The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 12/21/22

Good morning, kids. Wednesday and I guess the theme for today, and probably every day, is the usual suspects pissing on our backs and telling us it's raining. The latest example of this is so-called "journalist" Martha Raddatz, who looks like she's wearing a knockoff of Rashida Taliban's coelacanth face mask belching up this madness:

In an interview with Texas Governor Greg Abbott, ABC’s Martha Raddatz stated “I don’t think I’ve ever heard [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden say, we have an open border, come on over. But people I have heard say it are you, are former president Trump, Ron DeSantis, that message reverberates in Mexico and beyond.”
Abbott was arguing that cartel smugglers and undocumented migrants know Joe Biden “supported open borders” and is failing to enforce immigration laws.
“You talk about the border wall, you talk about open borders,” Raddatz told Abbott, adding “So they [the cartels] do get the message that it’s an open border and smugglers use all those kind of statements.”
So, talking about the reality of an open border is the problem, not the actual open border.
Tucker Carlson responded to the mental gymnastics on display, noting that the border crisis is “completely ignored by the media. Except when they are forced to respond and they tell you to shut up and stop complaining.”
“On ABC News, someone called Martha Raddatz argued that actually it’s people who are against immigration who are to blame for the immigration crisis because they’re talking about it and therefore advertising it to the rest of the world,” Carlson further noted.

The disaster on the border is now of such an open and massive magnitude that it can't be hidden. There aren't nearly enough planes and busses to sneak the masses of illiterate third world peasantry around the country in the wee small hours, when no one is looking. So, what's the junta to do? Lie and deflect the blame.

In another time and place, Raddatz would probably get a commendation for crafting a headline like:

"Jews to Blame for Persistent Smoke Condition Over Auschwitz"

It is crucial to remember that the erasure of our southern border, the goal of which is the erasure of the definition in legal and cultural terms of American citizenship itself, has been going on for almost 60 years. While the deflection of blame by the junta is certainly understandable, there is more than a mere nugget of truth to the contention of Republican guilt. No, I don't mean Trump, DeSantis, Abbott nor anyone who has been screaming bloody murder about this. While the Left surely desires open borders for political ends, their confederate remora in the GOPe and Chamber of Commerce desire it as a means to obtain cheap labor here at home, regardless of the long-term and even immediate consequences to both our economy and society in general.

Let's set the Wayback Machine for just over 22 years ago (cue Tommy Vietor's "that's, like, ancient history, dude!"):

The late Robert L. Bartley was the [Wall Street] Journal’s editorial page editor for 30 years before stepping down from that position in 2002. On July 3, 2000, he penned a column for the paper titled “Liberty's Flame Beckons a Bit Brighter”, which began:
As one of this newspaper's proud little traditions, on the Fourth of July we offer an editorial salute to immigration. Back in the immigration debate of 1984, we proposed a five-word Constitutional amendment: There shall be open borders. We have repeated this periodically since under an editorial headline invoking Liberty's torch, "The Rekindled Flame."

As we all now know, that paper today is basically a leftist/globalist rag. But 22 years ago, before Biden, Obama and 9/11, it must have been quite a shock to read something like this in an outlet everyone thought was a legitimate newspaper. Even on it's op-ed pages which at the time were regarded, to be charitable, as somewhat left of center, this was a head-scratcher if not a head-exploder. My how times have changed. Or what really has changed is that all the things we blindly accepted as articles of faith, that the GOP was for conservative, free market capitalism, fiscal responsibility, limited government and the defense of the realm with sane foreign policy.

And you can thank the mere presence, if not the policies of Donald J. Trump for opening our eyes to this.

To read that now, you have to chuckle a bit sheepishly then shake our heads and get angry. It's all a lie. A fucking lie. Forget pissing on our backs. They're gang anal-raping us and telling us it's just hemorrhoids.

Late last night, congressional negotiators revealed the long-awaited omnibus spending bill. The mammoth legislation came in at 4,155 pages and allocated $772.5 billion in spending for domestic initiatives and $858 billion for defense.
On Monday, Politico reported that the omnibus would include provisions ending a requirement that states keep ineligible Medicaid beneficiaries on the rolls, effective April 1. Congress enacted the requirement in March 2020, and the Biden administration has continued to extend the public health emergency started by the federal government at the outset of the Covid pandemic despite President Biden previously declaring the pandemic to be “over.”
A primary reason for the constant extension of the state of emergency was to enable the government to finance an ever-increasing amount of Medicaid recipients. Expanding programs like this is one of the main objectives of the welfare-industrial complex.
The timing of this nascent “deal” seems particularly questionable. With Republicans regaining control of the House of Representatives in January, lawmakers could force votes in both chambers early next year on terminating the public health emergency. (Previously, Republicans only had the ability to demand a vote in the Senate.) Such an effort would likely force Biden to veto legislation ending an emergency for a pandemic he already called “over.”
Why would Republicans cave mere weeks before gaining an additional leverage point? The answer appears both cynical and obvious. . .
. . . By explicitly admitting the poor nature of the trade-off, the staffer in question has laid down a marker for future employment among the myriad of health care, lobbying, and interest groups downtown. Translated, the subtext of the staffer’s message might be, “Because I cut this bad deal for Republicans, all you medical provider groups got a legislative vehicle to receive the ‘sweeteners’ and other special deals you wanted in this massive omnibus bill. So please remember me a few years from now when I’m looking for you to pay me $300,000 or $500,000 per year to lobby my former colleagues on your behalf.”
That this staffer spoke to Politico — the epitome of K Street corporatism, where lobbyists pay tens of thousands of dollars annually for subscription services with the latest Capitol Hill gossip — reinforces the crony corruption behind much legislation in Washington. As cynical as it sounds, those thoughts permeate the minds of many staffers on Capitol Hill, although few would be bold enough to say as much outright.
And for those of you wondering, yes, lobbyists get paid ridiculous sums to make their pleadings before Congress. Unfortunately, taxpayers (read: you and me) get stuck with the tab for this and many other bad deals made by the anonymous staffer.

Meanwhile in another part of the forest . . .

. . . it’s probably safe to assume one of the reasons Baker exited the FBI was to dodge any accountability for the FBI’s reckless and politically motivated attempt to investigate the president of the United States. Twitter was a pretty soft landing.
Or at least it was, until it was revealed that Baker, who was still employed at Twitter as of a few weeks ago, got fired after he intercepted the internal company communications Musk was giving to journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss to expose the censorship and misdeeds of the company’s previous management. Nobody has quite figured out what he was doing, but there’s widespread speculation Baker may have removed Twitter communications with the FBI or other damning info before it could become public. . .
. . . Yes, large global corporations need high-level, discreet corporate security, and potentially for benign purposes the particular skillsets that former law enforcement and intelligence personnel provide. However, the situation with Baker makes the problem plenty obvious. If you’re inclined to automatically trust the professionalism and integrity of the FBI and CIA, please have your head examined.
I want to know how many of these FBI and CIA agents are “sheep dipped.” In the intelligence world, “sheep dipping” is a term of art. It describes a tactic whereby a member of the military is “officially discharged from service” to do covert work. In secret, they are still eligible for rank promotions and military benefits.
I first learned the term from my father, because he was “sheep dipped.” He worked for the CIA in Laos in the early 1960s lead-up to the Vietnam War. He was a young Marine officer. During his year in Laos, his normal service records were replaced with records saying he was separated from the Marine Corps, to allow the government to deny any responsibility if anything happened to him. When he returned from Laos, they swapped out the files saying he’d left the Marine Corps with his regular service record, all as if nothing unusual had happened. . .
. . . Fun fact I learned earlier this year: The man in charge of CIA operations in Laos when my father was there was the legendary spymaster Ray Cline. One Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory relates that Lee Harvey Oswald, who was still serving in the Marines when he briefly defected to the Soviet Union, didn’t really defect. He was sheep dipped and working for the CIA on an intelligence-gathering mission inside the Soviet Union.
The whole crazy escapade, according to the tale, was possibly organized by Cline, the local CIA station chief at the same time and place as one of Oswald’s previous overseas deployments. For what it’s worth, Cline also happens to be the former father-in-law of Stefan Halper, the dubious paid informant who was the FBI’s source for much of their bogus Trump-Russia investigation.
In case, you’re keeping track, why yes, I did just draw a line, albeit not a particularly straight one, that connects the Kennedy assassination and the Russiagate scandal. (It would have been too digressive to mention Cline and Halper’s connections to Watergate and Iran Contra, but I think you get the drift.) . . .
. . . But the point here isn’t to offer up conspiracies about the Kennedy assassination. It’s to make the point that one reason conspiracy theories are so easy to believe is that it’s well-known the Deep-State Industrial Complex employs a lot of tactics such as sheep dipping that are expressly about manipulation and deception. . .
. . . With the exception of an under-resourced conservative media and a few independent lefty journalists such as Taibbi and Greenwald — who have dared to stay true to ideals that most of the journalists now trying to discredit them claimed to hold six years ago — no one is interested in solid evidence suggesting intel agencies have been secretly curbing Americans’ First Amendment rights, and possibly doing so to explicitly influence elections.

If there were an oven around here, I'd stick my head in it. That said, I'm at the point of wanting to shove a number of other people's heads in it. And from both sides of that mythical aisle. Yay! Bipartisanship!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"An academic paper explores the character and sources of black anti-Semitism."
Black America’s Anti-Semitism Problem
"How to destroy a corporation."
The Great Reset and 'Stakeholderism'
"By selling out Republicans, the anonymous staffer laid down a marker for future employment among the special interest groups in Washington."
Anonymous GOP Aide Epitomizes the Swampiness Behind Congress’s Omnibus Spending Bill

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

"That so few people are curious about the nexus between intel agencies and Big Tech should be a national scandal."
Are FBI and CIA Agents "Sheep Dipped" at Twitter and Other Tech Companies?
"The bureau, above all rivals and adversaries, is the greatest single threat to free and fair elections."
Bombshells You Might Have Missed About the FBI’s Censorship and Election Meddling
"Twitter was staffed by craven functionaries eager to please contacts and former colleagues in the national security state."
Of Course the Feds Were All Over Twitter
“Twitter gave approval & special protection to the U.S. military’s online psychological influence ops,” wrote Fang. “Despite knowledge that Pentagon propaganda accounts used covert identities, Twitter did not suspend many for around 2 years or more. Some remain active.”
Twitter Files: Company Allowed Government to Wage Influence Operations Abroad
"Even if he steps down as the platform’s CEO, Elon Musk has already struck a resounding blow for free speech."
Cleansing Twitter’s Augean Stables
“I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!” he tweeted. “After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.”
Elon Musk Stepping Down as the CEO Of Twitter, Reveals What He’ll Do Next
"He is proving himself to be quite possibly the most refreshing force in American politics in years."
Give Musk a Chance
"The price for pushing back on behalf of the First Amendment."
Wanted: Elon Musk for Instigating Journalism and Humiliating “Brights”

* * * * *
"The Biden [junta's] funding of the research comes as the White House faces growing accusations that it seeks to suppress free speech online."
Biden Junta to Drop Half a Million on Artificial Intelligence That Detects Microaggressions on Social Media
"In its response to the Trump lawsuit, 'the most trusted name in news' no longer seeks to hide its true nature from its viewers."
CNN Admits to Being a Propaganda Operation
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"What can regular people do to take back their country from woke radicals? Take over local institutions, one at a time." (before they create laws banning us from doing so - jjs)
Ordinary Americans are Going to Have to Save the Country Themselves, One Town at a Time
"Where are we and how did we get here?"
Reflections on America at the End of 2022
"The website reported that Patel and another colleague had their data subpoenaed by the DOJ at a time when committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) was questioning the role of the FBI in the 'Russia collusion' hoax."
Report: DOJ Obtained Email, Phone Data of Kash Patel in 2017
"There is no chance that California’s reparations task force’s scheme can be carried out equitably, nor any possibility it will do anything but cause harm to race relations and the black community."
The ‘Reparations’ Scam
"What happens when government not only fails to perform as expected, but its execution is inept to the point of being an embarrassment?"
America’s Growing Political Impotence
"If Mark Mellman wants to point fingers at who is responsible for the extremism in the country, he should first look at the mirror and then at the sheet of candidates he's endorsed."
Extremism Doesn’t Matter So Long as the Check Clears
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Ten BILLION."
U.S. Postal Service to Spend Almost $10 Billion for Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
"This [junta] has foolishly determined to end all use of fossil fuels when that is the very thing that has made us great."
A Fool's Game on Climate
"European policymakers implement a carbon-taxation scheme that will drive up prices."
Inflation Fuel
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"California has passed several laws which require corporations to hire at least one director to fulfill a quota based on categories such as sex, race or sexual orientation. The appellate court rejected the California secretary of State’s emergency request to lift two injunctions issued by trial courts which claimed that the laws are unconstitutional."
California Court Blocks Diversity Quotas for Corporate Boards
"Investors should have known that SBF’s unique personal brand was not a replacement for reliable economics and market principles."
Top Lessons Investors Should Take Away From the Collapse of FTX
“TikTok and WeChat data are a channel to the Chinese Communist Party, and their continued presence represents a threat to national security, the intelligence community, and the personal privacy of every single American. We are taking this step today to secure state government devices and wireless networks from the threat of infiltration and ensure that we safeguard the data and cybersecurity of state government.”
Gov. Youngkin Pulls Virginia From Location Consideration In Chinese Deal With Ford
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"The DOJ’s request comes after Chief Justice John Roberts halted a lower court’s decision that ordered the Biden [junta] to wind down Title 42 by December 21. So now, the DOJ is asking for more time to wind down the program."
Biden Junta Asks Supreme Court for More Time to Phase Out Title 42
"Fucking insanity." (in this instance, it doesn't mean sticking your dick in Joy Behar - jjs)
Massive Congressional Spending Bill Says Border Patrol Can’t Spend Funds On Border Security
"White House oversaw fiscal-year record high of 2.4 million border encounters in 2022." (well, the cocksucker's not all wet given the role of the CoC-suckers in the GOPe wanting cheap labor - jjs)
Border Czar Kamala Harris Blames Biden Junta's Migrant Crisis on Republicans
"ABC News host claims that talking about the reality of an open border is the problem, rather than the actual open border."
Video: Media Blames Border Crisis On Republicans Warning That Border Is Wide Open
"The new Congress, with the House in GOP hands, has an opportunity to do what Biden won’t: protect our borders, and end the policies that destroy communities and spread misery." (will it do it? - jjs)
Title 42’s End Postponed For Now, But Biden’s Border Crisis Remains
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Fentanyl is the deadliest drug threat facing this country," the DEA said in a news release. "It is a highly addictive man-made opioid that is 50 times more potent than heroin. Just two milligrams of fentanyl, the small amount that fits on the tip of a pencil, is considered a potentially deadly dose." (and it's coming from overseas and mostly over the border, which no longer exists - jjs)
DEA Counts 379,000,000 Deadly Doses of Fentanyl Seized in 2022
"Epic, which was recently valued at a whopping $32 billion, did not comment on the allegations, but admitted that 'no developer creates a game with the intention of ending up here.'”
'Fortnite' Developer Epic Games Fined $520 Million for Children's Privacy Breaches, 'Dark Patterns and Billing Practices'
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Lloyd Billingsley: "The California Democrat calls out the 'intelligence community' pandemic performance—but there’s a catch."
Schiff Storm
"Is that harsh to say? Let's take a look at the data."
Parents Still Masking Their Young Children Should Be Ashamed (and slapped in the face, hard - jjs)
"Whom should we rely upon to give reliable information? We cannot be sure. The myriad of obfuscation is alarming."
Chinese COVID Revisited: Three Years In, It’s Time To Look Back
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"To placate weak-minded, demanding students, leftist academia willingly destroys the careers of people who are true teachers and mentors."
The Tragic Case of Professor Paris Svoronos
"In California’s Oak Grove School District (in San Jose), Taunya Jaco won election. Expect to see many more candidates who are wholly in the tank for critical race theory and ethnic studies, and who are members of the educational bureaucracy, to run for school board positions."
Radical “Liberated Ethnic Studies” Team Leader/Teachers Union Member Wins CA School Board Seat (this is almost a "Water Is Wet, Film at 11" headline - jjs)
"In other words, Adair is personally liable for his actions in violating Hening’s first amendment rights."
Pushback: Blacklisting Virginia Tech soccer coach loses effort to get lawsuit dismissed
"School-related cultural upheaval is taking a serious toll on children.
Losing a Generation (a = yet another - jjs)
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
"The judge dismissed eight of the 10 claims."
Arizona Judge Allows Two of Kari Lake’s Election Challenge Claims to go to Trial
"The Dems have figured this out but there are ways Republicans can make sure the system is honest."
In Elections, It's Not the Votes That Count, It’s the Ballots That Count
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"The move comes a day after GOP Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois joined seven Democrats on the House January 6 Committee to recommend criminal charges against the former president." (two years before the election, with probably nothing in there of any great shakes and with millions of supporters who could care less if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight - jjs)
House Democrats Vote to Release Years of Trump’s Tax Returns
POLITICS
"A convicted seditionist running from prison garnered almost a million votes in the 1920 presidential election."
Even if Garland is Foolish Enough to Indict Trump, He Can Still Run and Win
"Americans were not oblivious to the larger issues."
What Did the Midterms Really Tell Us?
Robert Spencer: ". . . But this is ridiculous."
We Knew Joe Biden Was a Big Liar
"The corporate media’s fascination with John Fetterman’s wardrobe is deeply cynical and meant to denigrate our political traditions."
Respect for the Fetter-Drip is Disrespect for Our Political Norms
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] has taken pride in his unfailing support for Ukraine after Russia invaded, rallying American allies to their cause." (Breitbart sounding a bit like CNN - jjs)
Joe Biden Prepares to Host Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House
Bastard.
Mitch McConnell: Aiding Ukraine ‘Number One Priority’ for Republicans amid Inflation, Border Crisis
If he's getting the bribe, why the fuck should he come here?
US To Announce $1.8 Billion In Weapons Aid for Ukraine Ahead of Zelenskyy’s Expected Visit To DC: Report
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"U.S. representatives held several rounds of indirect talks – with the E.U. acting as go-between – in Vienna, in a process that largely fizzled out in mid-September. . . But none has publicly suggested that the deal is irreparable." (if it wipes out Israelis and Americans, it has to be saved! - jjs)
Biden in November Recording: Iran Nuclear Deal ‘Is Dead, But We’re Not Going to Announce It’
“Abu Hamid was photographed taking part in the desecration of the bodies of IDF reservists Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami during the Ramallah Lynching.”
Notorious Terrorist Involved In Ramallah Lynching Dies in Israeli Prison, Glorified By Palestinian Society
"The regime would rather lose than face Israel."
Iranian Grandmaster Refuses to Play Israeli and is Disqualified
"King Charles needs to condemn the race-baiting and strip Meghan of her power by embracing the good that Western civilization has done."
King Charles Can’t Refute Meghan’s ‘Racism’ Charges Because He is a Self-Flagellating Globalist
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"The lawsuit, filed in federal court on Tuesday by American victims of Palestinian terror attacks and Rep. Ronny Jackson (R., Texas), alleges the Biden [junta] is in violation of federal law for resuming U.S. aid to the Palestinian government, according to a copy of the lawsuit exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The Trump administration froze these funds due to the Palestinian government’s financial support for terrorists as part of a program known as pay-to-slay."
Victims of Terrorism Sue Biden Admin for Sending Taxpayer Aid to Palestinians
"The more U.S. and allied military power is based on and along these island chains, the more readily China can be contained in the western Pacific."
US Returns to the Philippines to Fend Off China
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
“At the very least, due respect for Americans who elected would call for not passing a ‘lame duck’ bill just days before members fly home for Christmas and two weeks before a new Republican majority is sworn in for the 118th Congress,” the conservative members wrote. “Senate Republicans have 41 votes necessary to stop this and should do so now.”
McCarthy Supplants McConnell as the Grim Reaper: House GOP Leader Joins Threats to Block Legislation from Any Senate Republican Who Votes for Omnibus
Send Murphy overseas – across the River Styx.
Dem Sen. Murphy: Omnibus Won’t Be Extraordinarily Inflationary — Much of ‘Big Emergency Numbers’ in It Go Overseas
Millions for perverts and Maoists, but not one penny for tribute . . .
Congress’ Spending Bill Contains Millions In Woke Handouts
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"This is how we will actually get commercial fusion."
Fusion Follies
"Even as the Perseverance science team prepares to cache the ten first core samples on the surface of Mars for later pickup by a future Mars helicopter for return to Earth, they have also released the planned route they intend to follow as they drive the rover up onto the delta that flowed into Jezero Crater in the distant past."
Perseverance’s planned route up onto the Jezero Crater delta
"Rocket Lab originally wanted to launch from Wallops two years ago, but has been repeatedly stymied by government red tape."
Rocket Lab reschedules first Wallops launch to January
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Daniel Greenfield: "The transgender movement is the end result of feminism’s hatred of women."
Feminism Killed Feminism
"Women who reject the feminist narrative, rather than having the capacity to form their own preferences, are framed as empty vessels incapable of original thought, just waiting to be directed here and there by the Patriarchy™ – one of the many vicious ironies of feminist dogma that robs women of their agency."
Social Science Shatters Patriarchy™ Mythology: Women Prefer Male Bosses
David Harsanyi: "Remember the good old days when we went to the dictionary for definitions and etymologies?"
Why the Redefinition of the Word ‘Woman’ Matters
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
In January of 2021, a mere two years ago, Disney’s stock was riding high at about $185 per share. Then the Disney pigs targeted children with their sick grooming techniques, even in “children’s” movies, and it all went sideways.
Disney Stocks Tank After Avatar 2 Underperforms
"In-N-Out’s Bible references and conservative politics generate a 'lonely' protest."
A Failed Burger Boycott
Christian Toto: "Oscar winner tells Russell Brand how he saw the light on media bias."
Tim Robbins: ‘Orwellian’ Chinese COVID Rules Based on Politics, Not Science
"Progressives criticized Ancient Apocalypse because it challenged their most basic assumptions." (whatever you think about the subject, the presenter's insistence on being muzzled by the establishment is dead on - jjs)
"The Most Dangerous Show on Netflix?"
HITHER & YON
"Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm wants to forgive and forget the Communist dealings of the father of the atomic bomb."
The Undeserved Rehabilitation of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Comments

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1 jj what day is it hump day

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2022 07:42 AM (BRHaw)

2 2nd!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2022 07:43 AM (xT8gx)

3 NYPost: Man with WWI explosive lodged in his rectum sparks bomb scare, hospital evacuation

Posted by: Neo at December 21, 2022 07:43 AM (X5CsJ)

4 Christmas is almost here! Yea!

Posted by: IanDeal at December 21, 2022 07:43 AM (MGjjz)

5 Man charged after breaking into Cleveland Browns stadium and doing donuts on the field in a Ford F-150.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 07:43 AM (Vwz3I)

6 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 21, 2022 07:43 AM (0kVKa)

7 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 21, 2022 07:44 AM (PLIAk)

8 Evacuation would be an apt descriptor.

Posted by: Stanli Kubrickuela at December 21, 2022 07:44 AM (w9Wax)

9 Didn't see article linked ( different one though ) at American Thinker on election electronics fraud
Good read

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 21, 2022 07:46 AM (0kVKa)

10 "Jews to Blame for Persistent Smoke Condition Over Auschwitz"

"Christians to Blame for Feeding Lions in Rome's Coliseum"

Posted by: Neo at December 21, 2022 07:46 AM (X5CsJ)

11 I see the media and the biden administration have coordinated the talking point that it is the republicans fault the border is broken.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 21, 2022 07:46 AM (uNylN)

12 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Joe Biden, Supergenious at December 21, 2022 07:47 AM (1n+EO)

13 The sock....it clings!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 21, 2022 07:47 AM (1n+EO)

14 Better off than Jack in Titanic then!

@TheInsiderPaper · 2h
NEW: Man survived for about 24 hours in crocodile- and shark-filled Australian waters by clinging to flotsam

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 07:48 AM (Vwz3I)

15 Grifter Zelenskyy on his way over here to pick up his Generational Wealth.

Posted by: XTC at December 21, 2022 07:48 AM (UnA8+)

16 Mornin', all. I doubt it will allow me to sleep any later, but school is over today for the minime, just in time for the winter blast to come to town. Stay warm, Texans!

Thanks for the newz, JJ, and I hope your Hanukkah is fruitful.

Posted by: Catherine at December 21, 2022 07:49 AM (ZSsrh)

17 "Slaves to blame for Civil War"

.. no reparations are needed

Posted by: Neo at December 21, 2022 07:49 AM (X5CsJ)

18 17 "Slaves to blame for Civil War"

.. no reparations are needed
Posted by: Neo at December 21, 2022 07:49 AM (X5CsJ)

Heh, I like that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2022 07:50 AM (x0n13)

19 "Christians to Blame for Feeding Lions in Rome's Coliseum"
Posted by: Neo at December 21, 2022 07:46 AM (X5CsJ)

Judges would have also accepted Lion Obesity.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2022 07:51 AM (BRHaw)

20
The number of Americans on Medicaid is expected to surpass 100 million as early as next month, according to a new projection from the Foundation for Government Accountability.

Geez, ObamaCare has been such a success story.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2022 07:51 AM (enJYY)

21 @TheInsiderPaper · 4h
JUST IN 🚨 London police arrest a man after reports of fire near the gates of Buckingham Palace

Related to??

@TheInsiderPaper · 1h
NEW: German climate activists cut off top of Christmas tree next to Brandenburg Gate in Berlin

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 07:51 AM (Vwz3I)

22 @11

>>I see the media and the biden administration have coordinated the talking point that it is the republicans fault the border is broken.

Well in large measure, they are primarily responsible.

The GOP has talked a good game but when given an opportunity to do something about it, their big idea is amnesty.

They had an opportunity in Trumps first two years to do something substantial about immigration and we see how that worked out.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2022 07:51 AM (up/3i)

23 Congress releasing PDT's tax returns is good for a chuckle. If there was something there, a rogue IRS agent from the Cincy office would have passed it off to the Washington Post in a secret parking garage meeting. All the returns probably need an F150 to move around.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2022 07:51 AM (lz5hY)

24 "That so few people are curious about the nexus between intel agencies and Big Tech should be a national scandal."

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Let me make an obvious point. Is it really "so few people are curious..." or is it that they just don't know because the befouled media hasn't reported it at all?

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2022 07:52 AM (sVtYq)

25 Will black folks need to get an ID to claim their reparations? Sounds pretty racisty.

Kash noted last night that Paul Ryan and other White House officials had to know Nunes and Kash were being spied on. And said nothing.

Traitors all around.

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 21, 2022 07:52 AM (DB16e)

26 "Sheep-Dipped." Isn't that a sheepherder thing?

Posted by: The Chicken at December 21, 2022 07:52 AM (SYTee)

27 Thanks for the newz, JJ, and I hope your Hanukkah is fruitful.
Posted by: Catherine

Free fruit ?

Posted by: JT at December 21, 2022 07:53 AM (T4tVD)

28 Happy Winter Solstice Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2022 07:53 AM (NpAcC)

29 Christians to Blame for Feeding Lions in Rome's Coliseum"
Posted by: Neo

Judges would have also accepted Lion Obesity.
Posted by: rhennigantx
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@TheInsiderPaper · 50m
NEW - Biden signs bill banning big cat ownership

||US President Joe Biden signed a bill on Tuesday banning private ownership of tigers and other big cats and “cub petting” highlighted in the Netflix smash hit documentary “Tiger King.”

The Big Cat Public Safety Act limits ownership of tigers, lions, jaguars and other big cats to zoos, sanctuaries, universities and agencies.

The bill prohibits direct contact between the public and big cats such as that seen in “Tiger King,” which featured the exploits of a flamboyant private zoo owner named Joe Exotic.

Current owners of big cats are exempt but will have to register the animals with the US Fish & Wildlife Service.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 07:53 AM (Vwz3I)

30 Hiya

Posted by: JT at December 21, 2022 07:54 AM (T4tVD)

31 . . . By explicitly admitting the poor nature of the trade-off, the staffer in question...
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The Staffer in Question is nice and all, but he has no power. Mitch McConnell, the True Conservative who fought tooth and nail to make sure Democrats held the Senate, also hustled to get this passed. Because he knew it would tie the hands of the Republican House - that was elected to counter this out of control administration in spite of the Republicans' best efforts - for an entire year.

Anyone remember the TEA Party and what was done to them by these same folks? Funny how we're seeing exactly the same thing happen again, isn't it?

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 21, 2022 07:54 AM (ds1TL)

32 5 Man charged after breaking into Cleveland Browns stadium and doing donuts on the field in a Ford F-150.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 07:43 AM (Vwz3I)

..........

Baker Mayfield?

Posted by: Molly k. at December 21, 2022 07:54 AM (32yPe)

33 Christians to Blame for Feeding Lions in Rome's Coliseum"
Posted by: Neo at December 21, 2022 07:46 AM (X5CsJ)

Christians to Blame for Lion Tooth Decay, Obesity in Rome Coliseum.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2022 07:54 AM (x0n13)

34 Irish to blame for potato shortage

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2022 07:55 AM (9UlRk)

35
" U.S. Postal Service to Spend Almost $10 Billion for Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure "

In nearly every US town, there's one very lucky auto repair shop.

They'll always have 2 or 3 broken down "LLV" (long life vehicle) to repair for the USPS.

The LLV is a 1980's Chevy S-10 chassis, with a Grumman body.

Spews 1980 level emissions, keeps parts companies in business, and the smart owner buys an old tow truck, just to bill USPS for the tow and the multiple repair on these 40+ year old shitboxes.

The replacement of these last century vehicles is a scandal in itself.

And the RHD Mercedes van is even a bigger joke.

Posted by: Clark Westfield at December 21, 2022 07:55 AM (PKRFl)

36 24 "That so few people are curious about the nexus between intel agencies and Big Tech should be a national scandal."

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Let me make an obvious point. Is it really "so few people are curious..." or is it that they just don't know because the befouled media hasn't reported it at all?
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2022 07:52 AM (sVtYq)

Bingo. As I said yesterday they're embargoing the story about the story itself.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2022 07:55 AM (x0n13)

37 Swiss government rejects idea of introducing a third gender or no gender option for official records.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 07:56 AM (Vwz3I)

38 It's also Don't Make Your Bed Day.

Too late for that I've already made mine.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2022 07:56 AM (NpAcC)

39 I see that the annual KPMG survey of automotive execs has them less than thrilled about EV's. Total volume of sales in 2030 is projected to be 35% which is down from 65% last year.

Make of that what you will.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2022 07:56 AM (Q4IgG)

40 The GOP has talked a good game but when given an opportunity to do something about it, their big idea is amnesty.

They had an opportunity in Trumps first two years to do something substantial about immigration and we see how that worked out.
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Remember when Trump was actively trying to stop illegals from invading and even Ted Cruz stood up and said his Chamber of Commerce money was more important than America?

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 21, 2022 07:56 AM (ds1TL)

41 The only people who need "reparations" are descendants of slave owners who had their property removed from their possession by the federal government without compensation for their loss.

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Elon!

Free Sam Bankaccount-Fried!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 21, 2022 07:56 AM (UCfnM)

42 When I hear a Republican call for a total overhaul of the DOJ, or a total shutdown of aid to Ukraine and an independent audit of those funds, or a national boycott of
income tax, or impeachment inquiry into Biden over First Amendment violations in collusion with Big Tech, or the arrest of Anthony Fauci, I'll begin to believe we have some semblance of leadership. Until then, they can FOAD.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2022 07:58 AM (H8QX8)

43 Good morning, JJ, Horde,

It's better to be a coelacan than a coelacanth, JJ. Gotta stay positive!

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 21, 2022 07:58 AM (JcnCJ)

44 The appellate court rejected the California secretary of State’s emergency request to lift two injunctions issued by trial courts which claimed that the laws are unconstitutional.

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Emergency request? Emergency request? We're talking mandated diversity hires for corporate boards and it's an emergency according to the CA SOS? L-O-L

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2022 07:58 AM (sVtYq)

45 They'll always have 2 or 3 broken down "LLV" (long life vehicle) to repair for the USPS.
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And then you go out into rural areas and you see the mail carriers ALL driving 1990s-2000s Buicks. Almost like they know something.

Quick, let's spend $100 billion on something else!

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 21, 2022 07:59 AM (ds1TL)

46 @TheInsiderPaper · 1h
NEW: Report says China has started reclaiming several unoccupied land features in the disputed South China Sea, Philippines ‘concerned’ over report

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 07:59 AM (Vwz3I)

47 It's also Don't Make Your Bed Day.

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Millennials the world over celebrate.

As for myself, my OCD would make me break out in hives if I didn't make my bed. I couldn't stand it!

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2022 08:00 AM (sVtYq)

48 4155, lessee, that's eight reams of paper & well into a ninth ... almost a whole box.

hoping against all expectation that it dies in place ... I guess we'll see ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at December 21, 2022 08:00 AM (fxj5q)

49 @40

>>Ted Cruz stood up and said his Chamber of Commerce money was more important than America?

Ted Cruz is a smarmy, overweening huckster, he's still better than the vast number of GOP a**clowns currently inhabiting the Senate.

Sad, really sad.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2022 08:00 AM (up/3i)

50 ||US President Joe Biden signed a bill on Tuesday banning private ownership of tigers and other big cats and “cub petting” highlighted in the Netflix smash hit documentary “Tiger King.”
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Thank goodness all the other problems were solved and we could finally address this.

Posted by: Change Your Socks Regularly at December 21, 2022 08:00 AM (ds1TL)

51 I really don't want Musk to step aside. We need him now more than ever.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2022 08:00 AM (NpAcC)

52 Dem Sen. Murphy: Omnibus Won’t Be ‘Extraordinarily’ Inflationary…

…Because Much of ‘Big Emergency Numbers’ in It Go Overseas!

Posted by: Neo at December 21, 2022 08:00 AM (X5CsJ)

53 Rats blamed for The Black Death.

*tee-hee

Posted by: Fleas at December 21, 2022 08:01 AM (w9Wax)

54 Activists target physics with 'decolonizing light' project

Posted by: Neo at December 21, 2022 08:01 AM (X5CsJ)

55 Time for another Public Service Announcement.

Are you on Medicare?

Did you know you can get up to eight free OTC At-Home Covid tests per month, with NO co-pay?

I didn't.

https://tinyurl.com/y626nm8c

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 21, 2022 08:02 AM (1n+EO)

56 Musk will still own Twitter and be The Boss.

Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2022 08:02 AM (SYTee)

57 Hatchlings of endangered Galapagos pink iguana found for the first time on the Ecuadoran archipelago.

Unfortunately, it was in a sushi platter on a Japanese whaling vessel.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 08:03 AM (Vwz3I)

58 As for myself, my OCD would make me break out in hives if I didn't make my bed. I couldn't stand it!
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2022 08:00 AM (sVtYq)
*******
Same!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2022 08:03 AM (NpAcC)

59 I guarantee you that sheep dipped Regime personnel are in all major media and all key govt agencies including DOJ the courts and Congress.
Fauci? Regime
Schiff? Regime
DC judges? Regime
DC US Attorney? Regime

Posted by: Ex-GOP at December 21, 2022 08:04 AM (j6nJf)

60 51 I really don't want Musk to step aside. We need him now more than ever.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2022 08:00 AM (NpAcC)

Hard to keep fighting when the FBI is more than likely threatening your family.

Posted by: XTC at December 21, 2022 08:04 AM (UnA8+)

61 McConnell? Regime

Posted by: Ex-GOP at December 21, 2022 08:04 AM (j6nJf)

62 I really don't want Musk to step aside. We need him now more than ever.

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I don't like the news either, but I guess it will ultimately depend on who he appoints CEO. I hope he remains just as active and just as vocal on the Twatterz with regard to free speech.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2022 08:04 AM (sVtYq)

63 Sheep-Dipped." Isn't that a sheepherder thing?
Posted by: The Chicken at December 21, 2022 07:52 AM (SYTee)

Sheep are marked with rattle to help match ewes to their lambs, among other things. So when they're run through the sheep dip bath for pest control, the take rattle washes off and you don't know which sheep is which anymore.

I think, maybe, that's the origin of it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2022 08:05 AM (9UlRk)

64 35 Somebody needs to do a study on converting those LLV to tiny houses for the homeless once the Post Office takes them out of service. I know some experts who could do the study over a few years for a modest grant of $750K.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2022 08:05 AM (lz5hY)

65 "And then you go out into rural areas and you see the mail carriers ALL driving 1990s-2000s Buicks. Almost like they know something.
"

I would be delighted to see my mail carrier driving anything. Today will probably be the third consecutive day with no mail delivery to our entire community.

Our regular delivery person has medical issue that we are aware of. But...the subs have no idea what the heck they are doing, and just deliver up to the point that they say ' eh...I'm done for today' and go back to the Post Office to punch out.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 21, 2022 08:06 AM (1n+EO)

66 Elon Musk has done more to preserve our sacred 1st Amendment rights than the total of all Congress in the past 10 years. That should shine quite a bright light on their utter worthlessness if only people would wake the hell up.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2022 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

67 51 I really don't want Musk to step aside. We need him now more than ever.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2022 08:00 AM (NpAcC)

I agree, unless he has in mind a harder-line CEO and this is a ploy. But the problem with fighting for freedom in such times as ours is that you cannot start a fight and fail to see it through. You cannot go just so far and no farther. You must commit to the fight for all the world, because it is all the world. If Musk simply intends to bail, then he is not the man we thought he was.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2022 08:07 AM (H8QX8)

68 @62

>>I don't like the news either, but I guess it will ultimately depend on who he appoints CEO. I hope he remains just as active and just as vocal on the Twatterz with regard to free speech.

Yeah, well, when you go up against an opponent who will gladly entertain destroying the world rather than letting an outsider sit in the Oval Office, Musk being brought to heel was always going to be the outcome.

They can end Musks businesses without very much effort so It's not surprising he's pulling back.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2022 08:07 AM (up/3i)

69 " I did just draw a line, albeit not a particularly straight one, that connects the Kennedy assassination and the Russiagate scandal."

A line dotted with democrats all the way.

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2022 08:08 AM (iayUP)

70 I always thought "Sheep Dip" was some sort of lamb curry.

*shrugs*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2022 08:08 AM (Q4IgG)

71 I see that the annual KPMG survey of automotive execs has them less than thrilled about EV's. Total volume of sales in 2030 is projected to be 35% which is down from 65% last year.

Make of that what you will.
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Just in time for Justin pulling a California and mandating 20% of all passenger cars, trucks and SUVs sold in Canada in 2026 will need to be electric under new regulations.

I don't know how you mandate people buying things so I assume it'll be 20% of all showroom [new and used?] will have to be EVs even if no one buys them. I hope at least and not something more drastic.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 08:09 AM (Vwz3I)

72 Elon Musk
@elonmusk

I’m in favor of a small spending bill to keep things running, but common sense suggests that it be the least amount required through the holidays.

Railroading through a giant spending bill that almost no one has read is unlikely to be in the best interests of the people.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2022 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

73 Mornin’, All. Happy Waffle Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 08:10 AM (ai465)

74 That 6 (really 4) degrees of separation from James Baker to the Kennedy assassination is fascinating. Mark Levine wrote a book a few years ago about how intertwined (and literally in bed with each other) are key government and media figures. No one is to be trusted from either

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2022 08:10 AM (xT8gx)

75 Massive Congressional Spending Bill Says Border Patrol Can’t Spend Funds On Border Security

People keep forgetting this is yet another of the "Promises Made, Promises Kept" aspect of the Democrat Party.

Way back in the Clinton Administration, and probably before, they were talking about how safe(!) and fair(!!) and equitable(!!!) the world would be if "we" had a multipolar world of 6(IIRC) Zones of Power. "Equal power, that is. Instead of a world where the US was the big superpower.

The US was to be part of the "North America Zone" not just trading zone consisting of the USA, Canada, Mexico, and Central America. All of us in One Big Pot of Second(?)/Third(?) Worldiness.

Remember the news story yesterday about forbidden the use of "American" to mean citizens of the USA because that excludes other "Americans" like Mexico.

Yep. They're now saying the quiet part out loud.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2022 08:11 AM (KLPy8)

76 I'm in favor of you pass a budget for the year and stick to the budget and if you pissed half the treasury away on vanity projects and graft so that there's nothing left to perform the actual functions of government well then oh flipping well.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2022 08:11 AM (9UlRk)

77 I think, maybe, that's the origin of it.
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Of sheik, rattle, and roll??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 08:11 AM (Vwz3I)

78 75 Yep. They're now saying the quiet part out loud.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2022 08:11 AM (KLPy

Who's going to do something about it, though?

Posted by: XTC at December 21, 2022 08:14 AM (UnA8+)

79 Yep. They're now saying the quiet part out loud.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2022 08:11 AM (KLPy

Well you can't call us the United States either because that could mean the United States of Mexico. Which is, indeed, the official name of Mexico.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2022 08:14 AM (9UlRk)

80 "Happy Winter Solstice Day!"

Beat me to it. Happy to see days lengthen again!

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at December 21, 2022 08:16 AM (24fqN)

81 NASA postpones space walk at the ISS due to the possible approach of space debris.

[Tang packets and vodka bottles from earlier flights.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 08:16 AM (Vwz3I)

82 "By selling out Republicans, the anonymous staffer laid down a marker for future employment among the special interest groups in Washington."
____

Find him and defenestrate him, pour l'encourager les autres

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 21, 2022 08:16 AM (fs1hN)

83 Happy Wednesday everyone. Am I a bad person for wanting someone like Martha Raddatz left at the border with no guards so she can see what a problem things are?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 21, 2022 08:17 AM (4olE8)

84 They've gone well beyond "pissing down our backs". They're holding a full-blown Roman orgy, twerking in our faces like we're kindergarteners. It's infuriating.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at December 21, 2022 08:17 AM (mbPo7)

85 If Musk simply intends to bail, then he is not the man we thought he was.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2022 08:07 AM (H8QX

He's a rich liberal democrat who still had an ounce of sanity on free speech. He's exactly who we thought he was.

Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2022 08:18 AM (exHjb)

86 Yep. They're now saying the quiet part out loud.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2022 08:11 AM (KLPy

Who's going to do something about it, though?
Posted by: XTC at December 21, 2022 08:14 AM (UnA8+)

Well, right. Saying the quiet part out loud means that they don't believe they can be stopped, no matter what.

Lucky us! We get to see if they're right or not.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2022 08:18 AM (KLPy8)

87 Top Men.

Top. Men.

And David Hogg, almost-Harvard graduate, will soon be joining them.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2022 08:18 AM (a3Q+t)

88 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

89
T - 8 hours and 30 mins roughly till solstice, which occurs at 4:48PM EST (21:48 Zulu).

The window of minimum declination will begin at 3:30PM EST and last about 2:45 until 6:15PM EST. Sol will "stand still" at -23 degrees, 26' and 17.3" declination. Sol is at the nadir of his southern descent, and will stop and turn northward again.

From the POV of those in the Southern hemisphere, being upside down, Sol is at his highest at this moment.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 21, 2022 08:19 AM (Mzdiz)

90 Vote harder. We can DO this.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

91 For years and years I have heard folks complain about the federal budget and it's largesse and pork laden spending blah blah blah. Its all bullshit, smoke and mirrors bush league pysch out stuff. The federals are gonna spend and spend, it's what they do. When they finally go broke they will just blame the republicans.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 21, 2022 08:19 AM (UCfnM)

92 As thousands of UK ambulance drivers stage a 24-hour strike over pay dispute [I wonder if that'd be inflation related??] the government advises people to avoid driving, playing sports or getting drunk to reduce the risk of needing an ambulance.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 08:19 AM (Vwz3I)

93 And David Hogg, almost-Harvard graduate, will soon be joining them.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2022 08:18 AM (a3Q+t)

On whom I would piss, were I nearby and he not engulfed in flames.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

94 Am I a bad person for wanting someone like Martha Raddatz left at the border with no guards so she can see what a problem things are?

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I have far darker thoughts about what should be done with people like her, and even darkererer thoughts about what should be done with every disgusting POS politician in Washington DC. From this phony "president" on down.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2022 08:19 AM (sVtYq)

95 He's a rich liberal democrat who still had an ounce of sanity on free speech.
Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2022 08:18 AM (exHjb)

I think he's quite a bit more than that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2022 08:19 AM (H8QX8)

96 My birdbath is frozen solid.

Posted by: JT at December 21, 2022 08:20 AM (T4tVD)

97 Pretty soon, the US will be able to plausibly identify as Zimbabwe.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 08:20 AM (ai465)

98 "My birdbath is frozen solid.
Posted by: JT "

Are you out of hot iron?

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2022 08:20 AM (iayUP)

99 "FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden"

We rate this statement as 'True'.

Posted by: sNopes at December 21, 2022 08:20 AM (1n+EO)

100 Pretty soon, the US will be able to plausibly identify as Zimbabwe.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 08:20 AM (ai465)

Except not quite as nice to their farmers of pallor....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2022 08:21 AM (9UlRk)

101 Happy to see days lengthen again!
Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at December 21, 2022 08:16 AM (24fqN)

This.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

102 Is Zelenskyy flying to D.C. in a really big aircraft? Big enough for pallets of freshly laundered you-know-what for his friends?

Posted by: Fenderbender at December 21, 2022 08:21 AM (r72iY)

103 I'm just glad Ukrainian oligarchs will be able to afford their ski vacations in Switzerland and yacht payments. Zelensky deserves a medal for standing up for them.

Posted by: Ripley at December 21, 2022 08:22 AM (MxEKc)

104 "My birdbath is frozen solid."

Nobody likes a braggart!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 21, 2022 08:22 AM (1n+EO)

105
If 1 out of 3 Americans are on Medicaid (health coverage for the poor, not the senior program) we're going over the waterfall and there's no swimming back.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2022 08:23 AM (enJYY)

106 102 Is Zelenskyy flying to D.C. in a really big aircraft? Big enough for pallets of freshly laundered you-know-what for his friends?
Posted by: Fenderbender at December 21, 2022 08:21 AM (r72iY)

No, stupid. Duh. There's just a Door Dash driver who's about to get the tip of a lifetime.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2022 08:23 AM (9UlRk)

107 95 He's a rich liberal democrat who still had an ounce of sanity on free speech.
Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2022 08:18 AM (exHjb)

I think he's quite a bit more than that.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2022 08:19 AM (H8QX

I mean, you can think it, but he's gotten really rich off government largesse in his industries (particularly Tesla), knowing how to play the game to a T. So, he's big government, as long as its his big government.

He's a self-professed 2020 Biden voter with a bit of remorse.

That said, enemy of my enemy - I'll always be rooting for him til he becomes my enemy...which he doesn't seem inclined to do for now...

Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2022 08:23 AM (exHjb)

108 My birdbath is frozen solid.
Posted by: JT at December 21, 2022 08:20 AM (T4tVD)

It is 32 currently in North Texas. We hit 10 Thursday night and don't get above freezing till Sunday.

Here's where Ercot fucks us once again. I'm sure they haven't fixed a damn thing since last time this happened.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

109 The cynicism from the Uniparty in the omnibus bill with respect to border security is breathtaking. The bill contains funds for actual border security for foreign nations while the funding for our border is dedicated to making sure that illegal aliens are processed through the border quicker before being released into the interior.

Then there is the matter of the Senate Republicans tossing in with the Democrats that this bill is for the entire fiscal year thus ensuring the incoming Congress is neutered for half its term with respect to this type of funding.

I am beginning to think I will never get a tissue from these bastards to clean up after the ass banging they are giving us with a smile.

Posted by: Lost in Space at December 21, 2022 08:23 AM (c7ca9)

110 "Republicans Responsible For Joe Biden"

Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at December 21, 2022 08:23 AM (iayUP)

111 @TheInsiderPaper · 7minutes
JUST IN: Nepal court orders release of serial killer Charles 'The Serpent' Sobhraj - AFP

||(born 6 April 1944) is a French serial killer, fraudster, and thief, who preyed on Western tourists traveling the hippie trail of South Asia during the 1970s. He was known as "the Bikini Killer" due to the attire of several of his victims, as well as "the Splitting Killer" and "the Serpent", due to “his snake-like ability to avoid detection by authorities". Sobhraj is currently imprisoned in Nepal.[3]

It is thought that Sobhraj murdered at least 20 tourists in South and Southeast Asia, including 14 in Thailand.[3] He was convicted and jailed in India from 1976 to 1997. After his release, he retired, promoting his infamy in Paris. Sobhraj later returned to Nepal in 2003, where he was arrested, tried, and received a life sentence.[4]||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 08:23 AM (Vwz3I)

112 105
If 1 out of 3 Americans are on Medicaid (health coverage for the poor, not the senior program) we're going over the waterfall and there's no swimming back.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2022 08:23 AM (enJYY)

Keep going - if it's 1 out of 3 on Medicaid and 1 out of 3 on Medicare, we are already over that waterfall...

Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2022 08:24 AM (exHjb)

113 Zelensky deserves a medal for standing up for them.
Posted by: Ripley at December 21, 2022 08:22 AM (MxEKc)

Only if he murders an unarmed conservative woman outside of the capitol building.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

114 Republicans Responsible For Joe Biden"
Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at December 21, 2022 08:23 AM (iayUP)

They pretty much are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2022 08:24 AM (9UlRk)

115 81 NASA postpones space walk at the ISS due to the possible approach of space debris.

[Tang packets and vodka bottles from earlier flights.]
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 08:16 AM (Vwz3I)

More like Kuomin-Tang . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2022 08:25 AM (x0n13)

116 To the MSM: From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bitches & InfoWhores at December 21, 2022 08:25 AM (8m/Xb)

117 It's still in the 40s in Savannah and rainy. Rainy wet cold. I'm gonna head out to Costco today. Never been to one and I wanted to see what all the hubub is about. Get a twenty year supply of pickles or something. It might get up to 60 tomorrow but will drop down into the twenties by Saturday morning.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 21, 2022 08:25 AM (PY/t0)

118 Today is the eight-fifth anniversary of the premiere of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves", the first full-length animated cartoon movie.
Going to watch my copy today, as a nice interlude, and enjoy the craftsmanship.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at December 21, 2022 08:25 AM (wE246)

119 If your birdbath remains frozen solid for more than three hours…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 08:26 AM (ai465)

120 My birdbath is frozen solid.
Posted by: JT at December 21, 2022 08:20 AM (T4tVD)

"My hovercraft is full of eels."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2022 08:26 AM (x0n13)

121 Sen Kennedy on CNBC. He and his staff are trying to go through the 4000 pg omnibus bill. He is against passing it. For example we are giving $400M to Jordan to secure their border.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 21, 2022 08:26 AM (/1teD)

122 Vote harder. We can DO this.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

--------

Ballot Harvest Harder, rubes!

Trying to out-cheat the D's now will work out just as well as trying to out-spend the D's, amirite?

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 21, 2022 08:27 AM (S3ur0)

123
Keep going - if it's 1 out of 3 on Medicaid and 1 out of 3 on Medicare, we are already over that waterfall...

Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2022 08:24 AM

People may not realize that all your working life you pay into the Medicare program, and that even in retirement you still have to pay a couple hundred dollar a month premium for coverage.

Medicaid is pure deadbeats. It's nothing but vote buying.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2022 08:27 AM (enJYY)

124 Quick scan of lib sisters FB page indicates she is unaware or indifferent to border invasion, inflation and gender insanity. Global warming, abortion rights and putting Trump in jail are definitely top concerns. Being an AWFL, I take her as a bellwether for lib/prog thinking. We will need a much bigger disaster to get their attention.

Posted by: Ripley at December 21, 2022 08:27 AM (MxEKc)

125 Today is the eight-fifth anniversary of the premiere of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves", the first full-length animated cartoon movie.
Going to watch my copy today, as a nice interlude, and enjoy the craftsmanship.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at December 21, 2022 08:25 AM (wE246)

After which you will be #MeToo'd since the movie contains an unwanted lip rape by the prince on the sleeping maiden.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

126 Abigail Marone @abigailmarone · 15h [Sen. Hawley's press aide]
@HawleyMO: The FBI deliberately interfered not one, but two separate presidential elections... there have got to be repercussions for that.

We're going to have to have a conversation about the future of the FBI and what it's doing in our democracy.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 08:28 AM (Vwz3I)

127 125 After which you will be #MeToo'd since the movie contains an unwanted lip rape by the prince on the sleeping maiden.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

Also, a racist because the maiden is not a Wide Latina.

Posted by: XTC at December 21, 2022 08:29 AM (UnA8+)

128
We're going to have to have a conversation about the future of the FBI and what it's doing in our democracy.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 08:28 AM (Vwz3I)

We're a goddamn Constitutional Republic. NOT a democracy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

129 For you doubters amongst us (and you know who you are), let this definitive statement reassure you:

"There's nothing fake about CNN!"
-- Don Lemon, renowned digital scent purveyor and media superstar

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2022 08:29 AM (a3Q+t)

130 After which you will be #MeToo'd since the movie contains an unwanted lip rape by the prince on the sleeping maiden.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

Lip rape? I am so gonna try that...

Posted by: Billy Jeff, The El Camino Rapist at December 21, 2022 08:30 AM (UCfnM)

131 Quick scan of lib sisters FB page indicates she is unaware or indifferent to border invasion, inflation and gender insanity. Global warming, abortion rights and putting Trump in jail are definitely top concerns. Being an AWFL, I take her as a bellwether for lib/prog thinking. We will need a much bigger disaster to get their attention.
Posted by: Ripley at December 21, 2022 08:27 AM (MxEKc)

Her wall needs a "You stupid, bro?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

132 Senator Mike Braun
@SenatorBraun

Would you spend $2 million on a wax museum?

How about $3.6 million on the “Michelle Obama Trail?”

Well, you’re about to.

These are two earmarks in the omnibus spending bill that will become law this week.

I'll be voting to strip every earmark out of the bill.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2022 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

133
People may not realize that all your working life you pay into the Medicare program, and that even in retirement you still have to pay a couple hundred dollar a month premium for coverage.

Medicaid is pure deadbeats. It's nothing but vote buying.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2022 08:27 AM (enJYY)

While this is true, what is paid into Medicare doesn't come close to paying for the healthcare in the golden years, so the program is designed to be a sliding scale Medicaid. I mean, Medicaid patients do pay co-pays and other fees, too...just at nowhere near cost. As do Medicare patients, although they pay a little more of the cost.

And then private insurers subsidize both programs by paying out more than both to hospitals and docs...

Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2022 08:30 AM (exHjb)

134 Sen Kennedy on CNBC. He and his staff are trying to go through the 4000 pg omnibus bill. He is against passing it. For example we are giving $400M to Jordan to secure their border.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 21, 2022 08:26 AM (/1teD)

--------

We are being invaded by a far larger force than Ukraine, but will keep sending them hundreds of billions to secure their border while encouraging ours to be raped, pillaged, and murdered.

* Cue the them from M*A*S*H: "And suicide is painless ..." *

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 21, 2022 08:30 AM (S3ur0)

135
"There's nothing fake about CNN!"
-- Don Lemon, renowned digital scent purveyor and media superstar
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2022 08:29 AM (a3Q+t)

That coming from the purveyor of smoked frumunda cheese.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

136 The Committee to Unleash Prosperity released a study, Paying Americans not to Work. With all available benefits, including ACA subsidies, totaled a family of four can rake in in excess of $100K.

NY Post Story
https://tinyurl.com/mr3uh64y

The Paying Amercans not to Work Study
https://tinyurl.com/57efts66

Posted by: Lost in Space at December 21, 2022 08:31 AM (c7ca9)

137 My birdbath is frozen solid.
Posted by: JT at December 21, 2022 08:20 AM (T4tVD)

"My hovercraft is full of eels."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

If its near here, then they're frozen too !

Posted by: JT at December 21, 2022 08:31 AM (T4tVD)

138 Sen Kennedy on CNBC. He and his staff are trying to go through the 4000 pg omnibus bill. He is against passing it. For example we are giving $400M to Jordan to secure their border.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 21, 2022 08:26 AM (/1teD)

"You will need to PASS that budget to find out what's in it."

- - Nazi Pelousi

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

139 @TheBabylonBee · 16h
Ex-Twitter Employee Scores New Job Working For FBI Due To Past Experience Working For FBI

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 08:32 AM (Vwz3I)

140 131 Quick scan of lib sisters FB page indicates she is unaware or indifferent to border invasion, inflation and gender insanity. Global warming, abortion rights and putting Trump in jail are definitely top concerns. Being an AWFL, I take her as a bellwether for lib/prog thinking. We will need a much bigger disaster to get their attention.
Posted by: Ripley at December 21, 2022 08:27 AM (MxEKc)

Her wall needs a "You stupid, bro?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)
****&****

I regret to inform you that your relative is beyond Rush's definition of "low-information voter," but is instead the full definition of Lenin's "useful idiot."

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bitches & InfoWhores at December 21, 2022 08:32 AM (8m/Xb)

141 80 "Happy Winter Solstice Day!"

Beat me to it. Happy to see days lengthen again!

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at December 21, 2022 08:16 AM (24fqN)

Ugh. No thanks. I prefer the dark. I'll enjoy it while I can.

Posted by: E. A. Blair at December 21, 2022 08:33 AM (vt1Qg)

142 That vagina weapons thing we had going on yesterday was fun. Cheered me up. Thanks to all you ‘Rons who participated.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 08:33 AM (ai465)

143 Here's something that might give y'all a chuckle;

The "ugliest building in San Francisco" is a FedGov office. It's being named after Nancy Pelosi. The ugliest person in Congress.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2022 08:33 AM (Q4IgG)

144 123. There are a lot of retired very elderly workers who have exhausted all of their savings and assets in nursing homes who now qualify for Medicaid and Medicaid is paying the majority of their care. The majority of Medicaid spending is on nursing home care.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 21, 2022 08:33 AM (/1teD)

145 Christians to Blame for Lion Tooth Decay, Obesity in Rome Coliseum.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

******

Christians to Blame for Declining Prophets at Coliseum.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2022 08:33 AM (ykeLU)

146 Musk says he's looking for someone to take over the CEO role at the twatters. "If they're dumb enough to take the job."

I'm thinking of throwing my hat in the ring. I'll collect a few million in pay then deem it irredeemable and walk away with a golden parachute.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

147 My birdbath is frozen solid.
Posted by: JT at December 21, 2022 08:20 AM (T4tVD)

It is 32 currently in North Texas. We hit 10 Thursday night and don't get above freezing till Sunday.

Here's where Ercot fucks us once again. I'm sure they haven't fixed a damn thing since last time this happened.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

That's why I'm packing my house full of Btus starting Thursday morning.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2022 08:34 AM (4I/2K)

148 "Happy Winter Solstice Day!"

Beat me to it. Happy to see days lengthen again!

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at December 21, 2022 08:16 AM (24fqN)

Ugh. No thanks. I prefer the dark. I'll enjoy it while I can.
Posted by: E. A. Blair

Cain't ya just close yer eyes ? (no peeking !)

Posted by: JT at December 21, 2022 08:34 AM (T4tVD)

149
The "ugliest building in San Francisco" is a FedGov office. It's being named after Nancy Pelosi. The ugliest person in Congress.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2022 08:33 AM (Q4IgG)

Will there be an asshammer and sickle over the main entrance?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

150 Biden in November Recording: Iran Nuclear Deal ‘Is Dead, But We’re Not Going to Announce It'
____

I doubt Valerie Jarret dropped the deal. Biden doesn't make the decisions on this.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 21, 2022 08:34 AM (fs1hN)

151 143 Here's something that might give y'all a chuckle;

The "ugliest building in San Francisco" is a FedGov office. It's being named after Nancy Pelosi. The ugliest person in Congress.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2022 08:33 AM (Q4IgG)

"I know, right?!"

- - Rosa DeLauro

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2022 08:35 AM (x0n13)

152 You will need to PASS that budget to find out what's in it."

- - Nazi Pelousi
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

When she said that, and was not immediately pilloried by an irate mob, it was incontrovertible that the nation was officially dead, and everything afterwards has just been the spastic twitching of a recently deceased body.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2022 08:35 AM (9UlRk)

153 Woman goes into labor at border as armed National Guard faces off with migrants

https://tinyurl.com/52bk74ps

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2022 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

154
Cain't ya just close yer eyes ? (no peeking !)
Posted by: JT at December 21, 2022 08:34 AM (T4tVD)

You asked for it........

https://youtu.be/DeM3CmMA9K0

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

155 That vagina weapons thing we had going on yesterday was fun. Cheered me up. Thanks to all you ‘Rons who participated.
-----------
And I didn't even use my "hair-trigger" joke on the thread!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 08:37 AM (Vwz3I)

156 Open borders provide hordes of new Dem voters so it is clear why the Dems support it.

It also lowers the salaries of American workers, raises the costs of government, increases housing prices, crime, and crowding in urban areas.

So why do the Republicans support it too? Well, that very first item...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2022 08:37 AM (lc5cP)

157
"No borders, no walls, no USA at all!"

Never would I have thought this would become administration policy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2022 08:37 AM (MoZTd)

158 Over 430 of the 435 congressional districts have taken in illegals through the bleeding heart NGO's.

The sheer madness of the open border is mind blowing and no one taking it seriously, even more mind blowing.

Posted by: Ziba at December 21, 2022 08:38 AM (4h9M3)

159 Trains here have weird tones. I hear them pretty well each morning. They're multi-tonal like most vehicle horns. Pretty dissonant. But first there's this minor chord for a second or so then it goes down a step and a pause. Then repeats. It is like the background score for a horror movie. Never heard a train do that until I moved here. Sound travels well here. Sometimes I can hear the horns of the big container ships on the river and I can sometimes hear the church bells up north in the historic district.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 21, 2022 08:38 AM (PY/t0)

160 "I regret to inform you that your relative is beyond Rush's definition of "low-information voter," but is instead the full definition of Lenin's "useful idiot."

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bitches"

She is proud of being a useful idiot. Her hate of conservatives/Republicans is so ingrained the desire to hurt them overrides any thoughts of self-preservation. She is the epitome of the thinking we are up against.

Posted by: Ripley at December 21, 2022 08:38 AM (MxEKc)

161 I thought "sheep dipping" was a Brokeback Mountain thing.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2022 08:38 AM (ykeLU)

162 Global warming, abortion rights and putting Trump in jail are definitely top concerns

If you are dead you don't have to worry about any of that. Want a pretty little pill?

Posted by: The Canadian Healthcare system at December 21, 2022 08:39 AM (lc5cP)

163
30 years ago, it was obvious that healtcare spending was going to bankrupt the federal budget.

Was anything done about it? Nope, just keep heading down that road, kicking the can, at full speed ahead.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 21, 2022 08:39 AM (Mzdiz)

164 163
30 years ago, it was obvious that healtcare spending was going to bankrupt the federal budget.

Was anything done about it? Nope, just keep heading down that road, kicking the can, at full speed ahead.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 21, 2022 08:39 AM (Mzdiz)

Nah, we passed Obamacare to make it worse...

Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2022 08:40 AM (exHjb)

165 161 Afghanistan

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 08:40 AM (ai465)

166 Over 430 of the 435 congressional districts have taken in illegals through the bleeding heart NGO's.

From 1941-45 we spent a lot of effort on stopping "NGOs" from sending invaders into American lands.

We could use another effort like that today.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2022 08:40 AM (lc5cP)

167
There are a lot of retired very elderly workers who have exhausted all of their savings and assets in nursing homes who now qualify for Medicaid and Medicaid is paying the majority of their care. The majority of Medicaid spending is on nursing home care.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 21, 2022 08:33 AM

Interesting. I know that 'assisted living' costs to persons of means is in the 6,000 to 10,000 dollar a month cost range. I might assume that nursing home care would be in the same general area.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2022 08:41 AM (enJYY)

168 160 Then there are no tears on our cheeks as they die ignominious deaths and are thrown on the pyres

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bitches & InfoWhores at December 21, 2022 08:41 AM (8m/Xb)

169 >> Ugh. No thanks. I prefer the dark. I'll enjoy it while I can.

Go to the North pole. Sun will be below the horizon for a long time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 21, 2022 08:41 AM (Mzdiz)

170
Nah, we passed Obamacare to make it worse...[/i

I remember when the FNM told the LIVs that it would lower their costs by 3000% AND cover everyone...for free!

And I was literally shocked that these idiots believed it.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2022 08:42 AM (lc5cP)

171 Zelensky comes a begging today after his wifey blows tens of thousands of euros on handbags to carry the grift around in.

And Congress will hand over another $45 BILLION.

How much more will it cost taxpayers for the Administration to complete their lunatic overthrow attempt of Putin?

Posted by: Ziba at December 21, 2022 08:42 AM (4h9M3)

172 Ryan James Girdusky
@RyanGirdusky
Mike Lindell is helping Democrats more than Chuck Schumer

Ryan Saavedra
@RealSaavedra

Conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell says he is going to Florida to audit Governor Ron DeSantis' (R) historic re-election victory because there is no way DeSantis did as amazing as he did.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3h344b

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2022 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

173 Dem Sen. Murphy: Omnibus Won’t Be Extraordinarily Inflationary — Much of ‘Big Emergency Numbers’ in It Go Overseas
____

Oh, ok then.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 21, 2022 08:43 AM (fs1hN)

174 167
There are a lot of retired very elderly workers who have exhausted all of their savings and assets in nursing homes who now qualify for Medicaid and Medicaid is paying the majority of their care. The majority of Medicaid spending is on nursing home care.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 21, 2022 08:33 AM

Interesting. I know that 'assisted living' costs to persons of means is in the 6,000 to 10,000 dollar a month cost range. I might assume that nursing home care would be in the same general area.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2022 08:41 AM (enJYY)

Yes, this is all true. And is a problem b/c where families used to step in to house the some of these very elderly at a way lower cost, now we have the state do it. Which is why a lot of these state run homes ignore all regulations and are understaffed pits, b/c they are already so expensive to run even badly...

Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2022 08:43 AM (exHjb)

175 ... with fascism and death panels for all. Play ball!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2022 08:43 AM (4I/2K)

176 LOL. Michael McFaul, Obama's ambassador to Russia for a couple of years and Ukrainian lapdog, denounced the Kremlin press spokesman for wearing a six million dollar watch, and called for a new Communist revolution in Russia in response to this outrageous display of wealth.

The watch is actually a six million ruble watch. One dollar is seventy rubles.

Dollars, rubles, what's the diff?

Posted by: The Deep State! at December 21, 2022 08:44 AM (KCOCK)

177 Ha, ha!

@zerohedge · 10minutes
Liberals Who Ditched Tesla And Bought Chevrolet Bolt Now Hit With Recall Over Fire Risk

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 08:44 AM (Vwz3I)

178 with fascism and death panels for all. Play ball![/i

Out: Carousel and Jenny Agutter

In: Clot shots and RuPaul

This future sucks

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2022 08:45 AM (lc5cP)

179

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2022 08:45 AM (lc5cP)

180 Yes, this is all true. And is a problem b/c where families used to step in to house the some of these very elderly at a way lower cost, now we have the state do it. Which is why a lot of these state run homes ignore all regulations and are understaffed pits, b/c they are already so expensive to run even badly...
Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2022 08:43 AM (exHjb)

*to my kids* When the time comes, do the humane thing and take me out to the ice floes.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2022 08:45 AM (4I/2K)

181
The majority of Medicaid spending is on nursing home care.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 21, 2022 08:33 AM

Additional: Maybe that's why I hear so many commercials for home health care aides. It's cheaper to pay a family member (who in former days-gone-by did it for free) to watch over grannie then put her in a nursing home.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2022 08:45 AM (enJYY)

182 30 years ago, it was obvious that healtcare spending was going to bankrupt the federal budget.
Was anything done about it? Nope, just keep heading down that road, kicking the can, at full speed ahead.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 21, 2022 08:39 AM (Mzdiz)

Concur. Selfish people who couldn't care less as long as they got theirs and too foolish to see the hook embedded in the stodgy bait of "phree" shit from the federal government.

"But I was forced to pay into it!" should be on the nation's tombstone when the time comes.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 21, 2022 08:46 AM (UCfnM)

183 *to my kids* When the time comes, do the humane thing and take me out to the ice floes.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2022 08:45 AM (4I/2K)

Nah, save enough for in home paid nursing and non-nursing care. My mom, while she didn't live long past diagnosis, did that for us. My sis took care of her, but had the needed paid (separate from all health care insurance) help...

Plan to have enough saved for 24-7 care in your own home...

Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2022 08:47 AM (exHjb)

184 179
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2022 08:45 AM (lc5cP)

Come to papa.....

Posted by: The Barrel at December 21, 2022 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

185 Good morning. Happy Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year.

At least Title 42 is still hanging on for a moment. I think they set the takedown date for today to allow for cheesy headlines about how the darkest days of immigration hatred are now behind us.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2022 08:48 AM (t0OGg)

186 Black Hills weather this morning on my way to work:

temp -10 F Wind chill - 30F and it's snowing again.

Tomorrow's forecast is for much much colder temps and wind chills around -60F.

Posted by: Archer at December 21, 2022 08:48 AM (gmo/4)

187 I know I am preaching to the choir, but McDaniel has to go.

She is helping McConnell deflect on the massive Ukraine grifter bill. Saying due to the disaray with McCarthy, mitch has no faith they can legislate.

House GOP needs to have stones, and say they do not recognize McConnell or GOP Senate leadership. They will only talk to Hawley and Ron Johnson

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 08:48 AM (Cw0fX)

188 Good morning. From the ONT:
"According to the U.S. Department of Energy, EVs cost about 4 cents less per mile in maintenance costs, as there is no engine oil, timing belt, oxygen sensor, or spark plugs to take care of. Compared to a gasoline vehicle, EVs’ cost of ownership might equal that of a gas vehicle after 5 to 8 years of use even without a subsidy, as suggested by a study published in a leading peer-reviewed journal."

Does anyone else have a healthy skepticism of a peer reviewed study funded by the federal government on how amazingly cheap electric vehicles are? No? I'm the only one?

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 21, 2022 08:49 AM (S/NWs)

189 Plan to have enough saved for 24-7 care in your own home...
Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2022 08:47 AM (exHjb)

Any figures off the top of your head? How much a week?

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 21, 2022 08:49 AM (/6GbT)

190 Lot of global warming going on, sounds like.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 08:49 AM (ai465)

191
Two new studies confirm that the Clot Shots(TM) make is more likely to get Coof. The latest study shows the risk of infection (and re-infection, and re-re-infection) increases with the number of shots taken:

https://tinyurl.com/2gmloduo

This was known way back, but those people were censored by the medical-industrial-public health complex.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 21, 2022 08:49 AM (Mzdiz)

192 172. That has to be a parody. Lindell is a good man, but past drug use is causing flashbacks if true

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 08:50 AM (Cw0fX)

193
Tomorrow's forecast is for much much colder temps and wind chills around -60F.

Posted by: Archer at December 21, 2022 08:48 AM (gmo/4)

"Good thing we forced the people to those battery cars."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

194 182 A friend of mine now has a home caregiver assigned a few days a week, 4 hours a day I think. He said he was hoping for one of the gals in the commercials, smiling, laughing, easy on the eyes. He drew some sour puss who was probably a camp guard in a previous life.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2022 08:50 AM (lz5hY)

195 Or what really has changed is that all the things we blindly accepted as articles of faith, that the GOP was for conservative, free market capitalism, fiscal responsibility, limited government and the defense of the realm with sane foreign policy.
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After the fall of the USSR, the parties essentially merged. They were becoming more alike before that, but after the Soviet Union failed, there was no longer any distinction between the groups. It took some time to shake out, but the neocons that took over the party were essentially Democrats who didn't like the USSR. With that threat gone, they went ahead and returned to their original positions and took the GOP with them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2022 08:50 AM (t0OGg)

196 "According to the U.S. Department of Energy, EVs cost about 4 cents less per mile in maintenance costs, as there is no engine oil, timing belt, oxygen sensor, or spark plugs to take care of. Compared to a gasoline vehicle, EVs’ cost of ownership might equal that of a gas vehicle after 5 to 8 years of use even without a subsidy, as suggested by a study published in a leading peer-reviewed journal."

Funny how they didn't include the cost of replacing the EV's battery in that...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2022 08:50 AM (KCOCK)

197 188 Good morning. From the ONT:
"According to the U.S. Department of Energy, EVs cost about 4 cents less per mile in maintenance costs, as there is no engine oil, timing belt, oxygen sensor, or spark plugs to take care of. Compared to a gasoline vehicle, EVs’ cost of ownership might equal that of a gas vehicle after 5 to 8 years of use even without a subsidy, as suggested by a study published in a leading peer-reviewed journal."

Does anyone else have a healthy skepticism of a peer reviewed study funded by the federal government on how amazingly cheap electric vehicles are? No? I'm the only one?
Posted by: squid_hunt at December 21, 2022 08:49 AM (S/NWs)

Well what occurred to me was interest on that 20k difference in price. Also I don't think I'm driving 100k miles in a year.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 21, 2022 08:51 AM (eYoxG)

198 Stefan Halper sure does seem to turn up like a bad penny every time fuckery is afoot, doesn't he? Or a "physically and spiritually revolting penny." Boy, do I ever hate that particular asshole.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2022 08:51 AM (oINRc)

199 171. Impossible for GOP to create turnout in 2024, with McConnell as leader . Even non tuned in GOP voters hate him right now

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 08:51 AM (Cw0fX)

200 "Funny how they didn't include the cost of replacing the EV's battery in that..."

Well...the study didn't go back that far. Not their fault the batteries are so amazing they last ten years, not five to seven.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 21, 2022 08:52 AM (S/NWs)

201 There's just a Door Dash driver who's about to get the tip of a lifetime.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2022 08:23 AM (9UlRk)

Ooooh, tell me more, big boy.

Posted by: Sandra F at December 21, 2022 08:52 AM (Zvtjl)

202 As long as I can have strong, healthy Belarusian nurses in the retirement home, I will be happy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 08:52 AM (ai465)

203
Funny how they didn't include the cost of replacing the EV's battery in that...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2022 08:50 AM (KCOCK)

Because you'll be replacing it at the 5 to 8 year mark at a tune of $30k or more.

It's a lot like their hand picked dates when they report on "climate change."

"Why don't you just go back to 1900 for everything."

"BURN THE WITCH!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

204 I want to know how many of these FBI and CIA agents are “sheep dipped.” In the intelligence world, “sheep dipping” is a term of art. It describes a tactic whereby a member of the military is “officially discharged from service” to do covert work. In secret, they are still eligible for rank promotions and military benefits.
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It's hard to say. With those big 'ole revolving doors between government and various industries, it's damn near impossible to know who's still a government agent and who is merely capitalizing on the revolving door. The actions of the two are probably indistinguishable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2022 08:53 AM (t0OGg)

205 If Global Warmening hasn't quite reached the point of ice floes in SE Texas just yet, the acceptable alternative would be a trip out to Sam Houston National Forest. "Just look at the big statue, Dad."

Posted by: Count de Monet, who watched that scene in The Walking Dead at December 21, 2022 08:53 AM (4I/2K)

206 "Impossible for GOP to create turnout in 2024, with McConnell as leader."

I'm of the mind they want another Biden term. Just like when Romney was put out there against Biden in 2012. They want to lose because the Biden agenda is their agenda. Look at the way McConnell spends all his time sucking Zelensky off.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 21, 2022 08:53 AM (S/NWs)

207 As long as I can have strong, healthy Belarusian nurses in the retirement home, I will be happy.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 08:52 AM (ai465)

I look forward to the unbridled old person sex orgy they say happens in nursing homes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

208 After the fall of the USSR, the parties essentially merged.

and moved far, far left

The platform Barack Obama ran on in 2012 would not be considered extreme right wing if not "NAZI".

Hell, the average 2022 Dem voter would lose control of their bowels if they say Clinton's platform in 96...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2022 08:54 AM (lc5cP)

209
My sister was kind enough to send me The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell. I don't know if there's a worse organized, worse written book out there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2022 08:54 AM (MoZTd)

210 If Ukraine was really winning, they would not be doing these dog and pony shows with the Smurf Zalensky.

They know they are going to get their ass kicked this winter

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 08:54 AM (Cw0fX)

211 My sister was kind enough to send me The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell. I don't know if there's a worse organized, worse written book out there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2022 08:54 AM (MoZTd)

*The Koran has entered the chat

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

212 Stefan Halper sure does seem to turn up like a bad penny every time fuckery is afoot, doesn't he? Or a "physically and spiritually revolting penny." Boy, do I ever hate that particular asshole.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2022 08:51 AM (oINRc)
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Yeah. There's a reason why movie henchmen don't get names - nobody wants to know them because they're all just interchangeable bastards.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2022 08:55 AM (t0OGg)

213 The contempt the GOP holds for us, their sense of total remove from the consequences of their contempt, is how you get revolutions and drawing-and-quartering.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2022 08:55 AM (H8QX8)

214 "If Ukraine was really winning..."

It's insane we have to even say this. And what's the media covering? January 6th? COVID?

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 21, 2022 08:55 AM (S/NWs)

215 We're a goddamn Constitutional Republic. NOT a democracy.

Look around, we are a communist dictatorship at the federal level. YMMV at the state and local.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 21, 2022 08:55 AM (3hSHB)

216 Weather-wise; it's up to 23 here in the Bluegrass. Tomorrow night the temperatures are projected to plummet and by Friday morning we'll be in single digits with the high forecast to be 7. Plus we'll have a nice 30MPH breeze all day and into the night. Maybe some ice and snow too. But not a "white Christmas" apparently.

I've got a Dyna-Glo kerosene heater in the garage that I'm trying (and failing) to put a new wick in. I fired it up yesterday and it smoked like a chimney. Thus the new wick. But it's a pain in the ass to get back in the heater properly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2022 08:56 AM (Q4IgG)

217
They know they are going to get their ass kicked this winter
Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 08:54 AM (Cw0fX)

By a Russian military that's proven it can't tie it's own shoes?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

218 Russia will never sue for Peace, if Ukraine keeps proposing Gay Marriage. Zalensky is a fool

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 08:56 AM (Cw0fX)

219 Because you'll be replacing it at the 5 to 8 year mark at a tune of $30k or more.

Yep - I think the assumption is that you'll just junk the EV at that point.

My car is eight years old, and is coming up on the 90,000 mile servicing. It's the big one - it will probably cost about $1,500. The car should still be perfectly usable for at least another dozen years.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2022 08:56 AM (KCOCK)

220 After the fall of the USSR, the parties essentially merged.

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That was my take; interestingly, I recently heard some conservative talking head (can't recall whom or his rationale ... too much information and failing memory causing me "info overload" these days) suggest that the UniParty emerged as a result of the JFK assassination.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 21, 2022 08:56 AM (S3ur0)

221 217. I do not trust the Western media on reporting in Ukraine.

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 08:57 AM (Cw0fX)

222 As long as I can have strong, healthy Belarusian nurses in the retirement home, I will be happy.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 08:52 AM (ai465)

I look forward to the unbridled old person sex orgy they say happens in nursing homes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

Sex in old age is amazing. You don't know if you or your partner(s) are having a cramp, a seizure, a stroke, an orgasm, or cardiac arrest.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2022 08:58 AM (4I/2K)

223 A damn near continental cold snap is a weird thing. Too bad that we keep taking actions that make climate change worse!

Where I live, we're likely to flirt with record lows, and the lows will be scores of degrees below the norm. Brrr.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2022 08:58 AM (t0OGg)

224 "Zalensky is a fool"

Zalensky is a genius totalitarian dictator with the entire world cheering him on and funding him. He's closed down churches, opposing political parties, news media, and protests. Everyone still paints him as a hero. He could be crucifying his opponents along the highways and they'd still cheer him.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 21, 2022 08:58 AM (S/NWs)

225 The Russell Brand interview of Matt Taibbi over on YouTube is pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkGiNYIUHao

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at December 21, 2022 08:58 AM (KouR0)

226 221 217. I do not trust the Western media on reporting in Ukraine.
Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 08:57 AM (Cw0fX)

I do not trust the Western media on reporting.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2022 08:59 AM (BRHaw)

227 Time to turn against Musk!!!

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 9h
While casting shade on @elonmusk for what he’s done, is doing, or will do, try to pause & remember that he made electric cars a normal thing in society and he commercialized space — for cargo, satellites, & people.

Count him among those who are inventing civilization’s future.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 08:59 AM (Vwz3I)

228 By a Russian military that's proven it can't tie it's own shoes?

Revisit the history of the Winter War - the Russian military couldn't tie its own shoes at the beginning of that war either.

The Ukrainian government is obviously concerned about a new Russian offensive - Zelensky is probably asking for NATO airstrikes if the Russians start advancing again.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2022 08:59 AM (KCOCK)

229 I’m still going with the theory that Ari Onassis had Kennedy whacked so he could get Jackie.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 08:59 AM (ai465)

230
I look forward to the unbridled old person sex orgy they say happens in nursing homes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:53 AM

There's some action in assisted living, but the dementia unit is rocking, and don't come a knocking.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2022 08:59 AM (enJYY)

231 Look. On January 3rd McConnell is a toothless tiger. He cannot stop judges and the House will 86 all of his quisling side deals. House GOP would be wise to ignore him

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 09:00 AM (Cw0fX)

232 "the House will 86 all of his quisling side deals."

Pull the other one.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 21, 2022 09:00 AM (S/NWs)

233 >>Or what really has changed is that all the things we blindly accepted as articles of faith, that the GOP was for conservative, free market capitalism, fiscal responsibility, limited government and the defense of the realm with sane foreign policy.

Never forget, the GOP has controlled the house, ie, the power of the purse and where legislation technically originates for 20 of the last 28 years.

And it was apparent in 2007 what this illegitimate party was, so, I mean we can keep deluding ourselves that this party is somehow salvageable but it, Mitch "Ukraine is the most important GOP priority" McConnell and other GOP sh*theads running the show, there is no hope of things changing at all.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2022 09:01 AM (up/3i)

234 "Good thing we forced the people to those battery cars."
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Two commenters at the Small Dead Animals [SDA] blog from western Canada report their EVs lost between 2/3 and 3/4 of their charge [measured in range before requiring a recharge] travelling range this winter.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 09:01 AM (Vwz3I)

235 I look forward to the unbridled old person sex orgy they say happens in nursing homes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:53 AM

There's some action in assisted living, but the dementia unit is rocking, and don't come a knocking.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2022 08:59 AM (enJYY)

Me: Talk dirty to me.
Her: I just shit the bed!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2022 09:01 AM (4I/2K)

236 230 So, the otters hang out in the dementia unit?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 09:01 AM (ai465)

237 Yeah. There's a reason why movie henchmen don't get names - nobody wants to know them because they're all just interchangeable bastards.
_____

Some of us have certain abilities.

Posted by: Oddjob at December 21, 2022 09:01 AM (fs1hN)

238 Zalensky is a genius totalitarian dictator

It would be funny if there was a coup while Zelensky was in Washington - there are significant internal tensions in Ukraine.

Among other things, Zelensky and the mayor of Kiev can't stand each other.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2022 09:02 AM (KCOCK)

239 Speaking of earworms, has anyone ever done a study of WHERE they come from ?

Yesterday's was Claudette by the Everly Brothers.

The day before was I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter.

Posted by: JT at December 21, 2022 09:02 AM (T4tVD)

240 That 6 (really 4) degrees of separation from James Baker to the Kennedy assassination is fascinating. Mark Levine wrote a book a few years ago about how intertwined (and literally in bed with each other) are key government and media figures. No one is to be trusted from either
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Back to an old idea of having the Almach da Gotha or Debrett's for Federal workers. My 'term limits' solution would be that nobody gets a Federal paycheck for working after 12 years. Let the 'elected' folks continue for a while, but really push the 12 years and out for all bureaucrats.

Then we can go after the long-term 'aristocrats' of Congress.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 21, 2022 09:02 AM (MIKMs)

241 228. Russians will go into Siberian mode, and Ukrainians will be without heat. Zalensky will be in Zurich with his bankers, wife maxing out the US credit card in Geneva.

Many friends I know that supported Ukraine solidly, are indifferent these days

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 09:02 AM (Cw0fX)

242 I look forward to the unbridled old person sex orgy they say happens in nursing homes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)
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Old joke in extremely poor taste:
Joe and Theresa live in the retirement golf community and met each other on the links, precipitating a wild romance. The exchange of door keys happened almost immediately and they were all over each other like cheap suits from that point forward.

A bit later, they had a date to golf and Joe told Theresa he couldn't make it because he wasn't feeling well. She went and golfed and dropped by Joe's apartment to check on him. She let herself in with her key and found Joe and another woman going at it in his living room.

She got very angry and shouted, "Why, Joe, why?! Everything was going so well for us! It was fun and exciting and passionate! What does this bitch have that I don't have?" Joe looked at her and breathily replied, "Parkinson's."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2022 09:02 AM (t0OGg)

243 220 After the fall of the USSR, the parties essentially merged.

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That was my take; interestingly, I recently heard some conservative talking head (can't recall whom or his rationale ... too much information and failing memory causing me "info overload" these days) suggest that the UniParty emerged as a result of the JFK assassination.
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 21, 2022 08:56 AM (S3ur0)

The parties were pretty undifferentiated before the rise of the Conservative movement. Progressives could be found in both parties for instance.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 21, 2022 09:02 AM (eYoxG)

244 "report their EVs lost between 2/3 and 3/4 of their charge travelling range this winter. "

People don't change their oil or charge their phones. Why would anyone think we'd appropriately condition our car batteries?

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 21, 2022 09:03 AM (S/NWs)

245 So, talking about the reality of an open border is the problem, not the actual open border.

These asshole Leftists must have all been given the same talking points on how to shift blame for an issue.

Years ago, when my group at work was going to sign up for a volunteering community service effort sponsored by the company, we e-mailed the volunteering coordinator to express concerns about the neighborhood and ask if we should take any precautions. The community service effort was a day helping to build a home in a really shitty area in Detroit. I looked up the neighborhood stats online and it was crime-ridden and one of worst neighborhoods in Detroit.

The volunteering coordinator e-mailed us back and ripped into us for having the audacity to dare ask about such things. And then accused us of causing the problem by asking about it at all. Saying that it was because of attitudes like ours that these neighborhoods get bad reputations (not the ACTUAL violence and crime).

It was then that I decided to never again volunteer for a company sponsored community service event, since the coordinator was such a racist, leftist bitch.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2022 09:03 AM (Do5/p)

246 238. Well said. Shutting down christian churches in Ukraine, is not a good look for a secular president

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 09:04 AM (Cw0fX)

247 The reason term limits have and never will happen. They are greasing themselves and their own campaigns and friends and families. The incest is disgusting.

Posted by: artisanal ette at December 21, 2022 09:04 AM (9qHsE)

248 "Among other things, Zelensky and the mayor of Kiev can't stand each other."

I could support the mayor of Kiev if he stopped the constant hat in hand routine and browbeating Americans for not giving this douche more money.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 21, 2022 09:04 AM (S/NWs)

249 Of Course the Feds Were All Over Twitter

they are all this site, no doubt

No doubt they have the voter rolls for who voted for Trump.

Posted by: artisanal ette at December 21, 2022 09:05 AM (9qHsE)

250 Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 9h
While casting shade on @elonmusk for what he’s done, is doing, or will do, try to....
_____

What specifically do you not like about what he is doing? Exposing the fascist coordination between the govt. and Twitter? Restoring accounts to those who had opinions different from the official govt.? Exposing the rot at the FBI?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 21, 2022 09:05 AM (fs1hN)

251 Mollie
@MZHemingway
44m
GOP Can’t Be Successful Until Mitch McConnell Is Gone

https://tinyurl.com/3wra6jec

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2022 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

252 It’s “Kyiv,” h8ters!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 09:06 AM (ai465)

253 Rosa DeLauro deliberately made herself even uglier by adding Kool-Aid coloring to her hair. It is my personal belief that brightly colored hair dye is a sign from the subconscious that the person has been infested by demonic powers that manifest as severe mental dysfunction. It is both a signal and a cry for help.

Posted by: Witchfinder General at December 21, 2022 09:06 AM (B9Fxw)

254 RIP Franco Harris, but i turned on him when he trashed Lynn Swann when he was running for Governor, as a Republican, in Penn.

They were roomates, but Franco, sadly, was a partisan left winger

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 09:06 AM (Cw0fX)

255 "No doubt they have the voter rolls for who voted for Trump."

They're welcome to drag me before Congress. I haven't forgotten my first amendment rights and I'd love to set them straight on a couple things. And if they think they're going to get a judge to put a gag order on me, they're stupider than they appear.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 21, 2022 09:06 AM (S/NWs)

256 An open border is not a border.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 21, 2022 09:07 AM (lf83v)

257 Long term care for the elderly is incredibly expensive. I found this out when my mother was incapacitated by dementia. One place I looked at, called Innovage, had plans that started around $4000/month. I was going to sell her home and use the proceeds to pay for her care, but Mom didn't last long once she became ill, and I didn't have to deal with that.

But I decided, that wasn't going to happen to me. I live alone and have no one to look after me were I to become incapacitated. I will punch my own ticket when the time comes.

Posted by: DB at December 21, 2022 09:07 AM (geLO8)

258 @251

>>GOP Can’t Be Successful Until Mitch McConnell Is Gone

McConnell is a toe tagger, Molly needs to appeal to a higher authority to get rid of Mitch "Ukraine is the most important thing to the GOP" McConnell.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2022 09:07 AM (up/3i)

259 @MZHemingway
GOP Can’t Be Successful Until Mitch McConnell Is Gone
Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2022 09:06 AM (NpAcC)
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Incomplete assessment. Yes, it's true, but it can't stop there. The entire party leadership at all levels needs to be purged and replaced.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2022 09:07 AM (t0OGg)

260 Has anyone mentioned that Ted Lieu gave $50,000 in campaign money to Stanford so his son would be enrolled? Don't expect anything to be done though because Ted is also on the House Judiciary Committee
that has oversight over the FBI.

Posted by: Gwenn at December 21, 2022 09:08 AM (9Gr7n)

261 photo above is the definition of 'pinch-faced scold'.

Posted by: DB at December 21, 2022 09:08 AM (geLO8)

262 I've called female flatmates "roommates" but it never let to wacky sitcom situations.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 21, 2022 09:08 AM (44ww/)

263 SORRY ABOUT THOSE JOBS
Joe Biden's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that over a million jobs were created in the second quarter, a heartening statistic that no doubt helped the Democrats in November. But now, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve says that those million jobs were almost entirely fictitious:

The Biden administration vastly overstated its estimate that employers created more than 1 million jobs in the second quarter of this year, claiming historic job growth when in fact hiring had stalled, according to a new estimate.

Job growth was "essentially flat" in the second quarter with only 10,500 jobs added, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said.

Posted by: artisanal ette at December 21, 2022 09:09 AM (9qHsE)

264 And then accused us of causing the problem by asking about it at all.

Portland has just set a new record for homeless fatalities (mostly stoned homeless people wandering out into traffic, coupled with people speeding through Portland without any traffic enforcement).

Portland no longer has enough cops to do traffic enforcement, and a local "advocate" said that this was all the cops' fault for publicly announcing that Portland no longer has enough cops to do traffic enforcement.

If the cops hadn't publicly admitted it, no one would have noticed that Portland has no traffic enforcement, you see.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2022 09:09 AM (KCOCK)

265 photo above is the definition of 'pinch-faced scold'.
Posted by: DB at December 21, 2022 09:08 AM (geLO

Bet that's not her natural hair color, either.
*meow*

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2022 09:09 AM (4I/2K)

266 Nigel Farage tells BBC, that Western Euro gubmints are down on Zalensky, and will soon shut off the gravy train. Reason he is in D.C begging

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 09:10 AM (Cw0fX)

267
Biden and Jobs Report Falsified:

"It worked, didn't it."

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2022 09:11 AM (enJYY)

268 Or what really has changed is that all the things we blindly accepted as articles of faith, that the GOP was for conservative, free market capitalism, fiscal responsibility, limited government and the defense of the realm with sane foreign policy.

This has not been the case since at least the late 1990s. I only started paying attention to politics on 09/12/2001. So I was initially fooled into believing the above about the GOP.

But by 2006 and the Amnesty betrayal, my eyes were opened. And I left the GOP and have never looked back. Since then, nothing has changed other than the GOP getting exposed year after year as being nothing but Deep State establishment traitors to the American people, and part of the UniParty with the Democrats.

That was 16 years ago. Sad that it has taken conservatives this long to finally realize what many of us realized back then. And I am sure more realized even years before then. The Contract with America GOP died somewhere in late 1990s.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2022 09:11 AM (Do5/p)

269 OK I gotta hit the grocer for the necessaries before the storm comes: gunpowder, corn meal, ham hocks and guitar strings

spater, comrades

Posted by: DB at December 21, 2022 09:12 AM (geLO8)

270 Going swimmingly...

zerohedge @zerohedge · 1h
*PUTIN: STATE HAS FUNDS TO MEET ALL ARMY'S NEEDS

RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTER SHOIGU: WE ARE READY FOR TALKS

*SHOIGU: RUSSIA NEEDS TO EXPAND MILITARY FORCES TO 1.5 MILLION

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 09:12 AM (Vwz3I)

271 that Western Euro gubmints are down on Zalensky, and will soon shut off the gravy train

Zelensky demanding that NATO immediately strike Russia in retaliation for the "Russian" missile that killed three people in Portland didn't do him any favors.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2022 09:12 AM (KCOCK)

272 Former AU Federal MP Kerryn Phelps Reveals "Devastating" COVID Vaccine Injuries

Dr. Kerryn Phelps, a former member of the Australian Parliament who in 2000 became the first female president of the Australian Medical Association (AMA), has revealed that both she and her wife have suffered severe and ongoing injuries from the COVID vaccines. Moreover, due to "threats" from medical regulators and well-documented underreporting, Phelps suggested that the accurate rate of adverse events is far higher than is being acknowledged.

too late

Posted by: artisanal ette at December 21, 2022 09:12 AM (9qHsE)

273 in the beginning, we had no idea Zalensky was lefty, we were obsessed for our hatred of Putin.

But now it is known

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 09:13 AM (Cw0fX)

274 273. and the 35 year old Canadian Fauci passed also

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 09:13 AM (Cw0fX)

275 270 And don’t forget that Bumbles Bounce!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 09:13 AM (ai465)

276
Shoigu. Sounds like the stuff you use to repair your boots.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2022 09:14 AM (x0n13)

277 DU may already be lowering expectations for the Jan 6th hearings results...
The J6 Committee's exceptional achievement cannot be overestimated. Remember, Benedict Arnold was never tried for his treason or convicted. Yet, his shameful place in America's history is now cemented forever. Trump's equally shameful place in history has now been made a matter of record, witnessed by millions of Americans, and will mark Trump's inglorious end no matter what other developments may happen later.

THE BEST THING? At very least, he will NEVER be able to run for pRez again. Whether they plead insanity or he flees. He's DONE-Don.

The job they have done is historically unprecedented. And the whole point of their work is that DOJ doesn't have to act on their findings. The J6 committee has already made sure that Trump goes in history as a traitor. DOJ can now make it a criminal verdict, whether it acts on the committee's referrals or otherwise.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at December 21, 2022 09:14 AM (JCZqz)

278 @zerohedge · 23m
VP Harris Demands Social Media Companies "Cooperate And Work With Us" On "Protecting Our Democracy"

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 09:14 AM (Vwz3I)

279 In response to Zalensky's trip to DC, Dmitry Medvedev unexpectedly flew to Beijing and met Chinese leader Xi Jinping today.

Bit of a message there.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2022 09:15 AM (KCOCK)

280 267 Nigel Farage tells BBC, that Western Euro gubmints are down on Zalensky, and will soon shut off the gravy train. Reason he is in D.C begging
Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 09:10 AM (Cw0fX)

Zelenksy knows his sugar daddies. McConnell has declared Ukraine the "number one priority" for America.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2022 09:15 AM (H8QX8)

281 the only way to stop the spending insanity is to turn off the money printer

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at December 21, 2022 09:15 AM (V6W16)

282 OK I gotta hit the grocer for the necessaries before the storm comes: gunpowder, corn meal, ham hocks and guitar strings

spater, comrades
Posted by: DB a

I never ate a guitar string.....

Posted by: JT at December 21, 2022 09:15 AM (T4tVD)

283 Zalensky wants stooges like the US to put boots on the ground. Ukraine knows they cannot beat Russia

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 09:15 AM (Cw0fX)

284 Or what really has changed is that all the things we blindly accepted as articles of faith, that the GOP was for conservative, free market capitalism, fiscal responsibility, limited government and the defense of the realm with sane foreign policy.
=====

How the heck do you figure Reagan finally prevailed? Rockefeller Republicans (like old Mitch) waaaay overstepped.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 21, 2022 09:15 AM (MIKMs)

285 too late
Posted by: artisanal ette at December 21, 2022 09:12 AM (9qHsE)
++++
Not for her. She'll keep her cushy job if she lives and her "wife" will get a nice pension if she dies. In either case, nothing she did will be repudiated.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2022 09:15 AM (t0OGg)

286 Friday morning 6am low in the mid-teens. Solar begins contributing it's 10-20% to the ERCOT power grid well after 8am.

Wonderful. Just wonderful.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2022 09:15 AM (4I/2K)

287 Yes, Zelensky is a criminal. But he is our criminal.

Posted by: Criminals in D.C. at December 21, 2022 09:15 AM (fs1hN)

288 in the beginning, we had no idea Zalensky was lefty, we were obsessed for our hatred of Putin.

But now it is known
Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 09:13 AM (Cw0fX)

Who's "we," white man?

Posted by: Tonto at December 21, 2022 09:15 AM (FJYfm)

289 " in the beginning, we had no idea Zalensky was lefty, we were obsessed for our hatred of Putin."

Generally speaking, it's a good idea to understand who your allies are and why your enemies are your enemies before you vote for war. The American people have got to get over this 'point, shoot, aim' crap.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 21, 2022 09:15 AM (S/NWs)

290 Speaking of Radars und Auschwitz, I wonder how many relatives of Frau Radditz worked there?

Posted by: Avi at December 21, 2022 09:16 AM (nYjK9)

291 RIP Franco Harris, but i turned on him when he trashed Lynn Swann when he was running for Governor, as a Republican, in Penn.
They were roomates, but Franco, sadly, was a partisan left winger
Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 09:06 AM (Cw0fX)

Francisco Franco > Franco Harris

Billy Swan > Lynn Swann

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 21, 2022 09:16 AM (UCfnM)

292 Shoigu. Sounds like the stuff you use to repair your boots.

It's pretty funny having a Mongol in charge of the Russian armed forces.

He is allegedly a Ramones fan.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2022 09:16 AM (KCOCK)

293 279 @zerohedge · 23m
VP Harris Demands Social Media Companies "Cooperate And Work With Us" On "Protecting Our Democracy"
____

Fascism much?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 21, 2022 09:16 AM (fs1hN)

294 " Rockefeller Republicans (like old Mitch) waaaay overstepped."

Now look at where the Rockefellers are. Look familiar?

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 21, 2022 09:17 AM (S/NWs)

295 ... The job they have done is historically unprecedented. And the whole point of their work is that DOJ doesn't have to act on their findings. The J6 committee has already made sure that Trump goes in history as a traitor. DOJ can now make it a criminal verdict, whether it acts on the committee's referrals or otherwise.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at December 21, 2022 09:14 AM (JCZqz)
++++
Must be a weird headspace. The Committee proved nothing and demonstrated nothing other than their ability to drag out a kangaroo-court-cum-clown-show for two years and spend tens of millions of dollars on an unsuccessful witch-hunt that nobody cares about.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2022 09:17 AM (t0OGg)

296
Job growth was "essentially flat" in the second quarter with only 10,500 jobs added, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said.

Posted by: artisanal ette at December 21, 2022 09:09 AM

Was it ADP who created the false numbers?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2022 09:17 AM (enJYY)

297 Putin is evil. He helped kill Us Troops in Iraq etc... but the sory of Zalensky's wife shopping in Paris really pisses me off

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 09:17 AM (Cw0fX)

298 According to Wikipedia, Shoigu’s father is an ethnic Tuvan (as in “Tannu”

. Thus, his non-Russian surname.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 09:18 AM (ai465)

299 I wonder how much grift from the Ukraine bullshit ends up in the GOP's pockets vs. the Democrats. It has to be substantial.

I think the only time we'll see any push back from our flaccid Republican wankers is when they feel they're not getting their fair share of the grift.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2022 09:18 AM (Q4IgG)

300 283 OK I gotta hit the grocer for the necessaries before the storm comes: gunpowder, corn meal, ham hocks and guitar strings
Posted by: DB a

I never ate a guitar string.....
Posted by: JT at December 21, 2022 09:15 AM

He must have an old recipe, from when the strings were cat gut.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at December 21, 2022 09:19 AM (JCZqz)

301
RIP Franco Harris, of the "Immaculate Reception" fame. He was 72.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 21, 2022 09:19 AM (Mzdiz)

302 Australia’s Wong Raises Trade, Consular Cases With China’s Wang
-------------
Will they make a wight??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 09:19 AM (Vwz3I)

303 >>>Zalensky wants stooges like the US to put boots on the ground. Ukraine knows they cannot beat Russia

And Congress is filled with stooges. Here comes the draft.

Posted by: Ziba at December 21, 2022 09:20 AM (4h9M3)

304 "Will they make a wight??"

That's lacist, Andycanuck!

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 21, 2022 09:20 AM (S/NWs)

305 It’s “Kyiv,” h8ters!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 09:06 AM (ai465)

It's Chicken Kee ev, not KEEV, you idiots.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

306 Shelby, Inahofe, Portman, Burr, Toomey. Retiring grifters

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 09:20 AM (Cw0fX)

307 " Rockefeller Republicans (like old Mitch) waaaay overstepped."

Now look at where the Rockefellers are. Look familiar?
Posted by: squid_hunt at December 21, 2022 09:17 AM (S/NWs)

"Centrism" is just a stopping point on the way to Leftism. It's similar to how supporting Drag Queen Story Hour is a stopping point on the way to David French just getting it over with and coming out of the closet.

Posted by: Wally at December 21, 2022 09:21 AM (FJYfm)

308 "Here comes the draft."

It's a shame all the brave, strong, fierce women who voted for these cucks still aren't in the draft. We'd shut this war down with a quickness once Karen got drafted.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 21, 2022 09:21 AM (S/NWs)

309 Will they make a wight??

They have to buy an isle to store it on first.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2022 09:21 AM (ai465)

310 The article does not say how Abbott responded to the stupid cünt and I am too lazy to find the full interview, nor do I really want to watch it.

Anyone got a Cliff's Notes version?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

311 "Don't blame the jihadi ideology for 9/11, etc. -- you'll make them angry and then they'll attack us!"

"Don't talk about the stolen elections -- you'll destabilize 'Our Democracy'"!

"Don't talk about immigration -- you'll inspire them to move here."

"Don't talk about transgenders in bathrooms, women's shelters, prison, etc., about harm of drugs/surgeries to children -- you'll make them kill themselves!"

Don't talk.
Don't think. Just live in a pod, eat bugs, take the bus, and die - the sooner the better, carbon-emitters.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2022 09:22 AM (im7mX)

312 296 Must be a weird headspace. The Committee proved nothing and demonstrated nothing other than their ability to drag out a kangaroo-court-cum-clown-show for two years and spend tens of millions of dollars on an unsuccessful witch-hunt that nobody cares about.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2022 09:17 AM

And even if they had, this part of the post made me chuckle "Trump's equally shameful place in history has now been made a matter of record, witnessed by millions of Americans...". No one watched it, no one watched or believed what was reported by the MSM on it, so it has accomplished nothing (except removing a few RINOs from the House).

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at December 21, 2022 09:22 AM (JCZqz)

313 RIP Franco Harris, of the "Immaculate Reception" fame. He was 72.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 21, 2022 09:19 AM (Mzdiz)

"unknown causes"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

314 I am enjoying skating around JT's bird bath
Woodstock

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 21, 2022 09:22 AM (0kVKa)

315 Does the media have brainstorming sessions about how to spin the latest Democrat obscenity as the fault of Republicans?
Goebels had nothing on this generation of propagandists.

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 21, 2022 09:23 AM (eGTCV)

316 Sex in old age is amazing. You don't know if you or your partner(s) are having a cramp, a seizure, a stroke, an orgasm, or cardiac arrest.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2022 08:58 AM (4I/2K)

Otherwise known as a Thursday night in the Villages

Posted by: Boswell at December 21, 2022 09:23 AM (+Cgut)

317 Sorry, but many non jewish Ukrainians were Nazi collabrators. Many joined SS death squads volunatarily. The pits of Babi Yar near Kiev.

Realize it was years ago, but Sainthood for this country?

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 09:23 AM (Cw0fX)

318 RIP Franco Harris, of the "Immaculate Reception" fame. He was 72.
Posted by: publius

"unknown causes"
Posted by: Sponge

Immaculate injection?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2022 09:23 AM (qoGsy)

319 253

I saw Rosa DeLauro up close at an Italian festa in New Haven, CT this summer. She's even uglier in person.

Posted by: Ziba at December 21, 2022 09:24 AM (4h9M3)

320 Hey, maybe they HAVE to pass more mega-bucks for Ukraine because the SBF campaign donation spigot is no more?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2022 09:24 AM (im7mX)

321 It's Chicken Kee ev, not KEEV, you idiots.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

You mean Cheeekeen Keev, don't you?

Posted by: Boswell at December 21, 2022 09:24 AM (+Cgut)

322
I saw Rosa DeLauro up close at an Italian festa in New Haven, CT this summer. She's even uglier in person.
Posted by: Ziba at December 21, 2022 09:24 AM (4h9M3)

I'm impressed you're here to talk about it and weren't turned to stone on the spot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

323 >>I saw Rosa DeLauro up close at an Italian festa in New Haven, CT this summer. She's even uglier in person.

Amazed you didn't turn to stone!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2022 09:25 AM (im7mX)

324 Need some Christmas art!

Posted by: artisanal ette at December 21, 2022 09:25 AM (9qHsE)

325 RIP Franco Harris, of the "Immaculate Reception" fame. He was 72.
Posted by: publius

"unknown causes"
Posted by: Sponge

Immaculate injection?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2022 09:23 AM (qoGsy)

OK, that one got me going!

Posted by: Wally at December 21, 2022 09:25 AM (FJYfm)

326 Heh, Sponge

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2022 09:25 AM (im7mX)

327 304 >>>Zalensky wants stooges like the US to put boots on the ground. Ukraine knows they cannot beat Russia

And Congress is filled with stooges. Here comes the draft.
Posted by: Ziba at December 21, 2022 09:20 AM

I thought I read here that the US was moving Patriot batteries into Ukraine, and those always have US troops with them? Or, he just want MORE US troops on the ground, so some can get killed and force the US into the war. We could call them Task Force Lusitania!

Posted by: Military Moron at December 21, 2022 09:25 AM (JCZqz)

328 Sex in old age is amazing. You don't know if you or your partner(s) are having a cramp, a seizure, a stroke, an orgasm, or cardiac arrest.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2022 08:58 AM (4I/2K)

WOOT!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

329 I saw Rosa DeLauro up close at an Italian festa in New Haven, CT this summer. She's even uglier in person.

Amazed you didn't turn to stone!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2022 09:25 AM (im7mX)

heh.

Posted by: artisanal ette at December 21, 2022 09:25 AM (9qHsE)

330 Sex in old age is amazing. You don't know if you or your partner(s) are having a cramp, a seizure, a stroke, an orgasm, or cardiac arrest.
=====
Largest concentration of STDs on the planet. (I always find that amusing.)

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 21, 2022 09:26 AM (MIKMs)

331 Heh, Sponge
Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2022 09:25 AM (im7mX)

*fistbump*

Hordemind attacks at will.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

332 Remember. The Biden Administration does not have an open border policy.

Kamala Harris has said "Do not come."

In fact, she said it twice.

Don't look at the billions that Democrats have dangled as incentives to come to the US. Listen to Kamala's words:

"Do not come."

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 21, 2022 09:26 AM (lf83v)

333
"both she and her wife"

Must be a vagatarian disease then.

Posted by: Clark Westfield at December 21, 2022 09:26 AM (PKRFl)

334 Good scene in Fleming's "From Russia With Love" in which the Russian intelligence chiefs are discussing the various strengths of weaknesses of the world intelligence agencies, and America is dismissed as obscenely rich but stupid, giving huge amounts of money to corrupt leaders. They could have been talking about Zalensky and Ukraine.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2022 09:26 AM (H8QX8)

335 322 It's Chicken Kee ev, not KEEV, you idiots.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

You mean Cheeekeen Keev, don't you?
Posted by: Boswell at December 21, 2022 09:24 AM

I'm going to need an over-educated, smug, asshole politician to make the final judgement on mispronouncing a foreign word. John Kerry to the courtesy phone please.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 21, 2022 09:27 AM (JCZqz)

336 Good scene in Fleming's "From Russia With Love" in which the Russian intelligence chiefs are discussing the various strengths of weaknesses of the world intelligence agencies, and America is dismissed as obscenely rich but stupid, giving huge amounts of money to corrupt leaders. They could have been talking about Zalensky and Ukraine.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2022 09:26 AM (H8QX8

Good scene in Spies Like Us when the big boobied blonde comes out of the tent......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

337 >>Does the media have brainstorming sessions about how to spin the latest Democrat obscenity as the fault of Republicans?

Almost certainly. JournoList 6.0 or whatever version/platform that concept is currently manifest.
See: Decency Collective twitter space for just one example.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2022 09:28 AM (im7mX)

338
I'm going to need an over-educated, smug, asshole politician to make the final judgement on mispronouncing a foreign word. John Kerry to the courtesy phone please.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 21, 2022 09:27 AM (JCZqz)

JENJISSSSS!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

339 Brother thinks in the end, we will find out that the Globalists are backing Ukraine, because Putin does not allow Gay Marriage and legal abortion.

Pains them to see the Riot police take down Pride parades in Moscow. FWIW

Posted by: Corky at December 21, 2022 09:29 AM (Cw0fX)

340 Kamala Harris has said "Do not come."

In fact, she said it twice.

Don't look at the billions that Democrats have dangled as incentives to come to the US. Listen to Kamala's words:

"Do not come."
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 21, 2022 09:26 AM (lf83v)

To be fair, she was having a "Willie Brown" flashback at the moment......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

341 JUST IN: Confirmed with AZSOS:
@KariLake lawyers have withdrawn their subpoena of
@SecretaryHobbs

She will not be testifying at tomorrow's hearing.

eh?

Posted by: artisanal ette at December 21, 2022 09:30 AM (9qHsE)

342 JUST IN: Confirmed with AZSOS:
@KariLake lawyers have withdrawn their subpoena of
@SecretaryHobbs

She will not be testifying at tomorrow's hearing.

eh?
Posted by: artisanal ette at December 21, 2022 09:30 AM (9qHsE)

Victory snatched by the jaws of defeat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

343 Need some Christmas art!
Posted by: artisanal ette at December 21, 2022 09:25 AM (9qHsE)
******
We'll probably get Halloween art.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2022 09:31 AM (NpAcC)

344
Putin does not allow Gay Marriage and legal abortion.

Last time I checked Russia does allow abortion but 12 weeks or fewer.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2022 09:31 AM (enJYY)

345 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2022 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

346
dead bird thread up

Posted by: artisanal ette at December 21, 2022 09:31 AM (9qHsE)

347 "You may remain in the GOP, but first you must stomp on this Ukrainian flag ... oh god he's crying."

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 21, 2022 09:32 AM (44ww/)

348 I thought a court said Hobbs couldn't be compelled to appear as a witness by Kari's legal team??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 09:32 AM (Vwz3I)

349 Wait. When was California a slave owning slave supporting slave operations state?

Posted by: Sua Sponte at December 21, 2022 09:32 AM (3J3a/)

350 Too bad that snow bomb isn't due in DC today. That's all.

Posted by: Ziba at December 21, 2022 09:33 AM (4h9M3)

351 rt.com

||Number of abortions in Russia drops by close to 40% over course of five years, as fall in birth rate levels off, deputy PM reveals||

The drop is down to >500,000 in 2020.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 09:36 AM (Vwz3I)

352 She will not be testifying at tomorrow's hearing.
eh?
Posted by: artisanal ette at December 21, 2022 09:30 AM (9qHsE)

I guess Lake's lawyers thought, probably correctly, that its best not give her more opportunities to put on a slick defense than absolutely necessary. Just depo her when the time is right - after evidence against her is already introduced into the record in a court room.

Posted by: Boswell at December 21, 2022 09:36 AM (+Cgut)

353 RIP Franco Harris, of the "Immaculate Reception" fame. He was 72.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 21, 2022 09:19 AM

This weekend was the 50th anniversary of the "Immaculate Reception".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2022 09:37 AM (Do5/p)

354 More swimmingly, need an ally's help...

@zerohedge · 7h
Russia Is Training Belarusian Combat Pilots As Ukraine Fears New Assault

Russia is training Belarussian pilots to fly combat jets with “special warhead” capabilities, Belarusian state-controlled media announced during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the...
2:00 AM · Dec 21, 2022

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 21, 2022 09:38 AM (Vwz3I)

355 Does the media have brainstorming sessions about how to spin the latest Democrat obscenity as the fault of Republicans?
Goebels had nothing on this generation of propagandists.
Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 21, 2022 09:23 AM (eGTCV)

JournoList is dead.

Posted by: CabaList at December 21, 2022 09:39 AM (yQpMk)

356 Not pictured -- the Teflon-coated pan that killed the bird.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2022 09:40 AM (YIVH2)

357 I hate hate hate the reflexive "Republicans won't close the border because they want cheap labor" line. It gets repeated so much that no one ever questions it. It has nothing to do with that. The reasons for the Uniparty Republicans wanting to leave the border open are the exact same as the Democrats, because they ARE Democrats. The "cheap labor" line is a bullshit excuse to maintain the illusion that their motives are somehow different. They're not. They've got the exact same motives, they're just infiltrators.

Posted by: Qwinn at December 21, 2022 09:59 AM (0PgTv)

358 23 Congress releasing PDT's tax returns is good for a chuckle.

Sets a good precedent too, don't it Joe? But I'm sure you declared your 10% of all those billions from China, right?!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 21, 2022 10:26 AM (gh7k+)

359 Wait, what does this really mean? "On Monday, Politico reported that the omnibus would include provisions ending a requirement that states keep ineligible Medicaid beneficiaries on the rolls, effective April 1."

Here's a bit more further down the article: "...states could see a surge in their uninsured populations right as government Covid funding runs dry, and individuals will have to depend on health plans to cover tests, vaccines and therapeutics for the virus. One mitigation strategy insurers and health officials pushed for: a tweak to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act that would allow health plans and state agencies to call and text residents set to lose Medicaid to walk them through their options."

And there you have it. The Medicare for All, universal healthcare's groundwork for 2024. Boot citizens off to get them riled and hand others the quick green card for access.
------------
mea culpa

Posted by: Lola at December 21, 2022 10:37 AM (NIYa7)

360 Another case of the left seemingly putting more weight on words than actions. It's baffling to me.

They will literally watch, say, Barack Obama drone strike a wedding ceremony, and give him the Nobel Peace prize because of the things he's said.

They'll watch Trump create an economy that helped lift everyone, and freak out because he said some mean shit on Twitter.

Never mind that Biden's policies are effectively "open border". Since he never has said those words, it isn't real.

What the hell is going on here?

Posted by: Goober at December 21, 2022 10:43 AM (Hgvgt)

361 "Ten BILLION."
U.S. Postal Service to Spend Almost $10 Billion for Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure

U.S. Postal Service is funded by American taxpayer dollars, correct?

So this headline should read: "U.S. Postal Service to Use Almost $10 Billion of American taxpayers' money for Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure"

That is enough to fund 2 U.S. southern border walls.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2022 11:33 AM (Do5/p)

362 "Involuntary servants responsible for Civil War because they didn't avoid capture"

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364
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Posted by: Stacey Becker at December 22, 2022 03:54 AM (b/zW2)

365 JJ, the link for the first article in the Defense section goes to a different article.

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