The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 3/28/24

Good morning, kids. The loud, incessant geschrei following the hiring and almost-immediate firing of former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel by NBC in the grand scheme of things is not so much important as it is quite instructive. For one thing, it seems to have deflected quite a bit of the spotlight that was shining on the disaster of Baltimore's Key Bridge destruction. I think it's safe to assume that if this disappears entirely within the next couple of news cycles without any kind of definitive and independently verifiable proof of exactly what happened, a true timeline of events and the complete backstory and bios of everyone involved on the ship and controlling its movements from shore – as is my suspicion – then the truth will have been deemed way too embarrassing and damaging for Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants, especially this close to November.

And, as is the case, November is both always a million years away and just around the corner. Whether incompetence, criminal sabotage, terrorism by non-state actors or a covert act of war by perhaps the ChiComs or Russians, or even just some bizarre freak accident, that something of this magnitude could have even happened in the first place does not bode well for a whole host of reasons.

Psaki-psircling (and isn't that appropriate) back to Ronna McDaniel, it's quite revealing about the nature of the enemy we face. When you get right down to it, there is very little difference between her and say Michael Steele and Nicole Wallace. Whoever it was at the top of NBC who offered her the gig in the first place understood that. He also understood, like we all do, that McDaniel, nee ROMNEY, was at best an inept fool and at worst yet another RINO saboteur who helped turn what was supposed to have been a massive tsunami of a red wave 2022 midterm into Crisco Christie's innie of a squirt gun micturating a cantaloupe-sized-prostate-constricted stream onto the Rock of Gibraltar.

Whatever Trump's calculus in backing her as RNC chair was in the first place, for sure today there is no love lost (See the sidebar) between either of them. She for sure would have eagerly joined the Greek chorus of Trump is literally Hitler, Trump must be stopped at all costs, Trump is the greatest danger to our precious democracy, etc. ad nauseam, and probably in a voice that ultimately would've drowned out even that of the horrendous Nicole Wallace and equally scummy Michael Steele.

Yet, despite all of the positives (in their eyes) she could have brought to the Goebbelsian NBC and MSNSDAP in being a supposed "reasonable, rational Republican," that is a back-stabbing lying slag propagandist, the usual gang of idiots, homunculi, mental defectives and Marxist criminals that compose the lineup at that whorehouse network (and every other whorehouse network and rag out there) went into freakout mode. On the surface it was because McDaniel supposedly supported Trump's right to protest the outcome of the 2020 election. That in and of itself is a mortal sin, but the real objection was her being merely associated with Trump, period.

Forget being associated with McCain, Bush or perhaps even Ronald Reagan. How quickly they and every Republican regardless of their Constitutional conservative bona fides or more likely lack thereof were slimed as racist, homophobic Nazis who want to throw granny off a cliff and take food out of the mouths of starving children. When Trump came along, oh how the propagandists pined for the days of yore and heaped praise on all of the aforementioned GOP Emanuel Goldsteins du jour because Trump was and still is "literally Hitler."

Believe me, I'm no defender of Ronna McDaniel because as you process all of that, she jumped at the chance to have a fat salary by joining the likes of some of the most horrid individuals imaginable so she too could bash Trump and the MAGA movement on one of the biggest Leftist house organs around. Frankly, she can go jump in a lake. What happened to her, as I stated is quite instructive as to the state of mind of the enemy. Whether she'd have been an effective Lady Haw-Haw is now academic.

The reaction to her hiring and the demanding that she be fired might very well be yet another own-goal of the Left at a most inopportune moment as the illegal alien invasion, cratering economy, national crime wave and eruption of overt Democrat Jew-hatred is already repelling even reliable Democrat voters. Many of these people already have the media in low esteem and even see them as desperately trying to help drag Biden's carcass across the finish line by covering up his criminality and melting brain.

By the way, I don't call them MSNSDAP for nothing:

Once a pariah for his role in inciting anti-Semitic riots that lynched two innocent people, and the torching of Freddie’s Fashion Mart, a Harlem store owned by a Jew whom Sharpton referred to as a “white interloper” in which 7 people were burned to death, all of them “of color,” Sharpton was resurrected by Barack Obama as his “civil rights” adviser and accepted into the Democrat fold as the party’s kingmaker. . . Without the support of Sharpton and his racist admirers, Comcast would not have been able to gain control of NBC and so it’s hardly surprising that it streams the worst lies and hate by the worst bigots as a payback for the series of dirty deals that made Roberts so rich and powerful.
During Sharpton’s lobbying for the Comcast deal, MSNBC denied that there was an offer to give the notorious racial arsonist his own show, only to debut it a few months later. Comcast not only gave Sharpton a show, but included the head of his racist National Action Network in its “diversity council.” Sharpton in turn gave MSNBC boss Phil Griffin an award after previously handing it to Jeff Zucker, who ran NBC at the time, before going off to run CNN.
Alongside Joy Reid and Sharpton, MSNBC regularly features the unhinged Elie Mystal, who said that the United States “Constitution is trash” and bragged, “you come out as a Republican, I’m prejudiced against you”, Tiffany Cross, who argued that the media focusing on the economic concerns of midwesterners was pandering to “racist white people”, Melissa Harris-Perry, who claimed that the term “hard work” is racist, and a seemingly bottomless list of bigots.
MSNBC doesn’t just employ vile racists like Reid and Sharpton who smear our country and promote hate, but also foreign enemy propagandists like Ayman Mohyeldin, formerly of Qatar’s Al Jazeera, who defended the Islamic terrorist state during the World Cup by attacking America. . . MSNBC’s decision to turn itself into Al Jazeera by stocking it with the Jihadist network’s leftovers has led to constant incitement and antisemitic propaganda at its 24/7 hate network. . .
. . . These lies, smears and slurs, like many others, come down to one company, Comcast, and one man, Brian L. Roberts. Comcast is a family business and Brian was born into it. “I think we have known that Brian would take over the company since he was about eight years old,” its co-founder admitted. At 30, he did just that and took the company from cable to content.
Unlike his father, Brian was not satisfied just providing cable access and was obsessed with taking control of programming. After a failed bid to take over Disney, he bought NBC.
MSNBC had begun purging its conservative personalities in a leftist makeover even before the Comcast takeover, but the process accelerated rapidly as talks began. And Comcast bought support for the takeover by handing out money to racists and their hate groups. . .
. . . When challenged about [Ali] Velshi’s lies at a shareholder meeting and asked to condemn Antifa, Roberts retorted that, “racism, injustice, violence have no place and cannot be tolerated.”
But the racism was coming from his personal hate network.
Roberts is not a brilliant businessman, he’s a savvy political donor. Comcast got as big and powerful as it did because it adopted the right politics and paid off the right people.
In 2020, Roberts’ wife provided $152,800 to fund the Biden campaign. But that was small change compared to the millions raised by Comcast’s chief lobbyist for Obama whom Biden has appointed as the ambassador to Canada. Roberts took to golfing with Obama and hosting him on Martha’s Vineyard. And even that money was dwarfed by the subsidies from the tax-free Comcast Foundation. . .
. . . Comcast is a corrupt company that pushes hate for profit. And Brian L. Roberts, who got the job because of his daddy, has used it to tear apart this country and reward the worst and most divisive bigots.
Despite the Jewish origins of the Roberts family, Brian Roberts has overseen a company that spreads the worst lies emanating from the terrorist propaganda machines of Hamas and the PLO. The anti-Semitic chorus at MSNBC, posing as journalists, promotes the worst smears against Israel and Jews in America.
The story of Comcast, like the tragic tale of so many other major and increasingly international companies, is that of powerful corporations turning on their own roots, on the country and the people that made them possible.

And that my friends, as the estimable Daniel Greenfield details, is the real story of the Ronna Romney McDaniel clusterfuck. They're incredibly stupid, but their stupidity is driven by their blinkered insularity. They could've just shut their cakeholes and accepted McDaniel as one of their own but in actually believing their own horrid propaganda about Trump, and by extension anyone associated with him, they've exposed themselves as the rabidly insane hacks that they are. This indicates to me that it's not just an act; they've literally lost their minds.

Part of it, of course, is the fact that despite all their efforts and despite the efforts of a completely corrupt legal system, and really because of the disaster that has been the past three years of Obama and company pulling Biden's strings, Trump actually does have a shot at really winning this thing come November.

RFK Jr.'s selection of an equally hardcore leftist as his running mate is sure to take votes away from both disaffected radical lefties who think Biden is too soft on Israel and the American citizenry, and whatever is left of the Democrat base that is not Maoist. The votes he might take away from Trump are going to be statistically, if not actually nil.

The unhinged reaction to Ronna McDaniel is also a warning that things are going to get very dangerous both to Trump and all of us as November nears. Friend and friend of the blog Bob Zimmerman has some dire prognostications and I can honestly and sadly say, he's not wrong:

For my entire life I have devoutly wished to see some willingness on the left to honestly debate and participate in an open exchange of ideas. In my entire life I have never found them willing to do so.
Instead, that close-mindedness has driven them further and further into a crazy hole that brooks no dissent, because their positions have become increasingly irrational and indefensible. You can’t win a debate if you are arguing that men can be women, you support the castration and mutilation of little children, and that terrorists like Hamas are the good guys. Your only solution if these are your positions is to shut down all debate, so you can force these policies on everyone, even if almost everyone opposes you.
We have now reached this point in history, and the only way out for the left appears to be violence and the destruction of our constitutional republic.

Read it all. Just 24 years ago, we were all laughing at "Sore-Loserman" i.e. Gore-Lieberman. Al Gore is a bloated grifter. Joe Lieberman, who has now passed on, was probably the last of the last of the reasonable Democrats and liberals which one could debate. I disagreed with him most of the time on most issues. But he was a decent human being, insofar as one can be decent in the indecent enterprise of politics.

Meh, perhaps I'm looking back at what I perceive as halcyon days, especially compared to the present. But Democrat policy has always been a cancer on America as founded, regardless of how "nice" the Democrat politician in question was.

That said, I stand by my assertion yesterday that today's Democrats and their supporters are the greatest threat by far to what's left of America and whatever our chances are at a revival. You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists. Had Lieberman lived, he might've jumped ship considering what the Democrats are doing to Israel. As it is, he remained silent since 10/7.

Or MSNSDAP and the rest of the propaganda organs embargoed him.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Rolling Stone’s glowing feature of the ‘superstructure’ Biden is amassing to control the 2024 election aftermath should sound familiar."
Leftists Bragged About ‘Fortifying’ the 2020 Election. Now They’re Flaunting Plans to Do It Again in 2024
Robert Zimmerman: "As I said, from November to January will be a very dangerous time for anyone whom these corrupt government employees see as an enemy. Fake scandals like the Russian collusion hoax will the least of our worries."
Part 3: The Expected Tantrum of Madness Should Biden Actually Lose the Election
"How could the stable and reasonably cohesive America of the 1950s have reached this point in just one lifetime? Who are the main culprits? Here’s my list of the 10 most destructive Americans of the last 80 years." (Hat tip to CBD - jjs)
The 10 Most Destructive Americans of My 8 Decades
David Solway: "If Biden is re-elected in the U.S. and Trudeau in Canada, there will be no recovery. The social fabric will have been torn and shredded beyond the possibility of repair. It would no longer be a question of five years or a decade but of the indefinite future."
The Canadian Sickness
"You might have missed it, but the idea that medical personnel provide full transparency before 'therapies' or 'procedures' has been quietly erased after being the status quo since Nuremberg."
"Informed Consent" Officially Nixed as Long as There is Only "Minimal Risk" to the Patient
Daniel Greenfield: "Sen. Lieberman's opposition to Islamic terrorism had so infuriated the Left that it did everything possible to topple him. . . we live in a world in which Carter clings to life like a presidential dracula and Biden, who can’t finish a sentence, is in the White House, but Sen. Lieberman, who was so remarkably articulate not so long ago, has passed on."
RIP Senator Joseph Lieberman

ISRAEL AT WAR

Victor Davis Hanson: "From civilian casualties, the use of disproportionate force, and international biases, the mainstream narrative of the Gaza conflict often obfuscates the truth behind lies."
Gaza: Truths Behind All the Lies
"Now is the Time of the Sword." (Up there with "Don't Tread On Me" - jjs)
Israelis Brace for the Big War in the North
"It might well prove that by sparing Gaza civilians the true cost of this war, Jerusalem is encouraging continued support for Hamas. But what it does prove is that Israel has not, does not, and will not commit genocide — unlike their enemies."
Let's Talk About the Absolute Worst Thing in the World
"The Times of Israel reported that Bashara, who worked as a driver at the Alon paper goods company, was set to be engaged and had been his family’s breadwinner since the death of his father, providing for his extended family. The outlet also reported that roughly 30 rockets had been fired near the town of Kiryat Shemona, which has been largely abandoned by its residents since Hezbollah began firing at Israel in solidarity with Hamas in early October."
Hezbollah Hits Israeli Factory for People with Special Needs; Kills Druze Arab, 23
"America is better than this [junta]."
Biden’s Cowardice Feeds Hamas’ Criminal War Strategy

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“There was propaganda used in the beginning of the siege… There’s still no evidence of beheaded babies or raped women. But they still keep using that lie [for] propaganda.”
Jamaal Bowman Runs Away From Evidence That He is a Hamas Rape Denier
"Jamaal Bowman is a proven liar and a war-crimes denier, in addition to having terrible policy ideas. It is up to the Democrats of Westchester and The Bronx to decide if he is the man they want representing them in Washington."
Voters Must End Bigoted, Lying Dem Radical [pardon the redundancies] Jamaal "Fire Alarm" Bowman’s Horrible Political Career
"'They are looking to train teachers with dangerous material that will indoctrinate our students to be anti-Semitic," teacher warns."
Massachusetts Teachers Union Hosts Webinar By Professor Who Praised Hamas, Enraging Membership
“student-led effort to pass a resolution proposing Vanderbilt Student Government adopt boycott, divestment and sanctions tactics did not move forward because of potential conflict with federal and state laws”
Vanderbilt U. Students ‘Occupy’ Chancellor’s Office After Administration Pulls Israel Divestment Question From Student Ballot
"The self-described 'Muslim anarchist' is 'really proud' of his anti-Israel students."
Mohamed Abdou, Deep Admirer of Hamas, Now Teaching at Columbia
"'Our team has reviewed your content, and, unfortunately, we think it violates our violent criminal organizations policy,' YouTube tells Free Beacon."
Columbia " 'Palestinian' Resistance" Event Violates YouTube Policy Against Promotion of Terrorism, Video Platform Says
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Growing up in Bahrain, Fatema Al Harbi was taught to hate Jews. But she changed her mind."
Prager U Video: Arabs and Israelis – Finding Common Ground
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Terence Muhammad, who serves as the non-profit’s lead events and field coordinator, has repeatedly praised Farrakhan on social media and raised money for his organization.According to visitor logs, Lennox Yearwood, who serves as CEO of The Hip Hop Caucus, has made seven visits to the Biden White House. In Yearwood’s most recent White House visit, he and several other Hip Hop Caucus officials attended a private meeting with Sofia Carratala, who serves as President Biden’s domestic policy adviser.
"Top Soldier" in Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam Linked to Biden White House
BALTIMORE BRIDGE DISASTER
"Maryland State Police said that divers located the two bodies inside a red pickup at the bottom of the Patapsco River."
Two Bodies Found After Massive Cargo Ship Ripped Apart Baltimore Bridge
"The unprecedented quality of the information available to the public about the disaster in the first hours has also seen some consideration in the public sphere about the possibility of a terrorist attack including a cyber attack on the ship. Nevertheless, the FBI and Baltimore Police have said they have seen no evidence of terrorist activity in their preliminary investigations."
Baltimore Ship ‘Black Box’ Data Recorder Taken by Investigators as Search for Missing Continues
As the investigation is still ongoing, officials did not detail how much of the materials made their way into the water, however, Homendy stated that a sheen could be seen within the port as some containers 'were breached.'” (Where's Mayor Buttplug? Isn't he top, or bottom, dog on this thing? - jjs)
NTSB Confirms 764 Tons Of Hazardous Materials Aboard Cargo Ship, Reveal Black Box Data Prior To Bridge Impact
It's funny because he has the melanin and D-suffix yet he won't say it. Baltimore has become the shithole of shitholes under his watch. He's Mayor Buttocks minus the sword-swallowing - jjs
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott: Those Calling Me "DEI Mayor" Don’t Have Courage to Say the "N-Word"
"BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"But the dissenting opinion is the must read." (How can any court overrule SCOTUS? - jjs)
Fifth Circuit Denies Texas Motion, Keeps Immigration Law Block in Place
All major parties and independents agree they're 'concerned' about illegal aliens casting ballots."
3 Out Of 4 Americans Worried About Illegals Voting In U.S. Elections: I&I/TIPP Poll
"Veteran homelessness increased 7.4% in 2023, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. In contrast, taxpayers have to bear an estimated net cost of $150.7 billion every year for illegal migration. The illegals get all the money and attention from Democrats."
‘Deplorable’: Reps. Say Veterans Homeless as Illegals Get Freebies
"The harsh reality is that the horrific migrant crimes that draw national outrage might not have happened at all if laws were enforced."
The Many Ways a Porous Border Means Crime Without Boundaries
Moreno was categorized as an “absconder” after failing to abide by the program’s rules, internal documents from Immigrations Customs and Enforcement (ICE) obtained by the outlet revealed. The illegal migrant was originally released into the U.S. on parole as a result of overcrowded detention centers, the outlet reported.
Influencer Who Advised Illegal Migrants to Steal Americans’ Homes Is on the Run From Immigration Authorities: REPORT
. . . the outbreak makes Chicago "just like any other third-world city."
Measles Returns to Chicago, and You'll Never Guess Where
"Should that be the case?"
Precedent-Setting Ruling Allows Illegal Immigrants With Criminal History to Own Guns
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS & DEMENTIA WATCH
"In the letter obtained by the Caller, Bobulniski demanded that [diseased vermin Dan] Goldman remove the post and publicly retract the statement within five days or face a defamation suit."
Tony Bobulinski Accuses Dem Rep of "Defamatory" Statements, Threatens Legal Action
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Although the DA said her office was making another production on Monday as part of that “ongoing process,” she claimed Jordan’s “extensive” demands that cover several years for records in less than two months are “unreasonable and uncustomary.”
Crooked, Moral Pygmy Fani Willis Responds to Jordan’s Demand for Docs After Contempt Threat
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Susan Rosenberg is one of the country's most notorious domestic terrorists. She landed on the FBI's
'Most Wanted' list at age 29 and served in a women-led communist group that bombed the U.S. Senate chamber in 1983. Now, more than two decades after her controversial release from prison, she serves on the advisory board of an anti-prison group alongside embattled judicial nominee Adeel Mangi."
Ties Emerge Between Embattled Biden Judicial Nominee Adeel Mangi and Domestic Terrorist
"Think of the 'Orkin Man,' but for squatters . . . 'We offer fast and effective squatter removal and prevention services throughout Southern California. Our job is to save our customers from all of the wasted time, money, stress, and headaches that come from squatters overtaking your property.'"
'Squatter Squad' Engage! Group Helps Home Owners Kick Out Freeloaders
"I don't know why they hate us so much." (Start following this site and you'll get educated fast - jjs)
Gold Star Father Arrested At SOTU Tells Tucker Biden ‘Never’ Contacted Him
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
". . . this was also a calculated move to interfere in the 2024 election — a preemptive move, a dog whistle to Republican operatives that if they criticize the media or argue against a precious media narrative, they will not be employable in the sweet, sweet world of cable news contributors. In other words, Chuck Todd and the rest are hoping the New Blacklist Rules will sabotage the effectiveness of Trump campaign staffers. However much you hate the corporate media, I promise it is not enough."
Ronna McDaniel Considers Defamation Suit Against Far-Left NBC
Daniel Greenfield: "The real story of how NBC News became a leftist enclave under the King of Hate Media."
NBC News Has Room for Sharpton, But Not for Republicans and Ronna McDaniel
David Harsanyi: "Even within the normal mendacious parameters of being a White House press secretary, she excelled. . . no doubt, McDaniel lied for political expediency, as well. But let’s face it, she is a mere piker next to Psaki."
Jen "Piss-Hockey" Psaki Lies About Lying
"Canceling even milquetoast figures won’t make conservatives feel more heard." (Milquetoast = RINO fraud - jjs)
Deplatforming Ronna McDaniel Won’t Deradicalize Anyone
Miranda Devine: "They lecture everyone else about the evil of bullying and impose disastrous 'anti-bullying' measures on schools only because they want to reserve this instrument of social control for themselves. When they attack a defenseless person in mob fashion, mock them, denigrate them, punch them in the face and then kick them while they’re down, it’s not bullying."
Ronna McDaniel’s NBC News Firing is Must-See TV That Proves Leftist Media Set Rules They Never Follow
"Biden family scandals – and willful blindness."
Media Go AWOL on Holding the Bidens Accountable
"Key had 'racist views,' the paper said."
WaPo Wastes No Time Slamming Francis Scott Key Again After Namesake Baltimore Bridge Destroyed
Several lawmakers on Capitol Hill have criticized the DHS program. Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) called the comic books another avenue for the government to “trample on the First Amendment” and label any dissident as ‘disinformation.’ Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) joked earlier this year, “D.C. Comics won’t be adding these taxpayer-funded comic books… to their repertoire anytime soon.”
Biden’s DHS Using Taxpayer-Funded Comic Books to Fight Perceived Election "Disinformation"
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"US unemployment rate increased to two-year high in February."
Chlamydia Kamala Touts Creation of Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs—In Central America
"While corporate media outlets, climate activists and Democrats have boosted the study’s findings, the forces related to climate change that are likely to drive persistent inflation are massive government taxation, spending and regulation pushed by policymakers to fight climate change, according to economists who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation."
Dems, Media [pardon the redundancy] Push New Study Linking Climate Change To Inflation, But Economists Aren’t Buying It
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
DOE has committed to giving Holtec, a New Jersey-based energy company, a $1.5 billion loan to renovate the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Covert Township, Michigan, according to a press release from the department. The DOE says the plant, after being renovated, will “produce baseload clean power until at least 2051,” but that it would need to request a license renewal as its current certification only covers the facility through 2031.
Biden Junta Approves Massive Loan To Reopen Nuke Plant That Might Close Again Within Years
Steel is a building block of modern society and the modern military. The environmentalist Left is ridding the U.S. of it at a time when America's strategic rivals, Russia and China, are both ramping up their wartime industries. It's time to stop the Greens' war on steel before it defeats us in an actual war.
The "Green" Jihad vs. U.S. Steel
"One more solar power failure."
"Climate Change" and Solar Fields Don't Mix
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"With small-town dramas like this, anything is possible."
Woman Who Wrote a Book on Grief After Husband Died Now Charged With His Murder (Isn't this really the story of Democrat-Leftist words vs deeds? - jjs)
"New York leaders keep searching for the 'root cause' of crime—they should look in the mirror."
Enough Already
"Amid more deadly disorder in New York City, young women are being randomly punched in the face."
Not Safe to Walk the Streets
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Meanwhile, in this county, there is a continued decline in share of adults with up-to-date vaccination."
European Groups Link Moderna’s Covid Vaccine to Chronic Hives
"It was a life-or-death distinction to make for many, and was conspicuously avoided by 'public health experts.'”
Why Were Americans Not Informed of the Difference Between FDA-Approved and Emergency Use Authorization?
SECOND AMENDMENT
John Lott & Rep. Thom Massie: "A Democrat-controlled Congress authorized the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] to give grants to states that have red flag laws, but never was he authorized to establish a federal red flag center."
Biden’s Federal ‘Red Flag’ Center Defies The Constitution In More Ways Than One
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Farmer was arrested on Friday at a condo he owns near the university, across from the main entrance of campus." (When pedophiles become the next Rosa Parks/Jackie Robinson, this fiend will be on a postage stamp - jjs)
Police: Princeton Volunteer and LGBT Activist Possessed Child Pornography
ABORTION
"Websites advertise foreign abortion pills to abortion-seeking women across the country, no matter what local laws say."
How a Leftist Network of Websites Floods Red States With Abortion Pills With No Consequences
"Democrats cannot fully hide the horrible reality of abortion, even from themselves."
Democrats Lie About Late-Term Abortion To Make Themselves Feel Better
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
"Connecticut Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas (D) is asking the State Elections Enforcement Commission (SEEC) to investigate allegations of ballot stuffing and voter fraud in the city of Bridgeport’s mayoral election. If the commission concludes that fraud did sway the results, this will be the second time such a determination has been made in less than a year."
Fresh Evidence of Ballot Stuffing, Voter Fraud May Lead to THIRD Attempt to Elect Mayor
"A Peach State elections watchdog believes a package of transparency and ballot security provisions would be huge election integrity wins."
Georgia Legislature Tackles Key Election Integrity Measures Before Session Ends
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Judge further alleged that operatives and Democrat allies pushed him to change his story and sink Brett Kavanaugh with the promise that he would be considered a “hero” if he confirmed Christine Blasey Ford’s story.
Mark Judge: Democrats Used ‘Extortion and Direct Threats’ to Pressure Me in Destroying Brett Kavanaugh
"His chances of victory will heavily rely on the use of the dark money that he routinely decries, including donations from corporate PACS."
Jon Tester Won a Prize for Fighting Dark Money. He’s Been Relying on It for Years.
"Perhaps she hopes it will distract from the scandal growing around her prominent and expensive role in Tina Kotek’s administration."
Oregon Gov's Lezbo Partner Claims to Be a Mentally Ill Alcoholic
“Like, he was so amazing. It was amazing. Um, and I think, like, I could have a relationship with him even after I leave, especially if I’m like a professional that’s like relevant to him in some way, like, I do think I could maintain that relationship.” (Like, what a like, total, like, crock of like bull like shit, like - jjs)
Video Emerges of Cuomo Sexual Assault Accuser Praising Ex-Gov
POLITICS
"The reversal of fortune Trump pulled off a generation ago shows what he is capable of. But this time the stakes are considerably higher. If he wins, Trump will be more than a president. He will be a legend."
Trump Could Pull Off The Greatest Political Comeback In American History
Robert Spencer: "Biden has just built on the damage Obama did. . . So it's no surprise that Obama would want to make sure that Biden continues to pretend to be president until he is a sprightly 86 years old: Biden’s legacy is Obama’s legacy. The two are forever intertwined in history. And, unfortunately, in American public life."
Obama Has "Grave Concern" Biden Will Lose, Is Ready to Intervene
"General rule of politics: Whichever candidate is complaining about the third-party candidate is losing."
RFK Jr.: It’s Biden Who Has To Worry, Not Trump
"The left-leaning Californian will give the Kennedy scion a fiscal boost."
Nicole Shanahan: RFK Jr.’s Unconventional Pick for Vice President
"Nicole Shanahan appeals to the disaffected, West Coast–style leftist voters who feel lost in the Democrat Party." (Between the illegal alien invasion, the anti-Semitism and destruction of our economy, what Lefty is lost? Author is also a never-Trumper - jjs)
With VP Pick, RFK Jr. Is Gunning for the Democrats
"The theme was consistent: Kennedy is a spoiler. Polls show that he takes support from both Trump and Biden, but mostly from Biden — and I suspect that Kennedy will pull even less from Trump going forward." (With that psycho lefty veep pick, that's for sure - jjs)
DNC Goes Into Full Panic Mode About Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Presidential Bid
"Nicole Shanahan, famous for…um…well…you know, Nicole Shanahan! She did…um…that is…"
Nicole WHO?
"His voters are showing up; Biden’s are not."
Trump’s Three-Peat Foretells Nationwide Victory
"While the poll offers a degree of hope for Biden’s re-election campaign, it remains to be seen if the tightening in the presidential race is a sustained trend or if the poll is just an outlier. The Biden campaign’s improved position — in part — has been fueled by increased voter confidence in the state of the U.S. economy, according to the data. All three northern swing states have also seen a significant increase in campaign spending by the Biden campaign."
DATA: Joe Biden is Gaining Ground in Swing States
"The Biden [junta] has faced a tangible problem – the level of support for the democratic president among minorities is steadily decreasing."
Biden Losing Minorities
A January Rassmussen poll suggests that most American voters agree with Donald Trump’s assertions that Obama is the real power behind the throne in the Biden government. The poll indicated that 53 percent of respondents concurred with the statement that Biden is “a puppet for a progressive left committee… headed by Obama.”
REPORT: Obama Makes ‘Regular Calls’ to Biden, His Chief of Staff, and Other Top Officials
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"Gordon Sondland served as the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from 2018 to 2020 and testified against Trump before the House of Representatives Select Committee on Intelligence in 2019, claiming that Trump sought to withhold foreign military aid to Ukraine unless it launched an investigation into then-former Vice President Joe Biden regarding his son’s business dealings in the country; Biden was running against Trump for the presidency at the time of the impeachment hearing."
Key Witness From Trump Impeachment Registers as Foreign Agent of Ukraine
"We’re grossly unprepared for such a war."
Why Are So Many Pushing for America to Have a Hot War with Russia?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Is Iran’s Supreme Leader right?"
Khamenei: US "Left With No Option But to Withdraw From the Region"
"Milei has made strides toward pushing back the left—but is his time running out?"
One Hundred Days of Libertarian Populism in Argentina
Russian authorities have claimed that Gershkovich had been attempting "to obtain secret information" on "the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex."
Evan Gershkovich's detention in Russia extended over espionage allegations
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"His new, costly pro-women health initiative makes no sense when you consider that Democrats have erased the differences between men and women."
Biden’s Wasting Valuable Medical Research Dollars
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"The work was divided into 134 one-square-kilometre areas, so that the [80-person] team could fully cover the estimated landing area."
Scientists release detailed geological map of the landing site for Europe’s Franklin rover
"Astronomers have now produced the first detailed image of polarized light surrounding the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, dubbed Sagittarius A* (pronounced “Sagittarius A-star” which in turn maps out the spiraling field lines of that black hole’s magnetic field."
The spiraling magnetic field surrounding the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Apart from its mission to protect the United States from dangerous foreign actors, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has seemingly pledged its allegiance to another cause — gender ideology."
Book by Top Trump Intel Official Cliff Sims Exposes Trans Propaganda Inside CIA
"Let's hear it for the. . . girls?"
Trans' Weightlifter Takes Top Spot In Women's Event, Shocking No One
"Imposters betraying women."
Potemkin Feminism
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"As I write this, Disney is in more reputational trouble than at any time in its history, so Iger probably figured it was time to fly the white flag of surrender so he can better concentrate on saving his job."
Far-Left Disney Surrenders to DeSantis – Withdraws Reedy Creek Lawsuit
The billionaire is employing this same strategy with Disney and is in a battle with CEO Bob Iger for more control of the company. As an investor, he wants to see Disney turn a profit, especially through an iconic brand like Marvel. But those movies have struggled to appeal to audiences in recent memory, and Peltz believes it has to do with Marvel incorporating wokeness in its films.
Not So Marvelous: Major Investor Nelson Peltz Wants Less 'Woke' Marvel Movies
"Bob Zimmerman’s excellent space and aerospace website Behind the Black has followed the story since it occurred. While his work on the Internet and radio focuses on space exploration and innovation he sums up the story very aptly. . . 'What must happen now is that more pro-life students should show up at Air & Space, wearing similar pro-life clothing, and dare anyone to challenge them. You only keep your freedom if you exercise it, without fear.'”
Money Talks and the Smithsonian Walks in Pro-Life Discrimination Case
"Jon Stewart has used his return to The Daily Show to bolster [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s re-election bid, including downplaying the seriousness of crimes committed by illegal aliens. He even backtracked his earlier belief that Biden is too old to be president."
Report: Jon Stewart Found to Have Overvalued New York Home After Accusing Trump of ‘Lying’ About Property Values
Christian Toto: "Former ESPN star gets to speak her mind at last, free of Disney control."
Bill Maher Uncancels Sage Steele for Club Random Network
"Liu should be applauded for having the intellectual honesty to insert both ideas he might personally favor, and contrary or skeptical notions, into his massive tale. The Three Body Problem and its Netflix adaptation are only the beginning of a trilogy, continued in The Dark Forest and concluded with Death’s End."
Three Body Problem Has Something to Annoy Everyone, From Communists to Climate Cultists
"The future of the post-Christian West isn’t some secular liberal utopia, it’s a pagan empire in which might makes right."
America’s Stunning Embrace of Paganism Signals the End of This Country as We Know It
"Our self-inflicted weakness, which is of a moral rather than material nature, exposes us to a determined enemy."
The Third Fall of Rome
"2,000-year-old teachings get traded-in for 'climate change.'"
The Woke Shakedown of the Catholic Church
HITHER & YON
"Lieberman was Al Gore’s vice presidential pick in the 2000 election and served four terms in the United States Senate. He was the first Jewish candidate on the ticket for any major political party in America, and ran for the Democrat Party nomination for President in 2004, ultimately losing to John Kerry."
Ex U.S. Senator, ‘No Labels’ Chairman Joe Lieberman Dead at 82.

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 28, 2024 07:50 AM (QNSds)

2 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 07:50 AM (ENQN6)

3 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 28, 2024 07:50 AM (Q4IgG)

4 Now onto the content.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 28, 2024 07:50 AM (QNSds)

5 Im Italican

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 07:50 AM (ENQN6)

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 07:51 AM (ENQN6)

7 Mornin' Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 28, 2024 07:51 AM (qPw5n)

8 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 28, 2024 07:51 AM (1Z8zZ)

9 JJ overachieving today!

Posted by: Swodog at March 28, 2024 07:53 AM (CUP/i)

10 News seems...slanted.

Posted by: BignJames at March 28, 2024 07:54 AM (AwYPR)

11 Hi!

Posted by: The Barrel at March 28, 2024 07:54 AM (9KyZG)

12 The Democrats have become civilization's great threat

Posted by: Jamaica at March 28, 2024 07:54 AM (Lhh9g)

13 President of the Queer Princeton Alumni Association arrested for child porn.

The guy says:

'The things I've done in my life and career all stem from the things I was exposed to at Princeton.'

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 07:54 AM (vFG9F)

14
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 28, 2024 07:55 AM (bEb2S)

15
Ex U.S. Senator, ‘No Labels’ Chairman Joe Lieberman Dead at 82.

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 28, 2024 07:56 AM (bEb2S)

16 News seems...slanted.
Posted by: BignJames at March 28, 2024 07:54 AM

But it's slanted to the right.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 28, 2024 07:56 AM (Wnv9h)

17 The MSNBC pundits live in a bubble. They can't tolerate anything from outside the bubble.

So many these days live in a virtual reality divorced from all else.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 28, 2024 07:57 AM (Gse2f)

18 Trey Farmer, the Princeton sicko, looks a lot like Donald Pleasence.

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 07:58 AM (vFG9F)

19 This final rule allows an exception from the requirement to obtain informed consent when a clinical investigation poses no more than minimal risk to the human subject and includes appropriate safeguards to protect the rights, safety, and welfare of human subjects. The final rule permits an institutional review board (IRB) to waive or alter certain informed consent elements or to waive the requirement to obtain informed consent, under limited conditions, for certain FDA-regulated minimal risk clinical investigations.

It is not a question of if we took a few liberties...

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 08:02 AM (ENQN6)

20 My personal takeaway from the Ronna McDaniel kerfuffle is that the inmates over at MSLSD are running the show. They've more or less come out as the final arbiter of who can and can't join their "club."

I believe we saw something similar with the shake-up over at CNN last year.

These glorified opinionators need to realize they can be replaced with cheap, programmed AI in a heartbeat and nobody would care.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 28, 2024 08:02 AM (Q4IgG)

21 is that of powerful corporations turning on their own roots, on the country and the people that made them possible.
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And isn't that really the story of Barack Obama?

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2024 08:03 AM (6gUd4)

22 Great stuff, JJ. I thought Mike Gallagher’s take on the radio yesterday regarding Ronna was a good one. Essentially: who cares about Ronna? No one… and as a bonus MSNBC reveals yet again (for the 1000th time) that they’re nuts (Upchuck Todd etc). Gallagher opened his phone lines for comments and his audience was so uninterested he got only one call — a guy who said “who cares” and hung up LoL

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 28, 2024 08:04 AM (xT8gx)

23 There are no good Democrats. I will miss Lieberman like I miss the TV show "Alf".

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:04 AM (vFG9F)

24 23.

Am I a bad person because I kind of liked Alf? I was a kid at the time...

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:05 AM (aCVzN)

25 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2024 08:05 AM (TY6j5)

26 20.

All good stuff. My personal takeaway included that the hecklers' veto is not limited to nameless and faceless protestors.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:06 AM (aCVzN)

27 “The facts unfolding on the ground have made it clear who the perpetrator is and who the victim is,”

You will read these same words when Oct 7 happens here in the USA.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 08:07 AM (ENQN6)

28 Good morning.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 28, 2024 08:07 AM (6bTRc)

29 Trump Could Pull Off The Greatest Political Comeback In American History

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Just on a gut feeling, and pessimist that I usually am, I'd posit that Trump has a 80% chance of really winning in November. That carries one caveat and we all know what that is: FRAUD. The fraud we will see in November will be biblical and at present, I'm not confident he (and we) has a prayer to overcome it. YMMV

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 28, 2024 08:07 AM (mupln)

30 23 There are no good Democrats. I will miss Lieberman like I miss the TV show "Alf".
Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:04 AM (vFG9F)

Democrat policy was and is horrendous/disastrous. Lieberman was at least a decent fellow that you could at least debate and respect.

Look at that party today. There is no one - old timer or newcomer - that you can say that about.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 28, 2024 08:07 AM (x0n13)

31 No, you are not a bad person Gryph. I was merely using my personal opinion to make a point. It's not like you are a Yoko fan or anything.

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

32 29 Trump Could Pull Off The Greatest Political Comeback In American History

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Just on a gut feeling, and pessimist that I usually am, I'd posit that Trump has a 80% chance of really winning in November. That carries one caveat and we all know what that is: FRAUD. The fraud we will see in November will be biblical and at present, I'm not confident he (and we) has a prayer to overcome it. YMMV
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 28, 2024 08:07 AM (mupln)

The fraud will have to be massive compared to 2020. And that was the most massive to date. Plus, the national mood is such that a lot more people are going to see it and believe it if it does go down.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 28, 2024 08:09 AM (x0n13)

33 31.

Well, actually...

j/k! Who in their right mind would be a Yoko fan?! LOLOL

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:09 AM (aCVzN)

34 I guess that's the end of Joementum.

Posted by: Too soon? at March 28, 2024 08:09 AM (dg+HA)

35 "FRAUD. The fraud we will see in November will be biblical and at present, I'm not confident he (and we) has a prayer to overcome it. YMMV
Posted by: Lady in Black"

Bold, in your face, whatcha gonna do about it FRAUD. DJT must not be allowed to take office.

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:09 AM (vFG9F)

36 32.

I'd say the odds of Donald Trump losing to a fraudulent election are closer to 50/50. Trump doesn't have enough humility to understand just how hard the Dems are going to knuckle down in trying to ensure the "correct" outcome.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:10 AM (aCVzN)

37 Supporters have reported calling Diermeier’s office and local representatives to demand improved conditions for protestors and encouraging supporters to do the same. Posting outside Kirkland Hall, other student protestors have been chanting messages of support for the students inside Kirkland Hall such as

“Let them pee! Let them eat!”

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 08:11 AM (ENQN6)

38 "Look at that party today. There is no one - old timer or newcomer - that you can say that about.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton"

They say the same thing about Zell Miller but I know him as the dirty yellow dog democrat that he was.

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:11 AM (vFG9F)

39 The Baltimore bridge crash to me appears to be a loss of power at the most inopportune time.

Posted by: vic at March 28, 2024 08:11 AM (A5THL)

40 We have now reached this point in history, and the only way out for the left appears to be violence and the destruction of our constitutional republic
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"Way out"? Way out of what? What you believed the Left was? They were never that. And that is your issue, my friend, not theirs.

I swear these people really have no idea what they are dealing with. It's like the people who were saying Lieberman didn't like what his party "became". I'm sorry... the party of the KKK and spitting on soldiers never "became" anything. They just donned different faces to fool you.

It is not a "way out" the Left is looking for. This is simply what they are - well, they are actually much worse - and they are just getting more comfortable broadcasting their own skin as your bonds grow tighter.

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2024 08:12 AM (6gUd4)

41 39. That, on its face, seems to be the case. There will be a lot of second-guessing on the part of the official investigation in any event. Why did the ship lose power? Was someone negligent in some way at some point in allowing it to happen? There are a lot of layers to unpack, and I'm not ready to jump to conclusions yet.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:12 AM (aCVzN)

42 38 "Look at that party today. There is no one - old timer or newcomer - that you can say that about.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton"

They say the same thing about Zell Miller but I know him as the dirty yellow dog democrat that he was.
Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:11 AM (vFG9F)

Point taken. I guess I'm guilty of looking back on what were by comparison halcyon days. And 2000 was not that great of a time either.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 28, 2024 08:13 AM (x0n13)

43 David Solway: "If Biden is re-elected in the U.S. and Trudeau in Canada, there will be no recovery. The social fabric will have been torn and shredded beyond the possibility of repair. It would no longer be a question of five years or a decade but of the indefinite future."
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tee-hee!!!

Posted by: Chairman Xi, rope salesman at March 28, 2024 08:13 AM (RSqHn)

44 The reaction to her hiring and the demanding that she be fired might very well be yet another own-goal of the Left at a most inopportune moment as the illegal alien invasion, cratering economy, national crime wave and eruption of overt Democrat Jew-hatred is already repelling even reliable Democrat voters.
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I doubt it. MSNBC is not credible to anyone who is not already bewitched by Party loyalty and so this is a bit embarrassing but nothing more.

Where it might - but only might - be a slightly larger deal is on the phony right. The phony right - the "legitimate" professional right that makes up the entire establishment and are members of the Party - expects to be treated like people by the Party. After all, they loyal to the Party.

But they can only be Outer Party. They are not truly of the body. All of the sinecures, book deals, think tank chairs, etc. on which they depend are provided at the Inner Party's sole discretion, and the Outer Party only continues to draw breath at the Inner Party's sufferance. The Inner Party giveth, and the Inner Party taketh away. The GOP are slaves owned by arbitrary masters.

Maybe some of them will realize it. Unlikely, but maybe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 28, 2024 08:14 AM (6bTRc)

45 The Democrats are ideological jihadis. Submit or die. That seems to be the sum of their platform.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 28, 2024 08:14 AM (Q4IgG)

46 Good morning, JJ, Horde

Lieberman seemed like a decent dude for a liberal. I bet he even celebrated the 4th of July with friends and neighbors.

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 28, 2024 08:14 AM (JcnCJ)

47 They could've just shut their cakeholes and accepted McDaniel as one of their own but in actually believing their own horrid propaganda about Trump, and by extension anyone associated with him, they've exposed themselves as the rabidly insane hacks that they are.

Insane? No, they're intelligently lazy.

Thanks to the efforts of The Algorithm, once you're on the left yellow brick road there are no easy detours. It requires effort to see a different opinion. And expending that effort requires the consideration that a potentially valid different opinion exists. *** it doesn't... they're insane... they're evil... whispers the algorithm ***

And why would they expend that effort? Doing so would gain them nothing. They don't give a rat's ass what happens to you, me, to the country. If Psaki were to suddenly start spitting facts would the "right" accept her? Tulsi Gabbard suggests that some would, but not all. If you're a globalist piece of shit, why give up your chunk of the pie for patriotism?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 28, 2024 08:15 AM (1Z8zZ)

48 45.
I prefer to think of them as ideological Bolsheviks. They don't really care if you submit; just kill the counter-revolutionaries and be done with it.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:15 AM (aCVzN)

49 Turnout. Turnout. Turnout.

Many "reliable" elements of the D base won't show up in November. This will create a void that will need Blatant Fraud to fill, especially blatant becuase it will need to be concentrated in a few swing cities.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 28, 2024 08:15 AM (Gse2f)

50 The Baltimore bridge crash to me appears to be a loss of power at the most inopportune time.
Posted by: vic at March 28, 2024 08:11 AM (A5THL)

Nothing to see here. We have absolutely ruled out a terrorist related anything to the destruction of the bridge in Baltimore by a Red Chinese Cyber Attack which caused a loss of power to the ship.

Wait.

Belay that statement...Just Shut Up Already!

Posted by: The FBI, A Criminal Outfit at March 28, 2024 08:15 AM (9KyZG)

51 “student-led effort to pass a resolution proposing Vanderbilt Student Government adopt boycott, divestment and sanctions tactics did not move forward because of potential conflict with federal and state laws”
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Student-led? I suppose it's possible, but I suspect there is nearly always a faculty advisor pulling strings in these efforts.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 28, 2024 08:16 AM (RSqHn)

52 Turnout. Turnout. Turnout

I don't want to hear any excuses.

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:16 AM (vFG9F)

53 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 28, 2024 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

54 52.

Fraud fraud fraud. Whatever plan Trump has to win legitimately, I guaran-damn-tee you the Dems have a counter-plan

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:17 AM (aCVzN)

55 Joe Scarborough murdered his intern.

MSNBC funds murderers.

We're not a serious country.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 28, 2024 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

56
Can someone inform this a-hole that we don't have the position of President-For-Life here in America?

https://pjmedia.com/robert-

spencer/2024/03/27/obama-has-grave-concern-biden-

will-lose-is-ready-to-intervene-

Not yet anyway.

We do have Vegetable-In-Chief, which is a 4-8 year position, which is bad enough.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 28, 2024 08:18 AM (nFnyb)

57 Calling Me "DEI Mayor" Don’t Have Courage to Say the "N-Word"
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Democrats thinks that people who openly use the N-word to describe black people are "courageous"?

Huh.

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2024 08:18 AM (6gUd4)

58 Vote fraud will continue to occur in the Northern inner cities. The key question is will it occur in and around Alanta in some more of the tossup states.

Posted by: vic at March 28, 2024 08:18 AM (A5THL)

59 Lots of fuss about something on cable TV.

Posted by: Do people still pay for cable? at March 28, 2024 08:18 AM (dg+HA)

60 The RFK VP pick Nicole Shanahan…. It annoys me for admittedly frivolous reasons. As far as I can tell her main qualification is having boatloads of money which she has only because she was married to Sergey Brin for 5 years. Oh and she’s a lawyer and single mom — this is supposed to impress me??

I’ll get over my irritation if her money gets RFK on the ballot in all 50 states

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 28, 2024 08:19 AM (xT8gx)

61 58.

If you have to ask...

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:19 AM (aCVzN)

62 "Fraud fraud fraud. Whatever plan Trump has to win legitimately, I guaran-damn-tee you the Dems have a counter-plan
Posted by: Gryph"

No doubt.

If you want to win a battle, you show up with at least twice the number of troops you think you will need. This is not the time to give up.

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:19 AM (vFG9F)

63 Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:16 AM (vFG9F)

I added on to my editorial at the end about Joe Mentum.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 28, 2024 08:20 AM (x0n13)

64 60.

RFK Jr's only utility as a politician is vote splitting. And that only matters insofar as it will make cheating for Biden more difficult. When it comes to actual policy, he's the same opportunistic rat-bastard that they all are. To. A. Man.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:20 AM (aCVzN)

65 All the shit that Trump supporters said about how the world world fall apart if Joe became President has arrived or is in the pipeline.

The terrorists already here are probably holding off because anything they did wouldn't make any real difference right now.

Posted by: pawn at March 28, 2024 08:21 AM (QB+5g)

66 When do repairs/construction begin on the Diversity Rainbow Bridge?

Posted by: Eromero at March 28, 2024 08:21 AM (o2ZRX)

67 62.

Honestly, I just can't even anymore. Whatever the outcome of 2024, I hope it will disabuse people of the notion that voting actually matters -- it doesn't.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:22 AM (aCVzN)

68 JJ I have to question anybody that lingers with the Dem party. Friends and acquaintances too.

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:22 AM (vFG9F)

69 Growing up in Bahrain, Fatema Al Harbi was taught to hate Jews. But she changed her mind.

Is she still Muslim? Does Islam still encourage its adherents to lie to "non-believers"?

Therein lies the problem with attempts to bridge the divide.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 28, 2024 08:23 AM (1Z8zZ)

70 Today is Eat an Eskimo Pie Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 28, 2024 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

71 68.

Does that include Trump? He was pretty famous and even well-liked back in the day in Democrat circles... Jussayin...

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:23 AM (aCVzN)

72 I'm sorry... the party of the KKK and spitting on soldiers never "became" anything. They just donned different faces to fool you.
Posted by: ... at March 28, 2024 08:12 AM (6gUd4)

Exactly right. In 1930's Germany, it was cool and fun to join the Auxiliary SS. You paid a fee to join and got to go to all the cool party rallies and strut around with your little "SS" button on your lapel and even play dress up once in awhile in a shiny black uniform while not really being on "active" duty. But then the war started and the call ups began. Same thing with smooth brained people today who vote or register or support the democrats. They never realize the evil they are supporting and have blood on their hands. The Purple Haired Granny who votes democrat to fatten her SS check is also killing babies as a side hustle.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 28, 2024 08:23 AM (9KyZG)

73 When you have a dying tree, you can do one of a few things:
1. Fertilize it, water it, trim it, and try nurse it back to health
2. Ignore it and hope the problem goes away
3. Give up, cut it down for firewood and lumber, plant a new tree
4. Carefully excavate the tree and move it to a more salubrious environment.

The major corps are the sickly tree. They have too much debt, are too slow and have saturated their markets. Gone are the days of explosive growth. Markets are mature and innovation has slowed. When everyone already has all they want, you have to sell incremental changes instead of new paradigms. You also have to start waiting for shit to wear out to be replaced if you deal in goods.

So the executives try approaches 1 and 2 simultaneously. They try to nurse back to health - "throw AI at it and turn it into a subscription service to keep up cashflow" - and move it to a more salubrious environment, which is becoming a Party partner and getting protection.

America made them what they are, but that growth can't be maintained. Time to switch to rent-extraction and government favors from the Party.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 28, 2024 08:24 AM (6bTRc)

74 Ronna was a turncoat from the get go, no idea why Trump kept her because it was obvious she was a Deep State proponent

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2024 08:24 AM (TY6j5)

75 There are no good Democrats. I will miss Lieberman like I miss the TV show "Alf".
Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:04 AM (vFG9F)

You just insulted my favorite cat-eating alien!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 28, 2024 08:24 AM (xT8gx)

76 When do repairs/construction begin on the Diversity Rainbow Bridge?
Posted by: Eromero at March 28, 2024 08:21 AM (o2ZRX)

Judgement day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 28, 2024 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

77 Gryph if you go vote I will watch a whole episode of "Alf" in your honor.

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:24 AM (vFG9F)

78 >>Nicole Shanahan actually done? Yes, we’ll grant you, she’s wealthy, but that’s only because she was married to a wealthy man '. . .
As near as we can tell, the only answer comes in the form of her leadership of something called the Bia-Echo Foundation, which apparently advocates for “women’s reproductive science [read: abortion], criminal justice reform, and environmental causes.” In other words, she’s been the leader of a leftist NGO.

UGH

Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 08:25 AM (6IDWi)

79 A very good theory about the Dali relates to the mandate to use low sulfur diesel in ships when not at sea. Sulfur actually helps to chemically break down naturally occurring plastics in diesel grades, so a low sulfur fuel is more prone to clogging up the fuel injection system.

It may have just been another unintended consequence of government action that caused the power failure, and thus the crash of the ship.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 28, 2024 08:25 AM (lTGtQ)

80 Obama Has "Grave Concern" Biden Will Lose, Is Ready to Intervene
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Lets Gooo, Sh*t Midas!!!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 28, 2024 08:25 AM (RSqHn)

81 Good morning horde
Sleepy and tired this am

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 28, 2024 08:25 AM (TirNb)

82 "Today is Eat an Eskimo Pie Day.
Posted by: redridinghood"

Yoo Hoo!

Posted by: Nanookie at March 28, 2024 08:25 AM (vFG9F)

83 Does that include Trump? He was pretty famous and even well-liked back in the day in Democrat circles... Jussayin...
Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:23 AM (aCVzN)

I think it's safe to say he made his split with them, no? Is there anyone who has made a bigger one?

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2024 08:26 AM (6gUd4)

84 "Does that include Trump? He was pretty famous and even well-liked back in the day in Democrat circles... Jussayin...
Posted by: Gryph"

He came around. That's fine with me. As JJ pointed out, the Dem party today is intolerable.

Posted by: Nanookie at March 28, 2024 08:27 AM (vFG9F)

85 "His voters are showing up; Biden’s are not."
Trump’s Three-Peat Foretells Nationwide Victory
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Uh, Biden's voters didn't show up last time, but ballots with his name on them showed up in spades.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 28, 2024 08:27 AM (RSqHn)

86 77.

I'd do it in a heartbeat if I thought Donald Trump really was the cure for what ails us. Unfortunately, if he actually turns out to be everything his most rabid supporters claim him to be, he still only gets four years. And I don't see anyone in either party thinking that far ahead.

On July 4 of 2024, we will be celebrating America's 248th birthday. We're so proud of how far we've come and shocked at how far we've fallen, and yet somehow we've raised generations of Americans that seem to think history starts with the day they were born and ends with *today*. SMDH...248 years is NOTHING on a historical scale. Less than the blink of an eye. Less than a flash in the pan.

Sorry, I digress...

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:28 AM (aCVzN)

87 "Uh, Biden's voters didn't show up last time, but ballots with his name on them showed up in spades.
Posted by: Chuck Martel "

This is a real problem that I do not deny. I don't think it's a reason to not vote though.

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:28 AM (vFG9F)

88 How can any court overrule SCOTUS?

SCOTUS didn't rule on the merits of the case, it lifted the injunction placed by the district court. Now the circuit court has placed a new injunction.

Because the courts are saying that, if the feds choose to ignore the law, the law is considered to not exist until the feds choose to turn around and notice it in YOUR case and that NO ONE may enforce anything even vaguely resembling the law. And that harm must be borne by the citizenry and the nation rather than by the criminal invaders.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 28, 2024 08:29 AM (1Z8zZ)

89 84.

That's kind of my point. "He's better than Biden!" is the ultimate example of damning with faint praise. And you'd better believe Trump, then as now, doesn't do SHIT without thinking about how it will benefit "Trump."

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:29 AM (aCVzN)

90 I want to comment, but I stayed up late drinking with a friend and my head hurts........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 28, 2024 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

91 Nicole Shanahan actually done? Yes, we’ll grant you, she’s wealthy, but that’s only because she was married to a wealthy man '. . .
As near as we can tell, the only answer comes in the form of her leadership of something called the Bia-Echo Foundation, which apparently advocates for “women’s reproductive science [read: abortion], criminal justice reform, and environmental causes.” In other words, she’s been the leader of a leftist NGO. ...
Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 08:25 AM (6IDWi)
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And? Why is this not adequate qualification?

She seems like a near-perfect analogue of Obama. He married his power and influence when he became a kept man of the Chicago political machine and its radicals. He worked as a "community organizer" - that is, for leftist NGOs. He was literally married to a no-name but politically pure academic, and his own purity was perhaps greater.

How is she any different? He was more than qualified to win the presidency, so why isn't she qualified to be an also-ran's running mate? If anything, this is problematic only insofar as it represents a continuation of the "war on women" because the male (Obama) isn't adequate for a woman.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 28, 2024 08:30 AM (6bTRc)

92 Part 3: The Expected Tantrum of Madness Should Biden Actually Lose the Election
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One possibility he suggests is secession. On one condition, I think that would be a good idea. The condition is that it must be county-by-county that it is decided to stay or leave. West Virginia is a partial precedent here.

But that would mean we get to keep most of the counties in NY and CA, while NYC, LA, and SF can go to Hell on their own.

Buy stock in companies that build walls.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 28, 2024 08:30 AM (1bNHn)

93 Obama Makes ‘Regular Calls’ to Biden, His Chief of Staff, and Other Top Officials

Obama never talked to Joe for 8 years and now does.

Bullshit

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 08:30 AM (ENQN6)

94 I want to comment, but I stayed up late drinking with a friend and my head hurts........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 28, 2024 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)
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So somebody has friends. I see how it is. Too hung over to comment, but not too hung over for the mother of all humble-brags

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 28, 2024 08:31 AM (6bTRc)

95
That's kind of my point. "He's better than Biden!" is the ultimate example of damning with faint praise. And you'd better believe Trump, then as now, doesn't do SHIT without thinking about how it will benefit "Trump."
Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:29 AM (aCVzN)

Trump wants to benefit AMERICA, which, in turn, benefits Trump. While you're not wrong, you're kinda dickish for shaming him for it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 28, 2024 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

96 If you won't vote for Trump, at least vote against Democrats.

Regardless of everything else, one of the most important things that will come up in the next few years will be SC nominations. That will have a much more lasting effect than whoever is President.

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:32 AM (vFG9F)

97 O/T, I am looking for a piece of electronic equipment I own. I have it. I've used it before. I cannot find it anywhere, and it's the size of a Volkswagen. Very annoying.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 28, 2024 08:32 AM (6bTRc)

98 Auto-da-fe, what's an auto-da-fe?

Posted by: Brown Robed Monk at March 28, 2024 08:32 AM (uCvd3)

99 83.

He made his split with what I call "The Party." There are Republican "party" members like Mitch McConnell who are just as deep-state and swamp as any Democrat, make no mistake.

And Donald Trump's split with "the party" is why he's up to his eyeballs in legal railroad attempts. He dissed the very people that aided in his rise to Manhattan celebrity. Far moreso than any policy disagreements, that is what can not be forgiven.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:32 AM (aCVzN)

100 ++++
So somebody has friends. I see how it is. Too hung over to comment, but not too hung over for the mother of all humble-brags
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 28, 2024 08:31 AM (6bTRc)

Sponge bro......

If you'd come to the TxMoMe, you'd know.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 28, 2024 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

101 I am a proud Yoko supporter, as well as a fan of Tanya Tagaq, Neil Young, Rush, Nina Hagen, and Klaus Nomi. Tiny Tim is another of my favorites. Won't make me popular in here, but I'm not going to apologize for it.

Posted by: Musik For the (M)asses at March 28, 2024 08:33 AM (V5BDR)

102 > Honestly, I just can't even anymore. Whatever the outcome of 2024, I hope it will disabuse people of the notion that voting actually matters -- it doesn't.
Posted by: Gryph
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I agree.

The entire election system is hopelessly corrupt. I fail to see how using this system to unfuck what's been fucked is supposed to work.

It's like using a screwdriver with the handle missing to unscrew something. Good luck with that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 28, 2024 08:33 AM (Q4IgG)

103
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott: Those Calling Me "DEI Mayor" Don’t Have Courage to Say the "N-Word"

Fine.

'Baltimore Mayor Brandon "Didn't Earn It" Scott' has a certain lilt and cadence to it that rolls off the tongue just fine.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 28, 2024 08:33 AM (xG4kz)

104 Troll?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 28, 2024 08:34 AM (TirNb)

105 "I am a proud Yoko supporter, as well as a fan of Tanya Tagaq, Neil Young, Rush, Nina Hagen, and Klaus Nomi. Tiny Tim is another of my favorites. Won't make me popular in here, but I'm not going to apologize for it.
Posted by: Musik For the (M)asses"

Where do you stand on Zappa?

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:34 AM (vFG9F)

106 Caught a piece on YouTube last night about how Republicans are well prepared to “steal” the 2024 election.

Don’t know what anyone would do if so. If 2020 showed anything, it showed that electoral law is totally deficient when it comes to trying to adjudicate an election after the fact.

I do expect a bevy of judges to find “standing” where there was none in 2020.

Posted by: SMOD at March 28, 2024 08:34 AM (4Z/uJ)

107 Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott: Those Calling Me "DEI Mayor" Don’t Have Courage to Say the "N-Word"

Saying that and being mayor isn't a good thing, douchebag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 28, 2024 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

108 European Groups Link Moderna’s Covid Vaccine to Chronic Hives

I saw a video the other day which mentioned the cancer diagnosis of the Princess of Wales. They had a doctor on who said, "we're seeing a lot more cancer spring up in younger people but we don't know what's causing it." I thought - you mean that you aren't permitted to know what's causing it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 28, 2024 08:35 AM (1Z8zZ)

109 I want to comment, but I stayed up late drinking with a friend and my head hurts........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 28, 2024 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)
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So somebody has friends. I see how it is. Too hung over to comment, but not too hung over for the mother of all humble-brags
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 28, 2024 08:31 AM (6bTRc)

Well...to be fair they're imaginary friends.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 28, 2024 08:35 AM (nFnyb)

110 I can barely type......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 28, 2024 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

111 95.

I'm not shaming Trump for anything he did as president. He did do a lot of good. And I'm not here to relitigate the arguments I made about his time as a Manhattan real estate developer. I went over all that in 2016. What I am proposing is that Donald J. Trump is not the cure for what ails America right now. Go ahead and vote for him. But I hope you'd understand two things as you do:

1. If Trump lost to fraud in 2020, he can lose to Fraud again.

2. If Trump somehow manages to overcome the fraudulent vote in 2024, we'd better start thinking *immediately* about where we're going in 2028. Like, the day after the election-immediately.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:36 AM (aCVzN)

112 Why should the feds, and MI, give out money to refurbish the Palisades nuke plant? Just issue a license for 100 years and let the company find it's own funding.

But, uncontrolled gubmint.

BTW, Palisades is in my neck of the woods, sort of, and I know at least one person who worked there for years.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 28, 2024 08:36 AM (ufFY8)

113
Timeline of bridge collapse:
1:26:39 distress call for tugs
1:27:04 port anchor dropped
1:27:25 call to DOT and bridge closed
1:29:00 traveling 7 knots
1:29:33 impact

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 28, 2024 08:36 AM (RKVpM)

114 Morning Horde, thx JJ. I agree with JJ about Lieberman. He seemed personable and decent , a guy you could have a laugh with. His take on foreign policy was rational for a Dem. Strangely enough the one Dem senator who comes closest to him is post stroke Fetterman.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 28, 2024 08:36 AM (/Qymv)

115 doesn't do SHIT without thinking about how it will benefit "Trump."
Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:29 AM (aCVzN)

I don't understand this. Who are all these amazing people in the spotlight doing things to benefit others?

If Trump was more selfish than everyone else he could have stayed fat and happy and loved by 85% of the country, and worshipped practically wherever he goes. Instead he's facing jail and genuine death threats for the rest of his days.

He could have sold us out at any time and become a "respectable Republican". Or have you forgot that that's the only song Republicans seem to know.

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2024 08:37 AM (6gUd4)

116 Georgia Legislature Tackles Key Election Integrity Measures Before Session Ends

Has Fani added the Georgia Legislature to her RICO case yet?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 28, 2024 08:37 AM (1Z8zZ)

117 87 "Uh, Biden's voters didn't show up last time, but ballots with his name on them showed up in spades.
Posted by: Chuck Martel "

This is a real problem that I do not deny. I don't think it's a reason to not vote though.
Posted by: fd
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2024 will be different than 2020. I encourage every Trump supporter to vote, for the record.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 28, 2024 08:37 AM (RSqHn)

118 McRomney was only hired because they knew she'd trash Trump, in the veiled, pseudo-objective manner that barely, awkwardly conceals the snarling hatred. She was fired because the management is terrified of and caved to its fanatical "talent," which represents the network's core, fanatical audience.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 28, 2024 08:37 AM (5FGYJ)

119 Auto-da-fe, what's an auto-da-fe?
Posted by: Brown Robed Monk at March 28, 2024 08:32 AM (uCvd3)
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It's a trade name established by the Automatic Daylight Fermenter Corporation for their new invention of a sun-accelerated winemaking process and associated equipment. They filed for US Patent Protection in 1871, and delivered the product and process to the market in 1873.

There were four key elements in Auto-Da-Fe's market and subsequent corporate failure:
1. The process was largely ineffective, creating an inferior product and thus creating fairly little demand.
2. The Panic of 1873 and following Long Depression generally reduced capital outlay and risk appetite in the market at large, which affected uptake of new products and processes by businesses
3. Auto-Da-Fe itself was heavily invested in railroad bonds as a way to generate capital returns during product development, and its books were hit hard by the general decline during the Panic and its aftermath.
4. Relevant foreign markets were closed to Auto-Da-Fe, as protectionism - particularly in key winemaking regions of France, Spain and Italy - surged due to the intercontinental nature of the Panic.

Posted by: False Economic History, Volume XXIV, Third Edition at March 28, 2024 08:38 AM (6bTRc)

120 Too much drinking late at night hurts more than the head, Senor Sponge.

Posted by: Eromero at March 28, 2024 08:38 AM (oT+t6)

121 115
"Repsectable Republicans" don't get the love and the adoration of the voters. Maverick Republicans do. Just ask John McCain...

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:38 AM (aCVzN)

122 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at March 28, 2024 08:38 AM (5HQE5)

123 Crazy that US Steel is considering selling to Nippon Steel. USS was my first job out of college. The japs were big rivals, along with scrap mini-mills.

The good thing was, we made tank armor for the Israelis.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 28, 2024 08:39 AM (ufFY8)

124 Hey, it's Opening Day. So it can't all be bad.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 28, 2024 08:39 AM (T+Iwg)

125 Where do you stand on Zappa?
Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:34 A

Zappa and Beefheart were two essential Americans and I applaud their entire catalogues without exception.

Posted by: Musik For the (M)asses at March 28, 2024 08:39 AM (V5BDR)

126 Tony Bobulinski Accuses Dem Rep of "Defamatory" Statements, Threatens Legal Action
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Where does Bobulinski think he can find either a judge or a jury to find in his favor? He'll be lucky to get off with a life sentence for daring to try this.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 28, 2024 08:39 AM (1bNHn)

127 > Caught a piece on YouTube last night about how Republicans are well prepared to “steal” the 2024 election.
____________

If by some chance a Republican is "elected" you can bet the story, the only story, will be that the election was in fact, stolen. Only this time there will be an insurrection.

A real one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 28, 2024 08:39 AM (Q4IgG)

128 A ZOD SIGHTING!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 28, 2024 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

129 Tonight's fundraiser for Biden, featuring Obama and Bill Clinton, raises a record $25-million.
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Even AP knows Hillary is the kiss of death.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 28, 2024 08:41 AM (2yu8s)

130 Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott: Those Calling Me "DEI Mayor" Don’t Have Courage to Say the "N-Word"
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He's probably the ideal representative for the people that voted for him. I doubt he needed any boosting from DEI initiatives.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 28, 2024 08:41 AM (RSqHn)

131 PLAY BALL!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 28, 2024 08:41 AM (SfhV1)

132 If by some chance a Republican is "elected" you can bet the story, the only story, will be that the election was in fact, stolen. Only this time there will be an insurrection.

A real one.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 28, 2024 08:39 AM (Q4IgG)
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Possibly.

But no matter what, we will see at least some of the consequences of thoroughly poisoning the Well of Trust. No matter what happens, at least a third of the country - and possibly half - will be 100%, no questions, no arguments, no doubts *sure* that the election was illegitimate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 28, 2024 08:41 AM (6bTRc)

133
2024 will be a near carbon copy of 1980 when a third party candidate siphoned off about 8% of the vote from the incumbent and unpopular President Carter. Landslide victory for President Reagan.

Vote like your life depends on it. Ignore the naysayers. RFK Jr will siphon off about 8% from whoever the (D)'s nominate.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 28, 2024 08:41 AM (RKVpM)

134 123.

Remember back in the 1970s and 1980s when we were worried about the Japanese taking over the world with the power of economics? Pepperidge Farm remembers... LOL

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:42 AM (aCVzN)

135 What happened in Alabama special election ? Rs blew it again??

Posted by: runner at March 28, 2024 08:42 AM (V13WU)

136 Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott: Those Calling Me "DEI Mayor" Don’t Have Courage to Say the "N-Word"
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Meh. You suck and it has nothing to do with your skin color......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 28, 2024 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

137 Why Are So Many Pushing for America to Have a Hot War with Russia?

750M

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 28, 2024 08:42 AM (1Z8zZ)

138 "Informed Consent" Officially Nixed as Long as There is Only "Minimal Risk" to the Patient

********

Informed consent has been a skimpy fig leaf for researchers for a long time. IRB's grant approval to clinical research projects as long as the written consent form lists the potential complications, but does nothing about researchers who verbally downplay the known risks when they seek to have a patient participate in a study. They say things like, "We've been doing this procedure for years." and "We are required to list these complications, but they are really very minimal."

At the same time they imply that a patient is missing out on the latest and greatest if they decline to participate. This is especially insidious when they manipulate parents into consenting for their children.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 28, 2024 08:42 AM (991eG)

139 133.

That completely ignores the possibility of fraud tipping the "vote" in Biden's favor. But you do you.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:42 AM (aCVzN)

140 Ronna McDaniel will be sacrificed to the Key Bridge Merman at noon tomorrow. Her ankle will be chained to an anvil and cast into the Patapsco River.

Traffic will be re-routed around Baltimore via the US 50W/301/Chesapeake Bay Bridge pattern.

Posted by: ZOD at March 28, 2024 08:42 AM (5HQE5)

141 "RFK Jr will siphon off about 8% from whoever the (D)'s nominate.
Posted by: Divide by Zero"

If he makes is to November.

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:43 AM (vFG9F)

142 I am a proud Yoko supporter, as well as a fan of Tanya Tagaq, Neil Young, Rush, Nina Hagen, and Klaus Nomi. Tiny Tim is another of my favorites. Won't make me popular in here, but I'm not going to apologize for it.
Posted by: Musik For the (M)asses at March 28, 2024 08:33 AM (V5BDR)

None of those losers you listed could carry my jock strap.

Posted by: Zombie Liberace, Breech Loader at March 28, 2024 08:44 AM (9KyZG)

143 First they came for Ronna McDaniel. And I said nothing because she's a two-timing bitch.

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2024 08:44 AM (6gUd4)

144 When we talk about terrible avant-garde musical performance... What am I, chopped liver!?

Posted by: Laurie Anderson at March 28, 2024 08:44 AM (uCvd3)

145 138.

Okay...I'll bite.

Who gets to determine what constitutes "minimal risk?" And if I am informed of the risk and decide to do it anyway, someone else can still refuse on the basis of the risk not being "minimal?" What a load of horseshit.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:44 AM (aCVzN)

146 Mornin’, All. Let the quashing begin!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 28, 2024 08:44 AM (9yWhg)

147 Only this time there will be an insurrection.

A real one.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 28, 2024 08:39 AM (Q4IgG)

Guaranteed. Interesting that nobody seems to be gaming out how the democrats will respond to a Trump victory, or doing so only in a perfunctory fashion. It will be like nothing ever seen before.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 28, 2024 08:45 AM (5FGYJ)

148 If the Marxists can fraud the election they will have their street troops declare war, Antifa, BLM and criminals

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2024 08:46 AM (TY6j5)

149 None of those losers you listed could carry my jock strap.
Posted by: Zombie Liberace, Breech Loader at March 28, 2024 08:44 AM (9KyZG)
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It's a diamond-encrusted jock strap, yes?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 28, 2024 08:46 AM (7fElN)

150 Rockford's been quite stabby this week, with one Walmart worker killed Tuesday, and four killed/seven injured yesterday. AFAIK, random attacks.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at March 28, 2024 08:46 AM (MvF+J)

151 Big day today.

Glad to start it the usual way.

Sunrise, blue skies, coffee, and the JJ report.

Off we goooooo...

Posted by: mindful webworker - onwards! at March 28, 2024 08:46 AM (tCAx2)

152 145 138.

Okay...I'll bite.

Who gets to determine what constitutes "minimal risk?" And if I am informed of the risk and decide to do it anyway, someone else can still refuse on the basis of the risk not being "minimal?" What a load of horseshit.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:44 AM (aCVzN)

I make the call on medical minimal risk, for everyone.

Posted by: Saint Fauci at March 28, 2024 08:46 AM (5fDan)

153 Am I a bad person because I kind of liked Alf? I was a kid at the time...
Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:05 AM (aCVzN)

You're not a bad person for having a differing opinion, even when it's wrong. Doof, for example, is a wonderful human who, incorrectly, dislikes Scotch. TJM's fondness for a certain film which shall go unnamed does push the line, though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 28, 2024 08:47 AM (1Z8zZ)

154 Voting is not a cure-all but it does matter. Ask yourself: Would we be better off now or worse off if Hillary Clinton won in 2016?? That’s a no-brainer…. Will a Trump win this year make everything a-okay? Obviously not, but consider the alternative and vote, please. Every legitimate vote for Trump makes the steal that much more difficult…. At the extreme it makes the steal look absurd. If Trump gets 82 million legitimate votes the steal might well be untenable

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 28, 2024 08:48 AM (xT8gx)

155 Jon Tester is such a fraud. I don't know why he gets elected when last week he as well as all senate Dems voted against barring taxpayer funds to fly illegals to US towns across the country.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 28, 2024 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

156 Oftentimes, the researcher proposing an experimental procedure will be the IRB's subject matter expert for that facility on the field of study involved.

This is similar to Congress relying on the bureau head of whatever agency being overseen as their primary source.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 28, 2024 08:48 AM (991eG)

157 RFK VP pick Nicole Shanahan…

I read that as Nicole Sheridan for some reason.

Nicole Sheridan >> Nicole Shanahan

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 28, 2024 08:48 AM (ufFY8)

158
Meh. I see we've got an Early-Morning Moby passively-aggressive talking down Trump as if there's an alternative, by telling that *gasp* Trump is not a perfect human being.

Lessee the alternatives:

1. Don't vote for Trump - the option the Moby has taken.

2. Vote for Trump.

3. Vote for Biden - probable vote from Moby.

4. Don't vote nobody for nuthin.

5. Vote ~~Stoned Pot Smokers of America Party~~ the Libertarian Party.

6. Stay home crying in the corner playing with your weenie cuz it's all too hopeless.

That's about it. Place your bets now.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 28, 2024 08:48 AM (nFnyb)

159 Rockford's been quite stabby this week

Rockford has descended into severe sketchiness. There's a nice restaurant there that serves Swedish pancakes with lingonberries - the sole reason I would go there.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 28, 2024 08:48 AM (SfhV1)

160 If he makes is to November.
Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:43 AM (vFG9F)

Heaven knows I've been working hard
I wanted November to be right for my sugar baby Shanahan girl
I don't mean to hate November
It's meant to be the happy time of year
But my little sugar baby Shanahan don't understand
Why daddy can't afford no elections here

If we make it through November
Everything's going to be alright, I know...

Posted by: RFK Jr. at March 28, 2024 08:49 AM (9KyZG)

161 I thought Hillary was going to win but voted anyway. Futile gestures is who I am.

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 08:49 AM (vFG9F)

162 It's also,
National Black Forest Cake Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 28, 2024 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

163 159 Stockholm Inn.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at March 28, 2024 08:50 AM (MvF+J)

164 Who gets to determine what constitutes "minimal risk?" And if I am informed of the risk and decide to do it anyway, someone else can still refuse on the basis of the risk not being "minimal?" What a load of horseshit.
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Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 28, 2024 08:50 AM (RSqHn)

165 JJ lives giant conspiracies!
JJ the Key Bridge disaster was most likely simply caused by dirty fuel. Joe Biden did not personally push that ship sideways into the bridge. Should BIG GOVERNMENT do more inspections into commercial shop traffic ? Lol or just let the free market monitor itself?

Posted by: Paul banned at March 28, 2024 08:50 AM (MrI+8)

166 Crisco Christie's innie of a squirt gun micturating a cantaloupe-sized-prostate-constricted stream onto the Rock of Gibraltar.

Whew! Isn't JJ amazing, folks! And he does that without a safety net!

Posted by: mindful webworker - in awwwwe at March 28, 2024 08:50 AM (tCAx2)

167 Had Lieberman lived, he might've jumped ship considering what the Democrats are doing to Israel. As it is, he remained silent since 10/7.
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תנצב"ה

https://tinyurl.com/yckawedn

(Forbes)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 28, 2024 08:51 AM (hpFS3)

168 It's a diamond-encrusted jock strap, yes?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 28, 2024 08:46 AM (7fElN)

yes...also has a dick hole in it.

Just in case.

Posted by: Zombie Liberace, Breech Loader at March 28, 2024 08:51 AM (9KyZG)

169 Hey, it's Opening Day. So it can't all be bad.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 28, 2024 08:39 AM (T+Iwg)

Let's play two!

(RIP Ernie Banks)

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 28, 2024 08:51 AM (ufFY8)

170 Who gets to determine what constitutes "minimal risk?" And if I am informed of the risk and decide to do it anyway, someone else can still refuse on the basis of the risk not being "minimal?" What a load of horseshit.
Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:44 AM (aCVzN)
++++
Your betters - the ones with degrees and credentials who are "experts" - will make the call. Best to leave everything to the experts. They're well-informed, dispassionate supermen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 28, 2024 08:51 AM (6bTRc)

171
Prostate Constricted Stream used to open exclusively for Steely Dan.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 28, 2024 08:52 AM (RKVpM)

172 159 Stockholm Inn.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at March 28, 2024 08:50 AM (MvF+J)

Yes, that's it.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 28, 2024 08:52 AM (SfhV1)

173 >>Interesting that nobody seems to be gaming out how the democrats will respond to a Trump victory
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 28, 2024 08:45 AM (5FGYJ)

Interesting that nobody seems to be gaming out how Puff Daddy will respond to a prison-shower inmate victory.

Posted by: ZOD at March 28, 2024 08:52 AM (5HQE5)

174 Mornin' y'all! What is it that requires my quashing skills today?

Posted by: Doof at March 28, 2024 08:53 AM (JunzL)

175 Posted by: naturalfake at March 28, 2024 08:48 AM (nFnyb)

Well, present company possibly excluded, there are legitimate people that still want to justify their original bs on Trump.

There are many that came around after 2016 and were happy to say "I think I fucked up" and "Trump surprised me".

Then there are people who just need to be right no matter what. Some of them came back around here in 2020 to laugh at us when he "lost".

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2024 08:53 AM (6gUd4)

176 Vote fraud will continue to occur in the Northern inner cities. The key question is will it occur in and around Alanta in some more of the tossup states.
Posted by: vic at March 28, 2024 08:18 AM (A5THL)

Rumor has it that the Secretaries of State for the 6 "toss-up" states are coordinating to battle "the common enemy".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 28, 2024 08:53 AM (1Z8zZ)

177 I'ts a real stretch to say that the baseball season starts today. The Savannah Bananas and the Party Animals have been playing in earnest for more than a month to sold-out crowds.

Posted by: Good Times Are Had By All at March 28, 2024 08:54 AM (V5BDR)

178 It's also,
National Black Forest Cake Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 28, 2024 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

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Coconut, yuck.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 28, 2024 08:54 AM (FzDG4)

179 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

On Thursday of Holy Week (Maundy Thursday) the Church celebrates the three pillars of the Catholic Church instituted by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper: the priesthood, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and the Holy Eucharist. This is the traditional day for priests to gather with their bishop at the Chrism Mass, to receive oils blessed by the bishop and to publicly renew their priestly promises. In the evening the Church celebrates the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. After this Mass the altar is stripped bare and the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the Tabernacle and processed to a separate altar of repose. Here the Blessed Sacrament is adored until late in the night to commemorate the time Jesus spent in Garden of Gethsemane in agonizing prayer, the start of his Passion. The Blessed Sacrament is then taken away and hidden until the Easter Vigil in memory of Our Lord’s death and burial.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 28, 2024 08:54 AM (XASq/)

180 MT resident here. Tester is supported by military retirees. They love him long time for all of the benefits he brings to MT for them. An admirable sentiment but pretty one sided, other factors should come into play.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 28, 2024 08:54 AM (2NHgQ)

181 Great commentary J.J. MSLSD missed a chance to have an "operstive" from the other side to come in and at worst marginally confirm what they had been saying about the other side.

Dead internet Joe and Steele have outlived their moniker of "guys from the other side." Anyone who watches believes they have fully seem the light and are now on the right team.

Booting Ronna deprives them of "hey, Rs are still racist knuckle dragging. . .etc" A new daily affirmation, if yiu will.

When ads run this fa confirming Trump's plan to deport illegals showing the invasion, some folks will be absolutely dumbfounded. Ronna could have twisted the knife more by saying the Hous should have passed the border bill. And would lend weight to Mika and Todd's words. Now she can't.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 28, 2024 08:54 AM (JkCto)

182 That completely ignores the possibility of fraud tipping the "vote" in Biden's favor. But you do you.
Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 08:42 AM (aCVzN)

I think it's gonna be a lot harder to do this time... No covid and Joe has a "record". Not to mention the Biden Family graft.. It's probably gonna be the certification of a Trump win... That's iffy... Especially if they find him guilty of one of the "crimes" and sentence him...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 28, 2024 08:55 AM (Akjoo)

183 True or not? That cargo ship is leaking toxic substances into the river

Posted by: Ben Had at March 28, 2024 08:55 AM (kCvJX)

184 It's also,
National Black Forest Cake Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 28, 2024 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

National Paella Day was yesterday and I missed it!

*weeps bitterly*

Posted by: naturalfake at March 28, 2024 08:55 AM (nFnyb)

185 In 2016 these people spent the entire election after Teddy Cruz lost trying to convince everyone how "Donnie" was using you, how he was gonna sell you out, how he was in it to hand everything to Hillary, how at best he was gonna lose embarrassingly.

This stupid fucking place was full to the brim with them.

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2024 08:55 AM (6gUd4)

186 Never mind, I'm thinking of German chocolate cake. So: cherries, yuck.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 28, 2024 08:55 AM (FzDG4)

187 Doof!

The list of quashworthy things is very long…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 28, 2024 08:56 AM (9yWhg)

188 I think it's safe to assume that if this disappears entirely within the next couple of news cycles without any kind of definitive and independently verifiable proof of exactly what happened ...

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* TWA Flight 800 has exploded in the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 28, 2024 08:57 AM (NNq22)

189 It's also,
National Black Forest Cake Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 28, 2024 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

Where da white forests at?

Posted by: Doof at March 28, 2024 08:57 AM (JunzL)

190 Should BIG GOVERNMENT do more inspections into commercial shop traffic ? Lol or just let the free market monitor itself?
Posted by: Paul banned

Who will ultimately pay? Big Govt or capitalistic insurers?

That will tell you who has the most to gain by making sure it doesn't happen again.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 28, 2024 08:57 AM (JkCto)

191
True or not? That cargo ship is leaking toxic substances into the river

Posted by: Ben Had at March 28, 2024 08:55 AM

From ship manifest, nothing dangerous. Coast Guard has installed booms to capture anything but it appears there is nothing.

But even if there is, here's why it's good...

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 28, 2024 08:58 AM (RKVpM)

192 National Paella Day was yesterday and I missed it!

*weeps bitterly*
Posted by: naturalfake

WHAT!!?

No one told me. Someone is gonna pay! And I even have everything I need for it as I spent what seems to be a month's income at Costco yesterday. Damn.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 28, 2024 08:58 AM (XASq/)

193 Mr. Doof took some pickleball heat yesterday morning. Must have a thick skin and a hard head to return this AM. Or maybe thick head and hard skin, not sure.

Posted by: Peat and Repeat at March 28, 2024 08:58 AM (V5BDR)

194 Bridgebath > bloodbath.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at March 28, 2024 08:58 AM (MvF+J)

195 I pity the fuel!

Posted by: Mr. T at March 28, 2024 08:58 AM (2yu8s)

196 Divide by Zero . Thank you

Posted by: Ben Had at March 28, 2024 08:59 AM (kCvJX)

197 Interesting that nobody seems to be gaming out how Puff Daddy will respond to a prison-shower inmate victory.
Posted by: ZOD at March 28, 2024 08:52 AM (5HQE5)

Oh, I've thought about it.

Posted by: Don Lemon at March 28, 2024 08:59 AM (PiwSw)

198 Mr. Doof took some pickleball heat yesterday morning. Must have a thick skin and a hard head to return this AM. Or maybe thick head and hard skin, not sure.
Posted by: Peat and Repeat at March 28, 2024 08:58 AM (V5BDR)

=====

He redeemed himself with axe throwing.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 28, 2024 08:59 AM (FzDG4)

199 This stupid fucking place was full to the brim with them.
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History doesn't repeat itself but sometimes it sharts.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 28, 2024 08:59 AM (2yu8s)

200 Doof!

The list of quashworthy things is very long…
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 28, 2024 08:56 AM (9yWhg)

I shall endeavor to address them all!

Posted by: Doof the Quashbuckler at March 28, 2024 08:59 AM (JunzL)

201 Ok. It's the phone, spell check and my fat fingers.

And yes, in that order.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 28, 2024 09:00 AM (JkCto)

202 I just saw an interview of the Baltimore mayor. Just the guy you want to have in charge in a critical accident scenario.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at March 28, 2024 09:01 AM (MvF+J)

203 What is wrong with AWFLs?? Annelle Sheline, PhD is squawking publicly about her noble resignation from the state department because we’re supporting genocide in Gaza. Makes me throw up… she goes on and on about all the innocent Gazans and all the fabricated numbers of deaths (13,000 children…. Just nonsense) but she doesn’t say ONE THING about what happened on 10/7! It’s a mental illness

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 28, 2024 09:01 AM (xT8gx)

204 What am I going to do with all of this paella??

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at March 28, 2024 09:01 AM (2yu8s)

205 For my entire life I have devoutly wished to see some willingness on the left to honestly debate and participate in an open exchange of ideas. In my entire life I have never found them willing to do so.

Back in the 90s I'd argue you could find some left of center people that would actually discuss politics but...not really since then.

And the current left is very open about what they are - I've seen numerous leftists argue that they have to censor us because they can't win the war of ideas if "hate" or "bigotry" is allowed to make its case.

Which is fascinating as well because the original civil rights movement won because it persuaded people it had better arguments then its opponents.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2024 09:01 AM (ibTVg)

206 'morning, Doof. Don't know about quashing, but your music suggestions are always welcome.

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 28, 2024 09:01 AM (JcnCJ)

207 202 I just saw an interview of the Baltimore mayor. Just the guy you want to have in charge in a critical accident scenario.
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at March 28, 2024 09:01 AM (MvF+J)

But exactly what I expected

Posted by: It's me donna at March 28, 2024 09:01 AM (Akjoo)

208 but she doesn’t say ONE THING about what happened on 10/7!

The left has a simple answer to this - if you are an oppressed group literally anything you do against your oppressor is allowed. So murdering and raping party goers? Sure!

But the Israeli response? Well anything oppressors do is wrong so no matter how measured their response...they are wrong

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2024 09:02 AM (ibTVg)

209 The major corps are the sickly tree. They have too much debt, are too slow and have saturated their markets. Gone are the days of explosive growth. Markets are mature and innovation has slowed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 28, 2024 08:24 AM (6bTRc)

People who found businesses build them. People who follow, generally speaking, loot them. Gone are the days when you worked for a single company your whole life. Gone are the days when you were expected to have some loyalty to your company - and it to you.

The early days of personal computing caused that explosive growth. Governments changed tax models because of it. Businesses came to expect it. C-suite shitheads came to expect the payouts associated with it. And it was all ephemeral. So they changed the way that they did business to try and re-create the semblance of the thing. Go into debt to buy another company to claim that's "growth". Lay off "labor units" when the economy is down to cut costs. No understanding of the long term effects of anything.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 28, 2024 09:03 AM (1Z8zZ)

210 Quashmeister. Quashinator. Quashenheimer.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at March 28, 2024 09:03 AM (MvF+J)

211 I don't call them MSNSDAP for nothing

Uh, yeah, we've been puzzling over that for a while now. Why do you? Must've missed the origin of the acronym. MSN we get, of course, but what's the SDAP?

Posted by: mindful webworker - over my head at March 28, 2024 09:03 AM (tCAx2)

212 Mr. Doof took some pickleball heat yesterday morning. Must have a thick skin and a hard head to return this AM. Or maybe thick head and hard skin, not sure.
Posted by: Peat and Repeat at March 28, 2024 08:58 AM (V5BDR)

=====

He redeemed himself with axe throwing.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 28, 2024 08:59 AM (FzDG4)

I scoff at the horde's feeble attempts to denigrate the great game of pickleball. My head and skin thicken with each silly comment!

*winks at Jordan while sharpening axe*

Posted by: Doof the Quashbuckler at March 28, 2024 09:03 AM (JunzL)

213 Paul's shift at the gloryhole ended early. Plus his dose of LSD seems to have kicked in

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 28, 2024 09:03 AM (/Qymv)

214 There are worse people for this to happen to than McRomneySpawn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2024 09:04 AM (daqPs)

215 Where da white forests at?
Posted by: Doof

They must pay reparations to the Black Forests!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 28, 2024 09:04 AM (9yWhg)

216 Had Lieberman lived, he might've jumped ship considering what the Democrats are doing to Israel. As it is, he remained silent since 10/7.
-

so wrong - his opinion piece /article in WSJ , "Schumer Has Crossed a Red Line Over Israel
His speech last week is evidence that his party is catering to those who are hostile to the Jewish state.
By Joe Lieberman
March 20, 2024 5:11 pm ET"

https://tinyurl.com/y95a2cr3

Posted by: runner at March 28, 2024 09:04 AM (V13WU)

217 Today's cover of New York Post:

https://tinyurl.com/a2xw2fhn

NYPD sergeants’ union warns anti-police NY pols to stay away from slain cop Jonathan Diller’s funeral — including Council Speaker Adams, Public Advocate Williams

Trump will be attending the wake as he was invited by the family.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 28, 2024 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

218 Whether incompetence, criminal sabotage, terrorism by non-state actors or a covert act of war by perhaps the ChiComs or Russians, or even just some bizarre freak accident, that something of this magnitude could have even happened in the first place does not bode well for a whole host of reasons.

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Seems most likely an accident, but there were some stories social media posts (and subsequent news stories calling them crazy, natch) going around how something similar was depicted in the recent Netflix movie produced by the Obamas (would not watch) called "Leave The World Behind" about cyber-hacking leading to a World War or something (that analysts like Bongino speculated was an attempt to "prep the battlefield" for what they know is coming -- or are outright planning).

In the movie, apparently an oil barge is cyber-hacked and runs aground or something ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 28, 2024 09:05 AM (NNq22)

219 They must pay reparations to the Black Forests!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

"Forest of Color" please!!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 28, 2024 09:05 AM (XASq/)

220 I just saw an interview of the Baltimore mayor. Just the guy you want to have in charge in a critical accident scenario.
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Watching MSM news with the sound off, when I saw him, I assumed it was a half-assed witness being interviewed.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 28, 2024 09:06 AM (2yu8s)

221 Quashmeister. Quashinator. Quashenheimer.
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at March 28, 2024 09:03 AM (MvF+J)

The quashinator is in the purview of my cousin - Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. He of Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated notoriety.

Posted by: Doof the Quashbuckler at March 28, 2024 09:06 AM (JunzL)

222 215 Where da white forests at?
Posted by: Doof

They must pay reparations to the Black Forests!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 28, 2024 09:04 AM (9yWhg)
******
LMAO.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 28, 2024 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

223 Potemkin Feminism
______
BS. The article assumes feminism started off on the right side (in the 60s, mind you; Betty Friedan, not Susan B Anthony).

That's a crock, and just one more example of pseudoconservatism, which amount to nothing more than yesterday's leftism.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 28, 2024 09:06 AM (1bNHn)

224
Some maritime 'expert' made an interesting point about the propellers on the ship; they (to simplify) can either be clockwise or counter-clockwise. In reverse rotation it could have swung the bow of the boat left or right based on which type was used.

I don't have any particular conspiracy theory yet about why the ship kept losing power. I'm just really fascinated about why it swung *toward* the bridge at the end.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 28, 2024 09:06 AM (RKVpM)

225 And the current left is very open about what they are - I've seen numerous leftists argue that they have to censor us because they can't win the war of ideas if "hate" or "bigotry" is allowed to make its case.
____

Correct.
- Kate Starbird, chief censor

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 28, 2024 09:07 AM (RSqHn)

226 Posted by: mindful webworker - over my head at March 28, 2024 09:03 AM (tCAx2)

IIRC, that is a reference to the SA (as opposed to the SS nazis.) Or it was one of the nazi/commie parties.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2024 09:07 AM (daqPs)

227 Who gets to determine what constitutes "minimal risk?"

********

It goes something like this. Every hospital has an Institutional Review Board that ostensibly oversees clinical research at that hospital. The researcher presents a proposed project to the IRB with supporting information such as results oof other clinical trials, animal studies and the historical evolution of the procedure in question, along with citations from the existing literature. The tendency is to downplay risks. "The patient's dick may fall off, but this almost never happens in our experience". The whole process depends on how rigorously the IRB exercises due diligence. If the researcher has prestige, the IRB will lean toward rubber stamping.

Multi-center studies employ a joint IRB composed of reps from each facility. '

Nationwide studies rely on governmental agencies or quasi-governmental agencies such as CDC, NIH, FDA, etc. (e.g. mRNA COVID vaccines touted by CDC as "totally safe".

Posted by: Muldoon at March 28, 2024 09:07 AM (991eG)

228 "Rolling Stone’s glowing feature of the ‘superstructure’ Biden is amassing to control the 2024 election aftermath should sound familiar."
======================
And, this time, they have two new massive advantages: money and Trump. Democrats could potentially have a 2:1 or better money advantage in the presidential race this year, and Trump-hate is fully ingrained now, after nearly a decade of non-stop propaganda. Half the country just cannot stand him.

Hopefully those haters are concentrated in California and the Boston-DC corridor, so the electoral college can still be up for grabs.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at March 28, 2024 09:08 AM (pfG3S)

229 Uh, yeah, we've been puzzling over that for a while now. Why do you? Must've missed the origin of the acronym. MSN we get, of course, but what's the SDAP?
Posted by: mindful webworker - over my head at March 28, 2024 09:03 AM (tCAx2)
++++
NSDAP
German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
English: National Socialist Germany Worker's Party

The implication is that MSNBC are a bunch of Party-loyal fascists. That implication is, if anything, a touch soft.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 28, 2024 09:08 AM (6bTRc)

230 227.

That's an awful lot of words to say "the bureaucrats."

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 09:08 AM (aCVzN)

231 >>And? Why is this not adequate qualification?
She seems like a near-perfect analogue of Obama.

And how'd that work out for us?
I'm tempted to say "at least Obama held state and national office (barely on the latter) before running, but, yeaaaaahhhhh, that barely counted as experience for Senator "I vote 'Present'."

Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 09:08 AM (6IDWi)

232 Khymer Rouge would work well too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2024 09:09 AM (daqPs)

233 Thanks TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at March 28, 2024 09:09 AM (T4tVD)

234 @165 Paul-Dirty fuel? You dumb sonofabitch them ships run on dirty fuel, bunker fuel, and have been for a hundred years.
Maybe it was running on ghey ass soy or cooking oil based fuel that they've had ships run on in some ports around the world as part of being "green".

Posted by: JROD at March 28, 2024 09:09 AM (IlL6s)

235 Sadly, I never got a chance to see "Crisco Christie's Innie-of-a-Squirt Gun Micturating a Cantaloupe-Sized-Prostate-Constricted Stream" open for anybody ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 28, 2024 09:10 AM (NNq22)

236 And how'd that work out for us?
I'm tempted to say "at least Obama held state and national office (barely on the latter) before running, but, yeaaaaahhhhh, that barely counted as experience for Senator "I vote 'Present'."
Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 09:08 AM (6IDWi)
++++
It worked out poorly. But the standards are set and enforced by the Party. According to the Party, Obama was entirely qualified - even overqualified - for the job, If he was, she is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 28, 2024 09:10 AM (6bTRc)

237 Heh - just realized.
Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated = DEI

Posted by: Doof the Quashbuckler at March 28, 2024 09:10 AM (JunzL)

238 The Khmer Rouge are scared and desperate.

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2024 09:10 AM (6gUd4)

239 The final Delta IV Heavy launch is scheduled today, 1:40 PM Eastern. It carries a secret Space Force payload.

If Ciampino does not later post a link to a utoob launch live stream, search utoob for 'Delta IV Heavy launch today'.

Posted by: Gref at March 28, 2024 09:10 AM (5fDan)

240 I think the playful mix of stupidity, rank ignorance, slavish devotion and vicious sadism of the Khymer fit the media perfectly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2024 09:10 AM (daqPs)

241 Lots of fuss about something on cable TV.
Posted by: Do people still pay for cable? at March 28, 2024 08:18 AM (dg+HA)

Like it or not, people DO still watch MSNBC and CNN. And Fox. They sit down, turn on the TV, and get spoon fed the "news". No fuss, no muss. Most people do not spend their waking hours on internet blog sites. Especially older people. And yes, cable still is the dominant supplier of media and entertainment to the average American. And most are not about to give it up.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 28, 2024 09:11 AM (iODuv)

242 > Some maritime 'expert' made an interesting point about the propellers on the ship; they (to simplify) can either be clockwise or counter-clockwise. In reverse rotation it could have swung the bow of the boat left or right based on which type was used.
_____________

IIRC most merchant vessels have a single propeller. It's the torque that can move the bow port or starboard, depending on how the blades are set.

The port anchor was dropped, but dragged, which if it held would have kept the bow of the ship from swinging to starboard (right) and into the bridge support.*

*according to several maritime shipping wonks on the Interwebs

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 28, 2024 09:11 AM (Q4IgG)

243 Looks to me like the Dali steered deliberately into the bridge column:
https://tinyurl.com/4453pu27

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at March 28, 2024 09:11 AM (MvF+J)

244 237 Heh - just realized.
Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated = DEI
Posted by: Doof the Quashbuckler at March 28, 2024 09:10 AM (JunzL)

You'll be hearing from Our Lawyers

Posted by: Phineas and Ferb at March 28, 2024 09:11 AM (Akjoo)

245 The Khmer Rouge are scared and desperate.
Posted by: ...

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 28, 2024 09:11 AM (XASq/)

246 "Key had 'racist views,' the paper said."
WaPo Wastes No Time Slamming Francis Scott Key Again After Namesake Baltimore Bridge Destroyed
_______
Someone needs to remind WaPo of their own founder's views.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 28, 2024 09:11 AM (1bNHn)

247 The Khmer Rouge are scared and desperate.
Posted by: ... at March 28, 2024 09:10 AM (6gUd4)
++++
Only once Vietnam got sick of their shit and launched a war to deal with it.

It may be a similar story here, eventually.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 28, 2024 09:12 AM (6bTRc)

248 Simon and Schuster withdraws contract for major book about Biden's presidency after lack of market interest

https://tinyurl.com/rweytbnc

Posted by: redridinghood at March 28, 2024 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

249 The informed consent referenced in the linked article is for research or experimental procedures. This is different from the consent form you sign for surgeries that are considered standard therapy. That consent is to protect the surgeon and hospital against claims of injury.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 28, 2024 09:12 AM (991eG)

250 241.

Not enough people watch MSNBC or CNN to justify its existence through advertising.

The business model of cable TV changed drastically in the mid 90's with the rise of the retail internet. Now, cable channels make their bread-and-butter on franchise fees that increase yearly, and whatever they managed to rake in through ad revenue is gravy.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 09:12 AM (aCVzN)

251 So the Israelis are going to provide security for the US building of the pier in Gaza. This is going to go sideways real fast, in any number of different ways.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 28, 2024 09:13 AM (/Qymv)

252 Henceforth, all ships will blow glitter out of their exhaust pipes when approaching pylons.
- diversity board

Posted by: Eromero at March 28, 2024 09:13 AM (o2ZRX)

253 My favorite part of these tragedies is how everyone starts immediately using them for their pet peeves.

The Key Bridge proves that we need smaller government and fewer bureaucrats!

The Key Bridge collapse is a product of excess whiteness!

The Key Bridge happened because of the gays

The Key Bridge collapse is emblematic of DONALD TRUMP!

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2024 09:14 AM (6gUd4)

254 That's 'back holes', eromero.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2024 09:14 AM (daqPs)

255 I don't have any particular conspiracy theory yet about why the ship kept losing power. I'm just really fascinated about why it swung *toward* the bridge at the end.

Posted by: Divide by Zero

Part of the reason was the wind and current. The angle of the camera didn't help. If you look very closely, you will see the ship drifting towards the abutment, and then when the engine starts, it starts swinging back into the channel, but too late.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 28, 2024 09:14 AM (lTGtQ)

256 Looks to me like the Dali steered deliberately into the bridge column:

Posted by: It Puts The gp

Big hitter the Dali.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 28, 2024 09:14 AM (XASq/)

257 253 My favorite part of these tragedies is how everyone starts immediately using them for their pet peeves.

What about me?

Posted by: Climate change at March 28, 2024 09:16 AM (dg+HA)

258 Zimmerman's piece is good, and sobering. We reached the point where civil conflict and breakup was possible in 2020; now we've reached the point where it is inevitable.
And if California wanted to secede, I don't think any of us would want to stop them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 28, 2024 09:16 AM (S6gqv)

259 Whatever that part of the bridge is called. Pier, abutment, support, footing, column, tempting target. Whatever.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at March 28, 2024 09:16 AM (MvF+J)

260 The quashinator is in the purview of my cousin - Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. He of Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated notoriety.
Posted by: Doof the Quashbuckler

Perry the Platypus has his eye on you, though, just in case.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 28, 2024 09:16 AM (9yWhg)

261 I'd send them a nice fruit basket.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2024 09:16 AM (daqPs)

262 249

I get that. But if I am informed of the risks of an experimental procedure and I decide to do it anyway, is that not in point-of-fact a hold-harmless, to coin a lawyerly turn of phrase?

Let's say you have cancer. And you've been told you have six months to live. There's a drug therapy that you take as part of a clinical trial, but it has a 50-50 chance of either *shortening* your life by three months, or giving you an additional six months due to some confounding variable that hasn't been discovered yet.

Wouldn't it be to the advantage of the researchers to find as many willing participants as possible? Instead, what we get in clinical drug trials suggests to me that we the people haven't learned a damn thing from the Tuskeegee Study OR CoViD.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 09:16 AM (aCVzN)

263 >>Heh - just realized.
Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated = DEI

. . . and now for his newest invention: The Woke-inator!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 09:16 AM (6IDWi)

264 Whatever that part of the bridge is called. Pier, abutment, support, footing, column, tempting target. Whatever.
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at March 28, 2024 09:16 AM (MvF+J)
----
I've heard it both ways.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 28, 2024 09:17 AM (7fElN)

265 Delta IV Heavy is a beautiful bird. I wonder what they have in mind for Pad 37?

Posted by: pawn at March 28, 2024 09:18 AM (QB+5g)

266 Whatever that part of the bridge is called. Pier, abutment, support, footing, column, tempting target. Whatever.
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket

We need to ask it what it identifies as.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 28, 2024 09:18 AM (9yWhg)

267 However many masks Trump caused to fall each further continues to show there are yet still more masks to fall.

There are still far too many wearing the name "Republican" who are nothing of the sort.

The point of the "werewolf" game is that a small informed, group always defeats the larger, uninformed group.

Conservatives better get themselves informed.

The guy who said bad words, cheated on his wife, and posted mean tweets isn't the werewolf-- he's the one exposing them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 28, 2024 09:18 AM (yikga)

268 I don't have any particular conspiracy theory yet about why the ship kept losing power. I'm just really fascinated about why it swung *toward* the bridge at the end.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 28, 2024 09:06 AM (RKVpM)

Zhuan cuole fangxiang, dan chenggongle!

Posted by: PLA Software Sabotage Expert, #17762 at March 28, 2024 09:18 AM (9KyZG)

269 Delta IV Heavy is a beautiful bird. I wonder what they have in mind for Pad 37?
Posted by: pawn at March 28, 2024 09:18 AM (QB+5g)
++++
We're sponsoring the program to convert it to a experimental workspace for women in STEM.

Posted by: Kotex at March 28, 2024 09:19 AM (6bTRc)

270 I have never been one to criticize an event or speaker that WKU has hosted, until I learned that Kyle Rittenhouse would be bringing his “Rittenhouse Recap” to campus.

I firmly believe in freedom of speech. I do not, however, condone a person bragging about killing people, even if it is in “self-defense,” and WKU should not have allowed such an event to take place on our campus.

To add insult to injury, Kyle is scheduled to speak at Kent State University on April 16. He shows that he is tone deaf to the massacre that occurred there.

I wish people, even those on our side, would stop framing this as a free speech issue. Public and private institutions have the right to approve or reject anyone from speaking within their walls for any reason. And if they approve some dickless wonderboy like Rottenhouse, the students have the free speech right to express their perfectly justified outrage and scorn.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 28, 2024 09:19 AM (JCZqz)

271 261 I'd send them a nice fruit basket.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2024 09:16 AM (daqPs)

Chasten's coffin? . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 28, 2024 09:19 AM (x0n13)

272 My favorite part of these tragedies is how everyone starts immediately using them for their pet peeves.

The Key Bridge proves that we need smaller government and fewer bureaucrats!

The Key Bridge collapse is a product of excess whiteness!

The Key Bridge happened because of the gays

The Key Bridge collapse is emblematic of DONALD TRUMP!
Posted by: ... at March 28, 2024 09:14 AM (6gUd4)

The Key Bridge collapse occurred because of the proliferation of overuse/misuse of the word "literally". Also the lack of punctuation in digital communication by anyone born after 1980. But what really did it in was "music" featuring auto-tune.

Posted by: Doof has a lot of pet peeves at March 28, 2024 09:19 AM (JunzL)

273
IIRC most merchant vessels have a single propeller. It's the torque that can move the bow port or starboard, depending on how the blades are set.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 28, 2024 09:11 AM

I've owned a number of outboard propeller driven boats in my life and I've always purchased 'clockwise' props which when gunned forward attempt to force the boat to the right. I never ever tried backing up with one quickly but to my line of thought they would want to take the bow of the boat to the starboard (right).

Two minutes before impact the port anchor was dropped which made sense. The ship then veering to the right makes little sense - except for the prop thing.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 28, 2024 09:19 AM (RKVpM)

274 I've heard it both ways.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 28, 2024 09:17 AM (7fElN)

Me too!

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at March 28, 2024 09:19 AM (6gUd4)

275 , but what's the SDAP?

*******

Sozial Deemokratisch Arbeiters Partei

Posted by: Muldoon at March 28, 2024 09:20 AM (991eG)

276 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 28, 2024 09:19 AM (JCZqz)

Exactly as I would expect from these brain dead cretans..

Posted by: It's me donna at March 28, 2024 09:20 AM (Akjoo)

277 Imagine you're a terrrist. You pull off your life's dream. Years of planning and infiltration. Years of psyching yourself up. Years of playing "Oh he's one of the good ones" at work... and then one day ka-blammo you finally make it happen.

And then a bunch of perverts in cheap looking expensive suits say "Nothing to see here, just an accident, move it along!".

Gotta be infuriating.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 28, 2024 09:21 AM (VoAdT)

278 What is wrong with AWFLs?? Annelle Sheline, PhD is squawking publicly about her noble resignation from the state department because we’re supporting genocide in Gaza. Makes me throw up… she goes on and on about all the innocent Gazans and all the fabricated numbers of deaths (13,000 children…. Just nonsense) but she doesn’t say ONE THING about what happened on 10/7! It’s a mental illness
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 28, 2024 09:01 AM (xT8gx)

There's a reason that acronym was chosen.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 28, 2024 09:21 AM (1Z8zZ)

279 @248 Simon and Schuster withdraws contract for major book about Biden's presidency after lack of market interest
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Originally slated for release earlier this year, Thompson's proposed book promised a comprehensive exploration of Biden's presidency, boasting fresh insights gleaned from his extensive coverage of the White House transition. Thompson, renowned for his in-depth reporting on Biden's administration, chose not to offer comment to Politico
=================
how many different ways can "he lied" and "he's dangerous to the world" and "he's not very smart and completely incompetent" and "he showered with his teenage daughter" be said?

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at March 28, 2024 09:21 AM (+HBZi)

280 Looks to me like the Dali steered deliberately into the bridge column:

Posted by: It Puts The gp

Big hitter the Dali.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 28, 2024 09:14 AM (XASq/)

Last words hear before the support pillar was struck -
"Gunga galunga"

Posted by: Doof at March 28, 2024 09:21 AM (JunzL)

281 Watching the sunrise at Valley of the Gods, sun hitting the ramparts at Monument valley 20 miles away by air, with a cup of coffee and a smoke. Gotta love it.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 28, 2024 09:21 AM (H4laq)

282 I've owned a number of outboard propeller driven boats in my life and I've always purchased 'clockwise' props which when gunned forward attempt to force the boat to the right. I never ever tried backing up with one quickly but to my line of thought they would want to take the bow of the boat to the starboard (right).

Two minutes before impact the port anchor was dropped which made sense. The ship then veering to the right makes little sense - except for the prop thing.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 28, 2024 09:19 AM (RKVpM)

The prop issue was covered in the tracking video that, obviously, very few took the time to watch even though it was posted here a number of times.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 28, 2024 09:21 AM (iODuv)

283 I firmly believe in freedom of speech. I do not, however
--------

...believe in freedom of speech.

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2024 09:22 AM (6gUd4)

284 what's the SDAP?

Nobody's done "$20, same as in town," yet?

It's like I don't know you people. Be better.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 28, 2024 09:23 AM (9yWhg)

285 Two minutes before impact the port anchor was dropped which made sense. The ship then veering to the right makes little sense - except for the prop thing.

Posted by: Divide by Zero

There is a YT channel called What's Going On With Shipping, that has a slow motion view of the ship. It shows the ship drifting to the starboard towards the abutment and then as the engine starts up again, it begins to move to port, but it was far too late to avoid hitting.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 28, 2024 09:23 AM (lTGtQ)

286 Back in the 90s I'd argue you could find some left of center people that would actually discuss politics but...not really since then.

Clinton/Lewinsky broke them. They had to argue that a powerful man using a young woman who worked for him as a sperm receptacle broke their minds. They've never recovered.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 28, 2024 09:23 AM (1Z8zZ)

287 Some of you may have heard about it, but North Alabama had an officer shoot a male dindunuffin recently. The three cops were all fired, one of whom is under prosecution for murder. The usual asshats protested, created a scene and elevated everything so that the cops (guilty or innocent) wouldn't ever get a fair trial.

Evidently this pissed off someone, and the body cam footage was released. I need to watch it again, but the dindu exited his house, with a pistol drawn, pistol flashlight illuminated, and under the very bright light of on of the officers, showing the other two officers that he was armed and engaging them all three.

Watch the video....https://is.gd/otsLc0

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 28, 2024 09:23 AM (MsrgL)

288 Last words hear before the support pillar was struck -
"Gunga galunga"
Posted by: Doof at March 28, 2024 09:21 AM (JunzL)

Hahahaha!....nice.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 28, 2024 09:23 AM (9KyZG)

289 >>Not enough people watch MSNBC or CNN to justify its existence through advertising.

NBC owns a ton of channels - https://www.nbc.com/networks - they don't need to make money from MSNBC, they can use the advertising and royalties from other channels to pay for it. MSNBC is a vanity/political project.

One example: recall how Dr. Nancy Snyderman was a given a weekday one hour health/healthcare-related morning show that lasted exactly from the introduction of the Obamacare legislation through it's passage in the Senate.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 09:23 AM (6IDWi)

290 We need to ask it what it identifies as.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 28, 2024 09:18 AM (9yWhg)

Rubble.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 28, 2024 09:23 AM (VoAdT)

291 Macon Bacon baseball and Savannah Bananas are a hoot. Good fun.

Posted by: RetSgtRN at March 28, 2024 09:24 AM (eTkTC)

292 Powerball up to $935-million.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 28, 2024 09:24 AM (2yu8s)

293 286 Back in the 90s I'd argue you could find some left of center people that would actually discuss politics but...not really since then.

Clinton/Lewinsky broke them. They had to argue that a powerful man using a young woman who worked for him as a sperm receptacle broke their minds. They've never recovered.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 28, 2024 09:23 AM (1Z8zZ)

Rush PBUH traces the insanity of the Dems to when JFK got whacked. I think that was one incident among a few that were already happening. Mainly, the cultural rot that Yuri Bezmenov warned about 40 years ago.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 28, 2024 09:24 AM (x0n13)

294 Don't know if this has been mentioned but winds were out of the SE at 10 mph when the ship hit the bridge.

That complicates things a bit.

Posted by: pawn at March 28, 2024 09:24 AM (QB+5g)

295 Panicked Dems Want Sotomayor, 69, to Retire Before Trump, 77, Wins Presidency

Posted by: SMOD at March 28, 2024 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

296 111 Gryph. If Trump can lose to fraud do you believe any other Republican candidate can’t?

Posted by: Anna at March 28, 2024 09:25 AM (FnSbk)

297 289.

Consolidation is probably part of the equation as well. I'm going on what my ex-father-in-law told me though, and he's a retired head-end supervisor for my hometown's local (and relatively small) cable company.

I asked him once how he felt about cord cutting and his answer shocked me.

"There's no money in cable television anymore. If everyone cut the cord and went to streaming, I'd love it. Streaming requires internet access and in my business, that's where the real money is. All the money we get from cable bills goes right back into our costs for even carrying a channel in the first place."

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 09:26 AM (aCVzN)

298 >>Watching the sunrise at Valley of the Gods, sun hitting the ramparts at Monument valley 20 miles away by air, with a cup of coffee and a smoke. Gotta love it.

Sounds lovely!
I remember watching the sunrise at Grand Canyon. . . gorgeous part of the country!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 09:26 AM (6IDWi)

299 The people constantly claiming they have the ideas and leadership to return the GOP to power--NeverTrump, et al.-- will spill more ink and blink more pixels over the firing of Ronna than any other issues combined (except Trump hate).

Just like they did over the Williamson firing from Atlantic.

They care most by what they post:
Hating Trump (and his voters)
Getting jobs among their leftist friends.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 28, 2024 09:26 AM (yikga)

300 >>There is a YT channel called What's Going On With Shipping, that has a slow motion view of the ship.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 28, 2024 09:23 AM (lTGtQ)

Also a "bridge-cam" on the ship's bridge that shows the captain in slow motion:

"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK..."

Posted by: ZOD at March 28, 2024 09:27 AM (5HQE5)

301 295 Panicked Dems Want Sotomayor, 69, to Retire Before Trump, 77, Wins Presidency
Posted by: SMOD at March 28, 2024 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

Here's an idea.

Every president gets one and only one SCOTUS pick.

If you're already up to nine, the fucker with the longest tenure gets the boot. Under nine? Welcome to the party. Nobody gets booted.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 28, 2024 09:27 AM (VoAdT)

302 Why Biden's loss of Black Voters is a disaster for the Democrats.

1. Most of the important Black vote is fraud by white Democrats. By important I mean votes that swing states: Atlanta, Philly, Detroit, Milwaukee. Having Blacks vote against a Democrat means They Actually Voted, and their pretend vote is subtracted from the fraud potential. Pretty easy to demonstrate election fraud if the vote total is more than 100% of the people in a district.
2. In 2020 nobody in the critical swing cities complained that their vote for Trump wasn't counted. This time around they know they aren't alone, and a zero vote for Trump from those cities will get noise made.

3.In 2020 the Black vote claimed from the big 4 swing cities was 100% for Biden, while in the rest of the country Trump got 9% of the black vote. If Trump actually gets 10% of the Black vote in those 4 cities Biden simply can't win.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at March 28, 2024 09:28 AM (CecP5)

303 296.

You're putting words into my mouth Anna. I never said that, nor did I ever even so much as imply that. I have made my peace with Trump as the presumptive nominee, and all of my commentary and opinion spouting proceeds from that assumption.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 09:28 AM (aCVzN)

304 Clinton/Lewinsky broke them. They had to argue that a powerful man using a young woman who worked for him as a sperm receptacle broke their minds. They've never recovered.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

It wasn't a beejer beejer.
-- Hideously ugly (inside and out) show host

Posted by: Tonypete at March 28, 2024 09:28 AM (XASq/)

305 I hope Kyle Rittenhouse has one hell of a security team. The lefty that offs that kid will be given parades.

Posted by: JROD at March 28, 2024 09:28 AM (IlL6s)

306 Mark Hemingway
@Heminator

Just so we're clear here, Democrats, who are campaigning against Trump based on dubious charges of sexual assault they engineered, are still inviting *Bill Clinton* to headline big ticket events long after his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has been well established.

Michael Tackett
@tackettdc
1h
"A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said"

Posted by: redridinghood at March 28, 2024 09:29 AM (NpAcC)

307 Boker Tov Patriots

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 28, 2024 09:29 AM (PQ4m2)

308 305.

What kind of idjit lefty would try to off a guy notorious for defending himself with lethal force? I'd love to see someone try!

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 09:29 AM (aCVzN)

309 >>Here's an idea.

Every president gets one and only one SCOTUS pick.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 28, 2024 09:27 AM (VoAdT)

Every SCOTUS member gets one and only one poison dart.

Posted by: ZOD at March 28, 2024 09:29 AM (5HQE5)

310 Michael Tackett
@tackettdc
1h
"A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said"
Posted by: redridinghood at March 28, 2024 09:29 AM (NpAcC)

10 percent for the Big Guy.

The Bigger Guys keep the other 90.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 28, 2024 09:30 AM (VoAdT)

311 I'm beginning to believe that the Democrats will not allow Trump to take office if he wins. Some national emergency yadda yadda. Fascism.

Posted by: Bawney Wubble at March 28, 2024 09:30 AM (5A+43)

312 There is a YT channel called What's Going On With Shipping, that has a slow motion view of the ship. It shows the ship drifting to the starboard towards the abutment and then as the engine starts up again, it begins to move to port, but it was far too late to avoid hitting.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 28, 2024 09:23 AM (lTGtQ)

Here's that video. https://tinyurl.com/adf9zxw6

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 28, 2024 09:30 AM (iODuv)

313 "A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said"
Posted by: redridinghood at March 28, 2024 09:29 AM (NpAcC)

And Lizzo is gonna be a part of it .. A BIG part

Posted by: It's me donna at March 28, 2024 09:30 AM (Akjoo)

314 There is a YT channel called What's Going On With Shipping, that has a slow motion view of the ship. It shows the ship drifting to the starboard towards the abutment and then as the engine starts up again, it begins to move to port, but it was far too late to avoid hitting.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 28, 2024 09:23 AM

Even with a full power emergency reverse that ship wasn't going to stop within a half mile when it was doing 7 knots.

We had to do an emergency reverse when we were doing workups after a yard period on the Midway. From full speed to reverse took time and once the props were all engaged the ship shook so much I thought my fillings were going to come out.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 28, 2024 09:31 AM (QNSds)

315
Don't know if this has been mentioned but winds were out of the SE at 10 mph when the ship hit the bridge.

That complicates things a bit.

Posted by: pawn at March 28, 2024 09:24 AM

Which would tend to want to push the ship north away from the bridge support. In the videos I saw the bay/river was relatively calm.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 28, 2024 09:31 AM (RKVpM)

316 Agreeing to participate in a clinical trial hinges on the accuracy of the risk assessment and how it is presented to the participant. In practice, researchers tend to skew the presentation, emphasizing the purported benefits while downplaying the known (and unknown) risks.

Informed consent as practiced these days is a good example of "begging the question" (in its traditional usage).

Are the risks minimal? Why of course they are, because they are.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 28, 2024 09:31 AM (991eG)

317 223 Feminism was a lie from day one, from the first screed in 1789 through today. Friedan was a communist.

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 28, 2024 09:31 AM (JcnCJ)

318 Here's an idea.

Every president gets one and only one SCOTUS pick.

If you're already up to nine, the fucker with the longest tenure gets the boot. Under nine? Welcome to the party. Nobody gets booted.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 28, 2024 09:27 AM (VoAdT)

That's just term limits with extra steps.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 28, 2024 09:31 AM (fKIdX)

319 Art B up !

Posted by: JT at March 28, 2024 09:31 AM (T4tVD)

320 I remember when it came out that Bill Clinton had raped and sexually harrassed his way through DC and the feminist left's response was "I'd f*ck him to keep abortion legal"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2024 09:32 AM (ibTVg)

321 Agreeing to participate in a clinical trial hinges on the accuracy of the risk assessment and how it is presented to the participant. In practice, researchers tend to skew the presentation, emphasizing the purported benefits while downplaying the known (and unknown) risks.

Informed consent as practiced these days is a good example of "begging the question" (in its traditional usage).

Are the risks minimal? Why of course they are, because they are.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 28, 2024 09:31 AM (991eG)

Worst limerick ever

Posted by: Doof at March 28, 2024 09:32 AM (JunzL)

322 The CNN asshat Chris Wallace has Larry David on, who pronounces Trump a worse sociopath than Stalin.

What a crazed country we live in.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at March 28, 2024 09:32 AM (KRxpN)

323 Feminism was a lie from day one, from the first screed in 1789 through today. Friedan was a communist.

We have a long history of self reported happiness metrics. Women's happiness has cratered since the rise of second wave feminism.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2024 09:33 AM (ibTVg)

324 That's just term limits with extra steps.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 28, 2024 09:31 AM (fKIdX)

Basically, but a "term" of 36 (= 9*4) years isn't exactly a "limit".

So the whole thing is really just a stupid exercise in futility born of insufficient caffeination.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 28, 2024 09:33 AM (VoAdT)

325 REVENGE IS BEST SERVED COLD: Reading your piece today, I am struck by the thought RFK Jr. chose who he chose for VP to punish the Democratic Party for not allowing him to participate in its primary and provide Secret Service protection. He could have opted for someone who might have had more appeal to Republicans, but now he will be drawing votes away from the democrats.

Posted by: Mutnodjmet at March 28, 2024 09:33 AM (MIlLy)

326 316.

You're kind of missing my point, Muldoon.

Risks are. There are degrees of risk both mathematical and in magnitude. If I have an accurate picture of such risk, and I *might* benefit from an experimental procedure or drug, how come someone else -- ANYONE else -- gets to decide if that risk is acceptable for me?

And why do I even have to ask that question anymore considering how badly our federal government fucked up the Tuskeegee Study and CoViD response?!

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 09:34 AM (aCVzN)

327 In practice, researchers tend to skew the presentation, emphasizing the purported benefits while downplaying the known (and unknown) risks.

If you go to a used car dealer and ask him if you need a used car what answer are you likely to get?

You should assume the same bias is built in any time you ask someone that will personally benefit if a product or service is good for you

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2024 09:34 AM (ibTVg)

328 >>@Heminator

Just so we're clear here, Democrats, who are campaigning against Trump based on dubious charges of sexual assault they engineered, are still inviting *Bill Clinton* to headline big ticket events long after his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has been well established.

Hey, let's not forget the recent "drowning" of Obama's WH pastry chef while paddleboarding on (near) Obama's Martha's Vineyard estate - and he was naked when found (iirc?) and it's unclear who was with him (Obama?) and who called 911.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 09:34 AM (6IDWi)

329 Ronna was a turncoat from the get go, no idea why Trump kept her because it was obvious she was a Deep State proponent
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Consider:
Trump, as a potential candidate (as her reelection was before he announced officially IIRC) vs. Trump, the nominee.

I kinda think that plays into the timing of his endorsement and then his removal of her.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 28, 2024 09:34 AM (yikga)

330 One example: recall how Dr. Nancy Snyderman was a given a weekday one hour health/healthcare-related morning show that lasted exactly from the introduction of the Obamacare legislation through it's passage in the Senate.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 09:23 AM (6IDWi)
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The Ebola lady!

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at March 28, 2024 09:35 AM (KRxpN)

331 Question and answer on the Dali collision. Yeah, it's 50 minutes, but worth a watch.

https://tinyurl.com/c2jhndwk

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 28, 2024 09:36 AM (iODuv)

332 If I was Trump, at the first debate with Biden (assuming there is one), I'd ask him to release the Epstein client list. Of course...he won't. I'm not sure if Biden is on it but Clinton and a bunch of leftist heavy hitters are

Why? Every time the FNM talks about "Sexy Rape" Carroll I'd just ask "Why won't Biden release the list"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2024 09:37 AM (ibTVg)

333 "In the centuries following the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 A.D. and the Eastern in 1453, brought about by the Huns and Turks, respectively" - Lars Møller

Forget it; he's rolling.

Posted by: Boon at March 28, 2024 09:37 AM (hSwza)

334 The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashin'

Posted by: Gordon Lightfoot at March 28, 2024 09:38 AM (dg+HA)

335 >>Panicked Dems Want Sotomayor, 69, to Retire Before Trump, 77, Wins Presidency

Thank RBG for that one, huh?
But what's worse is how they pushed Breyer out - they leaked he was retiring, and it seemed he had not yet made that decision, let alone was ready to discuss it publicly.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 09:38 AM (6IDWi)

336 @308 Gryph-youre joking right? So he takes his AR slung over his shoulders wherever he goes to defend himself? Or is it a CCW and he's a mighty pistolero?

Posted by: JROD at March 28, 2024 09:41 AM (IlL6s)

337 Nood art

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2024 09:41 AM (ibTVg)

338 336

Not what I said, not what I meant. I'm sure he has armed security. I do think it seems a lot less hypocritical for someone who actually believes in the right to self-defense to have such security. But seriously, doesn't it just seem *dumb* to you that someone would try to take him out given his history? Doesn't that just seem *funny* to you? Or is it just me?

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 09:43 AM (aCVzN)

339
Now the word is the ship was carrying hazardous cargo.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 28, 2024 09:51 AM (RKVpM)

340 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

CNN Business, early this morning, 'NBC’s Ronna McDaniel disaster is dragging Comcast into the political firestorm'

Back in Dec. 2017, Variety reported, 'Senator Asks DOJ to Take Another Look at Comcast-NBCUniversal Merger' It began, "Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said that he has asked that the Justice Department to investigate the Comcast-NBCUniversal merger and whether it will pose a threat to consumers after conditions to the transaction expire in September, 2018." Dec. 2018, The NY Post reported, under Politics Exclusive, 'Justice Department backs off Comcast-NBCUniversal merger probe' (The latter is a fascinating article, imo, giving some context to mergers of giants & anti-competitive behavior.)

Comcast stinks & it may very well be that FCC has let it run amok, my opinion as a consumer. Won't listen, doesn't care, has ^ broadcast TV & regional sports 'fees' but remains quite popular as a franchise throughout the region. Government. Bah Humbug. On all levels.

BTW, NYPost, "On the campaign trail, Trump said President Barack Obama’s DOJ never should have cleared the Comcast-NBC merger."

Speaking of O..

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at March 28, 2024 09:54 AM (GshMh)

341 Today!! NBC News: Barack Obama and Bill Clinton to raise $25 million with Biden amid concerns about his age.

Bits, pieces: "The rare and highly anticipated gathering of three Democratic presidents will raise over $25 million, according to a release by the Biden campaign, which is characterizing it as the most successful political fundraiser in American history."

"Some of the biggest donors will have the opportunity to have their pictures taken with the three Democratic presidents, shot by famed portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz. The cheapest tickets have sold for $250, with the largest contributions coming from people who gave $250,000 and $500,000."

"Beyond the in-person component, other donors will have access to a “grassroots virtual conversation” with the three presidents that will be moderated by Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez. That access costs as little as $25, according to the online invitation."

The first lady will also hold a “500 person VIP after party” after the event, which will be co-hosted by DJ D-Nice, whose profile rose during the coronavirus pandemic after he held virtual “Club Quarantine” events on Instagram live.

Tax $ at work, baby.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at March 28, 2024 09:54 AM (GshMh)

342

Biden is Senile
It's Hunter's Coke
The Southern border is wide open
Inflation is real
Global Warming is not
Trump won

Posted by: In this House We Believe at March 28, 2024 09:55 AM (aD39U)

343 342.

Uh huh. Sure, Trumpoid. When Biden cheats his way into office again and they march you off to the Great American Gulag for being a Trump voter, you can console yourself with your hollow moral victories.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 10:00 AM (aCVzN)

344 Delta IV Heavy is a beautiful bird.

End of an era. We've had Deltas most of my life. It's older than the woman I'm sleeping with, and it's Thor first stage was the never-ending film clip of "Our rockets always blow up." Back in the days before pre-flight checklists. Light 'er up, see if she goes.

Lots of unlikely contractors involved in the Thor and Jupiter era of "our space program" (intermediate range ballistic missiles). We were in a hurry to explore space! And deter the Soviets...

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 28, 2024 10:03 AM (zdLoL)

345 "Whatever Trump's calculus in backing her as RNC chair was in the first place.."

What was the vote again? At least you got the dig in.

Posted by: DOYLE at March 28, 2024 10:13 AM (Z8Yh2)

346 @338 Gryph-WTF does his history have to do with someone trying to take him out? How is his "history" a deterrent if he has no gun or good security? People do dumb shit like commit pre meditated murder every day. It's immoral and against the law, of course its "dumb".

Yeah, its just you.

Posted by: JROD at March 28, 2024 11:33 AM (IlL6s)

347 343 342.
Uh huh. Sure, Trumpoid.

Posted by: Gryph at March 28, 2024 10:00 AM

after trumpoid, all I read was blah, blah blah .....

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Posted by: grazed at March 28, 2024 03:50 PM (Yir+0)

349 A-Mess-NBC The Lying Peacock News the typical socialist Fake News

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