they used to own, I would give zero fucks. Not my problem. Just like nobody in Ukraine gives a fuck about our problems.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 19, 2022 12:40 PM (TE0rY)

221 I'm not so crazy about malaise. I prefer Miracle Whip.

Posted by: President Charlie Foxtrot at January 19, 2022 12:40 PM (XHhHI)

222 The most frightening part of this is that people think the GOP will fix it.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 19, 2022 12:40 PM (NazZr)

223 Awful news about Oregon Muse.

Posted by: simplemind at January 19, 2022 12:40 PM (8DHGa)

224 Canada requiring all Truckers coming over the Border be Vaxxed started today. Have fun with that. You are going to start to see bare shelfs in Canada

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 12:40 PM (DzyXv)

225 The Media supported this Fraud from day one. They let Brandon hide in the basement. They never asked a material question. They knew exactly what Brandon was going to do, what he was capable (and incapable) of. Being around Washington for half a century, He's a known quantity.

You can blame the absolute inexplicable, mentally deranged hate for Trump as a means of getting us here. What you can't explain is the media's sudden abandonment. Surely, the media has shown they value their personal biases over truth. So the fact they're sinking along with Brandon doesn't explain it. So what is it? I'll leave that up to you.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 19, 2022 12:40 PM (VpIIl)

226 CN it's the frozen tundra outside so no pulling weeds. Besides I'm not going to get better at shooting if I don't practice. Now, it's too expensive to even do that.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 19, 2022 12:40 PM (nxdel)

227 "If we limit our involvement to just air superiority..." wishcasting. You don't win jack unless you have someone on the ground, with a gun in hand, saying "this is mine".
Posted by: Cow Demon at January 19, 2022 12:37 PM (CdZ4i)

Jah, wishcasting probably. The Ukrainians will have to cover the ground game. It's their country and they're mostly willing to fight. But they are lacking air assets. That's the only thing I think we could do to stop a fight or win one.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 19, 2022 12:40 PM (XvPQV)

228 Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!

Posted by: DB - the king is a fink at January 19, 2022 12:40 PM (geLO8)

229 Yeah, about those 10 suburban women polled. Was the refrigerator checked for Cardboardnay? If not, then anything those women said is probably suspect.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 19, 2022 12:41 PM (5pTK/)

230 I can't afford that. I just can't.

People are saying that about more and more stuff these days. That cannot be good for the economy or the country.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:41 PM (KZzsI)

231 If a snake could grin it would look like Joe Biden.
Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022

***
"The Snake" (196

:

" 'You know your bite is poisonous, and now I'm gonna die!'
" 'Shut up, silly woman!' said the reptile with a grin;
'You knew durn well I was a snake before you brought me in!' "

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 12:41 PM (txdEq)

232 How low can Joe go?
Limbo!

Posted by: wth at January 19, 2022 12:41 PM (v0R5T)

233 Axeman - the Hordemind is strong!!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 19, 2022 12:39 PM (mD/uy)
---
Hordemind powers ACTIVATE.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022 12:41 PM (XHhHI)

234 The Vegan aisle is still full.

Posted by: No one in particular at January 19, 2022 12:41 PM (5aWFq)

235 What's the over/under on the number of scripted questions for Biden for the news conference later today?

Posted by: dantesed at January 19, 2022 12:41 PM (88xKn)

236 I want Biden to shuffle into the press corps and start swinging fists after getting asked an unscripted question.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 19, 2022 12:41 PM (awmcV)

237 219

Yeah I ask that as well. I have seen none. I heard there is some milk shortage now. I go to my Safeway and the fridge is full of every kind of mil you could want.

Has to be regional I guess?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 19, 2022 12:41 PM (TE0rY)

238 "If we limit our involvement to just air superiority..." wishcasting. You don't win jack unless you have someone on the ground, with a gun in hand, saying "this is mine".
Posted by: Cow Demon at January 19, 2022 12:37 PM (CdZ4i)

Since the 90s the establishment has been all in on the fantasy that US airpower can support indigenous local troops trained by special forces, eliminating the need for the US to commit ground troops. It doesn't work in reality, but it looks really good when written up in various defense journals and allows the State Department, intel agencies, and DoD to offer politicos a supposed way to implement their desired foreign policy on the cheap.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 12:41 PM (wmDcS)

239
Carter had Billy. Biden has Hunter.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

You could buy Billy Beer at the liquor store.
When will we be able to buy Hunter Coke?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 19, 2022 12:42 PM (63Dwl)

240 Carter didn't really broker anything. Sadat was the macher in that situation, he made the key and epochal decision for a separate peace, bowing to sense and military reality. Carter didn't screw it up, but the US was just the benign "guarantor" of it all - and the financier. A cashflow that continues to this day.

Carter's best moves were supporting natural gas and airline deregulation, the former against his own party's geographic and constituent interest (large part of Teddy's challenge run in 1980).

Posted by: rhomboid at January 19, 2022 12:42 PM (OTzUX)

241 This guy has had, what will this be, two press conferences in a year? It's been so long ago but didn't he get his depends in a bunch when one question deviated from the script the last time out? I am sure he will avoid those "let's see they told me to call on so and so" gaffes but this presser is sure to offer at least a few interesting moments of ineptitude.

Posted by: Troubled at January 19, 2022 12:42 PM (I5p3q)

242 Biden Falls to Lowest Approval Yet
........

Don't worry, his presser this afternoon will fix that!

Posted by: wth at January 19, 2022 12:42 PM (v0R5T)

243 The Vegan aisle is still full.

Posted by: No one in particular at January 19, 2022 12:41 PM

I saw a bunch of plant based "chicken" nuggets at the store this morning. Those bins were full but the rest of that frozen section was picked over big time.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:42 PM (bVYXr)

244 No shit. Hence why "her" is in quotation marks. It will be whomever the DNC wants, but the point is that they need an excuse to clear out the current failures without making it look like an admission that Biden's cabinet is full of morons.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile

The closest analogy is a cabinet reshuffle in a parliamentary system. Doesn't work very well in presidential systems as no one really knows who are actually making the destructive policies so the only way to get them to stop is removal of the big cheese.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2022 12:42 PM (dCGWj)

245 Mollie
@MZHemingway
Mark Kelly Wants To Kill The Filibuster So He Can Vote To Put Pelosi And Schumer In Charge Of Elections

https://tinyurl.com/yckpea39

Posted by: redridinghood at January 19, 2022 12:43 PM (NpAcC)

246 Has to be regional I guess?

Different stuff is short in different places. There's much less selection around here than there used to be but not empty shelves.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 19, 2022 12:43 PM (KZzsI)

247 174 Carter had Billy. Biden has Hunter.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 12:34 PM (FVME7)

---------

At least ol' Billy never slept with his father's wife, widowed sister-in-law, and under-aged neice ... at least, not that we know of.

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 19, 2022 12:43 PM (U3/NB)

248 On the same day 4 years ago, Trump's approval was 40.1% and headed upward from his all-time low of 37.0% on December 13. If Biden doesn't improve his standing, Trump's approval rating will eclipse Biden's by the end of January.
**

And this was when his own Republican party was investigating him as a Russian spy, along with the usual suspects in the MSM and Democrat party being against him.

EVERYONE in those same groups are basically pro-Biden.

Imagine what his real numbers must be.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - wondering about using horse paste or my preferred 1% liquid, read the comments at January 19, 2022 12:43 PM (/6kZi)

249 You could buy Billy Beer at the liquor store.
When will we be able to buy Hunter Coke?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 19, 2022 12:42 PM (63Dwl)

Portland is on the case!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 19, 2022 12:43 PM (XvPQV)

250 Will the pheds or NY AG arrest Drumpf and his family?

If so...it begins?

Posted by: I guess I'll ask them at January 19, 2022 12:43 PM (d/sTT)

251 re 193: as I recall, Sadat and Begin did the deal, Carter wanted to turn it into a full middle east peace conference.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem at January 19, 2022 12:43 PM (Ynyl9)

252 242 Biden Falls to Lowest Approval Yet
........

Don't worry, his presser this afternoon will fix that!
Posted by: wth at January 19, 2022 12:42 PM (v0R5T)

===========

"If you don't pass the voting bill, Beau remains in Hell for another one hundred years!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

253 Yeah the airline deregulation of the late 70s was a pretty big deal. So props to Carter for that.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 19, 2022 12:43 PM (TE0rY)

254 He is supposed to do a press conference today IIRC.
-------------------
Yes:

||Biden Will Push For Unconstitutional Police Reforms To Be Forced Onto States In Speech On Wednesday

I say it will be an illegal executive order because as far as I know; the Congress has never voted on a power to allow a president to interfere in state law enforcement laws, rules, or regulations. And I don't believe the Congress even has the power to do so. The federal government would have to ask the states for permission to interfere in state law enforcement in the form of an amendment to the US Constitution. The federal government was given only 18 enumerated powers in the Constitution. That means that for every power it seeks to give itself, if it is not enumerated (listed) in the Constitution, then they have to ask for permission from the states.||

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 19, 2022 12:43 PM (UHVv4)

255 You can be the handlers have been rehearsing him for today, and the voice coaches working on the folksy spin, the canned questions and answers all written, so that what we will see is a Hollywood production.

Not a press briefing at all.

Every single question scripted and approved. Every single answer scripted and rehearsed. No follow ups.

But it's live, and let's hope he bungles the words.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 19, 2022 12:43 PM (KiBMU)

256 239
Carter had Billy. Biden has Hunter.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

You could buy Billy Beer at the liquor store.
When will we be able to buy Hunter Coke?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 19, 2022 12:42 PM (63Dwl)

Hookers sold separately.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 19, 2022 12:43 PM (N39Ws)

257 >> Sadat was the macher in that situation, he made the key and epochal decision for a separate peace, bowing to sense and military reality.

and it got him killed

Posted by: DB - the king is a fink at January 19, 2022 12:44 PM (geLO8)

258 Biden Falls to Lowest Approval Yet
........

But his disapproval keeps climbing!

Posted by: BignJames at January 19, 2022 12:44 PM (AwYPR)

259 What Joe needs is a pair of YA Tittle cleats

Posted by: REDACTED at January 19, 2022 12:44 PM (us2H3)

260 250 Will the pheds or NY AG arrest Drumpf and his family?

If so...it begins?
Posted by: I guess I'll ask them at January 19, 2022 12:43 PM (d/sTT)

I get a creeping sense of desperation. There are bad days ahead.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 19, 2022 12:44 PM (ONvIw)

261 Biden Falls to Lowest Approval Yet
........

Don't worry, his presser this afternoon will fix that!

==

He has his remarks prepared:

"I've always been a patient man
But my patience has reached an end
Blue morning, blue day, can't you see things my way?"

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 19, 2022 12:44 PM (sVtYq)

262 Can't wait to see his ratings after Schumer goes through with his kamikaze vote tonight on the filibuster.

A failed vote when you control the chamber is always a big moral booster. \sarc off.

Posted by: WisRich at January 19, 2022 12:44 PM (G0vdT)

263 213 I bought what was left of the egg noodles yesterday. I have to have egg noddles.
Posted by: No one in particular at January 19, 2022 12:39 PM (5aWFq)

Bought a refurbished pasta/noodle maker for 99$ best thing I ever bought, makes all kinds of Pasta and noodles, you just change disc shapes, there is ever recipes for Thai noodles which requires you to use boiling water.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 12:44 PM (DzyXv)

264 Where are all these shortages at, Horde? Serious question.
Posted by: kraken at January 19, 2022

***
They're sporadic and intermittent, but they're there. Shortages of pasta at nearly all the groceries. Shortages of chips and snacks at Dollar Tree. On Monday when Miss Linda looked, there were big gaps on the shelves of hair color products at Walmart.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 12:44 PM (txdEq)

265 Where are all these shortages at, Horde? Serious question.
Posted by: kraken

For me today is was Tyson chicken, and ham and sausage offerings. Fish was non-existent.

Pasta was very spotty also. Additionally, my Kroger has shuttered the fresh salad/sandwich/pizza lines. All staff that used to work there has been reassigned to fulfilling their on-line shopping service.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 19, 2022 12:44 PM (mD/uy)

266 My WAG is -- lower than 25 approve.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 19, 2022 12:44 PM (GYllL)

267 >219 Where are all these shortages at, Horde? Serious question.
Posted by: kraken at January 19, 2022 12:40 PM (6Je/Q)

In my neck of the woods there have been shortages of random items since the Fall. Most recently, no arugula and very little fresh greens. I went to my butcher to pick up some pork belly for New Years dinner, no bueno. A friend sent me a photo from a local Wegman's - empty meat cases. Nothing.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 19, 2022 12:45 PM (NgqoH)

268 Watching the rekieta stream. Joe from Good Lawgic seems like a nice guy, but he also seems like a bit of a doofus. He is saying he did not know Sonny Bono was dead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 12:45 PM (dNqv+)

269 re 245: and I get an email from his campaign pretty much every day "respectfully' asking if I can send them three dollars. Or as the Loch Ness monster said, three fitty.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem at January 19, 2022 12:45 PM (Ynyl9)

270 @MZHemingway
Mark Kelly Wants To Kill The Filibuster So He Can Vote To Put Pelosi And Schumer In Charge Of Elections
.......

Must have not got enough oxygen in space.

Posted by: wth at January 19, 2022 12:45 PM (v0R5T)

271 Went shopping at Winco in WA yesterday. Everything was stocked out. No shortages.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 19, 2022 12:45 PM (GYllL)

272 Hookers sold separately.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Don't you rent hookers? (I'm no expert, though)

Posted by: Tonypete at January 19, 2022 12:46 PM (mD/uy)

273 Hunter Coke.

You buy a gram, but only get 900mg.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 12:46 PM (6FeV1)

274 Has joe given his press
conference" yet ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2022 12:46 PM (TdaKq)

275 Where are all these shortages at, Horde? Serious question.
**

Gatorade.
Booze (specifically Benchmark, and probably plastic related, similar to Gatorade)
Lunch meat
Lunchables
Crackers
are some of the ones my family has noticed recently.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - wondering about using horse paste or my preferred 1% liquid, read the comments at January 19, 2022 12:46 PM (/6kZi)

276 Carter's best moves were supporting natural gas and airline deregulation, the former against his own party's geographic and constituent interest (large part of Teddy's challenge run in 1980).
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Also allowing homebrewing of beer. Lead to a lot of micro breweries and good stuff today.

Posted by: simplemind at January 19, 2022 12:46 PM (JxUuv)

277 Gorsuch and Sotomayor have denied NPR's story about their mask tiff.

They have outed Nina Totenberg as a liar.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at January 19, 2022 12:46 PM (iSmWY)

278 This time, Biden and the Dems already have two hostage crises--they are either in DC jails or left in a hostile Afghanistan.
Posted by: whig at January 19, 2022 12:33 PM (dCGWj)

But again, the culture. ABC news and Ted Koppel started a show that was on every single day, America held hostage. The number of days they were held hostage was the chyron on every news program. And this was pre-cable, so it was on everyone's TV.

The news business is busy telling people there is no crisis, and you are racist if you think so. But then they go to the grocery store and there is no chicken and they are paying $4 a gallon for gas and they are starting to think, you know, maybe those news people really are the enemy.

Posted by: blaster at January 19, 2022 12:46 PM (9otr5)

279 Polls are horseshit.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2022 12:47 PM (Fs5vw)

280 Carter did broker the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. It has lasted for over 40 years. I can't downplay that accomplishment.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM

I'm right here, you know.

Posted by: Zombie Anwar Sadat at January 19, 2022 12:47 PM (HhfIU)

281 So, what was the Horde's(tm) favorite Biden press conference?

Personally, I thought the "Captain JetPack" interview was amazing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 19, 2022 12:47 PM (5pTK/)

282 264 Where are all these shortages at, Horde? Serious question.
Posted by: kraken at January 19, 2022

here in the Berkshires, there is an astonishing lack of bargins

Posted by: REDACTED at January 19, 2022 12:47 PM (us2H3)

283 277 Gorsuch and Sotomayor have denied NPR's story about their mask tiff.

They have outed Nina Totenberg as a liar.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at January 19, 2022 12:46 PM (iSmWY)

========

Alternate theory:

The story was true and this denial is an effort to preserve the Court's invented image of camaraderie amongst the justices.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:47 PM (LvTSG)

284 We're starting to get shelves restocked here in VA, near quantico. Meats and dairy and drinks like tea are still spotty. It seems like even when they get restocked, getting resupplied on a regular basis is difficult, so they run out before a new shipment comes in.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 12:47 PM (wmDcS)

285 Hey, now. The scorpions in the Arizona-Sonora Desert speak well of him.
_____________

No we don't. We hate him too.

Posted by: AZ scorpions at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (k4dH2)

286
Carter also signed the bill deregulating homebrewing of beer. In essence, creating the microbrew industry.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (n+4am)

287 I missed the earlier threat, so I'll post here.

RIP Oregon Muse. What devastating news. I always enjoyed my fellow ~~inmate's~~ state resident's post and opinions. It's a shame I never got to buy you a beer, OM. Rest easy.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (zruA2)

288 Carter's side coincided with his signing and creation of the 'Department of Education.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (CCwsu)

289 Carter did repeal the law that allows you to brew beer at home, thus starting for better or worse the local Beer craze.

I see the banner ad for ARMED FORCES BREWERY and you can own a piece of it. Thinking about buying some

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (DzyXv)

290 In my neck of the woods there have been shortages of random items since the Fall. Most recently, no arugula and very little fresh greens. I went to my butcher to pick up some pork belly for New Years dinner, no bueno. A friend sent me a photo from a local Wegman's - empty meat cases. Nothing.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 19, 2022 12:45 PM (NgqoH)

Yeah, it's been random here too. One week there will be very little/none of something, and the next week that item will be in stock but something else will be completely sold out. The one thing that's been sold out and not restocked since before Christmas is those Pillsbury in a can bakery stuff.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (Ez6QX)

291 re 260: more emails, from NY AG James. She keeps repeating that her three big targets are the gum companies, Nig Pharma and Trump/Trump Family.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hobokem at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (Ynyl9)

292 In Monroe, WA, OJ is scarce and prices are up across the board.

Fucking muffins, of all things, are out of stock at the local Fred Meyer bakery. Apparently they get those from Oregon and the supplier is out of the fucking plastic muffin containers.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (XvPQV)

293 He comes across as what he is, an old, senile, angry and bitter man who has inappropriate outbursts when challenged or inconvenienced in any way.

Don't forget illegitimate, since they stole the election. He is completely odious in that respect.

He doesn't belong

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (psL96)

294 >>>274 Has joe given his press
conference" yet ?

4pm, supposably

Posted by: ace at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (0G13K)

295 They have a shortage in one of the medications I take... They rationed it to 30 day supply.. I normally get 90 days

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (TdaKq)

296 Brandon
Brandon on a toilet bowl
What do you do when you're Brandon
And you ain't got a roll

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (w9Wax)

297
Yeah, the press's attempts to spin what Biden is have been particularly surreal, even by the standards of Uniparty media organs.

They try to portray him simultaneously as America's kindly old grandfather and a total hard-ass. He's the avuncular action star who will comfort you in your hour of need and karate-chop Putin in the neck at the same time.

For one thing, that's incongruous and self-contradictory. But neither characterization is remotely close to Joe Biden. He's not tough and virile. He's old and weak. He's not kindly and comforting. He's old and mean.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (4odx6)

298 Posted by: rhomboid at January 19, 2022 12:42 PM (OTzUX)

Yes he brokered it . You can't just say the US did it. The US foreign policy was headed by Carter.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (RJMSR)

299 Thanks for the responses, everyone. We live in a blessed area, I guess. Lots of everything, but some of the prices are pretty high.

Posted by: kraken at January 19, 2022 12:49 PM (6Je/Q)

300 Tim Poole SWAT raided again.

Where does this idiot live?

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 19, 2022 12:49 PM (GYllL)

301 Billy was the smart one...and Amy.
Posted by: BignJames at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (AwYPR)
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Well, Amy knew about nuclear proliferation.
==
Amy married Van Jones of CNN. Divorced now.

Posted by: look it up at January 19, 2022 12:49 PM (8DHGa)

302 my guess is Biden rides this out, pulling an LBJ after the midterms

-
I will not seek nor accept . . . you know, the thing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 12:49 PM (FVME7)

303 The stupidity has to end sooner or later...right?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 19, 2022 12:49 PM (Vaw3E)

304 The story was true and this denial is an effort to preserve the Court's invented image of camaraderie amongst the justices.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:47 PM (LvTSG)

Considering her hysterical horseshit during the mandate arguments, I can completely believe it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 12:49 PM (dNqv+)

305 The news business is busy telling people there is no crisis, and you are racist if you think so. But then they go to the grocery store and there is no chicken and they are paying $4 a gallon for gas and they are starting to think, you know, maybe those news people really are the enemy.

Posted by: blaster

The news biz was already in disrepute but denying what people are seeing with their own eyes eventually results in no news being trusted. We have a Sovietized press and as a result, they are getting Soviet level trust in their stories.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2022 12:49 PM (dCGWj)

306
Where are all these shortages at, Horde? Serious question.
Posted by: kraken at January 19, 2022

My last trip to Aldi's the frozen seafood section was decimated. No tuna, no flounder, no whiting, just a single 'family size' bag of cod. The center island of frozen, usually filled, was maybe at 10% of capacity. Not much chicken was to be found.

I guess if you're a fisherman, with twin diesel engines, and its cold out and your not gonna make much money anyway with the price of diesel so high, it's a good time to take some time off.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 19, 2022 12:49 PM (dQvv7)

307 Carter had Billy. Biden has Hunter.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

That's really unfair to Billy.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 19, 2022 12:49 PM (sAmhv)

308 Kraken.

Locally, shelves have been properly "fronted" but, in a lot of areas, there is not depth behind what one sees.

Random shelves are completely empty, though, I've not checked to see what the shelves would normally hold.

Local restaurants, seem to be having trouble keeping various items available, such as chicken tenders, beer, etc.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (5pTK/)

309 I get a creeping sense of desperation. There are bad days ahead.
Posted by: CN...FJB at January 19, 2022 12:44 PM (ONvIw)

I don't think anything will come of it, but I think that someone needs to publicly ask DeSantis, "If the NY AG continues this obviously political persecution of Trump, and pushes an indictment based on bullshit charges, will Florida abide by the indictment and extradite Trump?"

Because if they move forward that will be the goal: force DeSantis to hand over Trump and thus kill two campaigns with one stone.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (wmDcS)

310 Mollie
@MZHemingway
Mark Kelly Wants To Kill The Filibuster So He Can Vote To Put Pelosi And Schumer In Charge Of Elections

---------

It's amazing how some courageous former risk-takers and veterans (such as Ace's takedown of Dan Crenshaw yesterday) transition to blubbering cowardice once they get a taste of The Swamp.

I wonder if there's any possible explanation for such events ... could it be as simple as selling one's soul for a mere 30 pieces of Yuan, or maybe blackmailable evidence/material? Hmmm ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (U3/NB)

311 They have outed Nina Totenberg as a liar.

Or her source, who had to be someone at the court, assuming there is a source. Or the justices themselves; I don't put it past them to issue a false press release about the collegiality of the court. They regularly lie about it in public (balls, strikes, umpires, no democrat or republican judges, etc.).

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (3YVs3)

312 We live in a blessed area, I guess. Lots of everything, but some of the prices are pretty high.
Posted by: kraken

$3.69 for a head of cauliflower today. Not the organic.
Sheesh!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (mD/uy)

313 Where are all these shortages at, Horde? Serious question.
**

We've got bare shelves in lots of stores here in southern AZ.

And it's not because of the weather. Been 70's and sunny.

Posted by: AZ scorpions at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (k4dH2)

314 4pm, supposably

I wonder if he can stay awake that long....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (TdaKq)

315 Where does this idiot live?
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 19, 2022 12:49 PM (GYllL)
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Maryland I think. He moved there from NJ, IIRC.

Posted by: Revenant at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (NJXJJ)

316 Has joe given his press
conference" yet ?

4pm, supposably
Posted by: ace at January
==
He just finished his jello, and is on his way upstairs for a napsie nap.

Posted by: Dr. Jill at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (8DHGa)

317 So my better half when to grocery store yesterday. Bought a bag of white grapes and then a small bag of apples.

$31.89 Unbelievable. Just grapes and apples.

Posted by: WisRich at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (G0vdT)

318 Fucking muffins, of all things, are out of stock at the local Fred Meyer bakery. Apparently they get those from Oregon and the supplier is out of the fucking plastic muffin containers.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

*scribbles lyrics furiously

Posted by: Aerosmith at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (w9Wax)

319 re: OregonMuse

Oh no. Condolences to his family and friends. He will be greatly missed.

Damn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 12:51 PM (dNqv+)

320 Where are all these shortages at, Horde? Serious question.

In Seacoast NH, starting to see shortages in pet food, canned goods, cereals and pasta.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 19, 2022 12:51 PM (N39Ws)

321 >>Where are all these shortages at, Horde? Serious question.

Reports are that grocery chains are seeing 1/4-1/2 the deliveries they normally receive.

That's just availability. Pricing is about to get crazy.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2022 12:51 PM (iKRmB)

322 -- that Brandon will attempt to "reset" his failed presidency with a press conference in which he will change literally nothing about his disastrous policies.

He'll just rely on his, get this, "empathy and compassion" to win over the public.

Or at least the press.
***

And how many times will we hear about the dead one?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 19, 2022 12:51 PM (axyOa)

323 Alternate theory:

The story was true and this denial is an effort to preserve the Court's invented image of camaraderie amongst the justices.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Not much of a loss either way--either Sotomayer looks like a loon or NPR's Totenberg is a liar.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2022 12:51 PM (dCGWj)

324 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (4odx6)

Very well phrased.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 19, 2022 12:51 PM (k49Sx)

325 I live in Western Michigan and it took a while to see empty shelves like a lot of people were talking about. But my wife confirmed that the cheese section was lean pickings.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022 12:51 PM (XHhHI)

326 Is the press conference being held at one of those fake White House sets?

Posted by: dantesed at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (88xKn)

327 311 They have outed Nina Totenberg as a liar.

Or her source, who had to be someone at the court, assuming there is a source. Or the justices themselves; I don't put it past them to issue a false press release about the collegiality of the court. They regularly lie about it in public (balls, strikes, umpires, no democrat or republican judges, etc.).
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (3YVs3)

==========

Yeah, I more believe that most of the 9 hate Sotomayor and can't stand talking to her, and that she hates the rest of them right back. She's a noted idiot who can't make a legal point to save her life. Kagan can even make legal points. I imagine Kagan doing face palms all the time saying, "Don't help me," to her when they're in conference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (LvTSG)

328 Mark Kelly Wants To Kill The Filibuster So He Can Vote To Put Pelosi And Schumer In Charge Of Elections
_____________

Kelly needs to make sure elections are Dim-rigged, because he's probably not going to get a second term (a full first term, really) if they're not rigged.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (k4dH2)

329 We have had a couple of snow storms here lately, so it is hard to judge what is actually out because of one or the other.

Meat (beef, pork and chicken) has been the big one though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (dNqv+)

330 Yeah I ask that as well. I have seen none. I heard there is some milk shortage now. I go to my Safeway and the fridge is full of every kind of mil you could want.

Has to be regional I guess?
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 19, 2022 12:41 PM (TE0rY)[/i[

There are spot shortages all over. The other day I was in Giant and not one milk in the refrigerated section. None. All the gallons and half gallons - gone. There was some soy and almond, but that was it. None.

I was in Walmart Sunday. No pasta except for 4 lonely boxes of lasagna noodles. No chicken. About 1/3 the usual selection of beef.

I was in Aldi on Sunday. I got the last two packages of chicken breasts. Then the chicken cooler was empty. So was the beef.

So, what's your hypothesis? There are no shortages and I am making this up? That all the people telling similar stories are making it up? All the pictures of empty shelves are photoshop?

Posted by: blaster at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (9otr5)

331 Sour Cream
Milk is getting scarce

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (DzyXv)

332 Where are all these shortages at, Horde? Serious question.
Posted by: kraken

Last week at Kroger it was their brand of frozen garlic bread and ravioli. Also the advertised special on boneless skinless chicken breasts.

Going there shortly and will see what is lacking this week.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (4I/2K)

333 I should have taken photos at Trader Joes today. Half the shelves were utterly bare and this was just at open on the day the shipments come in (and they had just restocked)

it was pretty scary.

my Target is worse. it's soviet-looking. I guess all their stuff comes from China?

I haven't gone to Aldi's lately but I've heard it's decimated.

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (j9HX3)

334 >>$3.69 for a head of cauliflower today.

I blame Oprah. Bitch be making pizzas out of them.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (iKRmB)

335 FUck Joe Biden and the howling dog he rode in on.

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (SScvq)

336 300 Tim Poole SWAT raided again.

Where does this idiot live?
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 19, 2022 12:49 PM (GYllL)

The police are the real idiots here.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (6FeV1)

337 They have outed Nina Totenberg as a liar.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos

Call her Totin' Bullshit

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (FVME7)

338 Well, I played some football, watched a few games, you actually have to score a touchdown, instead of throwing a thousand interceptions and trying to tear down the stadium before you spike the football.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 19, 2022 12:53 PM (coYBh)

339 Because if they move forward that will be the goal: force DeSantis to hand over Trump and thus kill two campaigns with one stone.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (wmDcS)

I hope nothing comes of their anger and desperation but a sense of failure, but I can't help but think the left sees this as a "now or never" moment.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 19, 2022 12:53 PM (ONvIw)

340 Carter also signed the bill deregulating homebrewing of beer. In essence, creating the microbrew industry.

Well let's not get carried away here. Congress, and Carter, just repaired something they fucking broke a generation or two earlier.

They didn't "create" anything, least of all microbrews. The hipsters like to think they invented good beer in America, but that is not the case. Prohibition killed off the beer industry, and it took about 100 years to start recovery.

Let that be a lesson. When leftists fuck shit up, it stays fucked up for a long, long time.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2022 12:53 PM (psL96)

341 I wonder if there's any possible explanation for such events ... could it be as simple as selling one's soul for a mere 30 pieces of Yuan, or maybe blackmailable evidence/material? Hmmm ...
==
Social media is a gold mine for blackmail ops. People treated it as if it was confidential, but there is an electronic footprint for all you are doing. Instagram, Facebook, DM's in twitter. You aren't seeing most of it. But there is no way that Huma's pervy husband was a one of kind situation. No. Way.

Posted by: Change my mind at January 19, 2022 12:53 PM (w5Bg1)

342 I'm not sure rezident retard will be cogent enough for a "full blown" presser tomorrow. There's plenty of time to either reschedule it for a later date or cancel it altogether. No matter how insulated he might be he probably has a smidgen of self awareness that things have gone to shit.

Besides in his pants.

And that makes him really mad. Mad, angry *biden is a bad thing for the junta.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2022 12:53 PM (BFigT)

343 Is the press conference being held at one of those fake White House sets?

Posted by: dantesed at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (88xKn)

Columns...we need some styrofoam columns...

Posted by: BignJames at January 19, 2022 12:53 PM (AwYPR)

344 Alternate theory:

The story was true and this denial is an effort to preserve the Court's invented image of camaraderie amongst the justices.

Possibly, but if Gorsuch would not go along with Roberts' request that he wear a mask for camaraderie, why would he go along with a mendacious statement? I mean, putting his name to a false statement (that all of his colleagues know to be false) is not something a Supreme Court Justice would do lightly.

Moreover, if you read the transcript of the NPR piece in which Totenberg reported this, she was very much trying to paint a picture of a Supreme Court discordant at historical levels. It being NPR, naturally the radical conservatives are to blame.

That they would issue a joint statement to signal comity on its face evidences that her thesis is false. In other words, even a mendacious "we're all friends here" disputes that civility has truly broken down, as Totenberg posited.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at January 19, 2022 12:53 PM (iSmWY)

345 $31.89 Unbelievable. Just grapes and apples.
Posted by: WisRich at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (G0vdT)
----------------

Well, blame CA for that one, because they cut off water supplies to the Central Valley.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 19, 2022 12:53 PM (5pTK/)

346 My local Publix will have bare shelves in random places for a few days, although the longest-running and most consistent shortage has been Gatorade. Those shelves have been bare for weeks at a stretch.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 19, 2022 12:54 PM (II3Gr)

347
I see the banner ad for ARMED FORCES BREWERY and you can own a piece of it. Thinking about buying some
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (DzyXv)

I have a growing distrust of anyone who loudly shoves their military fruit salad in my face while asking for my money or my vote (BRC, Cyclops Crenshaw, Maverick etc).

It's probably unfair, but I've been burned too many times.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2022 12:54 PM (n+4am)

348 The major risk I see is the US trying to move a carrier battle group into range to support the Ukrainians or Taiwan, and ending up taking a beating by Russian or Chinese airforces and forced to withdraw.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 12:36 PM (wmDcS)

It doesn't matter what we have materially to go to war. What what we lack absolutely are the leaders we would need for war.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2022 12:54 PM (Fs5vw)

349 Posted by: Black Orchid at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (j9HX3)

Where are you? My area seems stocked up

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 19, 2022 12:54 PM (ONvIw)

350 Where does this idiot live?
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 19, 2022 12:49 PM (GYllL)

At the corner of Pimp and Dealer.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 19, 2022 12:54 PM (w9Wax)

351 Locally, shelves have been properly "fronted" but, in a lot of areas, there is not depth behind what one sees.

Random shelves are completely empty, though, I've not checked to see what the shelves would normally hold.

Local restaurants, seem to be having trouble keeping various items available, such as chicken tenders, beer, etc.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (5pTK/)

Yes, same experience here. BTW, if you go to Walmart and see a bald hispanic guy with a long ZZ Top beard, that's probably one of my brothers-in-law.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 19, 2022 12:55 PM (Ez6QX)

352 I have seen no real shortages at the Randall's I shop at. I have seen the noticeable increase in prices though.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 19, 2022 12:55 PM (RJMSR)

353 336 300 Tim Poole SWAT raided again.

Where does this idiot live?
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 19, 2022 12:49 PM (GYllL)

The police are the real idiots here.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (6FeV1)

They have to follow up on it. Speculation I have seen is that the first one might have been a false flag by someone on Tim's side, but the second is genuine? Who the hell knows. Not a fan of Tim, so my caring meter is broken.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 12:55 PM (dNqv+)

354 Well, I played some football, watched a few games, you actually have to score a touchdown, instead of throwing a thousand interceptions and trying to tear down the stadium before you spike the football.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 19, 2022 12:53 PM (coYBh)

Four. One game. Polk High legend.

Posted by: Al Bundy at January 19, 2022 12:55 PM (4I/2K)

355 That Totenberg bitch be lyin'.

Posted by: Gorsuch and Sotomayor at January 19, 2022 12:55 PM (x980n)

356 Where are all these shortages at, Horde? Serious question.

Seen some recovery after the snows here in the NW...but...still a lot of empty spaces, particularly in the dairy sections, and a lot of filling in, as in half a row of nothing but Tide laundry soap. The bakery is a total loss.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 19, 2022 12:55 PM (axyOa)

357 Fuck's sakes.

"My store has milk" and "Your store does not have milk" are not mutually exclusive statements, people.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 12:55 PM (6FeV1)

358 344 That they would issue a joint statement to signal comity on its face evidences that her thesis is false. In other words, even a mendacious "we're all friends here" disputes that civility has truly broken down, as Totenberg posited.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at January 19, 2022 12:53 PM (iSmWY)

==========

Maybe she played it up too much. Maybe the whole court came down like a ton of bricks on Sotomayor for spilling the truth and a compromise was reached where the two would stretch the truth about their relationship in exchange for Sotomayor cutting off Totenberg.

The thing is,...Sotomayor isn't just dumb. She's aggressively dumb. I seriously doubt she has friends on that court.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 12:55 PM (LvTSG)

359 Cream cheese shortage too.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 19, 2022 12:55 PM (II3Gr)

360 Something something rats sinking ship

Reps. Jim Langevin (D-RI) and Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday that they will not seek reelection in November, becoming the 27th and 28th House Democrats who will not be back in the chamber after the midterm elections.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 19, 2022 12:55 PM (yrol0)

361 These were among the first descriptions that came to mind for 10 suburban women swing voters who gathered late last year for a virtual focus group conducted by Democratic pollster Celinda Lake on behalf of several liberal organizations.
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So "suburban women swing voters" sampled have not-nice things to day. Okay.

What the mass of "suburban white women voters" more generally? They are the Democrat vote - though not power - base.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2022 12:56 PM (DU+/6)

362 359 Cream cheese shortage too.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 19, 2022 12:55 PM (II3Gr)

mmmm. Cheesecake. (both literal and figurative.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 12:56 PM (dNqv+)

363 I haven't really noticed empty shelfs yet here in SE WI. Admittedly, I'm not looking real close.

Posted by: WisRich at January 19, 2022 12:56 PM (G0vdT)

364 $31.89 Unbelievable. Just grapes and apples.
Posted by: WisRich at January 19, 2022 12:50 PM (G0vdT)

Damn!

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 19, 2022 12:56 PM (Ez6QX)

365 Is the press conference being held at one of those fake White House sets?

Posted by: dantesed at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM

It says it's at the white house.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:56 PM (bVYXr)

366 Besides I'm not going to get better at shooting if I don't practice. Now, it's too expensive to even do that.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 19, 2022 12:40 PM (nxdel)

Jewells, get a .22 pistol, such as a Ruger SR 22. Same manual of arms as centerfire semi autos, much cheaper ammo (now available). And fun to shoot!

Posted by: RI Red at January 19, 2022 12:56 PM (a8b7P)

367 Next, NPR will be telling us that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer will decide who is the blame for the 'debacle on the Hill' using "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

Posted by: SMOD at January 19, 2022 12:56 PM (RHGPo)

368 Where are all these shortages at, Horde? Serious question.

Here in Texas, lots of frozen vegetables. Various types of baby food. Also dry rice and milk stocks are very low the last 2 weeks I've gone to the store. Random things like frozen waffles have the supply shortage stickers on the shelf.

Posted by: brak at January 19, 2022 12:56 PM (I4hmj)

369 I have a growing distrust of anyone who loudly shoves their military fruit salad in my face while asking for my money or my vote (BRC, Cyclops Crenshaw, Maverick etc).

It's probably unfair, but I've been burned too many times.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2022 12:54 PM

Us too, wounded warrior comes to mind.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:57 PM (bVYXr)

370 This blonde exiting the pool in a red one-piece has no favorable things to say about Brandon's policies or his "empathy" or his "compassion:"
https://is.gd/Sd8469

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2022 12:57 PM (DU+/6)

371 It's probably unfair, but I've been burned too many times.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2022 12:54 PM (n+4am)

I wasn't gonna say it, because i don't want to piss on one of ace's advertisers.... but yeah.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 12:57 PM (6FeV1)

372 Has the next storm been named yet?

Posted by: BignJames at January 19, 2022 12:57 PM (AwYPR)

373 Tim Poole SWAT raided again.

Where does this idiot live?
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 19, 2022 12:49 PM (GYllL)

The police are the real idiots here.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (6FeV1)

The callers keep claiming that he has Prince Albert in a can.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at January 19, 2022 12:57 PM (AiZBA)

374 Last week at Kroger, I also snatched off the shelves the last Malt-O-Meal Cap'n Crunch and Lipton Teabags 100ct that were on special. Bwaahahaha!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 19, 2022 12:57 PM (4I/2K)

375 Moreover, if you read the transcript of the NPR piece in which Totenberg reported this, she was very much trying to paint a picture of a Supreme Court discordant at historical levels. It being NPR, naturally the radical conservatives are to blame.
==
Her source is probably some bitchy law clerk liberal who works for Kagan, who is projecting a bunch of bs that she/he isn't really privy to, but likes to fantasize about, evil white christian males. Then get attention by repeating her fantasies to reporters.

Posted by: Change my mind at January 19, 2022 12:57 PM (YkyYi)

376 Bare shelves: it varies here (Houston-ish). Last weekend there were notable gaps in the frozen section (no tots or fries in particular). About a week before the cream cheese disappeared and has not made a return appearance. The chip aisle seemed to be at about 2/3 capacity. I don't go out much, so I don't keep good track of these things. But its noticeable even to me.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 19, 2022 12:58 PM (3YVs3)

377 NPR

It is all lies about the SCOTUS AND MASK!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 19, 2022 12:58 PM (yrol0)

378 Also CBD, that is a nice post you wrote on OM.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 12:58 PM (dNqv+)

379 Moreover, if you read the transcript of the NPR piece in which Totenberg reported this, she was very much trying to paint a picture of a Supreme Court discordant at historical levels. It being NPR, naturally the radical conservatives are to blame.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at January 19, 2022 12:53 PM (iSmWY)
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Subsidized Radio for White People agrees.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022 12:58 PM (XHhHI)

380 Alternate theory:

The story was true and this denial is an effort to preserve the Court's invented image of camaraderie amongst the justices.

Could be. But it seems every single element of the story has been denied, not just the fact that there was some tiff between Gorsuch and Sotomayor. From the jump: there was no order for the justices to wear masks for Gorsuch to disregard. John Roberts says that. Everything else from there trails off into nothingness.

But Totenberg is a Leftist on NPR, and the mask and COVID are markers for the Left, and hey if we can paint a Trump appointee as a racist who wants to kill elderly, immunocompromised women with COVID just out of spite, well, you can pretty much disregard any decision he played a part in, right? I mean, had he not kept her in a cage due to his mask defiance, she might have been there in person and been able to use her wise Latinx magic to sway the vote to the correct decision.

Posted by: blaster at January 19, 2022 12:58 PM (9otr5)

381 The callers keep claiming that he has Prince Albert in a can.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at January 19, 2022 12:57 PM (AiZBA)

You can put your prince Albert in my can any day, sailor! WOOOOOOO!

Posted by: Jack Murphy at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM (6FeV1)

382 Where are you? My area seems stocked up

this was the Wayne TJs b/c I drive my kid to school near there

you would think THAT one would be better stocked! there were a lot of pissed off Karens

hopefully things get better

btw for non-PA morons, we have a weird grocery-worker-union and grocery/produce DELIVERY union here in PA. we always, therefore, have higher prices, less availability and fewer options. When new chains come into PA they always start strong b/c they buck the weird union regs, and then soon enough they are all kind of shitty.

I go to other states and I weep like a defector when I look at their supermarkets!

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM (j9HX3)

383 So the racist DA in NY said she has found significant evidence of fraud regarding Trump.....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM (TdaKq)

384 2022 is looking like a bigger blowout than either 2010 or 1994. The polling was nowhere near as good in those time frames as it is now against Democrats.

And back then, polling was less lopsided towards Democrats. The media just straight up doctors polling now as another psyops and doesn't even apologize for it. It's much worse than the numbers we're getting.

Posted by: Blago at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM (kMap3)

385 Where are all these shortages at, Horde? Serious question.

Here in Texas, lots of frozen vegetables. Various types of baby food. Also dry rice and milk stocks are very low the last 2 weeks I've gone to the store. Random things like frozen waffles have the supply shortage stickers on the shelf.

Posted by: brak at January 19, 2022 12:56 PM

The dried bean section at Walmart here was extremely lean. Some pinto beans, no great northern or Navy beans. Plenty of 15 bean soup mix stuff though.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM (bVYXr)

386 367 Next, NPR will be telling us that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer will decide who is the blame for the 'debacle on the Hill' using "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
Posted by: SMOD at January 19, 2022 12:56 PM (RHGPo)

Judges would have also accepted sawed off double barreled shotguns at 6 feet.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM (yrol0)

387 Starbucks (gag) removes jab mandates for employees.

LOL I guess they can't get any hipsters to pump more of that shit into eco friendly cups.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM (GYllL)

388 And why wouldn't Totenberg lie about it? It isn't like it will be a black mark on her legacy for lying about SCOTUS. That's just her brand.

Posted by: blaster at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM (9otr5)

389 This blonde exiting the pool in a red one-piece has no favorable things to say about Brandon's policies or his "empathy" or his "compassion:"
https://is.gd/Sd8469
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2022 12:57 PM (DU+/6)

No tattoos visible on this porcelain-skinned fair beauty. +1.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM (4I/2K)

390 If Soto is really upset

she can always quit

Posted by: REDACTED at January 19, 2022 01:00 PM (us2H3)

391 I'm also just reading the news about OM.

Terribly sad.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 19, 2022 01:00 PM (z9npv)

392 The random empty shelves are weird, they were almost completely out of sandwich bread the other day. I found that one kind of strange.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 19, 2022 01:00 PM (coYBh)

393 Jewells, get a .22 pistol, such as a Ruger SR 22. Same manual of arms as centerfire semi autos, much cheaper ammo (now available). And fun to shoot!

Posted by: RI Red

Excellent advice. .22 LR ranges from about ten cents to twenty cents per round right now and reasonably priced revolvers and semi automatics are out there for a couple of hundred bucks cheaper than centerfire.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2022 01:00 PM (dCGWj)

394 I hope angry FJB is at the press conference. Where he yells at us for recognizing all of the good things he has done, and challenges us to a fight.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 19, 2022 01:00 PM (4Om93)

395 2022 is looking like a bigger blowout than either 2010 or 1994. The polling was nowhere near as good in those time frames as it is now against Democrats. ...
Posted by: Blago at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM (kMap3)
++++
Thus the hysteria to get the "voting rights" bill passed. They cannot cheat at 2020 scale without 2020 election procedures.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2022 01:00 PM (DU+/6)

396 >>
I saw a bunch of plant based "chicken" nuggets at the store this morning. Those bins were full but the rest of that frozen section was picked over big time.

Apparently these companies pay the grocery stores to sell them. That's why they stay stocked despite there obviously being no customer interest.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 19, 2022 01:00 PM (URNdm)

397 No, Sadat made the move. He and the Israelis had been secretly talking for a while. The decision, and will to go ahead with it, for a bilateral peace with Israel was Sadat's alone, and didn't depend on any guarantees from the US, which only came much later.

It's not a criticism of Carter to simply stick with facts. Carter didn't screw it up - though one could very persuasively argue that his administration's MidEast-related diplomatic approach *prior* to Sadat's bombshell actually was a waste of time, even harmful (note: it was a common approach not new or unique to the Carter Admin. - "multilateral" or "comprehensive" approach that clearly had no chance given the realities of Syria and the PLO).

A recent MidEast accomplishment actually involved much more American initiative - though it would be controversial to point out how it was only possible due to earlier American action that changed the realities of the eastern Arab world. Gotta mind one's myths and bigotries and bumper-sticker frameworks around here.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 19, 2022 01:00 PM (OTzUX)

398 The economy (47%-34%)
Jobs (45%-35%)
Immigration (45%-37%)
National Security (49%-32%)
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All coincidentally Trump's strengths. I mean how lucky is Trump that he left his party strong in these very same areas that he is strong in, and able to take advantage of a weak Democrat Party? Luckiest guy ever I'm telling you.

Need someone just as strong and lucky but without all his icky weaknesses.

Posted by: ... at January 19, 2022 01:00 PM (xAJ5i)

399 335 FUck Joe Biden and the howling dog he rode in on.
Posted by: Eli Cash at January 19, 2022 12:52 PM (SScvq)

My bad - that was his own daughter he rode in on. Sick fucker.

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 19, 2022 01:00 PM (SScvq)

400 So the racist DA in NY said she has found significant evidence of fraud regarding Trump.....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM

Pencil neck schiff also said he had rock solid non circumstantial evidence that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election. Still waiting for it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 01:01 PM (bVYXr)

401 This blonde exiting the pool in a red one-piece has no favorable things to say about Brandon's policies or his "empathy" or his "compassion:"
https://is.gd/Sd8469
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2022 12:57 PM (DU+/6)

She looks sleek and well-shaved

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 19, 2022 01:01 PM (XvPQV)

402 So, what's your hypothesis? There are no shortages and I am making this up?

I was at HEB yesterday and there were a few empty spots on the shelves but it was weird stuff like Lunchables. Plenty of milk, bread, eggs, meats, and fresh veggies.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 19, 2022 01:01 PM (nfrXX)

403 392 The random empty shelves are weird, they were almost completely out of sandwich bread the other day. I found that one kind of strange.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 19, 2022 01:00 PM (coYBh)

Here in Texas when they say snow people run to the store and buy a months worth of bread, milk, and eggs.

STUPID

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 19, 2022 01:01 PM (yrol0)

404 I go to other states and I weep like a defector when I look at their supermarkets!
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM (j9HX3)

Can confirm. Wegmans and Hole Foods does buck the trend a bit, but in general it's all a shit parade.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 01:01 PM (6FeV1)

405 111 >>>He's a creepy, mean-spirited, senile, angry, demented, child-fondling evil old bastard. He's always been a nasty piece of shit, now he's just a senile sundowning nasty piece of shit. He doesn't have the capacity for empathy.
Posted by: Insomniac

A thousand times this.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp

Are you suggesting that he's not totally corrupt?

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1977 at January 19, 2022 01:02 PM (DSnKH)

406

Takes him out to look at the queen
Only place that he's ever been
Always shouts out something obscene
Such a dirty old man
Dirty old man

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 19, 2022 01:02 PM (63Dwl)

407 Poll over sampling of commiecrats +5, +7?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 19, 2022 01:02 PM (iDcra)

408 I still say he's been bolstered in the polls. I would think his approval is more likely around 20% countrywide.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at January 19, 2022 01:02 PM (sI15f)

409 I liked Nate Burleson as a Lion.

*shakes head*

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022 01:02 PM (XHhHI)

410 Expect the Mother of all False Flags. The public has seen how evil the D.C. shithole is and they have to change the subject lest the peasants begin to return fire.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 19, 2022 01:02 PM (/SdD1)

411 Last week at Kroger, I also snatched off the shelves the last Malt-O-Meal Cap'n Crunch and Lipton Teabags 100ct that were on special. Bwaahahaha!
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 19, 2022 12:57 PM (4I/2K)

No Malt-O-Meal in weeks around here.
Damn you you lucky bastard!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 19, 2022 01:03 PM (axyOa)

412 I see the banner ad for ARMED FORCES BREWERY and you can own a piece of it. Thinking about buying some
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (DzyXv)

Nothing says 'Go all in' quite like buying non-voting non-dividend unlisted Class C stock in a startup.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 19, 2022 01:03 PM (yQpMk)

413 This last time, the bread was also barren. I did manage to pick up some Keto Hawaiian that turned out to be decent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2022 01:03 PM (dNqv+)

414 383 So the racist DA in NY said she has found significant evidence of fraud regarding Trump.....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM (TdaKq)

That AA idiot wouldn't know evidence of fraud if it was pointed at her head sideways. FUck that assclown straight to hell.

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 19, 2022 01:03 PM (SScvq)

415 Alternate theory:

The story was true and this denial is an effort to preserve the Court's invented image of camaraderie amongst the justices.

-
So many liars to choose from!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 01:03 PM (FVME7)

416 407 Poll over sampling of commiecrats +5, +7?
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 19, 2022 01:02 PM (iDcra)

FLA is about 50 50 D vs R in registrations and they routinely sample about 35 R to 45 D.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 19, 2022 01:03 PM (yrol0)

417 >.although the longest-running and most consistent shortage has been Gatorade.

I know
it's like they stopped making it or something

Posted by: DB - the king is a fink at January 19, 2022 01:03 PM (geLO8)

418 Just wait, inventory in grocery stores will come back. Mainly because groceries will become so expensive, people will buy less and learn to do more with less.

It's going to be brutal.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 19, 2022 01:03 PM (5pTK/)

419 384 2022 is looking like a bigger blowout than either 2010 or 1994. The polling was nowhere near as good in those time frames as it is now against Democrats.

And back then, polling was less lopsided towards Democrats. The media just straight up doctors polling now as another psyops and doesn't even apologize for it. It's much worse than the numbers we're getting.
Posted by: Blago at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM (kMap3)

============

Voting was probably more secure back then, as well.

Still, it's harder to steal dozens of House races rather than one presidential race in a handful of key districts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 01:04 PM (LvTSG)

420 So have any of our Smart Education Folks explained why the same schools that closed down for months at a time because STAY SAFE and counted kids as somehow present and in school are closed down for snow days that have to be made up at the end of the year?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - wondering about using horse paste or my preferred 1% liquid, read the comments at January 19, 2022 01:04 PM (/6kZi)

421 My bad - that was his own daughter he rode in on. Sick fucker.

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 19, 2022 01:00 PM

That is what was in that diary that had the fbi breaking the law to get it back. Project veritas knew they had been handed a grenade with the pin pulled out when they were given the diary and tried to get rid of it, but the fbi wanted heads to roll so they refused to take it and then got warrants to raid everyone involved.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 01:04 PM (bVYXr)

422 He's a creepy, mean-spirited, senile, angry, demented, child-fondling evil old bastard. He's always been a nasty piece of shit, now he's just a senile sundowning nasty piece of shit. He doesn't have the capacity for empathy.
Posted by: Insomniac

RANT STATUS:

[ X ] Stolen
[ ] Not Stolen

Posted by: Diogenes at January 19, 2022 01:04 PM (axyOa)

423 Expect the Mother of all False Flags. The public has seen how evil the D.C. shithole is and they have to change the subject lest the peasants begin to return fire.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 19, 2022 01:02 PM (/SdD1)
---------------

Las Vegas 2.0?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 19, 2022 01:04 PM (5pTK/)

424 He's like the angry old man yelling at his neighbors to get off their own lawn.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (m45I2)

425 So the racist DA in NY said she has found significant evidence of fraud regarding Trump.....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM

I'm guessing that this turns out to be something like "our paid and biased experts disagreed with the valuations that Trump's people came up with, therefore Trump obviously committed fraud".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (HhfIU)

426 It's simple. If a senile pedophile puppet manipulated to make billionaires exploit and crush the populace is popular with idiots and foreigners, then democracy and the Constitution have run their course.

There needs to be an explicit provision in the next government explicitly prohibiting the Vindmans and Bloombergs from ever holding positions of authority Ann power again. Or you're right back to where you started.

Posted by: trev006 at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (/ZugI)

427 The bloom is off the rose. The media can't hide Bidens senility anymore. Today's press conference will be a make or break for sleepy Joe.

Posted by: portlandon at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (+oR7L)

428 407 Poll over sampling of commiecrats +5, +7?
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 19, 2022 01:02 PM (iDcra)

Since they are now saying more people identify as Republican than Dem now even if it were even it would be off toward Dem

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (TdaKq)

429 Yep - the "military craft brewery" pitch might as well be "sustainable diverse and equity-promoting, green!" to me.

Military or veteran affiliation no longer carries *any* presumption of merit, when used this way. The traction it has in "politics" continues to astonish, well, maybe not, given how idiotic the voters repeatedly show themselves to be.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (OTzUX)

430 I see the banner ad for ARMED FORCES BREWERY and you can own a piece of it. Thinking about buying some
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 12:48 PM (DzyXv)

Nothing says 'Go all in' quite like buying non-voting non-dividend unlisted Class C stock in a startup
==
They could have just done a go fund me or something where people donated without the expectation of anything. Here they are buying advertising and telling you here's this worthless thing, that we aspire to someday possibly being able to give you something for, maybe but that's just an aspiration. So basically its a donation program.

Posted by: Change my mind at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (7Rql5)

431 Need someone just as strong and lucky but without all his icky weaknesses.
Posted by: ... at January 19, 2022 01:00 PM (xAJ5i)

Doesn't exist. Trump's ego is part of the reason that he was able to break away from the GOP groupthink and see that there was an opportunity to win over blue-collar voters, and his "fuck you" attitude and bluntness were what helped him seem sincere enough that those voters believed him.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (wmDcS)

432 Cat Shit out today sayoing more people should jumo in 2024 since Trump lost 2020.

Nothing - and I mean nothing short of total victory in CW2 - would make me happier than seeing John Catshit waste millions of stupid dollars on a run in 2024.

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (SScvq)

433 No Malt-O-Meal in weeks around here.
Damn you you lucky bastard!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 19, 2022

***
They used to sell it at Dollar Tree. Might have been a special smaller size package, though.

The espresso-style coffee, Cafe Morro, is still there, albeit now at $1.25/8 oz. $2.50 for a pound of strong coffee; hard to beat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (txdEq)

434 He's a creepy, mean-spirited, senile, angry, demented, child-fondling evil old bastard. He's always been a nasty piece of shit, now he's just a senile sundowning nasty piece of shit. He doesn't have the capacity for empathy.
Posted by: Insomniac

I wish he would display these qualities every time he's in public-as a rebuke to his brain-dead voters.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (m/Gc2)

435 Today's press conference will be a make or break for sleepy Joe.
Posted by: portlandon at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (+oR7L)

I doubt it.

It's going to be a nothing burger.

Posted by: blaster at January 19, 2022 01:06 PM (9otr5)

436 Las Vegas 2.0?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 19, 2022 01:04 PM (5pTK/)

"Is that Biden up on the white house roof?.....OH SHIT!!!!!!!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 01:06 PM (6FeV1)

437 432 Nothing - and I mean nothing short of total victory in CW2 - would make me happier than seeing John Catshit waste millions of stupid dollars on a run in 2024.
Posted by: Eli Cash at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (SScvq)

==========

The GOP donor class is going to spend $250 million trying to defeat Trump in the Republican primary, and the race will be over by SC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 01:06 PM (LvTSG)

438 >>271 Went shopping at Winco in WA yesterday. Everything was stocked out. No shortages.
Posted by: Capital Eff

Correction: The only thing they did not have was bottled water. The gallon containers of distilled and spring. Wiped out.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 19, 2022 01:06 PM (GYllL)

439 Having a thought here - please tell me if I'm all wet:

The shortages/supply issues we see will become the rule rather than the exception. We've grown accustomed to overstock stores - when did this really become the norm? Early 70s- late? I don't know. In any case, will we see a return to what our parents did (and many of us experienced as children) where you pretty much ate what was grown locally and what was in season.

Cuts down drastically on shipping pressures.

Just spitballing here. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at January 19, 2022 01:06 PM (mD/uy)

440 427 The bloom is off the rose. The media can't hide Bidens senility anymore. Today's press conference will be a make or break for sleepy Joe.
Posted by: portlandon at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (+oR7L)

Is it wrong of me to hope he face plants or goes into the slurring angry Joe ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2022 01:06 PM (TdaKq)

441 415 Alternate theory:

The story was true and this denial is an effort to preserve the Court's invented image of camaraderie amongst the justices.

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So many liars to choose from!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 01:03 PM (FVME7)

In order for the 5 to demand Roberts rescind the "working from home" allowance for one of his solid 3 voters - yeah, I imagine that's more true...

Posted by: Nova local at January 19, 2022 01:06 PM (exHjb)

442 here's this worthless thing, that we aspire to someday possibly being able to give you something for

You get a Morale Patch. And an invitation to the shareholder meeting, at your own expense, where you will not be able to vote.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 19, 2022 01:07 PM (yQpMk)

443 Kelly needs to make sure elections are Dim-rigged, because he's probably not going to get a second term (a full first term, really) if they're not rigged.

--

Oh, how I would love to see him tossed after less than a full term.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 19, 2022 01:07 PM (sVtYq)

444 I commented the other day that all the ramen was gone. Literally every bag, cup and box of the stuff was sold out. Even the off brand stuff was hugely picked over. Yesterday it was no better... a week later.

It appears to be hit 'n miss with stuff.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2022 01:07 PM (BFigT)

445 If new VA Attorney General can cancel all the Civil Riiiiiiights folks, there is nothing holding Trump or Desantis back in 2024 from deleting the entire DOJ and DOE.

ANd that is the minimal acceptable proposition, short of putting those people into a wood chipper.

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 19, 2022 01:07 PM (SScvq)

446 Doesn't exist. Trump's ego is part of the reason that he was able to break away from the GOP groupthink and see that there was an opportunity to win over blue-collar voters, and his "fuck you" attitude and bluntness were what helped him seem sincere enough that those voters believed him.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (wmDcS)

Well at the very least we need someone strong who the Left will treat with respect and deference. Trump brings it all on himself.

Posted by: ... at January 19, 2022 01:07 PM (xAJ5i)

447 423 Expect the Mother of all False Flags. The public has seen how evil the D.C. shithole is and they have to change the subject lest the peasants begin to return fire.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 19, 2022 01:02 PM (/SdD1)
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Las Vegas 2.0?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 19, 2022 01:04 PM (5pTK/)
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"There's nothing like a good old school mass-shooting event to cure what ails you!" -- Australia

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 19, 2022 01:07 PM (R2eZ1)

448 Reps. Jim Langevin (D-RI) and Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday that they will not seek reelection in November, becoming the 27th and 28th House Democrats who will not be back in the chamber after the midterm elections.

****

So what's the opposite of "having coattails" in politics?

Because whatever that is, Biden has a shit ton of it.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 19, 2022 01:07 PM (W3VUu)

449 What's the over/under that Brandon decides that what his poll numbers really need is a show of strength towards Russia?

You know China would be especially pleased.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 19, 2022 01:07 PM (z9npv)

450 The GOP donor class is going to spend $250 million trying to defeat Trump in the Republican primary, and the race will be over by SC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 01:06 PM (LvTSG)

From your lips to God's EARS and then straight to the 4 horsemen.

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 19, 2022 01:08 PM (SScvq)

451 345 Well, blame CA for that one, because they cut off water supplies to the Central Valley.

future generations will thank us for saving the delta smelt.

Posted by: Governor Awesome at January 19, 2022 01:08 PM (v3pYe)

452 I don't care what he's doing. He's a damn scrounge.

Posted by: klaftern at January 19, 2022 01:08 PM (taPSh)

453 Expect the Mother of all False Flags. The public has seen how evil the D.C. shithole is and they have to change the subject lest the peasants begin to return fire.

time to send troops to [insert shithole here]!

Posted by: brak at January 19, 2022 01:08 PM (I4hmj)

454 So what's the opposite of "having coattails" in politics?

Because whatever that is, Biden has a shit ton of it.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 19, 2022 01:07 PM (W3VUu)

Slug trail?

Anyone following him slips in the gunge and goes ass over tea kettle?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2022 01:09 PM (6FeV1)

455 >>So the racist DA in NY said she has found significant evidence of fraud regarding Trump.....

Be funny to go through all of her Credit and Loan Applications as well as those of her Family.

I am doubting that they have all been honest in their reporting.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2022 01:09 PM (iKRmB)

456 Well at the very least we need someone strong who the Left will treat with respect and deference. Trump brings it all on himself.
Posted by: ... at January 19, 2022 01:07 PM (xAJ5i)
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Ah, the old "Unicorn Republican" gambit.

It worked so splendidly with Bush and Romney.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 19, 2022 01:09 PM (5pTK/)

457 Farmers are starting to post how much they are spending on fertilizer, they are spending double and they still have to buy seed.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 01:09 PM (dKiJG)

458 Nothing says 'Go all in' quite like buying non-voting non-dividend unlisted Class C stock in a startup
==

But you get a hat! And a sticker!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 19, 2022 01:09 PM (4Om93)

459 time to send troops to [insert shithole here]!
Posted by: brak at January 19, 2022 01:08 PM (I4hmj)

Just the ... err .. unreliable ones.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 19, 2022 01:09 PM (yQpMk)

460 My gun range offers memberships. I bought an annual pass for $525. The math works out for me because I go at least once a week and some weeks three times. The standard pistol fee is $20 an hour.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:39 PM (bVYXr)

Then Rio Salado is a huge bargain. Membership is $120 per year; ten bucks to shoot as a guest.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 19, 2022 01:09 PM (P3gRi)

461 So what's the opposite of "having coattails" in politics?

Because whatever that is, Biden has a shit ton of it.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 19, 2022 01:07 PM (W3VUu)

Toxic flatulence?

Posted by: ... at January 19, 2022 01:09 PM (xAJ5i)

462 417 >.although the longest-running and most consistent shortage has been Gatorade.
I know
it's like they stopped making it or something
Posted by: DB - the king is a fink at January 19, 2022 01:03 PM (geLO

I got the skinny on the shortage:

Strike at the bottle manufacturer, so limited production runs.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2022 01:09 PM (BgMrQ)

463 Well at the very least we need someone strong who the Left will treat with respect and deference. at 446

Are you for real? Name a person the left respects that is acceptable. I won't wait because that person doesn't exist.

Hopefully you were joking and I didn't get it.

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 19, 2022 01:10 PM (SScvq)

464
Is it wrong of me to hope he face plants or goes into the slurring angry Joe ?

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If I had my druthers, I want Angry Joe to come out swinging. At Americans, at the trees, at the air. He'll probably be pumped so full of his drug cocktail that he'll make it through his -- and the "media's" -- script. But I don't think 1) anybody cares what he says and 2) it won't fix what's hurting Americans and their wallets.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 19, 2022 01:10 PM (sVtYq)

465 From what I read that is short or out, some of it sounds like prepper stuff. Not all, but some of it.

Posted by: kraken at January 19, 2022 01:10 PM (6Je/Q)

466 Posted by: rhomboid at January 19, 2022 01:00 PM (OTzUX)

I think you are downplaying Carter's role in bringing the parties back together to Camp David after negotiations had come to a stand still.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 19, 2022 01:10 PM (RJMSR)

467
Are you for real? Name a person the left respects that is acceptable. I won't wait because that person doesn't exist.

Liz Cheney... for now

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2022 01:10 PM (TdaKq)

468 438 Correction: The only thing they did not have was bottled water. The gallon containers of distilled and spring. Wiped out.

have no fear. soon we will have a wide range of vegan plant-based water options for you to choose from!

Posted by: Beyond! at January 19, 2022 01:10 PM (sGtp+)

469 >>.although the longest-running and most consistent shortage has been Gatorade.

I still see the mix. People always forget about the mix.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2022 01:10 PM (iKRmB)

470 Farmers are starting to post how much they are spending on fertilizer, they are spending double and they still have to buy seed.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 01:09 PM (dKiJG)

Now do Round-Up. $12.00/gal last year. $58.00 now.

Posted by: Deep State 910 at January 19, 2022 01:10 PM (aX0CW)

471 But you get a hat! And a sticker!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

It can go right next to that Black Rifle Coffee sticker on the truck.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2022 01:11 PM (dCGWj)

472 >Well at the very least we need someone strong who the Left will treat with respect and deference.

surely you can't be serious

Posted by: DB - the king is a fink at January 19, 2022 01:11 PM (geLO8)

473 457 Farmers are starting to post how much they are spending on fertilizer, they are spending double and they still have to buy seed.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 19, 2022 01:09 PM (dKiJG)

Them Kulaks!!

Posted by: kraken at January 19, 2022 01:11 PM (6Je/Q)

474 Cuts down drastically on shipping pressures.

Just spitballing here. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at January 19, 2022 01:06 PM (mD/uy)

...

We used to ship at least the produce from the "nation's breadbasket" the San Juaquin valley.

Obama killed the valley by shutting off the water and now all our fruits and veggies come from Mexico and regions south. It's obviously a strategic vulnerability to not be growing our own food anymore, and I'm wondering how many of the shortages stem from it.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 19, 2022 01:11 PM (z9npv)

475 Toxic aftertaste.

Posted by: klaftern at January 19, 2022 01:11 PM (taPSh)

476
Membership is $120 per year; ten bucks to shoot as a guest.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 19, 2022 01:09 PM

To shoot 'at' a guest, or 'as' a guest?

Posted by: Dick Cheney at January 19, 2022 01:11 PM (dQvv7)

477 It's simple. If a senile pedophile puppet manipulated to make billionaires exploit and crush the populace is popular with idiots and foreigners, then democracy and the Constitution have run their course.

There needs to be an explicit provision in the next government explicitly prohibiting the Vindmans and Bloombergs from ever holding positions of authority Ann power again. Or you're right back to where you started.
==
I imagined this was what was running through George III's head when John Adams came to make a diplomatic call on him after the war was over: Basically, you can't have nice things like a democracy because the fcuking sociopaths rise to the top of every organization on earth. The only way to have any chance is to have a hereditary monarchy, that occasionally gets refreshed by the right of conquest. Personally, everything is broken from the jump and any system that doesn't recognize God given rights, freedom with responsibility, and the classic virtues is going to fail quicker, than those that do. Now call me a fundamentalist and a God botherer. Go!

Posted by: Change my mind at January 19, 2022 01:11 PM (YkyYi)

478 >>Is it wrong of me to hope he face plants or goes into the slurring angry Joe ?

I'm counting on a loud Tourette's episode followed by a complete writhing seizure on the floor.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 19, 2022 01:11 PM (GYllL)

479 Shortages here in my AO: dairy products (intermittently, especially cream cheese), some OTC drugs, wet cat food (chronic).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2022 01:11 PM (DU+/6)

480 It's time for angry, senile racist Joe to drop the "N" word.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, getting serious about lurking at January 19, 2022 01:12 PM (eGTCV)

481 Then Rio Salado is a huge bargain. Membership is $120 per year; ten bucks to shoot as a guest.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 19, 2022 01:09 PM (P3gRi)
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Mohave Sportsman Club: $50 a year.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 19, 2022 01:12 PM (5pTK/)

482 Democrat Rep. Jeffries: Federal Election Takeover 'Inspired By Hugo Chavez ... Errr ... Cesar Chavez'

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Adolph Hitler, dude! Adolph Hitler!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 01:12 PM (FVME7)

483 Now do Round-Up. $12.00/gal last year. $58.00 now.
Posted by: Deep State 910 at January 19, 2022 01:10 PM (aX0CW)

40 of that 46 bucks goes right to lawyers

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 19, 2022 01:12 PM (yrol0)

484 It appears to be hit 'n miss with stuff.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2022 01:07 PM (BFigT)

Lucky for me I'm disorganized when it comes to my pantry and freezer, so I'll go to the store and think, "do I need this? I'd better get it" then go home and find out I already have four of whatever it was.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 19, 2022 01:12 PM (Ez6QX)

485 Tom Elliott
@tomselliot

@RepJeffries
: Republicans a "cult" for opposing our plan to nationalize elections

"What happened to the modern day Republican Party? Was it the election that took place in 2008? Did that disturb you? Did that throw you off? Were you confused by that?"

https://tinyurl.com/2p8dw7t3

Posted by: redridinghood at January 19, 2022 01:12 PM (NpAcC)

486 I'm counting on a loud Tourette's episode followed by a complete writhing seizure on the floor.
Posted by: Capital Eff

If he would pull a Chef from South Park at the end I'm with you!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 19, 2022 01:12 PM (mD/uy)

487 I would recommend planning to put in some sort of garden, even if it's just growing potatoes in a bag of dirt. Also get canning and dehydrating equipment. I hope you don't need to do those things but chances are very good that it will get worse before it gets better. You can get UHT milk and those little half and half containers to have on hand. Keystone canned meats are a good product, even if they seem too expensive. And don't forget that making egg noodles is a good way to use up eggs. They should be a big cheaper as we get closer to Easter

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 19, 2022 01:13 PM (5HBd1)

488 Another poster here (Marcus T?) brought up a very good point regarding groceries.
We have millions of, shall we say "newcomers" brought here illicitly who will be competing for groceries.
And they, unlike you, will have taxpayer assistance when they do it.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 19, 2022 01:13 PM (jTmQV)

489 So what's the opposite of "having coattails" in politics?

"Having entrails."

Because Biden has a shit ton of it.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 19, 2022 01:13 PM (w9Wax)

490 460 My gun range offers memberships. I bought an annual pass for $525. The math works out for me because I go at least once a week and some weeks three times. The standard pistol fee is $20 an hour.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 19, 2022 12:39 PM (bVYXr)

Then Rio Salado is a huge bargain. Membership is $120 per year; ten bucks to shoot as a guest.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 19, 2022 01:09 PM (P3gRi)

The one I belong to has been around forever and is about $170/year. Guests shoot for $5. Has skeet, nice outdoor range with pistol (out to 100yds), and rifle (out to 300yds). Has indoor range but is VERY restrictive on using it.

There is a new one that just opened up - has nice indoor facilities but is about $500+/year. Nice facility, but pricey - especially when I factor in replacing the ammo I'll shoot.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 19, 2022 01:13 PM (N39Ws)

491 Nothing says 'Go all in' quite like buying non-voting non-dividend unlisted Class C stock in a startup

But, but, but... The dude has tats and wears his hair short. You can't get any more authentic than that.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 19, 2022 01:13 PM (nfrXX)

492 Basically, you can't have nice things like a democracy because the fcuking sociopaths rise to the top of every organization on earth.

Thats was why it was to be a Republic and citizens could vote with their feet!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 19, 2022 01:13 PM (yrol0)

493 00 So the racist DA in NY said she has found significant evidence of fraud regarding Trump.....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2022 12:59 PM

If that was true, that's all of what we'd be reading or hearing about today.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2022 01:13 PM (Fs5vw)

494 Here in Texas when they say snow people run to the store and buy a months worth of bread, milk, and eggs.

STUPID
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 19, 2022 01:01 PM (yrol0)

It's so you can make French toast as survival food! When the power goes out...and you can't use your stove...

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 19, 2022 01:13 PM (II3Gr)

495 He's like the angry old man yelling at his neighbors to get off their own lawn.
Posted by: Muldoon

So he's part of an HOA board?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 19, 2022 01:14 PM (CCwsu)

496 445 If new VA Attorney General can cancel all the Civil Riiiiiiights folks, there is nothing holding Trump or Desantis back in 2024 from deleting the entire DOJ and DOE.

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 19, 2022 01:07 PM (SScvq)

What he needs to do is freeze all government contractors 1st.

Then, he needs a RIF-process that allows for only X number of folks across all government functions where X number is the number of active duty and reserve veterans, both disabled and not plus 5% (since some departments are heavier than others for veterans)...while this isn't perfect, it would guarantee most of the very recent zealot hires would be auto-gone and most of the poor performing libs are also gone b/c the "preference of vets" means no "regular" folks can keep jobs if there aren't enough spots after this group...

But you MUST not let them back in the back door as contractors - those folks get all of the employee protections of feds at higher cost to the gov, and once you have a contract, it never goes. So, you have to declare LOTS of fed gov functions gov employee only functions...

Posted by: Nova local at January 19, 2022 01:14 PM (exHjb)

497 The only thing they did not have was bottled water.

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You never miss the water 'til the trains get robbed!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 19, 2022 01:14 PM (FVME7)

498 219 Where are all these shortages at, Horde? Serious question.
Posted by: kraken at January 19, 2022 12:40 PM (6Je/Q

Southern Colorado and northwest Arkansas.

Posted by: Emmie -- support your local Moron at January 19, 2022 01:14 PM (6RgRK)

499 Nood friendly democratic internment camps.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 19, 2022 01:14 PM (z5Vrg)

500 487 I would recommend planning to put in some sort of garden, even if it's just growing potatoes in a bag of dirt. Also get canning and dehydrating equipment. I hope you don't need to do those things but chances are very good that it will get worse before it gets better. You can get UHT milk and those little half and half containers to have on hand. Keystone canned meats are a good product, even if they seem too expensive. And don't forget that making egg noodles is a good way to use up eggs. They should be a big cheaper as we get closer to Easter
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 19, 2022 01:13 PM (5HBd1)

Im a saving my shit in little bags like The Martian.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 19, 2022 01:14 PM (yrol0)

501 An "epic mess"? The greatest economy across every measurable category since WWII? Biden inherited a country running like a Swiss watch. If we had a functioning and self-respecting opposition party we'd be making this case, but of course any defense of the icky and mean-tweeting Trump is beyond the pale.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 19, 2022 01:14 PM (H8QX8)

502
@RepJeffries
: Republicans a "cult" for opposing our plan to nationalize elections

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The new pile-on shiny word of the day is now "cult." Oppose us? Cult. Oppose us? Racist. Oppose us? Insurrectionists. Oppose us? Hitler. Oppose us? Our very democracy is at stake!

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 19, 2022 01:14 PM (sVtYq)

503 Camp NOOD!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 19, 2022 01:15 PM (CCwsu)

504 But, but, but... The dude has tats and wears his hair short. You can't get any more authentic than that.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 19, 2022 01:13 PM (nfrXX)

He's also the guy who shot bin Laden in the face.

I mean, for that, he will never pay for a beer again in his life. But, yeah, any kind of pander of "ARMED FORCES BEER" is not really sitting well with me.

Posted by: blaster at January 19, 2022 01:15 PM (9otr5)

505 An "epic mess"? The greatest economy across every measurable category since WWII? Biden inherited a country running like a Swiss watch. If we had a functioning and self-respecting opposition party we'd be making this case, but of course any defense of the icky and mean-tweeting Trump is beyond the pale.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 19, 2022 01:14 PM (H8QX

Republicans are quieter than a whore in church.

Posted by: ... at January 19, 2022 01:15 PM (xAJ5i)

506 Nothing says 'Go all in' quite like buying non-voting non-dividend unlisted Class C stock in a startup
==

But you get a hat! And a sticker!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 19, 2022 01:09 PM (4Om93)

...

What sort of ops like this would the left fall for? Woke Kumbacha founded by whomever who wins this weeks grievance battle royale?

Posted by: TexasDan at January 19, 2022 01:15 PM (z9npv)

507 Well at the very least we need someone strong who the Left will treat with respect and deference. Trump brings it all on himself.

Posted by: ... at January 19, 2022 01:07 PM (xAJ5i)
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I hope that is satire because it is funny as hell.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 19, 2022 01:15 PM (iDcra)

508 But, but, but... The dude has tats and wears his hair short. You can't get any more authentic than that.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 19, 2022 01:13 PM (nfrXX)

Just like that faggot DC cop Michael Fanone!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 19, 2022 01:15 PM (II3Gr)

509 If fertilizer for suburban lawns spikes up, then my lawn will just have to go hungry.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 19, 2022 01:15 PM (4I/2K)

510 If that was true, that's all of what we'd be reading or hearing about today.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2022 01:13 PM (Fs5vw)

She said it last night... Maybe the "media" is waiting for prime time

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2022 01:16 PM (TdaKq)

511 472 >Well at the very least we need someone strong who the Left will treat with respect and deference.

surely you can't be serious
Posted by: DB - the king is a fink at January 19, 2022 01:11 PM (geLO

=========

Did you call him Shirley?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 19, 2022 01:16 PM (LvTSG)

512 Well at the very least we need someone strong who the Left will treat with respect and deference. Trump brings it all on himself.

Posted by: ... at January 19, 2022 01:07 PM (xAJ5i)
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Very affluent southern/central Kalifornia.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 19, 2022 01:16 PM (iDcra)

513 431 Need someone just as strong and lucky but without all his icky weaknesses.
Posted by: ... at January 19, 2022 01:00 PM (xAJ5i)

Doesn't exist. Trump's ego is part of the reason that he was able to break away from the GOP groupthink and see that there was an opportunity to win over blue-collar voters, and his "fuck you" attitude and bluntness were what helped him seem sincere enough that those voters believed him.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 19, 2022 01:05 PM (wmDcS)

Agree. You've got to accept the full package with DJT. At least you know what it is, as opposed to most other politicians, where only the insiders see the real deal.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 19, 2022 01:18 PM (2DdD8)

514 488 Another poster here (Marcus T?) brought up a very good point regarding groceries.
We have millions of, shall we say "newcomers" brought here illicitly who will be competing for groceries.
And they, unlike you, will have taxpayer assistance when they do it.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 19, 2022 01:13 PM (jTmQV

I think the majority of this is people buying extra to hedge against rising prices. I'm doing it with some items.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2022 01:18 PM (Fs5vw)

515 After the spate of retirements, and facing minority status, democrats will opt for an "every man for himself" strategy and align more closely with their own electorate, which means surviving blue dogs go right and crazies go crazier; or the party will re-adopt Clintonian "triangulation" and purge itself of the crazies, or the reverse and become a rump/regional hardcore socialist party. Personally I think the crazies are in the catbird seat.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at January 19, 2022 01:18 PM (9KXDf)

516 Sadat and Begin would have found their way to a deal without American participation. The key thing was Egypt, the by-far most important "front line state", saying "it's over". The details were unimportant.

Sadat's strategic shift completely changed the political-military realities. Hussein still was too terrified to move (but had his own longstanding secret relationship and understandings with Israel), Assad of course remained hostile and with no options, the Pals of course became even more dysfunctional and self-destructive, Gulfies continued their checkbook/UN rostrum hostility, Iraq postured.

Simple as usual to put it in logical terms. Would there have been, eventually, an Egypt-Israel formal deal, or de facto equivalent, without US participation? Yes, of course. Not a criticism of Carter.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 19, 2022 01:21 PM (OTzUX)

517 Turns out its a lot easier to cheat for the prez election than the house because it is district by district, philly can't game the countryside of PA. Which is why they want their voting rights only for dems bill passed so badly.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 19, 2022 01:21 PM (coYBh)

518 Russia is a shithole 3rd world country. Stop giving a duck about it.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 19, 2022 12:38 PM (TE0rY)

It's a bleephole 2nd world country....but yes, we don't really have any reason to be involved in what is a centuries old conflict.

Posted by: Mishdog at January 19, 2022 01:23 PM (/VWLE)

519 So what's the opposite of "having coattails" in politics?

******

Union suit long johns trap door?

Posted by: Muldoon at January 19, 2022 01:23 PM (m45I2)

520 RE: the assertion by the author that he is NOT advocating violence, an assertion that during these times of Gestapo like raids and cancel culture erasure of one's ability to earn an honest living if one dares speak the unaccepted thing...

When will we think it appropriate to advocate violence?

Violence is clearly already upon us from the left. Plans are clearly in place to foment even more violence on us paid for with the taxes from our own wages. Our attackers certainly have no inhibitions in calling for violence both against us as individual civilians and against our duly elected government agencies.

Casual observers want to know.

Posted by: TSgt Ciz at January 19, 2022 01:24 PM (TsIaP)

521 444 I commented the other day that all the ramen was gone. Literally every bag, cup and box of the stuff was sold out. Even the off brand stuff was hugely picked over. Yesterday it was no better... a week later.
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I've also noticed at the local Walmart (here in AZ) that there always seem to be bare or picked over shelves in the aisles that sell things like soup, grains, dried beans, etc.

I think some people may be stocking up in preparation for . . . whatever lies ahead.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2022 01:30 PM (k4dH2)

522 F. Joe Biden's "empathy and compassion" and $4.00 will get you a gallon of gas.

Let's Go Brandon!

Posted by: rd at January 19, 2022 01:38 PM (Z32m1)

523 Russia is a shithole 3rd world country. Stop giving a duck about it.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 19, 2022 12:38 PM (TE0rY)

It's a bleephole 2nd world country....but yes, we don't really have any reason to be involved in what is a centuries old conflict.
Posted by: Mishdog at January 19, 2022 01:23 PM (/VWLE)

The only reason we give a flying f@ck about Russia is they have 30,000 Megatons of Nuclear Weapons and all the Natural Gas that foolish Western Europe needs.

Posted by: rd at January 19, 2022 01:41 PM (Z32m1)

524 LGB

Posted by: torabora at January 19, 2022 02:06 PM (YdnVw)

525 Message--I care

Posted by: soft white underbelly at January 19, 2022 02:07 PM (xPIzP)

526 New topic for a two-minute hate:
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John Roberts: “I did not request Justice Gorsuch or any other Justice to wear a mask on the bench.”
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Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2022 03:02 PM (XHhHI)

527 If Biden gets anymore lower then Satan will be looking down the hole where Biden fell though

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 20, 2022 01:23 AM (FLiOE)

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