The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 12/18/23

Good morning, kids. Incitatus, the horse that Caligula made a Roman Senator, just whinnied from the great beyond to say "Whoa!" I think the fact that I'm not necessarily surprised nor shocked that an aide to Democrat Senator Ben (now Ben-Dover) Cardin was caught in a Senate hearing room filming himself getting rogered up the sigmoid by some hirsute gorilla. For this, he was fired. For also last week threatening and hurling pro-"Palestinian" slogans at Rep Max Miller, he wasn't.

The shocking thing in all this I suppose is my reaction. With all the abject corruption, depravity and criminality that has driven our society to the brink of destruction, I find myself nonplussed by the filming of "A Queer and Pleasant Stranger" in a Senate chamber. The Senate itself and virtually everyone who belongs to what was once known as "the greatest deliberative body in the world" is part and parcel of the aforementioned corruption and has transformed it into in essence a multi-trillion dollar Augean stable of a whorehouse.

There is no introspection, no guilt, no shame and no contrition. Far from it. There is only radiant chutzpocrisy from the filthy deviant in question who, get this, claims HE is the real victim. Of homophobia.

I have to say, I'm at that Howard Beale mad-as-hell-and-not-going-to-take-it-anymore point of exploding. The Left has succeeded in dragging us down and perhaps in one respect, it's time to just give it back to them right in the face and twice as hard. Sort of like Vivek Ramaswamy over the weekend.

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy suggested Sunday that CNN commentator Van Jones should “just shut the f–k up” in response to Jones labeling the brash Republican a “demagogue” earlier this month. Ramaswamy, who is vying for the GOP nomination for president in 2024, offered the brash suggestion toward the cable news personality after Jones said on-air he was “shaking” during the fourth GOP debate when Ramaswamy spoke because he felt like he was watching “the rise of an American demagogue.”
Jones also called the tech entrepreneur a “very, very despicable person” whose talking points during the debate were “one step away from Nazi propaganda,” the Hill reported. Ramaswamy, during an on-stage appearance at Turning Point USA’s Americafest in Arizona Sunday, didn’t mince words when replying to Jones’ characterization.
“And then you get the mainstream media, you got this character Van Jones on CNN afterwards saying, ‘This is the rise of an American demagogue who’s gonna live 50 years longer than Trump. This is dangerous, I am shaking,’ that’s what he says,” Ramaswamy, 38, said. “Just shut the f–k up.”
“At a certain point, just shut the f–k up,” he said as the crowd cheered and laughed. “We’re done with it.”Ramaswamy is competing with former President Donald Trump, ex-South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie for the chance to face President Joe Biden next year.

As you all are quite aware, I'm not exactly a choir boy in terms of the language I use. My English teacher of a mother of blessed memory, who was as refined, well-spoken and intellectual as you could imagine would certainly not approve (though in private, and mostly Hungarian, she would let loose like a gangster in a dive bar). But sometimes, you have to do what you have to do. And Ramaswmay flamed him but good. "Just shut the fuck up!" indeed.

And for those who don't know or have forgotten who and what Van Jones is, here's an excerpt from his Discover The Networks rap sheet:

Became a Communist in the aftermath of the 1992 “Rodney King riots” in Los Angeles

Founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in 1996

Was active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER

Suspected that the Bush administration “may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war”

Served as a board member of the Rainforest Action Network and Free Press

In March 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called “green jobs czar.”

Has been a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress
. . . By the late 1990s, Jones was a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist who viewed police officers as the arch-enemies of black people, and who loathed capitalism for allegedly exploiting nonwhite minorities worldwide. He became a leading member of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a Bay-Area Marxist-Maoist collective that had ties to the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. . .
. . . Around 2002, Jones, who had experience as a record producer, produced (for the Ella Baker Center) an album that starred cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. That album featured lyrics depicting America not only as a place where “terrorists are made,” but also as “a piece of stolen land led by right-wing, war-hungry, oil-thirsty … mother fuckers” who “got people of color playing servant to do that shit for them.” Jones himself performed on the album as well. . .
. . . Also in 2005, Jones co-founded Color of Change (COC), an organization that views the United States as a profoundly racist country, and whose mission is “to make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.”
. . . Amid mounting controversy over his radical past, Jones resigned his post as “green jobs czar” on Labor Day weekend 2009, claiming that he had been victimized by “a vicious smear campaign.” Jones was later asked whether President Obama had been aware of Jones’ controversial history before appointing him as green jobs czar. Jones replied: “I was fully candid, I mean, about my past, about the ideas that I explored….”

And on and on and on. Colorful bastard, isn't he? People have forgotten the kerfuffle when his communism torpedoed his working in the Obama White House. Of course, that's why Obama picked him in the first place, for a job the purpose of which was to forcibly convert our economy to a socialist/communist model. Yet when the heat died down, he didn't just disappear. He wound up on television. What a country!

The fact that he's even on a national news network and pimped as some sort of journalist-cum-responsible social commentator is an abomination. Meh, CNN and virtually every other broadcast or cable "news" network and the print media are nothing more than house organs for the dissemination of Leftist propaganda. They should all only "Shut the fuck up!" Forever.

While Vivek Ramaswamy for sure is not going to be the nominee, it is evident now after several interviews and town halls with the aforementioned hostile media that he is in command of his facts and knows how to handle the stooge interviewers insofar as dismantling their typical "Have you stopped beating your wife?" bullshit. If only everyone on our side did it his way.

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, something curious is happening. People whom you least expected are standing up and saying the right things.

Though first-term Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman is far from a Sinema/Manchin type, he has been giving the woke left fits in recent weeks with his right-leaning stances on illegal immigration, the Sen. Bob Menendez scandal, and, most of all, his staunch support for Israel.
Fetterman, who suffered a debilitating stroke in May 2022 during his Senate run and who spent a considerable amount of time away from the Senate in early 2023 after checking himself into a hospital for severe depression, has even gone so far as to take his case to “The View,” where earlier this month he frustrated the far-left co-hosts by among other things arguing that Menendez needed to go:
But to me, I think the more important picture is that we have a colleague in the Senate that actually did much more sinister and serious kind of things: Senator Menendez. He needs to go. And if you are going to expel Santos, how can you allow somebody like Menendez to remain in the Senate?
And, you know, Santos’s kind of lies were almost funny and, like, he landed on the moon and that kind of stuff. Whereas, you know, I think, you know, Menendez, I think is really a senator for Egypt, not New Jersey. So, I really think he needs to go, and especially it’s kind of strange that if Santos is not allowed to remain in the House, you know, someone like that —
Though Fetterman has also outraged the anti-Israel contingent on the left by doing things like repeatedly calling for the safe release of the hostages held by Hamas and openly trolling agitators during protests, it was a recent interview he did with NBC News that sent some Democrats over the edge:
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is breaking with progressives on hot-button issues with his fiery support for Israel and calls for Democrats to engage on tougher immigration laws, disappointing some on the left as he shows an independent streak. He’s also continually scolding Democrats for not pushing Sen. Bob Menendez out of office after he was indicted on federal charges of taking bribes and acting as a foreign agent for Egypt, which the New Jersey Democrat denies. […]
“I’m not a progressive,” Fetterman told NBC News. “I just think I’m a Democrat that is very committed to choice and other things. But with Israel, I’m going to be on the right side of that. And immigration is something near and dear to me, and I think we do have to effectively address it as well.” . . .
. . . Fetterman’s stances have had some conservative influencers suggesting he has more or less turned into one himself. I don’t really see it that way. Though maybe not a hardcore woke progressive, he’s still a staunch Democrat. He’s pro-abortion, pro-Big Labor, pro-“tax the rich,” pro gun rights restrictions, and is soft on crime. But the fact that Fetterman’s been more right than left on Menendez, illegal immigration, and Israel as of late is certainly welcome all the same.

That last paragraph for sure is right on the money. But, what is it about what's happening in Israel that made him break from the so-called "progressives" that he claimed himself to be when he ran? More to the point, does the situation in Israel present itself as an opportunity to win the hearts and minds of not just Jews and others over only that situation in particular but to highlight the destruction wrought by the Democrat Party and its acolytes (and the GOP-e scum who aid and abet them by playing the Potemkin opposition party) on all of us?

As Stacey Matthews says, we're likely never going to win Fetterman over on all those other issues. But then again, when a window of opportunity like the bloodbath inflicted on Israel by Hamas and the insane support it got from academia, it really is time to pounce. At the very least, it's a chance to bridge a divide that heretofore did not exist.

It won't last forever. After "Just shut the fuck up!" silences the assholes, then maybe real dialogue can begin.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Robert Spencer: "The seeds of what we’re experiencing now were planted a long, long time ago, when few Americans fully realized what was happening. Allen Drury did. What makes great literature great is that it is enduringly relevant, and continues to illuminate and enlighten far beyond the context of its own setting and the time and place in which it was written."
We Can’t Say We Weren’t Warned, Or, the More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
"Today’s young people are encouraged to believe that they are traumatized by their personal experiences and the injustices of history."
The Therapeutic Turn
"The most serious political question is whether we want our nation to survive."
World War III is Not Possible

ISRAEL AT WAR

“This massive tunnel system, splits into branches of tunnels, spans well over four kilometers (2.5 miles) and reaches only 400 meters (1,310 feet) from the Erez crossing,” the IDF said in a statement. “This subterranean tunnel system was a project led by Muhammad Sinwar, the brother of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.”
IDF Discovers Largest Ever Hamas Terror Tunnel Inside Gaza
IDF: “The soldiers are training for a range of circumstances, including daytime and nighttime combat, as well as urban and rural warfare.”
Israel Trains Reservists for Military Operations in the North as Iran-Backed Hezbollah Terror Group Intensifies Attacks
"While we mourn the deaths of innocents, we must also give accolades to Israel: a nation so committed to saving every life possible that she risks her own forces clearing one house at a time rather than take the easier road of keeping her own soldiers safe. It is a true statement that Israel protects her citizens with her army, while Hamas protects its army with its civilians."
The Tragedies of Israel Waging an "Ethical" War
"Israel cannot win these asymmetrical wars, with their ceaseless ceasefires."
Israel Must Obtain an Unconditional Surrender (Or utter annihilation of the enemy - jjs)
"The pathology of an honor-shame culture."
Hamas’ Lust for Mutilation, Murder and Sexual Atrocity
Just as tens of thousands of German civilians willingly joined in the Nazis' extermination of six million Jews, masses of ordinary Gazans flooded into Israel on Oct. 7 behind the Hamas terrorists who led the surprise assault. Footage from a number of the targeted communities shows dozens of ordinary-looking Gazans looting and taking part in killings and kidnappings of Israelis.
'Hide Under the Bed': How Hamas Made a High Schooler's Holocaust Education Trip Unnecessary
" . . . families of several Israeli hostages held by Hamas described the hardships they are enduring and shared heartfelt pleas for the safe return of their loved ones, while demanding 'justice' and calling on the world to recognize Hamas for the terrorist organization that it is."
Families of Hostages Held Captive in Gaza Demand ‘Justice,’ Warn Hamas ‘Won’t Stop’ at Israel
"While American 'aid' pours into the 'Palestinian' Authority."
Abbas Blames America for "Deaths of Children in Gaza"
Daniel Greenfield: "The romance of a cause is more compelling than arguments for its morality."
Reclaiming the Romance of Our Cause

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In the letter, Edelson said his firm usually refrains from commenting on the positions taken “by those in [its] network” but added that “when certain boundaries of morality and ethics are transgressed, silence is not an option.”
Nationally Recognized Law Firm to End On-Campus Recruiting at Harvard Following President’s Horrendous Testimony on Anti-Semitism
“You know when change is gonna happen on this campus? When we don’t have to pack up the menorah.” (Maybe if we locked up the vandals, with cement overshoes - jjs)
Rabbi at Harvard Claims School is Forcing Jewish Student Group to Lock Up Menorah at Night for Fear of Vandalism
"Hamas’ atrocities make for a rude awakening for any Democrat still trying to call himself liberal."
Will Democrat Liberals Denounce Illiberal Progressives?
"For too long, conservatives have been loath to use government power to defend the republic from enemies within. That has to change."
If Republicans Want to Govern, They’d Better Learn How to Go After the Left
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"The news comes after seven people, including at least four suspected Hamas terrorists, were arrested in three European countries last week for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks against Jews."
Canadian Police Arrest Terror Suspect Who Was Allegedly Planning Attacks Against Jews: Reports
"German intelligence officials reportedly believe hundreds of Hamas terrorists live inside the country, a revelation which follows a recent terrorism bust there last week involving several alleged members."
Hundreds of Hamas Terrorists Believed to Be Living in Germany: Report
"President Gay was a mistake."
Harvard is Not Listening
Robert Spencer: "Is there any destructive force in America today that they won’t finance?" (If CAIR ever is legally declared a terrorist front group, perhaps the assets of all these "charities" can be seized - jjs)
Leftist Foundations Have Forked Over Millions to Hamas-Linked CAIR
Last year, Schumer said in a letter of support for CAIR that the United States is "fortunate" the organization is "fighting for the sake of our freedoms." In 2015, he applauded CAIR for its "determination to continue to spread humanity" and to "cultivate and encourage mutual understanding amongst Americans of all backgrounds and cultures," according to a letter CAIR cited in fundraising literature. That's a far cry from what Schumer said during a 2003 Senate hearing, when he slammed CAIR's leaders for having "intimate connections with Hamas" and said the group was known to have "ties to terrorism."
Schemer Schumer Praised the 'Humanity' of Anti-Israel Group Whose Leader Was 'Happy To See' Hamas Murder Jews
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"Law professor Jonathan Turley says that, according to the standards that the left established, he aided and abetted criminal activity."
Is it Time for Eric "Yum-Yum" Swalwell to Face a SWAT Raid and Years in a DC Jail?
Victor Davis Hanson: "Have we again forgotten the subpoenaed Trump children?"
We Are Well Beyond Hypocrisy
"Apparently, Hunter Biden thought he could short-change the U.S. Treasury." (Well, the Treasury is as Leftist as every other bureaucracy so it's not a stretch to say he'll get off scot-free - jjs)
Beautiful Things, Extravagant Lifestyle
"Garland ensured that Hunter Biden's shakedown would never be prosecuted."
A Clear Case for Merrick Garland’s Impeachment
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Roger Kimball: "One set of laws for Donald Trump and his supporters, and another set for the harassers."
'Liberty and Justice For All' – A Tattered Cliche?
“Just look at Jack Smith’s conduct in this case. The motivating principle behind every procedural request he’s made has been speed, has been getting this trial in before the election,” Honig said on CNN.
XiNN Legal Analyst Admits Jack Smith Trying to Jail Trump Before Election
“Very little I can say right now,” Guiliani told press outside the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C on Friday, adding: “The absurdity of the number underscores the absurdity of the entire proceedings.” The former New York City Mayor called the threats made against Freeman and Moss “abominable” and “deplorable”, but insisted: “The comments they received, I had nothing to do with.” Giuliani said he intends to appeal and may even move for a new trial.
America’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani Ordered To Pay ‘Absurd’ $148 Million To Georgia Election Workers
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
“Jews end up becoming a proxy for everything that these groups hate about our own society. So if you did one of Kamala Harris’s Venn diagrams and you had things that were over overlapping … anti-American, anti-Capitalist, anti-Israel, there is a huge overlap.”
“The anti-American activists are the anti-Capitalist activists are the anti-Israel activists”
"This is truly shocking: A foreign national billionaire appears to have affected the very membership of this House and this Committee. The lines governing the districts you represent may have been carved in part by foreign money. The same foreign cash may have funded the turnout efforts in your last elections."
You Know About George Soros, but This Foreign Megadonor May Be Even More Dangerous
"Unlike today's rioters, the colonists' grievances were legitimate."
BLM Isn’t the Boston Tea Party
"With no political party staunchly defending Americans’ liberty, the totalitarian virus spreads quickly."
The Republican Party’s Paper Elephants
Dear Lord, of only this were true! - jjs
House Minority Leader Wildly Claims GOP Agenda is to End Democracy as We Know It"
"‘It was almost like an open show of my arrest all the way down the street,’ he said. That was the point."
Meet the J6 Defendant Standing Up Against a DOJ Bent on Collecting Heads
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Yeah, we forced that freak to film himself getting reamed up the sigmoid. Totally our fault, NBC! - jjs
NBC News Blames Gay Porn Video Scandal on "Conservative Outlets"
Jones also called the tech entrepreneur a “very, very despicable person” whose talking points during the debate were “one step away from Nazi propaganda,” the Hill reported. Ramaswamy, during an on-stage appearance at Turning Point USA’s Americafest in Arizona Sunday, didn’t mince words when replying to Jones’ characterization.
Vivek Ramaswamy Tells XiNN’s Van Jones "Just Shut the Fuck Up" at Turning Point USA Americafest
"With all respect to Ms. Becker and her investigative skills, I pray that she and this article are entirely ignored until after the war is finished and Hamas is destroyed. Otherwise it becomes fodder to hurt the war effort -- a price that we cannot afford."
To Win This War, We Cannot Be Distracted by the New York Times
Clarice Feldman: "The White House so far does not seem to be buying into the temper tantrums on the highways, the obnoxious behavior at so many colleges and universities, and the puerile nonsense of unsigned petitions and vigils by those ashamed to show their faces or reveal their names."
Farhi – A Flicker of Light in the Post’s Darkness
Rabbi Fischer: "From the American founding, to race, to Israel, to much else these obvious truths go unmentioned."
101 Truths I Never See in the Media
"While he’s subject to upcoming charges and investigation, Baker said he won’t stop his investigation into what happened on January 6."
Biden DOJ to Charge Blaze Journalist Covering Jan. 6: "I'm Ready for the Fight"
In 2018, Peter Vlaming was fired from his job of seven years as a French teacher at West Point High School because he would not address a student by biologically inaccurate pronouns. Vlaming “told his superiors his Christian faith prevented him from using male pronouns” for the student. The student complained, leading to a four-hour hearing with the school board, which ultimately voted 5-0 to fire Vlaming for “discrimination.”
Virginia Supreme Court Says Lawsuit By Teacher Fired For Christian Beliefs About Sex May Proceed
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"What if our political class is just getting ready for negotiations when the inevitable crisis comes?"
The U.S. Debt Is Getting Uglier—And That's the Plan
"The best part of 100 million birds were culled across 2022 and 2023 in an attempt to curtail the flu. October 2023 saw 1.4 million killed, while November saw a whopping 8 million. There were over 4 million slaughtered in the early part of December alone."
Egg Prices Expected to Soar – Again
"People understand their own economic crunch."
Media Spins While Parents Struggle with Biden’s Economy
". . . we’ve learned in recent years that when the left’s theories are contradicted by the real world, they stick with the theory. If the laboratory mice aren’t behaving as predicted, the problem isn’t the theory, it’s the mice."
It’s Time for the Fed to Ditch the Most Lame-Brained Theory in Economics
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Michigan, California, New York and Illinois have all passed legislation that consolidates authority over land use issues and rules with state-level bureaucrats at the expense of local governments that could have altered their own zoning codes to stem the tide of industrial green projects like solar and wind farms. These policies deprive rural residents in these states of their freedom and local autonomy, while also benefiting the corporate interests that line the pockets of the states’ Democratic governors. "(Time for rural counties to secede from their state and either declare statehood or join the nearest solid red state - jjs)
Blue States are Stripping Rural Counties of Ability to Prevent Green Energy Takeover of Their Communities
"Plants are better than people."
Just Stop Breathing
"We in Australia might not be capable of being a green-hydrogen superpower but we are giving Bidenomics a run for its money in the boondoggle superpower stakes."
Vying to be a Boondoggle Superpower
"All the way to full tyranny>'
How Far Will The Climate Cult Go?'
Robert Zimmerman: "Let me translate what this complaint really says, and I can do it only a few words: 'Your review didn’t come to the conclusions we want — which is to block all work by SpaceX — so that we can do what we want!'"
Environmental Groups File Another Complaint Attempting to Stop SpaceX Launches at Boca Chica
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"The news arises amid a contentious debate over responsibility for the situation at the U.S. southern border, with over 7 million people reported to have crossed illegally into the U.S. since [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden took office. The Biden regime presently faces criticism from Congressional Republicans pushing for border closures and a halt to illegal immigration. Caught illegal immigrants are currently given a future court date and released into the U.S."
10 IEDs Discovered at U.S.-Mexico Border
"The source says the order to shut the checkpoints — a critical tier in the agency’s border security strategy — came as more than 5,000 migrants are in local detention facilities designed to hold less than 2,000 migrants. In addition, more than 2,000 migrants are being temporarily detained below the Camino Real International Bridge II in the small border town of Eagle Pass, Texas. Nearby, the city’s only other port of entry serving Piedras Negras and Eagle Pass remains shut due to the migrant surge." (Authorize the use of deadly force. That should stop them - jjs)
Unstoppable Wave of Migrants in Texas Forces Border Patrol Checkpoint Closures
"Border Patrol recorded the highest level of illegal immigration on record with more than 2.2 million illegal crossings at the southern border in fiscal year 2022, according to the Congressional Research Service."
Biden Junta Mum on Kamala Harris’ Latest Accomplishments as "Border Czar" as Illegal Immigration Surges
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Was it necessary for 27-year-old security guard Eric Harrison to die?"
When Shoplifters Kill
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Shortly after the announcement, CDC pushed states to increase vaccination rates amid rising respiratory virus activity."
Pfizer Shares Sink Following Disappointing 2024 Projections, Due to Low Vaccination Rates
"Those who say they don't need the Catholic Church often need it most."
Anthony Fauci and the Apostate’s Arrogance
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Robert Zimmerman: "To end [last] week on a positive note, a plethora of stories in the past few days strongly suggest that the bigoted status quo in most universities in America is finally facing some real pushback, pushback that includes the arrests of lawbreaking protesters, actual budget cuts to universities for having racial quotas and promoting race hatred, and the passing of new legislation to better enforce the civil rights laws that have been on the books since the 1960s."
Is the Pushback Against the Bigots in Academia Finally and Actually Becoming Real?
"And they’re going to be inefficient! And expensive!"
Are You Ready for Pre-Pre-Apprenticeship Programs?
Meanwhile, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a far-left Democrat, announced plans this week to cripple the city’s “high-achieving selective-enrollment schools” in the name of so-called “equity.” During his mayoral campaign earlier this year, Johnson explicitly promised city residents his administration “would not end selective enrollment” at Chicago public schools.
From Woke Walkouts To Dumping Selective Enrollment, Illinois Schools Are Melting Down
"In at least eight other states, state library groups have either severed ties with the ALA already or been urged to do so by state lawmakers."
Texas Education Board Votes to Protect Kids From "Sexually Explicit" Books in School Librariess
"It takes minimal effort on the part of the House to rein in the leftist mad houses that our colleges and universities have become, although it requires a Speaker with courage."
A Republican House Can Impose Order on Colleges
ABORTION
"If you accept a wicked premise, sooner or later you will have to accept the wicked conclusions that follow from that premise."
Barbarism, Ho!
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"'Aidan Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by the US Senate,' Maryland Dem's office says."
Was That Wrong? Cardin Staffer Fired Over Senate Smut Film Says He Would "Never Disrespect My Workplace"
". . . leaked video footage showed the staffer having anal sex on a table in the Senate hearing room where lawmakers sit to ask questions during important proceedings like Supreme Court nominations. The sex appeared unprotected. Another photo showed the staffer on all fours on top of a desk while salaciously staring back at the camera. The staffer was later identified as Aidan Maese-Czeropski of Sen. Ben Cardin’s (D-MD) office and was fired as a result." (The literal cocksucker is also a Jew-hater who accosted Rep Max Miller - jjs)
Fired Democrat Senate Staffer Who Filmed Gay Sex Tape in Hearing Room Cries Homophobia
POLITICS
“I’m not a progressive. I just think I’m a Democrat that is very committed to choice and other things. But with Israel, I’m going to be on the right side of that. And immigration is something near and dear to me, and I think we do have to effectively address it as well.”
Leftist Freakout Commences After John Fetterman Declares He is "Not a Progressive"
“The next economic boom will begin the instant the world knows that Crooked Joe Biden is gone, and Donald J. Trump has won four more years as president of the United States. Powered by the momentum of our historic victory, by Christmas next year, the economy will be roaring back, energy prices will be plummeting, the hordes of people charging across our border will have ended—the invasion will have stopped."
Trump Makes a Big Promise About What Will Happen When He Wins
"The Republican is the clear favorite among GOP voters, with his support having grown by a whopping 26 points since February."
Poll: Trump Dominance Hits New Level as He Nears 70 Percent Support in GOP Primary
"Since the New Deal, leftists have consistently expanded government power, especially in the executive branch. Trump threatened all of that and still does."
Leftists and the "Imperial Presidency"
“All of these polls point to voters having already decided against Biden on the current merits. They just don’t think he’s up to the job, whether we’re asking about traits like stamina and sharpness or about policies like the economy and immigration.”
The Polls for Joe Biden Might Even Be Worse Than You Think
He increasingly questions the incumbent’s prospects for next year’s election and “feels that Democrats very well could lose,” according to a report by Annie Linskey citing an anonymous source in the Wall Street Journal.
Report: Barack Obama Fears Joe Biden ‘Could Lose the White House’ Next Year
He announced his departure on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, hours after The Washington Post published a story focused on internal disputes and suspicions between Never Back Down, the campaign, and other DeSantis allies that included accusations of “mismanagement and conduct issues, including numerous unauthorized leaks containing false information.”
Top Strategist Resigns from DeSantis-backing Super PAC
"Whoever ends up winning the 2024 election the outcome will likely be very close."
Swing State Politics in 2024
"The state is a must-get seat for both the Senate and the presidency."
Kari Lake’s Bid to Raise Arizona
"Say what you will about DeSantis’ run for president, but we need more governors like him. Where do we find the next one?"
The Next Ron DeSantis

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"Is Haley gaining some support in New Hampshire? Sure. But her ceiling is low and her support is weak. She hasn’t really taken anything from Trump, instead picking up a couple of percentage points here and there from DeSantis, Vivek, and others."
The New Nikki Haley Hype Poll In New Hampshire Isn’t All It Seems . . .
Thad McCotter: "Amidst today’s awful politics, the prospects exist for improvement."
Part III: Why Are Today’s Politics So Awful?
"For those worried about Trump trashing the Constitution, that ship has long sailed under the current regime. Trump may be the last and only chance to resurrect the Constitution." (Only if it's rewritten to outlaw Leftists - jjs)
Election 2024 – It’s the Voters, Stupid!
Utah Senate GOP Candidate Trent Staggs: “We see these candidates that are popping up in the continuation of Romney, Mitt Romney 2.0, they’re very much part of the establishment of the Utah swamp.”
Trent Staggs: Mitt Romney Only Passionate About Attacking Donald Trump, Utahns "Embarrassed"
“If Christie is as committed to stopping Donald Trump as he says,” National Review (!!!!) concluded in a Friday editorial, “it’s time for him to retire to his tent.”
All I Want for Christmas is for Crisco Christie to Have a Silent Night
"Lots of little moments from this woman tell us a lot about her true character."
Why Michelle Obama is as Rotten a Choice for President as Hillary Clinton
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"The most corrupt nation in Europe keeps finding its way into American political scandals. That reason is money. As Republicans continue to vote for Ukraine funding, they would do well to consider the risks."
The Stench of Ukraine Corruption Is Wafting Westward
"A Russian air base hosting bomber aircraft used in the war in Ukraine was among the targets, according to a Russian Telegram channel critical of the Kremlin. The channel posted short videos of drones flying over low-rise housing in what it claimed was the Russian town of Morozovsk, whose air base is home to Russia´s 559th Bomber Aviation Regiment."
Russia and Ukraine Duel in the Skies Launching Dozens of Drones at Each Other on Sunday
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The political scientist painted a bleak picture of the future for Die Welt, noting that fundamental changes in American society — like demographic change, for instance — is going to make holding Washington’s attention in the future more difficult. She told the paper: “For many younger Americans, including a generation of politicians, Europe is little more than an open-air museum. You feel and are actually closer to Asia and the Pacific region. China is the biggest geopolitical threat for them.
Europe is ‘Entering an Era of Wars’, Top Security Forum Warns
"Sinn Féin, one of the early Irish nationalist organizations (not to be confused with the modern day eurocommunist party), means 'ourselves alone.' The Irish nationalists of that era fought and died for the freedom to steer their own course. It's a shame that, in the end, their beloved country has ended up as a willing tool in another imperial enterprise."
Eire, We Hardly Knew Ye
"Surrogacy advocates be warned: When selling babies becomes an industry, it soon becomes a racket."
The Rise and Fall of International Adoption
"Daniel Ortega, the man the great Ronald Reagan once called 'the little dictator' of Nicaragua, really has it in for the sweet-tempered Nicaraguan beauty who won the Miss Universe pageant."
She is Pretty and Driving a Leftist Dictator Crazy
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"A 2022 study from the Pentagon found that 77 percent of young Americans would not qualify for military service due to being overweight, using drugs, or having mental and physical health problems. The Pentagon also discovered that only nine percent of Americans between the ages of 16-21 said they would consider military service last year, dropping 13 points from before the [Fauci-Chinese] coronavirus pandemic."
Gen Z U.S. Soldiers Engaged in "TikTok Mutiny," Discouraging Army Recruits
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"Gavin Newsom wasn’t the first leftist to destroy California, but he has undoubtedly been the most successful."
How Democrats Like Gavin Newsom Got Away With Devastating the Greatest State in America
"After 20 years of failure, the Transportation Security Administration continues to waste resources, harass travelers, and actively mug air passengers. It is far more of a threat than the dangers from which it supposedly protects us," writes Reason's J.D. Tucille.
It's Time to Kill the TSA
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"If other companies follow CVS’ lead, patients should benefit from lower prices."
CVS’ Shift in Drug Markups Could Stop Big Pharma’s Price Gouging
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Robert Zimmerman: "None of these facts matter to the paper-pushers in Washington, or to the politicos in the White House. I predict that the third orbital launch will occur no earlier than March, two to three months after SpaceX announces it is ready to go, as these government agencies slow-walk their rubber-stamp launch approvals."
Update on Starship/Superheavy Work at Boca Chica
"Once again the monumental scale of Mars astonishes."
Another minor canyon on Mars that would be a world wonder on Earth
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"The 2nd Circuit will allow Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools to proceed in federal court. The court ruled the girls had 'plausibly stated an injury' and that they could be entitled to 'monetary and injunctive relief.'”
Female High School Athletes Notch Big Legal Win Over Biological Men Competing In Their Sport
“I’ve been assaulted and held for ransom for four hours when these protestors demanded that if I wanted to make it home to see my family safely again, I had to pay them money. The list goes on.”
"Blatantly Obvious": Riley Gaines Explains Why She Believes Women Fear Speaking Out Against Trans Athletes
The couple knelt in front of Canon Andrew Dotchin, who held their heads as he gave “thanks for Catherine and Jane, to the love and friendship they share, and their commitment to one another as they come before you on this day.” (God is watching - jjs)
Church of England Blesses Same-Sex Couples For the First Time
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“This is not just an Israel or Jewish crisis. This is not just an Israel or Jewish crisis. This is a world wide global humanitarian crisis. The Red Cross, you need to get involved, you’re an embarrassment.”
Jewish-American Actor Michael Rapaport Blasts the Red Cross Iinn Israel: "You’re an Embarrassment"
Christian Toto: "Troubled First Son offers endless material, but NBC series refuses to take the bait."
Saturday Night Live Won’t Touch Hunter Biden (And We All Know Why)
"Just keeping your sanity in the face of this dizzying unreality is an act of courage."
The Totalitarianism of Cultural Fog
"Michael Cassidy, 35, a Christian and formerly military officer, tore down the Satanic Temple’s display of Baphomet, complete with a goat skull adorned in mirrors and decked out with a red cloak. He then flipped over the altar that had been set up in front of the statue before turning himself over to police, who arrested him and charged him with 4th-degree criminal mischief."
Holiday Hero: Christian Veteran Destroys Satanic Temple's Demon Goat Statue In Iowa
"There’s nothing I hate more than waking up from a 40,000-foot nap to find my seatmate’s sprawling caboose taking up half the seat I paid for. But that’s just it: I paid for it."
Under the Weight of Southwest’s "Fatties Fly Free" Policy, Normal People Will Pay More
HITHER & YON
"Like today, Americans 250 years ago faced an openly hostile government that was determined to prove its dominion regardless of cost."
250 Years After The Boston Tea Party, Americans Still Recognize Government Tyranny When They See It
"The Boston Tea Party was the first expression in history of an American nation that had already taken form."
The Course of Human Events
"Harvey Mansfield’s new book connects the Renaissance philosopher with modernity’s origins."
Machiavelli’s World

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1 Happy Monday

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 18, 2023 07:44 AM (lwOKI)

2 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 18, 2023 07:44 AM (T4tVD)

3 First!

Posted by: Aidan Maese-Czeropski at December 18, 2023 07:45 AM (vFG9F)

4 Awww. Bringing up the rear again.

Posted by: Aidan Maese-Czeropski at December 18, 2023 07:45 AM (vFG9F)

5 Good morning JJ and horde

Was hoping to be sleeping a couple more hours but here I am

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2023 07:47 AM (fwDg9)

6 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 18, 2023 07:47 AM (z99Zw)

7 There's something I don't trust about Ramaswamy.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2023 07:48 AM (zvEEc)

8 "And if you are going to expel Santos, how can you allow somebody like Menendez to remain in the Senate?"

If he can't figure that out he's as dumb as we thought he is.

Posted by: fd at December 18, 2023 07:49 AM (vFG9F)

9 Giannis Antetokounmpo's 17 rebounds moves him ahead of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for most in Bucks' history.

Give the guy a break -- he was playing with a broken hip FFS!!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 07:49 AM (2yu8s)

10 In 2023, anyone of the LGBTQIA+ brigade is not only allowed to have sex at any time, in any place, with anyone of their choosing (including *children*), they are *entitled* to do so.

And no one may stand in their way, or they will be destroyed.

This is the America Democrats Have Built.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 18, 2023 07:49 AM (7fElN)

11 "Fetterman’s stances have had some conservative influencers suggesting he has more or less turned into one himself."

I think he is just brain damaged and not able to filter his thoughts in accordance with THE BODY.

Posted by: fd at December 18, 2023 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

12 7 There's something I don't trust about Ramaswamy.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2023 07:48 AM (zvEEc)

Whatever ulterior motives he may have, what he is saying and doing is the emetic the body politic needs. His flaming of that CNN hack at last week's town hall vis a vis J-6 and the stolen election was epic. No one else, outside of Trump, is taking it to the propagandists with as much effectiveness as he is.

That alone is appreciated, regardless of what he really intends should he gain power.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 18, 2023 07:51 AM (x0n13)

13 Fox News @FoxNews Dec 17
Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to be removed despite GOP opposition trib.al/a93aWX5

Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog
It’s literally called the “Reconciliation Monument” and was erected 100 years ago as a sign that the country had moved on from the Civil War. Now they’re tearing it down as a sign that they actually don’t want us to move on.

I’ve made this point many times. It is insane that people today act like the wounds of the Civil War are somehow fresher for them than they were for people who had living relatives who fought in the conflict.
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My italics in Fux News quote.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 07:52 AM (2yu8s)

14 Someone in the Clinton Mob is bound to give Fetterman another lump.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2023 07:52 AM (zvEEc)

15 It's Fetterman whom I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw him. He is a hard Leftist as well and I am sure he didn't get a lightning strike hit

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2023 07:53 AM (fwDg9)

16 Vivek has it right...tell those leftist mothers to shut the fuck up already.

I think Vivek would make a great VP for President Trump.

Brash, unafraid, shoots from the hip and I hear he makes a great chicken vindaloo.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 18, 2023 07:54 AM (6V7rn)

17 Moooornin'!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 18, 2023 07:54 AM (k6uu5)

18 They need to put those monuments on wheels so they can roll them back when Trump takes office.

Posted by: fd must be dreaming at December 18, 2023 07:54 AM (vFG9F)

19 Good morning again dear morons and gracias JJ

JJ hope you are back to 100%

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 18, 2023 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

20 Civil War is impossible.

Up until the point that it is.

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 07:54 AM (IFNME)

21 That alone is appreciated, regardless of what he really intends should he gain power.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 18, 2023 07:51 AM (x0n13)
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Happy to have him as a tool. But me thinks he's someone's state actor - one of the best.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2023 07:55 AM (zvEEc)

22
Around 2002, Jones, who had experience as a record producer, produced (for the Ella Baker Center) an album that starred cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.

The Pennsylvania Penal system needs an enema for letting that happen. If is wasn't for the loony left Mumia would have been planted six feet under about 40 years ago.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 18, 2023 07:55 AM (enJYY)

23 >"Once again the monumental scale of Mars astonishes."
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I wonder if Mars was once a lush and fertile planet
I wonder if we'll ever find out

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 07:55 AM (geLO8)

24 I don't know if many of you saw Jim(in California)'s comments on the ONT last night, but he could use prayer. His wife is in the hospital, a routine procedure to put in liver stents that didn't go well, she is on antibiotics and unable to get her cancer treatments. Jim had an abdominal bug and had to go to the ER, but he's better.
Just passing this along. Sounds like life is rough for them right now.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at December 18, 2023 07:56 AM (JrYM1)

25 Fetterman is an op.

It's like 4chan elected a Senator.

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 07:56 AM (IFNME)

26 I wonder if Mars was once a lush and fertile planet
I wonder if we'll ever find out
Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 07:55 AM (geLO

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Potatoes and ketchup.

And Matt Damon!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2023 07:57 AM (zvEEc)

27 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts
#BREAKING: Car Plows and crashes into Joe Biden's parked motorcade leaving president stunned
📌#Wilmington | #Delaware
A major accident occurred after a car plowed and crashed into President Joe Biden's motorcade that was parked, leaving him stunned. The incident took place in Wilmington, Delaware, where tightened security surrounded President Biden. Secret Service agents drew their weapons on a black driver as the vehicle appeared to ram into an SUV that had closed down a street while Biden attended a nearby campaign event. The President and the First Lady had just emerged from the Biden-Harris 2024 headquarters in downtown Wilmington just after 8 pm.

#UPDATE: According to reports, President Joe Biden was not injured as he was quickly rushed into his car after the incident. Additionally, the reports state that his vehicle was not involved

#UPDATE: A photo has been released showing the man who allegedly rammed into Joe Biden’s motorcade this evening in Delaware
https://tinyurl.com/2p9y9myn
Nitter thread for multiple images.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 07:57 AM (2yu8s)

28 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts
🚨#BREAKING: Clearer footage of the Presidential motorcade incident shows the moment when Joe Biden was walking out of his campaign headquarters and about 9 seconds into the footage, you can hear the crash as a car collides with his motorcade. The driver of the car is reportedly cooperating with Secret Service Agents

https://tinyurl.com/3a8p6s55
1:18 minutes; Joe looking like a fuckup -- so, yeah, he's okay.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 07:57 AM (2yu8s)

29
If is wasn't for the loony left Mumia would have been planted six feet under about 40 years ago.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

___________

If you plant him six feet under, he's a martyr. Now that he's locked away with no chance of getting out, everyone has forgotten about him.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2023 07:58 AM (MoZTd)

30 I was really surprised when Obama picked Van Jones to go to DC for some b.s. job. He was well known here as a hard leftist cop-hater.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 18, 2023 07:58 AM (RIvkX)

31 >There's something I don't trust about Ramaswamy.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
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I don't want another president with a funny name
Presidents should be Bill or George or Dave or Eddie

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 07:59 AM (geLO8)

32 New York Post @nypost 6h
Man arrested after spraying unknown substance at victims, yelling ‘Gas the Jews’ in front of DC synagogue: report trib.al/Zjoqplu

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 07:59 AM (2yu8s)

33 Boker Tov Patriots

Getting ready for my Carry Permit Class
Finalizing all details for Israel Trip

And get this:

The Navy has screwed up one of the programs I created that the Private Company the Military chose to run the Program wants to now hire me as a consultant LOL. Ain't life Grand. And when the Flags find that out, Heads will explode. Apparently there is a G-D in heaven and he has a sense of humor

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2023 07:59 AM (pVWRI)

34 I donate to multiple local and national organizations that serve homeless persons in our mid-size city. Of, course, ALL of them send repeat year-end solicitations. I tried to remember why the Salvation Army ticked me off last year, something about a Fifth Commandment violation [Honor thy father and thy mother]. I googled their "statement on racism" again. Just the opposite of what Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged.

Posted by: Fenderbender at December 18, 2023 07:59 AM (r72iY)

35 Has any Senator at all decried the incursion on "sacred spaces"? No. They are all afraid of Big Gay.

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 07:59 AM (IFNME)

36 19 Good morning again dear morons and gracias JJ

JJ hope you are back to 100%
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 18, 2023 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

Thanks and yes. Fully recovered. I think I had that weird RSV bug. Supposedly only affects kids but, wow. Took me almost 10 days to recover.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 18, 2023 08:01 AM (x0n13)

37 I don't know if many of you saw Jim(in California)'s comments on the ONT last night, but he could use prayer. His wife is in the hospital, a routine procedure to put in liver stents that didn't go well, she is on antibiotics and unable to get her cancer treatments. Jim had an abdominal bug and had to go to the ER, but he's better.
Just passing this along. Sounds like life is rough for them right now.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at December 18, 2023 07:56 AM (JrYM1)
===
Thank you.

A prayer for complete and speedy healing for both Jim and Mrs. Jim.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 18, 2023 08:01 AM (RIvkX)

38 forgive the repost but I think this is hilarious:

This Daily Mail story has a photo of the Capitol Movie Fudgepacker with President Joe Biden

https://tinyurl.com/2s3cfb9f

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 08:02 AM (geLO8)

39
I was really surprised when Obama picked Van Jones to go to DC for some b.s. job. He was well known here as a hard leftist cop-hater.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 18, 2023 07:58 AM

The Wesley Cook/Mumia that shot and murdered a police officer at point blank range became radicalized in Oakland before returning to Philadelphia.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 18, 2023 08:02 AM (enJYY)

40 33 Apparently there is a G-D in heaven and he has a sense of humor
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2023 07:59 AM (pVWRI)

You'll get those admiral boards yet!!! Safe travels.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 18, 2023 08:02 AM (x0n13)

41 Tommy Robinson @TRobinsonNewEra Dec 16
Ross Lake House Hotel in County Galway, Ireland, which was due to start taking unvetted migrant men next week, has mysteriously caught fire tonight.
https://tinyurl.com/3vbxhjvc

Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo 9h
“How come it’s all males?”
Angry residents in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland confronted politicians on Dec. 14 after it emerged that male migrants were to be housed in their rural town starting just before Christmas.
https://tinyurl.com/5n95z74b
59 seconds; shitting on Open Borders IRA Sinn Fein party; LNSFW even from a grandma.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:03 AM (2yu8s)

42 I think that is the first time I have ever seen 'chuztpacrisy'. Bold and defiant hypocrisy. I like it. It is a cromulent word.

+1

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at December 18, 2023 08:04 AM (GmPfo)

43 Thank you, JJ!

Allen Drury, huh? I'll have to take a look ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 18, 2023 08:04 AM (kc18b)

44 Why would someone be surprised that Obama picked a radical for a government position?

Who did you think Obama was?

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 08:05 AM (IFNME)

45 I don't want another president with a funny name
Presidents should be Bill or ~~George or Dave or Eddie~~ anything but Sue-dhamay!
Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 07:59 AM (geLO

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FIFY

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2023 08:06 AM (zvEEc)

46 25 Fetterman is an op.

It's like 4chan elected a Senator.
Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 07:56 AM (IFNME)

I believe the lump on his neck achieved sentience, and took control of the monster. And amazingly it was a huge improvement.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:06 AM (S6gqv)

47 There should be an element of stupidity in the definition too, right? Chutzpah is not just boldness, but I always got the impression there was a negative undercurrent. Not bold like Caesar or John Paul Jones, but a bit of a cheesecake. Correct?

Perfect.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at December 18, 2023 08:07 AM (GmPfo)

48 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 18, 2023 08:07 AM (53oGX)

49 The lump seems like a half decent man in its own right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at December 18, 2023 08:07 AM (GmPfo)

50 News stories about how Biden admin is becoming terrified by the latest polls - we can only wonder what kind of idiotic thing they will do in response, since they don't understand the reasons and they can't possibly do anything to make it better.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:08 AM (S6gqv)

51 Today is Bake Cookies Day. 🍪

Posted by: redridinghood at December 18, 2023 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

52
Allen Drury, huh? I'll have to take a look ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades

__________

All six of the Advise and Consent series are available as e-books.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2023 08:09 AM (MoZTd)

53 41 Tommy Robinson @TRobinsonNewEra Dec 16
Ross Lake House Hotel in County Galway, Ireland, which was due to start taking unvetted migrant men next week, has mysteriously caught fire tonight.
https://tinyurl.com/3vbxhjvc

Irish Democracy in action. It's an old, old tradition.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:09 AM (S6gqv)

54 "The best part of 100 million birds were culled across 2022 and 2023 in an attempt to curtail the flu. October 2023 saw 1.4 million killed, while November saw a whopping 8 million. There were over 4 million slaughtered in the early part of December alone."

Damn Canadian geese. Yes, I'm blaming Canada for not letting us shoot these honking germ-ridden pests, and thereby forcing us to cull our chickens.

Posted by: pookysgirl, all American at December 18, 2023 08:09 AM (dtlDP)

55 That should be 'cheeseball' meaning doofus, not cheesecake.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at December 18, 2023 08:10 AM (GmPfo)

56 I feel like chutzpah carries a certain connotation of obliviousness, too.

Not just arrogance, but such deep seated arrogance that you don't even realize you're doing it, you just believe, in your heart of hearts, that you get to do things others can't because you're you and they're them, and that's just how the world should be.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 18, 2023 08:10 AM (9UlRk)

57 The sex tape in the Senate chamber was a power move. Showing us they are in charge. Supposedly one of the actors was fired (he's no longer with the Senators office) some non profit will pick him up and pay him more.

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 08:10 AM (IFNME)

58 an aide to Democrat Senator Ben (now Ben-Dover) Cardin was caught in a Senate hearing room filming himself getting rogered up the sigmoid by some hirsute gorilla.

I'm confused. We were assured by Dr. Jill that the 2020 election had restored decency to Washington D.C. and our nation.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 18, 2023 08:10 AM (a3Q+t)

59 "pro tax-the-rich" is a plus. A huge plus nearly overcoming all the other negatives.

Any conservative still too stupid to see that the current tax policy favors ONLY the rich is not worth listening to.

It's no coincidence the "rich" are overwhelmingly on the left and far left-- the policies of the left only benefit them while the tax code leaves their wealth untouched to continue to freely fund the left.

I'm tired of this myth that the rich are these sort of benevolent industrialists out there investing their vast funds to provide the capital and jobs for the rest of us. When the reality is, we're just getting the crumbs that fall off their trucks of money, as they exploit another advantage.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 18, 2023 08:10 AM (TzW+Y)

60 Yonder Horde.

Same shit, different day I see. Might see snow flurries today so that'd be something new.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 18, 2023 08:11 AM (Q4IgG)

61 I would like to see the sodomite's ass pounder videos played in the House and Senate before each, and at the end of, every session.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 18, 2023 08:11 AM (6V7rn)

62
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 18, 2023 08:12 AM (bEb2S)

63 I'm confused. We were assured by Dr. Jill that the 2020 election had restored decency to Washington D.C. and our nation.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 18, 2023 08:10 AM (a3Q+t)
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We have wildly differing ideas about "decency" than They do...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 18, 2023 08:12 AM (7fElN)

64 61 I would like to see the sodomite's ass pounder videos played in the House and Senate before each, and at the end of, every session.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 18, 2023 08:11 AM (6V7rn

I mean dash it all, Senators, have you no Pride?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 18, 2023 08:12 AM (9UlRk)

65 We have wildly differing ideas about "decency" than They do...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 18, 2023 08:12 AM (7fElN)

Decent into madness

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 18, 2023 08:13 AM (9UlRk)

66 Yonder Horde.

Same shit, different day I see. Might see snow flurries today so that'd be something new.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

We won't be seeing white this year. 60 predicted for Christmas.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2023 08:13 AM (GIBR7)

67 After "Just shut the fuck up!" silences

The efficacy of that phrase seems doubtful.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 18, 2023 08:13 AM (a3Q+t)

68 Not just arrogance, but such deep seated arrogance that you don't even realize you're doing it, you just believe, in your heart of hearts, that you get to do things others can't because you're you and they're them, and that's just how the world should be.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 18, 2023 08:10 AM (9UlRk)
===

So you've met Gavin Newsom.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 18, 2023 08:14 AM (RIvkX)

69 Gotta hole lotta love

Posted by: Aidan Maese-Czeropski Zeppelin at December 18, 2023 08:14 AM (vFG9F)

70 47 There should be an element of stupidity in the definition too, right? Chutzpah is not just boldness, but I always got the impression there was a negative undercurrent. Not bold like Caesar or John Paul Jones, but a bit of a cheesecake. Correct?

Perfect.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at December 18, 2023 08:07 AM (GmPfo)

Chutzpah means gall, in the extreme.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 18, 2023 08:14 AM (x0n13)

71 Leftists in good standing always fall upward or at least sideways.

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2023 08:14 AM (fwDg9)

72 20 Civil War is impossible.

Up until the point that it is.
Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 07:54 AM (IFNME)

One of the reasons to pay attention to Oct 7 is because it is a model for future events. The time line goes nothing, nothing, nothing, then suddenly total war and terror overnight. Be prepared.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:14 AM (S6gqv)

73 "Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."

John 14:6-7

Posted by: Marcus T at December 18, 2023 08:14 AM (os1+V)

74 We won't be seeing white this year. 60 predicted for Christmas.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2023 08:13 AM (GIBR7)

wow, that's a Phoenix Christmas.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:16 AM (S6gqv)

75
Was that wrong, should I not have done that, 'cause I'm new to the Senate and I gotta tell ya...

Costanza defense

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 18, 2023 08:16 AM (enJYY)

76 Be prepared.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:14 AM (S6gqv)

One faction here really thinks the 23rd Airborne Rape Division are "the good guys".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 18, 2023 08:16 AM (9UlRk)

77 Chutzpah means gall, in the extreme.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 18, 2023 08:14 AM

Is it divided into three parts, as well?

Posted by: zombie Julius Gaius C. at December 18, 2023 08:16 AM (a3Q+t)

78 Some guy elected to Fairfax County(VA) School Board swore his oath on a stack of "banned books" and some parents are scandalized.

How could this happen? One thing is vote. (Harder!). But we need to learn what this fight is. This school board guy didn't run on making schools better he ran in putting a thumb in the eye of those icky MAGA people. He got the votes of parents in Fairfax. As well as non parents who outnumber parents.

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 08:17 AM (IFNME)

79 He got the votes of parents in Fairfax. As well as non parents who outnumber parents.
Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 08:17 AM (IFNME)

Good. And. Hard.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 18, 2023 08:17 AM (9UlRk)

80 I'm tired of this myth that the rich are these sort of benevolent industrialists out there investing their vast funds to provide the capital and jobs for the rest of us. When the reality is, we're just getting the crumbs that fall off their trucks of money, as they exploit another advantage.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 18, 2023 08:10 AM (TzW+Y)

We've moved far, far away from capitalism and are now full into oligarchy, both political and economic. I would argue that the final nail in our coffin was when, thanks to Covid, Amazon was able to destroy half of the surviving small businesses in this country and take all their business.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:19 AM (S6gqv)

81 "...Powered by the momentum of our historic victory, by Christmas next year, the economy will be roaring back, energy prices will be plummeting, the hordes of people charging across our border will have ended—the invasion will have stopped."

--

I hope the plan is to not just stop the wholesale invasion we're witnessing, but to send back each and every illegal who has come crashing through the border since, at the very least, 2020.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 18, 2023 08:19 AM (1xrUC)

82 Christmas is 7 days away. Get your cheer on!!!

Posted by: sidney at December 18, 2023 08:19 AM (Uy/WF)

83 Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer
🚨🚨 JUST IN🚨🚨
FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE TOP!
Source tells me that the “top” in the video below seen plowing @SenatorCardin’s staffer @Aidanmaesec in the Senate building from behind is George Gauger!

Georg Gauger is a Current student at Elliott School of International Affairs, which is right down the street from the US Senate. Georg Gauger also worked for the German Government.

In a screenshot from Aidan’s Instagram the day he filmed his sex tape, he tagged Georg on Instagram in the picture below, where he’s seen naked in the Senate building. The text on Aidan’s photo says he took Georg’s “thick German sausage and a jager sauce finish ”.
https://tinyurl.com/bddauvnu

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:19 AM (2yu8s)

84 73 "Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."

John 14:6-7
Posted by: Marcus T at December 18, 2023 08:14 AM (os1+V)

Thank you for what you do here Marcus. Jesus’ most definitive statement on who He is and what we need to do in response to Him.

Posted by: tubal at December 18, 2023 08:19 AM (PCK5/)

85 The text on Aidan’s photo says he took Georg’s “thick German sausage and a jager sauce finish ”.
https://tinyurl.com/bddauvnu
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:19 AM (2yu8s)
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I really don't need the gory details on this whole sordid spectacle...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 18, 2023 08:20 AM (7fElN)

86 Todays FOAD List:

When Obama’s IRS was illegally targeting conservative Tea Party groups, Mitch McConnell was silent. When Obama’s FBI was illegally spying on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, Republican members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence were silent. When Andrew Weissmann was using Robert Mueller’s special counsel witch hunt as a weapon to obstruct Trump’s presidency, Paul Ryan was silent. When the Gestapo-FBI worked with Democrats to advance the preposterous narrative that the J6 political protest against mail-in-ballot fraud was actually an “insurrection” seeking to topple the U.S. government, nearly every elected Republican remained silent.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 18, 2023 08:21 AM (lwOKI)

87 forgive the repost but I think this is hilarious:

This Daily Mail story has a photo of the Capitol Movie Fudgepacker with President Joe Biden

https://tinyurl.com/2s3cfb9f
Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 08:02 AM (geLO

******
So Gross.

"The footage was allegedly shared in a private group for gay men in the political scene, and reportedly appeared on a since-deleted account on X."

"Its owner identifies himself s a 'twink' (young, smooth-bodied gay man) engaging in sex acts with his older 'bear' partner."

Posted by: redridinghood at December 18, 2023 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

88 I do not trust Vivek, due to his possible Soros ties, but he has guts. Something the Senate GOP does not have

Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:21 AM (33nmr)

89 Thanks and Good Morning JJ

Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:22 AM (33nmr)

90 Oh I forgot. Happy Birthday JJ!

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 08:22 AM (IFNME)

91 Good morning, my pretty-pretties.

It's snowing. In Michigan, in December!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 18, 2023 08:22 AM (brrec)

92
I hope the plan is to not just stop the wholesale invasion we're witnessing, but to send back each and every illegal who has come crashing through the border since, at the very least, 2020.
Posted by: Lady in Black

__________

How many asylum hearings have there been since Joe was installed?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2023 08:23 AM (MoZTd)

93 In a screenshot from Aidan’s Instagram the day he filmed his sex tape, he tagged Georg on Instagram in the picture below, where he’s seen naked in the Senate building. The text on Aidan’s photo says he took Georg’s “thick German sausage and a jager sauce finish ”.
https://tinyurl.com/bddauvnu
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:19 AM (2yu8s)

I guess this Twink and The Kraut Sodomite never saw "Boys Beware" while in skool.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 18, 2023 08:23 AM (6V7rn)

94 Cop killer song writer and actor Ice-T now plays an NYPD detective on TV. Sick world we have.

Posted by: Redenzo at December 18, 2023 08:23 AM (JrV93)

95 You're a Bendel bonnet,
A Shakespeare's sonnet,
You're Mickey Mouse.
You're the Nile,
You're the Tower of Pisa,
You're the smile on the Mona Lisa
I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop,
But if, baby, I'm the bottom you're the top!

Posted by: Senate Aid Aidan at December 18, 2023 08:23 AM (lwOKI)

96 It's snowing. In Michigan, in December!
Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 18, 2023 08:22 AM (brrec)

Oh nooeesss it's climate change!!

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 08:24 AM (IFNME)

97 87. Cannot really use that against Biden , Red. Their are gay staffers and cronies in the GOP as well. Starting with Goober and Justice Roberts

Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:24 AM (33nmr)

98 Butt boy's Rogerer should also be identified. He most probably has a security clearance. How else could he gain entrance to the Senate building? And, as any Jan 6 defendant can tell you, parading your naked ass cheeks is a felony.

Equal justice!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 18, 2023 08:24 AM (/qczr)

99 "Thank you for what you do here Marcus. Jesus’ most definitive statement on who He is and what we need to do in response to Him.
Posted by: tubal at December 18, 2023 08:19 AM (PCK5/)"

You are welcome and amen.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 18, 2023 08:25 AM (os1+V)

100 How many asylum hearings have there been since Joe was installed?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2023 08:23 AM (MoZTd)

Lots. They ramped up immigration courts to 7 days a week.

About half show up.

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 08:25 AM (IFNME)

101 94. Agree on Ice T. How about Jay Z? Never got busted for me too, even though every rap song he did, talked about slapping Ho's

Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:25 AM (33nmr)

102 > He got the votes of parents in Fairfax. As well as non parents who outnumber parents.
_____________

Presuming there were actual 'votes' counted. I don't subscribe to the idea that any so-called 'election' is legit regardless who's running. IMO the Fairfax legislature wanted to stick it to the malcontents and did just that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 18, 2023 08:26 AM (Q4IgG)

103 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 13h
NEW - First tractors arrive at the Brandenburg Gate in the German capital Berlin amid farmer protest.

Disclose.tv @disclosetv 2h
NOW - President of the German Farmers' Association warns that if the government does not withdraw its measures "we will be everywhere from January 8, in a way that the country has never experienced before. We will not accept this."

Disclose.tv @disclosetv 2h
MORE - Thousands of farmers are protesting in Berlin.

https://tinyurl.com/27n232wx
14 seconds; okay soundtrack but loud; tractor jam!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:26 AM (2yu8s)

104 While the Howard Beale reference is good, I prefer to call it, “The Robocop Moment.” That’s where you look at the idiot liberal in question and think/say, “I’m not arresting you anymore, Clarence.”

Posted by: Don Draper at December 18, 2023 08:26 AM (SpDH3)

105 Vivek should have also said to Jones, "Get out of America. There are plenty of places you would fit in better than here. You're a weed in the garden. This country wasn't founded for people like you. You're an enemy of our way of life. You don't belong here. Leave."

But, he didn't. Someone of stature has to start saying things like this to all the dik dok people and all the other America haters. Begone. I don't think anyone in authority here has the nerve to do it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 18, 2023 08:26 AM (Angsy)

106 RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM ---

It seems certain 2023 will not be a US-record setting hot year. I believe only one or two months this year, July and maybe June or August, set US high temp records (since 1880) for those months. Here's the US Climate Report for last month:

NOAA Report on November 2023 Climate

"The contiguous U.S. average temperature during November was 44.4°F, 2.7°F above average, ranking 19th warmest in the 129-year record.

Generally, temperatures were above average across much of the contiguous U.S., while below-normal temperatures were observed in parts of the Northeast. No state ranked among their top-10 warmest or coldest November on record."

https://tinyurl.com/35shdsab
(scroll down past the links)

Posted by: Gref at December 18, 2023 08:27 AM (5fDan)

107 I'll bet not one article on the fag getting his Hershey highway pumped notes this is a long-standing tradition among Democrats, to use the Capitol for gay sex.

How many note Barney Frank and his partner running a gay prostitution service from his Capitol offices?
That the whole of DC helped cover it up for years before it was exposed?
That even after it was exposed, they swept it under the rug and limited the consequences to a slap on the wrist for the partner?
Then went right on pushing Frank as a leader of the party?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 18, 2023 08:27 AM (TzW+Y)

108 McConnell hates Conservatives because he cannot control them. He wants a GOPe Goose Steppers in D.C

Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:27 AM (33nmr)

109 {85} ... I really don't need the gory details on this whole sordid spectacle...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 18, 2023 08:20 AM (7fElN)

Yeah. What he said.

(G'morning Perfessor, how are things with you?)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 18, 2023 08:28 AM (qPw5n)

110 It won't last forever. After "Just shut the fuck up!" silences the assholes, then maybe real dialogue can begin.
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I admire your optimism.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 18, 2023 08:28 AM (zxP/x)

111 Right, Dems have had Frank etc... But we Fu$%ed up with GOP Speaker Haesert. He was worst of all, because he molested minors in his past secret life

Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:29 AM (33nmr)

112 As I noted last week, they were only treating the Senate with the respect it deserves.

And let's be real... they just got caught. Our ruling class is as deviant and decadent as any Oriental empire of old. A little raw-dog buttfucking is among the milder excesses those oak-paneled walls have seen, I'll guarantee you that. I shudder to think of the hijinks the actual Senators get up to in there.

Posted by: Yudhishthira Florian Maria Hohenzollern von Schloengishugen, Liechtensteinian Usurper at December 18, 2023 08:29 AM (0FoWg)

113 BTW, record-setting cold throughout Red China that also effs-up the "2023 hottest year ever in human history" lie.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:30 AM (2yu8s)

114 "All the way to full tyranny>'
How Far Will The Climate Cult Go?'"

More people need to understand that the ONLY reason the Climate Cult exists is to push the move to full tyranny. For the True Belivers, it is a religion replacement cult; for the leaders, it is a way to collapse capitalist systems and end any true democracy by replacing it with Chinese style permanent bureacracy.

It has nothing to do with environmentalism, nothing to do with actual climate, and nothing to do with "science".

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:30 AM (S6gqv)

115 The text on Aidan’s photo says he took Georg’s “thick German sausage and a jager sauce finish ”.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:19 AM (2yu8s)
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Say, CBD, there's an idea for a new cock tale recipe!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2023 08:30 AM (zvEEc)

116 Beware German farmers - hope you converted your bank accounts to crypto or gold.

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 08:30 AM (IFNME)

117 Good morning. What a stupid timeline to be in.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 18, 2023 08:31 AM (4I/2K)

118 BTW, record-setting cold throughout Red China that also effs-up the "2023 hottest year ever in human history" lie.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:30 AM (2yu8s)
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It's "climate change," not "global warming."

Get with the plan!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2023 08:31 AM (zvEEc)

119 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 1h
JUST IN - EU Commission has opened formal proceedings against Elon Musk's platform X under the Digital Services Act, citing "disinformation, illegal content, deceptive design."

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:31 AM (2yu8s)

120 But then again, when a window of opportunity like the bloodbath inflicted on Israel by Hamas and the insane support it got from academia, it really is time to pounce.

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I'm seizing on the fact that Sefton is pouncing.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 18, 2023 08:31 AM (HBgiC)

121 104 While the Howard Beale reference is good, I prefer to call it, “The Robocop Moment.” That’s where you look at the idiot liberal in question and think/say, “I’m not arresting you anymore, Clarence.”
Posted by: Don Draper at December 18, 2023 08:26 AM (SpDH3)

We would also accept "Bitches, leave!".

Posted by: XTC at December 18, 2023 08:32 AM (sm6Pk)

122 Fettermonster would make a fine Moron.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 18, 2023 08:32 AM (ZV+pB)

123 The Scottish referendum is the reason, US states will succeed.

Older Scots voted against independence, because their checks came from London.

Same with us, Soc Sec and Medicare. All Red States have that

Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:33 AM (33nmr)

124 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
BREAKING - Japan’s Nippon Steel to buy US Steel for $14.1 bn: firms insiderpaper.com/japans-nipp…

Japan's Nippon Steel to buy US Steel for $14.1 bn: firms
Japan's Nippon Steel has agreed to buy US Steel Corp for $14.1 billion, the companies announced on Monday. The leading Japanese steelmaker will acquire US Steel...

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:33 AM (2yu8s)

125 By the late 1990s, Jones was a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist who viewed police officers as the arch-enemies of black people, and who loathed capitalism for allegedly exploiting nonwhite minorities worldwide.
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Careful with the buzzwords, there. What is being described here - a "Marxist-Leninist-Maoist" - is impossible. It's an internal contradiction in terms. This particular complex of ideologies can't be achieved because the components are in mutual conflict.

Van Jones is a run-of-the-mill woke prog who bases his authority on identity groups (racial in his case, though he'll dabble in the sex side of things). Insofar as economics enters into the picture, it is as an adjunct to the identity framework. He has economics and those economics are essentially communist, but Marxism and Leninism are economic bases. Jones doesn't share them.

Dude's a modern woke ideologue and therefore closest to Maoism (though not a direct match). If you're looking for a historical term that is most applicable, it's that one - not some hodgepodge of mutually incompatible concepts.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 18, 2023 08:33 AM (zxP/x)

126 We would also accept "Bitches, leave!".
Posted by: XTC at December 18, 2023 08:32 AM (sm6Pk)

Insert Yes Chad meme here.

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 08:33 AM (IFNME)

127 But then again, when a window of opportunity like the bloodbath inflicted on Israel by Hamas and the insane support it got from academia, it really is time to pounce.

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I'm seizing on the fact that Sefton is pouncing.
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 18, 2023 08:31 AM (HBgiC)

Old: Hee Haw's Pickin' & Grinnin' set

New: AoSHQ's Seizin' & Pouncin' set

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 18, 2023 08:34 AM (4I/2K)

128 "then maybe real dialogue can begin." No kidding, brother JJ.

God Bless Israel.

BTW - With the sex show in the Senate I think we can dispense with any language Trump used in a PRIVATE conversation...

Especially since republicans in bot the the House and Senate just reauthorized Marxism against its own BASE(NDAA)...

You want me to vote for these assholes and not Trump? Let's review actual actions over the last 35 years...

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 18, 2023 08:34 AM (klw0w)

129 123. Not suceed, sorry

Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:34 AM (33nmr)

130 You can't spell tyranny without t-r-a-n-n-y.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:34 AM (2yu8s)

131 Morning Horde, thx JJ. Prayers for Mr and Mrs Jim in California

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 18, 2023 08:34 AM (NcL9g)

132 Suburban Denver, a week before Christmas:

Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 67

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 08:34 AM (geLO8)

133 Say, CBD, there's an idea for a new cock tale recipe!
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LOL

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:35 AM (2yu8s)

134 "Biden's Polls Worse Than You Think" is a fun read. The only problem is that the GOP sucks too.

Maybe we go Belgian and elect nobody in 2024....can't be worse than today.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 18, 2023 08:35 AM (9LOW6)

135 "Its owner identifies himself s a 'twink' (young, smooth-bodied gay man) engaging in sex acts with his older 'bear' partner."
----

The Bear is loose!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 18, 2023 08:35 AM (brrec)

136 So "jagerschnitzel" is gay code for something?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 18, 2023 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

137 112. Yes. US Congress is no better morally than the Old Roman one with Caligulus. Just more modern clothes

Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:36 AM (33nmr)

138 New: AoSHQ's Seizin' & Pouncin' set
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 18, 2023 08:34 AM (4I/2K)
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'Tis the seizin' to be jolly?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2023 08:36 AM (zvEEc)

139 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
BREAKING - Japan’s Nippon Steel to buy US Steel for $14.1 bn: firms insiderpaper.com/japans-nipp…

Japan's Nippon Steel to buy US Steel for $14.1 bn: firms
Japan's Nippon Steel has agreed to buy US Steel Corp for $14.1 billion, the companies announced on Monday. The leading Japanese steelmaker will acquire US Steel...
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:33 AM (2yu8s)

Gung Ho II, has entered the realm of possibilities

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 18, 2023 08:36 AM (4I/2K)

140 While the Howard Beale reference is good, I prefer to call it, “The Robocop Moment.” That’s where you look at the idiot liberal in question and think/say, “I’m not arresting you anymore, Clarence.”
Posted by: Don Draper at December 18, 2023 08:26 AM (SpDH3)
++++
Or - far more chaotic - a "Falling Down Moment."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 18, 2023 08:37 AM (zxP/x)

141 Mumia was convicted while I was in college and he became a martyr for the left immediately. I saw in Wikipedia that he has had eight children, most while he was in prison. Wonder how many have had legal issues.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 18, 2023 08:37 AM (NcL9g)

142 You can't spell tyranny without t-r-a-n-n-y.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:34 AM (2yu8s)
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"Y" so serious?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2023 08:37 AM (zvEEc)

143 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 5h
BREAKING: Majority of gas stations across Iran out of service after cyberattack -- reports

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
JUST IN -- Israel-linked hackers claim cyberattack that hit 70% of Iran’s gas stations -- CNBC

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:38 AM (2yu8s)

144 It's very simple. People are either willing dupes, or outright voting to have their children corrupted by satanic influences.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 18, 2023 08:38 AM (os1+V)

145 BTW, record-setting cold throughout Red China that also effs-up the "2023 hottest year ever in human history" lie.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:30 AM (2yu8s)

The Chinese stole our white Christmas! Tell Hunter that they stole our snow and he'll turn on them!

Posted by: pookysgirl sez no yellow... snow at December 18, 2023 08:38 AM (dtlDP)

146 Yellow snow

Posted by: Yudhishthira Florian Maria Hohenzollern von Schloengishugen, Liechtensteinian Usurper at December 18, 2023 08:39 AM (0FoWg)

147 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 5h
BREAKING: Majority of gas stations across Iran out of service after cyberattack -- reports

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
JUST IN -- Israel-linked hackers claim cyberattack that hit 70% of Iran’s gas stations -- CNBC
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:38 AM (2yu8s)
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Insert Nelson Muntz laugh here:

*HA-ha*

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 18, 2023 08:39 AM (7fElN)

148
"Decency is on the ballot"

Jill Biden, esteemed Doctor of Colors, Numbers and Shapes, 2020

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 18, 2023 08:39 AM (xG4kz)

149 Mornin’, All. Happy Six More Shopping Days Until Christmas.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 18, 2023 08:40 AM (9yWhg)

150 Uh, Oh, I started reading the content. Swallwell... isn't he the guy with Fang Fang fang marks on his member?

Posted by: Fenderbender at December 18, 2023 08:40 AM (r72iY)

151 [From the top, Robert Spencer, link:]

"Come Nineveh, Come Tyre" was published in 1973, and yet Drury could have been talking about today’s miseducated, indoctrinated and thuggish Antifa militants. Or, since he was discussing legislators, about the likes of Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu), Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah), Cori Bush (D-Race Hate), and Jamaal Bowman (D-Fire Alarm). America is now plagued with “absolutely innocent, absolutely earnest, absolutely righteous and absolutely terrifying,” and they’re in charge virtually everywhere it matters.

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He left out Donkey Chompers (D-Child Cages and Running Trains ... but mostly Running Trains).

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 18, 2023 08:41 AM (HBgiC)

152 @TheInsiderPaper 3h NEW - Israel intentionally starving civilians in Gaza: HRW
insiderpaper.com/israel-inte…

Israel intentionally starving civilians in Gaza: HRW
The group Human Rights Watch on Monday accused the Israeli government of intentionally starving civilians in Gaza as part of its offensive in the besieged [Pali territory].
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I guess no one showed HRW the video of Hamas terrorists hijacking aid trucks entering through Egypt.
/sarc

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:41 AM (2yu8s)

153 108 McConnell hates Conservatives because he cannot control them. He wants a GOPe Goose Steppers in D.C
Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:27 AM (33nmr)

Thune will succeed him, if McJowls ever croaks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 18, 2023 08:41 AM (x0n13)

154 I am a bit surprised (well not really, at least they're honest) to see the American Conservative piece "The U.S. Debt Is Getting Uglier—And That's the Plan." They're openly admitting what I have maintained for years - because it is so obvious - that the only possible "plan" left for dealing with the debt is to let it all crash, and then hope you have enough people in positions of power when it comes time to pick up the pieces and craft a new system.

That's the main reason I am unconcerned with tales of Biden throwing $6 billion here, $100 billion there. None of it is going to be paid, it's all going to be defaulted, and every extra bit just speeds up the day of the ultimate collapse. It's also too late for a Trump election to change anything (except the rebuilding)
oh yeah, merry christmas!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:42 AM (S6gqv)

155 Pretty sure the natural progression is pounce and seize.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2023 08:42 AM (XeU6L)

156 144 It's very simple. People are either willing dupes, or outright voting to have their children corrupted by satanic influences.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 18, 2023 08:38 AM (os1+V)

Or cutting out the middleman by voting for the right to kill their children.

Posted by: XTC at December 18, 2023 08:42 AM (sm6Pk)

157 And let's be real... they just got caught. Our ruling class is as deviant and decadent as any Oriental empire of old. A little raw-dog buttfucking is among the milder excesses those oak-paneled walls have seen, I'll guarantee you that. I shudder to think of the hijinks the actual Senators get up to in there.
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I support Trump as a sort of Sampson-- not to save America but to bring their whole rotted, corrupt and evil temple down on all of them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 18, 2023 08:42 AM (TzW+Y)

158
Say, CBD, there's an idea for a new cock tale recipe!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Call it, "Plead the Fifth"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 18, 2023 08:42 AM (xG4kz)

159 All the old head, retired steelworkers are going to lose their shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 18, 2023 08:43 AM (R4t5M)

160 Happy to have him as a tool. But me thinks he's someone's state actor - one of the best.

==

Great actor he is.

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 08:44 AM (V13WU)

161 It's not the first time America got screwed in the Senate

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 18, 2023 08:44 AM (sjpTN)

162 It's "climate change," not "global warming."

Get with the plan!
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No, it's now "climate chaos". Do try to keep up.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 18, 2023 08:44 AM (brrec)

163 137 112. Yes. US Congress is no better morally than the Old Roman one with Caligulus. Just more modern clothes
Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:36 AM (33nmr)

John Kerry has the looks to be a good Incitatus.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:45 AM (S6gqv)

164 "British Petroleum, (BP) said on Monday that it decided to temporarily pause all transit through the Red Sea. (Reuters)"

no comment....

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 08:45 AM (V13WU)

165 How to stop CA, IL, NY, etc. anti 2A laws:

Sue the state for deprivation of rights under color of law. In the lawsuit assert that "Sovereign Immunity" does not apply to unconstitutional laws. Fighting this to the SCOTUS will result in ALL gun control laws suddenly vanishing, once state officials become financially liable personally.

Remember: “An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed.” Norton vs Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425, p. 442.

Love that "affords no protection" part of the quote. It actually means no Sovereign Immunity for such an act.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 18, 2023 08:45 AM (CecP5)

166 > Japan's Nippon Steel to buy US Steel
____________

Japanese owned and operated businesses here in the states do not put up with your typical, union member employee who doesn't toe-the-line. Imagine how they feel about the wokeness...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 18, 2023 08:45 AM (Q4IgG)

167 Now the Granite City layoffs make sense.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 18, 2023 08:46 AM (R4t5M)

168 166. Well Said

Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:46 AM (33nmr)

169 Call it, "Plead the Fifth"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 18, 2023 08:42 AM (xG4kz)
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Keep it simple: Jack in the Box.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2023 08:46 AM (zvEEc)

170 30 miles outside of Chicago, none of the Sherrifs enforce the gun laws made by the Commie's in the city, or Governor Fred Flinstone

Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:47 AM (33nmr)

171 30, someone had to push the Cloward Piven propaganda bullshit. Why not a neat clean looking black dude named Van Jones.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 18, 2023 08:47 AM (DBrN4)

172 "British Petroleum, (BP) said on Monday that it decided to temporarily pause all transit through the Red Sea. (Reuters)"

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 08:45 AM (V13WU)
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It was a split decision.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2023 08:48 AM (zvEEc)

173
Remember: “An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed.” Norton vs Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425, p. 442.
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That only applies to laws we don't like.
/s/ Hawaiian Judge, now also sitting on the appeals courts.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 18, 2023 08:48 AM (TzW+Y)

174 "Decency is on the ballot"

Robby Starbuck
Since this tweet:

• Joe had a trans activist shake their fake breasts on the White House lawn
• Cocaine found at the White House
• Male Biden appointee steals Womens clothes at airports to wear them
• Gay sex tape filmed in the Senate
• Joe’s son had sex tapes go public and more info on his sexual relationship with his dead brothers wife went public
• Drag Shows on military bases
• Joe caught in corruption scandal after his son Hunter is revealed to have been paid millions by foreign sources for no good reason and Joe was involved despite telling voters he never was
• Navy hires drag queens to recruit more drag queens to join the military
• Taxpayer funded sex changes
• Biden defends child sex changes
• Biden interviewed by Dylan Mulvaney
This is just a short list, it could be thousands of bullet points.

Jill was right, decency was on the ballot and the outcome was indecent.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 18, 2023 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

175 The huge new tunnel system discovered at the Erez crossing, on Israel's border, has many implications - one of which is that Israel now *has* to carve a permanent buffer zone out of Gaza, and also maintain strict military control of the area for many years to come. It is now obvious that Hamas had been secretly building towards the Oct 7 attack for the last 17 years, all while pretending to negotiate "deals" with Israel over this and that.

biggest conclusion that I believe Israel has already made - the Palestinians can never be allowed to have their own government again. They are not capable of it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:49 AM (S6gqv)

176 170 30 miles outside of Chicago, none of the Sherrifs enforce the gun laws made by the Commie's in the city, or Governor Fred Flinstone
Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:47 AM (33nmr)

Well that's something but the State Police surely will.

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 08:49 AM (IFNME)

177 170 30 miles outside of Chicago, none of the Sherrifs enforce the gun laws made by the Commie's in the city, or Governor Fred Flinstone
Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:47 AM (33nmr)

I had heard that this is true, statewide.. pretty hard decree to enforce, it turns out..

Posted by: tubal at December 18, 2023 08:49 AM (PCK5/)

178 Japan's Nippon Steel to buy US Steel

Having been born and raised in Youngstown I really not sure how I feel about this other than I'm glad it wasn't the Chinese.

The day they opened the bridge built of Japanese steel that ran over the old decrepit mills just seems like another lifetime ago.

Posted by: pawn at December 18, 2023 08:50 AM (QB+5g)

179 ... They're openly admitting what I have maintained for years - because it is so obvious - that the only possible "plan" left for dealing with the debt is to let it all crash, and then hope you have enough people in positions of power when it comes time to pick up the pieces and craft a new system. ...
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:42 AM (S6gqv)
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I don't even think there's that much to it.

The debt party that's been going on since the 90s is going to destroy the world. They know. You know. I know it. Lots of people know it. But to fix it would be painful - materially painful for millions and lethal to a large chunk of the power system. To fix it would require a dismantling of the complex power structure in charge. It depends on the debt party, and cannot survive without it.

But there is no plan. There is no scheme to try to "pick up the pieces" after it comes down. There is nothing to be predicted about it, no way to position for it, no reliable estimate of what will be needed even to try. Anyone who does have "plans" about this from the standpoint of power in the aftermath is engaging in self-delusion.

They are continuing on because it's all they can do.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 18, 2023 08:51 AM (zxP/x)

180 biggest conclusion that I believe Israel has already made - the Palestinians can never be allowed to have their own government again. They are not capable of it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:49 AM (S6gqv)
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Missed the mark. Every last centimeter of Gaza needs to be declared Israel Sovereign territory for eternity and no Arabs allowed to remain.

Anything less is just inviting another 10/7 some time in the future.

Repeat and rinse for Judea and Samaria. It's just gonna have to eventually be done.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2023 08:51 AM (zvEEc)

181
Damn Canadian geese. Yes, I'm blaming Canada for not letting us shoot these honking germ-ridden pests, and thereby forcing us to cull our chickens.
Posted by: pookysgirl, all American

It is our own Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, that is behind the ban on slaughtering every last one of those green greasy shit machines.

Accept no substitutes!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 18, 2023 08:52 AM (xG4kz)

182 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 5h
BREAKING: Majority of gas stations across Iran out of service after cyberattack -- reports

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
JUST IN -- Israel-linked hackers claim cyberattack that hit 70% of Iran’s gas stations -- CNBC
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 08:38 AM (2yu8s)

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BREAKING: Biden Junta Calls for Immediate Israeli Cyberattacks Ceasefire. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 18, 2023 08:52 AM (HBgiC)

183 @144 - Marcus T

See choice #2. And those parents, and likely their parents, are the results of 24/7 brainwashing through the education establishment (see evolution) and the news/entertainment media.
All have intensified over the course of my life.
The church also must share in the blame. There were churches, even way back when I was in high school, that were on board with "The Bible tells us who, science tells us how."

Posted by: Teej at December 18, 2023 08:53 AM (DW2aF)

184 A nephew used to work for a Japanese fork-lift manufacturer in WV. The company had such a hard time finding reputable, hard working people they shut down after just a couple years.

The nephew wasn't exactly a 'go-getter' but even he mentioned how lazy and irrespective some of the hourly workers were towards the Japanese managers.

Nippon Steel has a hard road to hoe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 18, 2023 08:53 AM (Q4IgG)

185 "One of the videos by “military influencer” Anthony Laster described his life as having “No Privacy, The Pay Sucks, Shitty Food, Disrespectful Leadership, NO SLEEP!”"

Welcome to the army, loser. If any of the people in that article were under my command they would be facing UCMJ charges on their way out the door to a DD.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 18, 2023 08:53 AM (os1+V)

186 In a screenshot from Aidan’s Instagram the day he filmed his sex tape, he tagged Georg on Instagram in the picture below, where he’s seen naked in the Senate building.

The text on Aidan’s photo says he took Georg’s “thick German sausage and a jager sauce finish ”.
https://tinyurl.com/bddauvnu
Posted by: andycanuck

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Snap into a Slim Jim.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2023 08:53 AM (GIBR7)

187 The huge new tunnel system discovered at the Erez crossing, on Israel's border, has many implications - one of which is that Israel now *has* to carve a permanent buffer zone out of Gaza, and also maintain strict military control of the area for many years to come. It is now obvious that Hamas had been secretly building towards the Oct 7 attack for the last 17 years, all while pretending to negotiate "deals" with Israel over this and that.

biggest conclusion that I believe Israel has already made - the Palestinians can never be allowed to have their own government again. They are not capable of it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 08:49 AM (S6gqv)
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They're "capable" of it (with adequate external support) - but they're not capable of it if that government is to be anything approaching peaceful. I don't know that even a "buffer zone" would be effective. Gaza probably needs to be operated as a prison.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 18, 2023 08:54 AM (zxP/x)

188 row to hoe

sorry, can't help it™

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 08:54 AM (geLO8)

189 The nephew wasn't exactly a 'go-getter' but even he mentioned how lazy and irrespective some of the hourly workers were towards the Japanese managers.

Nippon Steel has a hard road to hoe.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

They'll just pull out of the country, then everyone there will be out of work.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2023 08:55 AM (GIBR7)

190 They are continuing on because it's all they can do.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 18, 2023 08:51 AM (zxP/x)

Concur. Greed, selfishness and "gimme free shit" is no way to go about running a federal government.

Uncle Sam is broke, busted, worn out and in debt.

I will cheer we he goes Tango Uniform.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 18, 2023 08:55 AM (6V7rn)

191 Every last centimeter of Gaza needs to be declared Israel Sovereign territory for eternity and no Arabs allowed to remain.

Anything less is just inviting another 10/7 some time in the future.

Repeat and rinse for Judea and Samaria. It's just gonna have to eventually be done.

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You can't do that!

---UN Security Council Members Russian Federation, France, China, UK and the US.

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 08:56 AM (V13WU)

192 >"One of the videos by “military influencer” Anthony Laster described his life as having ...
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what did they think they were signing up for- band camp?

Pussies. We're doomed.

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 08:56 AM (geLO8)

193 Gaza probably needs to be operated as a prison.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

DMZ.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2023 08:56 AM (GIBR7)

194 189

They'll just pull out of the country, then everyone there will be out of work.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2023 08:55 AM (GIBR7)

Toyota has managed to be very successful in the US..

Posted by: tubal at December 18, 2023 08:56 AM (PCK5/)

195 "One of the videos by “military influencer” Anthony Laster described his life as having ...
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what did they think they were signing up for- band camp?

Pussies. We're doomed.
Posted by: Don Black

The children were never told no and given everything they wanted.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 18, 2023 08:57 AM (R4t5M)

196 Every time I hear some propaganda ministry nitwit bemoaning the fate of Gaza I recall what happened when the Israelis left in 2005. The Israelis physically picked up Jewish settlers living in Gaza and carried them to Israel . Riots and injuries occured. The Israelis left greenhouses and other facilities in good working order. The Gaza Arabs promptly destroyed all of it, demonstrating a suicidal stupidity. If you are that stupid, nature takes its course

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 18, 2023 08:58 AM (NcL9g)

197 Foundrys and Mills should be National Security protected businesses.
No foreign ownership whatsoever.
It is vital that we have a thriving domestic metals industry rivalling any anywhere.
Any threat to this (including unions) should be done away with.

Posted by: Reforger at December 18, 2023 08:58 AM (jDsb4)

198 You can't do that!

---UN Security Council Members Russian Federation, France, China, UK and the US.
Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 08:56 AM (V13WU)
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"Just shut the f**k up!"

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2023 08:58 AM (zvEEc)

199 all of Gaza as a DMZ? OK !

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 08:58 AM (V13WU)

200 193. Exactly. DMZ zone

Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:58 AM (33nmr)

201 Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 18, 2023 08:58 AM (NcL9g)
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tru dat

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2023 08:59 AM (zvEEc)

202 200 193. Exactly. DMZ zone
Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 08:58 AM (33nmr)

Dead Muslim Zone.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 18, 2023 08:59 AM (x0n13)

203 New news, house will introduce a bill to strip university funding over DEI.

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 08:59 AM (V13WU)

204 Israel has said it has no desire to run Gaza, and they've also said they won't let Hamas or the PA do it. What they better start thinking about is who they will support. Because the longer this goes on the more support on the margins they will start to lose. They also better get their troops down to the squad level under control and answer with some real substance what just happened at the Holy Family Church. Hand waiving and saying it wasn't the IDF isn't cutting it.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 18, 2023 09:00 AM (os1+V)

205 It’s such a shame the Reconciliation Monument is being removed from Arlington. The Taliban influence is strong in modern America (this is quite ironic)

And that senate aide has zero shame. A normal person would slink away in shame… he posts publicly and plays the victim. Disgusting

Speaking of disgusting, the Cowboys game yesterday and really the entire NFL. I’m not talking about the final result but the officiating. NFL refs suck sweaty donkey balls…. They throw flags always and at the wrong times. They’re like a bunch of Marc Elias lawyers in striped shirts. I think it’s all rigged and they’re paid off…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 18, 2023 09:00 AM (xT8gx)

206 That only applies to laws we don't like.
/s/ Hawaiian Judge, now also sitting on the appeals courts.

That "U.S." in Norton vs Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425, p. 442.

Means the quote is from a Supreme Court ruling. Inferior courts ignore these at their own risk. The Supreme Court can "supervise" inferior courts who ignore their rulings.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 18, 2023 09:00 AM (CecP5)

207 The House Oversight investigation into President Joe Biden and his family's influence-peddling schemes digs all the way back to ties to the late-90s big tobacco settlement, including James Biden's deal-working caught on FBI tapes in an unrelated 2008 bribery scheme, as The Washington Post reported Sunday.

Posted by: SMOD at December 18, 2023 09:00 AM (RHGPo)

208 It didn't get much coverage but the nationalist party in Serbia had a major victory in the elections over the weekend. Nationalism seems to be spreading.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 09:00 AM (ZLI7S)

209 Iran funds a barbaric raid , which includes rape, beheadings etc... and Pampers wants the Israeli's to stop Cyber attacks in Tehran.

WTF!

Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 09:00 AM (33nmr)

210 Concur. Greed, selfishness and "gimme free shit" is no way to go about running a federal government. ...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 18, 2023 08:55 AM (6V7rn)
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It isn't. That's just the marketing angle on it. All that "free shit" is the structure through which the power class steals an entire country. It's a front business. It's the laundromat.

But all of their power structures, deals, assumptions, games, plans, etc. are tied up in it. They can't make an attempt to fix it, because fixing it would wreck the entire structure - and, most importantly, leave *them* out in the cold.

Take just one huge part of the problem, which is the medical system. If they can fix CMS, they can fix the budget (or close to it). But fixing CMS requires fixing the wider industry, which will crash prices in *everything* to do with medicine. The medical system is close to a quarter of the economy and shrinking it by 50% - achievable and necessary - puts you into depression territory before a single knock-on effect is felt. And millions - literally - of people vanish from the power base, along with trillions of dollars.

They'd rather be nuked.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 18, 2023 09:01 AM (zxP/x)

211
Let Bibi Be Bibi
Bibi Bibi bo Bibi
banana fanna fo Fibi

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:01 AM (geLO8)

212 208. Wow Jack. I knew the PM there was a Romney type

Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 09:01 AM (33nmr)

213 Truth. Lol.
Clown World ™
@ClownWorld_

https://tinyurl.com/mta2wn9e

Posted by: redridinghood at December 18, 2023 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

214 Saw at least a blurb Leftists saying you can't charge Sundowner for acts before he moved into the Oval Office

Making blueberry and raspberry pancakes. Never tried that before

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2023 09:02 AM (fwDg9)

215 The Senate was befouled as bad as the anal sex video in a metaphorical way by members of both parties with the reauthorization of FISA. Thanks GOP effing "e", way to not take an easy stand for your voters. This includes you, Ted Cruz.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 18, 2023 09:03 AM (fs1hN)

216 Reading the news these days, the only response I have is that Jesus can't get here fast enough.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 18, 2023 09:03 AM (lTGtQ)

217 Gope thinks we should lay off Biden, this close to election.

Pedal to the medal, goal is to get him to not run again. Only Dem who can win in Penn and the rust belt

Posted by: Jonah at December 18, 2023 09:04 AM (33nmr)

218 Israel has said it has no desire to run Gaza, and they've also said they won't let Hamas or the PA do it. What they better start thinking about is who they will support. Because the longer this goes on the more support on the margins they will start to lose. They also better get their troops down to the squad level under control and answer with some real substance what just happened at the Holy Family Church. Hand waiving and saying it wasn't the IDF isn't cutting it.
Posted by: Marcus T

No one "runs" the DMZ between N & S Korea. It's just there.

Same witb the new Gaza DMZ. From Israel to the sea. Dead as dead can be.

Kinda like the Sahara. Nothing but a few turd rollers & scorpions live there.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2023 09:04 AM (GIBR7)

219 The Forbidden Zone (aka Gaza) was once a paradise. Your breed made a desert of it, ages ago.

Posted by: Dr. Zaius at December 18, 2023 09:04 AM (4I/2K)

220 Today is Bake Cookies Day. 🍪

Posted by: redridinghood at December 18, 2023 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

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During Trans Holocaust & Crucifixion Vengeance Pride Month of Rage?

REALLY???

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 18, 2023 09:04 AM (HBgiC)

221 "...whose talking points during the debate were “one step away from Nazi propaganda,”

Do any of these MSM feeble minded dullards even realize there are thousands of years of history full scoundrels besides Nazis (and Hitler)? The stupidity of the comparisons is made worse by the mindless, lazy repetition. Not to mention I doubt few if any of the dullards have ever cracked a book about Hitler and the Nazis and are just repeating what they hear everywhere else.

Posted by: Ripley at December 18, 2023 09:04 AM (JojsZ)

222 Just got a news alert on my phone saying Israel killed 100 "palestinians" in a bombing and one of Our lackeys is on the way there to tell them to end the war.. If I were Bibi I would deny entrance into the Country

Posted by: It's me donna at December 18, 2023 09:05 AM (n2vyf)

223 Making blueberry and raspberry pancakes. Never tried that before
Posted by: Skip

That sounds good.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 18, 2023 09:05 AM (R4t5M)

224 @216 Paul the simplest way to keep your bloodline pure is to die. Go for it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 18, 2023 09:05 AM (NcL9g)

225 Jones also called the tech entrepreneur a “very, very despicable person” whose talking points during the debate were “one step away from Nazi propaganda,

Then NAZI Propaganda: Jews are evil, the US is evil, freedom is bourgeoisie and evil

Now (apparently) NAZI Propaganda: Jews are not evil, the US is not evil, freedom is not bourgeoisie and evil

You know Vivek is really an even worse Hitler then Trump.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 18, 2023 09:05 AM (XqcwY)

226 >and really the entire NFL. I’m not talking about the final result but the officiating. NFL refs suck sweaty donkey balls…. They throw flags always and at the wrong times.

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the constant interruptions for nit-picking penalties is ruining the game
add to that, booth commentators WHO CAN'T SHUT THE F*** UP FOR A NANOSECOND between plays

I heard one guy say, about a team's defense, that they rush the passer 'patiently'

wtf does that even mean

this why I am watching hockey now
far fewer interruptions of play

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:05 AM (geLO8)

227
Any posters have any ideas as to how we might keep our blood lines pure?

Hitler was referring to the Jews, Paul. You got trolled and you didn't even know it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 18, 2023 09:07 AM (enJYY)

228 the constant interruptions for nit-picking penalties is ruining the game
add to that, booth commentators WHO CAN'T SHUT THE F*** UP FOR A NANOSECOND between plays

This.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 18, 2023 09:07 AM (45fpk)

229 Vivek should get a double Oscar for Demagoguery.

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 09:07 AM (V13WU)

230 Just got a news alert on my phone saying Israel killed 100 "palestinians" in a bombing

We've gone from the US killing thousands of Germans and Japanese in bombing as a GOOD thing

To the US claiming, often falsely, it killed thousands of NVA/VC in a bombing still being a good thing

To now...lies about Israel killing hundreds of enemies in a bombing being a bad thing

Posted by: 18-1 at December 18, 2023 09:07 AM (XqcwY)

231 >Posted by: Paul at December 18, 2023 09:03 AM (yAFb2)

here for your daily smacking around again, eh
you must be a masochist

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:07 AM (geLO8)

232 "OMG !!! He is saying everything I feel !! He is not afraid to say it on TEEVEE !! He is just like me !"

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 09:08 AM (V13WU)

233 Not to mention I doubt few if any of the dullards have ever cracked a book about Hitler and the Nazis and are just repeating what they hear everywhere else.
Posted by: Ripley at December 18, 2023 09:04 AM (JojsZ)

The nazis were obsessed about race.

The MSM is obsessed about race.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 18, 2023 09:09 AM (6V7rn)

234 Rev has Christmas music playing in the background. Driving me nuts.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 18, 2023 09:09 AM (45fpk)

235 @ClownWorld_

https://tinyurl.com/mta2wn9e

At one point there was a whole category on pronhub for Hunter Biden.

And...I'm pretty sure some of the women he was abusing in those videos were underaged.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 18, 2023 09:09 AM (XqcwY)

236 So...was that Average Joe in the Senate video?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 18, 2023 09:09 AM (XqcwY)

237 So...was that Average Joe in the Senate video?
Posted by: 18-1

Prolapse Paul.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 18, 2023 09:10 AM (R4t5M)

238 troll is obsessed about race...troll paul is a nazi

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 09:10 AM (V13WU)

239 Powell can't do a Volckler by jacking rates to kill inflation because the Fed's balance sheet is so over-extended. And we're simultaneoulsy pissing away trillions on green investments that will be squandered or stolen which will further fuel inflation.

Meanwhile, social securty is going broke and it's now baked in that benefits will be cut within a decade.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 18, 2023 09:10 AM (Gse2f)

240 You're watching the nfl games wrong, the mute button is your friend. Won't help with the penalties nor the poor clock management by the coaches, however it does stop the inane chatter and the constant statistics. Waiting for one of the dimwits to have a statistic on which deodorant is preferred by the players.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 18, 2023 09:10 AM (2NHgQ)

241 New news, house will introduce a bill to strip university funding over DEI.
Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 08:59 AM (V13WU)

Which will go nowhere, followed by voting on a bill which has a rider to increase university funding by 250% to support DEI which will pass.

SSDD.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 18, 2023 09:10 AM (z99Zw)

242
Rev has Christmas music playing in the background. Driving me nuts.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 18, 2023 09:09 AM

Ask him to put on 'Christmas Shoes' - that'll cheer you up and put you in the spirit.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 18, 2023 09:10 AM (enJYY)

243 "Military Influencers" Should be veins-a-popping, jacked-to-the-gills angry dudes with crew cuts that can't wait to kill someone, screaming that if you don't enlist, they'll beat the shit out of you.

Posted by: XTC at December 18, 2023 09:10 AM (sm6Pk)

244 Only the vaxxed, especially the multi-multi-vaxxed, believe in pure bloodlines. Paul.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 09:10 AM (2yu8s)

245 Israel has said it has no desire to run Gaza, and they've also said they won't let Hamas or the PA do it. What they better start thinking about is who they will support.
----
The Chinese.

Oh the LOLs as the left tries to make that racist against their masters.

Sure, it'll be an espionage base.
But, it won't forment terrorists as the Uyghurs are learning while the world ignores.
The Dragon don't care for no islam.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 18, 2023 09:11 AM (TzW+Y)

246 hey , I report , you decide

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 09:11 AM (V13WU)

247 I've found the best way to consume sports is via radio. Much better broadcast talent and you can do something productive in the garage while listening. The interwebs will always be available for replays if you're interested.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 18, 2023 09:11 AM (NBVIP)

248 Wasn't Van Jones the one who said that the election of Trump was a "whitelash"?
That was a fave on the 2016 election reactions supercuts.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at December 18, 2023 09:11 AM (KB0Aa)

249 Ask him to put on 'Christmas Shoes' - that'll cheer you up and put you in the spirit.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 18, 2023 09:10 AM (enJYY)

Yikes.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 18, 2023 09:11 AM (45fpk)

250 Georg Gauger is a Current student at Elliott School of International Affairs, which is right down the street from the US Senate. Georg Gauger also worked for the German Government.

Then: We are going to f*ck these NAZI krauts. Not literally of course.

Now: We are going to get f*cked by these NAZI krauts. Literally of course

Posted by: The US government at December 18, 2023 09:11 AM (XqcwY)

251 They also better get their troops down to the squad level under control and answer with some real substance what just happened at the Holy Family Church. Hand waiving and saying it wasn't the IDF isn't cutting it.
Posted by: Marcus T

Don't buy Hamas propaganda so easily. This is like the "500 dead in hospital parking lot!!!" story. Only Hamas supporters have claimed an IDF attack at the church; an investigation said that no attack by the IDF took place. What DID happen was that a local sniper fired upon two women at the Holy Family Church; but he was not apprehended, and was most likely a Hamas fighter.

https://tinyurl.com/48y6erhb

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 09:11 AM (S6gqv)

252 Rev has Christmas music playing in the background. Driving me nuts.
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here

A 1 and a 2...........

Posted by: Paul McCartney at December 18, 2023 09:12 AM (R4t5M)

253 Rev has Christmas music playing in the background. Driving me nuts.
Posted by: grammie winger

Found some Appalachian & bluegrass traditional Christmas music. Mainly on the fiddle, banjo, guitar & dulcimer on YouTube.

It was very nice and a unique twist on traditional Christmas music. And ir was just music, no singing.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2023 09:12 AM (GIBR7)

254 >You're watching the nfl games wrong, the mute button is your friend.

I would love some software that would mute the broadcast from the whistle ending a play, to the moment the ball is snapped again

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:12 AM (geLO8)

255 @196 Smell the Glove. I believe the Israelis even dug up and removed those buried there for fear they would be desecrated by the paleostinians. They knew what they were dealing with but Condi Rice was driving this.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 18, 2023 09:12 AM (iR91D)

256 Rev has Christmas music playing in the background. Driving me nuts.

Posted by: grammie winger

Just give him a figgy pudding, and maybe he'll stop.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 18, 2023 09:13 AM (9yWhg)

257 Now: We are going to get f*cked by these NAZI krauts. Literally of course
Posted by: The US government at December 18, 2023 09:11 AM (XqcwY)

It's Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Fritz.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 18, 2023 09:13 AM (6V7rn)

258 Korean DMZ is 2.5 mi wide. Gaza is anywhere from 3.5 to 7 mi....can be done.

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 09:13 AM (V13WU)

259 Getting rodgered in the Senate by a kraut > Watching the NFL > Drinking Bud light

Posted by: A rating of inherent gayness at December 18, 2023 09:13 AM (XqcwY)

260 Rev has Christmas music playing in the background. Driving me nuts.
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here

A 1 and a 2...........

Posted by: Paul McCartney at December 18, 2023 09:12 AM (R4t5M)

Is that you in disguise, Myron Floren?

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 18, 2023 09:13 AM (45fpk)

261 The EU has opened infringement proceedings into X, previously known as Twitter, over suspected failure to combat content disinformation and manipulation.
The bloc’s regulator Thierry Breton said that the move is in response to suspected breaches of X’s transparency obligations and its duties to counter illegal content and disinformation.
The Digital Services Act requires large online platforms such as X to mitigate the risk of disinformation and institute rigorous procedures to remove hate speech, while balancing this with freedom-of-expression concerns.

Posted by: SMOD at December 18, 2023 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

262 the constant interruptions for nit-picking penalties is ruining the game
add to that, booth commentators WHO CAN'T SHUT THE F*** UP FOR A NANOSECOND between plays

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:05 AM (geLO

And the commentators shill for the awful refs! In fact, every announcing crew includes a former ref.. who gets a lot of airtime BTW because there are constantly penalties to analyze. It drives me nuts when the announcers ALWAYS conclude “that was a good call”

Oh for the days of Madden and Summerall…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 18, 2023 09:14 AM (xT8gx)

263 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

BREAKING: The EU Commission has just opened formal proceedings against 𝕏.

At the WEF summit earlier this year, an EU commissioner threatened Elon Musk with sanctions if he did not cave on censorship.

"Our message was clear: We have the rules, which have to be complied with. Otherwise there will be sanctions."

https://tinyurl.com/fwdkz963

Posted by: redridinghood at December 18, 2023 09:14 AM (NpAcC)

264 Found some Appalachian & bluegrass traditional Christmas music. Mainly on the fiddle, banjo, guitar & dulcimer on YouTube.

It was very nice and a unique twist on traditional Christmas music. And ir was just music, no singing.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2023 09:12 AM (GIBR7)

That sounds nice. I will look for that.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 18, 2023 09:14 AM (45fpk)

265 The Digital Services Act requires large online platforms such as X to mitigate the risk of disinformation and institute rigorous procedures to remove hate speech, while balancing this with freedom-of-expression concerns.
Posted by: SMOD at December 18, 2023 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

Right... And who determines "hate" speech ? No thanks

Posted by: It's me donna at December 18, 2023 09:15 AM (n2vyf)

266 Gaza could have been a resort town sort of like Beirut was in the 1940's and early 50's before the shit went down.

Why does the proverbial 'shit' always seem to befall the what could have been nice places?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 18, 2023 09:15 AM (Q4IgG)

267 Is that you in disguise, Myron Floren?
Posted by: grammie winger

Wow, that's a callback to my youth. My folks watched that show every Saturday evening.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 18, 2023 09:15 AM (9yWhg)

268 You're watching the nfl games wrong, the mute button is your friend. Won't help with the penalties nor the poor clock management by the coaches, however it does stop the inane chatter and the constant statistics. Waiting for one of the dimwits to have a statistic on which deodorant is preferred by the players.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 18, 2023 09:10 AM (2NHgQ)

If you choose to watch professional sports, record the game and then watch it later. Time-shifting will not affect whether they win or lose and you can ff through the parts which don't interest you.

Back when I watched football, I could go through an entire game in about 10 minutes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 18, 2023 09:15 AM (z99Zw)

269 America 2023: Civil War is impossible.

Also America 2023: We are taking down the Reconciliation Monument from the last Civil War.

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 09:15 AM (IFNME)

270 258 It's Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Fritz.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 18, 2023 09:13 AM (6V7rn)

Germans?

Scheisse.

Posted by: XTC at December 18, 2023 09:15 AM (sm6Pk)

271 Why does the proverbial 'shit' always seem to befall the what could have been nice places?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 18, 2023 09:15 AM (Q4IgG)

Islam

Posted by: It's me donna at December 18, 2023 09:15 AM (n2vyf)

272 UN, Gates Foundation team up to implement ‘digital infrastructure’ into 50 countries by 2028

A digital public infrastructure (DPI) would give governments the power to implement systems of social credit that can determine how you travel, what you can consume, and how you will be able to transact with your programmable money.

Posted by: SMOD at December 18, 2023 09:16 AM (RHGPo)

273 246 Israel has said it has no desire to run Gaza, and they've also said they won't let Hamas or the PA do it. What they better start thinking about is who they will support.
----
Which is why I maintain that Israel will end up doing it, because there will be no other choice. A lot of things happen not because anyone wants them to happen, but because events are allowed to run along a course until no other choices are possible.

Look at Gaza specifically, for a century now it's been the tar baby that no one wants. Britain gave it away, Egypt gave it away, Israel gave it away, but here it still is, and left on its own it gets even worse. It would be best to erase the entire thing, of course.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 09:16 AM (S6gqv)

274 They also better get their troops down to the squad level under control and answer with some real substance what just happened at the Holy Family Church. Hand waiving and saying it wasn't the IDF isn't cutting it.
Posted by: Marcus T

Don't buy Hamas propaganda so easily. This is like the "500 dead in hospital parking lot!!!" story. Only Hamas supporters have claimed an IDF attack at the church; an investigation said that no attack by the IDF took place. What DID happen was that a local sniper fired upon two women at the Holy Family Church; but he was not apprehended, and was most likely a Hamas fighter.

https://tinyurl.com/48y6erhb
Posted by: Tom Servo

Yeah. Israel destroyed a SIX THOUSAND BED CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.

Except there is NO six thousand bed hospital ANYWHERE in the world, much less in shithole Gaza and DEFINITELY not a SIX THOUSAND BED CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2023 09:16 AM (GIBR7)

275 Rev has Christmas music playing in the background. Driving me nuts.

Posted by: grammie winger

My song should be up soon. Enjoy!

Posted by: Mariah Carey at December 18, 2023 09:16 AM (4I/2K)

276 >And the commentators shill for the awful refs! In fact, every announcing crew includes a former ref

I definitely hit mute as soon as I hear 'under further review'
FFS- 5 minutes of analyzing a call, frame by frame, like it's JFK in Dallas or something

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:16 AM (geLO8)

277 Rev has Christmas music playing in the background. Driving me nuts.

Posted by: grammie winger

Just give him a figgy pudding, and maybe he'll stop.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Kinky.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2023 09:17 AM (GIBR7)

278 But Magill did not lose her job because she was unable to tell Congress whether calling for the genocide of Jews was prohibited without context.

Instead, she was fired because she accidentally let slip the rules by which Penn’s draconian speech code and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) system operated – a system based not on the nature or severity of offenses, but on whether the administration found it advantageous to prosecute them.

The truth that Magill inadvertently revealed is that speech codes and DEI have never been about protecting minorities or the vulnerable. Rather, they have always been about protecting those in power, whether in universities, corporations, or the government. DEI is a weapon that administrators and executives have wielded to ruthlessly solidify their own power.

Posted by: SMOD at December 18, 2023 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

279 Big-Time sports are just as corrupt and crooked as the government, and the announcers are propagandists.

Posted by: davidt at December 18, 2023 09:17 AM (SYTee)

280 Vivek Ramaswamy Tells CNN’s Van Jones to ‘Shut the F*ck Up’
DEMAGOGUERY101. The Republican took exception to being called an “American demagogue.”

The foul-mouthed comment came in response to Jones’ take following the fourth GOP primary debate earlier this month, in which Ramaswamy said the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot appeared to be “an inside job” and claimed the Great Replacement Theory is “not some grand right-wing conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the Democratic Party’s platform.”

Jones said on CNN that Ramaswamy is “dangerous.” Noting Ramaswamy will “outlive Trump by 50 years,” Jones said he felt he was “watching the rise of an American demagogue that is a very, very despicable person.” “Literally, I was shaking listening to him talk because a lot of people don’t know that is one step away from Nazi propaganda coming out of his mouth,” Jones added.

...Ramaswamy then said: “Just shut the fuck up.” As cheering audience members rose to their feet to show their approval, he added: “At a certain point, just shut the fuck up.”

Posted by: Intercepted Daily Beast Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 18, 2023 09:17 AM (JCZqz)

281 Why does the proverbial 'shit' always seem to befall the what could have been nice places?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 18, 2023 09:15 AM (Q4IgG)

Islam
Posted by: It's me donna

That and leftism.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 18, 2023 09:17 AM (9yWhg)

282 274 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 09:16 AM (S6gqv)

So long as they run the schools and give "context" to the Koran about the killing of Jews/infidels crap. Or just prohibit Islam.

Yeah, I know.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 18, 2023 09:17 AM (x0n13)

283 The Digital Services Act requires large online platforms such as X to mitigate the risk of disinformation and institute rigorous procedures to remove hate speech, while balancing this with freedom-of-expression concerns.
Posted by: SMOD at December 18, 2023 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

Musk has said that if pushed enough, he will simply block Twitter access to all Europeans.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2023 09:17 AM (S6gqv)

284 At the WEF summit earlier this year, an EU commissioner threatened Elon Musk with sanctions if he did not cave on censorship.

In a saner world, the US would be balancing this with sanctions that would go into place IF American based companies gave into European censorship efforts.

But...the Biden junta stole the 2020 election...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 18, 2023 09:17 AM (XqcwY)

285 My song should be up soon. Enjoy!

Posted by: Mariah Carey at December 18, 2023 09:16 AM (4I/2K)

*searches for earplugs*

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 18, 2023 09:18 AM (45fpk)

286 ""During Israel visit: Austin to push Israel to define 'milestones' for Gaza war
Dec 18, 2023

Senior US defense official says Defense Secretary plans to press Israel on how to move through the different phases of its campaign in Gaza.""

Perhaps Israel's army chiefs and war cabinet should drop everything in a middle of the war and do some paperwork , prepare some colorful powerpoints !

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 09:18 AM (V13WU)

287 >Why does the proverbial 'shit' always seem to befall the what could have been nice places?

Posted by: Martini Farmer

assholes
it's always assholes

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:18 AM (geLO8)

288 286 ""During Israel visit: Austin to push Israel to define 'milestones' for Gaza war
Dec 18, 2023

Senior US defense official says Defense Secretary plans to press Israel on how to move through the different phases of its campaign in Gaza.""

Don't let the POS in

Posted by: It's me donna at December 18, 2023 09:19 AM (n2vyf)

289
Musk has said that if pushed enough, he will simply block Twitter access to all Europeans.

Then: You need a VPN in the US to access free information if you are in a totalitarian state like China

Now: You need a VPN in the US to access free information if you are in a totalitarian state like Germany

Posted by: 18-1 at December 18, 2023 09:19 AM (XqcwY)

290 he knows he is a demagogue, his speeches are just recycled red meat

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 09:19 AM (V13WU)

291 Why does the proverbial 'shit' always seem to befall the what could have been nice places?
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Democrats.

Posted by: Stuff Chris Plante sez at December 18, 2023 09:19 AM (NBVIP)

292 ... The Digital Services Act requires large online platforms such as X to mitigate the risk of disinformation and institute rigorous procedures to remove hate speech, while balancing this with freedom-of-expression concerns.
Posted by: SMOD at December 18, 2023 09:13 AM (RHGPo)
++++
I still think Musk should give them what they ask for, but do so literally. If their AI or government agents demand that something be censored, X should go ahead and censor it - but *just* for those in EU jurisdiction. For those users (either via registration or geolocation), replace the censored content with a standardized message that says something like:
We're sorry, but the Government of the European Union has censored this post. If you're opposed to government censorship of free speech, click here to look up contact information for your MEP and MP.

As an aside, the law's mission is internally impossible to achieve and is thus a perfect law.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 18, 2023 09:19 AM (zxP/x)

293 Good morning grammie!
Lemme guess. Done in the style of modern worship music?
I gotta get. Haven't texted a good morning to the widow yet. So thankful God brought her into my life. Someone to try and help look after and I'll take having a praying grandmother on my side any day of the week. Even if she's not my grandmother.

Love each other fellow babies!

Posted by: Teej at December 18, 2023 09:20 AM (DW2aF)

294 Senior US defense official says Defense Secretary plans to press Israel on how to move through the different phases of its campaign in Gaza.

Lloyd Austin is going to tell them how he led the victory in Iraq as a General, and then presided over the victory in Afghanistan as Secretary of Defense?

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 09:20 AM (IFNME)

295 No press conferences, no talk with these assholes. The Mudpants junta is not to be trusted.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 18, 2023 09:20 AM (R4t5M)

296 Good morning grammie!
Lemme guess. Done in the style of modern worship music?

That would be a step up. This is pop crap.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 18, 2023 09:21 AM (45fpk)

297 Austin is trying to force Israel to adopt some pentagon rot. "milestones" ?

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 09:21 AM (V13WU)

298 I read an article in the NY Post over the weekend… she’s an Arab woman running against Ilahn Omar in MN. This woman actually loves this country and our traditions…. So she probably has no chance. Too bad, she’d be such an improvement over the brother-marrier….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 18, 2023 09:21 AM (xT8gx)

299 >""During Israel visit: Austin to push Israel to define 'milestones' for Gaza war

Not an enemy surviving
Not a brick unbroken
Not a blade of grass unscorched

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:22 AM (geLO8)

300 As an aside, the law's mission is internally impossible to achieve and is thus a perfect law.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 18, 2023 09:19 AM (zxP/x)

Is this a good day for Floyd Ferris? Trick question. EVERY day is a good day for Floyd Ferris:

"Do you really think that we wont those laws to be observed? ... We want them broken. ... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted -- and you create a nation of law-breakers -- and then you cash in on guilt."

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 09:22 AM (IFNME)

301 You're watching the nfl games wrong, the mute button is your friend. Won't help with the penalties nor the poor clock management by the coaches, however it does stop the inane chatter and the constant statistics. Waiting for one of the dimwits to have a statistic on which deodorant is preferred by the players.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 18, 2023 09:10 AM (2NHgQ)
++++
For a while, Sony sold TV sets that could process the incoming audio to cut out the announcers and layer in more crowd noise (sometimes real crowd noise from the broadcast, sometimes synthetic). It worked okay.

They had to stop shipping that system after they lost a suit brought by the networks for manipulating the broadcasts in violation of copyright.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 18, 2023 09:22 AM (zxP/x)

302 Why does the proverbial 'shit' always seem to befall the what could have been nice places?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 18, 2023 09:15 AM (Q4IgG)

Islam
Posted by: It's me donna

That and leftism.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Pretty much indistinguishable at this point.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2023 09:22 AM (GIBR7)

303 297 Austin is trying to force Israel to adopt some pentagon rot. "milestones" ?
Posted by: runner at December 18, 2023 09:21 AM (V13WU)

I'm sure they'll say Sure LLoyd sure and proceed to ignore him and do what they want...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 18, 2023 09:22 AM (n2vyf)

304 Rev has Christmas music playing in the background. Driving me nuts.
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 18, 2023 09:09 AM (45fpk)

Go to the Philippines in Sept. Grammie. You'll love it!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 18, 2023 09:22 AM (Angsy)

305 You just think you hate pop crap Christmas music. Wait'll you hear us again!

Posted by: Dogs Barking Jingle Bells at December 18, 2023 09:22 AM (4I/2K)

306 No DMZ for Gaza.

Build 10 foot berms in the low spots.

Lake Gaza City.

Give the land to the Iraqi swamp Arabs.

IIRC, they hold John the Baptist in high regard.....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 18, 2023 09:22 AM (TzW+Y)

307 Re: photo at top
Biden and the buttsex guy look like they could be related

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:22 AM (geLO8)

308 A hacking group with reported links to Israel has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack that allegedly disabled a substantial portion of gas pumps across Iran. According to the group, the attack affected approximately 70% of Iran’s gas stations.

Posted by: SMOD at December 18, 2023 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

309 this why I am watching hockey now
far fewer interruptions of play

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:05 AM (geLO

Hockey is a far superior game anyway.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 18, 2023 09:23 AM (YRsIm)

310 "Do you really think that we wont those laws to be observed? ... We want them broken. ... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted -- and you create a nation of law-breakers -- and then you cash in on guilt."
Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 09:22 AM (IFNME)
++++
Yup. Rand's villains were always pretty accurate representations.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 18, 2023 09:23 AM (zxP/x)

311 >>I still think Musk should give them what they ask for, but do so literally. If their AI or government agents demand that something be censored, X should go ahead and censor it - but *just* for those in EU jurisdiction.

I think he should tell them to pound sand. It's not a coincidence that the attacks against Musk are ramping up as we head into election season. EU intel agencies and censorship complex works hand in hand with those in our government who want the same level of government censorship.

Fuck off, communists. Then fuck off again.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 09:23 AM (ZLI7S)

312 I've been very sad since Myron Floren left us in 2005. Thankfully, all of his accordion arrangements were left in the care of 17-time Grammy winner Jimmy Sturr. Now, though, Jimmy is 82 years old himself. Who will carry on when Jimmy passes? Is there a plan? How will we survive?

Posted by: Polka Barb at December 18, 2023 09:23 AM (83IzV)

313 Blueberry and Raspberry are a good combination

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2023 09:23 AM (fwDg9)

314 309 Hockey is a far superior game anyway.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 18, 2023 09:23 AM (YRsIm)

Maybe, but they took 95% of the violence out of it.

Posted by: XTC at December 18, 2023 09:24 AM (sm6Pk)

315 I really like that Dems are trying to get the government to stop doing business with any Musk related business.

I could remind them there is only one man rated space vehicle in the United States. If they ban SpaceX, they will have to go back to the last contractor.

Russia.

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 09:25 AM (IFNME)

316 "This is the third most receptions by running back in league history"...... blah, blah blah

Just shut the fuck up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 18, 2023 09:25 AM (R4t5M)

317 Maybe you'd like to listen to us?

Posted by: Alvin and the Chipmunks at December 18, 2023 09:25 AM (NBVIP)

318 309 Hockey is a far superior game anyway.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 18, 2023 09:23 AM (YRsIm)

Maybe, but they took 95% of the violence out of it.
Posted by: XTC at December 18, 2023 09:24 AM (sm6Pk)

Well, we did retire.

Posted by: The Hanson Brothers at December 18, 2023 09:25 AM (4I/2K)

319
Hey mates, remember us?

Band Aid, ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 18, 2023 09:25 AM (enJYY)

320 Posted by: Dogs Barking Jingle Bells

The classics will be with us always.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 18, 2023 09:26 AM (9yWhg)

321 >Hockey is a far superior game anyway.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
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I am a new fan, so I'm still learning how to watch
I do know what a 'onetimer' is

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:26 AM (geLO8)

322 I think he should tell them to pound sand. It's not a coincidence that the attacks against Musk are ramping up as we head into election season. EU intel agencies and censorship complex works hand in hand with those in our government who want the same level of government censorship.

Fuck off, communists. Then fuck off again.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 09:23 AM (ZLI7S)
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Oh, sure. But that's the point of all this. EU makes them censor, so we get the "benefit" of that censorship, too. Call the bluff. There are three things I can see that Musk can do:
1. Comply (X is goes back to how it was as Twitter)
2. Refuse (X is destroyed, along with his investment)
3. Maliciously comply

Malicious compliance hasn't been tried yet. So far, Musk appears to be going with Option Two and fair enough. I do completely understand it and desperately hope it works. I do not, however, think that it will work. All of the attacks against X and Musk are because of the changes he implemented there. Twitter was too important to narrative control, and he's queered the deal. It *will* be destroyed if they can't revert it. They'd prefer to revert it, but will accept destruction if they can't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 18, 2023 09:26 AM (zxP/x)

323 I could remind them there is only one man rated space vehicle in the United States. If they ban SpaceX, they will have to go back to the last contractor.

Russia.

It will be interesting to see what the Junta does with Russia after the Ukes finally surrender.

Pretend everything is all well and good? Continue to demonize them? I suspect Vlad will be less willing to get bygones by bygones

Posted by: 18-1 at December 18, 2023 09:26 AM (XqcwY)

324 The classics will be with us always.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 18, 2023 09:26 AM (9yWhg)

Don't forget Grandma got run over by a Reindeer....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 18, 2023 09:27 AM (n2vyf)

325 Hockey is a far superior game anyway.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

Pfft.

Posted by: Pickleball at December 18, 2023 09:27 AM (9yWhg)

326 I am a new fan, so I'm still learning how to watch
I do know what a 'onetimer' is
Posted by: Don Black

$25, same as in town?

Posted by: Perv Moron at December 18, 2023 09:27 AM (JCZqz)

327 Hockey is a far superior game anyway.

Disagree. Hockey players don't wear right pants.

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 18, 2023 09:27 AM (XqcwY)

328 JFC, I just DDGed 'reconciliation monument arlington' to see the date it was unveiled [1914 by Wilson] and all but one link [discovery.org BTW] all lyingly call it a "Confederate monument" and it's from Jan. 31, 2023.

Why Preserve the Reconciliation Monument in Arlington Cemetery?
SCOTT S. POWELL JANUARY 31, 2023 CITIZEN LEADERSHIP; ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT TOWNHALL
Why should Americans demand reversal of the decision by the now disbanded “Congressional Naming Commission” to remove the Moses Ezekiel Reconciliation Monument from Arlington Cemetery?

Beyond being one of the greatest works of art in Arlington, President Woodrow Wilson declared at the monument’s unveiling in 1914, that it “represented the best of America—a spirit of reconciliation, democracy, freedom, heroism and patriotism.”
https://tinyurl.com/yuupxf2n

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 09:27 AM (2yu8s)

329 The classics will be with us always.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 18, 2023 09:26 AM (9yWhg)

Don't forget Grandma got run over by a Reindeer....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 18, 2023 09:27 AM (n2vyf)

Yes!

Posted by: As for me and Grandpa, we believe at December 18, 2023 09:27 AM (4I/2K)

330 318 Well, we did retire.
Posted by: The Hanson Brothers at December 18, 2023 09:25 AM (4I/2K)

Even their real-life equivalents (the Carlson brothers) never made it past the third-tier minor leagues.

Posted by: XTC at December 18, 2023 09:28 AM (sm6Pk)

331 >>Maybe, but they took 95% of the violence out of it.

A couple games ago Barclay Goodrow, a center for the Rangers, took a puck to the mouth. He spit out his bloody mouthguard and what was thought at the time to be a tooth. It was actually part of his jawbone.

He missed one game.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 09:28 AM (ZLI7S)

332 They play Christmas Shoes on a nonstop loop at Gitmo.

Posted by: For a month at December 18, 2023 09:28 AM (NBVIP)

333 Can Musk actually block Twitter in Europe? Just turn it off for them? Tell them 'build your own platform' ?

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 09:28 AM (geLO8)

334 “represented the best of America—a spirit of reconciliation, democracy, freedom, heroism and patriotism.”

Which is why they have to tear it down... Can't have any of that

Posted by: It's me donna at December 18, 2023 09:29 AM (n2vyf)

335 323 Pretend everything is all well and good? Continue to demonize them? I suspect Vlad will be less willing to get bygones by bygones
Posted by: 18-1 at December 18, 2023 09:26 AM (XqcwY)

Vlad will tell them to get f*cked, seeing as he wants to collapse the dollar.

Not that it doesn't deserve to be collapsed.

Posted by: XTC at December 18, 2023 09:29 AM (sm6Pk)

336 Don't forget Grandma got run over by a Reindeer....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 18, 2023 09:27 AM (n2vyf)

"Please Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas"

Posted by: Pickleball at December 18, 2023 09:29 AM (9yWhg)

337 I just can’t watch hockey. I’ve tried…. I’ll never get it. The only time I enjoyed watching hockey was one game in 1980… the miracle on ice. Those conditions will never again be replicated

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 18, 2023 09:29 AM (xT8gx)

338 Pretend everything is all well and good? Continue to demonize them? I suspect Vlad will be less willing to get bygones by bygones
Posted by: 18-1 at December 18, 2023 09:26 AM (XqcwY)

Three quarters of Democrats believe that Russia made Trump President.

If Trump is elected in 2024, he will be unable to take any actions seen as favorable to Russia.

There will be no reconciliation.

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 09:30 AM (IFNME)

339 Thoroughly enjoyed watching Dallas get its ass handed to them by the Bills. Best game of the weekend. Cowboys do like to collapse on the road.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 18, 2023 09:30 AM (pZ64F)

340 319
Hey mates, remember us?

Band Aid, ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 18, 2023 09:25 AM (enJYY)

The only one this helped was Bob Geldof. Yeah, that song's royalties were all donated, but he kept 100% of the royalties of the B-side to himself. And Somalia/Ethiopia still starved.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 18, 2023 09:30 AM (x0n13)

341 331 A couple games ago Barclay Goodrow, a center for the Rangers, took a puck to the mouth. He spit out his bloody mouthguard and what was thought at the time to be a tooth. It was actually part of his jawbone.

He missed one game.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 09:28 AM (ZLI7S)

Not the same.

That said, the Rangers have the only player left in the league that's allowed to be violent (Jacob Trouba).

Anyone else would get ejected for the stuff he gets away with, just because he's 6'8".

Posted by: XTC at December 18, 2023 09:30 AM (sm6Pk)

342 Oops, off sock.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 18, 2023 09:30 AM (9yWhg)

343 Dak Prescott has a new cologne.

Posted by: For those nights when you don't want to score at December 18, 2023 09:31 AM (NBVIP)

344 If Trump is elected in 2024, he will be unable to take any actions seen as favorable to Russia.

There will be no reconciliation.
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Very simple to handle. Just pull the CIA out of Ukraine.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 18, 2023 09:31 AM (pZ64F)

345 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 18, 2023 09:31 AM (9yWhg)

346 ART CRITICS UPSTAIRS

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2023 09:31 AM (fwDg9)

347 Art.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 18, 2023 09:31 AM (N3zMI)

348 Don't forget Grandma got run over by a Reindeer....
Posted by: It's me donna

Also that Christmas hip hop song, Santa and the Three Hos

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 18, 2023 09:32 AM (lTGtQ)

349 345 Noodus gratia artis
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 18, 2023 09:31 AM (9yWhg)

Say it again once the 100 Comment Rule has been satisfied.

Posted by: XTC at December 18, 2023 09:32 AM (sm6Pk)

350
Bill Cosby's favorite, the original ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’

♪ Hey, what's in this drink? ♪

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 18, 2023 09:33 AM (enJYY)

351 And...I'm pretty sure some of the women he was abusing in those videos were underaged.

He had a twofer with Ashley, underage and incest.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 18, 2023 09:33 AM (CecP5)

352 The only one this helped was Bob Geldof. Yeah, that song's royalties were all donated, but he kept 100% of the royalties of the B-side to himself. And Somalia/Ethiopia still starved.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 18, 2023 09:30 AM (x0n13)

Yeah, I know it's late and everyone is going to run off to the Art Thread, but that kind of "Christmas Music" turns me off. It's not about celebrating the meaning of Christmas, it's a political song using Christmas as a cover. Same reason I turn off Happy Christmas/War is Over. Wife and kid don't get it. These are not celebratory Christmas songs, they're political screeds and I don't want to listen to them. That, and the Mariah Carey abomination....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 18, 2023 09:33 AM (Angsy)

353 There's a lot of animal lovers on this site, yet I am mystified why "Dominic, The Christmas Donkey" doesn't get more attention and good press.

Posted by: Zombie Lou Monte at December 18, 2023 09:34 AM (83IzV)

354 Maybe, but they took 95% of the violence out of it.

If you're referring to fighting, I'd agree with you that it's an integral part of the game. Like any other aspect, too much detracts from the overall game. It's a great tool to get folks motivated and engaged, but beyond that it contributes nothing.

The best thing that the NHL could do is go to Olympic sized rinks to eliminate that clutch-and-grab bullshit style of play. Open the rink and the passing game and let the faster players loose. And get rid of Bettman. Mostly get rid of Bettman.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 18, 2023 09:35 AM (YRsIm)

355 354 Maybe, but they took 95% of the violence out of it.

If you're referring to fighting, I'd agree with you that it's an integral part of the game. Like any other aspect, too much detracts from the overall game. It's a great tool to get folks motivated and engaged, but beyond that it contributes nothing.

The best thing that the NHL could do is go to Olympic sized rinks to eliminate that clutch-and-grab bullshit style of play. Open the rink and the passing game and let the faster players loose. And get rid of Bettman. Mostly get rid of Bettman.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 18, 2023 09:35 AM (YRsIm)

I'm referring to Scott Stevens patrolling the middle of the ice and taking people's heads off.

Ulf Samuelsson, Darius Kasparaitis.

Men who hit to take your best players out of the lineup.

Posted by: XTC at December 18, 2023 09:37 AM (sm6Pk)

356 He was ‘shaking’ watching Ramaswamy speak?
Well sport, the first time I saw ubama speak I thought it was the antichrist.

Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2023 09:42 AM (NxC5+)

357 The NHL is the sport I watch and The NY Rangers have been my team for over 40 years. Being a Rangers fan has taught me to deal with adversity on a biblical scale.

Posted by: Archer at December 18, 2023 09:42 AM (gmo/4)

358 People are starting to notice the affirmative action on college campuses, but are ignoring the affirmative action movement in the military. Look at the leadership there now and pray we don’t get attacked. Many things have been cited as reasons why the military recruitment is down, but no one has ever mentioned poor leadership and being led by people who hate you for the color of your skin.

Posted by: Ron at December 18, 2023 09:43 AM (AtKtr)

359 Commies need to be told to shut the fvck up. Plain and simple.

Posted by: rechill at December 18, 2023 09:54 AM (Q1LXu)

360 {349} ... Say it again once the 100 Comment Rule has been satisfied.

Posted by: XTC at December 18, 2023 09:32 AM (sm6Pk)

Okay, 100 comment rule has been satisfied in the Art Thread. So I guess that's OpenNOOD or something.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 18, 2023 09:54 AM (qPw5n)

361 Prison time for 'defacing' the U. S. Capitol is what it should get but... But there's something else going on there, too, imo as sweetie's Link-In remains active, as are his on line pictures including of donning Rehoboth t-shirt.

They're scared so when progressive surrogate Carville surfaces, so does "Van" Jones. Carville is carping wildly about Mike Johnson, i.e., YouTube 2 days ago, "...f you Mike Johnson; UK Guardian,".. the venom of our age"...You Tube 5 days ago, Why Mike Johnson is a POS, and so on. The Raging Cajun BS. "Van" was sent to attend the March for Israel in D.C. where he acknowledged the Jewish community had stood w/the civil rights movement. But, while backing return of Hamas' hostages, he po'ed those against cease fire & those (Marc Lamont Hill, etal) against U.S. solidarity with an Israeli "apartheid" government. But, that was his job, as was the more recent "f-you, Vivek." Because a POC can.

Fetterman, more human than most, still dances w/those who brought him both in NJ & PA. King Philip the Unaccountable (N.J. Governor) is not going anywhere; wife is seeking Menendez's Senate seat. PA Gov has presidential ambitions.

Stand w/Israel.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear, they only need to outrun us - for now at December 18, 2023 10:30 AM (GshMh)

362 I was as surprised as anybody about Fetterman's stance on illegal immigration, particularly since his wife was an illegal immigrant (I believe she's a citizen now).

As for Vivek, he'd probably be good in a Trump cabinet post (which may be what he's actually angling for).

As for that perverted little twist that had sex in the Senate hearing room, I bet anything he's not the only one infesting Congressional staffs.

Posted by: RebeccaH at December 18, 2023 11:46 AM (Nvors)

363 Fetterman, as his brain heals, is becoming the only Democrat that I like. Ain't it funny? An actual liberal.

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