The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 12/20/22

Good morning, kids. I'm feeling a bit schizophrenic today. I mean, for a while now, I've been more or less resigned to the fact that I've joined the camp that thinks it's time to move on from Donald Trump as the standard-bearer for 2024. Completely discounting the unhinged Never-Trumpers whose attacks are based solely on lies, sheer pettiness and perhaps jealousy, there are cogent and reasoned arguments to be made against his candidacy. Not his influence nor status as the leader of the movement to restore America as founded, but merely his candidacy.

Now, all that said, we all knew that the past 18 months of this J-6 kangaroo court would eventually lead to the preordained conclusion that Donald Trump would be found culpable of insurrection and referred for criminal prosecution to the DOJ. And now, here it is. Forgetting the complete illegitimacy of this, aside from further cementing the myth of Democrat-Leftist good, GOP-conservative evil, the only other reason for this entire despicable, disgusting fraud was to abuse the Constitution in order to prohibit Donald Trump from running for president. Of course, the possibility of frog marching him to jail and confiscating his wealth is the wet dream "icing" on the cake, so to speak.

Are they this stupid or is it arrogance? If the last thing they wanted was to see Donald Trump as their 2024 opponent, they just fucked up. Worse, they're about to make him a martyr.

Remember though that the January 6 committee’s decision carries no legal weight anywhere in the executive branch. The decision to file charges, and what charges to file, rests completely with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice. That’s cold comfort to Trump, since Garland is easily the most partisan AG since Eric Holder happily served as Barack Obama’s “wingman.”
I don’t honestly know if Trump truly intends to run in 2024, or if his early campaign announcement was meant to give him the political and fundraising clout to fight back against the committee and Joe Biden’s corrupt DOJ.
What I do know is that what we’re watching ain’t justice. It’s partisan politics with the power of the FBI and the courts to back it up.

And that is the absolute bottom line here. Oh there was an insurrection against our government. It was planned and executed by a cabal of Democrats, RINOs, the Deep State intel and LE communities to make it look as if Trump and his followers were the instigators and perpetrators. But, you already knew that. Trump or no Trump, 2020 was the coup de grâce that for sure finished off the last vestige of America as founded. So, as I asked, is this committee's pre-ordained conclusion stupidity or arrogance? I have to say that considering elections in every key swing district and state have been rigged to allow Democrats and only Democrats to win 99.9% of the time – or at least seriously blunt a drubbing as we saw in the midterms – then you can run all the Trumps, DeSantises, Reagans, Coolidges, Roy Beans, George Pattons all the way up and down the ticket and it won't make a difference.

The referral of Trump for prosecution is meant to send a message, as if the arrest and detention without being charged of scores of Americans who did nothing more than allow themselves to be duped by Capitol cops to enter the Capitol and become patsies for the DOJ and propagandists didn't send enough of a message. The Luca Brasi style of "message."

So, just when I'm ready to move on from Trump, they go and turn him into a martyr. I will never not love and admire the guy for what he did, warts and all. There are no doubt millions of people who feel the same way coupled with millions more who remain diehard Trump supporters. And yet, look what happened in the midterms. Look at what's being revealed about Twitter and censorship, with the irony being the same evil bastard propagandists who worked hand in hand with the FBI to embargo the Biden laptop story are now embargoing the story about that story!

We're at a point where what's happening is bigger than Trump and bigger than mere elections, especially since those have been permanently "fortified." Something's got to give.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Gayffirmative action: the newest frontier in the DEI landscape."
Straight White Males Strongly Encouraged Not to Apply
Robert Spencer: "The phenomenon of mass hysteria."
Why Are So Many College Students Saying They’re Gay?
"Welcome to the brave new world of the '15-minute city.'”
Climate Lockdowns – Coming to a City Near You?

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

"‘The FBI’s influence campaign aimed at executives at news media, Twitter, & other social media companies worked,’ Shellenberger reported."
With Russia Hoaxer Jim Baker on the Inside, the FBI Primed Twitter to Kill Hunter Biden Story Long Before it Broke
"The Aspen Institute hosted a September 2020 training exercise for members of the media and social media leaders regarding the handling of hypothetical data leaks which were similar to the Hunter Biden laptop report that broke in October, according to Shellenberger. Claire Wardle, former executive director and co-founder of First News, appeared to be an attendee of the exercise, according to an email published by Shellenberger."
Nazi Collaborator Soros-Funded Nonprofit Played Key Role In Twitter’s Preparation For Dealing With Hunter Biden Story, Docs Reveal
Among the ex-spies who worked for Twitter was James Baker, the FBI’s former general counsel, who was a key participant in pushing the 2016 Russia hoax against former President Donald Trump. Baker left the FBI in 2018 and joined the far-left Brookings Institution and CNN after his departure. In 2020, he joined Twitter as the “Deputy General Counsel and Vice President, Legal,” according to Baker’s LinkedIn. During his tenure, he played a key role in suppressing the New York Post’s first story on Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell.”
‘Twitter Files’: Twitter Employed Gang of Spies Leading Up to 2020 Election
Indeed, there existed “an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community” aimed at “senior executives at news and social media companies” to discredit “leaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published,” according to independent journalist Michael Shellenberger.
New ‘Twitter Files’ Show FBI Paid Twitter Millions, Influenced Execs To Censor Hunter Biden Laptop Story
"A new survey indicates the voters believe social media censorship favored Biden."
Poll: Voters Say Twitter Tilted 2020 Election
"The FBI was hip-deep in trying to alter the narrative to protect Joe Biden in the lead-up to the election—and it was going after all social media organizations."
The Most Damning Twitter File Just Dropped, Highlighting FBI Wrongdoing
"He emigrated legally from Africa. He built businesses and created thousands of jobs. He has restored free speech, and with that, the hope of a free tomorrow."
Elon Musk: African American of the Year

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What nation is this cackling, literal cocksucker referring to? It sure isn't that place we used to know as America.
Veep Throat Harris: I "Would Require" Tech to "Work with Us" to Ensure There’s Not "Manipulation" to Upend "the Security of Our Democracy and our Nation"
"Rampant Internet porn has been a long-standing issue, which in many cases involves victims of all ages depicted in such content without their consent and further causing irreparable harm to their lives."
Confronting Twitter’s Pornography Problem Would Tackle the Child Exploitation Epidemic, Advocates for Online Safety Say
"Publications like The Dispatch are not ashamed of their partnership with Facebook. In fact, there is clear indication on both The Dispatch and Facebook’s websites that they are proud to be advancing the goal of silencing anyone they deem problematic together."
David French: Yes, the Dispatch Takes Money to Help Leftists Keep the Internet Conservatism-Free
"Parsing the New York Times’ obsession with alarmism."
Democracy Under Siege?
"In other words, this company has specific racist and bigoted hiring quotas, favoring some simply because of their race, ethnicity, and sexual practices. Note too that the company specifically favors queer sex, since the Q in LGBTQ+ stands for this specifically."
Today’s Blacklisted American: Law Firm Fires Lawyer of 44 Years for Expressing the Wrong Opinion
". . . And to launch a false charge."
Time Magazine Article on Food Tech in Israel Detours to Take a Swipe at Israel
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Julie Kelly: "The omissions will be more telling about what really happened on January 6, 2021 than what’s actually in the report."
What to Watch For In January 6 Report
"I don’t honestly know if Trump truly intends to run in 2024, or if his early campaign announcement was meant to give him the political and fundraising clout to fight back against the committee and Joe Biden’s corrupt DOJ. What I do know is that what we’re watching ain’t justice. It’s partisan politics with the power of the FBI and the courts to back it up."
It's Official: January 6 Committee Refers Trump to DOJ for Criminal Prosecution
"The left’s war on Trump just escalated dramatically—which of course, means a war against all those Americans who support Trump."
The January 6 Committee Refers Trump for Criminal Prosecution
“More games from a petulant and soon-to-be defunct kangaroo court desperate for revenge and struggling to get out from under the weight of its own irrelevancy,” [Rep. Scott] Perry spokesman Jay Ostrich said in a statement provided to Breitbart News.
House Republicans Rip January 6 Committee over Ethics Referrals: ‘Another Partisan and Political Stunt’
"Former President Donald Trump was referred to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution alongside five allies."
J6 Committee Asks Justice Department To Neutralize Political Opponents With Criminal Prosecution
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"On Monday, Republican attorneys general from 19 states asked the Supreme Court to preserve Title 42 by placing a stay on the lower court’s decision. Roberts, in an announcement hours later, issued an administrative stay, keeping Title 42 in place while Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) files a brief."
Chief Justice John Roberts Puts Brakes on Biden’s Ending Title 42 at Border
"Senate report alleges lack of safeguards for migrant children under Biden [junta]."
"Serious Disregard For These Children’s Welfare": Biden Junta Policies Could Place Migrant Kids in Homes With Sex Offenders
"A nation that loses control of its borders loses control of its destiny."
On Immigration, Are the Democrats Hoisting Themselves With Their Own Petard?
"Leave it to Republicans to fall short, either from nearsightedness, timidity, or both." (meh, every Leftist and RINO accomplice must be removed, not just via impeachment, and permanently banished from power - jjs)
Why Just Mayorkas?
". . . Just what the Biden [junta] wants."
End of Title 42 Means More Chaos at the Border
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Michael Walsh: "Have a very merry carbon-free net-zero holiday!"
E.U. Steals a Lump of Coal for Christmas
"This should be the biggest story in the world right now. . . The EU just announced a direct carbon tax on individuals for heating, petrol and diesel."
This is Scary
"Climate activists push electrification and de-growth, complementary strategies that would lead to lower standards of living and more government control."
A Feudal Movement
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The shortages come as the annual U.S. flu season spiked, along with other respiratory illnesses." (considering abortion and the Luddite Malthusian red greens, you have the seed of a conspiracy theory right here - jjs)
Pharmacies Limit Children’s Medicine Purchases Amid Shortages
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Prosecutors agreed to the plea “based on the defendant’s long-standing ties to the community and her lack of a criminal record,” Fox News reported.
NY Teacher Who Injected Teen With Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine Gets Community Service Sentence
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Christine “Chrissy” Hicks alleged the hospital waited until her teen daughter, Yulia Hicks, was in stage 5 kidney failure to inform the family she would remain inactive on the list unless she received the [Chinese] COVID-19 vaccine, according to the suit."
Parents Sue After Duke U. Hospital Allegedly Refuses To Activate Teen’s Name On Donor List Over Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine
"[So-called quote-unquote "president"] wanted to 'unilaterally impose a health care decision on one-fifth of all employees in the United States,' writes Fifth US Circuit."
Court Blocks Biden’s Chinese COVID Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors
"Meanwhile, Moderna had good results testing an anti-cancer treatment based on mRNA technology."
Pfizer Countersues Moderna After Being Accused of Stealing Covid Vaccine mRNA Technology
“As far as I know, they are all theoretical and no beneficial examples in the real world exist,” said Dr. Hideki Kakeya, an engineering professor at Japan’s University of Tsukuba. “There is a slim chance of GoF contributing to therapeutics in the real world. It’s often the case that scientists lie to get huge grants.”
‘Science Fiction’: Scientists Say Gain-Of-Function Research Has Never Actually Provided Real-World Benefits
"Some worry requiring anti-[Chinese] COVID masks will further damage children."
Should We Mask Kids Under 5 To Contain Chinese COVID? — I&I/TIPP Poll
SECOND AMENDMENT
"The measures would work to ban assault style weapons, hold manufacturers and retailers accountable for gun sales and implement a permit-to-purchase requirement for all gun buyers." (well, they are weapons of war, Governor Inbreed, meant to give the citizenry protection from tyrants who lock them up, censor them, steal elections, steal their wealth and steal their freedom – like what's happening right now - jjs)
"Weapons of War": Washington State’s Dem Gov, Attorney General Propose Major Gun Control Measures
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"The teacher says she was ordered to immediately resign."
Ohio Teacher Forced Out for Refusing to Affirm Students’ New Gender Identity, Lawsuit Claims
"Stanford University and California Polytechnic State University also discourage 'gender-based' terms like 'mother and father.'"
Bad Words: California Colleges Push Students to Purge "Harmful" Phrases Like "Brown Bag Lunch"
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—whose affirmative action program, along with that of Harvard University, is under review by the Supreme Court—sponsors the Fellowship for Exploring Research in Nutrition, which accepts applications exclusively from students who are "Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC)," according to the program's website. Fellows earn thousands of dollars, live in on-campus apartments paid for by the university, and receive generous mentorship opportunities, including letters of recommendation.
White Students Are Prohibited From Applying to This UNC Fellowship
"Wauwatosa clearly has a lot of problems that have been percolating for a long time. This is the perfect example of elected officials who need to be reminded that there is a law of the land, and they are accountable for it."
Keep Calm and Sue Everyone: Wauwatosa School Board Is About to Find Out What Free Speech Is All About
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
“We’ve had three whistleblowers from Maricopa County reach out and say the system is seriously flawed,” Lake told Just the News last week. “They were throwing out tens of thousands of signatures saying they were scribbles that in no way matched. But somewhere between there, the ballots were being completely tossed out and they got looped back into the system and counted as if they were fine.”
Kari Lake Calls for Maricopa Election Officials to Be 'Locked Up'
"It has taken the Democrat Party just two years to fundamentally transform the election process in America, with the prospect of recurring rigged elections."
Not Your Grandfather's Election Day
"Currently, only one member from the House and Senate is required to object to an elector or slate of electors. Under the Senate version of the bill, sponsored by Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), one-fifth of lawmakers from both chambers of Congress would be required to disrupt the certification process. The House version, written by Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), would raise the threshold required to disrupt the certification process to one-third members of both chambers. The bill would also ensure that the vice president’s role during the certification process is strictly ceremonial."
Report: Omnibus Bill to Include Electoral Count Act that Was Crafted in Response to January 6
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Two clues were “Boxcars” and “Brandenburg Gate.”
NYT Claims Swastika Shaped Crossword on Eve of Hanukkah is a ‘Common’ Design
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Expressed desire to “walk away from this” after threats to her safety.
New Documents Reveal Alleged Epstein Victim Claimed to Have Copies of ‘Blackmail’ Sex Tapes He Made of Associates
POLITICS
"The success of Donald Trump’s presidency dealt establishment politicians a heavy blow. A second Trump term might kill them—and they know it."
Trump Was a Mistake
“I’m saying we could see the cherry blossoms bloom and not have a speaker. I hope it doesn’t come to that,” Gaetz said, in reference to the popular flower in D.C. that blooms annually around the end of March.
Gaetz’s Rebellion Goes Haywire: MTG Rips Florida Rep over Threat to Hold Up GOP Business for Months so He Can Vent About McCarthy
“I’ve been asked to explain MTG’s belief in Jewish space lasers, why she showed up to a white supremacist’s conference, and now why she’s blindly following Kevin McCarthy and I’m not going to go there. The only person who can answer for Marjorie’s words and actions is Marjorie. Let me be very clear, I support President Trump. Period. President Trump is a friend and the leader of the Republican party.”
Rep. Lauren Boebert Refuses To Explain Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Blindly Following’ McCarthy
"Abrams amassed over $100 million in her failed bid to unseat Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R.), but suffered cash flow issues in the final weeks of the campaign. Speaking to Axios, two-time Abrams campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo blamed the money problems on a 'cavalcade of negative press and negative polling' in the final months of the campaign."
Going for Broke: "Tank" Abrams’ Campaign Can’t Pay Staffers After Blowout Loss
"To me, the photoshopping is reminiscent of the botched restoration of the 19th-century Spanish fresco of Jesus."
Yikes! This Poorly Photoshopped Pic of Biden From a Dem Strategist Is So Cringey
"Latter-day McCarthyism is a minority of one, not the moral voice of a House majority."
Kevin’s McCarthyism
More "natural born conservatives" wish-casting. Even if true, the island is so corrupt, you guarantee two more permanent Leftist senators and one congresscritter. I'm in favor of independence.
Puerto Rico Statehood Might Not Be a GOP Disaster Waiting to Happen
Daniel Greenfield: "Statehood has no purpose except to give Democrats two senate seats and inject even more money into what is already the most corrupt place around."
Puerto Rico Shouldn’t Be a State
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
“In remarks reported by the state news agency Belta, the Belarusian strongman insisted that his meeting with Mr. Putin on Monday would focus on economic matters, particularly the price of Russian natural gas, on which Belarus is heavily dependent,” the NYT reported on Monday, suggesting the sixth time might not be the charm for Putin’s efforts to get Belarusian troops on the Ukrainian ground.
Putin Makes First Visit to Belarus in over Three Years
"Western leaders can no longer hide the truth about Ukraine."
Is This Winning?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Daniel Greenfield: "Tehran is calling the shots in D.C."
Son of Biden’s Iran Envoy Works for "Iran Lobby"
"The [junta] seems happy that someone is bailing it out."
Japan’s New Defense Strategy Driven by China’s Threat and Biden’s Weakness
"James Rubin also lobbied for Zimbabwe and a Turkish state bank linked to Iran."
Biden Taps Qatar Shill To Lead Effort To Counter Foreign Propaganda
"The strengthening Unholy Alliance."
Russia and the Ayatollahs
"Propaganda, prisoners, and presents."
From Russia with Love: Merry Christmas
"Debunking the suicidal '2 State Solution' in the heartland of Israel."
Jewish History Matters
“The people’s struggle of 2022 … surprised the organized left as much as the ruling political class.”
Sri Lanka’s ‘Morning After’ Moment
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH
Robert Spencer: ". . . The prime suspect, of course, is Old Joe Biden and his handlers, which may explain why it looks as if it’s more than a paltry forty million bucks.”
Who Is Sending Mad Stacks of U.S. Hundred-Dollar Bills to the Taliban?
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"While none of the five senators who opposed the NDAA made public statements explaining their reasons for opposing the bill, many have expressed criticism of the bill’s contents or of increased spending in general."
Only 5 GOP Senators Voted Against Record-Breaking $857.9 Billion Defense Budget
"Promises of war and big profits show us how efficient Washington can be."
The Tentacles of the Military Industrial Complex Run Very Deep Washington
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Raymond Ibrahim: "Aside from the obvious discrimination and legal obstacles the government of Egypt has set up against churches, Khalil and I also spoke a bit about the Muslim mob violence that sporadically rises up against Christian places of worship. According to Khalil, 'close to one thousand churches have been attacked or torched by mobs in the last five decades [since the 1970s] in Egypt.' This is a much larger number than is commonly assumed."
Remember This Whenever Muslims Demand More 'Rights' in the West
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Meanwhile, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declares a “state of emergency” over the region’s homelessness problems.
Article in The Atlantic Slams Blue State Liberal Policies for Homelessness Crisis
"The U.S. Postal Service’s problems are not new, but they are especially prominent during the holiday season when postal workers know they will have to sort, transport, and deliver 15 billion pieces of mail and 800 million packages in less than two short months."
Want Proof Our Government is a Cash-Gobbling Ball of Incompetence? Look No Further Than the Post Office
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Patients deserve to get the treatment they need in a timely manner."
Time for Congress to Solve the Prior Authorization Problem for All Americans
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"According to one researcher, at least two of the Apollo lunar modules that took astronauts up and down from the Moon could still be in lunar orbit, though their location is presently unknown."
Could the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Still Be Orbiting the Moon?
"Suffused with bright red light, this luminous image hosts a variety of interesting features, including a free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globule (frEGG)."
Blobs in Space (the "Tank" Abrams Story - jjs)
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem announced the retirement of Health Secretary Joan Adam on Monday, following a report that the Department of Health had signed a $136,000 contract with a transgender activist group."
Gov. Kristi Noem Announces Health Secretary’s Retirement After Contract With Transgender Activist Group
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Thad McCotter: ". . . the first unintended lesson of the purging of Dr. Carson is prominent and inescapable: the DPSCD board is more concerned with partisan political stunts than about students; more concerned about indoctrination than education. And every educational metric proves their abject failure to students, parents, teachers, and everyone who cares about these children and their future."
"Purging Dr. Carson! Purging Dr. Carson!"
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
Winston "Mumford" Marshall Op-Ed: When Did Artists Become the Mob?
". . . if you are stocking up for your Christmas party and are thinking of adding a bottle of J&B Whisky to your holiday offerings, you may want to watch the new commercial from J&B Spain . . . "
J&B Whisky Goes Trans
"Those who return to their hometowns from Ivy League schools are but a small part of this group."
Cultivating a Local Elite
"There are far better things to do with your life than letting the guy with the tongue from Kiss dictate how you live."
Rock Legends And Resist Libs Both Become Neurotic Babies When Faced With Mortality
"Francis Fukuyama's Liberalism and Its Discontents is not much fun; it is all about liberals patting themselves on the back, with No Idea why the natives are restless."
Fukuyama, Discontents, and Humpty Dumpty
Christian Toto: "Top Gun star's helicopter stunt shows old-school gratitude at best possible time."
Hollywood Must Learn from Tom Cruise … or Else
"Please Christians, the world needs each of you now!"
A Plea From a Heathen
"Down with God, up with people."
Woke Catholic Church Architecture: Ugly as Sin
HITHER & YON
"The great division in this world will be between the bitter and the lonely, who serve only themselves, and the family men and women whose labors prefigure the kingdom of God."
A Simple Choice
"‘Raoul Dufy: Drawn to Royal Ascot’ at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is a welcome relief from the heavy, tormented subject matter many artists employ."
Take In the Pomp and Elegance of Raoul Dufy at This Richmond Museum
FINALLY . . .
Naomi Wolf: "Hanukkah, Christmas, and the Actual Miracle."
Rock of Ages
NOTE: The opinions expressed in the links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:46 AM

Comments

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2022 07:45 AM (BRHaw)

2 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2022 07:46 AM (OQM6D)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 20, 2022 07:47 AM (PLIAk)

4 We have officially become a banana republic

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 20, 2022 07:47 AM (F6n0S)

5 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2022 07:49 AM (1n+EO)

6 A recent ad for a receptionist job appealed to “Black people, Indigenous people, people of color; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex people; women; people with disabilities, protected veterans, and formerly incarcerated individuals”—all “strongly encouraged to apply.”

There are only about 20 or 30 illegal things in this ad.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2022 07:49 AM (BRHaw)

7 Morning peeps.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2022 07:50 AM (Q4IgG)

8 There are only about 20 or 30 illegal things in this ad.
Posted by: rhennigantx

"Only' being the key word. EEOC demands about eight or nine more illegalities.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2022 07:51 AM (OQM6D)

9 Let’s see if the New Generation of GOPES says Boo about the referral of PDJT.
Heavy D, what say you 😂

Posted by: a police state, if you can keep it at December 20, 2022 07:51 AM (j6nJf)

10 Identity is the Trojan horse. The moment any rights were applied to someone because of an identity, black, gay, woman, LGBTQ+, etc., the rights guaranteed in Constitution and Bill of Rights became a bad joke. You sexual orientation, skin color, religion, or whatever is not your identity. There are only two categories in the US, citizen and non citizen. We have clearly defined rights for both groups. Every right granted someone for a single trait is an abomination.

Posted by: IanDeal at December 20, 2022 07:52 AM (MGjjz)

11 "Something's got to give"

We keep saying that, but it never does. It's like watching 10 feet of snow on your roof and thinking "it will never hold 11 feet", but now we are up to 19 feet.

Posted by: fd at December 20, 2022 07:52 AM (iayUP)

12 thank you, JJ!

G'mornin' Horde!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at December 20, 2022 07:52 AM (fxj5q)

13 A small quibble.

It hasn't been Trump himself tearing the masks off the crooks, but rather the crooks themselves tearing off their masks in response to what Trump says and does.

Trump infuriates them like no one else.

Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2022 07:53 AM (SYTee)

14 Another conservative saying they just want Trump to go away is foolish.
Why not welcome every ally we have against the Deep State? We're following some Queensbury-like set of rules in our heads while our opponents are following Rules for Radicals and bringing the nasty.
At the very least, we can cheer Trump for standing up with everything he has.
Those who wish him to go away are too sensitive for the fight - they don't want to hear the media's TDS ravings. Which is precisely what the media wants us to do - be demoralized.

Posted by: Coki at December 20, 2022 07:54 AM (i3fPW)

15 Trump infuriates them like no one else.
Posted by: davidt

From my point of view it's a gift.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2022 07:54 AM (OQM6D)

16 Hate to break it to anyone but when I got one of my degrees from an institution in the northeast some 40 years ago, Smith was already plus 50 in the women who share shoes category. The plus side, the ones who weren't were very interested in men.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 20, 2022 07:54 AM (AaLDK)

17 There have only ever been two real paths available to any society. Tyranny and submission, or rebellion and conflict. Because Tyranny will never ever relent or dissolve itself willingly.

America came really really close to disproving this, but not close enough.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2022 07:55 AM (9UlRk)

18 The number of cities selling 4 day work weeks as friendly to the environment (no commutes) is pretty large - two direct attacks on the economy in one!

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 20, 2022 07:56 AM (AaLDK)

19 Soon, the sodomites will be including all their NAMBLA pals and buddies and "pederast" will be another qualifier for jobs, especially in the federal "work" force. Remember, hate has no home except for the democrat party.

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Elon!

Free Sam Bankman-Fried!

More coffee....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 20, 2022 07:57 AM (Jr3kA)

20 Robert Spencer: "The phenomenon of mass hysteria."
Why Are So Many College Students Saying They’re Gay?
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The "Born this way" flag at that article is hilarious because the sudden and absurd jump in numbers settles that nonsense once and for all.

For people who aren't doing it to be "cool" or to shock their parents or otherwise get attention, it's caused by abuse at a crucial point in the persons life. The end.

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 07:57 AM (v3mBl)

21 From my point of view it's a gift.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2022 07:54 AM (OQM6D)

It is.

Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2022 07:57 AM (SYTee)

22 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ for another insightful essay.

Please to remember, this is not about Trump per se because they would have created the same histrionics about any Republican who beat Hillary.

They do create the same histrionics, fear uncertainty, and doubt.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2022 07:58 AM (EZebt)

23 Good morning one and all. Let us continue to enjoy life despite the best efforts of others.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2022 07:59 AM (4olE8)

24 People who say they want to Fix Things will always be supported, and rabidly supported, by people who want Things Fixed for them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2022 07:59 AM (9UlRk)

25 The solution to Puerto Rico becoming a state is a return to the policy prior to the War Between the States - states come in by twos, one red for every blue. In this case, carving out a conservative state from say California or Oregon and Washington. Sauce for the goose Dems.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 20, 2022 08:01 AM (AaLDK)

26 “These are high numbers,” he says of the Smith and Wellesley data. “However, it’s important to remember that much of this lies in female bisexuality...
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I suspect there's a LOT to be learned with this part, btw. I've heard more than one woman say something casually along the lines of "I think I'm bisexual because I think so and so is pretty."

They'd never act on it, nor would affect their lives in any way, but they would check that box if asked because they're easily manipulated and they aren't bright enough to understand that it serves the purpose of something destructive to their children.

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 08:02 AM (v3mBl)

27 10 Identity is the Trojan horse. ...
Posted by: IanDeal at December 20, 2022 07:52 AM (MGjjz)

Marxists fabricated a Trojan Horse and painted "Civil Rights Act" on it. Then packed it with any and all groups thirsty for cultural warfare. They emerge, one by one, and do something provocative. If there is pushback, the critic is smacked around in the press for abusing the protected class (motte bailey).

Posted by: Coki at December 20, 2022 08:03 AM (i3fPW)

28 The solution to Puerto Rico becoming a state is a return to the policy prior to the War Between the States - states come in by twos, one red for every blue. In this case, carving out a conservative state from say California or Oregon and Washington. Sauce for the goose Dems.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 20, 2022 08:01 AM (AaLDK)

Cut the PR loose and let them join the UK

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 20, 2022 08:04 AM (F6n0S)

29 Remember though that the January 6 committee’s decision carries no legal weight anywhere in the executive branch. The decision to file charges, and what charges to file, rests completely with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice.
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No *legal* weight. Plenty of other kinds of weight.

The ball is now in Garland's court, but his hands are also tied to a point. The entire Committee exercise has been a trap for the AG, in a way. There is so much press furor over it that he has to do *something.* The Committee was supposed to give him cover to do it. They have failed. They have provided no cover. Nothing meaningful and nothing useful. But in their attempt to provide cover, they've also created an environment - a synthetic press environment, but an environment nonetheless - that more or less demands that Garland take the next step.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:05 AM (t0OGg)

30 Working with the "male" gay types is easy, the "female" type is worse than the worst female employee as every mood and emotion is exaggerated by design. And before people get in a tizzy, all employee groups exist on a spectrum from normal to "why did I hire this person?"

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 20, 2022 08:05 AM (AaLDK)

31 but they would check that box if asked because they're easily manipulated and they aren't bright enough to understand that it serves the purpose of something destructive to their children.
Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 08:02 AM (v3mBl)

I think Henry Cavill and Hugh Jackman are gorgeous, but i ain't taking my pants off for them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2022 08:06 AM (9UlRk)

32 NGU, I would be happy to trade PR back to Spain for a dish of paella.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 20, 2022 08:06 AM (AaLDK)

33 Liz Cheney and her merry band of Democrats will go down in history for this, as the vicious, partisan, hacks they really are, but armed with the worst DOJ supporting them. This prosecution is like something that might have happened in France, right before the revolution broke out, and everyone died in the aftermath.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2022 08:06 AM (040S9)

34 It's National Sangria Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2022 08:06 AM (NpAcC)

35 The J6 committee is not a legally assembled body, it is the creation of one person: Nancy Pelosi. She selected all the kangaroos to assemble the conclusion. And all of this is done in that incestuous shit hole known as Washington D.C.

Posted by: Minuteman at December 20, 2022 08:07 AM (LaNzR)

36 It is not the "last thing they want" to make Trump their 2024 opponent. They very much want him to run, for all of those "good and cogent" reasons you alluded to.

Does this illustrate the absurdity of them claiming he is some sort of existential threat to democracy? Of course. If he was that sort of threat, they wouldn't want him to get the Republican nomination, because anyone who does has a non-zero chance of winning the Presidency.

But they're very willing to run against a damaged Trump, and they're trying to damage him even more than he already damages himself.

Trump might very well have been the only major Republican who could have beaten Clinton in 2016. Trump might very well be the only major Republican who could NOT beat Biden in 2024.

Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 08:07 AM (DxBF0)

37 I think Henry Cavill and Hugh Jackman are gorgeous, but i ain't taking my pants off for them.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

"I'm not gay but $50 is $50." only goes so far. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2022 08:07 AM (OQM6D)

38
I fully expect that the usual suspects will be howling about this. But they're wrong. And you know how we (rightly) mocked NeverTrump for claiming that he 2016 election was "not a binary choice?" When in fact, a Presidential election IS a binary choice and a zero-sum game? That's true this year, too.

Trump is the candidate, and we lose. It doesn't matter if that is fair, it is true. He is simply too polarizing at this point.

Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 08:07 AM (DxBF0)

39 Warts & all. The main reason to vote for Trump is that "THEY" fear him the most.

Posted by: Dino58 at December 20, 2022 08:07 AM (LVPff)

40 Why is it that the folks who want to fix things always focus on fixing the things of others?

You are convinced that the earths population needs to be reduced?

Here's a shotgun...suck start it.

You're convinced that greater taxation is the answer to poverty?

Write a personal check to the Federal government.

Make your solutions about YOU.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2022 08:07 AM (1n+EO)

41 What I do know is that what we’re watching ain’t justice. It’s partisan politics with the power of the FBI and the courts to back it up.
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That's how party politics works in a single-party system. We have a single-party system, just like all tyrannies. The cops and the spies and the soldiers are the footmen of the rulers. When the people bound to the tyranny by force - that is, the citizens - are lucky, the cops and spies and soldiers align to different internal factions and have to split their attention between general oppression and internal power struggles. When the people are unlucky, one faction is unquestionably dominant and the cops and spies and soldiers can focus on their primary mission of intimidation and oppression.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:07 AM (t0OGg)

42 It's National Sangria Day!
Posted by: redridinghood

I'll drink to that!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2022 08:08 AM (OQM6D)

43 It is so fucked up crazy I am starting to wonder if Trump is in on it somehow. On the other hand, I think there was way too much being hard on Trump about the superhero NFTs. This is a man who likes to have fun, and if I am being honest, I can see the fun in this.

I am not going to lean toward my paranoid tendencies, but instead I am going embrace the NFTs. Maybe, just maybe, Trump is fucking them with NFTs, just like Butters.

I am not that smart so I don't know. The NFTs look good to me now. Trump is superman, these clowns are Lex Luthor.

The NFTs play well in the current milieu. Trump is the Face. The FBI is the heal.

Posted by: tehDave at December 20, 2022 08:08 AM (eO3KZ)

44 Feel good story of the day. Missing dog is found 14 months later and 1700 miles from home.

https://tinyurl.com/5c69pcsf

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 20, 2022 08:08 AM (nxdel)

45 Can't win with Trump, can't win without him.

Sums it up, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 20, 2022 08:08 AM (SJsWC)

46 Good morning JJ, and thanks again. Now to peruse the links of doom.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 20, 2022 08:08 AM (45fpk)

47 NGU, I would be happy to trade PR back to Spain for a dish of paella.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 20, 2022 08:06 AM (AaLDK)

Works for me

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 20, 2022 08:09 AM (F6n0S)

48 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2022 08:10 AM (qpvqN)

49 Morning, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 20, 2022 08:10 AM (mhWKY)

50 JeffB was whining on Twitter that there are too many establishment candidates jumping in to 24 and it will make a trump win more likely.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 08:10 AM (+hI+T)

51 Puerto Rico is a corruption paradise, and it has the sweetest deal on federal taxes you can possibly imagine.

For example: If you move to PR, you pay no federal capital gains tax.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2022 08:10 AM (040S9)

52 I see Paul Ryan has returned to AOS comments.
Hopefully he will throw his hat in the ring for 24 and take another deserved ass kicking

Posted by: a police state, if you can keep it at December 20, 2022 08:11 AM (j6nJf)

53 If trump is indicted/arrested the only choice is to vote for him. That is the only reasonable option.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 08:11 AM (+hI+T)

54 So, as I asked, is this committee's pre-ordained conclusion stupidity or arrogance?
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Terror and arrogance begetting recklessness. J6 was nothing, but it was more than anyone had seen before. It terrified the ruling class and in their arrogance - the arrogance that comes from *knowing* that they are above the law and above the rubes - leapt into the Committee process to launch their investigation.

Their arrogance is well-founded. They *are* above the law and they *are* superior - superior by law as well as by their informal networks of pull and power - to the rubes. But they have behaved recklessly and run the risk of either fracturing the factional lines as they exist today (if Garland declines to prosecute Trump for no reason) or martyring Trump (if Garland decides to prosecute Trump, regardless of outcome). They stumbled into a no-win scenario. It isn't an all-lose scenario, either, but none of this has turned out how they envisioned.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:11 AM (t0OGg)

55 Good morning.
More coffee...

Posted by: dantesed at December 20, 2022 08:12 AM (88xKn)

56 Garland will act on the J6 committe recommendation, if for no other reason because he's a political stooge who does what he's told.

The real question is what will the reaction be? Based on the behavior observed since the 'rona lockdowns, there will probably be some tepid and meaningless gnashing of teeth. Nobody of consequence will rise to his defense and certainly no politician will.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 20, 2022 08:12 AM (TgNpw)

57 Feel good story of the day. Missing dog is found 14 months later and 1700 miles from home.

https://tinyurl.com/5c69pcsf
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 20, 2022 08:08 AM (nxdel)
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I love stories like that one. Thanks! I'll bet some trucker found him wandering and gave him a lift to Kansas, where he wandered again, and was found!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2022 08:13 AM (040S9)

58 If trump is indicted/arrested the only choice is to vote for him. That is the only reasonable option.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 08:11 AM (+hI+T)

And that is what will happen. The left wing morons do not understand they are boosting his campaign. Maybe that is their intent?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 20, 2022 08:13 AM (F6n0S)

59 Anyone the GOP might be allowed to get into the presidency would be intolerable. That's the problem. Trump, not Trump, who cares. It's arguing about which color to make the deck chairs on the Titanic next spring.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2022 08:13 AM (9UlRk)

60 If trump is indicted/arrested the only choice is to vote for him. That is the only reasonable option.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 08:11 AM (+hI+T)

It will have to be a write-in vote. That should go swimmingly.

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2022 08:13 AM (4h9M3)

61 http://acecomments.mu.nu/?blog=86&post=402405#c37664896

I think they do understand it. They're evil, not stupid. They think they will have an easier time winning in 2024 if they have Trump-hatred to rally their base than it they have to run on Biden's record.

Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 08:14 AM (DxBF0)

62 No politician can begin to address the moral decay and deeply rooted sociopathy of our culture. But still we need a leader. It seems to me that nothing short of a hybrid of Donald Trump, Archbishop Vigano and Joan of Arc would meet the test of this civilizational crisis.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2022 08:15 AM (H8QX8)

63 From the very interesting Atheist link:

"This heathen believes there is a direct correlation and relationship between diminished Christianity and the intellectual and spiritual wasteland we have created.

Christianity must end this retreat and again become an expansive, vibrant, driving force - a loving and joyous force. A Great Awakening may be the only thing that saves this country, and perhaps the entire world."

This self-described heathen guy gets it.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 20, 2022 08:15 AM (45fpk)

64 If trump is indicted/arrested the only choice is to vote for him. That is the only reasonable option.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 08:11 AM (+hI+T)
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He has my vote.

But he loses all the "responsible Republican moderates", and the election. And I could care less. Those Democrats aren't worth spitting on if you see them in the street.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2022 08:15 AM (040S9)

65 Didn't Garland already appoint a special prosecutor over J6 and Trump's handling of classified documents?

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 20, 2022 08:15 AM (SJsWC)

66 Can't win with Trump, can't win without him.

On the other hand, the Ds can win with a vegetable, a James Bond villain, a cadaver, or even Be'ezlebub himself.

They have no principles.

Show me the path to 270.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 20, 2022 08:15 AM (3hSHB)

67 Why Are So Many College Students Saying They’re Gay?
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Not mass hysteria. Rational decision-making.

If you're a white man, you're fucked. You've been told your whole life that you are evil by virtue of *what* you are, and *who* you are is irrelevant. It is a total inversion of the old philosophy. These guys are trapped. They've been indoctrinated into playing the role of the villain and as villains, they have little or no opportunity. No good jobs. No good schools. No good grades. Any whiff of heterodoxy or a single word uttered in their own defense will see them branded as white supremacists and thrown out.

But being gay or trans gets them on the ladder. It's the way out. Critical sex theory is the release valve for the pressures that have accumulated courtesy of critical race theory. That many students are opting to hit that release valve should surprise no one. It's a chance at a life. Not a good life, but a life and a relatively safe one. The other option is to become a highwayman and take to a life of criminality.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:16 AM (t0OGg)

68 Back in the 80's and early 90's, it was reported that up to 95% of the population of PR was infested with one type of STD or another. Dirty bastards.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 20, 2022 08:16 AM (Jr3kA)

69 But they're very willing to run against a damaged Trump, and they're trying to damage him even more than he already damages himself.
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Jeb 2024

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 08:16 AM (v3mBl)

70 Feel good story of the day. Missing dog is found 14 months later and 1700 miles from home.

https://tinyurl.com/5c69pcsf
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 20, 2022 08:08 AM (nxdel)
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I love stories like that one. Thanks! I'll bet some trucker found him wandering and gave him a lift to Kansas, where he wandered again, and was found!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2022 08:13 AM (040S9)
******
Yes,I love pet reunion stories.
The owner might have been a little irresponsible though.
"The owner said her pup would often receive food, water, and treats from the construction workers before coming home on his own or being picked up by her. One day, however, he never came home. "

Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2022 08:16 AM (NpAcC)

71 The closing two sentences of the commentary above sum it all up in a nutshell. Yet we must go on...

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2022 08:16 AM (4h9M3)

72 This self-described heathen guy gets it.
Posted by: grammie winger at December 20, 2022 08:15 AM (45fpk)
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The answer, in three short, direct sentences.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2022 08:17 AM (040S9)

73 It will have to be a write-in vote. That should go swimmingly.
Posted by: Ziba

I guess we better just vote for Larry Hogan, then.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 08:17 AM (+hI+T)

74 Saw some video yesterday of Hope Hicks testifying to the J6 inquisition. She was clearly trying to save herself by distancing herself from Trump and telling them what they wanted to hear. She is also a millennial up-talker. So disappointing.

Posted by: Alexa at December 20, 2022 08:17 AM (MxEKc)

75 "But being gay or trans gets them on the ladder"

Gay, for business purposes.

Posted by: fd at December 20, 2022 08:18 AM (iayUP)

76 I'll bet some trucker found him wandering and gave him a lift to Kansas, where he wandered again, and was found!

Yep, no doubt that silly dog hitched a ride from someone!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 20, 2022 08:18 AM (nxdel)

77 . It seems to me that nothing short of a hybrid of Donald Trump, Archbishop Vigano and Joan of Arc would meet the test of this civilizational crisis.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2022 08:15 AM (H8QX

That's the bitch of it, isn't it? It's not a political crisis to be solved by one person or faction. It's a civilizational crisis of one worldview versus another. Liberty versus Security. Governance versus Government. Fairness versus Equality. Whatever you want to call it. That doesn't get solved by an election or an ordinance or a law.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2022 08:19 AM (9UlRk)

78 Democrats are a little miffed Garland and the Fibbies have been spying on the J6 committee meetings. Apparently, the DOJ is so corrupted by politics it couldn't help itself.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2022 08:20 AM (040S9)

79 Gay, for business purposes.
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2022 08:18 AM (iayUP)
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I strongly suspect this is what's going on, yes. A large number of the newly-minted gay men coming out of the colleges probably aren't gay. Most of that segment have probably never sucked a dick, either. But they'll say they have.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:20 AM (t0OGg)

80 It's not a new message. Five months after Trump took office, six years of phony investigations began, and five seconds after he took office, four years of stonewalling, obstruction and open betrayal by his own Party began.

Since Trump won, the message has been clear: "You people have no say in your governance. WE DO. And if you get the idea that you do, we'll destroy any person who tries to give you a voice. Sit down and shut up. This is our country, we are the rulers, and you are the subjects."

It's just getting louder, not changing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2022 08:20 AM (oINRc)

81 I love how thinking that Trump is damaged politically (Newflash: Trump is absolutely damaged, politically) somehow means you are advocating for the most wishy-washy GOP-e candidate possible.

It does not. Primaries exist for a reason.

Trump did an important thing. He deserves thanks for it. But he would deserve far more thanks if he now rode off into the sunset and let someone else actually advance the work he began. He cannot finish it, because he will not be re-elected. And the increasingly over-the-top simping for the guy in places like this indicates that his die-hards are starting to realize this, and screeching desperately to try to somehow reverse it by attacking people whose votes they absolutely need in order to accomplish what they claim are their goals.

Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 08:22 AM (DxBF0)

82 Most of that segment have probably never sucked a dick, either. But they'll say they have.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:20 AM (t0OGg)

And when they get beat up by a jilted admirer, it'll be a Right Wing Hate Crime.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2022 08:22 AM (9UlRk)

83 I strongly suspect this is what's going on, yes. A large number of the newly-minted gay men coming out of the colleges probably aren't gay. Most of that segment have probably never sucked a dick, either. But they'll say they have.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:20 AM (t0OGg)
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So they are basically self-identifying as gay for the sole purpose of gaining and keeping employment.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 08:22 AM (YIVH2)

84
Woke Catholic Church Architecture: Ugly as Sin

____________

Our present chapel is relatively unencumbered, but it is, in fact, a temporary measure. Some day we'll be building St. Joseph's chapel, which will be much larger and I hope more elaborate.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2022 08:22 AM (MoZTd)

85 Why Are So Many College Students Saying They’re Gay?

The John MacArthur sermon I posted yesterday puts it into perspective. When God abandons an empire it goes through 3 revolutions before it falls- sexual revolution, homosexual revolution and a gender revolution. Guess where we are?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 08:22 AM (+hI+T)

86 A thousand illegals crossed in one day, Monday (?).

Shrug harder America.

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2022 08:22 AM (4h9M3)

87 I guess we better just vote for Larry Hogan, then.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 08:17 AM (+hI+T)

Larry Hovis > Larry Hogan

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 20, 2022 08:23 AM (Jr3kA)

88 "Most of that segment have probably never sucked a dick, either. "

Oh I don't know about that.

Posted by: Bobby Brown at December 20, 2022 08:23 AM (iayUP)

89 Most of that segment have probably never sucked a dick, either. But they'll say they have.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

I didn't inhale.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 08:23 AM (+hI+T)

90 Morning, Horde...how goes it?

Someone on campus is currently confused because they have no idea where their printed documents are ending up...

For some reason they are sending them to the printer in MY office, which is NOT the easiest office to find on campus...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 08:24 AM (YIVH2)

91 So they are basically self-identifying as gay for the sole purpose of gaining and keeping employment.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 08:22 AM (YIVH2)
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More than employment, but yes. It would not surprise me at all if this is what is going on.

There are probably more actual gays now than there used to be because I think "born this way" is a false premise and there has been a massive pro-gay grooming exercise going on in every aspect of the culture for decades, but I strongly suspect a lot of it is "I'll say I'm gay if you'll leave me alone and let me try to live my life as something other than a villain."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:24 AM (t0OGg)

92 Let’s see if the New Generation of GOPES says Boo about the referral of PDJT.
Heavy D, what say you 😂
Posted by: a police state, if you can keep it at December 20, 2022 07:51 AM (j6nJf)

Considering Cruz still has not apologized for calling J6 an 'insurrection' nor for awarding Ashli Babbitt's murderer a medal of honor, anything that comes out of that asshole's mouth is sheer hypocrisy.

And I am willing to predict DeSantis is being told right now by his RINO buddies to either say nothing ("trust the process!") or, if he must, to issue the most anodyne statement possible.

I think this is a make-or-break moment for DeSantis, and I am ready to be completely disappointed by him.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2022 08:24 AM (AW0uW)

93 For some reason they are sending them to the printer in MY office, which is NOT the easiest office to find on campus...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 08:24 AM (YIVH2)

Change your printer's name to "Not This One"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2022 08:24 AM (9UlRk)

94 Naomi Wolf's little essay (last link) is a testament to love, and to family. These are the wonderful virtues that motivate our celebrations, Jewish and Christian, at this season of the year.

Thanks for the link, JJ.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2022 08:25 AM (040S9)

95 There is a path to 270. It involves retaking Georgia and winning one long-shot big state. Probably Michigan.

Hard. Not impossible.

Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 08:25 AM (DxBF0)

96 Thank you, JJ.

I stand with Trump.
I stand with DeSantis.
I stand with Lake.
I stand with America As Founded.
I stand against democrat.
But most of all, I stand AGAINST the mother-crackin' GOPe.

Posted by: democrats, Kidnapping, Raping or Mutilating the Children They Cannot Kill Since 1973 at December 20, 2022 08:25 AM (jV+aN)

97 If so many students are gay, I say make them prove it. In pubic.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 20, 2022 08:25 AM (AXxfu)

98 I tattooed my eyeballs purple and blue—now I’m going blind

https://tinyurl.com/3a98u7n7

Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2022 08:26 AM (NpAcC)

99 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

100 Someone on campus is currently confused because they have no idea where their printed documents are ending up...

For some reason they are sending them to the printer in MY office, which is NOT the easiest office to find on campus...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 08:24 AM (YIVH2)
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Ahh, the joys of printer selection. Xerox has solved this problem and solved it brilliantly, but it's an expensive solution. Their "GlobalPrint" system works better than anything else I've ever used. No printer selection. Just print the document, go scan your ID through the printer itself, and the system sends the job to that location and it prints.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:26 AM (t0OGg)

101 That was Trump's biggest win.

To show the underbelly of the leviathan snake and to remove masks.

Scores of people will never go back to pre-2016 jobs, friends and cocktail parties without others now knowing the past was but a play with actors.

He truly changed the body politic.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 20, 2022 08:26 AM (NW9xb)

102 95 There is a path to 270. It involves retaking Georgia and winning one long-shot big state. Probably Michigan.

Hard. Not impossible.
Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 08:25 AM (DxBF0)

"That's what I said about Hyman Roth."

- - zombie Rocco Lampone

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2022 08:26 AM (x0n13)

103 I'm curious to see how those in Congress who Trump supported as well as those who initially aligned themselves with him react. I know what the rank and file will do and say. Some have already laid their proverbial cards on the table.

BTW, Trump wasn't the only one the J6 committee singled out was he? I thought there were others.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2022 08:27 AM (Q4IgG)

104 > So they are basically self-identifying as gay for the sole purpose of gaining and keeping employment.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 08:22 AM (YIVH2)

It seems clear that the road to success (or at least to a full-ride athletic scholarship) for medium-good male athletes with no self-respect is to declare themselves tranny and compete on the women's team.

If nothing is done, in five years college sports will consist of 1) men's sports and 2) tranny sports.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2022 08:27 AM (bW8dp)

105 GOP Congress should ask the heads of every three letter agency if they are paying anyone who works at a social media company or tv network.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at December 20, 2022 08:27 AM (L9Ewk)

106 If Trump isn't our guy, point to someone better? I will remain on the Trump train until someone better comes along.

DeSantis isn't running, so I'm not on board yet. Polls, even though they're for strippers, still point as he not being anywhere near able to beat Trump.

That being said, I'm also in the ANYONE BUT DEM camp as I will vote for a ham sandwich, made by a woman, over any dem on earth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

107 As a former resident of Puerto Rico I can confidentially say there is no scenario where making PR a state is a win.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2022 08:27 AM (ZLI7S)

108 "So they are basically self-identifying as gay for the sole purpose of gaining and keeping employment."

Maybe there should be some kind of test.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2022 08:27 AM (1n+EO)

109 There are probably more actual gays now than there used to be because I think "born this way" is a false premise and there has been a massive pro-gay grooming exercise going on in every aspect of the culture for decades, but I strongly suspect a lot of it is "I'll say I'm gay if you'll leave me alone and let me try to live my life as something other than a villain."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:24 AM (t0OGg)
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Hmmm. Leads to an interesting dilemma...Suppose they get "caught" exhibiting straight behavior (like holding hands with a woman). Then they can be "outed" as a fake and then punished for that. Though then they can claim the mantle of "bi"...It's all terribly confusing. I'll shut up about it now.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 08:27 AM (YIVH2)

110 DeSantis makes me yawn.

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2022 08:28 AM (4h9M3)

111 108 "So they are basically self-identifying as gay for the sole purpose of gaining and keeping employment."

Maybe there should be some kind of test.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2022 08:27 AM (1n+EO)

"introducing the Skin-Flute Breathalyzer, from Ronco!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2022 08:29 AM (x0n13)

112 Ahh, the joys of printer selection. Xerox has solved this problem and solved it brilliantly, but it's an expensive solution. Their "GlobalPrint" system works better than anything else I've ever used. No printer selection. Just print the document, go scan your ID through the printer itself, and the system sends the job to that location and it prints.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

JPMorgan Chase used this system at one of their larger office complexes - almost 2 million sq feet. It worked great but yeah, really spendy.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2022 08:29 AM (OQM6D)

113 I tattooed my eyeballs purple and blue—now I’m going blind

https://tinyurl.com/3a98u7n7
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2022 08:26 AM (NpAcC)

Eyesight is a gift that too many take for granted. My brother has a rare eye disease that will eventually cause him to lose sight. People that fuck with their eyes and risk vision are incredibly stupid, naïve and egotistical. You get what you deserve and will rue Judgement Day when it comes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

114 He truly changed the body politic.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 20, 2022 08:26 AM (NW9xb)

It may be that the covid debacle itself did even more. Not only do we know that those in power will not cede that power, we also know that those in power will stop at nothing if they deem the situation an "Emergency". They surely wouldn't keep me from buying groceries? Think again. They surely wouldn't use armed police officers to barricade me inside my own home? Sure would. Think they wouldn't seize your bank accounts? Get your employer to fire you? No bridge is a bridge too far.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2022 08:30 AM (9UlRk)

115 A 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked parts of northern California early Tuesday morning, knocking out power for thousands. The quake hit at a depth of 10 miles just after 5:30 a.m. ET near Eureka.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 20, 2022 08:31 AM (Vwz3I)

116
So, as I asked, is this committee's pre-ordained conclusion stupidity or arrogance?

____________

You proles can't question election results. Otherwise you're an insurrectionist.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2022 08:31 AM (MoZTd)

117 New Documents Reveal Alleged Epstein Victim Claimed to Have Copies of ‘Blackmail’ Sex Tapes He Made of Associates

hoo-baby, Sarah Ransome just sent the world a notice she has information that would lead to the arrest and conviction of (fill in the first name) Clinton.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2022 08:31 AM (4B+3L)

118 GOP Congress should ask the heads of every three letter agency if they are paying anyone who works at a social media company or tv network.
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at December 20, 2022 08:27 AM (L9Ewk)
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HAHAHAHA. Why? Let me go ahead and give you the possible answers.
"We don't discuss confidential informants, whatever their employment."
"None to my recollection"
"I don't have the paperwork in front of me, and I can't answer because I don't want to speculate."
"I am not aware of every informant in the system. It's possible, but it's not our policy to pursue CIs in the media."
"No, we don't."

In all cases, it will be a lie. Regardless of the lie, they will saunter off to their taxpayer-funded personal jet and go on vacation after they lie for to Congress for a few hours. Both "sides" will use the soundbites for campaign marketing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:31 AM (t0OGg)

119 > 114 He truly changed the body politic.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 20, 2022 08:26 AM (NW9xb)

I thought that was "Tank" Abrams.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2022 08:31 AM (bW8dp)

120 I think that if the Feds arrest Trump, the cold civil war will go hot.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 20, 2022 08:32 AM (mhWKY)

121
Eyesight is a gift that too many take for granted.

___________

I lost part of my hearing and that's a big enough pain.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2022 08:32 AM (MoZTd)

122 ++++
Ahh, the joys of printer selection. Xerox has solved this problem and solved it brilliantly, but it's an expensive solution. Their "GlobalPrint" system works better than anything else I've ever used. No printer selection. Just print the document, go scan your ID through the printer itself, and the system sends the job to that location and it prints.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:26 AM (t0OGg)

Lexmark has that as well. We've been using it for several years and it seems to work pretty well. Just remember your badge or you're stuck. Of course, you can still map to a hosted queue if you're forgetful.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

123 > hoo-baby, Sarah Ransome just sent the world a notice she has information that would lead to the arrest and conviction of (fill in the first name) Clinton.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2022 08:31 AM (4B+3L)

In other news, Sarah Ransome did not kill herself.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2022 08:32 AM (bW8dp)

124 I think this is a make-or-break moment for DeSantis, and I am ready to be completely disappointed by him.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2022 08:24 AM (AW0uW)

He's a savvy politician so he'll thread the needle. A politician -- first, last and always.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2022 08:32 AM (H8QX8)

125 "DeSantis isn't running, so I'm not on board yet."

Nobody is running yet, except Trump. So we cannot point to anyone who will meet your requirements.

But yeah, DeSantis has a much better chance of actually being President in 2024 than Trump does. The RECENT polling is in favor of DeSantis; the polls still showing Trump way up are a month old.

Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 08:33 AM (DxBF0)

126 A 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked parts of northern California early Tuesday morning, knocking out power for thousands. The quake hit at a depth of 10 miles just after 5:30 a.m. ET near Eureka.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 20, 2022 08:31 AM (Vwz3I)
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The Californians have angered the mole people...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 08:33 AM (YIVH2)

127 ___________

I lost part of my hearing and that's a big enough pain.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2022 08:32 AM (MoZTd)

A firework off the temple oh so many years ago gives me ringing, especially in noisy situations and is fun enough.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

128 120 I think that if the Feds arrest Trump, the cold civil war will go hot.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 20, 2022 08:32 AM (mhWKY)

It will be the biggest boon to his popularity yet.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2022 08:34 AM (H8QX8)

129 "A politician -- first, last and always."

And this is a good thing.....right?

Heavy D...he's our man!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2022 08:34 AM (1n+EO)

130 If Merrick Garland's highly corrupt and obviously partisan witch hunt DOJ doesn't bring charges against Trump, I'll eat my shoes. There is no way on earth they will come this close, considering how utterly corrupt they are, how vengeful, how out of control, and not go after him. They will. And they will get a conviction with a jury conveniently seated in D.C. I'd say we'd better brace for it, but I have given up. There is no fixing this. No savior is coming. No "divorce" to dissolve our bonds with these communists. No will. No fortitude. Plenty of apathy. And ignorance. Put on your mask and comply, or face the consequences. Face it, we have lost. All their bases are covered. The wagons are surrounded. It's curtains for America, and for us. Whatever ray of light I barely saw is now gone. Someone convince me otherwise. Because I mean every word.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 20, 2022 08:34 AM (sVtYq)

131
I thought that was "Tank" Abrams.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 20, 2022 08:31 AM (bW8dp)

She changed the orca politic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

132 I think that if the Feds arrest Trump, the cold civil war will go hot.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 20, 2022 08:32 AM (mhWKY)
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they are ready for this, and don't care.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2022 08:34 AM (4B+3L)

133 ---
The Californians have angered the mole people...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 08:33 AM (YIVH2)

But I'm told the 'conservatives' live in the north. Why not flatten LA?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

134 Someone on campus is currently confused because they have no idea where their printed documents are ending up...
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chicken
chicken
chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 08:35 AM (v3mBl)

135 >>But yeah, DeSantis has a much better chance of actually being President in 2024 than Trump does. The RECENT polling is in favor of DeSantis; the polls still showing Trump way up are a month old.

Ah, no.

https://tinyurl.com/2p85rzdj

This is the 2nd poll in a week to give Trump a 20+ point lead over DeSantis, the other being the Politico/Morning Consult poll last week.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2022 08:36 AM (ZLI7S)

136 Gay is losing its status on corporate America.

We have leadership program that specifically excludes whites AND gays. Black and gay is ok. Gay and white is not right.

Posted by: MJ at December 20, 2022 08:36 AM (zwDuR)

137 "they are ready for this, and don't care."

Seems like disguising as members of Antifa might be of benefit.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2022 08:36 AM (1n+EO)

138 Trump is the candidate, and we lose. It doesn't matter if that is fair, it is true. He is simply too polarizing at this point.

ANY Republican is going to be 'polarizing.' I'll stick with a man who throws punches rather than lets the MFM / DNC walk all over him without fighting back because that's 'not who we are.'

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2022 08:36 AM (AW0uW)

139
chicken
chicken
chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken
Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 08:35 AM (v3mBl)

When did the thread turn into a horrible Burger King commercial?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

140 Yep, something's gotta give and it will. The arrest and imprisonment of Trump will signal a purge, IMO. For the last week or so, on twitter, there have been hints that "justice is coming" for "the fascists", meaning the republicans and "populists".

I don't think some of the instigators will be as safe as they'd like to think, as when the economy falls and all the clot shot info oozes out, plenty of the more plenipotentiary donks will get the blame. That includes Garland, Mayorkas, Yellen, Blinken, Walensky, and Ron Klain. Sure Granholm will take some heat, too as will HUD, but Those last two can blame the failures on Mayorkas (so many migrants in blue cities) and Blinken (if he had not pressed for war, which he did, we wouldn't have this trouble).
It's all very frightening, but even local groups are feeling that all is not what it seemed. As long as I've been alive, we're taken pride in Jewish cabinet members as a sign of accomplishment and safety. The other day, I heard someone at the U say "maybe it's time to stop counting and touting our role in the administration". Um, yeah.
But, I think the game's been rigged to turn on academic types and the oligarchs.

Posted by: CN at December 20, 2022 08:37 AM (Zzbjj)

141 136 Gay is losing its status on corporate America.

We have leadership program that specifically excludes whites AND gays. Black and gay is ok. Gay and white is not right.
Posted by: MJ at December 20, 2022 08:36 AM (zwDuR)

"Dude."

- - Beal & Loki LLC

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2022 08:37 AM (x0n13)

142 Do you think Ron can stand up to the same level of abuse Trump has? Probably worse? For me the answer is no. The only person who has withstood the onslaught from the left and right is trump. To abandon him is to cave to the establishment.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 08:38 AM (+hI+T)

143 I think that if the Feds arrest Trump, the cold civil war will go hot.

--

I wish I believed this. I do not. At best, a few polls will circulate saying it's wrong and obviously a partisan witch hunt. Then what? Nothing. I simply can't chase that carrot any longer. Americans have no will and nothing will change except for a few more words/articles/polls will be published. Even after Donald Trump is imprisoned. I wish I felt otherwise.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 20, 2022 08:39 AM (sVtYq)

144 Look at the head-to-head, DeSantis/Trump, in those polls. Look at the trendline.

Trump only wins if there is another stupid-crowded field.

Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 08:39 AM (DxBF0)

145 > I think that if the Feds arrest Trump, the cold civil war will go hot.
_____________

I wonder...

On one hand there are those that advocate for "burn it down" and on the other hand there are those that advocate "vote harder." I guess we'll see if one, the other or something totally off the hook is where fate will take us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2022 08:39 AM (Q4IgG)

146 We have leadership program that specifically excludes whites AND gays. Black and gay is ok. Gay and white is not right.
Posted by: MJ at December 20, 2022 08:36 AM (zwDuR)

What about white trans?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 08:40 AM (+hI+T)

147 But yeah, DeSantis has a much better chance of actually being President in 2024 than Trump does.
Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 08:33 AM (DxBF0)

I remember that being said about Scott Walker in 2014.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2022 08:40 AM (H8QX8)

148 74 Saw some video yesterday of Hope Hicks testifying to the J6 inquisition. She was clearly trying to save herself by distancing herself from Trump and telling them what they wanted to hear. She is also a millennial up-talker. So disappointing.

It’s a condition known as Republican.

Posted by: a police state, if you can keep it at December 20, 2022 08:40 AM (YTBIQ)

149 After all the pain comes to pass, people will want th oligarchs to pay, the politicians in power to pay and the Obamunists will arise to "fix" things

I'm brimming with pessimism.

Also, isn't it amazing that our Huber and Durham did fuck all while Garland and his people can press hard? Seems that we all know we've been had by the GOPe

Posted by: CN at December 20, 2022 08:40 AM (Zzbjj)

150 They're getting dangerously close to the point where somebody will have to explain what Trump did specifically that was so bad.

Posted by: Word to your mother at December 20, 2022 08:40 AM (/Scgq)

151 The Californians have angered the mole people...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 08:33 AM (YIVH2)

But I'm told the 'conservatives' live in the north. Why not flatten LA?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)
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Alternate explanation -- Bond villain ~~Max Zorin's~~ Elon Musk's plans are finally coming to fruition and Silicon Valley will be wiped out...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 08:40 AM (YIVH2)

152 Gay is losing its status on corporate America.

We have leadership program that specifically excludes whites AND gays. Black and gay is ok. Gay and white is not right.
Posted by: MJ at December 20, 2022 08:36 AM (zwDuR)
++++
They need to be careful. The trans/gay thing is necessary as a pressure release for the "you're a white devil" stuff. If you remove any possible pressure release - that is, cut off every escape - then there are only two significant probabilities for what happens with those people:
1. Suicide
2. Organized crime

They'd hope for door number one and they will get a lot of it, but there will be a whole lot of door number two, too. And they increase the odds that the gangsters they're creating actually *will* preferentially attack non-whites.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:40 AM (t0OGg)

153 "On one hand there are those that advocate for "burn it down" and on the other hand there are those that advocate "vote harder." "

I guess we could vote harder to burn it down.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2022 08:40 AM (1n+EO)

154 ---
Alternate explanation -- Bond villain ~~Max Zorin's~~ Elon Musk's plans are finally coming to fruition and Silicon Valley will be wiped out...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 08:40 AM (YIVH2)

Is there a GoFundMe for this?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

155 But yeah, DeSantis has a much better chance of actually being President in 2024 than Trump does.

Path to 270?

Both parties have no interest in repairing the election fraud.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 20, 2022 08:41 AM (3hSHB)

156 >>Trump only wins if there is another stupid-crowded field.

Oh horseshit. Trump has already won the presidency twice including his 2nd run where he got more legal votes than any siting president in history. The idea that he is unpopular is stupid.

There's a reason the left is going to insane lengths to try and prevent him from running, something Kinzinger stupidly admitted yesterday. They are terrified he will run and beat them again and continue to be the first and only president to actually go after the administrative state.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2022 08:42 AM (ZLI7S)

157 Is Hope Hicks still a smokeshow, though?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 20, 2022 08:42 AM (mhWKY)

158 Democrats cancelling Dr. Ben Carson is another totally disgusting move. Seriously deranged.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2022 08:42 AM (4B+3L)

159 "Democrats cancelling Dr. Ben Carson is another totally disgusting move. Seriously deranged."

I guess he wasn't really 'black'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2022 08:43 AM (1n+EO)

160 I think that if the Feds arrest Trump, the cold civil war will go hot.

I don't. I could write an essay about why I think that, but I'll boil it down to essentials:

1. People are comfortable.
2. Nobody wants to shoot first.

I'm on Lady in Black's team.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2022 08:43 AM (AW0uW)

161 They're getting dangerously close to the point where somebody will have to explain what Trump did specifically that was so bad.

--

Something something 'show me the man and I'll show you the crime.' It doesn't matter if they can't explain it with actual legal justification behind it. When the law no longer means anything, and they can do whatever they want to whomever they want, what does it matter?

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 20, 2022 08:43 AM (sVtYq)

162 Remember, the game changes on a recession

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 08:43 AM (Cw0fX)

163 They can burn Trump at the stake and nothing is going hot. Over half this country is totally beholden to the government, from the above articles we have a growing number of Americans who are willing to portray themselves or actually are subject abhorrent to God, we have a state apparatus that is designed to control and manipulate the population - and they are damned good at it. This will get a lot worse before it gets better and sadly Trump is just a speed bump at this time.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 20, 2022 08:44 AM (AaLDK)

164 John Conlin is a day late as they say.

Posted by: CN at December 20, 2022 08:44 AM (Zzbjj)

165 Americans have no will and nothing will change except for a few more words/articles/polls will be published. Even after Donald Trump is imprisoned. I wish I felt otherwise.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 20, 2022 08:39 AM (sVtYq)

Concur. Most Americans are fat, lazy, drug addled 8 year olds. President Trump getting arrested won't even register in their smooth brains. Now cut off Netflix, EBT cards and their drug and fast food supply, and watch the "revolution" unfold. Blood would run in the streets.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 20, 2022 08:44 AM (Jr3kA)

166 The path to 270 and beyond involves nothing more than shutting down the vote fraud operations in places like Philadelphia. Hundreds of thousands of ballots are being cast every election in the names of people who don't vote.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 20, 2022 08:44 AM (lTGtQ)

167 How about this: Give the printer a real name. Perfesser Squirrel's Printer

Not

Lexmark5350axg38gh73d

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 08:44 AM (+hI+T)

168
I guess he wasn't really 'black'.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2022 08:43 AM (1n+EO)

He didn't vote for Biden, so......

Rulz iz rulz.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

169 There's a tree outside my window and a squirrel lives in it. When the squirrel runs down a branch, the branch sways a lot and it catches my eye, and makes me check for wind and I rarely find significant wind.

There is no point to this story.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:45 AM (t0OGg)

170 150 They're getting dangerously close to the point where somebody will have to explain what Trump did specifically that was so bad.
Posted by: Word to your mother at December 20, 2022 08:40 AM (/Scgq)

They don't think so. They believe they've created an Emmanuel Goldstein aura around Trump so that it won't matter. He is the personification of all political evil in human history and by dint of this should be effectively or better yet literally exterminated.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2022 08:45 AM (H8QX8)

171 1. People are comfortable.
2. Nobody wants to shoot first.

I'm on Lady in Black's team.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2022 08:43 AM (AW0uW)

And people, while less comfortable, don't want to lose what they have and end up in Garland's gulag, abused, un charged, and locked away for close to two years by that fucking fascist while the GOP does fuck all except cry about how scared they were.

Posted by: CN at December 20, 2022 08:46 AM (Zzbjj)

172 They’re not going to indict Trump until AFTER a bunch of mind-hived idiots grant him the nomination.

And you don’t waste your time thinking about decorum and rules that used to apply.

Trump is going to finish us. Any other decent human on the planet would get out and let a stronger candidate go. But you all know his need to be alpha will trump any alleged love for the republic. JJ, I love you, but your “just when I was ready to possibly move on” thing feels very “Manchin-like” you were always going to vote for him.

Posted by: Marleysghost at December 20, 2022 08:46 AM (k6V58)

173 They need to be careful. The trans/gay thing is necessary as a pressure release for the "you're a white devil" stuff.
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Someone posted an article about this about six or so months ago IIRC.

Essentially white people - being supreme - figured out how to win.

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 08:46 AM (v3mBl)

174 That college poll reminds me of the line I heard in the Navy, back in the day. Seems like a logical follow-on:

"When I joined it was illegal. Now it is allowed. I am getting out before they make it mandatory."

Posted by: goatexchange at December 20, 2022 08:46 AM (APPN8)

175
There is no point to this story.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:45 AM (t0OGg)

Sure there i......SQUIRREL!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

176 Dems now if Trump is arrested, that the GOPe will do or say nothing. At that point, GOP turnout will be awful in 2024.

Dem's consiglerie is Satan

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 08:47 AM (Cw0fX)

177 There's a reason the left is going to insane lengths to try and prevent him from running, something Kinzinger stupidly admitted yesterday. They are terrified he will run and beat them again and continue to be the first and only president to actually go after the administrative state.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2022 08:42 AM (ZLI7S)

Yes, so they must lock him up and take him down, TDKH.
These people are utterly ruthless.

Posted by: CN at December 20, 2022 08:47 AM (Zzbjj)

178 How about this: Give the printer a real name. Perfesser Squirrel's Printer
Not
Lexmark5350axg38gh73d
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 08:44 AM (+hI+T)
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They usually do. It will be a name like "Building B - 4th Floor - Lab - West." Perfectly descriptive. But to make that work depends on two things:
1. That the person sending the job actually reads the printer name
2. That the person sending the job knows where he wants to send it

You can depend on neither.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:47 AM (t0OGg)

179
"Gayffirmative action: the newest frontier in the DEI landscape."

__________

Should lead to some interesting interviews

"So you're gay?"
"Yes."
"Then suck my cock."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2022 08:47 AM (MoZTd)

180 Sure are a lot of new names in here pushing to get rid of Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2022 08:47 AM (ZLI7S)

181 Good morning Hordelings.

JJ, I honestly don't know how you maintain the fortitude to read through everything that you cobble together for us each day. "Mega-dittos" to you!

Good on Kristi Noem for severing ties with the transformation project. I know her star has fallen to varying degrees among the Horde (understandably) -- but I'm still a fan.
*returns to looking at photos of Gov Noem*

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 08:48 AM (ChAEn)

182 They're getting dangerously close to the point where somebody will have to explain what Trump did specifically that was so bad.

I disagree. We have three generations of people who have been maleducated to think in abstract terms rather than the concrete.

Facts don't matter. (reference: Climate Change, C19, MMT economics, etc)

What does matter is projecting the right emotion and possessing the right thoughts and sentiments. Think of the Asch Line Study on conformity. Even when a person knows that the crowd is wrong, they will follow the crowd.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 20, 2022 08:48 AM (3hSHB)

183 There are several possible paths to 270. I don't know why people keep claiming there are not.

Walker almost won in Georgia despite being, let's be honest, an awful candidate. That state can be won. Tank got crushed.

North Carolina is winnable, and has a legislature who is actually doing a fair bit to ensure there are no shenanigans.

Nevada just elected a Republican governor DESPITE shenanigans.

Take all the states we should win easily (which now probably includes Florida, and certainly includes Florida if DeSantis is the nominee.) Re-take the very winnable North Carolina, Georgia and Nevada. Win one big swing-ish state like Michigan or Pennsylvania.

That lets you lose Arizona (which no one should be counting on now) and still get to 270.

This is hard, but can be done.

Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 08:48 AM (DxBF0)

184 The fact that the GOP did what it did to Trump and his voters still want them to win elections is sad as all hell.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2022 08:48 AM (oINRc)

185 @TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING: Explosion and fire reported at key pipeline in Chuvashia that brings gas from Russia to Europe, 3 dead [8-second video]

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/
1605193628296523776

||The Chuvash Republic is the most populous and fertile area in the middle Volga region. There are deciduous woodlands on fertile black earth. In agriculture, wheat and sugar-beet, pigs and beef cattle have become more important than the rye, oats, barley and dairy cattle which are typical for the whole area.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 20, 2022 08:49 AM (Vwz3I)

186 Trump is going to finish us. Any other decent human on the planet would get out and let a stronger candidate go.

Posted by: Marleysghost at December 20, 2022 08:46 AM (k6V5

I hear this a lot. Who fits this bill? Who's a 'stronger candidate?'

THERE. ISN'T. ONE.

Any candidate either side throws up is going to be shit. Trump isn't the candidate he was, but he's STILL better than the shit that's waiting in the wings currently.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

187 Trump is going to finish us.
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hahahahahahaha

Trump is the ONLY reason we're able to have a conversation about fixing the republic. Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, McCain, Clinton, etc. were all on the same team. Heck, Bush II was Literally Hitler and blamed for everything and he and Obama are best friends now.

Spoilers: Most of the "stronger candidates" are on that team, too.

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 08:49 AM (v3mBl)

188 Trump is going to finish us. Any other decent human on the planet would get out
Posted by: Marleysghost at December 20, 2022 08:46 AM (k6V5

How incredibly unjust. After what he did for us and what was done to him? Those who abandon him are the indecent ones.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2022 08:49 AM (H8QX8)

189 142 Do you think Ron can stand up to the same level of abuse Trump has? Probably worse? For me the answer is no. The only person who has withstood the onslaught from the left and right is trump. To abandon him is to cave to the establishment.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 08:38 AM (+hI+T)

If he can, he's keeping it well hidden. Can he take the money and still be "principled" (a word I've come to despise, btw) and do what he's promised. I say, no.

Posted by: CN at December 20, 2022 08:50 AM (Zzbjj)

190 The Eureka quake is near the bottom end of the Cascadia subduction zone. There's a megathrust quake there every 300-350 years causing major tsunami. It's been 322 years since the last one. A megathrust tsunami crashing into the nw US would be a perfect natural disaster for the Biden administration

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2022 08:51 AM (11zNb)

191 180 Sure are a lot of new names in here pushing to get rid of Trump.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2022 08:47 AM (ZLI7S)

They practically glow.

Posted by: CN at December 20, 2022 08:51 AM (Zzbjj)

192 Cannot make any predictions until we find out if 2024 is a open seat yet.

Hard to see us moving forward with McConnell still around. Everyone I know, hates his guts

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 08:51 AM (Cw0fX)

193 There's a tree outside my window and a squirrel lives in it. When the squirrel runs down a branch, the branch sways a lot and it catches my eye, and makes me check for wind and I rarely find significant wind.

There is no point to this story.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:45 AM (t0OGg)

But there IS a point. It is illustrative of the "nothing place" we guys have in our mind. Most women I know can not understand that we guys have a "nothing place". Where we can truly have NOTHING on our mind.

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 08:51 AM (ChAEn)

194
They practically glow.
Posted by: CN at December 20, 2022 08:51 AM (Zzbjj)

I hear Spicoli isn't ready to render a decision quite yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

195 Sure are a lot of new names in here pushing to get rid of Trump.

Because there is no path to 270, the only available non-civil-war path is through the Great Divorce as red states become more red and blue states become more blue through demographic shifts.

Removing Trump means that we need to position a successful governor in the futile attempt to win the Presidential Sweepstakes and control over a multi-trillion dollar international slush fund.

They want us to waste a good governor. Plus they need someone else to trash and ruin. They are evil and need something successful to destroy.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 20, 2022 08:52 AM (3hSHB)

196 What's the story on Title 42? Is it still yet to expire or what?

Posted by: dantesed at December 20, 2022 08:52 AM (88xKn)

197 Trump is going to finish us. Any other decent human on the planet would get out and let a stronger candidate go.

And just who is this 'stronger candidate?' Name names and give concrete reasons* for their strength.

*and no, "they'll appeal to the wine moms" is not a reason, it's TDS wearing a Jeb! mask.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2022 08:52 AM (AW0uW)

198 A former New York high school teacher who allegedly injected a teen with a COVID-19 vaccine without his parents' consent got a slap on the wrist Friday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge.

holy foock.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2022 08:52 AM (Z7+fQ)

199 "People are comfortable" nails it. There is a huge difference between people who are wrapped up in the political and social intrigue and are "uncomfortable" with all that as opposed to the majority of the civilian population that still has heat, gas to get around and food on the table. They are not "uncomfortable."

Yet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2022 08:52 AM (Q4IgG)

200 Most women I know can not understand that we guys have a "nothing place". Where we can truly have NOTHING on our mind.
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 08:51 AM (ChAEn)

This used to be when I watched episodes of "Archer."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

201 Someone on campus is currently confused because they have no idea where their printed documents are ending up...
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chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken
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When did the thread turn into a horrible Burger King commercial?

Posted by: Sponge
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Pre-meme internet. 2002 or so? Well worth a read if you're unfamiliar:

https://tinyurl.com/mr28zzcy

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 08:53 AM (v3mBl)

202 They usually do. It will be a name like "Building B - 4th Floor - Lab - West." Perfectly descriptive. But to make that work depends on two things:
1. That the person sending the job actually reads the printer name
2. That the person sending the job knows where he wants to send it

You can depend on neither.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:47 AM (t0OGg)
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Most of our printers are named like that. But mine predates the current naming schema. And yeah, not everyone pays attention to which printer they send their jobs.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 08:53 AM (YIVH2)

203 Walker almost won in Georgia despite being, let's be honest, an awful candidate. That state can be won. Tank got crushed.

My theory is that the GOP allowed cheating as long as they didn't cheat establishment candidates. The donks played by the rules and did not cheat to help tank.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 08:53 AM (+hI+T)

204 It looks like he's talking to an anti-regime Iranian group and refuses to say the 'deal' is off.

@TheInsiderPaper · 26m
JUST IN - JCPOA or Iran nuclear deal is dead, 'but we're not gonna announce it,' Biden says

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/
1605191922976432130

https://tinyurl.com/2cdkvhec
25 seconds with subtitles -- in Arabic too!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 20, 2022 08:53 AM (Vwz3I)

205
I hear Spicoli isn't ready to render a decision quite yet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

Alas.
Good morning, Sponge.

Posted by: CN at December 20, 2022 08:53 AM (Zzbjj)

206 A former New York high school teacher who allegedly injected a teen with a COVID-19 vaccine without his parents' consent got a slap on the wrist Friday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge.

holy foock.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2022 08:52 AM (Z7+fQ)

"I feared for the life of my child. I want my lawyer."

- - The parent standing next to the teacher who's bled out

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

207 Alas.
Good morning, Sponge.
Posted by: CN at December 20, 2022 08:53 AM (Zzbjj)

Mo'nin!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

208 What's the story on Title 42? Is it still yet to expire or what?
Posted by: dantesed at December 20, 2022 08:52 AM (88xKn)
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temporary stay while the DOJ files a final brief, but then it will end.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2022 08:54 AM (Z7+fQ)

209 @TheInsiderPaper · 2h
NEW: North Korea denounced Japan’s new security strategy, calling it a “serious” threat against international peace

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 20, 2022 08:55 AM (Vwz3I)

210 Do you think Ron can stand up to the same level of abuse Trump has? Probably worse? For me the answer is no. The only person who has withstood the onslaught from the left and right is trump. To abandon him is to cave to the establishment.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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A lot of people seem to forget that Trump's personality was a, if not the, big part of why he was successful.

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 08:55 AM (v3mBl)

211 Late to party
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 20, 2022 08:55 AM (Infkx)

212 183. Right Ritchie, and a recession changes the whole game.

British PM is taking the lead on no no more blank checks to the grifter in the Ukraine. His idiot wife spending 12k on purses in Paris, says it all

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 08:55 AM (Cw0fX)

213 Excuse me! Keep it down in here! SHHHHHH!!!
You are disturbing my reading of DC Comics latest Issue of Bundle of Sticks Man and Abortion Girl Vs. Naziracistklimatedenierantivaxxer Man.

Troglodytes.

Posted by: Chubbles Jhosnon at December 20, 2022 08:55 AM (JA5Qu)

214 ------------

Pre-meme internet. 2002 or so? Well worth a read if you're unfamiliar:

https://tinyurl.com/mr28zzcy
Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 08:53 AM (v3mBl)

Ah.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

215 it's cute how many people think that any republican will ever be elected president ever again, no matter who it is.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at December 20, 2022 08:56 AM (fxj5q)

216 But there IS a point. It is illustrative of the "nothing place" we guys have in our mind. Most women I know can not understand that we guys have a "nothing place". Where we can truly have NOTHING on our mind.
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 08:51 AM (ChAEn)
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Hahahaha. It isn't nothing, it's just entirely irrelevant. Trying to explain, "I was thinking about the way the squirrel makes the tree branch sway" will just make people want to send you away for mental health observation - so "nothing" is a *much* easier answer that is still essentially correct.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:56 AM (t0OGg)

217 So is the GOP going to run with Trump is Finished ™ threads for two straight years? That will be interesting…not.

Posted by: a police state, if you can keep it at December 20, 2022 08:56 AM (YTBIQ)

218 Dems now if Trump is arrested, that the GOPe will do or say nothing. At that point, GOP turnout will be awful in 2024.

--

The GOP silence will be about as deafening as it's been with these explosive stories about the IC and their backdoor censorship program at Twatter.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 20, 2022 08:56 AM (sVtYq)

219 Hahahaha. It isn't nothing, it's just entirely irrelevant. Trying to explain, "I was thinking about the way the squirrel makes the tree branch sway" will just make people want to send you away for mental health observation - so "nothing" is a *much* easier answer that is still essentially correct.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:56 AM (t0OGg)

Ummm -- you DO know there are 'ettes here, right Joe??? You just gave away the secret of the nothing place. It's really the "nothing I wanna talk about" place!!

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 08:58 AM (ChAEn)

220 There are several possible paths to 270. I don't know why people keep claiming there are not.

How provincial. You really believe Biden got more votes than Obama? You really think that the spirit of Tammany Hall is fiction, that elections are relatively honest?

There is no path to 270 because votes don't win elections, ballots do. The enemy can and will make as many ballots as they need to win the contests they need to win.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 20, 2022 08:58 AM (3hSHB)

221 @TheInsiderPaper · 2h
NEW: North Korea denounced Japan’s new security strategy, calling it a “serious” threat against international peace
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 20, 2022 08:55 AM (Vwz3I)
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It might be. But don't blame Japan. Blame Xi Jinping and Joe Biden. American weakness and Red Chinese belligerence have forced Japan's hand. They have finally figured out that they may well have to go it alone, and that has dictated ending "strategic ambiguity" with regard to Taiwan, tolerance of Chinese industrial perfidy and dependence on external security. Japan's actions are provocative, but they aren't unjustified or irrational.

Pax Americana is over.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:58 AM (t0OGg)

222 Sure are a lot of new names in here pushing to get rid of Trump.

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LOL, I noticed.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 20, 2022 08:58 AM (sVtYq)

223 it's cute how many people think that any republican will ever be elected president ever again, no matter who it is.
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We just went through the mid-terms and saw what will happen. They didn't even campaign or discuss a single issue (show me their plan to address inflation).

Imagine their silent backstabbing if Trump is the candidate.

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 08:58 AM (v3mBl)

224 British PM is taking the lead on no no more blank checks to the grifter in the Ukraine. His idiot wife spending 12k on purses in Paris, says it all
Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 08:55 AM (Cw0fX)

Um, no, Zalenska spent 40K on purses in one store as part of a massive shopping spree on the Champs Elysees. And she's reading the room and realizing that the powers that be don't care about the serfs money, so wives will continue their mad spending and rubbing our noses in it.

Posted by: CN at December 20, 2022 08:59 AM (Zzbjj)

225 Ummm -- you DO know there are 'ettes here, right Joe??? You just gave away the secret of the nothing place. It's really the "nothing I wanna talk about" place!!
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 08:58 AM (ChAEn)
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Yeah, but nobody will believe them. All Morons are the very definition of unreliable witnesses...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:59 AM (t0OGg)

226 A lot of people seem to forget that Trump's personality was a, if not the, big part of why he was successful.
Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 08:55 AM (v3mBl)

You don't get Trumpism without Trump's personality. A politician would be too concerned with triangulation, and with optics, to ask basic questions like, "what is NATO's value these days?" or "why can't we simply build a wall across the southern border?" or "why do we keep allowing China to steal our industries?"

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 20, 2022 08:59 AM (wmDcS)

227 Seen on Twitter

The word incel is done if we are applying it to Henry Cavel.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 20, 2022 09:00 AM (o0vSu)

228 Bush 1 had a 80% approval rating in 1991, after the Gulf war. Then came along the recession spider. This emblodened Perot to jump in, and then Clinton walked thru the door.

the job market was strong in 2022, but when the jobs tank, all bets are off

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:00 AM (Cw0fX)

229 North Korea denounced Japan’s new security strategy, calling it a “serious” threat against international peace

Posted by: andycanuck

China says what through their mouthpiece?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 20, 2022 09:00 AM (lTGtQ)

230 I don't follow any music at all but Terry Hall, lead singer of ska band The Specials, has died at the age of 63.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 20, 2022 09:01 AM (Vwz3I)

231 My theory is that the GOP allowed cheating as long as they didn't cheat establishment candidates.

Here in MA it was revealed over the last 'election' season that the state GOP has an unwritten agreement with the Dems that, if a candidate is challenging a Dem incumbent, the GOP will render NO assistance to said candidate.

Why? Because supporting a challenger means that the Dem incumbent will then never 'accommodate' any GOP grifter who proposes some worthless bill in the House or Senate.

And now you know why I don't vote.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2022 09:01 AM (AW0uW)

232 the job market was strong in 2022, but when the jobs tank, all bets are off
Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:00 AM (Cw0fX)
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It wasn't really strong, but they were able to lie about it for the last quarter. 2023 is going to be the breaking point, I think, probably in Q1 and Q2. I predict significant layoff activity in high tech (especially Big Tech) and the media will start the ball rolling.

We'll see in 4 months or so if I am right.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 09:01 AM (t0OGg)

233 224. French social media was on fire. Macron is writing checks to the grifters, and the parisians cannot afford heat

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:01 AM (Cw0fX)

234 Elon Musk says only paying Twitter subscribers can vote in future polls

https://tinyurl.com/4sv5bwtv

Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2022 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

235 My only significant beef with Trump is that he hasn't done much if anything to help those who were jailed for their transgressions on J6.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 20, 2022 09:02 AM (TgNpw)

236 You don't get Trumpism without Trump's personality. A politician would be too concerned with triangulation, and with optics, to ask basic questions like, "what is NATO's value these days?" or "why can't we simply build a wall across the southern border?" or "why do we keep allowing China to steal our industries?"
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 20, 2022 08:59 AM (wmDcS)

Yes, and Tucker admitted as much when asked about the Trump v DeSantis stuff. He said he never even thought about the value of NATO before.

Posted by: CN at December 20, 2022 09:02 AM (Zzbjj)

237 It's National Sangria Day!
Posted by: redridinghood

When is National SPAM Day ?

Posted by: JT at December 20, 2022 09:02 AM (T4tVD)

238 but when the jobs tank, all bets are off
Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:00 AM (Cw0fX)

Used to be true, not so much anymore.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2022 09:02 AM (H8QX8)

239 "Trying to explain, "I was thinking about the way the squirrel makes the tree branch sway" will just make people want to send you away for mental health observation - so "nothing" is a *much* easier answer that is still essentially correct.
Posted by: Joe Mannix"

The squirrel-tree branch motion is a third order differential equation that I have been working on solving for a long time.

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2022 09:03 AM (MxEKc)

240 Naziracistklimatedenierantivaxxer Man.
Posted by: Chubbles Jhosnon at December 20, 2022 08:55 AM (JA5Qu)

Hahaha...I don't know which is better, your nic or Naziracistklimatedenierantivaxxer Man.

Which would be a cool nic!

Nice Chubbles!

More coffee!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 20, 2022 09:03 AM (Jr3kA)

241 Omnibus bill was dropped at 1:30 this morning. 4,155 page, 1.7 trillion bill that has to be voted on Friday. What, you expected different from Washington?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 20, 2022 09:03 AM (AXxfu)

242 I’m a guy, and I wish my brain had a “nothing place.” I wish I had a way to shut the damn thing off sometimes.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 20, 2022 09:03 AM (mhWKY)

243 232. Joe, Goldman laying off 8k is huge. They are the protected Dem Whore house on Wall Street. They gave 90% to Biden in 2020. If those hacks are hurting, everyone is hurting

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:03 AM (Cw0fX)

244 Elon Musk says only paying Twitter subscribers can vote in future polls

https://tinyurl.com/4sv5bwtv
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2022 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

Heh. Because his last one bit him in the ass. Hard.

Dipshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

245 The uni party has raided the treasury.

I can hope for justice but it is more likely they sneak off and invent new gifts for their children.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 20, 2022 09:04 AM (o0vSu)

246
Hahaha...I don't know which is better, your nic or Naziracistklimatedenierantivaxxer Man.

Which would be a cool nic!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 20, 2022 09:03 AM (Jr3kA)

We'll call him 'Ben.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

247 The squirrel-tree branch motion is a third order differential equation that I have been working on solving for a long time.
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2022 09:03 AM (MxEKc)
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Yeah. I was writing that, I thought that it would probably be a really difficult dynamics problem to solve and that you'd probably win a Nobel Prize if you managed to come up with math to do it properly and with high consistent accuracy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 09:04 AM (t0OGg)

248 232. Joe, Goldman laying off 8k is huge. They are the protected Dem Whore house on Wall Street. They gave 90% to Biden in 2020. If those hacks are hurting, everyone is hurting
Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:03 AM (Cw0fX)
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Yup. I fear the bottom is going to be quite low indeed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 09:05 AM (t0OGg)

249 When is National SPAM Day ?
Posted by: JT at December 20, 2022 09:02 AM (T4tVD)

I will not rest until there is a National Colander Day.

Posted by: dantesed at December 20, 2022 09:06 AM (88xKn)

250 Until the GOP is prepared to manufacture 200M ballots to "win" an election the entire argument about who should/shouldn't be the candidate is academic.

Republicans aren't there yet so I don't think it matters who the GOP picks as their candidate. They're going to lose.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2022 09:06 AM (Q4IgG)

251 I’m a guy, and I wish my brain had a “nothing place.” I wish I had a way to shut the damn thing off sometimes.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 20, 2022 09:03 AM (mhWKY)

It's incredibly hard for me to shut my brain off. It's why I usually don't fall asleep for an hour or 2 each night. But when there's something so mindless available like Archer episodes, well, used to work anyway, I found it easier to shut down for an hour or so.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

252 241>> Easy vote...No. See you next year.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 20, 2022 09:06 AM (TgNpw)

253 The uni party has raided the treasury. ...
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 20, 2022 09:04 AM (o0vSu)
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Long ago. The treasury's been empty for decades. They're raiding the future, and have been for some time.

The difference now is that they used to raid the distant future and now they're raiding the near future.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 09:06 AM (t0OGg)

254 241. McConnell sells his soul, to pass a massive grift, because it funds shithole Ukraine for 2023. Mitch is afraid of his own Gop House.

For two years , House should ignore all legislation brokered by the GOPe Senate. Bypass McConnell and Cronyn,and make Hawley and Ron Johnson the defacto leaders

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:07 AM (Cw0fX)

255 >> Trump is going to finish us. Any other decent human on the planet ...

For a decade+ 100s of lawyers and investigators have made it their mission in life to find ANYTHING to charge Trump/his businesses with.

He does not drink or smoke.
Although he has been married multiple times his children are all good, productive adults and his former wives seem to have better than average relationships with him.

He has tried to be the most inclusive politician and in his personal life since 2020 we, the royal we, have no clue what he has done for his fellow Americans quietly and without fanfare.

To suggest Donald Trump is not a decent human being is bullshit. imo

Posted by: old chick at December 20, 2022 09:07 AM (sOete)

256 It's incredibly hard for me to shut my brain off. It's why I usually don't fall asleep for an hour or 2 each night. But when there's something so mindless available like Archer episodes, well, used to work anyway, I found it easier to shut down for an hour or so.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)
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Same here...Like you, I use Archer to decompress with mindless entertainment (along with Futurama)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 09:07 AM (YIVH2)

257 Guess I'm in Dave's camp somewhat, with the vote mailing fraud the Marxists are pushing no Republican has a shot. They have the few states they need.
So might as well stay with the DJT

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 20, 2022 09:07 AM (Infkx)

258 There might not be a path to 270 if changes aren't made. It might be worth keeping an eye on Kari Lake in Arizona. She's not done yet and her lawsuit goes right to the heart of election corruption.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2022 09:07 AM (ZLI7S)

259 Musk hinted that the poll may have been a ploy to catch bots on Twitter.

And bots were the majority. Oops...

Posted by: t-bird at December 20, 2022 09:08 AM (bt2PN)

260 Ummm -- you DO know there are 'ettes here, right Joe??? You just gave away the secret of the nothing place. It's really the "nothing I wanna talk about" place!!
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 08:58 AM (ChAEn)
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Yeah, but nobody will believe them. All Morons are the very definition of unreliable witnesses...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:59 AM (t0OGg)

Fair point. By the way, regarding your bourbon question to me yesterday... I agree about Knob Creek. Always on hand at Casa de Doof. Also Woodford Reserve double oaked. I'm a yuuuuuge fan of several variations of Four Roses - Small Batch, Single Barrel, and Small Batch Select. The Small Batch Select is outstanding! Makers Mark 101 is also always on hand for me. Those are all in the $30-$60 range. Also in that range, I am a big fan of an up and coming brand called New Riff, which is around $40-$45. Used to only find it in Kentucky, but I'm noticing it becoming more widely available lately. Can you tell that I tend to like stuff in the 100-proof area?

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 09:08 AM (ChAEn)

261 Everything does in fact change if there is a hard recession. Changes in possibly unpredictable ways, unfortunately. People who have suddenly been impoverished are very likely to be angry. But also, unfortunately, very likely to be easier to bribe.

2022 was a missed opportunity. I look at New Hampshire. The very-winnable First Congressional District we contested with a 25-year-old. A bright girl, with a future, but she was really unlikely to win. And the Senate we contested with Don Bolduc, a man I would be glad to have as my neighbor, but who decided that two weeks before the election was a good time to claim that the largest high school in the state was setting out litter boxes for kids who identify as cats (not true and easily disprovable) among other basically nutty claims.

We could have won the Senate with better candidates in just a couple of spots (New Hampshire, Georgia, maybe Pennsylvania) and could be in a much stronger position in the House with maybe a half-dozen candidates who didn't need to be moderates, but did need to have some sort of resume or history of personal accomplishment.

I don't want, "But she fights!" I want, "But she fights...and wins!"

Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 09:08 AM (DxBF0)

262 ---
Same here...Like you, I use Archer to decompress with mindless entertainment (along with Futurama)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 09:07 AM (YIVH2)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

263 the job market was strong in 2022, but when the jobs tank, all bets are off
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Getting everyone to come back to work after benefits run out to resume their regular employment at the jobs you as a government agency with guns forced businesses to close down is not "strong"

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 09:09 AM (ds1TL)

264 Bond villains have all the malice of current pols but they also have vision and network building experience.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 20, 2022 09:09 AM (o0vSu)

265 Spy puts are too expensive, and the VIX is wacky. Anybody know a good market short instrument for recession?

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:10 AM (Cw0fX)

266 To suggest Donald Trump is not a decent human being is bullshit. imo
Posted by: old chick at December 20, 2022 09:07 AM (sOete

It's indecent.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2022 09:10 AM (H8QX8)

267 Musk hinted that the poll may have been a ploy to catch bots on Twitter.

And bots were the majority. Oops...
Posted by: t-bird at December 20, 2022 09:08 AM (bt2PN)

How liberal of him.

Remember the infamous "it was satire!" defense?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

268 Spy puts are too expensive, and the VIX is wacky. Anybody know a good market short instrument for recession?
Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:10 AM (Cw0fX)

My daughter plays a piccolo. It's a VERY short instrument.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

269 It's incredibly hard for me to shut my brain off. It's why I usually don't fall asleep for an hour or 2 each night. But when there's something so mindless available like Archer episodes, well, used to work anyway, I found it easier to shut down for an hour or so.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

Stuff which allows you to "park your brain in neutral" is important. Check out the show Shoresy on Hulu if you can. Goofy and irreverent show about senior league hockey in northern Ontario. From the creator(s) of Letterkenney. Great stuff!

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 09:12 AM (ChAEn)

270
To suggest Donald Trump is not a decent human being is bullshit. imo
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It's shocking at how good of a person he is.

He really does look like he's the most honest, law-abiding president we've had in decades.

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 09:12 AM (ds1TL)

271 We could have won the Senate with better candidates in just a couple of spots (New Hampshire, Georgia, maybe Pennsylvania) and could be in a much stronger position in the House with maybe a half-dozen candidates who didn't need to be moderates, but did need to have some sort of resume or history of personal accomplishment.

We had a high-ranking military officer, a Harvard-educated surgeon, a football player and businessman, and a journalist with decades of experience in the news business. How the hell is that not "accomplished?"

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 20, 2022 09:12 AM (wmDcS)

272 They just showed SBF being led out from his extradition hearing. Guy looks like he lost a couple pounds, scruffy beard growth going on. Bearing a striking resemblance to John Belushi in that shot.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2022 09:12 AM (lz5hY)

273
I don't want, "But she fights!" I want, "But she fights...and wins!"
Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 09:08 AM (DxBF0)

Tanned, rested and READY!!!!

- - Tulsi Gabbard pushing Nikki Haley into a closet

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

274 Fetterman was a fix. Oz was no worse, the GOPe hedge funder McCormick was a sure loser.

Gope types are wimps, they do not like to run against incumbents

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:12 AM (Cw0fX)

275 ... Also in that range, I am a big fan of an up and coming brand called New Riff, which is around $40-$45. Used to only find it in Kentucky, but I'm noticing it becoming more widely available lately. Can you tell that I tend to like stuff in the 100-proof area?
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 09:08 AM (ChAEn)
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Thanks!
And 80-105 is the right range for whisky, I think. There's no real point in lower and higher gets hard for me to drink. I'll see if I can find the New Riff stuff, since I haven't tried it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 09:12 AM (t0OGg)

276 "Harris: I 'Would Require' Tech to 'Work with Us' to Ensure There’s Not 'Manipulation' to Upend 'the Security of our Democracy and our Nation' "

Parents need to recognize that the Leftists are using social media as 12-18 hours per day of Progressive indoctrination, seven days a week, on top of the 6 or 7 hours of public school classroom indoctrination every Monday-Friday for 9 months.

Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2022 09:12 AM (AMIL/)

277 There might not be a path to 270 if changes aren't made. It might be worth keeping an eye on Kari Lake in Arizona. She's not done yet and her lawsuit goes right to the heart of election corruption.

That is the point. Reduce the fraud, start turning the nation around. No party wants to reduce the fraud.

There are solid candidates out there that are being torpedoes by their own party and using fraud as a means to keep them under control.

Case in point both McCain and Romney benefitted greatly from the fraud performed on their behalf during the primaries. They both knew they were illegitimate and had some of the deadest campaigns in the generals. McCain, early on in his campaign even fired his strategist for the crime of saying Barak Hussein Obama, McCain later stopped campaigning and endorsed Barak months before the election.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 20, 2022 09:13 AM (3hSHB)

278 I think Elon Musk is pulling a rope-a-dope with a lot of Twitter posts right now.

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 09:13 AM (ds1TL)

279 258 There might not be a path to 270 if changes aren't made. It might be worth keeping an eye on Kari Lake in Arizona. She's not done yet and her lawsuit goes right to the heart of election corruption.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2022 09:07 AM (ZLI7S)

I wish I was optimistic about this, but I think the national GOP are against her. They owe her a lot for throwing Arizona to Biden. They'd have helped manipulate the vote by whatever means necessary to pay the debt. There's a lot of this, now. Not for one second to I believe that Mitt and MItch are in love with Zelensky because he's a beacon of democracy. Zelensky knows where the political bodies are buried, and both parties will pay through our noses to keep their power and money.

Posted by: CN at December 20, 2022 09:13 AM (Zzbjj)

280 Heh.

Nicely done on the meme today, JJ. Well played.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

281 When is National SPAM Day ?
Posted by: JT at December 20, 2022 09:02 AM (T
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On 8/8 Hawaii celebrates National Spam Musabi Day. It's a Spam dish made with grilled Spam glazed with soy-sauce or teriyaki sauce served on rice and wrapped with seaweed.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2022 09:13 AM (NpAcC)

282 McConnell sells his soul, to pass a massive grift, because it funds shithole Ukraine for 2023. Mitch is afraid of his own Gop House.

Mitch has made it clear for years that he would never permit a government shutdown if he could help it. He'll fold every time.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 20, 2022 09:13 AM (wmDcS)

283 ... Parents need to recognize that the Leftists are using social media as 12-18 hours per day of Progressive indoctrination, seven days a week, on top of the 6 or 7 hours of public school classroom indoctrination every Monday-Friday for 9 months.
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2022 09:12 AM (AMIL/)
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Social Media is no place for children.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 09:13 AM (t0OGg)

284 why does that "all the kids are gay" article focus on Wellesley and Smith?!?! that's .. well it's pretty gay

if you want to make an argument don't use two of the Seven Sisters - all girls - who were 90 percents lesbian-until-graduation when I was at Penn! I knew those girls and they all got married and had kids after grad.

OF COURSE girls at all-girls college are going to say they are lesbians. I think the only difference now is more will say "bisexual" or other goofy things to be "different."

anyway make the argument using an Ivy and a normal state school, not those two Islands of Lesbos

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2022 09:14 AM (w0NJk)

285 "We had a high-ranking military officer, a Harvard-educated surgeon, a football player and businessman, and a journalist with decades of experience in the news business. How the hell is that not "accomplished?"

The accomplished part was, quite clearly, a reference to the HOUSE candidates.

Reading - it's fundamental.

Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 09:14 AM (DxBF0)

286
Stuff which allows you to "park your brain in neutral" is important. Check out the show Shoresy on Hulu if you can. Goofy and irreverent show about senior league hockey in northern Ontario. From the creator(s) of Letterkenney. Great stuff!
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 09:12 AM (ChAEn)

I will browse for it. Much appreciated, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)

287 >>>Lake's lawsuit goes to the heart of election corruption...

And it's a hairy heart at that. I'm not getting my hopes up over that or anything related to election reform and the preservation of the country.

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2022 09:14 AM (4h9M3)

288 She's not done yet and her lawsuit goes right to the heart of election corruption.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2022 09:07 AM (ZLI7S)

Miraculously, it was allowed to go forward on two counts out of 10. The evidence she presents will be overwhelming. But she won't win because that cannot be allowed. Still, the effort to negate the evidence and subvert justice will further expose the malefactors, for whatever that's worth.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2022 09:14 AM (H8QX8)

289 If the morons at the RNC had any frickin brains, they would copy the dems and Soros, and fund a far lefty to run 3rd party in the WV, Montana, AZ, and Ohio Senate races.

Tester always wins due to a soros funded liberterian

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:15 AM (Cw0fX)

290 Women also don't understand that guy's nothing place is filled with boobs.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 09:15 AM (+hI+T)

291 I got my bonus check yesterday. I opened it this morning. %$#^&* $2000-$795(for taxes)=$1205. Not that I am ungrateful in the least, however, $795 to assist this fraudulent gov't in any way is getting harder and harder for me to accept.

Posted by: sideny at December 20, 2022 09:16 AM (Uy/WF)

292 When is National SPAM Day ?
Posted by: JT at December 20, 2022 09:02 AM (T
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On 8/8 Hawaii celebrates National Spam Musabi Day. It's a Spam dish made with grilled Spam glazed with soy-sauce or teriyaki sauce served on rice and wrapped with seaweed.
Posted by: redridinghood

SEAWEED?

Thanks for sharing.....

Posted by: JT at December 20, 2022 09:17 AM (T4tVD)

293 Everything does in fact change if there is a hard recession.

The next two quarters will test that theory.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 20, 2022 09:17 AM (3hSHB)

294 For a huge percentage of the tens of millions who voted for President Trump, 2020 was the endgame for us. That was the time for the lethargic, country club G.O.P. to finally stand up, fight and win.

Instead what we got was a mute party who's silence encouraged the courts to shun even hearing the election challenges and emboldened the enemies of the United States and their proxies within our borders.

The Republican Party is done. They didn't fight when the moment was upon them and they won't fight now. They are not part of the solution. They are part of the problem.

People are more than welcome to "move on" from Trump but recognize that Trump supporters have "moved on" from the Republicans. I hope they die as a political party. They deserve it for what they allowed to happen to this nation. But hey, they got to go back to business as usual, which is all they care about.

So if I have words left for the hopelessly corrupt and worthless G.O.P., it is simple. Fix 2020 or go to hell.

Posted by: Tracy at December 20, 2022 09:17 AM (6Lcy+)

295 291>> You got a bonus. And you're whining? ;-)

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 20, 2022 09:18 AM (TgNpw)

296 My only significant beef with Trump is that he hasn't done much if anything to help those who were jailed for their transgressions on J6.
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I assume everything with the 6th was/is a setup.

Take Trump out of the picture and put yourself, a wealthy businessman and owner of a national chain of lace wig outlets, into the scenario.

You donate millions and free the Horned Hat guy. Horned Hat guy then goes and violently performs stage three of the pre-planned (and paid) action, which leads back to you, your money, your family, and your business.

It's that 80s War Games movie. The only winning move is not to play.

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 09:18 AM (ds1TL)

297 I got my bonus check yesterday.

We're getting bonus checks?

Posted by: grammie winger at December 20, 2022 09:19 AM (45fpk)

298 From the online US Passport Renewal Page:

You can renew online if:

1. Your most recent passport is/was valid for 10 years, and you are age 25 or older.
2. Your recent passport was issued over 9 years (in 2013) but less than 15 years (in 2007) from the date you plan to submit your application. Your passport can be expired.
3. You are not changing your name, gender, date of birth, or place of birth.

We're no longer a serious country.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

299 The uniparty hates Putin and Russia because of Social issues.

Putin invaded Ukraine as a two'fer. Eay access to crimean ports, and protect the pro russian eastern Ukraine from Gay Marriage and Abortion.

Washington wants Gay bars in Moscow

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:19 AM (Cw0fX)

300 Mitch has made it clear for years that he would never permit a government shutdown if he could help it. He'll fold every time.

But had absolutely no problems with shutting down the entire private sector during the C19 Scamdemic.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 20, 2022 09:19 AM (3hSHB)

301 Al Franken
@alfranken

After watching the Jan 6 committee today, my overwhelming reaction is just how profoundly sad it is that Donald Trump was POTUS.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2022 09:20 AM (NpAcC)

302 I got my bonus check yesterday.

We're getting bonus checks?
Posted by: grammie winger at December 20, 2022 09:19 AM (45fpk)

I got my bonus last week.

Or, as I like to call it, my keg of beer and bag of beef jerky.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

303 You know what the abortion rate looks like in Russia?

Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 09:20 AM (DxBF0)

304 291. Damn 40%.What state?

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:20 AM (Cw0fX)

305 Posted by: Tracy at December 20, 2022 09:17 AM (6Lcy+)

Well done.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2022 09:20 AM (H8QX8)

306 >>I wish I was optimistic about this, but I think the national GOP are against her.

They definitely are. The idea that we lost Senate races because of candidate quality is stupid. Fetterman is a good candidate? Warnock? Kelly? It's bullshit.

We lost because the GOP and mostly Mitch wanted them to lose and didn't support them. He took millions from Blake Masters, an excellent candidate and an America First candidate, and sent the money to coke head in Alaska who is in his pocket.

Yes, we have to beat the left and the GOP and yes it is going to be hard. But what choice to we have other than submitting? It's not optimism, it's hatred for both the left and the GOP for what they are doing to this country.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2022 09:20 AM (ZLI7S)

307 Elon Musk says only paying Twitter subscribers can vote in future polls

https://tinyurl.com/4sv5bwtv
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2022 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

Heh. Because his last one bit him in the ass. Hard.

Dipshit.
Posted by: Sponge

If I paid $44 billion dollars for a business, do you really think I'm going to listen to what a bunch of whiny bitches have to say?
Pay me $54 billion and you can run it how you see fit.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2022 09:20 AM (qpvqN)

308 Al Franken
@alfranken

After watching the Jan 6 committee today, my overwhelming reaction is just how profoundly sad it is that Donald Trump was POTUS.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2022 09:20 AM (NpAcC)

You were a senator. Fuck off, Stewart.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

309 Not sad to me. First GOP 6-3 Scotus in my lifetime. Fuck you Roe

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:21 AM (Cw0fX)

310 If Tulsi Gabbard is your answer, you're asking the wrong question.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 20, 2022 09:21 AM (DBrN4)

311 Al Franken
@alfranken

After watching the Jan 6 committee today, my overwhelming reaction is just how profoundly sad it is that Donald Trump was POTUS.
Posted by: redridinghood

they oughtta wrap HIM in seaweed !

Posted by: JT at December 20, 2022 09:21 AM (T4tVD)

312 Everything does in fact change if there is a hard recession.
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Inflation is 50%

63% of the country is living paycheck to paycheck, including $100K+ earners

But we're not in a recession.

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 09:21 AM (ds1TL)

313 I got my bonus last week.

Or, as I like to call it, my keg of beer and bag of beef jerky.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)
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At today's rates that's what? Like $800?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 09:21 AM (t0OGg)

314
If I paid $44 billion dollars for a business, do you really think I'm going to listen to what a bunch of whiny bitches have to say?
Pay me $54 billion and you can run it how you see fit.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2022 09:20 AM (qpvqN)

Oh, no argument. However, don't go about spewing "the people have spoken" until you do something dumb, then claim "JOKES!!!" when it bites you.

That was fucking stupid. You shouldn't nut punch your own credibility.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

315 306. Spot on Jack. McConnell has to go.

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:22 AM (Cw0fX)

316 Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at December 20, 2022 09:22 AM (T4tVD)

317 Thanks!
And 80-105 is the right range for whisky, I think. There's no real point in lower and higher gets hard for me to drink. I'll see if I can find the New Riff stuff, since I haven't tried it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 09:12 AM (t0OGg)

Pro tip -- buy higher proof stuff and cool it down yourself if you want. Use distilled water. Be as precise as you want or just eyeball it. Most whiskey (spirits in general) have been watered down before bottling. Typically a bourbon will come out of the barrel in the 125-135 proof range. They add water to lower the proof. You can do the same thing yourself if/when you want to.
For instance -- I have a bottle of Knob Creek 120. Sometimes that's too hot for me. 2 ounces of that plus a half ounce of water results in a 2.5 ounce pour at 96 proof. if you use a quarter ounce of water instead, you get a 2.25 ounce pour at 106.7 proof.

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 09:22 AM (ChAEn)

318 ++++
At today's rates that's what? Like $800?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 09:21 AM (t0OGg)

I wish.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

319 As I said, I am not ungrateful in the least! The problem I have is supporting this country's government. And as for the GOP- most of them can go eff themselves. They are fat and old and no longer know how to fight for the ones that gave them their cushy lifestyles.

Posted by: sideny at December 20, 2022 09:22 AM (Uy/WF)

320 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger at December 20, 2022 09:22 AM (45fpk)

321 I have a bottle of Knob Creek 120. Sometimes that's too hot for me. 2 ounces of that plus a half ounce of water results in a 2.5 ounce pour at 96 proof. if you use a quarter ounce of water instead, you get a 2.25 ounce pour at 106.7 proof.
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 09:22 AM (ChAEn)

Who left the door open and let math get in here?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

322 For instance -- I have a bottle of Knob Creek 120. Sometimes that's too hot for me. 2 ounces of that plus a half ounce of water results in a 2.5 ounce pour at 96 proof. if you use a quarter ounce of water instead, you get a 2.25 ounce pour at 106.7 proof.
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 09:22 AM (ChAEn)
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And as you have several, the ability to do the arithmetic declines

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 09:24 AM (t0OGg)

323 Al Franken. I'm tremendously sad he was ever a senator and that some people GAF about him.

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2022 09:24 AM (4h9M3)

324 Hiya JT!
Posted by: grammie winger

Posted by: JT at December 20, 2022 09:25 AM (T4tVD)

325 A couple of quick points, the first personal. I have decided no longer to vote, but I will make an exception if Trump is charged let alone convicted. I will vote for him if that happens, either on the ballot or a write-in. The vote will serve as a no-confidence vote in the United States, which, let's face it, is now a miserable, evil shithole that needs to be put out of its misery.

Second point: every day the corrupt, despicable dirtbag Mitch McConnell sits as Republican leader is a day closer to the GOP dying. Good. What a venal, despicable piece of shit he is and those who elected him.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 20, 2022 09:25 AM (KSNKu)

326 Pro tip -- buy higher proof stuff and cool it down yourself if you want
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I do this with all the bottles I provide to my guests.

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 09:25 AM (ds1TL)

327 Imagine being a republican from 1932-1952, losing 5 potus elections. Oy!!

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:26 AM (Cw0fX)

328 Women also don't understand that guy's nothing place is filled with boobs.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 20, 2022 09:15 AM (+hI+T)

Tomato girl from Sunday's food thread.
Walking tour of Tokyo from the comments of last night's ONT.

Those are NOT nothing!

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 09:26 AM (ChAEn)

329 "Pro tip -- buy higher proof stuff and cool it down yourself if you want"
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I do this with all the bottles I provide to my guests.
Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 09:25 AM (ds1TL)

If I ever get invited to your place, I'm bringing my own bottle!!

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 09:27 AM (ChAEn)

330 Who left the door open and let math get in here?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)
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Do calculations involving alcohol actually count as "math?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 09:27 AM (YIVH2)

331 For instance -- I have a bottle of Knob Creek 120. Sometimes that's too hot for me. 2 ounces of that plus a half ounce of water results in a 2.5 ounce pour at 96 proof. if you use a quarter ounce of water instead, you get a 2.25 ounce pour at 106.7 proof.
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 09:22 AM (ChAEn)

When I drink whiskey, I drink whisky. And when I drink water, I drink water.

Posted by: Michaleen Oge Flynn at December 20, 2022 09:27 AM (gmo/4)

332 82 year old PO older than Biden. McConnell cannot move to Florida and enjoy life, has to be a grifter

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 20, 2022 09:27 AM (Cw0fX)

333 Boobs do not turn my brain off. They fully engage it. Sometimes send it into overdrive.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 20, 2022 09:27 AM (mhWKY)

334 Who left the door open and let math get in here?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

But it's math about booze. Still not allowed???

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 09:29 AM (ChAEn)

335 ---
Do calculations involving alcohol actually count as "math?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 09:27 AM (YIVH2)

That depends on how much I've had to drink at the time of the infraction.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

336 I have a bottle of Knob Creek 120. Sometimes that's too hot for me. 2 ounces of that plus a half ounce of water results in a 2.5 ounce pour at 96 proof. if you use a quarter ounce of water instead, you get a 2.25 ounce pour at 106.7 proof.
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 09:22 AM (ChAEn)

Who left the door open and let math get in here?
Posted by: Sponge

Booze math is legit.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2022 09:29 AM (qpvqN)

337 Mmmmmmmm......boobs.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

338 When I drink whiskey, I drink whisky. And when I drink water, I drink water.

Posted by: Michaleen Oge Flynn at December 20, 2022 09:27 AM (gmo/4)

If all you drink is cask strength whiskey, then OK. But if you drink anything less than cask strength, you're buying some water too.

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 09:30 AM (ChAEn)

339 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2022 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

340 You need to read this carefully
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Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 20, 2022 09:31 AM (hOUT3)

341 Republicans are so useless, they couldn't even legalize pot.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 20, 2022 09:31 AM (KAi1n)

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Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 20, 2022 09:32 AM (Vwz3I)

343 Do calculations involving alcohol actually count as "math?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2022 09:27 AM (YIVH2)

Thanks, Perfessor. I considered it to be a service to the Horde. Sponge is probably already on his 8th beer of the day, so all numbers are likely just confusing math stuff to him!

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2022 09:33 AM (ChAEn)

344 It's that 80s War Games movie. The only winning move is not to play.

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 09:18 AM (ds1TL)

Gotta disagree. You call out the administration in general, and the CHP and the DC courts specifically for denying citizens their fundamental rights to a fair and speedy trial. And you denounce Pelosi and the J6 committee as a bunch of traitors.

Every. Fucking. Chance. You. Get.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 20, 2022 09:33 AM (TgNpw)

345 Sure are a lot of new names in here pushing to get rid of Trump.
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LOL, I noticed.
Posted by: Lady in Black

i try very hard not to go either way. but i'll go on record here and now. i will write in Donald J. Trump if he isn't on the ballot. anyone but him on the ballot, even desantis, gets that write in. desantis should be smart enough to not throw away a good governor position on a failure of a fake run for potus.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 20, 2022 09:34 AM (3CCua)

346 Candidate quality doesn't matter? Hell, no wonder the GOP-e controls the party. They have no rational opposition.

Hassan in New Hampshire was a good candidate for the Dems. Three terms in the State Senate, two terms as Governor, one term as Senator. Never DID a damn thing, but never really made any high profile errors and po'd a lot of people either.

And she was STILL beatable! But we ran Bolduc, and so we lost.

Candidate quality DOES matter, and it matters more to Republicans, who for various reasons that have been mentioned on this thread, have basically no room for error.

Oz might have won, if Mastriano wasn't such an anchor. So Fetterman won. Masters did a good job, I thought, but actually yeah, Kelly was a good candidate for the Dems. He pretended to be independent on some issues (like the border) and he was a freakin' astronaut!

The candidates matter. Pretending otherwise is childish.

Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 09:35 AM (DxBF0)

347 If I ever get invited to your place, I'm bringing my own bottle!!

Posted by: Doof
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Nah, I'd even open up one of my good ones for the morons.

I learned to keep some cheap but decent stuff around and hide the nice stuff unless I'm with folks I know appreciate what they're being given, though. I had a little party once and a couple of hours in the women were mixing coke with a barrel-select bottle of Woodford Reserve. "It's fancy!"

Never again.

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 20, 2022 09:36 AM (ds1TL)

348 344

Trump not "denouncing Pelosi and the J6 committee" every chance he had...

OK. Suppose he had, what then? Zilch, nada, zero, rien de rien.

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2022 09:39 AM (4h9M3)

349 I'll be critical of Trump, but I think he made the right decision in basically ignoring the Jan. 6th committee. Nothing he did or said would have made a difference, and he would have raised its profile by hammering that drum constantly.

Advocating for the people still in jail without trial would be a much mor productive tactic (as well as being the ethical thing to do.)

Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 09:41 AM (DxBF0)

350 There are probably more actual gays now than there used to be because I think "born this way" is a false premise and there has been a massive pro-gay grooming exercise going on in every aspect of the culture for decades, but I strongly suspect a lot of it is "I'll say I'm gay if you'll leave me alone and let me try to live my life as something other than a villain."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2022 08:24 AM

And everyone who has done that has made everything much, much worse. Had everyone instead fought back against it, maybe this movement never gets to where it is today. Instead, "go along to get along" has led to the death of our culture. So much for the attitude of "better to die on your feet than live on your knees".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2022 09:42 AM (Do5/p)

351 Posted by: Lady in Black at December 20, 2022 08:34 AM (sVtYq)

They want you to feel demoralized.

You are in a demoralization psy op and have been since around 2007.

Fight that first. Refuse to knuckle under. They're not as in control as they seem to be. And we have God, they only have Satan.

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2022 09:42 AM (vQ+QL)

352 Sometimes you need to be strategic about how you fight even losing battles.

For another New Hampshire example: There are a lot of young, basically crazy "progressives" who want to rise in NH.

But the Dems nominated a very boring, staid Doctor for governor. Tom Sherman was never going to beat Sununu. But he is a personally decent guy and wouldn't scare people off like some of the crazier possibilities.

So he lost, badly, but not nearly as badly as some of the alternatives might have. And so he didn't pull down Hassan (which, I am quite sure, is EXACTLY why he ran. Everyone knew he wasn't going to win, he was taking one for the team.)

Not being Mitch McConnell doesn't need to mean running like you've got no brain at all.

Posted by: RichieC at December 20, 2022 09:46 AM (DxBF0)

353 Oz might have won, if Mastriano wasn't such an anchor.

THANK YOU! thanks Richie

this is in fact what happened in PA

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2022 09:50 AM (w0NJk)

354 That Tom Cruise video is pretty cool.

Yep. I actually read the content. AND, clicked on the links!! Thanks, J.J. I don't know how you do it. I'd be a raving maniac if I did what you do 5 days a week. Well, at least I'd have a legitimate excuse.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at December 20, 2022 09:50 AM (Zvtjl)

355 The Feds are hoping this is the stick-poke that finally gets the J6 supporters and sympathizers to do something violent that they can then hype up as another "insurrection" and come down with both jackboots.

Just typical FBI-like agitation and instigation.

Remember Col. William Prescott's order at Bunker Hill. Prescott's order was to reserve fire and aim low because powder was scarce.

Hold fast.

Posted by: ruralcounsel at December 20, 2022 09:54 AM (96wFa)

356 Miraculously, it was allowed to go forward on two counts out of 10. The evidence she presents will be overwhelming. But she won't win because that cannot be allowed. Still, the effort to negate the evidence and subvert justice will further expose the malefactors, for whatever that's worth.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2022 09:14 AM (H8QX

Is there a link to what the 8 counts that were tossed were?
And of the 2 going forward is there meat there or is this just the deep state tease... before it's all tossed?

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at December 20, 2022 09:59 AM (53oGX)

357 They're still fighting in Ukraine?

Geez, even our wars are clown wars.

Posted by: creeper at December 20, 2022 10:03 AM (cTCuP)

358 Giving up and quitting at this stage is to deny your heritage of continuing the struggle our predecessors engaged in, to ensure the Republic endures.

Our history shows us meeting and prevailing over issues even more serious than the current one. Just a cursory look will reveal that, and an unbroken record of success.

Defending our heritage will never be easy but it must NEVER be abandoned or the country will indeed be lost.

Posted by: irongrampa at December 20, 2022 10:53 AM (KATBx)

359 Note that the EV future would mean they could turn off charging at one central point (yes, a few people will be able to charge with a generator or solar but most won't). So lockdowns would be easy.

Not that the intent is for all to have EVs. The transition from ICE doesn't mean EVs for all.

Posted by: Don at December 20, 2022 11:39 AM (Q7knO)

360 It isn't JUST Trump. Once they've convicted him for "insurrection " in front of a kangaroo court, they'll use that to invoke the insurrection clause in the 14th Amendment to expel every Republican who protested the 2020 election from the House and Senate, and keep them off the ballot in the future.

Not that it will matter, because they will have two thirds of the Senators present and voting to impeach and remove judges, approve treaties, and pass Constitutional Amendments.

Posted by: SDN at December 20, 2022 11:47 AM (5Wypx)

361 I would find your points to be reasonable if we weren't being grifted and by our leaders and influencers every day.

You spoke of messages sent. We also send messages. And if we abandon the only guy since Reagan to stand up for us, we're doomed. We will have sent a message to every future Ronald Reagan to not bother making the sacrifices necessary to lead us, because we'll just betray him when he needs us most.

It's Game Over the people like me. We know where this path leads - Vichy France. And those who choose to get on that path arent worth fighting for. Or liberating.

And this is not directed at you Sefton. You're my fav blogger, and while it's eerie how much you echo my instincts and give them form with words, I don't rate to criticize or second guess you. And I can't imagine how burnt out you and the others must be.

I'm not an influencer, this not my time. My time comes when everything falls apart and you need someone to call in airstrikes. And people like me aren't going to be there if we abandon Trump now. it's very much like that woman who keeps returning to her abusive husband. At a certain point you have to just let her go.

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