The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

More watermelon activity in the Great(?) Northwest! So the usual suspects, now led by our own federal government, has decided that it would be just marvelous to destroy four Lower Snake River dams so that a bunch of rent-seeking Indian tribes can fish for more salmon. Maybe. If the salmon population increases. Which might not happen.

But damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead! Destroy a significant chunk of clean energy generation, destroy low-cost transportation (60% of Washington wheat is barged), lose low-cost irrigation, end recreation on the reservoirs (1.7 million visitors in 2018!), all in service to a group of idiot environmental activists, Indian tribes looking for handouts, and most important, an evil cabal in D.C. and elsewhere who want to destroy our power production by any means necessary.

Chairs Rodgers and Duncan Announce Hearing on Protecting the Snake River Dams

“The Columbia River System and the Lower Snake River Dams are the beating heart of the Pacific Northwest, yet that hasn’t stopped the Biden administration from apparently colluding with special interest groups to lay the groundwork to remove them. We are deeply disturbed by the blatant disregard for the enormous hydropower, irrigation, and navigation benefits these dams provide, as well as a willingness to ignore the voices of those who depend on the dams the most. It’s past time for full transparency from the Biden administration. This hearing will provide an opportunity to expose how its plans will destroy people’s lives in Eastern Washington.”

Failure theater? Possibly, because at this point, anything the Republicans in Congress do should be suspect. But that is one hell of a stern letter, so we should all hope for the best!

Here is a sober analysis of the issue, and it pokes holes...lots of salmon-sized holes, in pretty much every argument in favor of destroying these dams (read the whole thing...it's good).

There is no replacing the Lower Snake River dams

The clean energy, efficient navigation, recreation and irrigation made possible by the dams are irreplaceable benefits.
Amid calls for breaching the four lower Snake River dams, a recent review by Gov. Jay Inslee and U.S. Sen. Patty Murray found it would cost up to $31 billion to replace the various economic benefits they provide. The report underscores the value of the dams and demonstrates why it's really not possible to replace their benefits.

Two years ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a study that rejected the idea of breaching the Snake River dams as a way to improve salmon survival. The comprehensive, four-year, multimillion dollar analysis -- called the Columbia River System Operations Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) -- specifically considered and rejected dam breaching, recommending water management strategies instead to improve salmon survival.

And here is a press release from some smug, c*cksucking environmental group. You know what it says already, but if you enjoy reading arrant bullsh*t...

Important step toward removing the Lower Snake River dams, replacing their services, restoring abundant salmon, and honoring America's promises to Tribes

Ah...honoring our promises? How about starting with the oaths that our scheming politicians have taken to uphold the Constitution. Once they demonstrate that they can honor that pledge, we can move on to honoring our promises to Indian tribes, because the fate of a few hundred thousand salmon on the Snake river is pretty damned trivial in the grand scheme of things. California destroyed the Central Valley to save a bait fish...is Washington trying to compete for the title of stupidest state? Or is it simply an environmental Cloward-Piven strategy?

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 Good mornin

Posted by: four seasons at January 25, 2024 11:00 AM (PisyI)

2 Good morning

Posted by: four seasons at January 25, 2024 11:01 AM (PisyI)

3 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

4 Damn, not first.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

5 Nope

Posted by: four seasons at January 25, 2024 11:01 AM (PisyI)

6 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 25, 2024 11:02 AM (Wnv9h)

7 Mmmmmmm...salmon...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:02 AM (9yWhg)

8 Who owns the dams, legally speaking?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:04 AM (9yWhg)

9 A country in decline specializes in tearing down and not building new.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 25, 2024 11:04 AM (sX1BW)

10 “The Columbia River System and the Lower Snake River Dams are the beating heart of the Pacific Northwest, yet that hasn’t stopped the Biden administration from apparently colluding with special interest groups to lay the groundwork to remove them. We are deeply disturbed by the blatant disregard for the enormous hydropower, irrigation, and navigation benefits these dams provide, as well as a willingness to ignore the voices of those who depend on the dams the most. It’s past time for full transparency from the Biden administration. This hearing will provide an opportunity to expose how its plans will destroy people’s lives in Eastern Washington.”

I understand that it's the cities more than the rural areas, but these people vote Dem consistently, so sorry, I don't care.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:05 AM (CsUN+)

11 Geez, why oh why would anyone want to ruin the citizens of Eastern Washington state?
http://tinyurl.com/jxm2wux3

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at January 25, 2024 11:05 AM (Rbu5d)

12 Two years ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a study that rejected the idea of breaching the Snake River dams as a way to improve salmon survival.
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This is the kind of thing proposed only by the "hate people, love 'humanity'" types.

This is hateful toward people. CA drained reservoirs in a hare-brained scheme to improve delta smelt populations (it failed, but even that is beside point). They want to tear down some of the more productive dams in the NW in a hare-brained scheme to improve the salmon population. This is even worse than what CA did, because they want to not only drain the reservoirs, but to destroy them.

These people - your betters, mind you - want to do great, guaranteed and demonstrable harm to humans to pursue theoretical improvements in ... fish.

They hate people. They hate human beings. There is no other explanation. There are various subordinate explanations and motivations, but the root of it is hatred of man.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:06 AM (mwCIn)

13 http://tinyurl.com/3bj68zwa

Rover, the Central Park Bald Eagle, has returned home after two years.

Harbinger?

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2024 11:06 AM (Gse2f)

14 $31 billion? Spend it into existence.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 25, 2024 11:06 AM (63Dwl)

15 Ah...honoring our promises? How about starting with the oaths that our scheming politicians have taken to uphold the Constitution.

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Related and willowed:

"Powerful people back east" is how I believe the folks in the know put it.

Rich men north of Richmond?
Posted by: Ian S.

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Did anything ever come of him after he sliced his own throat and said he didn't want his song to be popular with people who follow politics (or whatever he said)?

Posted by: M. Robbie needs help finding letter from 300AD or so about healed people living to this very day at January 25, 2024 11:06 AM (k1AR8)

16 $31 billion? Spend it into existence.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 25, 2024 11:06 AM (63Dwl)
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Be the cash you want to see in the world!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:06 AM (mwCIn)

17 per 11, scroll down to see the 2020 election map, by county.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at January 25, 2024 11:07 AM (Rbu5d)

18 Translation: the Indian tribes are pissed that they're not getting what they deem enough action from the economic benefits the dams provide. Slip them a check and watch all this quietly go away.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 25, 2024 11:07 AM (CwhoI)

19 Indian tribes are the Ukraine of America. More corrupt than Joey Shitbrains, Hunter Crackhead, and that dipshit hoodie-wearing miscreant Zelenskyy -- all put together. They're all a giant money-laundering operation. The tribe leaders steal all the aid money meant for their members, divide it up among themselves, and kickback a nice fat slice to American politicians and decision-makers. You can be sure that they're spreading the bribes around thick to get these dams removed. Follow the money . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 25, 2024 11:08 AM (iFTx/)

20 Clean, efficient and abundant energy is anathema to the faith of the environmentalists.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 25, 2024 11:08 AM (4olE8)

21 18 Translation: the Indian tribes are pissed that they're not getting what they deem enough action from the economic benefits the dams provide. Slip them a check and watch all this quietly go away.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 25, 2024 11:07 AM (CwhoI)

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"We got paid for raising a ruckus? Well, let's raise another."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 11:08 AM (GBKbO)

22 Those *powerful* Indian tribes should get Brandon to destroy Hetch-Hetchy, after all it *was* as beautiful as Yosemite.
Oh, yeah, it provides water for S.F. so breaking the dam is a non-starter.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 25, 2024 11:09 AM (DGu1s)

23 "California destroyed the Central Valley to save a bait fish...is Washington trying to compete for the title of stupidest state? Or is it simply an environmental Cloward-Piven strategy?"

Cloward-Piven is stupid, so it could be both.

I'm not sure how there is any benefit for politicians pushing this insanity, except for direct donations from the Globalist Scum. Those scum think they need to destroy America and the liberty that is its basis.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 25, 2024 11:09 AM (Cus5s)

24 Save Our Wild Salmon Mission Statement: Save Our wild Salmon (SOS) is a coalition of northwest and national conservation organizations, recreational and commercial fishing associations, clean energy and orca advocates, businesses, and individuals committed to protecting and restoring abundant, self-sustaining fishable populations of salmon and steelhead to the Columbia-Snake River Basin for the benefit of people and ecosystems.

Securing a durable, lawful, science-based federal plan - Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) Biological Opinion - that protects and restores Columbia-Snake salmon and steelhead. Science, law and common sense dictate that this plan must include the removal of the four high-cost, low-value dams on the lower Snake River and expanded spill on the dams that remain, among other measures.

Our mission is to provide clean energy, and we'll destroy 4 dams that produce massive amounts of it. That's the kind of logic only an advanced education can give you!

Posted by: Intercepted WildSalmon.org Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 25, 2024 11:09 AM (JCZqz)

25 Why do so many people hate prosperity

Posted by: Don Black (can't touch this) at January 25, 2024 11:09 AM (geLO8)

26 Translation: the Indian tribes are pissed that they're not getting what they deem enough action from the economic benefits the dams provide. Slip them a check and watch all this quietly go away.

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We just have to build a dam casino.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 25, 2024 11:10 AM (sX1BW)

27 These people - your betters, mind you - want to do great, guaranteed and demonstrable harm to humans to pursue theoretical improvements in ... fish.
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Step 2 is to prevent people from eating the salmon.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 25, 2024 11:10 AM (fs1hN)

28
Only the elite should be prospers.

Posted by: four seasons at January 25, 2024 11:11 AM (PisyI)

29 25 Why do so many people hate prosperity
Posted by: Don Black (can't touch this) at January 25, 2024 11:09 AM (geLO

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Communism used to market itself as providing more prosperity.

Then the Iron Curtain fell, it became undeniable that applied communism provided significantly less, and western communists had to modify their sales pitch to: Vote for communism for the earth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

30 per 11, scroll down to see the 2020 election map, by county.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at January 25, 2024 11:07 AM (Rbu5d)

What's with the one blue county in the east? University?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 25, 2024 11:11 AM (aD39U)

31 If salmon are endangered why can I buy it in the grocery store?

They have been pushing to breach the dams for a long, long time.

They hated Gingrich Revolution Helen Chenoweth because she was vocal in opposition of their plans against Clinton. They gave her the Palin treatment long before Sarah.

They hate hydroelectric because it is actually green energy, not fake like solar and wind.
Worse, it's long-term-- the dams are older than most Americans. While solar and wind last less than 10 years before they fail.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at January 25, 2024 11:11 AM (C2U4G)

32 >and orca advocates,

yay orcas!
they're black and white, like pandas!
so cute...

OMG they're the pandas of the sea! SQUEEEEE

Posted by: Don Black (can't touch this) at January 25, 2024 11:12 AM (geLO8)

33
Destroying the Snake River Dams is a real Envirotard Twofer.

Destroying both energy and food production!

Well done, gentlemen...er, and ladies and other humanoid beings!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2024 11:12 AM (nFnyb)

34 Securing a durable, lawful, science-based federal plan - Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) Biological Opinion - that protects and restores Columbia-Snake salmon and steelhead.

I was buying salmon at Costco a few days ago, and they had the usual farm-raised stuff, Sockeye, and steelhead. I asked the guy about steelhead, since I thought that was a trout. He assured me it's salmon.

Turns out, it's kind of neither. It's technically trout and not salmon, because it doesn't die after spawning. That seems kind of arbitrary, but I don't make the rules. It looks and tastes like salmon, though.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:12 AM (CsUN+)

35 Clean energy that is reliable. Of course they want to tear it down.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 25, 2024 11:12 AM (xT7BI)

36 From the Ocean to the Ocean
America will be free

(sorry Indians, you'll have to become Americans, or go back to your homeland -- in Asia)

(half sarc)

Posted by: illiniwek at January 25, 2024 11:13 AM (Cus5s)

37 Our mission is to provide clean energy, and we'll destroy 4 dams that produce massive amounts of it. That's the kind of logic only an advanced education can give you!
Posted by: Intercepted WildSalmon.org Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 25, 2024 11:09 AM (JCZqz)
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A lot of "green energy" types hate hydro power and don't count it as "renewable."

Hydro is perfect where it can be implemented. There is no more efficient power source, the input is free (other than building the dam) and it's highly reliable. Hydro kicks ass if you can build it, and there are essentially no downsides.

The "green energy" lobby hates it as a result. It isn't a guaranteed boondoggle that destroys reliability while providing titanic amounts of graft.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:13 AM (mwCIn)

38 Battle lines being drawn.

Governors of Florida, Virginia, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Montana, Georgia declare support for Texas in fight to secure the border

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 25, 2024 11:13 AM (FVME7)

39 is Washington trying to compete for the title of stupidest state? Or is it simply an environmental Cloward-Piven strategy?

You got me there. Leftists are both intentionally destructive and incredibly incompetent. I could believe either one. I guess it depends on whether Washington’ s treasonous democrats benefit in some way.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 25, 2024 11:13 AM (jbnUc)

40 Hydro-electric is clean, right? It uses water and gravity
what's not to like

Posted by: Don Black (can't touch this) at January 25, 2024 11:13 AM (geLO8)

41 13 http://tinyurl.com/3bj68zwa

Rover, the Central Park Bald Eagle, has returned home after two years.

Harbinger?
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2024 11:06 AM (Gse2f)
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Oh snap! I think I saw this guy earlier this week. Saw a big-ass bird swooping over Central Park West. Assumed it was a hawk. Didn't get a good look but I thought the head looked white. Didn't think too much about it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 25, 2024 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

42 Hydro is solar powered.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 25, 2024 11:14 AM (aD39U)

43 Turns out, it's kind of neither. It's technically trout and not salmon, because it doesn't die after spawning. That seems kind of arbitrary, but I don't make the rules. It looks and tastes like salmon, though.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:12 AM (CsUN+)
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I usually buy steelhead. Cheaper and just as good as farm-raised salmon.

And I thought both steelhead *and* salmon were varieties of trout.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:14 AM (mwCIn)

44 Hydro kicks ass if you can build it, and there are essentially no downsides.

One small quibble: I consider it's impact on fish migration to be a negative. You can mitigate it somewhat, but it's still a negative.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:14 AM (CsUN+)

45 37 The "green energy" lobby hates it as a result. It isn't a guaranteed boondoggle that destroys reliability while providing titanic amounts of graft.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:13 AM (mwCIn)

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Remember the MSNBC promos from a decade or so ago when Rachel Maddow was bemoaning how America didn't make big things anymore to the backdrop of the Hoover Dam?

Good times...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 11:14 AM (GBKbO)

46 If you're counting on the GOP to stand up for you, then you can count on those dams coming down.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 25, 2024 11:14 AM (aY79u)

47 So, the Pacific NW may suffer some long term consequences like increased energy costs or a lack of energy? Other, foreseen as well as unforeseen hardships?

OK

So, anyway....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 25, 2024 11:14 AM (Q4IgG)

48 Republican Senator John Barrasso's wife has died after a 2-year battle with brain cancer.
May she rest in peace.

http://tinyurl.com/2p99bakf

Posted by: redridinghood at January 25, 2024 11:14 AM (NpAcC)

49 What's up with the one Eastern Washington county that went for Biden? Even next door in Spokane they went for Trump. Is there a large insane asylum in that county?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 25, 2024 11:15 AM (fs1hN)

50 I usually buy steelhead. Cheaper and just as good as farm-raised salmon.

And I thought both steelhead *and* salmon were varieties of trout.

I read it on the internets, so you know it's true.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:15 AM (CsUN+)

51 Hydro-electric is clean, right? It uses water and gravity
what's not to like
Posted by: Don Black

Water and gravity?!?! Blacks most affected! Racist!!!

Posted by: Racist Leftist Racial Grievance Hustler at January 25, 2024 11:15 AM (JCZqz)

52 38 Battle lines being drawn.

Governors of Florida, Virginia, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Montana, Georgia declare support for Texas in fight to secure the border
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 25, 2024 11:13 AM (FVME7)

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"You know Amy, if you had just voted to not reapply the injunction, we wouldn't be one healthier step towards civil war."

At some point, these people have to realize that they're one decision away from another Dred Scott.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

53 Seeing as I live in E WA, removing, or, "Breaching", the dams may only benefit the railroads, Warren Buffet, by forcing grain and legume shipments by rail. Two, very old and silted up dams were removed on the much smaller Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula several years ago. The resulting return of salmon has not materialized and the tribal fish hatchery has been denounced by so called, "Environmentalists" as contaminating the river by spawning there. If they want to breach dams, I suggests the Skagit River dams, owned by the City of Seattle, first. Also a salmon stream and much closer to the blue run hell holes than the Snake.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at January 25, 2024 11:15 AM (OinN3)

54 Fuckin Indians. What casinos aren't enough?

Posted by: Geronimo at January 25, 2024 11:16 AM (5A+43)

55 Or, what if the Jan Brewer case does turn out to be the second Dred Scott decision?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

56 One small quibble: I consider it's impact on fish migration to be a negative.

its, not it's.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:16 AM (CsUN+)

57 "We got paid for raising a ruckus? Well, let's raise another."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 11:08 AM

Can you describe the ruckus?

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 25, 2024 11:16 AM (MGqzM)

58 American salmon today are better than the salmon of 100 years ago. They now have to swim up a dam and they are tougher and better for it. Getting past bears is one thing, getting passed 30,000 tons of concrete is something else. Darwin and the US Corp of Engineers working together to create super salmon. Something to think about next time you Chinese farm-raised salmon at your favorite sushi place.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 25, 2024 11:16 AM (sX1BW)

59 One small quibble: I consider it's impact on fish migration to be a negative. You can mitigate it somewhat, but it's still a negative.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:14 AM (CsUN+)
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Change in river turbulence and temperature can also be considered a negative. The negatives are both manageable and relatively minor compared to the human and economic benefit that dams confer thanks to all of water supply stabilization, flood control and energy production.

The cost/benefit on hydro power is spectacular if you're not retarded about it like Red China (the CCP has long loved dams as big, beautiful collective projects and built way too many low-quality dams that have fucked up a lot of stuff).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:16 AM (mwCIn)

60 Yep. Blue county in red eastern wa and is Pullman, home of WSU.

Posted by: Derak at January 25, 2024 11:17 AM (3jkTt)

61 I usually buy steelhead. Cheaper and just as good as farm-raised salmon.

And I thought both steelhead *and* salmon were varieties of trout.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:14 AM (mwCIn)

Try "Arctic Char" if you can find it. Better than salmon!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 25, 2024 11:17 AM (gSZYf)

62 The main reason I cancelled my Trout Unlimited membership. They support lunacy like this.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at January 25, 2024 11:17 AM (pgwxJ)

63 Indians don't give a damn about the dams.
Back East is nurturing tribal leaders.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 25, 2024 11:17 AM (Lf+TO)

64 At some point, these people have to realize that they're one decision away from another Dred Scott.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

Nope. They know. They can't satisfy the demon gnawing on their innards. They'll shovel power and hate into its slavering maw until people stop them, and not a moment before.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 25, 2024 11:18 AM (aY79u)

65 "Follow the Science"

Posted by: SMOD at January 25, 2024 11:18 AM (RHGPo)

66 42 Hydro is solar powered.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Is that why they always talk about "liquid sunshine" when you're out in the field when it's raining?

Posted by: Military Moron at January 25, 2024 11:18 AM (JCZqz)

67 Similarly, the Idaho county across the state line from Pullman is Moscow, home of U of Idaho.

Blues in a sea of red.

Posted by: Derak at January 25, 2024 11:18 AM (3jkTt)

68 62 The main reason I cancelled my Trout Unlimited membership. They support lunacy like this.
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A Manhattan Hedge Fund or two bought out the Conservationists roughly 20 years ago. The best way to rob banks is to Own The Bank.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 25, 2024 11:18 AM (AE/RG)

69 25 Why do so many people hate prosperity
Posted by: Don Black (can't touch this) at January 25, 2024 11:09 AM (geLO

Because it means that people aren't living a primitive lifestyle and as a result, the Earth is being harmed.

Of course as it was pointed out by Joe Mannix, they hate people.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 25, 2024 11:18 AM (4olE8)

70 Failure theater? Possibly, because at this point, anything the Republicans in Congress do should be suspect. But that is one hell of a stern letter, so we should all hope for the best!

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Please tell me that rolling-up of sleeves was involved.

/Lie to me if you must ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 25, 2024 11:19 AM (PW8iZ)

71 At some point, these people have to realize that they're one decision away from another Dred Scott.

Do they? Their insight track record suggests otherwise.

The cost/benefit on hydro power is spectacular if you're not retarded about it like Red China (the CCP has long loved dams as big, beautiful collective projects and built way too many low-quality dams that have f***ed up a lot of stuff).

*The Three Gorges Dam has entered the chat*

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:19 AM (CsUN+)

72 Look, it's unfortunate that Indians were here when we came to discover our country. But it'sAmerica now, it's a done deal, and the dams stay.

Posted by: Don Black (can't touch this) at January 25, 2024 11:19 AM (geLO8)

73 I wonder what all the Indians in the SW think about the illegals spilling over the border.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:19 AM (9yWhg)

74 American salmon today are better than the salmon of 100 years ago. They now have to swim up a dam and they are tougher and better for it.

So...salmon GAINZZZZ!?!?!?!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 25, 2024 11:19 AM (JCZqz)

75 Thought engineers had configured some form of bypass for the salmon.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 25, 2024 11:20 AM (Lf+TO)

76 Did anybody catch Bill Nye "The Sciency Guy" updating the "Doomsday Clock" ?

Posted by: SMOD at January 25, 2024 11:20 AM (RHGPo)

77 71 At some point, these people have to realize that they're one decision away from another Dred Scott.

Do they? Their insight track record suggests otherwise.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:19 AM (CsUN+)

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If they can't figure it out after the Eagle Pass injunction thing, then our elites arguably have IQs in the 80s.

That decision led directly to several states banding together to resist federal authority on immigration in a way that could easily lead to shooting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

78 OT: Michael Patrick Leahy appeared on Bannon's show and said the offer to bribe Kari Lake came from the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

So it was Mitch the Bitch.

http://tinyurl.com/mta2x8xz

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 25, 2024 11:20 AM (woPEM)

79 I wonder what all the Indians in the SW think about the illegals spilling over the border.

I'm sure their attitude is the same as the black woman in Chicago. "They should be taking care of us".

Or, you know, you could act like an adult and take care of yourself.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:21 AM (CsUN+)

80 >>> They can't satisfy the demon gnawing on their innards. They'll shovel power and hate into its slavering maw until people stop them, and not a moment before.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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That's a fact.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 25, 2024 11:21 AM (Lf+TO)

81 78 OT: Michael Patrick Leahy appeared on Bannon's show and said the offer to bribe Kari Lake came from the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

So it was Mitch the Bitch.

http://tinyurl.com/mta2x8xz

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 25, 2024 11:20 AM (woPEM)

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Mitch would rather spend millions of dollars propping up Lisa Murkowski than actually trying to clean up elections anywhere.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

82 59 One small quibble: I consider it's impact on fish migration to be a negative. You can mitigate it somewhat, but it's still a negative.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:14 AM (CsUN+)
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Change in river turbulence and temperature can also be considered a negative. The negatives are both manageable and relatively minor compared to the human and economic benefit that dams confer thanks to all of water supply stabilization, flood control and energy production.

The cost/benefit on hydro power is spectacular if you're not retarded about it like Red China (the CCP has long loved dams as big, beautiful collective projects and built way too many low-quality dams that have fucked up a lot of stuff).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:16 AM (mwCIn)
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"Fluck you, flucking Ameericuns!"

-- Three Gorges Dam

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 25, 2024 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

83 Amid calls for breaching the four lower Snake River dams, a recent review by Gov. Jay Inslee and U.S. Sen. Patty Murray found it would cost up to $31 billion to replace the various economic benefits they provide.

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Ukrainian oligarchs hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 25, 2024 11:21 AM (PW8iZ)

84 Important step toward removing the Lower Snake River dams, replacing their services, restoring abundant salmon, and honoring America's promises to Tribes

Can't the gov't just break another treaty with the Indians?

They've broken plenty before. So, no biggie, amirite?

Just move them outside of Vegas and give them a casino franchise, and BINGO! Everyone's happy!
...

...What?

...

Ah...well...I'll let myself out.

Oh! and I denounce myself.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2024 11:21 AM (nFnyb)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at January 25, 2024 11:21 AM (aD39U)

86 No fish puns yet? It's like I don't even know you people. Well, I am not here to carp about it all day.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 25, 2024 11:21 AM (MGqzM)

87 73 I wonder what all the Indians in the SW think about the illegals spilling over the border.
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Indians have their own nations. Illegals are not invited. Loved when some NY Dem pol was on about NYers buying their cigs and gas from the reservation and not paying NY taxes. The moar senior Dems had to tell him to shut up cuz reasons.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 25, 2024 11:22 AM (AE/RG)

88 OT: Michael Patrick Leahy appeared on Bannon's show and said the offer to bribe Kari Lake came from the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

So it was Mitch the Bitch.

"Sources say". Still, it's too delicious not to run with it.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:22 AM (CsUN+)

89 >Did anybody catch Bill Nye "The Sciency Guy" updating the "Doomsday Clock" ?
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to heck with that pencil-necked Poindexter
he is not Pscience

Posted by: Don Black (can't touch this) at January 25, 2024 11:22 AM (geLO8)

90 Salmon and trout are basically the same kind of fish. Family Salmonidae (which also includes chars).

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:22 AM (9yWhg)

91 No fish puns yet? It's like I don't even know you people. Well, I am not here to carp about it all day.
Posted by: Minnfidel

We only do fish puns for the halibut.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2024 11:22 AM (6xkzE)

92 72 Look, it's unfortunate that Indians were here when we came to discover our country. But it'sAmerica now, it's a done deal, and the dams stay.
Posted by: Don Black

Smug Dems when Texas Republicans talking about secession: That issue was settled by Lincoln, bigots. You're staying, and subject to federal law!

The same smug Dems when I point out we "settled" things with the natives in a similar manner, and the results should also be similar: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 25, 2024 11:22 AM (JCZqz)

93 78 OT: Michael Patrick Leahy appeared on Bannon's show and said the offer to bribe Kari Lake came from the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

So it was Mitch the Bitch.

http://tinyurl.com/mta2x8xz

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 25, 2024 11:20 AM (woPEM)

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Mitch would rather spend millions of dollars propping up Lisa Murkowski than actually trying to clean up elections anywhere.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 11:21 AM

C'mon aneurism!

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 25, 2024 11:22 AM (MGqzM)

94 We could buy the Indians off with a few gallons of moonshine and some meth.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 25, 2024 11:23 AM (ogTiX)

95 Did anybody catch Bill Nye "The Sciency Guy" updating the "Doomsday Clock" ?

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Let me know when it hits midnight.

On second thought, notice probably won't be necessary.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 25, 2024 11:23 AM (sX1BW)

96 And here is a press release from some smug, c*cksuking environmental group.

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Cucksucking?

/

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 25, 2024 11:23 AM (PW8iZ)

97 So...salmon GAINZZZZ!?!?!?!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 25, 2024 11:19 AM (JCZqz)

Lol. You seen the lats on those things?

Posted by: Geronimo at January 25, 2024 11:24 AM (5A+43)

98 Look. Sorry Natives. You lost. Get over it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 25, 2024 11:24 AM (MGqzM)

99 You'd think the Greens would be all in on 'clean' energy like hydro-electric. But no, they're religious hysterics that consider fish more important than people. Literally.

I hope WA has enough adults running things to prevent this bullshit but I doubt it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 25, 2024 11:24 AM (xcxpd)

100 We could buy the Indians off with a few gallons of moonshine and some meth.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 25, 2024 11:23 AM (ogTiX)

Theirs is the dirty nose sign.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 25, 2024 11:24 AM (aD39U)

101 A friend up in PA hillbilly engineered a hydro electric system for his deer camp. Worked fine, kept the LEDs running and a couple other things. Built it out of scrap material for the most part. And then, the ever lovin' PA Department of Environmental Protection stumbled on it and threatened to fine him out of existence.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 25, 2024 11:24 AM (0EOe9)

102 >We only do fish puns for the halibut.

Posted by: rickb223

they give me a splitting haddock

Posted by: Don Black (can't touch this) at January 25, 2024 11:24 AM (geLO8)

103 No fish puns yet? It's like I don't even know you people. Well, I am not here to carp about it all day.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Fish puns are not appropriate in these turbotlent times.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:24 AM (9yWhg)

104 99 You'd think the Greens would be all in on 'clean' energy like hydro-electric. But no, they're religious hysterics that consider fish more important than people. Literally.

I hope WA has enough adults running things to prevent this bullshit but I doubt it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 25, 2024 11:24 AM (xcxpd)

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It's almost like you've never been to WA state!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

105 1. More Democrats voted for Haley than Republicans.
2. Haley beat Mr “81 million” Biden.
3. Trump made history again. (vote total)
4. Democrats sent a glaring message. (Not Biden)
5. Trump clown-slapped Biden.

Posted by: SMOD at January 25, 2024 11:25 AM (RHGPo)

106 >I hope WA has enough adults running things to prevent this bullshit but I doubt it.

didn't WA vote to outlaw cars or something

Posted by: Don Black (can't touch this) at January 25, 2024 11:25 AM (geLO8)

107 "... is Washington trying to compete for the title of stupidest state? Or is it simply an environmental Cloward-Piven strategy?"

Embrace the power of AND! This is such a stupid idea that Gov. Jay Inslee AND Sen. Patty Murray, two of the worst politicians in existence, are both against it!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 25, 2024 11:25 AM (8Ta2Y)

108 WA's big "lights-out" datacenter industry will vanish like dew in the morn if they do this. Cheap power and seismic stability is a great combination for datacenter siting, and the Columbia valley is lousy with huge datacenters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:26 AM (mwCIn)

109 Steelhead is much better than salmon, - well marbled. Think of it as the Kobe beef of salmon.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 25, 2024 11:26 AM (mNhC4)

110 76 Did anybody catch Bill Nye "The Sciency Guy" updating the "Doomsday Clock" ?
Posted by: SMOD at January 25, 2024 11:20 AM (RHGPo)

Isn't he a failed comedian and failed meteorologist? Why would anyone care what he says or does? And He's uglier than Nikki Haley.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 25, 2024 11:26 AM (xcxpd)

111 13-year-old Driver, 4 Others Arrested After Mob of at Least 100 Loots California Bakery

http://tinyurl.com/8e4ruhk8
. . .

Footage of this CVS in DC looks like a zombie apocalypse ... the store is closing because of endless theft

http://tinyurl.com/bwa9rfjz

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CVS story says the thieves plan to get there just as they are being restocked because otherwise the other thieves will have already stolen it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 25, 2024 11:27 AM (FVME7)

112 Steelhead is much better than salmon, - well marbled. Think of it as the Kobe beef of salmon.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 25, 2024 11:26 AM (mNhC4)
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I think they taste about the same, but maybe I've only had middling steelhead.

Either way, it ain't inferior and it is consistently quite a bit cheaper.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:27 AM (mwCIn)

113 Embrace the power of AND! This is such a stupid idea that Gov. Jay Inslee AND Sen. Patty Murray, two of the worst politicians in existence, are both against it!
______

Inslee and Murray are now Wreckers and Capitalist Running Dogs.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 25, 2024 11:27 AM (fs1hN)

114 Still think engineers could leave the basic dam alone and workout a bypass for the fish. I'd take Musk about two days thinking.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 25, 2024 11:27 AM (Lf+TO)

115 Save Our Wild Salmon Mission Statement: Save Our wild Salmon (SOS) is a coalition of
Posted by: Intercepted WildSalmon.org Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison

SOS?

Wouldn't SOWS be more accurate, both as an acronym, and in describing the nose-ringed overweight human livestock that make up the coalition?

Posted by: mikeski at January 25, 2024 11:28 AM (DgGvY)

116 Salmonoids.

The environmental $cientists and tribes have determined that these are human indicator species and that their imminent extinction means that as they go, so do humans.

No. Really. They are trying to save the human population from extinction, so they'll need to breech the dams to save us.

Posted by: Derak at January 25, 2024 11:28 AM (3jkTt)

117 "... is Washington trying to compete for the title of stupidest state? Or is it simply an environmental Cloward-Piven strategy?"

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Oregon Decides It’s Time to Rethink Drug Decriminalization

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 25, 2024 11:28 AM (FVME7)

118 Try "Arctic Char" if you can find it. Better than salmon!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 25, 2024 11:17 AM (gSZYf)

Just be careful when you're cooking it not to char it!!!!

HA hahahahahahahahhaha!!!!!

I crack myself up!11 That was-

...

Oh. Really? But-

....

Fiiiiiiiine.

I'll let myself out again.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2024 11:28 AM (nFnyb)

119 Salmonoids.

The environmental $cientists and tribes have determined that these are human indicator species and that their imminent extinction means that as they go, so do humans.

No. Really. They are trying to save the human population from extinction, so they'll need to breech the dams to save us.
Posted by: Derak at January 25, 2024 11:28 AM (3jkTt)
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I'd love to see the data underlying this assertion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:28 AM (mwCIn)

120 Still think engineers could leave the basic dam alone and workout a bypass for the fish. I'd take Musk about two days thinking.
Posted by: Braenyard

Green jobs! Net the fish, and hire people to carry them up past the dams in little fish tanks.

Posted by: mikeski at January 25, 2024 11:29 AM (DgGvY)

121 Blue state looters loot blue states.
The only looters in Red states are politicians.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 25, 2024 11:29 AM (Lf+TO)

122 ...is Washington trying to compete for the title of stupidest state?

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To ask is to have answered.

Old & Busted: A race to the bottom.
New Hotness: A race to the totem.

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 25, 2024 11:30 AM (PW8iZ)

123 I thought fish ladders were a thing

maybe we try fish elevators

Posted by: Don Black (can't touch this) at January 25, 2024 11:30 AM (geLO8)

124 106 >I hope WA has enough adults running things to prevent this bullshit but I doubt it.

didn't WA vote to outlaw cars or something
Posted by: Don Black (can't touch this) at January 25, 2024 11:25 AM (geLO

YUP...with one small cavet that semi-requires them to come up with alternate funding to replace gas taxes before they can implement it.

It's why I bought a Toyota. I figure it will run for the next two decades.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 25, 2024 11:30 AM (xcxpd)

125 The government has secretly sold oil, gas, mineral and timber rights to foreign entities as collateral for loans going back to the 1970s.

Would anyone be surprised? What better explains them locking everything up?

Oil shale reserves alone in the Colorado plateau region has hundreds of years worth of petroleum and gas. This has been known since the 1960s when they were discovered.

Everything about our “energy policy” for decades is gay, and retarded.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 25, 2024 11:31 AM (kQmKE)

126 Green jobs! Net the fish, and hire people to carry them up past the dams in little fish tanks.
Posted by: mikeski at January 25, 2024 11:29 AM (DgGvY)

Then release the bears.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 25, 2024 11:31 AM (R4t5M)

127 "I'd love to see the data underlying this assertion."

It's all models, you see.

Posted by: Derak at January 25, 2024 11:31 AM (3jkTt)

128 "2. Haley beat Mr “81 million” Biden."

Haley could still win the primary -- if she switched to the Democrat Party?

Posted by: illiniwek at January 25, 2024 11:31 AM (Cus5s)

129 The only real clean energy is no energy.

You can do without for mother earth and nomadic tribes.

Posted by: Jukin at January 25, 2024 11:31 AM (17s+e)

130 Salmonoids.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

I saw Revenge of the Invasion of the Salmonoids as part of a horror B-movie triple feature at the local drive-in in '89.

Posted by: mikeski at January 25, 2024 11:31 AM (DgGvY)

131 It's almost like you've never been to WA state!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

But I've never been to Me

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 25, 2024 11:31 AM (xcxpd)

132 OT: Michael Patrick Leahy appeared on Bannon's show and said the offer to bribe Kari Lake came from the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

So it was Mitch the Bitch.

http://tinyurl.com/mta2x8xz

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 25, 2024 11:20 AM (woPEM)

———-

I’m shocked

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 25, 2024 11:31 AM (a5v4x)

133 Green jobs! Net the fish, and hire people to carry them up past the dams in little fish tanks.
Posted by: mikeski at January 25, 2024 11:29 AM (DgGvY)
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Too low-tech.

Build fish-detecting autonets that identify salmon using AI and big data analytics to selectively trap the salmon. Then the autonets surface a connector so AI-enabled autonomous drones can hook on to them and deposit the nets - and their fish - upstream.

The system won't work and will be fabulously expensive while enriching foreign manufacturers and domestic "thought leader enterprises" while making extensive use of all the popular buzzwords and "futurist" concepts. It's perfect.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:32 AM (mwCIn)

134
The Salmonoids.

Wasn't that a Saturday morning cartoon series in the 60s?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2024 11:32 AM (nFnyb)

135 127 "I'd love to see the data underlying this assertion."

It's all models, you see.
Posted by: Derak at January 25, 2024 11:31 AM (3jkTt)

You mean like Vanessa Munley? Or the boring math version?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 25, 2024 11:32 AM (xcxpd)

136 You mean like Vanessa Munley? Or the boring math version?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 25, 2024 11:32 AM (xcxpd)
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Are you asserting that Miss Munley doesn't dig numbers?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:33 AM (mwCIn)

137 I saw the Salmonoids open for Hootie and the Blowfish in '89.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 25, 2024 11:33 AM (T+Iwg)

138 No fish puns yet? It's like I don't even know you people. Well, I am not here to carp about it all day.
Posted by: Minnfidel

http://tinyurl.com/2zvvvpab
I feel like you guys are just asking for a sea-themed post.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 25, 2024 11:33 AM (JCZqz)

139 Not all is well in Nikkitopia.

LinkedIn Founder and Dem Megadonor Reid Hoffman Suspends Financial Support for Nikki Haley After New Hampshire

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 25, 2024 11:33 AM (FVME7)

140 Posted by: Elric Blade at January 25, 2024 11:08 AM (iFTx/)

You disgust me. Got any other ethnic groups you want to trash en masse?

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2024 11:34 AM (cTCuP)

141 >> destroy low-cost transportation (60% of Washington wheat is barged),

My wife and I were at one of those dams 3 years ago, not very big compared to other dams on the Columbia. We had to wait get across the dam as a barge of grain was being tugged thru. This particular barge wasn’t very big, yet as one of the workers handling traffic that day told me “ that one barge hauls as much grain as 500 trucks.” I was happy to have the roads less clogged on that trip.

Posted by: Rex B at January 25, 2024 11:34 AM (5h/8D)

142 Salmonoids.

Isn't that a type of retarded fish?

I denounce myself

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 25, 2024 11:34 AM (Q4IgG)

143
I saw The Salmonoids open for Country Joe and the Fish at Woodstock in '69.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2024 11:35 AM (nFnyb)

144 Fish puns are not appropriate in these turbotlent times.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:24 AM (9yWhg)

Agreed.

I tuna out most of them.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 25, 2024 11:35 AM (gSZYf)

145 Fish puns are not appropriate in these turbotlent times.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:24 AM (9yWhg)

Agreed.

I tuna out most of them.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Skate right by them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 25, 2024 11:36 AM (R4t5M)

146 Given the amount of metals involved in modern dam construction *and* demolition, I don't think we discount the importance of smelting to the process.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:37 AM (mwCIn)

147 OT: Michael Patrick Leahy appeared on Bannon's show and said the offer to bribe Kari Lake came from the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

So it was Mitch the Bitch.

I'm really not interested in DeWit, it's the bigger fish I want. Who put him up to it? Was it McConnell? Was it the McCains?

Dewit will be looking for absolution, so it's time to flip him and get this information.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:37 AM (CsUN+)

148 Why can't they build salmon motels for the fish to spawn in?
Then the indians can gut the fish.
They do know what the indians do to the fish don't they?

Posted by: torabora at January 25, 2024 11:37 AM (OUiUM)

149 Start replacing hydro power by burning environmentalists for fuel.

Posted by: Roy at January 25, 2024 11:37 AM (z+ik4)

150 The government has secretly sold oil, gas, mineral and timber rights to foreign entities as collateral for loans going back to the 1970s.

Would anyone be surprised? What better explains them locking everything up?

Why would you sell collateral for a loan?

Posted by: N at January 25, 2024 11:37 AM (RjBju)

151 So to be clear...enviros aren't in favor of clean power. They are in favor of NO power. Well..for anyone else.

As many enviros tell me - they don't need power plants or fossil fuels...they have electricity that comes right of a power outlet...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 11:39 AM (ibTVg)

152 Shot:

Adam Schiff
@AdamSchiff
My grandfather immigrated here. My great grandparents immigrated here.
My family came fleeing the Holocaust, in search of the American dream.
So many families come here fleeing violence and seeking a new life today. We must approach them with compassion.
Chaser:

Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
Here's Lyin' Adam Schiff saying his family came to America fleeing the Holocaust.
Schiff's father, Edward Schiff was born in Massachusetts in 1928, and his mother, Sherrill Schiff née Glovsky was born in Massachusetts in 1933. Hitler didn't take power in Germany until 1933.

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I guess they were preemptively fleeing Hitler.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 25, 2024 11:39 AM (FVME7)

153 One of the biggest mistakes the government made was allowing Indians to remain as a distinct culture instead of integrating into American culture.

It has never made any sense at all that we ask or did until recently everyone to become Americanized when they come to America but we reward Indians for remaining foreigners in our country.

No more special lands, no more casinos. Join America or get the fuck out. That's my offer. And I'd appreciate it if you would pay the legal bills on your way out.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2024 11:39 AM (ZLI7S)

154 McConnell won't run again.
But the slogan should be 'Flip the Bitch'.

Posted by: torabora at January 25, 2024 11:40 AM (OUiUM)

155 In terms we can all understand, DeWit is the Tessio to an unknown Barzini. I want to settle all family business.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:40 AM (CsUN+)

156 Since her boyfriend is a civil engineer, this blonde in a little black dress is opposed to wanton destruction of infrastructure for no perceivable benefit:
http://tiny.cc/oh9awz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:40 AM (mwCIn)

157 Here's Lyin' Adam Schiff saying his family came to America fleeing the Holocaust.
Schiff's father, Edward Schiff was born in Massachusetts in 1928, and his mother, Sherrill Schiff née Glovsky was born in Massachusetts in 1933. Hitler didn't take power in Germany until 1933.

Maybe he meant to say he was fleeing the GOPe-like and Democrat-like politicians in Germany that paved the way for Hitler? You know...people like Adam Schiff

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 11:40 AM (ibTVg)

158 Cloward-Piven strategy is terrorism. It destroys.
The only thing it creates is expensive chaos.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at January 25, 2024 11:40 AM (gxokI)

159 Steelhead!

Posted by: Hare lip at January 25, 2024 11:41 AM (63Dwl)

160 Part of Joe's "year zero" plan.

Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2024 11:41 AM (AwYPR)

161 Hey how are ya?
Hey how are ya?

Posted by: Lizzy Warren at January 25, 2024 11:42 AM (mNhC4)

162 82 ""Fluck you, flucking Ameericuns!"

-- Three Gorges Dam"

When that puppy lets loose, about a billion people are gonna go swimming real fast!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 25, 2024 11:42 AM (8Ta2Y)

163 56 Since her boyfriend is a civil engineer, this blonde in a little black dress is opposed to wanton destruction of infrastructure for no perceivable benefit:
http://tiny.cc/oh9awz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:40 AM (mwCIn)

———

I’m an engineer, that shit don’t happen, more like “get away creep”.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 25, 2024 11:42 AM (a5v4x)

164 When that puppy lets loose, about a billion people are gonna go swimming real fast!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 25, 2024 11:42 AM (8Ta2Y)

Does Taiwan have cruise missiles?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 25, 2024 11:42 AM (gSZYf)

165 Since her boyfriend is a civil engineer, this blonde in a little black dress is opposed to wanton destruction of infrastructure for no perceivable benefit:
http://tiny.cc/oh9awz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:40 AM (mwCIn)

Thicc. Structurally sound.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 25, 2024 11:43 AM (aD39U)

166 Does Taiwan have cruise missiles?

They do, and yes, some are pointed that way.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:43 AM (CsUN+)

167 >>Does Taiwan have cruise missiles?

Of a sort.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2024 11:44 AM (ZLI7S)

168 For all of the "elites" who want the rest of us to either live a primitive lifestyle or shove us into 15 min cities...

I say we give them the Clancy (Rainbow Six?) treatment. They can do both for themselves.
No clothes, no tools, nothing. I'm sure they'll thrive.
Let them eat Anaconda,,, or vice-versa.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 25, 2024 11:44 AM (5k0TE)

169 Green jobs! Net the fish, and hire people to carry them up past the dams in little fish tanks.

Posted by: mikeski at January 25, 2024 11:29 AM (DgGvY)

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I'm imagining an army of Bob Wileys (Bill Murrays) wearing plastic bags around their necks containing water and a fish).

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 25, 2024 11:44 AM (B3eBA)

170 156 Since her boyfriend is a civil engineer, this blonde in a little black dress is opposed to wanton destruction of infrastructure for no perceivable benefit:
http://tiny.cc/oh9awz
____

Why does her face look almost exactly like the faces of about the last dozen of these girls, down to the pumped up lips? But I do appreciate the new diversity in hips. Very feminine. Thanks Joe!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 25, 2024 11:44 AM (fs1hN)

171 I doubt Mitch even knows what is going on. Dementia is a get out of jail free card.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 25, 2024 11:44 AM (a5v4x)

172 Does Taiwan have cruise missiles?

They do, and yes, some are pointed that way.

However, there is disagreement about how much damage they could do to TGG. It's a big structure.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:44 AM (CsUN+)

173 No fish puns yet? It's like I don't even know you people. Well, I am not here to carp about it all day.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 25, 2024 11:21 AM
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Abalone I say! You' re just playing koi with the puns.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 25, 2024 11:45 AM (xT7BI)

174 However, there is disagreement about how much damage they could do to TGG. It's a big structure.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:44 AM (CsUN+)
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Or how valuable of a target it would be in the first place.

Eventually, Shanghai is downstream but most of the devastation would be to low-tier cities and countryside.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:45 AM (mwCIn)

175
I’m an engineer, that shit don’t happen, more like “get away creep”.

The problem for engineers is that while they tend to make good salaries they don't spend it on flashy clothes or going to fancy clubs...where women like the one linked tend to go look for "quality" guys.

Which is...ironic. If you are want a wealthy or at least "stable" guy and you are actually looking for a guy that wastes money publicly.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 11:46 AM (ibTVg)

176 http://tiny.cc/oh9awz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Curvy. Cute nose.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:46 AM (9yWhg)

177 Interesting how the default strategy for solving this problem is to destroy the dams.

Why not look at alternate water-management strategies that will lead to a healthy environment for the salmon? Isn't that what the Army Corps of Engineers recommended?

Creation v. destruction...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 25, 2024 11:46 AM (7fElN)

178 The only benefit that will come out of destroying the hydroelectric dams and the Columbia River Basin agricultural miracle they created is the cocksuckers in Seattle and Portland that have been agitating for this for decades is their "enlightened" Twitter/Tesla culture will instantly be far less abundant and far more expensive.

Posted by: Lost in Space at January 25, 2024 11:46 AM (c2MGA)

179 Over at Citizen Free Press: "Oreo cookies lowers LDL cholesterol more than statins" ... lol

Oreo cookies .... mmmmm

Posted by: ET at January 25, 2024 11:46 AM (7ft1k)

180 Or how valuable of a target it would be in the first place.

Eventually, Shanghai is downstream but most of the devastation would be to low-tier cities and countryside.

From what I've read, there are plenty of people and cities, and a flood there would be catastrophic. Partly it depends on whether the whole dam went at once (unlikely) or just one segment, or even just a piece out of the dam lip.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:47 AM (CsUN+)

181 Since her boyfriend is a civil engineer, this blonde in a little black dress is opposed to wanton destruction of infrastructure for no perceivable benefit:
http://tiny.cc/oh9awz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:40 AM (mwCIn)

Thicc. Structurally sound.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 25, 2024 11:43 AM (aD39U)

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Those are referred to as "Thighs of Doom" in the biz ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 25, 2024 11:47 AM (B3eBA)

182 The left: You people are using too many resources we have to cut back now.

Also the left: Here are a few tens of millions of people to use more resources. Yes you have to take them

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 11:47 AM (ibTVg)

183 179 Over at Citizen Free Press: "Oreo cookies lowers LDL cholesterol more than statins" ... lol

Oreo cookies .... mmmmm
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Corporate Med isn't gonna like this. Pfizer will sue.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 25, 2024 11:48 AM (AE/RG)

184 Indian burning wood in campfire caused the North American ice sheet to melt, wiped out the wooly mammoth, the sabretooth tiger, and lured in the white man to build them casino.

Posted by: torabora at January 25, 2024 11:48 AM (OUiUM)

185 Since her boyfriend is a civil engineer, this blonde in a little black dress is opposed to wanton destruction of infrastructure for no perceivable benefit:
http://tiny.cc/oh9awz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:40 AM (mwCIn)

Hippy chick

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 25, 2024 11:48 AM (xcxpd)

186 David Strom over at HotAir -

Federal Regulations Drop Informed Consent Rules in Medical Studies

http://tinyurl.com/25mzyn3u

Yikes.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 25, 2024 11:48 AM (fs1hN)

187 However, there is disagreement about how much damage they could do to TGG. It's a big structure.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:44 AM (CsUN+)
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Or how valuable of a target it would be in the first place.

Eventually, Shanghai is downstream but most of the devastation would be to low-tier cities and countryside.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Start a war: FAFO comes to mind.
IIRC I saw the gorge dam bulged by 5ft due to huge rain in the watershed some years ago.
There was a simulation of the damage to the downstream it was brutal.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 25, 2024 11:48 AM (x2W85)

188 The left: You people are using too many resources we have to cut back now.

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There is no "we" with the left. It is "You" who will have to cut back.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 25, 2024 11:48 AM (sX1BW)

189 Birthin' hips.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 25, 2024 11:49 AM (R4t5M)

190 Thicc. Structurally sound.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 25, 2024 11:43 AM (aD39U)

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Those are referred to as "Thighs of Doom" in the biz ...
Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 25, 2024 11:47 AM (B3eBA)

Thothe are the mightiest thighs I ever have theen!

I mean....!!!

Posted by: Pseudolus at January 25, 2024 11:49 AM (T+Iwg)

191 62 The main reason I cancelled my Trout Unlimited membership. They support lunacy like this.
Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at January 25, 2024 11:17 AM (pgwxJ)
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Maybe they should change their name to Humans Limited.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Bird Law Expert at January 25, 2024 11:49 AM (snyZJ)

192 Interesting how the default strategy for solving this problem is to destroy the dams.

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Ahh, the Bane /Joker gambit.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 25, 2024 11:50 AM (FVME7)

193 There was a simulation of the damage to the downstream it was brutal.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 25, 2024 11:48 AM (x2W85)
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Yes, it would be. As a strategic target, though, it's more ambiguous. There's a good chance it wouldn't be all that meaningful to Red China's warmaking capability. It would certainly wreak much death and a lot of economic devastation downstream, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:50 AM (mwCIn)

194 I think a missile is going to have to pack a nuke whallop to knock out Three Gorges. Just be patient, and from what I've seen of Chinese concrete quality, the problem may solve itself...

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 25, 2024 11:50 AM (8Ta2Y)

195
I forget the exact number of China's dams that if blown up, you essentially destroy the whole country's industry and infrastructure/

Less than 20. Maybe 10.

In any event, it's a significantly easy thing to do to take on China if you really had to.

Even Uruguay could do it.

Or Liechtenstein. Gotta watch out for those Liechtensteiners, China. They're tricksy.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2024 11:50 AM (nFnyb)

196 Those are referred to as "Thighs of Doom" in the biz ...

Mighty Thews indeed.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 25, 2024 11:50 AM (aD39U)

197 The left: You people are using too many resources we have to cut back now.

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There is no "we" with the left. It is "You" who will have to cut back.

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Heck, there is no "we" among the left. Eventually, even members of the left becomes a "you."

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 25, 2024 11:50 AM (sX1BW)

198 Ahh, the Bane /Joker gambit.

Isolate NYC and let it wallow in its own filth for 6 months before nuking it?

I say we give it a try.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 11:50 AM (ibTVg)

199 My hash nic is Tibetan chant.
cool

Posted by: torabora at January 25, 2024 11:51 AM (OUiUM)

200 Federal Regulations Drop Informed Consent Rules in Medical Studies

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Ahh, the Cosby gambit.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 25, 2024 11:51 AM (FVME7)

201 176 http://tiny.cc/oh9awz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Curvy. Cute nose.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:46 AM (9yWhg)
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The AI expert in me says that's either AI generated or morphed.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Bird Law Expert at January 25, 2024 11:51 AM (snyZJ)

202 IIRC, the dams on the Snake River produce nearly 1 gigawatt of zero-carbon electricity. You'd think the enviro-weenies would be all about that.

But they're not, because at their core they are anti-civilization and anti-human.

Posted by: Cybernetic at January 25, 2024 11:51 AM (xawZJ)

203 136 You mean like Vanessa Munley? Or the boring math version?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 25, 2024 11:32 AM (xcxpd)
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Are you asserting that Miss Munley doesn't dig numbers?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:33 AM (mwCIn)

...yes. She's a yoga instructor as her side gig.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 25, 2024 11:51 AM (xcxpd)

204 Here's a bit of disaster porn simulating TGG collapse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjHWkCdZdOE

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:52 AM (CsUN+)

205 Or Liechtenstein. Gotta watch out for those Liechtensteiners, China. They're tricksy.
Posted by: naturalfake

Word is that King YD I already has the bomb.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:52 AM (9yWhg)

206 Re: Injuns
When the Wyandotte tribe sold out and moved to Ks in the 1830's, there was one pure bred Indian left in the tribe... and the Tribe's chief was the richest man in Westport. Rented the finest house while his was being built.
Jefferson's ideal of making them Murcans (factory forts idea) was largely effective. What we have now are remnants at best.

Posted by: MkY at January 25, 2024 11:52 AM (ItCQP)

207 Lets's get rid of Hetch Hetchy too. All it does is supply fresh water to San Francisco. Barely an inconvieniance.

Posted by: DOYLE at January 25, 2024 11:52 AM (Z8Yh2)

208
Why does her face look almost exactly like the faces of about the last dozen of these girls, down to the pumped up lips

I imagine that it's because when they send in their picture for fame and fortune, they sign a release saying that they give permission for it to be modified as the website wishes. Remove head-insert generic blonde, etc if the original face is not attractive enough.

Thankfully, though, to me if not to the morons, she didn't need to display her boobs in order to have a reasonable thought about anything.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2024 11:52 AM (Ki//m)

209 Since her boyfriend is a civil engineer, this blonde in a little black dress is opposed to wanton destruction of infrastructure for no perceivable benefit:
http://tiny.cc/oh9awz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:40 AM (mwCIn)

Henceforth, please refrain from mentioning boyfriends of the Mannix ladies. Preferable to at least feign availability.

Posted by: Doof at January 25, 2024 11:53 AM (XIF9h)

210 140 Posted by: Elric Blade at January 25, 2024 11:08 AM (iFTx/)

You disgust me. Got any other ethnic groups you want to trash en masse?
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2024 11:34 AM (cTCuP)
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You should read my post. I didn't trash Indians. I trashed the tribe's leadership. And if you spent time around Indians (I have), you'll find they say the same things as I did. They hate their leadership.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 25, 2024 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

211 get your salmon at the supermarket like the rest of the America does ...

Posted by: The Dark Lord at January 25, 2024 11:54 AM (DBAaD)

212 If it hasn't been said yet, hydro power is not officially considered a renewal resource. Another Top. Men. situation

Posted by: Beartooth at January 25, 2024 11:54 AM (5FnZt)

213 Indian tribes are the Ukraine of America

And nobody would give a shit about them except for the Left's reverent worship of the second-to-last people to live on a piece of land. Except if they're white Europeans and the current occupants aren't, then the current occupants are OK.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2024 11:54 AM (2ocoG)

214 At some point, these people have to realize that they're one decision away from another Dred Scott.
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Law schools never teach that the majority in that decision were the finest legal minds of the day from the best law schools of the day, who based their ruling on the current legal precedents, only that they were bad, bad racists.

Because that would require examining why the Court and lawyers trained at these elite schools consistently fails to protect freedoms and the people from the state.

Since Lochner, the left's capture of the Court, they have churned out the constant propaganda that the Court is All-wise and The Best.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at January 25, 2024 11:54 AM (C2U4G)

215 192 Interesting how the default strategy for solving this problem is to destroy the dams.

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Ahh, the Bane /Joker gambit.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at January 25, 2024 11:50 AM (FVME7)

———

More like 5th column.

The entire Leftist movement in America is geared towards destroying American infrastructure.

Why drop bombs or send in the military when you can convince your enemy to self destruct?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 25, 2024 11:54 AM (a5v4x)

216 If it hasn't been said yet, hydro power is not officially considered a renewal resource. Another Top. Men. situation

The FNM occasionally runs stories about how we are "running out of water". Not sure where they think it is going.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 11:54 AM (ibTVg)

217 >>There was a simulation of the damage to the downstream it was brutal.

A good portion of Chinese agriculture is downstream. China already has a bit of a food problem.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2024 11:55 AM (ZLI7S)

218 120 Still think engineers could leave the basic dam alone and workout a bypass for the fish. I'd take Musk about two days thinking.
Posted by: Braenyard

As successful as Hyperloop? Solar City? Sure, SpaceX launches rockets, but they aren't the super-efficient, cost-saving reusable panacea he promised. Musk's a snake oil salesman when it comes to business. His politics and understanding of the culture wars and deep state/big business is promising, but I wouldn't put too much faith in him.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 25, 2024 11:55 AM (JCZqz)

219 Why does her face look almost exactly like the faces of about the last dozen of these girls, down to the pumped up lips

I imagine that it's because when they send in their picture for fame and fortune, they sign a release saying that they give permission for it to be modified as the website wishes. Remove head-insert generic blonde, etc if the original face is not attractive enough.

Thankfully, though, to me if not to the morons, she didn't need to display her boobs in order to have a reasonable thought about anything.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Are you gonna say "chasing tail" again?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:55 AM (9yWhg)

220 If it hasn't been said yet, hydro power is not officially considered a renewal resource.

I've seen leftists actually saying this. Solar and wind are renewable, nuclear and hydro aren't.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2024 11:55 AM (2ocoG)

221 The problem for engineers is that while they tend to make good salaries they don't spend it on flashy clothes or going to fancy clubs...where women like the one linked tend to go look for "quality" guys.

Which is...ironic. If you are want a wealthy or at least "stable" guy and you are actually looking for a guy that wastes money publicly.
Posted by: 18-1

But if they get a wealthy guy who doesn't waste money publicly, how will all their "friends" know they got a wealthy guy?

Posted by: mikeski at January 25, 2024 11:55 AM (DgGvY)

222 We have done enough for the american indian already. Free land to live on, free skools, free booze, beads made in Japan, tax havens for their casinos, tobaccy and whores.

Assholes.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 25, 2024 11:55 AM (EvkyC)

223 When tearing down Hetch Hetchy comes up they get WEAL QWI UT.

Posted by: torabora at January 25, 2024 11:56 AM (OUiUM)

224 SpaceX launches rockets, but they aren't the super-efficient, cost-saving reusable panacea he promised.

I mean, he's undercutting everyone else on price and launching more rockets in a year than almost the entire rest of the planet combined. I realize upstaging NASA isn't hard, but he's certainly gone beyond that.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2024 11:56 AM (2ocoG)

225 218 120 Still think engineers could leave the basic dam alone and workout a bypass for the fish. I'd take Musk about two days thinking.
Posted by: Braenyard

It's not about the damned fish. It's about destroying the basic building blocks of western civilization, and using liberal feel good sentimentality to do it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 25, 2024 11:57 AM (i9ffA)

226 @221
But if they get a wealthy guy who doesn't waste money publicly, how will all their "friends" know they got a wealthy guy?
Posted by: mikeski at January 25, 2024 11:55 AM (DgGvY)
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Ah, the Bimbo Conundrum.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Bird Law Expert at January 25, 2024 11:57 AM (snyZJ)

227 I agree with Elric. We should cancel all the treaties and disband the reservations.

Indians have been American citizens for a century now. Time for them to act like it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:57 AM (9yWhg)

228 Since her boyfriend is a civil engineer, this blonde in a little black dress is opposed to wanton destruction of infrastructure for no perceivable benefit:
http://tiny.cc/oh9awz

Thick thighs save lives, as they say.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 25, 2024 11:57 AM (JCZqz)

229 But if they get a wealthy guy who doesn't waste money publicly, how will all their "friends" know they got a wealthy guy?
Posted by: mikeski at January 25, 2024 11:55 AM (DgGvY)
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And how will *they* know he does well? That would require getting to know the person in advance and being open to going further.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2024 11:58 AM (mwCIn)

230 219 Why does her face look almost exactly like the faces of about the last dozen of these girls, down to the pumped up lips

I imagine that it's because when they send in their picture for fame and fortune, they sign a release saying that they give permission for it to be modified as the website wishes. Remove head-insert generic blonde, etc if the original face is not attractive enough.

Thankfully, though, to me if not to the morons, she didn't need to display her boobs in order to have a reasonable thought about anything.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Are you gonna say "chasing tail" again?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:55 AM (9yWhg)
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All these pics are heavily modified with the same filters. So the end result is very similar. Kind of like if you took 50 actual photographs of 50 actual people and applied an "anime cartoon" filter to them, they'd all look similar in the end.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 25, 2024 11:58 AM (iFTx/)

231 204
Wuhan is in the path of the river tsunami. So whatever might be there gets washed into the Pacific eventually.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 25, 2024 11:58 AM (jbnUc)

232 Unfortunately for them their children are subject to the same vagrancies our kids are....drugs, booze, cigarettes, petty larceny, unwed pregnancy, vidiot games.

It looks hopeless there too on the Rez

Posted by: torabora at January 25, 2024 11:58 AM (OUiUM)

233 Indians have been American citizens for a century now. Time for them to act like it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Uh...considering how many Americans act nowadays, maybe that's not such a good thing.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 25, 2024 11:59 AM (JCZqz)

234 You'd think the Greens would be all in on 'clean' energy like hydro-electric. But no, they're religious hysterics

No, the Sierra Club was started or at least cut their teeth protesting Glen Canyon dam.

The Sierra Club official policy was Nuclear power was the way to go.

They were also completely against illegal migration. Millions and millions of people, hordes of new bodies require massive outlays for water, timber, gas, oil, sewerage, hospitals, more roads, etc.

The big donors to the Sierra Club forced a “policy change”.

This is why the greenies are all basically schizophrenic death cultists now, it is the only acceptable position that can be held, financially speaking. Humans need to be exterminated in their view. You are the carbon that needs eliminated.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 25, 2024 11:59 AM (kQmKE)

235 Wuhan is in the path of the river tsunami. So whatever might be there gets washed into the Pacific eventually.

As is Nanjing. Viruses aside, this would NOT be a minor flooding event.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:59 AM (CsUN+)

236 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 11:55 AM (9yWhg)

Probably not, although it would certainly fit in here

P.S. I occasionally say the "S" word or "F" word if I've hurt myself or am sufficiently annoyed, although I don't do it in public.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2024 11:59 AM (Ki//m)

237 Still think engineers could leave the basic dam alone and workout a bypass for the fish. I'd take Musk about two days thinking. Posted by: Braenyard

Every Columbia and Snake Rivers dams has had fish bypasses from day one. They are marginally successful. The bigger problem is the young fish get chopped by the dams when heading down river.

Posted by: Lost in Space at January 25, 2024 12:00 PM (c2MGA)

238 When CBD could chose, but doesn't, to give us any actual figures on energy production other than "significant" you know he his trying to mislead you.
Besides the tribes involved there were various high powered well connected fishing advocates that want to see the salmon and steelhead trout return. Fishing fo them are big money earners for the local economy.
The total power generated by the 4vfsms is less than a good sized wind farm

Posted by: Paul banned at January 25, 2024 12:00 PM (XuKDb)

239 "Lets's get rid of Hetch Hetchy too. "

Greetings! This movement has already been in place for decades. Going back to John Muir himself.
The Hatch Hetchy supplies fresh water not just to SF but also for the entire region, including Silicon Valley.
I think it is safe.

Posted by: gourmand du jour and his stuffed peppers at January 25, 2024 12:00 PM (MeG8a)

240 And how will *they* know he does well? That would require getting to know the person in advance and being open to going further.

I know a few Indians who had their marriage arranged by their families. After dealing with dating myself and talking with them I don't think it is as bad of a system as I used to think.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 12:01 PM (ibTVg)

241 Shut up, Dunce.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 25, 2024 12:01 PM (aD39U)

242 His politics and understanding of the culture wars and deep state/big business is promising,

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He wisely commissioned Isaccson to write a biography on him.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 25, 2024 12:01 PM (sX1BW)

243 4vfsms?

Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2024 12:02 PM (AwYPR)

244 Ocean water is a great disinfectant. On the America we would lash our mops on a line and toss them in the prop wash. They come out in minutes shiney white from icky gray.

Naughty sailors would toss their floor wax buffer into the ocean so they could tell the Chief the buffer is missing.

Posted by: torabora at January 25, 2024 12:02 PM (OUiUM)

245 You disgust me. Got any other ethnic groups you want to trash en masse?
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2024 11:34 AM (cTCuP)
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You should read my post. I didn't trash Indians. I trashed the tribe's leadership. And if you spent time around Indians (I have), you'll find they say the same things as I did. They hate their leadership.
Elric Blade

I'm with Blade on this one. I've spent time among Paiute and Navajo in UT, AZ and NM. Tribes live in misery or largely at a bare subsistence level while a select few leaders are living the high life. The resentment toward their current leadership measures far higher than any generational grudge they could or might hold.

Posted by: Java Joe at January 25, 2024 12:03 PM (WaLgG)

246 P.S. I occasionally say the "S" word or "F" word if I've hurt myself or am sufficiently annoyed, although I don't do it in public.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

You say "salad" and "frog," too, just like me?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 12:03 PM (9yWhg)

247 Kamala Harris Says We Could “Lose This Democracy” if We Elect a President Who Would Weaponize the DOJ and “Go After Their Political Enemies” (not satire)

Posted by: SMOD at January 25, 2024 12:03 PM (RHGPo)

248 You say "salad" and "frog," too, just like me?

Frog salad is pretty low on my list of favorite salads TBH

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 12:03 PM (ibTVg)

249 @230 sort of related... apparently if you linger on any promoted posts on instagram of girls checking themselves out in gym clothes you'll end up scrolling through promoted reels of girls jiggling their butts for 3 seconds, and there doesn't seem to be a way to prevent this (no option to say you don't want to see the reels in your feed that I found). It's not such a terrible issue until you try to show a coworker a person you follow's channel and have to scroll past that sh!t.

Has anyone else have to deal with this?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Bird Law Expert at January 25, 2024 12:04 PM (snyZJ)

250 Tribes live in misery or largely at a bare subsistence level while a select few leaders are living the high life.

Hmmmm, why does that sound so familiar?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 12:04 PM (CsUN+)

251 But if they get a wealthy guy who doesn't waste money publicly, how will all their "friends" know they got a wealthy guy?
Posted by: mikeski at January 25, 2024 11:55 AM (DgGvY)

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I always figured the wasting money publicly was HER job. His job is to provide it.

Posted by: Just Lily at January 25, 2024 12:04 PM (v3N8b)

252
Has anyone else have to deal with this?

My facebook decided I want to see every Mortal Kombat video ever made because I watched one cinematic...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 12:04 PM (ibTVg)

253 Kamala Harris Says We Could “Lose This Democracy” if We Elect a President Who Would Weaponize the DOJ and “Go After Their Political Enemies” (not satire)
Posted by: SMOD at January 25, 2024 12:03 PM (RHGPo)

Trump needs to harness the power of the free market and go with proscription rather than some centralized gestapo apparatus.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 25, 2024 12:05 PM (aD39U)

254 247
JFC. These people deserve to eat lead.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 25, 2024 12:05 PM (jbnUc)

255 The problem for engineers is that while they tend to make good salaries they don't spend it on flashy clothes or going to fancy clubs...where women like the one linked tend to go look for "quality" guys.

I'm a learned-to-code guy and I wore fashionable clothes to nightclubs when I was in my 20s. It was still all "get away creep", as someone said upthread. So I went back to my new house that I owned in my new car that I owned. Females is fickle, as the great philosopher Popeye said.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2024 12:05 PM (2ocoG)

256 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 25, 2024 12:03 PM (9yWhg)

LOL. Snail and Fish

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2024 12:05 PM (Ki//m)

257 Got any other ethnic groups you want to trash en masse?

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You can always trash the Irish. I mean the Irish will trash the Irish. Especially when they are trashed.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 25, 2024 12:05 PM (sX1BW)

258 " I occasionally say the "S" word or "F" word if I've hurt myself or am sufficiently annoyed, although I don't do it in public."

Do you consider this place to be public?

Posted by: pawn at January 25, 2024 12:05 PM (QB+5g)

259 A year or so ago some global supply chain wonk did an analysis on what would be the costs of a disaster that wiped out the 3 Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.

It would likely cripple the US economy for years. Probably destroy some of the European economies.

Based on the fact that so much comes from distribution centers on the Yangtze River. Some significant amount of the "Made in China" stuff. All of it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 25, 2024 12:05 PM (Q4IgG)

260 P.S. I occasionally say the "S" word or "F" word if I've hurt myself or am sufficiently annoyed, although I don't do it in public.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I often use the Battlestar Galactica replacement of "Frack"

Posted by: SMOD at January 25, 2024 12:06 PM (RHGPo)

261 257 Got any other ethnic groups you want to trash en masse?

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You can always trash the Irish. I mean the Irish will trash the Irish. Especially when they are trashed.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 25, 2024 12:05 PM (sX1BW)

You should hear that ace guy go after Biden.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 25, 2024 12:06 PM (eYoxG)

262
Ah, the Bimbo Conundrum.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Bird Law Expert

Is that a Ludlum novel?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 25, 2024 12:07 PM (63Dwl)

263 249
girls jiggling their butts for 3 seconds,…

Has anyone else have to deal with this?

Yeah. I hate that.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 25, 2024 12:07 PM (jbnUc)

264 A company called "Whoosh" (sp?) has developed a water jet / vacuum system that will safely launch salmon over a dam while filtering out invasive species.

Posted by: PabloD at January 25, 2024 12:07 PM (lWhTR)

265 The total power generated by the 4vfsms is less than a good sized wind farm
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The power of cofveve compels you!

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 25, 2024 12:07 PM (woPEM)

266 YUP...with one small cavet that semi-requires them to come up with alternate funding to replace gas taxes before they can implement it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 25, 2024 11:30 AM (xcxpd)

They should raise taxes on the electricity generated by hyd... nevermind.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 25, 2024 12:08 PM (zhLdt)

267 It is always open season on the scandi menace, the snowbillies, icebacks, and squareheads.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 25, 2024 12:08 PM (aD39U)

268 girls jiggling their butts for 3 seconds,…

Has anyone else have to deal with this?

Yeah. I hate that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 25, 2024 12:07 PM (jbnUc)

should be at least 5

Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2024 12:08 PM (AwYPR)

269 A company called "Whoosh" (sp?) has developed a water jet / vacuum system that will safely launch salmon over a dam while filtering out invasive species.

That sounds like a great idea until someone confuses the Whoosh for a t-shirt cannon at a concert.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 12:08 PM (CsUN+)

270 A company called "Whoosh" (sp?) has developed a water jet / vacuum system that will safely launch salmon over a dam while filtering out invasive species.

A salmon trebuchet would be funnier, but that's not bad.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2024 12:09 PM (2ocoG)

271 >P.S. I occasionally say the "S" word or "F" word if I've hurt myself or am sufficiently annoyed, although I don't do it in public.
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try these:

consarn it all to heck
dad gummit
dad burnit
what in the wide wide world of sports is going on

Posted by: Don Black (can't touch this) at January 25, 2024 12:09 PM (geLO8)

272 I like girls jiggling their butts and I cannot lie.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2024 12:09 PM (ZLI7S)

273 I'm with Blade on this one. I've spent time among Paiute and Navajo in UT, AZ and NM. Tribes live in misery or largely at a bare subsistence level while a select few leaders are living the high life. The resentment toward their current leadership measures far higher than any generational grudge they could or might hold.
Posted by: Java Joe at January 25, 2024 12:03 PM (WaLgG)

The Yellowstone series is very accurate in portraying this.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 25, 2024 12:09 PM (BdMk6)

274 Posted by: pawn at January 25, 2024 12:05 PM (QB+5g)

No. I think I did say type bullshit once or twice. I apologize if that was offensive to you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2024 12:10 PM (Ki//m)

275 A company called "Whoosh" (sp?) has developed a water jet / vacuum system that will safely launch salmon over a dam while filtering out invasive species.

That sounds like a great idea until someone confuses the Whoosh for a t-shirt cannon at a concert.
Posted by: Archimedes

I think we can work with that.

Posted by: Monty Python's Flying Circus at January 25, 2024 12:10 PM (DgGvY)

276 I like girls jiggling their butts and I cannot lie.

I liked it before it devolved into "twerking".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2024 12:10 PM (2ocoG)

277 Tribes live in misery or largely at a bare subsistence level while a select few leaders are living the high life.

That's awful! Is it Trump's fault, or Putin's?

Posted by: Clueless Lefty at January 25, 2024 12:11 PM (JCZqz)

278 I can't criticize anyone for foul language; it flows out of me sometimes like water.

What I should do is reprogram myself to do it like Yosemite Sam - dirty racka-frackin, brak-a-saka, no-good varmint!

Posted by: PabloD at January 25, 2024 12:11 PM (lWhTR)

279 A salmon trebuchet would be funnier, but that's not bad.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2024 12:09 PM (2ocoG)

Hybridize the salmon w/those Mississippi carp....them's some jumpin' fools.

Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2024 12:11 PM (AwYPR)

280 You can always trash the Irish. I mean the Irish will trash the Irish. Especially when they are trashed.
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They are very fair, they hate everyone.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 25, 2024 12:11 PM (XeU6L)

281 It would likely cripple the US economy for years. Probably destroy some of the European economies.

I have trouble believing this.

Short term impacts? Sure.

But it isn't as if we can't make the stuff we are getting from China. We sent the work there because it is supposedly cheaper.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 12:11 PM (ibTVg)

282 Got any other ethnic groups you want to trash en masse?

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It's almost February and we're supposed to pretend that America has been enriched by the addition of rap and out of wedlock births and rampant violence and lowered academic standards and lowered expectations overall and peanut butter instead of criticizing the celebration of a cancerous culture.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Texas is grateful the pro-freedom Good Guys won the Civil War at January 25, 2024 12:11 PM (8DAzZ)

283 Why would you sell collateral for a loan?
Posted by: N at January 25, 2024 11:37 AM (RjBju)

Well, politicians and bureaucrats are both corrupt AND stupid. Would you like to ask your question again or do you suspect you know the answer?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 25, 2024 12:11 PM (zhLdt)

284 >>I liked it before it devolved into "twerking".

All things in moderation.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2024 12:11 PM (ZLI7S)

285 Hybridize the salmon w/those Mississippi carp....them's some jumpin' fools.
Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2024 12:11 PM (AwYPR)

They're asian carp, an invasive species.

And they're in the Illinois River. That's where most of the jumping happens.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 25, 2024 12:12 PM (N1tpc)

286 It's almost February and we're supposed to pretend that America has been enriched by the addition of rap and out of wedlock births and rampant violence and lowered academic standards and lowered expectations overall and peanut butter instead of criticizing the celebration of a cancerous culture.

All of the other things there come from the out-of-wedlock births. Repeal the Great Society.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2024 12:12 PM (2ocoG)

287 You can always trash the Irish. I mean the Irish will trash the Irish. Especially when they are trashed.

I watched a video from an American girl that moved to Ireland. She said she loved it.

Except it was hard to get a job, or housing, salaries were low, taxes were high, and all the interesting things to see required a car and you couldn't afford one unless you had one of those good jobs...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 12:12 PM (ibTVg)

288 They're asian carp, an invasive species.

And they're in the Illinois River. That's where most of the jumping happens.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 25, 2024 12:12 PM (N1tpc)

Well, then

Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2024 12:13 PM (AwYPR)

289 live in misery or largely at a bare subsistence level while a select few leaders are living the high life.

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It's neat how this applies to indians.

(Plays MC Hammer's "Can't Touch This")

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Texas is grateful the pro-freedom Good Guys won the Civil War at January 25, 2024 12:13 PM (8DAzZ)

290 live in misery or largely at a bare subsistence level while a select few leaders are living the high life.

Ahh, the WEF's preferred social model.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2024 12:14 PM (2ocoG)

291 It's almost February and we're supposed to pretend that America has been enriched by the addition of rap and out of wedlock births and rampant violence and lowered academic standards and lowered expectations overall and peanut butter instead of criticizing the celebration of a cancerous culture.
Posted by: Nikki Haley - Texas is grateful the pro-freedom Good Guys won the Civil War

When can we finally give the Queer community the attention it desperately deserves!?!?!?

Posted by: Gaystapo at January 25, 2024 12:14 PM (JCZqz)

292 Got any other ethnic groups you want to trash en masse?

I save all my bile, well maybe not all of it but most of it, and I like to vent my spleen on the canadians.

Problem is they never pick up on it being canadian and Dumber Than Dirt.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 25, 2024 12:14 PM (EvkyC)

293 live in misery or largely at a bare subsistence level while a select few leaders are living the high life.

Ahh, the WEF's preferred social model.

And Hamas's.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 12:14 PM (CsUN+)

294 All of the other things there come from the out-of-wedlock births. Repeal the Great Society.

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It's always interesting to note that whites reject white trash. It's a garbage-tier subculture to be pitied, teased, made fun of, and avoided.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Texas is grateful the pro-freedom Good Guys won the Civil War at January 25, 2024 12:15 PM (8DAzZ)

295 However, there is disagreement about how much damage they could do to TGG. It's a big structure.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:44 AM (CsUN+)

It's a big structure but you only need a little hole.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 25, 2024 12:15 PM (zhLdt)

296 It's always interesting to note that whites reject white trash. It's a garbage-tier subculture to be pitied, teased, made fun of, and avoided.

J.D. Vance would like a word.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 12:15 PM (CsUN+)

297 Turdogan agreed to Sweden's enty into NATO a couple of days ago, and now Hungary's Victor Orban has done an about face also. So it's a done deal.

http://tinyurl.com/2w77z944

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 25, 2024 12:16 PM (woPEM)

298 It's always interesting to note that whites reject white trash. It's a garbage-tier subculture to be pitied, teased, made fun of, and avoided.

White liberals and the media (but I repeat myself) present white trash as abhorrent and black/Latino trash as aspirational.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2024 12:16 PM (2ocoG)

299 295 However, there is disagreement about how much damage they could do to TGG. It's a big structure.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 11:44 AM (CsUN+)

It's a big structure but you only need a little hole.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 25, 2024 12:15 PM (zhLdt)

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How are the Chinese on little Dutch children?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

300 Just came by to tell you that even though yesterday was hump day-I abstained. Will power.

Posted by: Fat Fani at January 25, 2024 12:16 PM (V5BDR)

301 300 Just came by to tell you that even though yesterday was hump day-I abstained. Will power.
Posted by: Fat Fani at January 25, 2024 12:16 PM (V5BDR)

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Will you say that under oath?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

302 298 "It's always interesting to note that whites reject white trash. It's a garbage-tier subculture to be pitied, teased, made fun of, and avoided."

White liberals and the media (but I repeat myself) present white trash as abhorrent and black/Latino trash as aspirational.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2024 12:16 PM (2ocoG)

In some ways it is better to be an enemy of the ruling class than a "friend".

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 25, 2024 12:16 PM (eYoxG)

303 Go to the fucking fish store for your salmon needs, Chief.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 25, 2024 12:17 PM (ufFY8)

304 It's a big structure but you only need a little hole.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 25, 2024 12:15 PM (zhLdt)

I think that's where the disagreement arises. Concrete works differently than dirt. Would the hole grow significantly or not? I have no idea.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 12:17 PM (CsUN+)

305 Posted by: PabloD at January 25, 2024 12:11 PM (lWhTR)

I generally don't care what people say as far as curse words. Sometimes it's called for. I'm I saying what I do, maybe because I didn't grow up around folks who cursed a lot, and I find it-among kids a least incredibly unimaginative of them to say "I'm effing, tired of this effing thing." I used to walk around a track at a high school for exercise and the f word came out of their mouths every minute and not because they seemed to be particularly annoyed about anything-just because that was their language pattern.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2024 12:17 PM (Ki//m)

306 If you are want a wealthy or at least "stable" guy and you are actually looking for a guy that wastes money publicly.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 11:46 AM (ibTVg)

I think a lot of them want a wealthy or at least "stable" guy only after they're done fucking all the guys that waste money publicly.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 25, 2024 12:17 PM (zhLdt)

307 All of the other things there come from the out-of-wedlock births. Repeal the Great Society.

You get more of what you pay for.

Pay when to have children without a father around and you get more women having children without a father around.

Gods of the copybook headings and all that

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 12:17 PM (ibTVg)

308 Katie Couric and Kamala Harris exchanged pleasantries and even complained about online reports describing them as shorter than they are.

“It’s like literally, they just want to make us smaller,” Harris said complaining Wikipedia describes her as standing at 5’2″.

Harris claimed she’s 5’7″ with heels.

At one point Kamala Harris actually claimed we will “lose this democracy” if we elect a president who would weaponize the Justice Department and “go after their political enemies.”

Of course, this is precisely what Joe Biden is doing.

Posted by: SMOD at January 25, 2024 12:17 PM (RHGPo)

309
Max Tani
@maxwelltani

In an internal email this morning, Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng announced that the company is laying off 8% of its staff

Posted by: Azathoth at January 25, 2024 12:18 PM (wb1YC)

310 It's a big structure but you only need a little hole.

Is that what Fani tells her boyfriend?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2024 12:18 PM (2ocoG)

311 Gov Whitmer turns into a potato at the end of this X post.

http://tinyurl.com/4ncfuawe

I have nothing to add.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 25, 2024 12:18 PM (fs1hN)

312 Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 25, 2024 12:18 PM (b7MbH)

313 308 Katie Couric and Kamala Harris exchanged pleasantries and even complained about online reports describing them as shorter than they are.

“It’s like literally, they just want to make us smaller,” Harris said complaining Wikipedia describes her as standing at 5’2″.

Harris claimed she’s 5’7″ with heels.

At one point Kamala Harris actually claimed we will “lose this democracy” if we elect a president who would weaponize the Justice Department and “go after their political enemies.”

Of course, this is precisely what Joe Biden is doing.
Posted by: SMOD at January 25, 2024 12:17 PM (RHGPo)

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Very serious people with very serious things on their minds often complain that randoes on the internet think they're shorter than they actually are.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

314 They're asian carp, an invasive species.

And they're in the Illinois River. That's where most of the jumping happens.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

See?

Asian Carp are great jumpers. Why? They learned it to get over all the freakin' dams China builds.

So just wait, and eventually American Salmon will learn to jump over our dams, too.

It's Science™, beaches.

Posted by: mikeski at January 25, 2024 12:18 PM (DgGvY)

315 @308 it's literally *always* projection with the leftists.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Bird Law Expert at January 25, 2024 12:18 PM (snyZJ)

316 304 It's a big structure but you only need a little hole.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 25, 2024 12:15 PM (zhLdt)

I think that's where the disagreement arises. Concrete works differently than dirt. Would the hole grow significantly or not? I have no idea.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 12:17 PM (CsUN+)

Think it depends how you create the hole. A theoretically perfect hole wouldn't have much issue I think, but some other process that would normally create fractures?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 25, 2024 12:19 PM (eYoxG)

317 “It’s like literally, they just want to make us smaller,” Harris said complaining Wikipedia describes her as standing at 5’2″.

Harris claimed she’s 5’7″ with heels.

This is one of the more easily settled arguments, Kamala. Get on the height gauge.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 12:19 PM (CsUN+)

318
I think a lot of them want a wealthy or at least "stable" guy only after they're done fucking all the guys that waste money publicly.

It depends honestly. Imagine you are an average LIV female and you want a guy that is wealthy (as most women do). How do you find one? How do you know he is wealthy? I watch shows like Whatever and a lot of women on them have literally no idea how to find a successful guy...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 12:19 PM (ibTVg)

319 309
Max Tani
@maxwelltani

In an internal email this morning, Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng announced that the company is laying off 8% of its staff
Posted by: Azathoth at January 25, 2024 12:18 PM (wb1YC)

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But 4th quarter GDP was 3.3%.

Did Business Insider not get the memo that the economy is great?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

320 J.D. Vance would like a word.

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He would, too. He's pro hillbilly, but he would be the first to point out the white trash.

It's pretty easy to tell the difference, too. You don't have to have money to be clean.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Texas is grateful the pro-freedom Good Guys won the Civil War at January 25, 2024 12:19 PM (8DAzZ)

321 317 “It’s like literally, they just want to make us smaller,” Harris said complaining Wikipedia describes her as standing at 5’2″.

Harris claimed she’s 5’7″ with heels.

This is one of the more easily settled arguments, Kamala. Get on the height gauge.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2024 12:19 PM (CsUN+)

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I love the "with heels" addendum. How high are the heels? 5 inches?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

322 Gov Whitmer turns into a potato at the end of this X post.

http://tinyurl.com/4ncfuawe

I have nothing to add.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 25, 2024 12:18 PM (fs1hN)

All roads lead to Brian Stelter.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2024 12:20 PM (2ocoG)

323 Not a word about Abbott or Texas on the NYT home page. Is anyone surprised?

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2024 12:20 PM (Gse2f)

324 Over at Citizen Free Press: "Oreo cookies lowers LDL cholesterol more than statins" ... lol

Oreo cookies .... mmmmm

Posted by: ET at January 25, 2024 11:46 AM (7ft1k)

I've watched a few videos on this. It's a real study - with, I believe, one participant. The data is genuine but the caveats are many. Realistically, the only value - assuming you accept that cholesterol is bad and statins are good - is wondering why.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 25, 2024 12:20 PM (zhLdt)

325 “It’s like literally, they just want to make us smaller,” Harris said complaining Wikipedia describes her as standing at 5’2″.

Harris claimed she’s 5’7″ with heels.

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uh...

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Texas is grateful the pro-freedom Good Guys won the Civil War at January 25, 2024 12:20 PM (8DAzZ)

326 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 25, 2024 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

327 "This particular barge wasn’t very big, yet as one of the workers handling traffic that day told me "that one barge hauls as much grain as 500 trucks."

The Mississippi has ? about 26 locks and dams that enable the movement of grain (and other things) from pretty far up the river. After St. Louis (?) it is open to the gulf ... but afaik only Keokuk has hydro-electric.

Some YouTube guy did a trip in a houseboat from MN to the gulf, but there were no services (for gas) after St. Louis ... things get a little treacherous for the average boater in all the barge and river traffic.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 25, 2024 12:20 PM (Cus5s)

328 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 25, 2024 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

329 323 Not a word about Abbott or Texas on the NYT home page. Is anyone surprised?
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2024 12:20 PM (Gse2f)

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I would have expected much more pearl clutching at the end of democracy by a democratically elected governor resisting the order of a non-democratically appointed judiciary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 25, 2024 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

330 He would, too. He's pro hillbilly, but he would be the first to point out the white trash.

It's pretty easy to tell the difference, too. You don't have to have money to be clean.

Chris Rock's poor blacks vs. N-words routine is pretty much the same thing.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2024 12:20 PM (2ocoG)

331
NOOD -- Branch Davosians

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 25, 2024 12:21 PM (xG4kz)

332 There's a great case to be made that Kamala is mentally retarded.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 25, 2024 12:21 PM (wb1YC)

333 I watch shows like Whatever and a lot of women on them have literally no idea how to find a successful guy...
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To be fair, they have literally no idea on just about any topic.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 25, 2024 12:21 PM (fs1hN)

334 Some YouTube guy did a trip in a houseboat from MN to the gulf, but there were no services (for gas) after St. Louis ... things get a little treacherous for the average boater in all the barge and river traffic.

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If I were to win the lottery that's something I would do, with the boat being the tip for the crew at the end of the voyage. Take the whole summer, maybe.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Texas is grateful the pro-freedom Good Guys won the Civil War at January 25, 2024 12:21 PM (8DAzZ)

335 Gov Whitmer turns into a potato at the end of this X post.

The FNM tells me she is really popular. Way more then half of the comments are negative on her potato posting.

Why...its almost like are elections are bullshit or something...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 12:22 PM (ibTVg)

336 Chris Rock's poor blacks vs. N-words routine is pretty much the same thing.

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It's almost like there's some universal truth to life.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Texas is grateful the pro-freedom Good Guys won the Civil War at January 25, 2024 12:22 PM (8DAzZ)

337 It's always interesting to note that whites reject white trash. It's a garbage-tier subculture to be pitied, teased, made fun of, and avoided.
Posted by: Nikki Haley - Texas is grateful the pro-freedom Good Guys won the Civil War at January 25, 2024 12:15 PM (8DAzZ)

White trash chicks can be a lot of fun though.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 25, 2024 12:23 PM (BdMk6)

338 Email Reveals Why CDC Didn’t Issue Alert on COVID Vaccines and Myocarditis...CDC officials were worried about causing panic.

Posted by: SMOD at January 25, 2024 12:25 PM (RHGPo)

339
To be fair, they have literally no idea on just about any topic.

My favorite moment on that show was when Mary Morgan faced off on...3?... OF models.

That woman has a future in "internet content for the right" if she wants it. Last I heard I think she is working for...Tim Pool?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2024 12:26 PM (ibTVg)

340 NIKKI HALEY AND HILLARY CLINTON HAVE THE SAME DONORS

Posted by: SMOD at January 25, 2024 12:26 PM (RHGPo)

341 Another example of what living in a fictional reality evokes. Get woke and break everything, then sit in the wreckage and blame everyone else.

More and more the 62 cent solution appeals.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 25, 2024 12:26 PM (KATBx)

342 her boyfriend is a civil engineer...opposed to wanton destruction of infrastructure for no perceivable benefit

Boy howdy, have we ever been running with two different packs of engineers. A civil engineer will take anything down if the check clears and somebody else buys the dynamite and insurance.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 25, 2024 12:29 PM (zdLoL)

343 There's a great case to be made that Kamala is mentally retarded.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 25, 2024 12:21 PM (wb1YC)

prolly the syphilis

Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2024 12:33 PM (AwYPR)

344 Some YouTube guy did a trip in a houseboat from MN to the gulf, but there were no services (for gas) after St. Louis ... things get a little treacherous for the average boater in all the barge and river traffic.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 25, 2024 12:20 PM (Cus5s)

A houseboat trip like that sounds like a great getaway. I hope our Snake River ‘dam workers’ get to keep the dams and their jobs.

Posted by: Rex B at January 25, 2024 12:36 PM (5h/8D)

345 Is there a California rice belt? If so, will this damn removal & associated projects be affected? How about impact on the multitude of smaller, older & less wealthy communities?

Posted by: L - Cellphone but confident they're doing their very best to make our lives FUBAR at January 25, 2024 12:43 PM (xhYBn)

346 the f word came out of their mouths every minute and not because they seemed to be particularly annoyed about anything-just because that was their language pattern.

I'm as foul-mouthed as the next sonofabitch, but I'm totes with the SpokeWoman on this. For high-powered epithets to maintain their impact, you can't just spend them on any little thing that comes along. You don't waste your best curses.

I also draw a line between 'mere' stevedore-talk and actual vain imprecation to the Creator. I can call someone all sorts of things without praying for God to damn him. Although I have not risen above it, I usually use that for inanimate objects.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 25, 2024 12:51 PM (zdLoL)

347 In an effort to encourage the discovery of more treatment and diagnostic options in the medical field, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized a rule allowing certain clinical trials to operate without obtaining informed consent from participants.

… and just like that, they were ready for the next Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Posted by: SMOD at January 25, 2024 03:22 PM (RHGPo)

348 We here in Siskiyou County California are also facing the demands of the Removal of Dams Our City Water comes from a local Creek we have a Small Dam on the Creek don't put it past the Eco-Freaks to demand it be removed since these nutbars are total idiots

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 25, 2024 04:41 PM (wGqjj)

349 I'm in Idaho and have been writing my congressman, Fulcher, repeatedly asking him to "give Simpson a slap from me" since I cannot vote for Simpson's replacement. He is pushing this dam removal thing and Fulcher agrees that this is absurd at the least. Maybe we should all move into this century and realize the salmon are not returning to the lower Snake river no matter what congresscritters want to do for tribes. As far as I'm concerned the tribes can have claim to every salmon they can catch year 'round. Just leave our "free" power generators alone along with our transportation corridors for the crops we raise and ship off to the pacific via the columbia river.

Posted by: S.Lynn at January 25, 2024 08:25 PM (kbs5a)

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