The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

The rapidly evolving trend within the Democrat party apparatus is to reward loyalty with ever increasing responsibility, power, and graft/wealth. Notice the word "loyalty." Not competence. Not skill. Government has never been particularly competent or efficient; it's almost impossible without the pressures of a free market. But the catastrophic incompetency and failure that is becoming the norm seems to be driven by total rejection of even basic knowledge of the issues, and embracing the drive toward ideological purity and party loyalty.

I am not suggesting that this is new...a casual audit of most Democrat-run cities will show how incompetent loyalists can be. And the federal government is obviously not immune from this longstanding desire to reward apparatchiks. But the very public incompetence seems to be a relatively new thing.

California Demolished Dam to Save Salmon, Killed the Salmon Instead

Hundreds of thousands of young salmon are believed to have died this week at the site of a historic dam removal project on the Klamath River, after an effort to restore salmon runs on the newly unconstrained river went awry, the Chronicle has learned.
The dead chinook salmon were among the first hatchery fish released on the Klamath since four hydroelectric dams were breached near the California-Oregon border, to allow the river to flow freely again and ultimately help fish flourish.

Apparently nobody much cares about the salmon, and the goal was to...what? Destroy clean energy production? Suck up to the lunatic but tiny Indian pressure groups? Save the world from the evils of Global Warming? buy indulgences from the Sustainable Organic Church Of The Carbon Apocalypse?

And here we have a wonderful confluence of abject ignorance, rabid ideological purity, and even a technocrat underling who is a total f*cking retard when it comes to the very things he is supposed to know!

ATF Chief Tells CBS He's Willing To Skirt Laws To Ban Guns He Doesn't Even Know How To Use

When the interview shifted to a demonstration featuring a table of unloaded firearms, Dettelbach tried his best to make the case for more regulation of law-abiding Americans' top self-defense option. Even with the help of one of the ATF's "leading experts," however, Dettelbach failed to demonstrate knowledge of even the most basic firearm anatomy such as the difference between a clip and a magazine.

Acting AFT division chief Chris Bort, the “expert” present for the demonstration, also struggled to disassemble a pistol in an attempt to show how allegedly easily Americans can swap firearm frames. Bort is acting head of the ATF’s Firearms Ammunition Technology Division.
“Can’t get this one apart,” he mumbled as Dettelbach complained that the ATF is barred from regulating most gun parts outside of frames and receivers.

Field stripping a Glock is not the most complex mechanical operation, and my bet is that with about 60 seconds of instruction, most people will be able to do it. Yet these dangerous fools are so detached from the reality of their positions that they don't have the most basic knowledge, yet are comfortable making asses of themselves...in public.

Because it doesn't matter. They are not being judged on the quality of their work; they are being judged by their slavish adherence to the dominant paradigm: GUNS BAD!

And they aren't even close to the worst! Mayorkas and Buttigieg are even dumber and more reflexively ideological!

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 I haven't read all the comments but, has anyone noted that Joe Biden is a senile clusterfuck of a miserable failure yet?

Posted by: that guy that hasn't read all the comments at March 05, 2024 11:00 AM (aD39U)

2 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

3 Not first.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

4 Because it doesn't matter. They are not being judged on the quality of their work; they are being judged by their slavish adherence to the dominant paradigm: GUNS BAD!

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I was surprised to learn from materialist atheists that inanimate objects had inherent moral values.

Guns are evil. It's interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:02 AM (GBKbO)

5 Field stripping a Glock is not the most complex mechanical operation, and my bet is that with about 60 seconds of instruction, most people will be able to do it.

Y this so hard 4 u.

Posted by: Forrest Gump at March 05, 2024 11:02 AM (CsUN+)

6 Hundreds of thousands of young salmon are believed to have died this week at the site of a historic dam removal project on the Klamath River, after an effort to restore salmon runs on the newly unconstrained river went awry, the Chronicle has learned.

HA-HA!

Posted by: Nelson Muntz Forever at March 05, 2024 11:03 AM (Ph95D)

7 Political Lysenkoism.

Posted by: English Is Dead at March 05, 2024 11:03 AM (m6dV4)

8 California Demolished Dam to Save Salmon, Killed the Salmon Instead

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Sounds fishy to me.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 05, 2024 11:03 AM (FVME7)

9 Super Rapey Tuesday !

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 05, 2024 11:03 AM (LCagX)

10 Too bad they didn't give him a loaded pistol. That would have been fun.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:04 AM (aGbyj)

11 8 California Demolished Dam to Save Salmon, Killed the Salmon Instead

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Sounds fishy to me.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 05, 2024 11:03 AM (FVME7)

==

Sounds like grounds for a promotion for the bureaucrat who came up with the plan.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:04 AM (GBKbO)

12 California Demolished Dam to Save Salmon, Killed the Salmon Instead

California Demolished X to Save Y, Killed Y Instead

ever green headline

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 11:04 AM (ibTVg)

13 The rapidly evolving trend within the Democrat party apparatus is to reward loyalty with ever increasing responsibility, power, and graft/wealth. Notice the word "loyalty." Not competence. Not skill. Government has never been particularly competent or efficient; it's almost impossible without the pressures of a free market. But the catastrophic incompetency and failure that is becoming the norm seems to be driven by total rejection of even basic knowledge of the issues, and embracing the drive toward ideological purity and party loyalty.

Maoists were never known for their ability to do much of anything other than kiss Mao's ass.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:04 AM (CsUN+)

14 Field stripping a Glock is more of a PITA than other firearms…but it most certainly can be done.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 05, 2024 11:04 AM (m6dV4)

15 California Demolished Dam to Save Salmon, Killed the Salmon Instead

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Sounds fishy to me.

I'm sure this case is just a fluke and they won't flounder again

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 11:04 AM (ibTVg)

16 Bort. Bort bort bort.

Posted by: Swedish Dumbfuck at March 05, 2024 11:04 AM (0FoWg)

17 Field stripping a Glock is not the most complex mechanical operation, and my bet is that with about 60 seconds of instruction, most people will be able to do it.

Not me. I'm horrible with mechanical stuff. I could never even learn how to drive a stick.

But I would never presume to lecture others about how to do it, either.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:04 AM (9yWhg)

18 13 Maoists were never known for their ability to do much of anything other than kiss Mao's ass.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:04 AM (CsUN+)

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Political machines are started by those who can lead public opinion, maintained by those who know that public services need to work, and lost by people who think that the people deserve to suffer.

We're on the last stage now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:05 AM (GBKbO)

19 Not me. I'm horrible with mechanical stuff. I could never even learn how to drive a stick.

But I would never presume to lecture others about how to do it, either.

Regardless, if I knew I had to do it on national TV, I'd damn sure practice until I was proficient.

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

20 Acting AFT division chief Chris Bort, the “expert” present for the demonstration, also struggled to disassemble a pistol in an attempt to show how allegedly easily Americans can swap firearm frames.

That's not how it works.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 11:07 AM (uo2ie)

21 15 California Demolished Dam to Save Salmon, Killed the Salmon Instead

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Sounds fishy to me.

I'm sure this case is just a fluke and they won't flounder again

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 11:04 AM (ibTVg)
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Is that the sole dam destroyed? What plaice was this?

Posted by: Ciampino - Mr Bean in Spain: Soy Bean?? at March 05, 2024 11:07 AM (qfLjt)

22 I'm sure this case is just a fluke and they won't flounder again

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 11:04 AM (ibTVg)

These fish puns are giving me a haddock.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2024 11:07 AM (gSZYf)

23 The ATF is the enemy of the people. Thank God they are also fairly incompetent.

And field stripping a Glock is simple AF:
1. Remove magazine and clear chamber
2. Pull back slightly on the slide
3. Pull down the two tabs in forward of the trigger guard and let the slide go forward.
4. Pull the trigger (see step 1) and the upper slide will move off the frame.

You can now remove the barrel and recoil spring. Done.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 11:07 AM (xcxpd)

24 The greenest novice (like me) at a TXMOME knows more about firearms than these fools.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 11:07 AM (7fElN)

25 Facebook is down globally right now. Also Instagram.

Posted by: Jaimo at March 05, 2024 11:07 AM (DBrN4)

26 Honestly. No more than two questions would be needed to interview a prospective head of ATF.

1. Does the federal government have the authority to regulate firearms? If they say yes, they're unqualified.
2. If they say no... given your previous answer, what value, with respect to firearms, does the ATF provide the taxpayer? If they say anything other than apologizing for wasting everyone's time, they're unqualified.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 11:07 AM (1Z8zZ)

27 How do you guys feel about Kale?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:08 AM (aGbyj)

28

A pressing economic issue is hitting close to home for a certain googly-eyed Muppet with a big appetite: Cookie Monster says his favorite snack is shrinking — and he’s not happy about it.

“Me hate shrinkflation! Me cookies are getting smaller,” the moppy-haired “Sesame Street” character asserted on social media Monday, garnering the attention of several U.S. senators and even the White House.

Posted by: Quint at March 05, 2024 11:08 AM (63Dwl)

29 These fish puns are giving me a haddock.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Quiet carping about them.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:08 AM (9yWhg)

30 Went awry, you say? Wait till they start shooting "stuff" in the atmosphere to cure climate change...ooops!

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 11:08 AM (AwYPR)

31 Facebook is down globally right now. Also Instagram.
Posted by: Jaimo at March 05, 2024 11:07 AM (DBrN4)

How will the NPCs receive today's download?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 11:08 AM (aD39U)

32 Political machines are started by those who can lead public opinion, maintained by those who know that public services need to work, and lost by people who think that the people deserve to suffer.

We're on the last stage now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:05 AM (GBKbO)

We're just about to the Death of Stalin stage.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 05, 2024 11:08 AM (i9ffA)

33 These fish puns are giving me a haddock.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2024 11:07 AM (gSZYf)

And I cod a fever thanks to those fish puns.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 05, 2024 11:08 AM (rWwta)

34 Maoists were never known for their ability to do much of anything other than kiss Mao's ass.

Interestingly the guy that is most responsible for modern China - Deng Xiaoping - was also the guy that bucked Mao the most within the leadership.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 11:08 AM (ibTVg)

35 I had a bit of a challenge with a compact 1911 recently. I've never seen a .45 where you have to string a paperclip through the recoil spring assembly before. Eventually I put 2 and 2 together. Without instruction.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2024 11:09 AM (0FoWg)

36 Went to the gun show this weekend. Bought a nearly mint Savage 99 featherweight. 2 guys tried to buy it before I could get out of the place. I know some stuff 'bout guns.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 11:09 AM (pohLc)

37 31, they won't.

Posted by: Jaimo at March 05, 2024 11:09 AM (DBrN4)

38 How do you guys feel about Kale?
Posted by: Pudinhead

Meh. It wants so badly to be spinach, but just can't pull it off.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:09 AM (9yWhg)

39 36 Went to the gun show this weekend. Bought a nearly mint Savage 99 featherweight. 2 guys tried to buy it before I could get out of the place. I know some stuff 'bout guns.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 11:09 AM (pohLc)

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I go to the gun show everyday.

*flexes*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:09 AM (GBKbO)

40 Not understanding how something works shouldn't limit you from wanting to ban it.

For instance, I don't know how the liberal mind works but I'd fire its existence into the center of the Sun if I could.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 05, 2024 11:10 AM (KbCG3)

41 DC_Draino says YouTube is down as well as Facebook and Instagram. On Super Tuesday. Dry run for November?

Someone said T-mobile and Verizon are having issues.

Can't connect to facebook. Probably a good thing.

Posted by: SMOD at March 05, 2024 11:10 AM (RHGPo)

42 36 Went to the gun show this weekend. Bought a nearly mint Savage 99 featherweight. 2 guys tried to buy it before I could get out of the place. I know some stuff 'bout guns.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 11:09 AM (pohLc)

Nice. What caliber?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 11:10 AM (xcxpd)

43 Not me. I'm horrible with mechanical stuff. I could never even learn how to drive a stick.

But I would never presume to lecture others about how to do it, either.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:04 AM (9yWhg)
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It's not meant to be rocket science. The dealer who sells it to you can probably show you how to do it in less than a minute or two. After you've done it yourself a few times it should be pretty natural. (See Comment 23 for directions on how to do it.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 11:10 AM (7fElN)

44
How will the NPCs receive today's download?

I'll be your huckleberry my pretties

/Cackles

Posted by: Joy Behar at March 05, 2024 11:10 AM (ibTVg)

45 Commenting present

Posted by: Skip at March 05, 2024 11:10 AM (3eKCA)

46 YouTube is working here in WA

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 11:10 AM (xcxpd)

47 And field stripping a Glock is simple AF:
1. Remove magazine and clear chamber
2. Pull back slightly on the slide
3. Pull down the two tabs in forward of the trigger guard and let the slide go forward.
4. Pull the trigger (see step 1) and the upper slide will move off the frame.

You can now remove the barrel and recoil spring. Done.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

However, it IS like swapping engines between a Ford & Chevy.

Not easily done without heavy modifications.

Acting AFT division chief Chris Bort, the “expert” present for the demonstration, also struggled to disassemble a pistol in an attempt to show how allegedly easily Americans can swap firearm frames.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (uo2ie)

48 Heh. I field-stripped an Eibar Ruby .32 last evening. Push slide back, lock in place with safety lever. Twist barrel 90 degrees, and pull it out. Release safety lever, pull slide forward and off, and slide spring and guide comes with it. There is a rough spot on the underside of the breechblock where it passes over the striker that needs attention.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (tkR6S)

49 It's about the Will of the Party.

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

50 >>And they aren't even close to the worst! Mayorkas and Buttigieg are even dumber and more reflexively ideological!

When it comes to Buttigieg, he's not a leader he is a consultant. His years at McKinsey and at former Sec Def. Cohen's consulting shop are showing in how he behaves at DOT. He is content to sit back and evaluate, declare what's wrong and then. . . wait for someone else to put it into action? His presence is optional? He's not a "doer" and he's not a manager, not a team player - he's there to critique as a detached observer.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (6IDWi)

51 WE ARE EXPERTS DAMN IT!

Listen to us.

Posted by: Montec at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (bWsRe)

52
Ah, fer the love of pete.

Our Betters are teeing up the next round of degenerate insanity:

https://tinyurl.com/795jv2v8

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (0FoWg)

53 Nice. What caliber?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 11:10 AM (xcxpd)

300

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (pohLc)

54 27 How do you guys feel about Kale?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:08 AM (aGbyj)

*Shrugs*
It's roughage. I think spinach is better for you.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (xcxpd)

55 IIRC, a Glock needs to be dry-fired to field strip. Not the ideal weapon to use in a press conference.

Posted by: Fenderbender at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (r72iY)

56 DC_Draino says YouTube is down as well as Facebook and Instagram. On Super Tuesday. Dry run for November?

I can connect to YT. I don't use the others.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (1Z8zZ)

57 Acting AFT division chief Chris Bort, the “expert” present for the demonstration, also struggled to disassemble a pistol in an attempt to show how allegedly easily Americans can swap firearm frames.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (uo2ie)

What was the point of this demonstration?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (aD39U)

58 Pure hearts and empty heads

Posted by: Oglebay at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (ogTiX)

59 10
‘ Too bad they didn't give him a loaded pistol. That would have been fun.’

The fun stops when the lawsuits begin.

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (jbnUc)

60 27 How do you guys feel about Kale?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:08 AM (aGbyj)

Not too bad but I would rather have collards

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (A5THL)

61 53 Nice. What caliber?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 11:10 AM (xcxpd)

300
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (pohLc)

Excellent. I would pay a decent amount for a .308 Savage 99, personally.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (xcxpd)

62 34 Maoists were never known for their ability to do much of anything other than kiss Mao's ass.

Interestingly the guy that is most responsible for modern China - Deng Xiaoping - was also the guy that bucked Mao the most within the leadership.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 11:08 AM (ibTVg)

My word was the law, after all.

Posted by: Mao at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (m6dV4)

63 WE ARE EXPERTS DAMN IT!

Ahem, WE ARE THE DAM EXPERTS AROUND HERE OK?

Posted by: Some Beaver at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (ibTVg)

64 >>Facebook is down globally right now. Also Instagram.

Excellent!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (6IDWi)

65 What was the point of this demonstration?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (aD39U)

To be a huge fag. But his shit was also retarded.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (0FoWg)

66 The rapidly evolving trend within the Democrat party apparatus is to reward loyalty with ever increasing responsibility, power, and graft/wealth. Notice the word "loyalty." Not competence. Not skill.

That is the one thing that gives me hope.

You look at Brennan, Comey, Mueller, McCabe, "General" Ben Hodges, and all the rest, and you ask yourself: "How did any of these people get to senior positions in large bureaucracies?" - it obviously wasn't competence.

Brennan, for example, got all of our spies in China killed through poor CIA communications security, which apparently did not have the slightest impact on his career.

We're not fighting supervillains here - we are fighting bureaucratic timeservers who have gotten to where they are through office politics and connections, not because they are competent.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (YAtuc)

67 The aftermath of the Klamath River dam removal not only killed the Salmon it was supposed to "save," but also pushed millions of tons of mud and sediment downstream, killing countless other species and creating what some are calling "an ecological disaster."

Karma is a bitch.

https://tinyurl.com/2bmcpjee

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (Q4IgG)

68 It's not meant to be rocket science. The dealer who sells it to you can probably show you how to do it in less than a minute or two. After you've done it yourself a few times it should be pretty natural. (See Comment 23 for directions on how to do it.)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Eh, maybe. But my hands and my brain don't communicate well with each other well when it comes to anything involving hand-eye coordination. I can't explain it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:13 AM (9yWhg)

69 38 How do you guys feel about Kale?
Posted by: Pudinhead

Meh. It wants so badly to be spinach, but just can't pull it off.
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Yeah, I know. You can choose Spinach or Collards or Turnip greens. Kale just seems an outlier with no friends. I doubt Kale likes pork fat, too.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:13 AM (aGbyj)

70 Ah, fer the love of pete.

Our Betters are teeing up the next round of degenerate insanity:

https://tinyurl.com/795jv2v8
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (0FoWg)
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Necessary. If their flesh-eating killbots are going to be a thing - and they will - they need to normalize eating people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 11:13 AM (HnUIn)

71 Was this one of the guns that shoots 3000 bullets per second?

Posted by: Montec at March 05, 2024 11:13 AM (bWsRe)

72 " I haven't read all the comments but, has anyone noted that Joe Biden is a senile clusterfuck of a miserable failure yet?
Posted by: that guy that hasn't read all the comments"

That's my boy!

Posted by: Barky McDogeaterface at March 05, 2024 11:13 AM (vFG9F)

73 Bort. Klaatu Barada Nikto.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 05, 2024 11:13 AM (63Dwl)

74 Collards is good eats.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 11:13 AM (aD39U)

75 Eventually I put 2 and 2 together. Without instruction.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2024 11:09 AM (0FoWg)

Yup. No bushing means a pain in the ass disassembly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2024 11:13 AM (gSZYf)

76 Green things are the things my food eats.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

77 27 How do you guys feel about Kale?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:08 AM (aGbyj)
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Does she have big tetons?

Posted by: Ciampino - what color are the drapes at March 05, 2024 11:13 AM (qfLjt)

78 Excellent. I would pay a decent amount for a .308 Savage 99, personally.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (xcxpd)

Easy conversion but I want to keep it original.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 11:14 AM (pohLc)

79 >>DC_Draino says YouTube is down as well as Facebook and Instagram. On Super Tuesday. Dry run for November?

Ah! Interesting.
New blackout to stop viral video/posts about shenanigans? To block where younger people are used to going to get info?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 11:14 AM (6IDWi)

80 74 Collards is good eats.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 11:13 AM (aD39U)

Chard for the win

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 11:14 AM (Akjoo)

81 #25: Delende est Meta.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 05, 2024 11:14 AM (m6dV4)

82 60 27 How do you guys feel about Kale?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:08 AM (aGbyj)

Can you sous vide it?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 05, 2024 11:14 AM (PiwSw)

83 Facebook is down globally right now. Also Instagram.

__

How will I know what to think then?

Posted by: Montec at March 05, 2024 11:14 AM (bWsRe)

84 When it comes to Buttigieg, he's not a leader he is a consultant. His years at McKinsey and at former Sec Def. Cohen's consulting shop are showing in how he behaves at DOT. He is content to sit back and evaluate, declare what's wrong and then. . . wait for someone else to put it into action? His presence is optional? He's not a "doer" and he's not a manager, not a team player - he's there to critique as a detached observer.

Which is a skill that has value, but you're right, he's in the wrong position.

Given his predilections, I don't want to know the right position for him.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:14 AM (CsUN+)

85 How do you guys feel about Kale?
Posted by: Pudinhead

Kale should always be cooked in coconut oil.

The coconut oil helps it slide out of the skillet into the trashcan easier.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 11:14 AM (uo2ie)

86 YT works for me.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 05, 2024 11:14 AM (m6dV4)

87 35 I had a bit of a challenge with a compact 1911 recently. I've never seen a .45 where you have to string a paperclip through the recoil spring assembly before. Eventually I put 2 and 2 together. Without instruction.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2024 11:09 AM (0FoWg)

The 1911 is not the easiest gun to field strip and reassemble.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 11:15 AM (xcxpd)

88 "...Glock needs to be dry-fired to field strip..."

I guess I'd been doing it wrong for years and years until the canoeing incident. Kidding aside of all the pistols I (used to) own the glock was the easiest to strip, outside of revolvers.

Posted by: lunkhead at March 05, 2024 11:15 AM (MeG8a)

89 Maoists were never known for their ability to do much of anything other than kiss Mao's ass. ...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 11:08 AM (ibTVg)
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Not at all.

The Maoists were incredibly effective at killing the counterrevolutionaries and instilling lock-step terror in all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 11:15 AM (HnUIn)

90 85 How do you guys feel about Kale?
Posted by: Pudinhead

Kale should always be cooked in coconut oil.

The coconut oil helps it slide out of the skillet into the trashcan easier.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 11:14 AM (uo2ie)

lol

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 11:15 AM (xcxpd)

91 ...in an attempt to show how allegedly easily Americans can swap firearm frames.

And? OK, so it's easy to remove a slide from one frame and put it on another. So frickin' what? If one or the other of the frames were obtained illegally, then that's a problem but it has nothing to do with how easily they can be assembled. In short, I don't understand the point of the (botched) demonstration.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 05, 2024 11:15 AM (sNc8Y)

92 >>Ah, fer the love of pete.
Our Betters are teeing up the next round of degenerate insanity:

https://tinyurl.com/795jv2v8

AYFKM?!?!?
Who had Soylent Green as our dystopian future?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 11:15 AM (6IDWi)

93 Nikki is another mediocrity that keeps getting pushed up….

But she’s gonna fight for every inch!! Double entendres abound here

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 11:16 AM (4Fb0A)

94 Our Betters are teeing up the next round of degenerate insanity:

https://tinyurl.com/795jv2v8
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (0FoWg)
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Necessary. If their flesh-eating killbots are going to be a thing - and they will - they need to normalize eating people.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 11:13 AM (HnUIn)
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Taboos are taboo for a reason. Usually because engaging in the taboo behavior has very negative consequences in the long term.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 11:16 AM (7fElN)

95
I found arugula in among my Heritage seed collection and planted a couple of seeds. Anyone of opinion? I know it's really hard to get an opinion around here, but I'll try...

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 11:17 AM (RKVpM)

96 You look at Brennan, Comey, Mueller, McCabe, "General" Ben Hodges, and all the rest, and you ask yourself: "How did any of these people get to senior positions in large bureaucracies?" - it obviously wasn't competence.

A big part of the selling point of the all powerful bureaucracy is competence. That they will have the "smartest minds" and "best trained experts" available to resolve any issue mankind might run into.

And of course they fail constantly. But their saving grace is they control most the media do they don't get called on it.

As a simple point to consider imagine if Trump had beat the Steal and continued as President? He would have been impeached over the clot shot and likely everyone involved with it jailed.

Instead we are in this bizarre scenario where merely noting the government said the clot shot stops the spread of COVID is a "conspiracy theory" yet the shots are advertised as a way to protect your family and friends from COVID.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 11:17 AM (ibTVg)

97 How do you guys feel about Kale?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:08 AM (aGbyj)

Gives Inspector *intense* gastric distress when eaten raw. Apparently, that's a known problem for some subset of the population. Might be possible for him to have small amounts that are cooked, but he's not willing to try. Which is hardly surprising.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 05, 2024 11:17 AM (nC+QA)

98 How do you guys feel about Kale?
Posted by: Pudinhead

Meh. It wants so badly to be spinach, but just can't pull it off.
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Yeah, I know. You can choose Spinach or Collards or Turnip greens. Kale just seems an outlier with no friends. I doubt Kale likes pork fat, too.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:13 AM (aGbyj)

Kale's good. Esp in soups and some salads.

The big problem with kale and some of the other mentioned leaves is that they exacerbate gout if you eat enough.

I think some morons have talked about having gout.

If so...avoid dread kale and it's cousins.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 05, 2024 11:17 AM (nFnyb)

99 I have a family friend who owns a lodge up there. This dam fiasco reduced the estimated value of his property by more than 50%.

Posted by: Candidus at March 05, 2024 11:17 AM (+B0EC)

100 The Clownshow expanded today, with Resident Poops appointing a commission to fight "corporate rip offs". The idiot Gender Queers are going to try price fixing now, to fight inflation. Their first announce Federal Allowable Price is on credit card late payment fees, which they fixed at $ 8 . Expect mayhem to ensue, as cards are canceled in reaction.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at March 05, 2024 11:18 AM (exhn8)

101 1 I haven't read all the comments but, has anyone noted that Joe Biden is a senile clusterfuck of a miserable failure yet?

Posted by: that guy that hasn't read all the comments at March 05, 2024 11:00 AM (aD39U)
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Shirley u just!

Posted by: Ciampino - Just don't call me Surely at March 05, 2024 11:18 AM (qfLjt)

102 I'm not a huge fan of kale. Still prefer it to human meat.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2024 11:18 AM (0FoWg)

103 99 I have a family friend who owns a lodge up there. This dam fiasco reduced the estimated value of his property by more than 50%.
Posted by: Candidus at March 05, 2024 11:17 AM (+B0EC)

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To decrease the EPA's budget, though, means you want to murder endangered species to extinction.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

104 Political ad by smug smirking fix-is-in grin LA mayor for Lefty feuer. Ends with " endorsed by Gabby Gifford.
So let's make grabby happy! Grab all guns! Why don't you want to make grabby happy?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 05, 2024 11:18 AM (LCagX)

105 LOTR fans can't sneer enough at the Harry Potter kids.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 05, 2024 11:18 AM (cf/0E)

106 The aftermath of the Klamath River dam removal not only killed the Salmon it was supposed to "save," but also pushed millions of tons of mud and sediment downstream, killing countless other species and creating what some are calling "an ecological disaster."

And now they want to do this to the Lower Snake River Dams, which generate enough power to power Portland.

The enviros have gotten consultants to claim that if the dams are taken out, the Lower Snake River (which goes through treeless semi-desert), will become a tourist attraction on a par with Yellowstone.

They have no shame whatsoever.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 05, 2024 11:19 AM (YAtuc)

107 Gives Inspector *intense* gastric distress when eaten raw. Apparently, that's a known problem for some subset of the population. Might be possible for him to have small amounts that are cooked, but he's not willing to try. Which is hardly surprising.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 05, 2024 11:17 AM (nC+QA)
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Yeah, me and green leafy vegetable reached an accommodation a long time ago. I don't try to eat them and in return they don't cause painful inflammation in my intestines.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 11:19 AM (7fElN)

108 Field stripping a Glock is not the most complex mechanical operation, and my bet is that with about 60 seconds of instruction, most people will be able to do it.

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Wifey can do it blindfolded.

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 05, 2024 11:19 AM (zGuD2)

109 I hope all those dead salmon can at least provide sustenance for bears, eagles, and foxes.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:19 AM (9yWhg)

110 Not at all.

The Maoists were incredibly effective at killing the counterrevolutionaries and instilling lock-step terror in all.

One point of clarity *I* didn't claim the Maoists weren't good at anything, I claimed the most "rightwing" and oppositional member of Chinese leadership from Mao's time built today's semi-functioning China.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 11:19 AM (ibTVg)

111 106 And now they want to do this to the Lower Snake River Dams, which generate enough power to power Portland.

The enviros have gotten consultants to claim that if the dams are taken out, the Lower Snake River (which goes through treeless semi-desert), will become a tourist attraction on a par with Yellowstone.

They have no shame whatsoever.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 05, 2024 11:19 AM (YAtuc)

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Do it. Portland deserves to have no electricity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

112 This dam fiasco reduced the estimated value of his property by more than 50%.
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Ouch.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:19 AM (aGbyj)

113 Uncooked kale has lots of fiber which helps if you are constipated. Celery too.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 05, 2024 11:19 AM (MeG8a)

114 104 Political ad by smug smirking fix-is-in grin LA mayor for Lefty feuer. Ends with " endorsed by Gabby Gifford.

I doubt it... Her slimeball of a husband speaks for her

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 11:19 AM (Akjoo)

115 APNews.com: Victoria Nuland is retiring.

Well, well, well...

Posted by: t-bird at March 05, 2024 11:20 AM (+TuX9)

116
I have a family friend who owns a lodge up there. This dam fiasco reduced the estimated value of his property by more than 50%.

Posted by: Candidus at March 05, 2024 11:17 AM

But it will increase his electric bill by 100% so it's a wash.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 11:20 AM (RKVpM)

117 115 APNews.com: Victoria Nuland is retiring.

Well, well, well...
Posted by: t-bird at March 05, 2024 11:20 AM (+TuX9)

=======

Theory:

She will replace Biden on the top of the Democrat ticket!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

118 I had a great kale salad in Florida a couple of months ago. Chopped baby kale! I think they tossed it in oil to strip that waxy, tough coating, then dressed it simply.

I was shocked how good it was. But that doesn't mean I am rushing out to buy it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2024 11:20 AM (gSZYf)

119 AP: Federal Judge Reverses Himself, Rules That California's Ban on Billy Clubs Is Unconstitutional. A federal judge struck down a California law banning possession of club-like weapons, reversing his previous ruling from three years ago that upheld the prohibition on billy clubs, batons and similar blunt objects.

Benitez declared in Sept. 2021 that California’s ban on such weapons qualified as “longstanding” and therefore did not violate the Second Amendment. But while that ruling was under appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen that altered the legal analysis for Second Amendment regulations.

The 2nd Amendment includes the phrase "well regulated". It has not been erased. are brass knuckles, military pikes, war axes, battle stars and nun-chucks also now covered under 'keep and bear arms' ?

Strict construction lol. Arms were fire arms then and now. Knew from the headline it was Benitez. He's where you go when you want weapons deregulated.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 05, 2024 11:20 AM (JCZqz)

120 LOR , the books were good, the movies were also good

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 11:20 AM (A5THL)

121 LOTR fans can't sneer enough at the Harry Potter kids.

Comparing LOTR with its complex background and invention of a whole modern genre with the derivative and hackneyed Potter stuff is like comparing Sofonisba Anguissola to Hunter Biden

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 11:21 AM (ibTVg)

122 115 APNews.com: Victoria Nuland is retiring.

Rat... See sinking ship

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 11:21 AM (Akjoo)

123 Not at all.

The Maoists were incredibly effective at killing the counterrevolutionaries and instilling lock-step terror in all.

I think those attributes are covered under kissing Mao's ass.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:21 AM (CsUN+)

124 LOTR fans can't sneer enough at the Harry Potter kids.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 05, 2024 11:18 AM (cf/0E)

I am an LOTR fan but I haven't read an Potter books so no sneering from me.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 05, 2024 11:21 AM (rWwta)

125 115 APNews.com: Victoria Nuland is retiring.

Well, well, well...
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So no rope and telephone pole? Why can't we have nice things?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:21 AM (aGbyj)

126 I found arugula in among my Heritage seed collection and planted a couple of seeds. Anyone of opinion? I know it's really hard to get an opinion around here, but I'll try...
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 11:17 AM (RKVpM)

I find it a bit bitter. I prefer spinach or just plain iceberg lettuce. But apart from cleaning out the colon, I am not the biggest fan of leafy greens in general.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 11:21 AM (xcxpd)

127 Taboos are taboo for a reason. Usually because engaging in the taboo behavior has very negative consequences in the long term.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 11:16 AM (7fElN)
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Not at all. We modern sophisticates understand that the taboos of old men from the past were just to reinforce their own power.

Posted by: Prog at March 05, 2024 11:21 AM (HnUIn)

128 The 2nd Amendment includes the phrase "well regulated". It has not been erased. are brass knuckles, military pikes, war axes, battle stars and nun-chucks also now covered under 'keep and bear arms' ?
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Yes. They've been covered since the dawn of time.

Idiots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 11:22 AM (7fElN)

129 "The $500 million dam removal project, which has been in the works for decades, "

I would just like to point out, that for that amount they could have dug an entirely new river that skirts the dams.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 05, 2024 11:22 AM (ou9hh)

130 95
I found arugula in among my Heritage seed collection and planted a couple of seeds. Anyone of opinion? I know it's really hard to get an opinion around here, but I'll try...
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 11:17 AM (RKVpM)

It's pretty easy to grow and likes cool weather better than hot weather. It will self-sow if you let it. I really like it because it has a flavor that reminds me of radishes. If I've ever had it cooked, I don't recall.

Posted by: Emmie at March 05, 2024 11:22 AM (Sf2cq)

131 degenerate insanity:

YOU'VE GOT TO EAT THE BABIES!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 05, 2024 11:22 AM (LCagX)

132 Our Betters are teeing up the next round of degenerate insanity:
https://tinyurl.com/795jv2v8
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (0FoWg)
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How long before they move on to human sacrifice?

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at March 05, 2024 11:22 AM (exhn8)

133 Willowed:

Rowling was, and is, a routine leftist 3rd generation feminist. She just didn't move onto to accepting tran-insanity/4th generation feminism and now she is literal Hitler to the left

It is a fascinating development
Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:59 AM (ibTVg)

Her LoTR for Retards has exactly the "fanbase" it deserves.
Posted by: Children's Books For Adults at March 05, 2024 11:00 AM (Ph95D)

I saw "1984" For Retards at B&N over the weekend.

"1984: Julia" is hot off the presses and ready to make your eyes roll out of your head.

Buy Now!

Posted by: naturalfake at March 05, 2024 11:22 AM (nFnyb)

134 He is content to sit back and evaluate, declare what's wrong and then. . . wait for someone else to put it into action? His presence is optional? He's not a "doer" and he's not a manager, not a team player - he's there to critique as a detached observer. Posted by: Lizzy at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (6IDWi)
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GLAAD Wrap is a wondrous invention.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 05, 2024 11:22 AM (MIKMs)

135 I prefer spinach or just plain iceberg lettuce. But apart from cleaning out the colon, I am not the biggest fan of leafy greens in general.
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For polishing the pipes I recommend All Bran.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:22 AM (aGbyj)

136 Taboos are taboo for a reason. Usually because engaging in the taboo behavior has very negative consequences in the long term.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 11:16 AM (7fElN)
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Not at all. We modern sophisticates understand that the taboos of old men from the past were just to reinforce their own power.
Posted by: Prog at March 05, 2024 11:21 AM (HnUIn)
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Spoken like the true progeny of extensive inbreeding....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 11:23 AM (7fElN)

137 111 106 And now they want to do this to the Lower Snake River Dams, which generate enough power to power Portland.

The enviros have gotten consultants to claim that if the dams are taken out, the Lower Snake River (which goes through treeless semi-desert), will become a tourist attraction on a par with Yellowstone.

They have no shame whatsoever.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 05, 2024 11:19 AM (YAtuc)

=======

Do it. Portland deserves to have no electricity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

#Truth

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 11:23 AM (xcxpd)

138 The 2d amendment is also one that needs to be re-written to get it out of the hand of the comiedems

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 11:23 AM (A5THL)

139
I find it a bit bitter. I prefer spinach or just plain iceberg lettuce. But apart from cleaning out the colon, I am not the biggest fan of leafy greens in general.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 11:21 AM

Thanks. Maybe the wife will like it then. She likes stuff on that side of the taste scale for some reason.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 11:23 AM (RKVpM)

140 Rowling was, and is, a routine leftist 3rd generation feminist. She just didn't move onto to accepting tran-insanity/4th generation feminism and now she is literal Hitler to the left

It is a fascinating development
Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 10:59 AM (ibTVg)
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The Left Pole. You're on it, or you're Hitler.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 11:23 AM (HnUIn)

141 For polishing the pipes I recommend All Bran.

Super Colon Blow FTW!

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:23 AM (CsUN+)

142 Arms were fire arms then and now.

You can always trust history lessons from randos on DU.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 05, 2024 11:24 AM (sNc8Y)

143 Finally, SCOTUS is good for something.

The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
Supreme Court Overturns Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 05, 2024 11:24 AM (FVME7)

144 93 Nikki is another mediocrity that keeps getting pushed up….

But she’s gonna fight for every inch!! Double entendres abound here

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 11:16 AM (4Fb0A)
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I wonder how many inches she's gained so far, lifetime?

Posted by: Ciampino - media critic - mediocrity at March 05, 2024 11:24 AM (qfLjt)

145 Ms. Nuland will still control Blinken, no need to hold office. Nuland has a wake of human suffering following her that is practically incalculable.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 05, 2024 11:24 AM (MeG8a)

146 Our Betters are teeing up the next round of degenerate insanity:
https://tinyurl.com/795jv2v8
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2024 11:11 AM (0FoWg)
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How long before they move on to human sacrifice?
Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at March 05, 2024 11:22 AM (exhn

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They've been normalizing that for a long time (e.g., partial birth abortions)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 11:24 AM (7fElN)

147 The 2nd Amendment includes the phrase "well regulated". It has not been erased. are brass knuckles, military pikes, war axes, battle stars and nun-chucks also now covered under 'keep and bear arms' ?

Dear DUmmies,
Well regulated in 1777 meant "properly functioning".

Not 2014 meaning of government regulated.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 11:24 AM (uo2ie)

148 for the 1000th time progs, well regulated in the 1700s meant well functioning, not govt regulated.

Posted by: Montec at March 05, 2024 11:24 AM (bWsRe)

149 Taboos are simply a way for the heteronormative cispatriarchial hegemonic power structures to assert their systemic dominance onto BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized communities.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 05, 2024 11:24 AM (PiwSw)

150 Taboos are taboo for a reason. Usually because engaging in the taboo behavior has very negative consequences in the long term.

One of the points I've seen a number of serious anthropologists make is that traditions are the time tested methods past peoples invented to solve real problems.

You want data driven solutions? Well Tribe A did X and Tribe B did Y and...Tribe B died out...that's pretty solid data...

And yes this is basically looking at Chesteron's fence from a difference angle, but the best of modern science seems to merely be establishing the truth of previous "conventional wisdom"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 11:24 AM (ibTVg)

151 Really, Victoria Nuland retiring. Is it because she thinks she's done enough damage to the country now and can move on to the next place to fuck up.

Posted by: Jaimo at March 05, 2024 11:24 AM (DBrN4)

152 Who knew? So, I can swap my Glock uppers and frames with my HK pistol uppers and frames....? Umm, yeah, not happening. Oh that's right one's Austrian made and the other is German made??? That's why I can't swap... I guess I can switch out a Walther and the HK pistols, since both are German made....? Umm, yeah not happening. I have a hard focusing my HATE towards just one gubmint agency or department, because I HATE them all. But BAFTE, should not exist.

But, here we are, now having the ATF threatening dictatorial powers (of course already have been doing it since 20 JAN 2021) of gun regulation with no tie-in to a law. Some days I hope for the collapse to happen sooner, so I can watch the burning of Rome-on-the-Potomac, and all the associated global warming from it.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD at March 05, 2024 11:25 AM (EweRc)

153 Facebook, Instagram and Threads suffer major global outages

Posted by: SMOD at March 05, 2024 11:25 AM (RHGPo)

154 You had one job.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7yu9mf

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

155 I'm a Harry Potter fan... Don't have to like the Author... If I had to do that there would be a lot of good books i couldn't read

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 11:25 AM (Akjoo)

156 The 2023 SOTU was probably the last time that Biden's medical team was able to hit the sweet spot with his dosage of public appearance uppers. He was able to appear lifelike for over an hour and read the 'prompter like someone who at least studied a little in school when he wasn't plagiarizing.

It's a tall order for them to pull that off again. In the past year, Biden's coherence shelf life during public appearances has been constantly revised downward. There aren't that many minutes before he lapses into the slurring gibberish that has practically become his native tongue. The sequel to 2023 is going to be "Grease 2," not "Godfather Part II."

Posted by: SMOD at March 05, 2024 11:25 AM (RHGPo)

157 I find, in general, that so called animal lovers and tree huggers know less than nothing about the actual biology and nature of their professes passions. They are ignorant sluts enslaved to their stupid emotions and live in a make believe world.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 11:25 AM (pohLc)

158 APNews.com: Victoria Nuland is retiring.

She's pissed off because Blinken passed over her for the #2 job at State in favor of one of his buddies. (She's currently the acting #2.)

Another prime example of it's not competence that gets you these jobs, but who you know.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 05, 2024 11:25 AM (YAtuc)

159 115 APNews.com: Victoria Nuland is retiring.
Posted by: t-bird at March 05, 2024 11:20 AM (+TuX9)
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Nuland looks at Ukraine...

"My work here is complete"

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at March 05, 2024 11:26 AM (exhn8)

160 I prefer spinach or just plain iceberg lettuce. But apart from cleaning out the colon, I am not the biggest fan of leafy greens in general.
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For polishing the pipes I recommend All Bran.
Posted by: Pudinhead

You really want to clear the pipes, a gallon of Go Lightly, aka, Colon Blow.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 11:26 AM (uo2ie)

161 Someone give me the TLDR on Victoria Nuland. I have no idea who she is or why her retiring is important.

Posted by: Montec at March 05, 2024 11:26 AM (bWsRe)

162 Trump impersonator on SCOTUS.

https://tinyurl.com/3va33r7p

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 05, 2024 11:26 AM (FVME7)

163 U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District

PROJECT: Klamath River Dam Removal Project
PUBLIC NOTICE NUMBER: 2003-279850N
PUBLIC NOTICE DATE: June 7, 2021
COMMENTS DUE DATE: July 8, 2021

Loads of agencies - both Federal and State(s) involved, public notices for Oregon and California but a month in which to analyze and comment.

This is not untypical and why Public Interest comments vs. knowledge of engineering, water management, etc. begin taking precedence.

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 05, 2024 11:26 AM (GshMh)

164 The bureaucrat from the state air quality board seemed to be pretty much on top of it during the oxidizer approval process.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 05, 2024 11:27 AM (2fIO4)

165 I find, in general, that so called animal lovers and tree huggers know less than nothing about the actual biology and nature of their professes passions. They are ignorant sluts enslaved to their stupid emotions and live in a make believe world.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 11:25 AM (pohLc)

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in a word: infantile.

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 05, 2024 11:27 AM (8p2p5)

166 Who knew? So, I can swap my Glock uppers and frames with my HK pistol uppers and frames....? Umm, yeah, not happening.

You could do that with Glocks and early S&W Sigmas until Glock sued them.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 05, 2024 11:27 AM (sNc8Y)

167 151 Really, Victoria Nuland retiring. Is it because she thinks she's done enough damage to the country now and can move on to the next place to fuck up.
Posted by: Jaimo

Methinks it is more that since they didn’t get the additional appropriation for Ukraine, they are forced to tighten their belts.

Posted by: SMOD at March 05, 2024 11:28 AM (RHGPo)

168 I found arugula in among my Heritage seed collection and planted a couple of seeds. Anyone of opinion? I know it's really hard to get an opinion around here, but I'll try...
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 11:17 AM (RKVpM)

Arugula is supposed to increase your blood levels, IIRC, of nitric oxide.

Which your body uses for smooth muscle relaxation...you know...it gives you boners(!).

Anyway that's what some folk say, so DbZ may have planted his own Field of Boners.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 05, 2024 11:28 AM (nFnyb)

169 Education, food stamps, and subsidized housing are the worst things the government has ever tried to do. Together, these three disasters have keep more Black people in subservient poverty than anything the segregationists ever did.

Every military officer on Earth knows, and has known from the beginning, that Ukraine has no chance of moving the Russians out of the disputed lands. Yet our government has sent the Ukraine enough money to fully fund 3 US Marine Corps for a year.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at March 05, 2024 11:28 AM (9X60i)

170 The salmon were killed by gas bubble custard which occurs when fish especially juveniles undergo drastic water pressure changes. This occured when they were forced to go down stream through a dam tunnel. That tunnel is due to be removed very soon. The dams were privately owned, they were sold to the highest bidder. The Indian tribes have never had much political power if they did the dams would have come down long ago. The tribes did hook up with powerful sportsmen's clubs especially those effete flyfishers
The 4 fans produced under 1 mega Watt of electricity it
Per year. It will cost about 2 million to replace that with wind power.

Posted by: Paul banned at March 05, 2024 11:28 AM (JSmho)

171 APNews.com: Victoria Nuland is retiring.

That feels like another signal in favor of "the deep state thinks they can control Trump enough so they're going to let him be elected and clear the DNC of having to deal with Biden or Kamala again".

Posted by: Ian S. at March 05, 2024 11:28 AM (2ocoG)

172 For those experiencing intestinal distress from greens, try rinsing them thoroughly, even if they are supposedly "pre-washed". I think there is something they put in their wash solution that doesn't agree with me. I often have problems with bagged salads but not when I rinse them again.

Posted by: Emmie at March 05, 2024 11:28 AM (Sf2cq)

173
Looks like Trump's 'Truth Social' may be down, too.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 11:29 AM (RKVpM)

174 Posted by: Paul banned at March 05, 2024 11:28 AM (JSmho)

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So, the government did nothing wrong?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

175 "The $500 million dam removal project, which has been in the works for decades, "

You know, I could just pull my finger out. This isn't hard.

Posted by: The Little Dutch Boy at March 05, 2024 11:29 AM (+TuX9)

176 I would just like to point out, that for that amount they could have dug an entirely new river that skirts the dams.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 05, 2024 11:22 AM (ou9hh)

But that wouldn't have killed millions of animals, possibly pushing some to extinction, while destroying the property values of tens of thousands.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 11:29 AM (1Z8zZ)

177 Education, food stamps, and subsidized housing are the worst things the government has ever tried to do. Together, these three disasters have keep more Black people in subservient poverty than anything the segregationists ever did.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at March 05, 2024 11:28 AM (9X60i)
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It's a form of "vote slavery."

"We'll take care of all your needs. But you have ONE job. Vote for us!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 11:29 AM (7fElN)

178 Do it. Portland deserves to have no electricity.

As of next year, Portland's electrical rates will have gone up by about a third over the last few years.

You didn't think that "green power" and all those new "renewable" resources were going to be free, did you, suckers?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 05, 2024 11:29 AM (YAtuc)

179 Business Insider: The EPA accidentally ripped a hole in a toxic mine in Colorado — it ruined a river and people are furious, August 11, 2015

Building back better, baby.

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 05, 2024 11:30 AM (GshMh)

180 It's a tall order for them to pull that off again. In the past year, Biden's coherence shelf life during public appearances has been constantly revised downward. There aren't that many minutes before he lapses into the slurring gibberish that has practically become his native tongue. The sequel to 2023 is going to be "Grease 2," not "Godfather Part II."
Posted by: SMOD at March 05, 2024 11:25 AM (RHGPo)
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They'll manage it. Make the speech shorter, use easy words to pronounce, fewer applause lines, and tell him not to wisper.

Posted by: WisRich at March 05, 2024 11:30 AM (G0vdT)

181 179 Business Insider: The EPA accidentally ripped a hole in a toxic mine in Colorado — it ruined a river and people are furious, August 11, 2015

Building back better, baby.
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 05, 2024 11:30 AM (GshMh)

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"This was fine because the mine was previously privately owned. The government and its agents can literally do no wrong, even when they directly cause massive environmental catastrophe."
-Paul, 99.999% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

182 162 Trump impersonator on SCOTUS.

https://tinyurl.com/3va33r7p
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 05, 2024 11:26 AM (FVME7)

That guy's good.

Posted by: Montec at March 05, 2024 11:31 AM (bWsRe)

183 You really want to clear the pipes, a gallon of Go Lightly, aka, Colon Blow.
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GoLYTELY a laxative -
It is a laxative that works by drawing large amounts of water into the colon. This effect results in watery bowel movements. Clearing stool from the intestines helps your doctor to better examine the intestines during your procedure.

This is something I did not know. What's it taste like? Basically an enema administered orally, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:31 AM (aGbyj)

184 Really, Victoria Nuland retiring. Is it because she thinks she's done enough damage to the country now and can move on to the next place to fuck up.
Posted by: Jaimo at March 05, 2024 11:24 AM (DBrN4)

She's effed up the Ukies, by pushing for the '23 "Spring/Summer Offensive", that went nowhere and was a killing field for the Ukie Army. Now the Russians are doing what they do best, grind you down to dust. She's gotta exit to somewhere with her extended family, the Kagan Cult.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD at March 05, 2024 11:31 AM (EweRc)

185 Business Insider: The EPA accidentally ripped a hole in a toxic mine in Colorado — it ruined a river and people are furious, August 11, 2015

IIRC the story the bureaucrat demanded they dump their waste water into the river, they said correctly no it would be illegal and pollute the river, he forced them to do it anyway, and then charged and found the company guilty and fined them.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 05, 2024 11:31 AM (ibTVg)

186 I voted in the VA primary today, and was surprised to see RDS still on the ballot, along with Nikki and Vivek. There were also two others, but I don't remember who.

Anyway, I voted for RDS just to let PDT know I'm watching him.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:31 AM (CsUN+)

187 161 Someone give me the TLDR on Victoria Nuland. I have no idea who she is or why her retiring is important.

Her name is spelled Rasputin in Russian and Jezebel in Hebrew.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at March 05, 2024 11:31 AM (9X60i)

188 Well if Paul says so it must be true. Right? Right?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 11:31 AM (pohLc)

189 Paul is a fish expert now.

LOL

Posted by: Montec at March 05, 2024 11:31 AM (bWsRe)

190 Nuland was recorded admitting that the reason Ukraine was so vital to our national interests is due to the numerous bio labs and CIA operations, which has a lot to do with why Putin invaded in the first place.
These places were all funded via omnibus spending bills that no one reads because they are impenetrable gobbledygook.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 05, 2024 11:31 AM (MeG8a)

191 >So, I can swap my Glock uppers and frames with my HK pistol uppers and frames....?

Do you know who else swapped an Austrian for a German????????

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 05, 2024 11:32 AM (cf/0E)

192 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 11:32 AM (7Q7Ca)

193 Moral of the story: California leadership is full of dumbasses and the state is foreverf*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 11:32 AM (7Q7Ca)

194 Saw a video of people ooing and aahing watching the Klamath flow. They didn't seem to know about the dead fish. Or care

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2024 11:33 AM (58LrU)

195
We're not fighting supervillains here - we are fighting bureaucratic timeservers who have gotten to where they are through office politics and connections, not because they are competent.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 05, 2024 11:12 AM (YAtuc)

———

You make the mistake of thinking Brenner, Clapper and others actually care about the jobs they had. CIA assets being rounded up in China, not even on their radar.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 05, 2024 11:33 AM (2fIO4)

196 Don't worry. The goons they send to your home know how to operate all their firearms.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at March 05, 2024 11:33 AM (hWV0R)

197 Do you know who else swapped an Austrian for a German????????

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 05, 2024 11:32 AM (cf/0E)

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* snorting golf clap *

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 05, 2024 11:33 AM (8p2p5)

198 The Klamath River since the dam was deconstructed is now so shallow that you can easily walk across it, but not deep enough for the salmon to spawn.

California Democrats will be running on a platform of...

...wait for it...

... Roe versus wade.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 11:33 AM (991eG)

199 Enviro freaks kill fish by removing dams and kill birds by putting up windmills. All while raising energy costs for everyone.

This is the left of today.

Posted by: Montec at March 05, 2024 11:33 AM (bWsRe)

200 The tribes did hook up with powerful sportsmen's clubs especially those effete flyfishers.
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Chasing women, drinking Bourbon and fly fishing are noble endeavors.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:34 AM (aGbyj)

201 Education, food stamps, and subsidized housing are the worst things the government has ever tried to do. Together, these three disasters have keep more Black people in subservient poverty than anything the segregationists ever did.

Sorry, but that's letting them off the hook for their own behavior. Nobody makes them take food stamps, subsidized housing, or welfare, nor demand incompetent black teachers and lower standards for their children. If you don't like what government is "doing for you", stop demanding more of it.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:34 AM (CsUN+)

202 198 California Democrats will be running on a platform of...

...wait for it...

... Roe versus wade.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 11:33 AM (991eG)

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And their super secure, all mail-in-ballot election will be proof that abortion is the one issue that matters!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

203 Trump impersonator on SCOTUS.

https://tinyurl.com/3va33r7p

He's good. Funny stuff. I wonder if the Ds have any Biden impersonators or anything at all about Joe that they find funny.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 05, 2024 11:34 AM (sNc8Y)

204 125 115 APNews.com: Victoria Nuland is retiring.

Well, well, well...
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So no rope and telephone pole? Why can't we have nice things?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:21 AM (aGbyj)
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Why not? In my book being retired doesn't absolve anyone of any slights or crimes committed when employed.

Posted by: Ciampino - lamppost reserved at March 05, 2024 11:34 AM (qfLjt)

205 Eve Arden played Principal McGee in both Grease and Grease 2. Grease 2 was her last film role.

Posted by: Our Miss Brooks at March 05, 2024 11:34 AM (V5BDR)

206 How do you think we end up with the likes of Letitia James and Fani Willis as AG in GA and NY ?

Posted by: deadrody at March 05, 2024 11:35 AM (OeYsY)

207 161 Someone give me the TLDR on Victoria Nuland. I have no idea who she is or why her retiring is important.

Her name is spelled Rasputin in Russian and Jezebel in Hebrew.
Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at March 05, 2024 11:31 AM (9X60i)

Her name in English means: Fat Ugly Piece of Shit.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD at March 05, 2024 11:35 AM (EweRc)

208 192 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 05, 2024 11:32 AM (7Q7Ca)

He can't keep getting away with this!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 05, 2024 11:35 AM (KbCG3)

209 Biden's medical team

-
I heard that people are demanding a competency examination for Biden's doctor.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 05, 2024 11:35 AM (FVME7)

210 Really, Victoria Nuland retiring. Is it because she thinks she's done enough damage to the country now and can move on to the next place to fuck up.
Posted by: Jaimo at March 05, 2024 11:24 AM (DBrN4)

I assume she's planning on being named Queen of Ukraine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2024 11:35 AM (1Z8zZ)

211 I saw Gas Bubble Custard open for...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:35 AM (9yWhg)

212 Someone give me the TLDR on Victoria Nuland. I have no idea who she is or why her retiring is important.

She's the Angel of Death - wherever she goes in the world, death and chaos follow. She was smirkingly excited in Congressional testimony after the Nordstream pipelines were blown up (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).

She's Ms. Color Revolution - she was behind the pro-US coup in Ukraine in 2014, among many other similar activities. She is also married to Robert Kagan, one of the leading pro-war neocons.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 05, 2024 11:35 AM (YAtuc)

213 201 Education, food stamps, and subsidized housing are the worst things the government has ever tried to do. Together, these three disasters have keep more Black people in subservient poverty than anything the segregationists ever did.

Sorry, but that's letting them off the hook for their own behavior. Nobody makes them take food stamps, subsidized housing, or welfare, nor demand incompetent black teachers and lower standards for their children. If you don't like what government is "doing for you", stop demanding more of it.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:34 AM (CsUN+)

Golden handcuffs problem...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 05, 2024 11:35 AM (exHjb)

214 206 How do you think we end up with the likes of Letitia James and Fani Willis as AG in GA and NY ?

Posted by: deadrody at March 05, 2024 11:35 AM (OeYsY)

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'sup homeys!

Posted by: George Soros at March 05, 2024 11:35 AM (bWsRe)

215 Look at the bright side, he didn't shoot any of the congressmen while trying to disassemble a pistol.

Wait.....

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 05, 2024 11:36 AM (lTGtQ)

216 Sid is taking Paul's glory hole shift. Come on Paul Sid's jaws are getting tired from the double shift.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2024 11:36 AM (58LrU)

217 Victoria Nuland is the left's color revolution architect.

That she's colorblind doesn't seem to matter.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 11:36 AM (Q4IgG)

218 Paul is a fish expert now.

LOL
Posted by: Montec

Well, he is intimately acquainted with tilapia now.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:37 AM (9yWhg)

219 Everything the left does fails. And yet they're still experts and thought leaders in their circle jerk.

Posted by: Montec at March 05, 2024 11:37 AM (bWsRe)

220 So is a media critic a purveyor of mediocrity?

Posted by: Ciampino - they are often wrong at March 05, 2024 11:37 AM (qfLjt)

221 Someone give me the TLDR on Victoria Nuland. I have no idea who she is or why her retiring is important.

Alexander Vindman with tits. She's an actual native Ukrainian who's run Uke policy for Obama and Biden (but i repeat myself). And like Vindman she's representing Ukraine, not the US, while doing that.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 05, 2024 11:37 AM (2ocoG)

222 California Democrats will be running on a platform of...

...wait for it...

... Roe versus wade.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 05, 2024 11:33 AM (991eG)

Why ? In CA. you can abort your baby practically till birth

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 11:37 AM (Akjoo)

223 I assume she's planning on being named Queen of Ukraine.

I assume she's taking an unplanned vacation to Cuba.

Posted by: t-bird at March 05, 2024 11:38 AM (+TuX9)

224 I assume she's planning on being named Queen of Ukraine.

Based on the current example, she needs to learn to play the piano with her clit.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 05, 2024 11:38 AM (2ocoG)

225 I would bet that freak Nuland is out partly because of what happened in Niger.

When your grotesque, unseemly war pig gets humiliated like that, by one of her erstwhile subordinates, no less, people are laughing at her. Not scared of her.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2024 11:38 AM (0FoWg)

226 Kale's good. Esp in soups and some salads.

The big problem with kale and some of the other mentioned leaves is that they exacerbate gout if you eat enough.

I think some morons have talked about having gout.

If so...avoid dread kale and it's cousins.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 05, 2024 11:17 AM (nFnyb)

All the talk of kale reminds of that Cheers episode where Woody wants to like the drink “Veggie Boy” (primary ingredient, kale) because he’s being paid to be in a commercial for it. Dr Crane hypnotizes him to love it. Pretty funny…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 11:38 AM (4Fb0A)

227 "Apparently nobody much cares about the salmon, and the goal was to...what? Destroy clean energy production? Suck up to the lunatic but tiny Indian pressure groups? Save the world from the evils of Global Warming? buy indulgences from the Sustainable Organic Church Of The Carbon Apocalypse?"

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I'm aware of, but haven't really been paying much attention to the fish vs. dam thing that's been going on.

I always sorta assumed there was some value to having clean, flowing rivers, but I guess it's like all the rest of the stupid grift in this world these days. Even the well-intentioned, and we absolutely know many of them aren't, but even those who are, they step on their own fish, and have the opposite effect of what they claim they want.

I should know by now. But apparently this is just another grift/hoax.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 11:39 AM (dGCAG)

228 Ha! Now nationwide outage for FB. Something's happening here....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 05, 2024 11:39 AM (0eaVi)

229 Sorry, but that's letting them off the hook for their own behavior. Nobody makes them take food stamps, subsidized housing, or welfare, nor demand incompetent black teachers and lower standards for their children. If you don't like what government is "doing for you", stop demanding more of it.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:34 AM (CsUN+)

Golden handcuffs problem...

Do they have agency or not?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:40 AM (CsUN+)

230 228 Ha! Now nationwide outage for FB. Something's happening here....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 05, 2024 11:39 AM (0eaVi)

What is is ain't exactly clear

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 11:40 AM (Akjoo)

231 Sorry, but that's letting them off the hook for their own behavior. Nobody makes them take food stamps, subsidized housing, or welfare, nor demand incompetent black teachers and lower standards for their children. If you don't like what government is "doing for you", stop demanding more of it.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:34 AM (CsUN+)

People get out of life what they put in.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 05, 2024 11:40 AM (KbCG3)

232 If I recall correctly Nuland also landed in the Sudan just before that place blew apart. Another Dem Mistress of Disaster

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2024 11:40 AM (58LrU)

233 I always sorta assumed there was some value to having clean, flowing rivers, but I guess it's like all the rest of the stupid grift in this world these days. Even the well-intentioned, and we absolutely know many of them aren't, but even those who are, they step on their own fish, and have the opposite effect of what they claim they want.

The backstory to this is that the Left is lockstep pivoting to "indigenous/native peoples are the only people who matter". You see it in "palestine", you see it in "White Rural Rage", you see it in renewed calls for Antifa to blow up Mount Rushmore, it's everywhere.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 05, 2024 11:41 AM (2ocoG)

234 She's the Angel of Death - wherever she goes in the world, death and chaos follow.
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Nuland v Susan Rice v Sam Powell

Why do the hags come in threes?

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 05, 2024 11:41 AM (MIKMs)

235 232 If I recall correctly Nuland also landed in the Sudan just before that place blew apart. Another Dem Mistress of Disaster
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2024 11:40 AM (58LrU)

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Since Democrats only fail upwards, she's going to replace Biden on the ticket.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

236 199 This is the left of today.

Posted by: Montec at March 05, 2024 11:33 AM (bWsRe)

I wish there was a way we could sue the sh&t out these groups to eliminate them.

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 11:41 AM (A5THL)

237 What is is ain't exactly clear
Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 11:40 AM (Akjoo)

it is... screwed that one up

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 11:41 AM (Akjoo)

238 What is is ain't exactly clear
Posted by: It's me donna

That's what I said!
-- Bill Clinton

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:41 AM (9yWhg)

239 Nuland (nee Noodleman).

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2024 11:41 AM (aGbyj)

240 That's what I said!
-- Bill Clinton
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:41 AM (9yWhg)

LOL... I deserved that one

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 11:42 AM (Akjoo)

241 Hydro power is 100% clean and renewable and endless. It's what the enviros claim they want.

And yet...

Posted by: Montec at March 05, 2024 11:43 AM (bWsRe)

242 229 Sorry, but that's letting them off the hook for their own behavior. Nobody makes them take food stamps, subsidized housing, or welfare, nor demand incompetent black teachers and lower standards for their children. If you don't like what government is "doing for you", stop demanding more of it.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:34 AM (CsUN+)

"Golden handcuffs problem..."

Do they have agency or not?
Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:40 AM (CsUN+)

From an educational perspective if you teach people they don't have agency they act like shit. Getting them to stop behaving like shit involves teaching them they have agency.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 05, 2024 11:43 AM (eYoxG)

243 LOL... I deserved that one
Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 11:42 AM (Akjoo)

I didn't even notice it. Must need new glasses.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 05, 2024 11:43 AM (0eaVi)

244 The Harry Potter books are good; really good IMHO. I read them with my daughter years ago and was surprised how well written and how interesting the story.

Having said that, they don’t hold a candle to the pure genius of the LOTR

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 11:43 AM (4Fb0A)

245 Glocks are one of the easiest pistols to disassemble out there.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 05, 2024 11:44 AM (AEvvx)

246 I haven't read all the comments but, has anyone noted that Joe Biden is a senile clusterfuck of a miserable failure yet?

Posted by: that guy that hasn't read all the comments at March 05, 2024 11:00 AM (aD39U)

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"We keep telling you that he's a STUTTERING clusterfuck of a miserable failure, h8r!"

-- Your Sycophantic MDM-MSM Whore Ministers of Truth

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 05, 2024 11:44 AM (8p2p5)

247 I'm 29 enough to remember when the EPA used to stop others from changing creeks to funny colors.

Posted by: DaveA at March 05, 2024 11:44 AM (PMJuY)

248 Dissolve the federal agencies and put everything back to the states. Its the only way.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 05, 2024 11:44 AM (sX1BW)

249 Hydro power is 100% clean and renewable and endless. It's what the enviros claim they want.

They don't actually want the "problem" to be solved though, because their real solution is "kill all the middle class".

Posted by: Ian S. at March 05, 2024 11:44 AM (2ocoG)

250 Alexander Vindman with tits. She's an actual native Ukrainian who's run Uke policy for Obama and Biden (but i repeat myself). And like Vindman she's representing Ukraine, not the US, while doing that.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 05, 2024 11:37 AM (2ocoG)

Nuland has been in place for damn near every administration. Not sure how far back she goes, but she was definitely up to her tricks during W's admin.

You really can't pin her on the Democrats. She's an all-purpose, Deep State monster, who thrills on the deaths of foreigners, and the Machiavellian manner with which the American war pigs have been playing fast and loose with foreign governments all over the globe.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 11:44 AM (dGCAG)

251
Hydro power is 100% clean and renewable and endless. It's what the enviros claim they want.

And yet...

Posted by: Montec at March 05, 2024 11:43 AM

It's like having a license to print money. I can't imagine not fighting like hell to keep going.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 11:44 AM (RKVpM)

252 Eh, Sam Powers. Sometimes the deathsheads start looking alike.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 05, 2024 11:45 AM (MIKMs)

253 227 I always sorta assumed there was some value to having clean, flowing rivers, but I guess it's like all the rest of the stupid grift in this world these days. Even the well-intentioned, and we absolutely know many of them aren't, but even those who are, they step on their own fish, and have the opposite effect of what they claim they want.

I should know by now. But apparently this is just another grift/hoax.

Everything the gov tries to do always fails. Known historical FACT.

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 11:45 AM (A5THL)

254 FJB back on the public schedule this afternoon.

The President convenes a meeting of his Competition Council to announce new actions to lower costs for hardworking families by fighting corporate rip-offs.
In-House pool spray.

Fewer gainfully employed. (We're becoming an underground cash economy for both commoners & border jumpers.) For them, raise your glass to free "education," universal income & Medicare.

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 05, 2024 11:45 AM (GshMh)

255 253 Everything the gov tries to do always fails. Known historical FACT.
Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 11:45 AM (A5THL)

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It's been historically pretty good at killing people and breaking things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

256 Samantha Stevens' powers >>>>>>>>> Samantha Powers

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:46 AM (9yWhg)

257 Alexander Vindman with tits.

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His boobs are big enough.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 05, 2024 11:46 AM (sX1BW)

258 The journey to becoming conservative starts with the resolve to not be underpants-on-head ridiculous.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 05, 2024 11:46 AM (cf/0E)

259 From an educational perspective if you teach people they don't have agency they act like shit. Getting them to stop behaving like shit involves teaching them they have agency.

No amount of education will overcome a culture in which victimhood is used as an ATM card. It starts with the parents. They have to tell their children "it's up to you, and yes, you can do it, if you do the things that have worked for everyone else."
They have to tell their politicians to stop treating them like retarded children so they can get some more goodies.
They have to live their lives as exemplars of self-reliance and ethical behavior.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:46 AM (CsUN+)

260 Nuland has been in place for damn near every administration. Not sure how far back she goes, but she was definitely up to her tricks during W's admin.

Not during the Trump Administration - she resigned, and did something else until the D's came back.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 05, 2024 11:46 AM (YAtuc)

261 246 I haven't read all the comments but, has anyone noted that Joe Biden is a senile clusterfuck of a miserable failure yet?

Posted by: that guy that hasn't read all the comments at March 05, 2024 11:00 AM (aD39U)

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"We keep telling you that he's a STUTTERING clusterfuck of a miserable failure, h8r!"

-- Your Sycophantic MDM-MSM Whore Ministers of Truth
Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 05, 2024 11:44 AM (8p2p5)

I seem to remember some years ago that some candidate ran against an incumbent and his website was “nameisamiserablefailure.com”

I forgot the name

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 05, 2024 11:47 AM (4Fb0A)

262 It's been historically pretty good at killing people and breaking things.

Except for when it's *supposed* to be good at killing people and breaking things but has had an all-losing record post-WW2.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 05, 2024 11:47 AM (2ocoG)

263 Oh, and people like Vicky Nuland never retire.

Whatever announcement was made, she's not going anywhere.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 11:47 AM (dGCAG)

264 Everything the gov tries to do always fails. Known historical FACT.
Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 11:45 AM (A5THL)

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It's been historically pretty good at killing people and breaking things.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Except their job was to keep people alive and fix things.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 11:47 AM (uo2ie)

265 She's the Angel of Death - wherever she goes in the world, death and chaos follow.
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Nuland v Susan Rice v Sam Powell

Why do the hags come in threes?
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What am I chopped liver?

Posted by: Jamie Gorelick at March 05, 2024 11:47 AM (Dnobf)

266 The journey to becoming conservative starts with the resolve to not be underpants-on-head ridiculous.

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My journey started at birth and I've never deviated.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 05, 2024 11:47 AM (sX1BW)

267 Government incompetence resulted in Las Cruces, NM police officer getting stabbed in the neck by a vagrant. Why do I say government incompetence is the reason this occurred? The state legislature has crafted laws that make it nearly impossible to commit people involuntarily and to hold them in jail on bail.

The consequences? 4 people have been hauled in to the local magistrate court 576 times. Five Hundred and Seventy Six times. There are no consequences until one of these lunatics on the street stab a police officer in the neck. The local business owners are constantly raising a ruckus over this only to meet the circle jerk of the City saying it is a policing problem, the police saying it is a court problem, the courts saying it is a legislative problem and the legislature, stacked with Democrats saying our values dictate we protect the vagrants.

This article has the police chief discussing this murder and proposed changes: https://tinyurl.com/4zxr7a26

This video is of the murder itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wevpk7tWQDU

Posted by: lost in space at March 05, 2024 11:48 AM (DbPG1)

268 The founders knew this and wrote the Constitution specifying a short list of powers the gov has. But the politicians always ignore it and SCOTUS allows it.

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 11:48 AM (A5THL)

269 You really can't pin her on the Democrats.

She was one of Cheney's senior foreign policy advisors.

Not Democrat, but Deep State.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 05, 2024 11:48 AM (YAtuc)

270 No amount of education will overcome a culture in which victimhood is used as an ATM card.

It will when the account is overdrawn.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 11:48 AM (uo2ie)

271 Except for when it's *supposed* to be good at killing people and breaking things but has had an all-losing record post-WW2.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 05, 2024 11:47 AM (2ocoG)

Having thought about this, I've come to the conclusion even with WWII, we sorta half won half the war.

I'd hang a big fat L on the eastern Euro end of that little dustup.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 11:48 AM (dGCAG)

272 United Methodist Church slashes budget to smallest in 40 years after mass exodus from denomination

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They'll have to change their name to Disunited Methodist Church .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 05, 2024 11:49 AM (FVME7)

273 Late to the game, but anyone who can't field strip a Glock shouldn't be in the same room as a firearm.

Jeebus.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 05, 2024 11:49 AM (FCHDG)

274 United Methodist Church slashes budget to smallest in 40 years after mass exodus from denomination

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But the new services are fabulous.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 05, 2024 11:50 AM (sX1BW)

275 Glocks are one of the easiest pistols to disassemble out there.

DISINFORMATION!!! He's a government expert so if he says it's difficult, it's difficult. Case closed.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 05, 2024 11:50 AM (sNc8Y)

276 To this day the ATF has no definition for assault weapon.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 05, 2024 11:50 AM (MeG8a)

277 Having thought about this, I've come to the conclusion even with WWII, we sorta half won half the war.

I'd hang a big fat L on the eastern Euro end of that little dustup.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 11:48 AM (dGCAG)

If you mean we should've taken out Stalin also, I'll rubber-stamp that.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 05, 2024 11:50 AM (2ocoG)

278 259 "From an educational perspective if you teach people they don't have agency they act like shit. Getting them to stop behaving like shit involves teaching them they have agency."

No amount of education will overcome a culture in which victimhood is used as an ATM card. It starts with the parents. They have to tell their children "it's up to you, and yes, you can do it, if you do the things that have worked for everyone else."
They have to tell their politicians to stop treating them like retarded children so they can get some more goodies.
They have to live their lives as exemplars of self-reliance and ethical behavior.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:46 AM (CsUN+)

Culture is a form of education, passing on knowledge from prior generations ideally, and society in the present.

Usually it takes a lawgiver type of figure to drag a people out of a self-destructive cycle. It's pretty difficult for an average person to work himself out of a bunch of stupid lies he's been taught.

Using any profession as an analogy, why do people do stupid shit X relating to your line of work? They don't know better. They might not even know they don't know better.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 05, 2024 11:50 AM (eYoxG)

279 No amount of education will overcome a culture in which victimhood is used as an ATM card.

It will when the account is overdrawn.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 11:48 AM (uo2ie)

And we're just a tiny bit overdrawn.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 05, 2024 11:51 AM (Rls1J)

280
Pandering to a minority of people like the gheys is unprofitable. Who woulda thought?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 05, 2024 11:51 AM (RKVpM)

281 United Methodist Church slashes budget to smallest in 40 years after mass exodus from denomination

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They'll have to change their name to Disunited Methodist Church .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Disunited Methodist Church or Datunited Methodist Church?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2024 11:51 AM (uo2ie)

282 181. The government and its agents can literally do no wrong, even when they directly cause massive environmental catastrophe.

Indeed. And unemployment, accidental deaths, suicide, broken families...

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 05, 2024 11:51 AM (GshMh)

283 She was one of Cheney's senior foreign policy advisors.

Not Democrat, but Deep State.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 05, 2024 11:48 AM (YAtuc)

In my mind, I tend to think of the Deep Staters are being three letter agencies, CIA, NSA, FBI, but the Departments are their own rotten entities too, and sometimes at odds with the other agencies and departments. State is its own thing, as is DoD.

Doesn't mean there aren't "intelligence" plants in those departments, but they're rotten to the core, all by themselves as well.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 11:52 AM (dGCAG)

284 even with WWII

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Mel Brooks talks of his experiences as a soldier in WWII. (6 1/2 minutes)

https://tinyurl.com/bdha5sy7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 05, 2024 11:52 AM (FVME7)

285 282 181. The government and its agents can literally do no wrong, even when they directly cause massive environmental catastrophe.

Indeed. And unemployment, accidental deaths, suicide, broken families...

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 05, 2024 11:51 AM (GshMh)

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Employment by government makes one more moral.

Unless one continues to vote Republican, then you are the devil and should be driven out and destroyed. Even if you vote for "good" Republicans. There are no good Republicans.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

286 Having thought about this, I've come to the conclusion even with WWII, we sorta half won half the war.

I'd hang a big fat L on the eastern Euro end of that little dustup.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 11:48 AM (dGCAG)

If you mean we should've taken out Stalin also, I'll rubber-stamp that.
Posted by: Ian S.

We weren't ever going to do that, and it would've been stupid to try. Americans were sick of the war, and once we took out Hitler we still had Tojo to deal with. It would've been a suicide mission.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:52 AM (9yWhg)

287 182
‘ Trump impersonator on SCOTUS’

I didn’t find the impersonator. All I found was Trump himself. I guess that’s why he was so good.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 05, 2024 11:53 AM (jbnUc)

288 I would bet that freak Nuland is out partly because of what happened in Niger.

When your grotesque, unseemly war pig gets humiliated like that, by one of her erstwhile subordinates, no less, people are laughing at her. Not scared of her.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2024 11:38 AM (0FoWg)
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The (king? military dictator? president?) of Niger shut her down quickly and cruelly. She probably assaulted any number of subordinates in rage.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 05, 2024 11:53 AM (HnUIn)

289 Alexander Vindman with tits. She's an actual native Ukrainian who's run Uke policy for Obama and Biden (but i repeat myself). And like Vindman she's representing Ukraine, not the US, while doing that.

One of the huge mistakes we made was placing people who viscerally hate Russia and the Russians in charge of our policy towards Russia and Eastern Europe.

Putin is not a nice man, and Russia is our geopolitical competitor and needs to be treated as such, but installing people into senior foreign policy roles who fantasize about breaking Russia up into several dozen weak, nominally independent countries (as outlined by the Hudson Institute and the Helsinki Commission) has not done the United States any favors.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 05, 2024 11:53 AM (YAtuc)

290 The Methodists are a prosperous group. I'm not surprised that the congregations did not embrace wokeness

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 05, 2024 11:53 AM (yeEu9)

291 Victoria Nuland (and anyone else who has a recognized name) doesn't "retire." She's going dark. Well appointed office somewhere unlisted. Access to everyone she needs, access to all the systems and data she needs.

Without having to answer to anyone, answer a phone, be directed to go here or there.

Remote control destruction of nations via keyboard.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2024 11:54 AM (Q4IgG)

292 Using any profession as an analogy, why do people do stupid shit X relating to your line of work? They don't know better. They might not even know they don't know better.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 05, 2024 11:50 AM (eYoxG)
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*sigh* sadly true in my case...Most college professors have never been trained how to teach effectively, so they rely on lectures most of the time. Lots of research has confirmed that lectures by themselves are terrible at teaching large groups of people. Still, they persist.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2024 11:54 AM (7fElN)

293 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0d0rsW9p3I

In this Beat Club performance from 1972, drummer Ed Marimba does a wonderful job drumming whilst wearing a monocle and underpants on his head.

Posted by: The Magic Band at March 05, 2024 11:54 AM (V5BDR)

294 Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 11:48 AM (dGCAG)

If you mean we should've taken out Stalin also, I'll rubber-stamp that.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 05, 2024 11:50 AM (2ocoG)

Basically, yeah. I'm on Team Patton when it comes to the eastern front.

And yes, I'm conspiratorial enough to think he might have been murdered.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 11:54 AM (dGCAG)

295 "Guns are evil. It's interesting."

What is more interesting is those who claim there is no objective morality constantly applying dogmatic moral terms to support their belief system.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 05, 2024 11:55 AM (B0mGw)

296 Would it be unreasonable to interpret the Constitution this way:

Since a president has requirements around residency and citizenship, those should extend to everyone in the executive branch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

297 Finally, Biden is doing something about the border!

Biden Admin admits it secretly flew 320,000 "asylum seekers" into US (in 2023 alone) to reduce numbers at the border

https://tinyurl.com/yrykbtwc

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 05, 2024 11:55 AM (FVME7)

298 United Methodist Church slashes budget to smallest in 40 years after mass exodus from denomination

Schisms over tuna-casserole recipes are the worst.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:55 AM (9yWhg)

299 Lots of research has confirmed that lectures by themselves are terrible at teaching large groups of people. Still, they persist.

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Makes for a more profitable teacher:student ratio.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 05, 2024 11:55 AM (sX1BW)

300 295 "Guns are evil. It's interesting."

What is more interesting is those who claim there is no objective morality constantly applying dogmatic moral terms to support their belief system.
Posted by: Ribbed at March 05, 2024 11:55 AM (B0mGw)

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"My truth says that I can cut your kids' dicks off without even their permission because it makes me feel good. Fighting that is evil."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

301 Since a president has requirements around residency and citizenship, those should extend to everyone in the executive branch.

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I simply don't think the founders could have ever envisioned a bureaucracy like we have.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 05, 2024 11:56 AM (sX1BW)

302 And yes, I'm conspiratorial enough to think he might have been murdered.
Posted by: BurtTC

Yeah, that whole thing was hinky. No other passengers in the vehicle were even slightly injured, but Patton is paralyzed and dies? Doesn't pass the smell test.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 11:56 AM (9yWhg)

303 We weren't ever going to do that, and it would've been stupid to try. Americans were sick of the war, and once we took out Hitler we still had Tojo to deal with. It would've been a suicide mission.

The same method used on Tojo would've worked since the USSR didn't have nukes yet.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 05, 2024 11:57 AM (2ocoG)

304 I wouldn't have a Glock up my butt. Give me a Browning Hi-Power.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 11:57 AM (pohLc)

305 296 Would it be unreasonable to interpret the Constitution this way:

Since a president has requirements around residency and citizenship, those should extend to everyone in the executive branch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

Unreasonable from a legal perspective sure. As a matter of policy(which could be legislated), not unreasonable.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 05, 2024 11:57 AM (eYoxG)

306 303 The same method used on Tojo would've worked since the USSR didn't have nukes yet.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 05, 2024 11:57 AM (2ocoG)

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We only had two.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

307 "My truth says that I can cut your kids' dicks off without even their permission because it makes me feel good. Fighting that is evil."

Five out of five deranged fat wiccan Karens applaud and support your bravery.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 05, 2024 11:57 AM (B0mGw)

308 Huh, my husband works for Kia and their tech line is also down.

Posted by: Jaimo at March 05, 2024 11:57 AM (DBrN4)

309 When Putin asked to join NATO, he might have been trolling, but it did make it obvious that purpose and meaning wasn't there anymore.

Pretending the cold war isn't over so we can grift, launder and turn the Ukraine into an empty shell is disgusting.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 05, 2024 11:57 AM (cf/0E)

310 Alexander Vindman with tits. She's an actual native Ukrainian who's run Uke policy for Obama and Biden (but i repeat myself). And like Vindman she's representing Ukraine, not the US, while doing that.

One of the huge mistakes we made was placing people who viscerally hate Russia and the Russians in charge of our policy towards Russia and Eastern Europe.

Putin is not a nice man, and Russia is our geopolitical competitor and needs to be treated as such, but installing people into senior foreign policy roles who fantasize about breaking Russia up into several dozen weak, nominally independent countries (as outlined by the Hudson Institute and the Helsinki Commission) has not done the United States any favors.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 05, 2024 11:53 AM (YAtuc)

And Obama snarked to Romney in a set up that the 1980's called. These psychopaths have no shame and depend on the LIV to hold power. That's why they want to control the internet like they do the MSM.

Posted by: Burnt Umber at March 05, 2024 11:58 AM (MNhXM)

311 We only had two.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

We had several more in the pipe. I think we would have had 7 more A bombs by the end of the year? Or maybe it was faster than that, maybe it was 7 by November, I forget.

Oh and your interview with Christian Toto was good. Nice job, congrats to you.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 11:59 AM (xcxpd)

312 Democrats preferring ideology to competence is a trend that goes way back. We could probably date it to the presidency of "history's greatest monster", Jimmy Carter. I vividly recall the fuss when he appointed Joan Claybrook to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and people noted that she had never had a driver's license or driven a car. Just looked her up on Wikipedia, and (a) she's still alive at 86, and (b) they carefully omit that very pertinent fact. (It's conceivable that I have a false memory of an imaginary event, but I don't think so! Anyone else here remember?)

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at March 05, 2024 11:59 AM (uL3GK)

313 One of the huge mistakes we made was placing people who viscerally hate Russia and the Russians in charge of our policy towards Russia and Eastern Europe.

Putin is not a nice man, and Russia is our geopolitical competitor and needs to be treated as such, but installing people into senior foreign policy roles who fantasize about breaking Russia up into several dozen weak, nominally independent countries (as outlined by the Hudson Institute and the Helsinki Commission) has not done the United States any favors.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 05, 2024 11:53 AM (YAtuc)

100%. And now, onto Chi Nah. China is a fierce competitor, and has been strengthened mostly by greedy and stupid American policy toward it. So now when everyone talks about going to war with them... why? Because you idiots mismanaged their rise, and now you want to take them down?

Compete with them. They're a paper tiger in many important ways, and we're the U.S. of F'n A! We shouldn't be acting like they're some existential threat, we should be beating the snot out of them every which way but Sunday.

But all our war pigs can think of is war as a solution.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 11:59 AM (dGCAG)

314 They really don't care about wildlife. Remember all the crying about the whales?( turned out the Soviets were the biggest whale killers btw) Now whales die because of wind turbines, they don't care. Remember the horror of DDT causing weak bird shells?It must be banned! Wind turbines kill thousands of birds including extremely rare protected species in California.What they want is human misery.

Posted by: steevy at March 05, 2024 12:00 PM (FQmDC)

315 We only had two.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

We had the capability to produce seven within the year.

Posted by: Burnt Umber at March 05, 2024 12:00 PM (MNhXM)

316 311 Oh and your interview with Christian Toto was good. Nice job, congrats to you.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 11:59 AM (xcxpd)

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Thank you!

He kept trying to defend the Oscars as meaningful towards the end. I wasn't having any of it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

317 Huh, my husband works for Kia and their tech line is also down.

There's some massive recent computer security problems. For one of them it was so bad the FBI force-patched a bunch of peoples' routers, which I *really* don't like. Talk about inserting a backdoor without anyone knowing.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 05, 2024 12:00 PM (2ocoG)

318 I wouldn't have a Glock up my butt. Give me a Browning Hi-Power.

The HP might hurt less but the Glock will be easier to clean afterwards.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 05, 2024 12:00 PM (sNc8Y)

319 Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 05, 2024 11:53 AM (YAtuc)

Exactly. These pompous mid-wits who think that their undergraduate-level theories about how the entire world should be run are an existential danger to our country.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2024 12:00 PM (gSZYf)

320 I voted in the VA primary today, and was surprised to see RDS still on the ballot, along with Nikki and Vivek. There were also two others, but I don't remember who.

Will Nikki Burn the Boats? William Kristol. I voted this morning in the Republican primary here in Virginia. I hadn’t voted in a Republican primary since 2016. I had to steel myself to ask for a ballot for my former party, one that is about to overwhelmingly nominate Trump for a third consecutive time. But I did so. And I cast my vote for Nikki Haley.

Will Nikki follow in the footsteps of Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who, legend has it, burned his ships in 1519 so that he and his men would have to stay in the New World, to conquer or die?

I believed Haley would choose to sail timidly back to Trump’s Republican party. I think she expected to do that. She expected to go back home again.

But I no longer believe she expects to go back. I think it’s more likely she’ll embrace the logic that increasingly shaped her rhetoric and animated her campaign. I think she’ll refuse to endorse Trump.

Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 05, 2024 12:00 PM (JCZqz)

321 Re: Donkey Chompers

She had a great opportunity at the theater but failed. Failed once again to show us her tits.
Sad.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 05, 2024 12:01 PM (ufFY8)

322 Much of the evil that exists in the world emanates from the democrat party.

Eliminate a bunch of evil; abolish the democrat party.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 05, 2024 12:01 PM (/SHEi)

323 I voted for RdS today in the NC primary because I have a secret admiration for Nickelback.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

324 "But that wouldn't have killed millions of animals, possibly pushing some to extinction, while destroying the property values of tens of thousands.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic"

Of course. How silly of me to think otherwise.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 05, 2024 12:02 PM (ou9hh)

325 Well my daughter is off to court with complaint she filed about all the stuff my shhi** neighbor stole while I was in the hospital.

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 12:02 PM (A5THL)

326 Biden Admin: Number of Illegals Living in Legal Limbo in U.S. Will Hit 8 Million by October

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Must be that shrinkflation I've been hearing about.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 05, 2024 12:02 PM (FVME7)

327 325 Well my daughter is off to court with complaint she filed about all the stuff my shhi** neighbor stole while I was in the hospital.
Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 12:02 PM (A5THL)

That sucks... Good luck to her

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 12:02 PM (Akjoo)

328 and was surprised to see RDS still on the ballot, along with Nikki and Vivek

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Those ballots were set a long time ago. They will all get votes for sure, and that is fine.

Have no clue what will happen with Haley - one could hope she would just go away for good. But when the establishment backs you, you get a lot of second lives.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 05, 2024 12:03 PM (sX1BW)

329 326 Biden Admin: Number of Illegals Living in Legal Limbo in U.S. Will Hit 8 Million by October

Let's ease their pain and send the hell back

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2024 12:03 PM (Akjoo)

330 I voted for RdS today in the NC primary because I have a secret admiration for Nickelback.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

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You sound like a listless vessel.

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 05, 2024 12:04 PM (qhMSH)

331 Having thought about this, I've come to the conclusion even with WWII, we sorta half won half the war.

I'd hang a big fat L on the eastern Euro end of that little dustup.
Posted by: BurtTC

Note that the reason the European theater of WWII started was because Poland was invaded, and the goal was to secure their freedom. Which took sixty years.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 05, 2024 12:04 PM (lTGtQ)

332 323 I voted for RdS today in the NC primary because I have a secret admiration for Nickelback.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

You truly are a leader of men.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 05, 2024 12:04 PM (KbCG3)

333 The rapidly evolving trend within the Democrat party apparatus is to reward loyalty with ever increasing responsibility, power, and graft/wealth. Notice the word "loyalty." Not competence. Not skill.

Corporate America works pretty much the same way

Posted by: Large unaccountable organizations will act accordingly at March 05, 2024 12:04 PM (8kPE2)

334 Biden Admin: Number of Illegals Living in Legal Limbo in U.S. Will Hit 8 Million by October

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Legal limbo my ass.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at March 05, 2024 12:04 PM (sX1BW)

335 Im sure that Nikki refusing to endorse Trump will devastate the party, nearly as much as a non-endorsement by Cheney.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 12:04 PM (pohLc)

336 And we should've nuked Russia why, exactly?

Take out a bunch of innocent civilians just to get at Stalin and the rest of the leadership? And piss off every single remaining person in the Soviet Union?

Japan was our declared enemy. Stalin was our nominal ally. How could we have justified such an extreme measure?

And it wouldn't have put an end to Communism in the West. In fact, it have given it, seemingly, the moral high ground.

Jeesh, what a dumb idea.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 12:04 PM (9yWhg)

337 323 I voted for RdS today in the NC primary because I have a secret admiration for Nickelback.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

Wow! I took your opinions mostly seriously up til now, but that's a deal breaker-no longer!

Posted by: Stamps Foot! at March 05, 2024 12:05 PM (V5BDR)

338 333 The rapidly evolving trend within the Democrat party apparatus is to reward loyalty with ever increasing responsibility, power, and graft/wealth. Notice the word "loyalty." Not competence. Not skill.

Corporate America works pretty much the same way
Posted by: Large unaccountable organizations will act accordingly

You say it like it's a bad thing!

Posted by: Any organization Trump touches at March 05, 2024 12:05 PM (JCZqz)

339 Thank you!

He kept trying to defend the Oscars as meaningful towards the end. I wasn't having any of it!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

He's right about the Oscars mattering in Hollywood's peer group, but it's lost it's cachet with normies. As you both noted, the Oscar bump is dead.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 12:05 PM (xcxpd)

340 Interestingly the guy that is most responsible for modern China - Deng Xiaoping - was also the guy that bucked Mao the most within the leadership.
Posted by: 18-1'

Mao was a catastrophe from beginning to end. They gave him Cambodia to destroy as a hobby to keep him busy after the disastrous Cultural Revolution. He came this/close to nuclear war with the USSR due to his myopia and stupidity. He was by far one of the most imbecilic, incompetent 'leaders' in all of human history, and the Western New Left regard him as a God.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 05, 2024 12:05 PM (9yXr+)

341 "Number of Illegals Living in Legal Limbo in U.S"

Seems to me that if they're illegals, their legal status is pretty succinctly defined and perfectly well understood.

They just need to go away now.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 05, 2024 12:06 PM (ou9hh)

342 I voted for RdS today in the NC primary because I have a secret admiration for Nickelback.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

As does RdS for Prometheus.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 12:06 PM (9yWhg)

343 Well my daughter is off to court with complaint she filed about all the stuff my shhi** neighbor stole while I was in the hospital.

Man, that really sucks. Here's hoping for the best outcome.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 05, 2024 12:06 PM (V8he0)

344 339 He's right about the Oscars mattering in Hollywood's peer group, but it's lost it's cachet with normies. As you both noted, the Oscar bump is dead.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 05, 2024 12:05 PM (xcxpd)

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He was going a bit further, remarking that it had cultural value still.

It definitely matters within the industry. Brie Larson will be able to get work for the rest of her life because of her Oscar win.

But outside of that bubble? Heck, I argue it should never have had purchase.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

345 I feel bad about them living in limbo, we should send them somewhere.

Posted by: steevy at March 05, 2024 12:07 PM (FQmDC)

346 I voted for RdS today in the NC primary because I have a secret admiration for Nickelback.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

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Should have added:

And whom did you vote for in the SC primary?

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 05, 2024 12:07 PM (Rvj4u)

347 Well my daughter is off to court with complaint she filed about all the stuff my shhi** neighbor stole while I was in the hospital.
Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 12:02 PM (A5THL)

Is this the neighbor you used to do favors for frequently?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 05, 2024 12:07 PM (nC+QA)

348 340 Mao was a catastrophe from beginning to end. They gave him Cambodia to destroy as a hobby to keep him busy after the disastrous Cultural Revolution. He came this/close to nuclear war with the USSR due to his myopia and stupidity. He was by far one of the most imbecilic, incompetent 'leaders' in all of human history, and the Western New Left regard him as a God.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 05, 2024 12:05 PM (9yXr+)

=======

The Dalai Lama still isn't too down on him, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 12:07 PM (GBKbO)

349 KILL THE FISH

Posted by: wth at March 05, 2024 12:07 PM (v0R5T)

350 Yo.

Posted by: gp In Chicago at March 05, 2024 12:08 PM (RB76M)

351 KILL THE FISH
Posted by: wth

Why do you hake them so much?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 12:08 PM (9yWhg)

352 "Number of Illegals Living in Legal Limbo in U.S"

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If the limbo is how they are breaking in, make the fences lower.

Seriously, it isn't legal limbo. They are ILLEGAL, 100% of them.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 05, 2024 12:08 PM (lTGtQ)

353 Mayorkas is evil and smart. Ruined another NGO.
https://x.com/Michael_Yon/status/1764214765860085821?s=20

Posted by: GOP sux at March 05, 2024 12:08 PM (Zzbjj)

354 Anyone else here remember?)

Those ugly eyeglasses. Speedometer limit at what, 80mph? My bike's tach was just spinning up!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 05, 2024 12:09 PM (+hvyj)

355 U.S. Pressures Hamas to Accept Cease-fire Terms

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Joe is going to give them a stern talking to!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 05, 2024 12:09 PM (FVME7)

356 355 U.S. Pressures Hamas to Accept Cease-fire Terms

Don't they know it's election season !

Posted by: JOE at March 05, 2024 12:10 PM (Akjoo)

357 Iowa poll. Trump +15

For context he won Iowa by 8 in 2020.

Posted by: Montec. at March 05, 2024 12:10 PM (bWsRe)

358 https://x.com/Michael_Yon/status

Xcom, UFO defense!?!?!? Defeat the Ethereals!!!!

Posted by: Gamer at March 05, 2024 12:10 PM (JCZqz)

359 {355} Joe is going to give them a stern talking to!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 05, 2024 12:09 PM (FVME7)

The Dogmumbler, who makes you a deal you can't understand.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 05, 2024 12:10 PM (qPw5n)

360 KILL THE FISH
Posted by: wth

Why do you hake them so much?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
.......

I need something to carp about.

Posted by: wth at March 05, 2024 12:11 PM (v0R5T)

361 He was by far one of the most imbecilic, incompetent 'leaders' in all of human history, and the Western New Left regard him as a God.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 05, 2024 12:05 PM (9yXr+)
The Dalai Lama still isn't too down on him, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini'

Sometime we will sit down and talk about China. The still-little known 'limited war' between Mao and USSR really had the potential to blow up the world, and it was all Mao, all the way.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 05, 2024 12:11 PM (9yXr+)

362 357 Iowa poll. Trump +15

For context he won Iowa by 8 in 2020.
Posted by: Montec. at March 05, 2024 12:10 PM (bWsRe)

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If only we had a better candidate.

(also, polls...spit)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

363 I wouldn't have a Glock up my butt. Give me a Browning Hi-Power.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

Ironically you picked one of the guns easier to field strip than a Glock

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 05, 2024 12:11 PM (AEvvx)

364 It can be lunch time
For interchangeable weapons the worst is in Tje Good the Bad and the Ugly, Tuco strips different makers of revolvers and swaps the parts together. Not even ever possible.

Posted by: Skip at March 05, 2024 12:11 PM (3eKCA)

365 During WW2, there was an American general who was in on the talks with Mao and his commie thugs.

He always referred to Mao Tse-Tung as "Moose Dung".

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 05, 2024 12:12 PM (/SHEi)

366 I'm back from the polls. Voted for the Meatball, against the incumbent rep, and against the constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to pass their pet bills before doing the budget and basic appropriations.

First things first, lackwits.

The rest of the offices I am ambivalent toward and will just trust my fellow voters to pick them.

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

367 Note that the reason the European theater of WWII started was because Poland was invaded, and the goal was to secure their freedom. Which took sixty years.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 05, 2024 12:04 PM (lTGtQ)

Yup.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 12:12 PM (dGCAG)

368 343 Man, that really sucks. Here's hoping for the best outcome.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 05, 2024 12:06 PM (V8he0)

There are two thins I really want back; my .357 magnum and my lawn mower. I don't think I will get the lawn mower because she told my daughter she sold it.

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 12:12 PM (A5THL)

369 Good chance lots of evil to do government workers are getting out before the hammer comes down if the Marxists somehow lose in 2024

Posted by: Skip at March 05, 2024 12:13 PM (3eKCA)

370 347 Is this the neighbor you used to do favors for frequently?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 05, 2024 12:07 PM (nC+QA)

Yes

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 12:13 PM (A5THL)

371 It can be lunch time
For interchangeable weapons the worst is in Tje Good the Bad and the Ugly, Tuco strips different makers of revolvers and swaps the parts together. Not even ever possible.
Posted by: Skip'

I completely expect total historical accuracy from low-budget spaghetti Westerns. Otherwise I will not watch them.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 05, 2024 12:14 PM (9yXr+)

372 my .357 magnum

Is that the one on your hip in the photo?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 12:14 PM (aD39U)

373 364 It can be lunch time
For interchangeable weapons the worst is in Tje Good the Bad and the Ugly, Tuco strips different makers of revolvers and swaps the parts together. Not even ever possible.
Posted by: Skip at March 05, 2024 12:11 PM (3eKCA)

Also, Clint shortly after hears him shooting and claims to the kitten that he recognizes Tuco because "every gun has its own tune, large one." But how could he if Tuco had just put together a new gun?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 05, 2024 12:14 PM (T+Iwg)

374 371 It can be lunch time
For interchangeable weapons the worst is in Tje Good the Bad and the Ugly, Tuco strips different makers of revolvers and swaps the parts together. Not even ever possible.
Posted by: Skip'

I completely expect total historical accuracy from low-budget spaghetti Westerns. Otherwise I will not watch them.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 05, 2024 12:14 PM (9yXr+)

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Wallach said he had no idea what he was doing. Leone had no idea what Wallach was doing.

They just knew it looked good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

375 P3AT easy to strip and fits in butt.

Posted by: gp In Chicago at March 05, 2024 12:15 PM (RB76M)

376 I completely expect total historical accuracy from low-budget spaghetti Westerns. Otherwise I will not watch them.
Posted by: LenNeal

Phony gunplay in a Western is a real shot in the face.

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at March 05, 2024 12:15 PM (JCZqz)

377 372 Is that the one on your hip in the photo?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 12:14 PM (aD39U)

Yes

Posted by: vic at March 05, 2024 12:15 PM (A5THL)

378 Sometime we will sit down and talk about China. The still-little known 'limited war' between Mao and USSR really had the potential to blow up the world, and it was all Mao, all the way.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 05, 2024 12:11 PM (9yXr+)

Russia has an abandoned airbase on the plains of Mongolia that is pretty neat as a result of the China /Soviet conflict. Jet harden bunkers , runways made with pavers.

Posted by: Burnt Umber at March 05, 2024 12:16 PM (MNhXM)

379 If I remember correctly, Wallach and Leone communicated in French.

Wallach didn't know Italian. Leone didn't know English. They both knew French, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 05, 2024 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

380 How come no 1911 has added the HP takedown notch? I'm sure the patent has long expired and they are both JMB things anyway.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 12:17 PM (aD39U)

381 Mercy! If somehow Trump beats the cheat, I want him to make the whole of the leftard universe of horrors a reality. I want those sons of whores crawling across the north and south borders like rodents. I want them paddling to Cuba on fucking surf boards. I want suffering!!!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 12:17 PM (pohLc)

382 They have a .25 Raven on that table? Cause that’s a favorite for popping a cap in somebody ass.

Posted by: Eromero at March 05, 2024 12:18 PM (o2ZRX)

383 .

We haz a NOOD

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 05, 2024 12:18 PM (qPw5n)

384 Mercy! If somehow Trump beats the cheat, I want him to make the whole of the leftard universe of horrors a reality. I want those sons of whores crawling across the north and south borders like rodents. I want them paddling to Cuba on fucking surf boards. I want suffering!!!
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2024 12:17 PM (pohLc)

The Great Gulf-Baja Sealevel Dignity Kanal, where the living will envy the dead, and eat them.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 05, 2024 12:18 PM (aD39U)

385 I completely expect total historical accuracy from low-budget spaghetti Westerns. Otherwise I will not watch them.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 05, 2024 12:14 PM (9yXr+)

Heh.

Filmed in Italy and Spain. Not the Western U.S. Fail.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 05, 2024 12:18 PM (dGCAG)

386 >For interchangeable weapons the worst is in Tje Good the Bad and the Ugly, Tuco strips different makers of revolvers and swaps the parts together. Not even ever possible.

There is a similar scene in one of the John Wicks.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 05, 2024 12:19 PM (cf/0E)

387 381 plenty of suffering to come any which way.

Posted by: gp In Chicago at March 05, 2024 12:19 PM (RB76M)

388 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly also gets the Battle of Glorietta wrong. Makes it look like a prolonged, trench warfare kind of thing, like Gallipoli.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 05, 2024 12:19 PM (9yWhg)

389 NOOD

Posted by: JOE at March 05, 2024 12:20 PM (Akjoo)

390 When the interview shifted to a demonstration featuring a table of unloaded firearms, Dettelbach tried his best to make the case for more regulation of law-abiding Americans' top self-defense option. Even with the help of one of the ATF's "leading experts," however, Dettelbach failed to demonstrate knowledge of even the most basic firearm anatomy such as the difference between a clip and a magazine.

They might be pig-ignorant about guns or not, but it's irrelevant. Their job as they see it is to propagandize against legal private gun ownership, hence their bullshit about ghost guns and how easy a full-auto conversion is, and so on.

Posted by: The displayed ignorance is a red herring at March 05, 2024 12:20 PM (8kPE2)

391 How come no 1911 has added the HP takedown notch? I'm sure the patent has long expired and they are both JMB things anyway.

I suppose some people would like it and some would consider it sacrilege. See also: water-cooled Harleys.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 05, 2024 12:20 PM (sNc8Y)

392 Gas Bubble Custard....the new diet craze that's sweeping the nation!

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2024 12:21 PM (AwYPR)

393 For spaghetti movies, the WWII ones made in the 1960s now fascinate me. Then, purists with a(n) historical stock up their ass whined the tanks weren't authentic.
Now you watch them and it's, 'Holy shit! How did they get that Panzerkampfwagen IV to even run? Where is it now? And all those Shermans! They have to be long gone."
The Italians shot a lot of movies in Northern Africa with old armor substituting for OTHER armor that was even then, long gone.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 05, 2024 12:21 PM (9yXr+)

394 One of the things my husband taught me was how to field strip my Glock 19. He told me if I'm going to shoot it I had to clean it. Its not difficult. Obviously this "exoert" is an idiot.

Posted by: Megthered at March 05, 2024 12:25 PM (cgRoP)

395 Nobody makes them take food stamps, subsidized housing, or welfare, nor demand incompetent black teachers and lower standards for their children. If you don't like what government is "doing for you", stop demanding more of it.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 05, 2024 11:34 AM (CsUN+)
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You are applying your own self in situations with people who have zero shared life experiences.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at March 05, 2024 01:01 PM (FRT/w)

396 Americans are becoming increasingly idiotic; and American society is increasingly in the grip of idiots.

Some blame the public indoctrination (so-called education) system, but it’s so much more than that.

Anyway, government is not immune to the growing idiocy taking hold of America. Hell, it’s a base of operations for the idiots.

Posted by: Not Fat Dumb Ron at March 05, 2024 06:10 PM (nI4xo)

397 I think that what you posted was very logical.
However, consider this, what if you typed a catchier title?
I mean, I don't want to tell you how to run your website, but what if you added something
that makes people want more? I mean The Morning Rant: Minimalist
Edition is kinda vanilla. You ought to peek at Yahoo's home page and watch how they create news titles to get
viewers to open the links. You might try adding a video or a
picture or two to get readers excited about everything've
got to say. In my opinion, it would bring your website a little livelier.

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