The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

The Law Of Unintended Consequences is a complicated idea for most of our elites and most of our politicians, but this consequence is so obvious that one suspects that it was absolutely intended.

The D.C. cops do nothing when stores are looting, emboldening thieves who recently stripped a CVS pharmacy practically bare. And lo and behold! It looks like those goods are being sold right across the street...probably by the same people who stole them.

DC decriminalized illegal street vending, this is the result!
[Hat Tip: dhmosquito]

It turns out that Washington DC City just decriminalized illegal street vending!
It is called the Street Vendor Advancement Amendment Act of 2023, which went into effect on July 1st, 2023.
The act decriminalized illegal street vending. It granted an amnesty for unpaid fines and unpaid sales tax. It banned background checks for people seeking permits and licenses. The act also created the "Columbia Heights-Mount Pleasant Sidewalk Vending Zone."

Read into it a bit and you will discover that there is also graft involved. Yes...I know...that is shocking in our nation's capital.

Decriminalizing theft, then decriminalizing once-illegal street vending seems too convenient to be unintended. Driving out the retail businesses in these neighborhoods is the The Cloward-Piven strategy, nothing more.

But the good people of the District of Columbia voted for these policies by electing and reelecting a never-ending series of hard-left politicians whose interests are diametrically opposed to the goals of most people.

Anyway...

On to New York City, whose subway system is a wasteland governed by gangs, random violence, and catastrophic under-policing caused by the decriminalization of pretty much everything short of being white and protecting other riders. So the wicked witch of Albany has decided to revoke the 4th Amendment and send the National Guard and the State Police into the subways to harass law-abiding citizens. Yeah...searches of middle-aged housewives' handbags is going to stop crime in its tracks!

Governor Hochul is a fascist, whose idea of a good time is siccing her pet legislature on her enemies; like gun owners and small businesses. But she sure does love criminals...NY has been a leader in eliminating bail, ending jail for parole violations, etc. The huge increase in crime is not a surprise, nor is the evisceration of our civil rights under the guise of crime prevention.

It's called authoritarianism, and it is alive and well in NY.

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 st!

Posted by: Clapton's Laundress at March 07, 2024 11:00 AM (HnUIn)

2 Commenting present

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2024 11:00 AM (XzQYp)

3 And off sock!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:00 AM (HnUIn)

4 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 07, 2024 11:00 AM (Wnv9h)

5 Decriminalizing theft, then decriminalizing once-illegal street vending seems too convenient to be unintended. Driving out the retail businesses in these neighborhoods is the The Cloward-Piven strategy, nothing more.
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But what's funny is that the Left is stuck on stupid in this regard. You run that strategy against an enemy, not against your own people.

The Left is a bit schizoid in this regard. Many of them genuinely don't seem to understand that they're in charge, and they're running this op against their *own* power structure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:02 AM (HnUIn)

6 I thought DC had Fed oversight? I mean, it's not like they're busy.

Posted by: BignJames at March 07, 2024 11:03 AM (AwYPR)

7 I hate cities.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 07, 2024 11:03 AM (9yWhg)

8 I hate cities.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 07, 2024 11:03 AM

*fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 07, 2024 11:04 AM (Wnv9h)

9 Some Good News from AP:

Gird your loins! Jockstraps are still holding up after 150 years

Happy 150th birthday, dear jockstrap. How far you’ve come from your modest but mighty days protecting the precious parts of bicycle messengers as they navigated the bumpy cobblestones of Boston.

Posted by: SMOD at March 07, 2024 11:05 AM (RHGPo)

10 On to New York City, whose subway system is a wasteland governed by gangs, random violence, and catastrophic under-policing caused by the decriminalization of pretty much everything short of being white and protecting other riders. So the wicked witch of Albany has decided to revoke the 4th Amendment and send the National Guard and the State Police into the subways to harass law-abiding citizens. Yeah...searches of middle-aged housewives' handbags is going to stop crime in its tracks!
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Perhaps. This is entirely possible and my first reaction, too - along with my immediate observation that military and police serve different functions and re-purposing soldiers as cops is a bad idea.

But then there's the Sanctuary City problem. Some Moron (I forget who, apologies) pointed out that Hochul might not be concerned with normal crime against citizens, but that she became aware of the scale of terrorist imports and the knowledge of some of them - or maybe a lot of them - in NYC, and so is more pre-positioning military assets in the City to interrupt or respond to inevitable terrorism.

Occam raises an eyebrow at that many assumptions, but it doesn't strike me as entirely impossi

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:05 AM (HnUIn)

11 Now, that's progressive legislation!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:05 AM (FVME7)

12 But what's funny is that the Left is stuck on stupid in this regard. You run that strategy against an enemy, not against your own people

Educated retards. Mind-numbingly dense about a great many things.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 07, 2024 11:05 AM (Rls1J)

13 But what's funny is that the Left is stuck on stupid in this regard. You run that strategy against an enemy, not against your own people.

The Left is a bit schizoid in this regard. Many of them genuinely don't seem to understand that they're in charge, and they're running this op against their *own* power structure.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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The street left is unable to comprehend tanstaffl. The oligarchs and foreign powers manipulating the left do so for power, profit, shits, and giggles.

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:06 AM (hKOIV)

14 Marxism on the march

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2024 11:07 AM (XzQYp)

15 So....what happens when an over enthusiastic YT member of the Yankee Imperial Guard beats, or heaven forbid, kills a colored gal in the subway system of New Yawk City?

The Horror, The Horror...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 07, 2024 11:07 AM (/SHEi)

16 There are times when I wonder if we can even blame the people who actually vote in Cali or NY, given other circumstances

There is still a lot of blame to go around though. Getting into office or even staying there is one thing- tolerating it is another.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at March 07, 2024 11:08 AM (5YGrl)

17 7 I hate cities.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I hate dysfunctional cities which is most US cities after the 1960's. They gave up securing law and order and abandoned cities to the tender mercies of criminals.

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:08 AM (hKOIV)

18 The street left is unable to comprehend tanstaffl. The oligarchs and foreign powers manipulating the left do so for power, profit, shits, and giggles.
Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:06 AM (hKOIV)
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Right.

And they have the power. These campaigns are all run by the power centers, not the street warriors. They're attacking their own stability. There's no point in systematically destabilizing your own power system.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:08 AM (HnUIn)

19 What’s the big problem. The ass wipe New Yorkers voted for this.
They had a smart problem solver in Zeldin and they showed him the door.
No fuck you and live with you’re overbearing witch of a governor.

Posted by: Redenzo at March 07, 2024 11:08 AM (V/pbu)

20 U.S. Army Revamps Training to Reflect Lessons Learned in Ukraine

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And what would those be?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:09 AM (FVME7)

21 The Left is a bit schizoid in this regard. Many of them genuinely don't seem to understand that they're in charge, and they're running this op against their *own* power structure.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:02 AM (HnUIn)

I think the strategy is destroy their own cities, put their own people to flight, and replace them with illegals.and lunatics, in the sure knowledge that the nominally productive people who had the wherewithal to flee their policies will mindlessly implement those same policies wherever they go.

It's like a cancer that metastasizes from an organ it's ruining to a healthy one.

If you're the cancer, it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 07, 2024 11:09 AM (0FoWg)

22 "pre-positioning military assets in the City to interrupt or respond to inevitable terrorism."

Oh sure, the NYNG is properly trained in urban warfare and terrorism, particularly in a dense, high-building'd place like Manhattan. I'm sure they do MOUT training all the time....

Posted by: SFGoth at March 07, 2024 11:09 AM (KAi1n)

23 You know if portable listeria is what DC wants I'm not going to stand in their way. Or mourn them.

Posted by: DaveA at March 07, 2024 11:10 AM (PMJuY)

24 emboldening thieves who recently stripped a CVS pharmacy practically bare

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We are rapidly moving beyond the "killing the goose that laid the golden eggs" stage and right into the "scavenging the remaining scraps of the carcass" stage.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 11:10 AM (991eG)

25 Just getting you used to having the military in the streets of our cities!

After all, Our Precious Democracy is at stake in the upcoming election, and we need to prepare.

Posted by: Sturmf�hrer Hochul! at March 07, 2024 11:10 AM (YAtuc)

26 Looks like Haiti could collapse any moment.

Thousands will flee and head to our open borders. Violent gang members and the dirt poor illiterate.

Posted by: Are your Loins Girded? at March 07, 2024 11:10 AM (ruqzg)

27 Trench warfare. Drone usage. Wars of attrition.

I wonder how Ukraine would stack up if it were reported breathlessly the same way as the nightly casualty reports from Vietnam (which was before my time, but I have heard a LOT of derisive comments of same.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at March 07, 2024 11:11 AM (5YGrl)

28 U.S. Army Revamps Training to Reflect Lessons Learned in Ukraine

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And what would those be?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:09 AM

Never get involved in a land war in Eurasia!

Posted by: Vizzini at March 07, 2024 11:12 AM (Wnv9h)

29 Legalizing shoplifting and street vending is just reparations with extra steps.

Posted by: ... at March 07, 2024 11:12 AM (tiKqN)

30 I don't have a problem with decriminalizing street vending. Theft of course, is theft and should be prosecuted accordingly which it is not. But you are right about the incentives to steal and then resell.....as a street vendor. Do the street vendors get to protect themselves from theft? Can CVS steal it right back?

"Unintended consequences" are not a real thing. It is just the events that happen after doing "something, anything!" without thinking.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at March 07, 2024 11:12 AM (P7Iz+)

31 15 So....what happens when an over enthusiastic YT member of the Yankee Imperial Guard beats, or heaven forbid, kills a colored gal in the subway system of New Yawk City?

The Horror, The Horror...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy
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More likely to be vice versa. From my personal experience, my guess is that there will be one guy with the live ammo under lock and key and that it will be distributed when an officer feels that it is needed.

The old less than lethal way was training troops to use bayonets and rifle butts to dissuade those that might challenge troops in civil disorder.

To quote Lance Corporal Jones, "Cold Steel, the Fuzzie Wuzzies don't like it up 'em."

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:13 AM (hKOIV)

32 Blue cities are not murder capitols, the left all say so!

And: They are not crime-ridden hellholes because they stopped counting crimes.

You are racist if you don't believe them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 07, 2024 11:13 AM (yikga)

33 Some Good News from AP:

Gird your loins! Jockstraps are still holding up after 150 years

Happy 150th birthday, dear jockstrap. How far you’ve come from your modest but mighty days protecting the precious parts of bicycle messengers as they navigated the bumpy cobblestones of Boston.
Posted by: SMOD at March 07, 2024 11:05 AM (RHGPo)

"If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter!"

Posted by: Doof at March 07, 2024 11:13 AM (JunzL)

34 My wife and I passed a yard sale a week or so ago. Dozens of jugs of laundry soap. Dish soap. Bottle after bottle of supplements, vitamins and other OTC stuff. An entire table covered with various band-aid packages.

The local Walgreens had been robbed a day or two earlier.

Probably just a coincidence...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 07, 2024 11:13 AM (Q4IgG)

35 Also wasn't Hochuls plan discussed in the seminal movie, The Siege with Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis. Odd. The movie made it sound like it was a horror beyond comprehension.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at March 07, 2024 11:13 AM (5YGrl)

36 29 Legalizing shoplifting and street vending is just reparations with extra steps.
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You could go far with reasoning like that in academia. Might have to do a Rachel Dolezal though.

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:14 AM (hKOIV)

37 My wife and I passed a yard sale a week or so ago. Dozens of jugs of laundry soap. Dish soap. Bottle after bottle of supplements, vitamins and other OTC stuff. An entire table covered with various band-aid packages.

The local Walgreens had been robbed a day or two earlier.

Probably just a coincidence...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 07, 2024 11:13 AM (Q4IgG)
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Definitely. That guy for sure has a line on surplus merchandise from a liquidator.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:14 AM (HnUIn)

38 You could go far with reasoning like that in academia. Might have to do a Rachel Dolezal though.
Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:14 AM (hKOIV)
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Better if he doesn't. White people self-abasing themselves at the feet of the cause plays really well in academia.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:15 AM (HnUIn)

39 You could go far with reasoning like that in academia. Might have to do a Rachel Dolezal though.
Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:14 AM (hKOIV)

OnlyFans?

*shudders at memory*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at March 07, 2024 11:15 AM (5YGrl)

40 More likely to be vice versa. From my personal experience, my guess is that there will be one guy with the live ammo under lock and key and that it will be distributed when an officer feels that it is needed.
Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:13 AM (hKOIV)

Like Marjoe Gortner in "Earthquake" without the attempted rape.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 07, 2024 11:16 AM (/SHEi)

41 "The local Walgreens had been robbed a day or two earlier.

Probably just a coincidence..."

I'm sure.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 11:16 AM (a1415)

42 The Law of Intended Consequences.

By Saul Alisnky and Bill Ayers

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 07, 2024 11:17 AM (AJDwy)

43 That damn Trump!

Trump Sends Support to Kid Rock After His Father Passes Away

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:17 AM (FVME7)

44 It's like a cancer that metastasizes from an organ it's ruining to a healthy one.

If you're the cancer, it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Most of those blue people have livelihoods that will be wiped out by AI and the coming bankruptcy of public finances in the US--either defaulting via massive inflation or a formal default. All the blue vagrants can do is speed up the process.

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:17 AM (hKOIV)

45 Time to start shopping the black market, I guess. After all, it's apparently no longer a crime and I need cheaper groceries.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 07, 2024 11:18 AM (xcxpd)

46 Most of those blue people have livelihoods that will be wiped out by AI and the coming bankruptcy of public finances in the US--either defaulting via massive inflation or a formal default. All the blue vagrants can do is speed up the process.
Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:17 AM (hKOIV)
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Which it would behoove them not to do. But their worldview depends on them being rebels - even when they rebel against nobody but themselves.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:18 AM (HnUIn)

47 Time to start shopping the black market, I guess. After all, it's apparently no longer a crime and I need cheaper groceries.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 07, 2024 11:18 AM (xcxpd)
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Oh, it's a crime for you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:18 AM (HnUIn)

48 There was a guy at work who sold "drug store" items at a flea market on weekends...he was eventually connected and prosecuted for being part of a truck jacking ring.

Posted by: BignJames at March 07, 2024 11:18 AM (AwYPR)

49 Rebels without a Clue.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at March 07, 2024 11:18 AM (5YGrl)

50 Amusing:

Biden wanted both Zelensky's wife and Navalny's widow to sit side by side at the State of the Union address. Sort of a "women against Putin" display.

Both of them turned Biden down.

Zelensky's wife probably didn't want the glorious Ukrainians and the evil Russians to be treated as equals by seating them side by side. Navalny never called for Ukrainian victory, and until a year ago said that Crimea was a part of Russia.

Navalny's widow probably doesn't want to look like a complete American puppet, and the calls in Washington to supply more military equipment to kill Russian soldiers in memory of Navalny aren't doing the Russian opposition any favors.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:18 AM (YAtuc)

51 Gird your loins! Jockstraps are still holding up after 150 years

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Now we need Jillstraps.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:19 AM (FVME7)

52 If you live in the land of wolves, don't be a sheep.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 07, 2024 11:19 AM (xcxpd)

53 Now we need Jillstraps.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:19 AM (FVME7)
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Chastity belts?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:19 AM (HnUIn)

54 At the SOTU Biden is expected to announce the appointment of Rube Goldberg as the new Secretary of Sustainable Infrastructure.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 11:19 AM (991eG)

55 U.S. Army Revamps Training to Reflect Lessons Learned in Ukraine

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And what would those be?
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Good: Sell your old junk to suckers
Better: Loan those suckers the money to buy your old junk
Best: Loan the suckers money to buy your old junk, and get massive budget increases to buy new stuff to replace that old junk you didn't need.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 07, 2024 11:19 AM (yikga)

56 5
‘ don't seem to understand that they're in charge’

The stooges that listen to them and vote for them may not understand.
But everything I’ve seen their leaders do tells me that they are well aware they’re in charge and are casting themselves as underdogs is mere manipulation.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 07, 2024 11:19 AM (jbnUc)

57 So now an "unreasonable search" becomes okay because I boarded a train car? Who to search? Granny or young POC?

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 07, 2024 11:20 AM (0S27Y)

58 If you live in the land of wolves, don't be a sheep.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 07, 2024 11:19 AM (xcxpd)
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In the land of the wolves, the man with half a sheep is king!

Posted by: I think that's how it goes at March 07, 2024 11:20 AM (HnUIn)

59 47 Time to start shopping the black market, I guess. After all, it's apparently no longer a crime and I need cheaper groceries.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 07, 2024 11:18 AM (xcxpd)
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Oh, it's a crime for you.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:18 AM (HnUIn)

I'm a cowboy. On a steel horse I ride.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 07, 2024 11:20 AM (xcxpd)

60 Stealth redistribution and reparations. Like the stealth 420 Billion student loan forgiveness.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2024 11:20 AM (V13WU)

61 Good: Sell your old junk to suckers
Better: Loan those suckers the money to buy your old junk
Best: Loan the suckers money to buy your old junk, and get massive budget increases to buy new stuff to replace that old junk you didn't need.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 07, 2024 11:19 AM (yikga)
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Bestest: destroy the currency in the process.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:21 AM (HnUIn)

62 The D.C. cops do nothing when stores are looting, emboldening thieves who recently stripped a CVS pharmacy practically bare. And lo and behold! It looks like those goods are being sold right across the street...probably by the same people who stole them.

DC decriminalized illegal street vending, this is the result!

It turns out that Washington DC City just decriminalized illegal street vending!
It is called the Street Vendor Advancement Amendment Act of 2023, which went into effect on July 1st, 2023.

Every store, bodega & pharmacy should leve the district. Let the street vendors supply everything.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2024 11:21 AM (IB/6k)

63 40 More likely to be vice versa. From my personal experience, my guess is that there will be one guy with the live ammo under lock and key and that it will be distributed when an officer feels that it is needed.
Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:13 AM (hKOIV)

Like Marjoe Gortner in "Earthquake" without the attempted rape.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy
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Something like that. A couple of times when deployed in various unpleasant places, we were issued M-16's when we went off base to work but no live ammo which was under lock and key. About all we could do with the empty rifles would be chuck it at them as we did not even have bayonets.

Saw reports after 9/11 where they had similarly stupid rules for National Guard troops at airports. All that stupid shit is basically to prevent officers from getting in trouble from an AD or an actual use of force. Leftist shit of security theater.

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:21 AM (hKOIV)

64 Heard on the news that the Guard will be performing "random" searches. They'd better not randomly search the wrong people.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 07, 2024 11:21 AM (63Dwl)

65
Didn't the Clintons run a grift about helping Haiti years ago?

My MIL's socialist christian sister was always going down to help and coming back with stories about how wonderful the people there were...

Posted by: Auspex at March 07, 2024 11:21 AM (j4U/Z)

66 If you live in the land of wolves, don't be a sheep.

Or at least don't be the slowest sheep.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 11:21 AM (CsUN+)

67 Every store, bodega & pharmacy should leve the district. Let the street vendors supply everything.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2024 11:21 AM (IB/6k)
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How do you expect them to do so if you constrain the supply chain like that? The market ecosystem is a fragile thing, Rick!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:21 AM (HnUIn)

68 Now we need Jillstraps.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:19 AM

Sports Bra's?

Posted by: TC at March 07, 2024 11:22 AM (FjlUt)

69 All I need to know about Haiti I learned from The Serpent and the Rainbow.

That was one freaky movie.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 07, 2024 11:22 AM (9yWhg)

70 It banned background checks for people seeking permits and licenses.

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Why would anyone even bother to seek permits and licenses if formerly illegal street vending has been decriminalized?

An anarcho-terrorist shithole psychopathocracy if you can keep it ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 07, 2024 11:23 AM (QKTdB)

71 Heard on the news that the Guard will be performing "random" searches. They'd better not randomly search the wrong people.

Not to worry. They'll be operating under TSA rules, so grandmas from Iowa better not be carrying.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 11:23 AM (CsUN+)

72 69 All I need to know about Haiti I learned from The Serpent and the Rainbow.

That was one freaky movie.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 07, 2024 11:22 AM (9yWhg)

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The moment one imagined Wes Craven having an interesting film directing career, which was quickly dashed when...he kept making movies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 07, 2024 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

73 Heard on the news that the Guard will be performing "random" searches. They'd better not randomly search the wrong people.

They'll search white accountants heading for Wall Street.

They're not going to be stupid enough to search actual criminals - Daniel Perry shows what happens when you tangle with those.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:23 AM (YAtuc)

74 This is nothing more than helping the underclass survive as the underclass.

All while acting like you've done a great service in helping the underclass maintain some type of above-ground existence.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 07, 2024 11:23 AM (KbCG3)

75 53 Now we need Jillstraps.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:19 AM (FVME7)
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Chastity belts?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:19 AM (HnUIn)

A little lume on your jillstraps will get rid of that funky odor

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 07, 2024 11:24 AM (7HpjT)

76 A little lume on your jillstraps will get rid of that funky odor
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 07, 2024 11:24 AM (7HpjT)
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There's a jingle in there somewhere, but I can't quite find it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:24 AM (HnUIn)

77 I'm marginally pro-choice, but I'll say it: It's too important for women to kill their babies.

It's a sacrifice of Satanic proportions. The cost is the Frankfort-School-ening of your city, but the benefit is "Choice" to remain unburdened by other human lives.

Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 11:24 AM (krQz2)

78 Now we need Jillstraps.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:19 AM

*cringes*

Not the strap!

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 07, 2024 11:24 AM (Wnv9h)

79 So will these citizens of the cities who are losing all their shopping places just move elsewhere and ruin other cities?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 07, 2024 11:25 AM (AJDwy)

80 New York voters, just to take as an example, are pretty clear evidence that human evolution seems to be moving backwards.

Posted by: Paco at March 07, 2024 11:25 AM (njExo)

81 Look at what just happened in NYC and SF.

NY is calling in the National Guard.

Super liberal, anything goes SF just implemented a policing and surveillance regime that none of us law and order types would tolerate.

Anarcho-tyranny is not just a conspiracy theory.

Posted by: Ronsonic at March 07, 2024 11:25 AM (My44I)

82 This will cause NYC support for Dems to plummet from 98.23% to 98.22%

Posted by: Montec at March 07, 2024 11:25 AM (bWsRe)

83 Which it would behoove them not to do. But their worldview depends on them being rebels - even when they rebel against nobody but themselves.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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The tyranny of being 'cool' and complying with the MSM's changing definitions of it.

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:25 AM (hKOIV)

84 If DC goes full Bartertown, will we watch Thunderdome on Netflix?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 07, 2024 11:26 AM (z+89e)

85
Heard on the news that the Guard will be performing "random" searches. They'd better not randomly search the wrong people.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 07, 2024 11:21 AM (63Dwl)

Saw a video this morning and they appeared to be searching every 10th person coming down an escalator. So they have a plan. Until Latisha is picked and in a foul mood. Then the party begins.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 11:26 AM (RKVpM)

86 64 Heard on the news that the Guard will be performing "random" searches. They'd better not randomly search the wrong people.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 07, 2024 11:21 AM (63Dwl)

During my freshman year of college, I often flew home from NYC to Upstate NY right after 9/11.

I was always put into the "random" search line with a lot of people who looked a lot like me.

You would've thought we were in a crappy folk band.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 07, 2024 11:26 AM (KbCG3)

87 “American Idol” Producer Nigel Lythgoe Slapped With Fourth Sexual Assault Suit

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Geez! It's almost as if Hollywood is infested with pervs!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:26 AM (FVME7)

88 If you plan to fly commercial after stripping the carcass of the American economy, make sure your carrion fits inn the overhead compartment.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 11:26 AM (991eG)

89 Didn't the Clintons run a grift about helping Haiti years ago?

When Saint Aristide was running Haiti, all sorts of Clinton Administration officials were running grifts in Haiti - I recall that the Haitian cell phone monopoly was a particular target.

Sort of a proto-Ukraine.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:26 AM (YAtuc)

90 Has Ronna been kicked out of her office yet?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 07, 2024 11:26 AM (++4z6)

91 According to a new poll, roughly a quarter of all Americans want their state to secede from the Union. At the top of the list is Alaska. I call BS. The last thing they'd do is walk away from all of the sweet baksheesh provided by the rest of us.

https://tinyurl.com/3ep57emk

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 11:27 AM (CsUN+)

92 Do street vendors sell goods to the food trucks? I mean, it would behoove the criminals to hit up grocery stores and then sell the goods at a discount to food trucks so they can get a free dinner.

Sort of a self perpetuating deal.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 07, 2024 11:27 AM (Q4IgG)

93 Now we need Jillstraps.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:19 AM

Sports Bra's?
Posted by: TC at March 07, 2024 11:22 AM (FjlUt)

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G-strings for men pretending to be tranny women?

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 07, 2024 11:27 AM (QKTdB)

94

Are the street vendors selling "loosies?"
They got some splainin' to do!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 07, 2024 11:27 AM (63Dwl)

95 Vivek Ramaswamy for VP!

Change my mind!

Posted by: Rvd at March 07, 2024 11:27 AM (fvaUq)

96 Housing starts in Port-au-Princee have reached an all time low.

"Haiti has no homes here!"

Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 11:27 AM (991eG)

97 64 Heard on the news that the Guard will be performing "random" searches. They'd better not randomly search the wrong people.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 07, 2024 11:21 AM (63Dwl)

How us this even legal? Has she declared Marshall law?

There used to be places like the ACLU who would take the gov to court over these things, now they just splain why it's good cause it targets hawhyte soupremcees.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 07, 2024 11:27 AM (7HpjT)

98 Military police checkpoints in the railway stations. How Third World/Fascist.

We are all going to miss the High Trust Society the Progressive Democrats are rapidly tearing down.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at March 07, 2024 11:28 AM (a/7LW)

99 U.S. Army Revamps Training to Reflect Lessons Learned in Ukraine
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And what would those be?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

We're having some trouble here...which richer country's leader do we beg for cash in exchange for embezzling 10% back?

Posted by: US Military Graft curriculum writer at March 07, 2024 11:28 AM (JCZqz)

100 When Saint Aristide was running Haiti, all sorts of Clinton Administration officials were running grifts in Haiti - I recall that the Haitian cell phone monopoly was a particular target.

Sort of a proto-Ukraine.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Complete with sex trafficking.

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:28 AM (hKOIV)

101 Heard on the news that the Guard will be performing "random" searches. They'd better not randomly search the wrong people.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Where?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2024 11:28 AM (IB/6k)

102
Four people charged in relation to the body parts of two people scattered across three parks have been released with ankle monitors and no bail.

One of them is homeless. But of course not a flight risk.

Posted by: Generation Degeneration at March 07, 2024 11:29 AM (My44I)

103 There is a graphic from WH dot gov that is advertising the SOTU tonight. Only trouble is they list the date as February 7th and the year 2023.

They wouldn't be them if they didn't' show us again their incompetence.

Posted by: Cheri The Snow Roach at March 07, 2024 11:29 AM (oiNtH)

104 If you plan to fly commercial after stripping the carcass of the American economy, make sure your carrion fits inn the overhead compartment.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 11:26 AM (991eG)

Carrion My Wayward Son.

-Kansas

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at March 07, 2024 11:29 AM (xPJvm)

105 The Law Of Unintended Consequences is a complicated idea for most of our elites
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The funny thing about that is that a lot of us in the Conservative sphere will say that phrase. And because a lot of people say the same phrase--and progs don't get it--that becomes "talking points".

In today's politics there is less and less room for common observations and holdings, because everything not understood by the opposition can be reduced down to "talking points".

Compounding the left's inability to grasp Unintended Consequences, is our ability to predict what they might be--although even if you tell them people are getting laid off or inflation occurs when you raise the minimum wage, pointing out that you pointed it out before they did it is: Pouncing.

Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 11:29 AM (krQz2)

106 Jockstraps:

Introducing the Tucker collection by Rachel Levine....

Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 11:29 AM (991eG)

107 If you plan to fly commercial after stripping the carcass of the American economy, make sure your carrion fits inn the overhead compartment.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 11:26 AM (991eG)

Carrion My Wayward Son.

-Kansas
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at March 07, 2024 11:29 AM (xPJvm)
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It's all dust in the wind at the point of no return.

Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 11:30 AM (krQz2)

108 At the top of the list is Alaska.

I hear Putin is interested in reacquiring it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 07, 2024 11:30 AM (9yWhg)

109 To hell with the District of Columbia and New York City. They have what the people voted for. No crying now.

I missed the art thread, but I do like that the model is showing a lot of shoulder. I'm a shoulder man. It's not weird.

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 11:30 AM (oCjPU)

110 How us this even legal? Has she declared Marshall law?

TSA has the right to search any form of transportation.

I suspect that TSA is officially allowing local authorities to perform TSA's functions in New York.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:30 AM (YAtuc)

111 9 Some Good News from AP:

Gird your loins! Jockstraps are still holding up after 150 years

Posted by: SMOD at March 07, 2024 11:05 AM (RHGPo)
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"Don't let your dingle dangle in the dust!
Buy Jimminy Jockstraps."

Posted by: Bluebottle - Harm can come to a young boy at March 07, 2024 11:31 AM (qfLjt)

112 If you plan to fly commercial after stripping the carcass of the American economy, make sure your carrion fits inn the overhead compartment.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 11:26 AM (991eG)

Carrion My Wayward Son.

-Kansas

Enough with the offal puns.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 11:31 AM (CsUN+)

113 There is a graphic from WH dot gov that is advertising the SOTU tonight. Only trouble is they list the date as February 7th and the year 2023.

They wouldn't be them if they didn't' show us again their incompetence.
Posted by: Cheri The Snow Roach

And that is the state of the union.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:31 AM (FVME7)

114 Heard on the news that the Guard will be performing "random" searches.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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I get a picture of men in uniforms with guns rolling polyhedral dice.

Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 11:31 AM (krQz2)

115 >U.S. Army Revamps Training to Reflect Lessons Learned in Ukraine

"If you have to give up a warm water port to avoid drafting 50 year olds and 13 year olds, go make peace."

~lessons not learned

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 07, 2024 11:31 AM (cf/0E)

116 Didn't the Clintons run a grift about helping Haiti years ago?

Red Cross disappeared half a billion, too.

Posted by: BignJames at March 07, 2024 11:31 AM (AwYPR)

117 .NY has been a leader in eliminating bail, ending jail for parole violations, etc.

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"Murder & rape as many Americans & children as you like, BUT DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES smuggle Freon into the country, plebes!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 07, 2024 11:31 AM (QKTdB)

118 How us this even legal? Has she declared Marshall law?

YES! Everyone needs a monster amplifier!

Posted by: free tibet at March 07, 2024 11:31 AM (iNp3L)

119 people who elect to live in NYC deserve what they get

Posted by: vic at March 07, 2024 11:31 AM (A5THL)

120 I'm a shoulder man. It's not weird.
Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 11:30 AM

You know who else has remarkable shoulders?

Posted by: Michael Obama at March 07, 2024 11:32 AM (FjlUt)

121 110 How us this even legal? Has she declared Marshall law?

TSA has the right to search any form of transportation.

I suspect that TSA is officially allowing local authorities to perform TSA's functions in New York.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:30 AM (YAtuc)

But using the national guard?

Has there been a credible threat that we haven't heard about? I kid.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 07, 2024 11:32 AM (7HpjT)

122 From the ' Problem Solved" dept. UNRWA was going to arrest and question the 12 of their workers that actively participated in the 10/7 massacre. Israel said don't bother, they are all DEAD

Posted by: Ben Had at March 07, 2024 11:33 AM (NUtkz)

123 And I do believe those NG troops in the NYC subways are going to be robbed and ripped off. Poor bastards- their governor has thrown them to the wolves in a bid to cover her ass.

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 11:33 AM (oCjPU)

124 I hear Putin is interested in reacquiring it.

https://tinyurl.com/42wfvyz6

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:33 AM (YAtuc)

125 ... Has there been a credible threat that we haven't heard about? ...
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 07, 2024 11:32 AM (7HpjT)
++++
Uniparty governance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:33 AM (HnUIn)

126 I'm a shoulder man. It's not weird.
Posted by: Don Black

No, it isn't. Off-the-shoulder gowns exist for a reason.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 07, 2024 11:34 AM (9yWhg)

127 If I were in the NG, I'd refuse to do this job. (I know, orders) You'll either be entirely ineffective, which is probably the plan, or, if you actually do the job, and someone flips out and has to be put down, you'll go to prison for life.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 11:34 AM (CsUN+)

128 fyi it's 'martial' law

it's not named for a guy named Marshall

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 11:34 AM (oCjPU)

129 But using the national guard?

They don't have arrest powers, so there are also cops in the stations.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:34 AM (YAtuc)

130 62
Every store, bodega & pharmacy should leve the district. Let the street vendors supply everything.

Maybe when I shop at the street vendors.....I'll just take what I like and not pay for it!

Posted by: RUReadingthis at March 07, 2024 11:35 AM (aQ25I)

131
The Law Of Unintended Consequences is a complicated idea for most of our elites
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What makes you think they are unintended?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 07, 2024 11:35 AM (63Dwl)

132 64 Heard on the news that the Guard will be performing "random" searches. They'd better not randomly search the wrong people.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 07, 2024 11:21 AM (63Dwl)

How us this even legal? Has she declared Marshall law?

There used to be places like the ACLU who would take the gov to court over these things, now they just splain why it's good cause it targets hawhyte soupremcees.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless
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National Guard troops, depending on what the governor's orders to them are, do have the power to arrest under state authority. Federal troops do not unless the Insurrection Act is triggered because of a post Civil War Posse Comitatus law.

In general, Scotus has given blessing to random checkpoint searches such as to subways under the special places doctrine. The argument is that it is a privilege to ride mass transport rather than a right and under that idea, you can avoid the search by walking, taking Uber, biking, etc. so if you choose to ride the subway, then you implicitly agree that they can randomly search you in order to protect the general public.

Same argument for the TSA, courthouse security, capitol security and so forth

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:35 AM (hKOIV)

133 How us this even legal? Has she declared Marshall law?
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Yes, she said it very loudly.

Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 11:35 AM (krQz2)

134 when we get into women's feet and shoes, well, that's another subject

so I've heard

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 11:35 AM (oCjPU)

135 fyi it's 'martial' law

it's not named for a guy named Marshall
Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 11:34 AM (oCjPU)
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I'll be damned if they call me Field Marshal Marshall!

--GEN George C. Marshall

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 07, 2024 11:35 AM (DeFcY)

136 Has she declared Marshall law?

********

I think you mean Marital Law.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 11:36 AM (991eG)

137 Marital Law #1: If Momma ain't happy ain't nobody happy

Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 11:36 AM (991eG)

138 I'll be damned if they call me Field Marshal Marshall!

Tell me about it

Posted by: Field Marshal Marshall Field at March 07, 2024 11:37 AM (9yWhg)

139 Do you think the media will suppress the "guards weapons taken from them by gang members" stories?

Posted by: DOYLE at March 07, 2024 11:37 AM (Z8Yh2)

140 fyi it's 'martial' law

it's not named for a guy named Marshall
Posted by: Don Black

I call it Dillon law.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:37 AM (FVME7)

141 In general, Scotus has given blessing to random checkpoint searches such as to subways under the special places doctrine. The argument is that it is a privilege to ride mass transport rather than a right and under that idea, you can avoid the search by walking, taking Uber, biking, etc. so if you choose to ride the subway, then you implicitly agree that they can randomly search you in order to protect the general public.

Same argument for the TSA, courthouse security, capitol security and so forth

IIRC, that is also the argument behind drunk driving checkpoints on the roads.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 11:37 AM (CsUN+)

142 At the top of the list is Alaska.

I hear Putin is interested in reacquiring it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I KNEW I kept my 48 star flag for a reason!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2024 11:38 AM (IB/6k)

143 127 If I were in the NG, I'd refuse to do this job. (I know, orders) You'll either be entirely ineffective, which is probably the plan, or, if you actually do the job, and someone flips out and has to be put down, you'll go to prison for life.
Posted by: Archimedes
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You get qualified immunity which makes it difficult actually to sue individually and you would get a court martial instead of civil prosecution by people like Alvin Bragg. Guardsmen at Kent State were never charged for example.

Often though, people volunteer for this and are paid by the state at whatever the state chooses to pay Nat. Guard members.

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:38 AM (hKOIV)

144 Marshall- a guy's name
Marshal- a law enforcement figure
Martial- military type stuff

Know your homophones!

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 11:38 AM (oCjPU)

145 135 fyi it's 'martial' law

it's not named for a guy named Marshall
Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 11:34 AM (oCjPU)
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I'll be damned if they call me Field Marshal Marshall!

--GEN George C. Marshall
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 07, 2024 11:35 AM (DeFcY)

Make a misteak on a homophone around hear and everyone is all up in your but about it.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 07, 2024 11:38 AM (7HpjT)

146 If you live in the land of wolves, don't be a sheep.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 07, 2024 11:19 AM (xcxpd)
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I'm on the lam but I ain't no sheep.

Posted by: Eric Bloom at March 07, 2024 11:38 AM (krQz2)

147 77
‘ the benefit is "Choice" to remain unburdened by other human lives.’

I’m pro-choice when it comes to terminating lives that are too burdensome to me. None of those are babies though.
But if I did that, they would just throw me in jail.
Sorry, I thought this was America.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 07, 2024 11:38 AM (jbnUc)

148
Maybe when I shop at the street vendors.....I'll just take what I like and not pay for it!
Posted by: RUReadingthis

Something tells me that the street vendors won't treat "shoplifting" as casually as CVS.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 07, 2024 11:38 AM (63Dwl)

149 Marshall law was created in the 80's; it had to do with metal bands. Not really enforced anymore.

Posted by: DOYLE at March 07, 2024 11:38 AM (Z8Yh2)

150 I'll be damned if they call me Field Marshal Marshall!

--GEN George C. Marshall
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 07, 2024 11:35 AM (DeFcY)
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Marshall! Marshall! Marshall!

Posted by: Jan at March 07, 2024 11:39 AM (krQz2)

151 The Martial Tucker Band.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 07, 2024 11:39 AM (R4t5M)

152 Martian law > Marshall Plan> Marital Law> Martial law >>Marcia, Marcia, Marcia

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2024 11:39 AM (V13WU)

153 If I were in the NG, I'd refuse to do this job. (I know, orders) You'll either be entirely ineffective, which is probably the plan, or, if you actually do the job, and someone flips out and has to be put down, you'll go to prison for life.
Posted by: Archimedes
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You get qualified immunity which makes it difficult actually to sue individually and you would get a court martial instead of civil prosecution by people like Alvin Bragg. Guardsmen at Kent State were never charged for example.

That's the theory. In today's America, would you be willing to count on it?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 11:39 AM (CsUN+)

154 I'll be damned if they call me Field Marshal Marshall!

Tell me about it
Posted by: Field Marshal Marshall Field

Tell me about it.
Posted by: Captain William Major

Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2024 11:39 AM (IB/6k)

155 English as she is spoke…

Posted by: tubal at March 07, 2024 11:39 AM (PCK5/)

156 The entire “security apparatus” is bullshit.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 07, 2024 11:40 AM (++4z6)

157 Make a misteak on a homophone around hear and everyone is all up in your but about it.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 07, 2024 11:38 AM (7HpjT)
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They's phones for homos?

Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 11:40 AM (krQz2)

158 I don't write laws, just poetry.

Posted by: Martial at March 07, 2024 11:40 AM (9yWhg)

159 never mistake your homophobes around here, you will never live it down !

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2024 11:40 AM (V13WU)

160 Marshall- a guy's name
Marshal- a law enforcement figure
Martial- military type stuff

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Marshm- a candy made from Styrofoam.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:40 AM (FVME7)

161 Marshall- rock star equipment

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 11:40 AM (oCjPU)

162 *speaking from personal experience

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2024 11:41 AM (V13WU)

163 Hollywood Squares host Peter Martial.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 07, 2024 11:41 AM (R4t5M)

164 Maybe once all the CVS pharmacies shut down, the street vendors could move into those buildings and get in out of the rain.l

Win win!

Sustainable? We'll burn that bridge when we get to it!

Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 11:41 AM (991eG)

165 Has there been a credible threat that we haven't heard about? ...
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 07, 2024 11:32 AM (7HpjT)
++++
Uniparty governance.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Uppity wypipo.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2024 11:41 AM (IB/6k)

166 Major Major

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwT-_uCEMiA

Posted by: BignJames at March 07, 2024 11:41 AM (AwYPR)

167 Make a misteak on a homophone around hear and everyone is all up in your but about it.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 07, 2024 11:38 AM (7HpjT)

Know we're knot.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 07, 2024 11:41 AM (KbCG3)

168 Hollywood Squares host Peter Martial.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 07, 2024 11:41 AM (R4t5M)
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Martial! Martial! Martial!

Posted by: Jan at March 07, 2024 11:42 AM (krQz2)

169 Marshall law reminds me of that unfortunate moment when I, right here on this site, tried to same something about ferry’s (the boats that carry people and vehicles from one place to another) and I typed a comment referring to “fairy boats” and some hilarity (at my expense - deserved) ensued

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 07, 2024 11:42 AM (4Fb0A)

170 80 New York voters, just to take as an example, are pretty clear evidence that human evolution seems to be moving backwards.

Posted by: Paco at March 07, 2024 11:25 AM (njExo)
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Over half the NYC inhabitants are originally from elsewhere, many from outside the USA. Does that explain your evolutionary problem?

Posted by: Ciampino - what's the evolution of IQ ? at March 07, 2024 11:42 AM (qfLjt)

171 Obligatory:

Martial, Martial, Martial!

Posted by: Jan Brady at March 07, 2024 11:42 AM (991eG)

172 151 The Martial Tucker Band.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 07, 2024 11:39 AM (R4t5M)

Marshall Tucker's mom was a real Mother Tucker.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2024 11:43 AM (i9ffA)

173 /sock

Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 11:43 AM (991eG)

174 From X regarding the National Guard in the subway stations:

This has zero to do with “crime” and everything to do with increasing the presence, scope, and reach of the police state at a critical time when the class consciousness of the masses is producing resistance to capitalism.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:44 AM (YAtuc)

175 IIRC, that is also the argument behind drunk driving checkpoints on the roads.
Posted by: Archimedes

Yes it is but not under the special places doctrine. Vehicles and national highways occurred at the same time Prohibition hit. Old precedents like Carroll v US allow individual drivers to be checked for licensing, properly operating equipment, etc. and a lowered expectation of privacy due to the need to catch drunk drivers, smugglers, etc. Gets complicated but basically the reasonable expectation of privacy decision in Katz means that the 4th has an expanding or contracting bubble of what privacy is depending on location.

Scotus also leaves space like in those drunk driving checkpoints which can be unpopular for the political system to redress issues rather than simply banning it. By making a search general rather than specific, it allows coliseum security to confiscate items for events, TSA to seize contraband such as too much shampoo, and so on.

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:44 AM (hKOIV)

176 >That's the theory. In today's America, would you be willing to count on it?

Posted by: Archimedes
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First one of those subway Guardsmen who fires a round, or 'assaults' an LIP*, goes to jail

$10

*Local Indigenous Personnel

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 11:44 AM (oCjPU)

177 Marshall Tucker's mom was a real Mother Tucker.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2024 11:43 AM (i9ffA)
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Heard it in love song.
Can't be wrong.

Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 11:44 AM (krQz2)

178 Out here we think of NYC as a phantastical place, rather like Minas Morgul, or Mordor…

Posted by: tubal at March 07, 2024 11:44 AM (PCK5/)

179 I hate that fascist bitch with the heat of a thousand suns.

Posted by: butch at March 07, 2024 11:44 AM (FDTbY)

180 Marshall Arts.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 07, 2024 11:44 AM (R4t5M)

181 Off sock.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 07, 2024 11:45 AM (9yWhg)

182 I suspect that the real reason is that there is a credible terrorist threat against the subway, and they are using "crime" as an excuse to bring the National Guard in.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:45 AM (YAtuc)

183 Marshall law reminds me of that unfortunate moment when I, right here on this site, tried to same something about ferry’s (the boats that carry people and vehicles from one place to another) and I typed a comment referring to “fairy boats” and some hilarity (at my expense - deserved) ensued
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Ferry boats plow thru rough waters
Fairy boats float above rough water.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2024 11:45 AM (IB/6k)

184 Guys, I'm just trying to help the team any way I can

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 11:45 AM (oCjPU)

185 I suspect that the real reason is that there is a credible terrorist threat against the subway, and they are using "crime" as an excuse to bring the National Guard in.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

And so it begins....

Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2024 11:46 AM (IB/6k)

186 That's the theory. In today's America, would you be willing to count on it?
Posted by: Archimedes
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Yes. Governors and state legislators like their own private military and it is often key political support for them.

No urban Dem gives a crap about doing the police in.

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:46 AM (hKOIV)

187 So, why is the code word Marshall ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 07, 2024 11:46 AM (Akjoo)

188

Decriminalize Uranus!

Posted by: Don Lemonparty at March 07, 2024 11:46 AM (HRQvT)

189 The NYT bringing us together!

New York Times Opinion
@nytopinion
Biden should let Dark Brandon off the leash tonight.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:48 AM (FVME7)

190 First one of those subway Guardsmen who fires a round, or 'assaults' an LIP*, goes to jail

$10

*Local Indigenous Personnel
Posted by: Don Black
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The Nat. Guard aren't there to actually protect anyone but there as is the TSA--security theater as proof that Gov. Holchul is 'doing something'. Works until the bluff is inevitably called.

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:48 AM (hKOIV)

191 Morning peeps! Just wanted to stop by and say,,

I went sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fumanchu,
someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying...

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyFo6p6LGkA

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at March 07, 2024 11:48 AM (X4yCj)

192 Lots of beautiful beautiful rain here today… I say this for no particular reason.. just throwing it out there while I wait for it to slack off..

Posted by: tubal at March 07, 2024 11:48 AM (PCK5/)

193 I suspect that the real reason is that there is a credible terrorist threat against the subway, and they are using "crime" as an excuse to bring the National Guard in.

After all, Ramadan begins Monday night...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:48 AM (YAtuc)

194 I remember that Jap Cult that did the subway thing some years ago in Japan.

I can't remember if it was gas or that powder stuff.

The Horror, The Horror...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 07, 2024 11:48 AM (/SHEi)

195 From X regarding the National Guard in the subway stations:

This has zero to do with “crime” and everything to do with increasing the presence, scope, and reach of the police state at a critical time when the class consciousness of the masses is producing resistance to capitalism.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:44 AM (YAtuc)
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LOL YUP.

'Cause the fat cats are all riding the subway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:48 AM (HnUIn)

196 >security theater as proof that Gov. Holchul is 'doing something'. Works until the bluff is inevitably called.

Posted by: whig

that's what I'm waiting to see

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 11:49 AM (oCjPU)

197 After the earthquake, a gazillion years ago, I remember George W. and Bill Clinton being put in charge of Haitian ~~graft~~ aid.

Posted by: Ciampino - How do we get some of that mullah? at March 07, 2024 11:49 AM (qfLjt)

198
I suspect that the real reason is that there is a credible terrorist threat against the subway, and they are using "crime" as an excuse to bring the National Guard in.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:45 AM

My thoughts, too. The biggest bang for the buck as far as casualties.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 11:49 AM (RKVpM)

199 Don't Buy Judy Bond Blouses!

Posted by: Look For the Union Label at March 07, 2024 11:49 AM (V5BDR)

200 Decriminalize Uranus!
Posted by: Don Lemonparty

Fudge for everyone!
Posted by: Uranus Fudge Factory - Uranus, Mo

Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2024 11:49 AM (IB/6k)

201 That's the theory. In today's America, would you be willing to count on it?
Posted by: Archimedes
======
Yes. Governors and state legislators like their own private military and it is often key political support for them.

No urban Dem gives a crap about doing the police in.

For their sake, I hope you're right, but I wouldn't put myself at risk in that way.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 11:49 AM (CsUN+)

202 The Nat. Guard aren't there to actually protect anyone but there as is the TSA--security theater as proof that Gov. Holchul is 'doing something'. Works until the bluff is inevitably called.
Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:48 AM (hKOIV)

Yeah, that's what I think, to. Plus, the guard can't refuse to do it.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 07, 2024 11:49 AM (exHjb)

203 I doubt the Guard has bullets for their pew-pews on their subway duty…

Posted by: tubal at March 07, 2024 11:49 AM (PCK5/)

204 189 The NYT bringing us together!

New York Times Opinion
@nytopinion
Biden should let Dark Brandon off the leash tonight.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 11:48 AM (FVME7)

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Ooo! Maybe he'll call us deplorable with a red backdrop or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 07, 2024 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

205 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2024 11:50 AM (XzQYp)

206 195 LOL YUP.

'Cause the fat cats are all riding the subway.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 07, 2024 11:48 AM (HnUIn)

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They're just on the cusp of the proletariat rising up against the bourgeoisie!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 07, 2024 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

207 205 It can be lunch time
Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2024 11:50 AM (XzQYp)

It can be breakfast

Posted by: It's me donna at March 07, 2024 11:50 AM (Akjoo)

208 Just read that Biden is setting the record for a late SotU.

Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 11:51 AM (krQz2)

209 I want New York to become a police state. I want their leaders to rule the population with an iron fist.

I want filmed entertainment to become pro-the government sieging against its own populace.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 07, 2024 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

210 I remember that Jap Cult that did the subway thing some years ago in Japan.

I can't remember if it was gas or that powder stuff.

It was Aum Shinrikyo, and they used sarin.

Aum Shinrikyo's next major act of violence would serve as a wake-up call to the world regarding the prospects of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. On the morning of March 20, 1995, packages were placed on five different trains in the Tokyo subway system. The packages consisted of plastic bags filled with a chemical mix and wrapped inside newspapers. Once placed on the floor of the subway car, each bag was punctured with a sharpened umbrella tip, and the material was allowed to spill onto the floor of the subway car. As the liquid spread out and evaporated, vaporous agent spread throughout the car.

https://tinyurl.com/mte8x6z8

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 11:51 AM (CsUN+)

211 198
I suspect that the real reason is that there is a credible terrorist threat against the subway, and they are using "crime" as an excuse to bring the National Guard in.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:45 AM

My thoughts, too. The biggest bang for the buck as far as casualties.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 11:49 AM (RKVpM)

Nah, the biggest bang would always just be another skyscraper building...and the biggest interruption would be destroying a car bridge/tunnel.

Subway just might be the easiest to blend in and leave...see the Night Agent plot for a Hollywood version...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 07, 2024 11:51 AM (exHjb)

212 Today it's the NY NG.

Tomorrow it'll be some outrage mob deputized by the governor to harass white supremists.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 07, 2024 11:52 AM (Q4IgG)

213 My thoughts, too. The biggest bang for the buck as far as casualties.

Looking at videos of the subway, it sure looks as if the National Guard thinks that its weapons are loaded.

Real post-9/11 vibes - automatic weapons at the ready.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:52 AM (YAtuc)

214 Anarcho-tyrrany.

Selective enforcement of the law.

Regulatory carve-outs.

It would be better if the Mafia were running our cities as they have a semblance of honor and understand second order effects. They actually have a better understanding of basic justice than a lot of these clowns in our courts who don't even comprehend simple reality - like what a woman is.

Better to have organized crime in pursuit of business and money than unrestrained unorganized crime hunting power as is destroys everything.

Posted by: Judge McAfee at March 07, 2024 11:52 AM (LaNzR)

215 I can't see why anyone would want to be in the National Guard in NY.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 07, 2024 11:52 AM (xcxpd)

216 215 I can't see why anyone would want to be in the National Guard in NY.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 07, 2024 11:52 AM (xcxpd)

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Putting your boot on the face of the innocent with the backing of the government doesn't appeal to you, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 07, 2024 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

217 Clear Cowardly Judge Sock

Posted by: Minuteman at March 07, 2024 11:52 AM (LaNzR)

218 Its not just the DNC/GOPe elites that don't understand the law of unintended consequences - the US Supreme Court doesn't either.

When SCOTUS did not take the Texas vs Penn case, it unleased a whole chain of events that are destroying this nation right now - and could lead to their own demise if things go pear shape. If they can't do the paper trail back to this idiotic decision when that happens, then they'll surely deserve that very demise.

Posted by: Boswell at March 07, 2024 11:52 AM (K+UlC)

219 There must be a perfect German word for the feeling you get when you hire a moving company to move all your crap, and they have to be subjected to the unvarnished spectacle of all your crap, all at once.

~~Rutschenschämen?~~

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 11:52 AM (H3Kcf)

220 I want New York to become a police state. I want their leaders to rule the population with an iron fist.

I want filmed entertainment to become pro-the government sieging against its own populace.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 07, 2024 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

I want a cookie.

Posted by: BignJames at March 07, 2024 11:53 AM (AwYPR)

221 Nah, the biggest bang would always just be another skyscraper building...and the biggest interruption would be destroying a car bridge/tunnel.

If you want to paralyze New York, shut down the subway.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:53 AM (YAtuc)

222 Soon enough cities will be like a Mad Max movie

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2024 11:53 AM (XzQYp)

223 Yeah, Waraiotoko. Italics starts with the letter s.

Dummy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 11:53 AM (H3Kcf)

224 Think the ROE for the guard on a crowded subway is pretty tight..

Posted by: tubal at March 07, 2024 11:53 AM (PCK5/)

225 I want New York to become a police state. I want their leaders to rule the population with an iron fist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 07, 2024 11:51 AM (GBKbO)
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Are there any Republicans in Pennsylvania they can blame?

Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 11:53 AM (krQz2)

226 189
‘ Biden should let Dark Brandon off the leash tonight.’
Biden should be an even bigger Asshole than he already has been.
It seems like that strategy should be at diminishing returns by now

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 07, 2024 11:53 AM (jbnUc)

227 225 I want New York to become a police state. I want their leaders to rule the population with an iron fist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 07, 2024 11:51 AM (GBKbO)
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Are there any Republicans in Pennsylvania they can blame?
Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 11:53 AM (krQz2)

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I guess they're too far from Indiana to blame its gun laws, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 07, 2024 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

228 By making a search general rather than specific, it allows coliseum security to confiscate items for events, TSA to seize contraband such as too much shampoo, and so on.

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:44 AM (hKOIV)

The issue for me is public vs. private.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 07, 2024 11:54 AM (gSZYf)

229 161 Marshall- rock star equipment
Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 11:40 AM (oCjPU)

Mine goes to 11.

Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at March 07, 2024 11:54 AM (PiwSw)

230 226 189
‘ Biden should let Dark Brandon off the leash tonight.’
Biden should be an even bigger Asshole than he already has been.
It seems like that strategy should be at diminishing returns by now
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 07, 2024 11:53 AM (jbnUc)

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Biden: *yells incoherently*
The NYT: "He's proactive and has a great message."
Trump: "We should all come together as Americans."
The NYT: "Dark!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 07, 2024 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

231 There must be a perfect German word for the feeling you get when you hire a moving company to move all your crap, and they have to be subjected to the unvarnished spectacle of all your crap, all at once.
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It's not Fahrfignewton.

Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 11:55 AM (krQz2)

232
Do they even televise a response to the SOTU or is that considered disinformation now?

Posted by: Auspex at March 07, 2024 11:55 AM (j4U/Z)

233 I guess they're too far from Indiana to blame its gun laws, huh?

But not Virginia.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 11:55 AM (CsUN+)

234 I guess they're too far from Indiana to blame its gun laws, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 07, 2024 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

I'm waiting for PA to start getting blame.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 07, 2024 11:55 AM (R4t5M)

235 The issue for me is public vs. private.

Try walking into a courthouse without being searched.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 11:56 AM (YAtuc)

236 ‘ Biden should let Dark Brandon off the leash tonight.’

Biden should be an even bigger Asshole than he already has been.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 07, 2024 11:53 AM (jbnUc)
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That's how I'd translate it too.

Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 11:56 AM (krQz2)

237 My dream is that several Republicans start guffawing at Biden tonight.
The loud, infectious laughter.

And Biden shutters, turns red-faced, flips out and starts dropping f-bombs while challenging them to fistfights.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 07, 2024 11:56 AM (yikga)

238 Do they even televise a response to the SOTU or is that considered disinformation now?

The GOP response should be delivered immediately after SOTU, and consist only of the words "we rest our case".

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 11:57 AM (CsUN+)

239 Bloody civil war is what the communists want. They think they will win. They will win...a mass grave.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 07, 2024 11:57 AM (kzHlT)

240 You gotta love leftists, institute policies that will make your city less safe, city becomes less safe, people clamor for more safety, bring in soldiers to violate your citizens civil rights in the guise of providing more safety without having actually solving the problem.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 07, 2024 11:57 AM (JIdXK)

241 A little fascism is a small price to pay in order to have Thai food available at 2am.
- NYers

Posted by: Montec at March 07, 2024 11:57 AM (bWsRe)

242 238 Do they even televise a response to the SOTU or is that considered disinformation now?

The GOP response should be delivered immediately after SOTU, and consist only of the words "we rest our case".
Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 11:57 AM (CsUN+)

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"The backdrop was a little too out of focus. How amateur hour is this response?"
-CNN, forming the narrative

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 07, 2024 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

243 We are due for an election year 'racist' death. The NY NG shooting an aspiring rapper would fit the bill.

Posted by: davidt at March 07, 2024 11:58 AM (SYTee)

244 241 A little fascism is a small price to pay in order to have Thai food available at 2am.
- NYers
Posted by: Montec at March 07, 2024 11:57 AM (bWsRe)

"You're doing it wrong. "

- Thailand

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 11:58 AM (H3Kcf)

245 Calling them shoplifter is so judgemental and racist.

They should be referred to as hunter-gatherers. It is their culture, haters.

Posted by: Ripley at March 07, 2024 11:58 AM (JojsZ)

246 Do they even televise a response to the SOTU or is that considered disinformation now?

The GOP response should be delivered immediately after SOTU, and consist only of the words "we rest our case".
Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 11:57 AM (CsUN+)
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Wordless Tucker-bewildered stare, followed by a regain of composure and those words.

Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 11:58 AM (krQz2)

247 The issue for me is public vs. private.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

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That is one factor in the whole decision calculus of the reasonable expectation of privacy. But there are others depending on a variety of facts. Prisons, for example, can subject visitors to a full body cavity search. At international borders, people can be forced to wait until nature forces a bowel movement to search, and so on. Some are historical artifices like the open fields search and curtilege.

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:58 AM (hKOIV)

248 203 me either, and certainly not taking full auto weapons in there

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2024 11:58 AM (XzQYp)

249
Got money out against a Biden "glitch" this evening.

If it happens, the dems will just applaud to cover it up.

Posted by: Auspex at March 07, 2024 11:58 AM (j4U/Z)

250 "The backdrop was a little too out of focus. How amateur hour is this response?"
-CNN, forming the narrative

Both of their viewers: Ooooooo, sick burn.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 11:58 AM (CsUN+)

251 112 If you plan to fly commercial after stripping the carcass of the American economy, make sure your carrion fits inn the overhead compartment.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 11:26 AM (991eG)

Carrion My Wayward Son.

-Kansas

Enough with the offal puns.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 11:31 AM (CsUN+)
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When vultures fly they travel light as all they have is carrion.

Posted by: Ciampino - How do we get some of that mullah?! at March 07, 2024 11:59 AM (qfLjt)

252 250 "The backdrop was a little too out of focus. How amateur hour is this response?"

- Fox forming narrative

Posted by: It's me donna at March 07, 2024 11:59 AM (Akjoo)

253 SLAYER: Angel of Death (Guitar Cover)

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=e91eyAe_yLs

Posted by: garrett at March 07, 2024 12:00 PM (VKYz7)

254 249
Got money out against a Biden "glitch" this evening.

If it happens, the dems will just applaud to cover it up.
Posted by: Auspex at March 07, 2024 11:58 AM (j4U/Z)

Applauding might make the glitch worse.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 07, 2024 12:00 PM (exHjb)

255
248 203 me either, and certainly not taking full auto weapons in there
Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2024 11:58 AM (XzQYp)

It is all for show… Hochul is not gonna stick her neck out with live ammo mass casualty potential..

Posted by: tubal at March 07, 2024 12:00 PM (PCK5/)

256 I have heard from some family members that Columbus Ohio is the human trafficking hub of the US because of I-70 and I 71 meeting. I know they have a terrible gang problem and state troopers call Rt 23 the Fentanyl highway. If a town like Columbus has that much crime i can't imagine trying to survive in bigger cities.

Posted by: Megthered at March 07, 2024 12:01 PM (cgRoP)

257 You gotta love leftists, institute policies that will make your city less safe, city becomes less safe, people clamor for more safety, bring in soldiers to violate your citizens civil rights in the guise of providing more safety without having actually solving the problem.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 07, 2024 11:57 AM (JIdXK)
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And then claim that

1. Any reminder about advice given prior that turned out to be true is POUNCING!

2. "Unintended Consequences" is just something right-wingers say.

I used to believe that you should not attribute to malevolence what can be attributed to ignorance.

But then I saw how ignorance combines with arrogance. Which is functionally equivalent to malevolence.

Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 12:01 PM (krQz2)

258 How pathetic it must be to look to an utterance from a mediocrity like Joe Biden to validate your worldview.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 12:01 PM (991eG)

259 It would be hilarious if Fani Willis went to NYC and was stopped and searched entering the subway. One can only imagine how many variants of "racist" she'd deliver in a spittle-flecked rant.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 12:01 PM (CsUN+)

260 Good rant.

OTOH & before another presidential election, not long ago.

The New York Times, Jul. 25, 2020 — Feds Sending Tactical Team to Seattle, Expanding ...
After outrage over the presence of federal agents in Portland, Ore., the Trump administration is sending a team to Seattle.

New York Post, Jul 23, 2020 — Trump sends federal troops for 'standby' duty to Seattle. President Trump is sending a tactical US Customs and Border Protection team to Seattle to stand by for duty quelling protests.

Politico, 06/06/20, How ‘antifa’ became a Trump catch-all
Antifa doesn’t appear to have any organizing structure, but it has become a potent term for conservatives — a quick way to brand part of the opposition.

The Intercept, Jun 2, 2020 — Trump's Threats to Antifa Are an Affront to Black Agency. No actionable legal statute will designate antifa — an abbreviation of “anti-fascist” — a terrorist organization. Trump has not, in one fell ...

AJC.com. June 2, 2020, Trump Threatens to Invoke the Insurrection Act. He said he would send military forces into states even if they do not ... Trump is blaming Antifa..

When states & counties refused to act, how he was h8ed by many for it.

Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at March 07, 2024 12:02 PM (GshMh)

261 Joe will make it through "his" speech tonight with minor problems and the media will say how brilliant, how Presidential....Somehow he has been able to do this... The withdrawal symptoms will be huge and he will go on a weekend Vacay to detox

Posted by: It's me donna at March 07, 2024 12:02 PM (Akjoo)

262 It is all for show… Hochul is not gonna stick her neck out with live ammo mass casualty potential..

Take a look at the videos.

It would be embarrassing if there was a terrorist attack, and all the NG people were shot down because they didn't have live ammo.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 12:02 PM (YAtuc)

263 I want New York to become a police state. I want their leaders to rule the population with an iron fist.

I want filmed entertainment to become pro-the government sieging against its own populace.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I'm trying to figure out how that would be different from what we already have there.
(suing big meat, suing with no damages found guilty, and going back further, killing nursing home patients to get them off State medicare)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 07, 2024 12:02 PM (ro6Jo)

264 "Our Dear President really taught us all a lesson tonight, that sometimes the best thing to say is nothing at all. For forty five seconds. On live TV."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 12:03 PM (H3Kcf)

265 It would be embarrassing if there was a terrorist attack, and all the NG people were shot down because they didn't have live ammo.

That's a risk Hochul is prepared to take.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 12:04 PM (CsUN+)

266
Apparently 'Camp China' in Darien Pass is loaded with future arrivals. There was recently some sort of insurrection with a fire and stolen credentials and other sort of mayhem.

When they eventually carry out whatever they are planning it's gonna take more then a few thousand National Guard to put down.

But go ahead Joe, blame Trump tonight.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 12:04 PM (RKVpM)

267 Marshall law was created in the 80's; it had to do with metal bands. Not really enforced anymore.
Posted by: DOYLE at March 07, 2024

***
Eminem's real name was/is Marshall Mathers, I think. That gave rise to the legend that he was related to Jerry Mathers of Leave It to Beaver TV fame.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 07, 2024 12:04 PM (J2vNu)

268
And Biden shutters, turns red-faced, flips out and starts dropping f-bombs while challenging them to fistfights.
Posted by: People's Hippo

The rabbit will come.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 07, 2024 12:04 PM (ro6Jo)

269 It is all for show… Hochul is not gonna stick her neck out with live ammo mass casualty potential..
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I don't stick my neck out for anybody, seee!

Posted by: Governor Kathy Hochul at March 07, 2024 12:04 PM (krQz2)

270 Do they at least have one bullet in their breast pocket?

Posted by: Barney Fife at March 07, 2024 12:05 PM (SYTee)

271 262 It is all for show… Hochul is not gonna stick her neck out with live ammo mass casualty potential..

Take a look at the videos.

It would be embarrassing if there was a terrorist attack, and all the NG people were shot down because they didn't have live ammo.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 12:02 PM (YAtuc)

I get your point… I just don’t believe that there is a terrorist threat. It is just slimy political showmanship…

Posted by: tubal at March 07, 2024 12:05 PM (PCK5/)

272 So they put up fencing around Congress for the speech tonight ? Joe afraid of the white supremacist Christians storming the place ? Or could it be the Hamas sympathizers ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 07, 2024 12:05 PM (Akjoo)

273 237
‘ My dream is that several Republicans start guffawing at Biden tonight’

My dream is similar but they start laughing when FJB inevitably mentions Beau. Biden would shit himself with fury.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 07, 2024 12:06 PM (jbnUc)

274 The real irony of NYC is that you can get Thai food at 3 a.m., but you can't find a functioning public rest room at 4:00 a.m.

IYKWIM

Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 12:06 PM (991eG)

275 So just what drug do they use to jack Biden up so he is semi-coherent and alert for 30 minutes? Anybody know? Meth, cocaine maybe?

Posted by: Ripley at March 07, 2024 12:06 PM (JojsZ)

276 So they put up fencing around Congress for the speech tonight ? Joe afraid of the white supremacist Christians storming the place ? Or could it be the Hamas sympathizers ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 07, 2024 12:05 PM (Akjoo)
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*consults notes*

"Christian Nationalists" is the current preference. They're trying to make that a thing.

Posted by: Governor Kathy Hochul at March 07, 2024 12:06 PM (krQz2)

277 The real irony of NYC is that you can get Thai food at 3 a.m., but you can't find a functioning public rest room at 4:00 a.m.

IYKWIM
Posted by: Muldoon

That doesn't bother anyone visiting from San Francisco.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 07, 2024 12:07 PM (ro6Jo)

278 The real irony of NYC is that you can get Thai food at 3 a.m., but you can't find a functioning public rest room at 4:00 a.m.

IYKWIM
Posted by: Muldoon

About 15 minutes too late.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2024 12:07 PM (/6yWA)

279 It is all for show… Hochul is not gonna stick her neck out with live ammo mass casualty potential..

Take a look at the videos.

It would be embarrassing if there was a terrorist attack, and all the NG people were shot down because they didn't have live ammo.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 12:02 PM (YAtuc)
***

How else can you get he drones used to soldiers everywhere?

Posted by: Diogenes at March 07, 2024 12:07 PM (W/lyH)

280 How pathetic it must be to look to an utterance from a mediocrity like Joe Biden to validate your worldview.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 12:01 PM (991eG)

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It had never occurred to me before reading this comment that "pathetic" and "pathology" likely share the same Greek root of "pathos."

Too good to go confirm ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 07, 2024 12:07 PM (da7du)

281 My dream is similar but they start laughing when FJB inevitably mentions Beau. Biden would shit himself with fury.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 07, 2024 12:06 PM (jbnUc)
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They break out booze, clink glasses and chug.

Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 12:07 PM (krQz2)

282 I just don’t believe that there is a terrorist threat.

There may be some fun planned for Ramadan (starting Monday night).

Free Palestine!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 12:08 PM (YAtuc)

283 Heard on the news that the Guard will be performing "random" searches.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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I get a picture of men in uniforms with guns rolling polyhedral dice.
Posted by: Axeman

We ain't found shit!

Posted by: National Guardsman with a giant comb at March 07, 2024 12:08 PM (dGSyo)

284 All those tourists to DC will have the opportunity to buy jugs of Tide detergent, razors, and prepaid phone cards from fold out tables at stoplight. Really drives home the "you're in the capitol of a first world nation" feel.

Posted by: brak at March 07, 2024 12:08 PM (AR07F)

285 The real irony of NYC is that you can get Thai food at 3 a.m., but you can't find a functioning public rest room at 4:00 a.m.

IYKWIM
Posted by: Muldoon

Why would anyone want Thai food at 3AM? Or 3PM? Or any time for that matter?
Ugh!
Almost as bad as okra.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 07, 2024 12:08 PM (W/lyH)

286 My dream is similar but they start laughing when FJB inevitably mentions Beau. Biden would shit himself with fury.

Posted by: Dr. Claw

When he brings up Beau, someone should yell BINGO!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 07, 2024 12:08 PM (ro6Jo)

287 It's gonna be tax the rich, racism, MAGA, and abortion ...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 07, 2024 12:08 PM (Akjoo)

288 Eh, Hochul gonna hooch.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 07, 2024 12:09 PM (FVME7)

289
I wonder if Joe will go into our airdrop into Ukraine near the Mexico border.

Posted by: Axeman at March 07, 2024 12:09 PM (krQz2)

290 Nood...

Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 07, 2024 12:09 PM (k6uu5)

291 It's gonna be tax the rich, racism, MAGA, and abortion ...

Chances that he'll say "fair share" - 100%.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 07, 2024 12:10 PM (CsUN+)

292 I wonder if Biden will have his Fuhrer NZai backdrop tonight ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 07, 2024 12:10 PM (NtVYv)

293 285

Why would anyone want Thai food at 3AM? Or 3PM? Or any time for that matter?
Ugh!
Almost as bad as okra.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 07, 2024 12:08 PM (W/lyH)

Have had it.. some.. pretty meh.. not bad like Indian food, just pretty indifferent..

Posted by: tubal at March 07, 2024 12:10 PM (PCK5/)

294 Why would anyone want Thai food at 3AM? Or 3PM? Or any time for that matter?
Ugh!
Almost as bad as okra.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 07, 2024 12:08 PM (W/lyH)

Have had it.. some.. pretty meh.. not bad like Indian food, just pretty indifferent..

WHU ? Tom Kha soup is great for a cold and good in general

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 07, 2024 12:12 PM (NtVYv)

295 She and others of her ilk and progressive politics won't (probably can't) interfere with the booming underground cash economy.

If she knew there would be no inconsequential gatherings by some of the more recognized but, allegedly "unorganized," groups, wonder if she still would have called for the National Guard? (Rhetorical)

I imagine some of tonight's dignitaries & donors have been, and with continue to be in, around the very fine city for reasons other than being on the East Coast for FJB's SOTU address.

Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at March 07, 2024 12:17 PM (GshMh)

296 Almost as bad as okra.
Posted by: Diogenes

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Yeah, but you can't get decent okra in NYC any time of day.

You've got to go to Okrahoma for that.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 07, 2024 12:18 PM (991eG)

297 Alrighty then. To show how out of touch the Dems are to boost popularity before the election so far they have:

- Installed the national guard to police the citizenry in NY subways. (oh yeah good job hiney wipes. Walking past uniformed military brandishing loaded weapons and maybe being interrogated by same is not my idea of security)

- Formed a task force to lower high prices that Dems caused. for whatever products/services. (This is virtually Facism)

Anyone who is motivated to vote for the Dems based of these actions needs to be shipped out to Russia

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 07, 2024 12:18 PM (qRe8u)

298 Reisezietensprungabtungerhaut...

...auf...

...froid.

Posted by: Minuteman on Moving Day at March 07, 2024 12:20 PM (LaNzR)

299 Why would anyone want Thai food at 3AM? Or 3PM? Or any time for that matter?
Ugh!
Almost as bad as okra.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 07, 2024 12:08 PM (W/lyH)

Don't knock it man.. *fans away smoke*

Posted by: Cheech Marin at March 07, 2024 12:21 PM (qRe8u)

300 My dream is that several Republicans start guffawing at Biden tonight’

My dream is similar but they start laughing when FJB inevitably mentions Beau. Biden would shit himself with fury.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Have MTG with a sound machine with a laugh track, farting sounds, etc. to use as she sees fit.

Posted by: Cheri The Snow Roach at March 07, 2024 12:23 PM (oiNtH)

301 262
It would be embarrassing if there was a terrorist attack, and all the NG people were shot down because they didn't have live ammo.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 07, 2024 12:02 PM (YAtuc)
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Remember when a Border Patrol post was attacked by armed cartel hombres and the BP had to run away because they had no ammo?

Posted by: Ciampino - bring my own bullets at March 07, 2024 12:23 PM (qfLjt)

302 >>>Yeah...searches of middle-aged housewives' handbags is going to stop crime in its tracks!

You don't suppose they're going to ... profile people!!???!

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 12:49 PM (o3SCB)

303 Something like that. A couple of times when deployed in various unpleasant places, we were issued M-16's when we went off base to work but no live ammo which was under lock and key. About all we could do with the empty rifles would be chuck it at them as we did not even have bayonets.

Saw reports after 9/11 where they had similarly stupid rules for National Guard troops at airports. All that stupid shit is basically to prevent officers from getting in trouble from an AD or an actual use of force. Leftist shit of security theater.

Posted by: whig at March 07, 2024 11:21 AM (hKOIV)

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I saw the same in Germany back in '86 after Reagan bombed Ghaddafi and we were expecting attacks from Bader-Meinhof Soldiers with empty rifles, with the ammo in an ammo can under control of an NCO. I was outraged back then and probably would have gotten court-martialed if any of my soldiers had been killed doing the 'Barney Fife Jig' trying to load bullets. They did have bayonets but that was just a worthless cosmetic gesture.

The soldiers should have been given ammo but not allowed to lock and load - until attacked. Period.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 07, 2024 12:55 PM (D4O/q)

304 Bader-Meinhof. (The Power of the Period). Not Bader Meinhof Soldiers. So much for proof reading. Sheesh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 07, 2024 12:57 PM (D4O/q)

305 Today, I went to the beach with my kids. I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter
and said "You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear." She placed the shell to her ear and screamed.

There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear.
She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is entirely off topic
but I had to tell someone!

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