The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 4/4/22

Good morning, kids. Monday, and yet again it's a link-a-palooza. For the most part it's overwhelmingly madness, disaster and catastrophe all over the place yet there are a few nuggets of hope in there. I suppose I'm an optimist because if I were a pessimist I'd have rearranged the order of that sentence. Well, whatever the hell is happening we're either at a tipping point or we're about to tip over into an abyss. But, I said I was an optimist so let me at least continue in that vein. More and more Americans including (at least anecdotally and from my own perspective) relatively reasonable liberals are repulsed by the destruction of their livelihoods, futures, and most especially their children.

Between what has happened in Loudon County vis a vis the targeting of parents for waking the hell up and protesting the rape of their children, mind, body and soul, the elevation of this Lia "John Thomas" Thomas to Rosa Parks status for destroying women's sports and now the horrifying revelations that the highest echelons of the Walt Disney Company are pushing the sexualization and transgender psychosis on our children, people have "woke" the hell up. After almost 60 years of deviancy being defined down to the point where sanity and normalcy is now viewed as deviant, we're probably now a year or so away from the decriminalization of pedophilia. That is, if nuclear war does not erupt or our entire economy doesn't collapse in on itself first, but I digress.

That brings us to the Supreme Court of the United States. If you thought Ruth Bader "Meinhoff" Ginsburg was bad (and being general counsel for one of the worst anti-American front groups in history, the ACLU, is pretty damn bad), or Sonia "wiseass Latina" Sotomayor was horrible, or even the reprehensible fraud posing as Chief Justice who brazenly acts a one-man Congress to rewrite and make kosher what's unconstitutional, then you ain't seen nothing yet.

. . . investigative journalist Paul Sperry revealed Saturday that Jackson “heard horrifying details of ‘sadomasochistic’ torture of young kids — including ‘infants and toddlers’ — yet challenged the disturbing evidence presented by prosecutors and disregarded their prison recommendations to give the lightest possible punishments in each case.”
Not only that but “in some cases, she even apologized to some of the kiddie-porn perverts for having to follow the statutes, which she called ‘substantially flawed.’” Jackson repeatedly “made excuses for the sex fiends’ criminal behavior and cut them slack in defiance of investigators and prosecutors — and sometimes even probation officers serving her court — who argued for tougher sentences because the cases were particularly egregious or the defendants weren’t remorseful.” This contradicts Biden’s handlers’ claims that her light sentences for child pornographers were “mainstream” and within “normal range.”
The details are stomach-churning. “In July 2020,” Sperry reports, “Jackson gave the bare minimum sentence to a defendant convicted of distributing images and videos of infants being sexually abused, and who had boasted of molesting his 13-year-old cousin, even though she knew the defendant refused ‘to take full responsibility’ for his crimes, a transcript reveals.” The offender whom Jackson ensured got off lightly had posted a nude image of a two-year-old girl and a video of sex with a prepubescent girl. . .
. . . Jackson even apologized to one child pornographer as she sentenced him, saying: “This is a truly difficult situation. I appreciate that your family is in the audience. I feel so sorry for them and for you and for the anguish that this has caused all of you.” This was a habit: to another, she said: “I also feel terrible about the collateral consequences of this conviction,” adding that “sex offenders are truly shunned in our society, but I have no control over the collateral consequences.”
As revolting as all this is, it doesn’t look as if it’s going to derail Jackson’s confirmation.

The writing is on the wall, people. Pedophilia will be decriminalized within a year, regarded (as in "propagandized") as normal within two and anyone who objects will be charged with a hate crime within three and imprisoned. Somewhere before that, an incident will be fabricated, much like what happened to Gibson's Bakery, the Masterpiece Cakeshop and Memories Pizza, that will cause the ruination and targeting of an innocent party, perhaps even involving their own child. And just like the others, it will be pour encourager les autres.

If you want to know how alone we are politically vis a vis the GOP, take a gander at the typical idiocy of Roy Blunt.

“She’s certainly going to be confirmed. It will be a high point for the country to see her go on the court and take her unique perspective to the court. I don’t think she’s the kind of judge that will do the work that I think needs to be done by the court. I won’t be supporting her. I’ll be joining others in understanding the importance of this moment.”

Ketanji Brown 25 is a horror. An absolute horror both in terms of the damage she has inflicted on our society by her sentencing record and worse, the poison coursing through her veins about this country. Her racialist-driven hatred of this nation and its history are risible in the extreme considering the opportunities it gave her to rise to the position she is today, assuming she actually has the intellectual stones to merit her JD and was not merely the product of affirmative action. Bad enough. Yet here's Roy Blunt praising the diversity garbage and importance of voting to confirm someone solely on the basis of melanin and gonads, calling it a "high point for the country" while talking out of the other side of his ass saying he'll still vote no.

Substitute the letter "C" for "BL" and that's Roy. Meh, that's the GOP. But when you see the GOP as not "the stupid party" but as confederates of the Left in the dismemberment of America, you understand fully where we are. Blunt not only doesn't bring up her horrid pro-pervert pro-violent criminal anti-victim record, he completely ignores this pearl necklace of wisdom from out of the cake-hole of Brown 25 Jackson:

Each new Supreme Court justice swears an oath that begins “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; [and] that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same....” With that oath, the justice affirms his or her acceptance that people have unalienable (i.e., inherent) rights: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, freedom of speech, worship, assembly, and the press; the right to bear arms; the right to a swift trial and one by jury; and the whole panoply of inherent rights that their federal and state governments can deny them only if they demonstrate an overwhelming, legitimate need that cannot be met in any other way.
Question: Do you hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights, yes or no?
Response: I do not hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights.

So, Senator Blunt, is the complete rejection of inalienable rights - the very foundation on which our laws and society were built nearly 250 years ago - by Kentanji Brown Jackson the "high point for the country" or was it something else?

Funny how the more we reject this kind of garbage the more the Democrat-Left and assholes like Roy Blunt and the GOP double, triple and quadruple down. "The beatings will continue until morale improves." And of course, if the morale of the people doesn't improve, replace them with other people.

As if the border crisis isn’t damaging enough, with 2.5 million illegal migrants having crossed into the United States since Joe Biden took office, now the [junta] is going to make it exponentially worse by unwinding the last Trump-era restriction.
The Title 42 policy, implemented by the Trump administration during the pandemic to allow border officials quickly to expel migrants on public health grounds, will be terminated next month, the CDC announced Friday.
Title 42 was the last tool border officials had left to stem the flow of illegal migration from more than 150 countries across the southern border. Now, they are anticipating a doubling or tripling of numbers to as many as 18,000 a day.
We know what that means. More secret migrant flights fanning out from the southern border to a town near you. . .
. . . Already, since [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden dismantled Trump-era border restrictions on his first day in office, the number of illegal migrants who have entered the US is the equivalent of the fifth largest city in the nation. By the time the midterms roll around, we will have another 5 million.
That’s at least 7 million total, the equivalent of the second largest city in the country. Almost the size of New York City. It’s like importing the entire population of Libya.
And from next month, that’s the number who will enter every year unless someone wrests control of the border from the cartels.
By the time the next presidential election rolls around, in 2024, the number of Biden illegals will be over 20 million at these rates. That’s a 6% population increase over Biden’s term in illegal migration alone, against a backdrop of rampant inflation.
How do we house and feed such a horde? How do hospitals, schools and jails cope with this unheralded influx with no planning or preparation?
This is Biden’s biggest disaster, and there have been a few.

Kind of ironic that millions and millions of illiterate third world peasants are fleeing to a country that is on the verge of turning into the bankrupt, destitute and violent shit-holes that they fled. Now that I've vented my spleen, I can't seem to remember what I was optimistic about. Maybe the prospect of a Russky or Chi-Com mushroom cloud.

Feh.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"The threat of a leftist takeover of law enforcement is real. We have seen the results, and they are disastrous."
Leftist Infiltration of the Police Will Lead To Tyranny
Roger Kimball: "The Biden [junta's] lies, errors, and miscalculations over Russia will probably hurt the American people more than Putin."
Trading Realpolitik for a Puppet Show
"The yuan is a long way from becoming the world’s reserve currency."
Dethroning the Dollar
Daniel Greenfield: "What all the wars of this century have in common."
Terrorism, Ukraine, Taiwan and the Outsourcing Wars
Victor Davis Hanson: "In pursuit of its utopian omelet, the Left cares little about the millions of middle-class Americans it must break to make it."
The Nihilism of the Left
David Horowitz: "How far have progressive criminals succeeded in subverting our system? Ketanji Brown Jackson who is about to become a Supreme Court Justice is a believer in and promoter of Critical Race Theory, which means she considers the Constitution a Supreme Court justice is supposed to defend a “white supremacist” document that social justice warriors like her are bound not to respect. And the entire Democrat Party thinks that’s okay and is ready to support her.
Understanding the Progressive Mind

THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

"The [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] uneven response to the Ukraine war is sowing confusion among allies and signaling weakness to our chief adversary — China."
Biden’s Lack of Any Strategy for Ukraine Shows He’s Got None for U.S. National Security Either
"German Foreign Minister accuses Russia of 'war crimes' amid reports of mass grave, executions in Kyiv suburb."
Ukraine Updates: Mass Graves, Executed Civilians Uncovered as Russian Troops Retreat From Kyiv
"In the face of broad condemnation of Russian aggression, the anti-war movement in the U.S. is pushing Moscow’s line."
When Anti-War Means Pro-Aggression
“If Europe continues importing gas from Russia, why shouldn’t Ukraine benefit from it?”
Daniel Greenfield: Ukraine Demands Everyone Else Boycott Russia While Making Billions From Russian Gas
"Understanding why (which doesn’t involve Biden’s muddled thought processes) means focusing on Putin’s currently remaining options."
Regarding Putin and Power, Joe Biden was Right
"Spengler" Goldman: "Biden, Blinken, Nuland et. al. have led us into a dead-end crisis that threatens to have a horrifying outcome—and maybe even a nuclear fireball. If you think I’m exaggerating, read this Asia Times analysis by editor-in-chief Uwe Parpart and myself. There’s still time to back out of the cul-de-sac. But not a lot."
Putin Won't Go, Russia Won't Collapse--So What Will Biden Do About Ukraine?
DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL, THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"If Russian oil is stained with blood, so is Venezuelan oil."
Gaetz Defends Not Voting To Sanction Russian Oil
"Americans just don't buy" that.
CNN Anchor Blasts Biden For Blaming Gas Prices On Russia
"[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden abandoned U.S. energy independence immediately upon taking office. The [junta] then employed un-elected bureaucrats and private investment banks to decide on behalf of all Americans what is good for America, resulting in a fundamental threat to the economy and national security."
Biden, Big Banks Declare War on Energy Sector
"Biden ordered an unprecedented release from the emergency oil stockpile in his latest move to refrain from promoting long-term sustainable energy production."
Joe Biden is Doing Everything Possible to Avoid Unleashing American Energy Production
"The White House calls it the 'billionaire minimum income tax' which is neither limited to billionaires nor is a tax on income. Anyone with a basic understanding of economics may call it instead an 'economic malpractice tax.'"
Biden’s Wealth Tax – Class Envy Hiding Economic Malpractice
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Perhaps the Real Collusion is with Leftist Environmental Groups and Russia." (the Soviet Union co-opted if not founded the American environmentalist movement decades ago - jjs)
Renewable Energy Is an Abundant Source of Self-Deception
“When you don’t have lease sales, you’re taking money away from the Gulf Coast states for coastal resiliency, you’re taking money away from inner city parks and recreation programs, you’re taking money away from national park maintenance, you’re taking money away from conservation efforts under the Land and Water Conservation Fund."
A Green Raw Deal: Biden’s War On Oil, Gas Drilling Likely To Hurt Environmental Conservation Programs
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Condolences, Dems. The bums lost."
What the Ginni Thomas Brouhaha Is Really About
Robert Spencer: "Just more of the Left normalizing violence when that suits its ends."
Stephen Colbert Says Joe Biden Should Slap Peter Doocy for Asking Uncomfortable Questions
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
It's a friggin' respiratory virus that's marginally more dangerous, if not more contagious, than a nasty flu strain. And yet the political response to it destroyed our society.
Number of Chinese COVID Patients in US Hospitals Reaches Record Low
"Why exactly were hospitals converted into death camps?"
When the Best Doctors Go to Hell
"Now, it appears that these jurisdictions are simply proving that the virus is inevitable, and beyond vaccination, there’s only so much that can be done to prevent mass spread and substantial death." (or the usual rate of spread and death of other pandemic viruses of the past - jjs)
The Countries That Locked Down the Hardest Are Now Being Decimated By Chinese COVID-19
"Try holding a bonfire to get rid of your old masks." (and old Karens - jjs)
Tips for Post- Chinese COVID Spring Cleaning
"If you don't have time to read a book, these will get the job done."
5 Bombshell Videos on Chinese COVID-19
"Extending a public emergency and instilling mass fear are effective techniques for amassing power."
What California’s Vaccine Mandates Mean for Liberty
"National Pulse reporting on the origins of [Chinese] COVID-19 have been vindicated by the people at the forefront of the investigation."
NIH & EcoHealth "Acted Badly," Admits Chairman of Compromised Chinese COVID-19 Origins Commission
"When it comes to [Chinese] COVID rules — and the science behind them — the federal government has displayed a mixture of brute incompetence and political opportunism that has hurt millions in ways that may prove irreparable. Anyone who takes suggestions from COVID.gov does so at his own peril."
Don’t Take Chinese COVID Advice From New Fed Website
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
“When Americans are presented with the actual language of the new Florida law, it wins support by more than a two-to-one margin,” Public Opinion Strategies said about its poll.
Poll: Majority of Americans Approve of Florida’s "Don’t Say Gay" Law, Including 55% of Democrats
"Conservatives need to force radical educators into being honest about their perverse aims."
Make Them Say It
Yes, Larry, it's absurd. Absurdly popular with a vast swathe of normal people and even Democrats.
GOP Governor Larry Hogan Calls Florida’s Parental Rights Bill "Absurd"
"Princeton cancels an exhibition intended to honor Jewish-American artists."
Cancel Culture at Princeton
"77-year-old faces dismissal for 'transphobic' thought crime."
School Nurse Suspended For Facebook Post in Which She Questioned Why 11-Year-Olds Were on Puberty Blockers
"MIT’s reinstatement of standardized testing makes admissions merit-based, again."
Restoring Sanity—and Fairness
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
It will go into effect on May 23 and with it the final erasure of our border, if it even existed after January 2021.
Biden Junta Announces End to Title 42
Miranda Devine: "By the time the next presidential election rolls around, in 2024, the number of Biden illegals will be over 20 million at these rates. That’s a 6% population increase over Biden’s term in illegal migration alone, against a backdrop of rampant inflation. How do we house and feed such a horde? How do hospitals, schools and jails cope with this unheralded influx with no planning or preparation? This is Biden’s biggest disaster, and there have been a few."
Biden Opens the Title 42 Gates -- Prepare for Madness
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"The Court wisely overturned a dubious and racialized distortion of the Constitution."
Supreme Court Upholds Equality in the Voting Rights Act, But Not Equity in Voting
"The legislation passed by both states would largely bar outside funding from left-wing advocacy groups."
West Virginia and Kentucky Are Latest States to Block Zuckbucks in Elections
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Mister, we could use a man like Meir Kahane again . . . "
Jewish Man Beaten In Gang Attack As New York’s Anti-Semitic Hate Crime Rate Quadruples
"Päivi Räsänen has won a victory for free speech and religion against the secularists."
A Christian Heroine in Finland
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"Meanwhile, Joe Biden is trying to replace the Postmaster General."
"Love This Idea" – Hunter Biden’s Firm Wanted to Asset Strip the U.S. Postal Service, E-Mail Reveals
"By directing US foreign policy in ways that would benefit foreign entities who kept his family on lavish pay, Joe Biden sold out his country and betrayed the trust of the high office he held." (also known as "high treason" - jjs)
Compromised Biden Cannot Lead America or the World
Last week, the Associated Press reported that a “federal grand jury has heard testimony in recent months about Hunter Biden’s income and payments he received while serving on the board of a Ukraine energy company, according to two people familiar with the probe.”
Comedy Gold! Ron Klain: Joe Biden is "Confident" Hunter Didn’t Break the Law, Family "Did the Right Thing" in Business Deals
POLITICS
Wayne Allyn Root: " . . . Trump is back!"
SHOT: The Three Worst Words for Leftists, America Haters and Mainstream Media
Michael Walsh: "The right man has made his entrance: why compel him to waste four years on the sidelines as Trump's veep and then be forced to run on Trump's record in 2028? It makes no sense."
CHASER: "There is a Tide in the Affairs of Men"
"Seems no one wants to throw good money after bad. . . "
55 Dems Quit Paying Dues to Their Own DCCC Ahed of the Midterms
"Wonderful patriot."
Donald Trump Endorses Sarah Palin for Congress
Thad McCotter: "There is no joy in Demville for Strike-out Joe."
Biden at the Bat
“And I’m deeply proud of the work she is doing as First Lady with Joining Forces initiative she started with Michelle Obama when she was vice president and now carries on.”
White House Bats Cleanup After Biden Accidentally Promotes First Lady From Doctor To Former Vice President
"The 2016 MAGA movement was a crisis response—and still is in 2022."
Will the Upcoming Election Be a Force for Good?
"On the political scale, 46% of Democrats said they were satisfied with the way things were going in the U.S., but only 23% of independents and 3% of Republicans said the same."
Gallup: 75% of Americans Dissatisfied With Nation's Direction
“Left-wing candidates from Pennsylvania to North Carolina to Missouri are shying away from the P-word on the campaign trail, in messaging and online fundraising, and even in media blitzes.”
Democrat Candidates Suddenly Shying Away From the “Progressive” Label, Keep Toxic Policy Positions

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Clarice Feldman: "What hath Brandon wrought?"
Trump’s Greatest Gambit?
"In the event of death or disaster, the White House would go from one knave to another."
The Weakest Presidential Line of Succession Ever
“This marks the most a republican candidate for statewide office in New York has raised in a non-election year in two decades. Congressman Zeldin reported over $4.3 million in receipts from over 21,000 donations, 90% of which are $100 or less, and over $5.6 million cash on hand.”
Poll: New York Governor Race Neck and Neck, Cuomo Hench-Hag Hochul Barely Leads Republican Lee Zeldin
"Steuben County Supreme Court Judge Patrick McAllister said the map violated a constitutional provision that districts should not be drawn to favor one political party over another. . . Democratic leaders, including Hochul and state Attorney General Letitia James, said they would appeal the decision."
Judge Throws Out New York Dems’ Gerrymandered Redistricting Map
“The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time…there is such great significance to the passage of time,” Harris said during a speech last month.
Report: Kamala’s Team Believes She’s "Really Hit a Stride" in Interviews Despite Months of Word Salads
"Ignorant, extreme, unprepared, and merely one 70-year-old’s heartbeat away from the presidency."
Kamala Harris is Everything the Media Warned Sarah Palin Would Be
"As I watch the Hunter Biden saga unfold, I’m reminded of a dog my family had when I was in grade school. It was a beautiful Irish Setter, and it loved to chase the UPS truck… until one day it caught it."
Democrats Have Painted Themselves Into a Corner
"We need an America First Plan. Today."
Rep Andy Biggs: November’s Expected Red Tsunami Must Adopt the America First Plan
"After the globalists are routed, Americans will benefit most by returning to the principles of government that first set them free."
Inflation, Invasion, and Crime — Oh, My!
SUPREME COURT VACANCY
“I do not hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights,” Jackson said.
Ketanji Brown "25" Jackson Refuses to Say Whether Individuals Have Natural Rights
“This case is yet another example of information coming to light after the nomination hearing concluded because of the Democrats’ rushed vetting process,” a Republican Judiciary Committee aide told The Post Saturday.
Convicted Child Rapist Nabbed for Assault After Lax Sentence From Ketanji Brown "25" Jackson
"In one instance, Jackson granted pretrial release to a defendant allegedly involved in a deadly fentanyl-trafficking ring, requiring only that he comply with a 10 p.m. curfew. In another case, she released an inmate with multiple bank robbery convictions. Prosecutors opposed both moves."
Ketanji Brown "25" Jackson Advocated for Emptying DC Jails Due to Chinese COVID; Granted Chinese COVID Release to Defendants in Serious Crimes
Robert Spencer: "As revolting as all this is, it doesn’t look as if it’s going to derail Jackson’s confirmation. Controlled opposition Republican Senator Susan Collins (R-Sellout) has already announced that she is going to vote for Jackson, and can Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, and others be far behind? While the Democrats never, ever break ranks, they can always count on Republicans to do so and to help them further the Leftist agenda."
Revolting: Ketanji Brown "25" Jackson Even Gave Light Sentences to Men Who Tortured Babies
"Jackson’s confirmation is being hurried to a Monday committee vote ahead of the Easter recess. What’s the rush?" (it's a fait accompli at this point - jjs)
Republicans Can Stop the Ketanji Brown "25" Jackson Nomination
He supposedly plans on voting no yet spouts this rotten tripe?! Blunt, minus "BL" plus "C" equals . . .
Useless Schmuck Roy Blunt: KBJ’s SCOTUS Confirmation Will Be "High Point for the Country"
"George Washington’s Supreme Court appointments were founders, politicians, entrepreneurs . . . and one cushing."
Before the Litmus Tests
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The Sacramento Bee reported Sunday morning that Sacramento Police Chief Kathy Lester said there were “no suspects in custody” and adding that “it wasn’t immediately clear if the victims were deliberately targeted, or how many shooters were involved.
Video: Beginning Of Sacramento Mass Shooting That Killed at Least Six and Wounded 10 Caught on Tape
"Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Brian Mast (R-Fla.) and Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) all voted in favor of the legislation. Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) are the only Democrats who voted against it." (WTF? - jjs)
House Passes Bill to Legalize Marijuana
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Ding dong the witch is dead!"
Peppermint Piss-Hockey is Leaving White House
"This is the left today, a monolith of tyrants and jack-booted thugs. If you are still a registered Democrat and still vote for such people, then you are a tyrant and jack-booted thug as well. Doesn’t that make you feel proud?"
Today's Blacklisted American: Biden's Labor Board Attempts to Silence Conservative News Outlet for Making Bad Twitter Joke
"Compared to the scumminess that passes for journalism today, someone like Sam Donaldson was a boy scout."
Make News Semi-Great Again: Bring Back Media Bias!
ABORTION
"After seeing photos, many people are shocked over this discovery, but why?"
Late-Term Babies Killed in Abortion Found in DC
SECOND AMENDMENT
"Gov. Brian Kemp has vowed to sign a constitutional carry measure if the legislature would pass it, and he tweeted his pleasure at the passage of the bill on Friday."
Georgia General Assembly Passes Constitutional Carry Law
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"If China (as expected) attacks Taiwan, that attack would come as the end of a very long path through Chinese and American history."
America and the Two Chinas
"Removal of sanctions on IRGC will permit terror-tied Iranians to enter the country."
New Iran Nuclear Deal Could Allow Iranian Terrorists Into US
"Bennett has very little to show for his refusal to publicly campaign against a U.S. return to the Iran deal."
How Biden and Blinken Are Duping Naftali Bennett
Bazs mag Soros and the globalists.
Hungary PM Orban Wins Fourth Term With Comfortable Victory
"Study by Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research shows Palestinians want war, not peace."
Two-Thirds of "Palestinians" Surveyed Support Violence, Ending Recognition of Israel
"When sport is only a vehicle for propaganda." (they must watch the NFL and NBA - jjs)
For the "Palestinians," a Road Race is an Occasion to Bash Israel
"Haile Selassie had few weapons but warned Europe of the doom that followed."
A 1936 Speech Offers Dire Warnings for Today
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
"Months earlier, [Jeremy] Bash signed an open letter with 50 former intelligence community officials that claimed Russia had likely released Hunter Biden's emails weeks before the 2020 election. The intel community veterans were responding to the New York Post‘s release of emails from a laptop that Biden allegedly abandoned at a computer repair shop more than a year earlier."
Dems Tap Hunter Biden Laptop Conspiracy Theorist To Serve on Afghanistan War Commission
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"The unearthed event comes amidst Gates amassing the largest amount of privately owned U.S. farmland and advocating for overhauling global food production and diets in favor of a 'plant-based' approach. The Chinese Communist Party has similarly been purchasing massive amounts of U.S. farmland despite national security concerns."
A Chinese Influence Group Tied To Bill Gates Wants To Collaborate With American Agriculture Officials
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"The Senate voted down David Weil's nomination for a top Department of Labor post on Wednesday evening, a significant blow to labor interests and Biden's domestic agenda. Moreover, it was an embarrassment for Democratic Party leadership, who tend not to bring nominations to the Senate floor unless they know the party can win the vote. Weil's nomination was brought to the floor and voted down by all 50 Republicans and three Democrats—Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.), and Mark Kelly (Ariz.)."
Dems in Actual Disarray: How Senate Democrats Fumbled Confirmation of a Top Biden Nominee
Grover Norquist: "Biden’s budget to impose $2.5 trillion in tax increases on the American people exposes just how out-of-touch the [junta's] is. Americans are being slugged with surging inflation, low wages, and out-of-control energy costs. Biden’s proposals would only make these problems worse."
Biden’s Budget: Taxes, Taxes And More Taxes
"Baltimore's water mismanagement would give any third world hellhole a run for its money. Now, it's getting out. What also needs to get out is that Baltimore has been run by Democrats since World War II." (D'Alessanrdro/Pelositown - jjs)
Deep-Blue Baltimore Has Some Disgusting Water Problems
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Obamacare costs have more than tripled since its passage, according to a market observer. That's Joe Biden's 'big f---ing deal.'"
Anybody Watching What Obamacare's Costs Have Been Doing Lately?
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"I predict the following:1. No more barter flights, exchanging Russian and international astronauts on each other’s capsules. 2. No more mutual research on the station. 3. Russia leaves as of ’24, after it adds its remaining modules."
Rogozin Tweets: ISS Cooperation to End
"At the moment, scientists really do not know why the Sun’s magnetic field flips its polarity every eleven years, causing a rise and fall of sunspot activity as it does so. All they really know is that the Sun’s magnetic dynamo and field cause the spots."
Sunspot Update: Sunspot Activity Continues to Outpace Predictions
"What shaped these features into these strange shapes however is beyond my pay grade to explain. A first wild guess would propose these are the remains of melted lava that froze soon after the initial impact or the impact of that nearby interior small crater."
Strange Terrain at the Martian Equator
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"The national fight over gender identity is escalating."
A Momentous Two Weeks
"None of these children need hormone blockers, they don’t need to transition. One of the things that nobody ever seems to talk about is this one word called 'consequences.'"
Former Trans Person Slams Biden for Promoting "Institutionalized Child Abuse"
"Whether Genesis or genetics, the truth about human sexuality is clear -- but leftists pervert reality and damage children along the way."
LGBTQ+: Leftism’s Corruption of God’s Sacred Gift to Humankind
"Remember, for the leftists, it was never about raising up the downtrodden, it was always about bringing Communism to the United States."
A Victim Too Far: How Transgenders Will Bring Down the Lefty Marxists Who Want to Destroy America
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Keating references one of economist Milton Friedman’s most important essays on “the social responsibility of business” to make his point. 'The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits' was written in 1970 — another time of great social upheaval when calls for an end to capitalism were even louder than they are today."
Disney Shareholder Warns the Company: Stop Wasting Money on Political Crusades
“Parents do not want ideologies forced on their children. They want their children to be educated — not indoctrinated. And one would think that this is something that they . . . would finally have an understanding of.”
Sen. Blackburn Rips "Woke-Left" Disney — Parents "Not Going There to Have Their Kids Go Through Some Kind of Nightmare"
"It’s not a conspiracy theory if there really is a conspiracy."
TrueAnon
"The 'family entertainment' giant bows down to the deities of 'woke' ideology."
DeSantis' Nuclear Option: What Would Happen If Florida Revoked Disney's Special Governing Arrangement?
Christian Toto: "Oscar winner warns of Facebook censorship, attempts to silence debate."
Richard Dreyfuss: Woke Will Kill America

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"Beginning with the Obama presidency in 2009, progressivism and its surly companion, wokeness, invaded the American political landscape."
Do Most Americans Accept the Woke Agenda?
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, "We've worked for years and made progress in many areas to ensure that staff and leaders in our office and at our clubs reflect the racial and gender makeup of America, but we have more work to do, particularly at the head coach and front-office level."
NFL to Require Hiring of Offensive Coaches Based on Skin Color or Genitalia for "Diversity"
"I’m sure they really have your best interests at heart."
Keep Them Docile With Drugs & Video Games
"SNL host Jerrod Carmichael played a former marketing director for IBM. When asked what he does now that the lockdowns are over, Carmichael responded, 'mushrooms.'”
"Is My Brain Okay" SNL Skit Rips The Real Life Impact of Chinese COVID Lockdowns -- And It’s Terrifyingly Accurate
"Gen Z realizes they want more than what the postmodern world has offered them, and that is a step in the right direction."
How the "Romanticize Your Life" Tik Tok Trend is a Gen Z Rejection of Postmodernism
HITHER & YON
“This is a text you find only every 1,000 years,” Haifa University Prof. Gershon Galil said. So what’s so exciting about this find? If the date of the tablet is verified, it would be the oldest Hebrew writing ever uncovered.
Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Hebrew "Curse Tablet"
REVIEW: The Trials of Harry S. Truman.
We Weren’t Always Wild About Harry
"As human life migrates to a new technological domain, powerful states race to write its rules."
A War of World-Building
"As the nation’s top diplomat, Madeleine Albright did not really do diplomacy. She proclaimed America’s power and right to do as it pleased." (but not to advance our agenda or national security but globalism - jjs)
Albright’s Malign Legacy Is Everywhere
"Reflections on the former Sec of State's stupefying dealings with the Taliban."
Did Madeleine Albright Help Pave the Way for 9/11?

NOTE: The opinions expressed in the links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:14 AM

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1 Boker!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at April 04, 2022 07:14 AM (59gMl)

2 Tell him what he's won, Johnny!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at April 04, 2022 07:15 AM (59gMl)

3 Tov!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at April 04, 2022 07:15 AM (59gMl)

4 I'll come in again.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at April 04, 2022 07:15 AM (59gMl)

5 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2022 07:16 AM (3D/fK)

6 That's a horrifying start to my day. And good morning, all.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2022 07:16 AM (4olE8)

7
Stop.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 07:16 AM (s2VJv)

8 I picture a call to arms being unavoidable if things keep going downhill like this much longer. Wish I was wrong.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at April 04, 2022 07:17 AM (59gMl)

9 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 04, 2022 07:18 AM (nR2nR)

10 G'mornin' Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at April 04, 2022 07:19 AM (enSii)

11 Hmmm. Not sure I really want to know what is happening iin the world...

As usual, thanks JJ. I think I'll get back to work.

Posted by: Rosasharn at April 04, 2022 07:20 AM (yEBFM)

12 The left can nominate people who do not believe in individual liberty and it is accepted "they are a cinch"...

the right could nominate Jesus and lose because "he hung out with hookers."

Posted by: sven at April 04, 2022 07:21 AM (Lzpvj)

13
As revolting as all this is, it doesn't look as if it's going to derail Jackson's confirmation.

It's not a small world, it's an insane world.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 04, 2022 07:23 AM (dQvv7)

14 Hola k

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 04, 2022 07:24 AM (b3Dnt)

15 Police in the big cities have leaned left for years. The current climate has shoved them even father left as cops who wanted to do their job quit.

This is why I don't even live in a town any more. Unincorporated county land where I know the sheriff is the only way to live these day.

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at April 04, 2022 07:25 AM (4TZI4)

16 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 07:26 AM (yrol0)

17 The junta is doing a masterful job of creating so much noise and confusion, it's making it difficult to see the individual steps they are taking to break the back of America. I think the majority of the chaos is directed to keep the border off the front burner - even his leftist minions in Arizona and South Texas are complaining - and yet he perseveres. That Sacramento incident? Normal Saturday coming to your America.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 04, 2022 07:26 AM (QZ/dC)

18 The Sacramento Bee reported Sunday morning that Sacramento Police Chief Kathy Lester said there were "no suspects in custody" and adding that "it wasn't immediately clear if the victims were deliberately targeted, or how many shooters were involved.
Video: Beginning Of Sacramento Mass Shooting That Killed at Least Six and Wounded 10 Caught on Tape
*

Remember a few years ago when that really, really smart man was essentially driven out of polite society for daring to write an article about "the talk" people should have to their kids regarding race? Even more funny is how prescient it was since now we're supposed to notice race in any and everything. Well, okay. If you insist.

One of the pieces of advice was, IIRC, was something like "if you see a crowd of minorities forming, leave"

The video is blacks and mexicans. Oil and water, regardless of what DC politicians from Maine and Delaware who have no idea what living near minorities is like love to insist their relationship is like.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 07:27 AM (/6kZi)

19 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

Hashem created man and woman. That's it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 04, 2022 07:28 AM (EZebt)

20 I pray for salvation everyday because I am backsliding away from being colorblind these days. It makes me ill, but there it is.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 04, 2022 07:29 AM (QZ/dC)

21 Elon Musk bought a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter.

Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 07:29 AM (exHjb)

22 Test

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 07:30 AM (Z9Cz5)

23 "Liberals" who support child grooming in public schools, the influx of millions of illegal aliens, entry into a war between Ukraine and Russia, lockdowns, and forced vaccination with an experimental drug employ Fashionistic thinking. They will accept any thought that is in fashion, i.e. that which they read in the NYT or watch on the MSM. They can't be reasoned with because they did not use reason, but rationalization, to believe that which is insane, immoral, and evil.

Posted by: IanDeal at April 04, 2022 07:30 AM (MGjjz)

24 I know there was an article a few years ago detailing that the majority of black women were sexually abused by adult black males when they were minors.

It would be fascinating to know how prevalent Kunta Kitanje Jackson Brown's pet project is in the black community. I bet, like abortion, it's a nightmare horror show that we don't want to know or talk about.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 07:30 AM (/6kZi)

25 Dragging this from the Tech Thread because I think it's brilliant....

The internet is indistinguishable from eight billion cans tied together with a shitload of strings.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 07:31 AM (Z9Cz5)

26 11 Hmmm. Not sure I really want to know what is happening iin the world...

As usual, thanks JJ. I think I'll get back to work.
Posted by: Rosasharn at April 04, 2022 07:20 AM (yEBFM)

I hear you. I can't keep watching this train wreck.

I wish we could do something about this instead of only being able to watch you report it, J.J.

Maybe the doing comes next. It's about time.

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2022 07:31 AM (cTCuP)

27 I pray for salvation everyday because I am backsliding away from being colorblind these days. It makes me ill, but there it is.

*

You can't be told that you have to notice skin color in every single thing without beginning to notice skin color in every single thing.

The part that infuriates me was we were over this bullsh*t back in the 80s and 90s. The Democrats intentionally brought it back.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 07:32 AM (/6kZi)

28 I like how the Sacramento police are appealing to the "community " to step forward and help identify the shooters.

It's always so cute when they pretend violent drug and gang infested shit-holes are close knit neighborhoods with a sense of fellowship and civic responsibility.

Posted by: Ripley at April 04, 2022 07:32 AM (MxEKc)

29 @26

>>Maybe the doing comes next. It's about time.

As we have seen the ratchet always moves in one direction, the only way forward is to destroy the ratchet.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 07:32 AM (Z9Cz5)

30 Hashem created man and woman. That's it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 04, 2022 07:28 AM (EZebt)
-

Had G-d restrained Himself there and then, we wouldn't have Jackson to deal with in the first place!

So it's not our fault.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at April 04, 2022 07:34 AM (59gMl)

31 November will be very clarifying.
Will we get a red wave, or a repeat of 2020 ?

Inquiring minds want to know !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at April 04, 2022 07:36 AM (enSii)

32 So what if there's a "red wave".

The GOP is dem-lite.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 07:37 AM (kqvqj)

33
Gotta make sure kids can't buy cigarettes or vape materials. But molestation is okay, is that correct?

These 'new rules' are confusing.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 04, 2022 07:37 AM (dQvv7)

34 Had G-d restrained Himself there and then, we wouldn't have Jackson to deal with in the first place!

So it's not our fault.
Posted by: Biden's Dog at April 04, 2022 07:34 AM (59gMl)

Hey, i didn't want to, but the dude wouldn't shut up about being lonely. This is on you guys.

Posted by: G-d at April 04, 2022 07:37 AM (6FeV1)

35
~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 04, 2022 07:38 AM (SWi3y)

36 As if the border crisis isn't damaging enough, with 2.5 million illegal migrants having crossed into the United States since Joe Biden took office ...

------

There are 15 U.S. States with populations of less than 2.5 million.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 04, 2022 07:38 AM (soOQJ)

37 Not sure what to think of Musk - maybe Genesis 50:19-21? The Lord do work in mysterious ways.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 04, 2022 07:38 AM (QZ/dC)

38 The Uniparty horror is still ongoing, I see. The weekend didn't end it. Drat.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 04, 2022 07:39 AM (rOVFP)

39
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 04, 2022 07:39 AM (DUIap)

40 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 07:40 AM (VKuJq)

41 Oh joy.

Now we're at the 'God should not have created women, especially black women' part of the convo.

Nice.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 07:40 AM (kqvqj)

42 @31

>>Inquiring minds want to know !

As we have seen, it really doesn't matter, the GOP doesn't really have power in DC and the power they do have is usually used to start pointless wars, reward their paymasters and generally waste time and undermine conservatives, specifically conservative Presidents of which there has only been on in the last 34 years.

Or alternatively...

The GOP has controlled the house for 20 of the last 28 years and what do we have to show for it?

A whole lot of nothing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 07:40 AM (Z9Cz5)

43 The Sunday Morning shows often give insight into where Media wants to go, or spin.

JJ links above to a piece on some of what POTUS-in-fact Ron Klain said yesterday. There's more.

Klain did his best Kevin Bacon in Animal House "Don't panic. All is well" as he spouted one lying statistic after another. You'd think we were in boom times. (This is the kind of lying that Biden can no longer pull off -- senility is a bitch. Hence Klain having to come out of his cave,)

Hunter should obviously be a concern for Klain. Apparently there's a rogue Trump-appointed US Attorney running the laptop grand jury. You can already prove Hunter guilty of tax evasion with what's in the public domain. And then there are those bank accounts that commingled with Papa Joe. Saying you're "confident" there's no problem means that you have a problem.

On the White House not trying to influence this case, Klain said only Presidents like Nixon and Trump did that.

Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 04, 2022 07:40 AM (i0slg)

44 Good morning horde

Social Justice is coming to the Supreme Court near you

Posted by: Skip's Phone at April 04, 2022 07:40 AM (6qaYC)

45 So what if there's a "red wave".

The GOP is dem-lite.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 07:37 AM (kqvqj)

I predict a Purple Puddle.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2022 07:40 AM (if3S1)

46 So I'm sure this isn't going to be a shock to anyone here but, oh look Fauci on camera talking about the flu and what the most effective vaccination is for it.

"The best vaccination is to get infected" "And if she really has the flu she definitely doesn't need to get the vaccine. The most potent vaccination is getting infected yourself."

https://youtu.be/mLZYqf9pkE8

Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2022 07:41 AM (vMCab)

47 Today's good news:
Rain last night (just a little), but the weather man is calling for over an inch over the course of the day. A good, soaking rain that should help man, beast, and field.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 07:41 AM (VKuJq)

48 So the Dems ruined the word Liberal and had to switch to Progressive. Now that they ruined that word, what will they go to next?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 04, 2022 07:42 AM (fvJFK)

49 There was a clip in the Bad Blue tweets of yesterday I believe, with a black pastor railing against more than two genders - but not against the people pushing this agenda on helpless children. If you won't take the tree out root and branch, you can't avoid the fruit.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 04, 2022 07:42 AM (QZ/dC)

50 Reserve analysis recorded inflation at a four-decade high, which followed a survey from Salary Finance out Wednesday reporting 1 in 5 Americans are running out of cash between paychecks.

This is 1979 and 1980 all mutha fuckin over again!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 07:43 AM (yrol0)

51 "Now that they ruined that word, what will they go to next?"

Conservative liberals.

Posted by: fd at April 04, 2022 07:44 AM (vrz2I)

52 @46

>>"The best vaccination is to get infected"

This has been bedrock scientific knowledge for over 100 years.

Which is why those of us who knew the Plandemic was an Op and scam from jump street knew what the whole thing was about.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 07:44 AM (Z9Cz5)

53
If woman don't want to take a stand against guys in their sports, and against child predators...

Second look at the 19th amendment?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 04, 2022 07:44 AM (dQvv7)

54 Now we're at the 'God should not have created women, especially black women' part of the convo.

Nice.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 07:40 AM (kqvqj)

FWIW, i intended my jab to be more against Adam, not Eve, and certainly not women in general.

But I'm not a biologist.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2022 07:44 AM (if3S1)

55 I saw that Charles Cooke was doing the RINO dance over the Florida Anti-Groomer bill. Sure, the Florida legislature should stand firm. Punishing Disney, by removing their special status, is revenge and should not be done. In other words, play defense and continue to lose in the long run. Heaven forbid, we let Disney know they have crossed a line and there will be consequences. No, lose with dignity and principles, and don't mess with the corporate money train.

Posted by: WiNO at April 04, 2022 07:44 AM (EpDzw)

56 Morning peeps. First cutting of the grasses yesterday. A ritual around here. Also the earliest on record. Which means it will be a long season of mowing the grass. And expensive with the current cost of a gallon of diesel over $4

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2022 07:45 AM (BFigT)

57 FWIW, i intended my jab to be more against Adam, not Eve, and certainly not women in general.
___

Of course.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 07:45 AM (kqvqj)

58 Damn good article today, J.J. Thank you.

Posted by: Hippopoonis at April 04, 2022 07:46 AM (JPVCx)

59 @55

>> I saw that Charles Cooke was doing the RINO dance over the Florida Anti-Groomer bill.

National Review is joke, the writers are clowns and the whole weird and twisted endeavour should really just be relegated to the dustbin of history.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 07:48 AM (Z9Cz5)

60 The first "minor attracted person" who even looks at my kids crossways is going to find out what a woodchipper feels like.

I have a cautious confidence that the American people, at that point, will stand with a resounding voice and say "NO" once the Progressives try to go that far. I'm even seeing people who previously thought of Disney "sure, they're filled with progressives, but they mostly mind their own business, and it's hard to find good programming that's fit the family these days," taking a good, hard look at Red (the new one that's totally not about sexualizing children youse guys), and Disney's position on the anti-groomer law in Florida and saying, "You know what? No, that's enough."

It won't send enough of a message - Disney is too far gone - but maybe these folks will start paying attention and quit giving money to people who hate us and our values.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 07:48 AM (VKuJq)

61 Nationalist Viktor Orban's election in Hungary was supposed to be in question, a close-run thing if he pulled it off. "Unexpectedly" for a multi-party system, he won a majority margin of around 53%. Big.

He supports strong borders, families get tax incentives, and community control of education. He has criticized the EU, Zelensky, Biden and is at war with George Soros and the left.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 04, 2022 07:48 AM (mp2aO)

62 55 I saw that Charles Cooke was doing the RINO dance over the Florida Anti-Groomer bill. Sure, the Florida legislature should stand firm. Punishing Disney, by removing their special status, is revenge and should not be done. In other words, play defense and continue to lose in the long run. Heaven forbid, we let Disney know they have crossed a line and there will be consequences. No, lose with dignity and principles, and don't mess with the corporate money train.
Posted by: WiNO at April 04, 2022 07:44 AM (EpDzw)

Treating Disney the same as everyone else is not a punishment. Giving them a special status that they currently enjoy is a privilege that they are abusing and Florida should absolutely take it away.

Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2022 07:48 AM (vMCab)

63 Part Deux: The Sunday Morning shows often give insight into where Media wants to go, or spin.

Yesterday, Hillary, of all people, was on with Chuck Todd. "Joe is doing great, but you know I'd do better" was the theme.

Todd failed to ask Hillary about her campaign getting fined by the FEC over the Dossier, let alone Trump's conspiracy lawsuit. Instead, as a lead-in, he noted that Putin had interfered in 2016 to Hillary's detriment. I suppose he means Putin's $100k social media ad buy. Recall that the Russians gave the Clinton Foundation $125mm while getting access to our high-end internet tech.

Also, developing ..

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 04, 2022 07:49 AM (i0slg)

64
Treating Disney the same as everyone else is not a punishment. Giving them a special status that they currently enjoy is a privilege that they are abusing and Florida should absolutely take it away.
Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2022 07:48 AM (vMCab)

A real kick in the nuts would be to give EVERY company in Florida the same privileges....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2022 07:49 AM (if3S1)

65 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 04, 2022 07:50 AM (arJlL)

66
I don't know what the 'before' price was of Disney plus, but I got an email a couple of days ago advertising it at $2.99 a month.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 04, 2022 07:50 AM (dQvv7)

67 Hey JT.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 07:50 AM (kqvqj)

68 40 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 07:40 AM (VKuJq)

Thank you. It's good to see you back (if it's really you...who knows these days).

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2022 07:50 AM (cTCuP)

69 Russians spending $100k to defeat Hillary, bad. Zuck spending $400 MILLION to defeat Trump, good. Got it.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 04, 2022 07:51 AM (QZ/dC)

70 Kudos to Richard Dreyfuss. I've always respected the guy, even though I knew he leaned left (albeit he says he left the D party in '04). He's been sounding alarm bells for years now and attempting to wake up the populace with his Dreyfuss Initiative. He truly seems like he loves and cherishes the principles of our American founding, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights and desperately recognizes how they're being utterly trashed.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 04, 2022 07:51 AM (sVtYq)

71 You want to hurt Disney. Put their characters in the public domain after say 30 years. No more extensions from Congress.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 04, 2022 07:51 AM (i0slg)

72 Hi creeper.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 07:51 AM (kqvqj)

73 I don't know what the 'before' price was of Disney plus, but I got an email a couple of days ago advertising it at $2.99 a month.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 04, 2022 07:50 AM (dQvv7)

I believe that is the ad based subscription price.

Posted by: WiNO at April 04, 2022 07:51 AM (EpDzw)

74 So let's see. Democrats swear its a crazy conspiracy theory that the elites are full of predators of children using pizza terms for euphamisms. Also Democrats are demanding that teachers be allowed to talk to kindergarteners about sex and keep it hidden from children. And also have nominated a soft on sexual predators judge to the supreme court. Yeah that sounds about right.

Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2022 07:52 AM (vMCab)

75 Correction:

This has been bedrock scientific knowledge for 100s of years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 07:52 AM (Z9Cz5)

76 This has been bedrock scientific knowledge for over 100 years.

Longer, even.

I understand there are records of Ottoman nobility having their children inoculated back in the 13th or 14th century (I think - I don't pay much attention to middle-eastern history in that timeframe, so I could be off by a century or two. But it was certainly before modern vaccines and even, I think, germ theory). We have long observed that people who get a disease and survive it rarely deal with it again, and when they do it tends to be more mild.

For some reason, all of the industrialized world completely forgot about that starting in 2019, and I'm not really sure why.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 07:53 AM (VKuJq)

77 Try holding a bonfire to get rid of your old masks. (and old Karens - jjs)

Nothing much to report from the Front Lines. We did get to dry our socks and warm our feet and hands by the glowing flames of the the Karen Pyres. The quiet still nights are sometime interrupted from the screams of a new Karen being added to the piles and that warms me inside.

(PS Stand upwind)

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 07:53 AM (yrol0)

78 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 07:54 AM (H4qIP)

79 Rachel Campos Duffy just keeps getting prettier and prettier.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 07:54 AM (Z9Cz5)

80 66
I don't know what the 'before' price was of Disney plus, but I got an email a couple of days ago advertising it at $2.99 a month.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 04, 2022 07:50 AM (dQvv7)

I've gotten the same email - they had a bad quarter for subscriber growth, and they haven't added much content...so you get this...

I have not bought, even though it's the right price for when I usually do (one that costs the company to have me), b/c I want to see a little more suffering (and a little more content - Encanto and a bad Marvel show is not enough to get me to care, especially when I have all my other digital deals still in play)...

PS - Wayward Pines season 1 was good, but I was let down from the last few minutes. Funny enough, I wanted more uplifting, but I guess when you're a tv show needing season 2. Of course, then they only got season 2, which I'm gonna wait to watch til I tackle finishing another show...I will say the "watch what you say, big brother is watching" was surprisingly so on point for now...

Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 07:55 AM (exHjb)

81 if it's really you

Well, I would reassure that it is, indeed, me, but how would you *know*?

But it's good to be back, even if it's just on the morning thread (mostly).

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 07:55 AM (VKuJq)

82 28 Posted by: Ripley at April 04, 2022 07:32 AM (MxEKc)

The cops have allowed a non-permitted blocks wide party to devolve for years...

people likely know who shot.

Posted by: sven at April 04, 2022 07:56 AM (Lzpvj)

83 Not one more cent to D*sney. After Abigails rant, fuck them in particular.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 07:56 AM (t3/qz)

84 Good morning, SMH. It's always good to see you.

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2022 07:56 AM (cTCuP)

85 Elon Musk bought a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter.

Elon is a fan of the Babylon Bee and started making noises about this when they were banned. It'd be hilarious if banning the Bee was what brought actual change to Twitter.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2022 07:56 AM (haMNq)

86 Of all the things God gave man, women are arguably my favorite. I don't care much about superficial silliness like their eyebrow shapes or skin color.

If He made anything better, He kept it for Himself.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 07:57 AM (GYd5O)

87 Disney is bullshit - was told the other day that the song, "Don't ask about some character" or such from Encanto is the most popular Disney song ever - yeah right, since Let It Go is practically the world anthem.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 04, 2022 07:58 AM (QZ/dC)

88 Good morning, Horde.

JJ-- your summation and aggregation of the news is excellent.

Posted by: Ladyl at April 04, 2022 07:58 AM (+4oV5)

89 Roy Blunt's comments over our soon-to-be kiddie diddler sympathizer Supreme Court Justice are completely despicable. Inexcusable. Shocking, even. The GOP is a wasteland of uselessness and stupidity. Both parties, for differing reasons, need to be torched to the ground.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 04, 2022 07:58 AM (sVtYq)

90 For some reason, all of the industrialized world completely forgot about that starting in 2019, and I'm not really sure why.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 07:53 AM (VKuJq)

OrangeManBad

Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2022 07:58 AM (vMCab)

91 I don't know what the 'before' price was of Disney plus, but I got an email a couple of days ago advertising it at $2.99 a month.

See, my problem is I'm excited for all sorts of shows that will be coming out - Obi-Wan Kenobi looks awesome. Book of Boba Fett was pretty good, and the Mandalorian has been fantastic (still ticked about what happened with Gina Carrano (sp?), though). The Asohka show seems to be turning into Season 5 of Rebels which is hands-down my favorite Disney Star Wars with the exception of Rogue One.

Add in some of the Marvel programming (yeah, it's hit or miss, but it hits more often than it misses) and it should be a no-brainer that I'd be hooked for life.

But they hate me and want to turn my kids against everything I believe in, so no price is low enough.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 07:59 AM (VKuJq)

92 Grain of salt, world is weird place, etc., but supposedly the Taliban are buying poppy fields and executing people who participate in any harvest. Our alphabet spy agency can't be happy if true.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 04, 2022 08:00 AM (QZ/dC)

93 Remember when the leaders of the only three nations on earth to refuse the vaccine all ended up dying soon after?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 08:00 AM (GYd5O)

94 "Trump is now the most popular politician in America. And it's not even close."

ONE is Wayne A Root is kind of a flake.

TWO is I never thought of Trump as a politician though I suppose he is.

THREE is the sum of ONE and TWO.

At least for now.

Posted by: fd at April 04, 2022 08:00 AM (vrz2I)

95 I can tell the mask wearing is over. Mostly.

I picked up a half dozen down near the end of my driveway after the wind storm last week. Some looked like they had been discarded for months. And they were still more or less "whole."

Should be treated as hazardous waste... I did.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2022 08:00 AM (BFigT)

96 @89

>>The GOP is a wasteland of uselessness and stupidity.

As has been noted, they are an illegitimate political party, properly understood.

Or alternatively...

The GOP is a useless pile of dog shit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 08:00 AM (Z9Cz5)

97 Disney is bullshit - was told the other day that the song, "Don't ask about some character" or such from Encanto is the most popular Disney song ever - yeah right, since Let It Go is practically the world anthem.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

It's A Small World

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 08:00 AM (H4qIP)

98
But they hate me and want to turn my kids against everything I believe in, so no price is low enough.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 07:59 AM (VKuJq)

This.

Posted by: Ladyl at April 04, 2022 08:00 AM (+4oV5)

99 See, my problem is I'm excited for all sorts of shows that will be coming out

The characters will be 50% LGBTQ, 50% BIPOC. The scripts will all center around that status. In other words it will be unwatchable crap.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 08:01 AM (t3/qz)

100 OrangeManBad
Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2022 07:58 AM (vMCab)

See... that doesn't ring true to me.

Sure, that's why the media (at least here in the US) would push it, and why the Democrats and Conservative, Inc. would pile on any bad news, but it doesn't make sense that people - smart people, people who have always had good heads on their shoulders like most of my own family - would suddenly fall for all the fear-mongering and hand-wringing.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 08:01 AM (VKuJq)

101 Where's the infrastructure coming from to care for a small city of illegals entering the country daily?

Posted by: Mean Tweets at April 04, 2022 08:01 AM (nrSBK)

102 89 Posted by: Lady in Black at April 04, 2022 07:58 AM (sVtYq)

The indifference to the communists is disheartening.

Posted by: sven at April 04, 2022 08:01 AM (Lzpvj)

103 Michael Walsh: "The right man has made his entrance: why compel him to waste four years on the sidelines as Trump's veep and then be forced to run on Trump's record in 2028? It makes no sense."

Because Trump made the tide possible. Without Trump's don't back down example, DeSantis probably wouldn't even have won FL. Gillum barely lost in 2018, even though he was crooked and perverted.

It's Trump's decision to make, and I think he has earned that right. Me? I'll happily vote for either.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 04, 2022 08:02 AM (F0YaR)

104 Looks like the good news is all those pedophile priests will be exonerated, finally, after ActionJackson takes her seat and writes that majority opinion.

They, and their fellow travelers in the teachers union, a group twenty times in number when compared to the blackrobes, should do a candle-light march in D.C., ending with speeches on the steps of the Court building, during which the grand finale address will be titled "I Had A Teen"

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 04, 2022 08:03 AM (KiBMU)

105 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Helluva picture tody

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

106 103
It's Trump's decision to make, and I think he has earned that right. Me? I'll happily vote for either.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 04, 2022 08:02 AM (F0YaR)

Same here But I am leaving heavily DeSantis for a few reasons, primarily as MW has laid out. We discussed this at length on a podcast.

https://cutjibnewsletter.com/

podcast/cutjibnewsletter-speaks-episode-14/

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 08:04 AM (s2VJv)

107 Where's the infrastructure coming from to care for a small city of illegals entering the country daily?

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You misunderstand.

Sacramento is the end goal.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 08:04 AM (GYd5O)

108 Elon Musk buying a stake in Twitter is massive news

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at April 04, 2022 08:04 AM (L9Ewk)

109 You all know this but the The New Colossus is just a plaque on the wall in a museum under the Statue of Liberty. It about 30 by 45 inches.

Link with someone stand near it:
https://tinyurl.com/2s4c8khp

It is NOT ON THE BASE OF THE STATUE.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 08:04 AM (yrol0)

110 108 Elon Musk buying a stake in Twitter is massive news
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at April 04, 2022 08:04 AM (L9Ewk)

I'm glad someone appreciated my news...see, if I woke up early enough for the tech thread, it probably would have mattered more

.

But that's EARLY!

Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 08:05 AM (exHjb)

111 How pathetic and sad is it that there isn't even going to be a question on the confirmation of this terrible judge who can't even give her opinion on natural rights. As JJ says, the cornerstone of the country's entire existence!! A cornerstone she's going to be tasked with upholding!! No clearer a sign this country is near death.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 04, 2022 08:05 AM (sVtYq)

112 Morning, I personally think it's time for parents to make a very strong stand EN MASSE against the teachers union. I wonder, can the teacher union be broken up like Ma Bell?

Posted by: sidney at April 04, 2022 08:05 AM (LJJah)

113 The characters will be 50% LGBTQ, 50% BIPOC. The scripts will all center around that status. In other words it will be unwatchable crap.

If only that were true, but so far Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni (who both actually love Star Wars and want it to live forever) have been given more-or-less free reign over what to do with the Disney+ programming. That's why giving up on Disney+ is going to hurt (that, and sometimes we like to watch stuff from the Before Times when Disney still made more-or-less wholesome family content).

But, hurt or not, easy or not, we're done with Disney at the #Texit nee DedicatedTenther household.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 08:05 AM (VKuJq)

114 I lean Trump then DeSantis. Revenge then economy and schools.

The Republicans need to be able to fight, though, and they won't.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 08:06 AM (GYd5O)

115
Where's the infrastructure coming from to care for a small city of illegals entering the country daily?

Posted by: Mean Tweets at April 04, 2022 08:01 AM

Check the 'withholding' side of your paystub.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 04, 2022 08:06 AM (dQvv7)

116 A lot of us wanted Cruz to run against Hillary. Hindsight's a heluva thing aint it?

I'll vote for anyone who pisses off the Left. The more the Left hates 'em, the more I like 'em.

Posted by: fd at April 04, 2022 08:06 AM (vrz2I)

117 Eh, Roy Blunt is a retard. Let's follow his line of reasoning.

KBJ on the Supreme Court represent a grand moment in American history because she's a Black Woman Judge.(Period Full Stop)

She is apparently the only(?), the best(?) qualified Black Woman Judge despite being a pedophile-friendly enabler, who is also a hate-filled racist, who is also an anti-American constitution commie in direct conflict with her oath of office.

There were no other Black Women Judges in America, who didn't have these automatic (in a sane world) disqualifications. All other Black Woman Judges despite being Black, Women, and Judges were so-o- hideously unqualified that we have to have this ragbag for our shining moment in american history.

I find this very hard to believe. Which means that Roy Blunt and his ilk are weird racists. Or that KBJ disqualifies for office are actually her most important qualifications. IMHO.

A sad, and sorry day for America.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2022 08:07 AM (5NkmN)

118 Walt Heyer of "Sex Change Regret" is a good man. He's not a young man. I hope he has the ability to continue with his work.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 08:07 AM (GezNK)

119 Trump has officially endorsed Palin for the house seat in Alaska. That's where I always thought her political recovery should start from, so I'm glad she's making a run (she'll prefer being in DC for 1/2 the year, as well, I think, b/c I never thought she love loved being a full time Alaskan)...

Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 08:07 AM (exHjb)

120 people have "woke" the hell up. After almost 60 years of deviancy being defined down to the point where sanity and normalcy is now viewed as deviant, we're probably now a year or so away from the decriminalization of pedophilia.
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I disagree. There hasn't been an awakening yet. Those who see are still on the margins, though those margins are a lot bigger today than they were last year. It also appears - though it could be confirmation bias on my part and time will tell - that the "curse of Cassandra" problem is starting to fade. It's still there, but it is no longer universal.

I wouldn't call it an "awakening" in broader terms until two things happen:
1. Informal strikes or union formation in industry to fight against woke-ass HR racism and destructive corporate "ESG" nonsense
2. Public school enrollments crash by more than 20%

Those are my thresholds to look for real "I'm awake, I'm pissed and screw you" development.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 08:08 AM (DU+/6)

121 School Nurse Suspended For Facebook Post in Which She Questioned Why 11-Year-Olds Were on Puberty Blockers

They gave my dad this stuff when he had several different cancers and they needed to hold of his prostate cancer for a year or so. His facial hair stopped growing. He had very little emotions and was mostly sad. He would tire out in about an hour car ride.

Giving this SHIT to little boys and girls in right the with Joe Mengele.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 08:08 AM (yrol0)

122 Same here But I am leaving heavily DeSantis for a few reasons, primarily as MW has laid out. We discussed this at length on a podcast.

https://cutjibnewsletter.com/

podcast/cutjibnewsletter-speaks-episode-14/
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 08:04 AM (s2VJv)

re: DeSantis, I'm almost there. Much as I think he's as powerful where he is as he would be in the White Hut I'm not onboard with Trump any longer. That might change, depending on how he explains caving to the COVID liars. But right now, Donnie and I are not on the same page.

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2022 08:08 AM (cTCuP)

123 Sure, that's why the media (at least here in the US) would push it, and why the Democrats and Conservative, Inc. would pile on any bad news, but it doesn't make sense that people - smart people, people who have always had good heads on their shoulders like most of my own family - would suddenly fall for all the fear-mongering and hand-wringing.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 08:01 AM (VKuJq)

People are dumb. Especially smart people, who have been convinced to trust experts in the fields they're supposedly experts on, like doctors. "No way could they be wrong about the food pyramid!" People were terrorized into believing that unless all these things were done everyone was going to die! And you kind of combine in that mentality of "sacrifices on the homefront and victory gardens" of WW2 to push people further into it.

Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2022 08:08 AM (vMCab)

124 @106

>>Same here But I am leaving heavily DeSantis for a few reasons

DeSantis is great, but he needs to stay in Florida as Governor where he can be an example and bulwark at the state level.

Trump needs to regain the Presidency to right the cosmic wrong that was dealt us and him in 2020 and to re-implement his America First Agenda.

It's probably already to late to save this country but the only person I would trust at the helm at this point is Trump.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 08:08 AM (Z9Cz5)

125 The cops have allowed a non-permitted blocks wide party to devolve for years..

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I wonder why that is?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 08:09 AM (GYd5O)

126 When that monthly number of illegals matches Richmond's population, with Richmond's 50 public schools as an indication of infrastructure needed, each state on average will be dedicating one brand new public school each month.

And the staff needed, will be hired from the ranks of noseringed, purple haired degenerates graduating from our useless universities, ready to charm the little ones with tales of buggery, scissoring, cross-dressing, and self-hatred.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 04, 2022 08:09 AM (KiBMU)

127 See... that doesn't ring true to me.

Sure, that's why the media (at least here in the US) would push it, and why the Democrats and Conservative, Inc. would pile on any bad news, but it doesn't make sense that people - smart people, people who have always had good heads on their shoulders like most of my own family - would suddenly fall for all the fear-mongering and hand-wringing.
Posted by: AllenG

Fear-mongering. Herd mentality. Being kicked out of the cool kid's club. All combined. Added on and piled up.

But mainly being kicked out of the cool kid's club. Seriously. Most people can't handle being alone. Being ostracized from friends and family.

I personally always ask, "promise?" when people threaten to cut me off or exclude me.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 08:11 AM (H4qIP)

128 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

129 "Trump needs to regain the Presidency to right the cosmic wrong that was dealt us and him in 2020 and to re-implement his America First Agenda."

It's going to be made a lot harder with the big cities on fire from the "race" riots. There will be many Governors and Mayors who refuse to deal with Trump but blame it all on him. This country will be so far gone by then I don't know how it can be salvaged.

Posted by: fd at April 04, 2022 08:12 AM (vrz2I)

130 The left is God-free and despicable. They're disgusting.

They're evil.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

131 Which means that Roy Blunt and his ilk are weird racists

This. They really believe that black people are worthless and unable to succeed without help from rich white people. They believe that black people are little more than animals who only understand violence and are genetically criminal.

If they *didn't* believe those things, there would be no moral or philosophical argument to be made in favor of things like "disparate impact theory" and affirmative action. It wouldn't be an "historic" or "important" moment to have the first black woman on the Supreme Court - she would just be another person, either qualified or not - who was being nominated.

"Representation" is a thing for fiction - movies, TV, books, cartoons. Even then it should be done for the sake of the story, and not just to check boxes. In the real world, "representation" should only be based on real qualifications, work, and results.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 08:12 AM (VKuJq)

132 but it doesn't make sense that people - smart people, people who have always had good heads on their shoulders like most of my own family - would suddenly fall for all the fear-mongering and hand-wringing.

*

Crrdentialism.

I didn't think it was possible, but it turns out it's a huge driving force.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 08:12 AM (GYd5O)

133 [From the VDH link:] "One could also argue over the political opportunities in 2020 following the devastation of COVID-19."

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With all due respect, Professor Hanson, COVID-19 was not nearly as devastating as the irrational, hysterical, and destructive over-reaction to it.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 04, 2022 08:12 AM (UkwIP)

134 I would bet Disney will still draw in record crowds this busy season. Most families can now afford only one visit and they will make the best of it. Many attractions are undergoing revamp's, and the children will still want to go. Season passes are only available for prior holders right now, but that could change. Disney has done a great job brainwashing children that their parks are the place to be.

Posted by: Colin at April 04, 2022 08:13 AM (YVx1O)

135 Lifetime court appointments must be done away with. The meaning of the word "Lifetime" has changed since the Constitution was written. In those days you were lucky to live to 65. Now you're stuck with them until they're 90-ish.

They need to calculate the average tenure of Supreme Court judges up to about 1920 when people started to live longer, and make that the maximum allowable tenure.

Posted by: Cal Kulator at April 04, 2022 08:13 AM (2oYEN)

136 "we're probably now a year or so away from the decriminalization of pedophilia."

And after that? How far can it go? Ritual sacrifice? Sure, why not? You were born to die anyway.

Posted by: fd at April 04, 2022 08:14 AM (vrz2I)

137 If only that were true, but so far Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni (who both actually love Star Wars and want it to live forever) have been given more-or-less free reign over what to do with the Disney+ programming. That's why giving up on Disney+ is going to hurt (that, and sometimes we like to watch stuff from the Before Times when Disney still made more-or-less wholesome family content).

Everything leads to Luke Skywalker still drinking green titty milk. Fuck Filoni and Favreau. They're with Kennedy. How often are blasters being used in the Star Wars shows? Obi Wan is going to be a side character in his own show because you're going to have the strong female inquisitor that is actually going to be or wind up on the light side saving him. Oh and he's going to fight Vader again further destroying Star Wars.

Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2022 08:14 AM (vMCab)

138 I like how environment groups like the Sierra Club and National Resources Defense Council which whine on endlessly about overpopulation and urban sprawl and overcrowded cites and resource depletion have too sit there, shut-up and take it while their man floods the country with 50k new illegals every week, not a one that gives damn about climate change or anything else the greenies care about.

Posted by: Ripley at April 04, 2022 08:14 AM (MxEKc)

139 Policemen care about overtime, pension, and healthcare benefits. They don't care about crime, protecting the public, the culture war, or anything else. It is a business. It's highly profitable with no accountability.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at April 04, 2022 08:14 AM (Spr0s)

140 PS - Wayward Pines season 1 was good, but I was let down from the last few minutes. Funny enough, I wanted more uplifting, but I guess when you're a tv show needing season 2. Of course, then they only got season 2, which I'm gonna wait to watch til I tackle finishing another show...I will say the "watch what you say, big brother is watching" was surprisingly so on point for now...
Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 07:55 AM (exHjb)

WP season 1 had an interesting gimmick/twist. It really should've ended at season one if they'd come to a better conclusion. Season 2 was a washout. Clearly, no clear plot in hand beyond the grottiest of leftard tropes.

Probably, not worth your time.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2022 08:15 AM (5NkmN)

141 Mowed the lawn this weekend. I should say, I mowed an endless amount of gumballs this weekend. There are more to fall. I am so fucked.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 08:15 AM (Iv+w0)

142 I don't want DeSantis to run for president. Based on what I've seen so far, he looks like the best candidate to me, but I don't want him to run. Trump might try again, but I think he'll probably lose. I'm ambivalent about voting for him again. He failed his first time and whether that was his fault or not - and I land on "not" most of the time - the fact remains that he could not tackle the deep state.

And that's why I don't want DeSantis to run. In my opinion, Trump's experience demonstrated that the presidency is a false prize. If a non-monster manages to win it, he'll be stymied at every turn. Congress - even if it is of his own party - will slow-walk everything. The bureaucracy will nakedly obstruct and disobey his orders. The military will violate the chain of command and disregard him. He will be forced to make progress through easily-reversible EOs and those will be undone promptly by his replacement.

The presidency doesn't matter and the president cannot fix anything or undo any of the destruction within the government. I don't want the few good men we have to run into that morass only to get stuck and realize too late that it was a suicide mission.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 08:16 AM (DU+/6)

143 With all due respect, Professor Hanson, COVID-19 was not nearly as devastating as the irrational, hysterical, and destructive over-reaction to it.

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Yep. We discussed it here last week. The most super contagious virus ever in history, and you had an 11% chance of catching it if lived in the same house as someone who was sick with it.

It was all an op.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 08:16 AM (GYd5O)

144 That might change, depending on how he explains caving to the COVID liars.

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I do tend to cut him slack for his actions while he was president because of the wall of liars he was surrounded with. Coupled with the newness and initial terror of what we were being told about WuFlu. He trusted "the (bogus) science" we were being fed and that's a stain on his presidency, imo. But we were all in the dark to varying degrees. The last I heard, months back, he still hadn't seen the light of day on the deceit of this entire thing, and that's unsettling. It's not a deal-breaker for me, but I hope he's changing his tune now that there is so much more information about all of these bad actors and the BS "science" they've shoveled at us.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 04, 2022 08:17 AM (sVtYq)

145 With all due respect, Professor Hanson, COVID-19 was not nearly as devastating as the irrational, hysterical, and destructive over-reaction to it.
Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 04, 2022 08:12 AM (UkwIP)

Twang!...Zzzzt...>>>-----> 0 Thunk.

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2022 08:17 AM (cTCuP)

146 "I would bet Disney will still draw in record crowds this busy season. Most families can now afford only one visit and they will make the best of it. Many attractions are undergoing revamp's, and the children will still want to go.
Posted by: Colin"

They will lose a few people but like the NFL their loyal customers don't know/care about the wokeness aimed at them and will continue forking over the dollars.

Posted by: Ripley at April 04, 2022 08:18 AM (MxEKc)

147 129 "Trump needs to regain the Presidency to right the cosmic wrong that was dealt us and him in 2020 and to re-implement his America First Agenda."

It's going to be made a lot harder with the big cities on fire from the "race" riots. There will be many Governors and Mayors who refuse to deal with Trump but blame it all on him. This country will be so far gone by then I don't know how it can be salvaged.

Posted by: fd at April 04, 2022 08:12 AM (vrz2I)

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And if past is prologue, Trump or whatever useless idiot he makes his third AG, will not stop the domestic terrorists from continuing to burn those cities and drop more innocent bodies.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 04, 2022 08:18 AM (UkwIP)

148 140 PS - Wayward Pines season 1 was good, but I was let down from the last few minutes. Funny enough, I wanted more uplifting, but I guess when you're a tv show needing season 2. Of course, then they only got season 2, which I'm gonna wait to watch til I tackle finishing another show...I will say the "watch what you say, big brother is watching" was surprisingly so on point for now...
Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 07:55 AM (exHjb)

WP season 1 had an interesting gimmick/twist. It really should've ended at season one if they'd come to a better conclusion. Season 2 was a washout. Clearly, no clear plot in hand beyond the grottiest of leftard tropes.

Probably, not worth your time.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2022 08:15 AM (5NkmN)

That's what I expected. Thus, why I was gonna watch something else in the interim. You just felt that coming season 2 set up in season 1. Ah well...now I definitely know why there's just 2 seasons. Reminded me of Heroes, which also should have ended with 1 season...

Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 08:18 AM (exHjb)

149 "I don't want the few good men we have to run into that morass only to get stuck and realize too late that it was a suicide mission."

Trump is a willing Kamikaze. There is no one better suited for the role if he can get a good hit.

Posted by: fd at April 04, 2022 08:18 AM (vrz2I)

150 > Leftist Infiltration of the Police Will Lead To Tyranny

Will?

Me thinks the author, Maurice Richards is a day late and a dollar short. We're already there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2022 08:18 AM (BFigT)

151 It's going to be made a lot harder with the big cities on fire from the "race" riots.
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Bring marshmallows. Toasting treats on a dumpster fire is good wholesome fun.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 08:19 AM (Iv+w0)

152 With all due respect, Professor Hanson, COVID-19 was not nearly as devastating as the irrational, hysterical, and destructive over-reaction to it.

Holding exactly this stance has made any social gathering to which I've been invited over the last 2 years really awkward, I must say.

And even the "I told you so" isn't worth it, because everyone just sticks their fingers in their ears and yells "la la la" until we can change the subject.

That, at least, I get. My family all made decisions - consequential ones - based on the Covid lies and over-reaction. If they admit that those decisions were based on lies - especially since there was one family member the whole time who was calling out those lies - they have to admit they were wrong and that they harmed themselves and (in some cases) their children for no good reason.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 08:20 AM (VKuJq)

153 Word goals in essays are annoying. You either get a mass of "backstory" that causes you to not read the piece or something like the article about revoking Disney's special permissions which includes "Reedy Creek Improvement District" about 50 times.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 04, 2022 08:20 AM (nR2nR)

154 We're having more Trump-DeSantis fights two years before the election? Oh, goody. It's so enjoyable, just as the Trump/anti Trump fights were before election. So, so enjoyable./s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 08:20 AM (GezNK)

155 Tesla Co-founder and CEO Elon Musk has purchased a 9.2% stake in Twitter, Inc, according to a Monday filing from the SEC.

that's roughly $2.89 billion

Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 08:21 AM (0JevL)

156 "we're probably now a year or so away from the decriminalization of pedophilia."

And after that?
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There is no after.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:22 AM (kqvqj)

157 To me, Trump or DeSantis only matter as far as there is no Democrat in the WH. If the GOP will not support him, and the federal agencies will ignore the leadership of the appointed secretary, what does anything else matter?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 08:22 AM (t3/qz)

158 Tesla Co-founder and CEO Elon Musk has purchased a 9.2% stake in Twitter, Inc, according to a Monday filing from the SEC
___

So?

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:22 AM (kqvqj)

159 Trump is a willing Kamikaze. There is no one better suited for the role if he can get a good hit.

**

This is my thought, too. The trick will be finding an AG from Bumf*ck, WV with a degree from a state school who doesn't have any interest in a future in DC and only cares about the nation.

That will be a huge challenge when a Ukranian or Chinaman walks up with a suitcase full of cash.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 08:22 AM (jZJe9)

160 Posted by: Colin at April 04, 2022 08:13 AM (YVx1O)

I don't think so. With record prices on gas and everything else parents and kids will not be flocking to Disney this year.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 08:22 AM (GezNK)

161 Yep. We discussed it here last week. The most super contagious virus ever in history, and you had an 11% chance of catching it if lived in the same house as someone who was sick with it. ...
Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 08:16 AM (GYd5O)
++++
I was worried about COVID at the beginning. I wasn't Chicken Little, but I was very worried. Then two things happened:
1. The Diamond Princess
2. The lack of corpses piling up in the streets

It was the first one that, as data started to come out, really made me think to myself, "I don't want to catch this thing, but I don't need to reorder my life around it and all of this is insane." A cruise ship is essentially a perfect disease environment. Close quarters, shared ventilation, closely shared spaces, shared food, shared facilities. It's probably on par with prisons if not slightly worse. And on that ship, only around 20% of people got the virus. Only a few died, and the population in question was old (albeit also healthy and fairly well-to-do). It wasn't a perfect study, but it was a very good one with the ability to control for a lot of confounding variables.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 08:23 AM (DU+/6)

162 "we're probably now a year or so away from the decriminalization of pedophilia."

And after that?

Sodom and Gomorrah, if we're lucky.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 08:23 AM (VKuJq)

163 There is no after.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:22 AM (kqvqj)
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There is always an after. My bet is on human sacrifice, specifically of the innocent.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 08:24 AM (DU+/6)

164 158 Tesla Co-founder and CEO Elon Musk has purchased a 9.2% stake in Twitter, Inc, according to a Monday filing from the SEC
___

So?
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:22 AM (kqvqj)

I feel a sense of deja vu just in this one thread.

As for so...and that stake, Musk will start to be able to either plan a full takeover or start directing policies...if he so chooses...

Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 08:24 AM (exHjb)

165 If Trump wears a colander mask and assless chaps he will win 100M votes.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 08:24 AM (Iv+w0)

166 Posted by: Ted Torgerson at April 04, 2022 08:14 AM (Spr0s)

I think it depends on the policeman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 08:25 AM (GezNK)

167 I don't want to see the pix of you with a danged goat, Roy. Thanks for selling us out.

Posted by: klaftern at April 04, 2022 08:25 AM (taPSh)

168 Mother of 3 Year Old Fatally Shot Monday Arrested, Charged With Endangerment
and Tampering With Evidence

The mother of a 3-year old boy fatally shot Monday morning has been arrested on outstanding warrants and charged with endangering a child, police say.

Lacravivonne Washington, 26, the mother of 3 year old Jalexus Washington, was arrested Wednesday and was taken to Dallas police headquarters to be interviewed about her son's death. Police said the woman declined to speak with detectives.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 08:25 AM (H4qIP)

169 There is always an after. My bet is on human sacrifice, specifically of the innocent.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
___

As far as the US is concerned, it's over.
It will go the way of the Mayans and Aztecs.
A civilization that succumbed to the most horrific practices and destroyed itself.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:26 AM (kqvqj)

170 154 We're having more Trump-DeSantis fights two years before the election? Oh, goody. It's so enjoyable, just as the Trump/anti Trump fights were before election. So, so enjoyable./s
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 08:20 AM (GezNK)

Haven't really seen anyone fighting. Most of the time its just people expressing their preference and offering reasons why they don't want one or the other to run. That's different than the Trump/anti-Trump fights. And its certainly better than 2009-2012 being told to just shut up and get behind Romney, that some did.

Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2022 08:26 AM (vMCab)

171 That, at least, I get. My family all made decisions - consequential ones - based on the Covid lies and over-reaction. If they admit that those decisions were based on lies - especially since there was one family member the whole time who was calling out those lies - they have to admit they were wrong and that they harmed themselves and (in some cases) their children for no good reason.
**

I'm hoping it at least drove a wedge in between them and the school system re: lockdowns, and they saw how they don't really need them and how little instruction their kids are getting from 7-8 hours a day of sitting in a class that does little more than provide jobs and retirement for the teachers. It might move some to homeschooling, especially with the parents being forced to stay home or losing their jobs at the same time this cross-dresser and "black people are better than your worthless honky-ass kids" are taking over public school academics.

Shame the Republicans thought investigating Trump over BS charges was a better use of time than tying school funds to children.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 08:26 AM (jZJe9)

172 @157

>> If the GOP will not support him, and the federal agencies will ignore the leadership of the appointed secretary, what does anything else matter?

Trump accomplished an astounding amount of good with literally the entirety of LE/IC and political apparatuses arrayed against him.

If Desantis pursues a Trump like agenda, he too will be assailed in a similar fashion.

Which is why his best use is in Florida and Trumps in the WH.

My loyalties lie with Trump and his America First Agenda and until he has left the scene I don't see any advantage in going with New Coke*.

* Not a dig at DeSantis who I like, just a metaphor.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 08:26 AM (Z9Cz5)

173 Trump is a willing Kamikaze. There is no one better suited for the role if he can get a good hit.
Posted by: fd at April 04, 2022 08:18 AM (vrz2I)
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I am not sure he is. I don't think Trump has it in him to dance with the potential that fixing the problem might cause the failure of the United States government. And it might. When the kind of stuff the government does - the rampant corruption, the cronyism, the illegality, the sexual deviance, the racism, the theft, the murder, etc. - comes to light (and it *must* come to light to try to fix the problem), in a big way nobody can then deny, it could well result in the failure of the government and a soft or even hard revolution.

I don't think Trump would risk actually causing the government to fall by trying to fix it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 08:26 AM (DU+/6)

174 Is Jelaxus a new form of Jello?

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 08:27 AM (Iv+w0)

175 As for so...and that stake, Musk will start to be able to either plan a full takeover or start directing policies...if he so chooses...
___

As a non-twitter user, this means less than nothing to me, since I will never use it, no matter who owns it.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:27 AM (kqvqj)

176 Police said the woman declined to speak with detectives.

Smart. Never talk to the cops without your lawyer.
And often your lawyer will tell you "never talk to the cops."

I'm not sure what they think she did or didn't do, and if she actually committed a crime I hope she is convicted. With that said, I have little to no faith the the justice system cares about seeing criminals punished and the innocent protected, so I'm sad about the child and "meh" on the investigation (for now).

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 08:28 AM (VKuJq)

177 Jalexis? Is that like Jamal and Alexis?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 08:29 AM (t3/qz)

178 Lacravivonne.

How do you even pronounce this?

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:29 AM (kqvqj)

179 Is Jelaxus a new form of Jello?

Sounds more like a stool softener or to help with constipation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 08:29 AM (GezNK)

180 I was worried about COVID at the beginning. I wasn't Chicken Little, but I was very worried. Then two things happened:
1. The Diamond Princess
2. The lack of corpses piling up in the streets
**

Yeah, we discussed it at length here (it was fun in its own way), but mine was a family member caught it. Confirmed case, lost taste and smell, low fever, tired, etc. and we didn't do sh*t. Not a single thing different. None of the rest of the three of us even had a sniffle. We played in the pool, grilled out, rode bikes, etc. during our two weeks off.

All an op.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 08:29 AM (jZJe9)

181 I think we need DeSantis to spend time solidifying what he has been doing in Florida. If he leaves for DC too soon the state will slide back to where it was, instead of being the successful example to follow.

Trump running again will further expose the roaches, which is what the country needs the most.

Posted by: davidt at April 04, 2022 08:29 AM (QrruW)

182 As a non-twitter user, this means less than nothing to me, since I will never use it, no matter who owns it.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:27 AM (kqvqj)

Non-twitter user also, but I recognize the influence Twitter exercises over the public discourse. It desperately needs to be cleaned up and Elon Musk may be the only person able to do that.

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2022 08:31 AM (cTCuP)

183 Lacravivonne.

It's a mouthwash.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2022 08:31 AM (BFigT)

184 Kudos to Richard Dreyfuss. I've always respected the guy, even though I knew he leaned left (albeit he says he left the D party in '04). He's been sounding alarm bells for years now and attempting to wake up the populace with his Dreyfuss Initiative. He truly seems like he loves and cherishes the principles of our American founding, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights and desperately recognizes how they're being utterly trashed.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 04, 2022

***
He could use a quote from Jaws: "I'm not about to waste time talking to [people who are] tuning up to be a hot lunch."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 08:31 AM (txdEq)

185 Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 08:26 AM (jZJe9)

My family will likely never move away from public schools (well - my wife and I pulled our kids out years ago, but the *rest* of my family). My brother and his wife are both public school teachers. My mom was a public school teacher for something like 25 years. To them, it (whatever "it" is) is always the fault of "the district" or "administration" or "the State." They don't realize the rot is entirely internal, mostly driven by their fellow teachers, and that anything they are doing individually is little more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 08:31 AM (VKuJq)

186 As a non-twitter user, this means less than nothing to me, since I will never use it, no matter who owns it.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:27 AM (kqvqj)
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That might be a narrow view, SMH. I'm not a Twitter user, either, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter. If Musk is able to turn Twitter into a vast crack in the battlements that surround Big Tech, that would be a good thing. More important perhaps than even that, if he's able to get meaningful reforms - technical, procedural and ideological - at Twitter, it will have huge downstream effects on the news cycle. Twitter is, in essence, a tool for journalists and reporters to set the message. A stunning amount of "news" come from Twitter sources and discussion. Reforms to make Twitter less of a sewer will have downstream consequences - especially in media - even if you are not a user.

I doubt this happens, by the way. 10% ain't enough.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 08:31 AM (DU+/6)

187 It desperately needs to be cleaned up and Elon Musk may be the only person able to do that.
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It needs to go away.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:31 AM (kqvqj)

188 That might be a narrow view, SMH.
___

Oh well.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:32 AM (kqvqj)

189 But sure, let's confirm Judge Jackson to the highest court. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 04, 2022 08:32 AM (4I/2K)

190 "I don't think Trump would risk actually causing the government to fall by trying to fix it."

Maybe not intentionally but we can always hope the fire gets too big.

Posted by: fd at April 04, 2022 08:32 AM (vrz2I)

191 Evercore has a contract with USPS, who knows what they do, strategic advice they say. probably they are just selling off the real estate quietly as the USPS is in a $ 6 or 7 billion hole. think of it, USPSs real estate in NY, DC, Chicago, LA, SF is worth $ 30 billion

And 10% for the Bug Guy

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 08:33 AM (yrol0)

192 Tesla Co-founder and CEO Elon Musk has purchased a 9.2% stake in Twitter, Inc, according to a Monday filing from the SEC.

that's roughly $2.89 billion
Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 08:21 AM (0JevL)
*********
He now owns more stock in Twitter than Jack Dorsey.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2022 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

193 The so-called "special status" Disney enjoys in Florida need to be rescinded... as do the current protections afforded to social media.

If ever there was bullshit, this is it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2022 08:33 AM (BFigT)

194 I don't want Ron to run because it's Trump who's remaking the GOP.
In 2025, they will have a majority in the House and Senate. Every R that voted to impeach him will be gone. And not just them, but several democrats will be replaced with Trump-endorsed Congressmen.

Trump, and only Trump, will have the mandate to take fire and ax to DC. (E.g., his current campaign line of being able to fire every executive employee). Ron won't.
Ron can do the building after.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2022 08:34 AM (I3QRX)

195 Maybe not intentionally but we can always hope the fire gets too big.
Posted by: fd at April 04, 2022 08:32 AM (vrz2I)
++++
I suspect - I have no basis for this, really, but I do suspect it - that this already happened. I think he already realized that doing what he wanted to do might cause the system to fail.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 08:34 AM (DU+/6)

196 162

Right. There have been hints of that in CA, of course, in the recent past, IIRC.

Posted by: Ziba at April 04, 2022 08:34 AM (S1hrL)

197 Jalexis? Is that like Jamal and Alexis?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Sounds like a border town in old Mexico.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 08:34 AM (H4qIP)

198 In the Dreyfuss story:
"Dreyfuss blamed the culture for Smith's inability to reign in his impulses.

Gawd, these people need editors. REIN IN. Of course the editors are probably just as clueless.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 08:35 AM (txdEq)

199 Keep your friends paid off; your family paid off gooder.

Posted by: klaftern at April 04, 2022 08:35 AM (taPSh)

200 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.
Saint of the Day
St. Isidore of Seville (560 -- 636 A.D.) was born in Spain. He, as well as his two brothers and sister, all became saints. Isidore received his early education in Seville where learned men taught classical education. Isidore excelled in his studies there. He became a man of great learning, zeal, piety, and apostolic endeavor, assisting his brother in converting the Visigoths from the Arian heresy. He then becoming next Archbishop of Seville. He was one of the most learned men of the 6th century and is considered the last of the early Church Fathers. He was a prolific writer on the sciences and the classics. He composed history books, a dictionary, and an encyclopedia which was used for nine centuries. St. Isidore reunited Spain after the barbarian onslaught, making it a center of culture and learning. He wrote a rule for religious orders, and founded schools that taught every branch of learning. For his great learning and written works he was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XIV. St. Isidore of Seville is the patron of computers, schoolchildren, and the internet.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2022 08:35 AM (F6McX)

201 I didn't know anything about the Dreyfus Initiative. He left the D party when I did. I'm glad to hear of his initiative.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 08:35 AM (GezNK)

202 I'll stake my claim as being the first to proclaim this whole plandemic was a scam and Op.

I work in construction, I worked in NYC at the initiation of the Plandemic, which at the time was "ground zero" of the plandemic, not a single construction site shut down, there was no disruption to any construction site during this time due to "Covid."

If anyone has any understanding of the realities and conditions on a large scale commercial construction site, you would know that if a deadly virus to the general population was circulating in the community, it would have been devastating to the construction industry. bat flu did not even register a blip.

It was a scam and op from jump street.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 08:36 AM (Z9Cz5)

203 The so-called "special status" Disney enjoys in Florida need to be rescinded... as do the current protections afforded to social media.

This.

Though, as I understand it, that "special status" only extends as far as property that Disney actually owns and basically amounts to "you can do what you want with your property."

So what I'd rather see happen is that "special privilege" be made into a "general privilege." If you own property, you can do with it what you want. It's *your* property.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 08:36 AM (VKuJq)

204 It needs to go away.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:31 AM (kqvqj)

Totally agree. But the reality is it's not going away. Twitter and FB are addictions for many. The best we can do is to corral it.

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2022 08:36 AM (cTCuP)

205 Gawd, these people need editors. REIN IN. Of course the editors are probably just as clueless.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 08:35 AM (txdEq)
++++
The number of typos and language errors in mainstream press is pretty astonishing. Remember, these are the people you're supposed to trust because they have editors and accountability and shit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 08:36 AM (DU+/6)

206 Remember diddling kids is not the hill to die on, so unfortunately one of us will have to vote for KBJ. Of course, maybe half of us would if you voters would just stop yelling at us!

Posted by: Senate Republicans at April 04, 2022 08:36 AM (ESjRY)

207 Of course the editors are probably just as clueless.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Oh! I thought you said 'redditors'.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2022 08:36 AM (F6McX)

208 179 Is Jelaxus a new form of Jello?

Sounds more like a stool softener or to help with constipation.
----------------
Food for thought.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 08:36 AM (Iv+w0)

209 So how many illegals, how many millions of them, will be voting in 2024?

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:37 AM (kqvqj)

210 Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 08:37 AM (yrol0)

211 "Lacravivonne.
How do you even pronounce this?

Raymond Luxury Yacht

Posted by: fd at April 04, 2022 08:37 AM (vrz2I)

212 Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2022 08:35 AM (F6McX)

Thanks; I knew some about him, but didn't know he was the patron saint for the internet. Heaven knows we could use St Isidore's intercession in that area.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 08:37 AM (GezNK)

213 I'll stake my claim as being the first to proclaim this whole plandemic was a scam and Op.
**

I can remember us discussing why the utterly impossible to clean subways were still running, and noting that it's mainly transportation for the lower class janitors and cleaning types that were going to be riding them while everyone else was staying home.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 08:37 AM (jZJe9)

214 209 So how many illegals, how many millions of them, will be voting in 2024?
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:37 AM (kqvqj)

Every last one. And all will be for the Democrat.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 08:37 AM (s2VJv)

215 It was a scam and op from jump street.
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Its why we call it a plandemic. Andy Cuomo was given an Emmy for killing 50k+ elderly. New York should change its name to New Nihilism.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 08:39 AM (Iv+w0)

216 209 So how many illegals, how many millions of them, will be voting in 2024?
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:37 AM (kqvqj)

State with Motor Voter Rules:
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Washington

So just a wild ass guess: 2 to 3 million by 2024.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 08:40 AM (yrol0)

217 @213

>>I can remember us discussing why the utterly impossible to clean subways were still running,

Yep, we never lost the ability to go to big box department stores, have illegal immigrants serve us food through a window or risk getting mugged riding the filthiest transit system on the planet.

We knew the score.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 08:40 AM (Z9Cz5)

218 Every last one. And all will be for the Democrat.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
___

This is why I think that this nation is running on constitutional fumes at this point.
It's done.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:40 AM (kqvqj)

219 > Though, as I understand it, that "special status" only extends as far as property that Disney actually owns and basically amounts to "you can do what you want with your property."
________________

I might be mistaken, but I read Disney's "special status" to be as you said with this change "you can do what you want on your property." Which is a huge difference.

IIRC Disney has it's own internal LE, fire, sanitation, etc. Basically it's own little "self administrative area" inside the state of FL.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2022 08:40 AM (BFigT)

220 Grocery stores are the proof of the dishonesty of the scamdemic.

It was OK to go to a store, but not go to a voting venue.

Posted by: davidt at April 04, 2022 08:40 AM (QrruW)

221 If Brian Stetler were a Greek God, what God would he be?

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 08:40 AM (Iv+w0)

222 "71 You want to hurt Disney. Put their characters in the public domain after say 30 years. No more extensions from Congress.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 04, 2022 07:51 AM (i0slg) "

IOW, the old copyright laws, before Disney & Big Media got them changed.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at April 04, 2022 08:40 AM (enSii)

223 Sefton: Now that I've vented my spleen, I can't seem to remember what I was optimistic about.

******

Threadwinner!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 04, 2022 08:41 AM (m45I2)

224 No borders, no country.
Simple as that.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:41 AM (kqvqj)

225 Do not take Jelaxus if you are allergic to Jelaxus.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 04, 2022 08:41 AM (dfRN6)

226 noting that it's mainly transportation for the lower class janitors and cleaning types

Apparently we could lock down Americans, force them to get experimental gene therapies, and destroy half of all small businesses but NOT close the border, clean the subways, or stop politicians from partying.

I asked a few Brand COVIDIANS about the NYC subway thing. The answer they gave me is closing the subways would be too hard for people in NYC to deal with.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 08:41 AM (ESjRY)

227 Donald Trump didn't do too well with his personnel choices. What leads us to believe he would do better the next time?

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2022 08:41 AM (cTCuP)

228 IIRC Disney has it's own internal LE, fire, sanitation, etc. Basically it's own little "self administrative area" inside the state of FL.
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Maybe we could get Putin to invade Disney World? Do you see any downside if that happened?

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 08:41 AM (Iv+w0)

229
I work in construction, I worked in NYC at the initiation of the Plandemic, which at the time was "ground zero" of the plandemic, not a single construction site shut down, there was no disruption to any construction site during this time due to "Covid."

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 08:36 AM

But there's something interesting about that. Most of those jobs were out of doors. There was no epidemic among the homeless who spend almost all of their time out of doors.

Most (80% iirc) hospital admissions the people were low in Vit D (the sunshine vitamin). But the government wanted us locked up inside and only stray outside for short shopping trips.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 04, 2022 08:42 AM (dQvv7)

230 Orban election background from a commenter at Insty's, tanarur, to keep in mind when the Putin boosters show up 1of5

As a fellow spouse of a Hungarian lady, and as someone who has been living in Hungary for 20 years, I can confirm your diagnosis in general terms at least. My wife is also not a big fan of FIDESZ or Orban, but she voted for them today because of the utter recklessness of the left. Another thing that you failed to mention is the Ukrainian governments persecution of the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 04, 2022 08:42 AM (UHVv4)

231 @221

>>If Brian Stetler were a Greek God, what God would he be?

Not a G-d but Stelter bears a striking resemblance to Ephialtes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 08:42 AM (Z9Cz5)

232 Ho, ho, Joe must go.

Posted by: Caliban at April 04, 2022 08:42 AM (HgGBT)

233 IIRC Disney has it's own internal LE, fire, sanitation, etc. Basically it's own little "self administrative area" inside the state of FL.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Does Disney pay property taxes to local county authorities? (In FL)

Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2022 08:42 AM (F6McX)

234 And if the country is so far gone as we fear, Trump's election in 2024 will have the Democrats firing on Fort Sumpter within 9 months. Again.

So, we might as well get started on that while there's still enough of us left to remember when this was a free country.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2022 08:42 AM (I3QRX)

235 Which Republican can counter a gotcha question from a leftist reporter better than DeSantis.

Cruz is OK at it, but look at how many times DeSantis has done it, compared to the senator.

We all know it will be all out war between the propagandist leftwing press and any Republican contenders, so please, name those capable of going into the fray and looking like a winner.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 04, 2022 08:42 AM (KiBMU)

236 It needs to go away.
Posted by: SMH

It would just be replaced by something worse. At least Musk can fuck up their secrecy and lying by getting investigations done by court order. At some point it will be easier for the company to drop the censorship and deception that to face his boat anchor on their ass.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2022 08:43 AM (p6Md5)

237 So how many illegals, how many millions of them, will be voting in 2024?

The studies I've seen say 17% of them voted in 2016. If there are 40M of them that means about 6-7M votes.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 08:43 AM (ESjRY)

238 But there's something interesting about that. Most of those jobs were out of doors. There was no epidemic among the homeless who spend almost all of their time out of doors.

*

Spoilers:

There was no epidemic among the non-bums who spend almost all of their time indoors, either.

We had an epidemic of PCR tests, not of COVID.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 08:43 AM (jZJe9)

239 Is Jelaxus a new form of Jello?
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 08:27 AM (Iv+

***

Don't be silly... It's the new model for Kia.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 04, 2022 08:43 AM (flINI)

240 > Maybe we could get Putin to invade Disney World? Do you see any downside if that happened?
_________

Nyet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2022 08:43 AM (BFigT)

241 I do not hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights, Jackson said.

Judges would have also accepted: I am a Marxist.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 08:43 AM (yrol0)

242 The "2024" votes have been counted. The suspense lies in what/who the name is on them.

The future smells, just not like fresh baked chocolate chip cookies.

Posted by: klaftern at April 04, 2022 08:43 AM (taPSh)

243 Biden Junta Announces End to Title 42

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I got a spam email from Sen. Sinema here in AZ and was pleasantly surprised that she's against this and has called for Deadpan Bedpan Brainpan Joe not to end Title 42.

I call on the FBI to arrest and imprison her indefinitely in the Garland Archipelago on charges of Insurrectionist Conspiracy ...

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 04, 2022 08:44 AM (UkwIP)

244 IIRC Disney has it's own internal LE, fire, sanitation, etc. Basically it's own little "self administrative area" inside the state of FL.

Ah. Yes, that distinction is important. If that's what their special status is, it never should have been granted. They can pay taxes to the city of Orlando and the State of Florida to have Law Enforcement, Fire, etc. come. Heck, I bet Orlando would be happy to set up a fire house and a police precinct inside the Disney parks, just to people didn't have to wait for police or fire assistance to get into the park from outside.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 08:44 AM (VKuJq)

245 Orban election commenter at Insty's, tanarur, 2of5

The Powerline article is not correct. The coalition that opposed Orban was a coalition of left-wing parties, not a conservative coalition. They did choose an independent politician who was the mayor of a small city to be their PM designate, and he called himself "conservative". But apparently no one was fooled by this charade, as he has actually lost his election to parliament as well. There was also a referendum on the teaching of LGBT ideology in schools, which FIDESZ opposes, and the left didn't even want to support. They urged their voters to spoil their ballots in an attempt to invalidate the result.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 04, 2022 08:44 AM (UHVv4)

246 out of doors. Food for thought.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 08:44 AM (Iv+w0)

247 Victor Davis Hanson rightly diagnoses what the Left is doing to America, but can he understand and ever endorse the "cruelty" that will be required to save us?

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 04, 2022 08:44 AM (H8QX8)

248 "154 We're having more Trump-DeSantis fights two years before the election? Oh, goody. It's so enjoyable, just as the Trump/anti Trump fights were before election. So, so enjoyable./s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 08:20 AM (GezNK) "

Thank you, FS, it needed to be said !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at April 04, 2022 08:45 AM (enSii)

249 Most (80% iirc) hospital admissions the people were low in Vit D (the sunshine vitamin). But the government wanted us locked up inside and only stray outside for short shopping trips.

The government tells us COVID kills black people more. Black people need more sunlight then white people because of their increased melanin. And then yes, as you point out the government tried to lock everyone in their house.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 08:45 AM (ESjRY)

250 There do seem to be a few things to be slightly optimistic today. 1.) The Dreyfus Initiative. 2. Walt Heyer speaking on some program on Fox about his "sex change regret" work. 3. yes, some people are waking up to Disney and Abigail Disney did the company no favors by sounding like a lunatic on Twitter.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 08:45 AM (GezNK)

251 Orban election commenter at Insty's, tanarur, 3of5

They aren't supporting Russia. If there is one thing I can stress to all if you, it is that there is only one journalist who writes in the English language that knows anything about Hungary, and that is John O'Sullivan. Everything else you read, and I mean everything, is absolute crap. There is strong support for Orban's stance on the war, which is that it has nothing to do with us. He does not support Putin in the invasion, and he has not used his veto to oppose EU sanctions, but he is dead set against getting Hungary involved militarily at any level. The opposition made a big point about saying they would send weapons and even soldiers to Ukraine if NATO requested it. So, I think Orban was going to win anyway, but the war gave him a massive win instead of a slim victory.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 04, 2022 08:45 AM (UHVv4)

252 I work in construction, I worked in NYC at the initiation of the Plandemic, which at the time was "ground zero" of the plandemic, not a single construction site shut down, there was no disruption to any construction site during this time due to "Covid."

Posted by: Thomas Bender
__

Hub is an electrician.
He was working all through the scamdemic.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:45 AM (kqvqj)

253 Speaking of:

A judge ok'd a class action lawsuit of Faceboof last week. It opens up a class for anyone that bought ads since 2004. Apparently they have been inflating their impression numbers as a matter of routine. Barnes on Via Barnes said it could end up costing them 10's of billions if not 100's.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2022 08:45 AM (p6Md5)

254 245 Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 04, 2022 08:44 AM (UHVv4)

The Orban win is actually very welcome news in a sea of very bad news. Hope it's a harbinger of better days.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 08:46 AM (s2VJv)

255 242 The "2024" votes have been counted. The suspense lies in what/who the name is on them.

The future smells, just not like fresh baked chocolate chip cookies.
Posted by: klaftern at April 04, 2022 08:43 AM (taPSh)

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Fox News and Nate Silver have already called Arizona for Hunter Biden/Kentanji Brown Jackson.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 04, 2022 08:46 AM (UkwIP)

256 With all due respect, Professor Hanson, COVID-19 was not nearly as devastating as the irrational, hysterical, and destructive over-reaction to it.
Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 04, 2022 08:12 AM (UkwIP)
======================
In your criticism, you seemingly missed his theme statement on "what enabled the left?":

In the long term, the medicine of lockdowns and quarantines probably proved more calamitous than the disease, and this crisis mode made doable what had once been unimaginable.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 04, 2022 08:46 AM (Kb1IC)

257 DAILY MAIL:
Biden blames Putin and US oil companies for the rising prices making Americans' lives miserable, but the TRUTH is that runaway inflation is his own fault - and a new chart decisively proves it, writes former restaurant empire CEO ANDY PUZDER

https://tinyurl.com/2p8brre5

Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2022 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

258 253 Speaking of:

A judge ok'd a class action lawsuit of Faceboof last week. It opens up a class for anyone that bought ads since 2004. Apparently they have been inflating their impression numbers as a matter of routine. Barnes on Via Barnes said it could end up costing them 10's of billions if not 100's.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2022 08:45 AM (p6Md5)

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And the individuals in the class action will make dozens of dollars each.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 08:48 AM (LvTSG)

259 This will be my whiteboard sign for today. I haven't actually put it out yet. The idea just came to me-spurred by J.J's graphic:

The Mouse is a louse. Boycott Disney.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 08:48 AM (GezNK)

260 We lived in CO from '13 to '17, and I recall motor-voter registration. There was a feature of it that had issuance of a DL to a non-citizen, that did not include voter registration.

But I believe that required honesty on the part of the registrant. If you just checked the box for citizen, then BAM, you are a democrat voter, and you did not have to learn a word of English.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 04, 2022 08:48 AM (KiBMU)

261 Orban election commenter at Insty's, tanarur, 4of5

[Hungarians] have sent humanitarian aid and have taken in refugees. Orban is a very strict reader of contracts. Back in the migrant crisis in 2015, he was basically one of the few European leaders to follow the actual EU laws on migration. Which state people seeking asylum have to stop and register in the first safe country they come to. The Germans and the French and most other Western European countries decided their moral principles were more important than actual EU law, so they made Orban the bad guy for following the rules.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 04, 2022 08:49 AM (UHVv4)

262 Would Twitter be able to ban Musk if he owns 9.2% of it?

Posted by: davidt at April 04, 2022 08:49 AM (QrruW)

263 Is Jalexus related to LeMonjello?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 08:49 AM (t3/qz)

264 Alright y'all.
Time for me to "get to busy" as my grampa always said.

Catch y'all tomorrow, most likely.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 08:49 AM (VKuJq)

265 A judge ok'd a class action lawsuit of Faceboof last week. It opens up a class for anyone that bought ads since 2004. Apparently they have been inflating their impression numbers as a matter of routine. Barnes on Via Barnes said it could end up costing them 10's of billions if not 100's.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2022 08:45 AM (p6Md5)
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Since *2004?*

Facebook was still in beta in 2004. Back in 2004, you had to be a student at a handful of major universities to even register for Facebook. A year later it was out of beta but still for college students only - you had to use a .EDU E-Mail address to register for the service. It didn't even open to all comers until I think 2008. If the finding is that they've been misbehaving on interaction numbers since 2004, then it goes back to the beginning. If that bears out, blowback and penalties from advertisers will be the least of the problem because their investors are going to want to have a word with them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 08:50 AM (DU+/6)

266 Orban election commenter at Insty's, tanarur, 5of5

In the current situation, Orban has read the contract, and it says that Hungary is obliged to support NATO members if they are attacked. Ukraine is not a NATO member, and there are no bi-lateral agreements between Hungary and Ukraine, so therefore not our business. Simple as. I suppose he is counting on the other NATO countries to honor their commitment to the letter of the treaty as well if Hungary was ever threatened. Which may not be wise, since many of them have shown in the past they don't always honor the letter if the law. But no one here thinks Putin has any intentions of trying to take Hungary. Not even the left tried to make that argument, and they made just about every other lunatic and libelous arguments in the election campaign.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 04, 2022 08:50 AM (UHVv4)

267 "247 Victor Davis Hanson rightly diagnoses what the Left is doing to America, but can he understand and ever endorse the "cruelty" that will be required to save us?

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 04, 2022 08:44 AM (H8QX

"

unlikely, he had trouble dealing with "Trump's mean tweets".

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 04, 2022 08:50 AM (enSii)

268 Appeals court upheld the verdict against Oberlin College having to pay a local bakery $31 million.

https://tinyurl.com/bde9rjrk

Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2022 08:51 AM (vMCab)

269 A judge ok'd a class action lawsuit of Faceboof last week.

The judge lacks standing, the plaintiff lacks standing, the class lacks standing, this whole damn world lacks standing!

-FB lawyers

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 08:51 AM (t3/qz)

270 So how many illegals, how many millions of them, will be voting in 2024?

The studies I've seen say 17% of them voted in 2016. If there are 40M of them that means about 6-7M votes.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 08:43 AM

I live in a rural Texas County that is chock full of illegals. When we went to vote during the plandemic the line was out the door and it took me about 4 hours to get to the voting machine. In that entire time I didn't see a single hispanic person in line, not one. Illegals here don't vote because they don't want to get caught. I personally know a couple of dozen illegals and they never vote, even the ones with "good" papers.

This applies to red states/counties only, in California and some other places it's the opposite.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 04, 2022 08:51 AM (bVYXr)

271 Here ya go Fen:

https://tinyurl.com/2f9fhfc2

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:51 AM (kqvqj)

272 Good read in AmGreatness, Kimball article.

Posted by: Ziba at April 04, 2022 08:52 AM (S1hrL)

273 So Disney has their own cops. Imagine the embarrassment of a Disney cop going to some particularly gritty precinct like in Philly or Baltimore on an extradition. Pulls out badge when introducing himself, and Mickey's picture on the badge gets everybody's attention.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2022 08:52 AM (lz5hY)

274 270 I live in a rural Texas County that is chock full of illegals. When we went to vote during the plandemic the line was out the door and it took me about 4 hours to get to the voting machine. In that entire time I didn't see a single hispanic person in line, not one. Illegals here don't vote because they don't want to get caught. I personally know a couple of dozen illegals and they never vote, even the ones with "good" papers.

This applies to red states/counties only, in California and some other places it's the opposite.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 04, 2022 08:51 AM (bVYXr)

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There were people in Texas (in particular Houston) who were doing big absentee ballot drops of...let's say suspicious ballots.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 08:52 AM (LvTSG)

275 Don't know about commercial construction, but in residential, during the lockdown at its most onerous, in NY state, there could be only one worker on a jobsite at a time, and some of the building inspectors considered themselves enforcers. Acted like the gestapo.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 04, 2022 08:52 AM (KiBMU)

276 Appeals court upheld the verdict against Oberlin College having to pay a local bakery $31 million.

The appeals court lacks standing
-Hawaiian Judge

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 08:52 AM (t3/qz)

277 Man in Germany gets vaxxed dozens of times to sell forged passes. Up to the nineties I read in one report. There's one, future test subject!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 04, 2022 08:53 AM (UHVv4)

278 This applies to red states/counties only, in California and some other places it's the opposite.
Posted by: Mister Scott
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Now imagine millions more coming across between now and 2024, and they're legally allowed to vote, courtesy of the fine folks in DC.
Not even Texas will be spared.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:53 AM (kqvqj)

279 >>The Powerline article is not correct. The coalition that opposed Orban was a coalition of left-wing parties, not a conservative coalition. They did choose an independent politician who was the mayor of a small city to be their PM designate, and he called himself "conservative". But apparently no one was fooled by this charade, as he has actually lost his election to parliament as well.

Maybe the fact that he called Hillary Clinton his political hero was a giveaway.

Orban has been fighting against a Soros takeover of Hungary for years and Hungarians know it and voted accordingly.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 08:53 AM (ZLI7S)

280 275 Don't know about commercial construction, but in residential, during the lockdown at its most onerous, in NY state, there could be only one worker on a jobsite at a time, and some of the building inspectors considered themselves enforcers. Acted like the gestapo.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 04, 2022 08:52 AM (KiBMU)

In my neck of the woods, a giant NYU construction project shut down for a month or so IIRC, but then ramped back up by late summer of 2020. They're still about 6 months to a year behind schedule.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 08:53 AM (s2VJv)

281 There were people in Texas (in particular Houston) who were doing big absentee ballot drops of...let's say suspicious ballots.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 08:52 AM

No doubt there were shenanigans in Austin, Dallas and Houston but that has been fixed with the new voter laws. We will see how much good it does this fall.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 04, 2022 08:54 AM (bVYXr)

282 154 We're having more Trump-DeSantis fights two years before the election? Oh, goody. It's so enjoyable, just as the Trump/anti Trump fights were before election. So, so enjoyable./s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 08:20 AM (GezNK)

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Open debate is a sign of reason, rationality, learning, and health; monolithic, infantile, destructive narrative-worship? Not so much (see, for example, the Death Cult that is The Left).

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 04, 2022 08:55 AM (UkwIP)

283 Since *2004?*
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Should have been '2014.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2022 08:55 AM (p6Md5)

284 281 No doubt there were shenanigans in Austin, Dallas and Houston but that has been fixed with the new voter laws. We will see how much good it does this fall.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 04, 2022 08:54 AM (bVYXr)

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Yeah, I understand. Just pointing out that because illegals weren't in line in 2020 it doesn't mean that they didn't have ballots in their names getting counted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 08:55 AM (LvTSG)

285 Estelle Harris -- Estelle Costanza on Seinfeld and MRS Potatohead's voice in Toy Story -- dies aged 93.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 04, 2022 08:55 AM (UHVv4)

286 The Russians are going to be pissed about their $100,000 ad buy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 08:55 AM (t3/qz)

287 There were people in Texas (in particular Houston) who were doing big absentee ballot drops of...let's say suspicious ballots.
*

That's the key. You won't see Manuel standing in line to vote, but he's voting.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 08:55 AM (jZJe9)

288 Astounding archeological news in JJS link: a Hebrew text written in 1500 BC, over 3,600 years ago. For contrast, I wonder what was going on in Sweden 3,600 years ago among my own forbears...Probably still hunting Neanderthals. Meanwhile, Jews in Israel were worried about their theology. Amazing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 04, 2022 08:56 AM (Kb1IC)

289 Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:51 AM (kqvqj)

LOL. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 08:56 AM (GezNK)

290 Should have been '2014.'
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2022 08:55 AM (p6Md5)
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That makes more sense. I was trying to remember if I even saw ads on Facebook back in 2004 and 2005, and I don't think I did. I don't think the ad platform was in place then.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 08:56 AM (DU+/6)

291 New thoughts this morning of moving to Hungary.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 04, 2022 08:56 AM (H8QX8)

292 I agree 100% with Matt Gates on not sanctioning Russian oil.
Seems like most other politicians disagree with him.

Posted by: Clutch at April 04, 2022 08:56 AM (9UmRs)

293 Estelle Costanza on Seinfeld and MRS Potatohead's voice in Toy Story -- dies aged 93.
Posted by: andycanuck

I hate when they threaten old people like that. What did she do to anybody?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 08:56 AM (t3/qz)

294 Also: another grim milestone

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 08:57 AM (t3/qz)

295 Yeah, I understand. Just pointing out that because illegals weren't in line in 2020 it doesn't mean that they didn't have ballots in their names getting counted.

*

The illegals are being flown and bused across the country - to very specific cities, one would imagine - for a reason.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 08:57 AM (jZJe9)

296
Ah. Yes, that distinction is important. If that's what their special status is, it never should have been granted. They can pay taxes to the city of Orlando and the State of Florida to have Law Enforcement, Fire, etc. come. Heck, I bet Orlando would be happy to set up a fire house and a police precinct inside the Disney parks, just to people didn't have to wait for police or fire assistance to get into the park from outside.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 08:44 AM (VKuJq)

Largely this.

Just like college campuses. They should never have been allowed to have their own police force and their own court system.

I'm tired of hearing about how schools did 'their own investigations' into crimes and came to their own conclusions.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

297 I knew a couple of guys who got busted by Disney cops for smoking weed in the parking lot, We laughed at them for a long time.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 04, 2022 08:58 AM (fvJFK)

298 180 I was worried about COVID at the beginning. I wasn't Chicken Little, but I was very worried. Then two things happened:
1. The Diamond Princess
2. The lack of corpses piling up in the streets
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What convinced me was all of the above and that none of the fake news programs opened with video of over crowded ERs ...etc, only case numbers and graphs were shown. Kinda strange for a pandemic worthy of shutting down the world economy and of a society that posts everything in video on social media. Funny that ...

Posted by: Haywood at April 04, 2022 08:58 AM (GMueY)

299 Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 04, 2022 08:55 AM (UkwIP)

I'm not saying to stop it; I'm saying it's divisive and bores me, since we don't even know that either of them are actually running..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 08:58 AM (GezNK)

300 There were only 137 people working the drop boxes in WI.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 08:58 AM (t3/qz)

301 unlikely, he had trouble dealing with "Trump's mean tweets".
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 04, 2022 08:50 AM (enSii)
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He long ago came around, if this was ever true.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 04, 2022 08:58 AM (Kb1IC)

302 And, oddly enough, there have been Ramadan bombings already in Kabul, and at a crowded disco in Azerbaijan.

I haven't checked the a.m. news yet so there might be more already!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 04, 2022 08:58 AM (UHVv4)

303 Estelle Harris -- Estelle Costanza on Seinfeld and MRS Potatohead's voice in Toy Story -- dies aged 93.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 04, 2022 08:55 AM (UHVv4)

*channels inner AltonJackson*

Another grim milestone for the Biden administration.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

304 Re Faceplant/twitter. If you aren't paying for it, you are the product.

Posted by: Infidel at April 04, 2022 08:59 AM (ou23q)

305 Just like college campuses. They should never have been allowed to have their own police force and their own court system.

I'm tired of hearing about how schools did 'their own investigations' into crimes and came to their own conclusions.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)
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The funny thing about the campus cops is that they are universally hated by the student body but they are actually there to shield the students. If a student gets arrested by the campus cops, he will usually be released after cooling off or sobering up. Get arrested by the real cops and you're going to have to go through the whole shebang.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 08:59 AM (DU+/6)

306 Ketanji Gets Her Robe. New children's book on another "important" black woman who made history for all the wrong reasons.

Posted by: Ziba at April 04, 2022 08:59 AM (S1hrL)

307 I agree 100% with Matt Gates on not sanctioning Russian oil.
Seems like most other politicians disagree with him.

We can't buy things from Russia because they might be trying to conquer Ukraine and Russia is not a free society

We can buy things from China even though they conquered Tibet and are oppressing the Uighurs.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 09:00 AM (ESjRY)

308
Estelle will never again come home to find her son treating his body like it was an amusement park.

One of her most memorable lines. May she RIP.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 04, 2022 09:00 AM (dQvv7)

309 I have no faith in the latest round of laws purported to clean up voting. All they will do is drive the cheaters away from the polls and to the mail-in option. That's so much easier to "fortify".

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2022 09:01 AM (cTCuP)

310 Would Twitter be able to ban Musk if he owns 9.2% of it?
Posted by: davidt at April 04, 2022 08:49 AM (QrruW)
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this is going to be very interesting. Putting this stock block together took time and effort. What Musk does next could be telling. Start demanding management changes? A board seat? Who knows what he intends to do...but this is a big club he bought himself.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 04, 2022 09:01 AM (Kb1IC)

311 Mmm mmm mmm Ketanji Brown Jackson

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 09:03 AM (t3/qz)

312 Mrs. Potato Head, one of my TS favorites. RIP.

Posted by: Ziba at April 04, 2022 09:03 AM (S1hrL)

313 I have no faith in the latest round of laws purported to clean up voting. All they will do is drive the cheaters away from the polls and to the mail-in option. That's so much easier to "fortify".
Posted by: creeper
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I have no faith in the governance of this country, period.
And yeah, mail-in-voting is here to stay.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:03 AM (kqvqj)

314 Oh, and also the running total of COVID-19 deaths, in opposition to every other monthly, quarterly, annual etc measurement of illnesses and related deaths for everything else.

That was clever.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 09:03 AM (GYd5O)

315 Lia "John Thomas" Thomas

ISWYDT.

Posted by: Lady Chatterly at April 04, 2022 09:04 AM (a3Q+t)

316 That was clever.
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A bit too clever.

Now, they're dealing with their own peeps too afraid to go anywhere without a mask.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:05 AM (kqvqj)

317 Lol. Obama will be coming to the White House on Tuesday for an ObamaCare Party. Biden and Obama will be touting the success of ACA.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2022 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

318 317 Now, they're dealing with their own peeps too afraid to go anywhere without a mask.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:05 AM (kqvqj)

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Super fringe in Free America now. They stand out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 09:05 AM (LvTSG)

319 317 Lol. Obama will be coming to the White House on Tuesday for an ObamaCare Party. Biden and Obama will be touting the success of ACA.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2022 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

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Inflation before inflation was cool.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 09:06 AM (LvTSG)

320 French vintners light candles to thaw grapevines to save them from a late frost following a winter warm spell.

Global warming is tricky like that.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 04, 2022 09:06 AM (UHVv4)

321 Now Trump needs to buy 10% of Twitter.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 09:06 AM (t3/qz)

322 Lol. Obama will be coming to the White House on Tuesday for an ObamaCare Party. Biden and Obama will be touting the success of ACA.
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DC truly is a swamp with the most vilest of creatures.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:06 AM (kqvqj)

323 Super fringe in Free America now. They stand out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 09:05 AM (LvTSG)
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Yup. I live in Free America and went to a restaurant this weekend where about half the staff were wearing masks. Really weird and unusual anymore. One patron was wearing one - a pretty lady in her thirties. She wore it in, sat down, took it off, but put it back on whenever she got up from the table.

But she was it. Everyone else was normal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 09:07 AM (DU+/6)

324 210 Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 08:37 AM (yrol0)

You must be channeling Kamala this morning!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 09:07 AM (evAgx)

325 Lol. Obama will be coming to the White House on Tuesday for an ObamaCare Party. Biden and Obama will be touting the success of ACA.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2022 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

Success?

More than 10% of the population is still uninsured, the coverage is more expensive than it's ever been and it's STILL costing the taxpayer billions and billions.

Shove your success up your prolapsed assholes.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

326 Elon Musk bought a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter.
Posted by: Nova local
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That's approx. 73.5 million shares according to a chyron here just now!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 04, 2022 09:08 AM (UHVv4)

327 285 Estelle Harris -- Mrs. Potatohead's voice in Toy Story -- dies aged 93.

I nominate Dr. Jill to replace her

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 04, 2022 09:08 AM (HsAzN)

328 Research published in 2016 in the Electoral Studies Journal by political scientists Jesse T. Richman and Gushan A. Chattha of Old Dominion, and David C. Earnest of George Mason University estimated as many as 2.8 million illegal votes were cast in the 2008 and 2010 elections. Non-citizen participation in U.S. elections, wrote the authors, has been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes including Electoral Colleges votes, and Congressional elections.

I would double that in 2020.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 09:08 AM (yrol0)

329 323 Yup. I live in Free America and went to a restaurant this weekend where about half the staff were wearing masks. Really weird and unusual anymore. One patron was wearing one - a pretty lady in her thirties. She wore it in, sat down, took it off, but put it back on whenever she got up from the table.

But she was it. Everyone else was normal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 09:07 AM (DU+/6)

=========

Church at the cathedral. 300 people or so. I think it was 10 I saw with masks. 8 was one family, including small children.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

330 Sky's as gloomy as my outlook this morning. The next round of rain is on the way.

I don't care if it's sixty degrees.

*lights fire*

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2022 09:08 AM (cTCuP)

331 You must be channeling Kamala this morning!
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 09:07 AM (evAgx)
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Poor guy. He has the gift of extrasensory perception, but he has to channel her and thus the gift is worthless...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 09:08 AM (DU+/6)

332 French vintners light candles to thaw grapevines to save them from a late frost following a winter warm spell.

*

100 years ago these exact same people had invented smudge pots for this exact same purpose.

I'm guessing they've been banned because of some absurd environmental claim. Because there are millions of people using smudge pots to prevent their crops from freezing and subsequently people from starving.

Huh. I just saw a connection.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 09:09 AM (GYd5O)

333 Lia "John Thomas" Thomas

ISWYDT.
Posted by: Lady Chatterly at April 04, 2022 09:04 AM (a3Q+t)

***

I don't get it...

Posted by: Richard Schvantz at April 04, 2022 09:09 AM (flINI)

334 Other than providing interesting fodder for future historians studying The Rise of Incompetence and The Fall of America, the Regrettable Madam Notbright will not be missed.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at April 04, 2022 09:10 AM (MkuC5)

335 One patron was wearing one - a pretty lady in her thirties. She wore it in, sat down, took it off, but put it back on whenever she got up from the table.
___

Virus so smart, so deadly, yet is defeated when it goes below five feet in altitude (unless in a plane).

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:10 AM (kqvqj)

336 Yup. I live in Free America and went to a restaurant this weekend where about half the staff were wearing masks. Really weird and unusual anymore. One patron was wearing one - a pretty lady in her thirties. She wore it in, sat down, took it off, but put it back on whenever she got up from the table.

But she was it. Everyone else was normal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Went to a little Italian joint in town. Busy Friday night. One waitress was then only person wearing a mask.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 09:10 AM (H4qIP)

337 119 Trump has officially endorsed Palin for the house seat in Alaska. That's where I always thought her political recovery should start from, so I'm glad she's making a run (she'll prefer being in DC for 1/2 the year, as well, I think, b/c I never thought she love loved being a full time Alaskan)...
Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 08:07 AM (exHjb)

I'm not looking forward to yet another barrage of, "Quitting quitter who quits!! HUURRRR" posts, but good on her.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik [DHS Verdict: MDM] at April 04, 2022 09:11 AM (DTX3h)

338 That's the key. You won't see Manuel standing in line to vote, but he's voting.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022

So, Manuel is automatic?

Posted by: Clutch at April 04, 2022 09:12 AM (9UmRs)

339 Super fringe in Free America now. They stand out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 09:05 AM (LvTSG)

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I went to a Caps game in DC last night. Masks everywhere outside and not one mask inside. Weird...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 04, 2022 09:12 AM (flINI)

340 Lia "John Thomas" Thomas

ISWYDT.
Posted by: Lady Chatterly at April 04, 2022 09:04 AM (a3Q+t)

***

I don't get it...
Posted by: Richard Schvantz at April 04, 2022 09:09 AM (flINI)

Like your name, he's a dick. And swings one in his teammates faces in the locker room showers.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

341 More than 10% of the population is still uninsured,

*

That was neat to watch, too. They - including Obama - pushed the 40 million uninsured over and over again to get Obamacare passed, then when it was passed they switched to talking in percentages.

Guess why. Go ahead. I dare you.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 09:12 AM (GYd5O)

342 > Illegals here don't vote because they don't want to get caught.
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I lived in California for over a decade. Plenty of illegals where we were. And, I never saw any Mexican looking people at the voting station. It's a tedious process and they've got businesses to run, families to feed, yards to mow, etc.

The whole "illegals vote Democrat" is a lie. The ballots harvested on their behalf are used to vote Democrat, but illegals (and to a certain degree Latino's in general) would likely vote Republican. Latino's are family orientated, typically religious and while many are perceived to be lazy most are hard workers. They are not "woke."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2022 09:13 AM (BFigT)

343
I went to a Caps game in DC last night. Masks everywhere outside and not one mask inside. Weird...
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 04, 2022 09:12 AM (flINI)

Covid can't survive in conditioned air that provides tax money to the local community.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

344 French vintners light candles to thaw grapevines to save them from a late frost following a winter warm spell.

*

100 years ago these exact same people had invented smudge pots for this exact same purpose.

I'm guessing they've been banned because of some absurd environmental claim. Because there are millions of people using smudge pots to prevent their crops from freezing and subsequently people from starving.

Huh. I just saw a connection.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 09:09 AM (GYd5O)

My wife's hotscakes did the trick for me. Burning them saved the crop, they did.

Posted by: Oliver Wendell Douglas, Gentleman Farmer at April 04, 2022 09:13 AM (4I/2K)

345 One of the best-kept secrets in what passes for journalism these days is that global temperature has not been rising steadily (or, since October 2014, at all). It has been rising in occasional spurts in response to natural events such as the great Pacific shift of 1976.

The HadCRUT4 dataset, now at last updated to the end of 2021, shows no global warming for almost eight years:

https://tinyurl.com/2p95kysr

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 09:13 AM (yrol0)

346 Other than providing interesting fodder for future historians studying The Rise of Incompetence and The Fall of America, the Regrettable Madam Notbright will not be missed.
Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at April 04, 2022 09:10 AM (MkuC5)
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This is not true. I missed her. I missed her desperately. I am sure many left behind on your plane will miss her, too. Not me, though - not anymore. My patience was rewarded and we're now dancing cheek-to-cheek again - now and for eternity.

Posted by: Kim Jong Il at April 04, 2022 09:13 AM (DU+/6)

347 Thanks TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at April 04, 2022 09:13 AM (arJlL)

348 Hiya SMH !

Posted by: JT at April 04, 2022 09:14 AM (arJlL)

349 Sarah Palin? I would happily vote for her, like I did in '08. But, not an Alaskan, so only moral support now.

Posted by: kraken at April 04, 2022 09:14 AM (Vr12I)

350 One patron was wearing one - a pretty lady in her thirties. She wore it in, sat down, took it off, but put it back on whenever she got up from the table.

*

This has been one of the more amazing things to me.

Do you not realize how much stuff you're touching?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 09:14 AM (GYd5O)

351 Hiya Fen !

Posted by: JT at April 04, 2022 09:14 AM (arJlL)

352 345 The HadCRUT4 dataset, now at last updated to the end of 2021, shows no global warming for almost eight years:

https://tinyurl.com/2p95kysr
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 09:13 AM (yrol0)

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Weird how that's happening while China keeps ramping up coal power plants.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

353 I have no faith in the governance of this country, period.
And yeah, mail-in-voting is here to stay.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:03 AM (kqvqj)

Requirements for mail-in voting in Texas: A voter must personally apply for a mail in ballot in advance, and in writing; he or she must provide proof of voter registration (and citizenship); and the application must be made to the early voting clerk of that county, who will certify eligibility before sending out a ballot.

With those restrictions in place, mail in voting is not an issue. The Leftist version abandons all the certification procedures.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 09:14 AM (evAgx)

354 For contrast, I wonder what was going on in Sweden 3,600 years ago among my own forbears...
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 04, 2022 08:56 AM

We were pursuing culinary excellence. The first prototype of lutefisk was well underway.

Posted by: Thorvald at April 04, 2022 09:14 AM (a3Q+t)

355
The HadCRUT4 dataset, now at last updated to the end of 2021, shows no global warming for almost eight years:

https://tinyurl.com/2p95kysr
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 09:13 AM (yrol0)

BUT WE MUST BLACK OUT THE SUN!!!!

- - Bill "Permanent Swirly" Gates

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)

356 One patron was wearing one - a pretty lady in her thirties. She wore it in, sat down, took it off, but put it back on whenever she got up from the table.
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Virus so smart, so deadly, yet is defeated when it goes below five feet in altitude (unless in a plane).
Posted by: SMH

AND THAT is how you know it's an op. The contradicting explanations. If this were the black death, the rules wouldn't change on how and when to wear a mask.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 09:14 AM (H4qIP)

357 More than 10% of the population is still uninsured.
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My husband is part of that 10%.
My health care (snort) is through the VA.

We simply cannot afford the ACA.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:15 AM (kqvqj)

358 337 119 Trump has officially endorsed Palin for the house seat in Alaska. That's where I always thought her political recovery should start from, so I'm glad she's making a run (she'll prefer being in DC for 1/2 the year, as well, I think, b/c I never thought she love loved being a full time Alaskan)...
Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 08:07 AM (exHjb)

I'm not looking forward to yet another barrage of, "Quitting quitter who quits!! HUURRRR" posts, but good on her.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik [DHS Verdict: MDM] at April 04, 2022 09:11 AM (DTX3h)

It's a low impact place for her to prove she won't...I'd be leery on the quitting, except house seats matter overall, but not much in a single seat sense, so she can prove she won't quit here...and then we can look at her for higher things again...

Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 09:15 AM (exHjb)

359 There was no epidemic among the non-bums who spend almost all of their time indoors, either.

We had an epidemic of PCR tests, not of COVID.

Posted by: Moron Robbie

There was no panic in he hospitals either. At least not at the very large one my wife gave birth in at the height of the panic. The only sign of covid were the masks and idiotic signs everywhere and social distancing in the cafeteria. But no corpses stacked like firewood or chaos in the emergency.

Posted by: Ripley at April 04, 2022 09:15 AM (MxEKc)

360 This has been one of the more amazing things to me.

Do you not realize how much stuff you're touching?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 09:14 AM (GYd5O)
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It isn't rational. It's a talisman and a marker, not a tool. There's no practical point.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 09:15 AM (DU+/6)

361 One of my first keys that the FNM was lying about COVID was when we didn't have a massive waitress die off.

Think about it - waitress wear masks...but their patrons don't. And if masks protect other people (which was the claim from early on) those waitresses should all be getting COVID and dying.

But...waitresses are on the average younger and healthier (since they are on their feet for hours a day)....so COVID was not as serious a danger for them as say someone in a nursing home.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 09:16 AM (ESjRY)

362 As noted in a 2014 study by Wood Mackenzie Consulting, repealing the deduction for IDCs would result in a $407 billion reduction in investment, or roughly 25% of the capital used by producers to continue investing in new projects.

IDCs just allow you to right off the cost of a new hole in year 1. It makes sense if you gamble on a hole if it hits or misses you get to recover your expenses.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 09:16 AM (yrol0)

363 BehindTheBlack demonstrates sunspot activity way above predictions.

Have humans caused this?!?! Alert AL Gore! We should definitely panic. We might need to launch the GOPe Senate Caucus into the sun to pacify the Sun God.

Just a thought.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 04, 2022 09:16 AM (bGxQ8)

364 Do you not realize how much stuff you're touching?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 09:14 AM]/i]

It's more when others realize it.

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at April 04, 2022 09:16 AM (a3Q+t)

365 Good morning, JT.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 09:16 AM (GezNK)

366

There was no panic in he hospitals either. At least not at the very large one my wife gave birth in at the height of the panic. The only sign of covid were the masks and idiotic signs everywhere and social distancing in the cafeteria. But no corpses stacked like firewood or chaos in the emergency.
Posted by: Ripley at April 04, 2022 09:15 AM (MxEKc)

"FRONT LINE HEROES!!!!" were exposed to Covid from day one and none got sick and died. They were so bored, they made TikTok videos for HOURS ON END.

Seems odd.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

367 Hi JT.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:17 AM (kqvqj)

368 I'd be leery on the quitting, except house seats matter overall, but not much in a single seat sense, so she can prove she won't quit here...and then we can look at her for higher things again...
Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 09:15 AM (exHjb)

She has nothing to prove to me.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 04, 2022 09:17 AM (H8QX8)

369 Whatever happened to the refrigerated trucks being used as mobile morgues? Was that factual or up there with the floating corpses and baby eating during Katrina?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2022 09:18 AM (lz5hY)

370 We simply cannot afford the ACA.

Obamacare was sold two different ways;

1) We'll lower the costs of insurance...by 3000% no less!

2) We'll give free health insurance to anyone that needs it

This never made sense - giving away something for free to one group of people increases the costs for others, obviously - but liberals used either argument depending on who they were trying to pitch to.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 09:18 AM (ESjRY)

371 The whole "illegals vote Democrat" is a lie. The ballots harvested on their behalf are used to vote Democrat, but illegals (and to a certain degree Latino's in general) would likely vote Republican. Latino's are family orientated, typically religious and while many are perceived to be lazy most are hard workers. They are not "woke."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2022 09:13 AM (BFigT)

That's what I see here in Texas - the vast majority of illegals hide in the shadows, they would *never* get close to any public process like voting, for fear of being exposed. Legal Hispanic residents are finally leaving the Dems, and the Gender idiocy is probably the main cause.

The GOP-e of Bush, Ryan, and Romney refused to realize that their Corporatist policies never had any appeal to any working class voters. Trump knew it, though.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 09:19 AM (evAgx)

372 Secret Service paying over $30K per month for Malibu mansion to protect Hunter Biden

https://tinyurl.com/yckhvckp

Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2022 09:19 AM (NpAcC)

373 Why didn't Palin decide to run against Murkowski? Safer to go for a house seat?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 04, 2022 09:19 AM (fvJFK)

374 369 Whatever happened to the refrigerated trucks being used as mobile morgues? Was that factual or up there with the floating corpses and baby eating during Katrina?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2022 09:18 AM (lz5hY)

Or the COVID burial grounds in NY. Same island the city has been using for about 150 years for indigent and prisoners.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 09:20 AM (yrol0)

375 The GOP-e of Bush, Ryan, and Romney refused to realize that their Corporatist policies never had any appeal to any working class voters. Trump knew it, though

The LIVs I know ranted about how the Republicans were for the rich for years.

Trump is the first Republican pol since Reagan that had an answer to that.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 09:20 AM (ESjRY)

376 One patron was wearing one - a pretty lady in her thirties. She wore it in, sat down, took it off, but put it back on whenever she got up from the table.

But she was it. Everyone else was normal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022

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I'm still seeing it among employees at WM and other stores, though apparently it's not mandated any more as plenty of salespeople show their faces. (Sometimes I wish they wouldn't.) At dinner Saturday night, I saw no face diapers among the patrons, though 1 or 2 people came in to pick up orders wearing muzzles.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 09:21 AM (txdEq)

377 Think about it - waitress wear masks...but their patrons don't. And if masks protect other people (which was the claim from early on) those waitresses should all be getting COVID and dying

*

There was an article about grocery store employees dying from Covid-19 that backfired bigly. It was supposed to be heart wrenching and make everyone sad for the heroes, but the article points out that, over the course of the year, almost 100 grocery store employees had died, some of which also had Covid-19. Apparently people dug and discovered lots of them were just old guys bagging groceries for extra cash, and yeah it was sad, but shouldn't there be more than 100 (or even 100)in the worst pandemic in the history of the world?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 09:21 AM (GYd5O)

378 Obamacare killed 3 plans for me. First was about 400/mth for wife and I. Then it was 800/mth. Then 1200/mth.

Then CANCELED.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 09:21 AM (yrol0)

379 369 Whatever happened to the refrigerated trucks being used as mobile morgues? Was that factual or up there with the floating corpses and baby eating during Katrina?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2022 09:18 AM (lz5hY)

some 21 year old journalista who never left the DC suburbs made all of that up. It's astounding that they got so many people to believe it.

Remember when Trump sent a navy hospital ship to NYC? and it was NEVER used?

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 09:21 AM (evAgx)

380 Seize Disney's property for promoting child rape.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 04, 2022 09:21 AM (nMx88)

381 Watched a couple hours of HGTV last night. Covid still seems to be a thing in their commercials. Is that true everywhere on the boob tube?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 04, 2022 09:21 AM (2NHgQ)

382 Good morning, JT.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

You have mail !

Posted by: JT at April 04, 2022 09:22 AM (arJlL)

383 Had a dream so weird I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep.

As part of the continuing effort to "decriminalize" everything, they did away with all traffic laws!

I hope it was not prophetic!

Posted by: mindful webworker - life is but a dream at April 04, 2022 09:22 AM (QvkLJ)

384 380 Seize Disney's property for promoting child rape.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 04, 2022 09:21 AM (nMx8

I want Mr Toads Wild Ride!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 09:22 AM (yrol0)

385 383 Had a dream so weird I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep.

As part of the continuing effort to "decriminalize" everything, they did away with all traffic laws!

I hope it was not prophetic!
Posted by: mindful webworker - life is but a dream at April 04, 2022 09:22 AM (QvkLJ)

=========

There are too many traffic laws.

There. I said it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 09:22 AM (LvTSG)

386 Secret Service paying over $30K per month for Malibu mansion to protect Hunter Biden
___

It's reading crap like this that makes me cheer on SMOD, nukes, gamma ray bursts, black holes, etc.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:22 AM (kqvqj)

387 Remember big stores limiting admittance thereby forcing people to queue up outside waiting for someone to exit, one-way aisles, floor decals spaced 6ft apart?

All theatre and nonsense.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 04, 2022 09:23 AM (4I/2K)

388 @373

>>Why didn't Palin decide to run against Murkowski? Safer to go for a house seat?

You can't be Speaker of The House if you are a Senator.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 09:23 AM (7dKkG)

389
Remember when Trump sent a navy hospital ship to NYC? and it was NEVER used?
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 09:21 AM (evAgx)

And remember how when Trump wanted to remove it and send it somewhere it would be used, they accused him of wanting to murder NY'ers?

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

390 I might be mistaken, but I read Disney's "special status" to be as you said with this change "you can do what you want on your property." Which is a huge difference.

IIRC Disney has it's own internal LE, fire, sanitation, etc. Basically it's own little "self administrative area" inside the state of FL.

In the Orlando area, "Disney property" is the most important phrase in the English language. It's a bit like how San Marino is its own country in spite of being 100% surrounded by Italy. They are the law, the government, and everything else. If DeSantis took away their special status, they'd have to submit to electrical and plumbing inspections on new construction of rides or whatever, and apply for permits, and everything else the government does to make us hate it.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2022 09:23 AM (ZGrMX)

391 I never think about the virus at all until I get on the net and it's being talked about. Simply not a thing at all where I live. It is a Media Driven affair.

Posted by: kraken at April 04, 2022 09:23 AM (Vr12I)

392 but shouldn't there be more than 100 (or even 100)in the worst pandemic in the history of the world?

I've asked LIVs why we needed to complete stop society over COVID and the answer I got back was there hasn't been a disease like it since the Spanish flu (or for less educated ones...EVER!).

When I point out the seasonal flu killed 30-80K a year in the US and asked why we didn't lock down for that I never got a great answer. Which i suspect is the issue.

We know at least 50% of the nominal COVID deaths are BS...likely a lot more.

If COVID killed say 400K over 2 years...did we need to destroy the economy over something 4x as deadly as the seasonal flu? What if it was really 200k? Or...less then the seasonal flu?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 09:24 AM (ESjRY)

393 388 @373

>>Why didn't Palin decide to run against Murkowski? Safer to go for a house seat?

You can't be Speaker of The House if you are a Senator.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 09:23 AM (7dKkG)

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Technically, I think one could be in the Senate and Speaker of the House.

But she's not going to be Speaker.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

394 There was a respiratory disease which hit older people with diabetes, hypertension, and low vitamin D levels very hard.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 09:24 AM (t3/qz)

395 Posted by: JT at April 04, 2022 09:22 AM (arJlL)

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 09:25 AM (GezNK)

396 394 There was a respiratory disease which hit older people with diabetes, hypertension, and low vitamin D levels very hard.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 09:24 AM (t3/qz)

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Mask up the pre-schoolers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 09:25 AM (LvTSG)

397 AK now has ranked choice voting. Their elections are going to be... interesting.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 09:25 AM (t3/qz)

398 Remember big stores limiting admittance thereby forcing people to queue up outside waiting for someone to exit, one-way aisles, floor decals spaced 6ft apart?

I still remember the first time I saw people lined up outside of a walmart waiting to get in.

The stupid...it burned.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 09:26 AM (ESjRY)

399 I work in construction, I worked in NYC at the initiation of the Plandemic, which at the time was "ground zero" of the plandemic, not a single construction site shut down, there was no disruption to any construction site during this time due to "Covid."

Posted by: Thomas Bender
__

Hub is an electrician.
He was working all through the scamdemic.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 08:45 AM (kqvqj)

The few harley shops I work out of never closed. No masks, and full steam ahead. Then again, those types aren't exactly delicate flowers, but nobody gave a shit, not even the customers.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 04, 2022 09:26 AM (VwHCD)

400 Remember when Trump sent a navy hospital ship to NYC? and it was NEVER used?
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 09:21 AM (evAgx)
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I think they put a non-COVID patient or two on it for the purposes of appearances, but yeah, it was unnecessary. And I don't resent that ship being sent there, nor the field hospitals the armed forces and NGOs like Samaritans built. The way those were designed to be used was wrong in my opinion (they were for non-COVID overflow from the real hospitals, which would be dedicated to COVID instead of being COVID-only quarantine hospitals), but doing it was not a bad thing. We didn't know yet. The fear was that it would rip thorough and consume all hospital facilities. They were an insurance policy against that, and it was the right thing to do.

When they ended up not being needed, it was a big piece of public evidence that COVID wasn't something you *wanted,* but it wasn't going to cause the medical system to collapse. When those hospitals and ships were packed up for lack of need, it was entirely obvious that continued lockdowns and extreme COVID response measures were useless at best.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 09:26 AM (DU+/6)

401 If DeSantis took away their special status, they'd have to submit to electrical and plumbing inspections on new construction of rides or whatever, and apply for permits, and everything else the government does to make us hate it.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2022 09:23 AM (ZGrMX)

I find your terms totally acceptable.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

402 Mask up the pre-schoolers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Jab your 6 month old with this untested drug.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 09:26 AM (t3/qz)

403 Do cemeteries have an inordinate number of gravestones for deaths in 2020/2021 or did every who died get put on a truck and shipped out?

Posted by: Ziba at April 04, 2022 09:26 AM (S1hrL)

404 402 Mask up the pre-schoolers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Jab your 6 month old with this untested drug.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 09:26 AM (t3/qz)

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Just once?! What kind of monster are you?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

405 Hey Berserker. : )

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:27 AM (kqvqj)

406 The media is being no more honest about the war in Ukraine than they were about Covid. Putin is no angel but neither is Zelensky and there is so much fake news coming out of that place it is impossible to know at first report what is true and what is a lie.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 09:27 AM (ZLI7S)

407 I still remember the first time I saw people lined up outside of a walmart waiting to get in.

The stupid...it burned.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 09:26 AM (ESjRY)

"Stand outside in the cold in a big crowd of people so you don't get sick", said no mother ever in the history of mothering.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2022 09:27 AM (/EuRN)

408
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Mask up the pre-schoolers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 09:25 AM (LvTSG)

Republican Healthcare Plan: Throw Grandma over a cliff.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

409 403 Do cemeteries have an inordinate number of gravestones for deaths in 2020/2021 or did every who died get put on a truck and shipped out?
Posted by: Ziba at April 04, 2022 09:26 AM (S1hrL)

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No, because of the mass graves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

410 They took military docs and nurses out of their local hospitals and sent them to the Javits center. Never used.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 09:27 AM (t3/qz)

411 Do cemeteries have an inordinate number of gravestones for deaths in 2020/2021 or did every who died get put on a truck and shipped out?
Posted by: Ziba
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Crematoriums and then *poof*

Dust in the wind.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:28 AM (kqvqj)

412 If COVID killed say 400K over 2 years...did we need to destroy the economy over something 4x as deadly as the seasonal flu? What if it was really 200k? Or...less then the seasonal flu?

"If it saves one life" is another outgrowth of what Rush Limbaugh called "the chickification of America".

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2022 09:28 AM (ZGrMX)

413 406 The media is being no more honest about the war in Ukraine than they were about Covid. Putin is no angel but neither is Zelensky and there is so much fake news coming out of that place it is impossible to know at first report what is true and what is a lie.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 09:27 AM (ZLI7S)

Everything about it reeks of propaganda.

Posted by: kraken at April 04, 2022 09:28 AM (Vr12I)

414 The baby murders in Washington are so horrible I can barely stand reading the stories.

What is worse is the authorities reactions. The coroner, for one, refuses to investigate, or even do an autopsy even of babies killed after birth.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 04, 2022 09:28 AM (bGxQ8)

415 I'd be leery on the quitting, except house seats matter overall, but not much in a single seat sense, so she can prove she won't quit here...and then we can look at her for higher things again...
Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 09:15 AM (exHjb)

She has nothing to prove to me.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 04, 2022 09:17 AM (H8QX

Only the GOP should have to prove they won't stand around like retarded monkeys if a non establishment tool gains a foothold of popularity and the Uniparty character assassination team starts sniping away. They let it happen to Newt and then Palin all to benefit turds like Romney.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at April 04, 2022 09:28 AM (y7DUB)

416 DC truly is a swamp with the most vilest of creatures.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:06 AM (kqvqj)

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 04, 2022 09:29 AM (VwHCD)

417 Do cemeteries have an inordinate number of gravestones for deaths in 2020/2021 or did every who died get put on a truck and shipped out?

I don't know if the US government even published the total death numbers over the last few years.

I remember looking at the Scottish numbers, before they hid them, and while there was a COVID bump, there was a MUCH larger bump after they introduced the clot shot.

Scotland lost 5K more people the summer after it introduced the clot shot then it did the summer before...when they had COVID. Meaning that the clot shot killed about .1% of the population.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 09:29 AM (ESjRY)

418 One of the really dumb ass covid rules: One way grocery store aisles...and everyone complied.

Posted by: Ziba at April 04, 2022 09:29 AM (S1hrL)

419 They had refrigerator trucks for morgue overflow!

Were they used?

They had refrigerator trucks for morgue overflow!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 09:29 AM (t3/qz)

420 (5dTPO)
How do you walk and breathe at the same time with only a brain stem?

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:29 AM (kqvqj)

421 383 Had a dream so weird I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep.
As part of the continuing effort to "decriminalize" everything, they did away with all traffic laws!

I hope it was not prophetic!
Posted by: mindful webworker - life is but a dream at April 04, 2022 09:22 AM (QvkLJ)

sounds like you dreamed you were in Mexico. They have Traffic "suggestions", not laws. Police only stop anyone if they're feeling a little bit short of cash at the moment, and it has nothing to do with their driving habits.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 09:29 AM (evAgx)

422
When they ended up not being needed, it was a big piece of public evidence that COVID wasn't something you *wanted,* but it wasn't going to cause the medical system to collapse. When those hospitals and ships were packed up for lack of need, it was entirely obvious that continued lockdowns and extreme COVID response measures were useless at best.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 09:26 AM (DU+/6)

Remember, these ships sat dormant all while Cuomo demanded that the sick elderly be sent back to nursing homes that had no quarantine capability, then blamed them for having no quarantine capability and for the deaths of THOUSANDS.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

423 Kunt the dipshit is awake.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 04, 2022 09:29 AM (2FFNq)

424 One of the really dumb ass covid rules: One way grocery store aisles...and everyone complied.
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Not everyone...

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:30 AM (kqvqj)

425 One of the really dumb ass covid rules: One way grocery store aisles...and everyone complied.
Posted by: Ziba at April 04, 2022 09:29 AM (S1hrL)
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I saw little compliance with that, even when I lived in COVID-stupid Denver. Those "rules" were usually broken in my experience.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 09:30 AM (DU+/6)

426 There are too many traffic laws.

There. I said it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 09:22 AM (LvTSG)

I agree. The bulk of traffic laws are designed to do two main things: 1) create revenue through ticketing, and 2) give cops a pretext to pull you over and start fishing expeditions.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 04, 2022 09:30 AM (II3Gr)

427 The media is being no more honest about the war in Ukraine than they were about Covid.

Ukraine/Russia the the 80s/90s Iran/Iraq war redux. Not our circus, not our monkeys, but if both sides take losses it's fine.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2022 09:30 AM (ZGrMX)

428 don't know if the US government even published the total death numbers over the last few years.

*

I don't think they've released them because, similar to the CDC Covid-19 data, people might misinterpret the death numbers.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 09:30 AM (GYd5O)

429 Is the seat Palin is running for Congressman at Large? Alaska's population is pretty sparse.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2022 09:30 AM (lz5hY)

430 Hey Berserker. : )

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:27 AM (kqvqj)

Hey!

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 04, 2022 09:31 AM (VwHCD)

431 4 days (March 22 - 25) of hinky-looking C-19 Positive Cases numbers did not flow thru to other metrics like new hospitalizations or patient load in the Texas Medical Center's weekly stats. No explanation for the anomaly.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8bznnm

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 04, 2022 09:31 AM (4I/2K)

432 Azov Battalion is studiously ignored by the Propaganda Press.

After the war, they will "unexpectedly" find out Putin was correct saying some neo-Nazis exist in Ukraine and terrorize people.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 04, 2022 09:31 AM (bGxQ8)

433 >>Everything about it reeks of propaganda.

Absolutely, and all designed to make Putin into a monster and Zelensky the next Churchill.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 09:32 AM (ZLI7S)

434 This weekend was the Summerville S.C. Flowertown Festival.

Estimates of up to 200,000 people in attendance, including us.

I saw maybe ten masks on people during the three hours that we were walking shoulder to shoulder with other attendees, admiring the 200+ vendor booths, and eating State Fair type food.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2022 09:32 AM (3D/fK)

435 My loyalties lie with Trump and his America First Agenda and until he has left the scene I don't see any advantage in going with New Coke*.

* Not a dig at DeSantis who I like, just a metaphor.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 08:26 AM (Z9Cz5)

Ditto.

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 04, 2022 09:32 AM (FCPbW)

436 425 One of the really dumb ass covid rules: One way grocery store aisles...and everyone complied.
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Not everyone...
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 04, 2022 09:30 AM (kqvqj)

*fistbump*

I ignored that stupid shit and went in whatever directions were most convenient to my shopping needs that day.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 04, 2022 09:32 AM (II3Gr)

437 426 One of the really dumb ass covid rules: One way grocery store aisles...and everyone complied.
Posted by: Ziba at April 04, 2022 09:29 AM (S1hrL)
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I saw little compliance with that, even when I lived in COVID-stupid Denver. Those "rules" were usually broken in my experience.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 09:30 AM (DU+/6)

Want to bet most of those were implemented based on the flow pattern the stores already figured most people followed anyways? You know barring you knowing there's nothing in an aisle you need so you skip it.

Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2022 09:32 AM (vMCab)

438 Remember, these ships sat dormant all while Cuomo demanded that the sick elderly be sent back to nursing homes that had no quarantine capability, then blamed them for having no quarantine capability and for the deaths of THOUSANDS.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)
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Yup. And even without the ship and field hospitals, Cuomo didn't need to do that. He signed that order on behalf of hospital system lobbyists because they wanted the old folks (with their comparatively low reimbursement) out of their facilities. I still get a blood pressure spike whenever I think about what those governors did. They all deserve to be locked up for the rest of their evil lives, along with the lobbyists who wrote those orders for them.

DeSantis got that same EO written for him by Florida's lobbyists. He threw them out of his office.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 09:32 AM (DU+/6)

439 Will Smith lived up to the blacks are violent stereotype. Next year the Oscar's will be held in Chicago so Chris can fire back.

Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

440 435 This weekend was the Summerville S.C. Flowertown Festival.

Estimates of up to 200,000 people in attendance, including us.

I saw maybe ten masks on people during the three hours that we were walking shoulder to shoulder with other attendees, admiring the 200+ vendor booths, and eating State Fair type food.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2022 09:32 AM (3D/fK)

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*waves*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 09:32 AM (LvTSG)

441 426.

Here in covid-stupid CT, people are still wearing masks, even while driving or walking the dog.

Posted by: Ziba at April 04, 2022 09:32 AM (S1hrL)

442 4 days (March 22 - 25) of hinky-looking C-19 Positive Cases numbers did not flow thru to other metrics like new hospitalizations or patient load in the Texas Medical Center's weekly stats.

Just fixin' the books, boss.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 09:33 AM (t3/qz)

443 439 DeSantis got that same EO written for him by Florida's lobbyists. He threw them out of his office.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 09:32 AM (DU+/6)

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Because Republicans are the tool of the rich special interests.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 09:33 AM (LvTSG)

444 One of the really dumb ass covid rules: One way grocery store aisles...and everyone complied.
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I and the kids enjoyed that immensely. We'd go down aisles in reverse and laugh and laugh.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 04, 2022 09:33 AM (GYd5O)

445 Will Smith lived up to the blacks are violent stereotype. Next year the Oscar's will be held in Chicago so Chris can fire back.

My favorite outgrowth of that was that Amy Schumer said she was so traumatized by the slap that she was taking a month off. Chris Rock, meanwhile, was doing a standup show two days later.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2022 09:33 AM (ZGrMX)

446
Art is up

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 09:33 AM (s2VJv)

447 New thread up

Posted by: High Plains Deplorable at April 04, 2022 09:33 AM (YnnoI)

448 After the war, they will "unexpectedly" find out Putin was correct saying some neo-Nazis exist in Ukraine and terrorize people.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 04, 2022 09:31 AM (bGxQ

So the choice is between neo-Nazis, and Putin's Old School Nazis.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 09:34 AM (evAgx)

449 440 Will Smith lived up to the blacks are violent stereotype. Next year the Oscar's will be held in Chicago so Chris can fire back.
Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

I prefer to think that the white part of him lived down to the "white people are violently patriarchal about their women" stereotype

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2022 09:34 AM (/EuRN)

450 Choice #1 - Donald Trump
Choice #2 - Ron DeSantis

Beyond that, SHOW ME, because I am from Missouri

Posted by: kraken at April 04, 2022 09:34 AM (Vr12I)

451 427 The local cops in this small burg went nuts on speed enforcement a couple years ago. I mentioned to one while at the gas station "Why don't you put up a portable sign down the hill at the city limits Aggressive speed enforcement in progress ahead. That would slow 'em down." His reply was one word "Revenue".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2022 09:34 AM (lz5hY)

452 You know what would be refreshing? If the Republican primary only has conservatives running in it.

Look at the Dems they varied from leftwing extremists to...leftwing extremists.

The Rs seem to have, maybe, one conservative and then Bushes, Romneys, and Katshits.

If the R primary is DeSantis v Trump it would be a sign things are a-changing.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 09:34 AM (ESjRY)

453 Remember, these ships sat dormant all while Cuomo demanded that the sick elderly be sent back to nursing homes that had no quarantine capability, then blamed them for having no quarantine capability and for the deaths of THOUSANDS.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

Weren't the ships supposed to be for non-covid medical. and then they got (intentional) patients with covid thus contaminating them.

Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2022 09:34 AM (vMCab)

454 My favorite outgrowth of that was that Amy Schumer said she was so traumatized by the slap that she was taking a month off. Chris Rock, meanwhile, was doing a standup show two days later.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2022 09:33 AM (ZGrMX)

Amy Schumer should take 2 or 3 decades off.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 09:34 AM (evAgx)

455 "Left-wing candidates from Pennsylvania to North Carolina to Missouri are shying away from the P-word on the campaign trail, in messaging and online fundraising, and even in media blitzes."

No shit. Here in Ohio, the Democrat running for the open senate seat is trying to sound like Trump so badly he earned a rebuke from a Democrat racial activist group.

https://is.gd/RquVq1

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 04, 2022 09:35 AM (OeBYn)

456 Absolutely, and all designed to make Putin into a monster and Zelensky the next Churchill.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 09:32 AM (ZLI7S)

What an insult to Churchill; Emo Phillips would be a more accurate comparison to that goof.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at April 04, 2022 09:35 AM (y7DUB)

457 "*waves*"

*Waves back*

And...before that, we had the opportunity to lunch with TJM and DOOF at one of the finest roadside hotdog restaurants in the entire country!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2022 09:36 AM (3D/fK)

458 And...before that, we had the opportunity to lunch with TJM and DOOF at one of the finest roadside hotdog restaurants in the entire country!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2022 09:36 AM (3D/fK)
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Whoa. I didn't know you were rich enough to use "lunch" as a verb. Congratulations!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 09:38 AM (DU+/6)

459 Want to bet most of those were implemented based on the flow pattern the stores already figured most people followed anyways? You know barring you knowing there's nothing in an aisle you need so you skip it.
Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2022 09:32 AM (vMCab)

I'll take some of that action. Locally, I saw no sign of thought or intelligence behind placement of the One Way stickers and they were overwhelmingly ignored by the masses in any event. I made a few 'experiments' in following the direction signs and got usually got flushed out of the aisle by the human wave coming the opposite (wrong) way.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 04, 2022 09:38 AM (4I/2K)

460 Even more notable is the breadth of that sentiment. Democratic voters in the poll support the law 55 percent to 29 percent. Among suburban voters, which could be a decisive group for the midterm elections, it's 60 percent to 30 percent. Parents: 67 percent to 24 percent. Biden voters: 53 percent to 30 percent. Respondents who "know someone LGBTQ": 61 percent to 28 percent.

No poll is dispositive, and the surveys aren't unanimous. Ipsos asked Americans in mid-March if they agreed with barring "classroom lessons about sexual orientation or gender identity in elementary school." It found 62% opposed.

Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 09:38 AM (RHGPo)

461 ""Why don't you put up a portable sign down the hill at the city limits Aggressive speed enforcement in progress ahead."

Rt 50 on the Maryland Eastern Shore has a three mile stretch that is actually bordered by signs that say exactly that.

And folks slow down.

Imagine that....

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2022 09:38 AM (3D/fK)

462 Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 04, 2022 09:28 AM (bGxQ

I was grimly amused the last time the PBA ban was debated. If PBA is SO RARE, then why the outrage over banning it? And if you want to carve out an exception for "the life and health of the mother," PBA isn't necessary because the baby's far enough along that it can be born (with the obligatory NICU stay).

But we couldn't shut down the discussion with those simple points. Oh no, we had to cave to the (Some) Women's Rights crowd and stay silent, because the GOP can't be seen as defending babies. Oh no, mustn't have that!

Posted by: pookysgirl, exasperated at April 04, 2022 09:38 AM (XKZwp)

463 >>What an insult to Churchill; Emo Phillips would be a more accurate comparison to that goof.

He is a puppet completely in the pocket of the WEF crowd. He's using his own countrymen in a war they can't win to appease his paymasters.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 09:39 AM (ZLI7S)

464 Question: Do you hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights, yes or no?

Response: I do not hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights.

When I thought my gob could not be more smacked, this really takes it.
The GOP must force an immediate debate.
On this ground alone, and especially, she is grossly unfit for the office.
Put the same question to every legislator of the opposite party. If the answer is anything but an unequivocal "yes" then it should be GTFO my country.
No exceptions.
Period.

Posted by: Zek at April 04, 2022 09:40 AM (OzNIz)

465 "Whoa. I didn't know you were rich enough to use "lunch" as a verb. Congratulations! "

I almost said 'dine with', but that sounded like I was putting on airs.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2022 09:40 AM (3D/fK)

466 Until I see who would replace Donaldus II as Supreme Ruler of the Free State of Florida, I'm not interested in seeing him go to the radioactive crap swap just to be overwhelmed by the same traitorous bureaucracy that ate Donaldus Maximus I.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at April 04, 2022 09:41 AM (MkuC5)

467 Extreme Hillary Clinton: Extreme Americans Not Living in Reality Don't Want to Be Governed by GOP

Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 09:43 AM (RHGPo)

468 Ronaldus II, sorry my bad. Aging rapidly here...

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at April 04, 2022 09:43 AM (MkuC5)

469 Put the same question to every legislator of the opposite party. If the answer is anything but an unequivocal "yes" then it should be GTFO my country.
No exceptions.
Period.
Posted by: Zek at April 04, 2022 09:40 AM (OzNIz

I didn't realize this question was asked of her, and that was her answer. Unbelievable.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 04, 2022 09:44 AM (H8QX8)

470 Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 04, 2022 09:35 AM (OeBYn)
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When I saw that my first reaction was "the Chinese government has a PAC and is getting involved in the Ohio election!"

After thinking a bit, I still think that. Screw Grace Meng too, that commie.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 04, 2022 09:44 AM (ZcDSg)

471 See AmThinker piece on Buttgig and laugh. Get used to laughing about him. The Transportation Sec'y is going places...

Posted by: Ziba at April 04, 2022 09:45 AM (S1hrL)

472 "I didn't realize this question was asked of her, and that was her answer. Unbelievable.--Ordinary American"

What is even more unbelievable is a nominally "American" electorate (or 49% of it) that has been so dumbed down by centuries of judicial review that it has entirely outsourced any thinking about what our Constitution means to "the Courts." 49% of Americans couldn't tell you that "up" is different than "down" unless a Court first told them so. Un freakin believable how far we've fallen from a free people.

Posted by: Zek at April 04, 2022 09:46 AM (OzNIz)

473 For some reason, all of the industrialized world completely forgot about that starting in 2019, and I'm not really sure why.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 04, 2022 07:53 AM (VKuJq)

It was a psy op. The product of 75 years and billions of dollars of research into marketing, propaganda, and the various vulnerabilities of the human mind.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 09:47 AM (Uowvg)

474 471 See AmThinker piece on Buttgig and laugh. Get used to laughing about him. The Transportation Sec'y is going places...
Posted by: Ziba at April 04, 2022 09:45 AM (S1hrL)

Up his husband's ass.

Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2022 09:49 AM (vMCab)

475 I almost said 'dine with', but that sounded like I was putting on airs.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2022 09:40 AM

Next you're going to tell us you don't sip your tea with your pinkie extended.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 04, 2022 09:52 AM (a3Q+t)

476 Bootygig is going "somewhere"? Not in national politics, he ain't. Maybe to CNN or MSDNC. I predict he ends up living in Los Angeles or NYC, appearing on TV or writing books on the joys of ... whatever.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 04, 2022 09:54 AM (cEswE)

477 Has anyone done research on whether Justice KJ was more lenient with pedo's that were black or white or latin or asian? These cases that were in front of her, what was the race of the person that committed the crime?

If they are all the same race, shouldn't she be questioned about uneven justice based on race?

Posted by: jeff at April 04, 2022 09:56 AM (+4Xcc)

478 relatively reasonable liberals

No such thing. Like the old joke: "What is a moderate Muslim? One that is out of ammo!" If they are "True Believers" they simply lack the guts to act. But when they are strong, they go balls to the wall.

Posted by: Paladin at April 04, 2022 09:58 AM (vGLaF)

479 478 relatively reasonable liberals

No such thing. Like the old joke: "What is a moderate Muslim? One that is out of ammo!" If they are "True Believers" they simply lack the guts to act. But when they are strong, they go balls to the wall.
Posted by: Paladin at April 04, 2022 09:58 AM (vGLaF)

Disagree. You can be "liberal" without being full-on freakazoid leftist. I might disagree and stridently on issues, but on certain things such as free speech where certain very liberal folks like Richard Dreyfuss, Glenn Greenwald or even Naomi Wolf are alarmed at the Maoists, we do have common ground.

We can argue about or debate issues only when we recognize one another's right to exist and even challenge each other based on recognition of common ground. Liberals do that. Leftists do not.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 10:02 AM (s2VJv)

480 477 . . . uneven justice based on race?
Posted by: jeff at April 04, 2022 09:56 AM (+4Xcc)

You just defined "social justice."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 10:03 AM (s2VJv)

481 Bootygig is going "somewhere"? Not in national politics, he ain't. Maybe to CNN or MSDNC. I predict he ends up living in Los Angeles or NYC, appearing on TV or writing books on the joys of ... whatever.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 04, 2022 09:54 AM (cEswE)

He will be VP Dyson's VP

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 10:12 AM (Uowvg)

482 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 10:02 AM (s2VJv)

If they vote Democrat they are Useful Idiots. If they vote Republican they're just idiots but at least they are thinking.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 10:14 AM (Uowvg)

483 Bootygig is just blabbing the stuff that works like a charm on our badly mis-educated teeming mass. Seething mass? Big blob of phone zombies? ...?

Posted by: klaftern at April 04, 2022 10:24 AM (taPSh)

484 383 Had a dream so weird I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep.

As part of the continuing effort to "decriminalize" everything, they did away with all traffic laws!

I hope it was not prophetic!
Posted by: mindful webworker - life is but a dream at April 04, 2022 09:22 AM (QvkLJ)

An unfounded and irrational fear. After all, traffic laws are a revenue stream.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at April 04, 2022 10:39 AM (8C7+r)

485 You can't be Speaker of The House if you are a Senator.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

You sure? To my knowledge, the Speaker doesn't have to be a member of congress at all.

Posted by: Oedipus at April 04, 2022 11:09 AM (fCmnr)

486 If they want a wealth tax, let them strip those wealthy fuckers in Congress first. I mean how many of them became fabulously wealthy in office, using their inside knowledge and influence for gain? Of course that would NEVER happen...those kinds of confiscatory taxes are not for the rulers, but for the hoi polloi.
Oh, and Biden's tax increases on those earning over $400K? With inflation, that may be true some day, as $400K may be less than making ends meet at that point.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 04, 2022 11:18 AM (ynpvh)

487 48 So the Dems ruined the word Liberal and had to switch to Progressive. Now that they ruined that word, what will they go to next?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 04, 2022 07:42 AM (fvJFK)

I will predict "independent."

We have a dem running in a special election (I think the official day of voting is today) who claims he is independent. He is full of shit, but is running again another lefty nutjob and a creepy looking repub. (San Diego, CA)

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at April 04, 2022 11:31 AM (9qiMu)

488 "....we're probably now a year or so away from the decriminalization of pedophilia...."

Meaning that we're a year or so away from vigilante justice over that matter.

Posted by: dad29 at April 04, 2022 11:50 AM (mzJmr)

489 Judge Jumanji Brown doesn't believe in Natural Rights for you-- but she clearly believes in Unnatural Rights for pedophiles.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 04, 2022 12:29 PM (Ndje9)

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