The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 12/22/22

Good morning, kids. Thursday and all I have to say is fuck the entire GOP to hell. It's easy to hate the Democrats, and I use that term advisedly since the members of that party are about as far removed from the concept of democracy as one can possibly imagine. Repulsive, repugnant and hateful as everyone from Bernie Sanders to Titty Caca Cortez is, I can respect them only insofar as they are upfront and honest about their positions. Sliding down the scale are the Schemers and Pelosis who parade around in the rotting skin-suit of patriotism while setting the American flag and the Constitution on fire. Still, it's understandable.

And then there is the GOP.

Republicans are set to approve a massive spending bill which includes billions of dollars in funding for the FBI despite recently leaked information which found the federal agency colluded with Twitter to censor users.
The bill designated $11.33 billion for the FBI “to investigate extremist violence and domestic terrorism,” according to a summary of the bill by the House Appropriations Committee. The total is reportedly $569.6 million more than the enacted levels for the 2022 fiscal year and $524 million more than the president requested.
The FBI reportedly paid Twitter $3.5 million dollars as compensation for staff fielding the agency’s requests between October 2019 and February 2021, as was revealed during Elon Musk’s ongoing “Twitter Files” series which leaked information showing Twitter’s hand in suppressing users. The files also revealed that the FBI had close relations with Twitter staff and was involved in the suppression of the New York Post article regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 election.

The "extremist violence and domestic terrorism” that is their prime mission is you and me and everyone who is opposed to the wanton, deliberate destruction of our nation, culture and society. Forget flying airplanes into skyscrapers or setting entire cities ablaze because "racism!" Electing outsiders who will not only keep Mitch McConnell and his ilk away from the public trough but threaten to remove the trough itself? Well, that's positively un-American!

The FBI offered tech industry dorks the opportunity to shoot guns and kick down doors, to wield visceral power rather than just virtual power. While the tech industry influenced far more lives, the Bureau could offer something more tangible. It’s why so many of the recent FBI raids on political opponents have featured large teams of heavily armed men. Behind the body armor are ‘mall cops’ with Ivy League degrees who enjoy shooting guns and kicking down doors even though there’s no threat that they’re dealing with that requires them to be doing either one.
Looking to get a hold on the internet, the FBI recruited from the tech industry. And looking to get a hold on security, the industry recruited from the FBI with at least a dozen senior Twitter personnel coming out of the bureau. The revolving door blurred the lines between the government and the tech industry. It’s still unclear what Twitter was doing on its own initiative or at the behest of the FBI. And it’s unclear where the allegiance of FBI people like Chan really lay.
In 2017, the FBI set up a Foreign Influence Task Force in response to Hillary Clinton’s Russiagate hoax. The legal premise of FITF, charged with combating, in the words of FBI Director Wray, efforts by foreign governments to “sway U.S. voters’ preferences and perspectives, shift U.S. policies, increase discord in the United States, and undermine the American people’s confidence in our democratic processes” was dubious from the start. . .
. . . Personnel is policy. Putting Big Tech people inside the FBI would transform its worldview from law enforcement to content moderation. And moving FBI people into Big Tech would lead platforms to see everything as a threat. The hybrid entity was a paranoid content moderating monster that wielded the untrammeled power of Big Tech and the authority of the feds.
“My mission is, ‘Protect the American people and uphold the constitution,’ Chan claimed. That’s noble, but what he was doing at FITF was hacking the constitution using a back door oligarchy.
The Constitution depends on boundaries between branches of the government, between elected officials and law enforcement, between government and industry, between the media and the government, and between the publishing platforms that enable speech and the government. When these boundaries collapse, the constitution becomes meaningless, and the Bill of Rights a series of technicalities that can be violated with impunity by an oligarchy that subdivides its powers by compartmentalizing them between private and public sectors.
When the DOJ, Big Tech, the media, administrations, companies, engineers, agents, and executives all work together toward the same political goals, the constitution is a dead letter.

You should see some of the other insane garbage that is being funded in the billions of dollars. But wait, there's more!

“As the American border collapses completely, our Congress turns its fawning attention to the Ukraine and the man our congress has been funding with the tax dollars to prosecute a war whose consequences can be more profound than most Americans understand,” Carlson said as Zelenskyy concluded his address to a joint meeting of Congress. . .
. . . “We were reminded of it today when the president of Ukraine arrived at the White House dressed like the manager of a strip club and started to demand money. Amazingly, no one threw him out and instead they did whatever he wanted. ‘American taxpayers,’ declared Joe Biden, ‘will continue to give Zelenskyy whatever he demands for as long as it takes’” Carlson said after the speech ended.
Russia invaded Ukraine Feb. 24, launching a massive attack across the latter country. Congress added $45 billion in aid to Ukraine as part of a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that also prohibited United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from spending over $1.5 billion to “acquire, maintain, or extend border security technology and capabilities, except for technology and capabilities to improve Border Patrol processing.”
“Tellingly Biden never specified what it is, as long as it is to do what? Push the Russian army back to pre-invasion borders? Sounds reasonable. That’s what most Americans likely assume, those who are still paying attention. But that is not what Zelensky means, and it is not what he’s asking for,” Carlson said. “Zelensky is demanding regime change in Russia, just like in Iraq and Libya and a long list of other failed states, except this time in the heart of the Eurasian landmass, next door to the entire civilized world. That’s what Zelensky has called for repeatedly and every dollar we send to him goes toward that end. At this point, he’s getting a lot closer to achieving it, so what happens if he ‘wins?’ What does the ensuing chaos look like? Thought about that?”

Before delving into the potential chaos of touching off a for-real shooting Third World War, let's look at the chaos we are already experiencing and really have been experiencing with greater pain and suffering for the past 60 years: the opening of our borders to untold millions of illegal aliens on top of millions of legal immigrants to this country without any regard for their assimilation to our culture and society.

Indeed, in the eyes of the Left that's not a bug. It's a feature. And those in our own erstwhile party turn a blind eye to it. A border is more than just physical and legal barriers. It's also a strong cultural demarcation involving language, custom and lifestyles that define a nation and its people. Open borders is not just erasing a line on a map; it's wiping out our identity, starting in the schools and going from there.

Look where we are now after the twin torpedoes of Hart-Celler in '65 and Simpson-Mazzoli in '86 along with the ever-leftward leaning mindset of leaders in and out of government. Hell, Mayorkas via the Kalorama Klown Komintern have essentially ordered the DHS to stand down. Now imagine what happens when the gossamer-thin fig leaf of Title 42 and any other protections are removed.

Psaki-psircling back to a potential World War Three, like a Coney Island whitefish floating to the top of a West Village bathhouse hot tub, Lindsay Graham breaks the surface and blows:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News’ “America Reports” on Wednesday that the United States should completely support Ukraine in its fight against Russia, because if Russian President Vladimir Putin succeeds, “the world will unravel.”
When asked to what extent he believes the United States should continue to aid Ukraine, Graham said, “Completely, all in, without equivocation. If Putin dismembers Ukraine, he will not stop, China is more likely to go into Taiwan. The world will unravel, and no domestic problem gets better here at home allowing Putin to destroy Ukraine, quite the opposite. . .
. . . Graham said he agrees that the U.S. should give Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy the long-range missiles, gray eagle drones and reaper drones he’s requesting.  “I would give him the ability to dislodge Russians from his country. Right now the Biden administration has done more, and I appreciate doing more, but not the offensive capability to dislodge the Russians from the east, particularly Crimea. So the longer range weapons would hurt the Russian military more effectively. The drones would be the biggest game changer,” he said. . .
. . . “I had a resolution that passed the Senate 100-nothing, urging the Biden administration to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism under the law. The Biden administration has fought us at every turn. So you really want to help the Ukrainians? Designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism under U.S. law. That will taint the regime all over the world bigger than we’ve ever done before, and it would matter,” the senator said.  Graham said that he supports the omnibus spending bill even though it doesn’t include any money for the border.

"The world will unravel" if Putin wins? "Designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism?" Does he not realize he's talking about a nation that has thousands of nukes, from the size of a suitcase to MIRVed ICBMs? Forgetting for a moment that if you take Putin out of the picture, you're not going to get a creampuff but more than likely the Russian version of General Jack D. Ripper, who's even more pissed off that Reagan won the Cold War, but that our armed forces have been utterly demoralized and sabotaged because of "woke" indoctrination. I shudder to think what our capabilities are. Seeing Admiral Rachel Levine no doubt puts ideas into Putin's and Xi's heads.

Forget the world; America is unraveling before our eyes on a daily if not hourly basis. And Graham is such a phony on immigration. He's in favor of open borders and always has been. If this jackass and his cohorts in Congress don't Muffley us into getting our hair mussed, America itself will drown when the last vestiges of our borders are gone. It may already be way too late. If it's not a nuclear exchange from over the DEW line, it's Yugoslavia 2: Civil War Boogaloo.

And we're the ones paying for it. Insult, meet injury.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"When scientists however are close-minded, the fundamental foundation of western civilization crashes."
The Wuhan panic underlines how scientists have abandoned the search for truth
"It is nearly impossible to build a philosophy around why you should not wear suede shoes. It’s just a fact."
Suede Shoes, Common Sense, and the Failure of Philosophy
"Despite warnings from public-health and media 'experts,' the seasonal return of respiratory viruses doesn’t justify the reimposition of [Chinese] Covid-era controls." (for the tyrants it does - jjs)
Ignore the “Tripledemic” Hype
“We live at a time that is both precarious and, ironically, boring.”
The Normalization of Crisis

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

Daniel Greenfield: “'We’re shooting guns. We’re kicking down doors. I’m learning about the constitution. This is awesome' . . . When the DOJ, Big Tech, the media, administrations, companies, engineers, agents, and executives all work together toward the same political goals, the constitution is a dead letter."
TwitterFiles Shows How the FBI Hacked the Constitution
The Bureau claimed the authentic emails released by Elon Musk “show nothing more” than normal day-to-day operations of the agency, and that the release of the correspondences were “conspiracy theorists” propagating “misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.” The FBI did not specify in its response who it was referring to as “conspiracy theorists,” nor did it provide any explanation of what materials were “misinformation.”
FBI ‘Responds’ to Twitter Files Allegations of Bureau Involvement in Censorship
Aspen Digital, an arm of the liberal Aspen Institute, in September 2020 convened a working group of social media executives, journalists, and academics to develop a coverage strategy for a hypothetical "hack and dump" of Hunter Biden's emails, according to documents published this week by independent reporter Michael Shellenberger.
Think Tank Funded by Pro-Biden Billionaires Colluded With Journalists and Big Tech To Kill Hunter Biden Coverage
"The fellowship program isn’t new — Soros has offered this funding for over 25 years. Since the program’s inception, a total of 469 individuals have received fellowships. Most of the earliest fellows involved in media went on to become acclaimed journalists across a variety of major legacy outlets." (maybe I ought to apply, wink-wink - jjs)
Nazi Collaborator George Soros Funding Criminal Justice Reform Plants In Legacy Media
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Fuck the GOP to Hell, forever.
Republicans Poised to Approve Massive FBI Funding Boost in Wake of Twitter Files Revelations
"Political motivations within senior Capitol leadership, inadequate preparation, and years of failure to implement past recommendations led to the Jan. 6 security breakdown at the Capitol." (all the violence was perpetrated by Pelosi's minions in the Capitol PD and FBI glowie goons - jjs)
House Republicans Expose Pelosi’s Culpability In Jan. 6 Riot
"Republican state Rep. David Eastman could be removed from office through the state’s “disqualifying clause” due to his affiliation with the Oath Keepers, whose members have been convicted for participating in the Jan. 6 capitol riots. Eastman was present at former President Donald Trump’s rally on Jan. 6 but did not enter restricted areas on Capitol grounds and has not been accused of entering the building."
‘A Recipe for Tyranny’: Here’s Why an Alaska Lawmaker Faces Removal From Office Under the State’s ‘Disloyalty Clause’
"Lawyers and legal scholars are aghast, arguing that the decision undermines bedrock principles of the American justice system." (aghast is the new "shocked–SHOCKED!" - jjs)
"Batshit Crazy": Washington State Supreme Court Says Any Accusation of Racial Bias Should Lead to a Retrial
"Our Founders obviously abhorred the tyranny of the majority, or mob rule, but that is often what we get from those who spout that 'democracy is on the ballot.'”
Orwellian Language and Democrat Doublethink
"They make us sicker by feeding us poisonous narratives while receiving public adulation for pretending to advocate for our recovery."
Munchausen by Progressivism: The Left's Attempt to Control Black Voices
They’re telling non-whites over and over again that white people are not just oppressing them through police brutality but are literally poisoning the air they breathe and making them sick. It’s all lies — the opposite is true — but they just keep repeating it again and again to incite hatred against “whitey.”
HHS: Whites Are Giving Non-Whites Alzheimer’s Through ‘Racism’
"Why an ideology so graphically repudiated by history – and so bloody in its application – continues to endure."
The Persistence of the Left
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"The bill will also hand out $890 million worth of taxpayer money to expand the deployment of carbon capture and storage technology, equipment that can remove fossil fuel emissions from the atmosphere."
Congress Stuffed Billions Into Massive Spending Bill to Combat Mythical/Sham "Climate Crisis"
“That silent majority is wondering whether EVs are really OK to have as a single option. But they think it’s the trend so they can’t speak out loudly.”
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda: ‘Silent Majority’ Of Automakers Not Fully Sold On Electric Vehicles
"The decision is based on both green justice and social justice principles, so expect failure to ensue."
California Regulators Make Controversial Move to Reduce Incentives to Homeowners with Solar Panels
"Memo to carbon-based life forms: stop breathing."
Who's Afraid of a Gigaton?
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"On a monthly basis, sales declined by 7.7% in November compared to October, and were down 35.4% compared to November, 2021, the NAR reported. Although November was the tenth straight month of flagging sales, the median existing home sales price was still up 3.5% compared to November 2021, at $370,700, as the inventory of unsold homes fell to 1.14 million, down 6.6% from October 2022."
Home Sales Plunge In November As Housing Market Cracks Under High Prices
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] policies are a threat to job creation."
Biden Should Be Fired So Americans Can Have Jobs (the entire government must be "fired," mostly into the sun - jjs)
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"The gag order points to the possible end of Title 42, a Trump-era rule that allowed agents to turn illegal immigrants away because of the pandemic, as reason to limit information coming from the border. The Biden administration's directive specifically bans CBP officials from sharing data with media outlets as tens of thousands of migrants amass at the southern border."
Gag Order: Biden Junta Bars Border Officials From Sharing Data on Migrant Crisis
"Politicians who benefited from sanctuary advocacy now admit the obvious truth: Sanctuary policies are unsustainable."
Sanctuary Idealism Crashes into Reality
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Fraternal Order of Police president Patrick Yoes blames Democrat policies for crime surge."
2022 ‘One of the Most Dangerous Years’ for Police Amid Nationwide Crime Spike, Says Law Enforcement Group
"No good deed goes unpunished."
Want a Perfect Example of Why Police Officers are Discouraged?
"Free Beacon report earlier this year revealed $30 million Biden [junta] plan to fund crack pipe kits for racial equity."
Omnibus Spending Bill Includes Ban on Government-Funded Crack Pipes
"If the Biden [junta] wanted to reduce the 'harm' associated with drug use, they would encourage people to stop using drugs."
Misdirected Compassion
"Attacker’s son disputes the narrative."
Video: Paul Pelosi Attack Footage Played in Court, but Not for You
All he has to do is declare himself a transgender socialist DREAMer and he gets off scot free.
FedEx Truck Driver Charged With Murdering Young Girl Now Faces Child Sex Charges In Separate Case: Report
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Here it comes: pharmaceutical cabal leaders trying to get ahead of the unfolding grisly reality of 'died suddenly.'”
Pfizer CEO "Surprised" That "They" Suggested mRNA Technology in the Chinese COVID Shot
Robert Spencer: "P. T. Barnum famously said, 'There’s a sucker born every minute.' Even old Barnum likely never expected that the august American Journal of Medicine would take his words to heart."
American Journal of Medicine Says a Belief in Freedom Could Be Hazardous to Your Health
“A review of DeSantis’ public positions on the vaccines shows a full reversal that has unfolded gradually since 2021, seizing on the shots’ waning efficacy against new virus variants and portraying evolving scientific advice as deliberate deceit,” the Washington Post reported.
‘Anti-Vaxxer’: Dems, Media Pounce on New Talking Point About Ron DeSantis as 2024 Speculation Heats Up
Gordon Chang, a veteran China analyst, said in an interview with Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) published Wednesday that "it could take years" for Americans to learn the full extent of China’s role in leaking the coronavirus that caused a global shutdown and millions of deaths.
Biden ‘Determined’ to Hide Chinese Coronavirus Origins, Expert Says
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"If the bill is approved, the maximum Pell Grant award would increase by 7.2% to bump the amount to $7,395 for the 2023-2024 academic year, according to a summary of the bill published by the Senate Committee on Appropriations. The amount is $100 more than what was awarded as an increase during the 2022 fiscal year (FY) and is the largest increase allotted since the 2009-2010 academic year."
Massive Spending Bill Slips In Decade-High Pell Grant Increase
The university hid its "Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative" behind a login page Monday following widespread public criticism of its effort to purge "potentially harmful" language like "survivor," "victim," "blackbox" and "white paper" from university websites. In a letter posted Tuesday evening, the university's chief information officer Steve Gallagher said the guide "does not represent university policy," nor "mandates or requirements."
CTRL+Z: Stanford’s IT Department Walks Back Plan to Purge ‘Harmful Phrases’ Like ‘Blind Study’
Victor Davis Hanson: "Elite university degrees certify very little. And the secret is out."
Are Universities Doomed? (let us pray . . . - jjs)
"Why are administrators at a top-ranked public high school hiding National Merit awards from students and families?"
The War on Merit Takes a Bizarre Turn
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
"State lawmakers enacted a special voting-by-mail bill in 2020 in the early months of the pandemic, invoking emergency powers. The Delaware General Assembly codified voting-by-mail in June 2022 after they couldn’t get enough Republican support to change the state constitution. The legislature’s actions prompted a lawsuit by Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF)."
Delaware Supreme Court Issues Full Opinion Overturning Same-Day Registration and Vote by Mail
"I know. It’s pretty daring of Raffensperger to apply the term 'election denier' to a Democrat like Warnock. Doesn’t he know that the term only applies to Republicans?"
When Democrats Lose, It's Voter Suppression. When They Win, It's — Well, You Know.
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"The book is 549 pages long and has detailed endnotes. It serves both as a well-documented resource book and a useful tool for the classroom."
A Brief and Visual History ofAntisemitism is an Important Resource in Today’s Climate
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
And he will not have killed himself . . .
U.S. Law Enforcement Takes Sam "Sham Bank-Fraud" Bankman-Fried Into Custody: Report
"The groups, Protect Our Future, GMI PAC and Vote Rev PAC, may be obligated to return the money as part of the bankruptcy proceedings for Bankman-Fried’s former company, FTX, according to Bloomberg."
Dem-Aligned PACs are Radio Silent on Returning Nearly $30 Million In SBF Donations
POLITICS
"People tend to blame their leaders when they lose elections, and Trump took plenty of heat after the midterms. Political pundits and talk show hosts on the right have sworn Trump off. I’m here to tell you that, no matter how you feel about Trump today, get over it."
Why You Need to Stop Worrying and Love Trump Again
Mollie Hemingway: "Republican voters are desperately concerned about the country and are looking for bold and persuasive leadership instead of comfort with a few small, intermittent successes."
GOP Can’t Be Successful Until Mitch McConnell Is Gone
“57.6% voted in favor of Dhillon taking over the chairmanship of the RNC, 31% voted for Lindell, 1.7% voted for McDaniel.”
Ronna McDaniel Overwhelmingly Rejected for RNC Chair in Turning Point USA AmericaFest Straw Poll
"Conservatives should evaluate and exercise government power prudentially rather than rejecting it as a matter of principle."
For Conservatives To Win, Republicans Must Get Comfortable Using Power
"A shameful characteristic throughout his whole 52-year political career."
Our So-Called Quote-Unquote "president," the Pathological Liar
"Join the club. . . "
Michelle Admits She "Couldn't Stand" Barry
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
“Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the No. 1 priority for the United States.” (statistically a tie with the priority of lining his pockets by royally fucking the American citizenry - jjs)
Cocaine Mitch Makes It Rain on Ukraine
“We were reminded of it today when the president of Ukraine arrived at the White House dressed like the manager of a strip club and started to demand money. Amazingly, no one threw him out and instead they did whatever he wanted.”
Tucker Carlson Hammers Congress for "Fawning" Over Zelenskyy While the "American Border Collapses Completely"
"Congress earlier this year passed $66 billion for Ukraine aid, and an additional $45 billion contained in the omnibus bill unveiled this week would bring the total to $111 billion."
Omnibus Bill Would Bring U.S. Taxpayer Funds for Ukraine to Over $110 Billion in One Year
This fey fraudster is just itching to start a war with the Russians.
Lindsay "Light-in-the-Loafers" Graham: The Only Way to Win Is to "Break the Russian Military and Have Somebody in Russia Take Putin Out"
Over 70% vote "no." Pre-Musk, you can bet it would be 99.9% "yes."
Elon Musk’s Twitter Poll Asks: ‘Should Congress Approve the $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill?’
"Despite the financial strain Ukraine has put on the United States, the swamp is ready to welcome Zelensky with open arms — and more money."
Here’s Everything Wrong With Congress’s Plan to Give Zelensky Cash for Christmas
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Perhaps Japan will become America’s first true security partner."
Better Late Than Never
"Don't look now, but a couple of our Latin American neighbors are not very happy each other."
No Feliz Navidad Card From Peru to Mexico
"The Iran protests provide a vital opportunity."
Unite North and South Azerbaijan?
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH
Vetting failures, as Breitbart News has chronicled, have plagued Biden’s massive Afghan resettlement operation that has seen Afghans resettled across nearly all 50 states.
Chuck Grassley Blocks Republican Establishment’s Green Card Giveaway for Biden’s Afghans
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Top Republican demands assurances from Biden [junta] over base on Diego Garcia."
Alarms Sounding Over British Return of Indian Ocean Islands, Including One with Important U.S. Naval Base
“'Just in time' production may make sense for civilian industry but it is imprudent to believe that we can determine just exactly 'how much is enough' in wartime."
Ukraine Highlights Lessons for the U.S. Defense Industrial Base
"Amazon has it all. Books. Clothes. Chinese surveillance cameras implicated in human rights atrocities. . . "
The United States Blacklisted This Chinese Company for Human Rights Atrocities. You Can Still Buy Its Cameras on Amazon.
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"What’s wrong with this picture? Everything."
Why is an Afghan Muslim Rapist Given Police Protection in Germany?
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"Title 42 is an immigration policy that makes it easier for the federal government to send border crossers back to their native countries. Initially implemented by former President Donald Trump at the start of the pandemic, a federal judge recently ordered President Joe Biden’s administration to phase out the program by December 21."
Omnibus Stalls as Title 42 Amendment Causes Major Problems, Senators Begin Discussing Short-Term Funding Bill
Detecting something “fishy,” Bishop noted that the word “salmon” appears 48 times in the bill, which included a $65 million commitment to Pacific coastal salmon recovery. He also found $3 million for bee-friendly highways.
Pork, Parks, and Woke: All He ‘Fun’ Features in $1.7 Trillion Omnibus
"Roberts’ failure to publicly identify the Dobbs leaker has allowed Democrats to foment conspiracy theories about his colleagues."
All I Want for Christmas is Justice for the Dobbs Leaker, But John Roberts is Gifting Leftists With Conspiracy Theory Fodder Instead
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"More fallout from pandemic restrictions and [Chinese] covid paranoia."
‘Tripledemic’ Leading to Shortage of Children’s Pain Medications
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"According to a Ukrainian official, the Ukraine has worked out a method to pay for another 10,000 Starlink terminals by obtaining funding from several European nations."
SpaceX and the Ukraine resolve funding issues for Starlink terminals
"Though Juno’s higher resolution pictures revealed many new details when compared with the Voyager-1 images from four decades earlier, the scientists found no changes."
The same region on Ganymede, as seen by Voyager-1 in 1979 and Juno in 2021
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Terry Jeffrey: ". . . driving America away from a society based on objective truth — where a boy is a boy, for example — toward a society where what we pretend is true depends on what those in authority demand."
The Transgender Trajectory
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Dennis Prager: "On the Left, it is a grave sin to abuse the Earth. Not one's parents."
Why Many Conservatives Won’t Be with Their Children or Grandchildren This Christmas
"Nonprofits’ increasing obsession with diversity, equity, and inclusion complicates the worthy practice of year-end charitable donations."
Hand Over Your Money and DIE
"Confronting the nihilistic call to rid the world of family."
A Blueprint For a Genocide of Existence
HITHER & YON
"An 88-year-old French man somehow walked into a hospital with a WWI artillery shell sticking out of his keister. The unfired round is eight inches long and more than two inches wide."
Bombs Away! 88-year-old Man Has WWI Cannon Shell Removed From His Rectum
"A sense of wonder, if truly understood, is a source of joy and gratitude. It is Frank Capra’s understanding of gratitude that holds the film’s theme together in It’s a Wonderful Life.”
Forgotten Man No More

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:38 AM

Comments

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1 Thank you, J.J.!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 22, 2022 07:38 AM (1n+EO)

2 Wtfo

Posted by: Rhenigantx at December 22, 2022 07:39 AM (BRHaw)

3 I'd say we are all farzrohred.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2022 07:39 AM (iayUP)

4
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 22, 2022 07:39 AM (ENBF0)

5 Recognize them for what they are. You will be known by your fruits.

Posted by: IanDeal at December 22, 2022 07:39 AM (MGjjz)

6 Mornin' Horde! HB:JJ.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 22, 2022 07:39 AM (fwVjd)

7 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 22, 2022 07:40 AM (PLIAk)

8
Willowed

The NY Times finds that unacceptable. The NY Times is framing his returns as "I.R.S. Routinely Audited Obama and Biden, Raising Questions Over Delays for Trump", and "Trump’s Taxes: Red Flags, Big Losses and a Windfall From His Father."
Posted by: Lost in Space at December 22, 2022 07:28 AM (c7ca9)

"The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted" - Gregory v. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2022 07:41 AM (MoZTd)

9 They will never learn and we have to pay the price for that.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2022 07:42 AM (4olE8)

10
Recognize them for what they are. You will be known by your fruits.

Posted by: IanDeal at December 22, 2022 07:39 AM

this is about me, ins't it?

Posted by: Sam Brinton at December 22, 2022 07:42 AM (ENBF0)

11 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 22, 2022 07:43 AM (T4tVD)

12 Thank you, J.J.!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at December 22, 2022 07:43 AM (T4tVD)

13 1 year ago today, lost dad. 7 weeks later,mom. Christmas will be... different.

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 22, 2022 07:43 AM (Vgwo7)

14 . Mark Steyn suffered two heart attacks a couple of weeks ago and is recovering in a cardiac care unit in a French hospital. Apparently the second one was very serious and he will be in the hospital through the holidays. Breitbart, Rush, and now (almost) Steyn.

He is a fierce free speech warrior who rages against the "dirty, rotten corrupt" Justice Department and its corrupt FBI. Prayers for his full recovery.

Posted by: JM in Florida at December 22, 2022 07:44 AM (2Wpl3)

15 Don't step on my blue suede shoes

Posted by: Carl Perkins at December 22, 2022 07:44 AM (4I/2K)

16 14 . Mark Steyn suffered two heart attacks a couple of weeks ago and is recovering in a cardiac care unit in a French hospital. Apparently the second one was very serious and he will be in the hospital through the holidays. Breitbart, Rush, and now (almost) Steyn.

He is a fierce free speech warrior who rages against the "dirty, rotten corrupt" Justice Department and its corrupt FBI. Prayers for his full recovery.
Posted by: JM in Florida at December 22, 2022 07:44 AM (2Wpl3)

And he sings a mean cover of "Goldfinger".

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2022 07:46 AM (UnA8+)

17 Republican Senate Caucus?

Sharif don't like it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2022 07:47 AM (u324d)

18 from the size of a suitcase
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep
And I have miles to go before I sleep

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 07:47 AM (Vwz3I)

19 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 22, 2022 07:48 AM (5QSWY)

20 13 1 year ago today, lost dad. 7 weeks later,mom. Christmas will be... different.
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 22, 2022 07:43 AM (Vgwo7)

///////

I am so sorry. Give yourself time and care. I lost mine six months apart. It's... hard

Posted by: JM in Florida at December 22, 2022 07:49 AM (2Wpl3)

21 1 year ago today, lost dad. 7 weeks later,mom. Christmas will be... different.

I'm very sorry.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 22, 2022 07:49 AM (nxdel)

22 Good morning, kids. Thursday and all I have to say is fuck the entire GOP to hell.

The best way to start your day is with Fuck You GOP in your cup.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 22, 2022 07:49 AM (JOtiF)

23 I still believe that the sclerotic old cvnts in congress (both houses) would be just fine with the entire nation getting nuked off the face of the planet.

They can't imagine life continuing to thrive after they die, so taking us all out on THEIR way out seems like something their egos would want.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2022 07:49 AM (UnA8+)

24 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 22, 2022 07:50 AM (1Pw1g)

25 13 1 year ago today, lost dad. 7 weeks later,mom. Christmas will be... different.
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 22, 2022 07:43 AM (Vgwo7)

1 year and 2 months. It gets easier and then it doesn't, and then it does, and then it doesn't...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 22, 2022 07:50 AM (PiwSw)

26 Bear escapes exhibit at FL zoo and attacks a zookeeper before being fatally shot by workers.

And we all know it wasn't a white bear, don't we?!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 07:50 AM (Vwz3I)

27 Zombie Reagan, Heavy D 😂, even Trump.
I don’t care who they put up in 24, I’m a hard pass on all GOP. It needs replacing.

Posted by: Ex-GOP at December 22, 2022 07:50 AM (j6nJf)

28 Good morning Vietnam

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 22, 2022 07:50 AM (CecP5)

29 The NY Times finds that unacceptable. The NY Times is framing his returns as "I.R.S. Routinely Audited Obama and Biden, Raising Questions Over Delays for Trump", and "Trump’s Taxes: Red Flags, Big Losses and a Windfall From His Father."
Posted by: Lost in Space at December 22, 2022 07:28 AM (c7ca9)

"The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted" - Gregory v. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2022 07:41 AM (MoZTd)

The IRS routinely audited returns of someone like Trump and, as far as I know, NEVER brought any charges against him. And when they audit all the developers in the country during those years and make thoses public get back to me

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 22, 2022 07:51 AM (XRfkW)

30 27 Zombie Reagan, Heavy D 😂, even Trump.
I don’t care who they put up in 24, I’m a hard pass on all GOP. It needs replacing.
Posted by: Ex-GOP at December 22, 2022 07:50 AM (j6nJf)

Maybe if they dig up Genghis Khan and run him.

Maybe.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2022 07:51 AM (UnA8+)

31 Lawyers for man charged with shooting ten people on a Brooklyn subway say he plans to plead guilty next month.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 07:52 AM (Vwz3I)

32 15 Don't step on my blue suede shoes
Posted by: Carl Perkins at December 22, 2022 07:44 AM (4I/2K)

The angels wanna wear my red shoes.

Posted by: Declan MacManus at December 22, 2022 07:52 AM (PiwSw)

33 The Democrats aren't going to need the GOP much longer in order to keep up the deception.

Posted by: davidt at December 22, 2022 07:52 AM (SYTee)

34 British "return" of Indian ocean islands...
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the Brits took them from France. So, return to France?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2022 07:53 AM (u324d)

35 Let's see Obama and Biden's tax returns so we can raise some questions too.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2022 07:53 AM (iayUP)

36 33 The Democrats aren't going to need the GOP much longer in order to keep up the deception.
Posted by: davidt at December 22, 2022 07:52 AM (SYTee)

The Labor Camps will suck, but at least we'll get to see the look on their faces when the Demoncrats cut them out of the money loop, I guess.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2022 07:53 AM (UnA8+)

37 Lawyers for man charged with shooting ten people on a Brooklyn subway say he plans to plead guilty next month.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 07:52 AM (Vwz3I)

PLEA deal? Time served?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 22, 2022 07:53 AM (XRfkW)

38 35 Let's see Obama and Biden's tax returns so we can raise some questions too.
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2022 07:53 AM (iayUP)

How about Barry's college transcripts first?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 22, 2022 07:54 AM (PiwSw)

39 These attempts to whip up interest in PDJT tax returns...No one cares.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2022 07:54 AM (u324d)

40 It wouldn't be hard to trace money given to Hunter to wind up with the Big Guy. Assuming that you wanted to know

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 22, 2022 07:55 AM (SJsWC)

41
They can't imagine life continuing to thrive after they die, so taking us all out on THEIR way out seems like something their egos would want.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2022 07:49 AM

I had an employee who said that if he got AIDS he would give it to as many other people as he could. I didn't understand his sense of morality. I imagine most of the people here wouldn't either. Which makes us patsies for the vile left.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 22, 2022 07:55 AM (enJYY)

42 These attempts to whip up interest in PDJT tax returns...No one cares.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2022 07:54 AM (u324d)

THAT is the Truth AND AND AND we already knew all of this. It was leaked years ago.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 22, 2022 07:55 AM (XRfkW)

43 Too sickening to read all the content.

Posted by: Ziba at December 22, 2022 07:56 AM (4h9M3)

44 Netanyahu says he's organized his coalition government.

BTW...
Efrat Fenigson @efenigson · 18h
🚨Digitized personal medical records of Israelis are already handed to Pfizer on a silver plate.
Now Bibi is adding a GENETIC DATABASE, trading our genome.

“Give me a saliva sample, and we have a genetic record over a medical record”.

There you have it,out of the horse’s mouth.

“Now let medical & pharma companies analyze & manipulate this data, and we get preference, and develop a biotechnology industrial power.”
- Benjamin Netanyahu.
https://tinyurl.com/mufrmspd

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 07:56 AM (Vwz3I)

45 I think of my Dad almost daily and I lost him almost 6 years ago. There are things about me (hands and arms) that immediately remind me of my Dad. It gets easier but never goes away.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 22, 2022 07:57 AM (flINI)

46 It wouldn't be hard to trace money given to Hunter to wind up with the Big Guy. Assuming that you wanted to know
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 22, 2022 07:55 AM (SJsWC)
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Hunter is not capable of hiding information. He posts everything he can to YouPorn, and everything else to Instagram.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2022 07:58 AM (u324d)

47
An IRS agent could - from the computer in his own home - look up Trumps bank account, and see that no money was entered into it each tax year. Why go through the charade of an audit?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 22, 2022 07:58 AM (enJYY)

48 NYC wants to put 300,000lbs of lithium batteries on top of a 7 story building. The fantasy land these people live in must be pretty tight.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2022 07:59 AM (iayUP)

49 How crazy/corrupt is this?

DoD base budget is $742 billion
Ukraine gets $100 billion -- 13% of DoD
Russia's defense budget is $83 billion

Where is Ukraine money going?

Posted by: JM in Florida at December 22, 2022 07:59 AM (wGK1C)

50 Palestinian "medics" say Israeli forces fatally shot a man and wounded five others during clashes in "occupied" West Bank.

[My scare quotes.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 07:59 AM (Vwz3I)

51 These attempts to whip up interest in PDJT tax returns...No one cares.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2022 07:54 AM (u324d)

Au contraire, mon frère. Some of us do, very muchly.

Posted by: Mr. R. Maddow at December 22, 2022 07:59 AM (4I/2K)

52 "48 NYC wants to put 300,000lbs of lithium batteries on top of a 7 story building."

Go on...

Posted by: Hans Gruber at December 22, 2022 08:00 AM (SYTee)

53 I hope all the new illegals are enjoying their first bomb cyclone, maybe it will make them all head to CA where it's warm.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 22, 2022 08:00 AM (4qdJV)

54 47
An IRS agent could - from the computer in his own home - look up Trumps bank account, and see that no money was entered into it each tax year. Why go through the charade of an audit?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 22, 2022 07:58 AM (enJYY)

Because it's Performance "Art".

It's all just putting on a show, as the rest of the Fed agencies impoverish and enslave us.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2022 08:00 AM (UnA8+)

55 It's National Date Nut Bread Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2022 08:00 AM (NpAcC)

56 Mark Steyn prayers up.

Posted by: Ziba at December 22, 2022 08:00 AM (4h9M3)

57 If Putin dismembers Ukraine, he will not stop, China is more likely to go into Taiwan. The world will unravel, and no domestic problem gets better here at home allowing Putin to destroy Ukraine, quite the opposite. . .

Get cancer and die, you treasonous fuckstick. Ukraine is a POS hellhole that exists only to launder money for every oligarch and American asshole around the globe. It is not worth one dollar or one soldier.

Hey, Lindsay, remember when you were so gung-ho a badass that you shrieked at the capitol police to go weapons-free and mow down every protestor in DC who dared complain about the way you stabbed Trump in the back? Why don't you take that fucking bloodlust, pick up a goddamned rifle and volunteer to fight the Russians yourself?

Edmund Randolph would have horsewhipped you into a bleeding puddle before stringing you up from the nearest tree.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 22, 2022 08:01 AM (AW0uW)

58 An IRS agent could - from the computer in his own home - look up Trumps bank account, and see that no money was entered into it each tax year. Why go through the charade of an audit?

Entrapment

Posted by: Ex-GOP at December 22, 2022 08:01 AM (j6nJf)

59 Zelensky's getup was something else. Fuckin' actors, man.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2022 08:02 AM (oINRc)

60 The total is reportedly $569.6 million more than the enacted levels for the 2022 fiscal year and $524 million more than the president requested.
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That's the insult, and the fear and cowardice of the elected types. It's a hearty "screw you" to the base and a fearful, mewling payoff to their masters saying, "please don't hurt *me* next" more loudly than words.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 08:04 AM (t0OGg)

61 59 Zelensky's getup was something else. Fuckin' actors, man.

Doing his Millennial take on Fidel Castro.
Uniparty hero

Posted by: Ex-GOP at December 22, 2022 08:04 AM (j6nJf)

62 Good morning hordelings. Psalm 3.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 22, 2022 08:05 AM (45fpk)

63 Authorities in Australia say vandals have destroyed rock art believed to be about 30,000 years old.

||Koonalda Cave’s national heritage listing describes the site as containing well-preserved finger markings and unique archaeological deposits.

“Koonalda Cave is of outstanding heritage value to the nation for its role in transforming our contemporary understanding of the extraordinary age of Aboriginal art, archaeology and occupation in Australia,” the listing states.

“The place is of great importance for its contribution to the history of Aboriginal occupation and is of particular significance for the Mirning people.”||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 08:05 AM (Vwz3I)

64 1 year ago today, lost dad. 7 weeks later,mom. Christmas will be... different.
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 22, 2022 07:43 AM (Vgwo7)
******
That's awful. It must be really hard for you during the holidays.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2022 08:06 AM (NpAcC)

65 Get rid of all not for profits. The left (mostly) uses them as pass throughs for their $ in order to hide their activities. They are also quite profitable to for people to employed by them .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2022 08:06 AM (11zNb)

66 The revolving door blurred the lines between the government and the tech industry. It’s still unclear what Twitter was doing on its own initiative or at the behest of the FBI. And it’s unclear where the allegiance of FBI people like Chan really lay.
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This is the wrong question to ask because the answer is obviously "yes" or "it's irrelevant," depending on your perspective. They are all part of the Complex. What is the difference between Twitter and the FBI and the IC and the DoJ and the government more broadly? What is the difference between Twitter and General Motors or Pfizer or Alphabet or Procter & Gamble? None, in all cases.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 08:06 AM (t0OGg)

67 There is simply no other perfect illustration on what the GOP is really all about than the unbelievable charade we've seen with this $1.7 trillion travesty, and their worship of Ukraine above all else. It's...simply unreal. As G*d is my witness, I will not vote for another Republican on the federal level for as long as I breathe air. Not unless a new crop rises up right now and takes a f*cking flame torch to that entire diseased establishment.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 22, 2022 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

68 Mornin’, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 22, 2022 08:07 AM (AdGz1)

69 150 tons of batteries. On a building roof. Brilliant.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 22, 2022 08:07 AM (X/FBY)

70 Mark Steyn suffered two heart attacks a couple of weeks ago and is recovering in a cardiac care unit in a French hospital. Apparently the second one was very serious and he will be in the hospital through the holidays. Breitbart, Rush, and now (almost) Steyn.

He is a fierce free speech warrior who rages against the "dirty, rotten corrupt" Justice Department and its corrupt FBI. Prayers for his full recovery.
Posted by: JM in Florida at December 22, 2022 07:44 AM (2Wpl3)
******
Love Mark Steyn.
I will add him to my prayers.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2022 08:07 AM (NpAcC)

71 Netflix plans to build a $900-million production facility at a former army base at the Jersey Shore.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 08:08 AM (Vwz3I)

72 Whether he's visiting the Big Guy or doing a Vogue fashion shoot, he always dresses like he just got back from reviewing troops at the front. Maybe digging a foxhole or two. He's Our Heeeero.

*rolls eyes*

Our ruling class is so silly. Any cheesy dork can roll them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2022 08:08 AM (oINRc)

73 Which Mark is the shouty one, Steyn or Levin?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2022 08:09 AM (4I/2K)

74 Hahahaha....good. I want the gopE and the rest of the criminals in washington to spend, spend, spend. Little Jose Fentanyl and Rosita Glasspipez can slave away to pay off the debts years from now. The Tuk Tuks have already been driven off of the cliff.

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Elon!

Free Sam Bankaccount-Fried!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 22, 2022 08:09 AM (UCfnM)

75 "Zelensky's getup was something else."

His luggage was stolen at the airport.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 22, 2022 08:10 AM (1n+EO)

76 66 This is the wrong question to ask because the answer is obviously "yes" or "it's irrelevant," depending on your perspective. They are all part of the Complex. What is the difference between Twitter and the FBI and the IC and the DoJ and the government more broadly? What is the difference between Twitter and General Motors or Pfizer or Alphabet or Procter & Gamble? None, in all cases.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 08:06 AM (t0OGg)

At this point, even some Wal-Mart out in East Bumfuck probably has an FBI Plant working there.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2022 08:10 AM (UnA8+)

77 Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News’ “America Reports” on Wednesday that the United States should completely support Ukraine in its fight against Russia, because if Russian President Vladimir Putin succeeds, “the world will unravel.”
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That's interesting. Why? What will cause such an "unraveling?" How is Russia - a large country with a small economy and relatively few (but certainly some) critical industries and exports - the linchpin around which the entire global complex of systems revolves?

It isn't. So what does Graham mean? That the postwar order will unravel because the United States first blundered in a way that helped lead to war in Eastern Europe and then couldn't deal with the problem? That Putin's occasional skepticism of globalism will wreck their entire globalist scheme? Or is it merely the hyperbole of a neocon?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 08:10 AM (t0OGg)

78 67-locals are no better not in my state anyway. Make them all pay. Make them scrub that R label off all of their marketing

Posted by: Ex-GOP at December 22, 2022 08:10 AM (j6nJf)

79 Which Mark is the shouty one

Levine

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 22, 2022 08:10 AM (1n+EO)

80 Our ruling class is so silly. Any cheesy dork can roll them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2022 08:08 AM (oINRc)
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Not any. It takes the crassest cheesy dork to do it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 08:11 AM (t0OGg)

81 I still believe that the sclerotic old cvnts in congress (both houses) would be just fine with the entire nation getting nuked off the face of the planet.

They can't imagine life continuing to thrive after they die, so taking us all out on THEIR way out seems like something their egos would want.
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One of J.J.'s links above talks about "A Blueprint for a Genocide of Existence." The link is a review of a book where the author explicitly wants to abolish the very *concept* of a family from the world.

The Democrats (and many Republicans) are Evil with a capital "E." They really do wish that the entire human race would go extinct...with them going last, of course, enjoying the high life until they finally die off.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2022 08:11 AM (BpYfr)

82 How crazy/corrupt is this?

DoD base budget is $742 billion
Ukraine gets $100 billion -- 13% of DoD
Russia's defense budget is $83 billion

Where is Ukraine money going?
Posted by: JM in Florida

10% off the top to the Big Guy.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 22, 2022 08:11 AM (ikIhh)

83 1 year ago today, lost dad. 7 weeks later,mom. Christmas will be... different.
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 22, 2022 07:43 AM (Vgwo7)

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My thoughts are with you, truly. It's acutely painful around the holidays, especially the first few years after we lose our parents. I like to get out old home movies and watch them around the holidays. I get to see and hear them "alive" again and while it's bittersweet, it warms my heart to be around them...if only on video.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 22, 2022 08:11 AM (sVtYq)

84 At this point, even some Wal-Mart out in East Bumfuck probably has an FBI Plant working there.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2022 08:10 AM (UnA8+)
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I doubt it. That Wal-Mart doesn't need one. Most businesses don't. They have HR departments stuffed full of volunteer commissars.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 08:12 AM (t0OGg)

85 Good morning. Thanx to JJS for pooling the linx!

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at December 22, 2022 08:12 AM (24fqN)

86 Which Mark is the shouty one, Steyn or Levin?

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That would be Levin. I think he's won awards in shouting. lol

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 22, 2022 08:12 AM (sVtYq)

87 Posted by: A dude in MI at December 22, 2022 07:43 AM (Vgwo7)
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You have my sympathy and prayers, Dude.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 08:12 AM (t0OGg)

88 Levin shouts. Steyn makes you laugh.

Posted by: Ziba at December 22, 2022 08:13 AM (4h9M3)

89 To create our world family, family must be purged from the world.

Posted by: Globalist at December 22, 2022 08:13 AM (t0OGg)

90 An international team of researchers has found the first evidence of a dinosaur eating a mammal. In their paper published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the group describes their reexamination of a fossil found more than 20 years ago.

The work builds on the findings of a prior team who studied the fossil, Microraptor zhaoianus, back in 2000. It was found in the Jiufotang Formation in a western part of China. Back then, the research team dated it to approximately 120 million years ago, and noted that the fossil was missing most of its middle part but its rib cage was still intact.

Microraptors were three-toed dinosaurs that, like their larger cousins, were carnivores. They lived in trees and were quite small compared to other dinosaurs — about the size of a modern house cat. Some species of microraptors sported feathers, which might have been used for gliding down from perches in trees.

In this new effort, the researchers found evidence of another fossil inside of the microraptor that once belonged to a tiny mammal. A small fossil mammal foot was found just behind the ribs, proof that the larger creature had feasted on a mouse-size mammal.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 08:13 AM (Vwz3I)

91 86 Which Mark is the shouty one, Steyn or Levin?
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That would be Levin. I think he's won awards in shouting. lol
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 22, 2022 08:12 AM (sVtYq)

Someone here nicknamed him "Old Yeller."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 22, 2022 08:13 AM (x0n13)

92 Whether he's visiting the Big Guy or doing a Vogue fashion shoot, he always dresses like he just got back from reviewing troops at the front. Maybe digging a foxhole or two. He's Our Heeeero.

You know who else was big into fashionable dress uniforms and was a highly decorated fighter?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2022 08:13 AM (4I/2K)

93 65 Get rid of all not for profits. The left (mostly) uses them as pass throughs for their $ in order to hide their activities. They are also quite profitable to for people to employed by them .
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2022 08:06 AM (11zNb)

One reason I will never give another penny to the United Way. 2020 CEO salary: 1.2 million.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 22, 2022 08:14 AM (PiwSw)

94 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)

95 Michelle Admits She "Couldn't Stand" Barry

Didn't you mean to put the quotation marks around the word 'She'?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 22, 2022 08:14 AM (CecP5)

96 As I've said before, I don't much care how Ukraine pans out, as long as the war ends before we end up in it.

But one thing that will suck when it's over, however that happens, will be the Zelenskys moving in next to Harry and Meghan in Montecito, getting their own Netflix series, and doing endless interviews for all the glossies and morning shows. That seems to be the goal for them, from what I can see.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2022 08:14 AM (oINRc)

97 Microraptors were three-toed dinosaurs that, like their larger cousins, were carnivores. They lived in trees and were quite small compared to other dinosaurs — about the size of a modern house cat. Some species of microraptors sported feathers, which might have been used for gliding down from perches in trees.

In this new effort, the researchers found evidence of another fossil inside of the microraptor that once belonged to a tiny mammal. A small fossil mammal foot was found just behind the ribs, proof that the larger creature had feasted on a mouse-size mammal.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 08:13 AM (Vwz3I)
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So more evidence that birds came from dinosaurs.

Assuming that they're not all just making it up, of course.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 08:14 AM (t0OGg)

98 We are under a winter storm warning. Snow, sleet, super high winds = blizzard, according to the weatherman. I hope we don't lost power.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 22, 2022 08:15 AM (45fpk)

99 This budget is a blatant stepping on the American's dick with no regard for the citizen.

They all should be destroyed. Every one of them. I don't care that Rand Paul is screaming about it. He's part of it. I'm done with all of them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

100 Ukraine is all about preserving US hegemony. To support Ukraine is to support the Woke World Order and the Davos crowd.

I don't want to eat the bugs and be loaded over by my they/them overlords so I hope Ukraine loses.

Does this make me un-American? I suppose it does to the current America that long ago killed this great country and has been wearing its corspe as a skinsuit.

Posted by: The red pill at December 22, 2022 08:15 AM (Evb53)

101 >>Good morning, kids. Thursday and all I have to say is fuck the entire GOP to hell.

I still think that Senator, whose name escapes, who opined after the incoming House GOP members complained about the Senate GOP giving the store away to Donks in the Omnibus, that the Senate GOP was going to unburden the House GOP of legislating, is one of the funniest and on brand GOP things I've ever heard.

As has been noted, on numerous occasions, The GOP is an illegitimate political party which is revealed more and more every day.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2022 08:15 AM (up/3i)

102 Is there any greater clarity that the globalists are on the march than the predictable Stanford no-no words such as "American" and the complete dissolving of our borders? The rest of the 'elite' higher learning institutions will fall all over themselves in adopting that pathetic nonsense. I'd never have believed that one day I'd actually see the word "American" as being offensive and off limits. Yet...

What's really offensive is them telling me or anyone else that "American" shouldn't be said. F*ck you.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 22, 2022 08:17 AM (sVtYq)

103 It isn't. So what does Graham mean? That the postwar order will unravel because the United States first blundered in a way that helped lead to war in Eastern Europe and then couldn't deal with the problem? That Putin's occasional skepticism of globalism will wreck their entire globalist scheme? Or is it merely the hyperbole of a neocon?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 08:10 AM (t0OGg)

It'd be less due to any specific action by Russia and more about the loss of confidence in the American empire by other countries. Kissinger, who opposed this activity originally, holds that the US has put itself in a position that is dangerous to back down from(from the perspective of preserving the empire, which has always been a priority of his).

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 22, 2022 08:17 AM (eYoxG)

104 We are under a winter storm warning. Snow, sleet, super high winds = blizzard, according to the weatherman. I hope we don't lost power.
Posted by: grammie winger at December 22, 2022 08:15 AM (45fpk)

Welcome to globally warm Wisconsin, JJ!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

105 Rooftop Korean barbeque...

This Thursday, December 15, the “Daegu Anti-Mosque Committee” organized a big barbecue with pork, only a few meters away from the mosque under construction. It is in this area of Daegu, a large city in southern Korea, that dozens of Muslim students from nearby Kyungpook University gather.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 08:19 AM (Vwz3I)

106 It'd be less due to any specific action by Russia and more about the loss of confidence in the American empire by other countries. Kissinger, who opposed this activity originally, holds that the US has put itself in a position that is dangerous to back down from(from the perspective of preserving the empire, which has always been a priority of his).
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 22, 2022 08:17 AM (eYoxG)
++++
That's why it was my first guess. The postwar order of American empire is over. Even if we wanted to sustain it, we can't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 08:19 AM (t0OGg)

107 They are all part of the Complex. What is the difference between Twitter and the FBI and the IC and the DoJ and the government more broadly? What is the difference between Twitter and General Motors or Pfizer or Alphabet or Procter & Gamble? None, in all cases.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." — Benito Mussolini

Posted by: 7man at December 22, 2022 08:19 AM (qwO6y)

108 >>> Netflix plans to build a $900-million production facility at a former army base at the Jersey Shore.

Im sure Phil Murphy and his friends will take their cut of that.

Posted by: McCool at December 22, 2022 08:20 AM (BqBIh)

109 Mitch McConnell's blue lips are a sure sign of long life and good health...

for a reptilian.

Posted by: He's a Sweat Shirt Hero, Got $$ In His Eyes at December 22, 2022 08:20 AM (WcPfR)

110 "Someone here nicknamed him "Old Yeller."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton "

That may have been me, but it was stolen from somebody on the radio, maybe Michael Savage?

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2022 08:21 AM (iayUP)

111 Someone here nicknamed him "Old Yeller."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 22, 2022 08:13 AM (x0n13)

***

My then 10 year old daughter called him Angry Kermit (the Frog)

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 22, 2022 08:21 AM (flINI)

112 "We are under a winter storm warning."

Here too in Rockford. It's not proceeding as fast as predicted. Had time to grab cigs this AM before the snow.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at December 22, 2022 08:21 AM (24fqN)

113 Mitch McConnell's blue lips are a sure sign of long life and good health...

for a reptilian.
Posted by: He's a Sweat Shirt Hero, Got $$ In His Eyes at December 22, 2022 08:20 AM (WcPfR)
++++
Who, whoa, whoa. Hold the phones. I thought it was the British Royal Family who were the reptillians!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 08:21 AM (t0OGg)

114 It's 44 degrees currently and heading for the "high" for the day of 41. The temp continually drops after sundown for the low tomorrow of 10. They have changed their forecast slightly stating that we may get to 33 on Saturday before returning to the 40's on Sunday.

Here's hoping Ercot got it's head out of it's ass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

115 When Graham says the world will unravel, it starts and stops in Europe.

If these idiots would spend what they are suppose to on defense, it would go a long way to preventing the unraveling.

Until that happens every little flair up around the world could be called the beginning of the end.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 22, 2022 08:21 AM (NW9xb)

116 Things that just aren't done (in the before times):

- Inoculate the population with a leaky pseudo-vaccine into a cold virus pandemic

-Hike goobermint spending into the face of an inflationary wave and severe recession

- Tug on Superman's cape

- Spit into the wind

- Mess around Jim

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2022 08:22 AM (4I/2K)

117 Here too in Rockford. It's not proceeding as fast as predicted. Had time to grab cigs this AM before the snow.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at December 22, 2022 08:21 AM (24fqN)

I hope it passes quickly. All those folks on the road for Christmas Eve.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 22, 2022 08:22 AM (45fpk)

118 Blizzard warning starts at 4pm today. Thanks for the thoughts people. Raises glass

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 22, 2022 08:23 AM (Vgwo7)

119 השם ירחם!

Posted by: Biden's Dog, Front-Line Commenter Wannabee, at December 22, 2022 08:23 AM (dU49V)

120 @TheInsiderPaper · 4h
ALERT - Taiwan scrambled combat jets to warn away 39 Chinese aircraft that entered its air defense zone, Taiwanese defense ministry says

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 08:23 AM (Vwz3I)

121 It's 44 degrees currently and heading for the "high" for the day of 41. The temp continually drops after sundown for the low tomorrow of 10. They have changed their forecast slightly stating that we may get to 33 on Saturday before returning to the 40's on Sunday.

Here's hoping Ercot got it's head out of it's ass.
Posted by: Sponge

And 70 next Thursday.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 22, 2022 08:24 AM (ikIhh)

122 Good morning everyone, fuck this country, fuck this cold spell, fuck the climate change fuckheads, fuck everything, fuck it all, may it all burn in hell

Merry Christmas!

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at December 22, 2022 08:24 AM (VTu1l)

123
And 70 next Thursday.
Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 22, 2022 08:24 AM (ikIhh)

God Bless Texas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

124 Grammie me too. We already don't have hot water. I'll have hubby look at the hot water tank when he gets up.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 22, 2022 08:25 AM (nxdel)

125 @TheInsiderPaper · 4h
ALERT - Taiwan scrambled combat jets to warn away 39 Chinese aircraft that entered its air defense zone, Taiwanese defense ministry says
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 08:23 AM (Vwz3I)

They should've downed every last one of them. Fuck China. China is asshoe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

126 To create our world family, family must be purged from the world.

I'm reminded of a quote (I am paraphrasing) by Robert Ley, the NSDAP head of the German Labor Front: "There is no more private life. The only time you have absolute privacy is when you are sleeping. Nowhere else!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 22, 2022 08:25 AM (AW0uW)

127 @115

>>When Graham says the world will unravel, it starts and stops in Europe.

What he means by the world will unravel is that if we don't continue the forever wars somewhere, then a defense contractor will not get his wings and he won't get his 10 percent cut.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2022 08:25 AM (up/3i)

128 Good morning everyone, fuck this country, fuck this cold spell, fuck the climate change fuckheads, fuck everything, fuck it all, may it all burn in hell

Merry Christmas!
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at December 22, 2022 08:24 AM (VTu1l)

Want some Tylenol?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2022 08:25 AM (4I/2K)

129 Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 22, 2022 08:25 AM (nxdel)

How you feeling?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

130 tff

The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.

We are in to out 7th or 8th year of outright lies, slander, and malicious intent to harm almost 100 million Americans and this is the best statement they can come up with??

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2022 08:25 AM (BRHaw)

131 ||Arizona agreed Wednesday to dismantle a wall of shipping containers at the Mexican border that critics said was an expensive, ecologically damaging political stunt that did nothing to keep migrants out of the United States.

The state’s Republican Governor Doug Ducey spent $90 million of taxpayers’ money lining up rusting boxes in what he said was a bid to stem the flow of people crossing into the country.

The corrugated containers, which snake for four miles (seven kilometers) through federal lands like a huge stationary cargo train, divide an important conservation area that is home to vulnerable species, but which is so difficult to traverse that people traffickers routinely avoid it.

Now Ducey, who leaves office early next year, will have to get rid of the 915 containers from the Coronado National Forest.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 08:26 AM (Vwz3I)

132 Grammie me too. We already don't have hot water. I'll have hubby look at the hot water tank when he gets up.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 22, 2022 08:25 AM (nxdel)

Yikes.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 22, 2022 08:26 AM (45fpk)

133
Want some Tylenol?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2022 08:25 AM (4I/2K)

With a Buffalo Trace chaser?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

134 Thank you, JJ.
RNC? Dead to me.
GOP? Dead to me.
Uniparty Crime Syndicate.

America as founded, full stop.

Posted by: democrats, Kidnapping, Raping or Mutilating the Children They Cannot Kill Since 1973 at December 22, 2022 08:27 AM (jV+aN)

135 I was watching CSPAN again this morning out of disgust, and they had Steven Hayward on talking about Reagan. But what really caught my attention was the host (the bald headed smarmy one) begging Hayward to tell him "what sort of crisis will it take to unite the American public." Holy shit, that says a lot.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at December 22, 2022 08:27 AM (z0DEK)

136 Mount 98% of the DNC and all of the RINO cabal--especially the Turtle, the Michigan/Massachusetts Carpetbagger, and Lizzie Halliburton to the stocks in the public square. . . . . and then introduce the humping rhinoceroses . . . . and let the dogs and rains wash away what's left

Posted by: Despise Marxist & RINO Rat bastards at December 22, 2022 08:27 AM (8m/Xb)

137 133
Want some Tylenol?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2022 08:25 AM (4I/2K)

With a Buffalo Trace chaser?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

Liver Transplant, coming right up.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2022 08:27 AM (UnA8+)

138 I was watching CSPAN again this morning out of disgust, and they had Steven Hayward on talking about Reagan. But what really caught my attention was the host (the bald headed smarmy one) begging Hayward to tell him "what sort of crisis will it take to unite the American public." Holy shit, that says a lot.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at December 22, 2022 08:27 AM (z0DEK)

You likely will find out right around the end of Biden's first term as we will be a 3rd world shithole by then, bankrupt and starving.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

139 I don't care that Rand Paul is screaming about it. He's part of it. I'm done with all of them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

Rand Paul glued his mouth to Ted Cruz' ass and also voted to award a medal of bravery to the capitol police scum who murdered Ashli Babbitt. He's dead to me even if he went full Preston Brooks on Nancy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 22, 2022 08:28 AM (AW0uW)

140 Grammie, How is your son's health? Your health? Hope both of you are healing.

Posted by: Mrs. JTB at December 22, 2022 08:28 AM (7EjX1)

141
Liver Transplant, coming right up.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2022 08:27 AM (UnA8+)

The liver is an evil organ and must be punished.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

142 Does anyone actually know what the US foreign policy is vis a vis Ukraine, other than "staying in it until the end"?

Posted by: Ziba at December 22, 2022 08:28 AM (4h9M3)

143
Good morning everyone, fuck this country, fuck this cold spell, fuck the climate change fuckheads, fuck everything, fuck it all, may it all burn in hell

You okay?

You sound vaccinated.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 22, 2022 08:28 AM (enJYY)

144 With a Buffalo Trace chaser?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

*sets glass on table*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 22, 2022 08:28 AM (V8Q1G)

145 @TheInsiderPaper · 7h
UK’s Guardian newspaper hit by suspected ransomware attack

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 08:29 AM (Vwz3I)

146 We are in to out 7th or 8th year of outright lies, slander, and malicious intent to harm almost 100 million Americans and this is the best statement they can come up with??
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2022 08:25 AM (BRHaw)
==============
That's somewhere south of half-trying.

The FBI isn't worried about the twitter imbroglio. If the CIA has thrived with sixty years of disaster as accomplishment, the FBI is pretty sure this will pass quickly. Besides, they are bust meeting with decorators to talk over their new curtains.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2022 08:29 AM (lhrpN)

147 142 Does anyone actually know what the US foreign policy is vis a vis Ukraine, other than "staying in it until the end"?
Posted by: Ziba at December 22, 2022 08:28 AM (4h9M3)

Making sure Democrats amass GENERATIONAL WEALTH.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2022 08:29 AM (UnA8+)

148 @131

>>Now Ducey, who leaves office early next year, will have to get rid of the 915 containers from the Coronado National Forest.

Well, they're right, it was a stunt, his time would have been better served trying to clean up the voting systems in the state so that Kari Lake wouldn't have been robbed of the Governorship.

I don't think he supported her anyway.

So, I hope he enjoys his new make work job on some corporate board or "conservative" think tank.

Maybe he can get into the pot business with John Boehner.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2022 08:29 AM (up/3i)

149 Sponge, been feeling pretty good. Thanks for asking.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 22, 2022 08:30 AM (nxdel)

150 Grammie, How is your son's health? Your health? Hope both of you are healing.

Posted by: Mrs. JTB at December 22, 2022 08:28 AM (7EjX1)

We are good, thanks be to God! Thank you for asking, and Merry Christmas to you and your family!

Posted by: grammie winger at December 22, 2022 08:30 AM (45fpk)

151 "I hope it passes quickly."

Tonite we get the first pipe-freezing weather of the season. 30mph gusting to 45mph, with -8degF low overnite. My ancient bathroom addition leaks air like a saltines box; have to take measures to keep it all from freezing.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at December 22, 2022 08:31 AM (24fqN)

152 I don't care that Rand Paul is screaming about it. He's part of it. I'm done with all of them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)
Rand Paul glued his mouth to Ted Cruz' ass and also voted to award a medal of bravery to the capitol police scum who murdered Ashli Babbitt. He's dead to me even if he went full Preston Brooks on Nancy.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 22, 2022 08:28 AM (AW0uW)

Concur. Luap Nor and Luap Dnar are both grifting asswipes just like the rest. Hope their neighbors go kick their asses again then freeze dry both of them.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 22, 2022 08:31 AM (UCfnM)

153 The bill will also hand out $890 million worth of taxpayer money to expand the deployment of carbon capture and storage technology, equipment that can remove fossil fuel emissions from the atmosphere.

I think those carbon capture devices are called TREES.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2022 08:31 AM (BRHaw)

154 Near as I can tell (I'm not aces with charts), McConnell assumed office as senator in '85. In '90, the US National Debt was $3233 (in billions). In the time since then, up until 2022, Mitch McConnell has overseen and been part of the budget process which has now put us $31 trillion in debt as a nation. For that, he and all the other long timers in Washington should hang. They have put us on a path to complete financial ruin. He has a large part in that. Just thinking about what they've done is stunning.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 22, 2022 08:31 AM (sVtYq)

155 Sponge, been feeling pretty good. Thanks for asking.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 22, 2022 08:30 AM (nxdel)

Great news!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

156 We are currently on a "work from home" schedule today because of the impending snow/cold that should sweep through here later today.

Question...

How much "work" should I actually get done today?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2022 08:32 AM (BpYfr)

157 JJ, the link for the first article in the Defense section goes to a different article.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 22, 2022 08:32 AM (gaUxn)

158 It's gloomy right now in the Bluegrass. Fog and drizzle with a little bit of wind. We get our taste of the "blizzard" tonight and wake up to bitter cold, wind and perhaps a dusting of snow. Friday's supposed to be brutal and Christmas Eve not a whole lot better.

I'm less concerned about the goings on in the Capitol City and Ukraine right now. I am interested in how FedGov responds to any issues that might develop over the holiday as a result of the unusually cold weather. I expect if needed it will be an unmitigated disaster.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2022 08:33 AM (Q4IgG)

159 How much "work" should I actually get done today?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Work on mixing a drink.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 22, 2022 08:33 AM (V8Q1G)

160 How much "work" should I actually get done today?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2022 08:32 AM (BpYfr)

It's Christmas Eve Eve Eve. That should answer your question.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 22, 2022 08:33 AM (45fpk)

161 Question...

How much "work" should I actually get done today?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2022 08:32 AM (BpYfr)

More than you would at the office as there should be less distraction and water cooler talk.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

162 Have Famous Grouse blended scotch at home. Thinking on stopping and getting a bottle of Carolans Irish Cream for sipping on over the weekend.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 22, 2022 08:34 AM (ikIhh)

163 > Michelle Admits She "Couldn't Stand" Barry

I read the article- the line I liked best was how 'Michelle manages to paint herself as the victim of whatever circumstance she happens to find herself in'

best description of Big Mike ever

Posted by: DB at December 22, 2022 08:34 AM (geLO8)

164 Merry Christmas to you and yours, Grammie.

Posted by: Mrs. JTB at December 22, 2022 08:34 AM (7EjX1)

165 The unraveling picked up speed when FJB took over.
Ain't no stopping it now.

Posted by: Ziba at December 22, 2022 08:34 AM (4h9M3)

166 "How much "work" should I actually get done today?"

Prioritize quality over quantity.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at December 22, 2022 08:35 AM (24fqN)

167
I read the article- the line I liked best was how 'Michelle manages to paint herself as the victim of whatever circumstance she happens to find herself in'

best description of Big Mike ever
Posted by: DB at December 22, 2022 08:34 AM (geLO8

The perpetual victim. Sounds like the lezbos across the street.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

168 Question...

How much "work" should I actually get done today?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2022 08:32 AM (BpYfr)

More than you would at the office as there should be less distraction and water cooler talk.
Posted by: Sponge

Every problem that I have run into these last four days seems to be a 2023 problem.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 22, 2022 08:35 AM (ikIhh)

169 For my fellow ERCOT-dependent Texicans, here is ERCOT's tracker for the power grid and market conditions. See the power demand curve leap over the supply curve right as your lights go out!

https://tinyurl.com/ERCOT-Grid-Status

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2022 08:35 AM (4I/2K)

170 >Question...

How much "work" should I actually get done today?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

just enough so that you can point at it and say, "See? Work."

Posted by: DB at December 22, 2022 08:36 AM (geLO8)

171 Let Them Eat Cock

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2022 08:36 AM (9UlRk)

172 Zalensky is a grifter. Plain and simple. Not a peep from Conservatives in Congress, about him closing Christian Churches in the Ukraine.

Zalensky is a religious bigot

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 08:37 AM (Cw0fX)

173 >The perpetual victim. Sounds like the lezbos across the street.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

I blame Oprah. She led the way in the canonization of 'victims'. Now everybody wants to be a victim.

Posted by: DB at December 22, 2022 08:39 AM (geLO8)

174 Somebody put a shot of spine in Mike Lee's drink.

I guess the fact that Romney and the Rino's tried to beat him for re-election, Woke his ass up

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 08:39 AM (Cw0fX)

175 More than you would at the office as there should be less distraction and water cooler talk.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)
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I can be surprising productive when working at home for that very reason. I like spreading my 8-hour workday over 12 hours or so since I'm generally most productive before lunch and after dinner....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2022 08:39 AM (BpYfr)

176 JJ, I couldn't sleep last night, so listened to the new CJN podcast. Enjoyed it, and agree with CBD about Trump.

I'm still on the Trump train, though.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 22, 2022 08:39 AM (AW0uW)

177 I was watching CSPAN again this morning out of disgust, and they had Steven Hayward on talking about Reagan. But what really caught my attention was the host (the bald headed smarmy one) begging Hayward to tell him "what sort of crisis will it take to unite the American public." Holy shit, that says a lot.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at December 22, 2022 08:27 AM (z0DEK)
++++
Yup. They never think to ask what achievements might result in unity, what good things. Only crises.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 08:39 AM (t0OGg)

178 Zelensky is a corrupt piece of shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 22, 2022 08:40 AM (V8Q1G)

179 153 The bill will also hand out $890 million worth of taxpayer money to expand the deployment of carbon capture and storage technology, equipment that can remove fossil fuel emissions from the atmosphere.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2022 08:31 AM (BRHaw)
-

What the EU is doing is a heads up for what they want to do in N. America. Paul Joseph Watson:

https://youtu.be/wqeichY7ymk

And you will be happy!

Posted by: Biden's Dog, Front-Line Commenter Wannabee, at December 22, 2022 08:40 AM (dU49V)

180 In other words, America generates 288 percent of the economic output of China while emitting 43 percent of China’s CO2. Six times the economic output per Gton of CO2. If the political establishment pushing green actually were pushing green and de-carbonization, they’d recognize that a higher standard of living at a lower CO2 cost (i.e. a more efficient and productive use of energy) is being attained under our political-economic model than under that of Red China.

The free market always finds the best way to create goods and services.
Too bad we no longer live in a free market economy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2022 08:40 AM (BRHaw)

181 She led the way in the canonization of 'victims'. Now everybody wants to be a victim.

Posted by: DB at December 22, 2022 08:39 AM (geLO

Isn't is sad that so many people choose to be oppressed?

Posted by: grammie winger at December 22, 2022 08:40 AM (45fpk)

182 Told you yesterday, the Senate GOP propoganda machine out there blaming Matt Gaetz etc.. from holding up House Sepaker vote, that caused the GOPe to pass omnibus in the Senate.

Rick Santorum on Newsmax pushing the line...

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 08:41 AM (Cw0fX)

183 I blame Oprah. She led the way in the canonization of 'victims'. Now everybody wants to be a victim.
Posted by: DB at December 22, 2022 08:39 AM (geLO

++++
Oh, it's much older than her. I am surprised no network has decided to resurrect "Queen For a Day." That show predates television being commonplace (started as a radio show) and would fit in splendidly in today's world.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 08:41 AM (t0OGg)

184 Rectum? Damn near killed 'em.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2022 08:41 AM (ZLI7S)

185 180 In other words, America generates 288 percent of the economic output of China while emitting 43 percent of China’s CO2. Six times the economic output per Gton of CO2. If the political establishment pushing green actually were pushing green and de-carbonization, they’d recognize that a higher standard of living at a lower CO2 cost (i.e. a more efficient and productive use of energy) is being attained under our political-economic model than under that of Red China.

The free market always finds the best way to create goods and services.
Too bad we no longer live in a free market economy.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2022 08:40 AM (BRHaw)

It's China they want to emulate.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 22, 2022 08:42 AM (eYoxG)

186 You sound vaccinated.

**********

Lol, got up at the crack of dawn for a meeting that wound up being canceled 5 minutes before it was supposed to start

I cranky

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at December 22, 2022 08:42 AM (VTu1l)

187 Doug Ducey is pathetic.

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 08:42 AM (Cw0fX)

188 Mike Obama can't even go to Target anymore for all the little old white ladies constantly badgering her to get things off the top shelf for them.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2022 08:42 AM (4I/2K)

189 Yup. They never think to ask what achievements might result in unity, what good things. Only crises.

And why would we want to unite with our enemies who openly and aggressively want to destroy and kill us?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 22, 2022 08:43 AM (3hSHB)

190 Sun-bleached dog shit > Rick Santorum

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 22, 2022 08:44 AM (V8Q1G)

191 Whether Donbas is controlled by the Ukes or the people that live there will have NO impact on Americans.

The southern border though? Not only are Americans losing jobs, but we are letting rapists, murderers, and thieves across the border. Is it most of the illegals? No. But almost a majority of American crime NOW is from illegals and we are letting in millions more.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2022 08:44 AM (lc5cP)

192 Zalensky want U.S and Nato troops on the ground. His goal from the start

Loves the cameras, and could care less if Putin sends a sortie to the States in retaliation

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 08:44 AM (Cw0fX)

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Posted by: natos at December 22, 2022 08:45 AM (O3gMj)

194 I really wonder if anyone in our Oz-like "government" can tell us just exactly what national security, or even national interests, we have in bleeding our treasury dry supporting the kleptocracy that is the Ukraine? Back in my 2nd Armored Division days, we had a saying that "Russia Sucks," and I still believe that to be entirely true. But there's no security threat involved here. And if it's a matter of repelling unjust invasions, then Mexico, Pakistan, Angola and the Philippines et al should have brigade-sized elements already on the ground under the United Nations to punish and repel the Russians. But they don't, they never would have, and they never will. We as American no longer live in a Democracy - this is a hugely corrupt criminal enterprise that is rapidly and with great malice consolidating an unshakable hold on power; and they do not care who gets killed along the way. Ace and the COBs have been yelling fire in a burning theater for a long time as a warning. "Meh, let it burn" is a poor answer, the sort of answer that will lead to staring out through a chain link fence or worse. I'm out of optimism.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at December 22, 2022 08:45 AM (z0DEK)

195 Somebody put a shot of spine in Mike Lee's drink.

It is easy to take a stand when there is nothing on the line. The omnibus is going to pass no matter what. Of course he is puffing his chest.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 22, 2022 08:46 AM (R8uWY)

196 191. But the Gop Donors, same people who push trans rights, want an open borders. Need to bring down those high hourly wages, mate

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 08:46 AM (Cw0fX)

197 that caused the GOPe to pass omnibus in the Senate.

The bill was NOT passed

Just pushed on for debate

Time will tell what it's fate is

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 22, 2022 08:47 AM (XRfkW)

198 -10F in west metro Denver this morning

once temps get into positive territory, I might think about going outside to start the truck

put the power is still on and the plumbing still works, so I'll take it

Posted by: DB at December 22, 2022 08:47 AM (geLO8)

199 put = but

Posted by: DB at December 22, 2022 08:47 AM (geLO8)

200 195. Maybe not. A up and down vote on Title 42 puts the heat on Dem Senators up in 2024, and a lot trash Rino's like Cronyn

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 08:48 AM (Cw0fX)

201 In other words, America generates 288 percent of the economic output of China while emitting 43 percent of China’s CO2. Six times the economic output per Gton of CO2. If the political establishment pushing green actually were pushing green and de-carbonization, they’d recognize that a higher standard of living at a lower CO2 cost (i.e. a more efficient and productive use of energy) is being attained under our political-economic model than under that of Red China.

The free market always finds the best way to create goods and services.
Too bad we no longer live in a free market economy.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2022 08:40 AM (BRHaw)

So, China is a tropical climate with temperatures averaging 95 degrees F and higher every day?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

202 @196

>>But the Gop Donors, same people who push trans rights, want an open borders.

We've had defacto open boarders since 1986, what we have been experiencing for the last two years is an outright invasion and subversion of the American Citizen.

Basically American Citizenship is a joke, our political class is a joke, the whole damn thing is a joke.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2022 08:49 AM (up/3i)

203 Let the Krauts and the Vichy French pay for Ukraine.

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 08:49 AM (Cw0fX)

204 And why would we want to unite with our enemies who openly and aggressively want to destroy and kill us?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 22, 2022 08:43 AM (3hSHB)
++++
This is the root problem that must be addressed. To view those who adhere to scientific processes and try to avert disaster as "enemies" is a big part of the problem. To view those who study and understand sociological phenomena and try to avert injustice as "enemies" is another side to the same coin.

The problem is one of knowledge. Those who view progressives as the "enemy" do so because they do not - either through unwillingness or incapacity - understand how progressives are doing everything in their power to bring about a world that is less polluted, less unjust, less oppressive, less violent and more stable than the world as it exists today.

So long as people who are enriched by the injustices of the current system and those who are unwilling or unable to grasp the lower-level problems being solved by true progress will remain difficult and things will continue to proceed piecemeal and less effectively.

We must try to teach those who view progressives as enemies.

Posted by: Your Kid's Sociology Professor at December 22, 2022 08:49 AM (t0OGg)

205
For my fellow ERCOT-dependent Texicans, here is ERCOT's tracker for the power grid and market conditions. See the power demand curve leap over the supply curve right as your lights go out!

When all those electric heat pumps can't pull any heat out of the air and go to resistance back up, people better be ready for the lights to go out. I have three kerosene heaters in my house, and a wood stove. Winter power outages are the worst.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 22, 2022 08:49 AM (enJYY)

206 Tom Cotton is a pentagon whore. Voted for the pork bill. sick of his shit. a Total fraud

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 08:51 AM (Cw0fX)

207 For my fellow ERCOT-dependent Texicans, here is ERCOT's tracker for the power grid and market conditions. See the power demand curve leap over the supply curve right as your lights go out!

I'm watching the SPP.org (Southwest Power Pool) price contour map along with generation overlays.

I'm thankful that SPP, unlike ERCOT, is heavily powered by good old reliable coal. The Kansas wind farms are really living up to their nameplate ratings too as the wind is really assisting.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 22, 2022 08:51 AM (3hSHB)

208 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2022 08:52 AM (qoGsy)

209 Gee, 5 a.m. wakeup hitting me now rather than around 11:00 as usual.

See you later, gators.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 08:52 AM (Vwz3I)

210 Any Arizonan who voted Dem this year, knoing about title 42 is a f###ing idiot. Hobbs removing cannisters on the border.

I hope that shit horde runs wild in Tucson and Phoenix

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 08:53 AM (Cw0fX)

211 The military budget is now higher then when the "surge" was going on in Iraq. At the time we were at war in two countries.

What are we spending all that money on now?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2022 08:53 AM (lc5cP)

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Posted by: natos at December 22, 2022 08:45 AM (O3gMj)

To boldly go where no man has gone before: Rosa DeLauro's perineum. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 22, 2022 08:53 AM (x0n13)

213 Good morning everyone.
---------
"Goodnight", tonypete. [See above.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 22, 2022 08:53 AM (Vwz3I)

214 208. Morning Tony. Espresso and ranting for me today

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 08:53 AM (Cw0fX)

215 Verse for the day:

"Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful."

–James 5:16

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2022 08:54 AM (qoGsy)

216 OK, folks, I've got to dress warm and run some errands.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 22, 2022 08:54 AM (AW0uW)

217 Any Arizonan who voted Dem this year, knoing about title 42 is a f###ing idiot. Hobbs removing cannisters on the border.

I wonder what percent of citizens that have a ballot on record for Hobbs actually cast one?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2022 08:54 AM (lc5cP)

218 How's that go again? The D's & R's are parties where we ain't invited.

Posted by: Archer at December 22, 2022 08:54 AM (gmo/4)

219 When all those electric heat pumps can't pull any heat out of the air and go to resistance back up, people better be ready for the lights to go out.

Also the electric water heaters (some are heat-pump hybrids) when the ambient temperature is down another thirty degrees.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 22, 2022 08:54 AM (3hSHB)

220 One step closer.

@AFP

#BREAKING Kremlin says US fighting "indirect war" against Russia after Zelensky visit

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2022 08:54 AM (ZLI7S)

221 @127

>>>>>then a defense contractor will not get his wings and he won't get his 10 percent cut.

Correct. But the defense spending in Europe makes its way here for the most part.

Heard that Ukraine use all the bullets that France produces every 24 hours - equivalent. That's nuts

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 22, 2022 08:55 AM (NW9xb)

222 Espresso and ranting for me today
Posted by: Weekend at Biden's

Sounds like a sound plan.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2022 08:55 AM (qoGsy)

223 We must try to ~~teach~~ indoctrinate or exterminate those who view progressives as enemies.
Posted by: Your Kid's Sociology Professor at December 22, 2022 08:49 AM (t0OGg)
----
FIFY!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2022 08:55 AM (BpYfr)

224 @AFP
#BREAKING Kremlin says US fighting "indirect war" against Russia after Zelensky visit
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2022 08:54 AM (ZLI7S)
++++
That has been going on since the start. If Putin is deciding to mention it now, I take that as a warning.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 08:55 AM (t0OGg)

225 #BREAKING Kremlin says US fighting "indirect war" against Russia after Zelensky visit

Shortly after Trump was elected the FNM floated a story that Russia was arming the Taliban. All of the "smart" people in government said if true we'd have to go to war with Russia.

Fortunately the story was a complete lie.

But now we are the ones "arming the Taliban" and quite openly as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2022 08:56 AM (lc5cP)

226 224 @AFP
#BREAKING Kremlin says US fighting "indirect war" against Russia after Zelensky visit
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2022 08:54 AM (ZLI7S)
++++
That has been going on since the start. If Putin is deciding to mention it now, I take that as a warning.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 08:55 AM (t0OGg)

Government officials from Russia have been calling it a proxy war for awhile, so I don't see this as a change in stance.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 22, 2022 08:56 AM (eYoxG)

227 Heard that Ukraine use all the bullets that France produces every 24 hours - equivalent. That's nuts

American "aid" to Ukraine has been more then their GDP.

As a way to think about it, imagine if during the Iraq war our "allies" gave us $15T. Absurd right? Well that's what we are doing now, which will allow Z-man to literally fight to the last Ukrainian...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2022 08:58 AM (lc5cP)

228 Michael Beschloss
@BeschlossDC

For any Members of Congress who refused to clap for Zelenskyy, we need to know from them exactly why.

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald

11m
Haul them before a Committee and force them to pledge allegiance to Ukraine and Zelensky or else face long-term imprisonment in a super-max. Refusing to clap for a foreign leader on command is a form of treason. 🇺🇦

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2022 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

229 Well that's what we are doing now, which will allow Z-man to literally fight to the last Ukrainian...
Posted by: 18-1

That will show 'em!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2022 08:59 AM (qoGsy)

230 Our real enemy is China, not Putin

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 08:59 AM (Cw0fX)

231 Someone asked last thread if the cold made us regret our choice to live here. -10 right now with a high of 3 and 24'mph winds. There's enough snow to cover the ground. My utilities work and the drafty house is comfortable. I work from home and am stocked up. I will walk out back a bit later and feed the birds.

No one is living in tents on the streets. No squatters I know of. It doesn't rain all the time and the sky is usually bright blue. Everything I need is in this little town, including medical care. And we wave at each other when out driving. Wish I could have moved here sooner.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 22, 2022 08:59 AM (uz3Px)

232 I so wanted Congress to cut the FBI and DoJ funding. Wipe the smirks off the faces of officials who come to Congress and give non-amswers.

Posted by: JM in Florida at December 22, 2022 09:00 AM (e/bEd)

233 @ggreenwald
Haul them before a Committee and force them to pledge allegiance to Ukraine and Zelensky or else face long-term imprisonment in a super-max. Refusing to clap for a foreign leader on command is a form of treason. 🇺🇦
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2022 08:59 AM (NpAcC)
++++
Don't give them ideas, Glenn.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 09:00 AM (t0OGg)

234 Michael Beschloss
@BeschlossDC

The plagiarist right?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2022 09:00 AM (qoGsy)

235 December 22, 2030.

Breaking!!! Zalensky asking for more Weapons and Money, as he visits Washington

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 09:01 AM (Cw0fX)

236 In response to Your Kid's Sociology Professor:
[i[]This is the root problem that must be addressed. To view those who adhere to scientific processes and try to avert disaster as "enemies" is a big part of the problem.

Yeah, we tried that during the Mass Formation Psychosis otherwise known as the Scamdemic. We tried to inform the Covidians, Mask Nazis and the forced lethal injection enthusiasts that real science, not SCIENCE!™, clearly show that all of their protocols would lead to misery and death. We were made enemies by the Progressives; we were canceled; we were denied services, jobs and even banking.

The Progressives drew first blood.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 22, 2022 09:01 AM (3hSHB)

237 Both Mike Lee and Stephen Miller have spoken months ago about the insanity of passing last minute budget bills to prevent so-called government "shutdowns."

It probably is a fait accompli, but at least Lee spoke out. It's all that one can do these days.

Posted by: Ziba at December 22, 2022 09:02 AM (4h9M3)

238 That is why I love Trump, no matter what happens. Judges, and he pulled the curtain back on the Corrupt DC complex.

Not even Reagan had the guts to do that

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 09:03 AM (Cw0fX)

239 Breaking!!! Zalensky asking for more Weapons and Money, as he visits Washington

At the exact same time that the same Babylon DC government is trying to disarm and impoverish all of its law-abiding citizens.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 22, 2022 09:03 AM (3hSHB)

240 If they were serious they could handover a couple of nukes to Zelenskyy just in case…

Posted by: Burn it all down at December 22, 2022 09:04 AM (lcow4)

241 Omnibus Bill Would Bring U.S. Taxpayer Funds for Ukraine to Over $110 Billion in One Year

The entire Ukraine GDP is $200 B.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2022 09:04 AM (BRHaw)

242 82 year old Senate Minority leader, and we call the Democrats pathetic

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 09:04 AM (Cw0fX)

243 "And then there is the GOP."

And yet, people will still vote for these backstabbing, lying sacks of crap. The GOPe politicians need to be unvoted out of office. Only vote for GOP members that did not vote for this outrageous budget. Period.

Posted by: sidney at December 22, 2022 09:05 AM (Uy/WF)

244 The entire Ukraine GDP is $200 B.

That number is almost certainly a lie though determining if it is too high or low is hard. The formal Uke economy is much lower (yes they are fudging the numbers) but the stuff like sex trafficking doesn't nominally count which is likely a pretty big number here...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2022 09:06 AM (lc5cP)

245 Beschloss is a so-called presidential historian. He's out of his lane on that statement. What a jackass.

He's been doing that a lot lately -- a darling of MSM on the hot topics he knows nothing about.

Posted by: Ziba at December 22, 2022 09:07 AM (4h9M3)

246 Michael Beclown.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 22, 2022 09:07 AM (PiwSw)

247 Thursday and all I have to say is fuck the entire GOP to hell.

Do some of you get it now ? Why so many people instinctively don't trust the GOP ?

Posted by: Telecaster at December 22, 2022 09:07 AM (1k8ns)

248 That has been going on since the start. If Putin is deciding to mention it now, I take that as a warning.

I'm going to take a rare cue from Biden and suggest that a "minor incursion" (e.g. carpet bombing Babylon DC with nukes) would be acceptable to me.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 22, 2022 09:08 AM (3hSHB)

249
Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman

44m
NEW — Democrats have drafted and circulated a side-by-side amendment on Title 42. We hinted at this option this am in @PunchbowlNews

This would give Rs and Ds a vote and essentially cancel out the gop amendment.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2022 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

250 My new Congresscritter gets sworn in in January. Wonder how he takes getting handcuffed to the lame duck spending bill.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2022 09:09 AM (4I/2K)

251 Boys and girls, when your racist and MAGA parents and crazy uncles tease you about record sub-zero Christmas temperatures this weekend, remember to use the current talking point: This is Catastrophic Climate Change due to Americans using fossil fuels!

Can you kids up to age 45 remember? I know you can.

Posted by: Zombie Mr. Rogers at December 22, 2022 09:10 AM (AMIL/)

252 My new Congresscritter gets sworn in in January. Wonder how he takes getting handcuffed to the lame duck spending bill.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2022 09:09 AM (4I/2K)
++++
He's probably okay with it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 09:11 AM (t0OGg)

253 That's a good meme up top for Douchey McDoucheface.

Nicely done again, JJ.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

254 Ryan James Girdusky
@RyanGirdusky

37m
Montana voters must know Jon Tester voted to strip border security from the budget

Max Cohen
@maxpcohen

Replying to @JakeSherman and @PunchbowlNews
Sen. Tester just said he’s involved in writing the side by side amendment

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2022 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

255 Mornin', all! Dropped below 0 F a bit ago, and likely won't see it again for more than a day. Thank God my MO Co-op is serious about keeping the lights on. Brr.

Thanks for the newz, JJ!

Posted by: Catherine at December 22, 2022 09:12 AM (ZSsrh)

256 @250

>>My new Congresscritter gets sworn in in January. Wonder how he takes getting handcuffed to the lame duck spending bill.

He'll be taken to a room, sat down at a table, a briefcase will be put on the table in front of him, the briefcase will be opened, an illuminating light will emanate from the briefcase, he will gaze into the briefcase in either awe or horror, the briefcase will be closed, he will get up from the table, exit the room and will vote the way he is ordered to vote.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2022 09:13 AM (up/3i)

257 We must send all of the children and grandchildren of the US Senate and House of Representatives members to Bakmut in eastern Ukraine armed with rifles to fight the Russians.

The stability of the world depends on it and no sacrifice is too large to make, IMO.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 22, 2022 09:14 AM (doaiM)

258 The situation in Ukraine is starting to look an awful lot like the build up to Vietnam complete with years of CIA meddling in Ukraine prior to the war.

At least the intel community just rigged the election to get rid of Trump for not going along with their plans for Ukraine instead of giving him the full JFK.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2022 09:14 AM (ZLI7S)

259 Remember when the session of Congress that was voted out was called a 'lame duck' session?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Good times. Good times.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2022 09:15 AM (qoGsy)

260 Shouldn't be messing with Putin. Period.

Posted by: Ziba at December 22, 2022 09:15 AM (4h9M3)

261 @258

>>instead of giving him the full JFK.

The JFK option is always on the table for The Deep State.

I'm sort of surprised they haven't gone that route already.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2022 09:15 AM (up/3i)

262 The stability of the world depends on it and no sacrifice is too large to make, IMO.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 22, 2022 09:14 AM (doaiM)

Paul Pelosi, Jr. and Tagg Romney can lead the charge.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 22, 2022 09:15 AM (PiwSw)

263 How can the Senate GOP vote no on a title 42 amendment?

How can any conservative vote for any Republican Senate candidate if they do?

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 09:16 AM (Cw0fX)

264 It is easy to take a stand when there is nothing on the line. The omnibus is going to pass no matter what. Of course he is puffing his chest.

--

It's a scheme we've seen played out 1000x times over. With all of them.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 22, 2022 09:16 AM (sVtYq)

265 "Roberts’ failure to publicly identify the Dobbs leaker has allowed Democrats to foment conspiracy theories about his colleagues."
_____

The only logical conclusion, bolstered by reports that he was attempting to sway his colleagues from their position, is that Roberts ordered it leaked.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2022 09:17 AM (fs1hN)

266 Remember the good times when it was crazy man Trump who was going to start WWIII? Ah yes...

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 22, 2022 09:17 AM (sVtYq)

267 Our CIA pathetic. KGB runs circles around them.

Agency should have been abolished after they fuc##d 9/11

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 09:17 AM (Cw0fX)

268 @263

>>How can any conservative vote for any Republican Senate candidate if they do?

Voting, regardless of the locale or parties involved, has always been "fortified," one way or the other.

What, do you think voting in Haley Barbours Mississippi or McConnell's Kentucky is on the up and up?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2022 09:18 AM (up/3i)

269 OMG - My eyeeeezzzzzzz!!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2022 09:19 AM (im7mX)

270 Remember when the session of Congress that was voted out was called a 'lame duck' session?

It was the formal way that We The People could tell these evil doers that we hate them and want them gone.

Now they use the rebuke as an incentive and the vengeance they are wreaking on We The People is their Viagra.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 22, 2022 09:19 AM (3hSHB)

271 265. Yes . Roberts ordered a staffer to leak it. He was getting heat from his Corporate friends to uphold Roe. Harvard ya know.

He was hoping to scare Kavanaugh. Barrett and Gorsuch never wavered

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 09:19 AM (Cw0fX)

272 Our CIA pathetic. KGB runs circles around them.

Agency should have been abolished after they fuc##d 9/11
Posted by: Weekend at Biden's

Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs
Assassination of Diem

shall I go on?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2022 09:19 AM (qoGsy)

273 Our real enemy is China, not Putin

China enslaves its own population to provide cheap goods, technology and medicine for me.

I fail to see how they are my enemy.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 22, 2022 09:20 AM (doaiM)

274 What, do you think voting in Haley Barbours Mississippi or McConnell's Kentucky is on the up and up?

Go poll any Republican in Kentucky (who isn't in on the grift) and you will learn new cuss words and invective.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 22, 2022 09:20 AM (3hSHB)

275 Omnibus Stalls as Title 42 Amendment Causes Major Problems, Senators Begin Discussing Short-Term Funding Bill
_____

Failure theater. Even if only 51 votes are required for the amendment, where are they going to come from? Manchin, Romney, Murkowski? They won't buck their party for this (Dems, CoC/WSJ).

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2022 09:20 AM (fs1hN)

276 First official day of winter and here in the Black Hills right now, it's -13 F with a -38 F wind chill.

Great place to live the people are friendly. Constitutional carry. Too cold in the winter for liberals.

Posted by: Archer at December 22, 2022 09:21 AM (gmo/4)

277 The CIA is corrupt but not totally incompetent. They have managed to take over this country with almost nobody noticing.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2022 09:21 AM (ZLI7S)

278 One solution to all of this is to charge Merrick Garland, his assistant AGs, and the management of the FBI, with violating 18 USC 241, conspiring to oppress Constitutional rights. The charges could be brought in state court in FL or rural TX. That can be done because the victims of the conspiracy reside in those states. The DOJ can’t take over the prosecution because of the obvious conflict of interest; those people can hardly be expected to prosecute themselves for their own crimes. Part of the evidence of their conspiracy is obvious; they won’t prosecute people who are publicly violating that law, which changes them from prosecutors, and law enforcement, into co-conspirators.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 22, 2022 09:21 AM (CecP5)

279
Now they use the rebuke as an incentive and the vengeance they are wreaking on We The People is their Viagra.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 22, 2022 09:19 AM (3hSHB)

Yes; the behavior of the GOP during this lame duck session is example #1,000,000 of the fact that vote fraud is a small part of the larger fraud, which is our entire political system.

Go ahead. Get universal, 50-state voter ID passed, and clean those voter rolls 'til they sparkle.

Doesn't change what this thing is.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2022 09:21 AM (oINRc)

280 254. Tester only wins with a Soros Liberterian on the Ballot.

Montana GOP is pretty strong these Days, hope they can counter this

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 09:22 AM (Cw0fX)

281 China enslaves its own population to provide cheap goods, technology and medicine for me.
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And buys the politicians who are deliberately destroying our country.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2022 09:22 AM (fs1hN)

282 And buys the politicians who are deliberately destroying our country.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Nonsense!!
--- Paul Ryan (spit!)

Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2022 09:23 AM (qoGsy)

283 274 What, do you think voting in Haley Barbours Mississippi or McConnell's Kentucky is on the up and up?

Go poll any Republican in Kentucky (who isn't in on the grift) and you will learn new cuss words and invective.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 22, 2022 09:20 AM (3hSHB)

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McConnell won his last primary by something like 50 points. Either a whole lot of people are on the dole, or the Republican electorate of KY likes him, by and large.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 22, 2022 09:23 AM (veXAq)

284 >>Great place to live the people are friendly. Constitutional carry. Too cold in the winter for liberals.

Ugh, no kidding! Must be all the CA transplants, because her in Denver it's like there's never been winter cold before today - 15F!! And SNOW! There oughta be a law against this...

Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2022 09:23 AM (im7mX)

285 272. They also got exposed taking out Allende and Che

Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 09:23 AM (Cw0fX)

286 And buys the politicians who are deliberately destroying our country.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2022 09:22 AM (fs1hN)

We are in agreement, then. It is my own politicians that are the source of my misery, not a bunch of rice farmers on the other side of the planet.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 22, 2022 09:23 AM (doaiM)

287 Antifa ready to be investigated? Will the pendulum swing to the right?

Posted by: Coki at December 22, 2022 09:24 AM (iDgIM)

288 Every funding bill should be America FIRST. ENOUGH with this funding tranny studies in Pokeeestahn bullshit.

Fuck this government. It is corrupt and broken. Eat bugs and give $5 handies under a bridge you worthless cünts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

289 Archer- I bet the view on Needles Hwy. with the snow is beautiful

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 22, 2022 09:25 AM (V8Q1G)

290 Ugh, no kidding! Must be all the CA transplants, because her in Denver it's like there's never been winter cold before today - 15F!! And SNOW! There oughta be a law against this...
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2022 09:23 AM (im7mX)
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-15 is cold for Denver. Not common, but by no means unprecedented. I remember back in 2013, maybe, when it was like -20 to -15 for a week. That *sucked.*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 09:25 AM (t0OGg)

291 Specifically, he notes that between September 2022 and December 2022, the CDC has removed at least 32,844 records of injury related to the following conditions: myocarditis, pericarditis, and heart inflammation. What were 45,388 reports three months ago has now inexplicably dropped down to 12,544.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2022 09:26 AM (BRHaw)

292
The CIA is corrupt but not totally incompetent. They have managed to take over this country with almost nobody noticing.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2022 09:21 AM (ZLI7S)

The IC is a small part of the larger fraud as well. And so is the Pentagon. And so is Big Tech, and finance, and industry, and academia, and the broader education system, and the medical establishment, and on and on.

When you add it all up, the whole system is one big interlocking set of scams.

Everyone keeps pointing to their most hated corrupt institution, but the answer is that it's everything. We have a tendency to pull on one fin or tentacle on the Leviathan, and not see the rest.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2022 09:26 AM (oINRc)

293 Archer- I bet the view on Needles Hwy. with the snow is beautiful

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 22, 2022 09:25 AM (V8Q1G)

I bet. Alias, I'm at work.

Posted by: Archer at December 22, 2022 09:26 AM (gmo/4)

294 By streamlining the process, the CDC got inundated with adverse event reports from the Covid-19 shot. Out of the 10,108,273 individual users, 800,000 had an adverse event — or about 1 in 13. And of those 800,000 V-Safe reports, only 30,492 have been logged into VAERS.

Thats less than 4%!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2022 09:26 AM (BRHaw)

295 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 22, 2022 09:23 AM (veXAq)

Since you were avoiding The Horde on our shared special day, I wish you and your bride a belated happy anniversary on my birthday last week.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

296 Alzhiemers, give it this year and it'll last a lifetime.

Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2022 09:26 AM (z3WCn)

297 Just read a blurb on Zelensky getting his Christmas gift while America gets the Grinch.

It made me want to scream.

Posted by: Ziba at December 22, 2022 09:27 AM (4h9M3)

298 Terry Jeffrey: ". . . driving America away from a society based on objective truth — where a boy is a boy, for example — toward a society where what we pretend is true depends on what those in authority demand."

Everyone can play that game. Wherever reparations are approved, every single person needs to apply. Make the government prove you were not harmed in any manner by slavery in the US. I can think of many ways slavery reduced the amount of money I should have today, even though my forebears did not arrive in the US until the 1880s.

Posted by: Gref at December 22, 2022 09:27 AM (AMIL/)

299 Everyone keeps pointing to their most hated corrupt institution, but the answer is that it's everything. We have a tendency to pull on one fin or tentacle on the Leviathan, and not see the rest.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2022 09:26 AM (oINRc)
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Something something comment number 66 on this thread something something

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 09:27 AM (t0OGg)

300 Diamonds, that'll shut her up.

- Ron White

Posted by: Archer at December 22, 2022 09:27 AM (gmo/4)

301 To blame China for buying influence is to assume that American politicians have no choice but to take the check, that they are unable to say "No thanks, I represent my people and their way of life".

It is Judas that gave up Jesus, and he is by all rights remembered for that.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 22, 2022 09:27 AM (doaiM)

302 Can someone explain to me how the government raking in even more $$$$$ on the backs of the peasants does anything for "the planet?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

303
Something something comment number 66 on this thread something something
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2022 09:27 AM (t0OGg)

Heh.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2022 09:28 AM (oINRc)

304 McConnell won his last primary by something like 50 points. Either a whole lot of people are on the dole, or the Republican electorate of KY likes him, by and large.

My sources come from state politicians who, in their course of campaigning (door knocking, events, etc.) bringing up McConnell brings up the hate - so the usual course is to just keep silent.

There is a LOT of grift and back room deals going on. The backstabbing treachery is something to behold. I wouldn't doubt for a minute that McConnell has a very good ballot fortifying team in KY. He has only several decades to build and shore it up.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 22, 2022 09:29 AM (3hSHB)

305 I hope McConnell gets a nice present of ass cancer for Christmas.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 22, 2022 09:29 AM (JchF3)

306
I hope McConnell gets a nice present of ass cancer for Christmas.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 22, 2022 09:29 AM (JchF3)

A big box with pretty paper, and when he opens it up: vicious rape dog.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2022 09:30 AM (oINRc)

307 295 Since you were avoiding The Horde on our shared special day, I wish you and your bride a belated happy anniversary on my birthday last week.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

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Happy belated birthday to you!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 22, 2022 09:30 AM (veXAq)

308 Ukraine could at least offer mail brides, they won't be woke and they can be quite cuties

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 22, 2022 09:31 AM (wjsVP)

309 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 22, 2022 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

310 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 22, 2022 09:31 AM (gaUxn)

311 Alzhiemers, give it this year and it'll last a lifetime.
Posted by: Eromero

Clark, it's the gift that keeps on giving.

Posted by: Cousin Eddy at December 22, 2022 09:32 AM (ikIhh)

312 >>Everyone keeps pointing to their most hated corrupt institution, but the answer is that it's everything. We have a tendency to pull on one fin or tentacle on the Leviathan, and not see the rest.

Yes, it is. But there is one institution in DC that has never changed and while politicians come and go it never leaves and that is the intelligence community.

They are the masters of the deep state and everything revolves around them.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2022 09:32 AM (ZLI7S)

313 McConnell won his last primary by something like 50 points. Either a whole lot of people are on the dole, or the Republican electorate of KY likes him, by and large.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 22, 2022 09:23 AM (veXAq)

Every selfish layabout with their hand out for phreebies from uncle sugar loves their State's grifter senator or rep. It's the other selfish layabouts in the other states with their own state's grifter senator or rep that are the problem.

Just another reason to abolish the federal government.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 22, 2022 09:33 AM (UCfnM)

314 When you add it all up, the whole system is one big interlocking set of scams.

We were introduced to the term "sheep dipping" yesterday to explain what we all know about.

Its a very common trope in action thriller books and movies.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 22, 2022 09:34 AM (3hSHB)

315 Slavery reparations:

My 2nd great-grandfather was an abolitionist from NY who served in Company H, 110th Reg., NYS Volunteers. Our family should be exempt from federal taxes in the amount equal to any reparations paid to anyone who can prove slave ancestry.

Posted by: Archer at December 22, 2022 09:36 AM (gmo/4)

316 @283

>>McConnell won his last primary by something like 50 points. Either a whole lot of people are on the dole, or the Republican electorate of KY likes him, by and large.

They run tomato cans against him in the primaries to give the illusion of legitimacy and the Donks strategy for the last several cycles has been to run out and out kooks against him.

The Governor of Kentucky is a Democrat, he'll probably run for the Senate and Win when McConnell shuffles off the stage.

So we got that to look forward to.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2022 09:37 AM (up/3i)

317 Hey, this stuff was ONLY happening at Twitter. Now we all know about it. So shut up.

Posted by: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Google, Apple and Friends at December 22, 2022 09:50 AM (ZC8hN)

318 Detecting something "fishy," Bishop noted that the word "salmon" appears 48 times in the bill, which included a $65 million commitment to Pacific coastal salmon recovery. He also found $3 million for bee-friendly highways.
Pork, Parks, and Woke: All He 'Fun' Features in $1.7 Trillion Omnibus

I hope everyone has been reading Dan Bishop's Twitter thread where he has been sharing his findings of what is in the bill. It's enraging, depressing and demoralizing.

ThreadReader App: http://bit.ly/3PKI9eQ
Rep Dan Bishop Twitter Thread: http://bit.ly/3jmLCV4

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 22, 2022 10:02 AM (Do5/p)

319 Lunatics. Racism is not science but a social construct using colors to blame others for cultural, ethnic or moral choices on others as if. It has zero impact on body physiology, FFS. I am so done with this BS. More money didn't fix DC's educational outcomes, and benefits are available via gov't handouts for all colors and ages. I am not responsible for the outcomes or choice of where people live and do what they do. Shove it where the sun doesn't shine, DHHS. Until they stop making victims of colors, nothing will change and entitlement mindsets will only grow exponentially until the last nail is smashed.

Posted by: DefendUSA at December 22, 2022 10:07 AM (QwnRn)

320 GOP in DC is, as stated, rotten to the core, but Republicans (especially here in FL, where the incoming legislature will feature an 85-35 margin in the House and 28-12 in the Senate) at the state level are doing a lot of great things. Think of all those Republican state treasurers pulling billions out of "woke" investment funds like BlackRock.

If you contribute to political campaigns, choose wisely.

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at December 22, 2022 10:41 AM (WusEB)

321 Went into a liquor store yesterday and grabbed a bottle of Buffalo Trace. The clerk said BT is getting hard to find lately, and I responded that I had never tried it before!

She stared at me and would have clutched her pearls had she been wearing any, and watched me with suspicion until I left.

Had a drink of it last night. Very nice. May well cut into my Jack Daniels purchases.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 22, 2022 11:23 AM (gh7k+)

322 I get paid over $85 per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over 10k a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless.
Here's what I've been doing... Payath𝐨me7.Com

Posted by: Tom at December 22, 2022 11:29 AM (GTGfn)

323 American Journal of Medicine Says a Belief in Freedom Could Be Hazardous to Your Health

Da. Regime will send Kulaks like you to Siberia, and that is bad for your health, comrade.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2022 11:50 AM (ynpvh)

324 Would love to see the original face before the Graham photoshop.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at December 22, 2022 12:01 PM (GK7FA)

325 324 Would love to see the original face before the Graham photoshop.
Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at December 22, 2022 12:01 PM (GK7FA)

Here you go:

https://www.christmascentral.com/

womens-camo-bombin-betty-halloween-costume-size-small/

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 22, 2022 02:49 PM (x0n13)

326 280 254. Tester only wins with a Soros Liberterian on the Ballot.

Montana GOP is pretty strong these Days, hope they can counter this
Posted by: Weekend at Biden's at December 22, 2022 09:22 AM (Cw0fX)

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Need to clean up Missoula County. At least 7000 fraudulent ballots were cast and counted in 2020.

Also, keep Marc Elias and his gang of lawyers out of the state. His lawsuits have kept the Greens off the ballot, which would chew into Tester's totals if the Greens were included on the ballot.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at December 22, 2022 03:05 PM (xxG/v)

327 But JJ, aren't we overlooking the big positive here, which is no more mean tweets? 😆

Fuck the G.O.P.
Fuck them to hell and back.
Trump, Desantis... what does it matter. Too late now.

Bye United States. We loved you while you lasted.

Posted by: Tracy at December 22, 2022 04:54 PM (x58Cx)

328 The funny (sad) reality is, people who are totally pissed about the Republican betrayal of 2020, we don't have to do anything to relegate them to 3rd party status. They are doing it all by themselves.

Thank you, President Trump for the four years (2017-2021) of sanity and attempt at national renewal. Just think what could have been, had your reelection not been stolen with the aid of people supposedly on our side.

Posted by: Tracy at December 22, 2022 05:09 PM (x58Cx)

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