The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 6/16/22

Good morning, kids. Thursday and the J-6 kangaroo court did not convene yesterday due to the session being canceled on Tuesday. No explanation was given, but you can imagine that the news that the opening session that the show's producers claimed would hold 330 million sets of eyeballs in rapt attention, but in the event was beaten out in the ratings by a rerun of Young Sheldon, might have had something to do with it.

The whole thing would be laughable in the extreme were this not the United States of America. But, let's face facts. The United States of America as it was founded and as we had deluded ourselves into believing it to be is dead. After being slowly poisoned for at least half a century, it was smothered with a pillow on January 6th, 2021, the very day the murderers claim that they were the victim.

You might ask yourself, how the hell did we get here? It might not be the singularity, but one event that occurred 60 years ago comes close:

In June 1962, the radical organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a retreat in Port Huron, Mich. The powerful United Auto Workers (UAW) union owned the facility where the retreat took place and bankrolled the retreat itself.
The SDS had grown dissatisfied with the establishment left and sought to usher in what they called “participatory democracy” characterized by action rather than debate. On Friday, June 15, the SDS issued a manifesto that clocked in at a whopping 25,700 words and came to be known as the Port Huron Statement.
Tom Hayden, a core SDS member, wrote the first draft of the statement. Despite its immense length, the statement laid out what the SDS saw as the primary problems with the U.S. in the early paragraphs.

When we were kids the United States was the wealthiest and strongest country in the world; the only one with the atom bomb, the least scarred by modern war, an initiator of the United Nations that we thought would distribute Western influence throughout the world. Freedom and equality for each individual, government of, by, and for the people–these American values we found good, principles by which we could live as men. Many of us began maturing in complacency.
As we grew, however, our comfort was penetrated by events too troubling to dismiss. First, the permeating and victimizing fact of human degradation, symbolized by the Southern struggle against racial bigotry, compelled most of us from silence to activism. Second, the enclosing fact of the Cold War, symbolized by the presence of the Bomb, brought awareness that we ourselves, and our friends, and millions of abstract “others” we knew more directly because of our common peril, might die at any time. We might deliberately ignore, or avoid, or fail to feel all other human problems, but not these two, for these were too immediate and crushing in their impact, too challenging in the demand that we as individuals take the responsibility for encounter and resolution.
. . . At the time, the SDS didn’t make much of a splash. The media didn’t herald it as a major event, and it didn’t create immediate ripples. But what came after it did change the decade of the ’60s and the era that followed.
The SDS and the Port Huron Statement begat the anti-Vietnam War movement, the activism of earnest young civil rights activists, and the “free-speech movement” on college campuses. They also served as the genesis of the Weather Underground, the Chicago Seven, the sexual revolution, and the gay rights movement.
As radical as the New Left was at the time, its tenets are mainstream in today’s Democratic Party (and some of its ideas might even come across as outdated to this crop of leftists). Mohler puts it this way: “Many of the ideas that were considered radical 60 years ago are now absolutely mainstream, and for that matter, nowhere near the left of what we might call the New New Left in the United States. In particular, taking a snapshot of the Democratic Party.”
With all the upheaval of the ’60s, the New Left was just getting started. From the protests and action that characterized the student movements of that decade to the hold on left-wing power that the Baby Boomers (and some folks a few years older) still have, the SDS and its fellow travelers completed the “long march through the institutions.”

Chris Queen's essay at PJ Media kind of dances around the nub of the issue, but Tom Hayden's rap sheet at the invaluable Discover The Networks boils it down to its raw essence:

This document condemned the American political and economic system as the cause of international conflict and a variety of social ills — including racism, materialism, militarism, poverty, and hunger — both domestically and abroad.

In the immortal words of a 90's one-hit-wonder, "whoomp, there it is." It is bitterly ironic and disgusting in the extreme in that the parents of Tom Hayden and his ilk, who struggled through a lost decade of privation (thanks to fellow anti-America-as-founded traveler FDR) only to have their asses shot off in places like Anzio, Omaha Beach and Peleliu, others the death camps and the Einsatzgruppen, to ensure freedom for their progeny come home to suffer the unkindest cut of all — the indignity of spawning a generation of ungrateful bastards. But to be fair, a generation of ungrateful bastards isn't born. It's made.

Among his more insane ravings, Karl Marx purported that those who live in a free and prosperous society only think that they're free and prosperous. "False consciousness" as he called it, or in other words, "Who're you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?" It is laughable in the extreme when President Sponge Brain Shits Pants and his stooge press secretary insist that the American economy is stronger than ever, despite stagflation, $5.00 a gallon gas and shortages of baby formula. But flashback to 1962 and the fools who scribbled that bullshit of America and capitalism being the root cause of the world's ills didn't come up with that themselves. They were taught it by individuals like Antonio Gramsci and his disciples Herbert Marcuse and Theodore Adorno, among others. And they've swallowed it hook, line and sinker and have been swallowing it ever since.

After the societal upheavals of the 60s and early 70s, we (for sure me) thought that the coming of Reagan heralded a return to normalcy. Little did we know that that 12 year period from 1981-1992 was just a speed bump on an inexorable road to hell. The late Jerry Rubin cutting his hair, burning his SDS card and becoming a "yuppie" was an outlier. Most of his compatriots like Bill Ayers doubled down and became "educators" who raised subsequent generations of poisoned minds.

And their chickens are coming home to roost.

Jane’s Revenge, the group responsible for firebombing dozens of pro-life pregnancy centers throughout the country, has now threatened acts of domestic terrorism.
In an open letter issued to pro-life centers across the country, Jane’s Revenge took ownership for acts of violence and vandalism at pregnancy centers throughout the country and promised to escalate their tactics if pro-lifers continue operations as usual. The group declared:

Your 30 days expired yesterday. We offered an honorable way out. You could’ve walked away. Now the leash is off. And we will make it as hard as possible for your campaign of oppression to continue. We have demonstrated in the past month how easy and fun it is to attack. We are versatile, we are mercurial, and we answer to no one but ourselves.
Promising to take “increasingly drastic measures” without giving any details, the group said it will attack these centers both overtly and covertly until insurance companies and financial backers “realize you are a bad investment.” The manifesto continued:

From here forward, any anti-choice group who closes their doors, and stops operating will no longer be a target. But until you do, it’s open season, and we know where your operations are. The infrastructure of the enslavers will not survive. We will never stop, back down, slow down, or retreat.
After admitting the “joy” it finds in causing such destruction, Jane’s Revenge concluded its manifesto by addressing its supporters, encouraging them to take matters into their own hands wherever they see fit:

And for the allies of ours who doubt the authenticity of the communiqués and actions: there is a way you can get your beautiful proof that these actions are real. Go do one of your own. You are already one of us. Everyone with the urge to paint, to burn, to cut, to jam: now is the time.
. . . According to LifeNews, as many as 59 cases of “pro-abortion violence and intimidation” have been reported since the leak of the Supreme Court draft decision that aims to overturn Roe v. Wade. Catholic Vote has also documented as many as 23 cases of “attacks on pregnancy centers and pro-life groups” in the same time frame.

Let me ask the 10 asshole GOP senators who voted for "red flag" laws, does this shit qualify, despite the fact that no guns are involved? Does "Lavrenty" Garland have anything to say about this? Is this terrorism or is it a case of exuberant free speech that is to be celebrated? Those are rhetorical questions.

Elections have consequences. Stolen elections even more. It's heartening that across the land more and more people see what is happening and are scared shitless. But that said, two to three generations of mind-numbed, fundamentalist cult-followers is something that we are going to have to deal with beyond mere elections if we are ever to even have the remotest chance of starting a way back to normalcy.

And when I say "deal with," I mean in the most radical ways imaginable. You do not reason with evil. You destroy it.

God help us.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Over the past two decades, far too many citizens of the United States have willingly surrendered their rights and freedoms and now they are on the cusp of being un-restorable."
The Citizenry’s Willingness to Surrender their Freedoms Risks a Potential Dissolution or Civil War
Victor Davis Hanson: "A real committee would also investigate the other, far larger and more lethal riots on iconic federal property months earlier."
What the January 6 Committee Might Have Been
Daniel Greenfield: "It’ll take a hell of a peace circle to raise the dead."
"Peace Circles" Instead of Prisons Lead to Shootouts in Chicago

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

"In an open letter issued to pro-life centers across the country, Jane’s Revenge took ownership for acts of violence and vandalism at pregnancy centers throughout the country and promised to escalate their tactics if pro-lifers continue operations as usual. The group declared: 'Your 30 days expired yesterday. We offered an honorable way out. You could’ve walked away. Now the leash is off. And we will make it as hard as possible for your campaign of oppression to continue. We have demonstrated in the past month how easy and fun it is to attack. We are versatile, we are mercurial, and we answer to no one but ourselves.'" (this is how you get death squads and star chamber vigilantes - jjs)
Radical Abortion Group "Jane’s Revenge" Threatens Domestic Terrorism
"Two masked individuals smashed a window and threw a lit flare into Washington state House Rep. Andrew Barkis’ office building in Olympia, Washington, on Monday."
Arsonists Firebomb Pro-Life Legislator’s Office In Latest Attack
"Civil rights division chief Kristen Clarke criticized the centers following a Supreme Court decision issued in their favor in 2018. Clarke said the centers, which counsel pregnant women on alternatives to abortion, were 'harmful' and 'predatory' against women of color. She also referred to them with the hashtag, 'ExposeFakeClinics.'"
Pro-Life Facilities Are Under Attack. A Top DOJ Official Called Them "Fake Clinics."
"Nicholas Roske, the Left’s new hero?"
Dear Justice Kavanaugh: "You Won’t Know What Hit You"
"None of this is a surprise, to those who have been paying attention. Unfortunately, very few have been . . . Apparently, the management of the FBI under Wray, in league with the Democrats running the Biden administration, have decided that conservative agents should not have these rights, and are acting to punish any that dare exercise them."
Today's Blacklisted American: Biden Junta Purging Conservatives From FBI
"Today’s Democrat Party likes to call everything they don’t like a 'threat to democracy.' If someone cuts a Democrat off in traffic, it’s a threat to democracy. And the list of threats grows longer every day."
Who's the Real Threat to Democracy?
“This will escalate in a way that is very unpredictable and very unsafe.”
Kavanaugh’s Neighbour Claims Pro-Abortion Protesters Are Threatening Homeowners; “Fuck You, Fuck Your Children”
"The Uvalde, Texas school massacre was a testimony to the moral bankruptcy of modern America and the hollowing out of the American home."
The Communist Plot Behind School Shootings

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“The second public hearing of the House select committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot drew around 10 million total viewers Monday, less than half the audience that watched the committee’s primetime opening presentation last week.”
Democrats’ January 6th Show Trial Episode 2 Falls Dramatically in Ratings and Episode 3 is Postponed
THE ECONOMY, STUPID, & THE DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL,
"This decline raises the possibility that the economy may contract for a second consecutive quarter, one conventional definition of an economic recession. The economy contracted at a 1.5 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year."
Atlanta Fed’s GDP Tracker Falls To Zero
"The move is also expected to exacerbate financial pressures on Americans. In the immediate term, hiking interest rates often create higher rates on consumer and business loans, which ultimately slows the economy by forcing cuts to employer spending."
Fed Hikes Interest Rates and Issues Warning to Americans
"Not Biden or the Fed."
New Talking Point: "Nationalism," Immigration Restrictions and Downplaying Jan 6 Are to Blame — For 40 Year High INFLATION
"Under the Biden [junta], rising prices have caused 67 percent of Americans to take money out of their savings accounts. Americans had saved around $2.5 trillion during the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic. Higher consumer prices and lower wages have caused 36 percent to spend a small amount from their savings, 23 percent to substantially deplete their savings, and 8 percent to completely drain their savings."
Two-Thirds of Americans Say Bidenflation is Eating Through Their Savings
"The letter comes days after the national average price of gasoline hit $5 per gallon. Prices were $2.39 per gallon when President Joe Biden entered the Oval Office at the beginning of last year — contributing to overall inflation, which reached 8.6% for consumers and 10.8% for businesses as of last month."
Biden Sends Letter to Oil Companies Blasting Them for Profits, Demanding They Increase Oil Production
“The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] lecturing the oil industry about high prices is the height of hypocrisy,” Moore said in a statement distributed to the media. “If [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden is looking for someone to blame for high gas prices, he need only to look in the mirror. From day one this [junta] has waged an open war on fossil fuels, and working-class Americans are now paying the price.”
Energy Advocates Fire Back at Joe Biden’s Letter Slamming Oil Industry: "Height of Hypocrisy"
"The current tax in the state is 40.1 cents on diesel fuel, but it will increase to 49.2 cents per gallon in about two weeks, beginning July 1."
Connecticut Officials Announce Diesel Tax Hike, Increasing the Price Even More
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
This is like insisting a hormone-injected junk-tucking man in a bikini is Esther Williams. Oh, wait a second . . .
Inept Criminal Jennifer Granholm: We Want Oil and Gas Companies "To Diversify" to Produce Clean Energy
"There hasn’t been a single federal onshore oil and gas lease sale since Biden took office nearly 17 months ago. noted the long delays when asked whether she was concerned about BLM’s delays.“After a year and a half of the Biden ban on leasing, what’s another week or two? I’m not terribly concerned that the sales have been delayed for a matter of days up to a few weeks,” [Kathleen Sgamma, the president of fossil fuel industry group the Western Energy Alliance], told TheDCNF in an email. “We can surmise that Utah’s sale will likely be delayed as well. It sounds like these are slight delays for administrative purposes.”
Biden Junta Bows to Environmental Activists, Quietly Delays Another Oil and Gas Lease Sale
"It thus appears that — even though Musk announced today that the first orbital test flight of Starship will occur in July — SpaceX operations out of Boca Chica will be complex and difficult, badly hampered at all times by an imperious federal bureaucracy that is hostile to it. It also appears that SpaceX has recognized this sad reality. In its proposal submitted for this report, it limited the number orbital launches from Boca Chica to only five per year, far less than the proposed monthly test launches that Elon Musk said earlier this year they planned to do."
Our Oppressive Federal Government Really Does Want to Squash SpaceX
"Automaker recalls 49,000 vehicles due to safety defect that 'could cause a crash.'"
Ford Pulls Plug on Peter "Puffer" Buttigieg’s $44,000 Electric SUV (Made in Mexico)
"A cognitively dissonant world; desperately in need of more fossil fuels, while bloody-mindedly preventing their extraction. Albanese’s government is already wrestling with the bitter fruits."
Trouble in Oz for Albo and the Ghastly-Green Fourteen
SECOND AMENDMENT
"Safety in exchange for freedom is the government’s oldest con game. And that is why the 10 Republican senators who have signed on for 'compromise' gun legislation may be the 10 most disgusting people in America today."
The 10 Worst Men in America
"The latest bipartisan 'gun control' legislative proposal will hurt law-abiding, non-crazy Americans much more than it'll hurt any potential mass shooter."
On Gun Control and Mental Health, Who Decides Who's Crazy?
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"The announcement came a week after San Francisco recalled their own left-wing district attorney, Chesa Boudin, who was Gascón’s successor in that city, and also received $100,000 from Gascón’s political action committee to fight that recall."
Campaign to Recall Soros-backed L.A. D.A. George Gascón: We Have the Signatures
"The Washington State Supreme Court makes it harder for cops to detain nonwhites."
“Stopped While Black” Becomes a Legal Defense
"The weapons charge could have sent the career criminal back to prison for three years, but instead he was sentenced to two years’ probation and 20 days of time served, the paper said. A day before the shooting, Flores’ probation officer filed for a revocation hearing after the suspect allegedly assaulted his girlfriend last week, violating his probation, according to the report. Instead of being arrested and jailed, Flores was allowed to stay on the streets ahead of a June 27 hearing."
California Cop Killer Received Slap on the Wrist After Recent Weapons Arrest
"In May of last year, the agency terminated a pair of senior employees who raised concerns about use of an encrypted messaging app."
New Mexico Governor’s Demand for State Agencies to Automatically Delete Records Could Affect Investigation Into Child Abuse Death
“There was a time when a place could host a thing like this, maybe a little offensive, and the reaction would be ‘it’s just a guy playing a show, who does it hurt – it’s a free country.’” the venue said. “We aren’t living in that kind of free country anymore, for better or for worse.” (the fact that the show sold out, let alone a single ticket, and that Hinckley was set free, reveals much about how far we have degenerated as a society - jjs)
Brooklyn Concert Venue Cancels Sold-Out John Hinckley Jr. Concert
"Chen, who had to speak through a Chinese interpreter, told Superior Court Judge Ndidi Moses, 'I didn’t know it was marijuana. I didn’t know.'” (I didn't know foreigners with zero English skills could have this kind of job in the first place; do we check his green card or is that verboten in Massivetwoshits? - jjs)
Bus Driver Charged After Blacking Out Behind Wheel, Says He "Didn’t Know" He Was Eating Marijuana-Infused Gummies
"The first question is: Who is shooting?"
Why Are They Shooting?
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"As we now know, the Patriot Act was used far outside the scope originally intended. Innocent American citizens had their privacy violated, because the government knew how to pull our heartstrings while simultaneously playing on our worst fears. We should learn from that mistake and not repeat it. Mass government surveillance is terrifying, to say the least. There is a track record of misuse and abuse, as well as the inability of government and third-party storage centers to sufficiently protect against data breaches."
The EU Is Using Child Sexual Abuse to Excuse Privacy Rights Violations
"Don't believe the media when they say they want to play it straight."
An Implicit Admission That the "News" is Slanted
"There’s really no other way to say it: White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is really bad at her job."
Even With the Media Tossing Her Softballs, Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Can’t Get the Bat Off Her Shoulder
“'We have to remember where this country was more than a year ago when he walked into office,' she told CNN’s Don Lemon. And she thought that was a good talking point?"
Karine Jean-Pierre Proves How Bad She Is at Her Job With One Statement
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"I’m sure it will be a terrible blow to America to lose all these brilliant young doctors, scientists, and other super-geniuses to whom we currently provide a home, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make. Anyway, all our other resident aliens will need doctors and dentists and such back in their homelands when they return."
(Un)happy 10th Anniversary, DACA
"While the courts have been essential in impeding Joe Biden’s immigration agenda, they should really be a last resort."
White House Border Policy Racks Up Losses in Court
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"The 81-year-old Fauci is fully vaccinated and has received two boosters."
Anthony Fauci Tests Positive for Chinese Coronavirus
"Why a scientist had to wash his hands and walk away."
Dr. Paul Alexander Video: "My Dealings With Fauci"
"Chinese officials are bitterly clinging to failed zero-covid policies as millions are tested." (I smell an attempt to quash brewing civil unrest and displeasure at Xi - jjs)
Beijing Now Warning of "Explosive" Chinese COVID Outbreak
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
“Drag queens are entertainment. And you know what I’ll say that was totally not poll tested, I’d say this, ‘A drag queen for every school,'” Nessel added.
Michigan AG Dana Nessel Calls for "A Drag Queen For Every School" During Woke Conference
"The UCLA CRT Forward Tracking Project appears to be very well-funded, with the ability to use UCLA Law School staff and resources, and reflects the systemic power disparity favoring those promoting CRT."
UCLA Law School Launches Project To Track Anti-Critical Race Theory Efforts
"The NSBA has seen its revenue from dues cut in half, and there are questions about its survival. Meanwhile, some other state school board organizations are looking at creating an alternative national school board organization."
Backlash Against NSBA Letter Accusing Parents of Being 'Domestic Terrorists' Continues
"Activist judges set sights on school dress codes."
Skirt Requirement for Schoolgirls Violates Constitution, Appeals Court Rules
“I was denied justice and I still believe that my First Amendment right to freedom of expression was violated.”
Judge Rules Against Ex-UNL Lecturer Who Claimed School Violated Her Rights After She Harassed Conservative Student Group
"Censorship these days takes many forms. Apparently, we don’t need a Disinformation Governance Board to do all the dirty work."
Sportsmanship Gives Way to Bullying and Censorship at Saint Vincent College?
"The misguided proposal of universities to enforce racial equity."
Compelling Diversity and Punishing Dissent
"The late Supreme Court justice’s mischaracterized 1978 Bakke opinion has given universities cover to discriminate on the basis of race."
Avenging Lewis Powell
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Leftist groups are trying to influence elections when voters aren’t looking — and some in government are playing along."
An Election Scandal in Kansas May Be Underway in Other States
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
On October 23, 2018, Hunter wrote: “Beau owned a handgun issued by the state and I[t] was in the front glove compartment of his car. So f*** you … What right do you f***ing have Hallie. ….There are 5 guns in dads house. There are f***ing more weapons in your sons room then in an armory.”
Report: Hunter Biden Reveals "There Are 5 Guns in Dad’s House" While Berating Sister-in-Law via Text
"Hunter Biden has been revealed to be the president’s top advisor. So what kind of advice can we surmise the son is passing along to the father? And will it fly?"
Joey B’s "Top Gun" Advisor
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"In order to authorize votes to be cast by someone else while out of the country, the Democrat wrote in a July 19 letter to the House clerk that he was 'unable' to be there in person because of the 'ongoing public health emergency' — the standard language used in proxy vote permission notes." (anti-American, anti-Semitic liar; i.e. a typical Democrat - jjs)
NY Dem Used Chinese COVID Rule to Vote By Proxy While Living it Up at HBO Star's Wedding in France
A Democrat? Lying? I'm shocked . . .
Elaine Luria Said All Her Staffers Make a "Living Wage." She Lied.
"Although propane gas yields fewer carbon emissions than oil and coal, it is still considered a fossil fuel, and the massive installation at the Obama estate is not exactly environmentally friendly. . . Obama has consistently argued for the importance of fighting climate change and limiting fossil fuel emissions, saying that “no challenge poses a greater threat to our children, our planet, and future generations than climate change” and pledging to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025."
Gas For Me But Not For Thee: Obama To Install Massive Propane Tanks In New England Mansion
POLITICS
"Republicans send first Mexican-born woman to Congress in Dem stronghold."
Here’s Why the South Texas Special Election Spells Doom for Dems in November
"Latino voters are seeing red."
Adios, Mambí
"It’s always a race to the bottom with his party, but our [so-called quote-unquote "president"] is proving himself to be historically awful."
Why Not the Worst?
“Obviously they’re tired of the border and tired of the inflation, the record inflation that we see. Their families are struggling alongside other families. So Mayra Flores winning this seat, she will be a congresswoman. This was a special election,” the congressman said.
Rep. Pfluger: Republican Mayra Flores’s Win Is "the Beginning of the End of the Democrat Party in the Rio Grande Valley"
"The [gibbering, wilted rutabaga installed as] president also misread the word 'lesbian' as 'liberation' when he was reading the title of an executive order he signed at the event."
Joe Biden Botches LGBTQI+ Acronym as He Condemns "Ultra MAGA" Agenda at Pride Celebration
Lloyd Billingsley: "Despite evidence to the contrary, Americans now live in the best of all possible worlds. . . Joe Biden is fulfilling Obama’s promise. Biden is fundamentally transforming a nation of abundance into a place of scarcity and shortages. A nation known for stability is being fundamentally transformed into a nation of insecurity and fear. The Delaware Democrat is transforming America into a place where the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] describes colossal failure as unalloyed success and expects the people to clap approval. "
The Pangloss Presidency
"[White House counsel Dana] Remus’ departure marks yet another White House official leaving Biden in recent weeks amid his poor polling numbers and the upcoming midterm election."
White House Counsel Dana Remus Leaves Biden
"Even more shocking about Ryan’s remarks was the fact that they were made in the summer of 2019, a year before Black Lives Matter protests and riots rocked the nation following the death of George Floyd in Minnesota."
OH Democrat Tim Ryan Faces Backlash in U.S. Senate Race Over Past Comments Demonizing U.S. Justice System
“Our government is designed to be by the people, for the people. But for too long, insiders in Madison have put the demands of the special interests over the needs of the people,” [GOP candidate Tim] Michels’ campaign said in a statement. “The insider-built system encourages politicians to spend more time making deals instead of crafting sensible public policy solutions.”
Wisconsin Governor Candidate Introduces Plan to "Drain the Madison Swamp"
"It’s also time to take note of the fact that some other luminaries of the left are abandoning their party."
Ron DeSantis Had a Brilliant, Funny Response to Elon Musk's Support
"Progressives here and abroad are proving Stein wrong. Unsustainable trends and policies can and do continue."
With Progressives In Charge, Stein’s Law Gives Way To Murphy Corollary
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Unprecedented defense pact would integrate Israeli, Arab armies."
From Peace Deal to Military Pact: Congress Wants Israel, Arab Allies To Unite Against Iran
Study: Palestinian textbooks are “openly anti-Semitic and continue to encourage violence, jihad and martyrdom.”
EU Releases Frozen Funding To Palestinian Authority for Textbooks Inciting Antisemitism and Jihad
"Trade between the two was valued at more than $100 million last year, and both have enjoyed agricultural and scientific research grants worth more than $400,000 since the start of their partnership."
Arkansas Forges Major Economic Pact With Israel
"They know what apartheid really means."
Black South Africans Denounce UN Report On Israel and the Palestinians
". . . And they’re primarily heading for Europe."
Survey: More Than Half of Young People Want to Leave Africa
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"When Muslim advocacy translates to killing Jews."
From "We are Hamas" to "Death to Israel" – Same Old CAIR
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
“'Trust and confidence – both with the American people we are sworn to protect and across all levels of the chain-of-command – is the key to mission accomplishment and our effectiveness as a force,' the statement added. 'When members in the command lose confidence in senior leaders, the decision to remove them from their positions of leadership is warranted'. . . While it is not uncommon for a military branch to relieve top commanders of their positions due to a 'loss of confidence,' departures typically are spread out over a prolonged period." (either their absolutely incompetent or else not down for the D-I-E struggle - jjs)
Navy Fires Four Officers, Top Advisor, Over "Loss of Confidence"
“Coalition forces detained a senior Daesh leader during an operation in Syria June 16,” a CJTF-OIR press release stated. “The detained individual was assessed to be an experienced bomb maker and facilitator who became one of the group’s top leaders in Syria.”
U.S. Ground Raid Captures ISIS Leader In Syria
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"Documents show that thanks to regulatory tunnel vision and sweeping assumptions, the FDA created a worse problem than what it set out to solve."
Did the FDA Red Tape Cause the Baby Formula Shortage?
"If Biden is intent on getting every American connected to broadband within the next decade, he should heed the call from the GAO to ensure that both the digital divide is closed and that less taxpayer money is squandered on superfluous, unaligned programs across his [junta]."
Federal Auditor Says Bureaucracy Is Harming Efforts To Close Digital Divide
"Local governments have pumped billions from speculative bond offerings into their underfunded pension portfolios—even as markets tank and recession looms."
Something Borrowed, Taxpayers Blue
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Using orbital images, an amateur space observer has detected evidence that an explosion had occurred at the Chinese Jiuquan spaceport some time in October 2021."
Evidence of Explosion in '21 Detected From Orbital Images of Chinese Launchpad
"Though it was always expected that the company would upgrade the cargo version of Dream Chaser it is presently building, until now it had been made no announcement to that effect. Moreover, until now Sierra Space has functioned much like the old big space companies, doing nothing without a contract from NASA. This effort to build a manned version of Dream Chaser is apparently occurring without any such contract. All Sierra has right now is a contract to launch cargo to ISS."
Sierra Space Developing Crewed Version of Dream Chaser; Will Train Astronauts
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"The executive order will address the slew of Republican legislation banning transgender surgeries for minors and biological males from girls’ spaces — legislation dubbed by the Biden [junta] as 'legislative attacks against LGBTQI+ children and families.'”
Biden Directs HHS to Expand Access to Trans Sex Changes Surgeries, Including for Children
"Claims from transgender activists that increased access to cross-sex hormones should decrease rates of suicide do not manifest in Greene’s data. Rather, the data show the opposite: suicide increases correlated to greater access to transgender medicine."
Report: Easier Access to Puberty Blockers for Transgender Kids Does Not Reduce Suicide Rates
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"While leftist elites obsess over the events of Jan. 6, the rest of the country is rightly concerned about the things that actually matter."
Jack Del Rio Was Right About the George Floyd Riots, and He Was Punished for It
"A representative for the organization said it’s important to use 'inclusive language' like 'pregnant people.'”
ACLU Features Man Who Says the Words "Girl," "Woman," and "Wife" Were Historically Used to Demean Women as "Sluts"
"A youngster of limited ability and intelligence has a public profile so much bigger than he deserves, leading one to ask 'Who's pulling the strings?'"
Who Decided David "Camera" Hogg Is Newsworthy?
"Patriots and the LGBTQIA+ movement display their values very differently this month."
Pride and Flags
HITHER & YON
"Prudence looks different on each side of the Atlantic."
Was Burke Burkean
"In June 1962, the radical organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a retreat in Port Huron, Mich. The powerful United Auto Workers (UAW) union owned the facility where the retreat took place and bankrolled the retreat itself." (60 years later, the chickens have come home to roost and peck our eyeballs out - jjs)
60 Years Ago This Week: the Birth of the New Left

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 07:46 AM (yrol0)

2 Good morning one and all!

Posted by: NR Pax at June 16, 2022 07:46 AM (4olE8)

3 rd

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at June 16, 2022 07:47 AM (v23vE)

4 Present

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 16, 2022 07:47 AM (BFigT)

5 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip's phone at June 16, 2022 07:48 AM (IlKm5)

6 Top 10!

Posted by: Rosasharn at June 16, 2022 07:48 AM (yEBFM)

7 And back to work...

Posted by: Rosasharn at June 16, 2022 07:48 AM (yEBFM)

8

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 16, 2022 07:49 AM (74Gk2)

9 Bad ratings for J6 farce is a great sign. America isn't dead. It's just resting.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2022 07:49 AM (6FeV1)

10 And back to work...
Posted by: Rosasharn

"WERK??!!"
-- Maynard G. Krebs

Posted by: Tonypete at June 16, 2022 07:50 AM (Msys3)

11 Jeff Bridges' Dude in The Big Lebowski is the end state of the SDS/Port Huron generation.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at June 16, 2022 07:51 AM (v23vE)

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

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 16, 2022 07:51 AM (bnrVB)

13 'She work hard for the money.....'

Posted by: Eromero at June 16, 2022 07:51 AM (gktX6)

14
g'mornin' again, 'rons

working from the office is stupid, off-pissing, frustrating, counter-productive, and stupid

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 16, 2022 07:51 AM (+OVL6)

15 The Communist plot to take over America has outlived the Soviets but Lenin's plan is still being followed

Posted by: Skip's phone at June 16, 2022 07:52 AM (IlKm5)

16 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 16, 2022 07:52 AM (zhLdt)

17 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 07:52 AM (0zQHa)

18 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.
Saint of the Day
St. John Francis Regis (1597--1640) was born to a wealthy French merchant and his noble wife. After being educated by the Jesuits, he joined their order at 18 and was later ordained a priest. He grew into a skilled preacher and catechist, and received an assignment to evangelize the French provinces that had fallen to the Protestants -- the Huguenots -- as well as lapsed Catholics. He devoted his life to this mission and was very successful, winning countless souls to Christ. He preached the Gospel to men, women, and children in all walks and stations of life, traveling on foot to wild mountain parishes as a missionary priest. He would live on meager meals while spending his days in prayer, hearing confessions, and visiting prisons and hospitals. He raised controversy when he established hostels for reformed prostitutes to remain chaste and work for their sustenance in the lace-making trade. He is also remembered for stationing a granary to feed the poor, which was, at times, miraculously replenished. St. Regis is the patron of embroiderers, social workers, and lace makers.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 16, 2022 07:53 AM (Msys3)

19 Many of the ideas that were considered radical 60 years ago are now absolutely mainstream, and for that matter, nowhere near the left of what we might call the New New Left in the United States. In particular, taking a snapshot of the Democratic Party.”
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It wasn't called the Long March for no reason.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 07:53 AM (0zQHa)

20 Your 30 days expired yesterday. We offered an honorable way out. You could’ve walked away. Now the leash is off.

Why did you make me hit you bitch? Ya knowed I hads the popo watching me!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 07:55 AM (yrol0)

21 The best defenses we have.

1. Mock them openly.
2. Tell them 'no.'
3. Treat them as little more than freaks to be pitied.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 16, 2022 07:55 AM (4olE8)

22 Mornin', y'all.

Posted by: Bert G at June 16, 2022 07:56 AM (lW92K)

23 St. Regis is the patron of embroiderers, social workers, and lace makers.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 16, 2022 07:53 AM (Msys3)

Covers two areas of my wifes life!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 07:56 AM (yrol0)

24 morning horde. it's shtf day at work. t minus 1 day to vacation. and EVERYONE wants everything before i disappear for 2 weeks...

anyways, the coffee is ready. now to the content.

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at June 16, 2022 07:56 AM (WhsXQ)

25 I don't even know where to go with all that...

Wait - I do know one thing - Get a gun, learn how to use it, and carry it with you at all times.

I know there are legal limits on that, and if you're going some place they actually check that makes it more difficult, but the simple fact is the Progressive Left sees you as a threat and they *will not* hesitate to attack you if given the opportunity.

In Texas, a "bladed implement" less than 6 inches in total length is not a "weapon" (fun fact!) and can be carried by all persons at all times (yes, you can carry your pocket knife into the courthouse - assuming the courthouse itself has no rule against it). Do so. You never know when it might be handy to open a bag of chips, cut a zip tie off something you bought at the store, or be the difference between having some sort of defensive tool and just having to "take it."

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 16, 2022 07:56 AM (bnrVB)

26 One of China's largest combat ships conducts exercises in the Sea of Japan in display of increasing naval reach. The Communist Party newspaper Global Times said the mission was the first for the Type 055 destroyer Lhasa since its commissioning last year.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 07:56 AM (yikp0)

27 In an open letter issued to pro-life centers across the country, Jane’s Revenge took ownership for acts of violence and vandalism at pregnancy centers throughout the country and promised to escalate their tactics if pro-lifers continue operations as usual.
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Odd that they're not using the obvious word for all this. Violence, intimidation and destruction of property to advance a political or other ideological agenda has a name: terrorism.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 07:56 AM (0zQHa)

28 Bad ratings for J6 farce is a great sign. America isn't dead. It's just resting.
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Beautiful plumage.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 07:57 AM (yikp0)

29 The best defenses we have.

1. Mock them openly.
2. Tell them 'no.'
3. Treat them as little more than freaks to be pitied.

Also: guns.

And I would change "freaks to be pitied" to "losers to be avoided."

Being a "freak" is no longer (and maybe never should have been) something to be ashamed of. Being a loser always will be.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 16, 2022 07:58 AM (bnrVB)

30 Besides being a horrible person being raised by the most powerful man in the world, Hunter is a whiny little bitch drama queen.

Posted by: fd at June 16, 2022 07:58 AM (vrz2I)

31 Barack Obama, the most malevolent president in American history, greatly accelerated the process of eroding American freedoms.

IRS
Approving PDT wiretaps
Benghazi cover up

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 07:58 AM (yrol0)

32 ...he established hostels for reformed prostitutes to remain chaste and work for their sustenance in the lace-making trade.
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Thus the phrase "tit for tat"!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 07:59 AM (yikp0)

33 From here forward, any anti-choice group who closes their doors, and stops operating will no longer be a target. But until you do, it’s open season, and we know where your operations are. The infrastructure of the enslavers will not survive. We will never stop, back down, slow down, or retreat.
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I am reminded of the quit campaigns. They haven't been tremendously successful, but they are a tactic the pro-life camp uses against abortionists. They target the underlings - nurses, administrators, etc. - who make the organizations function and try to get them to quit their jobs, usually by helping them find work not related to abortion.

Quit campaigns have been decried my entire life as an appalling affront and a tactic of intimidation against people engaging in legal activity. Quit campaigns are oppressive, manipulative, intimidating and a veiled threat of violence. As such, quit campaigns must be forbidden.

Yet open intimidation and direct threats of violence - threats that are carried out - is just fine.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:00 AM (0zQHa)

34 The Circuit Court of Cook County has a salaried Restorative Justice Community Court Peace Circle Keeper.

Bet he makes over 150k!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 08:00 AM (yrol0)

35 Thus the phrase "tit for tat"!
Posted by: andycanuck

You are a horrible person.

And I am laughing my ass off over here Boss!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 16, 2022 08:00 AM (Msys3)

36
Benghazi ~~cover up~~ providing aid and comfort to our enemies.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 07:58 AM (yrol0)

FIFY

Barack Obama is a Stuttering Clusterf*ck of a Malignant Traitor.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 16, 2022 08:01 AM (bnrVB)

37 Wait - I do know one thing - Get a gun, learn how to use it, and carry it with you at all times.

*

If you can carry openly carry openly.
If you cant carry openly carry concealed.
If you can't carry concealed carry concealed.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:01 AM (7rzvW)

38 I dunno, just spitballin' here whilst the caffeine delivery system gets up to specs but Jane's Revenge sounds like one of them domestic terrorism outfits I keep hearing so much about from this administration.

Always descending on the right and landing on the left. It's so odd and uncanny.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 16, 2022 08:01 AM (4I/2K)

39 Thus the phrase "tit for tat"!
Posted by: andycanuck

You are a horrible person.

And I am laughing my ass off over here Boss!
Posted by: Tonypete at June 16, 2022 08:00 AM (Msys3)

That's not a thread winner. That's a day winner.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2022 08:02 AM (6FeV1)

40 It's a little hard to believe that those who are running/producing the Jan 6th charade thought anyone else in America was interested.

I can't quite get their mindset.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 16, 2022 08:02 AM (DcKNO)

41 Abbott shuts down MI baby-formula factory again due to flood damage. Cleanup to take a 'few weeks'.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:02 AM (yikp0)

42 This is not my fault! I have no responsibility! I only thought mean tweets were bad things! You can't blame me just because I was an infantile idiot!

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg, Ace Plagiarist at June 16, 2022 08:03 AM (JQ73N)

43 "The Uvalde, Texas school massacre was a testimony to the moral bankruptcy of modern America and the hollowing out of the American home."

--

This statement should be shoved down the throats of all 10 of those traitorous Republicans, along with McTurtle, like a dog crap-filled sack of poo. Stuffed right down their throats until they choke.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2022 08:03 AM (sVtYq)

44 Tv nooz is talking about Hunter's ex-wife - her memoir and book

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 16, 2022 08:03 AM (kf6Ak)

45 Abbott baby formula facility in Sturgis Michigan flooded yesterday due to severe storms. Production halted.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 16, 2022 08:04 AM (qxstM)

46 #41 addendum: ~~Global warming~~ Climate change is killing babies!!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:04 AM (yikp0)

47 Thus the phrase "tit for tat"!
Posted by: andycanuck

I had to wake my wife and tell her also. Wow - perhaps the greatest pun ever.

Snort!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 16, 2022 08:04 AM (Msys3)

48 It's a little hard to believe that those who are running/producing the Jan 6th charade thought anyone else in America was interested.

I can't quite get their mindset.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 16, 2022 08:02 AM (DcKNO)
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And that should have them really concerned. You're an AoS HQ reader and poster. You're in a self-selected group of people who are actually interested in what's going on. Sure you're on the wrong side, but you're tuned in and interested. You should be in the audience they take for granted, as should I.

Yet nobody cares, even those who *should* care based on their proclivities and interests.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:04 AM (0zQHa)

49 Kathleen Buhle

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 16, 2022 08:04 AM (kf6Ak)

50 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:00 AM (0zQHa)

Most churches (at least in the South) now have "security teams" - members of the congregation who volunteer to go armed, but also provide real first-response / critical response functions (helping people evacuate in case of fire, for instance, getting first aid and CPR certified, and so forth).

It would be interesting if two or three of those men and women ALSO volunteered their time to provide a watchful eye on Pro Life centers overnights. It's amazing what a phone photo and a call to 911 can accomplish.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 16, 2022 08:05 AM (bnrVB)

51 "f*ck you and f*ck your children."

"Sorry?"
....

"Oh dear, your cranium seems to have had an unfortunate collision with the pavement. Please be more careful."

Posted by: quantum mechanic at June 16, 2022 08:05 AM (vcv8B)

52 >Thus the phrase "tit for tat"!

Posted by: andycanuck

well-played
you get to punch out early today

Posted by: DB at June 16, 2022 08:05 AM (geLO8)

53 The infrastructure of the enslavers will not survive.
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LOL, yeah, it's just horrible how those poor pregnant women are rounded up, herded into cattle cars, and forced to visit pregnancy centers.

Oh, if only those poor souls could be taken to real clinics, where they could have their babies hacked to pieces and their little body parts sold to the highest bidders. That's the only way to stop the slavery!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 16, 2022 08:05 AM (MvHI3)

54 Also, it's thunderbooming outside.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 16, 2022 08:05 AM (JQ73N)

55 This sounds fun. "[Pence] expected to be focus of testimony today at Jan. 6th 'insurrection' hearings in Washington."

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:05 AM (yikp0)

56 I have been thinking a lot about the correlation of widespread acceptance of homosexuality and the collapse of nations, be it a reason for the collapse or a sign that it's coming.

You're not going to convince me that God doesn't exist, and you can see His sense of humor.

It's "pride" month. He let them name themselves that. The gays associated themselves with it willingly.

Pride goes before a fall.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:05 AM (7rzvW)

57 Who Decided David "Camera" Hogg Is Newsworthy?

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That little noodle-armed pimple should never have been elevated to any prominence whatsoever. He's a zero. A nothing. An unintelligent and very ignorant kid. Just like Greta whatever her name is.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2022 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

58 No explanation was given, but you can imagine that the news that the opening session that the show's producers claimed would hold 330 million sets of eyeballs in rapt attention but in the event was beaten out in the ratings by a rerun of Young Sheldon might have had something to do with it.
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Especially because they really need those "Young Sheldon" viewers. They expect to get people like us and our equivalents on the Left, but they don't care so much about those groups. Those groups have already made up their minds and most people in both groups hate them.

It's the Average Joe, those people watching sitcoms and procedurals after dinner, who they really wanted. They didn't get many of them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:06 AM (0zQHa)

59 Before the Port Huron statement poodle skirts and sock hops were considered radical.

For that matter, they still are.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2022 08:06 AM (kXYt5)

60 Oh dear, your cranium seems to have had an unfortunate collision with the pavement. Please be more careful."
Posted by: quantum mechanic at June 16, 2022 08:05 AM (vcv8B)

"So how does that curb taste, anyway?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2022 08:06 AM (dx2AP)

61 The left's religion (politics) drives them with the fervor of Jihadis out for blood. Relentless. Vicious.

The right isn't thusly motivated. Yet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 16, 2022 08:06 AM (BFigT)

62 Thank you, folks, for the LOLs. [doffs cap to the Horde]

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:07 AM (yikp0)

63 An excellent essay from you this morning, JJ. Every word on point.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2022 08:07 AM (sVtYq)

64 So

Five Gun Joe

Has a nice ring to it. Like Fuck Joe Biden

Posted by: torabora at June 16, 2022 08:07 AM (Y274z)

65 Russia Russia Russia

The lack of refining capacity — and resulting unprecedented refinery profit margins — are blunting the impact of the historic actions my Administration has taken to address Vladimir Putin’s Price Hike and are driving up costs for consumers. I appreciate your immediate attention to this issue and your efforts to mitigate the economic challenges that Vladimir Putin’s actions have created for American families.

Sincerely,

Jan Biden

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

66 Who Decided David "Camera" Hogg Is Newsworthy?

*

His dad is an FBI agent, right?

There's your answer. It was all coordinated. He wasn't even at school. He literally survived a shooting by not being at the shooting.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:08 AM (7rzvW)

67 It's a little hard to believe that those who are running/producing the Jan 6th charade thought anyone else in America was interested.

I can't quite get their mindset.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 16, 2022 08:02 AM (DcKNO)
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As a general rule malignant narcissists don't really believe anyone else matters. They don't give a shit about you or your opinion. Only THEIR concerns are important. Furthermore, they can't conceive that everyone else isn't a malignant narcissist just like them. It's one reason why they all seem to get along with each other...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 16, 2022 08:08 AM (YIVH2)

68 56 I have been thinking a lot about the correlation of widespread acceptance of homosexuality and the collapse of nations, be it a reason for the collapse or a sign that it's coming.

You're not going to convince me that God doesn't exist, and you can see His sense of humor.

It's "pride" month. He let them name themselves that. The gays associated themselves with it willingly.

Pride goes before a fall.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:05 AM (7rzvW)

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Nailed it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 16, 2022 08:08 AM (DcKNO)

69 Kavanaugh is obviously being heavily targeted because these domestic terrorists think he's the weakest link and certainly capable of being scared enough to change his mind.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2022 08:08 AM (sVtYq)

70 yeah in my MC days I never rode after dark

just too much that can go wrong

Posted by: DB at June 16, 2022 08:09 AM (geLO8)

71 Your 30 days expired yesterday. We offered an honorable way out. You could’ve walked away. Now the leash is off.

Somebody watched The Road Warrior a few times and incorporated Lord Humungus' final offer.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 16, 2022 08:09 AM (4I/2K)

72 Ginny Thomas s emails to be publicized by the J6 committee at next hearing.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 16, 2022 08:09 AM (qxstM)

73 Good morning dear morons and thank you JJ fro Pittsburgh International.

Reasoning with evil empowers evil creates evil generates evil sanctions evil promotes evil.l

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2022 08:09 AM (S3ywE)

74 It's the Average Joe, those people watching sitcoms and procedurals after dinner, who they really wanted. They didn't get many of them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:06 AM (0zQHa)
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Perhaps more importantly, how many of those Average Joe viewers who tuned in out of marginal curiosity are now completely repulsed by the malignant narcissists running the country into the ground?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 16, 2022 08:10 AM (YIVH2)

75 Russia Russia Russia
Granholm answered, What we’re saying is today, we need that supply increased. Of course, in five or ten years — actually, in the immediate, we are also pressing on the accelerator, if you will, to move toward clean energy so that we don’t have to be under the thumb of petro-dictators like Putin or at the whim of the volatility of fossil fuels.

Jan Granholm

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 08:10 AM (yrol0)

76 When pulled over for speeding just hand the cop your " I identify as black" race card and he'll apologize for pulling you over and send you on your way with a free pull at your local Indian casino.

Posted by: torabora at June 16, 2022 08:11 AM (Y274z)

77 Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2022 08:03 AM (sVtYq)

All of this. No solution that does not address the root of the problem - the moral rot in our society - will ever be able to fix anything.

You're not going to successfully ban guns - it just won't happen. Even if every law-abiding citizen in the country turned in their guns tomorrow, all that would do is disarm the people who are stopping crimes every day (2000/day by civilians per FBI estimates, last I saw).

And why is getting murdered with a gun worse than getting murdered with a van, or a home-made bomb, or a knife? If it is, give me a logically and morally consistent reason. If it isn't, why aren't you talking about banning those other things, too? (I know, I know, don't give them ideas).

The world's first murder was committed with a rock. More people die from hands and feet every year than any type of gun combined. The issue is not guns or "gun violence." The issue is moral rot and an unwillingness to address it.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 16, 2022 08:11 AM (bnrVB)

78 Biden doing a real good job of destroying Republican voters 401k's. Another sell off today.

Next will be massive amount of bankruptcy's due to credit card debt like 2009

Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:11 AM (WY8d2)

79 That Front Page article on Nicholas Roske never gets to the point and badly needs an editor. Is he becoming some sort of leftist hero?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 16, 2022 08:12 AM (JQ73N)

80 Did you ever hear of "The Seattle Seven"?

That was me... and six other guys.

Posted by: The Dude at June 16, 2022 08:12 AM (pbYrN)

81 It's the Average Joe, those people watching sitcoms and procedurals after dinner, who they really wanted. They didn't get many of them.

*

Hot dogs again?
It's all we can afford until payday, dear. We've only got two hundred dollars left, and the gas tank is only a quarter full.
Sorry. I'm just sick of this.
I know, sweetie. Everything is expensive these days. C'mon, let's watch some TV. I haven't even missed the channels we had to drop last month by the way.
Oh look, something about Trump. Man, remember when you were working all of that overtime?
Ha. Yeah. Remember when we bought the pontoon boat?
The kids loved it, didn't they?
Yeah. Hopefully we can get another one before they move out.
We'll try, dear. Don't cry.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:13 AM (7rzvW)

82 The infrastructure of the enslavers will not survive. We will never stop, back down, slow down, or retreat.
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Ah, so Jane's Revenge is a Marxist group. This is the kind of language they use. Marxist abortionists use this kind of language.

It even makes some degree of sense in a universe without reason. Pregnancy, childbirth, child rearing, etc. are all *labor.* That labor is uncompensated and forcing a person into a position where they must furnish uncompensated labor is slavery. Any system that requires slave labor is a slave system. Labor is the primary value in all things, and laborers and the rights of laborers are paramount. Labor cannot be severed from the concepts of pregnancy, birth and rearing but it also is not (and likely cannot be) remunerated. As such, anything other than unrestricted abortion (and if you follow it to its extension, this includes the lives of *any* dependent) is not just tantamount to slavery, but actual slavery.

You may think I'm kidding or making this up, but I assure you that I am not. This is what Marxist abortionists actually believe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:13 AM (0zQHa)

83 Onto foreign news...

Canada's CN Rail signals and communications workers give 72-hour strike notice. More supply chain fun might be comin'!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:14 AM (yikp0)

84 If Kav or any other Conservative justice flips, then there is no reason to vote for a GOP Senate anymore. We stomach McConnell due to judges, but if this happens what is the point

Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:14 AM (WY8d2)

85 After a year and a half of the Biden ban on leasing, what’s another week or two? I’m not terribly concerned that the sales have been delayed for a matter of days up to a few weeks,” Sgamma told TheDCNF in an email. “We can surmise that Utah’s sale will likely be delayed as well.

It sounds like these are slight delays for administrative purposes and to fuck with the peasants.

But mostly fuck the peasants!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 08:14 AM (yrol0)

86 Feel bad for women and Children in Ukraine, but I could care less about Russis, Russia, Russia anymore. We have our own wars here

Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:15 AM (WY8d2)

87 Feel bad for women and Children in Ukraine, but I could care less about Russis, Russia, Russia anymore. We have our own wars here

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Tell me again how Reagan collapsed the USSR

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:15 AM (7rzvW)

88 Perhaps more importantly, how many of those Average Joe viewers who tuned in out of marginal curiosity are now completely repulsed by the malignant narcissists running the country into the ground?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 16, 2022 08:10 AM (YIVH2)
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Probably a fair few, or they just quit out of indifference and boredom. This got less viewership than the legacy networks' nightly news broadcasts. That viewer group should have been a subset - nearly in its totality - of the total viewer group. The show hearings pulling in even fewer people than the nightly news broadcasts was probably unthinkable to the producers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:16 AM (0zQHa)

89 Behind The Black lists numerous instances of the FBI removing the security clearances of agents for complaining at school board meetings. How did the FBI learn of these events? On what basis are the agents losing their jobs?

Wray appears to have gone full radical. The ongoing transformation of the FBI/DOJ complex is frightening beyond belief. We are not far from ordinary citizens being arrested for being Trump voters.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 16, 2022 08:16 AM (JQ73N)

90 86 Feel bad for women and Children in Ukraine, but I could care less about Russis, Russia, Russia anymore. We have our own wars here
Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:15 AM (WY8d2)

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Sure, except for those crowded beaches, strolling city streets, and attending festivals like nothing is happening.

Weird.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 16, 2022 08:16 AM (DcKNO)

91 Thanks for the news, JJ. Have a happy birthday as the years seem to fly by.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 16, 2022 08:17 AM (4I/2K)

92 Toronto-based investing firm -- Wealthsimple -- is laying off 13% of its workforce as financial services company faces "market volatility".

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:17 AM (yikp0)

93 Canadian National going on strike? Huh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 16, 2022 08:17 AM (89T5c)

94 Somebody change Brett Kavanaugh's diaper before he starts crying like the spineless momma's boy he is.

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 16, 2022 08:18 AM (pbYrN)

95 The J6 show trial propaganda was on EVERY channel, right?

Imagine how bad it must be.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:18 AM (7rzvW)

96 After a year and a half of the Biden ban on leasing, what’s another week or two? I’m not terribly concerned that the sales have been delayed for a matter of days up to a few weeks,” Sgamma told TheDCNF in an email. “We can surmise that Utah’s sale will likely be delayed as well.

It sounds like these are slight delays for administrative purposes and to fuck with the peasants.

But mostly fuck the peasants!
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 08:14 AM (yrol0)

It is said that the peasants are revolting.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 16, 2022 08:18 AM (4I/2K)

97 Us being "a threat to our democracy" should be constantly countered with them being "a threat to our Republic." Because that's what we are...and there is a vital difference between the two. It's time to turn the tables. Everything the Democrat left does should be loudly countered with them being a threat to our Republic. 24/7.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2022 08:18 AM (sVtYq)

98 > Democrats’ January 6th Show Trial Episode 2 Falls Dramatically in Ratings and Episode 3 is Postponed

Tater is touting a new time slot for it. Like that's going to help.

https://twitter.com/brianstelter /status/1537393653160755201

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Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 16, 2022 08:18 AM (bW8dp)

99 The show hearings pulling in even fewer people than the nightly news broadcasts was probably unthinkable to the producers.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:16 AM (0zQHa)
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Again, malignant narcissists find it literally impossible to believe that anyone could have a different opinion than them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 16, 2022 08:19 AM (YIVH2)

100
Sure, except for those crowded beaches, strolling city streets, and attending festivals like nothing is happening.

*

You forgot the U2 concerts and the heads of both the united states house and senate personally making trips over.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:19 AM (7rzvW)

101 my retirement account managers emailed me about 'market volatility'-

message: remain calm. this too shall pass.

Posted by: DB at June 16, 2022 08:20 AM (geLO8)

102 Jane’s Revenge, the group responsible for firebombing dozens of pro-life pregnancy centers throughout the country, has now threatened acts of domestic terrorism.

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One of the alphabet networks breathlessly covered the arson of a building being built as an abortion clinic. Not a word on these dozens of firebombings, however.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 16, 2022 08:20 AM (FVME7)

103 I can't afford to drive to work.

WATCH THIS TWO HOUR COMMERCIAL ABOUT ORANGEMANBAD

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:21 AM (7rzvW)

104 HowdY

Posted by: Marooned at June 16, 2022 08:21 AM (w6hJ9)

105 The king is a fink!

Posted by: DB at June 16, 2022 08:21 AM (geLO8)

106 Canadian National going on strike? Huh.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 16, 2022 08:17 AM (89T5c)
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The CN is owned by a bunch of investment and equity firms and is essentially controlled by Bill Gates, who controls around 16.5% of the company via Cascade Investments and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

When I put my tinfoil hat on, I suspect that the strike is not against management, but at its behest. What better way to make everything worse for the United States that to have the largest railroad in our largest trading partner - a partner on whom we depend for oil and timber and from whom we get a lot of manufactured items - idle under a strike?

Or it could be a legitimate labor action. Or it could be an illegitimate labor action targeted against their management. I don't know. I don't trust anyone or anything anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:21 AM (0zQHa)

107 In 1962 The Port Huron statement had zero effect on the direction our government was taking us...right into the maw of what was to become a very avoidable war followed by abdication of support for a critical ally in Iran.

Posted by: torabora at June 16, 2022 08:22 AM (Y274z)

108 I have an idea. Maybe the FIB could pull about 10% of the agents working on J6 off that and have them investigate the Jane's Revenge group.
Nah. What was I thinking? Priorities.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 16, 2022 08:22 AM (dr4Q1)

109 Canadian National going on strike? Huh.
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It just struck me that even if management accedes to workers' demands -- I assume inflation-offsetting raises mainly -- that will still hurt the public as prices will be raised to cover the increases.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:22 AM (yikp0)

110 Wray appears to have gone full radical. The ongoing transformation of the FBI/DOJ complex is frightening beyond belief. We are not far from ordinary citizens being arrested for being Trump voters.

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This is what I've been saying for a long while now. The imminent threat is that they are putting the mechanisms in place within the power structure of this gov't to fully transform it. To usurp all protections we as citizens have from an all-powerful, unaccountable government. The pieces are being put in place, and what happens when they fully take over and our rights are gone? It's not looking good unless something very extreme takes place to eradicate them fully. It's an extremely dangerous time we're in. Unprecedented in our history, and we'd better damned well either be ready to accept our fate as they steal everything, or ready to change it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2022 08:23 AM (sVtYq)

111 Wow the recession that started in 1973 lasted 10 years, until Reagan policies finally saved us

Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:23 AM (WY8d2)

112 Yep, Mannix.

Wonder if Buffett has any "labor problems" at BNSF.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 16, 2022 08:24 AM (89T5c)

113 98 > Democrats’ January 6th Show Trial Episode 2 Falls Dramatically in Ratings and Episode 3 is Postponed

Tater is touting a new time slot for it. Like that's going to help.
https://twitter.com/brianstelter /status/1537393653160755201
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Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 16, 2022 08:18 AM (bW8dp)

How many times have we seen networks try to save a failing show they love (but which audiences hate) by trying new time slots? And how many times did that ever work?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 08:24 AM (r46W7)

114 The precious metals market is being manipulated.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 16, 2022 08:24 AM (MkYsY)

115
Or it could be a legitimate labor action. Or it could be an illegitimate labor action targeted against their management. I don't know. I don't trust anyone or anything anymore.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:21 AM (0zQHa)

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At this point, it would be childish (child-like) to trust entities bigger than your family.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 16, 2022 08:24 AM (DcKNO)

116 114 The precious metals market is being manipulated.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 16, 2022 08:24 AM (MkYsY)

"Manipsonated!"

- - Al Sharptones

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 16, 2022 08:25 AM (s2VJv)

117 Wow the recession that started in 1973 lasted 10 years, until Reagan policies finally saved us
Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:23 AM (WY8d2)

Welcome back, Carter.

We're all sweathogs now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2022 08:25 AM (6FeV1)

118 One of two guys arrested confesses to murdering Brit journalist and indigenous expert in Amazon region a week or so ago.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:25 AM (yikp0)

119 It's an extremely dangerous time we're in. Unprecedented in our history, and we'd better damned well either be ready to accept our fate as they steal everything, or ready to change it.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2022 08:23 AM (sVtYq)

The FBI has been successfully transitioned into being the Secret Police of the Democrat Party. It must be disbanded and its functions turned back over to the States, it is past reform.

Not so long ago, this would have been a fringe, radical statement. Now it's the simple, obvious truth.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 08:26 AM (r46W7)

120 Biden Directs HHS to Expand Access to Trans Sex Changes Surgeries
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I am the very model of a modern made-up-genital
I've features urological, gonadal, and congenital
A big chip on my shoulder, and I quote my rights historical
From bathroom choice to pronouns, I can list them categorical

I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters that are nautical
I joined the women's swim team, although it isn't logical
About transgender theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
Although I've kept my penis and it still gets quite a lot of use
All: (Although he's kept his penis and it still gets quite a lot of use!)

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2022 08:26 AM (kXYt5)

121 108 I have an idea. Maybe the FIB could pull about 10% of the agents working on J6 off that and have them investigate the Jane's Revenge group.
Nah. What was I thinking? Priorities.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 16, 2022 08:22 AM (dr4Q1)

Investigating themselves will NEVER be a priority.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 08:27 AM (r46W7)

122 London court grants Kevin Spacey bail on five sex charges.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:27 AM (yikp0)

123 Tater is touting a new time slot for it. Like that's going to help.

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His time would be better spent polishing his head. Nobody cares about this dreck.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2022 08:27 AM (sVtYq)

124 Ball of Confusion - The Temptations
https://youtu.be/D5P7x4vh_ts

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 16, 2022 08:27 AM (4I/2K)

125 Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2022 08:26 AM (kXYt5)
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This won't be topped today. Or this week. Or probably next week.

Well done, Muldoon.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:27 AM (0zQHa)

126 This is what Marxist abortionists actually believe.
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Then why don't they just f*cking use birth control and avoid pregnancy altogether?

Or is the act of swallowing birth control pills or putting on a condom just too much uncompensated labor for them to tolerate?

They're just narcissistic assholes who want to force the rest of us to bend to their will and live as they demand. To quote the late Andrew Breitbart, f*ck you, war!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 16, 2022 08:27 AM (MvHI3)

127 There are millions of Trump voters out there who are invisible. They have Dem registrations, but are conservative leaning. Deep state will never be able to find them on paper

Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:28 AM (WY8d2)

128 120 Biden Directs HHS to Expand Access to Trans Sex Changes Surgeries

Listen if they let us Dentist do and charge for those surgeries I am in. Lemmi at em.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2022 08:28 AM (Irn0L)

129 Abortionists are self destructing Aetheists. Waste of time to reason with them

Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:29 AM (WY8d2)

130 120 Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2022 08:26 AM (kXYt5)

Gilbert and Sullivan are rolling - with laughter- in their graves.

Brilliant!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 16, 2022 08:29 AM (s2VJv)

131 Revlon files for bankruptcy protection amid beauty company's heavy debt load.

Trannies hardest hit.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:29 AM (yikp0)

132 Or it could be a legitimate labor action. Or it could be an illegitimate labor action targeted against their management. I don't know. I don't trust anyone or anything anymore.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:21 AM (0zQHa)

That's the problem in figuring anything out when a system descends into chaos - there are always multiple vectors from which the chaos can come. Sometimes it comes from several simultaneously.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 08:29 AM (r46W7)

133 They're just narcissistic assholes who want to force the rest of us to bend to their will and live as they demand. To quote the late Andrew Breitbart, f*ck you, war!
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 16, 2022 08:27 AM (MvHI3)
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I don't disagree. Their arguments are insane and assume zero alternatives (and even if there actually were zero alternatives, and abstinence and adoption and birth control all didn't exist, it would still be immoral and wrong) and an absence of morality. But it is what they believe or claim to believe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:30 AM (0zQHa)

134 128 120 Biden Directs HHS to Expand Access to Trans Sex Changes Surgeries

Listen if they let us Dentist do and charge for those surgeries I am in. Lemmi at em.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2022 08:28 AM (Irn0L)

Pull the balls off through the throat. Hmm, this is intriguing.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 16, 2022 08:30 AM (s2VJv)

135 Meanwhile, at BBC, news you can use:

"10 Tips for Sleeping in Hot Weather"

Step 1: Find some hot weather.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at June 16, 2022 08:31 AM (qpX6U)

136 "Do you know why i pulled you over?"

"Systemic racism and dominant patriarchal paradigms."

"..."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2022 08:31 AM (6FeV1)

137 That's the problem in figuring anything out when a system descends into chaos - there are always multiple vectors from which the chaos can come. Sometimes it comes from several simultaneously.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 08:29 AM (r46W7)
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Zero Trust is a bitch and a half and you can't run a complex civilization on Zero Trust. You can run simple ones, but not complex ones. As we descend into Zero Trust, complexity - and widespread wealth - will vanish.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:31 AM (0zQHa)

138 Don't forget the $10,000 a year premium increase Obamacare has rolling down the lane heading for the 10 million on Obamacare.

Posted by: torabora at June 16, 2022 08:31 AM (Y274z)

139 2. Sleep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 16, 2022 08:32 AM (89T5c)

140 Hopefully Roe is overturned and gives power to the States. That could be the historical turn point for Red States to take control of its own destiny.

But as we saw with the Scottish independence vote, too many older conservatives still vote due to their gubmint checks

Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:32 AM (WY8d2)

141 Revlon files for bankruptcy. There goes my 'recession-proof' stock pick.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at June 16, 2022 08:33 AM (qpX6U)

142 There are two issues that matter:

1) Inflation
2) Cost of gasoline

The abortion terrorists can do all they want, but only 7% of the electorate cares about abortion, and half of those are pro-life.

In November the voters are going to vote motivated by those two issues that matter.

The cultural left is about to get spanked very hard because they missed the key issue that even Marx recognized. If basic needs of survival are not met, then the populace is going to rip you to shreds (either metaphorically or literally).

Equity and justice as the left defines it is a luxury and conceit that is only sustainable during a time of plenty. During times of scarcity, you better be the ones bringing the food to the population and not the ones keeping them from eating.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 16, 2022 08:33 AM (5p7BC)

143 Or is the act of swallowing birth control pills . . .

Posted by: TrivialPursuer

Swallowing? Hmmmmm. . I just assumed they were the wrong size as they kept falling out.

--- LIVs (the world is full of them)

Posted by: Tonypete at June 16, 2022 08:33 AM (Msys3)

144 All: (Although he's kept his penis and it still gets quite a lot of use!)
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With many awful facts about the scary hippopotamus!

Posted by: Det. Martin Crane (ret.) at June 16, 2022 08:33 AM (yikp0)

145 Biden Directs HHS to Expand Access to Trans Sex Changes Surgeries
_______________

Yeah, that's what we need. More money we don't have going to pay for surgeries that don't help anybody, and actually make many people worse.

But it's cool and trendy and all the twats on twitter love it, so that's all that matters.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 16, 2022 08:34 AM (MvHI3)

146 Bank of England being pressured to raise rates to fight inflation. I don't know about 0.75 points in a day though.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:34 AM (yikp0)

147 Second, the enclosing fact of the Cold War, symbolized by the presence of the Bomb, brought awareness that we ourselves, and our friends, and millions of abstract “others” we knew more directly because of our common peril, might die at any time.

Lefties 1960ish-1991: Nuclear war with the Russians would be the end of mankind!

Leftists now: Let's nuke Vlad. YOLO!

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2022 08:34 AM (ESjRY)

148 9 Bad ratings for J6 farce is a great sign. America isn't dead. It's just resting.
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There are no rabbits to run away from.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 08:35 AM (ppL7t)

149 When he was elected, two-thirds of the American people viewed race relations favorably.

He could have ended his presidency on a favorable note rather than as he did, with 69 percent of the American people viewing race relations as “mostly bad.”

Dont underestimate Barrys ability to fuck things up!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 08:35 AM (yrol0)

150 Gilbert and Sullivan are rolling - with laughter- in their graves.
Brilliant!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 16, 2022 08:29 AM (s2VJv)

Gilbert O'Sullivan > Gilbert And Sullivan

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 16, 2022 08:35 AM (pbYrN)

151 130 120 Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2022 08:26 AM (kXYt5)
Gilbert and Sullivan are rolling - with laughter- in their graves.
Brilliant!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 16, 2022 08:29 AM (s2VJv)

agreed! one of your best ever, Muldoon!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 08:36 AM (r46W7)

152 If Republicans were smart they would have tied red flag legislation directly to anyone who has received any type of sex change mutilation related medication or surgery.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:36 AM (7rzvW)

153 Muldoon that's a masterpiece!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 16, 2022 08:36 AM (kf6Ak)

154 College friend from Houston area, told me Cronyn is under big time heat in TX right now. Says he is wavering on the Red flag law crap, because his family is being harrased

Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:36 AM (WY8d2)

155 All: (Although he's kept his penis and it still gets quite a lot of use!)
Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2022 08:26 AM (kXYt5)

ha Our Poet Laureate comes thru once again!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 08:36 AM (yrol0)

156 The fact that J6 defendants have sat in prison, abused, uncharged and denied their very basic legal rights, for 16+ months now at the hands of a very rogue DOJ should scare the living crap out of every sentient American. The bonds of trust between a federal gov't bound by the Constitution and The People have been erased. This is but one example, albeit likely the worst. It's the gravest of broken boundaries.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2022 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

157 3. As you lie awake, hot sweaty and grimy, tune to BBC and bore yourself to sleep.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at June 16, 2022 08:37 AM (qpX6U)

158 ha Our Poet Laureate comes thru once again!
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 08:36 AM (yrol0)
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No need to bring shame on Muldoon's family by implying that he's the official state poet.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:38 AM (0zQHa)

159 Or it could be a legitimate labor action. Or it could be an illegitimate labor action targeted against their management. I don't know. I don't trust anyone or anything anymore.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

It ain't just CN, 12 rail craft unions in two coalitions on behalf of 115k rail workers including Union Pacific and BNSF are in on it.

28% of freight movement is in jeopardy of the greedy union workers who hate America and hate their neighbors just as much as Bill Gates and the entire kakistocracy.

The reason why the former United States should never get into any war is that we have more and greater enemies to this nation and to the Founder's Vision living literally next door than we do overseas.

I would say that Putin has more in common with the Founder's Vision and human flourishing than your typical Deep State or Left (BIRM) operative.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 08:38 AM (AHeqJ)

160 There are no rabbits to run away from.
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AAAAAARRRRRGH!!!! HELP, JILL!!!

Posted by: joey biden at June 16, 2022 08:38 AM (yikp0)

161 To up the J6 ratings they are going to have a halftime show with Lizzo twerking to the Star Spangled Banner.

Posted by: fd at June 16, 2022 08:38 AM (vrz2I)

162 So.... why exactly are "chickens coming home to roost" colloquially a bad thing? Isn't that good? All your chickens are home and safe, instead of roosting in trees or hedges where a fox or a weasel can get at them? Don't you want your chickens home? I mean, i guess free range poultry is a thing, but not 24/7....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2022 08:38 AM (6FeV1)

163 Racism in America in the 60s was bad and something the American people needed to overcome and did. At the same time socialists were killing tens of millions of people and oppressing, worse the black people in the southern parts of the US, around half of the world's population.

So why the f*ck are we talking about American racism...especially since that issue was RESOLVED and yet we still have socialists oppressing people...TODAY?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2022 08:38 AM (ESjRY)

164 No need to bring shame on Muldoon's family by implying that he's the official state poet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:38 AM (0zQHa)

So you are saying Chief Moron is still a moron?

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 08:39 AM (yrol0)

165 I am beginning to think the market is a representation of Joe Biden's brain waves. It is remarkably schizoiphrenic. Lots off intense zig zags and then it goes comatose for a while.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 08:40 AM (ppL7t)

166 'RNC Research
@RNCResearch
More than 3.5 million illegal immigrants have now crossed the border in just 16 months under Biden

BIDEN, more than a year ago: "We've now gotten control" at the southern border.

That was a lie.

https://tinyurl.com/yk4z998s

Posted by: redridinghood at June 16, 2022 08:40 AM (NpAcC)

167 Brilliant!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

******

Thanks. Believe it or not I just whipped that out this morning.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2022 08:40 AM (kXYt5)

168 My mother is a life-long Republican who voted for Trump twice. She's been watching the hearings and yesterday she said "I'm afraid it looks like Trump really is guilty". I asked her - guilty of what. All she could say was "of starting things up". I couldn't believe she got sucked in.

Posted by: grammie winger at June 16, 2022 08:40 AM (45fpk)

169 Which candidate( s) will best lead the destruction of the evil that must be eradicated if the USA is to remain free?

The 10 Republican traitors chosen by Traitor in Chief Bitch McConnell are their lurking and waiting to snuff out anyone-- looking at you Orange Man-- who will challenge the handover of America to the CCCP.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at June 16, 2022 08:40 AM (DnYX4)

170 College friend from Houston area, told me Cronyn is under big time heat in TX right now. Says he is wavering on the Red flag law crap, because his family is being harrased

Its a shame that Cornhole needs to feel his life and property in danger rather than the asshole having basic common sense and human decency.

The idiot is quite incompatible with Texas values.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 08:40 AM (AHeqJ)

171 So you are saying Chief Moron is still a moron?
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 08:39 AM (yrol0)
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Ah, if you meant of the HQ, then I misunderstood. *Our* poet is a position of great honor.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:41 AM (0zQHa)

172 The fact that J6 defendants have sat in prison, abused, uncharged and denied their very basic legal rights, for 16+ months now at the hands of a very rogue DOJ should scare the living crap out of every sentient American.

An opposition party would be considering its legal strategy in personally charging Garland with the violation of rights of peaceful protestors. The government would argue supremacy I am sure...so charge him with one count at a time and force the SC to bail him out individually from each charge over the next few years.

But...we don't have an opposition party.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2022 08:41 AM (ESjRY)

173 The pretend governor of NY is running on a platform of baby murder, stripping away your First and Second Amendment rights, locking you down during COVID, helping to kill our elderly citizens during COVID and force masking your kids.

That tells you all you need to know about the godless Democrats.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 16, 2022 08:41 AM (vBMpQ)

174 Thanks. Believe it or not I just whipped that out this morning.
Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2022 08:40 AM (kXYt5)

Me too!

Posted by: Lias Dick at June 16, 2022 08:42 AM (yrol0)

175 Put another way, the voters are worried being able to feed their families.

You are going to run for office on transsexual rights.

Good luck with that.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 16, 2022 08:42 AM (5p7BC)

176 So why the f*ck are we talking about American racism...especially since that issue was RESOLVED and yet we still have socialists oppressing people...TODAY?
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The oligarchs running this shit show want to disorient you so they can own you. Blacks are easy to rile up so they are and have always been the weapon to destablize ordered liberty. See Pericles and Lincoln on how this is done.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 08:42 AM (ppL7t)

177 I asked her - guilty of what. All she could say was "of starting things up". I couldn't believe she got sucked in.

Ask her who was more involved in "starting things up": Ray Epps or Trump. Then ask why Rap Epps isn't even in the news.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 08:42 AM (AHeqJ)

178 And that should have them really concerned. You're an AoS HQ reader and poster. You're in a self-selected group of people who are actually interested in what's going on. Sure you're on the wrong side, but you're tuned in and interested. You should be in the audience they take for granted, as should I.

Yet nobody cares, even those who *should* care based on their proclivities and interests.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 08:04 AM (0zQ

They've gone so far down the well of gaslighting that now, they're only gaslighting themselves. Also known as Starting to Believe Your Own Bullshit.

one of the many fun examples to point to currently - Jerry Nadler is about to lose his seat, and he has No Idea Why.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 08:42 AM (r46W7)

179 All she could say was "of starting things up". I couldn't believe she got sucked in.
Posted by: grammie winger at June 16, 2022 08:40 AM (45fpk)

"You just made him angry trying to fight back. You shouldn't have gone out wearing that anyway. This is all your fault. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2022 08:42 AM (6FeV1)

180
68 56 I have been thinking a lot about the correlation of widespread acceptance of homosexuality and the collapse of nations, be it a reason for the collapse or a sign that it's coming.

Yesterday at the public pool, I was standing there talking to a new friend of mine whose kids went to public school this past year but will be joining our small Christian school next year. Her daughter comes up to us with a friend from school who promptly says- oh you have two moms?

She was 8 freaking years old!! This is her first thought?? The other mom was seated on the grass about 4 feet away from me.

We live in a university town, full of leftists.

Posted by: Rochelle, Rochelle (formerly Roxanne, Roxanne) at June 16, 2022 08:42 AM (szWS4)

181 My mother is a life-long Republican who voted for Trump twice. She's been watching the hearings and yesterday she said "I'm afraid it looks like Trump really is guilty". I asked her - guilty of what. All she could say was "of starting things up". I couldn't believe she got sucked in.

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In her defense she's 100% correct.

Same as the attractive woman wearing the short skirt and high heels.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:43 AM (7rzvW)

182 Awesome job, Muldoon.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 16, 2022 08:43 AM (bW8dp)

183 Put another way, the voters are worried being able to feed their families.

I already have made plans for raiding the zoo.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 08:43 AM (AHeqJ)

184 Believe it or not I just whipped that out this morning.
Posted by: Muldoon

Good thing this is not a kid friendly blog!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 16, 2022 08:43 AM (Msys3)

185 173 The pretend governor of NY is running on a platform of baby murder, stripping away your First and Second Amendment rights, locking you down during COVID, helping to kill our elderly citizens during COVID and force masking your kids.

That tells you all you need to know about the godless Democrats.
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You are talking about Yankees. Be honest.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 08:43 AM (ppL7t)

186 one of the many fun examples to point to currently - Jerry Nadler is about to lose his seat, and he has No Idea Why.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 08:42 AM (r46W7)

Judges would have also accepted lose his shit!

Posted by: Lias Dick at June 16, 2022 08:43 AM (yrol0)

187 This crap the Marxists toss out " A threat to our Democracy " the Bolskaviks screamed in 1917 to their threats to their takeover.

Posted by: Skip's phone at June 16, 2022 08:44 AM (x0WPq)

188 It seems most of the Salem Media websites, Allahpenis, Bearing Arms, Red State, etc are now requiring VIP membership to read their dick comments.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 16, 2022 08:44 AM (MkYsY)

189 Just remember people. 81 million votes. Don't forget it and don't question it.
Otherwise there just might be a spot for you in the gulag.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 16, 2022 08:44 AM (dr4Q1)

190 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 08:44 AM (yrol0)

191 Yep

Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:44 AM (WY8d2)

192 Budget slashing; that would get the attention of the DOJ, FBI, Department of Energy, after the hoped-for Red Wave.

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 16, 2022 08:44 AM (HRKzw)

193 Ball of Confusion - The Temptations
https://youtu.be/D5P7x4vh_ts
Posted by: Count de Monet

The GOPe are No Balls of Confusion.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 16, 2022 08:45 AM (FVME7)

194 > Jerry Nadler is about to lose his seat, and he has No Idea Why.

Budget cuts? It probably costs a lot of money to make a seat big enough for Nadler's ass, even ignoring the daily cost for someone to hose it down.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 16, 2022 08:45 AM (bW8dp)

195 "You're an AoS HQ reader and poster. You're in a self-selected group of people who are actually interested in what's going on."

I come for the jokes, mainly. Gave up on trying to figure out what's going on. Whatever the consensus here today, it will be renounced within a decade anyway. I've seen it happen before.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at June 16, 2022 08:45 AM (qpX6U)

196 In any civilized society, an internal coup by a foreign form of government would be grounds for swift military action.

A republic, democracy, whatever you want to call it has been under attack for decades in what can only be called a slow, steady strangulation. But rather than see the danger and fight with soul level strength to survive, our country welcomed the hug and even fed the snake along the way to make sure it was happy. All the while, Liberty was being choked out before our very eyes.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 16, 2022 08:45 AM (I76dP)

197 I have been thinking a lot about the correlation of widespread acceptance of homosexuality and the collapse of nations, be it a reason for the collapse or a sign that it's coming.

It would be an interesting thing to look at - is the issue really just that they don't have kids and are therefore not invested in the future of society, or specifically because they embrace the gay lifestyle.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2022 08:45 AM (ESjRY)

198 All she could say was "of starting things up". I couldn't believe she got sucked in.
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My wife believes this shit. We don't talk about it to maintain civility. Women are very plastic. That's why The View was created 30 years ago. White Wine Moms are remarkable herd animals.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 08:45 AM (ppL7t)

199 An opposition party would be considering its legal strategy in personally charging Garland with the violation of rights of peaceful protestors. The government would argue supremacy I am sure...so charge him with one count at a time and force the SC to bail him out individually from each charge over the next few years.

But...we don't have an opposition party.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2022 08:41 AM (ESjRY)

To be fair, we also don't have *anyone* in office with the Jurisdiction or Authority to do what you say - this is the consequence of allowing the Dem Party to instill a complete takeover of all the mechanisms of power. The reason they are being held in DC (and why this is happening in DC) is that this is the only spot in the entire US that is completely exempt from any State Level oversight or authority. No one can touch them except the Feds as long as they are there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 08:46 AM (r46W7)

200 Probably a fair few, or they just quit out of indifference and boredom. This got less viewership than the legacy networks' nightly news broadcasts. That viewer group should have been a subset - nearly in its totality - of the total viewer group. The show hearings pulling in even fewer people than the nightly news broadcasts was probably unthinkable to the producers.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Adding drag queens would help. It helps everything.

Posted by: Biergood at June 16, 2022 08:46 AM (FQWHA)

201 "US VP Harris to launch task force on online harassment after shootings." Which shootings not specified.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:46 AM (yikp0)

202 Budget cuts? It probably costs a lot of money to make a seat big enough for Nadler's ass, even ignoring the daily cost for someone to hose it down.
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Then there's the cleaning costs of the seat.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 08:46 AM (ppL7t)

203 Nadler loses his seat regularly. But he has a page boy to wrench it from his butt cheeks.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 16, 2022 08:47 AM (I76dP)

204 "f*ck you and f*ck your children."

1. Cops are doing nothing? Check.
2. Government is not doing anything? Check.

Then no one has the right to complain when normal people get together to make new lamppost decorations.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 16, 2022 08:47 AM (4olE8)

205 My wife believes this shit. We don't talk about it to maintain civility.

I think I would have to modify the "no mean tweets" line to, "Hey honey have you seen the price of gas? I guess no vacation this year...but hey at least Trump isn't stirring things up anymore!"

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2022 08:47 AM (ESjRY)

206 Some think Senate GOP just wanted to show the media and public that they wanted to do something on guns, but are now going to water it down to please GOP voters

Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:47 AM (WY8d2)

207 We are giving Ukraine another 1.5 billion dollars? What the actual fuckity fuckity fuck fuck fuck?? I'm going for a walk. I can't take this anymore.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 16, 2022 08:47 AM (nxdel)

208 Imagine hating America and other Americans so much that you are intent on jailing the only president in a generation to end wars, bring manufacturing back stateside, and increase wealth of all families by a median $4500 or so.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:47 AM (7rzvW)

209 Man, Tulsi Gabbard has some weird ideas, but I would still bang her like a screen door in a hurricane.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 16, 2022 08:47 AM (bW8dp)

210 The United States is and has always been, a banana republic.
Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Broken Apple at June 16, 2022 08:47 AM (u7Ock)

211 Then no one has the right to complain when normal people get together to make new lamppost decorations.
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Seems legit.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 08:48 AM (ppL7t)

212 Will these red flag gun laws prevent thre sale of a gun or are they designed to remove legally purchased guns already in possession? Imma guessing that the former might pass legal muster, but the later "SHOULD" fail passing court muster as a violation of due process. Let's face it. The fib and the Doj would just manufacture red flag complaints against political opponents. This is cancel culture writ large and implemented by our gov.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 16, 2022 08:48 AM (GD4ux)

213 Skirt Requirement for Schoolgirls Violates Constitution, Appeals Court Rules
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It's a charter school, don't like the rules, don't go. The meathead judge who wrote the 44 pg opinion (10-6 full panel vote) is full of hatred.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 16, 2022 08:48 AM (fs1hN)

214 An opposition party would be considering its legal strategy in personally charging Garland with the violation of rights of peaceful protestors. The government would argue supremacy I am sure...so charge him with one count at a time and force the SC to bail him out individually from each charge over the next few years.
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I think he should be charged under Title 242 Section 18, which makes it a capital crime to deprive citizens of their civil rights under color of law. Let him defend himself against that, if he can.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 16, 2022 08:48 AM (YIVH2)

215 Have friends who believe Trump is guilty on Jan 6th, I just throw the BLM riots back in their face

Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:48 AM (WY8d2)

216 “They have drummers, they have a megaphone, and they chant, they yell all kinds of things…"

In front of Kavanaugh's house. Explicitly in violation of Federal Law. What compliant political hack is Garland.

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 16, 2022 08:48 AM (HRKzw)

217 >>Put another way, the voters are worried being able to feed their families.

>>You are going to run for office on transsexual rights.

>>Good luck with that.

I remember reading a piece by some psychologist not long ago that Maslow's hierarchy of needs was wrong and social bonds were the primary need. Addled brained nonsense that non-serious people promote in times of plenty and peace.

People are scared that they won't be able to provide the basic needs for their families and all they see from out leaders is a focus on show trials and made up social issues. You don't need to be a rocket surgeon to understand why one of the most Hispanic districts in the country just flipped from Democrat to Republican for the fist time in 150 years.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 16, 2022 08:49 AM (ZLI7S)

218 I am beginning to think the market is a representation of Joe Biden's brain waves. It is remarkably schizoiphrenic. Lots off intense zig zags and then it goes comatose for a while.

The miracle of passive investing - the market no longer has price discovery.

Its just like Just-In-Time inventory management and Net Metering solar power. When a few people do it, the abusers benefit greatly because the majority assumes the costs and the risks. Once the balance changes so that more are passive investors, maintaining minimal inventories or the neighborhood exceeds the maintability of unreliable electric input, things go bad quickly.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 08:49 AM (AHeqJ)

219 To be fair, we also don't have *anyone* in office with the Jurisdiction or Authority to do what you say

Garland arrested people in their home states didn't he?

I presume that the Gov/Police of those states can arrest people for violating the civil rights of their citizens. Yes I'm being vague, but I have no doubts that if the situation was reversed and an AG Miyares had arrested a bunch of people in places like NY that the NY state government would be coming after him.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2022 08:49 AM (ESjRY)

220 >>206 Some think Senate GOP just wanted to show the media and public that they wanted to do something on guns, but are now going to water it down to please GOP voters
Posted by: Jonah

I think the blowback has been so tremendous they are getting cold feet. Also, fuck them anyway for even agreeing to meet with the dems.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 16, 2022 08:49 AM (MkYsY)

221 Did The FDA Red Tape Cause The Baby Formula Shortage?

Yes
On purpose

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 08:49 AM (yrol0)

222 201 "US VP Harris to launch task force on online harassment after shootings." Which shootings not specified.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:46 AM (yikp0)

Might want to add SWATTING to your list of online harrassment.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 16, 2022 08:50 AM (GD4ux)

223 @169 Beyond Norman Parameters-if by some miracle Trump or Desantis were to win in 24’, they will be dragged out of office in cuffs along with other “collaborators” if they were to start cleaning house. The left is in control of all government law enforcement agencies including the military. They will not give up their power.

We always type or mouth the words about the left being tyrants and evil here at AoS but I don’t think it’s necessarily sunk in for some of us at how true that is.

Posted by: JROD at June 16, 2022 08:50 AM (6GbUo)

224 It would be an interesting thing to look at - is the issue really just that they don't have kids and are therefore not invested in the future of society, or specifically because they embrace the gay lifestyle.

*

Moral decay. Society can handle 2%. 50% and it capsizes.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:50 AM (7rzvW)

225 Then no one has the right to complain when normal people get together to make new lamppost decorations.

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I'm sure there are some EPA edicts that I will be in violation of concerning the rope.

Yeah, I'll get right on that.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 16, 2022 08:50 AM (Msys3)

226 The GOPe are No Balls of Confusion.
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More like Balls of Contusion.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:50 AM (yikp0)

227 Jesus threw the money lenders out of the temple. This is pretty much what we have to do. We can start with Nanzi, Schumer and McConnell. Do that and we will see a restoration.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 08:50 AM (ppL7t)

228 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p24qkPo7vYQ

Tayler Hansen discusses Jan 6, and what happened to Ashley Babbitt. Things I didn't know. Must watch!

Posted by: JayInAmes at June 16, 2022 08:50 AM (yGu6h)

229 I don't think there is a direct correlation between the increasing acceptance of homosexuality and sociopolitical upheaval. I think it's probably due more to sexual promiscuity of any kind, if anything, gay or straight. Not saying everyone needs to be perfect, but the complete removal of *any* kind of social taboo on promiscuity is very damaging to a society. The sex drive is insanely powerful, and if everyone starts to see the notches on their headboard as the only quantification of their life's worth, then everything goes to hell and we all just revert back into inhuman primates focused on eating sleeping and humping.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2022 08:51 AM (6FeV1)

230 Senate terms at 6 years are too long. Look at the RINO trash who were re-elected in 2020 and not up until 2026. Graham, Tillis, Cassidy etc.... Probably going to retire then anyways, Nothing to fear for them

Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:51 AM (WY8d2)

231 227. Well Said

Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:51 AM (WY8d2)

232 People are scared that they won't be able to provide the basic needs for their families and all they see from out leaders is a focus on show trials and made up social issues. You don't need to be a rocket surgeon to understand why one of the most Hispanic districts in the country just flipped from Democrat to Republican for the fist time in 150 years.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 16, 2022 08:49 AM (ZLI7S)

Yup. This is my basis for why people don't march on Washington when they probably should. Voting still remains somewhat anonymous and doesn't (yet) put your job at risk, though that's been under attack for a while now. Maybe when that scale falls away.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 16, 2022 08:52 AM (I76dP)

233 There were TWO Patriot Acts. One temporary version passed by Bush in 2002. It expired in 2010. 0bama extended it 5 years before it was completely rewritten and made permanent in 2015. WHO WAS PRESIDENT IN 2010-2015? Bushs Patriot Act made Islamofascists the target of Americas intelligent agency. 0bamas Patriot Act made YOU AND I into the enemy of the Commie/Fascists undermining America.

Posted by: Fisht at June 16, 2022 08:52 AM (ZRarh)

234 I think he should be charged under Title 242 Section 18, which makes it a capital crime to deprive citizens of their civil rights under color of law. Let him defend himself against that, if he can.

Has anybody, even a Republican, ever been charged under that law?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 08:52 AM (AHeqJ)

235 Did The FDA Red Tape Cause The Baby Formula Shortage?

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Same as the uvalde shooting.

Not a single other gun owner is to blame. Hundreds of government employees for years and years failed continuously.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:52 AM (7rzvW)

236 215 Have friends who believe Trump is guilty on Jan 6th, I just throw the BLM riots back in their face
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In Britain a man was arrested for making fun of George Floyd. We're fucked.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 08:52 AM (ppL7t)

237 , they will be dragged out of office in cuffs along with other “collaborators” if they were to start cleaning house.

So either we put that to the test and see how the cookie crumbles or just give up - and since giving up looks like the USSR in the 20s, I see no downsides to playing the game to completion.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2022 08:52 AM (ESjRY)

238 >>"US VP Harris to launch task force on online harassment after shootings."

it's funny to think that someone at the White House has the job of making up stuff for Kamala to do

Posted by: DB at June 16, 2022 08:52 AM (geLO8)

239 "I'm afraid it looks like Trump really is guilty". I asked her - guilty of what. All she could say was "of starting things up". I couldn't believe she got sucked in.
Posted by: grammie winger at June 16, 2022 08:40 AM (45fpk)
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Liz Cheney would answer, "Of course he's guilty. Of something! Not sure what, exactly, but he's guilty, and we will keep digging until we find it!"

This willingness of Democrats to continue tearing away at the fabric of a united nation, to investigate, charge, investigate, charge is an endless cycle. The cost of their actions is every fraudulent charge, every smoke but no fire claim, rips apart the fabric of a unified nation. Every rhetorical excess, from the Swallwells and the Schiffs of this world, is incredibly destructive because it causes citizens just trying to live their lives and ignore the DC Circus to think "well, there must be something!", which is like acid on our unity, but Shiff/Swallowell and their ilk simply do not care.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 16, 2022 08:53 AM (BIaNw)

240 Their money's no good here.

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
.@wye_hill in N.C. canceled a reservation for a conservative group of moms. They were scheduled to enjoy happy hour at the brewery.

This woman took credit for the cancellation and bragged on TikTok about using vague threats against the restaurant.

https://bit.ly/3OeNSI0

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 16, 2022 08:53 AM (FVME7)

241 > Graham, Tillis, Cassidy

Graham Nash, Mel Tillis, and Jack Casady: a little-known supergroup project from the '60s.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 16, 2022 08:53 AM (bW8dp)

242 188 It seems most of the Salem Media websites, Allahpenis, Bearing Arms, Red State, etc are now requiring VIP membership to read their dick comments.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 16, 2022 08:44 AM (MkYsY)

not most - all. It's a Salem Media top-down diktat. Sign that their ad revenue was plunging; but somehow I don't think they're going to talk many people into paying to see Allahpundit fellate David French daily.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 08:53 AM (r46W7)

243 "My mother is a life-long Republican who voted for Trump twice. She's been watching the hearings and yesterday she said "I'm afraid it looks like Trump really is guilty"."

We invest too much time and emotion on Trump. He's probably history now. If he runs again, I'll probably have to vote for him, since the Dem will certainly be worse. Other than that, it's OK to spend less energy worrying about and defending him, IMHO.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at June 16, 2022 08:54 AM (qpX6U)

244 "US VP Harris to launch task force on online harassment after shootings."

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Fresh off her triumph on the border!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 16, 2022 08:54 AM (FVME7)

245 Behind the Black has a nice essay on how the Deep State has arrayed it's forces to sink SpaceX at the drop of a hat.

Posted by: torabora at June 16, 2022 08:54 AM (Y274z)

246 Have friends who believe Trump is guilty on Jan 6th, I just throw the BLM riots back in their face
Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:48 AM (WY8d2)
*******
Same. I also send them videos of the looting and the cities on fire along with all the trans sexualization of kids articles and tell them this is the DEMOCRAT party.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 16, 2022 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

247 168 My mother is a life-long Republican who voted for Trump twice. She's been watching the hearings and yesterday she said "I'm afraid it looks like Trump really is guilty". I asked her - guilty of what. All she could say was "of starting things up". I couldn't believe she got sucked in.
Posted by: grammie winger at June 16, 2022 08:40 AM (45fpk)

no fool like an old fool.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 08:54 AM (r46W7)

248 and doesn't (yet) put your job at risk, though that's been under attack for a while now. Maybe when that scale falls away

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Yeah, I'm guessing sudden massive job loss and simultaneous wealth loss via inflation in the demographic that keeps this nation afloat might end up being a good thing long term.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:54 AM (7rzvW)

249 245 Behind the Black has a nice essay on how the Deep State has arrayed it's forces to sink SpaceX at the drop of a hat.
Posted by: torabora at June 16, 2022 08:54 AM (Y274z

Elon has made some impressive enemies so far.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 16, 2022 08:55 AM (I76dP)

250 This is pretty much what we have to do. We can start with Nanzi, Schumer and McConnell. Do that and we will see a restoration.
Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 08:50 AM (ppL7t)

It wouldn't move the needle. Congress and the President aren't the power. The bureaucracy is the power. Watch the Republicans sweep into power in November and nothing change. The IC won't have their budgets reduced. We'll still be hunting monsters overseas for another endless war. I doubt the Repukes will do much to fix energy.

Posted by: WiNO at June 16, 2022 08:55 AM (EpDzw)

251 I note that in "Why Are They Shooting?" Fraden limits the who part of it to a cursory race analysis.

But nothing on indicators of worldview (conservative, progressive, atheist, non-atheist, etc.).

Maybe so he can throw everybody into the same skillet for a generalized roasting of the entire society without fear of taking heat for actually taking a stand...

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at June 16, 2022 08:56 AM (MkuC5)

252 > Fresh off her triumph on the border!

All that Triumph der Grenze and no Leni Riefenstahl in sight.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 16, 2022 08:56 AM (bW8dp)

253 Senate terms at 6 years are too long. Look at the RINO trash who were re-elected in 2020 and not up until 2026. Graham, Tillis, Cassidy etc.... Probably going to retire then anyways, Nothing to fear for them

Six years made sense back when Senators were appointed by the legislatures of the several states, not up to the general public and Dominion to decide.

The problem was, several States had so much infighting and internal quarrels that they often could not agree on a Senator to send to Babylon DC, so they went without representation.

Then some geniuses decided that the best way to handle dysfunctional state governments who can't even agree who to send to the Senate should metastasize into allowing an even more ignorant and divisive group decide based on propaganda.

And here we are. The Enemedia/Social Media decides our senators.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 08:56 AM (AHeqJ)

254 "I think it's probably due more to sexual promiscuity of any kind"

I watch the predator sting videos on youtube. It's astonishing how many people are plugged into all the hookup apps like grindr.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at June 16, 2022 08:57 AM (qpX6U)

255 Yeah, I'm guessing sudden massive job loss and simultaneous wealth loss via inflation in the demographic that keeps this nation afloat might end up being a good thing long term.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 08:54 AM (7rzvW)

That's where I'm at. I want things to get bad enough for collective house cleaning but no worse.

Like Jack London wrote in Call of the Wild, the sleds are frozen to the ground and need to be broke free before the whole thing starts moving.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 16, 2022 08:57 AM (I76dP)

256 Nancy Pelosi
@SpeakerPelosi
It was an honor to make an appearance on episode 5 of @RuPaulsDragRace All Stars 7 this week. I was inspired by the contestants because they know their power. Their freedom of expression is what America is all about. #PrideMonth

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Men died on Omaha Beach so perverts could flounce around in front of children!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 16, 2022 08:58 AM (FVME7)

257 Last two sentences in the commentary: exactly.

Posted by: Ziba at June 16, 2022 08:58 AM (4h9M3)

258 Trump is guilty of observing a thing that also caused some other people who observed the same thing to parade around the Capitol in horns and caveman outfits.
Got it.

Posted by: Zek at June 16, 2022 08:58 AM (OzNIz)

259 'Freedom of expression'.

Ya ok, VodkaSkeletor.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 16, 2022 08:59 AM (I76dP)

260 I think he should be charged under Title 242 Section 18, which makes it a capital crime to deprive citizens of their civil rights under color of law. Let him defend himself against that, if he can.

Has anybody, even a Republican, ever been charged under that law?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 08:52 AM (AHeqJ)
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Imagine what kind of government we could have if this law were enforced. Imagine what kind of government we could have if it were elevated to a Constitutional Amendment...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 16, 2022 08:59 AM (YIVH2)

261 I doubt the Repukes will do much to fix energy.

It will take a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing the right of investors to recoup their multi-billion dollar investment in critical infrastructure.

That will NEVER happen, so watch the lights go out around the world and billions die from famine, exposure and disease.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 08:59 AM (AHeqJ)

262 >>We invest too much time and emotion on Trump. He's probably history now. If he runs again, I'll probably have to vote for him, since the Dem will certainly be worse. Other than that, it's OK to spend less energy worrying about and defending him, IMHO.

What other national Republican leader has been working for the last year plus to put new Republicans in Congress who are at least mostly aligned with our values and desires? I'll help, nobody.

I really don't get the urge by some on our side to push Trump into the dustbin of history and pretend his time in office wasn't the best 3 years, not including the China virus, since at least Reagan for us. He's far from perfect but no politician in my lifetime has done more to actually unmask and fight the swamp and he did it almost singlehandedly. The left hasn't stopped obsessing over him for a reason.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 16, 2022 08:59 AM (ZLI7S)

263 "Perhaps in the future, she’ll [ex-UNL lecturer] stick to teaching and not focus on harassing student groups."

First she'll have to find another job.

Karma's a b*tch.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at June 16, 2022 08:59 AM (vcv8B)

264 I presume that the Gov/Police of those states can arrest people for violating the civil rights of their citizens. Yes I'm being vague, but I have no doubts that if the situation was reversed and an AG Miyares had arrested a bunch of people in places like NY that the NY state government would be coming after him.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2022 08:49 AM (ESjRY)

The powers you reference are assymetric. US Federal officials have full legal authority to act in every US State and Territory. State Officials are limited to the borders of their own states. Outside of those, they can only act with the explicit permission and cooperation of the US Government. It may seem arcane, but *this* is why the J6 Defendants are trapped in DC and no one can help them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 08:59 AM (r46W7)

265 Hunter Biden has been revealed to be the president’s top advisor.
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Please, some enterprising reporter ask our new press secretary - "It has been reported that the president's top advisor is drug addict and gun felon and accused pedophile Hunter Biden. Does that help explain why the nation is facing multiple crises?"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 16, 2022 09:00 AM (fs1hN)

266 Garland arrested people in their home states didn't he?

This is an often overlooked point. When lefties are in charge at the state or local level, they announce they no longer will cooperate with federal agencies. If an illegal immigrant has burglary charges dismissed, local judges start spiriting them out the back door of a courthouse, rather than hand them over to ICE for deportation.

At some point, local authorities in red states will start using the same tactics.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 16, 2022 09:00 AM (PJ6NO)

267 We live in a university town, full of leftists.
Posted by: Rochelle, Rochelle (formerly Roxanne, Roxanne) at June 16, 2022 08:42 AM (szWS4)
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And she didn't ask for your pronouns? Report that kid for hate crime!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2022 09:01 AM (S3ywE)

268 Six years made sense back when Senators were appointed by the legislatures of the several states, not up to the general public and Dominion to decide.

The problem was, several States had so much infighting and internal quarrels that they often could not agree on a Senator to send to Babylon DC, so they went without representation.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 08:56 AM (AHeqJ)
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I think someone point out here recently that before the 17th Amendment, the average term of a Senator was around 4 years because there was a lot of turnover from state governments unhappy with their Senators and whatnot.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 16, 2022 09:01 AM (YIVH2)

269 so watch the lights go out around the world and billions die from famine, exposure and disease.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 08:59 AM (AHeqJ)

I love it when a plan comes together!

Posted by: Bill Gates at June 16, 2022 09:01 AM (4I/2K)

270 Abbott shuts down MI baby-formula factory again due to flood damage. Cleanup to take a 'few weeks'.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:02 AM (yikp0)

I guess all the fires were becoming obvious.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 16, 2022 09:02 AM (zhLdt)

271 >Let me ask the 10 asshole GOP senators who voted for "red flag" laws

Let me stop you there, this isn't a debate, where people make arguments for and against. You could point out justifications for the opposite, and how hypocritical, and anti-freedom their points are, but it won't make a difference.

These people are insane in their pursuit of their goals, and those GOP senators are all along with it. GOP is Dem-lite. Pretending otherwise is to play into their pretense that you have a choice.

Their goal is to steam roll over every aspect of western culture and destroy it and remake it in whatever image they are deluded into thinking it better. Asking the GOP, Dems or leftists anything doesn't mean a thing because it isn't going to make a difference.

Posted by: PoliticalMcGuffin at June 16, 2022 09:03 AM (md5vd)

272 That's where I'm at. I want things to get bad enough for collective house cleaning but no worse.

Like Jack London wrote in Call of the Wild, the sleds are frozen to the ground and need to be broke free before the whole thing starts moving.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 16, 2022 08:57 AM (I76dP)

It's not a sled on the ground - it's a million tons of snow and ice on top of a mountain getting ready to break free. The biggest problem with avalanches is that they don't stop when you want them to.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 09:03 AM (r46W7)

273 It will take a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing the right of investors to recoup their multi-billion dollar investment in critical infrastructure.

That will NEVER happen, so watch the lights go out around the world and billions die from famine, exposure and disease.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 08:59 AM (AHeqJ)

Yes, because no one can trust the Fed or State gov'ts to have a consistent policy. It changes on a whim. It's one more reason why we aren't voting our way out of this.

Posted by: WiNO at June 16, 2022 09:03 AM (EpDzw)

274 I really don't get the urge by some on our side to push Trump into the dustbin of history and pretend his time in office wasn't the best 3 years, not including the China virus, since at least Reagan for us.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 16, 2022 08:59 AM

I wholeheartedly agree that Trump was the best we've had since Reagan. And I am extremely grateful for him. He's changed the nation for the better. He's put Democrats on the defensive. He's shown the people they do have a voice. All these things are major and lasting contributions to our body politic. He in no way deserves the historical dustbin.

But he's also unnecessarily abrasive and divisive. Going forwards, that makes him better as king-maker than king.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at June 16, 2022 09:04 AM (vcv8B)

275 262 I really don't get the urge by some on our side to push Trump into the dustbin of history and pretend his time in office wasn't the best 3 years, not including the China virus, since at least Reagan for us. He's far from perfect but no politician in my lifetime has done more to actually unmask and fight the swamp and he did it almost singlehandedly. The left hasn't stopped obsessing over him for a reason.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 16, 2022 08:59 AM (ZLI7S)

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My thing is that the next couple of years rea obviously going to play out a certain way:

Trump is going to run for the nomination. No one else close to MAGA-like will try to challenge him (he's essentially an incumbent in the party), so that means DeSantis will not run. The GOPe will spend at least $250 million on beating him but it'll be obvious by NH that he has it tied up.

So, what's the point of arguing about whether or not he should run? He's going to. What's the point about whether or not someone else would be better positioned in 2024? No one else we like is going to challenge him at all.

Just embrace the inevitable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 16, 2022 09:04 AM (LvTSG)

276 Behind the Black has a nice essay on how the Deep State has arrayed it's forces to sink SpaceX at the drop of a hat.
Posted by: torabora at June 16, 2022 08:54 AM (Y274z)
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China views SpaceX as a significant strategic threat, especially Starlink, and is investing billions in anti-satellite weapons specifically because of the the Starlink constellation.

Given China's opinions on the matter, our government's actions will follow accordingly - both because they are beholden to their masters in the CCP and also because they share the same overall goals and ambitions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 16, 2022 09:04 AM (0zQHa)

277 "I really don't get the urge by some on our side to push Trump into the dustbin of history"

I said I'll vote for him if he's the candidate. Is that not enough? Do I really have to fret every day looking for ways to defend him against criticisms, some true and some false? The best way to deal with Trump haters is to avoid them, not invest time and energy debating them, when they can't be reached with reason anyway.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at June 16, 2022 09:04 AM (qpX6U)

278 That's where I'm at. I want things to get bad enough for collective house cleaning but no worse.

Like Jack London wrote in Call of the Wild, the sleds are frozen to the ground and need to be broke free before the whole thing starts moving.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

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In fairness, I completely understand their desire to ban guns. I can only imagine how it must feel to know you're responsible for the billions saved by 50M productive citizens - who worked for 40 years without griping or complaining, tightening their belts and figuring out how to make things work every time you pulled the rug out from under them by sending their jobs overseas, or importing foreigners to do skilled labor, or allowing illegals to take over the unskilled fields - disappearing in four years because you think they don't use pronouns correctly.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 09:04 AM (7rzvW)

279 My "pronouns" are you/your. Or I/me if I'm the one talking.

Third person pronouns are just that. Third person. I have no right to dictate what words you use in a conversation with someone else that doesn't involve me. And if I'm present for a conversation I'm not actively participating in, it's just plain rude to use third person pronouns in front of me as if i weren't there. Use my name, or include me into the conversation, at which point you use second person pronouns or tactfully arrange your speech so pronouns aren't necessary.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2022 09:05 AM (6FeV1)

280 Trump is guilty of observing a thing that also caused some other people who observed the same thing to parade around the Capitol in horns and caveman outfits.
Got it.
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While he was still onstage, speaking. The protesters were psychic, that way.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 09:06 AM (yikp0)

281 > At some point, local authorities in red states will start using the same tactics.
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That point was years ago. Instead the right preens about morality and justice. That lip service isn't cutting it anymore either. I honestly think many people nominally on the right have a distaste for confrontation/conflict and do everything in their power to avoid it. The left is very good at ginning up outrage, conflict and confrontation on their terms and obviously have a social network backing them up. But that's not a reason (to me) to avoid confronting the left on their own terms.

They apparently don't expect it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 16, 2022 09:06 AM (BFigT)

282 268 I think someone point out here recently that before the 17th Amendment, the average term of a Senator was around 4 years because there was a lot of turnover from state governments unhappy with their Senators and whatnot.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 16, 2022 09:01 AM (YIVH2)

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That were me.

Senators got yanked on their chains a lot back then. There was a whole lot of, "I'm going to vote in opposition to orders from the state legislature, and then I'm quitting." or "He voted in opposition to our orders, he's gone."

I don't know if that would suddenly start again if we went back to that system. My read is that our problems would actually get much worse if we went back to state legislatures choosing senators. State governments have become addicted to federal funds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 16, 2022 09:06 AM (LvTSG)

283 A deadly pandemic with mysterious origins: It might sound like a modern headline, but scientists have spent centuries debating the source of the Black Death that devastated the medieval world.

Not anymore, according to researchers who say they have pinpointed the source of the plague to a region of Kyrgyzstan, after analyzing DNA from remains at an ancient burial site.

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You know what that means, Putin's fault.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 16, 2022 09:07 AM (FVME7)

284 The powers you reference are assymetric. US Federal officials have full legal authority to act in every US State and Territory.

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And that's fine, but they should have to do it through the local Sheriff's department.

Pipe dream I know.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 09:07 AM (7rzvW)

285 It's not a sled on the ground - it's a million tons of snow and ice on top of a mountain getting ready to break free. The biggest problem with avalanches is that they don't stop when you want them to.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Continuing on with the analogy, when you know the physics of an avalanche, sometimes you throw dynamite into the cliffside so that the inevitable is controllable.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 09:07 AM (AHeqJ)

286 Reports on Twitter say that Tater’s firing has been decided and will be announced within a month. Hope Ace has a flaming baked potato graphic ready.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 16, 2022 09:07 AM (1TuZk)

287 I asked her - guilty of what. All she could say was "of starting things up". I couldn't believe she got sucked in.
Posted by: grammie winger at June 16, 2022 08:40 AM (45fpk)
no fool like an old fool.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 08:54 AM (r46W7)

Smooth brained folks will watch something and the propagandists who produce the show will win them over 99.9% of the time.

The J6 hearings should be called "Ancient Aliens: In The House" for the fact stretching, out right lies and falsehoods put out as actually taking place that idiots swallow eagerly, ready to denounce all who oppose it.

All they need is that Greek dude with the weird hair.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 16, 2022 09:08 AM (pbYrN)

288 It would be an interesting thing to look at - is the issue really just that they don't have kids and are therefore not invested in the future of society, or specifically because they embrace the gay lifestyle.
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It's probably all inter-related. That very long piece written by the born-again Catholic man, who turned his back on homosexuality after living a hedonistic lifestyle for decades as a "bottom" in San Francisco, was instructive.

He said that homosexual men are looking for meaning and connection in sex, but they never find it. They don't have the moderating influence of women to slow them down or force them to take time to reflect, so they just keep amping things up and the sexual activities become more and more degenerate. Eventually, if they survive, they realize that their bodies are ruined and their lives are empty.

Nature created everything so that it would have a perfect balance. Men and women were meant to serve as that balance for each other. Disturb that balance, and things quickly start breaking down.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 16, 2022 09:08 AM (MvHI3)

289 "I want things to get bad enough for collective house cleaning but no worse."

It's looking like social security will collapse very soon. When that happens (but the EBTs keep paying out, of course,) then you'll see the worst. Unless the nuke war starts before then.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at June 16, 2022 09:08 AM (qpX6U)

290 286 Reports on Twitter say that Tater’s firing has been decided and will be announced within a month. Hope Ace has a flaming baked potato graphic ready.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 16, 2022 09:07 AM (1TuZk)

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I think ... makes those.

He should get on it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 16, 2022 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

291 I guess all the fires were becoming obvious.
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The "flooded men's room" gambit stole them the election, so they decided to return to it.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 09:08 AM (yikp0)

292 262

The Left obsesses over Trump because they are sociopaths. They will obsess over him even after he's dead. Meanwhile, Bill Barr gets bashed by MFM for all the wrong reasons; i.e., he didn't denounce Trump hard enough.

Barr was a jackass from the start and did zilch to uncover election fraud. He belongs in the dustbin, not Trump.

Conservatives need to stand together or 2024 will go sideways.

Posted by: Ziba at June 16, 2022 09:08 AM (4h9M3)

293 The powers you reference are assymetric. US Federal officials have full legal authority to act in every US State and Territory.
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And that's fine, but they should have to do it through the local Sheriff's department.

But they all fall under the authority of Rule 5.56

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 09:08 AM (AHeqJ)

294 CNN Says Dems "Wonder" About Biden's Cognitive Ability: "Is He Tired? Or Is Something Else There?"

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That's a head scratcher all right.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 16, 2022 09:09 AM (FVME7)

295 The Hill:
Abbott leading O'Rourke by 5 pts. in tightening Texas race: poll

"The race tightens...Abbott, considered strong on leadership, slips. O'Rourke, considered long on empathy, rides the momentum of support from women and young Texans in the horse race to Austin," Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement."

https://tinyurl.com/mrzs7jdr

Posted by: redridinghood at June 16, 2022 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

296 The GOPe fuckwits are to keep us on the plantation. controlled opposition.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 16, 2022 09:09 AM (89T5c)

297 Have friends who believe Trump is guilty on Jan 6th, I just throw the BLM riots back in their face
Posted by: Jonah at June 16, 2022 08:48 AM (WY8d2)

This has been a point of argument with my father and I. He thinks that one has nothing to do with the other. I reply that if a bunch of people taking selfies is the equivalent of Pearl Harbor wrapped around 9/11, then burning, looting, vandalism and murder are even more a "threat to our sacred democracy."

I gave up trying to explain.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 16, 2022 09:10 AM (4olE8)

298 Oak Island : DC

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 09:10 AM (7rzvW)

299 Bill Gates is now backing away from mRNA clot shots and vaccine passports, as "not effective against Covid19 after all."

https://tinyurl.com/mvs9n58a

Hmmmm...sharks circling in the water...lawyers representing the jab injured and jab dead, Dr. Bill (don't forget the 20 to 1 profits from his investing in vaccines, that he boasted about during an interview) seems to be running for cover.

Posted by: Ju at June 16, 2022 09:10 AM (aTmM/)

300 This is what happens when you allow an election to be stolen.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 16, 2022 09:10 AM (lTGtQ)

301 293
But they all fall under the authority of Rule 5.56

They need reminders every so often.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 16, 2022 09:10 AM (4olE8)

302 Barr was a jackass from the start and did zilch to uncover election fraud. He belongs in the dustbin, not Trump.

I remember when Barr pledged to hold any authority that abused their CoViD lockdown powers to shut down churches.

Name ONE politician who ordered churches closed who even received a strongly worded letter of rebuke.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 09:11 AM (AHeqJ)

303 It will take a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing the right of investors to recoup their multi-billion dollar investment in critical infrastructure.

That will NEVER happen, so watch the lights go out around the world and billions die from famine, exposure and disease.
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Under Wilsonian Progressiveism such a promise is made. Some people are Too Big To Fail. They all seem to be in Manhattan and San Francisco these days and are into Finance not Manufacturing.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 09:12 AM (ppL7t)

304 So, what's the point of arguing about whether or not he should run? He's going to. What's the point about whether or not someone else would be better positioned in 2024? No one else we like is going to challenge him at all.

Just embrace the inevitable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 16, 2022 09:04 AM (LvTSG)

I agree with the sentiment, "what's the point of arguing?" But I say that's because I believe that the next 2 1/2 years are going to be so mind-numbingly chaotic that there is no way we can possibly know what things will look like at the beginning of 2024. There's even an outside chance that this country, as we now know it, will not exist by then. Not long ago that would have been laughably nutty thing to say; now, while it is not yet likely, it's certainly within the range of possible futures.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 09:12 AM (r46W7)

305 One thing a real opposition party would do is legislate the DC courts out of existence - all Federal court matters must be taken up in the defendant's home state/district/circuit and DC legal matters (city residents only), must be taken up in an actual state court system (either MD or VA).

Having federal courts other than the SCOTUS in DC only invites one party rule over Federal judicial criminal matters of the political kind.

Posted by: Boswell at June 16, 2022 09:12 AM (5iUNf)

306 Bill Gates is now backing away from mRNA clot shots and vaccine passports, as "not effective against Covid19 after all."

We don't need vaccine passports because those with the mRNA Kill Shot will be proving their blind obedience and submission by dropping dead with SADS.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 09:12 AM (AHeqJ)

307 298 Oak Island : DC
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Templars!

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 09:12 AM (ppL7t)

308 Stolen elections have consequences.
Then again, even if they didn't, you're still hoping that the majority is neither stupid nor having a view counter to yours.

They call this "consent," because if they called it what it really is, they'd have to change the definition of "freedom."

Posted by: Broken Apple at June 16, 2022 09:13 AM (3vnHX)

309 Breaking911 @Breaking911 · 16h
At White House Pride celebration, President Biden speaks to "LGBTQLI, excuse me, plus, Americans."
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[M-O-U-S-E!]

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 09:13 AM (yikp0)

310 will take a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing the right of investors to recoup their multi-billion dollar investment in critical infrastructure.

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LIGHTS ON Act of 2023

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 09:13 AM (7rzvW)

311 It's looking like social security will collapse very soon.
Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at June 16, 2022 09:08 AM
Social Security is probably ok. The younger generations will get screwed is all. Medicare is the big problem. Costs far outpace economic growth.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at June 16, 2022 09:13 AM (vcv8B)

312 >>My thing is that the next couple of years rea obviously going to play out a certain way:

>>Trump is going to run for the nomination. No one else close to MAGA-like will try to challenge him (he's essentially an incumbent in the party), so that means DeSantis will not run. The GOPe will spend at least $250 million on beating him but it'll be obvious by NH that he has it tied up.

My more immediate concern is the midterm and the insanity being pushed by the J6 committee. I remember something Trump said once and it really rings true.

They aren't after me, they are after you. I'm just in the way.

Trump is the grand prize for the narrative they have been trying to sell since January 6th. That Trump is the leader of an insurrectionist wing of the Republican party that has already yielded hundreds of scalps with more waiting trial in prison.

We need to stop ceding ground to these dishonest lunatics and smash their narratives in their faces. Trump happens to be the face of this narrative and they wildly overplayed their hand by running this show trial.

If DeSantis is the nominee the GOPe will go after him as well. That's down the road. This fight is now.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 16, 2022 09:13 AM (ZLI7S)

313 Monkey Pox proof of vaccine is ulcerated anus.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 09:13 AM (ppL7t)

314 "the next 2 1/2 years are going to be so mind-numbingly chaotic that there is no way we can possibly know [now] what things will look like at the beginning of 2024"

This.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at June 16, 2022 09:13 AM (qpX6U)

315 270 Abbott shuts down MI baby-formula factory again due to flood damage. Cleanup to take a 'few weeks'.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 16, 2022 08:02 AM (yikp0)

I guess all the fires were becoming obvious.
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Flood damage? Another leak in the men's room? ... Where have we seen this before? I think they are getting lazy

Posted by: Gas Ass or Grass - no free rides at June 16, 2022 09:14 AM (5NUsf)

316 Nature created everything so that it would have a perfect balance.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 16, 2022 09:08 AM (MvHI3)

Respectfully, I would refer you to the second law of thermodynamics.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at June 16, 2022 09:14 AM (MkuC5)

317 This country needs a good truckers strike.

Demands?
Open Keystone now.
Start fracking now.
Halve the federal and state taxes on gas 50% now.

Of course the Big Government grifters on all sides will scream about "the budgets!!" Well F you. Their "budgets" are built on sucking the lifeblood out of the economy and causing real-world consumer 20% inflation.

Killing the gas tax would not only be an immediate relief to just about everyone, but it would also starve The Beast. Where's the problem?

Posted by: Zek at June 16, 2022 09:14 AM (OzNIz)

318 There's even an outside chance that this country, as we now know it, will not exist by then.

We are less than two years in, and this country is not recognizable anymore. I am near 100% certain there is no 2024 elections.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 09:14 AM (AHeqJ)

319 Reports on Twitter say that Tater’s firing has been decided and will be announced within a month. Hope Ace has a flaming baked potato graphic ready.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 16, 2022 09:07 AM (1TuZk)

I'm looking forward to that and I'm not sure why as I'm generally not mean.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of thchickens at June 16, 2022 09:14 AM (eGTCV)

320 "The race tightens...Abbott, considered strong on leadership, slips. O'Rourke, considered long on empathy, rides the momentum of support from women and young Texans in the horse race to Austin," Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement."

https://tinyurl.com/mrzs7jdr
Posted by: redridinghood at June 16, 2022 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

We talked about that some yesterday - an idiotic poll of "registered voters", not likely voters, that almost certainly heavily oversampled Dem areas such as Austin and Houston while ignoring the other 250 counties in Texas. Beto is going to lose by 20 points, maybe more.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 09:14 AM (r46W7)

321 294 CNN Says Dems "Wonder" About Biden's Cognitive Ability: "Is He Tired? Or Is Something Else There?"

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That's a head scratcher all right.
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There are emails on Hunter's laptop from years ago, when he was joking about how senile and vacuous Joe was becoming.

But yeah, Dims just starting to wonder now if there might be something wrong with Biden.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 16, 2022 09:14 AM (MvHI3)

322 120...
Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2022 08:26 AM (kXYt5)

Bravo, maestro!

Posted by: Flyover, mostly lurking, sometimes commenting at June 16, 2022 09:15 AM (Rbu5d)

323 A TV staple for decades has been the virtuous Federal agents coming into a town to take over the investigation of a crime from the corrupt local law enforcement. And the audience goes HUZZAH!! This indoctrination, along with many other indoctrinations, cuts deep furrows into the brains of people.

Posted by: kraken at June 16, 2022 09:15 AM (Vr12I)

324 I have a prayer request, please, for a lurker who just passed away.

His name was Mark. He was a lurker here and commentor at Stoaty's site. He was gay, but also one of the most passionate conservatives I have ever met. And a hell of a nice guy. He was from Wisconsin but living in London.

Appears to be from heart failure, he was not in the best of health.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 16, 2022 09:15 AM (5p7BC)

325 75/25 no midterm elections. Not joking.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 16, 2022 09:15 AM (89T5c)

326 Would Bernie Sanders really be worse than Joe Biden?

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 09:15 AM (ppL7t)

327 320 We talked about that some yesterday - an idiotic poll of "registered voters", not likely voters, that almost certainly heavily oversampled Dem areas such as Austin and Houston while ignoring the other 250 counties in Texas. Beto is going to lose by 20 points, maybe more.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 09:14 AM (r46W7)

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And then he'll run for president again in 2024.

The field will be so fucked that he'll actually poll in the second tier for months.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 16, 2022 09:15 AM (LvTSG)

328 This country needs a good truckers strike.

Only if you like massive levels of death and misery.

Food, energy and basic life necessities to support a population of four hundred million REQUIRE truck transport.

You know, the 72 hour rule is real.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 09:16 AM (AHeqJ)

329 Abbott shuts down MI baby-formula factory again due to flood damage. Cleanup to take a 'few weeks'.

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This is absurd.

Anywhere that produces or handles any volume of liquid anything has walls around the tanks and equipment adequate to hold the volume of liquid in the tank. Something could flood, but the drains in the floors are there for a reason.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 09:16 AM (7rzvW)

330 "A TV staple for decades has been the virtuous Federal agents coming into a town to take over the investigation of a crime from the corrupt local law enforcement."

The movie "Mississippi Burning" is a glaring example of that.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at June 16, 2022 09:16 AM (qpX6U)

331 329
This is absurd.

Anywhere that produces or handles any volume of liquid anything has walls around the tanks and equipment adequate to hold the volume of liquid in the tank. Something could flood, but the drains in the floors are there for a reason.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 09:16 AM (7rzvW)

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What's really absurd is that the baby formula market is so reliant on a single company for production.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 16, 2022 09:17 AM (LvTSG)

332 "The race tightens...Abbott, considered strong on leadership, slips. O'Rourke, considered long on empathy, rides the momentum of support from women and young Texans in the horse race to Austin," Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement."

Are there actually people who think fake Mexican Bobby O'Rourke is empathetic? Pathetic I believe.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of thchickens at June 16, 2022 09:17 AM (eGTCV)

333 I believe that the next 2 1/2 years are going to be so mind-numbingly chaotic that there is no way we can possibly know what things will look like at the beginning of 2024.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 09:12 AM (r46W7)

^^^^^^^ x 100

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at June 16, 2022 09:17 AM (MkuC5)

334 @328
Which is why truckers strikes work.

Posted by: Zek at June 16, 2022 09:17 AM (OzNIz)

335 I guess all the fires were becoming obvious.
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Snort.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 09:17 AM (ppL7t)

336 re: school dress codes and lawfare...

I kinda think that's a good thing for our side. Really, I see it as an unimportant issue (dress codes), but the left could end up spending a lot of effort and attention on that.

Things like that make a good wasteful sink for dollars and lawyer hours spent by the left. Might be a useful strategy to find other relatively inconsequential topics. Act like it's a hill to die on and the left will respond with vigor. At least for a while.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 16, 2022 09:17 AM (8C7+r)

337 J6 political prisoners charged with terrible crimes like trespassing and parading are still sitting in prison awaiting trial after 18 months.
Meanwhile in Chicago over 100 people who are facing murder charges are walking around free wearing ankle monitors.
This is the USA we are living in now.
What the hell is wrong with this picture?

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 16, 2022 09:17 AM (dr4Q1)

338 Tom Hanks Denounces Straight Actors Playing Gay Roles: "We're Beyond That Now"

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Life is like a bag of M&M Peanuts, full of nuts.x

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 16, 2022 09:18 AM (FVME7)

339 75/25 no midterm elections. Not joking.

I would not take that bet against you. When the sociopaths who are in power feel threatened they will do whatever is necessary to maintain, if not elevate their levels of power and control.

If they get a whiff of public pressure against them, they will rain down fire and brimstone upon the public to punish them for their temerity.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 09:18 AM (AHeqJ)

340 We talked about that some yesterday - an idiotic poll of "registered voters", not likely voters, that almost certainly heavily oversampled Dem areas such as Austin and Houston while ignoring the other 250 counties in Texas. Beto is going to lose by 20 points, maybe more.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 09:14 AM (r46W7)
*******
The thought of Beto being governor of Texas freaks me out more than Biden being president.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 16, 2022 09:18 AM (NpAcC)

341 Today's Blacklisted American: Biden Junta Purging Conservatives From FBI.

That's not possible, because there are no conservatives left in the FBI. Just pension chasers. Oh, they may bitch a little, quietly, about the direction the FBI has chosen. But if they're still there, they're government shills. Not conservatives in any way, shape, or form. Not even decent Americans at this point.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at June 16, 2022 09:18 AM (rkKSq)

342 What's really absurd is that the baby formula market is so reliant on a single company for production.
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One of the benefits of Too Big To Fail.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 09:19 AM (ppL7t)

343 The race tightens...Abbott, considered strong on leadership, slips. O'Rourke, considered long on empathy, rides the momentum of support from women and young Texans in the horse race to Austin," Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement.
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This statement alone shows what BS that poll is.

Here is the problem, even with this "shocking tightening" Abbott is at 48%. Beto can only win by getting every undecided (registered, not likely) voter to vote for him.

Q poll is garbage.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 16, 2022 09:20 AM (5p7BC)

344 @332: "Are there actually people who think fake Mexican Bobby O'Rourke is empathetic? Pathetic I believe."

Nearly all unmarried childless white women in Texas and then some.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 16, 2022 09:20 AM (4NlP1)

345 Which is why truckers strikes work.

And who do the independent truckers strike against? And who is it that they negotiate it?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 09:20 AM (AHeqJ)

346 342 What's really absurd is that the baby formula market is so reliant on a single company for production.
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One of the benefits of Too Big To Fail.
Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 09:19 AM (ppL7t)

And will guarandamnteeyou their 10-k is full of rancid decomposing horse manure described as "sustainable."

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at June 16, 2022 09:20 AM (MkuC5)

347 What's really absurd is that the baby formula market is so reliant on a single company for production.

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Yep.

How quickly can we get this experimental DNA modifying injection ready and shipping? Two weeks? Do it.

How about factories making baby formula from 50 year old recipes? Impossible, eh. Man, what bad luck.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 09:21 AM (7rzvW)

348 >.Tom Hanks Denounces Straight Actors Playing Gay Roles: "We're Beyond That Now"

but he got an Oscar for just that

Posted by: DB at June 16, 2022 09:21 AM (geLO8)

349 328 This country needs a good truckers strike.

Only if you like massive levels of death and misery.

Food, energy and basic life necessities to support a population of four hundred million REQUIRE truck transport.

You know, the 72 hour rule is real
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California has basically created their own truckers strike.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 09:21 AM (ppL7t)

350 https://tinyurl.com/ywye37tc

...not to forget the Fabulous Fauci, and all his authority firmly behind "...a needle in every arm..."

The FDA and CDC are recommending for children 12 and under, even infants to be impaled with gene therapy mRNA experimental injections.

Posted by: Ju at June 16, 2022 09:21 AM (aTmM/)

351 @343: "Q poll is garbage."

Skewed to pump all of those out-of-state small donors for yet another quarter in Beto's jukebox. They're really gonna flip Texas blue this time! Just you wait, donate, and watch.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 16, 2022 09:22 AM (4NlP1)

352 So Tom Hanks acknowledged he acted in blackface.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 09:22 AM (7rzvW)

353 I remember when Tom Hanks was saying WWII was a racist war designed to commit genocide against the Japanese.

He said it while promoting The Pacific.

He's not a smart person.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 16, 2022 09:22 AM (LvTSG)

354 351 @343: "Q poll is garbage."

Skewed to pump all of those out-of-state small donors for yet another quarter in Beto's jukebox. They're really gonna flip Texas blue this time! Just you wait, donate, and watch.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 16, 2022 09:22 AM (4NlP1)

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5x match!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 16, 2022 09:22 AM (LvTSG)

355 And when I say "deal with," I mean in the most radical ways imaginable. You do not reason with evil. You destroy it.
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SPOT ON JJ!

It has been our tolerance of evil that has gotten us to the point that we are. It would have been far easier and a whole lot less pain if we had nipped this cancer in he bud.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 16, 2022 09:23 AM (WKPeU)

356 Only actors with AIDS can portray characters with AIDS in sex scenes.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 09:23 AM (7rzvW)

357 Before the Senate pick was changed from Gov picked to popular vote they lasted about 4 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 09:23 AM (yrol0)

358 >>Here is the problem, even with this "shocking tightening" Abbott is at 48%. Beto can only win by getting every undecided (registered, not likely) voter to vote for him.

Here's another problem, Mayra Flores.

Biden won her district by 4 points in 2020. Flores won it by 8 points.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 16, 2022 09:23 AM (ZLI7S)

359 The FDA and CDC are recommending for children 12 and under, even infants to be impaled with gene therapy mRNA experimental injections.

Both the FDA and the Centers for Disease Creation are abominations to both God and Man and for the sake of human decency should be dissolved and the employees like-wise - preferably in vats of acid.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 09:23 AM (AHeqJ)

360 The last trucker's strike drove the stake into the COVID Shutdown Vampire's heart, arguably.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at June 16, 2022 09:23 AM (qpX6U)

361 Skirt Requirement for Schoolgirls Violates Constitution, Appeals Court Rules
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Cute. Now do mask mandates.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 16, 2022 09:23 AM (IytoW)

362 348 >.Tom Hanks Denounces Straight Actors Playing Gay Roles: "We're Beyond That Now"

but he got an Oscar for just that
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So they say!

Posted by: Gas Ass or Grass - no free rides at June 16, 2022 09:24 AM (5NUsf)

363 356 Only actors with AIDS can portray characters with AIDS in sex scenes.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at June 16, 2022 09:23 AM (7rzvW)

Now do women!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 09:24 AM (yrol0)

364 Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 16, 2022 09:15 AM (5p7BC)

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Prayers sent.

Posted by: Broken Apple at June 16, 2022 09:24 AM (u7Ock)

365 He said that homosexual men are looking for meaning and connection in sex, but they never find it. They don't have the moderating influence of women to slow them down or force them to take time to reflect, so they just keep amping things up and the sexual activities become more and more degenerate. Eventually, if they survive, they realize that their bodies are ruined and their lives are empty.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 16, 2022 09:08 AM (MvHI3)

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Such as Sen. Scott Weiner

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2022 09:24 AM (z5N7n)

366 "but he got an Oscar for just that"

This is his way of confessing his guilt for that transgression. What have you got against woke public self-flagellation, hater?

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at June 16, 2022 09:25 AM (qpX6U)

367 Jane's Revenge is the ideological child of SLA, Black Panthers, and Weather Underground. Yeah they are terrorists.

With the typical sophism excuse of "See what you MADE me do!"

Bullsh1t you evil vermin. You are the ones who want to burn the world down to build your utopia without caring who gets killed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 16, 2022 09:25 AM (nEuqY)

368 DB Denounces Whitewall Tires On Light Trucks: "We're Beyond That Now"

Posted by: DB at June 16, 2022 09:25 AM (geLO8)

369 "there are 5 guns in Dad's house"

Hunter Biden charges dementia patient with illegal gon possession? Or, does Biden have a heretofore unknown gun license?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 16, 2022 09:26 AM (YHR2F)

370 It has been our tolerance of evil that has gotten us to the point that we are. It would have been far easier and a whole lot less pain if we had nipped this cancer in he bud.

So do you side with Burke or Paine in how this evil is rooted out?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 09:26 AM (AHeqJ)

371 Dems "Wonder" About Biden's Cognitive Ability: "Is He Tired? Or Is Something Else There?"

*******

Somethiiing else???

Heck, if h had another brain it would be lonely.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 16, 2022 09:26 AM (kXYt5)

372 Hanks cashed his checks and lives in Greece now. He's all good.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 16, 2022 09:26 AM (89T5c)

373 gooder and harderer

Capital Research Center’s Michael Hartmann looks at new data showing a decline in confidence in the non-profit sector. Even among Democrats, significantly less than half, 44 percent, say they have confidence in non-profits, GOPers and the general public 10 points below that.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2022 09:26 AM (yrol0)

374 Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 16, 2022 09:15 AM (5p7BC)

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Prayers sent.
Posted by: Broken Apple at June 16, 2022 09:24 AM (u7Ock)
******
Ditto.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 16, 2022 09:26 AM (NpAcC)

375 Tom Hanks should return the Oscar then.

And then apologize for Bosom Buddies

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 16, 2022 09:26 AM (nEuqY)

376 317 This country needs a good truckers strike.
Demands?
Open Keystone now.
Start fracking now.
Halve the federal and state taxes on gas 50% now."

Your list is correct, and yet they also demonstrated how screwed we are because of what the Biden Administration has done. Examples:
"Open Keystone Now" - impossible, the project was terminated, everyone working on it was let go. It would take years to get it started up again, even if all Government officials were in favor of it.
"Start Fracking Now" - because of the uncertainty and confusion regarding future government policy, all financing has dried up. Most don't realize that it was never the "majors" doing the fracking revolution, it was hundreds of small and mid size drillers. They have now been shut down, and again, it will take several years to get them going again.
"Cut the gas tax by 50%" - good idea in principle, but cutting federal revenue now just makes more inflation just makes the price of Oil and Gas skyrocket even more.

We. Are. Screwed. thanks to Biden, there's no way out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 09:27 AM (r46W7)

377 also: who is the 'Jane' in Jane's Revenge?

I should know this, I think I do but I'm not sure

Posted by: DB at June 16, 2022 09:27 AM (geLO8)

378 328 This country needs a good truckers strike.

Only if you like massive levels of death and misery.
Food, energy and basic life necessities to support a population of four hundred million REQUIRE truck transport.

This is why I think Conservatism, as we understand it, is doomed to fail. We're looking at imminent, unavoidable human suffering on a scale we can't truly fathom at the hands of today's Liberal Fascists if we continue along this current path.

A trucker's strike is proposed. A general strike, really, but let's not get all wrapped up in definitions. Would it come at a human cost ? Yes. But the suffering would be far less, and much more peaceful, than the alternative.

So, of course, Conservatives dismiss it out of hand. Because there would be suffering, and any suffering is unacceptable. Never mind that massive suffering is unavoidable is we do nothing.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at June 16, 2022 09:27 AM (rkKSq)

379 This Abortion ruling flips it will be on Roberts.

Posted by: Skip's phone at June 16, 2022 09:27 AM (PqCpE)

380 367 Jane's Revenge is the ideological child of SLA, Black Panthers, and Weather Underground. Yeah they are terrorists.

With the typical sophism excuse of "See what you MADE me do!"

Bullsh1t you evil vermin. You are the ones who want to burn the world down to build your utopia without caring who gets killed.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 16, 2022 09:25 AM (nEuqY)

They Hate. They are nihilists, they are anarchists, they are perverse. All the rest is window dressing.

Posted by: kraken at June 16, 2022 09:27 AM (Vr12I)

381 338 Tom Hanks Denounces Straight Actors Playing Gay Roles: "We're Beyond That Now"
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But it's still totes cool for black people to play whites, right?

'Cuz it would be really expensive to have to re-cast all those Hamilton folks.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 16, 2022 09:28 AM (MvHI3)

382 Local man denounces edging his lawn around curbs, sidewalks, and driveway. "We're beyond that now."

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 16, 2022 09:28 AM (4I/2K)

383 Has anyone else heard the podcast advertisement for the son of an Weather Underground criminal? It opens with "my mother was a fugitive from the FBI". And it certainly doesn't repudiate her criminal actions. Disgusting.

Posted by: Iris at June 16, 2022 09:28 AM (NaH5I)

384 I know this is late, it please repost that at a later date Muldoon.

Posted by: Corona-exile lost in spaces at June 16, 2022 09:28 AM (3wNhr)

385 This Abortion ruling flips it will be on Roberts.

I predict that Roe will be left largely intact.

Terrorism always wins.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 09:29 AM (AHeqJ)

386 377 also: who is the 'Jane' in Jane's Revenge?

I should know this, I think I do but I'm not sure
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Jane Roe (from Roe v. Wade).

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 16, 2022 09:29 AM (MvHI3)

387 "also: who is the 'Jane' in Jane's Revenge?
I should know this, I think I do but I'm not sure"

Jane Doe?

Posted by: lowandslow at June 16, 2022 09:29 AM (qH6FZ)

388 370 It has been our tolerance of evil that has gotten us to the point that we are. It would have been far easier and a whole lot less pain if we had nipped this cancer in he bud.

So do you side with Burke or Paine in how this evil is rooted out?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 09:26 AM (AHeqJ)

I side with Barny Fife. "Nip it! Nip it in the bud!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 09:29 AM (r46W7)

389 New Talking Point: "Nationalism," Immigration Restrictions and Downplaying Jan 6 Are to Blame — For 40 Year High INFLATION

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Trump's America!

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at June 16, 2022 09:30 AM (QuZTA)

390 So why is Bidet flying to Saudi Arabia?

Will he resign once in Riyadh?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 16, 2022 09:31 AM (nEuqY)

391 who is the 'Jane' in Jane's Revenge?

I should know this, I think I do but I'm not sure
Posted by: DB at June 16, 2022 09:27 AM (geLO

I have the same question.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of thchickens at June 16, 2022 09:31 AM (eGTCV)

392 That's not possible, because there are no conservatives left in the FBI... Not conservatives in any way, shape, or form. Not even decent Americans at this point.
_____________________

"How dare you, they are Great Americans!"
-S.Hannity

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 16, 2022 09:31 AM (fs1hN)

393 I predict that Roe will be left largely intact. Terrorism always wins.

Sotomayor, Kagan, Breyer, Roberts, and ACB are my picks to uphold it.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at June 16, 2022 09:32 AM (rkKSq)

394 388 370 It has been our tolerance of evil that has gotten us to the point that we are. It would have been far easier and a whole lot less pain if we had nipped this cancer in he bud.

So do you side with Burke or Paine in how this evil is rooted out?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 16, 2022 09:26 AM (AHeqJ)

I side with Barny Fife. "Nip it! Nip it in the bud!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 09:29 AM (r46W7)

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The 90's version (unsure who gets attribution) was "Kill it before it multiplies!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at June 16, 2022 09:33 AM (QuZTA)

395 390 So why is Bidet flying to Saudi Arabia?

Will he resign once in Riyadh?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 16, 2022 09:31 AM (nEuqY)

I'm dying to see Biden down on his knees, praying to Mecca, and then saying to MBS "There I did it, can I go now?"
and MBS, smirking, says "NO! You shall Bow 5 more times while you beg Allah for Forgiveness for your lies about me!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2022 09:33 AM (r46W7)

396 Nood spinning

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 16, 2022 09:33 AM (4f8+h)

397 >So why is Bidet flying to Saudi Arabia?

to beg the goatlovers to bail his ass out of the mess he's created by killing our energy industry

Posted by: DB at June 16, 2022 09:33 AM (geLO8)

398 A flood shutting down Abbott? WTF believes this BS anymore.

The fake news is intentional because chaos.

Posted by: Ziba at June 16, 2022 09:33 AM (4h9M3)

399 Tom Servo

MBS to Joey, "But first you will blow me."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 16, 2022 09:33 AM (nEuqY)

400 391 who is the 'Jane' in Jane's Revenge?

I should know this, I think I do but I'm not sure
Posted by: DB at June 16, 2022 09:27 AM (geLO

I have the same question.
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It's "Jane Roe," the pseudonym used by Norma McCorvey, the pregnant plaintiff (who falsely claimed her pregnancy was the result of a rape, a story she later admitted was a lie), in the SCOTUS case establishing abortion as a federal "constitutional right," Roe v. Wade.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 16, 2022 09:35 AM (MvHI3)

401 "We have demonstrated in the past month how easy and fun it is to attack."

But what these poor ignorant deluded bastards don't know is how "easy and fun" it is to attack someone who will attack right back.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 16, 2022 09:35 AM (CcOog)

402 His name was Mark. He was a lurker here and commentor at Stoaty's site. He was gay, but also one of the most passionate conservatives I have ever met. And a hell of a nice guy. He was from Wisconsin but living in London.
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prayers up Dave.

One of my very good friends, also the most fun passionate conservative I know, is gay. He is seriously red-pilling as many people in his orbit as he can. I love having him over for dinner. Put a glass of rum in his hand and he starts in on Biden like nobodies business. His disgust with the very public "gay mafia" as he calls them comes from his belief America is way over-sexualized and everyone just needs to stop it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 16, 2022 09:35 AM (rhjrN)

403 393 I predict that Roe will be left largely intact. Terrorism always wins.

Sotomayor, Kagan, Breyer, Roberts, and ACB are my picks to uphold it.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at June 16, 2022 09:32 AM (rkKSq)

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Makes sense, the five women on the court.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at June 16, 2022 09:35 AM (QuZTA)

404 391 who is the 'Jane' in Jane's Revenge?

I should know this, I think I do but I'm not sure
Posted by: DB at June 16, 2022 09:27 AM (geLO

I have the same question.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of thchickens at June 16, 2022 09:31 AM (eGTCV)

It's allegedly a new group but I suspect their organization goes way back and of course has deep leftist pockets.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 16, 2022 09:35 AM (s2VJv)

405 I don't think the Alito decision will change, I think Roe will be overturned next week.

Not even Roberts wants to set the precedent that SCOTUS can be intimidated into changing a ruling. Doing so would cause what is going on right now occur for every decision in the future.

And the pressure will start to come from both sides, not just the left.

If the left wanted this decision changed, then they needed to actually assassinate one of the justices to force this to a 4-4 tie.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 16, 2022 09:37 AM (5p7BC)

406 JJ - Some of your finest in this opening monologue. I recently read a piece where the author made the case that most of the ideas we are seeing in play from the New Left right now actually had their genesis from people prior to the Boomer generation, and that the Boomers didn't "invent" them, but they were the first generation to "try them on for size" so to speak.

I'm a Boomer tail-y, (62) but identify as a GenXer. Kind of like a little brother watching his bigger brother do all manner of stupid shit. WE are definately at peak stupid shit right now.

It's odd now that conservatives are the ones who are the "radicals" against a rotten culture, administrative state, political state, and even a corporate state. We have needed our own "Port Huron Statement" for some time - was it started with MAGA?

Posted by: CoolHandLuke (Fartclams and Hysteria) at June 16, 2022 09:38 AM (U2+zT)

407 If the left wanted this decision changed, then they needed to actually assassinate one of the justices to force this to a 4-4 tie.
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They still have time! The decision hasn't issued yet!

Posted by: John Roberts, always hoping at June 16, 2022 09:38 AM (MvHI3)

408 By the way, Jane's Revenge, or whatever it is, seems like the perfect outfit to be investigated by Top Men.

But, domestic right wing extremism, yo!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 16, 2022 09:39 AM (5pTK/)

409 Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 16, 2022 09:35 AM (MvHI3)
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thank you for that explanation.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 16, 2022 09:39 AM (rhjrN)

410 The name Jane's Revenge comes from the Janes Collaborative, an abortion group that sprang up in the '60s to promote abortion rights.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 16, 2022 09:39 AM (ZLI7S)

411 Not even Roberts wants to set the precedent that SCOTUS can be intimidated into changing a ruling. Doing so would cause what is going on right now occur for every decision in the future.

Roberts already set that precedent, when he flipped on the ObamaCare ruling after Obama mentioned "court packing". Roberts will do whatever Roberts thinks he needs to do to preserve the illusion of a respected Supreme Court; even if that illusion only exists in his own mind.

Roberts has already flipped at least once. Why do you think he's suddenly un-flippable ? When do you think Roberts dropped this theoretical large sack of nuts you speak of ?

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at June 16, 2022 09:40 AM (rkKSq)

412 Crypto Exchange CEO Calls Employees 'Triggered,' Bans Calling Things 'Racist' at Work

In one section, Kraken insists it is founded in "dangerous" ideas: the ideas that free markets must reign supreme, that people must be free to say what they want, and a host of other libertarian beliefs that boil down to protection of private property, self-defense, and autonomy. "This should be no surprise to Americans as these rights can all be derived from the US constitution," Kraken's manifesto explains at one point. "Our ability to drive crypto adoption in the world depends on these rights. Not everyone needs to personally hold these beliefs to enlist as a Krakenite but these beliefs are a core component of our culture."

Posted by: SMOD at June 16, 2022 09:42 AM (RHGPo)

413 I think I ate some bad taco's last night and now I have Janes Revenge.

Posted by: CoolHandLuke (Fartclams and Hysteria) at June 16, 2022 09:42 AM (U2+zT)

414 Overturning Roe was always theatre, including the elusive leaker.

Posted by: Ziba at June 16, 2022 09:42 AM (4h9M3)

415
29,923.55 -744.98 (-2.43%)
As of 09:39AM EDT. Market open.

Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at June 16, 2022 09:42 AM (9+CFV)

416 Jane's Revenge is the ideological child of SLA, Black Panthers, and Weather Underground. Yeah they are terrorists.

With the typical sophism excuse of "See what you MADE me do!"

Bullsh1t you evil vermin. You are the ones who want to burn the world down to build your utopia without caring who gets killed.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 16, 2022 09:25 AM

I don't see them as related, really. JR is just focused on their core philosophy: Their consequence-free pursuit of happiness depends on them shifting the consequences of their actions to others, whether that means killing their unwanted children or terrorizing adults.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 16, 2022 09:42 AM (fxCK2)

417 How fast would the FIB dispatch a battalion of "agents" if there was a John's Revenge that put out a terror threat like that but aimed at abortion clinics?

I'm guessing pretty damn fast and the media would be 24/7 about it.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 16, 2022 09:43 AM (WKPeU)

418 How fast would the FIB dispatch a battalion of "agents" if there was a John's Revenge that put out a terror threat like that but aimed at abortion clinics?

I'm surprised they haven't already staged such a group. Notice how fast the dog and pony show with all the uniformed guys crammed in a box truck has went away ? It'll be completely gone from collective memory by the end of the weekend.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at June 16, 2022 09:45 AM (rkKSq)

419 Thought experiment: Send letters to the FBI, detailing how and when abortion clinics were going to be firebombed, then, send the exact same letters, but, instead, detail when and where pro-life clinics were going to be attacked.

Anyone care to guess which letters would be acted upon first?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 16, 2022 09:46 AM (5pTK/)

420 ‘Participatory Socialism’: $150,000/Person Universal Inheritance, ‘Confiscatory’ Income And Wealth Taxes.

I have a better idea.
When you die, some portion up to a cap goes to your kin.
Everything else is sold and ... this is the best part ... the money is burned .. it's deflationary.

sorta like taking it with you

Posted by: SMOD at June 16, 2022 09:50 AM (RHGPo)

421 329 Abbott shuts down MI baby-formula factory again due to flood damage. Cleanup to take a 'few weeks'.

something is rotten in Michigan

very sus

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at June 16, 2022 09:50 AM (w0NJk)

422 In the link to the article on the asshoe protesters in Kavanaugh's neighborhood, it says one way they are staying within the bounds of the law is by moving aside (assuming they are in the streets) when a car passes by.

If I lived in that hood, or if I was a concerned patriot living nearby, why not just get a few like minded friends to drive down that street every minute or so? Not saying you need to mow anyone down, just disrupt their disruptions.

Posted by: CoolHandLuke (Fartclams and Hysteria) at June 16, 2022 09:50 AM (U2+zT)

423 What is the point of this daily digest of the depraved? Possibly you could have a section devoted to planned protests, rallies and organizations readers could join to take action.

Posted by: NicBotzi at June 16, 2022 09:50 AM (ozrvg)

424 What actor wants to play a faq?

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 09:53 AM (ppL7t)

425 This market is one series of Bonzai attacks everyday. Methinks Manhattan has Gone Japanese.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 16, 2022 09:59 AM (ppL7t)

426 I started a book - Leftism for Beginners - and the chapter on Gramsci was the first chapter. I ran out of steam when the Wu-Flu hit, so I've only covered a few topics, so far.
Here's a link to Chapter 1 - https://tinyurl.com/yckn367t

Posted by: Linda S Fox at June 16, 2022 10:02 AM (G6b2l)

427 405 If the left wanted this decision changed, then they needed to actually assassinate one of the justices to force this to a 4-4 tie.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 16, 2022 09:37 AM (5p7BC)

That option for them for sure is on the table. Beyond the death rhetoric from the very top of the Dem Party is the unwillingness to pass a law for added security for the justices. They finally were forced to do that.

"By any means necessary" is no longer the purview of violent radicals. It is now mainstream, standard Democrat political thought and tactics.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 16, 2022 10:07 AM (s2VJv)

428 423

Problem is there are no planned protests, rallies, or organizations for decent conservative Americans to partake of.

Posted by: Ziba at June 16, 2022 10:09 AM (4h9M3)

429 The Port Huron statement got a feature in LIFE magazine, so the SDS founding was hardly obscure, and I don't think anyone seriously puts forward the idea that there was no major opposition to the Vietnam involvement before SDS.

No doubt the "New Left" ad campaign did a takeover of the civil rights movement and opposition to the war. The much-ballyhooed SDS was a symptom, not the impetus.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 16, 2022 10:10 AM (videA)

430 427

Let's see if pretending to assassinate a justice brings about the same result as actually doing it would.

Posted by: Ziba at June 16, 2022 10:15 AM (4h9M3)

431 428 no, there are they just aren't being broadcasted for fear of retaliation. That's the hurdle the right has to overcome. The town criers need to step up.

Posted by: NicBotzi at June 16, 2022 10:15 AM (ozrvg)

432 @423 Street protesting has had a pretty good run, but it is a fashion. Actual grownups write letters and petitions, talk at taverns, vote, and keep their powder dry. Street protests were for people who find mundane pursuits like politics and war distressingly un-hip.

My last protest march was 1978, and I'm a little sheepish I didn't outgrow it before then. I'm also not ga-ga for street art fairs, or those spontaneous outdoor concerts.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 16, 2022 10:16 AM (videA)

433 I started a book - Leftism for Beginners - and the chapter on Gramsci was the first chapter.

Congrats, you have my admiration. I can't read him for very long, my mind simply quits. Particularly when, as I understand any summary of him that I've slogged through, we get to the point where passive revolution by persuasion and consent transitions to active revolution by force; and his notion that everyone will simply comply.

Because once their gibberish gets control of any organization, they destroy it, thus diminishing that organizations power. And maybe today's collection of clowns in charge understand that, and thus feel the need to act quickly, before they destroy their own power base in the process.

I'd really like to know what they think their winning end game will be, as they destroy everything around them, and thus lose their ability to compel anyone to do anything. Do they think they'll be magically whisked away, saved from living on top of the pile of shit they've created ? Wait, don't spoil it for me, I think I've got it. They haven't thought about it that far at all.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at June 16, 2022 10:17 AM (rkKSq)

434 432

Write letters to politicians, circulate petitions?? WTF.
Seriously?

Posted by: Ziba at June 16, 2022 10:19 AM (4h9M3)

435 Street protesting seems great in theory, but, these days, if you're on the right, you're risking the FBI showing up and arresting everyone, good luck getting a trial, along with losing all of your rights.

But, if you're on the left, you'll be encouraged to burn down half the city.

Protesting only works, if the law works in both directions. It no longer does. We're now at the keeping the head down and powder dry stage. the US is done as a nation of laws, the contract with the people known as the Constitution has been abrogated by those charged with enforcing that contract.

But, hey, organize that protest,NicBotzi! Nothing stopping you from jumping into the breech and getting the ball rolling!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 16, 2022 10:22 AM (5pTK/)

436 Yes this has been a long time coming. When SDS broke up in the 80s, several of them were hired by Ivy League colleges. So they have been indoctrinating since then.

Posted by: Ultra pj at June 16, 2022 10:48 AM (G1dq6)

437 "Niether". Way to go Bill Ayers!

Posted by: leber at June 16, 2022 12:25 PM (z2SGT)

438 432 ...and that my friends is why conservatives are the biggest threat to our democracy... resistance via writing letters and talking down at the tavern.... outrageous.

Posted by: NicBotzi at June 16, 2022 02:14 PM (Ic5WQ)

439 Conservatives can't even win the battle of ideas even when the other side wants to kill unborn babies.

Posted by: Political McGuffin at June 16, 2022 05:05 PM (JEI9Q)

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