The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 3/23/22

Good morning, kids. Wednesday and the conservative punditry is getting itself all excited because Lindsay Graham found a set of testicles** and ripped into Dick Durbin over Guantanamo Bay detainees, proclaiming that he doesn't care if they all die in jail, before storming out of the room in a dramatic huff. Wow. Our hero. Let's all whip out our checkbooks and send some gelt to the RSCC!

**The testicles were the pea-sized bronze presentation pair minted by the Whig Party and last seen dangling from James Buchanan's thighs by an unknown cloakroom catamite. Evidently, Lindsay reserves them for special occasions. Like political ads during tough re-election fights, or faking being conservative at Judiciary Committee hearings about SCOTUS nominees, or calling for the assassination of nuclear-armed foreign leaders as well as unarmed American citizens. Who the hell does this fey fraud think he's fooling?

Unfortunately, with a few exceptions here and there, most notably Ron DeSantis, the GOP is at best useless and at worst colluding with the Junta in power by doing everything it can to keep them in power.

The Stupid Party strikes again.
Just one short month ago, Republican leaders and strategists were salivating over the prospect of a GOP blowout in the approaching midterms, as Joe Biden lurched from disaster to disaster. The debacle of our withdrawal from Afghanistan, raging inflation, an uncontrolled invasion at the southern border, crushing vaccine and mask mandates, and the utter failure to control [Chinese] COVID as promised all contributed to an apparent death spiral in the polls for Biden. With even mainstream media outlets acknowledging that the [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] polling numbers had rapidly cratered to unprecedented lows (with no bottom in sight) only one year into a new administration, it appeared that all Republicans needed to do to win big in November was to stay out of the way while the Democrats self-destructed.
But one can never underestimate the insularity and obtuseness of the Washington GOP establishment, whose sensitivity is exclusively attuned to the interests of their donor class rather than to the interests of their voting base, or even the national interest. . .
. . . The coordinated effort to downplay [Chinese] COVID emergency messaging (while quietly renewing the public health emergency and the related “emergency powers” on January 14) was concurrent with an orchestrated ratcheting up of rhetoric about the looming Russian threat to Ukraine. . . As her audience at the Munich Security Conference listened slack-jawed, the [so-called quote-unquote "vice president"] declared, “I appreciate and admire President Zelenskyy’s desire to join NATO.” With any chance at de-escalation scuttled, Putin invaded less than a week later. This appeared to be the desired outcome.
Instead of seeing the trap and calling out Biden for failing to avert an entirely predictable military confrontation with a major nuclear power by means of wise diplomacy, Republicans seem determined to demonstrate even greater recklessness in escalating a conflict that could only have the severest of detrimental consequences for both their constituents and for the United States geo-strategically. . .
. . . Already, Biden seems to have arrested his free fall in the polls, with relatively high marks on his handling of the Ukraine crisis (thanks largely to corporate media and GOP saber rattling that make him look prudent by contrast). And what, exactly, will Republicans say about the deteriorating, and perhaps grave, economic situation come the midterms in November? At this juncture, they can hardly pin the blame entirely on Biden for this dramatic shift in our nation’s economic fortunes. Try as they might to evade responsibility, the Biden economy has now inevitably become the Ukraine war economy.

As the author, Brian Robertson, notes, even seemingly non-RINO pols like Josh Hawley and John Kennedy are, and it's extremely disappointing, not immune to saber-rattling. That said, the psy-op over the General Tso's Sickness is one thing, but the Ukraine invasion is something else, vis a vis American and more specifically non-leftist public opinion. That said, without going back to check previous links over the past week or so, I do clearly recall polling that shows a clear majority not wanting direct US involvement in this war. So, yet again, the GOPe ignores its constituents. Or, more accurately as Robertson states, it heeds their advice considering their constituency is the Chamber of Commerce and the corporate set.

And speaking of the Chinese COVID, that's another area where the GOP has failed miserably over the past two years. Sorry to say, President Trump's response was perhaps his greatest mistake aside from surrounding himself with Deep State saboteurs, including of course Fauci and Birx. But as a whole, the GOP failed here as well.

It never ceases to astonish me that there remain people, apparently millions upon millions of people, who believe that the salvation of the country can be had if American citizens simply vote Republicans into office.
Frankly, it’s astonishing that, at this date, traditional Republican voters are still willing to vote Republican at all.
That the Democrat Party and its apologists in the media, academia, the entertainment industry, and beyond are beneath contempt is not in question. But we know all of this. The GOP and the Big Conservative media that advances the interests of the former at every turn are quite possibly more dangerous in that they’ve succeeded in deluding their tens of millions of constituents into thinking that they exist to counter the dominant narrative when, in reality, they facilitate it.
If the [Chinese] COVID era didn’t underscore this point in spades, nothing else will.
Democrats, recognizing that the oppression to which they’ve subjected legions of human beings in the name of combatting “The Virus” is no longer good politics for them, would prefer to pretend as if the last two years didn’t happen. Nor should we be surprised that Republicans and their conservative media boosters appear all too ready to do the same, for Big Conservatism facilitated this oppression. . .
. . . At the present moment, no medical emergency exists. Yet there IS an emergency. “The only emergency now is that you still set policies and hold huge budgets for propaganda and psychological engineering instead of directing them to strengthen the health care system.” It is a “lust for power, budgets and control” that has prolonged the “condition [of] two years now” that the Experts “have been cultivating[.]”
Imagine what America (and, by extension, the world) could have looked like since early 2020 had Republicans and Big Conservative media voices summoned the fortitude and used their resources to articulate, resoundingly and repeatedly, the perfect clarity and moral certainty expressed by Professor Emud Qimron. The dystopia into which the planet had been transformed and the gratuitous suffering that billions were made to endure could have well been averted. . .
. . . Will they redeem themselves now? After all, the verdict is in. The last two years have been an unmitigated disaster, both in reality and, critically, relative to the tenets of COVID Orthodoxy itself. The “two weeks” that the Experts told us they would need to “flatten the curve” and “save lives” has turned into two years—despite “social distancing,” mask mandates, the interning of society, and a mass vaccination campaign the likes of which the world had never known.

When you add this essay to the infuriating and blockbuster news that the CDC lied through its teeth about the actual death toll FROM Chinese COVID - they admit to over-reporting deaths by 70,000 AND lying about it "for political reasons" - the absolute fecklessness, incompetence and perhaps collusion with the Democrats and the Deep State Junta by the GOP (Ron Johnson and Rand Paul so far being notable exceptions) is infuriating to say the least.

On our latest podcast, dropping a bit later this morning, we discussed with our guest panelist, the eminent author, political essayist/commentator and good friend Harry Stein, the slam dunk winning issue of transgender insanity which really rolls into the bigger issue of social issues and the culture war in general. People on our side like Ron DeSantis and Marsha Blackburn (as evidenced by her incredulity at Judge Kentanji Jackson) get it. But then there was Kristi Noem, who shot her political aspirations in the face by flip-flopping on the issue earlier this year and now she's joined by this schmuck governor from Indiana in pissing off an otherwise fired-up electorate.

Republican Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb vetoed Monday a bill banning transgender females from playing on female sports teams.
The bill would have prevented transgender girls from participating on girls sports teams at public schools for grades K-12.
Had it been signed into law, the bill also would have allowed for a civil action suit to be brought against a school or institution subject to it if such an entity violated its provisions, according to the text of the bill.

Ah, yes. Indiana. The state that gave us Mike Pence who collapsed like a wet noodle when it came to defending RFRA, among other things IYKWIMAITYD. I don't know if there are enough votes to override the veto but to do this, in the face of freaks, frauds and perverts like "Lia" Thomas and "Rachel" Levine is inexcusable. It's an absolute winning issue, and as Harry Stein noted, it gives us a ray of hope for the future as the avenue of attack to begin the process of taking back the country. And it goes hand in hand with the mind-raping and grooming of our children at the hands of the unionized perverts of the NEA and AFT.

The parent alerted school board members to explicit content from a book available to students called Homegoing and got cut off by one of the members.
The woman begins by explaining that the process for removing a book is expensive and lengthy. The current wait time for a review extends to November of 2022, and until the inspection is complete, the book in question stays in the school. One member of a 20-person committee can object to the removal, allowing the content to remain permanently. A student on the appeals committee is objecting to removing Homegoing because it is on a reading list for an advanced placement (AP) class. AP is a national testing program, which should alert all concerned parents.
The process allows a student body member, which the procedure aims to protect, to object to removing a book that includes explicit content. Apparently, the policymakers in Cherokee County never read Lord of the Flies. Or that the holes in the policy, which are akin to leaving a toddler in charge of the cookie jar, are intentionally meant to ensure questionable content remains in the school. To think that a child will help remove a book with content adults object to in an environment rife with peer pressure and curiosity is rank insanity.
Then the parent reads an explicit passage from the book, at which point a board member, Patsy Jordan, cuts her off. The member lectured her that children could be watching the meeting, and the selection was inappropriate under those circumstances. Incredulous, the mom shot back, “Don’t you find the irony in that? You’re saying exactly what I’m telling you. You’re giving it to our children.” It seems the concept of irony is lost on the current Cherokee County School Board.

What happened in Loudon County, VA that resulted in not just the election of Glenn Youngkin but a drubbing of Democrats down-ballot should be a giant wakeup call. With a party of frauds as exemplified by the likes of Eric Holcomb and Lindsay Graham, we're just pissing in the wind unless and until they and everyone like them are purged. But it shows also where the real battles are won and lost. It's in the trenches of the school and community boards. That is ultimately the road back.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"A central-bank-issued digital dollar could enable a dark future."
CBDC Caution
"Thanks largely to corporate media and GOP saber-rattling that make him look prudent by contrast, Joe Biden has arrested his freefall in the polls which cite his Ukraine policy."
Ukraine and the RINO Delusion
". . . Even among Republican politicians and conservative media."
The Death of Outrage Over Chinese COVID

RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR

"Zelensky said he would still demand complete withdrawal of Russian forces from his country and international commitments to Ukraine’s security."
Zelensky: We Won't Join NATO if That Brings Peace
"When the invasion of Ukraine began in late February, [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden ordered 7,000 more U.S. troops to positions in Europe. The Department of Defense released a statement announcing the troop movement to bolster U.S. commitments to its European allies, and to act as a deterrent against Russian military action past the border of Ukraine."
Biden Junta Weighing Sending More Troops To Europe: Defense Official
". . . make no mistake about it: the purpose of the current propaganda offensive is to generate public support in the United States for Washington’s military intervention on Ukraine’s behalf. This time, the American people need to recognize pro-war propaganda in the news media for what it is, and not take the bait."
The US Press Again Becomes a Conduit for Pro-War Propaganda
The answer lies "under our feet," he said. "And one thing I'd do rapidly is, I'd get the oil flowing. Because if you reduce the price of oil significantly, that war is going to end, that war is going to end.
Trump Explains What He Would Do to End Putin's War in Ukraine
"Unvaxxed far more likely to support more diplomatic measures."
Poll: Vaccinated People Far More Likely to Support Risking WWIII Over Ukraine
"The Russian invasion of Ukraine presents a practical, not moral, conundrum."
Know Your Enemy
DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL, THE ECONOMY, STUPID
As of Tuesday, the national gas price average stood at $4.242, slightly lower than the record high, which the U.S. broke in a series of consecutive days earlier this month. On March 11, for example, the national gas average reached $4.331, rising 49 cents over one week, beating records made during former President Obama’s presidency."
California Reporting Highest Gas Prices in the Nation, Nearing $6
"With roughly 25% of the global wheat supply essentially disappearing over the course of a month, prices on the remaining wheat have skyrocketed, and that’s bad news for consumers."
Food Prices Are About To Get Even More Exorbitant
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"It seems that Washington's obsession with making everything 'sustainable' means destroying the American way of life."
Obama's Third Term and the Destruction of the American Polity
"The West’s capital is being deployed to create an artificial shortage of oil and gas produced domestically and reward non-Western oil and gas producers such as Russia and Iran with higher prices."
Net-Zero and ESG Are Worsening the Energy Crisis—and Weakening the West
"The 2005 'Renewable Fuel Standard' mandate ordering that ethanol be added to automotive gasoline has about run its course."
Children of the Corn and the Fraud of Renewable Energy
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"It's not the only 'conspiracy theory' Biden invoked during his speech Monday."
Biden: "There’s Going to Be a New World Order"
"Welcome to the most dangerous two years in American history."
The Coming Disaster
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Selectively cherry-picking ‘The Science’ to suit a political narrative is not ‘Following the Science.’ It is malpractice and fraud."
CDC Tells New York Times It Hid Chinese COVID Data For Political Reasons
"The question of how to differentiate between many deaths were from [Chinese] COVID-19, and how many deaths were with [Chinese] COVID-19, still remains." (70,000 is probably only what they're willing to cop to - jjs)
CDC Over-Reported Chinese COVID-19 Deaths By More Than 70,000
Jha has been no stranger to wading into politics. He has repeatedly singled out Florida with criticism for its pandemic response. Specifically, he has criticized Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ policies outlawing mask and vaccine mandates by certain entities, and has blasted the governor for listening to public health experts associated with the Great Barrington Declaration, calling them “clowns.”
Biden’s New Chinese COVID Czar Was America’s Leading Lockdown Advocate
“I am sharing the news of my positive test today out of an abundance of transparency,” Psaki said in her statement, adding that she is experiencing “mild symptoms.”
Peppermint Piss-Hockey Tests Positive for Chinese COVID Hours Before Biden’s Big Europe Trip
"Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the D.C. District Court said Friday that the law violates the religious liberty of parents."
Federal Judge Blocks DC Law Allowing Children to be Vaccinated Without Parental Consent
"City's teachers' union in legal battle to uphold universal masking policy."
Chicago Public Schools Is Masking Kids Again;Teachers’ Union Wants More Restrictions
"The sudden surge is being blamed on the country rolling back these pandemic measures in the last few weeks, the Washington Post noted." (remember, cases do not mean sickness or death, but go ahead and panic - jjs)
South Korea, One of World’s Most Populous Nations, Suddenly Erupts With Chinese COVID After Two Years of Almost No Cases
Lloyd Billingsley: "Unlike NIH director Francis Collins and Nancy Messonnier of the CDC, Anthony Fauci won’t be retiring any time soon."
Dynamics of Dialectical Faucism
"The virtual deformation of the Republic is the threat we face. If there is no course change and no credible resistance mounted by an awakened public and by responsible members of the political class, the 2022 and 2024 elections will see the Democrats triumph, and the United States of America will have become . . . "
The Island of Dr. Fauci
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"The porn peddler once represented by Michael Avenatti claims she would rather go to jail than pay Trump. That’s not how it works."
LOL: Porn Peddler Stormy "Sloppy" Daniels Owes Trump $300,000 After Losing Legal Appeal
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Then the parent reads an explicit passage from the book, at which point a board member, Patsy Jordan, cuts her off. The member lectured her that children could be watching the meeting, and the selection was inappropriate under those circumstances. Incredulous, the mom shot back, “Don’t you find the irony in that? You’re saying exactly what I’m telling you. You’re giving it to our children.” It seems the concept of irony is lost on the current Cherokee County School Board.
Watch What Happens When a Mother at a School Board Meeting Tries to Read Explicit Content Served Up to Students
"Following Trump’s lead, a grassroots movement has forced the GOP to fight."
The Right Can Win on Parents’ Rights
"A public letter alleging an NAIS member school violated its tax-exempt status represents a new strategy in the fight against political indoctrination at private schools."
Parents Revolt at Westminster Schools in Atlanta Over "Critical Social Justice" Political Activism, File IRS Complaint
"When every faculty member is an informer."
Soviet-Style Surveillance at a Connecticut University
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"The answer is no."
Federal Judge Blocks Biden Junta's Attempt To Halt Certain ICE Deportations
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Redo Voting is a win-win-win-win system. It’s private, unhackable, will save the government millions of dollars, and people can vote from anywhere. If a politician rejects a voting system that is secure, private, allows voting from the moon, and saves money, we know they are up to something fishy."
Finally: A Transparent Voting Process That Can't Be Corrupted, Hacked, or Cheated — Democrats Will Hate It
After caving on the tranny freaks in sports, I guess this is something.
Indiana Gov. Signs Bill Requiring Paper Backup for All Voting Machines
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
“Your agenda is where my heart is.”
Daniel Greenfield: Biden’s Israel Ambassador Tells BDS Group He Wants Jews Out of Jerusalem
"Connecting a handful of non-existent dots."
Peter Beinart Blames Israel For Ukraine’s Plight
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Margot Cleveland: "These scandals are no longer just about Hunter Biden. They are about now-[so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden, and we need answers."
8 Joe Biden Scandals Inside Hunter Biden’s MacBook That Corporate Media Just Admitted Is Legit
Jeffrey Lord: "The media get swept up in lies on the Hunter Biden scandal." (well, they co-authored the lies, Jeff - jjs)
Trump Was Right: The Political Establishment Is Utterly Corrupt
Robert Spencer: "Their lies accomplished their purpose, and that’s that."
Where are the 51 Intel Agents Who Assured Us Hunter's Laptop Was Russian Disinformation?
"Biden in September of last year placed close confidant Joe Kiani, the founder and CEO of the medical technology company Masimo Corporation, on the influential President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Kiani's company, which manufactures various medical devices, has received almost $3 million in federal government contracts since Biden took office in 2021. Its contracts include funding from the Department of Defense and Department of Health and Human Services."
Biden Donor Awarded White House Post, Millions in Fed Contracts
OTHER DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Paul Pelosi exercised options to buy between $1 million and $5 million in shares of the electric car maker on March 17, according to disclosures filed with the House clerk. He purchased the option on Dec. 22, 2020, at an overall contract value of between $500,000 and $1 million. Nancy Pelosi has since spearheaded legislation to give tens of billions of dollars to build electric charging stations across the country. Democrats are also pushing to give subsidies to consumers to buy electric cars."
Pelosi’s Electric Car Windfall
"NJ Dem takes tens of thousands from business groups, corporate lobbying firms."
Tom Malinowski Sidesteps His Self-Imposed Corporate PAC Ban
POLITICS
Dennis Prager: ". . . if America’s liberals voted their values, the Democrat Party would not win another major election — and it would either become irrelevant or decide to return to its liberal roots. Only America’s liberals, working in common cause with conservatives, can save America. Then America can deal with any threat — internal or external."
America Caught Between Russia and China Externally and the Left Internally
"A sign of disrespect."
New Book Claims VP Wanted Biden’s Staff To Stand Whenever She Walked In
"Seth Dillon can. Andrew McCarthy cannot."
Who Will Beat the Left?
In the timeless words of Gordon Lightfoot, "if you could read my mind . . ."
Hillary Clinton Tests Positive for Chinese COVID; Says She Has "Mild Symptoms"
"The church-steepled state is not what it used to be."
A Crazily Woke Vermont Ponders Its Political Future
SUPREME COURT VACANCY
"The school is undertaking an 'antiracism journey' with objectives including mandated antiracism training and education for staff members, and reform of curriculum from a social justice perspective. It also promotes controversial 'antiracist resources,' such as Richard Delgado's Critical Race Theory and Ibram X. [Krement's] How to Be an Antiracist."
Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Leadership Role at School Promoting Critical Race Theory
"While the Democrats tried to paint Republicans as racist for asking questions, nothing could protect Jackson from the answers she gave."
Kentanji Brown Jackson’s Anti-Constitutional, Pro-Child Predator Views
Whitehouse, who himself is a beneficiary of dark money, began by saying, “I’ll be the first to concede that there is dark money on both sides, and I hope very much we can get rid of it on both sides shortly by legislation.” (will no one rid us of this cancerous pustule? - jjs)
Sheldon Whorehouse: Leftist Dark Money Group "Rooting for" Jackson Is Different Than "Right-Wing Dark Money"
“You can’t?” Blackburn pressed. “Not in this context, I’m not a biologist,” the nominee interjected.
Judge Jackson Says She Can’t Define "Woman" When Pressed By Sen. Blackburn
"An anxious public also deserves to know if she's ever passed out drinking."
How is "Boofed" Pronounced? And Other Vital Questions Kentanji Brown Jackson Must Answer
"The protesters stomped, shouted, clapped, sang and pounded the walls nearby, making so much noise it disrupted classes, The Washington Free Beacon reports. They also blocked the only exit and grabbed and jostled at least two FedSoc members. Police had to be called to escort panelists safely from the site. . .Will would-be Supreme Court Justice Jackson condemn the mob and announce that she won’t hire any of its members as clerks? If not, she doesn’t deserve a single senator’s blessing of her ascent."
Senators Should Ask Ketanji Brown Jackson Whether She Backs the Yale Law Hecklers — Or Free Speech
I believe you're lying out of your ass.
SCOTUS Nominee: "I Believe I Did" Celebrate Clarence Thomas' Nomination to the High Court
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Good.
Shoppers Pummel Man to the Ground After He Allegedly Tried to Rape a Woman in Walmart
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"The joke is on Twitter — not only is the Big Tech bully showing its ridiculous vendetta and giving the Bee a lot of publicity, it’s also helping the Bee’s prophesies come true."
7 Times the Babylon Bee Reported History Before It Happened
“By a double-digit margin, more Hispanic Democrats are considering leaving their party compared to Hispanic Republicans.”
Liberal Media Starts to Notice Democrats Have a Hispanic Voter Problem
“What blew my mind was the fear-mongering in the media."
Scientists Blame Big Tech, Media for Silencing Chinese COVID-19 Debate
ABORTION
"HB 4327 takes the Texas Heartbeat Act a step further by banning all abortions from the moment of conception up until birth, except for if the mother’s life is at risk, according to the bill."
Oklahoma Lawmakers Pass Texas-Style Pro-Life Bill
"The law has Down Syndrome in its name, but it covers ALL disabilities."
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice Signs Law Banning Abortion Because of Disability
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Heinous human rights atrocities."
Bipartisan Legislation Aims To Relink China’s Human Rights Record With Trade
"Even Democrats are hedging."
Redesigned Iran Nuclear Deal Faces Bipartisan Hesitancy
"Senior Foreign Affairs Committee member Rep. Darrell Issa: 'This is turning back on the switch to Iran's nuclear program.'"
Iran Deal Includes ‘Quid Pro Quo’ To Enrich Russia, House Republican Says
"Joe Biden doesn’t have them." (mostly because he causes them - jjs)
Four Habits of Successful Crisis Management by American Presidents
"Israeli police stated that the murderer was 34-year-old Mohammad Ghaleb Abu al-Qi’an, an Arab Israeli citizen who lives in the Bedouin Arab town of Hura and had served four years in prison for planning to join ISIS in Syria but was released in 2019. Police said the terrorist stabbed a 40-year-old woman at a gas station, then drove his car into a cyclist, then got out of the car and stabbed several people at the BIG shopping center."
4 Israelis Murdered By Arab Terrorist, Worst Attack In Almost 6 Years. Hamas Praises Killer.
"It's worth pointing out that there is nothing legally binding about an agreement like this. If enough New Democrat M.P.s make a stink, if perhaps some sane Liberals begin to drift towards the Tories, this deal could all fall apart overnight. In the meantime, the Conservatives have to stay focused on their ongoing leadership election. Hopefully this time they can avoid the self-interested Liberal-lite types, and put an actual conservative in charge."
Castreau-cescu Good to Go Until 2025
"He’s right."
Assad: In "Democratic" West, You’re Only Allowed One Opinion
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Guess who? Hint: "Ikeeeeeeelyou!"
Female Ukrainian Refugees Encounter Swedish Diversity
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
"They tried to kill me."
Rep. Markwayne Mullin Accuses White House of Giving His Location to the Taliban
Robert Spencer: "Now we can rest easy. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that Afghan refugees who arrived in the U.S. before last week, specifically March 15, will now have Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the next 18 months. This means that they cannot be deported, and so no racist, redneck, xenophobic MAGA-hat-wearing yahoos will be able to do anything about Biden’s handlers’ marvelous multicultural initiative until at least 2024. As we must so often ask about Biden projects, once again, what could possibly go wrong?"
Insane: Now All the Unvetted Afghans Biden's Handlers Brought Here Can't Be Deported
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"California’s Central Valley grows around one-fourth of the country’s food, which includes around 40% of the nation’s fruits and nuts, but there’s already evidence that farmers are cutting back production."
California Drought Reaches Record Levels
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Activists use the drug’s alleged medical benefits to lobby for legalized recreational use."
Study: Medical Marijuana Leads to Addiction, Not Shown to Be Effective
"Like Operation Warp Speed, the Provider Relief Fund—which kept afloat the U.S. health-care sector in unprecedented circumstances—should be celebrated and learned from."
The Other Great Pandemic Partnership
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"While the delay could certainly be because the company needed to prepare enough Superheavy engines, I also suspect it is also because Musk now expects the FAA to not approve the environmental reassessment of Starship’s Boca Chica launch site by the end of March, as has been promised. I predict that sometime in the next few days the FAA will announce another one-month delay in that process, the fourth such delay by that federal agency."
Musk Says Starship Will Be Ready for First Orbital Launch in May
"The uncertainty of science: Astronomers, using the MeerKat radio telescope in South Africa, have taken the best radio image yet of a newly discovered type of astronomical object, dubbed whimsically as an odd radio circle (ORC)."
Sharpest Radio Image Ever Taken of Newly Discovered Space Object
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"A Portland hospital advises young boys to squash their developing genitals and refers them to a sex shop for ‘gender-affirming items.’" (can we hire out Antifa to burn the place down? - jjs)
Portland Children’s Hospital Instructs Kids to Bind Their Genitals and Solicit Sex Shops
"All the usual suspects are furious."
Florida Aims to End Sexualization of Children
"Weyant, who came in second during the March 17 competition at the NCAA championships held at Georgia Tech’s McAuley Aquatic Center, received hearty congratulations from Gov. DeSantis during a Tuesday press conference WFLA reported."
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Declares Florida Native Emma Weyant "Real Winner" Over Trans Swimmer
"In the end, sports madness is not about trans rights, or 'authentic feelings,' or any attempt to make sports fair for anyone. It's about power."
"Lia" Thomas Has the Right to Compete — Against Men
Indiana gave us Mike Pence, who chickened out and caved on RFRA, among other things . . .
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb Vetoes Bill Banning Transgender Females From School Sports
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“It’s why The Daily Wire launched its own film company last year,” he added. “So people with inexcusable values like mine can get great entertainment without giving their money to people who clearly hate them.”
Woke Harry’s Razors Accuses Daily Wire of "Hate Speech" for Traditional Gender Views
Robert Spencer: "In line with this, every last little thing about life as we have known it must be rejected, even something as trivial as tipping in restaurants, so that we are kept thoroughly off-balance and increasingly accustomed to the idea that our nation and culture are radically wrong, and must be thoroughgoingly replaced. That’s how the groundwork is laid for revolutions. That’s what Nikole Hannah-Jones is all about."
1619 Project Founder Nikole Hannah-Jones Finds Something New to Call Racist
"Even more disgusting, this petition is in itself another lynching of Emmett Till. Because the lyrics of an opera that tells his story happens to be written by a white, his story must not be told. He is once again flirting with a white woman, and that cannot be tolerated!"
Today's Blacklisted American: Emmett Till Opera Canceled Because Lyrics Were Written By a White
"Can't fucking do anything."
Bill Maher Calls "Orwellian" California the Democrat Party’s "Achilles Heel"
Christian Toto: "Far-left comic puts head in sand over woke culture's impact on comedy, the arts."
‘Arrested Development Star David Cross: No Comedian Has Been "Cancelled"
"We have to reject the form of life that has been thrust upon us by the media and the digital world."
Shattering the Screen of Unreality
Rabbi Chananya Weissman: "If the technocrats were really so smart, they would learn from those who came before them."
Grasshoppers Against God

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2022 07:32 AM (yrol0)

2 Howdy, JJ!

Posted by: Doof at March 23, 2022 07:33 AM (mZUr4)

3 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 07:34 AM (3D/fK)

4 Top o'the morning JJ. Happy birthday.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at March 23, 2022 07:34 AM (R5lpX)

5 Lindsay Graham found a set of testicles**

Bouncing off the back of his ass?

Maybe Zelensky walked off with the entire inventory.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 07:34 AM (lD3vL)

6 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 23, 2022 07:35 AM (IUd0M)

7 Big day for child pornographers.

Posted by: Redenzo at March 23, 2022 07:35 AM (E7vND)

8 Present.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at March 23, 2022 07:35 AM (MkuC5)

9 Great job JJ! I'd leave a tip but you know, racist.

Posted by: fd at March 23, 2022 07:35 AM (vrz2I)

10 Ripest election in 100 years and the Republicans don't want to touch it with a 10 foot pole.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 07:35 AM (vwLCV)

11 9 Great job JJ! I'd leave a tip but you know, racist.
Posted by: fd at March 23, 2022 07:35 AM (vrz2I)

Put on Byrd's sheets and hit it!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2022 07:36 AM (s2VJv)

12 Lindsay Graham found a set of testicles**

Bouncing off the back of his ass?

Or off his chin. He might be a swallowerer.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at March 23, 2022 07:37 AM (R5lpX)

13 We are going to need more rope.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 07:37 AM (qnVBz)

14 Don't any Pubs have any beach friends that can drop some dirt on Jackson? Where are the screaming protestors and accusations of boofing on the bench?

Posted by: fd at March 23, 2022 07:38 AM (vrz2I)

15 Graham is still going to vote yes. Guaranteed.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 07:38 AM (qnVBz)

16 If I could vote multiple times to dethrone Mizz Lindsey, the jail time for voter fraud would be worth it.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at March 23, 2022 07:39 AM (R5lpX)

17 KBJ touched my fartclam in high school.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 07:40 AM (qnVBz)

18 Ripest election in 100 years and the Republicans don't want to touch it with a 10 foot pole.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 07:35 AM (vwLCV)

If they start winning, it might help DNC fundraising too much. That would be a true strategic blunder.

/s

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 07:41 AM (LefDD)

19 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

COVID was the coup

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 23, 2022 07:41 AM (EZebt)

20 Graham is a two-faced sodomite.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 23, 2022 07:41 AM (6NKqI)

21 Corn ethanol has an EROI of 1.5 as compared to gasolines 11.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2022 07:41 AM (yrol0)

22 Mornin' Horde!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 23, 2022 07:42 AM (bQ5Hd)

23 Lindsey Graham could come out of the closet and run for president and the press would utterly savage him.

It's weird how the things that make a person a HERO on the left make the same person a villain on the right.

Almost like it's just red v blue and nothing else.

Posted by: MJ at March 23, 2022 07:42 AM (zwDuR)

24 The agency (CDC) has been reluctant to make those figures public, according to the Times, because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2022 07:42 AM (yrol0)

25 Graham is a two-faced sodomite.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 23, 2022 07:41 AM (6NKqI)

A veritable Janus of gagging on hogs.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 07:43 AM (LefDD)

26 Zelensky: We Won't Join NATO if That Brings Peace

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ShainS: I Won't Be Marrying Gisele Bundchen if That Saves The World

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 23, 2022 07:44 AM (soOQJ)

27 The Stupid Party strikes again.

There's nothing stupid about those fucksticks, they're gaming the system and making money. There's everything stupid about continuing to support them, in any form or fashion.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 23, 2022 07:44 AM (XPkZs)

28 Video of a trans 'mom' (guy in a wig) arguing with real moms about access to lockers brought it all home. It's about power versus rights. We argue rights while they accrue power. They did not win power, they simply took it. The time for us to take back this power is today.

Posted by: IanDeal at March 23, 2022 07:44 AM (MGjjz)

29
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 23, 2022 07:45 AM (DUIap)

30 Rape At The Wall-Mark...what aisle is that on?

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 23, 2022 07:45 AM (Sdlpf)

31 "Sabbath-observing" is a shorthand way of describing a joo who probably keeps kosher, does not use electronics, or does work on Saturday, attends the house of prayer regularly, etc.

Shomer COVID instead of Shomer shabbos.

Because its a religion too

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 23, 2022 07:45 AM (EZebt)

32 "Zelensky said he would still demand complete withdrawal of Russian forces from his country and international commitments to Ukraines security."
Zelensky: We Won't Join NATO if That Brings Peace

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One can only imagine the billions in aid money that is being laundered with the excuse of this "war"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 07:45 AM (vwLCV)

33 "KBJ touched my fartclam in high school.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy"

Get thee to DC!

Posted by: fd at March 23, 2022 07:45 AM (vrz2I)

34 It never ceases to astonish me that there remain people, apparently millions upon millions of people, who believe that the salvation of the country can be had if American citizens simply vote Republicans into office.

Its called "Primaries"

Furthermore, we have been going about this all wrong. For reasons that are not clear, probably, naivety and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, that we think that we are supposed to be represented. That is utter bullshit and insultingly bad lies.

First off, its the Regulatory State and Kalorama that runs everything. Every elected official there is for the grift. Every appointee is there for the spoils and the recognition.

Because so much of the power structure has been bought off or has China balls deep into them, Congress has ended up being nothing more than a form of highly corrupt royal family with internal fights and dysfunction.

Besides, they keep telling us who is the real power behind the throne - its the various idle rich multi-billionaires and NGO operatives.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 07:45 AM (lD3vL)

35 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2022 07:46 AM (DU+/6)

36 "A central-bank-issued digital dollar could enable a dark future."

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Before going back and reading through all the links I can stomach, I want to ask this. We all know this is their goal. The Great Resetters. The question is, how do we prevent it? How do we stop this digital dollar freight train from happening? After seeing how very easy it is to freeze our own money, this is a really frightening prospect in the overall scheme of things.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 23, 2022 07:46 AM (sVtYq)

37 One can only imagine the billions in aid money that is being laundered with the excuse of this "war"

Off hand, I would say "all of it".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 07:47 AM (lD3vL)

38 Prager is generous to a fault.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2022 07:47 AM (ybIRR)

39 Instead of seeing the trap and calling out Biden for failing to avert an entirely predictable military confrontation with a major nuclear power by means of wise diplomacy, Republicans seem determined to demonstrate even greater recklessness in escalating a conflict that could only have the severest of detrimental consequences for both their constituents and for the United States geo-strategically
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Of course. It's a combination of several things. First and foremost, they're on the same side as the Left in most things. Second, they know support for a Ukrainian intervention is low and thus might strategically think it's better to hang this on Biden. Some of them *are* that stupid. Third, and in contradiction to the second, Republicans seem to have a default position of "exciting new war" == "exciting new patriotism" and thus can ride to victory on an M1 tank to a soundtrack of screaming eagles flying overhead.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2022 07:48 AM (DU+/6)

40 So what are we to do? Democrats have proven themselves time after time to enact legislation that most of the country hates with a passion. So we vote Republican. They then take the ball and run with it enacting their own stupid legislation, WE NEED SOMEONE TO VOTE FOR, NOT AGAINST!!!

Posted by: Bill R. at March 23, 2022 07:48 AM (wzzJf)

41 Burn it down (not west Texas).
Scatter the stones (still: not west Texas)
Salt the earth where it stood (also: not west Texas).

It's not nearly as snappy when I have to be more specific.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 23, 2022 07:48 AM (C/VBS)

42 JJ

Link for REDO voting:

https://tinyurl.com/32pjmczd

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2022 07:49 AM (yrol0)

43 10 Ripest election in 100 years and the Republicans don't want to touch it with a 10 foot pole.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 07:35 AM (vwLCV)

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McConnell's Plan & Agenda if R's Win the Senate? McCarthy's Plan & Agenda if R's Win the House?

* crickets *

It's almost as if they're not even trying ... at least The Washington Generals pretended to try and win.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 23, 2022 07:49 AM (soOQJ)

44 Finally: A Transparent Voting Process That Can't Be Corrupted, Hacked, or Cheated - Democrats Will Hate It

This link returns here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 23, 2022 07:49 AM (IUd0M)

45 >COVID was the coup

The reason why the stock market went up, when unemployment went from historic high to a historic low.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2022 07:49 AM (ybIRR)

46 "Medical Marijuana Leads to Addiction, Not Shown to Be Effective"

But then you don't care so what the ferk.

Posted by: fd at March 23, 2022 07:49 AM (vrz2I)

47 If Republicans wanted just a slightly slower decline into secular communism, what would they be doing differently?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 23, 2022 07:49 AM (C/VBS)

48 Some discouraging actions from untrustworthy politicos and, next thing you know, the world is all twisted. The Indiana governor is now part of the Kristi Noem wing of the Uniparty, joining virtually the entire Senate GOPe caucus (Marsha Blackburn, Ron Johnson, and a couple others excepted)

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 23, 2022 07:49 AM (jnczo)

49 Good rundown on Ukraine/GOP. All people outside the hard Left hate Brandon. No people outside the hard Left care enough about a couple of crooked Slav autocrats duking it out over some gas lines and wheat fields to become entangled in their gang fight.

It's a perfect opportunity to differentiate your Party ahead of an election... Your Party leadership could say "We have so many problems, thanks to Brandon. Problems like X, Y, & Z. Problems we'll face head on and solve before spending a penny of our diminishing treasure or shedding a drop of our precious blood in this perpetually squalid backwater. Lord knows we don't need another Brandon-shaped disaster like Afghanistan."

Instead, the GOP stepped up and said "This is a great opportunity to show you, the American people, that when it comes to the important issues - like whether we should kill your sons, and hapless foreigners, and disgrace our country, so we politicians can get even more money - We Stand With ~~Corrupt Gerontocracy~~ Ukraine!!!"

It is to laugh.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 23, 2022 07:50 AM (Zhwz2)

50 The reason why the stock market went up, when unemployment went from historic high to a historic low.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2022 07:49 AM (ybIRR)

Equities go up because the money supply goes up, and there is literally nowhere else to go with one's money.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 07:51 AM (LefDD)

51 JJ

Trump Was Right: The Political Establishment Is Utterly Corrupt

https://tinyurl.com/324nf4jw

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2022 07:51 AM (yrol0)

52 Before going back and reading through all the links I can stomach, I want to ask this. We all know this is their goal. The Great Resetters. The question is, how do we prevent it

That recipe has been known since the beginning of time, we just don't have the intestinal fortitude to do it - Go full French Revolution.

The West has been seizing yachts and other assets because the kleptocracy looks in the mirror and sees attacking assets as the number one way to control political outcomes.

Its not necessarily the thought of losing everything, because its not possible for a billionaire to lose everything unless their life is also a very serious consideration for losing.

For people without God, their life is everything. When it is seriously threatened, then they will do anything to save it.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 07:51 AM (lD3vL)

53 "They tried to kill me."
Rep. Markwayne Mullin Accuses White House of Giving His Location to the Taliban"

With a forklift?

Posted by: Ken at March 23, 2022 07:51 AM (vrz2I)

54 *Adjusts tin foil hat*

Transportation is freedom. Cash is privacy. It's like there's some direct conflict between those two things and present policies. Almost like it was a strategy being implemented.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 23, 2022 07:51 AM (XPkZs)

55 Ripest election in 100 years and the Republicans don't want to touch it with a 10 foot pole.

They're too busy trying to make sure the Trump legacy is completely removed from the party.

Whatever else you might say about Trump, he actually fought for what he said he would fight for (whether you liked it or not) and fulfilled a fair number of his promises - that while combatting not only the other party but members of his own.

Republicans *have* to lose for several cycles to get people to forget what it's like to have politicians who actually try to accomplish conservative goals. Otherwise they might have to do things that would reduce the power of government (and therefore their own power).

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 23, 2022 07:52 AM (C/VBS)

56 ""Medical Marijuana Leads to Addiction, Not Shown to Be Effective" "

Yet State after Stare legalizes it.
And then like the tide coming in predictably, several years later they then decide to legalize recreational marijuana as well.

Because once you legalize it, you can regulate and tax it.
For the children.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 07:52 AM (3D/fK)

57 How could KJB not have been prepared to answer these questions it is asked? Why study for a test you have already passed? I hope the traitor Roberts enjoys spending his time in the short bus with Brown, Sotomayor and Kagan seeing if he can find someone, anyone to help author opinions that don't all boil down to, "because I said so."

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 23, 2022 07:52 AM (oWBc3)

58 Good morning all.

'Ah, yes. Indiana. The state that gave us Mike Pence who collapsed like a wet noodle when it came to defending RFRA, among other things IYKWIMAITYD.'

Not only Mike Pence, but Little Boots himself from South Bend.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 23, 2022 07:52 AM (MIKMs)

59 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 23, 2022 07:53 AM (arJlL)

60 Good morning horde
Not seeing how The Stupid Party is going to stop the CRT Judge from getting on the court to dispense Social Justice to the nation

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 23, 2022 07:53 AM (xjBQh)

61 Go full French Revolution.

I'd rather go full US Revolution, if it's all the same to you. The French Revolution was... not a good time.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 23, 2022 07:53 AM (C/VBS)

62 the slam dunk winning issue of transgender insanity which really rolls into the bigger issue of social issues and the culture war in general.
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At this point, it's the only thing I care about. I have always been a platform/policy voter and didn't understand the single-issue voters like the Farm Voters or the Abortion Voters. I get it now. I'm a Culture War voter now. Policy is irrelevant at this point (a conclusion I drew during the early part of the '16 campaign) and the broader country is, in my opinion, beyond saving. The country cannot be "taken back" in the face of total institutional and cultural capture. It must be decaptured before it can be adjusted.

Any candidate that wants my support needs to be guns blazing against any of this crap. Pick an issue. Fighting the gay mafia. Fighting the tranny crap. Fighting the abject anti-white racism. Fighting feminism. Fighting the universities and school systems. The culture war is the only front right now, and the non-Left needs to get wise to it. No more compromise, no more accepting their premises.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2022 07:54 AM (DU+/6)

63 It makes just as much sense to view the real puppeteers as the GOPe, with the rabid collectivist animals as the ones being used to modulate our rate of decline into barbarism.

The feckless impotent Uniparty also-ran act might just be a ruse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 07:55 AM (LefDD)

64 Hiya, JT

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2022 07:55 AM (DU+/6)

65 "I'd rather go full US Revolution, if it's all the same to you. The French Revolution was... not a good time."

Yeah don't want to be on the wrong side of that one.

Posted by: Max at March 23, 2022 07:55 AM (vrz2I)

66 Biden responded by claiming, There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what hes accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said this is, has all the four, five former heads of the CIA, both parties say what hes saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him and his good friend Rudy Giuliani.

Who are four, five people that need hanging, Alex?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2022 07:55 AM (yrol0)

67 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 23, 2022 07:56 AM (u82oZ)

68 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2022 07:56 AM (rw9H/)

69 Tom Malinowski is a corrupt communist. New Jersey produces them by the score.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 23, 2022 07:56 AM (jnczo)

70 Hiya Mannix !

Posted by: JT at March 23, 2022 07:56 AM (arJlL)

71 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2022 07:56 AM (YIVH2)

72 Corn ethanol has an EROI of 1.5 as compared to gasolines 11.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Still need an oxygenator in the fuel, go back to MTBE?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 07:57 AM (lD3vL)

73 Salty!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 07:57 AM (3D/fK)

74 Aren't you always gonna need cash to bribe and payoff govt people addicted to hookers and blow?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 23, 2022 07:57 AM (fvJFK)

75 Good morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 23, 2022 07:57 AM (6NKqI)

76 I wonder what "the government" does with a seized yacht, anyway? Maybe use if for a happy fun camp.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 23, 2022 07:58 AM (EZebt)

77 "Still need an oxygenator in the fuel, go back to MTBE?"

I thought the fuel line magnets eliminated that requirement?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 07:58 AM (3D/fK)

78 I wonder what "the government" does with a seized yacht, anyway?

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Epstein cruises.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 23, 2022 07:58 AM (Zhwz2)

79 76 I wonder what "the government" does with a seized yacht, anyway? Maybe use if for a happy fun camp.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 23, 2022 07:58 AM (EZebt)

Pack it full of small arms and tow it to Tijuana

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 07:58 AM (LefDD)

80 The culture war is the only front right now, and the non-Left needs to get wise to it.

This.

And some do seem to get it. I'm liking what Ron DeSantis has done in Florida, for instance. But the vast majority of politicians won't fight it because, for now, it's good for them. It gives them an issue to argue against and rally the troops around AND it makes people look for more governmental solutions.

It's probably that last part that we need to deal with most. I don't actually care if the NCAA allows men to compete against women. If everyone goes in with their eyes open, then you made your choice. I do care that it's one more front on a war that is designed to steal my privacy and autonomy and make me little more than a slave to the State.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 23, 2022 07:59 AM (C/VBS)

81 The culture war is the only front right now, and the non-Left needs to get wise to it. No more compromise, no more accepting their premises.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2022 07:54 AM (DU+/6)

This war can only be won with a change of heart, then afterwards, changes of policy.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 23, 2022 07:59 AM (45fpk)

82 I hate the Republicans only marginally less than I do the Democrats.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 23, 2022 07:59 AM (EZebt)

83 Before going back and reading through all the links I can stomach, I want to ask this. We all know this is their goal. The Great Resetters. The question is, how do we prevent it? How do we stop this digital dollar freight train from happening? After seeing how very easy it is to freeze our own money, this is a really frightening prospect in the overall scheme of things.
Posted by: Lady in Black

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We do our best to use our system of representation in place.

Unfortunately #43 is the true state of things. There's some old saying about "men who make something something make something unavoidable"

I honestly think it's why they cracked down on the KEEP OFF THE GRASS folks on January 6th as hard as they did. They know black folks will burn down the Target and steal some Nikes because some sports team lost (or won). They are terrified of white people beginning to realize that a coup occurred, their dollars are worthless, and that voting doesn't matter.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 07:59 AM (vwLCV)

84 I'd rather go full US Revolution, if it's all the same to you. The French Revolution was... not a good time.

Don't have the morality, the vision or strength of character for it anymore.

We are pretty much at a Nietzsche level of politics where Might Make Right.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 08:00 AM (lD3vL)

85 "I wonder what "the government" does with a seized yacht, anyway? "

Give it to the movie studio for the remake of 'The Final Countdown'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:00 AM (3D/fK)

86 Despite it all, Happy Wednesday everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at March 23, 2022 08:00 AM (4olE8)

87 Yeah don't want to be on the wrong side of that one.

Problem with the French version was you could wake up on the right side, but be on the wrong side before the sun went down.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 23, 2022 08:00 AM (C/VBS)

88 Watched a couple hours of the Brown-Jackson show yesterday. For someone who went to Harvard and spent her adult life lawyering and judging, she sure is an intellectual lightweight. Sorta like Obama, just another poseur.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at March 23, 2022 08:01 AM (T823z)

89 wonder what "the government" does with a seized yacht, anyway? Maybe use if for a happy fun camp.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 23, 2022 07:58 AM (EZebt)

The IC probably uses it to run drugs and kids.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 23, 2022 08:01 AM (6NKqI)

90 In re Cherokee County...

God will judge, and God is not mocked.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at March 23, 2022 08:01 AM (MkuC5)

91 Daily Wire loves these "Vice President is a drama queen" stories. It's so 6th grade.

My objection to Harris isn't that she is a drama queen, it is she is an idiot whose actions could impact my family directly.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 23, 2022 08:02 AM (ze9bY)

92 Who deserves your hatred more? The gang burglarizing your home in the middle of the night? Or the mother in law who calls the cops on you for drawing your gun to defend the house and your family?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 08:02 AM (LefDD)

93 "Problem with the French version was you could wake up on the right side, but be on the wrong side before the sun went down.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit "

You've got to give it to the French. When they said "heads will roll" they really meant it.

Posted by: fd at March 23, 2022 08:02 AM (vrz2I)

94 Sharpest Radio Image Ever Taken of Newly Discovered Space Object

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Wow. Seriously, that illuminated blob thing looks like something I've seen 10x out of the Starship Enterprise's front windshield. *insert Spock's raised eyebrow*

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 23, 2022 08:04 AM (sVtYq)

95 Biden responded by claiming, There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what hes accusing me of is a Russian plan...

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The thing that's bizarre is - other than the FBI, CIA, local cops, etc. knowing it was authentic - is that there's tons of proof of big time felonies involving both Joe and Hunter, and I'd assume Jill and lots of other friends and family members on that laptop.

I'm guessing no statute of limitations, and now that it's acknowledged as "true" the failure to register as a lobbyist is a start, the enabling the child predator is a big time felony by the first family, the 20% for Joe Biden is right out there as a fact now...

And nothing will happen.

You stay off the f*cking grass, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 08:04 AM (vwLCV)

96 Guy literally tried to rape a woman in an aisle at Walmart in Miami. I lived there for many years and this news does not surprise me. Miami can be nuts.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 23, 2022 08:05 AM (ze9bY)

97 I wonder what "the government" does with a seized yacht, anyway? Maybe use if for a happy fun camp.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 23, 2022 07:58 AM (EZebt)
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What do they do with seized Ferrari cars they take under asset forfeiture? It will be the same. They will be used for propaganda and bribes or bonuses.

The propaganda value is obvious: "I'm the big swinging dick in these parts and I can take your nice shit if you cross me and then rub everyone's face in it." This is why back in the 90s a lot of police departments put flashing lights and police decals on the supercars they seized.

As to the second, they will be handed as plum benefits to preferred operators. The cop with the best ticket-writing value got the Ferrari that month. The Bureaucrat with the best connections will get to use the Yacht for his anniversary party or his daughter's birthday. It will be maintained at taxpayer expense and handed out periodically to alpha-level bureaucrats with the pull and corruption to get a taste of the sweet life.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2022 08:05 AM (DU+/6)

98 Watched a couple hours of the Brown-Jackson show yesterday. For someone who went to Harvard and spent her adult life lawyering and judging, she sure is an intellectual lightweight. Sorta like Obama, just another poseur.

I'm sure she's completely phoning it in. It literally makes no difference. Republicans still act like it's 1980 (or maybe 1957) and that "The President should get to select a Justice." They have either missed - or are completely okay with - the fact that this is the one place a President can seat someone with very long-term consequences - and so any further march to the Left MUST be opposed.

So she'll be confirmed in "a mostly party-line vote" and the Supremes will move to recognize pedophilia as a "sexual orientation" just as fast as someone can bring the suit.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 23, 2022 08:05 AM (C/VBS)

99 Problem with the French version was you could wake up on the right side, but be on the wrong side before the sun went down.

That is indeed the reality of any Revolution. Whatever it takes to whip up fervor to go out and kill your fellow man is not exactly easily tamable once a crowd gets a taste for blood.

In that case, very clear, immutable, transcendent values most be commonly held among the rebels. We had an ersatz version of that with Trump with his carbon-copy rallies all around the country.

Enough people need to know when to hit the brakes and have the ability to do so.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 08:05 AM (lD3vL)

100 Good morning all.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 23, 2022 08:06 AM (nxdel)

101 btw I am for bring back the guillotine especially for the garbage that dragged that poor woman to death in Nola.

Posted by: fd at March 23, 2022 08:06 AM (vrz2I)

102 Still need an oxygenator in the fuel, go back to MTBE?
Posted by: Reuben Hick

If it is a good oxygenator, then use it at an appropriate amount to be an oxygenator. Stop pushing it as a "green" gasoline replacement and demanding richer and richer blends.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 08:06 AM (qnVBz)

103 Story regarding South Korea and Covid links back to this page.

Posted by: Bill R. at March 23, 2022 08:07 AM (wzzJf)

104 Sorta like Obama, just another poseur.
Posted by: one of the quiet ones at March 23, 2022 08:01 AM (T823z)

AA.....Affirmative Action.

She has never had to perform under pressure and deliver results or face the consequences. The hardest part of her day is where to get her hair and nails did while ordering Grub Hub.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 23, 2022 08:07 AM (Sdlpf)

105 Just so much funny rolled into a single Pipe Bomb story.

https://tinyurl.com/39ra3sw3

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:07 AM (3D/fK)

106 Watched a couple hours of the Brown-Jackson show yesterday. For someone who went to Harvard and spent her adult life lawyering and judging, she sure is an intellectual lightweight.

**

HBCU?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 08:07 AM (vwLCV)

107 Re the Wal Mart story, this is when you need Bruce Campbell, a chainsaw and some assembly.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 23, 2022 08:07 AM (oWBc3)

108 Thanks JJ. Regarding GOP saber rattling, and maybe you highlighted this article, but, Revolver News and Darren Beattie has an awesome one titled: The America First Movement Has A Sean Hannity Problem.

Very good read.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at March 23, 2022 08:07 AM (8Qoxs)

109 My objection to Harris isn't that she is a drama queen, it is she is an idiot whose actions could impact my family directly.
Posted by: Huck Follywood,

It's shallow but the culture is shallow
Those store, while petty, are reinforcing the "Harris is not cool" image, which is what low info voters respond to.
And good morning horde

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 23, 2022 08:08 AM (lCui1)

110 Just so much funny rolled into a single Pipe Bomb story.

*

That reminds me, our betters still haven't tracked down the mad bombers who placed the bombs in DC that set the whole "insurrection" plot into motion, have they?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 08:08 AM (vwLCV)

111 Who deserves your hatred more? The gang burglarizing your home in the middle of the night? Or the mother in law who calls the cops on you for drawing your gun to defend the house and your family?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 08:02 AM (LefDD)

*furrows brow*

*taps pencil eraser on front teeth*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 23, 2022 08:08 AM (EZebt)

112 The State Department expects a full return to the implementation of the nuclear deal in the coming days.

The Junta is really a piece of work. Even Iran knows this "deal" is so bad no one in America has seen it, will see it, and it will be junked as soon as someone reasonable does see it. This is Biden's Ukraine; the junta way overshoots even their own supporters willingness to play along.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 23, 2022 08:09 AM (ze9bY)

113 The madness of society is accelerating.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 23, 2022 08:09 AM (6NKqI)

114 Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 23, 2022 08:08 AM (EZebt)

*fills in bubble C; all the above*

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at March 23, 2022 08:09 AM (8Qoxs)

115 Miss Lindsay exemplifies the main problem with modern American politics.

He's smart enough to know exactly what the voters of his state want, and that's by in large a strong conservative voting record especially now.

He's not going to give them any of that nonsense though. Unless, it means nothing like the vote is already lost so he votes nay without effect.

How Miss Lindsay and Mutt Rombley, et al must laugh at the voters. Promise them conservatism then rape them with progressivism/corruption constantly for the next six years.

This isn't even over-promising and under-delivering. This is straight up lying to the voters.

It makes it impossible to have a functioning system.

For a start we need to go back to the system of appointed Senators. At least then there's the chance of throwing an asshole out if you elect a conservative guv in your state.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 23, 2022 08:10 AM (5NkmN)

116 "That reminds me, our betters still haven't tracked down the mad bombers who placed the bombs in DC that set the whole "insurrection" plot into motion, have they?"

Oddly enough....no.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:10 AM (3D/fK)

117 Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 08:02 AM (LefDD)

Embrace the power of "and."

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 23, 2022 08:10 AM (C/VBS)

118 Our government will lead the "revolution" against us and then execute (as their Soviet models did) thier leading edge group, who can't be tamed once loosed. If there is a fight here, which I doubt very much, it will be unlike any previews of coming attractions.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 23, 2022 08:11 AM (oWBc3)

119 The State Department expects a full return to the implementation of the nuclear deal in the coming days.

*

Speaking of, guess who we are giving the go-ahead to and who will be getting the $10B deal or so to build the nuclear plants for Iran?

Go ahead. Guess.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 08:11 AM (vwLCV)

120 Morning, all! OrangeEnt emailed to let me know many of you were asking about me on the ONT following the news of the tornado. No, I'm fine. The power never went out last night; it didn't even rain hard where I was. The wind kicked up, but that was all.

The areas that did get hit by the tornado, however, are almost directly across the river (north) from me. When I was small, my family shopped in those areas, our pediatrician was in Arabi, and my brother and I would play at the Chalmette National Battlefield a few miles down the road. Much of the Ninth Ward within the city proper has declined badly since then. Arabi and Chalmette, just downriver from the French Quarter, are in another parish (county) from the city, but very close by. So far the news is not great from there -- at least one person dead and lots of property damage.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2022 08:12 AM (txdEq)

121 Guy literally tried to rape a woman in an aisle at Walmart in Miami. I lived there for many years and this news does not surprise me. Miami can be nuts.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 23, 2022 08:05 AM (ze9bY)

I was stationed at Homestead AFB from 91-Hurricane Andrew. In that year, 2 GI's were shot, a Circle K outside one of the gates was off limits because a Colonel's wife got carjacked, and several dance halls were off limits, something new to me in the states. Hitting the bars after work, swingshift, I saw numerous people doing coke in the bathrooms. I just stayed away from it. I literally kept my nose clean.

Posted by: Bill R. at March 23, 2022 08:12 AM (wzzJf)

122 What do they do with seized Ferrari cars they take under asset forfeiture? It will be the same. They will be used for propaganda and bribes or bonuses.

Most likely quietly sold at a private one-person auction. It will end up being owned by some no-named shelf company that leases it out and uses the proceeds to underwrite other activities.

Almost all of the super yachts are rented out. It just is highly impractical to live on one year round or to scrounge up a competent crew every few weeks out of the year. That is why you end up seeing mostly Western crews operating these Russian oligarch yachts. It also explains why Paul Allen kept his mega yacht busy with environmental and oceanographer cruises.

You got to keep the boat busy.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 08:12 AM (lD3vL)

123 Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too

Let the Russians build nuclear plants. For all the good that would do Iran.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 23, 2022 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

124 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

SAINT OF THE DAY
St. Rafqa (Rebecca) (1832--1914) was born in Himlaya, a Maronite village in the Lebanese mountains. She was an only child, and her mother died when she was seven. After her father's remarriage there was much family discord as to whom Rafqa should marry. Not wanting to wed any of the men in question, she turned to God and entered religious life at the age of 21. She had a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. She served as a teacher for many years, but, after witnessing a massacre of Christians, she decided at the age of 39 to become a cloistered contemplative nun. Rafqa prayed earnestly that she might share in the sufferings of Christ. She became blind and paralyzed, and over the course of 30 years she struggled with deteriorating health and incredible pain. All of her sufferings she united to the sufferings of Christ without complaint. Under obedience to her superior she worked on an autobiography near the end of her life. She died at the age of 82, and her grave is credited with many miracles. St. Rafqa was canonized in 2001. She is the patron of sick people, bodily ills, and loss of parents.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 23, 2022 08:12 AM (YmKky)

125 "Go ahead. Guess."

Russia?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:12 AM (3D/fK)

126 For a start we need to go back to the system of appointed Senators. At least then there's the chance of throwing an asshole out if you elect a conservative guv in your state.

This.

Also, I don't care that it would make it more difficult, I'm sure we could find a way around it: return the number of citizens in a Representatives district to the number the Constitution actually initially created. Representative should constantly be terrified of being voted out if they don't toe the line.

A part-time congress would be even better: less time and opportunity for mischief.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 23, 2022 08:13 AM (C/VBS)

127 I read the FrontPage article - the worst thing I found out is that Disqus has refused to host their comment section anymore because the SPLC says that FrontPage and Horowitz are "Hate Groups".

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2022 08:13 AM (evAgx)

128 Difficult to fight a war without an army or warriors.

The GOP is neither and has neither--with a notable handful of exceptions.

Trump is pissing up a rope if he thinks a few American First candidates are going to overcome the 'leadership' of Frank Luntz's squeeze....California's own Squat to Piss Kevin McCarthy.
It's Trump as Leader ......Or GOPe Kabuki Theatre as far as the eye can see.

Posted by: Voter theater. at March 23, 2022 08:13 AM (FCPbW)

129 The radio telescope image really does look like an image being displayed on the USS Enterprise screen, as a commenter said earlier.

Get Spock up to the bridge before that thing eats another galaxy!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 23, 2022 08:13 AM (ze9bY)

130 So she'll be confirmed in "a mostly party-line vote" and the Supremes will move to recognize pedophilia as a "sexual orientation" just as fast as someone can bring the suit.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 23, 2022 08:05 AM

"Minor attracted persons", or a MAP. Just a'soon get used to the terminology now. The sympathy shown by KBJ to an 18 year old up for sentencing in her court for hundreds of pics of child porn on his computer sickens me, as did her apology to him and his family for the pain she was causing them by issuing a 3 month sentence.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at March 23, 2022 08:14 AM (T823z)

131 "Watched a couple hours of the Brown-Jackson show yesterday. For someone who went to Harvard and spent her adult life lawyering and judging, she sure is an intellectual lightweight.
Posted by: Moron Robbie"

This is the end result of decades of affirmative action and diversity first hiring. A class of people in leadership above being questioned or challenged. This is a huge part of what is destroying our institutions. The white woke idiocy is only partially responsible but together they are wreaking havoc.

Posted by: Ripley at March 23, 2022 08:14 AM (MxEKc)

132 Who deserves your hatred more? The gang burglarizing your home in the middle of the night? Or the mother in law who calls the cops on you for drawing your gun to defend the house and your family?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Embrace the power of "and".

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2022 08:14 AM (rw9H/)

133 Thanks JJ. Regarding GOP saber rattling, and maybe you highlighted this article, but, Revolver News and Darren Beattie has an awesome one titled: The America First Movement Has A Sean Hannity Problem.

Very good read.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at March 23, 2022 08:07 AM (8Qoxs)

It is a good article. Biden said "Jump to war" and the Republicans didn't even ask "How high?" They went to it with the zeal of a North Korean clapper. Zelensky has made himself The Leader of Ukraine. No one is even close to clean in the Ukraine War. It would end tomorrow if the West told Zelensky to make a deal because the supplies are going to get cut.

Posted by: WiNO at March 23, 2022 08:14 AM (EpDzw)

134 I'm Redo Voting curious. The article sounds too good to be true, and I'm sure many here will poke holes in it. It seems to cover a lot of bases. But I don't know why I'm wasting my breath. If it blunts massive fraud, there's a snowball's chance in Hades it would ever be implemented.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 23, 2022 08:14 AM (sVtYq)

135
~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 23, 2022 08:14 AM (bne12)

136 I was stationed at Homestead AFB from 91-Hurricane Andrew. In that year, 2 GI's were shot, a Circle K outside one of the gates was off limits because a Colonel's wife got carjacked, and several dance halls were off limits, something new to me in the states. Hitting the bars after work, swingshift, I saw numerous people doing coke in the bathrooms. I just stayed away from it. I literally kept my nose clean.
Posted by: Bill R. at March 23, 2022 08:12 AM (

That whole area around Liberty City is real fucked up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 23, 2022 08:15 AM (6NKqI)

137 "Are you not entertained?! Are you not entertained?!"
-with a lisp

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 23, 2022 08:16 AM (xPkf4)

138 btw I am for bring back the guillotine especially for the garbage that dragged that poor woman to death in Nola.

Horrible story.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 23, 2022 08:16 AM (nxdel)

139 1619 Project Founder Nikole Hannah-Jones Finds Something New to Call Racist

I guess I will never tip a black waitperson again!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2022 08:16 AM (yrol0)

140 "Go ahead. Guess."

Russia?

**

DING DING DING

You know. The nation we're supposedly implementing sanctions against while we continue actively engaging and working with them.

It's all an op.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 08:16 AM (vwLCV)

141 When the telescope finds a fleet of alien warships heading our way, do you think they will tell us?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 23, 2022 08:17 AM (fvJFK)

142 Depending on the weather I expect the CCP will move on Taiwan in the next few weeks. Inthink it would me smart to do this while a lot of energy and attention has been directed toward Ukraine-Russia.

No one will have time or energy to attend to a little island that really belongs to China anyway, and is just a few miles away.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 23, 2022 08:17 AM (EZebt)

143 129
Get Spock up to the bridge before that thing eats another galaxy!
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 23, 2022 08:13 AM (ze9bY)

Isn't this really the story of Tank Abrams' dietician?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2022 08:18 AM (s2VJv)

144 I suppose even I am not "outraged" over Covid anymore; my feeling is more "Guess what? I was right about EVERY FUCKING THING from the very beginning of this, and you assholes were WRONG about EVERY FUCKING THING." So blow me, assholes!

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2022 08:18 AM (evAgx)

145 For a start we need to go back to the system of appointed Senators. At least then there's the chance of throwing an asshole out if you elect a conservative guv in your state.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 23, 2022 08:10 AM (5NkmN)

Appointed senators that can be recalled by the state legislature at anytime. A senator is not appointed for a length of time, but serves at the request of the legislature. That would put an end to appointing a guy and having him go rogue.

Posted by: WiNO at March 23, 2022 08:18 AM (EpDzw)

146 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 23, 2022 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

147 If there's any hope at all in the Culture War, it's that they tried to go too far too fast.

In all the stuff about Will "Lia" Thomas and his "win" in the NCAA Women's Swimming Finals, I've seen literally one comment unironically congratulating "her"[sic]. Everything else has been how it's disgusting, a travesty, etc.. Even from people who are pro-tranny, they are acknowledging the biological advantage the man has over women and saying he shouldn't be allowed to compete.

It's been nigh-universal. It's a slam-dunk issue (which is why the GOPe will not touch it with a 10-foot pole). But it's also a rallying-point for grass-roots culture warriors, if we can take advantage of it.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 23, 2022 08:19 AM (C/VBS)

148 When the telescope finds a fleet of alien warships heading our way, do you think they will tell us?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 23, 2022 08:17 AM (fvJFK)
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I recently watched the Torchwood mini-series Children of Earth. It was a frightening look at the fecklessness of government going to any lengths to protect their interests. They were eagerly sacrificing 10% of the world's children to aliens who used children to get high.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2022 08:19 AM (YIVH2)

149 JJ thanks for the marijuana story. My daughter somehow got a medical marijuana card in her state to help treat her "anxiety." She vaped so much that it caused her to go into a deep psychosis, to the point where she was hospitalized for several weeks. It was a nightmare that one year later we still see the residual effects.

More studies are dribbling out about pot-induced psychosis. It happens far more often than people realize. But hey, let's legalize it for the sweet, sweet tax $$ and have a nation filled with psychotic, lazy, stoners.

Posted by: Roxxee who's sick of this shit at March 23, 2022 08:19 AM (wMkYD)

150 If it is a good oxygenator, then use it at an appropriate amount to be an oxygenator. Stop pushing it as a "green" gasoline replacement and demanding richer and richer blends.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

I'm going straight to George Carlin: Imagine how stupid the average person is, then consider that half of the population is even stupider.

Try explaining oxygenators to the idiot who puts premium in their car because it simply costs more so it must be better.

"Green" is a brand. Stupid people respond to brands and marketing of those brands. Even major gasoline retailers gave up on trying to win customers by extolling the virtues of their additives. Just mumble something virtuous like "Green" and your marketing is done.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 08:20 AM (lD3vL)

151 Even with a part time congress, limited to 1 90 day session per year, there will be staff and "think tanks" writing bullshit legislation. During the 90 day session they will be "Hurry up and vote, no time to read! Time is running out!"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 08:20 AM (qnVBz)

152 Watched a couple hours of the Brown-Jackson show yesterday. For someone who went to Harvard and spent her adult life lawyering and judging, she sure is an intellectual lightweight.

--

Her intellectual heft isn't necessary. Her job is to f*ck up traditional America. And make the white man pay, literally and figuratively. She has a chip on her shoulder that's apparent in her historical background, as well as her countenance. At least, I think 'em so.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 23, 2022 08:21 AM (sVtYq)

153 "Republican" politicians en large feel that they can go in front of the TV cameras, get their feathers ruffled up and spout a few choice words and we're appeased.

It's high time we tell them we don't need them blowing smoke up our asses, we need them to fucking retire so we can bring new blood in. I know it's our fault for voting for them over and over in an "eats own foot" mentality, but they need to know how sick of their shit we are.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 23, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

154 It was a frightening look at the fecklessness of government going to any lengths to protect their interests. They were eagerly sacrificing 10% of the world's children to aliens who used children to get high.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Hell Perfessor, you don't need fiction to see that. Our 'elites' do that already. (In a manner of speaking)

Posted by: Tonypete at March 23, 2022 08:21 AM (YmKky)

155 I suppose even I am not "outraged" over Covid anymore; my feeling is more "Guess what? I was right about EVERY FUCKING THING from the very beginning of this, and you assholes were WRONG about EVERY FUCKING THING." So blow me, assholes!

Posted by: Tom Servo

**

The same people who were wrong about every single thing regarding a cold virus would like to now explain human sexuality to you.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 08:21 AM (vwLCV)

156 I still like. "Drive your engine clean!"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 08:22 AM (qnVBz)

157 I recently watched the Torchwood mini-series Children of Earth. It was a frightening look at the fecklessness of government going to any lengths to protect their interests. They were eagerly sacrificing 10% of the world's children to aliens who used children to get high.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2022 08:19 AM (YIVH2)

*raises eyebrow*

Posted by: Hunter Biden at March 23, 2022 08:22 AM (6NKqI)

158 RNC Research @RNCResearch; 10h
SEN. BLACKBURN: "Can you provide a definition of the word 'woman'?"

JACKSON: "No, I can't"

BLACKBURN: "You can't?"

JACKSON: "I'm not a biologist."

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 08:22 AM (UHVv4)

159 142 Depending on the weather I expect the CCP will move on Taiwan in the next few weeks. Inthink it would me smart to do this while a lot of energy and attention has been directed toward Ukraine-Russia.

No one will have time or energy to attend to a little island that really belongs to China anyway, and is just a few miles away.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 23, 2022 08:17 AM (EZebt)

I now don't think so - I think the situation has changed. China can't help but notice that the Ukrainian invasion has been an absolute disaster for Russia, and being a very risk averse people, they won't want to take the chance.

And this *is* an absolute disaster for Russia. I'm not saying Ukraine is winning; more like both sides are losing simultaneously. It's not hard to cut through both sides propaganda and see that this war has bogged down into a bloody stalemate, with huge casualties on both sides.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2022 08:22 AM (evAgx)

160 Stupid people respond to brands and marketing of those brands.

Wizard's First Rule should be required reading for every conservative/libertarian person (political candidate or otherwise) who is interested in the culture wars.

So, for that matter, should Dune and (probably) Stranger in a Strange Land.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 23, 2022 08:22 AM (C/VBS)

161 Lindsey Graham did not have any supporters at the Florence Trump Rally we were at the other weekend.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:22 AM (3D/fK)

162 Hell Perfessor, you don't need fiction to see that. Our 'elites' do that already. (In a manner of speaking)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 23, 2022 08:21 AM (YmKky)
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That's why it was so frightening to watch. That show was made by the BBC over a decade ago. The madness has only accelerated since then in most Western governments. COVID-19 put that madness into overdrive.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2022 08:23 AM (YIVH2)

163 Oh, this timeline.

Where the question "what is your position on female genitalia" is actually something that is asked of a Supreme Court nominee.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 08:23 AM (LefDD)

164 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Saw some pictures on Facebook last night. Glad you are ok.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2022 08:23 AM (rw9H/)

165 It was the democrats who were right about everything from the beginning of COVID. Republicans demanded lockdowns and harmful vaccines. Then they switched sides.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 08:23 AM (qnVBz)

166 Finally: A Transparent Voting Process

*******

Link's borked, JJ/

And Happy Birthday!!

Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2022 08:24 AM (m45I2)

167 Election Wizard @ElectionWiz; 10h
SEN. KENNEDY: "When does life begin, in your opinion?"

JUDGE JACKSON: "Senator, um... I don't know."

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 08:24 AM (UHVv4)

168 Jackson is exactly what you should expect from an Affirmative Action Judge. With every word out of her mouth, she proves that's all she is, and all she ever was.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2022 08:24 AM (evAgx)

169 One would think that the GOP would be able to capitalize when a Democrat nominee for the USSC is unable to honestly answer a question about what a woman is, but the GOP is the Stupid Party for good reasons.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at March 23, 2022 08:25 AM (xxG/v)

170 The GOP could fuck up Haapy Hour in a whorehouse.

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 08:25 AM (aXigK)

171 You need a graduate degree in biology to know the difference between a hoo hah and a dingaling?

No, ma'am. No, you don't.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 08:25 AM (LefDD)

172 Graham is a two-faced sodomite.
------------------
A Janus anus!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 08:25 AM (UHVv4)

173 Hell Perfessor, you don't need fiction to see that. Our 'elites' do that already. (In a manner of speaking)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 23, 2022 08:21 AM (YmKky)
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Oh, and the government "solution" to the problem was to round up the children for mandatory "vaccinations" against some sort of alien "disease" that was causing the children to act in unison (it was really an alien broadcast signal). The "undesirable" children would be quietly disappeared after their vaccination session.

"Whoops! Poor child collapsed and will have to be moved somewhere for recovery!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2022 08:26 AM (YIVH2)

174 Her intellectual heft isn't necessary. Her job is to f*ck up traditional America. And make the white man pay, literally and figuratively. She has a chip on her shoulder that's apparent in her historical background, as well as her countenance. At least, I think 'em so.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 23, 2022 08:21 AM

She had barely contained animosity when questioned by an R, and smilingly lapped up the slobbering by all of the D's (esp Feinstein). When Hawley was questioning her on the child porn case, the naked hostility on her face was disturbing to see. I expected her to go into chicken-neck posturing at any moment.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at March 23, 2022 08:26 AM (T823z)

175 JACKSON: "I'm not a biologist."

Besides the obvious that a woman not being able to define what "woman" means should make her ineligible for any job, let alone Justice on the Supreme Court, this is a telling exchange in the culture war as well.

We're being told that ONLY scientists (which currently means "Approved Scientists" and soon will mean "State-appointed Scientists") can have an opinion on "scientific" matters and that "Science!" trumps everything - culture, religion, common sense, and even the evidence of your own five senses.

Like the Based British lady recently:
DBag: "Are you a biologist?"
BBL: "No. I'm not a vet, either, but I know what a dog is."

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 23, 2022 08:26 AM (C/VBS)

176 Morning peeps. Dreary here in the Bluegrass... and apparently elsewhere.

So, my prediction is the so-called "red wave" is now receding into the distance as a very small and inconsequential ripple. There's a very good chance the GOP will give *biden 2 SCOUTS seats. They don't know how to read their base support.

Check that. They know their base. They just don't agree with it.

However they do agree with the left. Mostly they agree with anyone or anything that's going to line their pockets.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 23, 2022 08:26 AM (BFigT)

177 BLACKBURN: "You can't?"

JACKSON: "I'm not a biologist."

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 08:22 AM (UHVv4)
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Commies are the biggest assholes on the planet I swear.

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 08:26 AM (aXigK)

178 Have a great day, everyone.

May those close to ya, and the harem of Joe Mannix, all be blessed with heath and vigor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 23, 2022 08:26 AM (u82oZ)

179 "You need a graduate degree in biology to know the difference between a hoo hah and a dingaling?
"

It's not for us mere mortals to determine.

We need the Scienceists!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:26 AM (3D/fK)

180 Be safe, Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:27 AM (3D/fK)

181 Any candidate that wants my support needs to be guns blazing against any of this crap. Pick an issue. Fighting the gay mafia. Fighting the tranny crap. Fighting the abject anti-white racism. Fighting feminism. Fighting the universities and school systems. The culture war is the only front right now, and the non-Left needs to get wise to it. No more compromise, no more accepting their premises.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2022 07:54 AM (DU+/6)

Yeah, I'm so tired of "conservative" politicians titrating their their views/votes: "Lessee here if I' only 83.775% all in for trannie sports. That should satisfy everyone."

The Progressive culture is literally trying to destroy the next generation, turn them into childless, mindless, angry but ineffectual, obese, sexual compliant, little worker drones for the state and industry. That's why they want so much uncontrolled illegal immigration. To replace the generation they're damaging with their cultural revolution.

If your "conservative" politician isn't all in for protecting children for Christ's sake, you cannot elect them into office. They are totally unworthy of any role in gov't.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 23, 2022 08:27 AM (5NkmN)

182 So two things can be, and ARE true:

1) Republicans cannot be trusted in any way

and

2) Democrats are STILL going to get absolutely destroyed in November.

Don't confuse the two things. Biden and Harris and Congress in general are far too incompetent and dead set on destroying us that they can't get out of their own way, regardelss of what Republicans do or say

Posted by: deadrody at March 23, 2022 08:27 AM (/jrmI)

183 Such disgusting obfuscation. "I'm not a biologist".

Neither am i, but i don't go around fervidly fucking furniture and houseplants because no one ever told me what genitals are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 08:27 AM (LefDD)

184 The Democrats *care* about women. They don't know what one is but they CARE.

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 08:28 AM (aXigK)

185 JACKSON: I was told this was a formality and my answers didn't matter. Was I misinformed?

GRAHAM: No, you were not misinformed. This is all theater. Just play your part a little while longer.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 08:28 AM (qnVBz)

186 Gov. Ron DeSantis waded further into gender politics today, issuing a proclamation that said a swimmer from Sarasota is the nations best Quote female Unquote in the 500-meter freestyle after she finished 2nd to a transgender athlete at the NCAA championship.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2022 08:28 AM (yrol0)

187 165 It was the democrats who were right about everything from the beginning of COVID. Republicans demanded lockdowns and harmful vaccines. Then they switched sides.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 08:23 AM (qnVBz)

Which is why personally, I want to see DeSantis as the 2024 nominee, not Trump. IMHO, Trump time has come and gone. I admit it would be fun to see all the leftists head explode if Trump was put back in office, so I wouldn't hate it. But we can do a lot better.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2022 08:28 AM (evAgx)

188 I'm not an astronomer but I know what the sun is.

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 08:28 AM (aXigK)

189 Hillary Clinton Tests Positive for Chinese COVID;

*******

At this point, what does it matter?

(No, seriously. What does it matter?)

Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2022 08:28 AM (m45I2)

190 Okay... more coffee then working at work.

Darn it.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 23, 2022 08:29 AM (C/VBS)

191 "Hillary Clinton Tests Positive for Chinese COVID;

******* "

Get Huma tested....STAT!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:29 AM (3D/fK)

192 The LIVs aren't thinking about Nov yet. The dems still have a few months before campaigning begins and they start weapons grade pandering.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 08:29 AM (qnVBz)

193 Depending on the weather I expect the CCP will move on Taiwan in the next few weeks. Inthink it would me smart to do this while a lot of energy and attention has been directed toward Ukraine-Russia. ...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 23, 2022 08:17 AM (EZebt)
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I doubt it. I still think it happens next year, not this year and I suspect Russia/Ukraine has little if anything to do with it. Xi is not in a position of absolute power and his army is deeply corrupt. He's been spending his terms flipping one military district after another into his control under the banner of his "anti-corruption" campaign (which targets only the corrupt who he doesn't own, of course), but he doesn't have all of them yet, especially in the larger and more corrupt eastern areas. He needs them to take Taiwan.

Moreover, he's at the end of his term and the Party Congress occurs this autumn. There are also many other challenges and problems within Red China itself like their real estate and debt problems. My bet is that he continues his consolidation until he's crowned as emperor at the CCP congress later this year. Then he will finally reunify China.

Time, as always, will tell.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2022 08:29 AM (DU+/6)

194 I still like. "Drive your engine clean!"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

At least it had some alleged benefit unlike Exxon's "Put a tiger in your tank".

Who the hell wants to stuff a pissed off apex predator cat in their fuel tank?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 08:30 AM (lD3vL)

195 So you want to be a SCJ: What is the minimum number of abortions you would find to be acceptable on a daily basis, including Sundays and Holidays?

Posted by: klaftern at March 23, 2022 08:30 AM (taPSh)

196 Dammit Jim I'm a lawyer not a woman!

Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2022 08:31 AM (ZLI7S)

197 Also, doesn't that answer give the lie to the face that "gender is a social construct"?

If the definition of a woman relies on biology, then there are only two genders and you can't change what you are.

So does she agree with that statement, or not? Is biology relevant, or not?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 08:31 AM (LefDD)

198 *farce

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 08:31 AM (LefDD)

199 You need a graduate degree in biology to know the difference between a hoo hah and a dingaling?

*******

Junk science

Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2022 08:32 AM (m45I2)

200 Oh, this timeline.

Where the question "what is your position on female genitalia" is actually something that is asked of a Supreme Court nominee.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 08:23 AM (LefDD)
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Second verse, same as the first. After the United States Senate's exhaustive investigation of "boof" and "devil's triangle" during the Kavanaugh circus, why should anyone expect otherwise?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2022 08:32 AM (DU+/6)

201 Also, doesn't that answer give the lie to the face that "gender is a social construct"?

If the definition of a woman relies on biology, then there are only two genders and you can't change what you are.

So does she agree with that statement, or not? Is biology relevant, or not?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 08:31 AM (LefDD)
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This is where the tired old "biological sex" vs. "constructed gender" crap comes in. Sex is subordinate to gender, so it can be written off.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2022 08:32 AM (DU+/6)

202 Neither am i, but i don't go around fervidly fucking furniture and houseplants because no one ever told me what genitals are.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 08:27 AM (LefDD)

The ficus takes it like a good girl.

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at March 23, 2022 08:32 AM (6NKqI)

203 Why don't we simply have Clarance Thomas come out as a woman?

That would end all this 'Historical First' shit.

Either that, or the Left would claim that Thomas isn't really a woman.
Then the she would really start flying.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:32 AM (3D/fK)

204 102 - The water solubility of MTBE makes it a bad choice.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at March 23, 2022 08:33 AM (MkuC5)

205 The LIVs aren't thinking about Nov yet. The dems still have a few months before campaigning begins and they start weapons grade pandering.

--

Their problem is that they can pander till the cows come home, but that isn't going to reverse the budget-busting inflation everyone is feeling. And it's only climbing. I expect them to want to hand out $600 "inflation stimulus" checks to everybody and dare the GOP to say no to starving Granny.

They're going to get their clocks cleaned in November, unless massively coordinated fraud changes that.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 23, 2022 08:33 AM (sVtYq)

206 158 RNC Research @RNCResearch; 10h
SEN. BLACKBURN: "Can you provide a definition of the word 'woman'?"
JACKSON: "No, I can't"
BLACKBURN: "You can't?"
JACKSON: "I'm not a biologist."
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 08:22 AM (UHVv4)

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I kind of love this. It's so ridiculous. The whole thing is just a show for soundbites, but this has got to be a high point.

I can't wait for Susan Collins to vote for her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 23, 2022 08:33 AM (xPkf4)

207 I wish the conversation had gone thusly:

Blackburn: You can't?

Jackson: I'm not a biologist.

Blackburn: Are you a woman?

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 08:34 AM (aXigK)

208 Check that. They know their base. They just don't agree with it.

However they do agree with the left. Mostly they agree with anyone or anything that's going to line their pockets.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Democrats hate America
Republicans have no love for America

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 08:34 AM (lD3vL)

209 Jackson: See, back in the 70s abortions were harder to get, so one abortion was bad. We have to rethink abortions in the digital age and consider that hundreds of chemical abortions aren't as bad as a back alley coat hanger job.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 08:34 AM (qnVBz)

210 Christian Eriksen set to train with Danish squad after he suffered cardiac arrest during a match.

Gee, I wonder if soccer-footballer Christian was vaxxed and boosted??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 08:35 AM (UHVv4)

211 Collins will shake with glee to vote for her.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 23, 2022 08:35 AM (6NKqI)

212 > JACKSON: "I'm not a biologist."
_____________

She admits gender is biologic. That right there was the opening to crush her and of course nobody saw it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 23, 2022 08:36 AM (BFigT)

213 "JACKSON: "I'm not a biologist."

Above my pay grade.

Posted by: fd at March 23, 2022 08:36 AM (vrz2I)

214 ******* "

Get Huma tested....STAT!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:29 AM (3D/fK)

Does it transfer via the bearded clam?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 23, 2022 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

215 Defining a woman is above Judge Jackson's pay grade. Easy fall back position. Answer, but don't answer.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 23, 2022 08:36 AM (sVtYq)

216 -We need a woman on the Supreme Court!

-What's a woman?

-I DON'T KNOW!!!!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 08:37 AM (LefDD)

217 So does she agree with that statement, or not? Is biology relevant, or not?
----------------------------
Joel Pollak @joelpollak; 6h
If she can't define "woman," why should it matter that she's the first black "woman" nominee?

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 08:37 AM (UHVv4)

218 Being biological is racist.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 23, 2022 08:37 AM (OTXUv)

219 If she can't decide who is a woman, how in the heck is she going to decide court cases?

Posted by: grammie winger at March 23, 2022 08:38 AM (45fpk)

220 I still like. "Drive your engine clean!"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
*
At least it had some alleged benefit unlike Exxon's "Put a tiger in your tank".

Who the hell wants to stuff a pissed off apex predator cat in their fuel tank?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022
***
Conoco: "Hottest Brand Going"

Shell: "The Shell Answer Man"

I'm sure there must have been TV and print ad slogans for Sinclair, Gulf, Chevron, Phillips 66, and the other oil companies, I just don't remember them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2022 08:38 AM (txdEq)

221 RNC Research @RNCResearch; 10h
SEN. BLACKBURN: "Can you provide a definition of the word 'woman'?"
JACKSON: "No, I can't"
BLACKBURN: "You can't?"
JACKSON: "I'm not a biologist."

**

I can't tell you what a woman is. I'm a black person, not a biologist.

That's what's implied, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 08:38 AM (vwLCV)

222 "If she can't define "woman," why should it matter that she's the first black "woman" nominee?"

Next....can she define 'black'?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:38 AM (3D/fK)

223 She admits gender is biologic. That right there was the opening to crush her and of course nobody saw it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Not if they want to define it as estrogen/testosterone levels, which can be manipulated. She gave the best possible answer to dodge the landmines on both sides.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 08:39 AM (qnVBz)

224 A good answer could have been, "I'm a judge. I don't beleive gender distinctions have any place in the Rule of Law"

Which would be an outright lie.... but a good one.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 08:39 AM (LefDD)

225 Ask her if anyone can be black just by claiming they are, even when they aren't.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 23, 2022 08:39 AM (sVtYq)

226 Compare how vicious and nasty Democrats are to our nominees, to this lightweight shit. They accuse our guys of being Hitler David Duke Ted Bundy Limpdick genocidal assholes and the best we can do is politely ask if we might trouble them with a few questions and occasionally make a scowly face.

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 08:39 AM (aXigK)

227 212 > JACKSON: "I'm not a biologist."
_____________

She admits gender is biologic. That right there was the opening to crush her and of course nobody saw it.
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Gender is subjectively awarding a binary sex meaning to nouns. Sex is not. Sex is about reproduction and doing naughty things.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 23, 2022 08:40 AM (OTXUv)

228 Alas, I misquoted HRC. It should be:

At this point, what difference does it make?

The gibe remains the same.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2022 08:40 AM (m45I2)

229 With this rain, wonder if I should get dressed...or sit around in my PJs all day.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at March 23, 2022 08:40 AM (R5lpX)

230 Ask her if anyone can be black just by claiming they are, even when they aren't.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 23, 2022 08:39 AM (sVtYq)

"Do you believe that God occasionally 'gets it wrong' and puts people in the wrong bodies?"

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 23, 2022 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

231 Damn it Jim I'm a doctor not a biologist.

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 08:40 AM (aXigK)

232 Compare how vicious and nasty Democrats are to our nominees, to this lightweight shit. They accuse our guys of being Hitler David Duke Ted Bundy Limpdick genocidal assholes and the best we can do is politely ask if we might trouble them with a few questions and occasionally make a scowly face.

--

And even that makes Mitt Romney tinkle his pants.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 23, 2022 08:40 AM (sVtYq)

233 wonder what "the government" does with a seized yacht, anyway? Maybe use if for a happy fun camp.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 23, 2022 07:58 AM

After 4-5 years of neglect it will go to auction and bring in pennies on the dollar because it was left to rot due to a bloated slow moving bureaucracy.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at March 23, 2022 08:41 AM (bVYXr)

234 I can't tell you what a woman is. I'm a black person, not a biologist.

That's what's implied, right?
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This is where Sherman Williams color chips come into play cuz science.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 23, 2022 08:41 AM (OTXUv)

235 D will be re-elected. We all know it. Find a way to deal with it.

Posted by: The Poobah at March 23, 2022 08:41 AM (9X60i)

236 Lia Thomas for SCOTUS.

First black/hispanic/asian/eskimo female on the court!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 08:41 AM (qnVBz)

237 With this rain, wonder if I should get dressed...or sit around in my PJs all day.
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Show some self-respect!

Put on sweats and keep yesterday's underwear on.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 08:42 AM (UHVv4)

238 In normal times, Haavahd would be plenty embarrassed and pissed that someone this fucking stupid and ridiculous attended their school.

Crickets.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 23, 2022 08:42 AM (6NKqI)

239 226 Compare how vicious and nasty Democrats are to our nominees, to this lightweight shit. They accuse our guys of being Hitler David Duke Ted Bundy Limpdick genocidal assholes and the best we can do is politely ask if we might trouble them with a few questions and occasionally make a scowly face.
Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 08:39 AM (aXigK)

=========

To be completely fair...none of this matters.

Everyone inside knew whether she was going to pass or not the second Breyer announced his retirement.

Are you enjoying the show?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 23, 2022 08:42 AM (xPkf4)

240 I kind of love this. It's so ridiculous. The whole thing is just a show for soundbites, but this has got to be a high point.

I can't wait for Susan Collins to vote for her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 23, 2022 08:33 AM (xPkf4)

Howdy TJM! When you get a chance, please shoot me an email at the address in my nic. My trip to your neck of the woods is imminent.

Posted by: Doof at March 23, 2022 08:43 AM (mZUr4)

241 "Dammit Jim! I'm a miracle worker, not a biologist!"

/Clown World Dr. McCoy

Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2022 08:43 AM (m45I2)

242 Fuck this overbearing government that makes me care who the president and SCOTUS judges are. Neither should matter a damn to the average citizen.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 08:43 AM (qnVBz)

243 In normal times, Haavahd would be plenty embarrassed and pissed that someone this fucking stupid and ridiculous attended their school.

Crickets.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 23, 2022 08:42 AM (6NKqI)
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Nah. Any Harvard alum in the ruling class is good for Harvard.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2022 08:43 AM (DU+/6)

244 "Are you a woman?"

"Yes."

"How do you know?"

Or

"Are you a woman?"

"I don't see what relevance that has here."

"Well the person who picked you said he was going to nominate a woman..."

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 08:43 AM (aXigK)

245 Here are the GOP shitbags that will vote to confirm. Collins, Romney, Sasse and Murkowski. Bank it.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 23, 2022 08:43 AM (qH6FZ)

246 Catturd
@catturd2
22m
I'm having a rough day ...

I have 4 dogs and suddenly I can't tell which is male or female ... I'm not a biologist.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 23, 2022 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

247 Harvard will have a distinguished KBJ chair of something.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 08:44 AM (qnVBz)

248 Compare how vicious and nasty Democrats are to our nominees, to this lightweight shit. They accuse our guys of being Hitler David Duke Ted Bundy Limpdick genocidal assholes and the best we can do is politely ask if we might trouble them with a few questions and occasionally make a scowly face.
Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 08:39 AM (aXigK)

"America was subjected to the absolute worst of politics with what the Democrats did to now Justice Kavanaugh and his family during his time here. Now, we're expected to sing kumbaya, all get along and sail you through these hearings post haste. Well, I don't give a rats behind the color of your skin, your gender whether you know what it is or not, or what your faith is. What I DO care about is how you've applied your beliefs to your roll as a judge and quite frankly, it scares the holy bejebus out of me."

- - Things I'd like to hear in the hearings

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 23, 2022 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

249 Are you enjoying the show?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 23, 2022 08:42 AM (xPkf4)

I don't pay attention to this shit. You know that. All I know is essentially what I read here.

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 08:44 AM (aXigK)

250 Military grade stupidity from the Ivy League.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 23, 2022 08:44 AM (6NKqI)

251 The middle aged trans thing is pretty funny.

A fat guy that looks like John Goodman puts on a wig and we're supposed to pretend he's a man.

A middle aged woman puts on masculine clothes and gets a crew cut and we think she's a dyke. She's still a chick.

Men are better at everything.

Posted by: MJ at March 23, 2022 08:45 AM (zwDuR)

252 In normal times, Haavahd would be plenty embarrassed and pissed that someone this fucking stupid and ridiculous attended their school.

Crickets.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 23, 2022 08:42 AM (6NKqI)

Harvard threw money and begged David Hogg to attend their university........

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 23, 2022 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

253 242 Fuck this overbearing government that makes me care who the president and SCOTUS judges are. Neither should matter a damn to the average citizen.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 08:43 AM (qnVBz)

As I remember a lot of us saying years ago to the LIV's - you may not be interested in politics, but Politics is very interested in (controlling) YOU.

"The Price of Liberty is eternal Vigilance", but we fell asleep on the job.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 23, 2022 08:46 AM (evAgx)

254 Show some self-respect!

Put on sweats and keep yesterday's underwear on.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 08:42

TBF, my "PJs" are a pair of fleece shorts I bought over twenty years ago and whatever t-shirt I wore the day before. It goes without saying wear yesterday's underwear...or go commando.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at March 23, 2022 08:46 AM (R5lpX)

255 240 Howdy TJM! When you get a chance, please shoot me an email at the address in my nic. My trip to your neck of the woods is imminent.
Posted by: Doof at March 23, 2022 08:43 AM (mZUr4)

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Sure thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 23, 2022 08:46 AM (xPkf4)

256 The lower 9th ward on Nawlins got its shit all fucked up again. Heck of a job, Brandon!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 08:47 AM (qnVBz)

257 This is where ~~Sherman Williams color chips~~ the paper bag come into play cuz science.

*Suggested edit

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:48 AM (3D/fK)

258 The lower 9th ward on Nawlins got its shit all fucked up again. Heck of a job, Brandon!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 08:47 AM (qnVBz)

Did Bush blow up the levees again?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 23, 2022 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

259 "The middle aged trans thing is pretty funny."

How about the old trans thing. I look at Bruce Jenner and laugh. Most older women dress like they're ready to do some gardening, Bruce dresses like Ru Paul.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 23, 2022 08:48 AM (qH6FZ)

260 The only difference between the two groups is the label. The timeline
of this is arguable, some would say 40 years, some would say FDR, some would say the Fed Reserve in 1913. Regardless, we now have to counter the push. And with inflation starting to look like a SpaceX rocket, time is getting short.

Posted by: Grog at March 23, 2022 08:49 AM (YFj/0)

261 245 Here are the GOP shitbags that will vote to confirm. Collins, Romney, Sasse and Murkowski. Bank it.
Posted by: lowandslow at March 23, 2022 08:43 AM (qH6FZ)

========

No more than who voted for her a year ago for the DC Circuit. That would be Graham, Collins, and Murkowski.

It all depends on if Mitch wants her on or not. The most interesting voting action will be on the Committee. It's evenly split with 12 of each Republicans and Democrats. If she doesn't get a majority there, it requires 60 votes on the floor rather than 50.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 23, 2022 08:49 AM (xPkf4)

262 Kristi Noem, who shot her political aspirations in the face by flip-flopping on the issue...

******

Heh. Nice turn of phrase for this topic.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2022 08:49 AM (m45I2)

263 "Bruce dresses like Ru Paul."

Or June Cleaver

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:49 AM (3D/fK)

264 Put on sweats and keep yesterday's underwear on.

What is this "underwear" you speak of?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 23, 2022 08:50 AM (BFigT)

265 "Bruce dresses like Ru Paul."

Or June Cleaver
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:49 AM (3D/fK)

But he really rocked the jogging suit that accentuated his floppy man tits.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 23, 2022 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

266 Dyke lesbians are the worst at trying to approximate maleness. Used to work with one who would "adjust" her non-existant peen about 5000 times a day.

I always wanted to ask her: "What, exactly, are you adjusting there, sweetie?"

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 23, 2022 08:50 AM (HsAzN)

267 249 Are you enjoying the show?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 23, 2022 08:42 AM (xPkf4)

I don't pay attention to this shit. You know that. All I know is essentially what I read here.
Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 08:44 AM (aXigK)

========

Same here. The day to day of politics is almost completely meaningless in terms of electoral outcomes.

Hell, I remember when some progressive friend of mine assured me that Republicans would lose EVERYTHING in 2016 because Mitch refused to take up the Garland nomination. Other factors were more important to many people, it seemed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 23, 2022 08:51 AM (xPkf4)

268 Tiger mauls a worker at a FL airboat attraction.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/
1506388746421350402

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 08:51 AM (UHVv4)

269 Making constant accommodation for 0.05% of the population is TIGHT.

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 08:51 AM (aXigK)

270
RE: French Rev... no need for Jacobins or the Vendee, but don't be shy with the National Razor. Strike a balance. It's a dance on the edge of a razor, so to speak.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 23, 2022 08:51 AM (7U3R4)

271 ""What, exactly, are you adjusting there, sweetie?"

Front Fartclam?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:51 AM (3D/fK)

272 Tiger mauls a worker at a FL airboat attraction.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/
1506388746421350402
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 08:51 AM (UHVv4)

You can take the tiger out of the jungle.......

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 23, 2022 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

273 No more than who voted for her a year ago for the DC Circuit. That would be Graham, Collins, and Murkowski.

It all depends on if Mitch wants her on or not. The most interesting voting action will be on the Committee. It's evenly split with 12 of each Republicans and Democrats. If she doesn't get a majority there, it requires 60 votes on the floor rather than 50.
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This isn't the hill to die on. We need to give them the SC, all of congress, the presidency, and your children's innocence. That'll show them how much they miss the GOP!

Posted by: MJ at March 23, 2022 08:52 AM (zwDuR)

274 It all depends on if Mitch wants her on or not. The most interesting voting action will be on the Committee. It's evenly split with 12 of each Republicans and Democrats. If she doesn't get a majority there, it requires 60 votes on the floor rather than 50.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 23, 2022 08:49 AM (xPkf4)

Mitt already made a statement about her this morning to the Washington Post, he claims all the attacks on her are unmerited. As for the committee, it'll be Sasse.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 23, 2022 08:53 AM (qH6FZ)

275 "You can take the tiger out of the jungle......."

And put it in your tank!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:53 AM (3D/fK)

276 The 4 teens that hijacked, dragged and killed that 73 yr. old woman are now in custody

Posted by: redridinghood at March 23, 2022 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

277
John Jackson says my 3¢ Titanium Tax goes too far.

Well... I say John Jackson's 3¢ Titanium Tax doesn't go too far enough!

Posted by: Jack Johnson at March 23, 2022 08:53 AM (7U3R4)

278
I always wanted to ask her: "What, exactly, are you adjusting there, sweetie?"
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 23, 2022 08:50 AM (HsAzN)

"Got a bug in your cooter, toots?"

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 23, 2022 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

279 Wow. Jeff Carlson just got a big mention on Fox.

Very cool.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2022 08:53 AM (ZLI7S)

280 The 4 teens that hijacked, dragged and killed that 73 yr. old woman are now in custody
Posted by: redridinghood at March 23, 2022 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

They'll be released within 24 hours.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 23, 2022 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

281 But he really rocked the jogging suit that accentuated his floppy man tits.

And now the rest of the story. Jenner was a muscular athlete back in the day. As anyone knows, as you get older, gravity takes over. He saw that he had "moobs" and decided to just go with it and claimed to be a woman. What a way to make yourself relevant again.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at March 23, 2022 08:54 AM (R5lpX)

282 Breaking911 @Breaking911
JUST IN: Hillary Clinton tests positive for COVID, says she's "more grateful than ever" for the vaccine -
https://nitter.net/Breaking911/status/
1506408554340790272

Defiant L's juxtaposition:
https://nitter.net/DefiantLs/status/
1506432427899899904

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 08:54 AM (UHVv4)

283 Dyke lesbians are the worst at trying to approximate maleness. Used to work with one who would "adjust" her non-existant peen about 5000 times a day.

I always wanted to ask her: "What, exactly, are you adjusting there, sweetie?"
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 23, 2022 08:50 AM (HsAzN)

***

This is about me isn't it...

Posted by: Hope Solo at March 23, 2022 08:55 AM (flINI)

284 A minor quibble: The suppression of the laptop did not cost Trump the election. The unprecedented cheating did. If the 10% to 17% of Brandon voters would have changed their vote if they knew about it, Trump would just have won by a larger margin. But he won.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 23, 2022 08:55 AM (rz+/y)

285 With this rain, wonder if I should get dressed...or sit around in my PJs all day.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at March 23, 2022

***
Get dressed. Sitting around in your PJs will make you *think* you're sick. If I'm home for the day, I have my coffee while wearing pajamas, yes, but then I put on my "house clothes" -- jeans or cotton pants, a lightweight or heavyweight shirt depending on how cold it is, and slippers or boat shoes. If it's chilly, I pop on a fleece sweater and wear socks. Like taking a quick hot shower when you have a cold, it makes you feel vastly better and more human.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2022 08:56 AM (txdEq)

286 What is this "underwear" you speak of?
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Don't buy a white ottoman, MF!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 08:56 AM (UHVv4)

287 On casual Fridays she'd wear, every damn Friday, a sideways baseball cap. Because that's what actual men look like, yo.

Looking like 15-years-ago Justin Bieber does not make you look like an actual man.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 23, 2022 08:56 AM (HsAzN)

288 The lower 9th ward on Nawlins got its shit all fucked up again. Heck of a job, Brandon!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

9th Ward will get their shit fucked up repeatedly.

Rule #1. NEVER build below sea level next to the sea.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2022 08:57 AM (rw9H/)

289 On casual Fridays she'd wear, every damn Friday, a sideways baseball cap. Because that's what actual men look like, yo.

Looking like 15-years-ago Justin Bieber does not make you look like an actual man.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 23, 2022 08:56 AM (

Let me guess...with a brim as flat as Brie Larson's ass?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 23, 2022 08:57 AM (vqhPW)

290 What would the Republicans be doing if their goal was to stop this monster from being on the Court?

Make it impossible for any Republicans to vote for her. And Manchin.

Think how far gone to the left Mitt Romney is that he's still going to vote for a pedophile enabler ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 23, 2022 08:58 AM (ca7xK)

291 I love it.

In 30 years we went from "we just want civil unions for insurance" to "I can't tell you what a woman is"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 08:58 AM (vwLCV)

292 I reckon you're right Wolfus. I usually do get dressed anyway. It's just a shitty day with the rain.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at March 23, 2022 08:58 AM (R5lpX)

293 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 23, 2022 08:51 AM (xPkf4)

Remember what I always say:

* Everything is an op.

* Nothing is real.

* Everything is fake and gay.

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 08:59 AM (aXigK)

294 Hillary Clinton tests positive for COVID, says she's "more grateful than ever" for the vaccine -

*******

Pulls string: "There's a snake in my boot!"

Pulls string: "Thanks to the vaccine my symptoms have been mild."

Pulls string: "Somebody's poisoned the water hole!"

Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2022 08:59 AM (m45I2)

295 Rule #1. NEVER build below sea level next to the sea.
Posted by: rickb223

What if its a nice day ?

Posted by: JT at March 23, 2022 08:59 AM (arJlL)

296 Rule #1. NEVER build below sea level next to the sea.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2022 08:57 AM

*ahem*

Posted by: The Netherlands at March 23, 2022 08:59 AM (vqhPW)

297 >>In 30 years we went from "we just want civil unions for insurance" to "I can't tell you what a woman is"

In less than 5 years we've gone from "Believe all women" to "I don't know what a woman is".

Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2022 08:59 AM (ZLI7S)

298 In 30 years we went from "we just want civil unions for insurance" to "I can't tell you what a woman is"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 08:58 AM (vwLCV)

I'd say more like 12 years but yes.

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 08:59 AM (aXigK)

299 The lower 9th ward on Nawlins got its shit all fucked up again. Heck of a job, Brandon!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022

***
Ninth Ward, plus Arabi and Chalmette, the neighboring towns just downriver and in the next parish. Chalmette is where "Col. Jackson fought the bloody British"; I used to play at the battlefield when I was a kid. News reports some damage to New Orleans East, the part of the city north of there, too. I live almost directly across the river to the south, and fortunately had little rain or wind.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2022 08:59 AM (txdEq)

300 "What if its a nice day ?"

And low tide?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 08:59 AM (3D/fK)

301 I guess I missed the news coverage of protesters converging on the steps of the SC. I guess I missed the news coverage of democrat senators being harassed and yelled at while trying to get on an elevator. Yep.. must have missed it.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 23, 2022 09:00 AM (nxdel)

302 *ahem*
Posted by: The Netherlands

And you're always having to stick your fingers in a dyke.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2022 09:01 AM (rw9H/)

303 "*ahem*"

But you guys wear shoes that float!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 09:01 AM (3D/fK)

304 This is about me isn't it...
Posted by: Hope Solo at March 23, 2022 08:55 AM (flINI)
-

No, Robbie.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at March 23, 2022 09:01 AM (4BjrW)

305 301 I guess I missed the news coverage of democrat senators being harassed and yelled at while trying to get on an elevator.

Wouldn't have worked anyway. The Dems don't have any Jeff Flakes. They vote in lockstep.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 23, 2022 09:01 AM (HsAzN)

306 Sucks for my wife's brother. He's trying to sell his house in New Orleans.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at March 23, 2022 09:01 AM (R5lpX)

307 Taiwan's Defence Minister considering extending 4 month military conscription amid tensions with China.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 09:01 AM (UHVv4)

308 A minor quibble: The suppression of the laptop did not cost Trump the election.

**

I don't disagree.

I would, however, think that our current POTUS' involvement in covering up his son's felonies and possession of... unsavory material - and an investigation/arrest would've been hard to overcome.

That's all impossible in this timeline, though. This one they're untouchable. Heck, Hunter was actively protected from firearms felony charges by the f*cking feds.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 09:02 AM (vwLCV)

309 Linsey has contributed too much to the hypothetical WWIII that he should escape censure or early retirement. Take your southern gentleman graft somewhere else, and don't let the door hit you on your child-bearing hips as you go.

Balancing the budget will accidently repel of so many of these fucking criminals.

Me: Buys lots of cat food.
Amazon: Based on your previous purchases, perhaps you might be interested in these pull-ups for incontinent women?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2022 09:02 AM (44ww/)

310 In 30 years we went from "we just want civil unions for insurance" to "I can't tell you what a woman is"
Posted by: Moron Robbie -

You can only get that with a SCIENCE™ drenched education.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 09:03 AM (lD3vL)

311 "*ahem*"

But you guys wear shoes that float!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 09:01 AM

Are you suggesting that our loafers are light?

Posted by: The Netherlands at March 23, 2022 09:03 AM (vqhPW)

312 Not to mention his own (and John Kerry's) direct involvement in Wuhan and Ukraine bioweapons labs.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 09:04 AM (vwLCV)

313 China says one of two black-boxes has been found in severely-damaged condition.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 09:04 AM (UHVv4)

314 Me: Buys lots of cat food.
Amazon: Based on your previous purchases, perhaps you might be interested in these pull-ups for incontinent women?
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2022 09:02 AM (44ww/)

Saw a commercial for Boxed yesterday. They actually had a line in it:

"LOOK! A thank you card. See? THIS is what it's like when you care more about your customers than flying to space!"

I thought it was funny and might actually give Boxed a look.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 23, 2022 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

315 D will be re-elected. We all know it. Find a way to deal with it.

--

D? Dracula? Douchebag? Dillweed? Exactly who is D?

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 23, 2022 09:04 AM (sVtYq)

316 What would the Republicans be doing if their goal was to stop this monster from being on the Court?

The harder the DNC pushes, the harder the GOP will dig in to preserve the latest DNC gains. The DNC is the gear, the GOP is the pawl. Otherwise known as a ratchet.

The DNC doesn't do a damn thing that the GOP doesn't support. The DNC just does the dirty work.

Posted by: UniParty at March 23, 2022 09:04 AM (NCaxZ)

317 Thank you, J.J. If it's not covered here it's not worth knowing.

But I don't think there is a "road back" and we'd better be damn careful of the one we take going forward.

Posted by: creeper at March 23, 2022 09:04 AM (cTCuP)

318 You can only get that with a SCIENC drenched education.

**

You know, that's an interesting point.

Black woman is educated as f*ck, right?

Ain't she never taken no bolologies?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 09:04 AM (vwLCV)

319
Me: Buys lots of cat food.
Amazon: Based on your previous purchases, perhaps you might be interested in these pull-ups for incontinent women?
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2022 09:02 AM (44ww/)

The Amazon AI is harsh but fair.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 23, 2022 09:05 AM (z5Vrg)

320 "I may not be able to define a woman, but I know it when I see it."

/Clown World Justice Wm. Rehnquist

Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2022 09:05 AM (m45I2)

321 Poll: Vaccinated People Far More Likely to Support Risking WWIII Over Ukraine

Blue Pill Take: WE CARE!

Red Pill Take: If they fall for one media lie, they'll fall for all of them

Black Pill Take: When they only have a few years left to live anyway, why not go out with a bang?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 23, 2022 09:05 AM (ESjRY)

322 Sucks for my wife's brother. He's trying to sell his house in New Orleans.

Looking at today's Mortgage Applications data total market down -8.1% W/W and refi index falling off a cliff at -14.4% W/W

#FJB

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 09:06 AM (lD3vL)

323 Sucks for my wife's brother. He's trying to sell his house in New Orleans.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at March 23, 2022

***
Prices for any decent property in any decent area are insane. I'm always amused and exasperated by the PSA that begins, "To buy your house, you became a house-hunting ace. Did your research, scoured neighborhoods, asked the right questions. . . ." It's impossible to "scour" neighborhoods here. Either they are dumps, or they are $$$$$; there's nothing in between. Any affordable property is in a dump area. Any decent property is not affordable.

And the "right questions," like "Just how much 'teen crime' does this area have?", are liable to get you cancelled.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2022 09:07 AM (txdEq)

324 Did you feed the Tiger?

No, I thought you fed the Tiger.

Posted by: klaftern at March 23, 2022 09:07 AM (taPSh)

325 Relieved to see you this morning, Wolfie.

Posted by: creeper at March 23, 2022 09:07 AM (cTCuP)

326 Wouldn't have worked anyway. The Dems don't have any Jeff Flakes. They vote in lockstep.

Don't disagree but it would be nice to see them getting yelled and screamed at nonetheless. Maybe have a rotten egg thrown at them for good measure. Guess there's no fight left on our side.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 23, 2022 09:07 AM (nxdel)

327 Daily Mail- Capitol rioter from California who is wanted by the FBI is granted ASYLUM in Belarus after being hit with 14 charges in the US

https://tinyurl.com/cutdpp79

Posted by: redridinghood at March 23, 2022 09:07 AM (NpAcC)

328 Poll: Vaccinated People Far More Likely to Support Risking WWIII Over Ukraine

Blue Pill Take: WE CARE!

Red Pill Take: If they fall for one media lie, they'll fall for all of them

Black Pill Take: When they only have a few years left to live anyway, why not go out with a bang?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 23, 2022 09:05 AM (ESjRY)
------------

Other Possible Take: The vaccine makes your mind more pliable

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 09:08 AM (aXigK)

329 Me: Buys lots of cat food.
Amazon: Based on your previous purchases, perhaps you might be interested in these pull-ups for incontinent women?
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 23, 2022
*
The Amazon AI is harsh but fair.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 23, 2022

***
Fortunately, when I bought Chekov's last case of Rx food, it was on Chewy. They couldn't suggest such things.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2022 09:08 AM (txdEq)

330 Trying to buy a saddlebag for my bike on Amazon and can't find a single one not made in China or Vietnam. Just nothing made in the USA anymore.

The reason I need one is to replace the cheap piece of Chinese-made shit I already have, that both zippers siezed up on within a year.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 23, 2022 09:08 AM (HsAzN)

331 Daily Mail- Capitol rioter from California who is wanted by the FBI is granted ASYLUM in Belarus after being hit with 14 charges in the US

https://tinyurl.com/cutdpp79
Posted by: redridinghood at March 23, 2022 09:07 AM (NpAcC)

Good. FUCK the FBI and the DOJ for this communistic bullshit.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 23, 2022 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

332 119 The State Department expects a full return to the implementation of the nuclear deal in the coming days.

*

Speaking of, guess who we are giving the go-ahead to and who will be getting the $10B deal or so to build the nuclear plants for Iran?

Go ahead. Guess.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 08:11 AM (vwLCV)
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Who is faux enemy known as Mother Russia, Alex?

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 23, 2022 09:09 AM (soOQJ)

333 For the Supreme Court nominee I'd ask her if she is a female or male. If she answers anything other than female I'd recommend disqualification due to the so-called President's desire to nominate a woman. If she says woman, I'd ask her how she knows. In other words, beat the crap out of mealy-mouthedness (yes, that's a word; I self-identify as Daniel Webster).

Posted by: Robert17 at March 23, 2022 09:09 AM (HfCWn)

334 Now on the FBI most wanted list, and thought to be the only international fugitive charged in the Capitol riot, Neumann is preparing to make a new life in the former Soviet satellite state

Pretty amazing that not only do we have political prisoners in the US now...we have people going to places like Russia to avoid being tortured and sexually assaulted for opposing the ruling junta.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 23, 2022 09:10 AM (ESjRY)

335 Non-Chinese Asia has pretty good manufacturing, IMO, especially Vietnam and Thailand. I'm often pleasantly surprised at the quality of stuff made there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 09:10 AM (/50xH)

336
"LOOK! A thank you card. See? THIS is what it's like when you care more about your customers than flying to space!"

I thought it was funny and might actually give Boxed a look.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 23, 2022 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

Lady YD sells a lot of stuff online, and gets really good reviews, just because she has a good head for business. But a surprising number of people mention her TY cards. I guess that strikes a chord with people.

Posted by: Jack Johnson at March 23, 2022 09:10 AM (7U3R4)

337 Daily Mail- Capitol rioter from California who is wanted by the FBI is granted ASYLUM in Belarus after being hit with 14 charges in the US

**

Read the article. Apparently he had to flee the country because he was holding onto a metal barricade at one point during the day.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 09:11 AM (vwLCV)

338 Did you feed the Tiger?

No, I thought you fed the Tiger.
Posted by: klaftern

*****

"I think Larry fed the tiger."

Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2022 09:11 AM (m45I2)

339 "Hey, anybody seen Larry?"

Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2022 09:11 AM (m45I2)

340 And f*ck TREK for only making saddlebegs that can attach to their own brand of rear racks, and not to any other kind of rack. What the F kind of horseshit is that? Mine has an after-market rack so I can't buy a TREK bag for my TREK bike without buying a TREK rack too. F them sideways with a pineapple.

Way to cut out a whole lot of potential customers.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 23, 2022 09:11 AM (HsAzN)

341 Prices for any decent property in any decent area are insane. I'm always amused and exasperated by the PSA that begins, "To buy your house, you became a house-hunting ace. Did your research, scoured neighborhoods, asked the right questions. . . ." It's impossible to "scour" neighborhoods here. Either they are dumps, or they are $$$$$; there's nothing in between. Any affordable property is in a dump area. Any decent property is not affordable.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

[Praising God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit for finding the Unicorn] Closing (hopefully) Friday.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 09:12 AM (lD3vL)

342 Now on the FBI most wanted list, and thought to be the only international fugitive charged in the Capitol riot, Neumann is preparing to make a new life in the former Soviet satellite state

Pretty amazing that not only do we have political prisoners in the US now...we have people going to places like Russia to avoid being tortured and sexually assaulted for opposing the ruling junta.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 23, 2022 09:10 AM

Depressing, really.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 23, 2022 09:12 AM (vqhPW)

343 "I think Larry fed the tiger."
Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2022 09:11 AM (m45I2)

339 "Hey, anybody seen Larry?"
Posted by: Muldoon at March 23, 2022 09:11 AM (m45I2)

Nope.

*burp*

Posted by: The Tiger at March 23, 2022 09:12 AM (/50xH)

344 @JesseKellyDC

People are dunking on Jackson for this but by not answering a direct question and changing the subject to something else entirely, didn't she just perfectly define the word 'woman'?

Posted by: Gran at March 23, 2022 09:12 AM (GM3/s)

345 Wolfus, we have pretty much decided to stay put. We've been priced out of the market. We drove around the town we were looking at and it's just as you said. Cute and affordable house in a crappy neighborhood, better neighborhood they are running $350-$400,000 for a ranch. Out of our price range. Oh we could get the loan but the mortgage would put us back to pinching pennies and being not being able to even afford a small vacation. Sorry... been poor once. Didn't like it much.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 23, 2022 09:12 AM (nxdel)

346 Poll: Vaccinated People Far More Likely to Support Risking WWIII Over Ukraine

I would leave to see a poll that asks people if they know what the words Donetsk and Luhansk mean.

I'm guessing a tenth of the people that want to nuke Moscow over the current war even know what the hell the war is being fought over.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 23, 2022 09:12 AM (ESjRY)

347 I was thinking of maybe buying a laptop. Does anybody know who makes a really good reliable laptop?

Morning, more coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at March 23, 2022 09:12 AM (88xKn)

348 And f*ck TREK for only making saddlebegs that can attach to their own brand of rear racks, and not to any other kind of rack. What the F kind of horseshit is that? Mine has an after-market rack so I can't buy a TREK bag for my TREK bike without buying a TREK rack too. F them sideways with a pineapple.

Way to cut out a whole lot of potential customers.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 23, 2022 09:11 AM (HsAzN)

This is the Apple business model.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 23, 2022 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

349 Filed under Well Duh:

Medical Marijuana Leads to Addiction, Not Shown to Be Effective.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2022 09:12 AM (yrol0)

350
Off, interchangeable shyster politico sock.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 23, 2022 09:13 AM (7U3R4)

351 Lady YD sells a lot of stuff online, and gets really good reviews, just because she has a good head for business. But a surprising number of people mention her TY cards. I guess that strikes a chord with people.
Posted by: Jack Johnson at March 23, 2022

***
The sellers on Etsy and eBay, and even on bigger 'Net online stores, from whom I've bought pipes have all included a nice thank-you note.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2022 09:13 AM (txdEq)

352 Guy Smiley, check Etsy for saddlebags.

Posted by: creeper at March 23, 2022 09:13 AM (cTCuP)

353 There is an afterlife and there will be a reckoning. I will have to answer up for this seething vengeful feeling I have toward all on the left.

Posted by: Eromero at March 23, 2022 09:13 AM (0OP+5)

354 Speaking of Tigers, both Putin and Biden have one by the tail and neither one knows how to let go without getting mailed in the process.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at March 23, 2022 09:14 AM (R5lpX)

355 Wolfus, we have pretty much decided to stay put. We've been priced out of the market. We drove around the town we were looking at and it's just as you said. Cute and affordable house in a crappy neighborhood, better neighborhood they are running $350-$400,000 for a ranch. Out of our price range. Oh we could get the loan but the mortgage would put us back to pinching pennies and being not being able to even afford a small vacation. Sorry... been poor once. Didn't like it much.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 23, 2022

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I'm sorry to hear that, Jewells. Where are you looking? Not Da Swamp, I hope?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2022 09:14 AM (txdEq)

356 I was thinking of maybe buying a laptop. Does anybody know who makes a really good reliable laptop?

Morning, more coffee.
Posted by: dantesed at March 23, 2022 09:12 AM

Seconded. Need to replace mine and get a nice one for the RMBS Mom. Any Hordethoughts on that?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 23, 2022 09:14 AM (vqhPW)

357 Posted by: Robert17 at March 23, 2022 09:09 AM (HfCWn)

See 244

Now if you and I can think of this why is it so difficult for them?

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 09:15 AM (aXigK)

358 Controversial statement of the day:

Every nation on earth has a fundamental right to invade any other nation they choose. It is the necessary moral hazard for the failure of diplomacy and politics.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 09:15 AM (/50xH)

359 I have a bottle of "Three Stooges" beer around here somewhere.

"We all put the yeast in!"

Posted by: klaftern at March 23, 2022 09:15 AM (taPSh)

360 Prices for any decent property in any decent area are insane. I'm always amused and exasperated by the PSA that begins, "To buy your house, you became a house-hunting ace. Did your research, scoured neighborhoods, asked the right questions. . . ." It's impossible to "scour" neighborhoods here. Either they are dumps, or they are $$$$$; there's nothing in between. Any affordable property is in a dump area. Any decent property is not affordable.

And the "right questions," like "Just how much 'teen crime' does this area have?", are liable to get you cancelled.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2022 09:07 AM

Around here 60 year old 1,500-2,000 sf houses on smallish lots are going for up to $300,000. Land outside of the city limits is ridiculous as well. According to the real estate lady my house has increased in value by $125,000 five years after I bought it. I have had multiple people come up to me when I am outside mowing asking if I want to sell my house. It's insane.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at March 23, 2022 09:15 AM (bVYXr)

361 Testes. Testes. One. Two.....

Posted by: Sponge - 🖕 Joe Biden at March 23, 2022 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

362 I was thinking of maybe buying a laptop. Does anybody know who makes a really good reliable laptop?

Morning, more coffee.
Posted by: dantesed

*

The Dell G15 is apparently the best one going right now. Well built with good hardware.

Watch slickdeals. They're coming up for $650-$700 or so fairly often.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 09:16 AM (vwLCV)

363 lol Wolfus, no we live in Missouri.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 23, 2022 09:16 AM (nxdel)

364 Ketanji Brown Jackson says Critical Race Theory

doesnt come up in the work that I do as a judge.

Senator @tedcruz then reads a quote from her saying that Critical Race Theory is part of her work as judge.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2022 09:16 AM (yrol0)

365 Relieved to see you this morning, Wolfie.
Posted by: creeper at March 23, 2022

***
When the higher winds kicked up around 7:15 and the rain was steady, the lights did blink very briefly a couple of times. I ran and got my LED flashlight and kept it with me. By the time I went to bed, there had been no power outages.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 23, 2022 09:17 AM (txdEq)

366 141 When the telescope finds a fleet of alien warships heading our way, do you think they will tell us?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 23, 2022 08:17 AM (fvJFK)

------

"Please ... DO NOT take us to your leader."

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 23, 2022 09:17 AM (soOQJ)

367 Alas, a pain to reproduce.

Darn.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 23, 2022 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

368 @354...That would be "mauled."

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at March 23, 2022 09:17 AM (R5lpX)

369 I'm not a big fan of Dell in general but my wife has had a refurbished Dell laptop for 7 years and it's still kicking. Good machine. I also have one at work.

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 09:17 AM (aXigK)

370 It's impossible to "scour" neighborhoods here. Either they are dumps, or they are $$$$$; there's nothing in between. Any affordable property is in a dump area. Any decent property is not affordable.

BlackRock will be happy to rent you something.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 23, 2022 09:18 AM (qnVBz)

371 356 I was thinking of maybe buying a laptop. Does anybody know who makes a really good reliable laptop?

Morning, more coffee.
Posted by: dantesed at March 23, 2022 09:12 AM

Seconded. Need to replace mine and get a nice one for the RMBS Mom. Any Hordethoughts on that?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 23, 2022 09:14 AM (vqhPW)

go to Dell
click outlet
see what is a great deal

usually about 40% off for an out of original box deal

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2022 09:18 AM (yrol0)

372 Every nation on earth has a fundamental right to invade any other nation they choose. It is the necessary moral hazard for the failure of diplomacy and politics.

Ukraine had 8 years to live up to their obligations in the east in regards to the Minsk agreement.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 23, 2022 09:19 AM (ESjRY)

373 People are dunking on Jackson for this but by not answering a direct question and changing the subject to something else entirely, didn't she just perfectly define the word 'woman'?

Posted by: Gran at March 23, 2022 09:12 AM (GM3/s)

"Leftist"

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 09:19 AM (aXigK)

374 I was thinking of maybe buying a laptop. Does anybody know who makes a really good reliable laptop?

Any business class notebook will do. Dell's Latitude line for one. I have run both the Precision and the XPS by Dell and have daily machines running for years being opened only to exchange the four year old battery.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 09:19 AM (lD3vL)

375
Senator @tedcruz then reads a quote from her saying that Critical Race Theory is part of her work as judge.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2022 09:16 AM (yrol0)

Ted Cruz is a racist for quoting a black woman as a white hispanic.

- - Mittens Romney

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 23, 2022 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

376 With the Senate 50-50 and I presume the Republicans just giving Kamala a tie breaker vote (it isn't really clear if she should or not), if Cruz and the rest are serious they should be finding a way to convince assholes like Romney and then one Dem to vote no.

Are they doing it? I don't see any signs of it.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 23, 2022 09:21 AM (ESjRY)

377 Meaningless Hearings: Where the GOPe Excels (tm)

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 09:21 AM (aXigK)

378 I looked up real estate in the Cali town I left 3 yrs ago. Median price 1.4 mil, average sale last 10 days over 2 mil.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 23, 2022 09:21 AM (fvJFK)

379 Sorry I forgot:

JJ What day is it?

Hump Day!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2022 09:21 AM (yrol0)

380
Every nation on earth has a fundamental right to invade any other nation they choose. It is the necessary moral hazard for the failure of diplomacy and politics.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 09:15 AM (/50xH)

Is it morally right? Probably not. But - it's the iron law of nation-states. It's reality. There's absolutely no getting around it.

From the Kellogg-Briand Pact to our braindead fellatrix VP puking up her recent nonsense, the West has spent more than a hundred years pretending that "international law" is something that exists. It's a fantasy.

Laws are for within groups. Nobody outside the group cares. Even if two groups have virtually identical sets of laws for their own in-group conduct, they don't apply to their conduct toward one another, for one second longer than it's convenient.

This goes for all groups in the history of groups.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 23, 2022 09:21 AM (7U3R4)

381 Someone needs to ask her if she boofs.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2022 09:22 AM (ZLI7S)

382 The property market where I am looks weird, and to some degree it's a national trend. Prices are up and inventory is down. Some of this is local effects (people moving here), but it's bigger than that.

It looks like it might be topping behavior in the market. Prices are too high, so there aren't enough buyers. So if you have a property to sell and some flexibility, you can opt to hold and sell later to maintain the price. As interest rates climb and incomes shrink (inflation), however, the two major supports for real estate prices are under pressure. I would expect high prices and low inventory until a few people blink and start accepting lower prices and posting price reductions on listings. Then a lot of inventory will flood in as people holding want to get everything they can before prices drop more.

If that's what's going on, anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2022 09:22 AM (DU+/6)

383 was thinking of maybe buying a laptop. Does anybody know who makes a really good reliable laptop?

Morning, more coffee.
Posted by: dantesed at March 23, 2022 09:12 AM

Seconded. Need to replace mine and get a nice one for the RMBS Mom. Any Hordethoughts on that?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 23, 2022 09:14 AM (vqhPW)

Pixy is on at 1 am, you know. Best source for tech on the webtranet.

Posted by: runner at March 23, 2022 09:22 AM (mmOYv)

384 Testes. Testes. One. Two.....
Posted by: Sponge

Here!

Posted by: Lia Thomas at March 23, 2022 09:22 AM (rw9H/)

385 Anyone ask Miss Lindsay if we should go to war with China over Tibet?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 23, 2022 09:22 AM (ESjRY)

386 Lots of bidnesses lease laptops, since portable. Find a place that sells the off-lease units. They are usually much better than wallyworldish consumer grade.

Posted by: klaftern at March 23, 2022 09:22 AM (taPSh)

387 Count me out of the melodrama theatre that is the Republican Party.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 23, 2022 09:23 AM (4I/2K)

388 After two science degrees and many years of interest, I have come to the conclusion that, indeed, we don't know shit about our universe.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 23, 2022 09:23 AM (QSjkU)

389 Two years ago, with Zillow estimating at $275,000, we bought stately VIA Manor (sVM). For $275,000.

Today Zillow has sVM estimated at $390,00.
And the neighbor's place with less to offer just sold for $440,000.
With a Zillow estimate of $380,000.

It's crazy right now.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 09:23 AM (3D/fK)

390 374 I was thinking of maybe buying a laptop. Does anybody know who makes a really good reliable laptop?

Any business class notebook will do. Dell's Latitude line for one. I have run both the Precision and the XPS by Dell and have daily machines running for years being opened only to exchange the four year old battery.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 23, 2022 09:19 AM (lD3vL)

I drive an Acer Aspire E-15. It doesn't do anything fancy but gets me to the HQ and back just fine.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 23, 2022 09:23 AM (dfRN6)

391 376 With the Senate 50-50 and I presume the Republicans just giving Kamala a tie breaker vote (it isn't really clear if she should or not), if Cruz and the rest are serious they should be finding a way to convince assholes like Romney and then one Dem to vote no.

Are they doing it? I don't see any signs of it.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 23, 2022 09:21 AM (ESjRY)

=========

You're not privy to the private meetings of senators? Outrage!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 23, 2022 09:23 AM (xPkf4)

392 Someone needs to ask her if she boofs.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2022 09:22 AM (ZLI7S)

Precedent has been set. Ask her to produce every yearbook from high school AND any diary or day planner from the same time period.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 23, 2022 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

393 JJ. I am having a lousy morning, but your phote of Lindsay Goober and the Godfather Thug made me belly laugh. Thanks for the chuckle buddy

Posted by: Jonah at March 23, 2022 09:23 AM (WY8d2)

394 was thinking of maybe buying a laptop. Does anybody know who makes a really good reliable laptop?

Ask Hunter Biden. Then buy the competitor.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2022 09:23 AM (rw9H/)

395 Today Zillow has sVM estimated at $390,00.
And the neighbor's place with less to offer just sold for $440,000.
With a Zillow estimate of $380,000.

More people + more inflation + many people wanting out of the big blue shitholes = MUCH higher housing prices

Posted by: 18-1 at March 23, 2022 09:24 AM (ESjRY)

396 389 Today Zillow has sVM estimated at $390,00.
And the neighbor's place with less to offer just sold for $440,000.
With a Zillow estimate of $380,000.

It's crazy right now.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 09:23 AM (3D/fK)

========

We bought ours at $470. It's now predicting $680.

And we could probably get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 23, 2022 09:24 AM (xPkf4)

397 Ketanji Brown Jackson says Critical Race Theory

doesnt come up in the work that I do as a judge.

Senator @tedcruz then reads a quote from her saying that Critical Race Theory is part of her work as judge.

*

What part of "black woman" don't you understand, Ted?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at March 23, 2022 09:24 AM (vwLCV)

398 BTW if we find a biologist that defines what a woman is, then that person will be canceled. Democrat: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 09:24 AM (aXigK)

399 I haven't priced the house we sold in San Diego in 1975 for $51K, lately. But about ten years ago, homes on the same street were going for around $600 K and the neighborhood looked run down from what it was when we lived their. It was a 4/2 house, about 1800 sq feet.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at March 23, 2022 09:24 AM (R5lpX)

400 I was thinking of maybe buying a laptop. Does anybody know who makes a really good reliable laptop?

Morning, more coffee.
Posted by: dantesed at March 23, 2022 09:12 AM (88xKn)
++++
What are you after? If you aren't really concerned with weight (e.g., bigger/heavier is okay), I am generally fond of the Toshiba Dynabook/Satellite line. Well built and reasonably priced. Dell has good build quality, too, in their larger machines. If you want an "ultrabook" kind of thing (thin, light, extremely portable, etc.), the gold standard in my opinion is the Dell XPS 13. If you're looking for cheap and decent but probably not as long-lived, the Wal-Mart Gateway laptops are actually pretty good value, just not high-end or particularly rugged.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2022 09:25 AM (DU+/6)

401 Testes. Testes. One. Two.....
Posted by: Sponge

Here!
Posted by: Lia Thomas at March 23, 2022 09:22 AM (rw9H/)

Just the one.

Posted by: A. Schicklgruber at March 23, 2022 09:25 AM (4I/2K)

402
Today Zillow has sVM estimated at $390,00.
And the neighbor's place with less to offer just sold for $440,000.
With a Zillow estimate of $380,000.

It's crazy right now.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 09:23 AM (3D/fK)

I got a letter in the mail the other day telling me a real estate agent has a client willing to hand me $326k for my house as is.

If my daughter was graduating high school this year, I'd be all over it. Alas, one more year.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 23, 2022 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

403
You're not privy to the private meetings of senators? Outrage!

I *long* gave up hope that Republicans have secret strategies to do conservative things.

That was the argument from 2000-2016 or so. And any time they didn't seem to have a plan to beat the left...they actually didn't have a plan to beat the left.

If I'm wrong...great. But...history says we are about to be disappointed. The GOPe will call a 55-45 vote for a moral victory and go bang their interns to celebrate.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 23, 2022 09:26 AM (ESjRY)

404 389. Yes. Nice day trade. Here, even in the Hell of the Blue State burbs of Chiraq, landlords have been jacking rents up 50% on Millenials on new leases. You cannot find a house here under 500k. Sigh... when will I pull the trigger and move to Florida

Posted by: Jonah at March 23, 2022 09:27 AM (WY8d2)

405 >>We bought ours at $470. It's now predicting $680.

>>And we could probably get it.

My place has nearly doubled in 7 years and I am getting calls from realtors asking me if I want to sell.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2022 09:27 AM (ZLI7S)

406 "We bought ours at $470. It's now predicting $680.

And we could probably get it."

On your side of the river....oh hell yeh!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 23, 2022 09:28 AM (3D/fK)

407 403 That was the argument from 2000-2016 or so. And any time they didn't seem to have a plan to beat the left...they actually didn't have a plan to beat the left.

If I'm wrong...great. But...history says we are about to be disappointed. The GOPe will call a 55-45 vote for a moral victory and go bang their interns to celebrate.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 23, 2022 09:26 AM (ESjRY)

========

If there are efforts at convincing people like Romney, it's happening in Mitch's office.

I don't presume there are, but Mitch keeps a tight lid on a lot of this stuff. He's in control.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 23, 2022 09:28 AM (xPkf4)

408 You know how the Rino's are. It does not change the composition of the court, so lets confirm her. Kavanaugh who?

Posted by: Jonah at March 23, 2022 09:28 AM (WY8d2)

409 Trump's greatest mistake was not torpedoing the GOP in the immediate aftermath of the fraudulent election. He was uniquely positioned to do so due to his cult of personality, and the general loathing of the GOP. He alone could have formed a new permanent majority party, even if we had to take a hit for a cycle or two until the GOP was finished off. Instead, he remained loyal to the execrable party that stabbed him in the back repeatedly. Sorry, not wasting my time voting any longer unless it forces more fraud to speed along the dead letter that is the United States.

There is absolutely no doubt the United States provoked Russia to start the war. That the Stupid Party would encourage more antagonism is not a shock. This easily could end in nuclear annihilation, but the grift...

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 23, 2022 09:28 AM (nMx88)

410 Millennials: Immigration is a right!

Also Millennials: We have to stop new construction to save the earth!

Also, also Millennials: We need to government to give MORE money to those in need, even if it causes inflation

Also, also, also Millennials: Why are houses so expensive???

Posted by: 18-1 at March 23, 2022 09:29 AM (ESjRY)

411 I've owned my house for 15 months. According to the big real estate sites, it has gone up by anywhere from 8% to 40%.

Either figure is ludicrous for less than a year and a half.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 23, 2022 09:29 AM (DU+/6)

412 Moderna to seek FDA approval for vaccine for kids 6 months to 5 years after trials show "robust antibody response." Every pharma giant on earth has a fundamental right to invent and sell anything they choose.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 09:29 AM (UHVv4)

413 219 If she can't decide who is a woman, how in the heck is she going to decide court cases?

Posted by: grammie winger at March 23, 2022 08:38 AM (45fpk)

Ketanji's definition of who is a woman and/or female will be the definition of the term used by the party in the case having the most social credits.

Posted by: Gref at March 23, 2022 09:30 AM (AMIL/)

414
Oh, she boofs alright.

When I was in HS, somewhere between 2000-2003, she cornered me in the bathroom at a party. She held up an Ibram Kendi book and said "Do you see this? Do you see? The CRT lives loudly with in me!"

Then she boofed me. Right in the Devil's Triangle. Never been the same since. I can still smell that Kendi book. It's scorched into my hippopotamus.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 23, 2022 09:30 AM (7U3R4)

415 After two science degrees and many years of interest, I have come to the conclusion that, indeed, we don't know shit about our universe.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 23, 2022 09:23 AM (QSjkU)
---
And that is the beginning of wisdom...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2022 09:30 AM (YIVH2)

416 Somebody takes your wallet. You say, give it back. They say, no. You call the police, and say, he took my wallet. Police say, i didn't see it, while the guy takes a twenty out of your wallet and hands it to the cop right in front of you. You ask passers-by for help, they all say, not my pig not my farm. What are your options? Let the guy keep your wallet, or smash his face in and take it back.

The immorality of the Violence pales in comparison with the immorality of all the people who brought that state of affairs to be. I might say the most immoral in this fake fable is the cop.

This isn't supposed to be some grand allegory for Russia, just a rebuke in general of the more fanciful versions of pacifism that say war and violence are absolutely immoral above all other possible immoralities.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 23, 2022 09:31 AM (/50xH)

417
Out: I am Woman, Hear Me Roar

In: I'm Not a Biologist, I Don't Know Shit

Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 09:31 AM (aXigK)

418 NOOD!

Clint Eastwood RNC Speech Art.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at March 23, 2022 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

419 Art! (And it's Kris, so pay close attention...)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 23, 2022 09:31 AM (dfRN6)

420 >> Instead, he remained loyal to the execrable party that stabbed him in the back repeatedly. Sorry, not wasting my time voting any longer unless it forces more fraud to speed along the dead letter that is the United States.

I think Trump did a much more effective thing in taking over the Republican party. There is zero doubt who is in charge of the party now, it's Trump.

He has more money in his PAC than the RNC and DNC combined and he is slowly changing the makeup of the party. By the time 2024 roles around the Republican party will be running on an America First platform and instead of having to build a new national infrastructure he will just takeover the Republican one already in place.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2022 09:32 AM (ZLI7S)

421 How many more days of Dems fawning over Kentanji?

Posted by: Ziba at March 23, 2022 09:32 AM (S1hrL)

422 Bought my 2-1 house in '91 for $59,500. Sold it last July for $245,000. Unreal.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 23, 2022 09:33 AM (rw9H/)

423 Pixy is on at 1 am, you know. Best source for tech on the webtranet.
Posted by: runner at March 23, 2022 09:22 AM

Thanks - I keep forgetting about the Tech Thread.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 23, 2022 09:33 AM (vqhPW)

424 nood art

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 23, 2022 09:33 AM (UHVv4)

425 It looks like it might be topping behavior in the market. Prices are too high, so there aren't enough buyers. So if you have a property to sell and some flexibility, you can opt to hold and sell later to maintain the price. As interest rates climb and incomes shrink (inflation), however, the two major supports for real estate prices are under pressure. I would expect high prices and low inventory until a few people blink and start accepting lower prices and posting price reductions on listings. Then a lot of inventory will flood in as people holding want to get everything they can before prices drop more.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I'm old enough to remember the Carter inflation, where you dropped the price and dropped the price, but inflation was so high you couldn't make the mortgage payments. Trying to convince hubby to sell our place now and move out to a rural area. Bought 20 years ago at about $400, is now on Zillow worth 1.1 million -- for a 3 bedroom house built in 1965, is an insane price. Realtors keep cold calling us, though, wanting us to sell. If we wait until we are retired to move I'm worried it will drop to it's real value and we'll get stuck here.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at March 23, 2022 09:34 AM (GZ/yK)

426 A minor quibble: The suppression of the laptop did not cost Trump the election.
----
Agree.
Because: What do you suppose was the max number of invalid ballots they had at the ready to "fortify" the election?

I say, they still had 100k minimum in reserve for each state except AZ-- that was the only one they appeared to be worried over.
Basically, those people most likely not to vote for Biden-- if they'd known of the laptop-- already had voted for Biden.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 23, 2022 09:35 AM (VggVy)

427 413 219 If she can't decide who is a woman, how in the heck is she going to decide court cases?

Posted by: grammie winger at March 23, 2022 08:38 AM (45fpk)

I think Ketanji knows something we don't...

Posted by: Ziba at March 23, 2022 09:37 AM (S1hrL)

428 How many cases has Sotomayor come up with her own individual take on? The answer is likely none.

It will be the same for KBJ. She'll vote as she's told.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 23, 2022 09:42 AM (ESjRY)

429 You have two really bad choices and one no hoper: Republican, Democrat and Independent. Here, take a robust hit of the magic mushrooms. You won't feel any better but you will join in the craziness rather than merely being an innocent bystander.

Posted by: Ray at March 23, 2022 09:45 AM (sw3xv)

430 The vote totals were spiked with Stolen Dominion USB, fake ballots that were conjured, crested and adjudicated into the system to give the figment of legitimacy.

This was the reason voting and tabulation was halted and took weeks to "certify."

The election was more rotten than Helen Thomas's fart clam.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 23, 2022 09:52 AM (V1FY4)

431 Flipping the Senate and Congress just may be the game plan of our overlords infesting DC.

It's akin to me driving our canoe to the edge of Niagara Falls, propelling the bow suspended and tipping down into the abyss, then handing the paddle over to you.

Then shout all the way down into the roiling, crashing depths, "It'ss YOURRRR faaault !!"

Posted by: Ju at March 23, 2022 09:56 AM (aTmM/)

432 By the time 2024 roles around the Republican party will be running on an America First platform and instead of having to build a new national infrastructure he will just takeover the Republican one already in place.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2022 09:32 AM (ZLI7S)
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One of Jackstraw's best qualities is his optimism, even in the face of bitter experience.

Those of us valuing experience probably disagree about the future, based entirely on our past experiences with people like Durham/Barr, McConnell, Graham, Romney, McVain, Kevin Luntz-McCarthy, Governors like Kristi Noem, and so many others.

Trump has done so much for the country and I choose to be optimistic about the future, in the person of people like DeSantis, and I very much hope that (this time!) the results will be different, and live up to Jackstraw's enthusiasm.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 23, 2022 10:08 AM (RPJEV)

433 Decide what it's worth to you to head off the central-bank-issued digital dollar (but don't advertise it here, it's a rhetorical question).

Posted by: Rowsdower Continues to Insist Ashli Babbitt is Crispus Attucks and Michael Byrd is Lon Horiuchi at March 23, 2022 10:10 AM (P/ALc)

434 I carry a line of the roomiest saddlebags in the business. Call me!

Posted by: Hillary Rodham at March 23, 2022 10:43 AM (g6+Ik)

435 If you want cheaper food, repealing RFS and bankrupting the majority of farmers in America is probably not the way to go.

If you want higher prices then bankrupting America's farmers and then having multinational globalist corporations to buy up the farmland is the way to go.

These corporations bought up the meat processors and created a monopoly and meat prices are cheap, right?

An article written by a programmer, who refers to corn as maize and frankenfood, and fertilizer as "high powered" and cites wikipedia and the petroleum lobby for facts probably isn't the best place to find information.

Posted by: Callister Raine at March 23, 2022 11:23 AM (6hXlw)

436 417
Out: I am Woman, Hear Me Roar

In: I'm Not a Biologist, I Don't Know Shit
Posted by: ... at March 23, 2022 09:31 AM (aXigK)

"I am woman, watch me swim,
I have a penis for a quim,
And the media helps me to pretend . . . "

- - Lia "John" Thomas

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2022 11:39 AM (s2VJv)

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