CBS News: The US Was Double-Billed for Projects in Wuhan<br>Fauci: You Know, Sometimes Labs Leak Naturally-Evolved Viruses

CBS News: The US Was Double-Billed for Projects in Wuhan
Fauci: You Know, Sometimes Labs Leak Naturally-Evolved Viruses

They also report Dr. Redfield's congressional testiomny that "Money from multiple agencies funded high-risk research in Wuhan." Though they don't confirm that or even advance that part of the story, it's interesting that a Regime propaganda outlet is giving it prominent reporting.

You don't say, CBS News. You don't say.

Remember two months ago when CBS News was able to confirm the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop?

The news admitted by the Regime is always years behind the actual news.

This report is mostly about Wuhan possibly double-billing the US government and bilking us out of millions, but the grabbier part is the acknowledgement by Regime Television that we probably financed covid-19.

By Catherine Herridge, Analisa Novak

The U.S. government may have made duplicate payments for projects at labs in Wuhan, China, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), according to records reviewed by CBS News.

"What I've found so far is evidence that points to double billing, potential theft of government funds. It is concerning, especially since it involves dangerous pathogens and risky research," said Diane Cutler, a former federal investigator with over two decades of experience combating white-collar crime and healthcare fraud.

Cutler found evidence of possible double payments as she investigated U.S. government grants that supported high risk research in China leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic. She was hired by Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, who took her records to USAID and the internal watchdog at USAID, which launched a new probe, details of which have not been previously reported.
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Sources told CBS News that tens of millions of dollars could be involved.

Sources familiar with the grant records did not dispute CBS News' reporting.

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Marshall is now calling for a 9/11-style commission.

"I think there's 1.1 million reasons that American taxpayers should care," he said. "You'll have a plane crashes. We want to find out why the plane crashes. We go to any lengths to do that. And the hope is we don't have another plane crash for the same reason."

While intelligence agencies have not been able to reach a consensus on the origin of the pandemic, the FBI and Energy Department have found an accidental lab leak is plausible. The Wuhan Institute of Virology conducted viral research in the city where the SARS-CoV-2 virus first emerged.

During a recent congressional hearing regarding the origins of COVID-19, the House voted unanimously on a bill ordering the declassification of intelligence about the origins. Robert Redfield, the former director of the CDC, testified that money from the NIH, the State Department, USAID and the Defense Department provided funding for high-risk virus research in Wuhan.

CBS is now admitting Fauci funded coronavirus gain of function testing at the Wuhan Covid Lab. pic.twitter.com/RqAJBYF9MV
— @amuse (@amuse) March 13, 2023

Meanwhile, Anthony "The Science" Fauci spoke with a very, very friendly Regime propagandist, Jim Acosta, and reminded everyone that if Wuhan were collecting bat viruses and a worker got sick with such a virus and then spread it out into the world, that would be a "lab leak," but that would still be a naturally-arising virus.

JUST IN – Fauci Now Says A Lab Leak Could Still Be Considered As Coming From Natural Origins

"A lab leak could be that someone was out in the wild maybe looking for different types of viruses in bats, got infected, went into a lab, and was being studied in a lab, and then came… https://t.co/iocm9lHsCH pic.twitter.com/zmPcwIcQmC
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) March 12, 2023

This is what Nixon called the "modified limited hang-out" -- beginning to let out a lie which is nevertheless closer to the truth than the previous story. Anthony "The Science" Fauci is offering up this new story because the old story is "no longer operative."

Meanwhile, "The Science" plays the usual leftwing criminal card of claiming that he must not be criticized because when you criticize him, not only are you attacking "The Science," but you are causing "The Science" to receive death threats so you can't criticize him.

Fauci in response to @elonmusk's “Prosecute Fauci” comment: “Prosecute me for what? What are they talking about?”

Let's help him understand. Prosecute him for lying about:
- Lockdowns
- Masks
- Vaccine efficacy
- Remdesivir
- Origin of Covid

Enough?pic.twitter.com/P8Ie9EEvLO
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) March 12, 2023

You can, of course, continue attacking Supreme Court Justices, and explicitly calling for them to "never have a moment's peace again."

Posted by: Ace at 12:11 PM

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1 Foist

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 13, 2023 12:11 PM (UuD2k)

2 Well, I guess that's that.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2023 12:12 PM (D6oOC)

3 Good morning Ace.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 13, 2023 12:12 PM (Y+l9t)

4 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 13, 2023 12:12 PM (T4tVD)

5 That's some serious banking skillz.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2023 12:13 PM (J7wri)

6 No one can be shocked by this

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2023 12:13 PM (C+qwo)

7 This report is mostly about Wuhan possibly double-billing the US government and bilking us out of millions, but the grabbier part is the acknowledgement by Regime Television that we probably financed covid-19.

Old and busted: That's a racist conspiracy theory and anyway stating it should be imprisoned

New Hotness: Meh, sometimes we release diseases on the world. Oopsie.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2023 12:13 PM (lc5cP)

8 Anti Fauci rhetoric? We're not supposed to be outraged at the guy who lead the charge to abrogate our civil rights?

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at March 13, 2023 12:13 PM (2YtOq)

9 I can see a lot of other countries being pretty pissed at the US for funding covid.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 13, 2023 12:13 PM (UuD2k)

10 I would have been first if I hadn't posted on the last thread about the crazy Rasmussen poll showing Biden at +1 with 50% approval.
Who in their right mind thinks Biden is doing a good job?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 13, 2023 12:13 PM (Y+l9t)

11 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 13, 2023 12:14 PM (Wnv9h)

12 The U.S. government may have made duplicate payments for projects at labs in Wuhan, China, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), according to records reviewed by CBS News.
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NIH funding has been known for some time. USAID funding is news to me. It wouldn't surprise me.

But are these "duplicate payments" or were different agencies paying for different things at the Wuhan lab? How many other reckless and sinister projects were there? Were both USAID and NIH paying for coronavirus research and if so, were they both paying for the same project (e.g., just straight fraud and theft) or were there several projects receiving US taxpayer money?

My bet is on the latter and this wasn't double-dipping it was just multiple projects being financed illegally by the US government.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2023 12:14 PM (t0OGg)

13 No one can be shocked by this

2020: That's a racist conspiracy theory that merits prison time

2021: Totally debunked. Stop spreading misinformation

2022: COVID? You still care about COVID?

2023: Yeah we paid for it and it came from a lab...old news

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2023 12:14 PM (lc5cP)

14 Fauci lamp post decorations to be available soon.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at March 13, 2023 12:14 PM (CecP5)

15 If Fauci is Science, then Science is a dick.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 13, 2023 12:15 PM (UuD2k)

16 Double-billing is how you build up a nest egg...

Posted by: Credit Suisse at March 13, 2023 12:15 PM (CaJIi)

17 "The US Was Double-Billed for Projects in Wuhan"

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The goals of omnibus spending bills and continuing resolutions are really opaque aren't they?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 13, 2023 12:15 PM (F/tPr)

18 Almost first. The regime must have come up with a plan on future Covid issues given that CBS a propaganda ministry is putting this stuff out there. Of course given that this administration is made up of meth fueled ideologues they'll just screw up the plan.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2023 12:15 PM (3fyU/)

19 Meanwhile, Anthony "The Science" Fauci spoke with a very, very friendly Regime propagandist, Jim Acosta, and reminded everyone that if Wuhan were collecting bat viruses and a worker got sick with such a virus and then spread it out into the world, that would be a "lab leak," but that would still be a naturally-arising virus.
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This is not a surprising pivot. Now that the "lab leak hypothesis" is in the popular headspace and very likely true, this dodge makes sense. "It came from the lab but it was a naturally-occurring virus that could have caused a pandemic anyway by natural sources if it hadn't been caused by the lab leak" is a way to try to avoid the obvious next question about why Fauci was funding gain-of-function research that he was prohibited by law from funding.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2023 12:16 PM (t0OGg)

20 Who's coming to my BBQ celebration when this Keebler elf assumes room temperature in this life and burns in hell in the next?

Posted by: Crazy to be sane at March 13, 2023 12:16 PM (vEeLW)

21 Is there a free lamppost around?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 13, 2023 12:16 PM (ufFY8)

22
Fauci needs to visit Nuremburg Germany and answer some questions from people who won't bend over and let smoke get blown up their ass.

Off topic (sorry)
Current list of Nasdaq 'Trading Halts' - is your bank on the list? One of mine is.
https://tinyurl.com/2zd3u2y9

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 13, 2023 12:16 PM (enJYY)

23 Remember when in early 2021 files were leaked from the DoD that claimed

The clot shot did nothing

IVM worked

COVID came from the Wuhan lab

and...the media just pretended it was fake news?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2023 12:16 PM (lc5cP)

24 Boy, that Fauci is a piece of work! What idiot appointed him to the White House Coronavirus Task Force?

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at March 13, 2023 12:16 PM (MvF+J)

25 Scott Adams has a comment on point.

https://bit.ly/3JxtkLf

(Link to the Twatter.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 13, 2023 12:16 PM (FVME7)

26 Lets not forget the bio-labs in Ukraine, what sort of cute pandemics might they leak? Maybe a nifty combination of Ebola and Smallpox?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at March 13, 2023 12:16 PM (CecP5)

27 I for one appreciate that they finally admitted it.

It's like being in a prison cell with a large, burly man mounting you, and he finally says out loud for all in the courtyard to hear "Hey, I'm raping this guy."

It doesn't change the pain in your sphincter, but it's nice to be acknowledged.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2023 12:16 PM (D6oOC)

28 It's almost like they control the internet so they are not concerned about anyone documenting their lies. "We have always been at war with EastAsia."

Posted by: Iris at March 13, 2023 12:17 PM (foa6+)

29 Meanwhile, "The Science" plays the usual leftwing criminal card of claiming that he must not be criticized because when you criticize him, not only are you attacking "The Science," but you are causing "The Science" to receive death threats so you can't criticize him.
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Of course. If ruling elites start facing consequences, that is *very* bad for the ruling elites. It might even cause the ruling elites to get kicked out and replaced with other ruling elites.

Best just not to go down that road. If you don't go down that road, the ruling elites remain happy and safe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2023 12:17 PM (t0OGg)

30 I think DOD funded this as well with the excuse that we'd have to know how to counter a biologic attack.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 13, 2023 12:17 PM (Y+l9t)

31 349 I'd bet that the DIE crap focus & energy was easily north of 50% among management's time across the board.

Why shouldn't it be? If financial wizards come in and wave their magic wands anytime a depositor, investor, or institution is going to take a loss (provided we are talking about the rich
depositors, investors, and institutions) then where's the incenti

This. Nobody wants to tend to bidness...all the want to do is carve up the"profits". Surprise! No profits.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 13, 2023 12:17 PM (0iRzB)

32 Fauci will be prosecuted sometime after the moon explodes and rains gold and puppies, or if you want to put a number on it, "two weeks".

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2023 12:17 PM (t3nAe)

33 The left worshipping Fauci is like a Cuban fleeing communism worshipping Stalin. Let's all suck the shriveled ass of the guy who caused the pandemic

How do you square that circle

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 13, 2023 12:17 PM (VTu1l)

34 Our "elites" have a massively mistaken confidence in their own competence.

They have a conviction that they are just and righteous that would shame any medieval Inquisitor.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 13, 2023 12:18 PM (zjgNU)

35 Didn't Mengele claim to be science?

Posted by: That Northern skulker at March 13, 2023 12:18 PM (eGTCV)

36 It may be time to send in Agent DePape to rectify this crisis.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 13, 2023 12:18 PM (KFhLj)

37
There was no lab leak.

It was a lab *release*.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2023 12:18 PM (t3nAe)

38 I for one appreciate that they finally admitted it.

If they admitted it, the truth is even worse than that.

Posted by: t-bird at March 13, 2023 12:18 PM (CaJIi)

39 Hang.Them.All.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2023 12:18 PM (tkR6S)

40 I thought it was Ehrlichman, no???

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 13, 2023 12:19 PM (jzzG8)

41 Money for nothing get your bugs for free.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2023 12:19 PM (63Dwl)

42 Off topic (sorry)
Current list of Nasdaq 'Trading Halts' - is your bank on the list? One of mine is.
https://tinyurl.com/2zd3u2y9
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Pretty impressive list. We may have to amend the expression from "Friday the 13th" to "Monday the 13th."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 13, 2023 12:19 PM (FVME7)

43 The idea that somehow China is gonna be held accountable for Covid is nothing but a diversion intended to avert your gaze from the reality that we're neck deep in that plandemic with China.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 13, 2023 12:19 PM (+2RzF)

44 There was no lab leak.

It was a lab *release*.

Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

Posted by: Rep. Eric Shartswell at March 13, 2023 12:19 PM (Sv58p)

45 Are we the baddies?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 13, 2023 12:20 PM (ufFY8)

46 Event: Biden launches nukes - billions die around the world.

ClownWorldTroll: Which president lost to Biden, and failed to destroy our nukes before Biden could use them?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at March 13, 2023 12:20 PM (CecP5)

47 I wonder what the Chinese paid for Bubonic plague back in the 14th century?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:21 PM (zZu0s)

48 I think DOD funded this as well with the excuse that we'd have to know how to counter a biologic attack.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 13, 2023 12:17 PM (Y+l9t)
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Not if the leaked DoD (DARPA) documents are to be believed. EcoHealth tried to get DARPA money to do this, and DARPA was ruthless in their rejection. It read like an experienced, cynical college professor critiquing the lousy work product of an arrogant and reckless student who was tremendously self-impressed and convinced of his greatness despite never demonstrating it. That rejection was brutal (in terms of a professionally written executive note, anyway).

EcoHealth found that courting the NIH was much more productive.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2023 12:21 PM (t0OGg)

49 It was cheap at twice the price!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 13, 2023 12:21 PM (FVME7)

50 Prosecute for what?...Maybe perjury...is that still a thing?

Posted by: BignJames at March 13, 2023 12:21 PM (AwYPR)

51
Fauci will be prosecuted sometime after the moon explodes and rains gold and puppies, or if you want to put a number on it, "two weeks".
Posted by: ...

A significant number of Americans think he is a god.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2023 12:21 PM (63Dwl)

52 Are we the baddies?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 13, 2023 12:20 PM (ufFY

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Yes. The average joe on the street, probably not - but that average joe's government rules? Oh yeah.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2023 12:21 PM (t0OGg)

53 Are we the baddies?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 13, 2023 12:20 PM (ufFY

You? No.

Our government? Yes. For some time now, I'm just working out how long that's been the case.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2023 12:21 PM (D6oOC)

54 Medical centers treating dementia patients in Russia are now using pictures of Joe Biden in their advertising.

LOL.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2023 12:21 PM (2tUFv)

55 50 Prosecute for what?...Maybe perjury...is that still a thing?
Posted by: BignJames at March 13, 2023 12:21 PM (AwYPR)

Nope.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 13, 2023 12:22 PM (UuD2k)

56 Aren't the bank regulators supposed to be watching things like this?

Yes, and they did. But the regulators were specifically promoting what these banks were doing. ESG is official Biden administration policy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2023 12:22 PM (0hOvj)

57 Prosecute Fauci?
Fraud, for all his lies.
Conspiracy, to bypass Federal guidelines on GOF research.
Money Laundering, sending money through a cut out.

Taking Civil Rights under cover of Law.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2023 12:22 PM (oHd/0)

58 We send money to other countries for the most ridiculous things. Funding labs in countries with which we have cold war relations is just ridiculous. The only reason to do this is because the research is risky. So let's give money to the Chinese to fund research so risky it is not allowed here and give them the opportunity to weaponize it against us.
as I said just Ridiculous.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 13, 2023 12:22 PM (Y+l9t)

59 The Regime will never press China for Covid reparations because the Chinese and everyone else would demand that USA pay.

Posted by: Republic Theatre, brought to you by Pfizer! at March 13, 2023 12:22 PM (YTBIQ)

60 So I guess we are supposed to be happy they just wanted to totally control us and not kill us all quickly by the millions?

Posted by: Iris at March 13, 2023 12:22 PM (foa6+)

61 Pretty impressive list. We may have to amend the expression from "Friday the 13th" to "Monday the 13th."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 13, 2023 12:19 PM (FVME7)

Wait, wait, wait. I was told that there was no 'contagion' (before during and after the three banks went down one by one.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:22 PM (zZu0s)

62 This is like if we paid Japan during WW2 to fund Unit 731.

Posted by: polynikes at March 13, 2023 12:22 PM (PlEV5)

63 The federal government is an Ali Baba's treasure cave of corruption, overspending, graft, bribes, smoke and mirror bookkeeping, disappearing funds and rape.

You must know the secret words to gain access.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 13, 2023 12:23 PM (LAno9)

64 Nothing to see here. Move along looky loos.

Posted by: Mnnfidel at March 13, 2023 12:23 PM (GwxCX)

65 Charge him for what?

How about Second Degree Parading for all those bullshit press conferences?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 13, 2023 12:23 PM (KFhLj)

66 Fauci will be prosecuted sometime after the moon explodes and rains gold and puppies, or if you want to put a number on it, "two weeks".
Posted by: ... at March 13, 2023 12:17 PM (t3nAe)
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There might be a reckoning. In history books. Written by the next great power to rise after the fall of ours helps precipitate a new dark ago. Give it a few hundred years, and Fauci's name might be uttered in the same breath as Mengele. Not before.

No, in our current era, it will not happen. Fauci will remain a free man and hero of The Science until he dies. Then he will be given a state funeral. Then there will be a statue of him erected on the National Mall.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2023 12:23 PM (t0OGg)

67 Our government? Yes. For some time now, I'm just working out how long that's been the case.

Since late 2001.

The Deep State presided over the biggest intelligence failure in American history, and no one was fired for it.

That convinced the Deep State that they were untouchable.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2023 12:23 PM (2tUFv)

68 46, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 13, 2023 12:23 PM (VohFI)

69 > A significant number of Americans think he is a god.

I'm seeing a lot less Fauci fellating on Fecesbook these days. I think the bloom is off that particular rose.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 13, 2023 12:24 PM (bW8dp)

70 Are we the baddies?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 13, 2023 12:20 PM (ufFY

Russia invades ONE country, and they are worser than Hitler.

How many countries have we had active combat ops in the last 20 years? 10? 15?

Hell, we got more than 10 NOW.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2023 12:24 PM (oHd/0)

71 Fauci killed more people than Osama Bin Laden. Arrest him? Nah bro.

Posted by: Mnnfidel at March 13, 2023 12:24 PM (GwxCX)

72 Pretty impressive list. We may have to amend the expression from "Friday the 13th" to "Monday the 13th."

Farmer Mac is on that list....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 13, 2023 12:24 PM (+2RzF)

73 Jim Jordan makes fiery statement in 3..2..1

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 13, 2023 12:24 PM (DMyTF)

74 What I don't understand is how Fauci and Mow deGrasse Tyson can both be the embodiment of science.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 13, 2023 12:24 PM (FVME7)

75 Our federal gov. has been rotten since November 1963. Maybe longer.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 13, 2023 12:24 PM (XGZoL)

76 Fauci: You Know, Sometimes Labs Leak Naturally-Evolved Viruses
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Which is why there's no animal reservoir.

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 12:24 PM (o/smN)

77 Can't wait for all the late night NPCs to get their software update and start joking "everyone knew it came from a lab only Trump was the dummy who said a bat got too friendly in a market!"

[Clapter and laughs from the audience. Someone yells, "Trump is stupid!" More laughs and clapter. ]

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 13, 2023 12:24 PM (XuB58)

78 You know who else had a modified limited hang-out?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (7wgpR)

79 What I don't understand is how Fauci and Mow deGrasse Tyson can both be the embodiment of science.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 13, 2023 12:24 PM (FVME7)
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They aren't.

They are the embodiment of The Science, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (t0OGg)

80 61 Pretty impressive list. We may have to amend the expression from "Friday the 13th" to "Monday the 13th."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 13, 2023 12:19 PM (FVME7)

Wait, wait, wait. I was told that there was no 'contagion' (before during and after the three banks went down one by one.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:22 PM (zZu0s)

Well saying there's no contagion and no panic is a key part of the plan to avoid contagion and panic.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (eYoxG)

81 There are plentiful mini-Fauxchi wannabes out there. A Dr Schaffner at Vanderbilt University interviewed on C-SPAN over the weekend repeated every Fauxchi talking point lie…. It wasn’t just one guy….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (iqzch)

82 I said when Fauci and Pelosi were saying "go party" that Wuhan was not doing gain of function for SARS-2 with bats and Ant'knee has the receipts to prove it."

Posted by: sven at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (Lzpvj)

83 66 Fauci is 82 y/o. The reaper will get him before earthly justice does.

Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (MvF+J)

84
The Deep State presided over the biggest intelligence failure in American history, and no one was fired for it.

Shrub gave Tenet a medal for it.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (lc5cP)

85 The Regime will never press China for Covid reparations because the Chinese and everyone else would demand that USA pay.

The skimming would be glorious! The Uni-Party and the CCP would gladly agree to punitive reparations and to 'administrate' them.

Posted by: t-bird at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (ptElO)

86 Boy, that Fauci is a piece of work! What idiot appointed him to the White House Coronavirus Task Force?
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at March 13, 2023 12:16 PM (MvF+J)

My, someone's got a hair up his ass about Trump this fine morning. 8^O

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (ZSK0i)

87 You know who else had a modified limited hang-out?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (7wgpR)

This is about me now?

Posted by: Ron Jeremy at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (ufFY8)

88 I'm seeing a lot less Fauci fellating on Fecesbook these days. I think the bloom is off that particular rose.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 13, 2023 12:24 PM (bW8dp)

More like the corpse flower, but ok.

*looks it up*
Amorphophallus titanum, or the titan arum

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (zZu0s)

89 government created this virus

then exacted totalitarian policies to "control" the spread

then lectured, fined, imprisoned, threatened our jobs for not taking a never seen before experimental fake vaccine

then decided this was the best time to promote special treatment for they of 500 different genders and if we're not on board, rinse repeat above

and also push totalitarian policies limiting our food, movement, energy use and if we're not on board, rinse repeat above

i am no longer an american, but a stranger living in clown world

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (VTu1l)

90 I'm not one for more regulation but to me it would seem appropriate to set a requirement for a bank that has more than 60% of its deposits uninsured a different and higher reserve requirement .

Posted by: polynikes at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (PlEV5)

91 In one word describe fauci... homunculous.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 13, 2023 12:26 PM (0iRzB)

92 Fauci is 82 y/o. The reaper will get him before earthly justice does.
Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (MvF+J)
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Yup. Then comes the state funeral and the national monument in Washington.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2023 12:26 PM (t0OGg)

93 Next WAPO or NYT will run a story that says, "Yes the US funded covid in a Chinese lab and it's a good thing we did."

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 13, 2023 12:26 PM (Y5qcH)

94 I think DOD funded this as well with the excuse that we'd have to know how to counter a biologic attack.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 13, 2023 12:17 PM (Y+l9t)
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Not if the leaked DoD (DARPA) documents are to be believed. EcoHealth tried to get DARPA money to do this, and DARPA was ruthless in their rejection. It read like an experienced, cynical college professor critiquing the lousy work product of an arrogant and reckless student who was tremendously self-impressed and convinced of his greatness despite never demonstrating it. That rejection was brutal (in terms of a professionally written executive note, anyway).

EcoHealth found that courting the NIH was much more productive.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

Thankns for clarifying that for me. Nice to know at least one part of the government responded appropriately.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 13, 2023 12:26 PM (Y+l9t)

95 81 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (iqzch)

When the history of this epoch is written assuming anyone can still write by then in 600 years we are going to be history's punchline...

the only population on Earth enforced to fund their own murder at gunpoint by their "representative government."

Posted by: sven at March 13, 2023 12:26 PM (Lzpvj)

96 RICO Fauci for all the vaccine deaths, suicides, and people who died for not getting medical care they needed. He ordered it to happen, even if he didn't carry it out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2023 12:27 PM (0hOvj)

97 I wonder what the Chinese paid for Bubonic plague back in the 14th century?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

IIRC the Black Plague did start in the Orient and then moved to the West with traders.
They sold the goods that carried the rats so yes this is just a replay of the same playbook.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 13, 2023 12:27 PM (F/tPr)

98 you're never gonna beweeeeeeeeeeve this, but:

Collapsed Silicon Valley Bank was in deep with Chinese banks and companies. SVB was especially popular among Chinese biotech groups that operated between the US and China, according to the Financial Times. - Disclose TV

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 13, 2023 12:27 PM (VTu1l)

99 Yup. Then comes the state funeral and the national monument in Washington.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2023 12:26 PM (t0OGg)

Maybe they can have him chewing on the earpieces of his glasses that he thinks makes him look so butch. And sciencey.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:27 PM (zZu0s)

100 "My, someone's got a hair up his ass about Trump this fine morning"

I'm in a contrarian mood this AM. I'll stop now.

Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at March 13, 2023 12:27 PM (MvF+J)

101 Leak, release...geeze he's Mr. Science not Mr. Linguist!

Posted by: Just Lily at March 13, 2023 12:27 PM (+3LvR)

102 I would have been first if I hadn't posted on the last thread about the crazy Rasmussen poll showing Biden at +1 with 50% approval. Who in their right mind thinks Biden is doing a good job?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)

Even the diehard D supporters among my friends have been unnaturally quiet these past 12 months. Not a peep. They haven't even been bashing PDJT which seemed to be a cottage industry among them.

Odd, innit?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2023 12:27 PM (qoGsy)

103

Did Fauci also fund the trans shit that is sweeping the country.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at March 13, 2023 12:27 PM (UCNv1)

104 Fauci in response to @elonmusk's “Prosecute Fauci” comment: “Prosecute me for what? What are they talking about?”

Let's help him understand. Prosecute him for lying about:
- Lockdowns
- Masks
- Vaccine efficacy
- Remdesivir
- Origin of Covid

Enough?
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No. How about:
- Funding Gain-Of-Function Research and Covid.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 13, 2023 12:28 PM (7wgpR)

105 I seriously doubt FedGov was only double-billed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2023 12:28 PM (Q4IgG)

106 Our federal gov. has been rotten since November 1963. Maybe longer.

Longer.

Posted by: Zombie FDR at March 13, 2023 12:28 PM (Xrfse)

107 I hope my Birx scarfs keep selling well on Etsy.

Posted by: Some Smelly Cat Lady With Blue Hair at March 13, 2023 12:28 PM (DMyTF)

108
Medical centers treating dementia patients in Russia are now using pictures of Joe Biden in their advertising.

I have a great Photoshop of blank eyed Biden sitting next to 'Chief' in the scene from 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. Sadly, my wife would not let me post it on her FB page.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 13, 2023 12:28 PM (enJYY)

109 IIRC the Black Plague did start in the Orient and then moved to the West with traders.
They sold the goods that carried the rats so yes this is just a replay of the same playbook.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 13, 2023 12:27 PM (F/tPr)

I remember reading a book that it pretty much tore a path of destruction along the silk road and then hit Europe. 1345(?) on a ship in Venice or Naples. It has been a while (like 8th grade.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:28 PM (zZu0s)

110 Thankns for clarifying that for me. Nice to know at least one part of the government responded appropriately.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 13, 2023 12:26 PM (Y+l9t)
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I wouldn't rest assured on that. Had they gotten a different person in DARPA reviewing it, it may well have been accepted. Keep in mind that DARPA suppressed the information well after the COVID disaster started unfolding. They didn't inform other parts of government about that *really* familiar thing they rejected earlier. They kept mum and then buried the documents deep in the bowels of their internal document systems. One whistle-blower inside DARPA remembered the EcoHealth rejection and went hunting for the documents, then leaked them. DARPA and DoD did *nothing* to bring it to anyone's attention, not even inside government.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2023 12:29 PM (t0OGg)

111 Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2023 12:24 PM (oHd/0)

I agree with the hypocrisy but Russia has invaded or had troops in more than just one country in past 20 years without being attacked.

Posted by: polynikes at March 13, 2023 12:29 PM (PlEV5)

112 Two times in the last 5 years has governments been suddenly able to act instantly:
Imposing Covid policies that expanded their power.
Bailing out big businesses.

Hey, but the poors got a $1200 stimmy check, right?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 13, 2023 12:30 PM (XuB58)

113 Viruses are tricksy and deceitful little things that generally do what they will do.

Therefore the people who deal with enhancing the virulence and infectiveness of viruses have every right to be just as tricksy and deceitful and to be allowed to do what they want.

And both are difficult to eradicate.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 13, 2023 12:30 PM (ykeLU)

114 No. How about:
- Funding Gain-Of-Function Research and Covid.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 13, 2023 12:28 PM (7wgpR)
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Yuuuuuup. He funded gain-of-function research with US taxpayer money. That was illegal. That alone merits aggressive prosecution, let alone the other stuff.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2023 12:30 PM (t0OGg)

115 What I don't understand is how Fauci and Mow deGrasse Tyson can both be the embodiment of science.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Dark horse: Bill Nye

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2023 12:30 PM (EvGP3)

116 No, in our current era, it will not happen. Fauci will remain a free man and hero of The Science until he dies. Then he will be given a state funeral. Then there will be a statue of him erected on the National Mall.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2023 12:23 PM (t0OGg)
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With luck, Antifa will come along and tear down his statue because he's been identified as a racist.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2023 12:30 PM (YIVH2)

117 My dog is lying with her head on my chest and making old man noises. Makes the world a better place.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at March 13, 2023 12:30 PM (eGTCV)

118 It would be nice to RICO the entire feral govt. That would lead to 5 decade rabbit hole.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 13, 2023 12:30 PM (XGZoL)

119 90 I'm not one for more regulation but to me it would seem appropriate to set a requirement for a bank that has more than 60% of its deposits uninsured a different and higher reserve requirement .
Posted by: polynikes at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM (PlEV5)

The insurance is for the depositers and not the bank.

In this case (as in many others) it's not a reserves issue, it's a bad investing position issue. Even a very high reserves requirement wouldn't have prevented failure in this case.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 13, 2023 12:30 PM (eYoxG)

120 release...geeze he's Mr. Science not Mr. Linguist!

Posted by: Just Lily at March 13, 2023 12:27 PM (+3LvR)

So we put her on the hit list
Of a common cunning linguist
A master of many tongues

Posted by: Deep Purple at March 13, 2023 12:30 PM (ufFY8)

121 government created this virus

then exacted totalitarian policies to "control" the spread

then lectured, fined, imprisoned, threatened our jobs for not taking a never seen before experimental fake vaccine

then decided this was the best time to promote special treatment for they of 500 different genders and if we're not on board, rinse repeat above

and also push totalitarian policies limiting our food, movement, energy use and if we're not on board, rinse repeat above

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Sure, but this was the first time.

They'd never coordinated and killed thousands of people in pursuit of social and economic goals (and to immediately remove any documents related to $2.3T lost by the Pentagon) before. And especially not to get us into a profit-driven, money laundering war in support of local scumbags who we'll eventually hand the conquered territory to.

This was the first time.

/

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 12:31 PM (o/smN)

122 There was no lab leak.

It was a lab *release*.

Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.
Posted by: Rep. Eric Shartswell

Well, either way . . .

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F7QRsx9lbBU

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 13, 2023 12:31 PM (FVME7)

123 I remember reading a book that it pretty much tore a path of destruction along the silk road and then hit Europe. 1345(?) on a ship in Venice or Naples. It has been a while (like 8th grade.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:28 PM (zZu0s)

The word "quarantine" comes from a practice in Venice where ships would have to stay at anchorage for 40 days.

They didn't know how disease spread, but they weren't dummies. They knew where it was coming from.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 13, 2023 12:31 PM (Y5qcH)

124 Essentially banning Ivermectin is all I need to jail Fauci and everyone else who helped do it.

Posted by: polynikes at March 13, 2023 12:31 PM (PlEV5)

125 Meanwhile, Anthony "The Science" Fauci spoke with a very, very friendly Regime propagandist, Jim Acosta, and reminded everyone that if Wuhan were collecting bat viruses and a worker got sick with such a virus and then spread it out into the world, that would be a "lab leak," but that would still be a naturally-arising virus.

--

Gosh, what an awful coincidence that they were also conducting gain-of-function research at the same time when some lowly Wuhan worker came into contact with a bat virus and probably spread it to the world!

/s

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 13, 2023 12:31 PM (sVtYq)

126 Dark horse: Bill Nye
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2023 12:30 PM (EvGP3)

THAT hamster has been suspiciously quiet of late...

The hamster that did not squeak.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:32 PM (zZu0s)

127 It has been a while (like 8th grade.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I think I read the same book (probably the same year(!) and is why I added IIRC).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 13, 2023 12:32 PM (F/tPr)

128 I remember reading a book that it pretty much tore a path of destruction along the silk road and then hit Europe. 1345(?) on a ship in Venice or Naples. It has been a while (like 8th grade.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:28 PM (zZu0s)
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That textbook has probably been rewritten to blame the plague solely on Venetian traders who took it to China.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2023 12:32 PM (YIVH2)

129 How soon until we hit the, "yes it was a lab leak and that was a good thing" phase?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 13, 2023 12:32 PM (XuB58)

130 Our federal gov. has been rotten since November 1963. Maybe longer.

Longer.
Posted by: Zombie FDR
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1863

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2023 12:32 PM (EvGP3)

131 Hey, Aetius.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2023 12:33 PM (sjxgf)

132 Has there been a big conspiracy theory recently that we haven't been right about and the left hasn't been wrong about?

After a 6 year losing streak you'd think they might ease up a bit on the arrogance and condescension.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2023 12:33 PM (ZLI7S)

133 Our federal gov. has been rotten since November 1963. Maybe longer.

Longer.
Posted by: Zombie FDR

Heh.

Posted by: Zombie Woodrow Wilson at March 13, 2023 12:33 PM (P9xBI)

134 I think I read the same book (probably the same year(!) and is why I added IIRC).
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 13, 2023 12:32 PM (F/tPr)

Middle school, so... '89?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:33 PM (zZu0s)

135 Medical centers treating dementia patients in Russia are now using pictures of Joe Biden in their advertising.

Did you see his speech this morning, though? Perfectly lucid, sharp, and long-winded. Just a bit of marble-mouth, but no resemblance at all to the 2020 candidate.

Posted by: t-bird at March 13, 2023 12:33 PM (dNNCD)

136 How soon until we hit the, "yes it was a lab leak and that was a good thing" phase?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 13, 2023 12:32 PM (XuB5

++++
It made us stronger! More resilient! The government gained valuable experience at effective crisis management! It was good for the little guy, who got a taste of UBI! It improved medical care standards and avoided lots of chaos of differing treatments!

All pluses!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2023 12:33 PM (t0OGg)

137 Hey, Bulgar.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:33 PM (zZu0s)

138 Stronger... apart.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:34 PM (zZu0s)

139 132 Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2023 12:33 PM (ZLI7S)

If I have to call Lia Thomas a chick the cocksuckers can stop calling me a conspiracy theorist and start calling me a "spoiler enthusiast."

Posted by: sven at March 13, 2023 12:34 PM (Lzpvj)

140 I agree with the hypocrisy but Russia has invaded or had troops in more than just one country in past 20 years without being attacked.

Yeah they invaded Georgia, Ukraine, and then Ukraine again over the past 15 years. Putting aside the curiously quiet period while Trump was president, there's a clear pattern of aggression here that was basically ignored until this most recent invasion.

Now I'd like to believe that this extreme reaction by the west was because people finally got fed up with the repeated invasions and began to respond, but I see no evidence that supports this theory.

No, the response was because this time Putin wanted to depose the corrupt, evil government that is the puppet and friends of the WEF types and is the money laundering, money-distribution, and human trafficking capitol of the world.

Now, Putin doesn't so much give a crap about that, so much as its not helping or enriching him any, so he wants to install his own puppet instead. But that's what has the western leaders so determined to stop Russia, not any sense of justice or world stability. They didn't give a single damn about Russia's antics until this point.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2023 12:34 PM (0hOvj)

141 My dog is lying with her head on my chest and making old man noises. Makes the world a better place.
Posted by: That Northern skulker at March 13, 2023 12:30 PM (eGTCV)
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I've never heard a dog say "Get off my lawn!" That's pretty amazing!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2023 12:34 PM (YIVH2)

142 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 13, 2023 12:30 PM (eYoxG)

We disagree. It was a run on the bank that did it and the non liquidity of their assets. A higher reserve requirement also forces the bank to take a more conservative investment strategy .

Posted by: polynikes at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (PlEV5)

143 Fauci and the government killed your grandma and told you it was because you didn't wear a mask.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (D6oOC)

144 Bringing this up from end of morning report someone just posted:

@RepThomasMassie
Just got off of a zoom meeting with Fed, Treasury, FDIC, House, and Senate.
A Democrat Senator essentially asked whether there was a program in place to censor information on social media that could lead to a run on the banks.
7:24 PM • 3/12/23

Posted by: SMOD at March 13, 2023 12:25 PM

They sure don't wanna give up their censorship and let John and Jane Doe get their money out in time.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (enJYY)

145 JJ or someone in his thread had a good article the other day.

Essentially the most brilliant and powerful weapon was convincing the nation that pandemics were a threat.

And it really was brilliant. They have people who are still terrified to remove their masks. They permanently closed 60% or so of all small businesses.

They can shut this nation down at the drop of a hat whenever they want to.

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (o/smN)

146 129 How soon until we hit the, "yes it was a lab leak and that was a good thing" phase?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 13, 2023 12:32 PM (XuB5

And let me be the First to welcome our new World Health Overlords...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (oHd/0)

147 I seriously doubt FedGov was only double-billed.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2023 12:28 PM (Q4IgG)

Double-billing is fraud, even if you are buying shoes for big-eyed cuddly orphans.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (tkR6S)

148 I will celebrate when Fauci meets his Maker. I'd like to think he will have much to answer for.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (d2bW3)

149 Little known Muldoon Black Death fact #244-

The first plague ship to reach Europe dropped anchor in the harbor of Zurich in 1341. Although panic started to spread many inhabitants of the city opted not to flea.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (ykeLU)

150 I agree with the hypocrisy but Russia has invaded or had troops in more than just one country in past 20 years without being attacked.

Countries that Russia has militarily intervened in in the last twenty years:

Georgia
Ukraine
Kazakhstan

Countries where Russia has military bases:

Belarus
Transnistria
Armenia

Compare and contrast to the United States' record.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (2tUFv)

151 Gosh, what an awful coincidence that they were also conducting gain-of-function research at the same time when some lowly Wuhan worker came into contact with a bat virus and probably spread it to the world!
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Aurora borealis confined entirely in your kitchen?
Yes.
Can I see it?
No.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (XuB58)

152 Middle school, so... '89?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Nope, you're a youngster!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 13, 2023 12:36 PM (F/tPr)

153 They'd never coordinated and killed thousands of people in pursuit of social and economic goals

****************

I think this happened before with the Temperance movement of the 1930s.

That was initially a great movement that saw a lot of Americans sobering up and saved families, until somebody decided not enough people were quitting the drink so hey let's get the government involved

there's actually noteworthy evidence the federal government poisoned some of the alcohol mills to stop its distribution, which literally maimed or killed thousands of Americans, and they knew beforehand that would happen

then there's the eugenics movement that forcibly tried to sterilize Americans with California leading the way

we a funsie country

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 13, 2023 12:36 PM (VTu1l)

154 Nothing like double paying for your own demise...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 13, 2023 12:36 PM (jTmQV)

155 128
'That textbook has probably been rewritten to blame the plague solely on Venetian traders who took it to China.'

Didn't the Mongols catapult plague dead bodies into a Venetian trading city in the Crimea they were besieging?
Caffa, I think.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 13, 2023 12:36 PM (YohY1)

156 Oh, ok. Sure, why not.

@MorganOrtagus 33m

Surprise, surprise: SVB was in deep with Chinese banks and companies.

Can we all agree US taxpayers shouldn't bail out all the Chinese companies who invested in SVB?https://ft.com/...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 13, 2023 12:36 PM (jzzG8)

157 Prosecute for what?...Maybe perjury...is that still a thing

How about 1.Deprivation of Constitutional rights under color of law, 2. Conspiracy to oppress Constitutional rights? Since people died as a result of those violations, the death penalty is available for both crimes. Then there are the crimes against humanity charges he stands accused of in the World Court. That is 3 separate capital crimes. If you want, there are more crimes he committed, but those are enough.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at March 13, 2023 12:36 PM (CecP5)

158 "the only population on Earth enforced to fund their own murder at gunpoint by their "representative government."
Posted by: sven at March 13, 2023 12:26 PM (Lzpvj)"

I dunno, to me that sounds like the story of every gummint everywhere for all of recorded history.

To our credit, America started out as an attempt to break that chain.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 13, 2023 12:36 PM (VohFI)

159 >>>How soon until we hit the, "yes it was a lab leak and that was a good thing" phase?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

A week ago, one of Biden's lackeys said Gain of Function is great and the "president" wants it to continue.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 13, 2023 12:37 PM (d2bW3)

160 My favorite Black Death trivia is that the Faucis of the day decided that dogs and cats were spreading it, so they convinced the king to have all of the dogs and cats killed.

You know. The only things hunting the rodents.

THE SCIENCE!

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 12:37 PM (o/smN)

161 They can shut this nation down at the drop of a hat whenever they want to.
Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (o/smN)

Real power shift was when the Courts would not intervene on the protection of Civil Rights, saying that they would not second Guess Administrators in the midst of an Emergency.... an emergency those same administrators have the power to declare.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2023 12:37 PM (oHd/0)

162 "A lab leak could be that someone was out in the wild maybe looking for different types of viruses in bats, got infected, went into a lab, and was being studied in a lab, and then came�

It is like a child explaining how the lamp got broken, but he definitely did not break the lamp.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 13, 2023 12:37 PM (/J1iS)

163 Although panic started to spread many inhabitants of the city opted not to flea.
Posted by: Muldoon

I'll bet that was painful.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 13, 2023 12:37 PM (F/tPr)

164 Turns out that Barney Frank was on the board of the failed Signature Bank.

In fairness, the rest of the board refused to approve his proposal to run gay brothels out of the branches, so he's not really to blame. That extra revenue could have made the difference, yo!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 13, 2023 12:37 PM (bW8dp)

165 The first plague ship to reach Europe dropped anchor in the harbor of Zurich in 1341. Although panic started to spread many inhabitants of the city opted not to flea.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (ykeLU)

This is horrible. A pun war crime.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:38 PM (zZu0s)

166 Read articles but no answer satisfactory Why the turnaround? Saying it was a Chinese virus would get you tossed off any of the social media sites

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2023 12:38 PM (C+qwo)

167 Let's help him understand. Prosecute him for lying about:
- Lockdowns
- Masks
- Vaccine efficacy
- Remdesivir
- Origin of Covid

That's a good list, but it leaves out one of Fauci's worst crimes. Fauci paid a CCP bioweapons lab to do gain of function research after it was illegal to do the research here.

Not only was the research illegal, he was paying the Communist Party of China to make fucking bioweapons.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2023 12:38 PM (eyxn4)

168 Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (2tUFv)

It's almost as if Russia is primarily concerned with countries on its borders as a matter of national security.

Or at least that's what Putler wants you to think!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2023 12:38 PM (D6oOC)

169 "....if Wuhan were collecting bat viruses and a worker got sick with such a virus and then spread it out into the world, that would be a "lab leak," but that would still be a naturally-arising virus."
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And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle (old tyme biology).

Posted by: Javems at March 13, 2023 12:38 PM (AmoqO)

170 > Didn't the Mongols catapult plague dead bodies into a Venetian trading city in the Crimea they were besieging?
Caffa, I think.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 13, 2023 12:36 PM (YohY1)

Afterwards known as "Decaffa".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 13, 2023 12:38 PM (bW8dp)

171 155 That’s the story I’ve read about the plague’s origins.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2023 12:38 PM (sjxgf)

172 Countries where Russia has military bases:

Belarus
Transnistria
Armenia

Forgot - there are also Russian bases in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2023 12:38 PM (2tUFv)

173 This report is mostly about Wuhan possibly double-billing the US government and bilking us out of millions,

********

Part of the Biden administration's "Bill Back Better" philosophy.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 13, 2023 12:39 PM (ykeLU)

174 Little known Muldoon Black Death fact #244-

The first plague ship to reach Europe dropped anchor in the harbor of Zurich in 1341. Although panic started to spread many inhabitants of the city opted not to flea.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (ykeLU)

*Looks at Atlas*

*frowns*

Guess I got me a faulty atlas. Which would be a good name for a John Cleese show.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at March 13, 2023 12:39 PM (UQUAY)

175
there's actually noteworthy evidence the federal government poisoned some of the alcohol mills to stop its distribution, which literally maimed or killed thousands of Americans, and they knew beforehand that would happen

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Holy cow. I hadn't heard that. I was just making a 9/11 joke.

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 12:39 PM (o/smN)

176 139
'the cocksuckers can stop calling me a conspiracy theorist '

I wouldn't worry about them doing anything reciprocal like that.
Being hypocrites is what they do.
That and suck cock.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 13, 2023 12:39 PM (YohY1)

177 even if you are buying shoes for big-eyed cuddly orphans.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Hello?

Posted by: Little Annie Fannie at March 13, 2023 12:39 PM (qoGsy)

178 Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at March 13, 2023 12:36 PM (CecP5)

Conspiracy.
Money Laundering.

And as they helped TRAIN those Chinese scientists in the US, for the Lab... then funded an ENEMY NATION to create bio Weapons?

Treason.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2023 12:39 PM (oHd/0)

179 It is like a child explaining how the lamp got broken, but he definitely did not break the lamp.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 13, 2023 12:37 PM (/J1iS)

Well, it DID say "frah-jee-lay" on the crate...

Posted by: Ralphie at March 13, 2023 12:39 PM (ufFY8)

180 Compare and contrast to the United States' record.

I mean, that's like comparing how many people Mike Tyson punched with how many people a lunatic psycho stabbed with a knife.

What's missing in your comparison? Context: why and how. I mean... seriously.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2023 12:40 PM (0hOvj)

181 And especially not to get us into a profit-driven, money laundering war in support of local scumbags who we'll eventually hand the conquered territory to.

**********

At this point I'm ready to accept the moon landing was faked and that the aliens will be landing soon

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at March 13, 2023 12:40 PM (VTu1l)

182 "135 Medical centers treating dementia patients in Russia are now using pictures of Joe Biden in their advertising.

Did you see his speech this morning, though? Perfectly lucid, sharp, and long-winded. Just a bit of marble-mouth, but no resemblance at all to the 2020 candidate.

Posted by: t-bird at March 13, 2023 12:33 PM (dNNCD) "

triple dose of whatever hellbrew they pump into him.
they could not afford any slip-ups with this message.

LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 13, 2023 12:40 PM (VohFI)

183 A higher reserve requirement also forces the bank to take a more conservative investment strategy .

I realize Silicon Valley Bank isn't really a neighborhood bank, but, in general, an unwashed, non-sophisticate such as myself would ask why a bank has any investment strategy at all. Offer savings accounts and offer mortgages. Don't be playing financial roulette with my money.

Posted by: t-bird at March 13, 2023 12:40 PM (Sv58p)

184 I've never heard a dog say "Get off my lawn!" That's pretty amazing!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March

More like the sound an old man makes when he settles down in his rocking chair. I'm not referring to farting either.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at March 13, 2023 12:40 PM (eGTCV)

185 Sofia Vergara caught the boobonic plague when she was a teenager.

She still hasn’t recovered from it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2023 12:40 PM (sjxgf)

186 142 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 13, 2023 12:30 PM (eYoxG)

We disagree. It was a run on the bank that did it and the non liquidity of their assets. A higher reserve requirement also forces the bank to take a more conservative investment strategy .
Posted by: polynikes at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (PlEV5)

The amount withdrawn on Thursday alone was $42 billion. This at a bank with less than $200B in deposits at year-end. There's not a realistic amount of higher reserves that would've saved them there.

They were buying government debt. It's not an issue of how safe their investments were but the duration on them, they weren't positioned well for interest rate increases.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 13, 2023 12:40 PM (eYoxG)

187 Didn't the Mongols catapult plague dead bodies into a Venetian trading city in the Crimea they were besieging?
Caffa, I think.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

It all went to hell after someone farted in their general direction.

Posted by: Little Annie Fannie at March 13, 2023 12:40 PM (qoGsy)

188 Repeal was a big reason FDR won.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 13, 2023 12:40 PM (jTmQV)

189 Guess I got me a faulty atlas. Which would be a good name for a John Cleese show.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at March 13, 2023 12:39 PM (UQUAY)

I am wondering why he chose zurich. I had the same thought. Is there some sort of connection, maybe 'flea' means something else up there in them mountains?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:40 PM (zZu0s)

190 It's almost as if Russia is primarily concerned with countries on its borders as a matter of national security.

Aside from Transnistria, every Russian military intervention in the last twenty years and every Russian military base is within the boundaries of the former Soviet Union.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2023 12:40 PM (2tUFv)

191 I've never heard a dog say "Get off my lawn!" That's pretty amazing!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2023 12:34 PM (YIVH2)

Man, mine does every single time somebody passes by on the sidewalk. (Only she says it in dog language.)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 13, 2023 12:41 PM (BTgKJ)

192 DoD : we have to create and launch a biological attack on the citizens of th US so that we will know how to fight a biological attack.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2023 12:41 PM (wa6DW)

193 BTW, my favorite part of Fawlty Towers was the rearrangement of the sign: Farty Towels, Flowery Twats.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at March 13, 2023 12:41 PM (UQUAY)

194 an emergency those same administrators have the power to declare

*********

hey what could go wrong with that?

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Fox Mulder Was Right All Along at March 13, 2023 12:41 PM (VTu1l)

195 > I seriously doubt FedGov was only double-billed.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2023 12:28 PM (Q4IgG)

Double-billing is fraud, even if you are buying shoes for big-eyed cuddly orphans.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (tkR6S)
______________

Oh... I get the part about fraud. I'm saying I think FedGov was billed out its ass. Claimed "10's of millions of dollars?" Please, it's more than likely in the billions of dollars. And it was all part of the grift and the op to make a shit ton of money off covid, the following vaccines and social turmoil.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2023 12:41 PM (Q4IgG)

196 I have more than a suspicion that the over-reaction to the virus and the ignoring of any other social costs to the draconian policies is because the people choosing those policies KNEW they were the cause of this pandemic.

They wanted to limit the direct costs of their malfeasance, should it ever come out that they were responsible.

I'm not sure how having only millions dead (especially since the policies didn't work) would help, but I think once they started on the path, they were unable to give it up.

Our "elites" are not only incompetent, but irrational, ESPECIALLY when faced with their own abject failure.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 13, 2023 12:42 PM (zjgNU)

197 I realize Silicon Valley Bank isn't really a neighborhood bank, but, in general, an unwashed, non-sophisticate such as myself would ask why a bank has any investment strategy at all. Offer savings accounts and offer mortgages. Don't be playing financial roulette with my money.
Posted by: t-bird at March 13, 2023 12:40 PM (Sv58p)

Mortgages have the same issue, they tend to be long-fixed rate assets while deposits are withdrawable immediately and have variable rates. When these things don't match up well you get things like the Savings and Loan crisis.

Happens with some regularity in banking.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 13, 2023 12:42 PM (eYoxG)

198 >>>And as they helped TRAIN those Chinese scientists in the US, for the Lab... then funded an ENEMY NATION to create bio Weapons?

Treason.

Posted by: Romeo13

If only we had people with the balls to prosecute it.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 13, 2023 12:42 PM (d2bW3)

199 Russian bases in former Soviet Republics. Boy, it really is a hyper-aggressive state.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 13, 2023 12:42 PM (KFhLj)

200 Well, it DID say "frah-jee-lay" on the crate...
Posted by: Ralphie

It was a major award.

Posted by: Zombie Ralphie's Dad at March 13, 2023 12:42 PM (qoGsy)

201 I think Zurich is close to Peruvia.

I really need a new atlas.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at March 13, 2023 12:43 PM (UQUAY)

202 Surprise, surprise: SVB was in deep with Chinese banks and companies.

Can we all agree US taxpayers shouldn't bail out all the Chinese companies who invested in SVB?https://ft.com/...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 13, 2023 12:36 PM (jzzG

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"We have to bail-out The Chinese because they hold & buy most of our debt ... so we'll actually be saving & bailing-out ourselves you see, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 13, 2023 12:43 PM (5DXYi)

203 Belarus
Transnistria
Armenia

Forgot - there are also Russian bases in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2023 12:38 PM (2tUFv)

Transnistria? Is that in Silicon Valley, or closer to Germanium?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2023 12:43 PM (tkR6S)

204 @RepThomasMassie
Just got off of a zoom meeting with Fed, Treasury, FDIC, House, and Senate. A Democrat Senator essentially asked whether there was a program in place to censor information on social media that could lead to a run on the banks.

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Censorship, is there anything it can't do?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 13, 2023 12:43 PM (FVME7)

205 It's well known that Zurich has the only harbor in Switzerland.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2023 12:44 PM (wa6DW)

206 Nothing like double paying for your own demise...
Posted by: gourmand du jour

***********

Ooohh! Now let's talk about hospital ER billing.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 13, 2023 12:44 PM (ykeLU)

207 ""modified limited hang-out" -- beginning to let out a lie which is nevertheless closer to the truth than the previous story."

after ten years that lie will have been modified down to "yes, we murdered five billion people because they were crowding our beaches and ski resorts".

Posted by: illiniwek at March 13, 2023 12:44 PM (Cus5s)

208 How many millions of people died because of Fauci and the Chinese Communist Party? How is Fauci not been arrested? Why are we still dealing with China?

Oh apparently, the WHO claims 6,866,434 deaths. So basically akin to the Holocaust.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 13, 2023 12:44 PM (d2bW3)

209 I have more than a suspicion that the over-reaction to the virus and the ignoring of any other social costs to the draconian policies is because the people choosing those policies KNEW they were the cause of this pandemic.

I think that they knew what kind of research was being done there, so they assumed the worst about what had possibly escaped. The Chinese trying to cover it all up didn't help. Add in that there were a lot of people who used the fear as a weapon against Trump. The more he tried to urge calm and not overreact, the more they doubled down on hysteria.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 13, 2023 12:44 PM (wmDcS)

210 I just saw a picture on Twitter of a gigantic identity-identification poster with names and logos, apparently taken from a public school in Canada:
https://is.gd/RPRGT2

My favorites are "South African Pride" (4th row, 5th column) and "Israeli Trans" (11th row, 7th column), along with the identity/logo combinations still shown but declared "outdated."

Identity creep is getting out of control. How do I know what I am? More importantly, how dare you pigeon-hole me into one of these mere 96 identities?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2023 12:44 PM (t0OGg)

211 Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2023 12:35 PM (2tUFv)

Again I agree but I just like to be as accurate as possible and it's not just one country they have been militarily involved with in last 20 years. And also it's not an apt comparison for the reasons we have more foreign military bases. Whether you agree or not with the strategy, we were the defender of Western freedom around the world thus the bases. Also Russia has always used proxies for their military operations beyond their borders.

Again to be clear, I agree with the original premise though.

Posted by: polynikes at March 13, 2023 12:44 PM (PlEV5)

212 205 It's well known that Zurich has the only harbor in Switzerland.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2023 12:44 PM (wa6DW)

Their annual submarine races are a sight to behold.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:44 PM (zZu0s)

213 111 Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2023 12:24 PM (oHd/0)

I agree with the hypocrisy but Russia has invaded or had troops in more than just one country in past 20 years without being attacked.
Posted by: polynikes at March 13, 2023 12:29 PM (PlEV5)

totally agree. But haven't those countries, except Syria (which they are there by treaty) been in their backyard?

Russia has no Tanks sitting on the US Border.
America does have Tanks sitting on the Russian border.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2023 12:45 PM (oHd/0)

214 205 It's well known that Zurich has the only harbor in Switzerland.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2023 12:44 PM (wa6DW)

There actually is a Swiss Navy. I think it's only a few small gunboats.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 13, 2023 12:45 PM (BTgKJ)

215 Oh apparently, the WHO claims 6,866,434 deaths. So basically akin to the Holocaust.

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Trump said pussy, though.

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 12:45 PM (o/smN)

216 Transnistria? Is that in Silicon Valley, or closer to Germanium?

That's the weird breakaway part of Moldova, which is either being prepared as a base to attack Moldova and Ukraine from, or is about to be invaded by Ukraine, depending on who you read.

It is apparently the Soviet Union preserved in amber.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2023 12:45 PM (2tUFv)

217 > Mortgages have the same issue, they tend to be long-fixed rate assets

Yeah, if the 30 year mortgages you have out are paying at 6%, in an environment where interest rates go up to 20%.... it pretty much sucks to be you.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 13, 2023 12:46 PM (bW8dp)

218 >>>Trump said pussy, though.

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not

I still cry when i hear that. So disgusting! /sarc

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 13, 2023 12:46 PM (d2bW3)

219 It's well known that Zurich has the only harbor in Switzerland.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2023 12:44 PM (wa6DW)

Serviced by the world's longest canal.

Posted by: BignJames at March 13, 2023 12:46 PM (AwYPR)

220 I think Zurich is close to Peruvia.

I really need a new atlas.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

*******

You caught me, Pug. I was trying to sneak Zurich in there, masked by the flea joke. Like a "if a plane crashed on the border between two countries where do you bury the survivors?" joke.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 13, 2023 12:46 PM (ykeLU)

221 initially a great movement that saw a lot of Americans sobering up and saved families, until somebody decided not enough people were quitting the drink so hey let's get the government involved

there's actually noteworthy evidence the federal government poisoned some of the alcohol mills to stop its distribution, which literally maimed or killed thousands of Americans, and they knew beforehand that would happen
==
Well if you want to win Village of the Year, you have to break a few eggs. Village counsel agreed, we can't have jugglers, mimes and hooligans hanging about. Yarp...

Posted by: Hot Fuzz is a cautionary tale at March 13, 2023 12:46 PM (paQ36)

222 BTW, my favorite part of Fawlty Towers was the rearrangement of the sign: Farty Towels, Flowery Twats.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at March 13, 2023 12:41 PM (UQUAY)
***

Oh Dang!
I forgot to Wordle today.
BBIAM

Posted by: Diogenes at March 13, 2023 12:46 PM (anj39)

223 > Transnistria?

Sounds like the phenomenon of getting a nose job.

Usage: Jennifer Grey was actually a lot cuter before she became a transnistrian.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 13, 2023 12:47 PM (bW8dp)

224 >>>Transnistria? Is that in Silicon Valley, or closer to Germanium?

They couldn't find a better name that that???

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 13, 2023 12:47 PM (d2bW3)

225 That's the weird breakaway part of Moldova, which is either being prepared as a base to attack Moldova

Sounds like Duck Soup.

Posted by: Groucho at March 13, 2023 12:47 PM (ufFY8)

226 221 Well if you want to win Village of the Year, you have to break a few eggs. Village counsel agreed, we can't have jugglers, mimes and hooligans hanging about. Yarp...
Posted by: Hot Fuzz is a cautionary tale at March 13, 2023 12:46 PM (paQ36)

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For the greater good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 13, 2023 12:47 PM (LvTSG)

227 My favorites are "South African Pride" (4th row, 5th column) and "Israeli Trans" (11th row, 7th column), along with the identity/logo combinations still shown but declared "outdated."

Identity creep is getting out of control. How do I know what I am? More importantly, how dare you pigeon-hole me into one of these mere 96 identities?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2023 12:44 PM (t0OGg)
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I dunno, "maverique" and "neutrois" have an interesting ring to them...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2023 12:47 PM (YIVH2)

228 3/13/23: We have always been at war with East Asia.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at March 13, 2023 12:47 PM (ik/65)

229 >>>Usage: Jennifer Grey was actually a lot cuter before she became a transnistrian.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

One thousand percent correct.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 13, 2023 12:48 PM (d2bW3)

230 155 128
'That textbook has probably been rewritten to blame the plague solely on Venetian traders who took it to China.'

Didn't the Mongols catapult plague dead bodies into a Venetian trading city in the Crimea they were besieging?
Caffa, I think.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 13, 2023 12:36 PM (YohY1)

Wouldn't that be Genoese?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 13, 2023 12:48 PM (eYoxG)

231 > It's well known that Zurich has the only harbor in Switzerland.

Sounds like a ship's position calculated by one of the midshipmen in the Aubrey/Maturin series.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 13, 2023 12:48 PM (bW8dp)

232 Posted by: polynikes at March 13, 2023 12:44 PM (PlEV5)

When did we get the responsibility to be 'Defender of the Western World'?

No one gave us that title... a bunch of politicians in the US decided that was our 'mandate'... and have been sending blood and treasure all over the world since WW2 because of it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2023 12:48 PM (oHd/0)

233 For the greater good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 13, 2023 12:47 PM (LvTSG)

The Greater Good.

Alice Barker's had twins!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:48 PM (zZu0s)

234 ========

For the greater good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 13, 2023 12:47 PM (LvTSG)

SHUT IT!!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 13, 2023 12:48 PM (BTgKJ)

235 Remember, just because you're a paranoid conspiracy theorist doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 13, 2023 12:48 PM (FVME7)

236 Again I agree but I just like to be as accurate as possible and it's not just one country they have been militarily involved with in last 20 years.

No, the Russians have been involved in military action in three other countries in the last twenty years. (Russia also has an ongoing peacekeeping mission on the Armenia - Azerbaijan border -- again, within the borders of the former USSR.)

Again, compare and contrast to the United States.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2023 12:49 PM (2tUFv)

237 It's well known that Zurich has the only harbor in Switzerland.

In times of war, the boat rental shop on the lake becomes the Swiss Navy.

Posted by: t-bird at March 13, 2023 12:49 PM (ptElO)

238 Yeah, if the 30 year mortgages you have out are paying at 6%, in an environment where interest rates go up to 20%.... it pretty much sucks to be you.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 13, 2023 12:46 PM (bW8dp)

Isn't that how we got ARMs...from late '70s/early '80s?

Posted by: BignJames at March 13, 2023 12:49 PM (AwYPR)

239 27 I for one appreciate that they finally admitted it.

It's like being in a prison cell with a large, burly man mounting you, and he finally says out loud for all in the courtyard to hear "Hey, I'm raping this guy."

It doesn't change the pain in your sphincter, but it's nice to be acknowledged.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2023 12:16 PM (D6oOC)

Wow - "Comment of the week" on the first Ace post of the week. Very impressive!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at March 13, 2023 12:49 PM (SRRAx)

240 YOU CAN'T READ THIS UNLESS YOU ARE WEARING A MASK!

Posted by: Your Aunt Who Gives Masks for Christmas at March 13, 2023 12:50 PM (GC+hd)

241 > there's actually noteworthy evidence the federal government poisoned some of the alcohol mills to stop its distribution, which literally maimed or killed thousands of Americans, and they knew beforehand that would happen

They did it again in the late 1970s when they used Paraquat to kill off marijuana crops. Even though scientists and medical professionals warned them it would happen, people started getting Paraquat poisoned marijuana from their street vendor. People got lung damage and kidney failure.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2023 12:50 PM (eyxn4)

242 It's well known that Zurich has the only harbor in Switzerland.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2023 12:44 PM (wa6DW)

There actually is a Swiss Navy. I think it's only a few small gunboats.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 13, 2023 12:45 PM (BTgKJ)

Switzerland won the America's Cup once.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 13, 2023 12:50 PM (AiZBA)

243 Ace, you need to put up the clip of John Belushi explaining to Carrie Fisher in The Blues Brothers why he missed their wedding. That's Fauci and covid.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 13, 2023 12:50 PM (Fv1/6)

244 Wouldn't that be Genoese?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

An awful beer!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2023 12:50 PM (qoGsy)

245 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 13, 2023 12:40 PM (eYoxG)

You understand how a panic works and the things that can be implemented to slow down panic. I'm saying that having a higher reserve would have resulted in a different scenario than what happened. Both in panic and a bank's investment strategy.

Posted by: polynikes at March 13, 2023 12:50 PM (PlEV5)

246 231 > It's well known that Zurich has the only harbor in Switzerland.

Sounds like a ship's position calculated by one of the midshipmen in the Aubrey/Maturin series.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 13, 2023 12:48 PM (bW8dp)

Nice. I'm on my umpteenth circumnavigation at the moment, currently in the middle of The Truelove.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 13, 2023 12:50 PM (BTgKJ)

247 So that what they mean, when a girl is wearing Faucis.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 13, 2023 12:51 PM (el3fG)

248 238 Yeah, if the 30 year mortgages you have out are paying at 6%, in an environment where interest rates go up to 20%.... it pretty much sucks to be you.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 13, 2023 12:46 PM (bW8dp)

Isn't that how we got ARMs...from late '70s/early '80s?
Posted by: BignJames at March 13, 2023 12:49 PM (AwYPR)

It would fix the primary issue with banks that are in the mortgage business.

But how many people really want to have variable rate mortgages? A fair amount to be sure, but a fair amount don't.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 13, 2023 12:51 PM (eYoxG)

249 These sort of attacks and hatred directed toward our Top. Men. are unseemly. Topmenism has no home here.

#BeBetter

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 13, 2023 12:51 PM (a3Q+t)

250 206 Nothing like double paying for your own demise...
Posted by: gourmand du jour

***********

Ooohh! Now let's talk about hospital ER billing.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 13, 2023 12:44 PM (ykeLU)

------

As it turns out, Bistro Math was not as powerful as Douglas Adams envisioned. To create an actual Infinite Improbability Drive, you need a combination of national defense spending and ER billing to really reach interstellar distances.

Posted by: Just Lily at March 13, 2023 12:52 PM (+3LvR)

251 Did Oswald or Ray or Sirhan or Fromme or McVie etc ever actually threaten anyone before they acted?

Posted by: torabora at March 13, 2023 12:52 PM (5eyqn)

252 "Ron DeSantis is politicizing Communism!"
- Chuck Todd

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 13, 2023 12:52 PM (jTmQV)

253 The #1 goal in America's, and therefore the world's, response to Covid was covering up Fauchi's corruption.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 13, 2023 12:53 PM (TvE6d)

254 Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2023 12:49 PM (2tUFv)

Three is different than one and also again you leave out military intervention by proxy.

Posted by: polynikes at March 13, 2023 12:53 PM (PlEV5)

255 249 These sort of attacks and hatred directed toward our Top. Men. are unseemly. Topmenism has no home here.

#BeBetter
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 13, 2023 12:51 PM (a3Q+t)

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Jonah Goldberg? Is that you?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 13, 2023 12:53 PM (LvTSG)

256 Transnistria is where the TransDracula family is from they got kicked out of Transylvania for dressing flamboyantly and wearing pumps all the time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2023 12:53 PM (wa6DW)

257 Nice. I'm on my umpteenth circumnavigation at the moment, currently in the middle of The Truelove.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 13, 2023 12:50 PM

Beware the clittoral reefs.

Posted by: one of the midshipmen in the Aubrey/Maturin series at March 13, 2023 12:53 PM (a3Q+t)

258 But how many people really want to have variable rate mortgages? A fair amount to be sure, but a fair amount don't.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 13, 2023 12:51 PM (eYoxG)

My first was ARM...as soon as I could I re-financed.

Posted by: BignJames at March 13, 2023 12:53 PM (AwYPR)

259 245 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 13, 2023 12:40 PM (eYoxG)

You understand how a panic works and the things that can be implemented to slow down panic. I'm saying that having a higher reserve would have resulted in a different scenario than what happened. Both in panic and a bank's investment strategy.
Posted by: polynikes at March 13, 2023 12:50 PM (PlEV5)

The dumbassery involved here was of the sort that would happen in either case. There's nothing in having a higher reserve requirement that would have encouraged them to do shorter duration investments. In fact, that tends to incentivize the reverse as longer duration stuff typically has higher yields and they'd need to make up the money from holding more cash.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 13, 2023 12:53 PM (eYoxG)

260 Sounds like a ship's position calculated by one of the midshipmen in the Aubrey/Maturin series.

LOL, an older middy in the first Hornblower book did the same thing; plotted their position far inland.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2023 12:54 PM (0hOvj)

261 This is horrible. A pun war crime.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 12:38 PM (zZu0s)

The Pun...

It's either at your feet, or at your throat.

***Shit Churchill said***

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 13, 2023 12:54 PM (CCSxw)

262 251 Christine McVie killed someone?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2023 12:54 PM (sjxgf)

263 You people have your priorities all wrong.

We should be concerned about Turtle's recovery and rehab.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 13, 2023 12:54 PM (DMyTF)

264 Well if you want to win Village of the Year, you have to break a few eggs. Village counsel agreed, we can't have jugglers, mimes and hooligans hanging about.

********

Obligatory: If you are truly serious about cleaning things up don't mess with the mimes or hooligans, go straight for the juggler.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 13, 2023 12:55 PM (ykeLU)

265 "Oh apparently, the WHO claims 6,866,434 deaths. So basically akin to the Holocaust." Posted by: Wyatt Earp

not including the deaths due to shutdown, due to the "vax", due to depression from hiding behind masks and being isolated.

And the "death of Western quality of life" as BigGov advanced totalitarian censorship, grooming in schools, economic wreckage, stolen election by mail fraud ... and so forth.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 13, 2023 12:55 PM (Cus5s)

266 Russian bases in former Soviet Republics. Boy, it really is a hyper-aggressive state.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 13, 2023 12:42 PM (KFhLj)

The incursions seem relatively small now, but if Russia isn't stopped soon we run the risk of allowing Russian to control the profits of its own natural resources and using them to benefit their own citizens domestically for the foreseeable future.

If we don't stop them now, what's to stop African nations from controlling their own mineral rights? Or Arab nations from forming alliances with each other? What if they don't indenture themselves to the World Bank? What then?

The contagion must be stopped now.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2023 12:55 PM (D6oOC)

267 $2 trillion investigation into questionable defense spending went *poof* on 911.

Posted by: torabora at March 13, 2023 12:55 PM (5eyqn)

268 Serviced by the world's longest canal.

Second longest canal.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 13, 2023 12:56 PM (KFhLj)

269 The #1 goal in America's, and therefore the world's, response to Covid was covering up Fauchi's corruption.

Posted by: 29Victor

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You saw the identical worldwide response by 1st world countries. It was planned and coordinated. The release was happening regardless. The problem was that Hillary was supposed to be president when it did, and Trump (and we) screwed that up.

I think it's part of why everything is full speed ahead all around us. The slow-boil happy happy Ds and Rs working together timeline they'd planned out for restricting travel, banning energy, social credit scores, etc. got screwed up, so they're going to force it down our throats.

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 12:56 PM (o/smN)

270 Switzerland won the America's Cup once.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 13, 2023 12:50 PM (AiZBA)

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Figures that a "sports" competition for rich white dudes and their playthings is it still named after the most privileged, racist, and worst country on the planet.

/

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 13, 2023 12:57 PM (4voYv)

271 Fauci isn't looking well. He looks terrified.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at March 13, 2023 12:57 PM (sI15f)

272 But how many people really want to have variable rate mortgages? A fair amount to be sure, but a fair amount don't.
==
Hey, if you don't have an ARM you are just leaving money on the table.

(No I am never going to stop mocking that. Ever).

Posted by: Yoe Psydin at March 13, 2023 12:58 PM (HFQ3J)

273 So the Chinese really one upped us here. Trump said we'd build a wall and Mexico would pay for it. They built a plague and double-charged us for it.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 13, 2023 12:58 PM (trVDr)

274 271 Fauci isn't looking well. He looks terrified.

good

I hope he has nightmares every night

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2023 12:58 PM (w0NJk)

275 Three is different than one and also again you leave out military intervention by proxy.

LOL. The three consist of:

Ukraine (obviously)
Georgia (five day war)
Kazakstan (a very brief military intervention on behalf of the ruling government)

This is the total number of Russian military interventions over the last twenty years.

Care to enumerate the cases where Russians were engaging in wars "by proxy"?

I mean, there are lots of reasons to criticize Russian foreign policy, but for Americans to criticize the number of Russian foreign military bases and the number of Russian military interventions is just silly.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2023 12:59 PM (2tUFv)

276 Serviced by the world's longest canal.

Second longest canal.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 13, 2023 12:56 PM (KFhLj)
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Yours might be the busiest, but I doubt it's the longest.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2023 12:59 PM (YIVH2)

277 Hey, if you don't have an ARM you are just leaving money on the table.

(No I am never going to stop mocking that. Ever).
Posted by: Yoe Psydin at March 13, 2023 12:58 PM (HFQ3J)

And if you do have an ARM, you will soon be bent over that table.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 13, 2023 12:59 PM (UuD2k)

278 I don’t see how the Regime recovers from the grudging admission that it was funding, Bioweapon research, and that this endeavor caused the death of millions.

I think it’s fate is sealed.

Posted by: Republic Theatre, brought to you by Pfizer! at March 13, 2023 12:59 PM (YTBIQ)

279 Transnistria is where the TransDracula family is from they got kicked out of Transylvania for dressing flamboyantly and wearing pumps all the time.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2023 12:53 PM

I'm right here, you know.

Posted by: Dr. Frank N. Furter at March 13, 2023 12:59 PM (Wnv9h)

280 Compare and contrast to the United States' record.

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Countries US invaded, instigated a coup or where has military bases? Shut up! It's for democracy and the rule if law, world security and betterment of transman everywhere!

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2023 12:59 PM (EeVCB)

281 Second longest canal.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke

Wow! And I thought the Grand Canyon was impressive.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2023 01:00 PM (qoGsy)

282 >>>not including the deaths due to shutdown, due to the "vax", due to depression from hiding behind masks and being isolated.

And the "death of Western quality of life" as BigGov advanced totalitarian censorship, grooming in schools, economic wreckage, stolen election by mail fraud ... and so forth.

Posted by: illiniwek

Philly's restaurants went under in about three weeks, thanks to our dickhead mayor. "Wear your mask!"

Meanwhile "essential personnel" had to go to work every day, and most of us caught Covid because we were dealing with the public.

Covid and the 2020 riots ended this city forever.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 13, 2023 01:00 PM (d2bW3)

283 Hey, if you don't have an ARM you are just leaving money on the table.

* Michelle Fields has left the chat, sobbing *

Posted by: Michelle Fields at March 13, 2023 01:00 PM (a3Q+t)

284 278 I don’t see how the Regime recovers from the grudging admission that it was funding, Bioweapon research, and that this endeavor caused the death of millions.

well if you have to release this hangout, best to do it during the financial crisis

perfect timing

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2023 01:00 PM (w0NJk)

285 Hey, if you don’t have an ARM

Yeah, rub it in, why dontcha?

Posted by: Michelle Fields at March 13, 2023 01:00 PM (sjxgf)

286 278 I don’t see how the Regime recovers from the grudging admission that it was funding, Bioweapon research, and that this endeavor caused the death of millions.

I think it’s fate is sealed.
Posted by: Republic Theatre, brought to you by Pfizer! at March 13, 2023 12:59 PM (YTBIQ)

Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 13, 2023 01:00 PM (eYoxG)

287
You guys talking about arms are gonna be hearing from michelle fields any minute.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 13, 2023 01:00 PM (enJYY)

288 "Prosecute me for what?"

Secretly funding research that you were explicitly told not to fund, in a lab run overtly by the military arm of our greatest threat on the world stage, on a virus that had no natural means of infecting humans until you Frankensteined the shit out of it, then lying about where it came from and how to combat it -- for three years -- while sucking up the plaudits and threatening and/or blackmailing any questioners with your funding powers.

Fauci really is every Shakespearian villain and human failing rolled into one, at the same time he is hailed by "the smart ones" in our world.

Posted by: red speck at March 13, 2023 01:01 PM (gS3OW)

289 I don’t see how the Regime recovers from the grudging admission that it was funding, Bioweapon research, and that this endeavor caused the death of millions.

I think it’s fate is sealed.
Posted by: Republic Theatre, brought to you by Pfizer! at March 13, 2023 12:59 PM (YTBIQ)

Recover? No problemo!

Posted by: The MFM at March 13, 2023 01:01 PM (AiZBA)

290 *glowers*

Posted by: The Real Michelle Fields at March 13, 2023 01:01 PM (iayUP)

291 $2 trillion investigation into questionable defense spending went *poof* on 911.

Posted by: torabora

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Yep. Documents helpfully stored at the Pentagon. Mr Rumsfeld stating it in his own words.

On September 10th.

https://youtu.be/xU4GdHLUHwU

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 01:02 PM (o/smN)

292 Test

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2023 01:02 PM (sjxgf)

293 You guys talking about arms are gonna be hearing from michelle fields any minute.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 13, 2023 01:00 PM

Too late!

Posted by: Eyegore at March 13, 2023 01:02 PM (Wnv9h)

294 The real tragedy isn't that we funded some people doing something in China, it's that Republicans are seizing on it.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 13, 2023 01:02 PM (UuD2k)

295 "Test
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus"

Oh sure, easy for you to type.

Posted by: The Real Michelle Fields at March 13, 2023 01:03 PM (iayUP)

296 Glad I didn't try a Michele Field sock. You guys are too fast.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 13, 2023 01:03 PM (BTgKJ)

297 $2 trillion investigation into questionable defense spending went *poof* on 911.

Posted by: torabora

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My favorite part is WTC #7 collapsing even though Flight 93 couldn't make its appointment, though.

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 01:03 PM (o/smN)

298 Who in their right mind thinks Biden is doing a good job?

Leftists. They're not in their right minds.

Posted by: Toni at March 13, 2023 01:03 PM (PjNh5)

299 Glad I didn't try a Michele Field sock. You guys are too fast.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at March 13, 2023 01:04 PM (AiZBA)

300 Fauci isn't looking well. He looks terrified.

He may have caught a glimpse of his eternity and it wasn't pretty.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 13, 2023 01:05 PM (Xrfse)

301 Who in their right mind thinks Biden is doing a good job?

Leftists. They're not in their right minds.
Posted by: Toni at March 13, 2023 01:03 PM

He's not wrong.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 13, 2023 01:05 PM (Wnv9h)

302 so is this like Doc Brown taking money to build a nuke for a terrorist group but actually rebuilding his deLorean?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 13, 2023 01:05 PM (xhaym)

303 The real tragedy isn't that we funded some people doing something in China, it's that Republicans are seizing on it.
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and pouncing, don't forget the pouncing. Also, it happened on Trump's watch. He was deregulizing, and also, operation warp speed n stuff. So yeah, Fauci was Trump's guy and um, look over there a squirrel.

Posted by: Media Genius and shortcock from CNN at March 13, 2023 01:05 PM (BIcyN)

304 Great, we've slouched into "you cannot melt steel with fire" territory. When you're agreeing with Whoopi Goldberg, maybe its time to rethink your entire worldview.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2023 01:05 PM (0hOvj)

305 Our "elites" are not only incompetent, but irrational, ESPECIALLY when faced with their own abject failure.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
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We deem this to be misinformation.

Posted by: F Bee Eye at March 13, 2023 01:06 PM (g3gMh)

306 Correction on some of the headlines coming out - Fauci didn't fund anything, the American taxpayer did. Double billing? Oops.

Tell me when Fauci's head gets put on a pike either figuratively or literally. Anything less for this monster is just theater.

Posted by: Cheri at March 13, 2023 01:06 PM (oiNtH)

307
Philly's restaurants went under in about three weeks, thanks to our dickhead mayor. "Wear your mask!"

Covid and the 2020 riots ended this city forever.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 13, 2023 01:00 PM

There's a Crossfit near me, woman owned. Now Crossfit people are tough as nails and a little nuts. She made it through the beginning of Covid and lockdowns in 2020, then her building was flooded under six feet of water in 2021, but just recently gave up. She couldn't make it through two years of Biden.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 13, 2023 01:06 PM (enJYY)

308
No need to "get ahead" of anything. This is a consequence-free environment.

Media covering this is probably more about signaling one another and non-media Party men that's it time to "move on" from COVID.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2023 01:06 PM (oINRc)

309 304 Great, we've slouched into "you cannot melt steel with fire" territory. When you're agreeing with Whoopi Goldberg, maybe its time to rethink your entire worldview.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2023 01:05 PM (0hOvj)

Can't see the world. Whoopi's fat ass is in the way.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 13, 2023 01:07 PM (UuD2k)

310 /sock off, buddy

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 13, 2023 01:07 PM (AiZBA)

311 Great, we've slouched into "you cannot melt steel with fire" territory. When you're agreeing with Whoopi Goldberg...

********

I thought that was Rosie O'Donnell. Or was it Roseanne Barr?

Posted by: Muldoon at March 13, 2023 01:08 PM (ykeLU)

312 230
'Wouldn't that be Genoese?'

I think you got me there.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 13, 2023 01:08 PM (YohY1)

313 When you're agreeing with Whoopi Goldberg, maybe its time to rethink your entire worldview.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2023 01:05 PM

No, we're not capable of that, thankyouverymuch.

Posted by: The Viewers of The View at March 13, 2023 01:08 PM (a3Q+t)

314 When you're agreeing with Whoopi Goldberg, maybe its time to ~~rethink your entire worldview~~ commit seppuku.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2023 01:05 PM

FIFY.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 13, 2023 01:08 PM (Wnv9h)

315 297 Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 01:03 PM (o/smN)

Jesus Christ, the building was gutted by debris and burning.

https://youtu.be/PK_iBYSqEsc

The performance of the WTC complex was a testament to the builders and they outperformed their expected failure cascades.

Posted by: sven at March 13, 2023 01:08 PM (Lzpvj)

316 302 so is this like Doc Brown taking money to build a nuke for a terrorist group but actually rebuilding his deLorean?
Posted by: Kindltot at March 13, 2023 01:05 PM (xhaym)

So, Doc Brown needed the plutonium to generate the energy necessary for time travel right? And Marty sat in a fairly unshielded car...

No wonder Marty's kids turned out to be mutants.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 01:08 PM (zZu0s)

317 from the prior thread...re: list of banks whose trading halted today

And, it's gone!

Posted by: Lola at March 13, 2023 12:11 PM (GshMh)

the link to halts is on the right sidebar

https://tinyurl.com/yc8banfr

Posted by: kallisto at March 13, 2023 01:09 PM (dCxaZ)

318 Jen Psucky Psucky sez the fact that Biden rolled his old ass out of bed for a 9am speech reveals just how important the speech was.

https://bit.ly/3mPPoYN

Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2023 01:09 PM (eyxn4)

319 Great, we've slouched into "you cannot melt steel with fire" territory. When you're agreeing with Whoopi Goldberg, maybe its time to rethink your entire worldview.

--

No, we're currently involved in an undeniable op against the American public. It's fine to assume that there were ops before this.

They had that PATRIOT Act ready to go, remember?

And I take it back. My favorite part is the BBC reporter announcing that WTC7 had collapsed - and giving the official statement - 20 minutes before the building collapsed.

It's literally on the screen behind her while she talks about how the fire caused the collapse.

https://tinyurl.com/2qk5bf4t

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 01:09 PM (o/smN)

320 So, Doc Brown needed the plutonium to generate the energy necessary for time travel right? And Marty sat in a fairly unshielded car...

No wonder Marty's kids turned out to be mutants.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 01:08 PM (zZu0s)

"Nothing to worry about, everything's lead-lined" - Doc said, right after inserting the plutonium.

Posted by: Thrawn at March 13, 2023 01:10 PM (Rl7KJ)

321 312 Yes, in Caffa it was the Genoese.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2023 01:10 PM (sjxgf)

322 311 Posted by: Muldoon at March 13, 2023 01:08 PM (ykeLU)

All of the above, people who bray "Fahr can't melt steel!" show they have no understanding of metallurgy and engineering.

Congrats Moose Changers you have less understanding of metal than borderline cavemen of the Bronze age....you have arrived.

Posted by: sven at March 13, 2023 01:10 PM (Lzpvj)

323 311 Great, we've slouched into "you cannot melt steel with fire" territory. When you're agreeing with Whoopi Goldberg...

********

I thought that was Rosie O'Donnell. Or was it Roseanne Barr?
Posted by: Muldoon at March 13, 2023 01:08 PM (ykeLU)

Any fatty will do...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 13, 2023 01:10 PM (CCSxw)

324 It was Rosie O'Donnell who was the fire does not melt steel thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 01:10 PM (zZu0s)

325 304 Great, we've slouched into "you cannot melt steel with fire" territory. When you're agreeing with Whoopi Goldberg, maybe its time to rethink your entire worldview.

Rosie O'Donnell.

And after you watch your government steal a presidential election, create a virus/pandemic and fake an insurrection, all bets are off on conspiracies.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2023 01:10 PM (D6oOC)

326 Jesus Christ, the building was gutted by debris and burning.

--

Put this t-shirt material over your face. It will protect you from the most contagious virus the world has ever seen.

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 01:11 PM (o/smN)

327 306
Tell me when Fauci's head gets put on a pike either figuratively or literally. Anything less for this monster is just theater.
Posted by: Cheri at March 13, 2023 01:06 PM (oiNtH)

Cheri gets it. All these hearings, "revelations", etc. are nothing but Kabuki theater. Until there is prosecution for alleged crimes, and severe consequences upon conviction (hanging is still in vogue, right?) -- it is nothing but making sound bites for campaigns.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 13, 2023 01:11 PM (N39Ws)

328 Meanwhile, at the SXSW event in Austin, Nancy Pelosi blamed Trump : “They refused to send the National Guard,” she continued, “I was a major target, but I had security that got me out of there. I was concerned about my members, the press, the staff who were traumatized, the maintenance people who maintained the Capitol as these anarchists were making poo-poo on the floor.” (Deadline, March 12)

Interestingly, she didn't mention dead police officers. Nancy Pelosi, of course, was responsible for requesting additional federal assistance, including the National Guard. She didn't give her approval until after 2PM on 1/6.

Posted by: mrp at March 13, 2023 01:11 PM (rj6Yv)

329 ALL IS WELL!

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at March 13, 2023 01:11 PM (2tUFv)

330 "Nothing to worry about, everything's lead-lined" - Doc said, right after inserting the plutonium.
Posted by: Thrawn at March 13, 2023 01:10 PM (Rl7KJ)

I am not sure a Delorean could get up to 88MPH with enough lead to be proper shielding...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 01:11 PM (zZu0s)

331 So, millions died so somebody could coverup embezzlement ?

Posted by: Weird Al at March 13, 2023 01:11 PM (RHGPo)

332 319 Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 01:09 PM (o/smN)

Yes Chimpy McHaliburton simultaneously the smartest and dumbest human on the planet and a conspiracy that would require the indifference of tens of thousands of people refusing to report about the 10,000 plus manhours needed to "work it like a demo."

Through the looking glass indeed.

Posted by: sven at March 13, 2023 01:11 PM (Lzpvj)

333 WV GOP Caves, Agrees To ‘Mental Health’ Exception In Sex Change Treatment Ban For Minors.

https://tinyurl.com/4wcfdrah

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 13, 2023 01:11 PM (DMyTF)

334 263
'We should be concerned about Turtle's recovery and rehab.'

I am concerned that he could recover. Close enough?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 13, 2023 01:12 PM (YohY1)

335 So what did Smokin' Joe say this morning?

'All is well'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 01:12 PM (zZu0s)

336

(CNN) — President Joe Biden called efforts to restrict transgender rights in Florida “close to sinful” in an interview released Monday, suggesting federal laws should be passed to protect those rights in all states.

“What’s going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful. It’s just terrible what they’re doing,” Biden said during an interview with Kal Penn for “The Daily Show.”

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2023 01:12 PM (63Dwl)

337 274 271 Fauci isn't looking well. He looks terrified.

good

I hope he has nightmares every night
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2023 12:58 PM (w0NJk)

I hope he contracts Transnistria and there’s a Pfizer vax for it.

Posted by: 7man at March 13, 2023 01:12 PM (qwO6y)

338 All of the above, people who bray "Fahr can't melt steel!" show they have no understanding of metallurgy and engineering.

Congrats Moose Changers you have less understanding of metal than borderline cavemen of the Bronze age....you have arrived.

Posted by: sven

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Similar to Global Warming changing frost lines and building codes, did building codes change after the office fire made the high-rise collapse? Were there upgrades to buildings across the U.S. since it's now known that this can happen?

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 01:12 PM (o/smN)

339 I wish someone would go all Geoffrey Baratheon on these gubmimint 'leaders'.

Posted by: Ned Stark at March 13, 2023 01:12 PM (ufFY8)

340 "Hey, if you don’t have an ARM"

Everybody has em. Their Cortex CPU cores are in everything, probably even vaccines now. They're plotting as we speak.

Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at March 13, 2023 01:13 PM (MvF+J)

341 I am not sure a Delorean could get up to 88MPH with enough lead to be proper shielding...
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 01:11 PM (zZu0s)

Maybe, but I put that there because at least the screenwriters understood that there had to be lead shielding on the Delorean itself for this to work.

Posted by: Thrawn at March 13, 2023 01:13 PM (Rl7KJ)

342 Care to enumerate the cases where Russians were engaging in wars "by proxy"?

I mean, there are lots of reasons to criticize Russian foreign policy, but for Americans to criticize the number of Russian foreign military bases and the number of Russian military interventions is just silly.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2023 12:59 PM (2tUFv)

The Soviets engaged in proxy wars all the time, in their efforts to spread Communism worldwide. Soviet Russia collapsed in 1989, and Russia isn't Communist anymore, but that fact seems to have escaped some folks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2023 01:13 PM (tkR6S)

343 326 Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 01:11 PM (o/smN)

There was aviation debris attacking load bearing levels throughout the building.

It was a given the building was lost, and probable it would collapse.

One can acknolwege the lunacy of "My chain link fence stops skeeters" regaridng nasal diapers and not fall prey to the lunacy of Moose Change.

Thanks for playing.

Posted by: sven at March 13, 2023 01:13 PM (Lzpvj)

344 nood

Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at March 13, 2023 01:13 PM (MvF+J)

345 Industrial.

Wood.

Chippers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 13, 2023 01:13 PM (n/8Ck)

346 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 01:13 PM (zZu0s)

347 333 WV GOP Caves, Agrees To ‘Mental Health’ Exception In Sex Change Treatment Ban For Minors.

https://tinyurl.com/4wcfdrah

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 13, 2023 01:11 PM (DMyTF)

Yes, because if a guy thinks he's Napoleon he should be put in charge of the French Army and allowed to invade Russia in winter. That's the only way to treat mental health issues.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 13, 2023 01:13 PM (UuD2k)

348 Sponge didn’t quote Queensryche and get banned again, did he?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2023 01:13 PM (sjxgf)

349 > I am not sure a Delorean could get up to 88MPH with enough lead to be proper shielding...

Not to mention lead is extremely soft. All those jolts the DeLorean took would probably have compromised that lead lining.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2023 01:13 PM (eyxn4)

350
"you cannot melt steel with fire"

Take a cigarette lighter to a piece of steel wool. Outside, please.

I sometimes use steel wool to clean pipe I'm soldering. Yeah, I learned pretty quickly to keep the torch well away.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 13, 2023 01:14 PM (enJYY)

351 nude biden bail

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 13, 2023 01:14 PM (Mkvkw)

352 Yes Chimpy McHaliburton simultaneously the smartest and dumbest human on the planet and a conspiracy that would require the indifference of tens of thousands of people refusing to report about the 10,000 plus manhours needed to "work it like a demo."

Through the looking glass indeed.

Posted by: sven

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2020 in a nutshell. That's why hindsight in regards to the PATRIOT Act can be useful.

But you're probably right. COVID was the first time.

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 01:14 PM (o/smN)

353 Fauci has finally acknowledged the reason that the lab leak theory could not be dismissed out of hand.

The idea that COVID could have jumped from bat to man and was not genetically engineered (although for the record I think it was) never precluded that it hopped spontaneously to people at the Wuhan lab. Indeed, of all places this was most likely, because in nature there is little prolonged human - bat contact.
The Wuhan lab is an institution that collects, curates and manipulates bat viruses. It is one of the few places on earth where this is most likely to occur.

Fauci is a craven, morally bankrupt, intellectually dishonest POS not to have acknowledged this at the very onset. But we know why, because he helped finance the whole corrupt scheme and blood is on his hands.

Posted by: Kraki at March 13, 2023 01:14 PM (LTGAH)

354 Wait. Did the (former) third in line to the Presidency really say "making poo-poo"? or is that a paraphrase/misquote?

Lord help us.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 13, 2023 01:15 PM (ykeLU)

355 I am not sure a Delorean could get up to 88MPH with enough lead to be proper shielding...
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 13, 2023 01:11 PM (zZu0s)
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There you go, questioning THE SCIENCE(TM) again!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2023 01:15 PM (YIVH2)

356 352 Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 01:14 PM (o/smN)

Sure champ. Add in some Israeli Ninjas and run with it.

Posted by: sven at March 13, 2023 01:16 PM (Lzpvj)

357 It is not a game, but if you ARE keeping score, the Conspiracy Theorists are up 43 to 0.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2023 01:16 PM (G8h7g)

358 As we teeter on the brink of a two-front war with China and Russia, banks fail and inner-city anarchy grows, I shudder to think about the next distraction being planned for our amusement.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at March 13, 2023 01:17 PM (CwhoI)

359 the acknowledgement by Regime Television that we probably financed covid-19.

Of course we did. Just like the Reavers in Firefly were the creation of the Government. I mean, They illegally spy on us, obsfucate regarding their actions, and when caught don't punish themselves. There is no incentive for bad actors to do what is right.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 13, 2023 01:17 PM (ynpvh)

360 Wait. Did the (former) third in line to the Presidency really say "making poo-poo"? or is that a paraphrase/misquote?

Lord help us.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 13, 2023 01:15 PM (ykeLU)

Yep. Direct quotation.

Posted by: mrp at March 13, 2023 01:17 PM (rj6Yv)

361 And right before the 2024 elections these guys will have everyone convinced that Trump was responsible for the Wuhan Flu, thus he cannot be the GOP candidate for president.

And if he gets reelected they will have him up on impeachment charges before his inauguration speech starts.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at March 13, 2023 01:17 PM (SRRAx)

362 358 As we teeter on the brink of a two-front war with China and Russia, banks fail and inner-city anarchy grows, I shudder to think about the next distraction being planned for our amusement.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at March 13, 2023 01:17 PM (CwhoI)

Watch out for Crypto! It's all falling apart because Gov't doesn't control it!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 13, 2023 01:17 PM (ynpvh)

363 Great, we've slouched into "you cannot melt steel with fire" territory. When you're agreeing with Whoopi Goldberg, maybe its time to rethink your entire worldview.
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After years of defending a lot of the wrong shit (granted it was some time ago) I am open to ANYTHING at this point. Anyone who isn't is in Dreamland.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2023 01:18 PM (jjHp6)

364 It is not a game, but if you ARE keeping score, the Conspiracy Theorists are up 43 to 0.

Posted by: rickb223

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you're not allowed to look backwards with new information on actions of Our Betters.

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 01:18 PM (o/smN)

365 360 Wait. Did the (former) third in line to the Presidency really say "making poo-poo"? or is that a paraphrase/misquote?

Lord help us.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 13, 2023 01:15 PM (ykeLU)

Yep. Direct quotation.

Posted by: mrp at March 13, 2023 01:17 PM (rj6Yv)

They serve it by the platter in DC

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 13, 2023 01:18 PM (ynpvh)

366 315 297 Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 01:03 PM (o/smN)

Jesus Christ, the building was gutted by debris and burning.

https://youtu.be/PK_iBYSqEsc

The performance of the WTC complex was a testament to the builders and they outperformed their expected failure cascades.

Posted by: sven at March 13, 2023 01:08 PM (Lzpvj)

Bushhitler had a 2000 lb penetrator bomb with radio-operated fuse strapped-down in the front cargo compartment of the plane. Plane-tower impact sheared the hold-downs, as intended, and the bomb shot out of the plane, thru the tower, and penetrated deep within WTC-7. Guiliani had the radio-trigger; he triggered the fuse at the selected time. Presto, another WTC building destroyed!

Posted by: When will these crazy dreams end? at March 13, 2023 01:19 PM (AMIL/)

367 NOOD Banks

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 13, 2023 01:19 PM (ynpvh)

368 Sure champ. Add in some Israeli Ninjas and run with it.

Posted by: sven at March 13, 2023 01:16 PM (Lzpvj)

The government thanks you for your service.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2023 01:20 PM (jjHp6)

369 Put this t-shirt material over your face. It will protect you from the most contagious virus the world has ever seen.
Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 01:11 PM (o/smN)

I see you are far too smart to fall for that old "graphene oxide" gambit.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 13, 2023 01:20 PM (xhaym)

370 After years of defending a lot of the wrong shit (granted it was some time ago) I am open to ANYTHING at this point. Anyone who isn't is in Dreamland.

Posted by: ...

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This - not anger - is the only right answer.

We know what they did and why they did it in 2020, but the same people who were in the same government certainly wouldn't have done that before then.

Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 01:20 PM (o/smN)

371 We know what they did and why they did it in 2020, but the same people who were in the same government certainly wouldn't have done that before then.
Posted by: Were building codes changed after WTC7 collapsed into itself from burning office furniture? Why not at March 13, 2023 01:20 PM (o/smN)

After all, the only way to run a successful con is to make it so great that no one will expect it to be a con, right?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 13, 2023 01:24 PM (xhaym)

372 293
'hearing from michelle fields'

I'd just as soon hear from Dorcus Blimline.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 13, 2023 01:24 PM (YohY1)

373 368 Posted by: ... at March 13, 2023 01:20 PM (jjHp6)

Yeah I am definitely a government simp....

known for it universally and all that....

so a crack commando team of Israeli demolitions experts who successfully placed tons of explosives while being led by mutated chimps spiked the towers....

no way in hell could it be that Habib converted jets into field expedient cruise missiles.

Posted by: sven at March 13, 2023 01:25 PM (Lzpvj)

374 Posted by: sven at March 13, 2023 01:25 PM (Lzpvj)

All I'm saying is I actually got mad in the aftermath of 9/11 saying Al the shit you're saying.

The truth is a good thing. Facts are good. Can't lose sight of that.

But the day I waste another shred of oxygen defending the likes of Chimpy Bush not to mention all the Democrats in government is going to be one wintry mix motherfucking day in hell. Fuck them. It could all be true. I don't care.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2023 01:31 PM (jjHp6)

375 We gave NK nukes. We are trying our damndest to give them to Iran. These people don't have our interests or our security interests anywhere never them. They want us dead. All of us, not just "conservatives".

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2023 01:34 PM (jjHp6)

376 *near

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2023 01:35 PM (jjHp6)

377 Beware the clittoral reefs.
Posted by: one of the midshipmen in the Aubrey/Maturin
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My understanding is these are easy to miss, even if you are trying.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2023 01:54 PM (fs1hN)

378 Ric Grenell on the Lou Dobbs Show: “Every Single Intelligence Agency Signed Off” on a Statement in April 2020 Declaring China Responsible for COVID Pandemic – It Was a Cover-Up

Posted by: SMOD at March 13, 2023 02:06 PM (RHGPo)

379 When I read this post a visual of all the atheistic Democrat true-believers lighting their Saint Fauci votive candles come to mind.

There is no words for the increasing levels of delusion and idiocy which is destroying America.

Posted by: Dummy #43 at March 13, 2023 08:34 PM (FkMTW)

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