Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin -- Sixth In Line for the Presidency -- Was Hospitalized for Four Days and Kept It a Secret

In almost all cases I believe in medical privacy. I don't think anyone has any duty to share their medical information with the public.

Generally.

Because there are exceptions. Like when you're in the presidential line of succession, and your office has powers over peace and war.

Apparently there is also a law requiring disclosures about incapacitation.

Lloyd Austin covered up his hospitalization and now the leftwing propaganda media is covering for him, saying he's just a "private" person.

Shitico:

Pressure is growing on Capitol Hill and within the administration for someone to lose their job.
By Lara Seligman, Alexander Ward and Connor O'Brien

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is one of the most reclusive Pentagon chiefs in recent memory. That's creating a major problem for him now.
Austin's failure to inform his most senior advisers, congressional leaders and even President Joe Biden of his hospitalization last week due to complications from a medical procedure has erupted into a controversy that's left senior White House and Pentagon officials infuriated and befuddled. Some Republicans quickly called for investigations or even for Austin to be disciplined or fired.
Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. C.Q. Brown was not informed of Austin's situation until Tuesday, the day after his hospitalization, a senior Defense Department official told POLITICO on Sunday. Even Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, who assumed some of his duties while he was in the hospital, did not know his whereabouts until Thursday, a second senior DOD official said after CNN first reported the news.
"My sense is his desire to be private about a routine medical procedure kind of backfired when it didn't go as planned," said one senior U.S. official. "He's so loyal and duty-bound. It's all just very odd."
Former and current U.S. officials who have worked with Austin say he is well-known as an introvert, shunning the cameras and keeping only a few close confidantes during his decades-long military career. As the four-star general overseeing U.S. Central Command during the Iraq drawdown, he rarely held press conferences. As defense secretary, in contrast to his predecessors, he takes only a handful of media on official travel. He has not done a press conference in the Pentagon since last July, although he regularly briefs the press during his travels.
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The first time Austin and Biden spoke since the secretary's Monday hospitalization was Saturday evening, a senior administration official said, even as tensions in the Middle East have spiked and the war in Ukraine has intensified. The conversation followed reports, first from POLITICO, that the Pentagon boss waited three days to inform the White House that he was out of commission.

The DOD chief of staff helped cover it up, and even hid the news from the Deputy Defense Secretary who's supposed to take over Austin's duties when he's incapacitated.

While Austin entered Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Jan. 1, DOD chief of staff Kelly Magsamen didn't tell Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks -- who has occasionally assumed the duties of her boss -- or the White House of the secretary's status until Jan. 4.
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The revelation doesn't explain the full story of the communication breakdown -- or why the White House wasn't notified. Gen. CQ Brown, the Joint Chiefs chair, was made aware of Austin's status on Tuesday but apparently didn't tell anyone. Austin also has other aides who could've informed relevant officials in Magsamen's absence.
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Austin's job appears safe -- at least for the moment, but pressure is growing within the administration and on Capitol Hill for someone to lose their job.
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Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, slammed the decision to keep Austin's hospital stay secret, calling it a "shocking defiance of the law." Former Vice President Mike Pence told CNN on Sunday that Austin's actions were a "dereliction of duty."
Concerns over Austin's absence are bipartisan. Though most members of Biden's party have either defended Austin or declined to comment on it, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee teamed up with his GOP counterpart to urge the Pentagon chief to provide more information.
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"Several questions remain unanswered including what the medical procedure and resulting complications were, what the Secretary's current health status is, how and when the delegation of the Secretary's responsibilities were made, and the reason for the delay in notification to the President and Congress," the lawmakers said.
"Transparency is vitally important," they added. "Sec. Austin must provide these additional details on his health and the decision-making process that occurred in the past week as soon as possible."

Don't worry, though: It's just because he's such a private person. A cipher, in fact.

"He's a cipher," said the senior DOD official. "He lets in very, very few people, and that can be a good and bad thing."

It's as if every Biden Administration official was instructed to flood the media with the same talking point: That Austin should be excused for breaking the law because he's just such a private person.

Austin's pursuit of a low profile gelled with the Biden administration's goal to turn the focus away from the Pentagon to the State Department and National Security Council...

Austin has long tried to stay out of the spotlight.

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Others say Austin has always been private to a fault. Even during senior-level Pentagon meetings, Austin rarely goes off script.
"In every meeting, in everything, he says nothing," said one former senior Defense Department official, who worked closely with Austin in multiple senior jobs. "In a broad variety of meetings, he keeps his own counsel and you're never going to know what he's thinking."

Have you considered the possibility that he's just a fucking dummy?

He's a very, very private person, doncha know.

A very unhealthy private person. Maybe people with multiple comorbidities should inform Congress when they're going to the hospital for any reason, huh?

Coming Soon: Politico liesplains that Hunter Biden took money from foreign oligarchs and gangsters only because, at heart, he's a person with a deep appreciation of the finer things.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM

Comments

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1 First!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 12:10 PM (KEuti)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 12:10 PM (9gDA7)

3 It's Lisa Austin now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 12:11 PM (Q4IgG)

4 His Transition had ... complications.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:11 PM (orWfd)

5 I nooded

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 12:11 PM (KEuti)

6 Called 'em.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 12:11 PM (9gDA7)

7 Diversity hires are a dime a dozen

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2024 12:11 PM (fwDg9)

8 I beat Sponge??!! What a Monday

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 12:11 PM (KEuti)

9
Shitico:

Cruel, Ace. Just, but cruel.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 12:12 PM (9gDA7)

10 This is fine.
-Internet meme of the house on fire

Posted by: Bete at January 08, 2024 12:12 PM (LX4y3)

11 Why would the DOD feel so comfortable keeping something like this from the WH?

Could it be that the government is actually not monolithic but is, instead, a series of competing fiefdoms looking to extend and exercise their own powers at the expense of the others?

That would be crazy because it doesn't sound like America to me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

12 Was he getting sex reassignment surgery?

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2024 12:13 PM (FQmDC)

13 "Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, who assumed some of his duties while he was in the hospital, did not know his whereabouts until Thursday"

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Norms Restored!
Adults back in charge!!

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 08, 2024 12:13 PM (i7Q7S)

14 Have you considered the possibility that he's just a fucking dummy?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM

I don't know, but I've heard that his friends call him "Lamont".

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2024 12:13 PM (i9ffA)

15 Read the content. Rookie mistake.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2024 12:13 PM (jA9ul)

16 >>Have you considered the possibility that he's just a fucking dummy?

He could just be a Jive Turkey?

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (orWfd)

17 This is OK now, isn't it?

The asshole under Trump was in constant contact with CHINA and said he wouldn't follow any attack orders and would LET THEM KNOW should Trump plan anything.

That's treason, but treason doesn't exist now, so.

This is fine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (9gDA7)

18 Imagine meetings and e-mails at the Pentagon saying. Hey, anyone heard from Lloyd lately, there's a few things I'd like to talk to him about. I didn't even get an out of office reply.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (4p0Xq)

19 Now that I have completed my transition, please refer to me as "Leilani Austin"

she/her

Posted by: Leilani Austin at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (s+y2S)

20 Off wit' 'is 'ead!

Posted by: XTC at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (sm6Pk)

21 Cruel, Ace. Just, but cruel.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 12:12 PM

Cruel ace is best ace.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (jA9ul)

22 "In a broad variety of meetings, he keeps his own counsel and you're never going to know what he's thinking."

That's some first-class leadership right there.

Posted by: spindrift at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (AA8bA)

23 Wow. The black guy wearing a welding mask or whatever I get, but the little half face shields on those soldiers as they stand outside is... I'm not even sure what the word is.

Posted by: Nikky Haley, True Savior of the Democracy at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (+RC1q)

24 "He's so loyal and duty-bound."

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Right. And, I'm a high-flying billionaire who dates supermodels.

These people are embarrassing.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (i7Q7S)

25 He is a fucking dummy, but with delusions of third-world dictatorhood. He'll probably reappear with epaulettes, a chest full of unearned medals, and mirrored Ray-Bans.

Posted by: He's a tard but a dangerous tard at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (2D6XU)

26 Deep State no one is important, it's cogs in the machine

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (fwDg9)

27 A very unhealthy private person. Maybe people with multiple comorbidities should inform Congress when they're going to the hospital for any reason, huh?

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At some level, you wonder if he's actually dedicated to public service or if he has other motives for attaining governmental power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

28 Just another signpost highlighting our trip into the abyss.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Posted by: Your winnings, sir at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (N1tpc)

29 Someone did something.
Was it a Republican? Yes: BAD, BAD, BAD. WORST THING EVER.
Was it a Democrat? Yes: Nothing to see here. Made up controversy. GOP are such hypocrites.

Posted by: Our Corrupt Media at January 08, 2024 12:15 PM (qUkBO)

30 I beat Sponge??!! What a Monday

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 12:11 PM (KEuti)

This never happens.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 12:15 PM (9gDA7)

31 Secretary Austin, wearing a mask and a face shield, must have sent shivers down the Chinks' spines.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2024 12:15 PM (0EOe9)

32 His Transition had ... complications.
Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:11 PM (orWfd)
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I was told Austin DEI'd a long time ago.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2024 12:15 PM (PODEE)

33 OFF, last week's sock.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2024 12:15 PM (N1tpc)

34 Ace is cruel to be kind.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, because Nick Lowe was in Rockpile and that was the best version of Girls Tal at January 08, 2024 12:15 PM (PiwSw)

35 Four days, eh? That’s a gender swap right there.

Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2024 12:15 PM (Nq2KV)

36 He is probably undergoing a sex change operation because that is totally a great excuse.

Posted by: Czech Chick at January 08, 2024 12:15 PM (0rsFX)

37 >> Former Vice President Mike Pence told CNN on Sunday that Austin's actions were a "dereliction of duty."

I was ready to criticize fatso Austin but knowing now what Pence said I need to reconsider my original opinion. Because Pence is always wrong…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 12:15 PM (KEuti)

38 29 Someone did something.
Was it a Republican? Yes: BAD, BAD, BAD. WORST THING EVER.
Was it a Democrat? Yes: Nothing to see here. Made up controversy. GOP are such hypocrites.
Posted by: Our Corrupt Media at January 08, 2024 12:15 PM (qUkBO)

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"The GOP's attacks on a government official are unprecedented! Unprecedented!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

39
Cruel ace is best ace.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (jA9ul)

Right up to the point where a Queensrÿche lyric pisses him off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 12:16 PM (9gDA7)

40 Austin is not a private person. He's a political appointee. I'm a private person.

Posted by: huerfano at January 08, 2024 12:16 PM (Q4KYm)

41 23 What it was was one of the most embarrassing displays in US history

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2024 12:16 PM (FQmDC)

42 While Austin entered Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Jan. 1, DOD chief of staff Kelly Magsamen didn't tell Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks -- who has occasionally assumed the duties of her boss -- or the White House of the secretary's status until Jan. 4.

I think I see the problem. Their cycles are not synched up.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2024 12:16 PM (4I/2K)

43 Others say Austin has always been private to a fault. Even during senior-level Pentagon meetings, Austin rarely goes off script.

Could that be because he's in way over his head?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2024 12:16 PM (CsUN+)

44 Ugh. First plagiarism and now breaking the law. You right wingers aren't going to be happy till Clarence Thomas is the only black man in Washington. Can't you just go along with us and get rid of him, for...er, being a black man what left the plantation and ignore all these lesser things you keep bringing up?
-msm

Posted by: Bete at January 08, 2024 12:16 PM (LX4y3)

45 That means you're gay.

Posted by: Ice-T in that clip at January 08, 2024 12:16 PM (ufFY8)

46 Million to one shot, Doc!

Posted by: Lloyd at January 08, 2024 12:16 PM (5h/8D)

47 n a broad variety of meetings, he keeps his own counsel and you're never going to know what he's thinking."

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pssst...there is nothing there.....

Posted by: runner at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (V13WU)

48 I guess his newly installed gash wouldn't quit bleeding.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (9gDA7)

49 11 Why would the DOD feel so comfortable keeping something like this from the WH?

Could it be that the government is actually not monolithic but is, instead, a series of competing fiefdoms looking to extend and exercise their own powers at the expense of the others?

That would be crazy because it doesn't sound like America to me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Sounds like 80's era Soviet Union with secret hospitalizations of the power elite.

Under such a paradigm, one could argue that Trump was and is our Glasnost movement where the Deep State could be critiqued and ridiculed. Same reason why ultimately Gorby lost power as the Soviet Union dissolved as the Deep State silos were all filled with incompetent apparatchiks out to save their own worthless skins.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (aYC4C)

50 I was going to ask if Austin was the fat guy who wore a face mask and a shield. My question has been answered.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (n2Iei)

51 "Have you considered the possibility that he's just a fucking dummy?"

You are 100% correct in this analysis. He is the dumbest affirmative action diversity hire (and cough "general" cough) SecDef ever. I still haven't figured out how in the hades did this effing raytard "earn" a Silver Star. I know people who served with him in the army, yeah they all have said he "lacks" in mental agility... Yeah, he's a fucking dummy.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (wBh67)

52 What a gawdawful mess.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (V8he0)

53 44 Ugh. First plagiarism and now breaking the law. You right wingers aren't going to be happy till Clarence Thomas is the only black man in Washington. Can't you just go along with us and get rid of him, for...er, being a black man what left the plantation and ignore all these lesser things you keep bringing up?
-msm
Posted by: Bete at January 08, 2024 12:16 PM (LX4y3)

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We were pretty happy with Allan West for a while.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

54 AssHead Austin is an embarrassment to anyone who ever served this country or at a Piccadilly's cafeteria.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (Edu7X)

55 Anal bleaching once again goes awry.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (2yu8s)

56 Last picture.... looks like.... "Derp Wader"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (Q4IgG)

57 36 He is probably undergoing a sex change operation because that is totally a great excuse.
Posted by: Czech Chick at January 08, 2024 12:15 PM (0rsFX)

He's too fat.

Doctors won't cut the dicks off of hambeasts.

Posted by: XTC at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (sm6Pk)

58 Wow. The black guy wearing a welding mask or whatever I get, but the little half face shields on those soldiers as they stand outside is... I'm not even sure what the word is.

Asinine. The word you're looking for is asinine.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (CsUN+)

59 >>What a gawdawful mess.

The Doctor that removed the Potato Ricer from his Colon said the exact same thing.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (orWfd)

60 49 Under such a paradigm, one could argue that Trump was and is our Glasnost movement where the Deep State could be critiqued and ridiculed. Same reason why ultimately Gorby lost power as the Soviet Union dissolved as the Deep State silos were all filled with incompetent apparatchiks out to save their own worthless skins.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (aYC4C)

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TETRIS was the cause of the fall of the Soviet Union, and no one will convince me otherwise!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

61 Was Hospitalized for Four Days

He was in intensive care for four days - he's still in the hospital with no release date.

Love the claim of his office that he "kept working" - because ICUs are set up to allow people to keep working.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (YAtuc)

62 Cruel ace is best ace.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (jA9ul)

Right up to the point where a Queensrÿche lyric pisses him off.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 12:16 PM

Your point is valid.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (jA9ul)

63 Lap band surgery. He'll look like Al Roker in 6 months.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (4p0Xq)

64 I was ready to criticize fatso Austin but knowing now what Pence said I need to reconsider my original opinion. Because Pence is always wrong…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

One should properly wait for the Jim Cramer take as THAT is ALWAYS wrong. BTW, he said 2024 was going to be a WONDERFUL year for the economy.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (aYC4C)

65 BTW…. This reveals again what a huge joke WFH is…. I know there are exceptions but Sec of Defense is a job where you really do need to be at the office. Clownworld example #3,127

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (KEuti)

66 53 We were pretty happy with Allan West for a while.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

And they were the ones who drove out Herman Cain and Ben Carson.

Posted by: XTC at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (sm6Pk)

67 51 "Have you considered the possibility that he's just a fucking dummy?"

You are 100% correct in this analysis. He is the dumbest affirmative action diversity hire (and cough "general" cough) SecDef ever. I still haven't figured out how in the hades did this effing raytard "earn" a Silver Star. I know people who served with him in the army, yeah they all have said he "lacks" in mental agility... Yeah, he's a fucking dummy.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (wBh67)

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"You're only saying this because you are a racist. Lloyd is obviously the smartest Secretary of Defense ever. He takes covid seriously!"
-DU, 99.5% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

68 That last pic pisses me off. Our military is an embarassment. I'm afraid the next conflict will go very badly for our troops.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Disgustipated at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (xPJvm)

69 TETRIS was the cause of the fall of the Soviet Union, and no one will convince me otherwise!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (GBKbO)
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Of course. The collapse of the Soviet block.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2024 12:19 PM (PODEE)

70 Hi Ace

I alwasy thought that the President recieved daily briefings even when on vacation. That the status of world affairs didn;t stop because lhe went on vacation. You know, that the suitcase with the nuclear button was always nearby.
Talk about being asleep at the switch....

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2024 12:19 PM (t/2Uw)

71 So for a while there was a Pronhub hashtag for Hunter Biden are we about to get one for Bill Clinton and Richard Bransen?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2024 12:19 PM (ibTVg)

72 63 An empty garbage bag?

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2024 12:19 PM (FQmDC)

73 Was the hospital successful in removing Austin's head from his ass?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 08, 2024 12:19 PM (9yWhg)

74
Oh, "he's so loyal and duty-bound"?

Is that your "the dog ate his homework" excuse for going AWOL?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2024 12:19 PM (xG4kz)

75 >>Lap band surgery.

What...like Sigur Ros?

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:19 PM (orWfd)

76 Last picture.... looks like.... "Derp Wader"
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM

Dearth Plethora >>> Derp Wader

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2024 12:19 PM (jA9ul)

77 71 So for a while there was a Pronhub hashtag for Hunter Biden are we about to get one for Bill Clinton and Richard Bransen?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2024 12:19 PM (ibTVg)

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We are going to discover that the chilly outward exterior of the Clintons' relationship is actually a ruse and the two can't keep their hands off of each other.

We're going to find that out good and hard...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

78 55 Anal bleaching once again goes awry.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 12:17 PM (2yu8s)

So he's getting full-body skin-lightening treatments?

Posted by: I mean, he IS an asshole... at January 08, 2024 12:20 PM (2D6XU)

79 Oh, "he's so loyal and duty-bound"?

Also, he's so full of energy that his young subordinates have difficulty keeping up with him. Just like Biden.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2024 12:20 PM (CsUN+)

80 Luke, I am your mother.

Posted by: Darth Austin at January 08, 2024 12:20 PM (63Dwl)

81 The first two marines fully visible on the right look a bit fluffy. Pudgy, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2024 12:20 PM (4I/2K)

82 So he was supposed to interrupt Puddinhead's vacation to inform him that he was going into the hospital?

C'mon, man.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 08, 2024 12:20 PM (woPEM)

83

Oh, snap!

Posted by: Tranni Tilapiatwat at January 08, 2024 12:20 PM (FIh/1)

84 TETRIS was the cause of the fall of the Soviet Union, and no one will convince me otherwise!

Nope - the Communist Party of the Soviet Union banned Western rock music, on the grounds that it was such a cultural threat that it would lead to the collapse of the USSR if allowed.

Then Gorbachev allowed the importation of Western rock music into the USSR, and the CPSU was right - the USSR did collapse as a result.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (YAtuc)

85 Lap band surgery. He'll look like Al Roker in 6 months.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (4p0Xq)

I shit my pants!

Posted by: Al Roker, Asshole at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (Edu7X)

86 What's that stupid medal on his neck?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (N1tpc)

87 but your vaccination status must be public information to have a job.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (CIS44)

88 One should properly wait for the Jim Cramer take as THAT is ALWAYS wrong. BTW, he said 2024 was going to be a WONDERFUL year for the economy.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (aYC4C)

So, do the opposite of Cramer. I always do, and have had wins when I do so. He's the shit midas of financial/economic interests.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (wBh67)

89 Lap band surgery. He'll look like Al Roker in 6 months.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (4p0Xq)

That's worse.

Al Roker looks like a giant piece of crap.

Stefanie Abrams >> Al Roker

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (ufFY8)

90 So for a while there was a Pronhub hashtag for Hunter Biden are we about to get one for Bill Clinton and Richard Bransen?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2024 12:19 PM

Come on, man, I'm eating lunch here!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (jA9ul)

91 One should properly wait for the Jim Cramer take as THAT is ALWAYS wrong. BTW, he said 2024 was going to be a WONDERFUL year for the economy.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (aYC4C)

LoL

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (KEuti)

92 First Buttigieg was on extended "parental" leave and no one knew about it, now Austin is in the ICU for days and no one knew about it. Biden's constantly on vacation and his cabinet heads are MIA. Who's actually running things? Obama? China? Yes and Yes?

Posted by: A Private Guy Who Didn't Show Up For Work For 10 Years at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (qUkBO)

93 Geez, when I was a lowly cubicle-bug with a Federal Agency, if I didn't call in within two hours of desigated arrival time, they would track me down until they found me.

How is it this guy's absence went unnoticed? Maybe he doesn't do much every day? <<<< Hush your mouth!

Posted by: JM in Ill - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (DZU6J)

94 As ridiculous as Austin looks in his anti-covid outfit, he does not look as ridiculous as Congressman Steve Cohen in his.

http://tinyurl.com/3vtax84s

Posted by: huerfano at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (Q4KYm)

95 >>Then Gorbachev allowed the importation of Western rock music into the USSR, and the CPSU was right - the USSR did collapse as a result.

If I ever hear 'Winds of Change' again, it will be too soon.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (orWfd)

96 That's treason, but treason doesn't exist now, so.

This is fine.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 12:14 PM (9gDA7)

I assure you treason still exists. Only under a new definition.

Posted by: InZona at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (qz1Fg)

97 TETRIS was the cause of the fall of the Soviet Union, and no one will convince me otherwise!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (GBKbO)
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Of course. The collapse of the Soviet block.

Set to music.

http://tinyurl.com/2yh7jsdm

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2024 12:22 PM (CsUN+)

98 He's not just in the presidential line of succession, more importantly from a day to day perspective, he's in the military chain of command below the Commander In Chief

Posted by: arminius at January 08, 2024 12:22 PM (Dpgtk)

99 Does Austin still have his junk?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 08, 2024 12:22 PM (n2Iei)

100 Fuck You, they sneer.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 12:22 PM (R4t5M)

101 84 Nope - the Communist Party of the Soviet Union banned Western rock music, on the grounds that it was such a cultural threat that it would lead to the collapse of the USSR if allowed.

Then Gorbachev allowed the importation of Western rock music into the USSR, and the CPSU was right - the USSR did collapse as a result.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (YAtuc)

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According to the documentary Atomic Blonde, punk music had already taken over East Germany, so I'm not sure how much more damage rock music could have done.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

102
"He's a cipher," said the senior DOD official. "He lets in very, very few people, and that can be a good and bad thing."

Behold! the very characteristics of a low-functioning, midwit doofus in over his head!

But he's "scary schmart" as his fellow lackwits will all loudly proclaim.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2024 12:22 PM (xG4kz)

103 I just don't see what the big deal is.

Posted by: Pete Bootygig at January 08, 2024 12:22 PM (JojsZ)

104 Trump is a seriously flawed candidate who has promised to govern in undemocratic ways and who has already been rejected once by the American people after serving one term as president. He faces four criminal indictments consisting of 91 charges related to his attempts to overturn the legitimate 2020 election results, his mishandling of classified documents after leaving office and allegedly obstructing law enforcement's attempts to retrieve them, and his falsifying of business records to conceal a hush payment to keep an adult film star from going public with claims of an extramarital affair, which he denies, in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election. He's pleaded not guilty to all charges against him and maintained no wrongdoing.
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In an article about the electoral map, as polling has it right now, this is how CNN struggles to describe PDJT.

CNN could just as easily said "likely GOP candidate", but the writer's conscience required another 116 words.

Posted by: Leilani Austin at January 08, 2024 12:22 PM (s+y2S)

105 SEX CHANGE!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 08, 2024 12:22 PM (Bqsd4)

106 The black mask and plastic covering look like it would be better for him to star in some Star wars movie as a villain where he doesn't say much but breathes heavily. On the other hand, maybe minus masks that's all he does as Secretary of Defense?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (RSbhh)

107 End Wokeness @EndWokeness 20h
Defense Sec. Austin was hospitalized in the intensive care unit but did not inform Joe Biden or top WH officials for FOUR DAYS.

He didn’t even inform his Deputy Sec. Of Defense. She was on vacation.

It is incredibly difficult to overstate how incompetent this administration is.

We are on the brink of multiple major world wars without a single competent person in charge.
http://tinyurl.com/2s3e9s49
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Masks must not work!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (2yu8s)

108 Lap band surgery. He'll look like Al Roker in 6 months.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (4p0Xq)

That's worse.

Al Roker looks like a giant piece of crap.

Stefanie Abrams >> Al Roker

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM

Sharpton looked better fat. He looks like an old party balloon that ended up forgotten behind a couch.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (4p0Xq)

109 >>What's that stupid medal on his neck?

I think he cut that off the back of a box of Cap'n Crunch.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (orWfd)

110 Wait until he resembles Al Sharpton.

Posted by: norrin radd at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (dN+2t)

111 Look, Sec. Austin is just living his best life. Back off.

Posted by: Mind-numb Dems at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (XeU6L)

112 92 First Buttigieg was on extended "parental" leave and no one knew about it, now Austin is in the ICU for days and no one knew about it. Biden's constantly on vacation and his cabinet heads are MIA. Who's actually running things? Obama? China? Yes and Yes?
Posted by: A Private Guy Who Didn't Show Up For Work For 10 Years at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (qUkBO)

========

We have a Politburo. There is no one person in charge. It is a collection of competing interests in control of their own fiefdoms.

The IC got pissed at Trump because he was going to challenge their fiefdom.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

113 94 As ridiculous as Austin looks in his anti-covid outfit, he does not look as ridiculous as Congressman Steve Cohen in his.

http://tinyurl.com/3vtax84s
Posted by: huerfano at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (Q4KYm)

I thought we were supposed to keep plastic bags away from infants, toddlers, and mental defectives.

Posted by: Place duct tape at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (2D6XU)

114 I think it's funny Sundowner was supposedly no informed, he isn't running in 2024 anyway

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (fwDg9)

115 12 Was he getting sex reassignment surgery?
Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2024 12:13 PM (FQmDC)

That's my theory. Imagine the embarrassment if one's shiny new Raytheon Tactical Dilator suffered a catastrophic failure during its first deployment. That'd certainly be worthy of a cover-up, I'll tell you what.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (DTX3h)

116 If I ever hear 'Winds of Change' again, it will be too soon.

==

*nods in agreement*

Posted by: runner at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (V13WU)

117 Every time I think this mal-administration has hit bottom . . . I hear the sound of digging equipment.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (J2vNu)

118 TETRIS was the cause of the fall of the Soviet Union, and no one will convince me otherwise!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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No consideration for Rubik's Cube?

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (aYC4C)

119 Anyone who spent at least 5 seconds in the military knows that you report medical issues to the chain of command. Assuming that everything these people say is a lie (bold assumption, I know), I think there was a 3rd party actor that lead to his hospitalization.

Posted by: Crazy to be sane at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (uLzDT)

120 Lap band surgery. He'll look like Al Roker in 6 months.
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No shit??

Er.

Shit??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 12:24 PM (2yu8s)

121 If I ever hear 'Winds of Change' again, it will be too soon.
Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM

Nails. Chalkboard.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2024 12:24 PM (jA9ul)

122
If we prevail in this battle against the elites, pictures like Secretary Lampshade-on-Head surveying healthy troops in protective face masks outdoors will be memory-holed within ten years.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2024 12:24 PM (lCaJd)

123 I think there was a 3rd party actor that lead to his hospitalization.

===

Asian bordello owner ??

Posted by: runner at January 08, 2024 12:24 PM (V13WU)

124 So for a while there was a Pronhub hashtag for Hunter Biden are we about to get one for Bill Clinton and Richard Bransen?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2024 12:19 PM (ibTVg)

Virgin territory.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 12:24 PM (R4t5M)

125 Its ok. Its not like there are six wars going on right now.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 08, 2024 12:24 PM (lTGtQ)

126
Hell, Austin should be shit-canned merely for being photographed in that ridiculous "peek-a-boo" hajib headgear.

What a cone head.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2024 12:25 PM (xG4kz)

127 So he's getting full-body skin-lightening treatments?
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Michael Jacksoning.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 12:25 PM (2yu8s)

128 Looks like Austin's new vagina-from-his-colon didn't take. Hate when that happens.

Posted by: Transy McFlufferdoodle at January 08, 2024 12:25 PM (qUkBO)

129 He didn’t even inform his Deputy Sec. Of Defense. She was on vacation.

SecDef flies in a specially equipped plane, because he is in the chain of command if we need to launch a nuclear strike.

Putin and Xi really missed an opportunity there.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 08, 2024 12:25 PM (YAtuc)

130 Hey I had to Muster in every fuckin day I was on Active Duty. WTF?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 08, 2024 12:25 PM (pVWRI)

131 The worst part of this story is that he survived

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2024 12:25 PM (n2vyf)

132 Mayorkas is another cabinet secretary I'd love to see have an excruciating medical event.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 12:25 PM (s+y2S)

133 What's that stupid medal on his neck?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (N1tpc)

He won 1st prize in the Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular Look-A-Like contest.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 08, 2024 12:25 PM (Edu7X)

134 >>Looks like Austin's new vagina-from-his-colon didn't take. Hate when that happens.

The Tilapia Skin rejected him.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:26 PM (orWfd)

135 In almost all cases I believe in medical privacy. I don't think anyone has any duty to share their medical information with the public.

Generally.

Because there are exceptions. Like when you're in the presidential line of succession,

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There's privacy and then there's privacy. I don't care what you are in for, but let us know you are in so we won't be holding up WWIII when you don't answer your phone.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2024 12:26 PM (ous9O)

136 As ridiculous as Austin looks in his anti-covid outfit, he does not look as ridiculous as Congressman Steve Cohen in his.
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I saw young woksters wearing gas masks in the grocery store.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2024 12:26 PM (XeU6L)

137 Hey I had to Muster in every fuckin day I was on Active Duty. WTF?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 08, 2024 12:25 PM (pVWRI)

you are not as private as he is ....

Posted by: runner at January 08, 2024 12:26 PM (V13WU)

138 60 The Soviet Uniofell as a condition of shooting the 7th Police Academy movie there. It took longer than expected, which is why the movie was so much later than the others, but a contract is a contract.

Posted by: Bete at January 08, 2024 12:26 PM (LX4y3)

139
I agree with the lap band theory.

Look what it's done for Chris Christie.

Posted by: Auspex at January 08, 2024 12:26 PM (j4U/Z)

140 Winds of Change

When a skidmarking shart requires a clean set of undies.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 08, 2024 12:26 PM (Bqsd4)

141 Lap band surgery. He'll look like Al Roker in 6 months.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (4p0Xq)

Or Chris Christie.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2024 12:26 PM (N39Ws)

142 99 Does Austin still have his junk?
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 08, 2024 12:22 PM (n2Iei)

Again, he's too fat to get it cut off.

Posted by: XTC at January 08, 2024 12:26 PM (sm6Pk)

143 do you realize how nuts this is?
I don;t believe Obama is running things. There is just no way he could be influencing day to day operations. And he is not that smart. Someone else is pulling the strings. It just seems too profound and entrenched to be the work of a single individual. None of his lieutenants are part of the current administration.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2024 12:27 PM (t/2Uw)

144 Klaus Meine has entered the chat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 12:27 PM (R4t5M)

145 We have a Politburo. There is no one person in charge. It is a collection of competing interests in control of their own fiefdoms.

The IC got pissed at Trump because he was going to challenge their fiefdom.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Frankly calling themselves the Intelligence Community is a bit of a misnomer. No real demonstrable intelligence there as their groupthink degenerates to most ridiculous analyses.

The whole peeing hooker Russia Russia crap is not even good fiction. Electing a secretly gay Prezzie with a murky birth story was a far better ploy.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:27 PM (aYC4C)

146 As ridiculous as Austin looks in his anti-covid outfit, he does not look as ridiculous as Congressman Steve Cohen in his.

http://tinyurl.com/3vtax84s
Posted by: huerfano at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (Q4KYm)

My God…. The covid op absolutely decimated minds…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 12:27 PM (KEuti)

147 I think there was a 3rd party actor that lead to his hospitalization.

Serious injury due to an exercise band on New Year's Day.

It happens.

Posted by: Zombie Harry Reid! at January 08, 2024 12:27 PM (YAtuc)

148 http://tinyurl.com/3vtax84s

Looks like he's planning to commit suicide through plastic bag usage.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2024 12:27 PM (RSbhh)

149 This one will be a piece of cake for me at the next White House Press Briefing. I will tell questioning reporters to ask the Pentagon Press Office. Period.

Tee-hee-hee!

Posted by: KJP at January 08, 2024 12:27 PM (5fDan)

150 As ridiculous as Austin looks in his anti-covid outfit, he does not look as ridiculous as Congressman Steve Cohen in his.

http://tinyurl.com/3vtax84s
Posted by: huerfano at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (Q4KYm)

Does he actually have a plastic bag over his head. I don't actually use X but I blocked this doofus anyway.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 08, 2024 12:27 PM (n2Iei)

151 Lap band surgery. He'll look like Al Roker in 6 months.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (4p0Xq)

Or Chris Christie.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

John Goodman.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2024 12:27 PM (ous9O)

152 but the writer's conscience required another 116 words.
Posted by: Leilani Austin at January 08, 2024 12:22 PM

Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2024 12:27 PM (jA9ul)

153 TETRIS was the cause of the fall of the Soviet Union, and no one will convince me otherwise!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Did you watch the Tetris movie on Apple?

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 08, 2024 12:27 PM (CIS44)

154 What's that stupid medal on his neck?

Order of Teh Stoopid, with Kaboom cluster.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 08, 2024 12:27 PM (V8he0)

155
Narrator: "Lloyd Austin, idiot. A man barely alive."

Rear Admiral Levine: "We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him titties, bigger than before. Better, rounder, firmer."

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 12:28 PM (gzH5K)

156 he was getting a sex change operation....(he was not being neutered....he already did that years ago)

Posted by: jb at January 08, 2024 12:29 PM (/2JzC)

157 Congrats, LinusVanPelt on turning Sponge into an also-ran on this thread. This is leadership I can get behind. A blow for equity and fairness! Well done!

Posted by: First In Our Hearts at January 08, 2024 12:29 PM (V5BDR)

158 Formerly Virginia @ 86- redickless medal is teh princess class once twice three times a Lady pendant. He’s wearing it backwards.

Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2024 12:29 PM (Nq2KV)

159
Lap band surgery. He'll look like Al Roker in 6 months.

Chris Christie held his hand during time in post-op. With his other hand, he shoveled dozens upon dozens of Krispie-Kreme doughnuts into his ravenous maw.

"... mmmph ... smack ... Sure, Lloyd, it'll work! ... mmmph ... mmmph ... mmmph ... It did wonders for me!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2024 12:29 PM (xG4kz)

160 After the "big reveal" the new and improved Lisa Austin, SecDef extraordinaire (who looks surprisingly similar to Whoopi Goldberg) will rock your world... H8trs

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 12:29 PM (Q4IgG)

161 Serious injury due to an exercise band on New Year's Day.

It happens.

With that physique, I’m guessing the band wasn’t used for exercise.

Posted by: Crazy to be sane at January 08, 2024 12:29 PM (uLzDT)

162 153 TETRIS was the cause of the fall of the Soviet Union, and no one will convince me otherwise!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Did you watch the Tetris movie on Apple?
Posted by: BruceWayne at January 08, 2024 12:27 PM (CIS44)

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I did. It was fun.

In terms of streaming films I thought would never get a physical media release, I received Weird: The Al Yankovic Story in the mail on Saturday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:29 PM (GBKbO)

163 "Lloyd Austin: SECDEF. A Man barely alive."

"Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology."

"We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man."

"Lloyd Austin will be that man. Better than he was before."

"Bigger. Dumber. Fatter."

"Lloyd Austin is: THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR DUMMY."

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2024 12:29 PM (wtvvX)

164 155
Narrator: "Lloyd Austin, idiot. A man barely alive."

Rear Admiral Levine: "We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him titties, bigger than before. Better, rounder, firmer."
Posted by: ShainS
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Snort. You owe me coffee.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:30 PM (aYC4C)

165 What's that stupid medal on his neck?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (N1tpc)
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Presidential award for bravery in the face of COVID.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2024 12:30 PM (7fElN)

166 SecDef flies in a specially equipped plane, because he is in the chain of command if we need to launch a nuclear strike.

Putin and Xi really missed an opportunity there.

Hypothesis: Austin figured that if he kept his chain informed, the news would leak to Putin and Xi. The less this administration knows, the better.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2024 12:30 PM (CsUN+)

167 We have a Politburo. There is no one person in charge. It is a collection of competing interests in control of their own fiefdoms.

The IC got pissed at Trump because he was going to challenge their fiefdom.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

Lloyd Austin is no me. Right, what's a war hero got to do to get some lubrication around here?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 08, 2024 12:31 PM (4I/2K)

168 Lee Majors was a mish master of the 70's.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 12:31 PM (R4t5M)

169 Austin's job appears safe -- at least for the moment, but pressure is growing within the administration and on Capitol Hill for someone to lose their job.

So Private First Class Slipenshitz, in charge of keeping the latrines clean on the hospital floor where Austin is staying, has been called into the company commander's office and been told he can expect an Article 15 and very likely an Article 32 Board for failing to notify the night duty nurse that Austin was there.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2024 12:31 PM (W/lyH)

170 Congrats, LinusVanPelt on turning Sponge into an also-ran on this thread. This is leadership I can get behind. A blow for equity and fairness! Well done!
Posted by: First In Our Hearts at January 08, 2024 12:29 PM (V5BDR)

Thank you, but no. It can only happen once

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 12:31 PM (KEuti)

171 I could be wrong but I think Austin is a classic example of the peter principle in live form.
And he's a dummy.

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at January 08, 2024 12:32 PM (Rn/yD)

172 170 Congrats, LinusVanPelt on turning Sponge into an also-ran on this thread. This is leadership I can get behind. A blow for equity and fairness! Well done!
Posted by: First In Our Hearts at January 08, 2024 12:29 PM (V5BDR)

Thank you, but no. It can only happen once
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 12:31 PM (KEuti)

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So, you were the first to do it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

173 Hey, he took ownership. What else do you want? HE TOOK OWNERSHIP YOU GUYS!

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2024 12:32 PM (0Qrd3)

174 did. It was fun.

In terms of streaming films I thought would never get a physical media release, I received Weird: The Al Yankovic Story in the mail on Saturday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:29 PM (GBKbO)

Ya i thought it was a good time. I loved the weird al movie

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 08, 2024 12:32 PM (CIS44)

175 BTW, Filipino Marines:

https://www.alamy.com/united states defense secretary lloyd austin walks past military honor guards upon arrival at camp aguinaldo military camp in quezon city metro manila philippines july 30 2021

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 12:32 PM (2yu8s)

176 A human beat TETRIS.
Interesting video about it on utube.

Lots of Tetris fanatics out there.

Well, weirdos, really.

They should have paper routes.

We are doomed.

Get off my lawn.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 08, 2024 12:32 PM (ufFY8)

177 I saw young woksters wearing gas masks in the grocery store.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2024 12:26 PM (XeU6L)

I would be tempted to do that just to mock the mask insanity. In fact, I did, once, wore it to the bar to get a drink.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2024 12:32 PM (tkR6S)

178 @155 ShainS - beat me to it!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2024 12:33 PM (wtvvX)

179 We have a Politburo. There is no one person in charge. It is a collection of competing interests in control of their own fiefdoms.

The IC got pissed at Trump because he was going to challenge their fiefdom.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:23 PM (GBKbO)
***

Isn't there a political theory that discusses how major, and competing, nations will tend to mirror each other over time?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2024 12:33 PM (W/lyH)

180 It seems like there was no "Chief of Staff" to the Secretary of Defense prior to Magsamen. This position was created with Austin assuming the reigns. Because DoD does not have enough bureaucracy.

Posted by: runner at January 08, 2024 12:33 PM (V13WU)

181 One of the oddest parts is the conflicting stories. One says it was elective surgery that led to complications causing the extended stay. The other that he stayed to protect his privacy even though he could have been released.
We are being lied to. They know we know we are being lied to. They keep lying to us anyways.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2024 12:33 PM (t/2Uw)

182 174 Ya i thought it was a good time. I loved the weird al movie
Posted by: BruceWayne at January 08, 2024 12:32 PM (CIS44)

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All hail Shout Factory! The Weird Al movie got 4K treatment!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

183 He's a very, very private person, doncha know.

Prayers on a successful reassignment surgery, Lloydina.

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2024 12:33 PM (D9hgC)

184 Trump's America.

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 12:34 PM (gzH5K)

185 Isn't there a political theory that discusses how major, and competing, nations will tend to mirror each other over time?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2024 12:33 PM (W/lyH)

Neo-mirrorism ?

Posted by: runner at January 08, 2024 12:34 PM (V13WU)

186 So, you were the first to do it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

The first (and probably last) time I’ll ever do it. Sponge is always first, right?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 12:34 PM (KEuti)

187 Because there are exceptions. Like when you're in the presidential line of succession, and your office has powers over peace and war.

Apparently there is also a law requiring disclosures about incapacitation.

Lloyd Austin covered up his hospitalization and now the leftwing propaganda media is covering for him, saying he's just a "private" person.
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He had help. Presumably, someone is responsible for doing the notification/disclosure (if he was incapacitated, he couldn't do it himself). Someone - probably a lot of someones - just didn't. Or covered it up further.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:34 PM (Zp1WF)

188 Conviction of ex-Congressman Fortenberry is reversed, because the Biden DOJ tried him in politically compatible LA, instead of where the alleged offense occurred. This should be interesting wrt any potential Trump trials.

http://tinyurl.com/4j8r299x

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2024 12:34 PM (CsUN+)

189
Winds of Change

When a skidmarking shart requires a clean set of undies.

Everybody's skidmarking
Skidmarking USA

Posted by: Top Secret! at January 08, 2024 12:34 PM (63Dwl)

190 >>Lots of Tetris fanatics out there.

I dated a super hot chick that got booted from the University of Arizona for bad grades.

She was so addicted to Tetris that she flunked out of college. Not kidding.
Smoking hot. But dumb as a rock.
Pretty much the perfect chick, really.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:34 PM (orWfd)

191 Austin is a load

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 08, 2024 12:34 PM (xcxpd)

192 They should have paper routes.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 08, 2024 12:32 PM (ufFY8 )

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Nobody reads newspapers anymore.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 12:34 PM (DRSnL)

193 The DOD chief of staff helped cover it up, and even hid the news from the Deputy Defense Secretary who's supposed to take over Austin's duties when he's incapacitated.
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I really need to read further before commenting.

I won't, of course, but I know that I *should.*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:34 PM (Zp1WF)

194 I for one am somewhat reassured by this revelation. Would you want this guy actually making big decisions? He was given the top spot for an obvious reason, but clearly handles nothing more important than clerical work, or else someone would have tried to track him down for his opinion on some matter over the course of four days. As it stood, no one knew or cared where he was off to.

Posted by: topper at January 08, 2024 12:34 PM (mxEar)

195 You talk about dummies like they don't have feelings... be better morons, be better

Posted by: Mortimer Snerd at January 08, 2024 12:35 PM (ZV+pB)

196
Damn! I did not notice that Lloyd "Occlusive Seal" Austin was wearing a face mask underneath that ridiculous cone-headed face shield.

He's a regular pan-galactic nexus of stupid.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2024 12:35 PM (xG4kz)

197 So-called patient privacy and HIPAA are laughable.

At the clinic the other day, I overheard a patient being checked in. The clerk shoved a tablet with their multipage HIPAA disclosure form in size 4 font in front of the patient and said, "This just seays that we won't give any of your information unless you give us your permission." With phrasing like that most people would assume that before any info left the facility they would be explicitly asked for permission.

I wanted to yell, "No, that form says that you understand their policy that they can release your information to any entity that they deem to be a HIPAA partner, and your signature says you agree to that release."

OBTW- Nobody ever reads the multipage HIPAA form. Nobody.

(And by nobody I mean almost nobody.)

Posted by: Muldoon at January 08, 2024 12:35 PM (991eG)

198 It's as if every Biden Administration official was instructed to flood the media with the same talking point: That Austin should be excused for breaking the law because he's just such a private person.
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It's called Party Privilege. They have it. You don't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:35 PM (Zp1WF)

199 I can see why he needed the utmost of secrecy including not informing the WH. Transitioning surgery gone awry! That will soon to be Lucinda Austin haters!

Posted by: Cheri at January 08, 2024 12:35 PM (oiNtH)

200 I would be tempted to do that just to mock the mask insanity. In fact, I did, once, wore it to the bar to get a drink.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Yell, "everyone hold their breath!"

Take a drink.

Yell, "Ok!"

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2024 12:35 PM (ous9O)

201
Is there even one cabinet secretary who has approached any level of competency in this administration?

Sure, they're figureheads, but c'mon.

Posted by: Auspex at January 08, 2024 12:36 PM (j4U/Z)

202 I could be wrong but I think Austin is a classic example of the peter principle in live form.
And he's a dummy.

Disagree. The Peter Principle says that you rise to the level of your incompetence. Austin passed that long, long ago.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2024 12:36 PM (CsUN+)

203 Coming Soon: Politico liesplains that Hunter Biden took money from foreign oligarchs and gangsters only because, at heart, he's a person with a deep appreciation of the finer things.
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LOL. I think they've already tried to run that one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:36 PM (Zp1WF)

204 do you realize how nuts this is?
I don;t believe Obama is running things. There is just no way he could be influencing day to day operations. And he is not that smart. Someone else is pulling the strings. It just seems too profound and entrenched to be the work of a single individual. None of his lieutenants are part of the current administration.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
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It's not nuts at all. It's not even all that hidden.

Search for WestExec

Search for WestExec White House

There is tons of information out there about it. And that's what we're *allowed* to know.

This isn't even anything obscure like going back and noticing that the same globalist organization has had people in positions of power in every administration since the 70s. This is stuff they happily disclose and talk about openly.

Posted by: Nikky Haley, True Savior of the Democracy at January 08, 2024 12:36 PM (+RC1q)

205 We'll follow Secretary Austin to the gates of Hell to defend the United States! Or follow him to Drag Queen shows at our bases if they're safer and closer.

Posted by: Woke Gen Z US military personnel at January 08, 2024 12:36 PM (5fDan)

206 It's Barky's minions who run the machine, Barky may at best give them direction but Marxists know how to push the goal forward

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2024 12:36 PM (fwDg9)

207 Would have been a perfect time for China to invade Taiwan.

Posted by: Montec at January 08, 2024 12:37 PM (eQHI/)

208 I wanted to yell, "No, that form says that you understand their policy that they can release your information to any entity that they deem to be a HIPAA partner, and your signature says you agree to that release."

OBTW- Nobody ever reads the multipage HIPAA form. Nobody.

(And by nobody I mean almost nobody.)
Posted by: Muldoon at January 08, 2024 12:35 PM (991eG)
++++
I have read it. It was ages ago (haven't been to the doc for a while).

What happens if you don't sign? No signature == no treatment, like EULA acceptance for software?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:37 PM (Zp1WF)

209 Smoking hot. But dumb as a rock.
Pretty much the perfect chick, really.
Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:34 PM (orWfd)

Did her parents own a liquor store?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2024 12:37 PM (W/lyH)

210 Nobody reads newspapers anymore.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 12:34 PM (DRSnL)

Hence, my "get off my lawn" comment.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 08, 2024 12:37 PM (ufFY8)

211 89 Lap band surgery. He'll look like Al Roker in 6 months.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2024 12:18 PM (4p0Xq)

I saw the Lap Band open for Rick James at the Funk Palace in St. Louis in '82.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2024 12:37 PM (wtvvX)

212 165 What's that stupid medal on his neck?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2024 12:21 PM (N1tpc)
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Presidential award for bravery in the face of COVID.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2024 12:30 PM (7fElN)

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LOL!

Posted by: washrivergal at January 08, 2024 12:37 PM (CmpAD)

213 Even Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, who assumed some of his duties while he was in the hospital, did not know his whereabouts until Thursday

Even if she had, she was vacationing in Puerto Rico at the time. Kind of like Biden and his brain.

In essence, Radar O'Reilly was in charge of all military decisions.

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2024 12:38 PM (D9hgC)

214 Smoking hot. But dumb as a rock.
Pretty much the perfect chick, really.
Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:34 PM (orWfd)

Did her parents own a liquor store?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2024 12:37 PM (W/lyH)

Nonexistent gag reflex?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2024 12:38 PM (4I/2K)

215 He had to have SOMETHING in his favor besides being mute and black to get to become a general and then SecDef, right?
Right?

Posted by: SamIam at January 08, 2024 12:38 PM (oasF3)

216
Lee Majors was a mish master of the 70's.

It was a big valley.

Posted by: Top Secret! at January 08, 2024 12:38 PM (63Dwl)

217 This sandy bikini brunette is beginning to have doubts when the press and government officials tell her that nobody is above the law and that everything is clean as a whistle:
http://tiny.cc/0l6yvz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:39 PM (Zp1WF)

218 Where did they find a weirdo like this?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 08, 2024 12:39 PM (n2Iei)

219 Nobody reads newspapers anymore.

Nobody prints them either. What passes for a newspaper today would embarrass Joseph Goebbels.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2024 12:39 PM (CsUN+)

220 Conviction of ex-Congressman Fortenberry is reversed, because the Biden DOJ tried him in politically compatible LA, instead of where the alleged offense occurred. This should be interesting wrt any potential Trump trials.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2024 12:34 PM (CsUN+)

***

I like Franken Berry instead... or Boo Berry wasn't bad either

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 08, 2024 12:39 PM (ZV+pB)

221 If he had the original surgery on Dec 23 and wasn't admitted to ICU until Jan 1 it's probably safe to assume he wasn't able to perform his duties then or now.
Has he been released?

Posted by: old chick at January 08, 2024 12:39 PM (sOete)

222 They removed all the tumor...just his nose remains. I've seen that somewhere....

Posted by: BignJames at January 08, 2024 12:39 PM (AwYPR)

223 Frankly calling themselves the Intelligence Community is a bit of a misnomer. No real demonstrable intelligence there as their groupthink degenerates to most ridiculous analyses.

The whole peeing hooker Russia Russia crap is not even good fiction. Electing a secretly gay Prezzie with a murky birth story was a far better ploy.

Every time the phrase "intelligence community" is used unironically it should be followed by the line from Team America: "We have no intelligence. I repeat, we have lost all intelligence".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2024 12:40 PM (2ocoG)

224 Ya i thought it was a good time. I loved the weird al movie

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 08, 2024 12:32 PM (CIS44)

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Ditto.

***** SPOILER ALERTS *****

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. Loved the many cameos (including Weird Al himself); and

. Knowing that Weird Al always gets permission from artists before spoofing them, did he get Madonna's permission to depict her as (apparently accurately) a gold-digging whore?

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 12:40 PM (gzH5K)

225 It's a small thing, but it goes along with this administrations flagrant disregard for rules and laws.

Where are all of the nevertrumpers who worry so much about our precious "norms"? They tend to be completely silent as the left/biden admin trashes one norm after the next.

The fact that someone like Liz Cheney complains that Trump is not qualified to be president while being completely silent about Biden means she believes that Biden is qualified and competent. Let that sink in.

It's one thing to not like Trump, but to believe Biden is better for America than Trump as president is just mystifying. It shows how much the GOPe is simply part of the uniparty.

If you believe Biden is the better choice in a binary choice (i.e., Trump vs. Biden), you are a leftists. Pure and simple. There is no "but".

Posted by: I forgot my name b/c I haven't posted in 6 months at January 08, 2024 12:40 PM (ky+MF)

226 >>This sandy bikini brunette is beginning to have doubts when the press and government officials tell her that nobody is above the law and that everything is clean as a whistle:
http://tiny.cc/0l6yvz

Those lips!

I would check her for Pearls.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:40 PM (orWfd)

227 "What happens if you don't sign? No signature == no treatment, like EULA acceptance for software?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:37 PM (Zp1WF)"

It's a practical thing: for instance if you get lab work done, they don't want to have to call you and ask if they can share your info with the lab. I'm sure there's bad actors out there, but in general, it's just another bureaucratic hurdle.

Posted by: Are you sure about this sir? at January 08, 2024 12:40 PM (zOD0w)

228 217 This sandy bikini brunette is beginning to have doubts when the press and government officials tell her that nobody is above the law and that everything is clean as a whistle:
http://tiny.cc/0l6yvz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:39 PM (Zp1WF)

Pretty eyes...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2024 12:40 PM (wtvvX)

229 Is there even one cabinet secretary who has approached any level of competency in this administration?

Better question...any of their permanent staff? From interns to Chiefs of Staff...are any of those "people" competent?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2024 12:41 PM (W/lyH)

230 My neighbors get the daily paper. They are in their mid 80's. Nice people who are not on board with this crazy shit.

I don't get it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 12:41 PM (R4t5M)

231 V8 rebranded its cans.

It now calls itself, "The Original Plant-Powered Drink!"

Trying to jump on the "plant-based vegan alternatives" bandwagon, I guess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:41 PM (Zp1WF)

232 2.87$/gal for regular at BJ's Freeport. Demand is crashing.

Posted by: Jamaica at January 08, 2024 12:41 PM (NFplx)

233 Milley, Mattis, Kelley, Petraus….. all annoying and not particularly impressive but they all look like George Marshall compared to Austin….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 12:41 PM (KEuti)

234 This isn't even anything obscure like going back and noticing that the same globalist organization has had people in positions of power in every administration since the 70s. This is stuff they happily disclose and talk about openly.

Posted by: Nikky Haley, True Savior of the Demo
It's Barky's minions who run the machine, Barky may at best give them direction but Marxists know how to push the goal forward

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2024 12:36 PM (fwDg9)

I think it is more the first take than the second. Obama came out of nowhere, groomed to be the figurehead. I don;t think he weilds any more power than Biden does. I think they are all stooges of the Global Elite whose sole goal is profit. Profit at any cost.
funny thing. I think Israel is the only country not a slave to these interests.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2024 12:41 PM (t/2Uw)

235 They made a Weird Al Pinball.

Haven't had the chance to play it, yet. But it looked fun.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:41 PM (orWfd)

236 2.87$/gal for regular at BJ's Freeport. Demand is crashing.

Demand isn't *that* far down. It's being fucked with to help Biden's reelection campaign.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2024 12:42 PM (2ocoG)

237 Pure and simple. There is no "but".

But enough about Brie Larsen.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2024 12:42 PM (CsUN+)

238 To be fair, there are Commentators here who have been it The Barrel for four days (or even more!), and failed to report it, or worse, designated another Commentator to comment for them.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2024 12:42 PM (a3Q+t)

239 Knowing that Weird Al always gets permission from artists before spoofing them, did he get Madonna's permission to depict her as (apparently accurately) a gold-digging whore?
Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 12:40 PM (gzH5K)

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I'm pretty sure he TRIED to get permission from Coolio for Amish Paradise and Coolio said no, and he did it anyway. Maybe it's the same thing here.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 12:42 PM (DRSnL)

240 "Lap band surgery. He'll look like Al Roker in 6 months."

I'm thinking weight loss surgery, too.

Posted by: SamIam at January 08, 2024 12:42 PM (oasF3)

241 173 Hey, he took ownership. What else do you want? HE TOOK OWNERSHIP YOU GUYS!
Posted by: fd at January 08, 2024 12:32 PM (0Qrd3)

Another stupid corporate buzzword I fucking hate.

Posted by: Lean in to taking ownership at January 08, 2024 12:43 PM (2D6XU)

242 So gastric bypass or tranny transition operation?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 08, 2024 12:43 PM (nnp+f)

243 I think Israel is the only country not a slave to these interests.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2024 12:41 PM (t/2Uw)

The left in Israel is trying though. That's why they hate Bibi so much.

Posted by: I forgot my name b/c I haven't posted in 6 months at January 08, 2024 12:43 PM (ky+MF)

244 Six million to rebuild Col. Steve in 1974 would cost about $38 mil today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2024 12:43 PM (J2vNu)

245 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:39 PM (Zp1WF)

Dd the photographers put sand on her just to make to seem totally authentic? LOL. She's a very pretty woman except for the lip enhancer or botox or whatever it's called.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2024 12:43 PM (RSbhh)

246 So the story now is...
He had a minor elective surgery in late Dec
Then was admitted- to the ICU- for pain on Jan 1.

I have never had to admit someone to the ICU for pain unless it was for multiple rib fractures.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2024 12:43 PM (lu1XB)

247 Are there other professions where this type of non-notification would be acceeptable.

Mrs. Smith: "Nurse, my husband has been inn the OR for five days. Is there a problem?"

Nurse: "Oh no, Mrs. Smith. We were just informed that the surgeon has been in the hospital since last Thursday."

Posted by: Muldoon at January 08, 2024 12:43 PM (991eG)

248 Where did they find a weirdo like this?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 08, 2024 12:39 PM (n2Iei)

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Craigslist.

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 12:43 PM (gzH5K)

249 "I'm pretty sure he TRIED to get permission from Coolio for Amish Paradise and Coolio said no, and he did it anyway. Maybe it's the same thing here.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 12:42 PM (DRSnL)"

My understanding is the label gave him permission.

Posted by: Are you sure about this sir? at January 08, 2024 12:43 PM (zOD0w)

250 Every time the phrase "intelligence community" is used unironically it should be followed by the line from Team America: "We have no intelligence. I repeat, we have lost all intelligence".
Posted by: Ian S.
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We would actually improve intelligence by copious RIF's of that particular community. Addition by subtraction meme.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:43 PM (aYC4C)

251 So-called patient privacy and HIPAA are laughable.

Posted by: Muldoon
____________

The TPO (treatment, payment and operations) exception for HIPAA allows your provider to disclose just about anything.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 08, 2024 12:43 PM (Dm8we)

252 239 Knowing that Weird Al always gets permission from artists before spoofing them, did he get Madonna's permission to depict her as (apparently accurately) a gold-digging whore?
Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 12:40 PM (gzH5K)

=====

I'm pretty sure he TRIED to get permission from Coolio for Amish Paradise and Coolio said no, and he did it anyway. Maybe it's the same thing here.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 12:42 PM (DRSnL)

I'm going to have blame that on Coolio or his manager. Al did call and get permission. But Coolio was either high and forgot or his manager gave permission and then he threw a hissy fit when Al made his version.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 08, 2024 12:44 PM (xcxpd)

253 2.87$/gal for regular at BJ's Freeport. Demand is crashing.

Demand isn't *that* far down. It's being fucked with to help Biden's reelection campaign.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2024 12:42 PM (2ocoG)
***

Happens every election year.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2024 12:44 PM (W/lyH)

254 Has anyone theorized WHY they kept Austin's incapacitation secret?

One thing that comes to mind is some of his initiatives are so unpopular, they don't trust his interim successor to be able to withstand the pressure to overturn them.

Or possibly Austin is doing some REALLY shady shit they don't want anyone to peek at while someone else has the temporary power to look into it.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2024 12:44 PM (Odg76)

255 I still see a fair amount of newspapers on porches in my ‘nabe. Our local rag makes the NYT seem unbiased. High overlap between who gets a newspaper and who has a Ukistan flag flying and/or a “we believe” sign.

Posted by: Montec at January 08, 2024 12:44 PM (eQHI/)

256
As ridiculous as Austin looks in his anti-covid outfit, he does not look as ridiculous as Congressman Steve Cohen in his.

http://tinyurl.com/3vtax84s
Posted by: huerfano

Wait, Cohen released that photo this past week after keeping it under wraps for three years?

I guess he's come to see that it plays well with his, "Ready for duty -- let me at them!" bravura performances on the Hill.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2024 12:44 PM (xG4kz)

257 >>Craigslist.

Traded for a Garbage Can of Styrofoam Peanuts.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:44 PM (orWfd)

258

Colon perfed while removing the gerbil...

Posted by: Dick Gere at January 08, 2024 12:44 PM (FIh/1)

259 Maybe They have replaced him with a double.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2024 12:45 PM (mn2bz)

260 239 I'm pretty sure he TRIED to get permission from Coolio for Amish Paradise and Coolio said no, and he did it anyway. Maybe it's the same thing here.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 12:42 PM (DRSnL)

=======

Coolio's people apparently said yes, but Coolio didn't want it done.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

261 Knowing that Weird Al always gets permission from artists before spoofing them, did he get Madonna's permission to depict her as (apparently accurately) a gold-digging whore?
Posted by: ShainS
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Madonna is in the "Like a Surgeon" video from Weird Al.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:45 PM (aYC4C)

262 They lie to us for our own good.

Posted by: JCG at January 08, 2024 12:45 PM (0hfdJ)

263 Well, well, well. I'll bet you'll be totally surprised by this info about Lloyd Austin and Beau Biden.

A POLITICO article from December 2020 -

http://tinyurl.com/3d3e6uwj

"Austin’s selection, like many of Biden’s top picks, appears to have been based heavily on his deep personal connection with the president-elect.

Then-Vice President Biden got to know Austin during the Obama administration when he was leading Iraq policy and Austin was a commander in the Middle East. The two spent “countless hours” together, in the field and in the White House Situation Room, Biden wrote in a Tuesday piece for the Atlantic explaining his decision.

Austin also developed a close relationship with Biden’s late son, Beau, when he served on Austin’s staff in Iraq in 2008 and 2009, said one source close to the discussions, who asked not to be named to discuss private matters. Austin and the younger Biden attended Mass together, sitting side-by-side almost every Sunday, and they kept in touch after Beau returned from his deployment."

Austin at least knows how to play political cards, that's for sure.

Posted by: Gref at January 08, 2024 12:45 PM (5fDan)

264 252 I'm going to have blame that on Coolio or his manager. Al did call and get permission. But Coolio was either high and forgot or his manager gave permission and then he threw a hissy fit when Al made his version.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 08, 2024 12:44 PM (xcxpd)

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Amish Paradise > Gangsta's Paradise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

265 They lie to us for our own good.
Posted by: JCG at January 08, 2024 12:45 PM (0hfdJ)

Bloody peasant!

Posted by: King Arthur at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (4I/2K)

266 They made a Weird Al Pinball.

Haven't had the chance to play it, yet. But it looked fun.
Posted by: garrett

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We've got one of those "arcade museums" around here that is run by a really great guy who collects interesting things and mostly just wants to let other people enjoy them, and he figures he can help pay for upkeep and that's about it. I appreciate him keeping the doors open because he's got old 60s or so pinball games that I really like.

All of that to say that he has a really new Munsters game right when you walk in the door that is hilariously fun. It has a teeny tiny little pinball table inset that has 1/4" or so pinballs and is super fast. I'm no connoisseur or what-not but it's a lot of fun and worth playing if you ever get a chance.

Posted by: Nikky Haley, True Savior of the Democracy at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (+RC1q)

267 I have no problem with 'We, the people' not knowing of this in real time.
Because if 'we, the people know about it in real time...so do 'They, the bad guys'.

But that being said this was handled criminally within the confines of Chain-of-command, and need-to-know.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (hH3Px)

268 262 They lie to us for our own good.
Posted by: JCG at January 08, 2024 12:45 PM (0hfdJ)

Like good parents, they beat us because they love us.

Posted by: No it's going to hurt me way more than you at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (2D6XU)

269 Secretary of Defense "Lamont" Austin.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (f1kZG)

270 I have never had to admit someone to the ICU for pain unless it was for multiple rib fractures.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2024 12:43 PM (lu1XB)

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Maybe a bad, drunken fall down a flight of stairs?

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (gzH5K)

271 >>Amish Paradise > Gangsta's Paradise.

Yes.

And 'Craigslist' is the best Doors song ever recorded.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (orWfd)

272 262 They lie to us for our own good.
Posted by: JCG at January 08, 2024 12:45 PM (0hfdJ)

They lie and we have to be merciful

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (xcxpd)

273 Hamas released video of four female Israeli hostages. All four look completely shell-shocked. I can't imagine what they've gone through.

http://tiny.cc/ro6yvz

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (Odg76)

274 Madonna is in the "Like a Surgeon" video from Weird Al.

Madonna complained to Weird Al that he hadn't parodied her yet, and suggested the "Like a Surgeon" title for the parody.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (YAtuc)

275 Amish Paradise > Gangsta's Paradise.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

=====

Hence the hissy fit.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (DRSnL)

276 The fact that someone like Liz Cheney complains that Trump is not qualified to be president while being completely silent about Biden means she believes that Biden is qualified and competent. Let that sink in.

What has Western Civilization done to hurt Liz?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (n2Iei)

277 Has anyone theorized WHY they kept Austin's incapacitation secret?

One thing that comes to mind is some of his initiatives are so unpopular, they don't trust his interim successor to be able to withstand the pressure to overturn them.

Or possibly Austin is doing some REALLY shady shit they don't want anyone to peek at while someone else has the temporary power to look into it.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2024 12:44 PM (Odg76)
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Or...it was New Years. People were on vacation, hung over, or going to football games. Everyone thought the other guy was going to take care of things. Consequently nothing got done. And this in and of itself, is criminal.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2024 12:47 PM (W/lyH)

278 Set to music.

http://tinyurl.com/2yh7jsdm
Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2024 12:22 PM (CsUN+)
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Yep. A YouTube classic.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2024 12:47 PM (PODEE)

279 Weird Al is awesome. Eat It is my personal favorite

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 12:47 PM (KEuti)

280 Hamas released video of four female Israeli hostages. All four look completely shell-shocked. I can't imagine what they've gone through.

Nice that Hamas didn't bother to clean the blood off of their faces.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 08, 2024 12:47 PM (YAtuc)

281 274 Madonna is in the "Like a Surgeon" video from Weird Al.

Madonna complained to Weird Al that he hadn't parodied her yet, and suggested the "Like a Surgeon" title for the parody.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (YAtuc)

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There's a thing amongst some musicians that they haven't "made it" until Weird Al parodies one of their songs.

I think it was the Ridin' Dirty guys who said that when talking about White and Nerdy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

282 So is this now a movie thread?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2024 12:47 PM (t/2Uw)

283 Top...men... Cue the Ark of the Covenant getting boxed up and warehoused.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 08, 2024 12:47 PM (JcnCJ)

284 http://tiny.cc/0l6yvz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:39 PM (Zp1WF)

Good job Joe!

Covered with sand means platonic discussions only.

Posted by: Auspex at January 08, 2024 12:47 PM (j4U/Z)

285 And 'Craigslist' is the best Doors song ever recorded.
Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (orWfd)
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He freaking nailed it on that one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:48 PM (Zp1WF)

286 I thought China would have taken Taiwan by now, it's not the US holding them back.

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2024 12:48 PM (fwDg9)

287 I read a newspaper (The" NY Post") which does have a number of articles and editorials which lean conservative. I hate reading newspapers online. The only good thing about it is the comments after the articles where lots of conservatives sound off. They certainly did in critiquing Biden's recent angry "Trump is a danger to democracy," rant.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2024 12:48 PM (RSbhh)

288 Honestly, guys, what business is it of ours if he went into the hospital to get a gerbil removed?

Posted by: cpurick at January 08, 2024 12:48 PM (lNjg1)

289 Oh FFS. He's a public-facing government official. As such, he has no power and his absence means nothing. His only damned job is to exist, and make people feel as though they know who their government is. Private person, my ass.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2024 12:48 PM (0FoWg)

290 The fact that someone like Liz Cheney complains that Trump is not qualified to be president while being completely silent about Biden means she believes that Biden is qualified and competent. Let that sink in.
Posted by I forgot My Name

Oh she knows that he's a walking bag of gelatinous goo, she just doesn't care as long as the pigs at the trough can still grift.

Posted by: Cheri at January 08, 2024 12:48 PM (oiNtH)

291 271 >>Amish Paradise > Gangsta's Paradise.

Yes.

And 'Craigslist' is the best Doors song ever recorded.
Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (orWfd)

Al has one hell of a band

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 08, 2024 12:48 PM (xcxpd)

292 "CNR" by Weird Al is the best White Stripes song ever written.

Posted by: He's so white and nerdy at January 08, 2024 12:48 PM (2D6XU)

293 @bonhomme, my guess is that it's a hemorrhoidectomy. Bad enough that you don't want folks to know, but as a public figure the jokes write themselves.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 08, 2024 12:49 PM (7B5FA)

294 Wasn't there a situation earlyish in Bush's administration that his AG got pressured into signing off on a terrorist policy while he was recovering in the hospital from surgery? I can't remember if it was Ashland or Ashford or something like that.

Posted by: pookysgirl is a bit fuzzy at January 08, 2024 12:49 PM (dtlDP)

295 266 They made a Weird Al Pinball.

Haven't had the chance to play it, yet. But it looked fun.
Posted by: garrett

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We've got one of those "arcade museums" around here that is run by a really great guy who collects interesting things and mostly just wants to let other people enjoy them, and he figures he can help pay for upkeep and that's about it. I appreciate him keeping the doors open because he's got old 60s or so pinball games that I really like.

All of that to say that he has a really new Munsters game right when you walk in the door that is hilariously fun. It has a teeny tiny little pinball table inset that has 1/4" or so pinballs and is super fast. I'm no connoisseur or what-not but it's a lot of fun and worth playing if you ever get a chance.

Posted by: Nikky Haley, True Savior of the Democracy at January 08, 2024 12:46 PM (+RC1q)

I went to a pinball/video game arcade (more museum!) in Beaverton, OR last year. Place was amazing. Hundreds of machines wall-to-wall spanning everything from the mid 70's to the present. $20 bucks to play all day. Damn it was fun.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2024 12:49 PM (wtvvX)

296 So he get a sex change?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 08, 2024 12:49 PM (uKeRS)

297 >>All of that to say that he has a really new Munsters game right when you walk in the door that is hilariously fun. It has a teeny tiny little pinball table inset that has 1/4" or so pinballs and is super fast. I'm no connoisseur or what-not but it's a lot of fun and worth playing if you ever get a chance.

Yeah...the modern Munsters is a cool machine. Pretty tough, actually.

And the Mini Pinball game IN the game started with the Family Guy pinball machine. It's a neat gimmick, but takes up a lot of Playfield space.

If you ever get a chance to play the Rick and Morty machine, do so. It's almost too funny.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:49 PM (orWfd)

298 Austin at least knows how to play political cards, that's for sure.
Posted by: Gref
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During peacetime, all sorts of political generals pop up. They have to be removed with prejudice as Marshall did though before an existential war like WWII. Lincoln went through a series of them which cost the Union thousands upon thousands of needless casualties.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:49 PM (aYC4C)

299 That Nate Bargatze Starbucks thing in the sidebar is hilarious.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 12:49 PM (DRSnL)

300 Look, Sec. Austin is just living his best life. Back off.
Posted by: Mind-numb Dems
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In the grand scheme of things does it really matter that he was AWOL. He's useless anyway.
If Mayorkas went into a coma tomorrow and never came out would it impact homeland security?
I mean besides probably improve it.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at January 08, 2024 12:50 PM (dr4Q1)

301 "Germs" by Weird Al nails its whole genre, too (though it is more a parody of Nine Inch Nails specifically).
https://youtu.be/-kgIOWvrssA

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:50 PM (Zp1WF)

302 298 During peacetime, all sorts of political generals pop up. They have to be removed with prejudice as Marshall did though before an existential war like WWII. Lincoln went through a series of them which cost the Union thousands upon thousands of needless casualties.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:49 PM (aYC4C)

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"Oooo...I can be a general in a war that won't last until Christmas? Sign me up!"
-Like, half of Congress, early 1861

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

303 He was just having a few cybernetic implants adjusted. His estrogen infuser was all jammed up with thermal paste and the autofellators were seized open.

Posted by: Night City Ripper Doc at January 08, 2024 12:50 PM (DZrNt)

304

Imagine that was taken shortly after capture... Pretty sure they are dead

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2024 12:50 PM (n2vyf)

305
My neighbors get the daily paper. They are in their mid 80's. Nice people who are not on board with this crazy shit.

I don't get it.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner

They really want to tear into those weekend shopping inserts.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2024 12:51 PM (xG4kz)

306 Austin look like a bottle of mouthwash in that photo with the head mask

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 12:51 PM (RHGPo)

307 I thought China would have taken Taiwan by now, it's not the US holding them back.
Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2024 12:48 PM (fwDg9)

They are bidding their time. Also, at the moment, their economy is not particularly good. And invading Taiwan would bring on a world wide boycott for at least a moderate amount of time. With the weakness the west is showing, Taiwan will be theirs sooner or later. And maybe without firing a shot. Appeasement does that

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (pVWRI)

308 The two spent “countless hours” together

Posted by: Gref at January 08, 2024 12:45 PM (5fDan)

Is that a lot? How would we know?

Posted by: BignJames at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (AwYPR)

309 >>I went to a pinball/video game arcade (more museum!) in Beaverton, OR last year. Place was amazing. Hundreds of machines wall-to-wall spanning everything from the mid 70's to the present. $20 bucks to play all day. Damn it was fun.

I wish I was closer to that place. Word is they have a great collection and they keep their machines running well.

We have a few Barcades, here. Local Breweries with 8-12 Pins and/or Arcades.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (orWfd)

310 284 http://tiny.cc/0l6yvz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:39 PM (Zp1WF)

Good job Joe!

Covered with sand means platonic discussions only.

Posted by: Auspex at January 08, 2024 12:47 PM (j4U/Z)

Gives new meaning to "rough sex".

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (wtvvX)

311 I'm partial to Trapped in the Drive-Thru.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (DRSnL)

312 ABC: "You believe [Trump] is ineligible to be president?"

NANCY PELOSI: "They have different laws from state-to-state."

ABC: "It's the Constitution..."

NANCY PELOSI: "That's not the point."

.. does this mean that my state can make attacking out-of-state politicians legal ?

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (RHGPo)

313 287 I read a newspaper (The" NY Post") which does have a number of articles and editorials which lean conservative. I hate reading newspapers online. The only good thing about it is the comments after the articles where lots of conservatives sound off. They certainly did in critiquing Biden's recent angry "Trump is a danger to democracy," rant.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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NY Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch and sons and reflects their biases to some extent. Epoch Times and perhaps the Daily Mail online are arguably better sources for domestic US news.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (aYC4C)

314 So he get a sex change?

It's hard to imagine which surgery would be so embarrassing that he wouldn't disclose it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (YAtuc)

315 Gives new meaning to "rough sex".
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (wtvvX)
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Abrasive sex is no good for anyone

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (Zp1WF)

316
John Ashcroft

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2024 12:53 PM (xG4kz)

317 312 NANCY PELOSI: "That's not the point."

.. does this mean that my state can make attacking out-of-state politicians legal ?
Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (RHGPo)

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"The constitution is not the point when it comes to constitutional rules."
-possibly the most perfect quote of our times

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:53 PM (GBKbO)

318 Every single one oof those Marines has a visible gap at the side of their disposable paper mask and none appear to have pinched the wire at the bridge of the nose.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 08, 2024 12:53 PM (991eG)

319 .. does this mean that my state can make attacking out-of-state politicians legal ?
Posted by: SMOD
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Why not. Pelting politicians of either party with rotten fruit and tomatoes is what should be done on a regular basis.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:53 PM (aYC4C)

320 We are ruled by incompetent evil corrupt criminals.

Posted by: Jukin at January 08, 2024 12:53 PM (17s+e)

321 His admittance to an ICU would indicate to me the complication(s) were critical.

I would think he would have had the best post-op care available at his home. and yet it was 8-9 days after the surgery that he was admitted to the ICU.

Posted by: old chick at January 08, 2024 12:54 PM (sOete)

322 I thought China would have taken Taiwan by now, it's not the US holding them back.
Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2024 12:48 PM (fwDg9)

.. apparently, they still haven't master the magnetic catapult system on their aircraft carrier quite yet.

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 12:54 PM (RHGPo)

323 From today's DNC bleg:

"Under Trump, the MAGA Republican Party has openly embraced a platform of election denialism, undermining our country’s democratic institutions, and restricting the right to vote. We saw the disastrous consequences of his presidency, and we cannot allow him to win another term.

We must gain support nationwide so we can fully fund our campaign in the fight to win against Donald Trump. Our records show you haven’t made a contribution yet this year to help us start 2024 on strong footing."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2024 12:54 PM (a3Q+t)

324 They really want to tear into those weekend shopping inserts.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2024 1

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When I was first living on my own in '86, I used to get the local paper and go through it for the coupons. I swiftly realized that the effort to find them, cut them out, and organize them in any useful way used up so much energy and time that the whole business negated any cost savings.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2024 12:54 PM (J2vNu)

325 318 Every single one oof those Marines has a visible gap at the side of their disposable paper mask and none appear to have pinched the wire at the bridge of the nose.
Posted by: Muldoon

Good for them. More evidence that extended mask wearing is unhealthy versus any protection from nasty viruses.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:54 PM (aYC4C)

326 > Or...it was New Years. People were on vacation, hung over, or going to football games. Everyone thought the other guy was going to take care of things. Consequently nothing got done. And this in and of itself, is criminal.

I'm sorry, that is absolute nonsense. Someone like Austin has an entire staff whose job is to attend to his every little fart and gesture 24/7. I don't believe for a second this fell through the cracks because everyone was busy.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2024 12:54 PM (Odg76)

327 I have to assume that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is the victim of a penile implant gone wrong

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 12:55 PM (RHGPo)

328 NANCY PELOSI: "That's not the point."

.. does this mean that my state can make attacking out-of-state politicians legal ?
Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (RHGPo)

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"The constitution is not the point when it comes to constitutional rules."
-possibly the most perfect quote of our times
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:53 PM (GBKbO)
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In the political world of brain dead fools and complete corruption, this is indeed the most perfect quote of our times.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2024 12:55 PM (W/lyH)

329 I wish I was closer to that place. Word is they have a great collection and they keep their machines running well.

We have a few Barcades, here. Local Breweries with 8-12 Pins and/or Arcades.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (orWfd)

Oh, they DO take care of their machines. Went on a Wednesday and the "Burger Time" machine was out of commission. Went back Saturday and it was running fine.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2024 12:55 PM (wtvvX)

330 But Coolio was either high and forgot or his manager gave permission and then he threw a hissy fit when Al made his version.

He thought the Al version was diluting THE MESSAGE of his song, but later realized that was stupid.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2024 12:55 PM (2ocoG)

331 323 From today's DNC bleg:

"Under Trump, the MAGA Republican Party has openly embraced a platform of election denialism, undermining our country’s democratic institutions, and restricting the right to vote. We saw the disastrous consequences of his presidency, and we cannot allow him to win another term.

We must gain support nationwide so we can fully fund our campaign in the fight to win against Donald Trump. Our records show you haven’t made a contribution yet this year to help us start 2024 on strong footing."
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Translated--Help Us China with illegal donations through Act Blue as you are our only hope.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:55 PM (aYC4C)

332 When I started my logistics career in '87 I used to ship newspaper inserts for Sears all over the country. I used to make a ton of money putting those runs together

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 08, 2024 12:56 PM (ZV+pB)

333 This sandy bikini brunette is beginning to have doubts when the press and government officials tell her that nobody is above the law and that everything is clean as a whistle:
http://tiny.cc/0l6yvz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:39 PM (Zp1WF)

Implants. I'm not complaining, just saying.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 08, 2024 12:56 PM (xcxpd)

334 Liz brain has TDS, a complete brain replacement is only thing that will solve that

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2024 12:56 PM (fwDg9)

335 We saw the disastrous consequences of his presidency, and we cannot allow him to win another term.

-

Wait, what?

Posted by: Nikky Haley, True Savior of the Democracy at January 08, 2024 12:56 PM (+RC1q)

336 "Under Trump, the MAGA Republican Party has openly embraced a platform of election denialism, undermining our country’s democratic institutions, and restricting the right to vote.

LOL... I say kicking the top Republican off the ballot is restricting the right to vote

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2024 12:56 PM (n2vyf)

337 I knew about Weird Al getting permission from artists because I'd written what I thought was a pretty good parody of American Pie back when Karpetbagger Killary was running for the Senate in 2000 with the following chorus:

"Bye, Bye, Miss American Lie
Drove Vince Foster to death's roster
While Ron Brown dared to fly

Them girls and boys were killed by your FBI
Singing this will be the day that we die
This will be a village you fry."

Anywho, I tried to contact the guy who wrote all those parodies for El Rushbo -- but no joy.

Then read some years later that Weird Al had done a parody and called Don McLean for his permission first.

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 12:56 PM (gzH5K)

338 331 Translated--Help Us China with illegal donations through Act Blue as you are our only hope.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:55 PM (aYC4C)

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"Our small dollar donations are through the floor. Our grift is failing!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

339 So he get a sex change?

It's hard to imagine which surgery would be so embarrassing that he wouldn't disclose it.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (YAtuc

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Bro needed a dick enlargement.

Posted by: Anon at January 08, 2024 12:56 PM (1VwMZ)

340 So he get a sex change?

******

They transplanted Admiral Levine's vagina onto Austin's perineum.

Go Navy. Beat (off) Army!

Posted by: Muldoon at January 08, 2024 12:56 PM (991eG)

341 327 I have to assume that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is the victim of a penile implant gone wrong
Posted by: SMOD
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They attached the implant to the wrong side of the pelvis is my guess.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 12:56 PM (aYC4C)

342
Okay, Okay, I know the Admiral is in the Public Health Service, but THEY don't have a football team.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 08, 2024 12:57 PM (991eG)

343 It's some Filipino award/order but I can't find it online.

Here's their Defense Secretary wearing one [although without the medallion?]
http://tinyurl.com/ysambha4

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 12:57 PM (2yu8s)

344 You have to ignore the constitution in order to save the constitution. Trust the science.

Posted by: Montec at January 08, 2024 12:57 PM (eQHI/)

345 335 We saw the disastrous consequences of his presidency, and we cannot allow him to win another term.

-

Wait, what?
Posted by: Nikky Haley, True Savior of the Democracy at January 08, 2024 12:56 PM (+RC1q)

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Under Trump, blue states will destroy their own economies and cities with shutdowns and allowances for riots, and Trump won't stop them!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

346 Decrepit Joe is in a black church in South Carolina yelling about the poison of white supremacy. Following this screed, Joe will fly to Dallas to praise recently deceased former US Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson.

Breaking: Moments ago a group of pro-Palestinian people heckled Joe by chanting something. I could not make out all the words. They went on for at least 30 seconds before all were escorted out.

Posted by: Gref at January 08, 2024 12:57 PM (5fDan)

347 Clinton Sex tapes?
Bet there's a new thread any minute.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2024 12:58 PM (t/2Uw)

348 I would think he would have had the best post-op care available at his home. and yet it was 8-9 days after the surgery that he was admitted to the ICU. Posted by: old chick at January 08, 2024 12:54 PM (sOete)

Back to my hemorrhoidectomy hypothesis. It's easy to get that area infected with a very nasty infection. It helps to have a poop tube inserted, which requires hospitalization while it's in.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 08, 2024 12:58 PM (7B5FA)

349 "Under Trump, the MAGA Republican Party has openly embraced a platform of election denialism, undermining our country’s democratic institutions, and restricting the right to vote.

If you believe the numbers from the 2020 election more Americans voted in absolute numbers and percentage then...ever.

So either the numbers are bullshit OR under Trump the vote was completely unrestricted.

You only get to pick one of those two leftists.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2024 12:59 PM (ibTVg)

350 When it comes to humor musicians with an emphasis on parody and routine use accordion, I think we can all agree that "Weird Al" Yankovic is firmly in the top five.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:59 PM (Zp1WF)

351 311 I'm partial to Trapped in the Drive-Thru.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (DRSnL)

It's so good, it almost makes me want to listen to the original.

Almost.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 08, 2024 12:59 PM (xcxpd)

352 Ace you missed part of this story.

Apparently his deputy was on vacation in Puerto Rico, and WHEN she was finally told that he was in the hospital, she basically said, 'fuck it, I'm on vacation', and told them she was STAYING IN PUERTO RICO.

If it's even possible, that's actually WORSE than Austin.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at January 08, 2024 12:59 PM (setIA)

353 I went to a pinball/video game arcade (more museum!) in Beaverton, OR last year. Place was amazing.

Ground Control?

There's a convention every summer in Silicon Valley where collectors from all over the country bring their machines (both video and pinball) and everything's on free play for the weekend, you just pay a flat fee to get in.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2024 12:59 PM (2ocoG)

354 John Ashcroft

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2024 12:53 PM (xG4kz)

Thank you!

Posted by: pookysgirl. put some knowledge at January 08, 2024 01:00 PM (dtlDP)

355 > @bonhomme, my guess is that it's a hemorrhoidectomy. Bad enough that you don't want folks to know, but as a public figure the jokes write themselves.

I suppose that's possible, but I don't think that would require all the secrecy. In that case they could have said, "blah blah small outpatient procedure blah blah complete success blah blah perfectly healthy" etc.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2024 01:00 PM (Odg76)

356 Austin may also be the victim of VIP medical care
Ariel Sharon was treated more "Deferentially" than someone off the street.

They let him go home when they should have kept him in the Hospital for round the clock observation and Treatment

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 08, 2024 01:00 PM (pVWRI)

357 I'm sorry, that is absolute nonsense. Someone like Austin has an entire staff whose job is to attend to his every little fart and gesture 24/7. I don't believe for a second this fell through the cracks because everyone was busy.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2024 12:54 PM (Odg76)

And that is my point. I've actually seen that happen but at a much lower level. Incompetence breeds incompetence. And to be honest I was being a bit of the devil's advocate here.
Indeed, he has a huge staff. Clearly several of the senior staffers knew what was going on and "should of" known what to do and who to inform. They didn't...at least as far as we know now. Deliberate or a fu*lk up?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2024 01:00 PM (W/lyH)

358 Decrepit Joe is in a black church in South Carolina yelling about the poison of white supremacy. Following this screed, Joe will fly to Dallas to praise recently deceased former US Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson. Posted by: Gref at January 08, 2024 12:57 PM (5fDan)

The good news is that Biden's people feel it necessary to defend his base.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 08, 2024 01:00 PM (7B5FA)

359 301 "Germs" by Weird Al nails its whole genre, too (though it is more a parody of Nine Inch Nails specifically).
https://youtu.be/-kgIOWvrssA
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:50 PM (Zp1WF)

"Dare to be Stupid" did the same thing for Devo and new wave

Posted by: You can be a coffee achiever at January 08, 2024 01:00 PM (2D6XU)

360 355 > @bonhomme, my guess is that it's a hemorrhoidectomy. Bad enough that you don't want folks to know, but as a public figure the jokes write themselves.

I believe they did surgery to remove his head out of his ass... And it was unsuccessful

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2024 01:01 PM (n2vyf)

361 I'm thinking the DEI hire doesn't want anyone to know how incompetent and unqualified he is.

Posted by: rechill at January 08, 2024 01:01 PM (Q1LXu)

362 Then read some years later that Weird Al had done a parody and called Don McLean for his permission first.
Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 12:56 PM (gzH5K)

The Saga Begins - about The Phantom Menace, which he apparently wrote before the movie came out, basing it on Internet rumors etc., and I think he still got all the details correct.

My, my this here Anakin guy
May be Vader someday later, now he's just a small fry

Posted by: spindrift at January 08, 2024 01:01 PM (AA8bA)

363 What was the elective procedure? A hackadickoffame? Finally going all tranny like he keeps pushing the army to go?

Posted by: nohone at January 08, 2024 01:01 PM (h3H9f)

364 And if he was just in the ICU for pain control, why couldn't he shoot a quick text to his 2nd?

Yo I am laid up. You got the helm for a few. K?

He was in the ICU for pain. And it was so bad he had to turn over command to his deputy, but it wasn't that bad so stop talking about it. And besides... his deputy didn't even know she was in charge. I mean... they want us to believe this?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2024 01:01 PM (lu1XB)

365 352 Ace you missed part of this story.

Apparently his deputy was on vacation in Puerto Rico, and WHEN she was finally told that he was in the hospital, she basically said, 'fuck it, I'm on vacation', and told them she was STAYING IN PUERTO RICO.

If it's even possible, that's actually WORSE than Austin.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at January 08, 2024 12:59 PM (setIA)

How much money did she contribute to Biden's 2020 campaign? Must have been enough to know she's untouchable by the Junta.

Posted by: Gref at January 08, 2024 01:01 PM (5fDan)

366 361 I'm thinking the DEI hire doesn't want anyone to know how incompetent and unqualified he is.
Posted by: rechill at January 08, 2024 01:01 PM (Q1LXu)

Too late

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2024 01:01 PM (n2vyf)

367 Then read some years later that Weird Al had done a parody and called Don McLean for his permission first.
Posted by: ShainS
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Funny thing that, Weird Al's parody of the Star Wars movie, The Phantom Menace, was more concise and laughworthy than the actual movie.

Similarly, a group put Sgt. Pepper's music and satirized and adapted its lyrics to the first Star Wars movie and it is also hilarious. For example, "Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans"

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 01:02 PM (aYC4C)

368 Did someone check to see if he had a Sex change over the weekend ?????

Posted by: Franklin Stein at January 08, 2024 01:02 PM (15lwl)

369 350 When it comes to humor musicians with an emphasis on parody and routine use accordion, I think we can all agree that "Weird Al" Yankovic is firmly in the top five.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 12:59 PM (Zp1WF)

Firmly

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 08, 2024 01:02 PM (xcxpd)

370 Anywho, I tried to contact the guy who wrote all those parodies for El Rushbo -- but no joy.

Paul Shanklin. I still hear Bill Clinton singing when the Beatles' "All My Lovin'" comes on.

"All your money / I will tax from you / All your money / I need, revenue".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2024 01:02 PM (2ocoG)

371 ABC: "You believe [Trump] is ineligible to be president?"

NANCY PELOSI: "They have different laws from state-to-state."

ABC: "It's the Constitution..."

NANCY PELOSI: "That's not the point."

.. does this mean that my state can make attacking out-of-state politicians legal ?
Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 12:52 PM (RHGPo)
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She evidently believes states can nullify the Constitution. She's a Civil War denier!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 01:02 PM (oY17Y)

372 "Dare to be Stupid" did the same thing for Devo and new wave
Posted by: You can be a coffee achiever at January 08, 2024 01:00 PM (2D6XU)
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Yup. I think Weird Al's "style parodies" (many have been mentioned on this thread) are pretty amazing. The dude can write and perform in every genre and his band is tight. Insanely talented.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 01:02 PM (Zp1WF)

373 We saw the disastrous consequences of his presidency, and we cannot allow him to win another term.

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Wait, what?

Posted by: Nikky Haley, True Savior of the Democracy at January 08, 2024 12:56 PM (+RC1q)

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Cognitive Dissonance is not just a river in Egypt and the gaslighting is part of the kink.

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 01:02 PM (zJHVx)

374 Hey, Calvin Coolidge was a quiet type and heavily introverted. And he was President. I don’t think it’s asking too much for the SecDef to advise his boss he is going to the hospital.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 08, 2024 01:03 PM (amTrm)

375 Stuttering clusterfuck of failure.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2024 01:03 PM (lu1XB)

376 So how did the bottom surgery go?

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2024 01:03 PM (v0R5T)

377 Indeed, he has a huge staff. Clearly several of the senior staffers knew what was going on and "should of" known what to do and who to inform. They didn't...at least as far as we know now. Deliberate or a fu*lk up? Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2024 01:00 PM (W/lyH)

It sounds to me like the building is in hyper-compliance mode. Stay in your lane and don't stick your neck out.

Obviously, any 3-star or above with even the slightest bit of initiative would have ensured that the right people were informed. The fact that no one did means that they have had the initiative beat out of them.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 08, 2024 01:03 PM (7B5FA)

378 And that is my point. I've actually seen that happen but at a much lower level. Incompetence breeds incompetence. And to be honest I was being a bit of the devil's advocate here.
Indeed, he has a huge staff. Clearly several of the senior staffers knew what was going on and "should of" known what to do and who to inform. They didn't...at least as far as we know now. Deliberate or a fu*lk up?

Fair enough. Could just be a cluster of bad decisions.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2024 01:03 PM (Odg76)

379 I wonder if telling the cops I didn't lie, it was just a "communication breakdown" would be enough to get me off the hook?

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 08, 2024 01:03 PM (tT6L1)

380 Allowing a candidate to stand for federal office is a 10th amendment issue now.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2024 01:04 PM (lu1XB)

381 Another One Rides the Bus >>>>>>>>> Another One Bites the Dust (I friggin' HATE that song)

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Disgustipated at January 08, 2024 01:04 PM (xPJvm)

382 Fire DOD Secretary Austin, and his entire personal staff, the DOD Chief of Staff, and JCS Brown who did not report it also.

Honor and Duty my left nut!

Posted by: rd at January 08, 2024 01:04 PM (A7iju)

383 > @bonhomme, my guess is that it's a hemorrhoidectomy. Bad enough that you don't want folks to know, but as a public figure the jokes write themselves.

***
"How long's it been since you had a big, thick, steamin' bowl of Wolf Brand chili?"

"Mmmm . . . not since my last hemorrhoidectomy!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2024 01:04 PM (J2vNu)

384 Paul Shanklin. I still hear Bill Clinton singing when the Beatles' "All My Lovin'" comes on.

"All your money / I will tax from you / All your money / I need, revenue".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2024 01:02 PM (2ocoG)

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Yes, thank you -- couldn't recall his name. Great stuff ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 01:04 PM (zJHVx)

385 I've actually seen that happen but at a much lower level. Incompetence breeds incompetence.

With the Biden junta, incompetence should always be the first assumption.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2024 01:05 PM (2ocoG)

386 The last Weird Al parody I saw was Because I'm Tacky a take off of Because I'm happy

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2024 01:05 PM (n2vyf)

387 our country’s democratic institutions

.. I don't remember voting for any of these institutions, so it must be that these institutions are over run with Democrats.

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 01:05 PM (RHGPo)

388 Lunch time...meatball sammich!

Posted by: BignJames at January 08, 2024 01:05 PM (AwYPR)

389
The best response to the Rep. Cohen photo on X:

Why were you engaged in autoasphyxiation on Jan. 6?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2024 01:05 PM (xG4kz)

390 They let him go home when they should have kept him in the Hospital for round the clock observation and Treatment
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Another reason to question the judgement of the doctor(s) that were in charge of his post-op care at home.
How simple it is these days to imagine the ease that our admin could fall with just the slightest nudge.

Posted by: old chick at January 08, 2024 01:05 PM (sOete)

391 350 When it comes to humor musicians with an emphasis on parody and routine use accordion, I think we can all agree that "Weird Al" Yankovic is firmly in the top five.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Gives a pretty good live show and his collaboration with Weezer and himself on the Toto Song "Africa" is a) a spoton take on the song coupled with b) a hilarious video spoof of them performing the song.

Here is one of his live concert takes on Radio Radio at youtu.be/PcK6_pMUMfU

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 01:05 PM (aYC4C)

392 Several questions remain unanswered including what the medical procedure and resulting complications were
......

1. botched bottom surgery

2. lap band and liposuction

choose one

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2024 01:05 PM (v0R5T)

393 2.87$/gal for regular at BJ's Freeport. Demand is crashing.
Posted by: Jamaica

I filled up for $2.349 a gallon this morning at Kroger's, with a $0.10 discount per gallon (from $2.449 regular price).
Supply is up, Saudi's cut production to try to balance this.
Demand is probably off.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at January 08, 2024 01:06 PM (vcOmj)

394 The government would not let its own civil servants do what Austin did. Maybe he will claim to have been a secret CIA agent like that EPA guy did a few years back?

Posted by: Isophorone at January 08, 2024 01:06 PM (Nsydb)

395 Pro tip: it's the taxpayers who have inflamed taxholes.

Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2024 01:06 PM (ev+Ps)

396 Gives a pretty good live show and his collaboration with Weezer and himself on the Toto Song "Africa" is a) a spoton take on the song coupled with b) a hilarious video spoof of them performing the song.

Here is one of his live concert takes on Radio Radio at youtu.be/PcK6_pMUMfU
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 01:05 PM (aYC4C)
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The whole "Weezer cover of Toto's Africa" phenomenon was interesting. Social Media memed it into existence.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 01:07 PM (Zp1WF)

397 374 Hey, Calvin Coolidge was a quiet type and heavily introverted. And he was President. I don’t think it’s asking too much for the SecDef to advise his boss he is going to the hospital.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 08, 2024 01:03 PM (amTrm)

*Edith Wilson has entered the chat*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 08, 2024 01:07 PM (xcxpd)

398 I think the "deranged sommelier" look suits him.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 08, 2024 01:07 PM (xYckV)

399 https://twitter.com/RepCohen/status/1743654606662447195

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 01:07 PM (RHGPo)

400 397 374 Hey, Calvin Coolidge was a quiet type and heavily introverted. And he was President. I don’t think it’s asking too much for the SecDef to advise his boss he is going to the hospital.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 08, 2024 01:03 PM (amTrm)

*Edith Wilson has entered the chat*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 08, 2024 01:07 PM (xcxpd)

Libs seem to love that Edith was essentially an unelected dictator who hid what was going on so her power was assured.

It's fucking horrifying to consider these motherfuckers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 08, 2024 01:08 PM (zZu0s)

401 353 I went to a pinball/video game arcade (more museum!) in Beaverton, OR last year. Place was amazing.

Ground Control?

There's a convention every summer in Silicon Valley where collectors from all over the country bring their machines (both video and pinball) and everything's on free play for the weekend, you just pay a flat fee to get in.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2024 12:59 PM (2ocoG)

It's Next Level Pinball Shop & Museum. It's actually in Hillsboro, just west of Beaverton.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2024 01:08 PM (wtvvX)

402 Rhoid Rage

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 01:08 PM (2yu8s)

403 Funny thing that, Weird Al's parody of the Star Wars movie, The Phantom Menace, was more concise and laughworthy than the actual movie.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 01:02 PM (aYC4C)

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I forgot about that one.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 01:08 PM (DRSnL)

404 Lloyd Austin
Wasn't it Anna Puma who coined the nickname: "Retarded Idi Amin"?

(I haven't read all the comments, but I bet they are hilarious)

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2024 01:09 PM (v0R5T)

405 Democrats 'Weaponizing' Weaponizing Against Republicans

Democrats now claim Republicans are “weaponizing” virtually everything against them. Quite the opposite is the case...

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 01:09 PM (RHGPo)

406 Except for churches which are "Progressive" (such as Jeremiah Wright'sUCC church in Chicago which Obama attended) I really don't think most AA churces are all on board with the idea of a raging white supremacist movement. They're like other Christians who gather together to praise the Lord and worship and where the people also worry about things like inflation and open border. Biden coming to that church now is obviously a political ploy and they know it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2024 01:09 PM (RSbhh)

407 I'm so old I remember when it was the end of the world for the Left and the Press (BIRM) because Trump didn't realize the Kansas City Chiefs (Royals?) were on the Missouri side of the border.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at January 08, 2024 01:10 PM (xaNfJ)

408 The whole "Weezer cover of Toto's Africa" phenomenon was interesting. Social Media memed it into existence.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

They play it straight until about halfway through the video but wholly straight on the music. Weird Al is not thought of that way but he is actually very savvy in the control room.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 01:10 PM (aYC4C)

409 I filled up for $2.349 a gallon this morning at Kroger's, with a $0.10 discount per gallon (from $2.449 regular price).
Supply is up, Saudi's cut production to try to balance this.
Demand is probably off.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at January 08, 2024 01:06 PM (vcOmj)

Yeah, that's one that has puzzled me recently. I know the SPR got drained and the environazis are trying their hardest to make sure we have no domestic oil production ever, but I can't think of something specific in the last few months.

Posted by: pookysgirl will take the lower prices anyway at January 08, 2024 01:11 PM (dtlDP)

410 Pope in major policy address calls for universal ban on surrogacy, says it exploits mother and child

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 01:11 PM (RHGPo)

411 As I posted on Insty the other day, the nuclear chain of command goes basically President - SECDEF - Combatant commander. When a launch order is given, the President can't do it himself and the SECDEF can't do it himself. Each needs the other. They call the President and SECDEF (collectively) the "National Command Authority."

It is normal for one or the other, when he's going to be unreachable, to delegate the football to a deputy (the VP, Dep SECDEF). If the Dep SECDEF was on vacation, it's unlikely that she had the football. I hope that someone had the initiative to get it to the Acting Undersecretary, who is the current #3. I can just picture some Air Force Lieutenant Colonel sitting around in the waiting room with a briefcase. I can't imagine him not telling his chain of command what was going on, just for CYA purposes.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 08, 2024 01:11 PM (7B5FA)

412 Knowing that Weird Al always gets permission from artists before spoofing them, did he get Madonna's permission to depict her as (apparently accurately) a gold-digging whore?
Posted by: ShainS

Madonna actually had a brief cameo appearance as a nurse in Weird Al's parody "Like a Surgeon" (Like a Virgin). Weird Al even had a funny parody about approaching Michael Jackson to make the parody "Fat!" for "Bad" and "Eat It!" from "Beat It!".

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at January 08, 2024 01:11 PM (vcOmj)

413 Every single one oof those Marines has a visible gap at the side of their disposable paper mask and none appear to have pinched the wire at the bridge of the nose.
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Shame on them for not wanting to re breathe their own exhalation in the hot Philippines sunshine, whilst standing attention as an idiot shambles past.

Posted by: It the Philippines marines that look stupid? Really? at January 08, 2024 01:12 PM (QR77H)

414
'roid surgery is discouraged by every doctor except the roid surgeons.

Inflammation can be mitigated by diet, which, of course, 'ol Lloyd would be opposed to.

Posted by: Auspex at January 08, 2024 01:12 PM (j4U/Z)

415 I really don't think most AA churches are all on board with the idea of a raging white supremacist movement.

I'm curious about this. Does any Moron have insight into this? Are "churches" like Jeremiah Wright's fringe or common?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2024 01:12 PM (Odg76)

416 1. botched bottom surgery

2. lap band and liposuction

choose one
Posted by: wth at January 08, 2024 01:05 PM (v0R5T)

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I thought everyone was just taking Ozempic now, instead of getting lap bands and gastric bypasses.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 01:12 PM (DRSnL)

417 Speaking of idiots in ridiculous masks . . .

http://tinyurl.com/3wubj2km

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 08, 2024 01:13 PM (tpjRR)

418 Apparently stacking shit that high has consequences.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2024 01:13 PM (IG4Id)

419 257 >>Craigslist.

Traded for a Garbage Can of Styrofoam Peanuts.
Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2024 12:44 PM (orWfd)

The trashcan ain't part of the deal.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2024 01:13 PM (mn2bz)

420 Allowing a candidate to stand for federal office is a 10th amendment issue now.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2024
****
In the Left's fevered imagination.

However national elections have Commerce Clause implications because a President exercises regulatory control over the application of the Power. So the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to rule on certain election related issues.

Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2024 01:13 PM (ev+Ps)

421 Charles Gasparino @CGasparino 51m
Breaking: Wall Street execs w ties to Biden Admin say @elonmusk’s security clearance will get a review by @DeptofDefense after drug use allegations; If charges pan out Musk will likely receive probation on DOD security clearance. @FoxBusiness first reported in 2018 that Musk’s security clearance was under review following his pot smoking on Joe Rogan podcast more now @TeamCavuto

DOD/Musk no immediate comment

Mollie @MZHemingway 1h
Front page of WSJ today is a story asserting Elon Musk's words and actions in defense of free speech and western civilization and against the more radical ideologies of the left are best explained not by independent thought or creativity but by ... drug use.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 01:13 PM (2yu8s)

422 They hid his medical condition.....!!!! Well I never!!!!

Posted by: FDR at January 08, 2024 01:14 PM (FTzqw)

423 I thought everyone was just taking Ozempic now, instead of getting lap bands and gastric bypasses.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 01:12 PM (DRSnL)

The side effect lists prevents me from ever taking any prescription drug for anything ever again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 01:14 PM (9gDA7)

424 It is kind of weird how third-worldy that photo is of him walking around with a big All-State Band medal hanging from his neck.

Posted by: Nikki Haley Shovell Cloudesley Shovell Quentin Hoodspith at January 08, 2024 01:15 PM (kxqbq)

425 Bro needed a dick enlargement.
Posted by: Anon

Indeed, he has a huge staff.
Posted by: Diogenes

*******

So which is it?

Posted by: Muldoon at January 08, 2024 01:15 PM (991eG)

426 Mollie @MZHemingway 1h
Front page of WSJ today is a story asserting Elon Musk's words and actions in defense of free speech and western civilization and against the more radical ideologies of the left are best explained not by independent thought or creativity but by ... drug use.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 01:13 PM (2yu8s)

How very Soviet of them.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2024 01:15 PM (4I/2K)

427 However national elections have Commerce Clause implications because a President exercises regulatory control over the application of the Power. So the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to rule on certain election related issues.
Posted by: torabora
___________

Everything has Commerce Clause implications, including growing corn on your own land for your own comsumption. At least according to the SC.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 08, 2024 01:15 PM (Dm8we)

428 Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right fanatic who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in Norway in 2011, will ask a court on Monday to end his isolation in prison, saying it violates his human rights.

Breivik killed eight people with a car bomb in Oslo then gunned down 69 others, most of them teenagers, at a Labour Party youth camp in Norway's worst peacetime atrocity.

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 01:15 PM (RHGPo)

429 410 Pope in major policy address calls for universal ban on surrogacy, says it exploits mother and child
Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 01:11 PM (RHGPo)

When he policy-changed the wording of Lord's Prayer I knew who's side he's on.

Posted by: Auspex at January 08, 2024 01:15 PM (j4U/Z)

430 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 01:14 PM (9gDA7)

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Wait, are you not calling FIRST!!!

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 01:16 PM (DRSnL)

431 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 08, 2024 01:13 PM (tpjRR)

The comments are hilarious.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2024 01:16 PM (RSbhh)

432 It is kind of weird how third-worldy that photo is of him walking around with a big All-State Band medal hanging from his neck.
Posted by: Nikki Haley Shovell Cloudesley Shovell Quentin Hoodspith at January 08, 2024 01:15 PM (kxqbq)

***
Yes; if it weren't for that transparent flowerpot over his head, he could pass for an African dictator from a Mission: Impossible episode.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2024 01:16 PM (J2vNu)

433 However national elections have Commerce Clause implications because a President exercises regulatory control over the application of the Power. So the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to rule on certain election related issues. Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2024 01:13 PM (ev+Ps)

It's a tax!

Posted by: John Roberts at January 08, 2024 01:17 PM (7B5FA)

434 End Wokeness @EndWokeness 5h
NY Congresswoman Clarke (D) saying the quiet part out loud about the border:

"I need more people in my district just for redistricting purposes."

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 01:17 PM (2yu8s)

435 424 It is kind of weird how third-worldy that photo is of him walking around with a big All-State Band medal hanging from his neck.

Posted by: Nikki Haley Shovell Cloudesley Shovell Quentin Hoodspith at January 08, 2024 01:15 PM (kxqbq)

I KNOW, RIGHT??!?

Posted by: FLAVOR FLAV at January 08, 2024 01:17 PM (wtvvX)

436 Knowing that Weird Al always gets permission from artists before spoofing them, did he get Madonna's permission to depict her as (apparently accurately) a gold-digging whore?
Posted by: ShainS

Page Six
Cher, 77, straddles boyfriend Alexander 'AE' Edwards, 38, amid conservatorship battle with her son
1 day ago

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 08, 2024 01:17 PM (tpjRR)

437 There's video on Twitter of an Islamic service being held at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Paris. Guess the French are surrendering again.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2024 01:17 PM (2ocoG)

438 1.botched bottom surgery

2. lap band and liposuction
===
I think you should also consider post surgical benzo withdrawal. Sometimes people don't admit how much they take, and after a couple of days of being in a controlled situation where they can't get as much as they actually. Normally take, screaming hallucinations....

Posted by: Because that guy has reasons to be anxious at January 08, 2024 01:18 PM (QR77H)

439 Nothing to do with this topic, but did Joe actually say he went to several funerals of Capitol police killed on Jan 6th ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2024 01:18 PM (n2vyf)

440 Decrepit Joe is in a black church in South Carolina yelling about the poison of white supremacy. Following this screed, Joe will fly to Dallas to praise recently deceased former US Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson.
++++
Funny how the Dems put so much effort into South Carolina when the people there never go for Dems for statewide or national office.
They do vote in a lot of rino fucktards though.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at January 08, 2024 01:18 PM (dr4Q1)

441 off, rappin' sock.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2024 01:18 PM (wtvvX)

442 Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right fanatic
____

Point of order...define "far-right" first.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2024 01:18 PM (fs1hN)

443 432 It is kind of weird how third-worldy that photo is of him walking around with a big All-State Band medal hanging from his neck.
Posted by: Nikki Haley Shovell Cloudesley Shovell Quentin Hoodspith at January 08, 2024 01:15 PM (kxqbq)

***
Yes; if it weren't for that transparent flowerpot over his head, he could pass for an African dictator from a Mission: Impossible episode.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2024 01:16 PM (J2vNu)

I was thinking that too, Wolfus

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 08, 2024 01:19 PM (xcxpd)

444 What is the over/under on Llloyd's elective surgery being a "gender reassignment/affirming" one?

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 08, 2024 01:19 PM (lZVy/)

445 Funny how the Dems put so much effort into South Carolina when the people there never go for Dems for statewide or national office.
They do vote in a lot of rino fucktards though.
____

I beg your pardon!

Posted by: Sen. Lindsey Graham at January 08, 2024 01:19 PM (fs1hN)

446 "I need more people in my district just for redistricting purposes."

Posted by: andycanuck

Like I said earlier, they don't need them to vote, in fact, they prefer that they don't. Illegals count for representation. If you have 20% illegals in your district, you get more power without having to earn more votes.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 08, 2024 01:19 PM (lTGtQ)

447 Speaking of assholes . . .

"I Take Them at Their Word" - Mike Pence Says He’s Sure FBI Didn’t Orchestrate Jan 6

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They're ham'n'eggers!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 08, 2024 01:19 PM (tpjRR)

448 Are "churches" like Jeremiah Wright's fringe or common? Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2024 01:12 PM (Odg76)

Every town with a significant AA population has one church that all the politicians and business people go to that is more social and cultural than religious.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 08, 2024 01:20 PM (7B5FA)

449 Pro-Hamas protesters blocked 1-5 for hours on Saturday in WA. Thank goodness I didn't choose to / need to use I-5.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2024 01:20 PM (Odg76)

450 Unlike Biden who is a privates person

Posted by: JCG at January 08, 2024 01:20 PM (WiKqj)

451 Nothing to do with this topic, but did Joe actually say he went to several funerals of Capitol police killed on Jan 6th ?

No police were killed on 1/6, so that would be surprising.

On the other hand, Biden's dementia is at the point where Jill had to remind him that he likes ice cream.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2024 01:20 PM (2ocoG)

452 It's some Filipino award/order but I can't find it online.

Here's their Defense Secretary wearing one [although without the medallion?]
http://tinyurl.com/ysambha4

Posted by: andycanuck

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Wow.

Our main man is wearing All State Band medals awarded to him from other countries.

And not even very good countries.

Posted by: Nikki Haley Shovell Cloudesley Shovell Quentin Hoodspith at January 08, 2024 01:20 PM (kxqbq)

453 I wonder how much of Biden's lying he really thinks is true. He lies so much and so easily I think he believes whatever he says happened actually did.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 01:20 PM (ZLI7S)

454 Could his hospitalization have anything to do with the fact that he's...
... FAT?

Posted by: Braenyard at January 08, 2024 01:20 PM (csTMM)

455 446 "I need more people in my district just for redistricting purposes."

Posted by: andycanuck

Like I said earlier, they don't need them to vote, in fact, they prefer that they don't. Illegals count for representation. If you have 20% illegals in your district, you get more power without having to earn more votes.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 08, 2024 01:19 PM (lTGtQ)

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Trying to pass legislation that dismantles the governmental policy that discourages larger families is, apparently, out of bounds, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 08, 2024 01:20 PM (GBKbO)

456 248 Where did they find a weirdo like this?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 08, 2024 12:39 PM (n2Iei)

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Craigslist.
Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 12:43 PM (gzH5K)

LOL

Posted by: m at January 08, 2024 01:21 PM (mn2bz)

457 "I need more people in my district just for redistricting purposes."

Posted by: andycanuck

Like I said earlier, they don't need them to vote, in fact, they prefer that they don't. Illegals count for representation. If you have 20% illegals in your district, you get more power without having to earn more votes.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 08, 2024 01:19 PM (lTGtQ)
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The only downside is increased toner costs because you need to print more "correct" ballots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2024 01:21 PM (7fElN)

458 =====

Wait, are you not calling FIRST!!!
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 01:16 PM (DRSnL)

Uh....I'm #2 in the thread, but #1 in your heart.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 01:21 PM (9gDA7)

459 Massive farmer/trucker protest in Berlin today:

http://tiny.cc/g57yvz

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2024 01:21 PM (Odg76)

460 What is the over/under on Llloyd's elective surgery being a "gender reassignment/affirming" one? Posted by: Joe Mama at January 08, 2024 01:19 PM (lZVy/)

My guess is hemorrhoidectomy, and it got infected. He probably has a poop tube now and can't leave the hospital until it is safe to take it out.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 08, 2024 01:21 PM (7B5FA)

461 It's gerbils.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2024 01:21 PM (mn2bz)

462 453 I wonder how much of Biden's lying he really thinks is true. He lies so much and so easily I think he believes whatever he says happened actually did.

Posted by: JackStraw
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Dementia - a legend in his own mind.
One day he won't come back.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 08, 2024 01:22 PM (csTMM)

463 Insty has two lawyers looking for clients for a class action lawsuit against the protesters.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2024 01:22 PM (aYC4C)

464 Uh....I'm #2 in the thread, but #1 in your heart.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 01:21 PM (9gDA7)

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Ahh, missed that. My bad.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 01:22 PM (DRSnL)

465 I can just picture some Air Force Lieutenant Colonel sitting around in the waiting room with a briefcase. I can't imagine him not telling his chain of command what was going on, just for CYA purposes.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 08, 2024 01:11 PM (7B5FA)

I was saying yesterday that the poor bastard was probably last seen at the bar of the Capital Grill wishing to hell he'd never taken the job.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2024 01:22 PM (W/lyH)

466 Sundowner has Barky's hand up his ass moving his mouth pushing Cultural Marxism

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2024 01:22 PM (fwDg9)

467 Pope in major policy address calls for universal ban on surrogacy, says it exploits mother and child

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 01:11 PM (RHGPo)

Going through IVF myself, I'm trying not to be hyper-sensitive about this, but the pushback against gay couples using surrogates shouldn't be put under the broad IVF umbrella.

Posted by: pookysgirl is a Protestant at January 08, 2024 01:22 PM (dtlDP)

468 Pro-Hamas protesters blocked 1-5 for hours on Saturday in WA. Thank goodness I didn't choose to / need to use I-5.

Under state orders, the police were told to make sure nobody ran over the protesters. A lawyer's trying to put together a class action of people stuck in traffic.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2024 01:22 PM (2ocoG)

469 453 I wonder how much of Biden's lying he really thinks is true. He lies so much and so easily I think he believes whatever he says happened actually did.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 01:20 PM (ZLI7S)

You're presuming that he thinks.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2024 01:23 PM (mn2bz)

470 Yes; if it weren't for that transparent flowerpot over his head, he could pass for an African dictator from a Mission: Impossible episode.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2024 01:16 PM (J2vNu)

I was thinking that too, Wolfus
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 08, 2024

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He looks like Yaphet Kotto, who played "Mr. Big" in the Roger Moore Bond film Live and Let Die, and was a crewmember in Alien.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2024 01:23 PM (J2vNu)

471 @446

>>If you have 20% illegals in your district, you get more power without having to earn more votes.

People is power, and people is ballots, and ballots can be counted the way the tabulators want them counted.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2024 01:23 PM (XV/Pl)

472 =====

Ahh, missed that. My bad.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 01:22 PM (DRSnL)

I'm very easily overlooked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 01:23 PM (9gDA7)

473 Massive farmer/trucker protest in Berlin today:

http://tiny.cc/g57yvz

I've seen the pictures, but what is the German government doing to anger them? Literally nothing is reporting that.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2024 01:23 PM (2ocoG)

474 I wonder how much of Biden's lying he really thinks is true. He lies so much and so easily I think he believes whatever he says happened actually did. Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 01:20 PM (ZLI7S)

I caught the first minute of Biden's speech this morning, where he was saying he spent more time in the AME church growing up than he did the Catholic Church.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 08, 2024 01:23 PM (7B5FA)

475
Joe Biden could have a stroke, and the White House would hide it. You know they would. Or would anybody notice?

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2024 01:23 PM (+oR7L)

476 I know this will come as a shock to everyone but Fargo on Disney FX, formerly a high quality show (years ago now) has been super infected with the so-called "woke" mind virus. It's almost parody at this point. I made it 12 minutes into the first episode before deciding to go watch paint dry.

Posted by: JCG at January 08, 2024 01:23 PM (WiKqj)

477 I should try and nap a little before a all night run

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2024 01:23 PM (fwDg9)

478 he'll come back indistinguishable from Big Mike.

Posted by: remarkably unremarkable at January 08, 2024 01:23 PM (Jw2qQ)

479 NOOD BORDER

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 01:23 PM (Zp1WF)

480 Under state orders, the police were told to make sure nobody ran over the protesters.
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run over protesters = escape their kidnappers

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2024 01:24 PM (fs1hN)

481 So at what rank does military get a waiver from the fitness standards that they can't be obese? Or did they drop that altogether because somehow 'racist'

Posted by: PaleRider at January 08, 2024 01:24 PM (3cGpq)

482 It's gerbils.
Posted by: m at January 08, 2024 01:21 PM (mn2bz)

I'm listening.......

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at January 08, 2024 01:24 PM (9gDA7)

483 They literally are writing entire seasons of shows now to win fake arguments with conservatives because they can't win real ones. It's bizarre.

Posted by: JCG at January 08, 2024 01:25 PM (WiKqj)

484 @RNCResearch

BIDEN: "I've spent more time in the Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Delaware, than most people I know, black or white, have spent in that church because that's where I started a civil rights movement..."

None of that is true.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 01:25 PM (ZLI7S)

485 I wanted to yell, "No, that form says that you understand their policy that they can release your information to any entity that they deem to be a HIPAA partner, and your signature says you agree to that release."

OBTW- Nobody ever reads the multipage HIPAA form. Nobody.

(And by nobody I mean almost nobody.)

Posted by: Muldoon at January 08, 2024 12:35 PM (991eG)
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It's dumb lawyer speak for trying to avoid complaints about things HIPAA never restricted anyway. They can give it to anyone with a need to know, and HIPAA doesn't stop shit. Your health plan administrator, the clerk in their office, everyone involved in providing you healthcare can see it. As part of studies into a medical practice or procedure, people doing the study can see it, though names would be masked.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 08, 2024 01:25 PM (GZYu7)

486 2. lap band and liposuction

choose one
Posted by: wth at January 08, 2024 01:05 PM (v0R5T)

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I thought everyone was just taking Ozempic now, instead of getting lap bands and gastric bypasses.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 08, 2024 01:12 PM (DRSnL)
.......

Lloyd is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2024 01:25 PM (v0R5T)

487 Never forget:

Biden is speaking at the black church that received millions in donations from an outpouring of sympathy and compassion from a heartbroken nation - and something like $100M from taxpayers IIRC because the guy was able to buy a gun - after a white person did what black people do in every city around the nation every weekend, and the church was almost immediately unable to account for the money.

Posted by: Nikki Haley Shovell Cloudesley Shovell Quentin Hoodspith at January 08, 2024 01:25 PM (kxqbq)

488
People is power, and people is ballots, and ballots can be counted the way the tabulators want them counted.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

My point is, if there are 500,000 people per district, and 80,000 illegals in your district, you don't need as many votes to win - the illegals count for districting but generally don't vote.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 08, 2024 01:26 PM (lTGtQ)

489 SecDec Lloyd Austin is welcome to attend services at The Potter's House in Dallas as soon as he recovers.

Afterwards, we'll fellowship with Diddy Combs and a few fellas.

Posted by: Bishop T. D. Jakes. Power Bottom at January 08, 2024 01:26 PM (4I/2K)

490 That attached pic looks like a scene from a late-80's straight-to-VCR sci flick starring James Earl Jones and Jim Varney.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 08, 2024 01:26 PM (CwhoI)

491 BIDEN: "I've spent more time in the Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Delaware, than most people I know, black or white, have spent in that church because that's where I started a civil rights movement..."
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None of that is true.
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Longest running game of liars poker in history and I am in the lead. Not gonna slow down now!!!

Posted by: President Sniffy sniff at January 08, 2024 01:27 PM (QR77H)

492 402 Rhoid Rage
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 01:08 PM (2yu8s)

; )

Posted by: m at January 08, 2024 01:30 PM (mn2bz)

493 And not even very good countries.
Posted by: Nikki Haley Shovell Cloudesley Shovell Quentin Hoodspith at January 08, 2024 01:20 PM (kxqbq)

I would rather have my kids in a public school in the Philippines than the USA, and what country are you calling very good at this point?

Posted by: Auspex at January 08, 2024 01:32 PM (j4U/Z)

494 I'm guessing urinary tract infection that got out of control.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2024 01:33 PM (mn2bz)

495 Those are Phillipine Marines, not the USMC in the last pic, btw. He kind of looks like a dollar store Darth Vader in it.

Posted by: Abledog6 at January 08, 2024 01:35 PM (imBRj)

496 Grauniad

Lloyd Austin first went into hospital on *22* December – Pentagon
Guardian staff and agencies
Mon 8 Jan 2024 05.30 CET

The Pentagon released new details on Sunday about Austin’s continued hospitalisation, saying he had an initial medical procedure as far back as 22 December from which he went home a day later.

Then on Monday 1 January, Austin, who is 70, had to be admitted to intensive care at Walter Reed military hospital in Maryland after experiencing severe pain.

Deputy defence secretary Kathleen Hicks assumed some of his operational duties on Tuesday 2 January, while she was on vacation in Puerto Rico, a US official said. But Hicks was not told why Austin was unavailable until Thursday 4 January, three officials told Reuters.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2024 01:38 PM (mn2bz)

497 I've seen the pictures, but what is the German government doing to anger them? Literally nothing is reporting that.
Posted by: Ian S.

Sigh... The gov removed tax breaks for agricultural vehicles because of their green cult fuckery. In addition to their death-cult energy policy, Energiewende, the middle working class is being crushed. It's coming here.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2024 01:39 PM (IG4Id)

498 495 Those are Phillipine Marines, not the USMC in the last pic, btw. He kind of looks like a dollar store Darth Vader in it.
Posted by: Abledog6 at January 08, 2024 01:35 PM (imBRj)

A clip of that should definitely be set to the Imperial March.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2024 01:39 PM (mn2bz)

499 I'm pretty sure he TRIED to get permission from Coolio for Amish Paradise and Coolio said no, and he did it anyway. Maybe it's the same thing here.
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Coolio didn't want to insult the religion of the Amish, allegedly. Weird Al supposedly responded with "they're Amish. How will they even know if I'm insulting them?"

I saw Weird Al in concert a few years ago, it was a very entertaining production.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at January 08, 2024 01:40 PM (ji3Wy)

500 So what did he get stuck in his butt that required surgical removal?

Posted by: Cranky J Anne at January 08, 2024 01:41 PM (YZH5A)

501 Gerbils.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2024 01:41 PM (mn2bz)

502 479 NOOD BORDER
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 01:23 PM (Zp1WF)

Posted by: m at January 08, 2024 01:42 PM (mn2bz)

503 Can't a person get their balls cut off without informing the world?

Posted by: Lloyd "Lydeisha" Austin at January 08, 2024 01:58 PM (FjlUt)

504 You're missing a more important point in focusing on his ranking in the Presidential succession. The National Command Authority, which is the only authority that can issue war orders, consists of two people, the President and the SecDef.

The CJSC and the Service Secretaries and Service Chiefs are NOT in the chain of command. Their job is to recruit, train, and equip forces.

Half the NCA was AWOL and the other half didn't have a clue.

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