The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 9/1/22

Good morning kids. Or, should I say my fellow "semi-fascists" as we've been branded by Brandon. Yet, despite that and today being September 1st, I curiously find myself not waking up with a burning desire to invade Poland. I guess they don't make semi-fascists these days like they used to. Real fascists on the other hand . . .

In any case, I'm saddened this morning to note the passing of actor William Reynolds at the age of 90. I spotted the obit this morning; like my mother of blessed memory, I have a morbid curiosity in reading them if for no other reason then, like her, to make sure mine hasn't been printed yet. In any case, like me, you're probably wondering who William Reynolds is, or was:

In 1966, Reynolds got his big break and landed the role of Agent Colby on ABC’s “The F.B.I.” which became his most famous role to date. His stint on the show lasted two seasons before he was made a series regular and asked to stay on for six seasons.

I'm sure you can see the bitter irony in this story. The FBI version of the FBI was, is, and always will be an illusion. A myth. A storybook agency of bright, moral, ethical crime fighters protecting the life, limb and property of the citizenry from criminals, thugs and terrorists in the service of preserving the civil society, law and order, and the American way.

My ass.

The FBI has devolved from, at best, a vast governmental repository of idlers, hacks and apple-robbers with JDs interested only in preserving, protecting and defending their jobs and pensions to what can only be described as a political hit squad and Praetorian guard of Democrats and their remora in the GOPe. Their mission is to crush anyone who poses a threat to their power by engineering process crimes and entrapment scams, while ignoring the real threat from real terrorists foreign and domestic, so they can come in on their white horse, or horse-of-color, to save the day as defenders of "our precious democracy" (*vomits*).

Anyone who still is under the illusion that the FBI is still a Quinn-Martin Production is either delusional or willfully ignorant. Or, of course, they're Andrew McCarthy:

How the DOJ has built a case against Trump for obstruction
By Andrew C. McCarthy
I’ve been a naysayer on the notion that the Justice Department is trying to make a criminal case against former President Donald Trump based on the Mar-a-Lago raid, at least with respect to the offenses most often touted: mishandling classified documents and illegally retaining government records.
But that has come with a significant caveat: If the evidence of obstruction of justice proved to be convincing, there’s a very good chance the government would indict.
The court filing made by the Justice Department on Tuesday night, in response to Trump’s lawsuit seeking a special master to review materials seized by the FBI, indicates that prosecutors have amassed formidable evidence of obstruction. That’s a game-changer. . .
. . . Contrary to Trump’s claims that he was completely cooperative, the subpoena was occasioned by his obdurate refusal to return the government’s property. The government’s court filing details that Trump’s representatives provided a false statement under oath, claiming that the package of 38 documents they surrendered that day was the entirety of the classified material stored at the estate. But, again contrary to Trump’s claims of cooperation, his representatives rebuffed the FBI’s request to be permitted to inspect boxes of government records contained in a storage room. . .
. . . This is a serious obstruction case that appears as if it would not be difficult to prove. The Justice Department is under immense pressure from the Democratic base to indict Trump, and the jury pool in Washington, DC, where the government would file any indictment, is intensely anti-Trump. It is thus hard to imagine that Attorney General Merrick Garland will decide against filing charges.

Emphasis mine there because to my knowledge that is an assumption or merely parroting of the Junta's line. By every indication, Donald Trump and his staff were legally in possession of those documents up until and even past noon on January 20, 2021, and had been fully cooperating with the DOJ/FBI before and after that time. Like the Whitmer "plot," Scooter Libby, George Papadopolus, Mike Flynn and scores if not hundreds of less famous though no less appalling cases going back decades, this is yet another Munchausen's-by-process-crime atrocity.

All of what we are witnessing is a vast fishing expedition and propaganda campaign to smear Donald Trump as a traitor, criminal and enemy agent so as to prevent him from running again, as a personal vendetta to wipe him out financially and physically as well as to send a message to anyone who dares attempt to do what he did in 2016: attempt to stem the seemingly inexorable tide towards a socialist tyranny that wipes out whatever is left of the former United States of America.

Yet, like parasitic anal warts and shingles of the eye, Andrew C. McCarthy and his ilk persist. Funny how I don't seem to recall any similar breathless reportage about, say, the wiped servers of Hillary Clinton, the documents Sandy Berger stole from the National Archives and shoved down his urine-stained BVDs, the hard drives of the Waffen IRS erased at the behest of Lois Lerner and John Koskinen in the wake of the Tea Party persecutions, and on and on and on. McCarthy can take his ham and egger and shove it up his fat ass, sideways.

“Number one is that I think a lot of the attacks on the FBI are over the top because a decision like this is not made by the FBI,” former Attorney General William Barr told the Bari Weiss podcast on August 25.
“In fact, I don’t think the FBI would push a decision that it’s best to go in and search and obtain those documents after being jerked around for a year and a half. The decision would be made at the Department of Justice, by subordinates of the AG, and ultimately signed off on by the AG. The FBI would be told to go and execute it. I think the idea that the FBI is the problem here is misplaced.”
The former AG was more disturbed by “the constant pandering to outrage” on the right, without discussion of whether the outrage had any merit. The FBI seized Trump’s passports, leaving the impression that the former president had committed a crime and was now a flight risk. FBI agents also rummaged through the closets of Melania Trump, an act of pure intimidation. With Trump attorneys forced outside, the FBI could easily have planted or destroyed information. If that is not cause for outrage, it’s hard to imagine what might qualify.
Weiss brought up the “Russiagate” episode, as the host explained, “the idea that Donald Trump was a compromised agent of Moscow. That there were deep connections between Trump’s people and Russian intelligence. That the Trump campaign had colluded with the Russians, including by hacking Democratic National Committee emails.” Barr was all over it. . .
. . . “Trump is his own worst enemy,” Barr told Weiss. “He’s incorrigible. He doesn’t take advice from people. I said to him when I first started that I thought he was going to lose the election unless he adjusted a little bit. And if he did adjust, he could go down in history as a great president. He continued to be self-indulgent and petty and turned off key constituencies that ultimately made the difference in the election.”
For the former AG, voter fraud had nothing to do with it. Embattled Americans can thank Barr for providing a moment of clarity.
Donald Trump is not his own worst enemy. Donald Trump’s worst enemies include his own attorney general, members of his own party, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has now crossed the line.
Whatever special tasks the FBI has planned, former attorney general William Barr will be there to back them up, just as he did with FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi. The defender of the deep state can be no friend of the people.

And so will hacks like Andrew C. McCarthy. Even if the FBI ever was even a scintilla as honest and integrity-bound as it was portrayed on television and as it has been mythologized since the early days of Hoover, there is no denying that, just like virtually the entire governmental bureaucracy in DC as well as their lesser counterparts in blue states and to a lesser extent too many red states as well, the FBI is corrupted beyond redemption. I'd say it must be abolished, but like impeaching Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants Biden, what good will that do when you see who is next in line and who is the one behind her and all the way down the line to the dog catcher in Brattleboro, VT in order of succession?

Now you can see the pickle we're in.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"The rise of centralized digital currency will be convenient—but at a cost."
Cashless Future
"Do medical experts pose a threat to the consent of the governed?"
Gene Editing, Hackable Humans, and Informed Consent
"Our regime faces a growing crisis of legitimacy that will only get worse as economic, cultural, and political conditions decline."
What the Censoring of Andrew Tate Says About the Ruling Class
"The Democrats aren’t tough on crime; they create it. It’s part of the plan. . . The plan was to create chaos and crime. Chaos creates fear and uncertainty, and this is where communism thrives. The Democrats created today’s crime surge and now use the stats, especially shootings, to try to take away the guns of law-abiding Americans. The more people who are shot, the more 'proof' they have that Americans should be unarmed — you know, for 'our safety.'”
Reasons Never to Vote Democrat Again, Vol. II: The Big, Blue Crime Wave
"The Left will never let truth interfere with their lust to have their way with America."
The Rape of the American Mind

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

Miranda Devine: ". . . wildly dishonest rhetoric that is as frightening as it is absurd. It would be easy to laugh it off as the blathering of a spiteful, increasingly incoherent, angry old man. But what Biden and the puppeteers who guide him are doing is very sinister. They appear to be preparing the ground for an even harsher crackdown on his political opponents by the security state, which has become, to all appearances, his secret police."
Tyrannical Old Joe's Secret Police State
"It's not just Republican leadership."
Press Secretary Appears to Admit "Extremist Threat" is the People
"They call conservatives, who have taken up the mantle of free speech, liberty, equality in education, parental rights, and individual freedom, fascists. For Biden and his Democrats, there is no right of Americans to live by their own design. Not going along with the Democrats pro-abortion, pro-groomer, pro-corporate, pro-authoritarian, pro-censorship approach is called fascist."
Joe Biden Is the Fascist in the White House
"Donald Trump is being made into a scapegoat. This sort of thing can get ugly fast."
Tweets and Stones
"Targeting tens of millions of Americans who support opposing but mainstream policies while mainstreaming the views of dangerous street revolutionaries is only going to dangerously fragment our politic."
Joe Biden’s Antifa Politics

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"FBI and DOJ allies on the left are gunning for Ron Johnson’s Senate seat, and it’s obvious why."
Ron Johnson is the Left’s No. 1 Midterm Target Because He Hits Swamp Elites Where it Hurts
"And our reckoning fast approaches."
Our Ship of State is Becoming a Ship of Fools
RAID ON MAR-A-LAGO
"All eyes are on the Justice Department right now, and Republicans are vowing multiple investigations to get to the bottom of the politicization and weaponization of the nation’s top law enforcement agency. But unfortunately, the Justice Department is hard at work, too, desperately trying to cover up its corruption."
Garland Doubles Down on Cover-up of FBI Misconduct in Mar-a-Lago Raid
Lloyd Billingsley: "William Barr remains the defender of the deep state at its worst."
Barr-a-Lago
Kash Patel: “And all I see is this raid continuing to backfire because it’s not being run by law Enforcement, it’s being run by government gangsters, like [FBI Director] Chris Wray, and [Attorney General] Merrick Garland."
FBI Blasted for ‘Staged’ Photo of Documents Seized in Mar-a-Lago Raid
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
The state issued a heat advisory Tuesday, warning excessive heat “will stress [the] energy grid.”
California Tells Residents Not to Charge EV Because Of Blackouts a Week After Saying State Would Ban Sale of Gas Cars
"Beaver dams, constructed out of sticks and mud, prevent rainwater and snowmelt from draining downstream. But the dams also work as both a natural fire break and a reservoir that stores water that slowly spreads out into the surrounding land to create a landscape much more resistant to droughts and fires."
California Researchers Reintroduce Beavers To Build Dams To Fight Droughts, Fires
"With the announcement, Toyota joins a slew of competitors and green energy initiatives making multibillion-dollar investments in Republican states following the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which gave significant tax incentives to produce batteries for electric vehicles and other green energy products in the U.S."
Toyota Triples Down on EVs as Red States’ Green Windfall Continues
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"They are having to raise wages to try to get workers in the doors but that keeps pushing inflation higher, that makes the Federal Reserve’s job harder, they are going to raise rates more. That’s where that recession risk comes."
Professor Warns U.S. Is Sitting on the ‘Brink of a Deeper Recession’
"Younger Americans have been particularly impacted by the dismal real estate market."
Four Times as Many Generation Z Members Got Parents’ Help Purchasing First Home Than Past Generations
Jack Posobiec: "This is a result of governments and central banks running policy to coddle older generations for three decades or more at the expense of future generations. We keep doing this: we put the debt on the backs of our children.”
Millennials Are Poorest Generation Since Great Recession "By Design"
"Liz Warren and others refuse to acknowledge the elephant in the room."
Politicians Who Caused Recession Predictably Pretend It Away

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"Graduates with college debt are expected to pay Biden back at the ballot box."
Joe Buys the Vote
"The new shiny government giveaway that will lead to ever higher tuition fees."
Biden’s Higher Education Student Debt Relief Gravy Train
"Roughly 163,000 of those recipients are individuals serving life sentences without the possibility of parole, the IRS told Rep. Don Bacon (R., Neb.)"
IRS Sent Over $1 Billion In Stimulus Checks To Locked Up Criminals, Including Murderers
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
“The whole question of [Chinese] Covid’s origins has been sidelined and treated as irrelevant.”
Lab-Leak Amnesia
Deane Waldman, M.D." The next phase of [Chinese] COVID drug funding means an eviscerating gut punch to American taxpayers."
Biden Doesn't Say Unfunded Mandate, But it Is
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“In my experience, we have seen increases when there are no consequences.”
Video: Border Patrol Head Testifies That Biden “No Consequences” Policy Has Caused Border Crisis
"A recent arrest in New York is the latest example of how “President” Joe Biden has done yeoman’s work to keep America’s pimps and sex traffickers well-staffed and ready to service their sleazy clientele. Between Biden’s open-border policy and his taxpayer-funded intra-state transportation of illegal aliens, he’s done more to traffick human victims than just about any Democrat since the old slave days."
Super-Pimp Joe Biden Keeps America's Sex Traffickers Well-Staffed
While Biden complained about guns flowing north to south, he made no mention of the 3,385,016 people known to have illegally flowed south to north across that same border during Biden's [so-called quote-unquote "presidency"]."
Biden Addresses "Mexico's Biggest Complaint" About Southern Border; No Mention of U.S. Objections
“Mayor Lightfoot loves to tout the responsibility of her city to welcome all regardless of legal status, and I look forward to seeing this responsibility in action as these migrants receive resources from a sanctuary city with the capacity to serve them."
Texas Gov Sends Bus of Illegal Migrants to Another Democrat-Run City
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"The defeat of Marylin Mosby was a huge victory. But with a left-wing mayor still undermining the rule of law in Baltimore, the fight isn’t over yet."
When The Lawless Stand Up
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Twitter banning journalists who break with narratives being pushed by the federal government is worrisome for the future of free speech."
Biden’s White House Colluded With Big Tech To Gag Covid Dissenters Like Alex Berenson
"Off to the gulag for 'toxic masculinity.'"
Andrew Tate: Cancelled by the Woke Mob
"Like CNN, WaPo is discovering that Donald Trump really is their daddy and they probably all would secretly admit to missing him at this point. It really is a classic “be careful what you wish for” scenario."
Popcorn: NY Times Writes About WaPo's Financial Struggles
"Can the media be shamed for their coverup? Don't be silly."
Forgetting the Americans Killed by Palestinian Terrorists
ABORTION
"It still has a way to go before reaching the governor’s desk — another vote in the House and then a battle in the state’s Senate as lawmakers accuse each other of attempting to control a woman’s body."
South Carolina House Passes Near-Total Abortion Ban With Exceptions
"Republican reticence on Dobbs is not going to win them any favors this November."
Speak up on Abortion
"Conservative voters don’t elect Republicans to be benchwarmers, but to rack up exactly the kind of culture war wins that Dobbs was."
The Midterms Lesson Republicans Should Take From Dobbs Isn’t To Back Down But To Fight Harder
SECOND AMENDMENT
"It is patently true that some people should not have guns. I was shot at once by a man strung out on drugs who was shooting at random people out of his apartment window. So I get it. But how will this list be used? And who will it be used against?"
New York Legislators Want Credit Card Companies To Track Gun and Ammo Purchases
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Boland made similar comments about conservative job applicants, stating that he preferred hiring younger candidates as they tend to be more liberal. The assistant principal said that he designs his interview questions to help understand whether applicants are liberal or conservative."
Connecticut Assistant Principal Placed On Leave For Allegedly Bragging He Blacklisted Catholic, Conservative Teachers
“We are placing them in a situation where they think that this is safe, that this is healthy, this is how we show love,” [parent Alicia] Beget said. “And so they are being exploited by very evil people. This is part of a larger agenda that those at the very top are well aware of what they’re doing,”
California School District Disseminates Health Education Curriculum With 10 Sexual Preferences, 8 Genders: Report
Christopher F. Rufo: "In Chicago, the city’s largest children’s hospital has partnered with local school districts to promote radical gender theory."
Unholy Alliance
"This sort of violence—‘cleaning up after the cops’ and theft of unhoused people’s homes and belongings—is antithetical to the values of FOCUS," the statement said. (go FOCUS yourselves - jjs)
Yale Group Says Students Who Cleaned Litter From Homeless Camp Committed ‘Violence’
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"This tribal rhetoric of black Americans being incapable of obtaining a photo ID is not only condescending but riddled with racist tropes: You’d have to believe we are too dumb, incapable or lazy to truly accept that this singular requirement would keep millions of black people from participating in the voting process . . . The Democratic establishment has manufactured this perverted tribal rhetoric about black people for political power. Nothing more."
John Fetterman’s Reasons for Opposing Voter ID Are an Insult to Black Americans
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Indiana’s Supreme Court has ruled unanimously in favor of upholding the termination of a former Catholic high school teacher due to his same-sex marriage. The unanimous 4-0 decision affirmed that the school is protected by church autonomy under the First Amendment in its firing of Joshua Payne-Elliott in 2019." (Mike Pence hardest hit - jjs)
Indiana Supreme Court Upholds Firing of Catholic School Teacher Over Same-Sex Marriage
"Religious freedom for the win."
5th Circuit Rules Govt Cannot Punish Religious Hospitals for Refusing to Perform Abortions, Gender Transitions
"Though the courts and government have bent over backwards to accommodate Muslims, women, minorities, the disabled, and the sexually perverse, people with Christian beliefs like Groff have been told by the courts that their beliefs are essentially worthless. They must either abandon those beliefs, or become second class citizens."
Today's Blacklisted American: Post Office Forces Christian Worker to Quit Rather Than Work on Sunday
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Fetterman has held just two public appearances since suffering a stroke in March. During speeches in Erie and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Fetterman took shots at Republican opponent Mehmet Oz’s wealth and primary New Jersey residence. Fetterman spoke haltingly and stumbled over his words in both speeches, and he has acknowledged working with a speech therapist."
John Fetterman Attends Ritzy Hamptons Fundraiser While Continuing To Duck Debates
"The Fetterman campaign in Pennsylvania declined a September debate, while Katie Hobbs and Mark Kelly in Arizona are questioning debate format rules."
Democrat Candidates In Key Battleground States Are Ducking Debates With Their GOP Opponents (rope-a-dope and hope for the steal on Election Day - jjs)
"With Gillum facing federal corruption charges, campaign aides join new group with its own ties to corrupt leaders."
Disgraced Florida [Democrat] Pol Andrew Gillum’s Top Aides Behind Multimillion-Dollar Weed Initiative
POLITICS
“I want to thank your outstanding governor, Tom Wolf. Tom and I have been friends a long time. He’s truly one of the best governors in the United States of America. . . "
Biden: ‘Not a Joke. Not a Joke.’‘I’m Not Joking.’‘Not a Joke.’‘Not a Joke.’‘I’m Not Joking.’‘I’m Not Joking.’‘Not a Joke.’‘Not a Joke.’
"Fox News reported that records show that the Siebel Family Revocable Trust, which is run by Kenneth Siebel Jr. and Judith Siebel, the parents of Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel, gave $5,000 to the Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC in early April."
Trust Linked to Gavin Newsom’s Family Donates Thousands to Ron DeSantis
"Wisconsin Dem refuses to say whether he’ll make a public appearance with the [so-called quote-unquote "president"]."
Mandela Barnes Faces Political Dilemma as Biden Visits Wisconsin
"Rampant inflation, open borders, rising crime, now a $1 trillion loan bailout for college grads. Get mad!" (meh, get even - jjs)
It’s Time For Voters To Unleash Their Inner Howard Beale
"A modest proposal to eliminate the capital city."
End D.C.
"Though she lost the special election, Palin, Peltola and a third Republican challenger are competing for the full term seat in the November election. The special election was held to fill the vacant seat for the late Republican Alaska Rep. Don Young, who passed away on March 18 at the age of 88 after losing consciousness on a flight from Los Angeles to Seattle." (no way the Deep State allows her to win - jjs)
Sarah Palin Loses Alaska House Election To Dem Challenger Mary Peltola
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"The vote would likely be similar to the 2014 referendum in Crimea, where returning to the control of Kyiv was not an option on the ballot."
Russia Orchestrates Referendum to Annex Occupied Portions of Ukraine
"All in all, the situation remains exactly as it was in June, a brutal stale-mate, with Russia so far showing the only real gains, though all those gains have been small, difficult, and costly. In fact, those gains have been so slow and difficult that Russia certainly won’t be able to conquer the Ukraine any time soon, if at all."
The Ukrainian War: After Six Months
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Biden making ‘grave mistake’ by ignoring Iranian nuclear infractions." (it's not a mistake; it's malice aforethought - jjs)
Lawmakers Push Back Against Biden Effort to Close Probe Into Iranian Nuclear Sites
"Cold War II must be fought and won in the same way as Cold War I." (what if it goes hot, as it is projected to do? - jjs)
Taiwan: Peace, Stability, and the Status Quo
"Whoever wins the premiership then, however, will have to face a general election within about 28 months. Given the severity of Britain’s problems, the Tories will undoubtedly face an uphill battle. That means Sir Keir Starmer, Leader of the Opposition, must now be taken seriously as a potential prime minister."
In Britain, the Time Bell Rings
Forsyth also noted that a significant faction in parliament may be yearning for a Johnson return, stating that “polling suggests that there are a large number of conservative members who kind of wish he was still there.”
Is Boris Johnson Planning a Political Comeback?
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
"At the Bagram air base, where a year earlier Afghan civilians died falling from U.S. military planes evacuating Kabul, the Taliban displayed a show of force, marching infantry and parading dozens of U.S. aircraft and vehicles."
Taliban Parades US Military Gear in Celebration of Afghanistan Withdrawal Anniversary
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Pacific Air Force base bans references to gender, age, and race."
U.S. Forces Ordered to Stop Using Gender Pronouns to Improve ‘Lethality’
"The U.S. government was concerned that the chips, which have applications in artificial intelligence work, might be co-opted by the Chinese or Russian militaries, according to Nvidia’s quarter two report. The chips were expected to generate $400 million in quarterly sales, revenue which is now in jeopardy from the new restriction, according to Reuters."
US Chipmaker Ordered To Halt Sales Of Semiconductors To China
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"What role does the UN play in protecting religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq?"
The Iraqi Government Continues to Neglect the Survivors of the Yezidi Genocide
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"He campaigned on plans to introduce universal basic income and alternatives to policing, to replace vacant lots with urban farms and to resolve chronic issues with the city’s water and roads in order to break the 'cycles of humiliation' he said black residents experience in Jackson, the most heavily black large city in the U.S. Instead, the city’s water problems have worsened, and Republican Gov. Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency Tuesday because running water is not reliably available nor safe for consumption."
Jackson’s Mayor Wanted to Create the "Most Radical" City on Earth. Now They Have No Drinking Water
"The Obama administration really messed up the patent process in America."
The Death Warrant for American Ingenuity
How about using the friggin' rearview mirrors and side mirrors, like we did back in the Stone Age?
Ford Recalls Over 277,000 Trucks, Cars Due to Rear Camera Lens Issue
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have produced a false-color infrared view of M74, a face-on spiral galaxy located 32 million light years away."
Webb's Infrared View of a Face on Spiral Galaxy
"[This] illustrates the on-going compartmentalization of the satellite servicing industry. Some companies are making tugs. Some are launching repair robots. Others are making robots to remove space junk. And Orbit Fab is going to build fuel stations where everyone else can get fuel."
Orbit Fab to Offer Orbital Depot for Refueling Hydrazine Fuel in Satellites
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"The Biden [junta] may begin pressuring other countries to push vulnerable youth into hormones and surgeries."
America, Exporter of the Gender Revolution
"Writing that biological males should not compete in women’s sports cost him his job."
Fire Department Chaplain Sacked for Transphobic ‘Sin’
“The best gift I could get.”
31-Year-Old Transgender Footballer Celebrates Being Able to Use Same Changing Room as Team of Teenage Girls
"Public records The Federalist obtained show librarians seeking to host gender-bending performances and market them to children in Republican-leaning suburbs."
‘So Excited’: Emails Show Local Librarians Recruiting Drag Performers For Kids
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
The magazine reviewed the causes and organizations to which these teams are handing out millions of dollars in donations and found that many support sex-change surgery, hormone treatments, and other dangerous procedures for 'transitioning' teens and pre-teens." (bunt with a "c" - jjs)
Report: 20 MLB Teams ‘Promote or Fund’ Groups that Perform Child Sex Change Operations
“Go woke, go broke” is the slogan that keeps on giving. The latest installment of woke, politically active retailers now facing financial ruin in the form of shuttering stores and mass layoffs is none other than conservative-hating Bed Bath & Beyond.
Bed Bath & Beyond Goes Broke: Retailer to Shutter Stores, Cut Staff After Cancelling MyPillow Last Year
"Gluing trash together to desecrate the real beauty of art."
Paul Watson Video: Let's Check in on Modern Art
Christian Toto: "[So-called quote-unquote "president's"] attack on 70 million Trump voters no match for Netflix’s healing hit film."
Purple Hearts Heals While Biden Stirs Up Hate, Division
"As Disney leans into progressive themes, evidence indicates many conservative and faith-driven families are leaving the Magic Kingdom."
Faith-Centered Families Don’t Need Disney Anymore, But Does Disney Need Them
HITHER & YON
Robert Spencer: "Leftist establishment and Pizza Hut hardest hit."
Man Falsely Credited With Ending the Cold War Dies
"Did he die a Christian? Only the Lord knows."
Mikhail Gorbachev Meets His Maker
Margot Cleveland: "There is no good communist, notwithstanding the lauding of Mikhail Gorbachev — both now and four decades ago." (he is finally a good commie; he's now dead - jjs)
Media Decried Trump’s Putin Posture But Hail Mikhail Gorbachev as a Good Communist
"In 1966, Reynolds got his big break and landed the role of Agent Colby on ABC’s The F.B.I.which became his most famous role to date. His stint on the show lasted two seasons before he was made a series regular and asked to stay on for six seasons." (The irony, it burns. RIP - jjs)
The F.B.I. Actor William Reynolds Dead at 90
FINALLY . . .
"Silbert’s harrowing testimony is the latest development in the trial of Irmgard Furchner, who worked as a secretary at Stutthof from June 1943 through April 1945. Now 97, Furchner is accused of assisting in the murder of more than 11,000 people during her tenure at the camp. She is being tried as a juvenile because she was under 21 at the time of the alleged crimes." (lest we forget, which I fear we have - jjs)
Cannibalism at Camp Stutthof: Holocaust Survivor Testifies to Life of "Hell"

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1 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 01, 2022 07:36 AM (uvymP)

2 All Hail JJ.

Posted by: mpfs at September 01, 2022 07:37 AM (cJ8cw)

3 Hello, semi-fascists! For sheer entertainment value, I emailed my Senators and asked if they supported the Vegetable in Chief's remarks.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 01, 2022 07:38 AM (4olE8)

4 Morning Horde.

Posted by: mpfs at September 01, 2022 07:38 AM (cJ8cw)

5

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 01, 2022 07:38 AM (SWi3y)

6 Morning peeps.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 01, 2022 07:39 AM (BFigT)

7 top ten, yo

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 01, 2022 07:39 AM (Ynyl9)

8 I'm a semi-sweet fascist.

Posted by: fd at September 01, 2022 07:39 AM (sn5EN)

9 3 Hello, semi-fascists! For sheer entertainment value, I emailed my Senators and asked if they supported the Vegetable in Chief's remarks.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 01, 2022 07:38 AM (4olE

You joke, but everyone here should probably do that...and mention they find the language "beneath the position/station of the president."

Sound like a NeverTrumper and they are sure to actually do something about it...

Posted by: Nova local at September 01, 2022 07:39 AM (exHjb)

10
I'm saddened this morning to note the passing of actor William Reynolds at the age of 90.

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 01, 2022 07:39 AM (ENBF0)

11 JJ,
You aren't morbid. It was standard procedure reading the obits every morning. Granted, we are a family of funeral directors.

Posted by: mpfs at September 01, 2022 07:40 AM (cJ8cw)

12 CBS has 3 - THREE! - series about the FBI. FBI, FBI: Most Wanted, and FBI: International.

ABC has The Rookie: Feds.

This can't be coincidence.

Posted by: blaster at September 01, 2022 07:40 AM (6TxNR)

13 National Review is such a ridiculous and bizarre publication now..

Rich Lowry: It's better not to be under investigation.

This is Rich excreting the big idea that Trump is whining about being investigated and if he's not guilty, he should just shut up and go away because he sucks and is a poopy head and no one likes him.

The commenters and on this article are even more revolting.

And this is ostensibly a conservative publication.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 07:41 AM (guapm)

14 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 01, 2022 07:41 AM (BRHaw)

15 McCarthy notes the bias of any DC jury, yet ignores that such a fact should mandate a change of venue.

Posted by: Brett at September 01, 2022 07:42 AM (2ndRB)

16 fascist (noun):

1 - someone who believes in all powerful government;

2 - someone who believes government should be much smaller

[see also" "Modern Western/American Liberal"]

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 01, 2022 07:42 AM (Ynyl9)

17 Our Ship of State is Becoming a Ship of Fools

Becoming?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 01, 2022 07:42 AM (uvymP)

18 Facts don't matter. Beria is going to indict PDJT for something, and once that happens, they intend to convict him and imprison him. That story is already written.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2022 07:42 AM (6+rRi)

19 "A deeper recession"? Don't we have to be in a recession first?

Posted by: fd at September 01, 2022 07:43 AM (sn5EN)

20 Masks are off. How will normies react when they discover the pure hatred and insanity that motivates the left?

Posted by: IanDeal at September 01, 2022 07:43 AM (MGjjz)

21 Good morning dear morons and feliz cumpleanos JJ

This isn't really new but it has become more open and brazen. The FBI and the IRS have decades-long history as secret state police.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2022 07:43 AM (EZebt)

22 9 You joke, but everyone here should probably do that...and mention they find the language "beneath the position/station of the president."

Posted by: Nova local at September 01, 2022 07:39 AM (exHjb)

Absolutely. Now odds are good that the staffer is going to give me a stock answer of "our sacred democracy," "January 6th!" and "right wing terrorist" but I still want them answering this.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 01, 2022 07:44 AM (4olE8)

23 good morning, J.J. Great job, as usual.

About that rear view camera issue and using mirrors, etc. Most cars, these days, have huge blind spots, created, most likely, by a combination of "safety standards" and EPA regulations.

For instance, the A pillar on newer vehicles is huge, creating an enormous blind spot behind which it's possible to lose sight of a pedestrian.

Then, with the way back windows have disappeared, along with the enormous tail end a lot of newer vehicles have, it's very difficult to discern anything behind the car. This particular problem was probably created due to mileage standards. The solution was the invention of the rear view camera. And so on.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 01, 2022 07:45 AM (5pTK/)

24 "FBI and DOJ allies on the left are gunning for Ron Johnson’s Senate seat, and it’s obvious why."

I'm concerned about Ron Johnson's seat. His opponent is a radical BLM guy. Awful. Dave in Fla tells me not to worry. I hope he's right.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 01, 2022 07:46 AM (45fpk)

25 Barr is a gun for hire. And he isn't being paid by Trump.

Speaking of nazis, the Pentagon is refusing to day who paid to send the azovs to Disney, or why they all needed long sleeves in August in Southern Florida. Nazi tats?

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 07:46 AM (Zzbjj)

26 McCarthy is delusional jackass schilling for the preservation of the Stasi quo.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 01, 2022 07:47 AM (5pTK/)

27 That staged photo really sticks in my craw. The cover sheets were fake (an SF-704 does not have any secondary classifications on it, only Secret), the documents were laid out next to a window with the vertical blinds open, and the FBI actually had and used a camera in the presence of supposed classified. All of which is a huge no no.

Unless the documents were declassified. Which means the DOJ is pulling another Carter Page FISA warrant game on the court.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli)) at September 01, 2022 07:47 AM (l7Kbv)

28 The FBI has always been a corrupt and incompetent organization. When I lived out in CA in the 70s the Oakland cops always hated them. Their reason then was when they went to bust a gang of drug dealers the FBI would show up and take credit for the bust the after the OPD had already done all the leg work.

Posted by: vic /S at September 01, 2022 07:47 AM (mZwKe)

29 John Fetterman Attends Ritzy Hamptons Fundraiser While Continuing To Duck Debates

He's gonna debate with ducks ?

Ducks are tricky.

Posted by: JT at September 01, 2022 07:47 AM (T4tVD)

30 24 i keep getting emails declaring he is down 7 points.

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 07:48 AM (Zzbjj)

31 hiya

Posted by: JT at September 01, 2022 07:48 AM (T4tVD)

32 The "Screaming Vegetable" needed a day off to recover from the Wilkes Barre PA speech. Tonight or whenever the meds kick in he'll be spewing hatred from independence hall. I'm using small "i" and small "h" because we aren't that country the founding fathers envisioned anymore.

Posted by: mpfs at September 01, 2022 07:49 AM (cJ8cw)

33 Masks are off. How will normies react when they discover the pure hatred and insanity that motivates the left?
------------------
I'm assuming they'll be told the hate is virtuous and just.

Step 1...remove agency
Step 2...dehumanize
Step 3...call for violence

Posted by: MJ at September 01, 2022 07:49 AM (zwDuR)

34 Want to see something neat?

“We’re going to have one whopper of a recession in 2023.” - gobankingrates, tinyurl.com/2z4k75bd

‘Whopper’ of a Recession in 2023: Prominent Economist Predicts Major Fallout – and He’s Not Alone- yahoo finance, tinyurl.com/2efbz7b2

Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University, said that he believes the U.S. is heading for a “whopper” of a recession next year - Barrons, tinyurl.com/2e9d8myb

Next year. They're predicting we may have a recession NEXT year.

If you haven't noticed, we have gone full 1984.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 07:49 AM (n9KGe)

35 Okay, let's say the choice is between getting rid of the Patriot Act and Obamacare and only one can be done away with.

What's your decision?

For me, it's pretty easy: Patriot Act, hands down.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 01, 2022 07:49 AM (5pTK/)

36 Good morning horde

Can't wait for Joey Jello Brains words of wisdom today

Posted by: Skip's phone at September 01, 2022 07:49 AM (lGgQ5)

37 Faux Nooz talkers all yammering on about Reforming FBI and Restoring Trust ™

Hey Gaslighters, fuck that noise. Destroy FBI. Farm out the lab functions. Do not even think about farming out the totalitarian State Security functions.

Posted by: FBI=KGB at September 01, 2022 07:49 AM (zfVI/)

38 @18 Huck Follywood-It won't be a surprise if or when it happens. The left certainly telegraphs their plans/intentions if you listen.

Posted by: JROD at September 01, 2022 07:49 AM (0jZnq)

39 Barr is not wrong. Trump is incorrigible.

And just because he is your best friend, doesn't mean he is not also his own worst enemy.

(I voted for the guy twice. But we're idiots to overlook his obvious flaws.)

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 07:49 AM (g1EEm)

40
And this is ostensibly a conservative publication.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 07:41 AM (guapm)

NR has not been a conservative publication for decades.

Posted by: vic /S at September 01, 2022 07:50 AM (mZwKe)

41 Biden calls Republicans fascists and Trump was the mean one?

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 07:50 AM (Zzbjj)

42 i keep getting emails declaring he is down 7 points.

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 07:48 AM (Zzbjj)

His opponent is scary. I am dreading this election. We already have Tammy Baldwin (D-Lesbian).

Posted by: grammie winger at September 01, 2022 07:50 AM (45fpk)

43 "theft of unhoused people’s homes and belongings"

They probably stole those belongings to start with. Not that it matters. "Unhoused people" are a protected class, even more so if they are shooting up fentanyl and crapping in the street.

Posted by: fd at September 01, 2022 07:50 AM (sn5EN)

44 Hiya Skip's phone !

Nice cool morning out thar.....

Posted by: JT at September 01, 2022 07:51 AM (T4tVD)

45 About that rear view camera issue and using mirrors, etc. Most cars, these days, have huge blind spots, created, most likely, by a combination of "safety standards" and EPA regulations.

*

I'd love to know the MPG we'd be seeing out of modern engines if cars didn't have to weigh 3500+ pounds because of the additional mandatory safety controls.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 07:51 AM (n9KGe)

46 Which pol advised Trump to appoint Wray? This fucker needs to be pushed out of office

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 07:51 AM (Zzbjj)

47 Guten morgen horden!
Ihre papiere bitte. Schnell!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 01, 2022 07:52 AM (gbzeC)

48 mornin' y'all

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at September 01, 2022 07:52 AM (PbwT0)

49 I'm going to save you the agita and cut to the peroration of Stinkfinger's Sportspalast rally speech tonight:

"I have very often in my lifetime been a prophet and have been mostly derided. At the time of my entry into congress, it was in the first instance the Republicans who only greeted with laughter my prophecies that I would someday take over the leadership of the state and of the entire people of America and then, among other things, also bring the fascist Republican problem to its solution. I believe that this hollow laughter of Republicans in America has already stuck in its throat. I want today to be a prophet again: if the Republicans should succeed in stealing another election, the result will be not their victory, but the annihilation of the fascist Republican party in America!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 07:52 AM (AW0uW)

50 @29

>>He's gonna debate with ducks?

No, he's going to pull the Meat Puppet strategy of staying underground and allowing, in the words of the Meat Puppet, use the worlds largest vote fraud operation, to carry his retarded a** over the finish line.

As was noted, the PA SOS has monkeyed around with the voter registration/mail-in ballot request forms by combining them onto one form, two months before the election.

This will give them a very large universe of votes that will allow them to "fortify" the election.

They will never allow their march to be stopped.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 07:52 AM (guapm)

51 39 Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 07:49 AM (g1EEm)

So his personal failings/flaws are the actual issue and not the entire bureaucratic state gunning figuratively and probably literally for him because his mission and his successes will threaten their sinecures?

Gotcha! Hit my tip jar.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 01, 2022 07:52 AM (x0n13)

52 Today is American Chess Day.
Remembering and missing OregonMuse.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 01, 2022 07:52 AM (NpAcC)

53 Barr is not wrong. Trump is incorrigible.

And just because he is your best friend, doesn't mean he is not also his own worst enemy.

(I voted for the guy twice. But we're idiots to overlook his obvious flaws.)
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 07:49 AM (g1EEm)
------------

Is Barr saying incorrigible because of PDT's flaws, or, incorrigible because President Trump refused to go along with the Deep State program?

I'm well aware of the flaws of President Trump. However, they pale in comparison to the flaws of our current government.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 01, 2022 07:52 AM (5pTK/)

54
the documents were laid out next to a window with the vertical blinds open

You sure about that? Weren't the documents stored in a basement room? I see a folding louver door, which probably opened to a large closet.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 01, 2022 07:52 AM (jE276)

55 39. We don't . We're more concerned about how his policies gave us nice things like energy independence than if he's not a united calling his opponents fascists and breaking their doors down.

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 07:53 AM (Zzbjj)

56 morning horde

white rabbits white rabbits

off to the content...

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at September 01, 2022 07:53 AM (WhsXQ)

57 35 Okay, let's say the choice is between getting rid of the Patriot Act and Obamacare and only one can be done away with.

What's your decision?

For me, it's pretty easy: Patriot Act, hands down.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 01, 2022 07:49 AM (5pTK/)

Obamacare - life over privacy. And elimination of a task the feds had no business ever doing.

Posted by: Nova local at September 01, 2022 07:53 AM (exHjb)

58 52 Today is American Chess Day.
Remembering and missing OregonMuse.
Posted by: redridinghood

Miss ya, OM!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 01, 2022 07:53 AM (gbzeC)

59 52. Me too

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 07:54 AM (Zzbjj)

60 49 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 07:52 AM (AW0uW)

You know what else happened on September 1st. . . ?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 01, 2022 07:54 AM (x0n13)

61 How many of our GOPe SKUNCs have gone on to self-identify by not called out Biden and Company for violating Godwin's Law?

Posted by: Pascal at September 01, 2022 07:55 AM (d03z4)

62 "All within the truck, nothing outside the truck, nothing against the truck." - Benny "Jakebraker" Moosolene, the first Semi-Fascist.

Posted by: George V at September 01, 2022 07:55 AM (ugbqN)

63 @46

>>Which pol advised Trump to appoint Wray? This fucker needs to be pushed out of office

Christopher Wray was a GOPe world flunky, he was Chris Christies personal attorney during BridgeGate and offered to Trump as the only guy Mitch and his merry band of Senate f**ktards would allow to be put forward to replace Comey, who was onther GOPe world flunky.

It's a rigged game, always has been, always will be.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 07:55 AM (guapm)

64 Speaking of, one of my favorite related "government at work" stories is them mandating increased MPG in vehicles and car manufacturers figuring out that they could remove vent windows and gain 0.5mpg over the fleet. So they did. And that fantastic way to easily and cheaply move air around the cabin was removed from vehicles because of MPG requirements.

And what happened?

People still needed airflow, so they began ordering the air conditioner option. Reducing MPG by around 2mpg per vehicle, to say nothing of chemicals and the like.

Government at work.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 07:55 AM (n9KGe)

65 Today is American Chess Day.
Remembering and missing OregonMuse.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 01, 2022 07:52 AM (NpAcC)

Such a lovely man. I miss the Chess and Dress thread, and his gentle humor.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 01, 2022 07:55 AM (45fpk)

66 Barr is not wrong. Trump is incorrigible.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 07:49 AM (g1EEm)
===

Prove it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2022 07:55 AM (EZebt)

67 Good morning grammie!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 01, 2022 07:56 AM (gbzeC)

68 I've got rear view cameras in a couple of cars but rarely use them. I forget they are there. It just one more unneeded thing that will eventually break.

Posted by: fd at September 01, 2022 07:56 AM (sn5EN)

69 Barr is not wrong. Trump is incorrigible.

*

Set in his beliefs? Oh no, not that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 07:56 AM (n9KGe)

70 Anybody who thinks they won't indict Trump because they are afraid they won't get a conviction because he's innocent....

Obama's DOJ indicted and convicted the Republican governor of Virginia who had beaten his Democrat opponent by 30 points and was discussed as a potential challenger to Obama for President. For the "well it takes a long time for Justice" crowd, they announced the investigation and about 8 months later he had been convicted.

So what you might say? Well, his conviction was overturned by SCOTUS because what he was convicted of was NOT EVEN A CRIME.

Posted by: blaster at September 01, 2022 07:57 AM (6TxNR)

71 Lol, Andrew Tate made the Morning Report. He wouldn't last here at AoS either before a vocal few would be calling for him to be banned.

Posted by: JROD at September 01, 2022 07:57 AM (0jZnq)

72 I'm well aware of the flaws of President Trump. However, they pale in comparison to the flaws of our current government.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

Those aren't flaws. They are the main features of The Gerber President.

Posted by: mpfs at September 01, 2022 07:57 AM (cJ8cw)

73 Good morning peeps and happy first day of September.

Posted by: jewells45 at September 01, 2022 07:57 AM (nxdel)

74 Good morning vmom!

Posted by: grammie winger at September 01, 2022 07:57 AM (45fpk)

75 2023:
Trump is in prison. The economy is in tatters. Guns are being seized around the country. Food and energy is being rationed. Several SCOTUS Justices face threats to their lives from daily riots, and decide to retire.

These dystopian dreams of the left are all within their reach.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2022 07:57 AM (Q+1hc)

76 > the documents were laid out next to a window with the vertical blinds open
___________

The real crime there was that rug.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 01, 2022 07:58 AM (BFigT)

77 But hey, now we've got a president that believes half the country should be rounded up and put on trains because a few hundred unarmed people protested, and he can't be convinced otherwise. I guess that's a good incorrigible, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 07:58 AM (n9KGe)

78 Good morning peeps and happy first day of September.

Posted by: jewells45 at September 01, 2022 07:57 AM (nxdel)

I hate the 'bers but at least they're not as bad as the 'arys.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 01, 2022 07:58 AM (45fpk)

79 Is Barr saying incorrigible because of PDT's flaws, or, incorrigible because President Trump refused to go along with the Deep State program?

Barr gives his reason: "He continued to be self-indulgent and petty and turned off key constituencies that ultimately made the difference in the election."

I think that's true. How many times did I think to myself "someone please take his damn phone away".

I'm well aware of the flaws of President Trump. However, they pale in comparison to the flaws of our current government.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

Of course. And Trump did a lot of good. But he could have done a lot more good with a second term. Yes, Democrats "fortified". But that's not ultimately why he lost.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 07:58 AM (g1EEm)

80 J.J. it's kind of obvious Andrew McCarthy is delighted at the prospect of President Trump being indicted.

Gad, I despise these people.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 01, 2022 07:59 AM (5pTK/)

81 Masks are off. How will normies react when they discover the pure hatred and insanity that motivates the left?
Posted by: IanDeal at September 01, 2022 07:43 AM (MGjjz)

The same way they react at election time - "all those assholes in congress suck, but my guy's one of the good ones!" They'll simply say, "yeah, those Dems are crazy, but the nice Bernie lady down the street is one of the good ones!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 07:59 AM (AW0uW)

82 66 incorrigible is only a problem if the issue is important. None of Trump's alleged flaws are anywhere near as important as Biden's green agenda, tolerance of political violence ( Barr did nothing about BLM or antifa), or his idiotic welcoming of any and all migrants.

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 08:00 AM (Zzbjj)

83 I'm going to save you the agita and cut to the peroration of Stinkfinger's Sportspalast rally speech tonight:

...
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 07:52 AM (AW0uW)
===

Exactly right.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2022 08:00 AM (EZebt)

84 Barr gives his reason: "He continued to be self-indulgent and petty and turned off key constituencies that ultimately made the difference in the election."

**

Stop this silliness. Trump won. Trump not only won, but Trump won in such a way that they had to simultaneously shut down multiple cities across time zones to coordinate how to stop him.

Trump won in a landslide. He didn't "turn off" key anybody that mattered.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:00 AM (n9KGe)

85 80 J.J. it's kind of obvious Andrew McCarthy is delighted at the prospect of President Trump being indicted.

Gad, I despise these people.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 01, 2022 07:59 AM (5pTK/)

Scumbag moans about a rigged trial in DC yet goes on and on about how Garland has a solid case.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 01, 2022 08:00 AM (x0n13)

86 Thanks for all you do for us, JJ

Posted by: Jonah at September 01, 2022 08:01 AM (WY8d2)

87 79 of course it is.

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 08:01 AM (Zzbjj)

88 Of course. And Trump did a lot of good. But he could have done a lot more good with a second term. Yes, Democrats "fortified". But that's not ultimately why he lost.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 07:58 AM (g1EEm)
----------

You accept the premise Biden "won" the election? Because it's obvious Barr thinks Biden won the election fair and square.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 01, 2022 08:01 AM (5pTK/)

89 Today is American Chess Day.
Remembering and missing OregonMuse.
Posted by: redridinghood

Thirded !

Posted by: JT at September 01, 2022 08:01 AM (T4tVD)

90 Prove it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

No

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 08:01 AM (g1EEm)

91 You sure about that? Weren't the documents stored in a basement room? I see a folding louver door, which probably opened to a large closet.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 01, 2022 07:52 AM (jE276)

The left side of the picture looks like vertical blinds. Maybe they aren't, but the point about the cover sheets and camera stand. Another thing I saw was
only two proper classification headings out of all the pages scattered. Looked to me like a lot of unclass was included to bulk up the number of pages on the floor.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli)) at September 01, 2022 08:01 AM (l7Kbv)

92 81. Exactly, it's the crazy donks in LA, not the sensible ones in NYC

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 08:02 AM (Zzbjj)

93 Barr is not wrong. Trump is incorrigible.

Barr was the fat fuck who whined that Trump's tweets made it 'hard' for him to do his job.

And even if that were true - which I don't believe, since the bastard was a Deep State plant - the way to handle that is to speak to POTUS in private, not go flapping your fat mouth to the MFM.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 08:02 AM (AW0uW)

94 Thanks for all you do for us, JJ
Posted by: Jonah

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at September 01, 2022 08:03 AM (T4tVD)

95 For anyone who is keeping up at home:

"When the totals didn’t match, the recount was off by around 17,000 votes. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told the county to reconcile the data, and they then found the missing 17,000 votes a few hours later. However, what Moncla and Rossi have uncovered is that there is no paper trail, and no ballot images exist for those 17,000 votes. "

https://tinyurl.com/2jqrqau4

Landslide. Stop pretending otherwise.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:03 AM (n9KGe)

96 Someone is going to need a shitload of sage to burn inside independence hall after The Vegetable leaves tonight.

So many bad vibes.

Posted by: mpfs at September 01, 2022 08:03 AM (cJ8cw)

97 The Dems used a "crisis" to cheat their way to a win in 2020. I will never believe otherwise. There is no way Biden got 81 million votes.

Posted by: fd at September 01, 2022 08:03 AM (sn5EN)

98 @79
>>He continued to be self-indulgent and petty and turned off key constituencies that ultimately made the difference in the election.

Donald Trump got 74 million legitimate votes in the 2020 election, 15 pct more than 2016, The Meat Puppet did not get 81 million legitimate votes and anyone who claims that is a liar.

He more than likely got the same number of votes as Obama, 65 million.

The entire election was rigged from stem to stern, up and down the line.

Donald Trump is the rightful President and the Junta currently destroying this country is illegitimate.

But Trump's petty and self-indulgent?
Bollacks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 08:04 AM (guapm)

99 I didn't get much sleep last night. I had a nightmare that the Democrats switched the country to vote by mail and rank choice voting. Woke up around 3:30 and just starred at the ceiling. Could not get back to sleep.
Probably was because the last thing I read was the Democrat won against Palin in the special election.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 01, 2022 08:04 AM (NpAcC)

100 2023:
Trump is in prison. The economy is in tatters. Guns are being seized around the country. Food and energy is being rationed. Several SCOTUS Justices face threats to their lives from daily riots, and decide to retire.

These dystopian dreams of the left are all within their reach.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2022 07:57 AM (Q+1hc)

And none of the mythical "70 million pissed off gun owners" will do jack about it, either.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 08:04 AM (AW0uW)

101 You accept the premise Biden "won" the election? Because it's obvious Barr thinks Biden won the election fair and square.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

Yes, I accept the premise. None of Trump's legal challenges went anywhere. They were a total shitshow. So much of the so-called evidence of fraud was blatant, obvious BS.

That's not to say the scales weren't tipped against Trump. Biden did not win "Fair and Square". But I don't believe Trump would have won regardless.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 08:04 AM (g1EEm)

102 95 For anyone who is keeping up at home:

"When the totals didn’t match, the recount was off by around 17,000 votes. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told the county to reconcile the data, and they then found the missing 17,000 votes a few hours later. However, what Moncla and Rossi have uncovered is that there is no paper trail, and no ballot images exist for those 17,000 votes. "

https://tinyurl.com/2jqrqau4

Landslide. Stop pretending otherwise.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:03 AM (n9KGe)

In honor of our new commenter, this is what's known as "Quantum Mechanics."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 01, 2022 08:04 AM (x0n13)

103 Someone is going to need a shitload of sage to burn inside independence hall after The Vegetable leaves tonight.

So many bad vibes.
Posted by: mpfs

Where's Rosemary ?

Posted by: JT at September 01, 2022 08:04 AM (T4tVD)

104 At the root of all MR rants is the State Security apparatus that has ruled the country and the two parties since WWII—ie, for our entire lives. Our choice
1 learn to love it
2 vote it out of existence 😂
3 separate

Seems like a no brainer to this moron

Posted by: FBI=KGB at September 01, 2022 08:05 AM (zfVI/)

105 At 16 I had to parallel park my 22' long 69 Dodge Polara to pass my drivers test. But sure, I can see adults nowadays being unable to backup without a camera.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 01, 2022 08:05 AM (BOmIL)

106 However, what Moncla and Rossi have uncovered is that there is no paper trail, and no ballot images exist for those 17,000 votes. "

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It's worth noting Biden "won" Georgia by 12K votes.

Convenient, wasn't it?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:05 AM (n9KGe)

107 rezident retard's labeling a broad swath of the public fascists puts targets on everyone the left views as potential opposition to their goals. The coming violence will be directed at the political opposition but I think it's going to end up spilling into the public domain.

So called elections are coming up and I'll bet good money more than one America First/MAGA supported candidate is either arrested or assaulted and forced to drop out of the race.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 01, 2022 08:06 AM (BFigT)

108 Governor Abbott sent 2 buses to Chicago this morning.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 01, 2022 08:06 AM (NpAcC)

109 Oh, and I've had to change my mind. Dick Cheney is correct when he says President Trump is the "greatest threat" to our democracy.

Cheney knows darn well we're a republic, not a democracy and, the current denizens of DC shouldn't be anywhere near the levers of power in our country.

President Trump was doing what he could to remove power from DC and "our democracy" couldn't have that.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 01, 2022 08:06 AM (5pTK/)

110 G'mornin' Horde !

Thanks, JJ !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at September 01, 2022 08:06 AM (+eXoW)

111 104 Posted by: FBI=KGB at September 01, 2022 08:05 AM (zfVI/)

Not at the root, necessarily, but a big part of it. The gravamen of most of my discourses is the illusion post-WW2 of a real two party system as well as that of the checks and balances put into the Constitution and system of government.

Those are now long gone.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 01, 2022 08:07 AM (x0n13)

112 None of Trump's alleged flaws are anywhere near as important as Biden's green agenda, tolerance of political violence ( Barr did nothing about BLM or antifa), or his idiotic welcoming of any and all migrants.
Posted by: CN

In policy terms, 100%. But Trump's flaws caused him not to be re-elected which handed the power to Democrats to do all these things.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 08:07 AM (g1EEm)

113 "Hawaii closes its only coal power plant in a step toward renewable energy."

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 08:07 AM (yikp0)

114 That's not to say the scales weren't tipped against Trump. Biden did not win "Fair and Square". But I don't believe Trump would have won regardless.
Posted by: quantum mechanic

Apparently, you don't live in Luzerne County, PA.
My husband and I were forced to vote provisional in 2020. We were assured our votes would be counted.

They weren't.

Posted by: mpfs at September 01, 2022 08:08 AM (cJ8cw)

115 112 bullshit

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 08:08 AM (Zzbjj)

116 Here's the other key part of the election. Straight from the Constitution:

"The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof"

Every vote that was passed in a way that the legislatures didn't have a role in prescribing was an illegal vote. If the SOS or judges changed the voting "rules", the rules were illegal.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:08 AM (n9KGe)

117 No
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 08:01 AM (g1EEm)

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Can't.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2022 08:08 AM (EZebt)

118 Well, quantum mechanic, then, we're going to have to agree to disagree,

I believe in examining premises and I think you're starting from a very flawed premise.

Which is fine.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 01, 2022 08:08 AM (5pTK/)

119 103 She'll be on thyme. Bank on it

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 08:09 AM (Zzbjj)

120 With all due respect, JJ, please don't call me a semi-fascist or anything that resembles the word fascist. I understand why you say it but because of my age, I know full well who Mussolini was and what he did to my relative's homeland.

Posted by: sidney at September 01, 2022 08:09 AM (Uy/WF)

121 Kentucky corrections officer fired after posting video mocking the police killing of Breonna Taylor.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 08:09 AM (yikp0)

122 "Hawaii closes its only coal power plant in a step toward renewable energy."

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 08:07 AM (yikp0)

A step toward? So they're still working on it? And meantime, they cut the power plant? Genius.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 01, 2022 08:09 AM (45fpk)

123 A step toward? So they're still working on it? And meantime, they cut the power plant? Genius.
Posted by: grammie winger at September 01, 2022 08:09 AM (45fpk)
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Probably re-institute sacrificing virgins to the volcano when the power disruptions start.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 01, 2022 08:11 AM (5pTK/)

124 In honor of our new commenter, this is what's known as "Quantum Mechanics."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

In honor of all motivated reasoners everywhere, this is what's known as "faulty generalization".

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 08:11 AM (g1EEm)

125 Taiwanese shoot down 'unidentified' civilian drone that entered its airspace. The second time it's happened so far.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 08:11 AM (yikp0)

126 With all due respect, JJ, please don't call me a semi-fascist or anything that resembles the word fascist. I understand why you say it but because of my age, I know full well who Mussolini was and what he did to my relative's homeland.
Posted by: sidney

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Out of curiosity, do you want to use the government to force people to act the way you want, buy the things you want, or enforce speech codes?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:11 AM (n9KGe)

127 Bed Bath & Beyond Goes Broke: Retailer to Shutter Stores, Cut Staff After Cancelling MyPillow Last Year

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I couldn't be happier. Now, I have no idea what kind of actual impact their boneheaded move to cancel MyPillow really had on their bottom line. But I can say with absolute certainty that it angered me greatly when they did that...and my frequent shopping trips to BBB came to an abrupt halt. I will never buy anything from them again.

Woke to broke to joke...

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 01, 2022 08:11 AM (sVtYq)

128 112 In policy terms, 100%. But Trump's flaws caused him not to be re-elected which handed the power to Democrats to do all these things.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 08:07 AM (g1EEm)

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The antagonism against DeSantis from the NeverTrump crowd is proving that their resistance to Trump wasn't about his character.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 08:12 AM (LvTSG)

129 It's now shown that Trump won Georgia. The end.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:12 AM (n9KGe)

130 Speaking of ranked choice voting.

Democrat defeats Sara Palin in special election thanks to ranked choice voting.

https://tinyurl.com/y9pw6a28

Posted by: vic /S at September 01, 2022 08:12 AM (mZwKe)

131 Fascism in 1941: The union of big government, big business, and big labor to produce a society dominated by one political party with no free speech, economic, or religious rights if the party deems it counter to its goals.

Semi-fascism in 2022: Opposition to the union of big government, big business, and big labor to produce a society dominated by one political party with no free speech, economic, or religious rights if the party deems it counter to its goals.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 01, 2022 08:12 AM (ESjRY)

132 West Bank clashes see two Palestinians killed.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 08:12 AM (yikp0)

133 IIRC it's already been shown that Trump won Wisconsin, right? And PA?

And that's before we even get into the already mentioned tens of millions of unconstitutional mail-in ballots.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:13 AM (n9KGe)

134 130 Speaking of ranked choice voting.

Democrat defeats Sara Palin in special election thanks to ranked choice voting.

https://tinyurl.com/y9pw6a28
Posted by: vic /S at September 01, 2022 08:12 AM (mZwKe)

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File a lawsuit, Palin. Get the whole ranked choice voting thing struck down as unconstitutional.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 08:13 AM (LvTSG)

135 Vlad not attending Gorby's funeral.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 08:13 AM (yikp0)

136 133 IIRC it's already been shown that Trump won Wisconsin, right? And PA?

And that's before we even get into the already mentioned tens of millions of unconstitutional mail-in ballots.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:13 AM (n9KGe)

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The entire WI election was deemed invalid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 08:13 AM (LvTSG)

137 Democrat defeats Sara Palin in special election thanks to ranked choice voting.

I looked at the numbers last night, and the two R candidates got 59% of the vote. The communist got 40%. And yet...the communist gets the seat.

Is Begich a uniparty stooge? If so well played Begich. If he isn't he and Palin should be pelted with rotten tomatoes every day from now until the general election.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 01, 2022 08:14 AM (ESjRY)

138 I believe in examining premises and I think you're starting from a very flawed premise.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

Well, you tricked me. You asked me if I accept the premise that Biden won. Since I accept that Biden won, I agreed.

However, it's not a premise. Based on the evidence I saw (by no means exhaustive, I admit, but that's true of all of us), I accept the *fact* that Biden won, and would likely (> 90%) have won regardless of the fortification that took place in his favor.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 08:14 AM (g1EEm)

139 131. Some sites have changed the definition of fascist to mean right wing and against migrants

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 08:14 AM (Zzbjj)

140 …we are still working to recover from the previous presidential administration, which encouraged this behavior.

They really do treat Trump as Voldemort or Gozer, where saying his name will cause him to appear and destroy them.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 01, 2022 08:14 AM (zm+d5)

141 PA should have gone to Trump.
Philadelphia, 'nuf said.

Wyatt is probably on The Vegetable duty today. I bet he's pissed.

Posted by: mpfs at September 01, 2022 08:14 AM (cJ8cw)

142 the documents were laid out next to a window with the vertical blinds open

You sure about that? Weren't the documents stored in a basement room? I see a folding louver door, which probably opened to a large closet.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 01, 2022 07:52 AM

Basements in that part of Florida are very rare from what I have been told.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at September 01, 2022 08:15 AM (bVYXr)

143 And none of the mythical "70 million pissed off gun owners" will do jack about it, either.

Pretty much. For all the puffing, it’s a hobby with Bills of Rights protection.

Time to promote a new vision of states and groupings of states as sovereigns, lay the groundwork for amicable separation(s)

Posted by: FBI=KGB at September 01, 2022 08:15 AM (zfVI/)

144 @130

>>Democrat defeats Sara Palin in special election thanks to ranked choice voting.

It was also mail-in voting and the abandonment of signature verification as well.

Essentially Alaskan's were hoodwinked into turning their state into Oregon, Washington and Colorado.

So long and thanks for all the fish Alaska, you'll be a blue sh*thole within two election cycles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 08:15 AM (guapm)

145 black Americans being incapable of obtaining a photo ID

When Democrats went after Voter ID in Pennsylvania, they got this disabled Black woman to be the plaintiff. After months of lawyer nonsense, she took three buses and managed to get an ID, much too the unhappiness of the lawyers. They quickly found another plaintiff.

Posted by: SMOD at September 01, 2022 08:15 AM (CEQjs)

146 127. Nothing to do with my pillow. More about Amazon

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 08:16 AM (Zzbjj)

147 Racists believe black people are genetically equal to whites.

Homophobes believe it's not a big deal if men are attracted to men.

Fascists want a drastic reduction in the power of the government, with all government responsibilities performed at the lowest possible level, tax reductions and accountability across the board, and a total removal of the law making and law enforcement properties of unelected agencies.

What a weird timeline.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:16 AM (n9KGe)

148 The Dems used a "crisis" to cheat their way to a win in 2020. I will never believe otherwise. There is no way Biden got 81 million votes.

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It's laughable to believe he got anywhere near that total. Wanting it to be true, and it actually being true are two very different things.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 01, 2022 08:16 AM (sVtYq)

149 The forensic audit of the AZ election shows AZ's electoral votes shouldn't have been awarded, either way.

Fraud was shown to have occurred, enough to swing the election, but, there wasn't enough of a trail to prove who actually won AZ.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 01, 2022 08:17 AM (5pTK/)

150 There is no way Biden got 81 million votes.

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Trump did.

You can tell because that's what they say Biden got.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:17 AM (n9KGe)

151 The antagonism against DeSantis from the NeverTrump crowd is proving that their resistance to Trump wasn't about his character.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang

NeverTrump are low-T quislings. Their resistance to Trump is about whoever signs their checks.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 08:18 AM (g1EEm)

152 Unless the documents were declassified. Which means the DOJ is pulling another Carter Page FISA warrant game on the court.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli)) at September 01, 2022 07:47 AM (l7Kbv)

Yes. The FBI is "lying" to the court. The court is in no way involved in this. They are as pure as the driven snow. And let me emphasize, snow driven in an EV, not a dirty polluting car. -- CJ Joan Roberts

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 01, 2022 08:18 AM (uvymP)

153 148 well the quantum guy says it's true. We know that's bullshit, but sobis wicca

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 08:18 AM (Zzbjj)

154 A Prayer for Our National Election (authored by Fr. Frank Pavone.)
https://tinyurl.com/4k24s669

Posted by: redridinghood at September 01, 2022 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

155 130. Apparently Begich voters disliked Palin enough that they ranked the Democrat second which gave those votes to the Dem. I do not think ranked choice voting has any place in the US but Palin is not universally loved in Alaska.

Posted by: Jen the original at September 01, 2022 08:18 AM (hH9zb)

156 Dolly Parton launching "Doggie Parton" dog clothing and accessories line with proceeds going to charity.
🐶 🐕

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 08:18 AM (yikp0)

157 151 The antagonism against DeSantis from the NeverTrump crowd is proving that their resistance to Trump wasn't about his character.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang

NeverTrump are low-T quislings. Their resistance to Trump is about whoever signs their checks.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 08:18 AM (g1EEm)

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And the people signing their checks are GOPe donors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 08:18 AM (LvTSG)

158 20-year-old OH man in a coma after being stung by bees 20,000 times.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 08:19 AM (yikp0)

159 > Probably was because the last thing I read was the Democrat won against Palin in the special election.

Failin' lost because a lot of people still hate her for quitting and running off to make bank on the celeb circuit, and did not rank her as their second choice.

Looking at how the vote broke out, I don't think ranked choice made any difference in the outcome.

Traditional primary and general: Failin' wins the GOP primary. BagItch voters vote for Peltola in the general. Peltola wins.

Jungle primary + ranked choice general (what we actually had): Failin', BagItch, and Peltola move on to the general. BagItch voters do not mark Failin' as their second choice (whether by marking Peltola or just leaving it blank). Peltola wins.

Failin' wound up with about 31% of the vote, which I now believe is around her natural ceiling, and 31% just isn't enough to win under either system. Things may play out differently in the regular general in November (for a full term... this was a special general to fill the remaining term of Don Young, who died). We'll see.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:19 AM (bW8dp)

160 Democrat defeats Sara Palin in special election thanks to ranked choice voting.

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Mail-in ballots, ranked choice voting, same day registration...why, it's almost as if all these are actually dirty schemes designed to "elect" democrats.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 01, 2022 08:19 AM (sVtYq)

161 A good question for the Regime press commissar this morning would be: Is the President's marionette planning on declaring martial law tonight? Will the half of the country that supports PDJT be declared domestic terrorists? Will you outlaw the MAGA wing of the GOP?

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at September 01, 2022 08:19 AM (ICvs1)

162 124 Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 08:11 AM (g1EEm)

See me at #51.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 01, 2022 08:19 AM (x0n13)

163 But Trump's flaws caused him not to be re-elected which handed the power to Democrats to do all these things.

If that were true - which I do not for a moment believe - why didn't those same 'flaws' lose him the election in 2016?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 08:20 AM (AW0uW)

164 @137

>>Is Begich a uniparty stooge?

Begich is part of the 5 families that run Alaska, his dad was an Alaskan Pol, Murkowski dad was an Alaskan Pol, Palin was an outsider who somehow got through the guardrails and the Alaskan GOPe went to war with her and drove her out of office.

Begich's voters voted for the Donk as their second choice.

Add the obvious mail-in fraud, abandonment of signature verification and the Gay Wad EuroFag importation of rank choice voting and it's no wonder Palin lost.

Alaska will be a Donk sh*thole in two election cycles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 08:20 AM (guapm)

165 However, it's not a premise. Based on the evidence I saw (by no means exhaustive, I admit, but that's true of all of us), I accept the *fact* that Biden won, and would likely (> 90%) have won regardless of the fortification that took place in his favor.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 08:14 AM (g1EEm)
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Works for me! Now I too believe Biden won because Trump was incorrigible.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2022 08:20 AM (EZebt)

166 20-month-old girl dies after being hit by a massive hailstone in northeastern Spain.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 08:20 AM (yikp0)

167 > Apparently Begich voters disliked Palin enough that they ranked the Democrat second which gave those votes to the Dem.

Or simply didn't mark a second choice.

And yeah, Sarah is not overly popular here.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:21 AM (bW8dp)

168 If anything, the Biden presidency has taught us, that if you shower with your grandaughter, she will become a drug addled nymphomaniac.
So there's that.

Posted by: redenzo at September 01, 2022 08:21 AM (E7vND)

169 "California Tells Residents Not To Charge EV Because Of Blackouts A Week After Saying State Would Ban Sale Of Gas Cars"

This is not a bug in their plan. It' a feature. Now they have another reason to increase taxes on gasoline, diesel, natural gas, and electricity to Build Moar Green Energy Infrastructure Faster!

Posted by: Gref at September 01, 2022 08:21 AM (S6ZRI)

170 Yes. The FBI is "lying" to the court. The court is in no way involved in this. They are as pure as the driven snow. And let me emphasize, snow driven in an EV, not a dirty polluting car. -- CJ Joan Roberts
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 01, 2022 08:18 AM (uvymP)

After seeing what these 'judges' are pulling in the J6 self-guided Capitol tour trials, the entire Judiciary needs to be dismantled. Its beyond disgusting.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli)) at September 01, 2022 08:21 AM (l7Kbv)

171
Basements in that part of Florida are very rare from what I have been told.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at September 01, 2022 08:15 AM

A basement there would have to be extremely solid and watertight, and there would be no way anyone would chance installing windows in them. The soil/ground is most likely very soft sand, easily shifting around.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 01, 2022 08:21 AM (jE276)

172 I looked at the numbers last night, and the two R candidates got 59% of the vote. The communist got 40%.

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That kinda portends they'll easily get the seat in November if people turn out, no?

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 01, 2022 08:21 AM (sVtYq)

173 "File a lawsuit, Palin. Get the whole ranked choice voting thing struck down as unconstitutional."

She should but will probably have no standing.

Posted by: fd, semi-sweet-fascist at September 01, 2022 08:21 AM (sn5EN)

174 This is a serious obstruction case that appears as if it would not be difficult to prove. The Justice Department is under immense pressure from the Democratic base to indict Trump, and the jury pool in Washington, DC, where the government would file any indictment, is intensely anti-Trump. It is thus hard to imagine that Attorney General Merrick Garland will decide against filing charges.

So... the Dems want trump to go to prison for something. The DoJ might have a little something, so why wouldn't he put on a show trial in front of an obviously partisan jury made up of people who rabidly want trump to go to prison.

Strong work McCarthy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 01, 2022 08:22 AM (Wrs74)

175 > Add the obvious mail-in fraud

This was an in-person election.

Don't bloviate about things you don't understand.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:22 AM (bW8dp)

176 The BBB close to me will surely close. There are hardly any people in there on any given day. They have always been way overpriced. Competition from Amazon and others did them in. I like to think the My Pillow decision may have helped

Posted by: jewells45 at September 01, 2022 08:22 AM (nxdel)

177 Biden has no control over his bladder much less over Iranian infractions. That man is Blinken, and his kalorama handlers. If Blinken had any integrity, he'd resign rather than push for a nuclear Iran.

Trump was the only leader in DC who gave a fuck about the citizenry. The others care about their portfolio.

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 08:23 AM (Zzbjj)

178 It was discussed briefly last night, but needs to be brought to everyones attention

PARENTS

Fortnite has gone gay. Subtle, sneaky rainbow stuff, but confirmed that it's with a gay agenda. Lots of subliminal stuff, too. "Come hang out where the cool people are" at the selection screens, but only for the rainbow stuff. All kinds of free rainbow stuff for your little boys, and you know how much little kids like rainbows!

Horrible grooming. Be aware of what your kids are doing, and what's being done to your kids. Because they're being turned against what you teach them.

https://tinyurl.com/yj6pr4op

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:24 AM (n9KGe)

179 > Failin', BagItch, and Peltola

No endorsement of Peltola implied. I just haven't thought up a derogatory nickname for her yet. Working on it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:24 AM (bW8dp)

180 172. How many GOP candidates are on the Nov ballot.

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 08:24 AM (Zzbjj)

181 "File a lawsuit, Palin. Get the whole ranked choice voting thing struck down as unconstitutional."

She should but will probably have no standing.
Posted by: fd,

Moot point. Election is over. Moveon.org. File a lawsuit before the next election. Oops, no standing. Election hasn't happened yet, can't prove harm, let the process play out.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 01, 2022 08:25 AM (Wrs74)

182 If you just relax and let the fraud take control, it will go much easier for you.

Posted by: Bret Baier at September 01, 2022 08:25 AM (mVILZ)

183 Andy McCarthy translated:
Trump defied DOJ Authoritie! Arrest that man!

Posted by: Zek at September 01, 2022 08:25 AM (OzNIz)

184 Don't bloviate about things you don't understand.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:22 AM (bW8dp)
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I honestly questioned the wisdom of Sarah Palin running. Her family, from what I understand, has basically come apart, since she got involved in the McCain race. I think, after everything that happened, Sarah liked the political spotlight just a bit too much and chose it over family.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 01, 2022 08:25 AM (5pTK/)

185 Everyone ready to get tarnished tonight by our own fake preznit

Posted by: Eli Cash at September 01, 2022 08:25 AM (tKntl)

186 It is really AK fault for letting themselves get snookered into ranked choice voting. Remember, if the dems want it, the only reason is to steal elections.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 01, 2022 08:26 AM (Wrs74)

187 I masturbate to The Untouchables.

Ironic, really.

Posted by: Sean Hannity at September 01, 2022 08:26 AM (bSso7)

188 > I honestly questioned the wisdom of Sarah Palin running.

Yeah, a lot of people hate her guts here, even people I consider to be extremely conservative overall.

I wish she would go back to Hollywood and stay there.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:27 AM (bW8dp)

189 162. He's incorrigible.

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 08:27 AM (Zzbjj)

190 It is really AK fault for letting themselves get snookered into ranked choice voting. Remember, if the dems want it, the only reason is to steal elections.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 01, 2022 08:26 AM (Wrs74)

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And the GOPe also wants it, so they can keep out candidates who are not with their agenda.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 01, 2022 08:27 AM (5pTK/)

191 Make me your second choice!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 01, 2022 08:27 AM (Wrs74)

192 This is a serious obstruction case that appears as if it would not be difficult to prove. The Justice Department is under immense pressure from the Democratic base to indict Trump, and the jury pool in Washington, DC, where the government would file any indictment, is intensely anti-Trump. It is thus hard to imagine that Attorney General Merrick Garland will decide against filing charges.

--

I dread it, but I know it's coming. He will be arrested and charged. The show trial will be held in the Swamp and he will be imprisoned. I'd like to think it would ultimately be the beginning of the end for them, but they literally control everything. And they are building mechanisms right now to stop all dissent. Very dangerous times...

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 01, 2022 08:27 AM (sVtYq)

193 "Do Medical Experts Pose a Threat to the Consent of the Governed?"

I'll know we've turned a corner when we stop asking these stupid f*cking questions.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 01, 2022 08:27 AM (H8QX8)

194 Someone posted this yesterday (sorry I don't remember who). It's a long read but worth it. Conservative Treehouse:

"Why is Washington DC So Intensely Focused on Targeting Donald Trump and Labeling His Supporters as Threats to Democracy?"

https://tinyurl.com/2ntqfmrw

One of the craziest parts is the video of James Clapper:

https://youtu.be/3Dd7dR-esLE

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:28 AM (n9KGe)

195 183 and it's that turd who'll be delivering the " rebuttal". Should be Trump.

Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 08:28 AM (Zzbjj)

196 Note how that NRO weak sister-- who's such big brain power barely convicted a guy who admitted his crime--relies on two sources unquestionably: The FBI and the media.

All these NeverTrump losers keep avoiding the same issue that puts the lie to the whole raid: Cite the law which says the President did not have the authority to de-classify the documents.
The wishy-washy scum keep dancing around that very simple, very easy to answer question.

On the other side, Trump has cited multiple laws, cases and even an executive order that declassified the documents.
But, because the NeverTrump agree with their very good friends, the radical left, they completely ignore that and do all they can to avoid addressing it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 01, 2022 08:29 AM (Zf0+a)

197 I haven't heard anyone actually dissect the meaning of documents as "government property."

Why isn't a copy as good as the original? If the USG had copies, or were provided copies (or requested copies) how would the precious, precious, National Archives be denied any paper or information it wanted?

If the issue was security of the documents, why couldn't they proposed a security agreement pending resolution in the Courts? People do this in civil cases all the time with the most sensitive documents possible, e.g. to agree to maintain a person's psychiatric records stored confidentially pending adjudication in discovery?

If the USG demanded DJT keep them under lock and key in his SS protected house pending adjudication of any issue, I doubt he would have protested?

This whole "my property" thing conflates the two, entirely separate issues of property (almost meaningless for a document) and security of information. IOW pure, focus-grouped horseshit.

Posted by: Zek at September 01, 2022 08:29 AM (OzNIz)

198 183 and it's that turd who'll be delivering the " rebuttal". Should be Trump.
Posted by: CN at September 01, 2022 08:28 AM (Zzbjj)
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The only suitable "rebuttal" to the Turnip-in-Chief's speech tonight:

"Everything that guy said is bullshit."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 01, 2022 08:29 AM (YIVH2)

199 83-year-old nun from Louisiana reportedly released 5 months after Burkina Faso kidnapping.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 08:29 AM (yikp0)

200 If you are a fascist and a racist, are you a rascist or a facist?

Posted by: fd, semi-sweet-fascist at September 01, 2022 08:30 AM (sn5EN)

201 I don't know if he will be indicted or not, but until the midterms the DoJ is going to keep playing the "We won't indict before the midterms...IF we are going to indict... don't want to affect the outcome of the election... there is a lot of serious stuff here though... I don't know... might be indictable... we will just have to wait... here are more leaks of serious stuff we found...

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 01, 2022 08:30 AM (Wrs74)

202 I remember being speechless when watching the Masked Singer and the character who had done a barely passable rendition of “I Like Big Butts” was voted off and unmasked. It was Palin, who per show requirements had to perform an encore as the show signed off. Complete with twerking and shaking her costumed butt. I told Mr. Jen Palin was done in Politics, maybe I was right.

Posted by: Jen the original at September 01, 2022 08:30 AM (hH9zb)

203 "But how will this list be used? And who will it be used against?"
New York Legislators Want Credit Card Companies To Track Gun and Ammo Purchases..."

The guy shooting from the apartment window got his gun at a gun shop? Yeah, if the back alley counts as a gun shop.

Posted by: Flyover at September 01, 2022 08:30 AM (Rbu5d)

204 159 I agree. Too many BagItch voters had to have cast second preferences for Peltola for her to have won.

I suspect preferential voting makes a bigger difference when there are more than two significant parties on the ballot.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 08:30 AM (g1EEm)

205 Apparently Begich voters disliked Palin enough that they ranked the Democrat second which gave those votes to the Dem. I do not think ranked choice voting has any place in the US but Palin is not universally loved in Alaska.
Posted by: Jen the original

*******

Here is the tabulation.

https://tinyurl.com/alaska-rcv

When Begich was eliminated in the first round, his voters next choice rankings were allocated 27,042 to Palin and 15,455 to Peltola, so even though Paalin gained ground, Peltola eked out 51.47% of the ranked tabulation. Roughly 1/3 of Begich supporters (nominally Repub) ranked the Dem higher than Palin.

Posted by: Muldoon at September 01, 2022 08:31 AM (kXYt5)

206 175 > Add the obvious mail-in fraud

This was an in-person election.

Don't bloviate about things you don't understand.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:22 AM (bW8dp)

Internet says you don't need a reason to vote absentee in Alaska. Is there something special about this election that they wouldn't have mail-in voting?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 01, 2022 08:31 AM (b2nrj)

207 That Biden, he's like anti-incorrigible, amirite?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2022 08:31 AM (EZebt)

208 83-year-old nun from Louisiana reportedly released 5 months after Burkina Faso kidnapping.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 08:29 AM (yikp0)
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You have to be a very special kind of asshole to kidnap an 83-year-old nun.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 01, 2022 08:31 AM (YIVH2)

209 We all get a good laugh at Biden and his idiocy but I realize that they are winning and winning quickly. The junta is getting everything they want and, as Jesse Kelly calls them, the low T GOP stand about and do nothing. Heaven forbid their apple cart gets upset. Wouldn’t want to make our CCP overlords unhappy, right Mitch? FJB and all those who follow him.

Posted by: Uncle Slayton at September 01, 2022 08:31 AM (NVtgT)

210 McCarthy talks about 'classified documents', when he should be talking about 'documents previously marked classified'. PDJT has stated he declassified those documents, so they are no longer classified, regardless of what red labels are on the cover sheet.

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at September 01, 2022 08:31 AM (ICvs1)

211 GOP rebuttal:

We aren't ALL fascists! We aren't ALL violent extremists! Of course we denounce the violent domestic terrorists on the right!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 01, 2022 08:32 AM (Wrs74)

212 Apparently Begich voters disliked Palin enough that they ranked the Democrat second which gave those votes to the Dem.

Or simply didn't mark a second choice.

And yeah, Sarah is not overly popular here.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:21 AM (bW8dp)
******
Maybe Palin and Begich can decide which one is willing to drop out and coalesce around the other for the good of the country and Alaska.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 01, 2022 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

213 Is there documentation that Trump declassified the stuff he took? Should be easy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 01, 2022 08:32 AM (Wrs74)

214 Here is the tabulation.

https://tinyurl.com/alaska-rcv

When Begich was eliminated in the first round, his voters next choice rankings were allocated 27,042 to Palin and 15,455 to Peltola, so even though Paalin gained ground, Peltola eked out 51.47% of the ranked tabulation. Roughly 1/3 of Begich supporters (nominally Repub) ranked the Dem higher than Palin.
Posted by: Muldoon at September 01, 2022 08:31 AM (kXYt5)
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Whenever people *intentionally* make a simple process far more complicated, I immediately suspect their motives.

Ranked voting is nothing more than a sham to fool the rubes into thinking their votes actually count for something.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 01, 2022 08:33 AM (YIVH2)

215 188 Yeah, a lot of people hate her guts here, even people I consider to be extremely conservative overall.
I wish she would go back to Hollywood and stay there.

And a lot of people are their own worst enemies. Enjoy the commie senator.

Posted by: FBI=KGB at September 01, 2022 08:33 AM (YTBIQ)

216 one of my late friends who was a suburban GOP Comitteeman, always use to tell that you never look at a poll until after Labor day

Posted by: Jonah at September 01, 2022 08:34 AM (WY8d2)

217 > Internet says you don't need a reason to vote absentee in Alaska.

Absentee ballots are not "mail-in voting".

For one, you need an actual driver's license or state ID to request an absentee ballot, which will be sent to the address on the ID (if you've moved, you need to submit further documentation).

They don't just send out bales of ballots to random addresses, as in a typical "mail-in voting" state.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:34 AM (bW8dp)

218 Boy, Kevin really went after Brandon

called him

wait for it

President Biden !!

the horror

Posted by: REDACTED at September 01, 2022 08:34 AM (us2H3)

219 You know what else happened on September 1st. . . ?

Fred-rolled. I play it every 9/1.
https://tinyurl.com/bdd2chsm
Great moments in broadcasting.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 01, 2022 08:35 AM (x61Im)

220 I'm not going to watch Retardo's speech. If it is televised, I will watch him and Fetterman marching in a labor day parade somewhere in PA. I will have my racing shell coxswain's megaphone, yelling Stroke. Stroke. Stroke...

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 01, 2022 08:35 AM (lz5hY)

221 > And a lot of people are their own worst enemies. Enjoy the commie senator.

This wasn't a race for "senator", and Peltola is not really all that much of a "commie".

I repeat: don't bloviate about things you don't understand.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:35 AM (bW8dp)

222 If it had gone to a runoff election rather than ranked choice, many Begich supporters who didn't want to vote for Palin would likely have just not voted, and Palin would have probably won.

A runoff is a very different animal than ranked choice.

Posted by: Muldoon at September 01, 2022 08:35 AM (kXYt5)

223 You have to be a very special kind of asshole to kidnap an 83-year-old nun.
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Or a Moslem [I'm guessing].

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 08:35 AM (yikp0)

224 @175
>>Don't bloviate about things you don't unde

Well, According to the Alaska division of election...

- Anyone may request a ballot by mail. You do not need a reason.

https://tinyurl.com/2ysj9nvt

Apparenly you do not know whats going on in your own state.
I'm taking it you were a 1st ballot Begich, 2nd ballot Petola guy.

Good luck in the your new Alaska.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 08:35 AM (guapm)

225 "one of my late friends who was a suburban GOP Comitteeman, always use to tell that you never look at a poll until after Labor day"

Sage advice before they started the two-month early-voting season.

Posted by: Zek at September 01, 2022 08:35 AM (OzNIz)

226 205. Thanks Muldoon.

Posted by: Jen the original at September 01, 2022 08:36 AM (hH9zb)

227 She isn't perfect! There is no way i want her representing me! I will vote for the dem instead! Makes total fucking sense.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 01, 2022 08:37 AM (Wrs74)

228 212. Begich uncle was a Dem Us Senator who was helped by the FBI to defeat Ted Stevens. Voted for Obamacare.

Palin lived in Phoenix etc. Both flawed. I agree that one needs to drop out

Posted by: Jonah at September 01, 2022 08:37 AM (WY8d2)

229 They are pulling out all the stops on smearing Herschel Walker in Georgia. The broadcast TV ads are nonstop during the local news hour. There is a lot of money from out of state invested in Warnock and Abrams.

The GA GOP and Kemp are sitting on their thumbs hoping they will get votes just because they are not Dems. Do you hear about any of them supporting MTG? They are as anti-Trump as ever and it will serve them right when they f' it up in November.

Posted by: fd, semi-sweet-fascist at September 01, 2022 08:38 AM (sn5EN)

230 so the best AK can do is Begich

he is a RINO+

2 years from now, you'll want to replace him

Posted by: REDACTED at September 01, 2022 08:38 AM (us2H3)

231 GOP rebuttal:

We aren't ALL fascists! We aren't ALL violent extremists! Of course we denounce the violent domestic terrorists on the right!

They'll do what they always do; go out and try to say something to make everyone happy. And in the process, they'll make nobody happy.

Posted by: Chicken Head at September 01, 2022 08:38 AM (oSNkQ)

232 225. Touche

Posted by: Jonah at September 01, 2022 08:38 AM (WY8d2)

233 Good morning, Semi-Facists! Everyone prepared for the Junta declaring you an outlaw tonight?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 01, 2022 08:38 AM (PY/t0)

234 221 GOPe guy supporting the D for Congress.

You don’t have to be from Alaska to recognize the game. Like I said, some Republicans are their own worst enemies

Posted by: FBI=KGB at September 01, 2022 08:38 AM (YTBIQ)

235 Thank you, JJ.
I continue to pray for our country.

Posted by: democrats: Raping The Children We Cannot Kill Since 1973 at September 01, 2022 08:39 AM (jV+aN)

236 230. Any RINO is still better than a Pelosi Marxist

Posted by: Jonah at September 01, 2022 08:39 AM (WY8d2)

237 When the affidavit was released, I said everyone was overlooking the last sentence tucked in paragraph 3: "There is probable cause to believe evidence of obstruction exists on the premises." The records and mishandling of classified information, which comprise the entirety of the rest of the affidavit, were just the pretext for looking for evidence tying Trump to J6.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 01, 2022 08:39 AM (Spr0s)

238
While he can in any way he can Trump must move Luntz's roommate aside.
Mrs Luntz just helped set up another MAGA defeat -- Palin's victory siphoned off by McCarthy's GOPe candidate and allowed the Dems steal the Alaska special election race -- thanks to McCarthy.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at September 01, 2022 08:39 AM (wReBR)

239

Yes, you do not need a reason.

But you do need a valid ID.

Can you read?

> I'm taking it you were a 1st ballot Begich, 2nd ballot Petola guy.

I'm taking it that you have your head several feet up your ass.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:39 AM (bW8dp)

240 See me at #51.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

#51:
So his personal failings/flaws are the actual issue and not the entire bureaucratic state gunning figuratively and probably literally for him because his mission and his successes will threaten their sinecures?

Embrace the healing power of and.

Seriously. The fact that Trump was elected once was absolutely stunning. Our first opportunity since Reagan to do something about the deep-state.

All Barr is saying is that with some minor attenuation of his more polarizing behavior, he would very likely have been re-elected. That was something within Trump's control. Changing the behavior of the bureaucratic state was not (in the short-term) within his control.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 08:40 AM (g1EEm)

241 126> I'm not a fucking fascist.

Posted by: sidney at September 01, 2022 08:40 AM (Uy/WF)

242 They don't just send out bales of ballots to random addresses, as in a typical "mail-in voting" state.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:34 AM (bW8dp)

How exactly would you know if they did(though the recipients are presumably not random)? The requirement for a request didn't exactly stop that from happening in Wisconsin.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 01, 2022 08:40 AM (b2nrj)

243 * punches time clock *

* pours coffee *

Sunrise, central time, clear blue sky, could use more rain.

So, Maestro Sefton — News me!

Posted by: mindful webworker - in before art, or even JJ's top pic - whoo at September 01, 2022 08:40 AM (m3yBw)

244 Are we arguing already? It's only 8am.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 01, 2022 08:41 AM (PY/t0)

245 The FBI is staffed with lawyers who failed at lawyering. It should be staffed with cops.

Posted by: Danimal28 at September 01, 2022 08:41 AM (klw0w)

246 Are we arguing already? It's only 8am.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 01, 2022 08:41 AM (PY/t0)
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My view is: What took us so long?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 01, 2022 08:41 AM (5pTK/)

247 Are we arguing already? It's only 8am.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Its 8:42 !

Posted by: JT at September 01, 2022 08:42 AM (T4tVD)

248 " I'm not a fucking fascist.
Posted by: sidney"

Calm down. In the old usage of the word, I used to be gay. Now I have to say I am still not gay.

Posted by: fd, still not gay at September 01, 2022 08:42 AM (sn5EN)

249 @230

>>I'm taking it that you have your head several feet up your ass.

Very classy.

Also you're proven wrong and and are lashing out.

Very Leftist in that regard.

Have fun in your new Alaska.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 08:42 AM (guapm)

250 236 230. Any RINO is still better than a Pelosi Marxist
Posted by: Jonah at September 01, 2022 08:39 AM (WY8d2)

better to know who your enemy is and what they are up to

RINOs are like farts to an old man

Posted by: REDACTED at September 01, 2022 08:43 AM (us2H3)

251 China still locking down -- the 21-million people of Chengdu in Sichuan province this time so chili peppers don't cure WuFlu (or stop citizens from making failing bank withdrawals).

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 08:43 AM (yikp0)

252 And for all the babies trying to make a big deal out of "Trump's lawyers swore they returned all classified docs and they lied!"

1) that was--at best--a civil law discovery request, not a criminal law subpoena. Big difference. You clearly don't know that and your ass is showing.

2) if Trump declassified them, then they fully complied.

3) if Trump didn't de-classify them, why has no one-- not even the expert lawyers for the FBI making $170k a year--cited to the law that says the President cannot de-classify them?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 01, 2022 08:43 AM (Zf0+a)

253 Mentioned a few times read Barky had documents for years, paying off National Archives with millions to keep records off site.

Posted by: Skip's phone at September 01, 2022 08:43 AM (8L4kq)

254 A winning strategy for the GOP has always been Judges. Confirming or Blocking. It unites the RINO's and Conservatives. worked well in 2018 races

Posted by: Jonah at September 01, 2022 08:43 AM (WY8d2)

255 That's not to say the scales weren't tipped against Trump. Biden did not win "Fair and Square". But I don't believe Trump would have won regardless.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 08:04 AM (g1EEm)
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I admit to completely not understanding this kind of idiocy. The Republic is being burned to the ground and struggling nuanced justifications are the order of the day with this commenter.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2022 08:43 AM (e0Po/)

256 The FBI is staffed with lawyers who failed at lawyering. It should be staffed with cops.

Wouldn't change anything. In both cases, you'd have a bunch of solutions looking for problems.

Posted by: Chicken Head at September 01, 2022 08:43 AM (oSNkQ)

257 Trump's Mean Tweets! is so very tired.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2022 08:44 AM (EZebt)

258 "...to replace vacant lots with urban farms ..."

See, this is a great idea. Unfortunately, it's also a LOT of work. Unfortunate for the residents who don't want to work at all, that is. (I have family in Central MS, we get an earful about Jackson.)

Posted by: Flyover at September 01, 2022 08:44 AM (Rbu5d)

259 Fuck Jackson MS

Gooder and harderer!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 01, 2022 08:44 AM (BRHaw)

260 > How exactly would you know if they did(though the recipients are presumably not random)?

You can look at the total number of ballots cast (188,610) compared to the number of absentee ballots cast (26,190).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:44 AM (bW8dp)

261 With all due respect, JJ, please don't call me a semi-fascist or anything that resembles the word fascist. I understand why you say it but because of my age, I know full well who Mussolini was and what he did to my relative's homeland.
Posted by: sidney
*
Out of curiosity, do you want to use the government to force people to act the way you want, buy the things you want, or enforce speech codes?
-
I'm not a fucking fascist.
Posted by: sidney

**

It answers itself, doesn't it?

Sorry you are realizing the truth of what side you're on.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:44 AM (n9KGe)

262 238. Up to McCarthy to work this out in AK. Should be on the phone telling the two that they will both lose in the general, unless one drops out

Posted by: Jonah at September 01, 2022 08:46 AM (WY8d2)

263 Out of curiosity, do you want to use the government to force people to act the way you want, buy the things you want, or enforce speech codes?

**

It's a very simple question, isn't it?

For the record, I support freedom of people to make their own decisions regarding all of those, regardless of what I prefer.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:46 AM (n9KGe)

264 Test

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 01, 2022 08:46 AM (fWTJL)

265 Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 08:42 AM (guapm)

what the hell are you going on about ?

you think Begich isn't RINO

if so, you should check your own ass

Posted by: REDACTED at September 01, 2022 08:46 AM (us2H3)

266 Are we arguing already? It's only 8am.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Like a big loud family, yes we are.

I need caffeine.

Posted by: mpfs at September 01, 2022 08:46 AM (cJ8cw)

267 > Also you're proven wrong

Whatever you have to tell yourself, dude.

> Have fun in your new Alaska.

Oh, I will. It's awesome here.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:46 AM (bW8dp)

268 It may be 70 degrees here today and I got a heat warning from the Department of Public Health.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2022 08:46 AM (EZebt)

269 266 Are we arguing already? It's only 8am.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

==========

*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 08:47 AM (LvTSG)

270 @265

>>if so, you should check your own ass

I'm not sure what this is about, please explain...

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 08:47 AM (guapm)

271 Here's the other key part of the election. Straight from the Constitution:

"The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof"

Every vote that was passed in a way that the legislatures didn't have a role in prescribing was an illegal vote. If the SOS or judges changed the voting "rules", the rules were illegal.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:08 AM (n9KGe)
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John Roberts. A name that lives in infamy. He had several chances to stop this terrible insult to Constitutional order but did not.

By the way, and probably completely unrelated, but who is the "John Roberts" listed several times on the Epstein flight logs to Pedo Island?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2022 08:47 AM (e0Po/)

272 I will have my racing shell coxswain's megaphone, yelling Stroke. Stroke. Stroke...
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 01, 2022 08:35 AM (lz5hY)

Remember those days with great fondness

Posted by: 7man at September 01, 2022 08:48 AM (qwO6y)

273 260 > How exactly would you know if they did(though the recipients are presumably not random)?

You can look at the total number of ballots cast (188,610) compared to the number of absentee ballots cast (26,190).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:44 AM (bW8dp)

That doesn't really tell you whether ballots are being sent out in a legitimate or fraudulent manner.

Even if you can point out after the fact such as in Wisconsin that you've got tens of thousands more ballots coming in than went out, you can't distinguish the legitimate ones from the fraudulent ones.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 01, 2022 08:48 AM (b2nrj)

274 Everyone needs to understand that when the left calls us Nazis and Fascists, those words don't mean what they used to. It's part of their method of tearing down everything and remaking society into the NWO.

I've been treated as a leper and called a Nazi and Fascist for being for freedom in my own country. I know who the enemy is though, and no amount of rhetoric and demagoguery will change that.

Posted by: fd, semi-sweet-fascist at September 01, 2022 08:48 AM (sn5EN)

275 259 Fuck Jackson MS

Gooder and harderer!!
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 01, 2022 08:44 AM (BRHaw)

Had old friend in Jackson and he had one of the best antique shops in the country

I seriously doubt that it is around anymore

Posted by: REDACTED at September 01, 2022 08:48 AM (us2H3)

276 *does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang

Thank you James Monroe !

Posted by: JT at September 01, 2022 08:48 AM (T4tVD)

277 #220 bill in Arkansas.

I don't care what anyone says, that's fucking funny.

I know, I know.... I'm not going to denounce myself.

Posted by: mpfs at September 01, 2022 08:48 AM (cJ8cw)

278 259 Fuck Jackson MS

Gooder and harderer!!
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Seems they can't flush their toilets or drink the water. Progress.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 01, 2022 08:49 AM (fWTJL)

279 > Should be on the phone telling the two that they will both lose in the general, unless one drops out

Failin' will lose regardless, as seen by the fact that insufficient BagItch voters ranked her second.

But I seriously doubt if her gigantic ego will allow her to drop out.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:49 AM (bW8dp)

280 sometimes I think all the energy that conservatives use on Washington can better served somewhere else. D.C is just a statist slum. Its only gonna get worse with more technology

Posted by: Jonah at September 01, 2022 08:49 AM (WY8d2)

281 22,000 customers of Xcel energy in Colorado were locked out of their 'smart thermostats' when the heat rose into the 90s yesterday. They were met with a message from xcel telling them that they couldn't run their AC due to a 'heat emergency'.

Whatever you do, do not buy smart devices. This was always the plan.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 01, 2022 08:49 AM (PY/t0)

282 When in the middle of a tense, confrontational situation like this - I often try to let my mind wander to more pleasant thoughts. Such as great works of cinema, for example. Especially works that are often misunderstood and possibly under-appreciated. Most especially works of that ilk in the science fiction genre. One particular example springs forth to mind right now.

Posted by: Chicken Head at September 01, 2022 08:49 AM (oSNkQ)

283 GOP rebuttal:

We aren't ALL fascists! We aren't ALL violent extremists! Of course we denounce the violent domestic terrorists on the right!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 01, 2022 08:32 AM (Wrs74)

This x1000. Repeated ad nauseam on Fox. Fucking bunch of gutless nickelfuckers.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 08:50 AM (AW0uW)

284 > That doesn't really tell you whether ballots are being sent out in a legitimate or fraudulent manner.

It's the exact same procedure that's been used for absentee ballots here as long as I can remember, and I'm a 29 year old.

I know there's reluctance to admit that Failin' is toxic, but it's a fact.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:50 AM (bW8dp)

285 Petolta has the luxury now of spending a couple of months in DC where she will pretend to be a moderate as her vote will not matter in the Dem majority. Which will bolster her chances against Palin in the general IMO.

Posted by: Jen the original at September 01, 2022 08:50 AM (hH9zb)

286 I'm not sure what this is about, please explain...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 08:47 AM (guapm) @230

>>I'm taking it that you have your head several feet up your ass.
Very classy.
Also you're proven wrong and and are lashing out.
Very Leftist in that regard.

Have fun in your new Alaska.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 08:42 AM (guapm)

this ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Posted by: REDACTED at September 01, 2022 08:51 AM (us2H3)

287 Trump's Mean Tweets! is so very tired.

Not for me. I love shoving it down people's throats here when they complain about gas prices or grocery costs. "Hey, but look on the bright side - no mean tweets, amirite?"

Petty, but satisfying.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 08:51 AM (AW0uW)

288 The whole libel of "fascist" is so easily challenged and debunked but no one ever manages it. Simply demand a definition of what a fascist is. They can't, or won't provide one -- not a correct one. The essential, irrefutable criterion is a religious belief in and exploitation of State power. How can someone who challenges State power be a fascist?

Moreover, the act of liquidating State power through deregulation certifies Trump as an anti-fascist.

One can go on, as in the 2nd Amendment. Every fascist regime in human history has banned private ownership of firearms. So how can any supporter of the 2nd Amendment be a fascist?

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 01, 2022 08:52 AM (H8QX8)

289 Sage advice before they started the two-month early-voting season.

You can't trust polls even after the election.
We are all "political scientists" now. Spectator sport: like the difference between making love and watching porn. Poll-dancing makes you feel important, though.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 01, 2022 08:52 AM (x61Im)

290 > Also you're proven wrong

You claimed it was a "mail-in election".

It wasn't.

Yeah, I'm not the one who was "proven wrong" here, hoss.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:52 AM (bW8dp)

291 Rino's still use the Bush family doctrine. rush talked about this. He asked W in the Oval office, why you do not fight back against media. It is beneath the office. McConnell feels same way

Posted by: Jonah at September 01, 2022 08:52 AM (WY8d2)

292 The FIB for me was Robert Stack reruns in the Untouchables.

Wray is a loser and regardless of your overall opinion on .itch, Thank God he kept Garland off the bench.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 01, 2022 08:52 AM (NW9xb)

293 284 > That doesn't really tell you whether ballots are being sent out in a legitimate or fraudulent manner.

It's the exact same procedure that's been used for absentee ballots here as long as I can remember, and I'm a 29 year old.

I know there's reluctance to admit that Failin' is toxic, but it's a fact.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:50 AM (bW8dp)

The long-existence of a system has little to do with whether it is secure or not. It is simply an easier exercise when all you need is corrupt actors in a tiny number of places than needing to have people physically show up.

It's made worse by the fact that most safeguards can be removed as needed or are disregarded even if they throw up red flags.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 01, 2022 08:53 AM (b2nrj)

294
Jackson, MS joins Flint, MI in the Fail Box.

It'll be whitey's fault, again, of course.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at September 01, 2022 08:53 AM (Bg6BS)

295 By the way, and probably completely unrelated, but who is the "John Roberts" listed several times on the Epstein flight logs to Pedo Island?
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BTW, the Canadian former video DJ and current U.S. political reporter with the same name [I've forgotten his employer] has airtight alibis for the days matching the "John Roberts" flight days. So it wasn't him.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 08:53 AM (yikp0)

296 And I want to focus on a point some more. The media and the NeverTrump are breathlessly going on about Trump's lack of cooperation.

But none, not one is addressing one central, key issue: What lawsuit was filed? What indictment was issued? What subpoena was issued?

Because of there was no lawsuit, no subpoena and no indictment, then the entire interaction was VOLUNTARY!
For those who have trouble with the English language, it means "fuck off, Feds--I don't have to give you a damned thing."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 01, 2022 08:54 AM (Zf0+a)

297 A McCarthy and A Dershowitz both make me sick.

Posted by: Ziba at September 01, 2022 08:54 AM (4h9M3)

298 @273

>>you can't distinguish the legitimate ones from the fraudulent ones.

All the Donks need is as expansive a universe of potential ballots as possible, they then cram as much phony paper through the tabulators or click the mouse button to increase the counts as many times as needed, they then clamp down any attempts to sort it out and force the their phony counts to be certified.

You cannot do anything after the fact because as we've seen the courts will not give anyone standing to fight it out in court.

That's why all of these schemes to "EXPAND THE VOTE!." are just that schemes to allow and enable voter fraud.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 08:54 AM (guapm)

299 I've vacillated on any good definition of fascism when right under my nose the black sergeant from Tropic Thunder had it perfect.

Of course if it is going full retard, there is no such thing as going fully semi is there?

They get a chub from slander.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 01, 2022 08:54 AM (c8PcE)

300 Facts don't matter. Beria is going to indict PDJT for something, and once that happens, they intend to convict him and imprison him. That story is already written.

I will be surprised if he were to survive his first night in jail. The cameras will fail, the guards will be asleep and he will be Epsteined. End of story. As a convict in prison, he can still run for, and win, the presidency. The Communists won't allow that, and his death will be a message to the rest of us.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at September 01, 2022 08:54 AM (CecP5)

301 294
Jackson, MS joins Flint, MI in the Fail Box.

It'll be whitey's fault, again, of course.
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Trumps' fault cuz fascist.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 01, 2022 08:54 AM (fWTJL)

302 When in the middle of a tense, confrontational situation like this - I often try to let my mind wander to more pleasant thoughts. Such as great works of cinema, for example. Especially works that are often misunderstood and possibly under-appreciated. Most especially works of that ilk in the science fiction genre. One particular example springs forth to mind right now.

"Zardoz?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 08:54 AM (AW0uW)

303 I mean, I actually live here, and talk to actual Alaskan people on a daily basis.

But sure, you know way more about how Alaskan people view Sarah Palin than I do.

Obviously!

Jesus Christ.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:55 AM (bW8dp)

304 " I'm not a fucking fascist.
Posted by: sidney"

Calm down. In the old usage of the word, I used to be gay. Now I have to say I am still not gay.
Posted by: fd, still not gay

Still not fucking a fascist.

Posted by: rickb223 Still Not Fucking A Fascist at September 01, 2022 08:55 AM (EIEYH)

305 Regarding Alaskan politics; I've noticed two "tells" regarding the political leanings of populations. One is population density; Urban areas always go Blue. The other is temperature. Cold areas, even when they are rural, always trend more Blue than their warmer counterparts. I don't know why.

Posted by: Chicken Head at September 01, 2022 08:55 AM (oSNkQ)

306 302 "Zardoz?"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 08:54 AM (AW0uW)

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John Boorman is a crazy genius (still alive!).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 08:55 AM (LvTSG)

307 I think the junta's using the term "fascist" to help the low IQ Antifa thugs understand who they're targeting when they're given their marching orders later this year. It's not by happenstance the term "fascist" is the one the left has decided to smear the conservatives / America First / MAGA coalition with.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 01, 2022 08:56 AM (BFigT)

308 Welp...if this is the game we're playing, let's be in it to win it.

Posted by: Rowsdower Believes Epps Is A Fed at September 01, 2022 08:56 AM (ZD+ro)

309 Yep

Posted by: Jonah at September 01, 2022 08:56 AM (WY8d2)

310 Andy McCarthy, the lifetime government employee who takes a very good, recession-proof taxpayer provided paycheck and pension never see's anything wrong with government employees. They can never be bad. He can sod himself all day long...

Posted by: Danimal28 at September 01, 2022 08:56 AM (klw0w)

311 #287
I'm all in on being petty.
I do it every chance I get when I find out someone voted for The Vegetable.
Its satisfying. Petty, but satisfying.

Posted by: mpfs at September 01, 2022 08:57 AM (cJ8cw)

312 @290

>>Yeah, I'm not the one who was "proven wrong" here, hoss.

No, I claimed mail-in ballots were a factor, you claimed there was no mail-in balloting, I proved by that Alaska has no question asked mail-in ballots.

You then went on to argue that mail-in ballots existed in the election but played no role in deciding the election.

Enjoy your new Alaska, Hoss.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 08:57 AM (guapm)

313 Stack was a G Man, not FBI. Remember in the 30's, those guys were armed tax collectors for FDR

Posted by: Jonah at September 01, 2022 08:58 AM (WY8d2)

314 next, Haines with pee stains

400 dollar a pair

Posted by: REDACTED at September 01, 2022 08:58 AM (us2H3)

315 "In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls, but those who would preserve their life stay far from them."

Proverbs 22:5

Posted by: Marcus T at September 01, 2022 08:59 AM (VpIIl)

316 you can't distinguish the legitimate ones from the fraudulent ones.

Which is why you sign your ballot with a thumbprint. I want my ballot tracked. I want to know that the ballot I cast was counted for the person I cast it for.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at September 01, 2022 08:59 AM (EIEYH)

317 Hannity and Rush idolized McCarthy

Posted by: Jonah at September 01, 2022 08:59 AM (WY8d2)

318 I WANT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO FORCE YOU TO BUY AN ELECTRIC CAR, THE GOVERNMENT TO FORCE YOU TO ACCEPT GAY GROOMING IN YOUR SCHOOLS BECAUSE LOVE IS LOVE, AND THE GOVERNMENT TO MANDATE THAT BLACK PEOPLE CAN'T LEARN LIKE WHITE PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR, AND I HOPE THAT GOVERNMENT MURDERS YOU IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ME, BUT I'M NOT A FASCIST

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 08:59 AM (n9KGe)

319 I never tried acid, even in my youth. After watching "Zardoz", I like to think I know what the experience would have felt like.

Posted by: Chicken Head at September 01, 2022 08:59 AM (oSNkQ)

320 All of this "semi-fascist" and "fall of democracy" shit is setting the stage for justifying Antifa shit that is planned.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 01, 2022 08:59 AM (lf83v)

321 > No, I claimed mail-in ballots were a factor

And you were wrong.

I think we're done here.

> Enjoy your new Alaska, Hoss.

As I said, I will. Get some new material, hoss.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 08:59 AM (bW8dp)

322 You walk into a situation,
Local good cops are in a shootout with bad FBI.

What to do.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at September 01, 2022 09:00 AM (fhUkc)

323 Many years ago I went for a job interview in Jackson MS. I turned down the job because Jackson was literally the most racist place I had ever been, and I lived in Birmingham at one point.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 01, 2022 09:00 AM (yQpMk)

324 well the quantum guy says it's true. We know that's bullshit, but sobis wicca
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Quantum (mustbe) is NOT that guy.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 01, 2022 09:00 AM (MIKMs)

325 > Which is why you sign your ballot with a thumbprint.

Yeah, that opens up the possibility of "pay to vote" schemes, so I don't think that's a good idea.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 09:00 AM (bW8dp)

326 I'm all in on being petty.
I do it every chance I get when I find out someone voted for The Vegetable.
Its satisfying. Petty, but satisfying.
Posted by: mpfs at September 01, 2022 08:57 AM (cJ8cw)

Yep. They don't like being called commies, either.

It's the little things in life.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 01, 2022 09:01 AM (ai/gj)

327 Is there a grand jury presently mulling over the "evidence" against Trump?

Posted by: Ziba at September 01, 2022 09:01 AM (4h9M3)

328 >>Hannity and Rush idolized McCarthy

Rush openly mocked him in the last years.

Posted by: garrett at September 01, 2022 09:01 AM (4wq3h)

329 [cough, cough] Top executive at Russia's largest private oil company, Lukoil, has died in a suspected ~~Arkancide~~ ~~Vladacide~~ suicide.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 09:01 AM (yikp0)

330 I'll take the possibility of "pay to vote" schemes - that already exist - over the guarantee of pay to vote AND mail in fraud.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 01, 2022 09:02 AM (n9KGe)

331 To be clear here: Sarah Palin lost because she kinda sucks, and many, many, MANY people here hate her guts.

It wasn't "mail-in ballots" or the ranked-choice system, or any other excuse that people are trying to trot out.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 09:02 AM (bW8dp)

332 Regarding Alaskan politics; I've noticed two "tells" regarding the political leanings of populations. One is population density; Urban areas always go Blue. The other is temperature. Cold areas, even when they are rural, always trend more Blue than their warmer counterparts. I don't know why.
Posted by: Chicken Head

Need Uncle Sugar's money to keep them alive.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at September 01, 2022 09:02 AM (EIEYH)

333 293. I think the problem with absentee ballots is what happens when they are tabulated at their polling place. If they are not checked for verification of not just signature but validity of being requested by a registered voter and being the only returned ballot for that voter is where the fraud lies. Michigan has had absentee ballots for decades and no excuse absentee for several years. No excuse does not mean no verification. To get a ballot you have to be a registered voter and mail in a form with ID well before the election. Your ballot has to be signed etc. and returned to the clerk several days before election or turned into the poll by 8pm of election. The problem is Detroit where poll workers do not do their job or show up.

Posted by: Jen the original at September 01, 2022 09:02 AM (CgZ1c)

334 It is simple to make voting secure, fast, and auditable by the voter. There are just too many politicians who benefit from the current unsecure election process.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 01, 2022 09:02 AM (yQpMk)

335 my view is whatever AK or any state chooses to do is their business

Posted by: REDACTED at September 01, 2022 09:02 AM (us2H3)

336 Matt Whitlock
@mattdizwhitlock
5m
Obviously
@rweingarten
was the mastermind behind the strategy of putting kids last...
But it's important to remember that Joe Biden gave her the keys to do it.

The Associated Press
@AP
Reading scores saw their largest decrease in 30 years, while math scores declined for the first time in the govt's history of testing 9-year-olds -- showing the sheer magnitude of the pandemic's effects on America's schoolkids.
https://tinyurl.com/4ra5rrd9

Posted by: redridinghood at September 01, 2022 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

337 John Boorman is a crazy genius (still alive!).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 08:55 AM (LvTSG)

One of these days I must get Excalibur. It's a movie I think about watching, but then decide I want to see something else instead.

Speaking of watching something else instead, I can't believe I lost about 90 minutes of my life watching American Gothic. Could Steiger and De Carlo really have been that desperate for money?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 09:03 AM (AW0uW)

338 The Untouchables were Treasury agents, not FBI.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 01, 2022 09:03 AM (x61Im)

339 "The FBI is staffed with lawyers who failed at lawyering. It should be staffed with cops."
Posted by: Danimal28 at September 01, 2022 08:41 AM (klw0w)

Today's cops don't know much about anything either.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 01, 2022 09:03 AM (qH6FZ)

340 331 To be clear here: Sarah Palin lost because she kinda sucks, and many, many, MANY people here hate her guts.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2022 09:02 AM (bW8dp)

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This reminds me of Beto winning Texas natives but Cruz winning with Texas transplants.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 09:03 AM (LvTSG)

341 “The whole question of [Chinese] Covid’s origins has been sidelined and treated as irrelevant.”

This whole thing on investigations is frustrating.

Something goes BANG. No one was left of BANG so this was a big surprise. So now we are on the timeline to the right of BANG and investigations are useful for simple closure, to learn a lesson to avoid or better prepare for a next BANG, or to prosecute the perpetrator.

The Vegas shootings. The alleged perp was dead. An investigation to find and prosecute co-conspirators makes sense; to discover a way to prevent or mitigate another similar event; answer the myriad of questions people had as to the What, Where, Who, When, Why and How.

The Vegas shooting investigations may have already answered these questions. Dittos for the origin of Fauci's Death Miasma and Kill Shot. Just because We The People will never have the true answer doesn't mean the investigation wasn't successful nor should continue.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 01, 2022 09:03 AM (3hSHB)

342 Bread and Circuses. Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2022 09:04 AM (HJDAV)

343 Yeah, that opens up the possibility of "pay to vote" schemes, so I don't think that's a good idea.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Then keep getting 81 million unaccountable votes.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at September 01, 2022 09:04 AM (EIEYH)

344 Hannity and Rush idolized McCarthy.

They're pretty typical, in my experience. Most people I've ever met, when I've really dug down into what makes them tick, have a need to believe in a "protector". Some great force that's looking out for them. What they believe the form of that protector is goes a long way into shaping their world-view. For most older folks on the Right, those protectors are police, military, and the GOP. For the Left, those protectors are regulators and the DNC. And now ? Now we're in this chaotic middle ground, where many people are re-evaluating the form of their protector.

Posted by: Chicken Head at September 01, 2022 09:04 AM (oSNkQ)

345 Ben Shapiro does teshuva (repentance) in time for the upcoming Rosh Hashana holy day:

https://nitter.it/PapiTrumpo/status/1565055279468797957

Posted by: Biden's Dog at September 01, 2022 09:04 AM (7sgMY)

346 the reasons Brandon is doing this name calling shit are

because the GOP leaders wont say a damn thing

and Rush aint around anymore

Posted by: REDACTED at September 01, 2022 09:04 AM (us2H3)

347 328 >>Hannity and Rush idolized McCarthy

Rush openly mocked him in the last years.
Posted by: garrett at September 01, 2022 09:01 AM (4wq3h)

Hannity likes the way McCarthy tells him to "Squeal like a pig!!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 01, 2022 09:05 AM (r46W7)

348 Which is why you sign your ballot with a thumbprint.
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Sorry, but secret ballots are an imperative. Can have thumbprint for check in, or microchip, or proxies; but nothing else. (And I find that whole idea monstrous, but going along with the thought experiment.)

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 01, 2022 09:05 AM (MIKMs)

349 There is something wrong when a guy who suffered a stroke is either trying to push himself to stay in a race or is being pushed. Regardless of party, that just seems wrong.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2022 09:05 AM (HJDAV)

350 "No."

Translation, I'm out of arguments that make any sense.

Posted by: Brett at September 01, 2022 09:05 AM (2ndRB)

351 337 One of these days I must get Excalibur. It's a movie I think about watching, but then decide I want to see something else instead.

Speaking of watching something else instead, I can't believe I lost about 90 minutes of my life watching American Gothic. Could Steiger and De Carlo really have been that desperate for money?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 09:03 AM (AW0uW)

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Excalibur is something else. It's one of the few films I own that I think about printing a custom cover for because the cover art on the Blu-ray is so bad but the original poster is so amazing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 09:05 AM (LvTSG)

352 btw jj, I love your art again! you're such a geek. and of course I know the episode name instantly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 01, 2022 09:06 AM (r46W7)

353 349 There is something wrong when a guy who suffered a stroke is either trying to push himself to stay in a race or is being pushed. Regardless of party, that just seems wrong.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2022 09:05 AM (HJDAV)
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If it's good enough for Biden....

Posted by: Biden's Dog at September 01, 2022 09:06 AM (7sgMY)

354 > All of this "semi-fascist" and "fall of democracy" shit is setting the stage for justifying Antifa shit that is planned.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot
____________

Me, @307

That the left, unironically, has decided to use the term "fascist" is not by happenstance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 01, 2022 09:07 AM (BFigT)

355 Is there a grand jury presently mulling over the "evidence" against Trump?
Posted by: Ziba at September 01, 2022 09:01 AM (4h9M3)

I'm sure there is. And as for federal grand jury's, I'm sure they're picked off a Democrat voting list.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 01, 2022 09:07 AM (qH6FZ)

356 Excalibur is an odd one. I know what they were going for, but it is one of those movies that in concept I like far better than execution. I think I just don't like it. Helen Mirren notwithstanding.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2022 09:07 AM (HJDAV)

357 I think the problem with absentee ballots is what happens when they are tabulated at their polling place. If they are not checked for verification of not just signature but validity of being requested by a registered voter and being the only returned ballot for that voter is where the fraud lies.

Live stream the process on public access tv and the internet. If the camera stops, the counting stops. US Marshalls are brought in and arrests start getting made until the camera begins working again.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at September 01, 2022 09:08 AM (EIEYH)

358 Also the scene where Galahad finds the Grail.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2022 09:08 AM (HJDAV)

359 Fuck Sean Claude van Damme. LE bootlicker.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 01, 2022 09:08 AM (ai/gj)

360 That the left, unironically, has decided to use the term "fascist" is not by happenstance.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 01, 2022 09:07 AM (BFigT)
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The biggest projectors on the planet.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at September 01, 2022 09:08 AM (7sgMY)

361 Spending vacation week near the end of September with our friends is going to be interesting.

One of them is a FBI Special Agent lol.

Posted by: Defenestratus at September 01, 2022 09:08 AM (S/6sb)

362 356 Excalibur is an odd one. I know what they were going for, but it is one of those movies that in concept I like far better than execution. I think I just don't like it. Helen Mirren notwithstanding.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2022 09:07 AM (HJDAV)

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I love the first 2/3 of it. Once the grail quest gets introduced, it feels off.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

363 Scumbag Paul Ryan makes Kevin seem conservative

Posted by: REDACTED at September 01, 2022 09:08 AM (us2H3)

364 358 Also the scene where Galahad finds the Grail.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2022 09:08 AM (HJDAV)

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The famous Castle Anthrax scene.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

365 I got up way too early today. Thanks to jjs again for putting together the aggs.

Posted by: Extreme Ultra Semi gp at September 01, 2022 09:09 AM (qpX6U)

366 96 Someone is going to need a shitload of sage to burn inside independence hall after The Vegetable leaves tonight.

So many bad vibes.
Posted by: mpfs at September 01, 2022 08:03 AM (cJ8cw

Incense and holy water.

Posted by: Fox2! at September 01, 2022 09:10 AM (Hf5HC)

367 Saying Gorbachev ended the cold war is like saying Hirohito ended the War in the Pacific.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 01, 2022 09:10 AM (hRfP0)

368 No
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 08:01 AM (g1EEm)

So did you study physics before you joined the fibbies, or is that just what you think is a cool nic? Hmmm?

Posted by: Flyover at September 01, 2022 09:10 AM (Rbu5d)

369 The Vegas shooting investigations may have already answered these questions. Dittos for the origin of Fauci's Death Miasma and Kill Shot. Just because We The People will never have the true answer doesn't mean the investigation wasn't successful nor should continue.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 01, 2022 09:03 AM (3hSHB)

The Feds knew the story of the Vegas shooting while the shots were still being fired. That's why it was so important for a team of "cleaners" to be sent to the alleged shooters house to destroy or take all of his electronic records. And why his wife was paid to disappear in the Philippines

They were behind it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 01, 2022 09:10 AM (r46W7)

370 Don't throw away those masks yet.

UC Beserkeley mandating masks for students who do not get the flu shot. This idea will catch on. Covid move over.

Posted by: Ziba at September 01, 2022 09:10 AM (4h9M3)

371 Excalibur is an odd one. I know what they were going for, but it is one of those movies that in concept I like far better than execution. I think I just don't like it. Helen Mirren notwithstanding.

It goes completely off the rails with the Grail Quest, IMO. But the end where Bedevere throws Excalibur into the lake as Wagner is thundering in the background still takes my breath away.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 09:10 AM (AW0uW)

372
There is something wrong when a guy who suffered a stroke is either trying to push himself to stay in a race or is being pushed. Regardless of party, that just seems wrong.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2022 09:05 AM

...but enough about joe biden...

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 01, 2022 09:10 AM (ENBF0)

373 I love the first 2/3 of it. Once the grail quest gets introduced, it feels off.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

See, I dislike most of it. It feels like it is trying too hard to be 'edgy' and 'hip'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2022 09:11 AM (HJDAV)

374
We look forward to celebrating the second annual Disney Plus Day on September 8 with activations across our synergy machine.

English, mofo, do you speak it?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at September 01, 2022 09:11 AM (pNxlR)

375 The Feds knew the story of the Vegas shooting while the shots were still being fired. That's why it was so important for a team of "cleaners" to be sent to the alleged shooters house to destroy or take all of his electronic records. And why his wife was paid to disappear in the Philippines

They were behind it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Same with the San Bernardino shooters.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at September 01, 2022 09:11 AM (EIEYH)

376 373 I love the first 2/3 of it. Once the grail quest gets introduced, it feels off.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

See, I dislike most of it. It feels like it is trying too hard to be 'edgy' and 'hip'.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2022 09:11 AM (HJDAV)

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I don't think it's trying to be that at all. I think it's just trying to be a combination of operatic and some kind of neo-classical painting. That makes it feel decidedly old fashioned instead of edgy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

377 "So much of the so-called evidence of fraud was blatant, obvious BS. "

They didn't even look at the evidence. They simply abused their positions to dismiss it.

You are up, down and strange. Charm doesn't come into it.

Posted by: Brett at September 01, 2022 09:12 AM (2ndRB)

378 Live stream the process on public access tv and the internet. If the camera stops, the counting stops. US Marshalls are brought in and arrests start getting made until the camera begins working again.

Thankfully, there are not that many US Marshalls, yet for that reason it is a total No Go (the criminals would just flood the zone with cut-outs and stretch the Marshalls).

I know that this just mental masturbation because those in power absolutely do not want a free and fair election.

If they did, we know how to do it. It involves One Day, multiple ID, and purple indelible ink.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 01, 2022 09:12 AM (3hSHB)

379 *throws mask away*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 01, 2022 09:12 AM (ai/gj)

380 Gavin Newsome caught on a hot mike-

"We'll have plenty of electricity for Californians to charge their cars by 2035. Our population will be much smaller after the next few waves of vaxx die offs and the mass migrations from a few more years of drought"

Posted by: Justasheep at September 01, 2022 09:13 AM (8GJtx)

381 One point while we are all deploring 'ranked voting'. When you are confronted with a slate of six candidates and have a 'vote for three' instruction, if I only am sure of one candidate I 'bullet' and only vote for that one.

No doubt that is triggering language, but it is a valid method (and tactic) for those sophisticated enough to use it.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 01, 2022 09:13 AM (MIKMs)

382 355 Is there a grand jury presently mulling over the "evidence" against Trump?
Posted by: Ziba at September 01, 2022 09:01 AM (4h9M3)

I'm sure there is. And as for federal grand jury's, I'm sure they're picked off a Democrat voting list.
Posted by: lowandslow at September 01, 2022 09:07 AM (qH6FZ)

They don't have any evidence, and they know - that's why all they are talking about is "obstruction", which is a process crime, not an evidentiary crime. And the latest - the Feds are now saying that the fact that they did NOT find any evidence of criminal activity in the Raid is PROOF that Trump hid documents and (drum roll) OBSTRUCTED THE PROCESS!!

In other words, they are saying that the Absence of any Evidence is itself PROOF of the crime. That is straight out of Stalin and Beria's playbook.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 01, 2022 09:14 AM (r46W7)

383 I don't think it's trying to be that at all. I think it's just trying to be a combination of operatic and some kind of neo-classical painting. That makes it feel decidedly old fashioned instead of edgy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

Edgy for the time with the blood and gore (the scene where Mordred and Arthur are running each other through to mind.)

As far as trying to feel old fashioned? Go back and watch the Camelot musical and get back to me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2022 09:14 AM (HJDAV)

384 Been catching up with what Jim Breuer's been doing lately. He made a good movie some years back about his dad. He's pretty based on culture and media, started a podcast a year ago. I hate to say it, but I think he's drunk a lot. Still, I'm getting something good out of his stuff.

Posted by: Extreme Ultra Semi gp at September 01, 2022 09:15 AM (qpX6U)

385 >>That the left, unironically, has decided to use the term "fascist" is not by happenstance.

No, it's not. It is core communist practice and has been for many decades. Because once you establish that your opponent is a fascist then there are no limits to what you can do to them. In fact, it's your duty.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 01, 2022 09:16 AM (ZLI7S)

386 How many House seats does Alaska have anyway?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 01, 2022 09:16 AM (BOmIL)

387 So did you study physics before you joined the fibbies, or is that just what you think is a cool nic? Hmmm?
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Skating pretty close to the edge of socking a regular.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 01, 2022 09:16 AM (MIKMs)

388 I love the first 2/3 of it. Once the grail quest gets introduced, it feels off.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang

By Ed McMahon ?

Posted by: JT at September 01, 2022 09:16 AM (T4tVD)

389 The Feds knew the story of the Vegas shooting... They were behind it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Ergo, using Vegas as an analogy to the Wuhan Death Miasma Origins Narrative.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 01, 2022 09:16 AM (3hSHB)

390 Also Second Amendment;

Last night a NY judge denied a request for an injunction against the new constitutional subversion the NY legislature put in place in response to Bruen. However, what the Democrat Media Division and Clown World in Albany won't tell you is that it was due to a technicality (standing), a technicality, btw, that NY conspired with the NYSP to create. Nonetheless, on the actual merits of the case, the judge blasted the state and implied that if the plaintiff had standing the injunction would be granted as much of the fiats posing as "law" would not meet the tests set forth in Bruen.

Live to fight another day. As of today, there are thousands of plaintiffs with standing and I expect this to be refiled shortly.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 01, 2022 09:16 AM (VpIIl)

391 Bullied Calif. teen awarded $1M over school-wide petition to end her life

https://tinyurl.com/3fjvyndy

Posted by: redridinghood at September 01, 2022 09:17 AM (NpAcC)

392 Jeez, I'm just a movie.

Posted by: Prometheus at September 01, 2022 09:17 AM (zwDuR)

393 How many House seats does Alaska have anyway?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 01, 2022 09:16 AM (BOmIL)

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Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 01, 2022 09:17 AM (flINI)

394 Until we make it personal we're going to keep losing.

Alinsky had a point, and the Left understood and exploited it into cultural conquest.

How do you make it personal, or do so in way distinct from the Left and morally affirmative?

But it does not necessarily mean shouting and screaming and in-your-face tactics (though it can, on occasion).

Andrew Breitbart offered many examples. Here is another good example -- concise and beautiful -- of Newt Gingrich flipping the narrative on a CNN reporter, with force, grace and good cheer.

https://tinyurl.com/ywx534fn

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 01, 2022 09:18 AM (H8QX8)

395 As far as trying to feel old fashioned? Go back and watch the Camelot musical and get back to me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2022 09:14 AM (HJDAV)

Fritz Loewe didn't want to do Camelot. When Lerner brought him the idea, he said, "Arthur's a cuckold. Who wants to see a show about a cuckold?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 09:18 AM (AW0uW)

396 393 How many House seats does Alaska have anyway?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 01, 2022 09:16 AM (BOmIL)

I think in AK, all the seats are outside

Posted by: REDACTED at September 01, 2022 09:18 AM (us2H3)

397 I admit to completely not understanding this kind of idiocy. The Republic is being burned to the ground and struggling nuanced justifications are the order of the day with this commenter.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Try being less hysterical.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 09:19 AM (g1EEm)

398 @369

>>They were behind it.

Las Vegas is probably the most CCTV surveilled locality in the world and yet the FBI was not able to figure out why a local Casino Whale went rogue and also allowed his gun moll to bounce to the Philippines.

I guess the same crew that was looking into Muslims attending flight schools in Minnesotta and Florida was on this investigation.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2022 09:19 AM (guapm)

399 "Because once you establish that your opponent is a fascist then there are no limits to what you can do to them. In fact, it's your duty."

I'd rather they call me a Troglyte. That's a little closer to the truth.

Posted by: fd, semi-sweet-fascist at September 01, 2022 09:19 AM (sn5EN)

400 Was there a Kemp/Abrams debate recently? DU has a clip up of Abrams "schooling" Kemp on voting rights: Don’t come for @staceyabrams unless you can back up your claims. And even then, she’s gonna school you. This is brutal.

That's what happens when you have to be twice as good to get half a chance.

A pitch perfect response. This lady is a force. Hmm, I wonder if there is footage of her litterally handing him his ass back after this exchange. "Also, I think you dropped this ex-gvernor Kemp."[/]

Link to some rabid lefty's Twitter if you want to see the clip. I have a feeling it's going to be shown a lot more in coming days. https://tinyurl.com/nhz45um8

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at September 01, 2022 09:19 AM (oob1u)

401 How many House seats does Alaska have anyway?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 01, 2022 09:16 AM (BOmIL)

The gerrymandered it into one, those bastards.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 01, 2022 09:20 AM (qH6FZ)

402 Palin had the highest rating of any governor in the country before the media ran their psy op on her. I don't get this idea that she "sucks".

If it's because she quit.... well yeah it was disappointing but that's a little cheap, they had made it nearly impossible for her to stay in office by bankrupting her with frivolous lawsuits. Who doesn't know that?

Posted by: ... at September 01, 2022 09:21 AM (xFW3C)

403 How many House seats does Alaska have anyway?

Too many.

Just like Maskachusetts.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 09:21 AM (AW0uW)

404 All of this "semi-fascist" and "fall of democracy" shit is setting the stage for justifying Antifa shit that is planned.

Yes, we can expect Antifa violence, which will be blamed on us, to disrupt the election. The weak point of Communist strategy is that it is so predictable.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at September 01, 2022 09:21 AM (CecP5)

405 Bullied Calif. teen awarded $1M over school-wide petition to end her life

Where in hell were her parents/guardians?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 01, 2022 09:22 AM (3hSHB)

406
Ah yes, first day of dove season. Shotguns blasting away down by the river. I can't wait for the local commies to start caterwauling.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 01, 2022 09:22 AM (KYKwc)

407 403 How many House seats does Alaska have anyway?

Too many.

Just like Maskachusetts.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 09:21 AM

Heh. 1, but you're right.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 01, 2022 09:22 AM (r46W7)

408 How many House seats does Alaska have anyway?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 01, 2022 09:16 AM (BOmIL)

How many divisions does it have?

Posted by: ... at September 01, 2022 09:23 AM (xFW3C)

409 402 Palin had the highest rating of any governor in the country before the media ran their psy op on her. I don't get this idea that she "sucks".

If it's because she quit.... well yeah it was disappointing but that's a little cheap, they had made it nearly impossible for her to stay in office by bankrupting her with frivolous lawsuits. Who doesn't know that?
Posted by: ... at September 01, 2022 09:21 AM (xFW3C)

I can see why Alaskans might not want her.

She quit.
Then she left for media and celebrity.
Then she tried to come back b/c her media star faded.

Fair, or not fair, as a picture of actual reality, it's a powerful picture to voters.

Posted by: Nova local at September 01, 2022 09:23 AM (exHjb)

410 The gerrymandered it into one, those bastards.
Posted by: lowandslow at September 01, 2022 09:20 AM (qH6FZ)

did you just call me a bastard ?

Posted by: The Beaver at September 01, 2022 09:23 AM (us2H3)

411 Take 40 seconds to watch this video and you will know why leftists are calling us fascists.

https://tinyurl.com/wzztxaum

Posted by: JackStraw at September 01, 2022 09:24 AM (ZLI7S)

412 China is estimated to perform 100,000 organ transplants per year, despite having essentially no donor list. The government publishes a number of volunteer numbers, 1 million, but no one believes it.

Anyway, those organs are all coming from people whose organs are being harvested and then they are killed.

This savagery goes largely unremarked in this crazy end-of-civilization world, but now you know.

https://tinyurl.com/4nk9rdce

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2022 09:24 AM (pb3q0)

413 Las Vegas is probably the most CCTV surveilled locality in the world and yet the FBI was not able to figure out why a local Casino Whale went rogue and also allowed his gun moll to bounce to the Philippines."

Heh - I think the FBI had to put in a lot of hard work to make sure all of those tapes were erased.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 01, 2022 09:25 AM (r46W7)

414 they had made it nearly impossible for her to stay in office by bankrupting her with frivolous lawsuits. Who doesn't know that?
Posted by: ... at September 01, 2022 09:21 AM (xFW3C)

Apparently a lot of people. Or they're willfully denying it because they bought into the narrative or didn't like her "white-trash" kids, or whatever else.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 01, 2022 09:25 AM (H8QX8)

415 364 358 Also the scene where Galahad finds the Grail.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2022 09:08 AM (HJDAV)

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The famous Castle Anthrax scene.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 01, 2022 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

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For reasons unclear, I just had an image pop into my head of Dana from Ghostbusters opening her fridge, and seeing the Grail-shaped beacon, and hearing a high feminine voice say "Zoot"

Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 01, 2022 09:25 AM (RFKzk)

416 Could Florida be nuked or EMPed by DC to fortify the election?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at September 01, 2022 09:25 AM (fhUkc)

417 Weren't you a little hard on the Beaver, just now, lowandslow??

Posted by: june cleaver at September 01, 2022 09:25 AM (yikp0)

418 Old and busted: "C*cksucking, M*therf*cking, P*ssant, Whorem*nger"

New and fashionable: "Hoss"

Posted by: Muldoon at September 01, 2022 09:26 AM (kXYt5)

419 Fritz Loewe didn't want to do Camelot. When Lerner brought him the idea, he said, "Arthur's a cuckold. Who wants to see a show about a cuckold?"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 09:18 AM (AW0uW)

Ooh. OOOH! Raises hand! Raises hand!

Posted by: David French at September 01, 2022 09:27 AM (6TxNR)

420 If i'm now a Facist instead of a Nazi, do I have to get a new uniform?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 01, 2022 09:27 AM (BOmIL)

421 Where in hell were her parents/guardians?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 01, 2022 09:22 AM (3hSHB)
*******
Parents were there trying to get the school to take action, It was the school that kind of blew it off and didn't do enough.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 01, 2022 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

422 Las Vegas is probably the most CCTV surveilled locality in the world and yet the FBI was not able to figure out why a local Casino Whale went rogue and also allowed his gun moll to bounce to the Philippines.
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IRS and ATF have very big footprints there as well.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 01, 2022 09:28 AM (MIKMs)

423 Someone is going to need a shitload of sage to burn inside independence hall...

Incense and holy water.

Brimstone.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 01, 2022 09:29 AM (x61Im)

424 384 Been catching up with what Jim Breuer's been doing lately. He made a good movie some years back about his dad. He's pretty based on culture and media, started a podcast a year ago. I hate to say it, but I think he's drunk a lot. Still, I'm getting something good out of his stuff.
Posted by: Extreme Ultra Semi gp at September 01, 2022 09:15 AM (qpX6U)

Reminds me of seeing Bill Burr on Triggernometry podcast. While he's funny, and has a disarmingly honest and "I don't give a shit" way of discussing modern life, he's a political idiot.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 01, 2022 09:29 AM (H8QX8)

425 Schools haven't fixed bullying one bit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 01, 2022 09:30 AM (ai/gj)

426 Was there a Kemp/Abrams debate recently? DU has a clip up of Abrams "schooling" Kemp on voting rights:

Take this as a lesson on communications to the LIV.

Facts and Logic Don't Matter to at least half the population. What sells is characterizing a nothing exchange as "sick burns", "owning" not by actual clever rhetoric, but by just declaring a "Yo Mamma" sort of response as a "brutal takedown" that will "leave marks for a generation".

We are a nation of demagogic editorials not of rational and logical thought. That is why I don't care for social media, Ted Cruz's social media editor puts up a meme and because it "completely owns" some no-name imbecile that excuses the Senator from actually accomplishing anything. Nothing is won by basketball court trash talk - other than entertainment.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 01, 2022 09:30 AM (3hSHB)

427 They are having a discussion on the PA Senate race over at Althouse, and it is in a sense fascinating.

Ignoring ideology, Fetterman just doesn't have the mental capacity that was generally considered as requirement to be a senator.

And yet for roughly half the electorate that doesn't matter. I know LIVs are LIVs but presumably most of them know Fetterman has the intellectual capacity of a middle schooler. And worst case he'll get 40% of the vote.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 01, 2022 09:30 AM (ESjRY)

428 Because once you establish that your opponent is a fascist then there are no limits to what you can do to them. In fact, it's your duty.
Posted by: JackStraw

Kinda like calling your opponent a democrat.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at September 01, 2022 09:31 AM (EIEYH)

429 Is it possible Barr, not Trump, is now the MAGA litmus test?

If so, the moment it happened was when Barr was in a recent meeting of some sort and 2000 Mules comes up and his response is to laugh. Makes a bigger tent but Barr is too comical looking to be a proper villain. So dead end.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at September 01, 2022 09:31 AM (DePyg)

430 Regarding the so-called "obstruction of Justice" crap against Trump, the Presidential Records Act does not authorize criminal sanctions.

And as far as the Espionage Act crap the DOJ is throwing around, who is Trump spying for? Unauthorized possession of classified material is not espionage. And no one has established that Trump was not authorized to possess those materials.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 01, 2022 09:31 AM (lf83v)

431 "The FBI is staffed with lawyers who failed at lawyering. It should be staffed with cops."
Posted by: Danimal28 at September 01, 2022 08:41 AM (klw0w)

Today's cops don't know much about anything either."

Or they are told not to police and comply to save their paycheck which is worse.

Posted by: Danimal28 at September 01, 2022 09:31 AM (klw0w)

432 Lukoil exec update:

max seddon @maxseddon · 6h
The chairman of the board of Lukoil, Russia’s biggest privately held oil producer and one of the few Russian companies to criticize the invasion of Ukraine, has died after falling out of a hospital window, Interfax reports

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 09:31 AM (yikp0)

433 432 Lukoil exec update:

max seddon @maxseddon · 6h
The chairman of the board of Lukoil, Russia’s biggest privately held oil producer and one of the few Russian companies to criticize the invasion of Ukraine, has died after falling out of a hospital window, Interfax reports
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 09:31 AM (yikp0)

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... and onto some bullets...

Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 01, 2022 09:32 AM (RFKzk)

434 CA Assembly votes to keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant online until at least 2030.

It’s an overwhelming & bipartisan 67-3 vote.

It was supposed to go offline in 2025 but @GavinNewsom asked for its life to be extended to help keep CA’s lights on.

Posted by: SMOD at September 01, 2022 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

435 Las Vegas is probably the most CCTV surveilled locality in the world and yet the FBI was not able to figure out why a local Casino Whale went rogue and also allowed his gun moll to bounce to the Philippines.

Much like Acosta and Epstein I presume they were told to lay off the Paddock investigation because he was an intelligence asset.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 01, 2022 09:33 AM (ESjRY)

436 The chairman of the board of Lukoil, Russia’s biggest privately held oil producer and one of the few Russian companies to criticize the invasion of Ukraine, has died after falling out of a hospital window, Interfax reports.
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Wow. The hospital food must have been really bad for him to do that.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 01, 2022 09:33 AM (lf83v)

437 You don't massage Tony Rockyhorror's wife's feet.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 01, 2022 09:33 AM (Wrs74)

438 The chairman of the board of Lukoil, Russia’s biggest privately held oil producer and one of the few Russian companies to criticize the invasion of Ukraine, has died after falling out of a hospital window, Interfax reports

Are you sure he wasn't the victim of a failed mugging?

Posted by: Seth Rich at September 01, 2022 09:34 AM (ESjRY)

439 But they were in boxes in a "storage room". Also called a SCIF, but storage room sounds more reckless.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 01, 2022 09:35 AM (Wrs74)

440 438 The chairman of the board of Lukoil, Russia’s biggest privately held oil producer and one of the few Russian companies to criticize the invasion of Ukraine, has died after falling out of a hospital window, Interfax reports

Are you sure he wasn't the victim of a failed mugging?
Posted by: Seth Rich at September 01, 2022 09:34 AM (ESjRY)

The strange part was that it was only a ground floor window.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 01, 2022 09:35 AM (r46W7)

441 >Regarding the so-called "obstruction of Justice" crap against Trump, the Presidential Records Act does not authorize criminal sanctions
...

We're gonna fix that, stat.

Posted by: Susan Rice and her sisters at September 01, 2022 09:35 AM (4h9M3)

442 The chairman of the board of Lukoil, Russia’s biggest privately held oil producer and one of the few Russian companies to criticize the invasion of Ukraine, has died after falling out of a hospital window, Interfax reports

... and onto some bullets...

... with a mouthful of sleeping pills...

Posted by: lowandslow at September 01, 2022 09:36 AM (qH6FZ)

443 Are you sure he wasn't the victim of a failed mugging?
Posted by: Seth Rich
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Thread winnah!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 09:36 AM (yikp0)

444 California Researchers Reintroduce Beavers

What if they don't identify as beavers?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 01, 2022 09:36 AM (ynpvh)

445 Yeah, the rabid left drove Palin from office.

And what did she do? Fight back, hone her political skills, build alliances and coalitions to defeat them?

No.

She went to "Hollywood" and tried to get them to be her friend.

I liked her, I voted for her. But: She is unfit for any office at this point.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 01, 2022 09:36 AM (Zf0+a)

446 Parents were there trying to get the school to take action, It was the school that kind of blew it off and didn't do enough.

Oh. I see. The SOMEBODY [else] DO SOMETHING excuse.

If your daughter has PTSD, a cutter, people actively encouraging her to kill herself and the best thing they could think of was whining to public school officials, you have utterly failed as a parent and as a human being.

I would think other possible remedies would surface before "lets get the lawyers and sue" (which does absolutely nothing for your daughter's present trauma).

Hey but five years later, she is over her emotional turmoil and the lawyers have made good bank. Maybe the parents can afford to send her to a public college where she can do this all over again.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 01, 2022 09:36 AM (3hSHB)

447 Lauren Boebert
@laurenboebert
1h
US House candidate, CO-03
California last week: We are banning gas vehicles in 2035.

California this week: Do not charge your electric vehicles this week because we are bracing for energy shortages.

Liberal Logic.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 01, 2022 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

448 The strange part was that it was only a ground floor window.
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Yes, but he fell 47 times. It was the cumulative effect that killed him.

Posted by: Not the KGB at September 01, 2022 09:37 AM (lf83v)

449 nood peasants

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 01, 2022 09:37 AM (yikp0)

450 We are a nation of demagogic editorials not of rational and logical thought. That is why I don't care for social media, Ted Cruz's social media editor puts up a meme and because it "completely owns" some no-name imbecile that excuses the Senator from actually accomplishing anything. Nothing is won by basketball court trash talk - other than entertainment.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 01, 2022 09:30 AM (3hSHB)

Add the preening assholes of Twitchy to that righteous rant.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 01, 2022 09:37 AM (AW0uW)

451 Parents were there trying to get the school to take action, It was the school that kind of blew it off and didn't do enough.
Posted by: redridinghood

Have you ever watched Bravo's "Housewife" series, and how these women who are supposedly friends spend 90% of their time ripping each other to shreds? I have a daughter in middle-school. That's where they start. It's brutal.

Guys don't generally behave like this (well, straight guys). My theory: the lack of a threat of violence means there's no real consequences to their actions, and hence no tempering effect.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 01, 2022 09:38 AM (g1EEm)

452 two good short video clips, one from Mollie Hemingway on the FBI and the other from Tucker/VDH. Worth watching.

https://tinyurl.com/6c72vs6v

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2022 09:39 AM (pkR7Z)

453 Remember during the Ukraine phone call hoax, the big deal they made out of members of Congress being allowed into the SCIF, one at a time.

This opera has gone on far too long.

Posted by: Ziba at September 01, 2022 09:40 AM (4h9M3)

454 Are you sure he wasn't the victim of a failed mugging?
Posted by: Seth Rich

That was priceless.

Thug #1: So where da money?
Thug #2: I killed his ass
Thug #1: So where be da money?
Thug #2: uh, damn, I just took this flash drive.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 01, 2022 09:40 AM (3hSHB)

455 I none of the mythical "70 million pissed off gun owners" will do jack about it, either.

Pretty much. For all the puffing, it’s a hobby with Bills of Rights protection.

Time to promote a new vision of states and groupings of states as sovereigns, lay the groundwork for amicable separation(s)
Posted by: FBI=KGB at September 01, 2022 08:15 AM (zfVI/)

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Until yesterday I might have agreed. Yesterday, however, I found out an ex son in law beat a granddaughter of mine severely. My immediate thought was how long I might get for a prison sentence for killing him. I decided it would be worth it.we all have lines that are being stretched and I think prison if Trump would cross many lines for many people.

Posted by: Chillin the most at September 01, 2022 09:43 AM (0uQp2)

456 454 Are you sure he wasn't the victim of a failed mugging?
Posted by: Seth Rich

That was priceless.

Thug #1: So where da money?
Thug #2: I killed his ass
Thug #1: So where be da money?
Thug #2: uh, damn, I just took this flash drive.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 01, 2022 09:40 AM (3hSHB)

LOL, quite the dark humor there.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 01, 2022 09:43 AM (ynpvh)

457 I don't know if it was mentioned upthread but the debacle in Afghanistan did NOT take place at Bagram Air Base, it happened at Karzai Intl. Airport in Kabul. If the evacuation had taken place at Bagram AB, we could have controlled the situation and maybe the suicide bomber might not have killed so many people.

Posted by: Bill R. at September 01, 2022 09:47 AM (wzzJf)

458 "The other is temperature. Cold areas, even when they are rural, always trend more Blue than their warmer counterparts. I don't know why."

Cold, cold hearts?

Posted by: Brett at September 01, 2022 09:52 AM (2ndRB)

459 Blog seems to be broke again

Posted by: Skip's phone at September 01, 2022 10:00 AM (V2qLm)

460 They want a fight a real fight. They tried on jan6th they will continue fake crap until they can drop the hammer on us.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at September 01, 2022 10:35 AM (ytSiK)

461 Kind of ironic that Andy "I've said it over and over that I can't believe that the DOJ or FBI would __________________ (fill in the blank)" McCarthy once wrote a book called "Willful Blindness".

Posted by: Peter B at September 01, 2022 11:16 AM (EcCqo)

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