Journalism (and related media) 50 years after Watergate

As Ace reported last night, it appears that Stephen Colbert's staffers were arrested for unlawful entry to House office buildings after hours. GREAT COMEDIC TIMING. Clown noses on or off?

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Speaking of Watergate, Steven Hayward wrote a piece on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate Break-in yesterday. Interesting if you are looking for some weekend reading.

It would break the hearts of some journalists to find out that the Woodward and Bernstein movie wasn't the whole truth. Such an inspiration!

Today is the 50th anniversary of the infamous Watergate break-in that toppled Richard Nixon and transformed American politics for the worse ever after. The Watergate saga, and especially the media's role in it, remains large a heroic tale for liberalism, though second thoughts about the whole matter are starting to emerge.

The final irony of this Tale of the Tape is that Nixon was appalled when President Johnson explained the Oval Office taping system to him before he took office in 1969. Nixon ordered the taping system removed, but reinstalled another taping system in February 1971, after his concern for leaks and the accuracy of notes of decisions taken in innumerable Oval Office meetings, along with his desire to use the tapes as an aide memoire for his inevitable post-presidency writings, got the better of him. Nixon's taping system differed in one significant way from Johnson's: while Johnson had to turn his taping system on manually (which means he could be selective about what was taped), Nixon's was voice-activated. . .

Interesting evidence about what really happened follows.

More on Watergate and its legacy over the weekend. I've got Week in Pictures to get done!

Week in Pictures, Liberal Exhaustion Edition.

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Meanwhile, Reuters, has released its 2022 "digital news report", which includes information on attitudes and consumption of news around the world. The "news business" ain't what it used to be. TicTok for news?

There is a PDF of the whole report, plus breakouts by country. Here's a short summary for the YouTube crowd:

And here are some highlights from the USA, just in case the graphics above zipped by a little too fast:

A new presidential administration in its first full year, and continuing disruption caused by the ongoing pandemic, presented challenges and opportunities for US news organisations. Remote work has become standard, health reporting is increasingly recognised as a vital public service, and many outlets have launched new products - from newsletters to podcasts to video to virtual events - to keep audiences informed.

. . . Early signs suggest that attention to news rose initially with Russia's war in Ukraine - in particular, 24-hour cable news outlets saw viewership surge in March - but longer term trends continue to point to exhaustion from a demanding news cycle.
Trust in the news media also continued to decline. The share of Americans who trust news generally fell 3pp, to 26%, while only 41% now say they trust the news they themselves use. These trends coincide with shrinking confidence even in highly regarded institutions, such as science, medicine, and the military. . .

The numbers are dismal for lots of major institutions.

In this highly charged environment, journalists have struggled to respond to disinformation campaigns related to the COVID-19 vaccine. Coverage of the networks that spread hoaxes and conspiracy theories - sometimes called the 'misinformation beat' - is increasingly common in major print and broadcast newsrooms. Public controversies like the furore over Joe Rogan's immensely popular Spotify podcast, where a succession of guests aired bogus and dangerous medical claims related to COVID, have also focused attention on the issue. However, Tow Center research suggests this truth-telling has uncertain effects in a highly polarised climate.1

"Tow Center research suggests this truth-telling has uncertain effects in a highly polarised climate."

"Truth-telling." They use such excellent, unimpeachable fact-checkers who read stuff off approved sources on the internet. Then they often incorrectly pretend that the stuff they read pertains to whatever they are passing judgment on.

This particular outfit seems to have a special hatred for Joe Rogan.

The resources newsrooms need to counter these trends are significant, yet it is still a minority who pay for online news (19%). Some large brands continue to see growth, such as the New York Times, which had surpassed 8 million digital subscriptions by the end of 2021, mostly to its news products, but helped by non-news products such as cooking content and games (the company also purchased the popular Wordle game in January 2022), as well as the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times. Even local newspaper chains have seen gains in digital subscriptions, and Axios continues to expand its local newsletter model into additional cities.

The NYT is supported by its cooking content and games?

There is information on local news outlets. I think maintaining those is a good idea. Maybe not in a form that Reuters would prefer. And comments on the news business, unionization, Google, The Facebook Papers, and more.

Not much about regular old blogging. Maybe it's in the PDF.

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Oh, and on that "truth-telling": National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy calls on Big Tech to censor renewable energy critics in the name of "public health".

In the face of widespread public outrage, the Biden Administration last month backed away from a proposal to create a disinformation board at the Department of Homeland Security.
But now it's back with new demands to censor its critics, this time using a tactic that has worked in the recent past: by framing them as a threat to public health.

In a talk with Axios, Biden Administration Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy said, "The tech companies have to stop allowing specific individuals over and over again to spread disinformation."
After an Axios reporter asked, "Isn't misinformation and disinfo around climate a threat to public health itself?" McCarthy responded, "Oh, absolutely... We are talking, really, about risks that no longer need to be tolerated to our communities."
McCarthy pointed specifically to those who criticized the failure of weather-dependent renewables during the blackouts in Texas in February 2021. But many of those criticisms were factual. Over the last decade in Texas, investors sunk over $53 billion on weather-dependent energy sources, mostly wind turbines, which alongside frozen fossil fuel plants were largely unavailable during the cold snap in February. That was only partly because of the cold and mostly because of low wind speeds.

So, misinformation and disinformation are TRUTHS that conflict with The Regime's narrative, especially if repeated too often. Got it.

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Music

Even today, The Country's in the Very Best of Hands

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's Thread, June 11, Why baby formula recipes are often old recipes in the USA Plus Operation Fly Formula and other Biden Administration efforts to "build back better". Judy Garland would have been 100 years old last week.

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

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1 Hello?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at June 18, 2022 11:28 AM (3Or4S)

2 Hello KT

Posted by: CN at June 18, 2022 11:28 AM (ONvIw)

3 Nuke Washington just to be sure.

Incinerate every last man, woman, and child from Alexandria to Fredericksburg.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 18, 2022 11:28 AM (ca87E)

4 I read content, too! Hey! Anyone home?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at June 18, 2022 11:28 AM (3Or4S)

5 Hi, CN! Hi, Cicero Kaboom!

Posted by: KT at June 18, 2022 11:31 AM (rrtZS)

6 Is there actual evidence Schiff's office was involved in the stunt, or is that just Faux Nooz bloviators, bloviating.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 18, 2022 11:31 AM (NWBBy)

7 If it weren't for the crosswords, NYT would be tits up.

Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2022 11:31 AM (AwYPR)

8 Hi, everybody!

Posted by: KT at June 18, 2022 11:31 AM (rrtZS)

9 There was once a time people could employ a little common sense in determining fact from fantasy. Yesterday some idjit attempted to wave away 'birds chopped by windfarms' as a Trump! lie. I asked why would an energy company pay a multi-million dollar fine for phantom dead Bald Eagles?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at June 18, 2022 11:33 AM (3Or4S)

10 Obligatory appearance before I go out to my shop...after I fix the wife some brunch.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 18, 2022 11:33 AM (R5lpX)

11 NYT is supported by its entertainment sections, business section, and the like. On a Sunday, I used to see people reading the magazine section or the book review.

Posted by: CN at June 18, 2022 11:34 AM (ONvIw)

12 In this highly charged environment, journalists have struggled to respond to disinformation campaigns related to the COVID-19 vaccine.

they were struggling to respond to their own reports?

Posted by: kallisto at June 18, 2022 11:35 AM (DJFLF)

13
How sad that the government of Lil' Abner and Sam are singing about was far better than the one we have now.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2022 11:35 AM (pLIbj)

14 7 I knew it was dying when I saw they routinely had subscription tables at random street fairs and playground yard sales

Posted by: CN at June 18, 2022 11:36 AM (ONvIw)

15 It's funny how with Democrats the answer to disagreement is always censorship never debate or better arguments.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 18, 2022 11:36 AM (eGTCV)

16 Back from the grocery.

8 f*cking $$ for a big canister of pretzels.

Yeah, no.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2022 11:36 AM (Msys3)

17
I knew it was dying when I saw they routinely had subscription tables at random street fairs and playground yard sales
Posted by: CN at June 18, 2022 11:36 AM (ONvIw)

_________

Girl Scout cookies and an NYT subscription.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2022 11:38 AM (pLIbj)

18 I'd wager that Biden only got on the bike just out of sight of the pre-arranged photo op, got a gentle push to get going, and just coasted down the path.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 18, 2022 11:38 AM (4I/2K)

19 The baby formula shit is IDIOCRACY, THE ELECTRIC BOOGALOO, DOS.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 18, 2022 11:38 AM (yrol0)

20 16 Aren't you glad Joe gave Ukes some walking sound money so that they don't kill their oligarchs?

Posted by: CN at June 18, 2022 11:38 AM (ONvIw)

21 Remember Watergate fairly well though as a young kid didn't really understand it that I know now it was a political hit just like what we have seen not long ago.
The FBI's first takedown of a President

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2022 11:38 AM (2JoB8)

22 I'd wager that Biden only got on the bike just out of sight of the pre-arranged photo op, got a gentle push to get going, and just coasted down the path.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 18, 2022 11:38 AM (4I/2K)

Forgot to pedal?

Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2022 11:39 AM (AwYPR)

23 17 right next to the stuff from some old lady' junk drawer. I laughed and ridiculed them a bit

Posted by: CN at June 18, 2022 11:40 AM (ONvIw)

24 I missed the entire Watergate thing, I was overseas at the time in a remote location, no phone.
When I got home and read a paper and it mentioned President Ford, I knew I had some catching up to do.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 18, 2022 11:40 AM (jTmQV)

25 I thought Clown nose on or off was Jon Stewart...? I could be mistaken.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2022 11:41 AM (kXYt5)

26
Nixon should have just asked the FBI to investigate collusion between McGovern and the Soviet government.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2022 11:42 AM (pLIbj)

27 Forgot to pedal?
Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2022 11:39 AM (AwYPR)

He fell after he stopped to greet the (carefully selected and placed) crowd when his foot got tangled in the pedal clip as he tried a dismount.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 18, 2022 11:42 AM (4I/2K)

28 Muldoon at June 18, 2022 11:41 AM

They both do that schtick.

Posted by: KT at June 18, 2022 11:42 AM (rrtZS)

29 Posted by: CN at June 18, 2022 11:34 AM (ONvIw)

my workplace gets the Sunday NYT and basically the food, "lifestyle" etc. is all I look at.

I did learn from that paper about all the chinese workers who landed in Northern Italy's leather goods producing region, and shortly after that the coof story broke.

Posted by: kallisto at June 18, 2022 11:44 AM (DJFLF)

30 Gotta run to the Ace hardware. They have the suet blocks on sale for .99 cents.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at June 18, 2022 11:45 AM (R5lpX)

31 16 -- Tonypete -- $10 for a not quite one pound bag of Dove dark chocolates. I cried as I checked out.

Same store: no ( as in "n" "o") plain bricks of Philadelphia cream cheese. There were just a couple of bricks of the store brand. They had the containers of the whipped Philadelphia cream cheese -- $7.00. I nearly passed out cold.

It's really pathetic when the " special sale" price of an item is damn near twice the cost it was a year ago.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at June 18, 2022 11:45 AM (H31K8)

32 I see that the report is all in on anything contrary to or critical of the official dem party line is disinformation. Ironically, that propaganda is *actual* disinformation from back when that term had espionage meaning.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 18, 2022 11:45 AM (nC+QA)

33
Is there actual evidence Schiff's office was involved in the stunt, or is that just Faux Nooz bloviators, bloviating.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 18, 2022 11:31 AM (NWBBy)

Doesn't matter. Hang it around their necks... seeing as we can't hang anything ELSE around their necks.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 18, 2022 11:46 AM (bF9lx)

34 I suspect the media struggles to respond to "disinformation" is because they've always been handed their arguments by the government and have never had to think anything through for themselves.
Plus I doubt they actually read what the dissenters believe and say.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 18, 2022 11:46 AM (eGTCV)

35 Meant to add that Mussolini would be proud of his disciples. "Nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 18, 2022 11:48 AM (nC+QA)

36 Nixon should have just asked the FBI to investigate collusion between McGovern and the Soviet government.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2022 11:42 AM (pLIbj)

If Nixon had put Mark Felt on it, promising him that directorship, McGovern would have been toast.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 18, 2022 11:48 AM (bF9lx)

37 Covid-19 the most manipulated infectious disease event in history:

https://tinyurl.com/4ptycx9x

Posted by: kallisto at June 18, 2022 11:49 AM (DJFLF)

38 Columbo is about to get his murderer. It's the guy who played the KGB agent in The Americans. That Welsh actor. Something Rhys.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 18, 2022 11:50 AM (3FiQa)

39 For the first time in American history a president, governors, mayors, hospital administrators and federal bureaucrats are determining medical treatments based not on accurate scientifically based or even experience based information, but rather to force the acceptance of special forms of care and “prevention”—including remdesivir, use of respirators and ultimately a series of essentially untested messenger RNA vaccines. For the first time in history medical treatment, protocols are not being formulated based on the experience of the physicians treating the largest number of patients successfully, but rather individuals and bureaucracies that have never treated a single patient—including Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, EcoHealth Alliance, the CDC, WHO, state public health officers and hospital administrators.[23,38]

Posted by: kallisto at June 18, 2022 11:50 AM (DJFLF)

40 29. I think most people skip the news. I used to like the book reviews before they got crazy lib. The magazine section with Saint Hillary was the scrabby end for my husband.

Posted by: CN at June 18, 2022 11:51 AM (ONvIw)

41 I was in my early 20s when Watergate occurred. I wasn't the news junkie then that I am now, so the whole thing kind of just rolled over me. All I knew then was that Tricky Dick was the most evil president in the entire history of the country, Gerald Ford was a clumsy oaf, and Jimmy Carter was the country's salvation. Boy, what I have learned since.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at June 18, 2022 11:52 AM (H31K8)

42 36 McGovern was already toast. Nixon was paranoid

Posted by: CN at June 18, 2022 11:52 AM (ONvIw)

43 He went to Exxon. That is funny.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 18, 2022 11:52 AM (53heV)

44 ren't you glad Joe gave Ukes some walking sound money so that they don't kill their oligarchs?
Posted by: CN

They could walk to Neptune with the money he gave them !

Posted by: JT at June 18, 2022 11:53 AM (arJlL)

45 "It would break the hearts of some journalists to find out that the Woodward and Bernstein movie wasn't the whole truth. Such an inspiration!"

Jason Robards won the Oscar for playing Bradlee, but the much bigger real-life role in Woodstein's reporting was played by Harry Rosenfeld (editor in charge of WaPo's local news), Howard Simons (managing editor) and Barry Sussman (city news editor, and direct supervisor of Woodstein). All The President's Men either diminished or completely excised their roles in the story. Sussman never forgave Woodward and Bernstein for the omission.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 18, 2022 11:53 AM (NzKzT)

46 Nixon > Any Democrat today

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 18, 2022 11:53 AM (53heV)

47 My post @39 is excerpt from the doc @37 link.

That link goes to a website that includes some questionable material right next to the Blaylock article.
The author is a fully credentialed MD, whereas the other content, not so much.

Just an FYI

Posted by: kallisto at June 18, 2022 11:54 AM (DJFLF)

48 Back from the grocery.

8 f*cking $$ for a big canister of pretzels.

Yeah, no.
Posted by: Tonypete

Can ya make your own ?

Of course you can ! You're TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at June 18, 2022 11:55 AM (arJlL)

49 No blah blah blah

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 18, 2022 11:55 AM (vuisn)

50 Hiya KT !

Posted by: JT at June 18, 2022 11:55 AM (arJlL)

51 Nixon gave us the EPA and sucked China’s dick You would think the left would adore him.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 18, 2022 11:55 AM (53heV)

52 I was a kid during Watergate. I remember hearing something on the news when it was on. I was too busy riding my bike and playing smear the queer with the neighborhood kids.

Posted by: Infidel at June 18, 2022 11:56 AM (IcyNP)

53 OT but after about five days of rain the skies are blue and the sun is out, which means I will have to get to mowing after the lawn dries.
My battery-powered mower will do find on the front but the back is a jungle.
I have a big, self propelled gas mower that could handle the back but I haven't started in a couple of years--so I'm not sure what to do.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 18, 2022 11:56 AM (eGTCV)

54 40 -- I used to read the NYT book reviews for professional reasons. Then I started to notice that the alleged "reviews" were little more than the reviewers bragging about how smart and super educated they were and how stupid the rest of us, including the author of the book being reviewed, were.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at June 18, 2022 11:57 AM (H31K8)

55 Girl Scout cookies and an NYT subscription.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Both huge supporters of planned murder.

I hope they both go belly up asap.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2022 11:58 AM (Msys3)

56 Is there actual evidence Schiff's office was involved in the stunt, or is that just Faux Nooz bloviators, bloviating.
Posted by: BurtTC

We need a sub committee investigation!
Where did their phones show they had been before the insurrection/invasion?
Who told them they could get them in?
Who opened the doors for them?
Where were the capitol police when the doors were opened?
Who showed them where the offices were that they wanted pound on?
How many of them were FIB plants?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 18, 2022 11:59 AM (KWFaX)

57 Testimony again from Stubby --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJq7J2uzSlc

Guys and Dolls.

Always makes me think of Sit Down, John from 1776.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 18, 2022 11:59 AM (MIKMs)

58 They both do that schtick.
Posted by: KT

********

Ah. Thanks.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2022 11:59 AM (kXYt5)

59 there actual evidence Schiff's office was involved in the stunt, or is that just Faux Nooz bloviators, bloviating.
Posted by: BurtTC

Evidence? That is so 2003.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 18, 2022 12:00 PM (53heV)

60 OT but after about five days of rain the skies are blue and the sun is out, which means I will have to get to mowing after the lawn dries.

Sounds like the weather we got here in the Rogue Valley. I, on the other hand, will take the opportunity to jump on the motorcycle today. The lawn can wait until tomorrow.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 18, 2022 12:01 PM (LKen+)

61 Nixon exposed the Commies in government. The Left never forgave him for that.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 18, 2022 12:02 PM (YynYJ)

62 Nixon exposed the Commies in government. The Left never forgave him for that.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Do tell.

Posted by: Sen. Joe MaCarthy at June 18, 2022 12:03 PM (Msys3)

63 I'm eating an Eskimo Pie !

Posted by: JT at June 18, 2022 12:04 PM (arJlL)

64 I am certain that the Colbert crew had a "guerilla journalism" thing in mind, to ambush several gun-friendly congressmen with "tough questions" to then carefully edit to use on the show.

But based on Schiff's definition of insurrection, treason, and terrorism, these men (and he) are all guilty of all three.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:05 PM (llsW/)

65 Back to the roof, going to do 2nd repair today, actually will be easy for last two on a hot sunny day because the shingles are more pliable

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2022 12:05 PM (2JoB8)

66 Sounds like the weather we got here in the Rogue Valley. I, on the other hand, will take the opportunity to jump on the motorcycle today. The lawn can wait until tomorrow.
Posted by: Halfhand at June 18, 2022 12:01 PM (LKen+)

I've made an executive decision that the lawn is too wet to mow today,

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 18, 2022 12:06 PM (eGTCV)

67 Eskimo Pie !

******

Igloo are square.

/Naneuc-lid

Posted by: Muldoon at June 18, 2022 12:06 PM (kXYt5)

68 Nixon gave us the EPA and sucked China’s dick You would think the left would adore him.

Yeah he was... let's just say he'd be about as popular around here as John McCain were he alive these days.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:06 PM (llsW/)

69 The FBI investigation of Ashley's diary bothers me. It's not a federal crime. Secondly was it a diary she came in with or a therapy journal, which are routinely left behind and tossed by housekeeping

Posted by: CN at June 18, 2022 12:06 PM (ONvIw)

70 Between the laptop and the diary, I have to figure one of three things is going on:

1.) Biden's kids are the stupidest people in the country.

2.) They are doing these things on purpose.

3.) G-d made these things happen as a warning to us about Bidens.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 18, 2022 12:07 PM (IXpV7)

71 I'm eating an Eskimo Pie !
Posted by: JT

DI: "I don't know but what I'm told!!"

Marine Recruits on the parade deck: ......

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2022 12:07 PM (Msys3)

72 There is information on local news outlets.

How to celebrate the ghey agenda all month, every month!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at June 18, 2022 12:08 PM (hAnpH)

73 Re: unauthorized access to GOP offices enabled by Dem staffers..

Let's all not forget during the Kavanaugh hearings that Dem staffers let protesters into the building as a distraction to allow other staffers to break into offices, illegally access the network, steal contact info for GOP family members, and then proceeded to send cartel beheading videos to the immediate family of GOP committee members during the middle of the hearing.

And the people who did this got PROBATION.

But hey, sure, let's beat several people to death and cover it up, have people die in solitary after being denied medical care, and continue to SWAT people years later for waving some flags (they're still arresting people around here for Jan 6 - they took in most of a family last week...). Yep that's the hallmark of rule of law vs. rule of men.

I'm a bit concerned about the price of diesel, because we're gonna need bigger holes.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at June 18, 2022 12:08 PM (++emK)

74 I thought Clown nose on or off was Jon Stewart...?

That's where it started, but then so did Colbert.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:08 PM (llsW/)

75 >>Is there actual evidence Schiff's office was involved in the stunt, or is that just Faux Nooz bloviators, bloviating.

Is there actual evidence that Trump colluded with Russia to rig the 2016 election or was that just Schiff bloviating? Way past time to play by the rules Democrats have been playing by for years.

Republican Rep. Rodney Davis who is on the House Administration Committee specifically said the staffers who let Colbert's team into the House worked for Schiff and other Democrats.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 18, 2022 12:08 PM (ZLI7S)

76 Brad Pitt is better looking than Matt Damon IMHO

Posted by: lin-duh at June 18, 2022 12:08 PM (UUBmN)

77 Its funny/ironic that 30-40 years after the left took control of our education system, they now tacitly admit the populace is too dumbed down perform basic critical thinking.

Posted by: LASue, occasional thought leader at June 18, 2022 12:09 PM (Ed8Zd)

78 it a diary she came in with or a therapy journal, which are routinely left behind and tossed by housekeeping

This puzzles me. Why on earth would someone leave a personal diary dumping their most hidden secrets and shames in a hotel room???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:09 PM (llsW/)

79 "70 Between the laptop and the diary, I have to figure one of three things is going on:

1.) Biden's kids are the stupidest people in the country.

2.) They are doing these things on purpose.

3.) G-d made these things happen as a warning to us about Bidens.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 18, 2022 12:07 PM (IXpV7)"

Gotta be stupidity. There is a not insignificant amount of material of Hunter banging minors, plus his habit of uploading videos to Pornhub of him banging hookers....

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at June 18, 2022 12:09 PM (++emK)

80 Brad Pitt is better looking than Matt Damon IMHO
Posted by: lin-duh at June 18, 2022 12:08 PM (UUBmN)

It's not even close!

Posted by: LASue, occasional thought leader at June 18, 2022 12:09 PM (Ed8Zd)

81 As i say, fuck Nixon.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 18, 2022 12:10 PM (KAi1n)

82 So the biggest threat to public health via climate change would be China and India. Draw up the invasion plans, sugar.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at June 18, 2022 12:10 PM (3Or4S)

83 Colbert is asshoe

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 18, 2022 12:11 PM (53heV)

84 68 Nixon gave us the EPA and sucked China’s dick You would think the left would adore him.

Yeah he was... let's just say he'd be about as popular around here as John McCain were he alive these days.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:06 PM (llsW/)

That is a bit unfair. I will cut him a break on China. It was at the height of the Cold War, and he saw the ability to use China against the Soviets. You the thank Bush 1 and Clinton for shipping factories for China.

The EPA, on the other hand, he should have known better.

Posted by: Tofer732 at June 18, 2022 12:11 PM (GcxM3)

85 I'm kind of surprised people aren't mercilessly mocking Biden trying to ride a bike and falling over here. Why anyone let him even try to do that let alone on camera, I cannot understand.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:12 PM (llsW/)

86 Brad Pitt is better looking than Matt Damon IMHO

"MATT DAAAAAMON"
--Matt Damon

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:12 PM (llsW/)

87 Daisy Mae was hot but Stupefyin Jones was downright incandecent.

Posted by: fd at June 18, 2022 12:14 PM (vrz2I)

88 Ugh. You can thank Bush 1 and Clinton, in post 84

Posted by: Tofer732 at June 18, 2022 12:14 PM (GcxM3)

89 I'm kind of surprised people aren't mercilessly mocking Biden trying to ride a bike and falling over here. Why anyone let him even try to do that let alone on camera, I cannot understand.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

All part of the circus.

The bozo can barely walk without help. Having him ride a bike? For a photo op?

Genius!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2022 12:14 PM (Msys3)

90 That was only partly because of the cold and mostly because of low wind speeds.

The enemedia suffers from quite a number of pathologies that make it completely trustworthy in a modern age.

* Their primary function is to act as Party propaganda
* Journalists are far too arrogant, stupid, lazy and lacking any curiosity, context or historical perspective to be listened to on ANY topic.
* Revenue is generated on controversy and FUD. Any topic, including cookie recipes must be amped up and over the top in their presentation.
* Far too much speculation and wish casting is presented as fact.
* Their intended audience is innumerate, irrational and desirous of perverse and stupid things. For example, why is it news that Biden misspoke or fell off of a bicycle? This is insipid disposable knowledge.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 18, 2022 12:14 PM (AHeqJ)

91 >>This puzzles me. Why on earth would someone leave a personal diary dumping their most hidden secrets and shames in a hotel room???

It wasn't a hotel room. It was a room in a halfway house she was staying in after another (failed) stint in a drug rehab center in Florida.

Ironically, she blames her longterm addiction to drugs and sex on the sexualization she was submitted to by dear old dad.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 18, 2022 12:14 PM (ZLI7S)

92 Papa Doc Bush and Clinton accelerated the stripping if our manufacturing indistries. Both to China and via nafta. But without Nixon there would have been no industrialized China to send the jobs to. Prior to Nixons push to become BFF with China it was a 3rd world backwater.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 18, 2022 12:15 PM (53heV)

93 Week in pixs: Awesome!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2022 12:15 PM (anj39)

94 Why anyone let him even try to do that let alone on camera, I cannot understand.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

You remember Obatears riding a bike, right?
They are trying to get their base to see the pRisdent as a 2nd coming of Obatears.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 18, 2022 12:15 PM (/NKts)

95 Mathematically each biden voter killed .5 of a person.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 18, 2022 12:16 PM (cPt3A)

96 LASue,
**fist bump** 👊

Posted by: lin-duh at June 18, 2022 12:16 PM (UUBmN)

97 That is a bit unfair. I will cut him a break on China. It was at the height of the Cold War, and he saw the ability to use China against the Soviets. You the thank Bush 1 and Clinton for shipping factories for China.

The EPA, on the other hand, he should have known better.
Posted by: Tofer732 at June 18, 2022 12:11 PM (GcxM3)

Wage and price controls worked out well...

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at June 18, 2022 12:16 PM (y7DUB)

98 But but but but the Bush twins had a beer when they were 19!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 18, 2022 12:17 PM (53heV)

99 Tough to argue against the EPA when the river out back is ON FIRE...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 18, 2022 12:17 PM (jTmQV)

100 Why anyone let him even try to do that let alone on camera, I cannot understand.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

You remember Obatears riding a bike, right?
They are trying to get their base to see the pRisdent as a 2nd coming of Obatears.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

DOCTOR Jill is no Big Mike !

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

101 Is this a thing? Biden falls off bicycle and busts ass.

https://bityl.co/Cm77

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 12:19 PM (yQpMk)

102 As I am over 29, it is safe to say I will never again trust the media in my lifetime.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2022 12:19 PM (anj39)

103 Here is my argument against the EPA. Fuck off. Next item on the agenda.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 18, 2022 12:19 PM (53heV)

104
DOCTOR Jill is no Big Mike !
Posted by: JT

It's a virtual tie!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 18, 2022 12:19 PM (/NKts)

105 >>Is this a thing? Biden falls off bicycle and busts ass.

F'ckn Putin!

Posted by: JackStraw at June 18, 2022 12:20 PM (ZLI7S)

106 Well dammit. I'm late. I guess I should read the comments before opining.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 12:20 PM (yQpMk)

107 Can you imagine the following combination?
Joe Biden, on a bike, riding up the steps of airforce 1.
Mayhem and hilarity ensue.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at June 18, 2022 12:20 PM (cCxiu)

108 F'ckn Putin!
Posted by: JackStraw

snort!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 18, 2022 12:20 PM (/NKts)

109 70 Between the laptop and the diary, I have to figure one of three things is going on:

1.) Biden's kids are the stupidest people in the country.

2.) They are doing these things on purpose.

3.) G-d made these things happen as a warning to us about Bidens.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 18, 2022 12:07 PM (IXpV7)

When considering the behaviors of Hunter and Ashley you always need to factor-in this: Both were mostly or fully raised by Joe and Jill. Hunter from age 3 or 4; Ashley from birth. Beau may be the 'white sheep' outlier among the children (he was one year older than Hunter).

Posted by: Raymond J. Johnson, Jr. at June 18, 2022 12:21 PM (AMIL/)

110 Well dammit. I'm late.

Let's just call it horde mind

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:21 PM (llsW/)

111 Re climate change. If climate change is an "existential threat", then when do the bombing runs on China and India begin?

Posted by: Mr. Barky at June 18, 2022 12:23 PM (iINbI)

112 If you didn't catch War Room this morning you missed out. Between Peace and War was shown and it was amazing. I had a lot of tears throughout. Claire Dooley seems to be a rising star, at the least, she was inspired in this film. Please watch it, never forget the truckers and what they were doing and share the film. https://bit.ly/3O2C77D

Posted by: WilliamColby at June 18, 2022 12:24 PM (BLa7A)

113 So, I used to use the Dissenter browser because it is designed to be more secure and has tons of adblocking stuff in it. It worked great, except apparently Gab just stopped supporting it and its not being updated.

That would be fine, but the addons won't download to it any more when I got a new laptop so I couldn't get any of my favorite ad and spam protection stuff (utterly erased all ads from youtube and other sites). Its a known glitch with an older version of Brave, which Dissenter is based on.

So, I went to Brave which is a security downstep, but works okay. Except... there's another known bug to Brave I just found out about: I logged on and it had lost all my saved personal info, like passwords, logins, etc. GONE.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:25 PM (llsW/)

114 "Roto-Reuters that's our name, we will flush Democrats problems down the drain."

A jingle from a Bay Area plumber in the 70s, lol.

Posted by: Fisht at June 18, 2022 12:25 PM (ZRarh)

115 Lexy Gavin looking good in her latest utube video, as she gets a couple bad beats.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 18, 2022 12:25 PM (ufFY8)

116 Jebus, just catching up on Tucker from last night. He nuked Biden - maybe why the dumbass tumbled off his bike today. America, someon has called out your perv president. How do we feel about that?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 18, 2022 12:26 PM (oWBc3)

117 Well, I need to go apply for a loan to get some groceries ..../// It sure feels like we're getting there. I saw my first I did that sticker at a gas pump yesterday. They were advertising $4.49/gallon gas but they were out.. they should have put signs out since I ran my card and then no gas came out. Saw others doing the same...

Posted by: lin-duh at June 18, 2022 12:26 PM (UUBmN)

118 Between the laptop and the diary, I have to figure one of three things is going on:
1.) Biden's kids are the stupidest people in the country.
2.) They are doing these things on purpose.
3.) G-d made these things happen as a warning to us about Bidens.

4) The behavior is so normalized within their ranks, and the filth and corruption is great and grand a scale that its like putting six gallons of scat in a five gallon bucket. its going to leak out, and no one thinks its worth cleaning up what spills.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 18, 2022 12:26 PM (AHeqJ)

119 Brad Pitt is better looking than Matt Damon IMHO
Posted by: lin-duh at June 18, 2022 12:08 PM (UUBmN)

This has always been a universal consensus among women, gays and straight men if they are being honest.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 12:27 PM (mR6Gs)

120 Mom has been horrified shopping each month the last four months. She only goes once a month and stocks up, and each time its been ~50% more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:27 PM (llsW/)

121 Most misunderstood political meme for June, 2022

"hwat, I don't understand, why are the Austrians having an opinion on actions by humans, does this have something to do with fascists and Orban?"

https://tinyurl.com/53puw4hk

Posted by: Kindltot at June 18, 2022 12:27 PM (xhaym)

122 They were advertising $4.49/gallon gas but they were out.. they should have put signs out since I ran my card and then no gas came out. Saw others doing the same...

At least the scammers managed to snag a whole lot of credit card swipes.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 18, 2022 12:28 PM (AHeqJ)

123 Between the laptop and the diary, I have to figure one of three things is going on:
1.) Biden's kids are the stupidest people in the country.
2.) They are doing these things on purpose.
3.) G-d made these things happen as a warning to us about Bidens.

4) The behavior is so normalized within their ranks, and the filth and corruption is great and grand a scale that its like putting six gallons of scat in a five gallon bucket. its going to leak out, and no one thinks its worth cleaning up what spills.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 18, 2022 12:26 PM (AHeqJ)

This

Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 12:28 PM (mR6Gs)

124 I mean, its not like all 4 cannot be true

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:29 PM (llsW/)

125 https://spectator.org/nixons-resignation-reconsidered/

Gonna post this link every time I see Nixon's name come up. He was badly served by his lawyers and advisors, to the point where he can be considered a pussy for believing in the threadbare lie of "country first."

He should have fought and arranged a date for all the prosecutors to face a firing squad. Especially Hillary Rodham. The fact Trump resisted being a pissy is why he gets the first shot at 2024.

Posted by: trev006 at June 18, 2022 12:30 PM (02d2L)

126 Republican Rep Barry Loudermilk was slimed by the scumbags on the Jan 6th committee which includes uber scumbag Adam Schiff of giving people reconnaissance tours of Congress before the Jan 6th protest. That lie was completely debunked by none other than the Capitol police.

He is now accusing Schiff by name of helping Colbert's staffers illegally get into the House the other night. The Jan 6th committee is turning into another Democrat clusterfark.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 18, 2022 12:30 PM (ZLI7S)

127 OT

The usual suspects:

Online price includes PaintCare fee in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DC, ME, MN, OR, RI, VT, WA

Posted by: Braenyard, working today at June 18, 2022 12:31 PM (xhPWW)

128 Mom has been horrified shopping each month the last four months. She only goes once a month and stocks up, and each time its been ~50% more.

No kidding. Went to Sams and dropped $450, (where it used to be around $320 given meat and household cleaning goods prices). Then went to Drug Emporium and choked on the Psyllium and Tobasco product prices - easily double in price from last time.

Holding off on buying bigger ticket items as deflation is the next shoe to drop and I'll anticipate inventory reduction pricing.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 18, 2022 12:31 PM (AHeqJ)

129 Brad Pitt is better looking than Matt Damon IMHO
Posted by: lin-duh at June 18, 2022 12:08 PM (UUBmN)

Damon got to where he is by being the towelboy of Harvey Weinstein, cleaning up potential crises among women ready to call the police. Fuck that guy.

Posted by: trev006 at June 18, 2022 12:31 PM (02d2L)

130 Apparently the Colbert people were pounding doors of people like representative Jordan who dares to not vote to violate the 2nd amendment.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:32 PM (llsW/)

131 Damon got to where he is by being the towelboy of Harvey Weinstein

its not that he's a terrible actor or hideous, but he does not stand out much. Any of 1000 other guys could step into his shoes without any loss of quality. He has no special charisma or skill, so it has to be something like this that explains how he got such a huge career.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:33 PM (llsW/)

132 The Jan 6th committee is turning into another Democrat clusterfark.

As the political prisoners continue to rot in the D.C. gulag.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 18, 2022 12:34 PM (Xrfse)

133 OT, one more then I'll leave

Freepers have a report that Biden fell off his bicycle flat his face in the asphalt and was last seen sitting on the curb. - sounds suspicious but Happy Saturday.

Posted by: Braenyard, working today at June 18, 2022 12:35 PM (xhPWW)

134 Online price includes PaintCare fee in the following states

From my brief research it appears that PaintCare is a scam organized by a clever group to "recycle" Paint, and get states to go along with the idea so they get a cut every time someone buys any paint.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:35 PM (llsW/)

135 January 6 was worse than Watergate which was worse than Krakatoa.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 18, 2022 12:36 PM (63Dwl)

136 Peering into my pessimistic crystal ball, I see: Biden and The Junta planning to simply ride-out inflation, doing nothing while saying they are doing everything possible. They know the annual inflation RATE will eventually go down. They are betting the rate will begin to go down a lot in a year or less. Then they will claim they Defeated Inflation Using Joe's Terrific Economic Policies! And if alive, Joe will run on his inflation triumph in '24.

The problem is, and it's one that will be swept-under the rug by Joe and The Compliant Media: The inflation RATE may go down but PRICES will NOT. Not immediately, and maybe never. So everyone will have much, much less buying power for years, even if there's zero inflation. Thanks to Idiot Joe and his Band of Idiots.

Posted by: Raymond J. Johnson, Jr. at June 18, 2022 12:36 PM (AMIL/)

137 Freepers have a report that Biden fell off his bicycle flat his face in the asphalt and was last seen sitting on the curb.

I've seen the footage. He's riding along very slowly and then just... falls over, like he forgot what he was doing and stopped maintaining any balance.

Which is very hard to do, since muscle memory and instinct will keep you balanced. But why the hell did DOCTOR Jill let him go out on a bicycle? For the love of God a man his age shouldn't even try that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:37 PM (llsW/)

138 Down goes Biden, down goes Biden. Unfortunately it looks as if he is ok

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 18, 2022 12:37 PM (WF/xn)

139 I watched one of those mash ups of Biden fondling little children. It was stomach turning. But it makes me wonder if, should push come to shove, Democrats who want Biden out of office could use evidence of his perversion to coerce him to resign.

Since David French insisted Biden was a good, honourable and decent man I want him sexually molested by an elephant seal.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 18, 2022 12:38 PM (eGTCV)

140 Papa Doc Bush and Clinton accelerated the stripping if our manufacturing indistries. Both to China and via nafta. But without Nixon there would have been no industrialized China to send the jobs to. Prior to Nixons push to become BFF with China it was a 3rd world backwater.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 18, 2022 12:15 PM (53heV)

This is true, but what eventually happened wasn't Nixon's intent. He hoped to benefit American business and trade--and hoped that trade would eventually lead to the Chinese throwing off the yoke of Communism.
He also wanted to pit Soviet Russia and Red China against one another.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 12:38 PM (mR6Gs)

141 18 I'd wager that Biden only got on the bike just out of sight of the pre-arranged photo op, got a gentle push to get going, and just coasted down the path.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 18, 2022 11:38 AM (4I/2K)

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He's the Nikola truck of presidents*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 18, 2022 12:39 PM (EZvlY)

142 Which is very hard to do, since muscle memory and instinct will keep you balanced. But why the hell did DOCTOR Jill let him go out on a bicycle? For the love of God a man his age shouldn't even try that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:37 PM (llsW/)

It was meant to be a photo op to show how vigorous Biden still is AND/ OR to try and get him killed.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 12:40 PM (mR6Gs)

143 There is a local Amish-owned 'scratch and dent' store a town over. Thursday they had 11 bottles of Tabasco 11 ounce bottles for $.75 /each. I bought them.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at June 18, 2022 12:40 PM (3Or4S)

144 Jumping in the middle of things here but just saw this on Insty and thought it well written. It is part of a review of the Disney animated movie.

Woke culture is a spiritual vacuum. It is a religion without any moral code other than forced compliance and punishments for those who disagree. There is nothing true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, or praiseworthy within it. There is nothing but darkness, fear, force, anger, resentment, and envy inside those philosophies. You will comply or you will regret it, is not the winning message they think it is.

Truth

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 18, 2022 12:41 PM (Y+l9t)

145 Peering into my pessimistic crystal ball, I see: Biden and The Junta planning to simply ride-out inflation, doing nothing while saying they are doing everything possible.

No, I think its worse than that. They are going to try to do a huge spending program to throw money at people to "help with inflation" which will only compound the problem

(GIF of car rocketing off cliff)

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:41 PM (llsW/)

146 Down goes Biden, down goes Biden. Unfortunately it looks as if he is ok

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere

I mentioned this last thread but it bears repeating:

Is it within the realm of possibility that if slo joe suffers a head injury, the result would be an improvement?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2022 12:42 PM (Msys3)

147 If you don't roll for me, you ain't bike.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 18, 2022 12:42 PM (KFhLj)

148 The crimes of Obama and his merry band of Commie wankers---if they were ever allowed to be publicized--would render the end of Watergate as a byword for corruption and political venality.

Ditto for Kennedy, Johnson and Bill Clinton, as well as Candidate Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 12:43 PM (mR6Gs)

149 Every time Senile Pervert Joe appears in public people like dislike him more. There is nothing appealing about him. And he is an angry dementia patient.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 18, 2022 12:43 PM (eGTCV)

150 Inflation ain't going down until the Federal Reserve jacks up interest rates, which they cannot do. It would bankrupt the U.S. Treasury.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 18, 2022 12:44 PM (lKAqb)

151 There is a Monaco company doing a "reboot" of Astro Boy, the lame anime with bad art. But this time they're stuffing it with more Social Justice for Equity and Inclusion, because of course.

Although "Astroboy" has known several iterations since its creation in the 1950's, this one promises to be timelier than ever as it will address today’s hot-button issues, including the impact of the Internet, social media and the damages caused to the environment by humans.

"Tezuka's original comics were far advanced in delivering a powerful message to readers worldwide. These fantastic stories of the little boy who flies are all about strong values that still resonate today for a global
audience," said Mediawan and Shibuya, which jointly acquired the rights to the franchise from Tezuka Productions.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:44 PM (llsW/)

152 Woke culture is a spiritual vacuum. It is a religion without any moral code other than forced compliance and punishments for those who disagree. There is nothing true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, or praiseworthy within it. There is nothing but darkness, fear, force, anger, resentment, and envy inside those philosophies. You will comply or you will regret it, is not the winning message they think it is.

Sounds like Communism

Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 12:44 PM (mR6Gs)

153 No, I think its worse than that. They are going to try to do a huge spending program to throw money at people to "help with inflation" which will only compound the problem

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If water can't be obtained, a liberal application of gasoline is an excellent way to keep a fire from spreading.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 18, 2022 12:45 PM (oqrJk)

154 This is true, but what eventually happened wasn't Nixon's intent. He hoped to benefit American business and trade--and hoped that trade would eventually lead to the Chinese throwing off the yoke of Communism.
He also wanted to pit Soviet Russia and Red China against one another.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 12:38 PM (mR6Gs)

Nixon was elected to get us out of the Vietnam War without expressly losing. He wanted to keep active Chinese interference out while escalating the bombing effort.

You have to remember that Nixon was VP during the Korean War and not having a repeat of that Chinese Intervention was really on his mind.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 12:46 PM (yQpMk)

155 I've fallen, and I can't get up.

Posted by: Brandon at June 18, 2022 12:48 PM (nByzo)

156 The idea that you work to enrich one communist to fight another communist is simply retarded and obviously going to fail. Only a gigantic idiot would fall for that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:48 PM (llsW/)

157 Biden stopped to talk to his "fans" and his foot got caught in the pedal as he was dismounting which is why he wasn't really hurt(sad to say).

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 18, 2022 12:49 PM (Y+l9t)

158 145 Peering into my pessimistic crystal ball, I see: Biden and The Junta planning to simply ride-out inflation, doing nothing while saying they are doing everything possible.

No, I think its worse than that. They are going to try to do a huge spending program to throw money at people to "help with inflation" which will only compound the problem

(GIF of car rocketing off cliff)

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:41 PM (llsW/)

True. My pessimistic crystal ball showed me the best-case bad future.

In your scenario, Biden will soon DEMAND Congress pass inflation-offsetting hand-outs to the poor and middle class. (Most of them will simply be the Build Back Better crap he's not been able to get.) When the Republicans balk, he'll have another MAGA-bashing tool to use with The Media LIVs. Your scenario is going to happen on top of mine, sadly.

Posted by: Raymond J. Johnson, Jr. at June 18, 2022 12:50 PM (AMIL/)

159 Biden stopped to talk to his "fans" and his foot got caught in the pedal as he was dismounting which is why he wasn't really hurt(sad to say).

That isn't what the footage looks like to me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:50 PM (llsW/)

160 Good thing nobody put a clothes pin holding a playin card into the spokes of Biden's bike. He'd be forever telling us about his motorcycle accident.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2022 12:50 PM (anj39)

161 No, I think its worse than that. They are going to try to do a huge spending program to throw money at people to "help with inflation" which will only compound the problem

That's why they've been dusting off the old "Republicans Want to Take Your Social Security and Medicare ( and though never explicitly mentioned , welfare and food stamps) AWAY' chestnut.

The last thing people want to hear in the face of skyrocketing costs.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 12:51 PM (mR6Gs)

162 shouldn't Brandon be riding a Schwinn Stingray ?

Posted by: REDACTED at June 18, 2022 12:51 PM (us2H3)

163 The idea that you work to enrich one communist to fight another communist is simply retarded and obviously going to fail. Only a gigantic idiot would fall for that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:48 PM (llsW/)

I am not sure what you are saying? Didn't all the MFN and WTO action with China start after the Soviet Union was already defunct by a decade?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 12:51 PM (yQpMk)

164 Every time Senile Pervert Joe appears in public people like dislike him more. There is nothing appealing about him. And he is an angry dementia patient.
Posted by: N.L. Urker,

Anyone who has had a parent with dementia knows this. It's so obvious.

Posted by: Infidel at June 18, 2022 12:52 PM (IcyNP)

165 "For the love of God a man his age shouldn't even try that."

But meanwhile Paul McCartney just turned 80 while doing a nearly three hour stadium show.

Go figure.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 18, 2022 12:52 PM (i0slg)

166 Economically empowering China was an all-Clinton joint.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 12:52 PM (yQpMk)

167 Bush was NAFTA.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 12:53 PM (yQpMk)

168 For some, the limbic part of the brain is the Big man or a serial killer or what have you.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 18, 2022 12:53 PM (cPt3A)

169 shouldn't Brandon be riding a Schwinn Stingray ?
Posted by: REDACTED

Is that the model with a banana seat?

Hell, he couldn't raise his leg high enough to step through and get on it without help.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2022 12:54 PM (Msys3)

170 CRT, there is some footage taken right next to him and you can see him try and take his foot out of the pedal and keeps moving so when his foot gets caught, he goes down. He was definitely stopped when it happened. It was very awkward and clumsy. Someone said it was the same foot he hurt getting out of hte shower and"tripping over the dog".

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 18, 2022 12:54 PM (Y+l9t)

171 I'm kind of surprised people aren't mercilessly mocking Biden trying to ride a bike and falling over here. Why anyone let him even try to do that let alone on camera, I cannot understand.

It's funnier than that - the bike wasn't moving when he fell off. He stopped it, put his feet on the ground, and then tipped over. Insty has the video.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 18, 2022 12:54 PM (1TuZk)

172 Good thing nobody put a clothes pin holding a playin card into the spokes of Biden's bike. He'd be forever telling us about his motorcycle accident.
Posted by: Diogenes

He's too feeble to peddle against the inertia drag the playing card would create slapping the spokes.

Posted by: Biergood at June 18, 2022 12:55 PM (FQWHA)

173 Every time his handlers try to get Biden to prove he is healthy and vigorous just the opposite happens. Why don't they leave it alone.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 18, 2022 12:55 PM (eGTCV)

174 >>In your scenario, Biden will soon DEMAND Congress pass inflation-offsetting hand-outs to the poor and middle class. (Most of them will simply be the Build Back Better crap he's not been able to get.) When the Republicans balk, he'll have another MAGA-bashing tool to use with The Media LIVs. Your scenario is going to happen on top of mine, sadly.

While I don't disagree with your analysis I see a fatal flaw in the plan.

Nobody gives a fuck what Joe says anymore. He's become an international joke, worse, a pariah. He was able to get by in the Senate with his idiotic bloviating for decades because he was pretty much guaranteed reelection and no one Senator has that much power, particularly back then.

But now he's in the executive chair and he has proven to be an absolute failure with every single thing he does. He might have the support of a handful of brain dead leftists but that's it. He just lost a wrestling match with a bike. A perfect metaphor for his clown show of an administration.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 18, 2022 12:55 PM (ZLI7S)

175
O'Biden blames the fall on toe clips. Why anyone would need or want them on the level turf in the Rehoboth Beach area is beyond me.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 18, 2022 12:56 PM (dQvv7)

176 Nixon was the guy that blackmailed the states to lower the speed limit to 55.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 18, 2022 12:56 PM (lKAqb)

177 Americans' belief in God is the lowest it's ever been since Gallup started asking the question nearly 80 years ago

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And yet we're doing fine!

(Actually, the number is 81% belief, far higher than I would've thought.!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Spring Is In the Air! at June 18, 2022 12:57 PM (FVME7)

178 Why anyone would need or want them on the level turf in the Rehoboth Beach area is beyond me.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

You're accusing some one on that team of thinking?
What an optimist!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 18, 2022 12:57 PM (/NKts)

179 145 Peering into my pessimistic crystal ball, I see: Biden and The Junta planning to simply ride-out inflation, doing nothing while saying they are doing everything possible.

No, I think its worse than that. They are going to try to do a huge spending program to throw money at people to "help with inflation" which will only compound the problem

(GIF of car rocketing off cliff)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 12:41 PM (llsW/)

The 'Breaking News' from yesterday afternoon was that Biden was confabbing with Congressional Dems to come up with a plan to narrow the deficit, fight inflation, and jumpstart Biden's domestic agenda. Knowing what we know about the Dems and POOTUS, we know that their plans will do the exactly the opposite of those things.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 18, 2022 12:57 PM (NzKzT)

180 Linebacker I & II should have been done in 1965.

The next decade of bloodshed would have been avoided.

Thanks for nothing LBJ...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 18, 2022 12:57 PM (R/m4+)

181 148 The crimes of Obama and his merry band of Commie wankers---if they were ever allowed to be publicized--would render the end of Watergate as a byword for corruption and political venality.

Ditto for Kennedy, Johnson and Bill Clinton, as well as Candidate Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 12:43 PM (mR6Gs)

Hey hey. What about me.

Posted by: Brandon at June 18, 2022 12:57 PM (qwO6y)

182 Maybe Joe was distracted by a 10-year-old girl in the crowd.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 18, 2022 12:58 PM (eGTCV)

183 O'Biden blames the fall on toe clips. Why anyone would need or want them on the level turf in the Rehoboth Beach area is beyond me.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

I'm 29 and I won't use toe clips. What the hell is wrong with his caretakers?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2022 12:59 PM (Msys3)

184 You think Biden has bicycling problems?

https://bit.ly/3baQuZ2

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Spring Is In the Air! at June 18, 2022 01:00 PM (FVME7)

185 The Federal Reserve System is a collection of 12 banks that have one magical power. Unlike an ordinary bank that must fund its balance sheet with interest-bearing debt liabilities, the reserve banks can issue non-interest bearing liabilities -- dollars.

If interest rates really jack, the assets of a reserve bank can be become worth less than the value of those dollars. That's a kind of bankruptcy.

The real risk is that on the road to this bankruptcy, there's a run on that bank and a flight out of dollars. There's no good place for those dollars to go, but that's cold comfort.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 18, 2022 01:00 PM (i0slg)

186 Good thing nobody put a clothes pin holding a playin card into the spokes of Biden's bike. He'd be forever telling us about his motorcycle accident.
-----
So using Mickey Mantle's rookie card was a bad idea?

Posted by: dartist at June 18, 2022 01:00 PM (+ya+t)

187 Hairyback Guy

Nixon was needed to ensure using B-52s would not bring on a World War with Russia and their nuclear arsenal. He used his time well, and bombed as soon as he could, safely.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:00 PM (u82oZ)

188 Didn't all the MFN and WTO action with China start after the Soviet Union was already defunct by a decade?

Nixon opened up trade with China and gave them favorable tariffs right away. Clinton made them even better.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 01:01 PM (llsW/)

189 Funny

https://tinyurl.com/3p238d7f

Posted by: JackStraw at June 18, 2022 01:01 PM (ZLI7S)

190 187 Good thing nobody put a clothes pin holding a playin card into the spokes of Biden's bike. He'd be forever telling us about his motorcycle accident

He was making that motorcycle noise with his tongue.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 18, 2022 01:01 PM (eGTCV)

191 Hairyback Guy

The failure of SAC to listen to the TAC guys in the fight, and unimaginative tactics, lead to more losses than needed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:02 PM (u82oZ)

192 Mining the North Vietnamese harbors was a big and belated move.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 01:02 PM (yQpMk)

193 Anyone who has had a parent with dementia knows this. It's so obvious.

Posted by: Infidel at June 18, 2022 12:52 PM (IcyNP)

Yep. And last thing you would do with someone like that, that you care about, is put them on a bicycle.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 18, 2022 01:02 PM (nByzo)

194
I got on a friends mountain bike with toe clips, pedaled a little bit and said, "No thanks."

I think there's a reason you might want them in a competitive situation but they're an accident waiting to happen on dismount.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 18, 2022 01:02 PM (dQvv7)

195 G'rump928(c)

See my comment @ 188.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:03 PM (u82oZ)

196 175 Joe never ran the show. Everyone knows he's demented. His cabinet will, hopefully, take the blame.they don't expect to, though. Nobody will believe they were following presidential diktats

Posted by: CN at June 18, 2022 01:03 PM (ONvIw)

197 Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur

This shows no one cares about Biden. No one. Even Jill.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:03 PM (u82oZ)

198 Yep. And last thing you would do with someone like that, that you care about, is put them on a bicycle.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 18, 2022 01:02 PM (nByzo)

They were trying to make him look virile... It didn't work

Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2022 01:04 PM (bs+z0)

199 Did Joe talk about the time he narrowly escaped a multi-bicycle crash during a downhill portion of the Tour de France?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 18, 2022 01:05 PM (eGTCV)

200 Nixon would have had to overturn the vote in Daly-controlled Chicago AND LBJ-controlled Texas. While were were in a real Cold War with the Soviets. He did the right thing at the time.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 18, 2022 01:05 PM (i0slg)

201 JackStraw

Now that is funny!

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:05 PM (u82oZ)

202 Everyone knows he's demented. His cabinet will, hopefully, take the blame.

"It wasn't us! It was Biden, he was too old! OLLLD!"
--Cabinet members

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 01:05 PM (llsW/)

203 Nobody gives a fuck what Joe says anymore. He's become an international joke, worse, a pariah. He was able to get by in the Senate with his idiotic bloviating for decades because he was pretty much guaranteed reelection and no one Senator has that much power, particularly back then.

I can't name a part of government I trust at all. The alphabet agencies have lost all credibility. The media and big tech have proven untrustworthy as well. It's a real problem, but i don't see things changing any time soon. Watch out after the election!

Posted by: Silly Season at June 18, 2022 01:06 PM (BOJAx)

204 Funny
https://tinyurl.com/3p238d7f
Posted by: JackStraw

Ha! Love it.

Posted by: Biergood at June 18, 2022 01:07 PM (FQWHA)

205 ...AND/ OR to try and get him killed.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 12:40 PM (mR6Gs)

Yeah, I'm wondering it they were hoping he'd break a hip and give them an excuse to put him out to pasture, or maybe "die under anesthesia" during repair surgery.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 18, 2022 01:07 PM (nC+QA)

206
The bicycle was probably a Fathers Day gift from Hunter and his sister. "Here, let's adjust these toe clips for Dad and make them *real* tight."

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 18, 2022 01:07 PM (dQvv7)

207 >>Yep. And last thing you would do with someone like that, that you care about, is put them on a bicycle.

He's been making the bike trip all the time since the campaign. It's his only physical activity other than falling up the stairs, they have to make it appear that he isn't a complete vegetable.

The last thing you would do with someone in Joe's condition is put him in the most stressful job on the planet but here we are.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 18, 2022 01:08 PM (ZLI7S)

208 Nixon opened up trade with China and gave them favorable tariffs right away. Clinton made them even better.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 01:01 PM (llsW/)

I guess. They didn't get much apparently. In 1985 our export trade with China was $3.8B and we imported $3.8B from them.

That same year we exported $2.4B to the USSR.

I use 1985 because that was the oldest year I could find without much effort.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 01:08 PM (yQpMk)

209 Nixon was needed to ensure using B-52s would not bring on a World War with Russia and their nuclear arsenal. He used his time well, and bombed as soon as he could, safely.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:00 PM (u82oZ)

Yes, Nixon did the right thing. But in 1965 the NVA had very little in the way of sophisticated air defenses and instead of bombing only military targets, we should have went in to eliminate any North Vietnamese communist leaders, party functionaries, party headquarters, any and all leadership targets, if and where we could locate them.

Russia and China would have been impressed.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 18, 2022 01:09 PM (R/m4+)

210 I was looking for the link to the Watergate article and finally found it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 18, 2022 01:10 PM (ynpvh)

211 I hate the straps on bike pedals.

Don't know anything about Watergate.

Get my news from AoS.

Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend.

Posted by: AK's phone at June 18, 2022 01:10 PM (7Dtku)

212 In 1985 our export trade with China was $3.8B and we imported $3.8B from them.

Until Clinton the presidents at least tried to keep some level of parity, so they wouldn't be just absorbing money from us. But that's almost 4 billion in trade they wouldn't have had without Nixon acting like an idiot.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 01:10 PM (llsW/)

213 Nixon and Reagan both had a specific thing they wanted to do as President. With Nixon, it was end the war. With Reagan, it was defeat the USSR and end the Cold War.

Both were pretty successful. It is always awkward to project our current desires back on other people in other decades.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 01:10 PM (yQpMk)

214 "Here, let's adjust these toe clips for Dad and make them *real* tight."
Posted by: Divide by Zero

No, no - the gift was nipple clips.

And, as was mentioned previously - they really make the dismount difficult.

Or so I've been told.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2022 01:10 PM (Msys3)

215 But now he's in the executive chair and he has proven to be an absolute failure with every single thing he does. He might have the support of a handful of brain dead leftists but that's it. He just lost a wrestling match with a bike. A perfect metaphor for his clown show of an administration.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 18, 2022 12:55 PM (ZLI7S)

I agree with you - in a parliamentary system, a leader in his position would be expected to resign now (and be tossed out with a no-confidence vote) But this is a rare flaw in our system; we now have a man who's presidency is basically over, and yet no one else will be able to take over the position for another 2 1/2 years. So, unless the Dem's get scared enough to take the lead in pushing him out, we can look forward to 2 1/2 years of complete economic chaos and depression with absolutely no one in effective control on top.

Their are not going to be any big plans, any big initiatives. No one in charge is going to do anything at all except try to hide out somewhere while everything burns.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2022 01:11 PM (r46W7)

216 I'm expecting Joe will be called The Father of the Year by some family magazine.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 18, 2022 01:11 PM (eGTCV)

217 Video was just dug up from 2020 of Brian Stelter saying that Biden is clearly better than Trump because Biden can ride a bike.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 18, 2022 01:12 PM (1TuZk)

218 Hairyback Guy

I like that argument. Flight of the Intruder touched on that.

But the large bombs from B-52s indiscriminately flattening the North Vietnamese urban areas, and the mining, showed we were finally serious.

Earlier would have been better, but ... LBJ.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:12 PM (u82oZ)

219 Look, fat tire is making me do a push up! - Riding Joe Biden

Posted by: Rex B at June 18, 2022 01:13 PM (LiD+O)

220 Nixon and Reagan both had a specific thing they wanted to do as President. With Nixon, it was end the war. With Reagan, it was defeat the USSR and end the Cold War.

Both were pretty successful. It is always awkward to project our current desires back on other people in other decades.

Nixon is responsible for everything wrong that's happening right now. Environmentalism, inflation, China, you name it.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 18, 2022 01:13 PM (1TuZk)

221 The problem with Nixon's idea is that he claimed to be fighting Communism, but was only fighting the Soviet Union. You don't pay one commie to defeat communism, that's simply asinine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 01:13 PM (llsW/)

222
I agree with you - in a parliamentary system, a leader in his position would be expected to resign now (and be tossed out with a no-confidence vote) But this is a rare flaw in our system; we now have a man who's presidency is basically over, and yet no one else will be able to take over the position for another 2 1/2 years. So, unless the Dem's get scared enough to take the lead in pushing him out, we can look forward to 2 1/2 years of complete economic chaos and depression with absolutely no one in effective control on top.

In a parliamentary system his own party would be sensing the blood in the water and demanding a non-confidence vote.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 18, 2022 01:13 PM (eGTCV)

223 They were trying to make him look virile... It didn't work

Posted by: It's me donna at June 18, 2022 01:04 PM (bs+z0)

Meanwhile, cankles is out there saying that Trump supporters are a clear and present danger to our American Democracy.

It all seems so last gasp-ish, which is comforting.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 18, 2022 01:13 PM (nByzo)

224 This shows no one cares about Biden. No one. Even Jill.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:03 PM (u82oZ)

And that is the best punishment.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 18, 2022 01:13 PM (nByzo)

225 Tonypete

Do nipple clamps get caught up in chest hair? Because there is so much I do not know.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:14 PM (u82oZ)

226 Video was just dug up from 2020 of Brian Stelter saying that Biden is clearly better than Trump because Biden can ride a bike.

How Tater had a career can only be explained by Zucker thinking he was handsome and charming (because he looked like Zucker).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 01:14 PM (llsW/)

227 Meanwhile, cankles is out there saying that Trump supporters are a clear and present danger to our American Democracy.

It all seems so last gasp-ish, which is comforting.

Posted by: Comrade flounder

She keeps on using that word. I do not think it means what she thinks it means.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2022 01:14 PM (Msys3)

228 I've watched Biden smack the road several times now from several different angles. Nope. It never gets old. Chuckle every time.

Posted by: Biergood at June 18, 2022 01:15 PM (FQWHA)

229 Biden is sociopath. Classic narcissistic personality.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 18, 2022 01:16 PM (i0slg)

230 Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur

Die already? Can I say that?

We need a collapse of the currentFederal system, back to states, which have more common sense, and all those useless Federal golems can be fired to save tax dollars.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:16 PM (u82oZ)

231 Do nipple clamps get caught up in chest hair? Because there is so much I do not know.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Wear a pair of bib overalls without any shirt on underneath for a preview. Yeeeowww!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2022 01:16 PM (Msys3)

232 I would suggest that every conservative strike the word 'elite' from their vocabulary, and always use "aristocracy", "hereditary aristocracy", or "in-bred slack-jawed aristocracy".

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at June 18, 2022 01:16 PM (kyWWM)

233 Exactly opposite. Just because both men got what they wanted, doesn't make either of them winners by default in the grand scheme. Was what they wanted worth it ? Did the ends justify the means ?

Its exactly correct to use hindsight to make such judgements, and apply those lessons forward.
Posted by: Here We Go Again at June 18, 2022 01:13 PM (+1cht)

I don't know. I am mostly arguing against the hubris of hindsight. You may think you see clearly but, as with any counterfactual, doing what you, in hindsight, would have done, may have easily led to a much worse outcome.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 01:17 PM (yQpMk)

234 The Left can still wreak a lot of damage.

And I fear they won't let the Novemeber election come off.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 18, 2022 01:17 PM (i0slg)

235 Tonypete

That is just wrong.

To change the subject, how are your business plans faring in this economy?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:18 PM (u82oZ)

236 lol. Neighbor has a friend over towing a boat. Boat is named BOB.

Posted by: Infidel at June 18, 2022 01:18 PM (IcyNP)

237 Earlier would have been better, but ... LBJ.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:12 PM (u82oZ)

Yup...LBJ was a typical criminal. A coward when he was in the cross hairs.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 18, 2022 01:18 PM (R/m4+)

238 Die already? Can I say that?

We need a collapse of the currentFederal system, back to states, which have more common sense, and all those useless Federal golems can be fired to save tax dollars.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:16 PM (u82oZ)

Yes, you can. That is a very real possibility. When there is no more money to be squeezed out of the American people, then the federal largess will be a prime candidate for reduction, including all those cushy pensions. A lot of people are going to wonder how it all came crashing down.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 18, 2022 01:19 PM (nByzo)

239 "in-bred slack-jawed aristocracy".
Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee

This is a keeper. Thanks.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:19 PM (u82oZ)

240 Its exactly correct to use hindsight to make such judgements, and apply those lessons forward.

And its not unreasonable to reject any kind of affection for or respect for people who made endless stupid misstakes and established incredibly bad policy like wage and price controls, the EPA, and much more.

Nixon was the absolute epitome of RINOism and GOPe squish. He appointed both Rehnquist and Stevens as well as Warren Burger, who not only oversaw but voted for Roe v Wade.

He was just like the Republican politicians people here rightly despise today. The fact that he was less awful than his opponents did not make him a good man or good politician.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 01:19 PM (llsW/)

241 But that's almost 4 billion in trade they wouldn't have had without Nixon acting like an idiot.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 01:10 PM (llsW/)

Eh, if the Russia-China partnership had gotten serious in the 70s we might still be paying for it today. I dislike Nixon's betrayal of Taiwan, but the correct path was purging the enemy at home before playing realpolitik abroad. Otherwise what's the point of showing up? The Bolshie pawns would just erase your victories when the Rats got back into power. I'll never forgive Reagan for not arresting Ted Kennedy for treason, and I only learned about Kennedy's feelers to the Soviets during the Trump era.

Posted by: trev006 at June 18, 2022 01:19 PM (02d2L)

242 There's something in his hard-wiring that makes him continue to go on.

Posted by: Here We Go Again at June 18, 2022 01:18 PM (+1cht)

He's a stubborn, ignorant SOB, at heart. Whatever is left after the dementia, that is the remnant.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 18, 2022 01:21 PM (nByzo)

243

lol @ biden-the-invalid falling off a bike!!

fuckyoucocksucker fraud biden!!

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 01:21 PM (D4Fd2)

244 Infidel

The best boat name I saw, in the Tuttle Creek marina, was Eileen a Lot.

Although Jolly Nights, a tramp steamer in the Med, is a close second.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:21 PM (u82oZ)

245 O'Biden blames the fall on toe clips. Why anyone would need or want them on the level turf in the Rehoboth Beach area is beyond me.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

I'm 29 and I won't use toe clips. What the hell is wrong with his caretakers?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2022 12:59 PM (Msys3)

Exactly. Toe clips are for the Spandex biking shorts fags with the goofy helmets, not for grownups who want to enjoy a leisurely bike ride.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 18, 2022 01:22 PM (XcFLD)

246 I dislike Nixon's betrayal of Taiwan, but the correct path was purging the enemy at home before playing realpolitik abroad.

Nothing about that required him to reach out and open trade with China. It was a stupid, bad move at the time (obviously so) and even worse now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 01:22 PM (llsW/)

247 Good News from the Box Office this weekend:

Lightyear coming in 20-30m below expectations looks like it may not even take top spot

And the writer of the article searches for all possible reasons for its failure (60m less than toy story 4) yet somehow leaves out one HUGE factor.

"There are a number of factors at play for this box office upset. The concept of Lightyear may have been a difficult one to sell to general audiences who may have been confused by the film's connection to the Toy Story brand. The other might be that it has only been three years since the release of Toy Story 4, making it the shortest gap between installments in any Pixar franchise. Disney's decision to send the latest three Pixar films to Disney+ may have impacted audiences' drive to see Lightyear, with them instead associating the brand with streaming and waiting for it to debut there while they feel they need to see Jurassic World Dominion in theaters."

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 18, 2022 01:23 PM (MGB5H)

248 The best boat name I saw, in the Tuttle Creek marina, was Eileen a Lot.

Although Jolly Nights, a tramp steamer in the Med, is a close second.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:21 PM (u82oZ)

Monkey Bidness lived up to it's name.

Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2022 01:23 PM (AwYPR)

249 Nothing about that required him to reach out and open trade with China. It was a stupid, bad move at the time (obviously so) and even worse now.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 01:22 PM (llsW/)

It must not have been so obvious.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 01:23 PM (yQpMk)

250 You're denying that Biden's responsible. Yes, he's a puppet, but a willing one.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 18, 2022 01:23 PM (i0slg)

251 Alberta Oil Peon

Toe clips are for the Sanctimonious, Spandex biking shorts, Vegan, Cross-fitting, fags with the goofy helmets, not for grownups who want to enjoy a leisurely bike ride.

Extended your rant. Note the Oxford comma.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:24 PM (u82oZ)

252 It must not have been so obvious.

Many pundits warned and condemned it, many people in his own party said it was a mistake and made no sense at the time. But he had a scheme in mind that someone said above: they'll become capitalists and abandon Communism and counter the Soviets! That goes beyond naive.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 01:24 PM (llsW/)

253 Exactly. Toe clips are for the Spandex biking shorts fags with the goofy helmets, not for grownups who want to enjoy a leisurely bike ride.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 18, 2022 01:22 PM (XcFLD)

I'll use clipless for mountain biking on trails. And I have fallen due to not taking foot out before I stop. It happens.

But yeah, leisurely bike ride I use regular pedals.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 18, 2022 01:24 PM (nByzo)

254
You know how these fuckface robots all the say they're "grateful" to be "vaccinated" and "boosted" every time they catch the china virus?

biden should tweet he's "grateful" that he was wearing a helmet.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 01:25 PM (D4Fd2)

255 Pee Wee Biden’s Big Adventure!
“I meant to do that!”

Posted by: Rex B at June 18, 2022 01:25 PM (oEMAv)

256 BignJames

Dat true. I had forgotten. We dodged a bullet there. Only to take other bullets.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:25 PM (u82oZ)

257
Buzz Lightqueer

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 01:25 PM (D4Fd2)

258 2nd roof patch done, better than 1st because didn't know I had cap shingles. Oh well it will be good anyway.

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2022 01:25 PM (2JoB8)

259 To change the subject, how are your business plans faring in this economy?
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Eh, you know - things have slowed a bit. Working on opening a new place in a southern 'burb of Dallas. Another few months and we should be open. Dealing with local permitting groups is always fun. We'll see.

The Mrs. and I are concentrating on getting the hell out of Dodge. Going again to NE TN next week to scout.

How are you doing?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2022 01:26 PM (Msys3)

260 Toe Clips are for racing, they don't make sense anywhere else. People use them to seem like they are extra speshul cyclists and professionals. I cannot beleive they let him out in shorts on a bike, what the hell? That's just asking to lose chunks of knee.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 01:26 PM (llsW/)

261
Were they putin toe clips?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 01:26 PM (D4Fd2)

262 But he had a scheme in mind that someone said above: they'll become capitalists and abandon Communism and counter the Soviets! That goes beyond naive.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 01:24 PM (llsW/)

No it wasn't. It was Keep Chinese troops out of Vietnam so I can get American troops out.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 01:26 PM (yQpMk)

263 Détente with China by Nixon was a tactical move, not a strategic one.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 01:27 PM (yQpMk)

264 Dat true. I had forgotten. We dodged a bullet there. Only to take other bullets.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:25 PM (u82oZ)

Does anyone even remember Gary Hart?

Posted by: BignJames at June 18, 2022 01:28 PM (AwYPR)

265
He could barely ride.

Notice we don't see biden Getting On the bike.
And we don't see him beginning to pedal and get going.

OF Fuckingcourse he had HELP doing both!

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 01:28 PM (D4Fd2)

266 i'm sorry, but blind justice requires that Triumph the Insult Comic Dog get locked in a dundgeon for at least a year.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 18, 2022 01:28 PM (i0slg)

267 Is there video of the bike fall?

Posted by: banana Dream at June 18, 2022 01:28 PM (0fVbu)

268 Tonypete

Living the dream. Spousal support is crowding out my own start-up time.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:28 PM (u82oZ)

269 Monkey Bidness lived up to it's name.
Posted by: BignJames

Ha, M and D had a small Lido they overturned in the dock. Uncle Bruce (290) held on to the stantion so dad could see how bad the barnicles were.

Second boat, named Here We Go Again.

Posted by: Infidel at June 18, 2022 01:29 PM (IcyNP)

270 s there video of the bike fall?
Posted by: banana Dream

On outkick.com

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 18, 2022 01:29 PM (MGB5H)

271 Good News from the Box Office this weekend:

Lightyear coming in 20-30m below expectations looks like it may not even take top spot

And the writer of the article searches for all possible reasons for its failure (60m less than toy story 4) yet somehow leaves out one HUGE factor.

Posted by: BruceWayne

Hmmm. . . mayhaps 'the kiss' was the kiss of death.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2022 01:29 PM (Msys3)

272 Dude, you're stuck in a loop. Nixon played a losing hand, and you keep saying "but this is why he did it".

Nobody cares why he did it. It didn't work. That's the lesson. Period. End of story. He was wrong.
Posted by: Here We Go Again at June 18, 2022 01:29 PM (+1cht)

What would have been better?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 01:29 PM (yQpMk)

273
here's the video of fuckface biden

https://youtu.be/_WcLLBNRs8E

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 01:30 PM (D4Fd2)

274 I gotta go to the hardware store. BBL.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 01:30 PM (yQpMk)

275 Hmmm. . . mayhaps 'the kiss' was the kiss of death.
Posted by: Tonypete

I guess we'll just never know..... must be because us rubes are too dumb to understand that its a movie about a spaceman that inspired a toy. Yah must be it

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 18, 2022 01:30 PM (MGB5H)

276
listen to the sycophants cheer like biden's a child with a mental disability

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 01:31 PM (D4Fd2)

277 >>> Toe Clips are for racing, they don't make sense anywhere else. People use them to seem like they are extra speshul cyclists and professionals. I cannot beleive they let him out in shorts on a bike, what the hell? That's just asking to lose chunks of knee.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 01:26 PM (llsW/)

Lots of people get them for spin class so you do work pulling up too. I've always been content with the foot cage and strap on the other side of the pedal.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 18, 2022 01:31 PM (0fVbu)

278 I don't know. I am mostly arguing against the hubris of hindsight. You may think you see clearly but, as with any counterfactual, doing what you, in hindsight, would have done, may have easily led to a much worse outcome.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 18, 2022 01:17 PM (yQpMk)

I agree with you.

Nixon wasn't that great a president, but he wasn't THAT bad either. He was president during a great social upheaval and he did the best he can. He was a patriot and he always had the best interests of the US in mind no matter what he did. They call him a crook, but I would take a man of his moral code any day over every president we've had since with the obvious exceptions of Reagan and Trump.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 01:31 PM (mR6Gs)

279 277 s there video of the bike fall?
Posted by: banana Dream

On outkick.com
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 18, 2022 01:29 PM (MGB5H)

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I saw it on the NY Post. It was a little hard to see the actual fall from their video, as people were in the way. But it seemed pretty clear he was stopped when he fell over.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 18, 2022 01:32 PM (CAJOC)

280 Garden Thread is Nood.

Has three pictures from me, and an auto-correct error.
Courtship, not courtyard.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 18, 2022 01:32 PM (u82oZ)

281 This one's fun. It's the music that sells it.

https://rumble.com/v18x5bh-who-did-this.html

Posted by: Biergood at June 18, 2022 01:33 PM (FQWHA)

282 >>> here's the video of fuckface biden

https://youtu.be/_WcLLBNRs8E
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 01:30 PM (D4Fd2)

Whahda macaroon!

Posted by: banana Dream at June 18, 2022 01:33 PM (0fVbu)

283 @285 Spot on re: Nixon.

I thought part of his issue was that he was a natrual introvert, which doesn't fit with being POTUS. Compare Reagan.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 18, 2022 01:33 PM (i0slg)

284
That leftwing commie asshole norman lear's theme song for All In The Family (1972) was them pining for Herbert Hoover.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 01:33 PM (D4Fd2)

285 The best boat name I saw, in the Tuttle Creek marina, was Eileen a Lot.
-----
Or the Japanese version Irene.

Posted by: dartist at June 18, 2022 01:33 PM (+ya+t)

286 282 Hmmm. . . mayhaps 'the kiss' was the kiss of death.
Posted by: Tonypete

I guess we'll just never know..... must be because us rubes are too dumb to understand that its a movie about a spaceman that inspired a toy. Yah must be it
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 18, 2022 01:30 PM (MGB5H)

--------------------------

Saw the trailer for it. The phrase "uncanny valley" sprang to mind.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 18, 2022 01:34 PM (CAJOC)

287 Are they positioning kumswallaw for success by bicycle? What's next, the tragic Biden bungee jump affair?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at June 18, 2022 01:35 PM (hAnpH)

288 From the roof top
Shout it out
NOOD
I'm ready to go

Posted by: Skip's phone at June 18, 2022 01:35 PM (2JoB8)

289 Yeah it was the toe cages.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 18, 2022 01:35 PM (0fVbu)

290
You think it was a Coincidence they put Shithead on a bike in front of cameras the same week people are calling him "too old?"

Another huge Fail for the biden junta.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 01:35 PM (D4Fd2)

291 I read somewhere or maybe it was a Paul Harvey Rest Of The Story episode where Nixon was a great poker player and made enough playing poker while in the Pacific during WW2 that he used the money to fund his first campaign in 1946.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 18, 2022 01:36 PM (R/m4+)

292 Toe clips? Poser.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at June 18, 2022 01:37 PM (hAnpH)

293 But he had a scheme in mind that someone said above: they'll become capitalists and abandon Communism and counter the Soviets! That goes beyond naive.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 18, 2022 01:24 PM (llsW/)

Nixon wasn't naive.
Try to imagine yourself in the world of 1971 and 1972 with the options that were available at the time.

It's so easy to judge historical figures from the vantage point of the present . It's as easy as judging them by the morals of today.
And we hate when the Left does that.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 01:38 PM (mR6Gs)

294 Bill Maher ran over Felicia Somnez with a semi last night. I hate the guy, but this clip is pretty awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu9JGK_yHo

Posted by: Ian S. at June 18, 2022 01:39 PM (1TuZk)

295 >>> You think it was a Coincidence they put Shithead on a bike in front of cameras the same week people are calling him "too old?"

Another huge Fail for the biden junta.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 01:35 PM (D4Fd2)

And then tucker was given the go-ahead to bodyslam him with the pedo stuff. JJ might be right. Diddlefingers Joe might have been judged Obsolete.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 18, 2022 01:40 PM (0fVbu)

296 You think it was a Coincidence they put Shithead on a bike in front of cameras the same week people are calling him "too old?"

Another huge Fail for the biden junta.

I think it's intentional. Obama is setting things up so Biden keeps humiliating himself, and he's getting results. Biden was put on a bike so he'd fall, and they're watching it in slow motion at Kalorama and laughing their asses off.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 18, 2022 01:40 PM (1TuZk)

297 I had visited China in 1979, Shanghai and Beijing, some other smaller towns.
In the US, Nixon had resigned in disgrace.
OTOH, everyone in China I met loved Nixon.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 18, 2022 01:41 PM (jTmQV)

298
Fabio Cortez, the former Chippendale's dancer and current head of Secret Service protection for President Biden explained how he and first lady Jill Biden personally adjusted the toe clips on the bicycle that Joe fell off of.

/ future Babylon Bee

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 18, 2022 01:41 PM (dQvv7)

299 here's the video of fuckface biden
https://youtu.be/_WcLLBNRs8E
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 01:30 PM (D4Fd2)

Thanks Soothsayer!

Hahahahaha...too bad he didn't do a face plant and knock out a few implants.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 18, 2022 01:46 PM (R/m4+)

300
biden has 52% approval rating....

in mexico.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 01:48 PM (D4Fd2)

301 >>> Hahahahaha...too bad he didn't do a face plant and knock out a few implants.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 18, 2022 01:46 PM (R/m4+)

At that age I think its a good chance he got a few microfractures all along his right side hips to arm and shoulder plus some sort of neck strain. Miserable little shit I feel sorry for the ground.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 18, 2022 01:50 PM (0fVbu)

302 A song about Twitter people:

Francis Ellis, "I'm An Ally"

https://youtu.be/JLDJiqEaeqo

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 18, 2022 01:57 PM (IXpV7)

303
Who wants to watch another uplifting vid clip?

https://youtu.be/9jHS2Ege9wI?t=583

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 01:57 PM (D4Fd2)

304 This is the best straight video of Biden falling down while straddling a bike that I've seen

https://twitter.com/jonboy79788314/status/
1538165572457971718?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 18, 2022 01:57 PM (kf6Ak)

305 Toeclips, that's why bicyclists must wear helmets.

Posted by: Braenyard, working today at June 18, 2022 01:58 PM (xhPWW)

306 I've never understood why this bs matters. Who cares if a president is athletic or not? Yes fitness matters because it's an incredibly stressful job. If Biden was sentient let him be an old man. But he's not sentient.

BTW wasn't the media upset about GWB cycling and chopping wood?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at June 18, 2022 01:58 PM (eGTCV)

307 And it's incredibly easy to say "but they meant well". Which is also what the Left does today. And also, the Right.

Results matter.
Posted by: Here We Go Again at June 18, 2022 01:39 PM (+1cht)

Nope.

"But they MEANT well" is for when politicians make lame gestures they KNOW won't work, but hey, let's do something SYMBOLIC to show we care."

Nixon had specific goals in mind when he decided to go to China and bring them into the fold. Things might not have worked out the way Nixon--and we-- had hoped--or they may have helped a little before they made things work or whatever, but all the moves he made regarding China--and the USSR for that matter--were well thought out. They weren't symbolic moves to show "he cared."

Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 01:58 PM (mR6Gs)

308 I've never understood why this bs matters. Who cares if a president is athletic or not? Yes fitness matters because it's an incredibly stressful job. If Biden was sentient let him be an old man. But he's not sentient.

BTW wasn't the media upset about GWB cycling and chopping wood?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at June 18, 2022 01:58 PM (eGTCV)

This started with Carter jogging. Maybe it started earlier, but this is how i remember.
Eisenhower or Johnson would have had massive cardiac events if they attempted to jog while president.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 02:00 PM (mR6Gs)

309 >>The best boat name I saw, in the Tuttle Creek marina, was Eileen a Lot.

My favorite boat name of all time is FUJIMO.

It was a 50 foot race boat owned by a guy named Jim. He told his wife he wanted to buy this boat and she told him if you buy another damn boat I am going to leave you. Which she did.

FUJIMO stands for Fuck U Jim I'm Moving Out.

Great boat.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 18, 2022 02:01 PM (ZLI7S)

310 Biden's staff notes for future outdoor activity:

Sunday: Skateboarding
Monday: Cliffdiving
Tuesday: Paragliding
Wednesday: Rustic spear and sling lion hunting
Thursday: Cage MMA & knife fighting
Friday: Competitive chainsaw vs. Death Robots dueling over shark tanks
Saturday: Molten lava pit diving

Posted by: banana Dream at June 18, 2022 02:09 PM (0fVbu)

311
yes, let's show all the "haters" that biden is not old and decrepit!

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 02:12 PM (D4Fd2)

312 Posted by: banana Dream at June 18, 2022 02:09 PM (0fVbu)

LOL

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 18, 2022 02:14 PM (kf6Ak)

313 The bike toe clips were a coolness multiplier for the aviator shades. Needed to counterbalance the dorky speshul helmet.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 18, 2022 02:16 PM (4I/2K)

314
I know where pResident Cotton-Headed Ninny Muggins was riding ... rode there myself.

When did they take off his training wheels?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at June 18, 2022 02:17 PM (ZvxPV)

315 Jomentum: When the toe guard on "your" bicycle kicks your ass and you fall because you wanted to grope some nearby children.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 18, 2022 02:22 PM (BP3/z)

316 What the hell is wrong with his caretakers?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 18, 2022 12:59 PM (Msys3

Just promoting Elder Abuse Day, everyday.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 18, 2022 02:22 PM (kf6Ak)

317 This started with Carter jogging. Maybe it started earlier, but this is how i remember.
Eisenhower or Johnson would have had massive cardiac events if they attempted to jog while president.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 02:00 PM (mR6Gs)

Well you can't blame me for it.

Posted by: Frankie "D" Roosevelt at June 18, 2022 02:23 PM (cupoy)

318
Gee, I wonder if those "cattle deaths" in Kansas had anything to do with, oh I dunno, nobody giving them, oh I dunno, SOME WATER?

Call me crazy and anti-science, but I'm 99.99% certain the cattle died from dehydration, not necessarily "heat."

I mean, you own cattle, you have to know they need Water to live, from time to time.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 18, 2022 02:24 PM (uHZeQ)

319 nood

Ace

Fall

Posted by: banana Dream at June 18, 2022 02:25 PM (0fVbu)

320 >>>Call me crazy and anti-science, but I'm 99.99% certain the cattle died from dehydration, not necessarily "heat."

>Yesterday, I started mowing the lawn. Halfway thru, the wind kicked up, - temp went from mid 60s to 85. in about 15 minutes. I stopped drank some water, 15 minutes later, temp was up to 100. Wacky weather would have probably taken me down if I hadn't stopped.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 18, 2022 02:29 PM (BP3/z)

321 PET NOOD

Posted by: Skip's phone at June 18, 2022 03:32 PM (2JoB8)

322 Re: Watergate. A guy named Geoff Shepard who is an historian focused on Watergate was on Bannon's show this week and said that the Watergate prosecutor, I believe named Jawarski, met secretly with the Judge Cirrica eight times DURING the trial of some of the Watergate defendants. The uni-party was pulling this crap back then, too.

Posted by: Dino58 at June 18, 2022 03:48 PM (LVPff)

323 Re: Watergate. A guy named Geoff Shepard who is an historian focused on Watergate was on Bannon's show this week and said that the Watergate prosecutor, I believe named Jawarski, met secretly with the Judge Cirrica eight times DURING the trial of some of the Watergate defendants. The uni-party was pulling this crap back then, too.

Posted by: Dino58 at June 18, 2022 03:48 PM (LVPff)
I'm sure Siraca had ties to Peter Rodino too.
And sure, it was the uniparty we know and love in it's embryonic form.
Nixon was neither truly "conservative" in the Reagan or Goldwater mode, nor a liberal as in the Rockefeller wing. He was the very definition of a moderate--and a loyal "party" man. It's no accident that Bob Dole, one of his staunchest defenders, openly wept at Nixon's funeral in 1994. He was cut from the same cloth.

What sickens me is that , for all the crimes of Obama and The Clintons and Biden and the rest of the Democrat-Media Complex, Watergate is still the "Gold Standard" for presidential corruption --- "A Constitutional Crisis!!!"--when it was small potatoes.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 04:23 PM (mR6Gs)

324 And despite Russian Collusion Hoax, The Big Steal and the J6 Operation and Railroading, the media and the Democrats are gearing up for "Watergate at 50" which has already begun and will last until August 2024--in the midst of the '24 election.

So Woodward and Bernstein and Richard Ben-Veniste and John Dean will get to kick Richrd Nixon one more time before they kick.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 18, 2022 04:26 PM (mR6Gs)

325 Robot Nixon is best Nixon.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHoqWQB3Cp4

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 18, 2022 06:31 PM (zL564)

326 Nixon became most favorite President when he decide to send no more US troops over to The Land of Bad Things.
My unit was supposed to be deployed for convoy escort duty on Hwy 1.
When it was announced we would be training for convoy escort duty in Vietnam, a troop asked one of our Drill Sergeants, "Drill Sergeant, what is convoy escort duty?"
The Drill Sergeant replied, "Well, they put two MPs in a Jeep, one is the driver and the other operates an M60 on a pintel mount in the back of the jeep. These jeeps are positioned one at the head of the truck convoy and one at the tail of the convoy. Charlie tries to blow up the jeeps to stop the convoy, fix it in place and shoot it up.".
Yep. Nixon's my man.

Posted by: waepnedmann at June 18, 2022 08:30 PM (lyr0n)

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