Mid-Morning Art Thread [Kris]

It Has Come To Pass
Sergei Lukin

There is very little information about Lukin on the internet, not even an entry on Wikipedia. He was born in Ukraine in 1923 and was a member of the Soviet Artists’ Union — as was any artist that wanted a career. The Artists’ Union placed strict controls on art produced in the Soviet Union until its dissolution in the 1990s. According to the Union, art had to be productive, depict everyday events and regular people, support and champion the communist state and its socialist policies, and be easy to understand by the average person. Modernist styles were rejected in favor of traditionalist realism, and the subject matter had to be positive or heroic. This type of art is heavily propagandistic and called Socialist Realism.

In It Has Come to Pass, Bolshevik soldiers enter the imperial throne room in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia during the Russian Revolution of 1917. I like how the artist composed this piece. The red banner and white wall meet in the background at the vertical center of the painting. On one side is the empty throne with the imperial crest. To me, the throne seems diminished. During the imperial era, it was glorious and revered. It symbolized the authority and absolute power of the czar. Here, the throne is a shadow of itself. It blends into the background. The vivid red is washed out and the paint Lukin used looks runny, and the gold is dull. This once-majestic throne is now more drab than the heavy brown coat the soldier wears.

The soldier on the right is the focus of the painting. Notice how he is closer to the center line than the throne. If he was standing straight up instead of leaning slightly back, he would be in the exact center of the work. Also notice how the man’s head is at the same level as the top of the throne. He is equal, maybe superior. Lukin took the majesty out of the throne. Now it is only a chair. All the power is in the soldier and what he represents. Finally, look at the column behind the soldier. The soldier leans directly in front of the column so that its fluting – the vertical ridges that give it its signature look – look like rays of light shining onto his face. It’s cartoonish but effective. Heaven’s light blesses his cause.

In It Has Come to Pass, the glorious Russian Revolution has succeeded. The tyrannical czar is deposed, and the heroic soldier stands in the imperial throne room. He looks up and smiles. There’s relief and ecstasy in his face. He takes it all in — savoring the moment.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Attempted first

Posted by: Doof at June 12, 2024 09:30 AM (RhGG0)

3 He killed the king?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Is that a Mosin?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 12, 2024 09:31 AM (4wq+Z)

5 Fkin Bolshevik

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2024 09:31 AM (4SbJl)

6 In It Has Come to Pass, the glorious Russian Revolution has succeeded. The tyrannical czar is deposed, and the heroic soldier stands in the imperial throne room. He looks up and smiles. There’s relief and ecstasy in his face. He takes it all in — savoring the moment.
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And then Russia spends the next 80 years or so turning into the hellbeast that was the Soviet Union...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2024 09:31 AM (7fElN)

7 The Czar and family get murdered later

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2024 09:32 AM (4SbJl)

8 gazilions and brazilians - it's just numbers

Posted by: Ciampino - Wed Update #86 at June 12, 2024 09:32 AM (qfLjt)

9 According to the Union, art had to be productive, depict everyday events and regular people, support and champion the communist state and its socialist policies, and be easy to understand by the average person.

A second look at commie art unions?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

10 Nicholas II was not tyrannical. Just kind of a nitwit.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

11 And that's when the starvation really started.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 12, 2024 09:32 AM (GBKbO)

12 Hooray! We have murdered the Tsar and his family. Now we shall live in a glorious workers paradise where no one will be cold, or hungry, or afraid.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2024 09:32 AM (nR2nR)

13 He looks up and smiles. There’s relief and ecstasy in his face. He takes it all in — savoring the moment.
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Alternative interpretation - instead of smiling, he is grimacing, thinking "what have we done?"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 12, 2024 09:33 AM (fs1hN)

14 Kris brings us a Kommie Kartoon!

Posted by: Don't Seem Right at June 12, 2024 09:33 AM (V5BDR)

15 "Da. Is spider on ceiling."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2024 09:33 AM (J2vNu)

16 Nice rifle.

And painted in the proper manner withe the bayonet fixed.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 12, 2024 09:33 AM (a1415)

17 And a year later that soldier was denounced and executed in Lubyanka Prison. Would hang though ( the painting, not the soldier)

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2024 09:33 AM (FTjSO)

18 Sergei Lukin -- ancestor of gymnast Nastia Lukin? She's a cute one.

Posted by: Doof at June 12, 2024 09:33 AM (RhGG0)

19 Then he shit the Amber room.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 09:33 AM (ZdexC)

20 I like Soviet music better than Soviet painting or movies. More art, less propaganda.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 12, 2024 09:33 AM (RsDOc)

21 There’s relief and ecstasy in his face. He takes it all in — savoring the moment.

Just before the bullet smashes through the back of his skull.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 12, 2024 09:33 AM (Q0kLU)

22 12 No, the Tsar in his family weren't killed until the summer of 1918.

The Bolshie coup d'etat was in November of '17.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 09:34 AM (v6JzV)

23 Funny thing about thrones...

We tend to think about the throne itself as being larger than life and the men and women who occupy them to also be larger than life.

But when you see an actual throne, it's a bit underwhelming because it's just a fancy chair that's the same size as most chairs fitted for normal humans.

Surrounded by frippery, sure, but at the end of the day it's just a well-padded chair.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2024 09:34 AM (7fElN)

24 What's the red armband for?

Posted by: dantesed at June 12, 2024 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)

25 Sorry we're not here...gone to Yekatarinberg, be back Monday.

Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2024 09:34 AM (AwYPR)

26
Surrounded by frippery, sure, but at the end of the day it's just a well-padded chair.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2024 09:34 AM (7fElN)

Until it's a toilet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

27 I know I saw a deer behind the throne!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 09:35 AM (L/fGl)

28 And you guys were worried about what hell CBD was going to unleash.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

29 Is that a Mosin?
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Don't Nagant me!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 09:36 AM (ZdexC)

30 Found the sniper!

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at June 12, 2024 09:37 AM (JEAhW)

31 Surrounded by frippery, sure, but at the end of the day it's just a well-padded chair.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2024 09:34 AM (7fElN)

Sometimes, not even well-padded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 12, 2024 09:37 AM (nR2nR)

32 There's an older woman in the background on the right, partly obscured by an officer in dark uniform. A housekeeper, perhaps, being told by the commissar, "You are now free, woman. Glorious workers' paradise is now here."

To which she snaps: "And who will pay me so I can buy food? Tell me this, O Soldier of the Revolution."

So he draws his pistol and shoots her.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2024 09:37 AM (J2vNu)

33 10 Nicholas II was not tyrannical. Just kind of a nitwit.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

Yeah. I know, but the painting is from a Commie POV. To them, all non-Coms are tyrants.

Posted by: Kris at June 12, 2024 09:37 AM (EwaUh)

34 Gun thread!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 12, 2024 09:38 AM (a1415)

35 It has come to pass. Yes, asshole, you murdered hundreds of thousands of your fellow countrymen to exchange one dictator for a worse one. Congrats.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 12, 2024 09:38 AM (pohLc)

36 The lady in the background is about to have a very bad day.

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at June 12, 2024 09:38 AM (JEAhW)

37 And you guys were worried about what hell CBD was going to unleash.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)
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I dunno...Yesterday's art featured a man that could lurk in your bedroom and threaten you personally.

Today we have a victorious soldier in a throne room. A harbinger of the evil that will threaten the entire world...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 12, 2024 09:38 AM (7fElN)

38

His Boof just kicked in...

Posted by: Portland Peter at June 12, 2024 09:38 AM (d1Xvq)

39 There's a scatological breeze blowing through the comments this a.m.

Posted by: Ciampino - Wed Update #87 at June 12, 2024 09:38 AM (qfLjt)

40 Is that a Mosin?
Posted by: nurse ratched
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It did have a spike bayonet.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 12, 2024 09:38 AM (Dm8we)

41 This poor dumb bastard never seen something like this room and his life got no better from this.
Chances are many of his family died in the next few decades

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2024 09:38 AM (4SbJl)

42 24 What's the red armband for?
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So you can get back into the club without paying the cover charge again when you go out for some smokes.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 09:39 AM (ZdexC)

43 Ridding themselves of the Tsar didn't work out so well.. Sort of like The French revolution and the removal of the Shah in Iran....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2024 09:39 AM (Akjoo)

44 Nicholas II was not tyrannical. Just kind of a nitwit.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

Yeah. I know, but the painting is from a Commie POV. To them, all non-Coms are tyrants.
Posted by: Kris

Yeah, I figured that. Just wanted to set the record straight.

And don't get me started on Alexandra. Hot/crazy matrix on a Russian scale.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 09:39 AM (v6JzV)

45 Honestly I imagined the red soldier was marveling at the artwork on the ceiling.

"Lukin took the majesty out of the throne. Now it is only a chair."

And that's a pretty darned majestic chair if you ask me.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 12, 2024 09:39 AM (2xB3Z)

46
In It Has Come to Pass, the glorious Russian Revolution has succeeded

The vast majority of the killing caused by the Soviets, which far exceeded the whole history of the czars AND WWI combined would start soon after the Reds took Moscow (which I assume is what this painting captures)

Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2024 09:40 AM (ibTVg)

47 43 Ridding themselves of the Tsar didn't work out so well.. Sort of like The French revolution and the removal of the Shah in Iran....
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Or the 2020 election

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at June 12, 2024 09:40 AM (JEAhW)

48 And that's a pretty darned majestic chair if you ask me.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 12, 2024 09:39 AM (2xB3Z)
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Eh...Needs more dragon bones...

Posted by: King Prester John of Osten Ard at June 12, 2024 09:41 AM (7fElN)

49 Heaven’s light blesses his cause.

Would that be Atheist heaven?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * hanging out at the corner of Sanity and Madness at June 12, 2024 09:41 AM (+qILM)

50 Just to be clear: The Bolsheviks did not overthrow the Czar. They—led by V. Lenin, the guy the Germans shipped back into Russia to sabotage the Russian war effort—overthrew the sorta-social-democrat provisional government led by Alexander Kerensky, who had succeeded the Czar in the wake of the March 1917 revolution, but who continued fighting the Kaiser's armies until the Bolshies bounced him in October. (After that, of course, Russians spent several years murdering one another in a civil war as they continued their national pastime of operating a dystopia.) You could look it up.

Posted by: Axel Kassel at June 12, 2024 09:41 AM (fu730)

51 after the Reds took Moscow (which I assume is what this painting captures)
Posted by: 18-1

No, this would be set in St. Petersburg.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 09:41 AM (v6JzV)

52
In It Has Come to Pass, the glorious Russian Revolution has succeeded. The tyrannical czar is deposed, and the heroic soldier stands in the imperial throne room. He looks up and smiles. There’s relief and ecstasy in his face. He takes it all in — savoring the moment.

Little does he realize that he's helped bring into being a tyranny far worse than anything seen up to then. 80 years later, it would collapse, unmourned, leaving nothing but a ruined nation and people.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 12, 2024 09:41 AM (MoZTd)

53
Throne Out With the Trash

Said the Bolshevik, "So here's the thing-
We've seen Caesar, Alexander and Ming
But when it comes to ridiculous
There's none quite like Nicholas
What a Tsar-y excuse for a king!"

Posted by: Muldoon at June 12, 2024 09:41 AM (uCfKO)

54 It's a sailor in the dark uniform. They were staying nearby in the Potemkin Village.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 09:41 AM (ZdexC)

55 Honestly I imagined the red soldier was marveling at the artwork on the ceiling. . . .

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 12, 2024

***
Or maybe just the height of the ceiling. He might have had only low ceilings in his personal dwellings.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2024 09:41 AM (J2vNu)

56 Nicholas II was not tyrannical. Just kind of a nitwit.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Meh, he did strongly believe he had an obligation to preserve the autocracy he inherited.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 12, 2024 09:42 AM (Dm8we)

57 It's a sailor in the dark uniform. They were staying nearby in the Potemkin Village.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 09:41 AM (ZdexC)

He's resting after climbing those steps.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 12, 2024 09:43 AM (0eaVi)

58 Sort of like The French revolution

I often wonder how European history would have gone had the French not killed their king, say force him to abdicate in favor of his son and then set up a constitutional monarchy where the king has little power.

This likely does not trigger war with the whole rest of Europe and more moderate reform versus the horror of the French revolution...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2024 09:43 AM (ibTVg)

59 "Man! Lookit this place! It looks like a French wh*rehouse or an Italian Funeral Home. Yuck!"

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2024 09:43 AM (hbegC)

60 Caption:

"Where's all the bon-bona and petit fours?

I was told that all the Tsar and Tsarina did all day was sip vodka and eat bon-bons and petit fours.

And yeah, where's the vodka? What the hell?

I swear if one of you lackeys doesn't bring me some bon-bone right fucking now, I'm gonna start shooting right. Now."

Posted by: naturalfake at June 12, 2024 09:43 AM (eDfFs)

61 Meh, he did strongly believe he had an obligation to preserve the autocracy he inherited.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 12, 2024 09:42 AM (Dm8we)

aka...the family business.

Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2024 09:44 AM (AwYPR)

62 The penis is evil. The gun is good!

Posted by: Czar Doz at June 12, 2024 09:44 AM (ZdexC)

63 He's probably looking at Ivan hanging from the chandelier.

Posted by: dantesed at June 12, 2024 09:44 AM (Oy/m2)

64 Twenty Rubles. Same as in Vladivostok.

Posted by: Komrade! at June 12, 2024 09:44 AM (IAPxu)

65 Nick2 lost the thrown because he had no idea of how to make war. Nor did his Uncle whom he trusted to run said war.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 12, 2024 09:45 AM (pohLc)

66 A communist Utopia -- if you can keep it.
–Binyamin Fronklinsky

Posted by: red speck at June 12, 2024 09:45 AM (0Id0S)

67 @58 Yeah and maybe Napoleon wouldn't have desired creating a neo-Holy Roman Empire.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 12, 2024 09:45 AM (2xB3Z)

68 Alexander Kerensky, who had succeeded the Czar in the wake of the March 1917 revolution, but who continued fighting the Kaiser's armies until the Bolshies bounced him in October.

IIRC Kerensky argued that he and his government could not agree to the terms the Germans wanted as they were so severe.

Obviously in hindsight this was a terrible, terrible decision on the part of both Kerensky and the Germans

Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2024 09:45 AM (ibTVg)

69 Congratulations, Comrade! Here is your victory potato.

Just kidding, no potato for you. Now, off to gulag.

Posted by: PabloD at June 12, 2024 09:45 AM (wcpmT)

70 Yes, it is a Mosin-Nagant.

https://tinyurl.com/bd84u28s

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 09:45 AM (ZdexC)

71 Putting a copy of that painting in the Capitol would be Insurrectiony, right?

Posted by: Miklos will write his Congressman, and Wait at June 12, 2024 09:45 AM (wWqRd)

72 For what it is, Soviet propaganda, it is excellent. The diminished colors and size of the throne and the suggestion of age in the damaged appearance of the carpet and floor (water damage?) all point to a worn out era. The common soldier, handsome and virile of course, is in the center and is the new power. The actual painting technique is excellent. Even the Mosin-Nagant rifle is pretty accurately shown.

I have to fight my repugnance about the subject matter and context. Makes it difficult to just judge the actual painting. The artist is obviously very talented. What a shame he was controlled and constrained by the state.

Posted by: JTB at June 12, 2024 09:46 AM (zudum)

73 @56 if Nicholas II wife had her way this painting might never have come to pass . As noted by Bulg he was a nitwit , but his wife wanted him to shoot all of the revolutionaries. If so this soldier might not have been in that room

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2024 09:47 AM (FTjSO)

74 57
He's resting after climbing those steps.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 12, 2024 09:43 AM (0eaVi)
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Could be pining for the fjords ....

Posted by: Ciampino - Wed Update #88 at June 12, 2024 09:47 AM (qfLjt)

75 Frankly, the guy looks a little Tsar struck.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 12, 2024 09:47 AM (uCfKO)

76 Yeah and maybe Napoleon wouldn't have desired creating a neo-Holy Roman Empire.

It took a lot of lucky accidents for Nappy to come to power in France. I suspect any changes in the early revolution and Nappy is just some poorly remembered French officer...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2024 09:47 AM (ibTVg)

77 Better to show this on March 1, Earf Day, Nay 1 or November 7..

The people working on Star Hers, Doctor Who Cares, and so on do not understand how propaganda works the way Eisenstein did.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 12, 2024 09:47 AM (8sMut)

78 71 Putting a copy of that painting in the Capitol would be Insurrectiony, right?
Posted by: Miklos will write his Congressman, and Wait at June 12, 2024 09:45 AM (wWqRd)
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Only if he was clutching cable ties instead of a Mosin Nagant.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 12, 2024 09:47 AM (2xB3Z)

79 I built a Mannlicher style carbine from a Polish M44 nagant. It is a nice rifle.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 12, 2024 09:48 AM (pohLc)

80 Now that the people have seized power, things will be better!

Posted by: Naive Russian Soldier at June 12, 2024 09:48 AM (ycI94)

81 What has come to pass?

His gas.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 12, 2024 09:48 AM (Q4IgG)

82 Also notice how the man’s head is at the same level as the top of the throne. He is equal, maybe superior.

Thanks, Kris. This is the kind of detail that a rube like me wouldn't have noticed even if it subconsciously had the intended effect.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 12, 2024 09:48 AM (/y8xj)

83 @58 Yeah and maybe Napoleon wouldn't have desired creating a neo-Holy Roman Empire.
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I think the suggested timeline would have seen him remain an artillery officer.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 09:48 AM (ZdexC)

84 I built a Mannlicher style carbine from a Polish M44 nagant. It is a nice rifle.

Man lickers?

Posted by: An excited Pete Booyjizz at June 12, 2024 09:48 AM (ibTVg)

85 Congratulations, Comrade! Here is your victory potato.

Just kidding, no potato for you. Now, off to gulag.
Posted by: PabloD

I read that in a Nancy Pelosi voice.

Without $500 ice cream, neither.

Posted by: Miklos may write "The Death of the Republic" in Latin just so the College people can't read it at June 12, 2024 09:48 AM (wWqRd)

86 Art (and music) were tightly controlled in the USSR. Endless committees had to approve everything. This was rumored to be the reason the USA commissioned works by modern artists, as a sort of counter point to the USSR.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 12, 2024 09:48 AM (MeG8a)

87 This painting is better than both the Owebama and King Charles portraits.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

88 73 @56 if Nicholas II wife had her way this painting might never have come to pass . As noted by Bulg he was a nitwit , but his wife wanted him to shoot all of the revolutionaries. If so this soldier might not have been in that room
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2024 09:47 AM (FTjSO)

Nicholas the Twoth was the worst leader for Russia at the worst possible time.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 12, 2024 09:49 AM (8sMut)

89 A Mannlicher, you say?

Posted by: petey buttigieg at June 12, 2024 09:50 AM (ZdexC)

90 Would being removed from the throne before you were done be un-constitutional?

Posted by: Muldoon at June 12, 2024 09:50 AM (uCfKO)

91 A Mannlicher, you say?
Posted by: petey buttigieg at June 12, 2024 09:50 AM (ZdexC)

Come back to bed, lover. My rim has a job for you.

Posted by: Chasten Buttigieg at June 12, 2024 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)

92 Horde mind, Comrades!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 09:51 AM (ZdexC)

93 59 "Man! Lookit this place! It looks like a French wh*rehouse or an Italian Funeral Home. Yuck!"
Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2024 09:43 AM (hbegC)

“Come on up to the devil’s whorehouse…” - Misfits

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 12, 2024 09:51 AM (8sMut)

94 pre constitutional

Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2024 09:51 AM (AwYPR)

95 85 Congratulations, Comrade! Here is your victory potato.
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Imagine an alternate timeline where the Irish had also pefected making distilled liquor from potatos. *strokes beard*

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 12, 2024 09:52 AM (2xB3Z)

96
“Come on up to the devil’s whorehouse…” - Misfits
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 12, 2024 09:51 AM (8sMut)

The Biden mansion?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

97 Nicholas the Twoth was the worst leader for Russia at the worst possible time.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

They needed Ivan the Terrible II. They got Nick the Mediocre.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 09:52 AM (L/fGl)

98 Oh, yes. We're so grievously sad about what we have been brought to and forced to so to our motherland. Anyway, off to the looting.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 09:53 AM (XQ+xj)

99 91 A Mannlicher, you say?
Posted by: petey buttigieg at June 12, 2024 09:50 AM (ZdexC)

Come back to bed, lover. My rim has a job for you.
Posted by: Chasten Buttigieg at June 12, 2024 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)

You owe me breakfast. I just lost mine

Posted by: Taggart at June 12, 2024 09:53 AM (og5mY)

100 With Nagants, the bore typically ran from .310-.313". Hunting bullets in .310" are not so easy to get. But slugging the bore yielded a .313" bore, which means I can shoot bullets meant for the British .303, which are much easier to get.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 12, 2024 09:53 AM (pohLc)

101 -
Across this land I will roam
Until I came upon this gilded throne
With great need to expel my waste
I note that I must pay, with haste
Having money, now duly parted
I am sad, having only farted

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 12, 2024 09:53 AM (Q4IgG)

102 Frankly, the guy looks a little Tsar struck.
Posted by: Muldoon

A Revolutionary new Government Product!

Land, Peace, and Bread!

But wait! THERE"S MORE!

Posted by: Miklos thinks Ron Popeil would laugh at June 12, 2024 09:53 AM (wWqRd)

103 At first glance it looked like blood flowing down the steps. Maybe that signifies more about my mood than the painting.

Posted by: spypeach at June 12, 2024 09:53 AM (UuB/1)

104 They'll never see me behind this curtain and then I can get away!

Posted by: Grand Duchess Anastasia at June 12, 2024 09:53 AM (ZdexC)

105 Frankly, the guy looks a little Tsar struck.
Posted by: Muldoon

Once in a Borders (sigh...) I was perusing a new biography of Peter the Great. The first chapter was titled...wait for it..."A Tsar Is Born."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 09:54 AM (v6JzV)

106 I am sad, having only farted
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 12, 2024 09:53 AM (Q4IgG)

If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

Posted by: Mao Zedong (1893-1976) at June 12, 2024 09:54 AM (8sMut)

107 Kris,
Thanks for another great choice and analysis. You always bring out elements I don't consider or know to look for. Part of my enjoyment of the daily art thread, besides some gorgeous or, at least, interesting images is getting a chance to learn stuff.

Posted by: JTB at June 12, 2024 09:54 AM (zudum)

108 Hate speech! Everywhere you look, hate speech!

Pope Francis bluntly repeats gay slur he said last month: “There is an air of fa****ness in the Vatican”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 09:55 AM (L/fGl)

109 Wish I could say I like this painting. Somehow no matter how skilled the artist the subject matter makes it impossible to admire.

Posted by: Tuna at June 12, 2024 09:55 AM (oaGWv)

110 105 Frankly, the guy looks a little Tsar struck.
Posted by: Muldoon

Once in a Borders (sigh...) I was perusing a new biography of Peter the Great. The first chapter was titled...wait for it..."A Tsar Is Born."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 09:54 AM (v6JzV)
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He said the thing!!

Posted by: Producer Guy at June 12, 2024 09:55 AM (2xB3Z)

111 "At first glance it looked like blood flowing down the steps. Maybe that signifies more about my mood than the painting."

You are right. If that's not deliberate it should be.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 09:55 AM (XQ+xj)

112 There’s nothing to do in Moscow but eat, sleep and shit.

Posted by: Mao Zedong (1893-1976) at June 12, 2024 09:55 AM (8sMut)

113 It's a sailor in the dark uniform

*******

Ugh! That's one vulgar boatman!

Posted by: Muldoon at June 12, 2024 09:55 AM (uCfKO)

114 I once visited a Russian military cemetery in East Germany and I have to credit the Soviets for one thing; they do monumental statuary really well, the soldiers, workers, and peasants striding boldly toward the socialist future, eyes on the horizon, forty feet tall.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 12, 2024 09:56 AM (aD39U)

115 Pope Francis bluntly repeats gay slur he said last month: “There is an air of fa****ness in the Vatican”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 09:55 AM (L/fGl)

The Vatican has MiG-15s?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 12, 2024 09:57 AM (8sMut)

116 114 I once visited a Russian military cemetery in East Germany and I have to credit the Soviets for one thing; they do monumental statuary really well, the soldiers, workers, and peasants striding boldly toward the socialist future, eyes on the horizon, forty feet tall.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 12, 2024 09:56 AM (aD39U)

To me, a statue of the 3 stooges 40 feet tall would be less stupid.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 12, 2024 09:57 AM (pohLc)

117 "striding boldly toward the socialist future, eyes on the horizon, forty feet tall."

It's the starving that makes them grow so tall.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 09:57 AM (XQ+xj)

118 Where are the baby carriages?? They told me there would be baby-carriage races down the stairs.

Posted by: russian soldier at June 12, 2024 09:57 AM (ZdexC)

119 Is nothing sacred?

NATIONAL TRAGEDY: Joey Chestnut will not be in Nathan's hot dog eating contest cuz he's promoting vegan dogs

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 09:57 AM (L/fGl)

120 Just imagine how horrific life was for the average Russian starting with WWI, through the revolution, the war on the peasantry, the Holodomor and Gulag period, and then the capper...WWII.

Posted by: An excited Pete Booyjizz at June 12, 2024 09:57 AM (ibTVg)

121 They've shot the Czar. And all his family.

Oh, that's a savage deed. What's it for?

It's to show there's no going back.

Would Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 12, 2024 09:57 AM (XRpj3)

122 114 I once visited a Russian military cemetery in East Germany and I have to credit the Soviets for one thing; they do monumental statuary really well, the soldiers, workers, and peasants striding boldly toward the socialist future, eyes on the horizon, forty feet tall.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 12, 2024 09:56 AM (aD39U)

At the Soviet War Memorial/Museum in East Berlin?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 12, 2024 09:57 AM (8sMut)

123 Fun Fact: I chose this work because I wrote about Repin's portrait of Nicholas II a while back. This reminded me of that and now I consider them companion essays.

Posted by: Kris at June 12, 2024 09:57 AM (EwaUh)

124 Some of my comments make more sense if you say them out loud in your head...quietly...to yourself.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 12, 2024 09:57 AM (uCfKO)

125 Nicholas the Twoth was the worst leader for Russia at the worst possible time.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Plenty of parallels 'tween them and us currently.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2024 09:58 AM (hbegC)

126 Nicholas the Twoth was the worst leader for Russia at the worst possible time.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

They needed Ivan the Terrible II. They got Nick the Mediocre.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Everyone blames the Kaiser for WWI, but Nicholas really kicked the whole thing off by declaring war on Austrria-Hungary for no damn reason other than the idiotic Pan-Slavist ideology.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 09:58 AM (v6JzV)

127 Pope Francis bluntly repeats gay slur he said last month: “There is an air of fa****ness in the Vatican”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 09:55 AM (L/fGl)

As he flies the queer flag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

128 Having money, now duly parted
I am sad, having only farted
Posted by: Martini Farmer

You must be new here

Posted by: Ozymandias at June 12, 2024 09:58 AM (wWqRd)

129 NATIONAL TRAGEDY: Joey Chestnut will not be in Nathan's hot dog eating contest cuz he's promoting vegan dogs
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 09:57 AM (L/fGl)

He cashed out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 09:59 AM (Zz0t1)

130 They've shot the Czar. And all his family.

As an interesting contrast the French revolutionaries killed the King and Queen but did not murder their children...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2024 09:59 AM (ibTVg)

131 Ace called the pæd0 pedwalks sin flags.

I also like:

Buggery banners

Sodomy standards

Posted by: logprof at June 12, 2024 09:59 AM (1zlQN)

132 Pope Francis bluntly repeats gay slur he said last month: “There is an air of fa****ness in the Vatican”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

Who smelt it, dealt it.

Posted by: Brother Miklos at June 12, 2024 09:59 AM (wWqRd)

133 "As he flies the queer flag."
It's all the naked statues. The priests try to avert their eyes, but can't help peeking once in a while.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 09:59 AM (XQ+xj)

134 Pope Francis bluntly repeats gay slur he said last month: “There is an air of fa****ness in the Vatican”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Please tell me he used the Italian 'fanook' somewhere in his statement.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2024 10:00 AM (hbegC)

135 Commi-Committee approved. Would not hang.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at June 12, 2024 10:00 AM (tA1/w)

136 At the Soviet War Memorial/Museum in East Berlin?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 12, 2024 09:57 AM (8sMut)

Somewhere near there for sure. I was in West Berlin in the very early 70's and it was short bus ride from there.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 12, 2024 10:00 AM (aD39U)

137 I built a Mannlicher style carbine from a Polish M44 nagant. It is a nice rifle.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 12, 2024 09:48 AM (pohLc)

It's a beautiful style.

I was lucky enough to find an original Mannlicher Schoenauer 1908 with the set triggers. Great condition! 8x56MS, which makes it expensive to shoot without reloading, but still....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 12, 2024 10:00 AM (d9fT1)

138 101
I am sad, having only farted

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 12, 2024 09:53 AM (Q4IgG)
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Nice.
Our schoolboy version, the Scotsman's Lament, went:
Here I sit, brokenhearted;
Spent a penny and only farted.

Posted by: Ciampino - I said we were trending scatological at June 12, 2024 10:00 AM (qfLjt)

139 Pope Francis bluntly repeats gay slur he said last month: “There is an air of fa****ness in the Vatican”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 09:55 AM (L/fGl)

It's Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve.

The Pope just needs to tell all them sodomites to get out and start they own "church".

Let the door knob hit ya where the God Lord has split ya...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 12, 2024 10:01 AM (XRpj3)

140

Please tell me he used the Italian 'fanook' somewhere in his statement.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2024 10:00 AM (hbegC)

Ahem.....

Fanook is a derogatory term used to describe a non-Jewish person, while finook is a slang term for a homosexual man. It is important to be aware of the connotations and implications of the words we use, as they can have a significant impact on how we communicate and relate to others.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

141 Commi-Committee approved. Would not hang./i]

Unlike zee Kulaks.

HA!

I kill me. Well...actually I kill capitalist pig dogs but you know what I mean da?

Posted by: The central committee at June 12, 2024 10:01 AM (ibTVg)

142 114 I once visited a Russian military cemetery in East Germany and I have to credit the Soviets for one thing; they do monumental statuary really well, the soldiers, workers, and peasants striding boldly toward the socialist future, eyes on the horizon, forty feet tall.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 12, 2024 09:56 AM (aD39U)

Did it well because it was meant to oppress.

Same reason Nazi architecture was done well. It was part of the program to emphasize that the individual was nothing, dwarfed by the majesty and might of the state.

Congratulations to the Soviets and Nazis on being skilled rapists, I guess.

Posted by: Can you tell I'm holding a grudge? at June 12, 2024 10:01 AM (zuna6)

143

Posted by: The central committee at June 12, 2024 10:01 AM (ibTVg)

144 104 They'll never see me behind this curtain and then I can get away!
Posted by: Grand Duchess Anastasia at June 12, 2024 09:53 AM (ZdexC)

Great plan!

Posted by: James Comey at June 12, 2024 10:01 AM (DTX3h)

145 Where are the baby carriages?? They told me there would be baby-carriage races down the stairs.

That was in the 1905 Revolution. In Odessa.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:01 AM (v6JzV)

146 116

To me, a statue of the 3 stooges 40 feet tall would be less stupid.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 12, 2024 09:57 AM (pohLc)
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Coincidentally, my dad likes to refer to this scultpure at the local college "the three stooges", https://tinyurl.com/ehddbuxm

Posted by: Producer Guy at June 12, 2024 10:01 AM (2xB3Z)

147 Some of my comments make more sense if you say them out loud in your head...quietly...to yourself.
Posted by: Muldoon

I say them in my head.

But it's so loud in there

Posted by: Miklos? Hello? What is your mother's goat curry recipe? at June 12, 2024 10:02 AM (wWqRd)

148 114 I once visited a Russian military cemetery in East Germany and I have to credit the Soviets for one thing; they do monumental statuary really well, the soldiers, workers, and peasants striding boldly toward the socialist future, eyes on the horizon, forty feet tall.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 12, 2024 09:56 AM (aD39U)

The Leninist vision was that of human greatness through extreme hardship and grit. Can't force everyone to be the New Soviet Man.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 12, 2024 10:02 AM (eYoxG)

149 Make no mistake:

Churchill and Grey had a hate-on for Germany and set up all the dominoes.

We were not with the good guys in the Great War.

Posted by: logprof at June 12, 2024 10:02 AM (1zlQN)

150 ...it was short bus ride from there.
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"Short-bus ride" or "short bus-ride"??

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 10:02 AM (ZdexC)

151 I was lucky enough to find an original Mannlicher Schoenauer 1908 with the set triggers. Great condition! 8x56MS, which makes it expensive to shoot without reloading, but still....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 12, 2024 10:00 AM (d9fT1)

Beautiful rifle. And I do reload. In fact, I can't remember the last time I bought any factory ammo.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 12, 2024 10:02 AM (pohLc)

152 Dear Pope,

To avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife.

Sincerely, Paul

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 10:02 AM (XQ+xj)

153 Plenty of parallels 'tween them and us currently.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 12, 2024 09:58 AM (hbegC)

Inbreeding! I am convinced that the elites are getting dumber because they have very little genetic variation in their social circles.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 12, 2024 10:02 AM (d9fT1)

154 Same reason Nazi architecture was done well. It was part of the program to emphasize that the individual was nothing, dwarfed by the majesty and might of the state.

And along these line I submit...the Boston City Hall building.

Leave it to American leftists doing a better job at Soviet Brutalist architecture then even the Soviets could do

Posted by: The central committee at June 12, 2024 10:03 AM (ibTVg)

155 Inbreeding! I am convinced that the elites are getting dumber because they have very little genetic variation in their social circles.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 12, 2024 10:02 AM (d9fT1)

When your family tree has no branches.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

156 They'll never see me behind this curtain and then I can get away!
Posted by: Grand Duchess Anastasia at June 12, 2024 09:53 AM (ZdexC)

Great plan!
Posted by: James Comey

Didn't work for me.
-- Emperor Claudius

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:03 AM (v6JzV)

157 In fact, I can't remember the last time I bought any factory ammo.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 12, 2024 10:02 AM (pohLc)

I have the dies (they came with the rifle), but I am too lazy to start.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 12, 2024 10:03 AM (d9fT1)

158 What a Tsar-y excuse for a king!"
Posted by: Muldoon at June 12, 2024 09:41 AM (uCfKO)

Dude...
It's like.
Where? HOW do you do this?
It has to be a superpower.

Posted by: Reforger at June 12, 2024 10:04 AM (xcIvR)

159 To avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife.

Things do seem to be going better on this front in the Orthodox world...but not so much the Protestants...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2024 10:04 AM (ibTVg)

160 Joseph Stalin decides to visit a Soviet collectivist potato farm.

He greets a Soviet collectivist potato farm worker:
"Comrade! How goes the harvest?"

The Soviet collectivist potato farm worker answers:
“Comrade Stalin, we have so many potatoes that, piled one on top of each other, they would reach all the way to God.”

Stalin furrows his brow and replies “But there is no God.”

“Well, that's good," says the farmer. “Because there's no effin' potatoes, either!”

Posted by: It's a classic at June 12, 2024 10:04 AM (IAPxu)

161 When your family tree has no branches.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

you might be a Hapsburg.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 12, 2024 10:04 AM (aD39U)

162 That was in the 1905 Revolution. In Odessa.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

And those kids smelled Good, fat!

But the Turks killed Beau, or the Armenians, it was the Turkomenians

Posted by: Joe, the saviour of Odessa at June 12, 2024 10:04 AM (wWqRd)

163 Dude...
It's like.
Where? HOW do you do this?
It has to be a superpower.
Posted by: Reforger at June 12, 2024 10:04 AM (xcIvR)

He is a treasure to be appreciated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:04 AM (Zz0t1)

164 Apparently the "Nagant" part of Mosin-Nagant is incorrect. Mosin's rifle was chosen over Nagant's in the 1889 trials and Nagant's name being attached to the rifle in the west was the result of a patent lawsuit.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey at June 12, 2024 10:04 AM (TIizU)

165 "That was in the 1905 Revolution. In Odessa."

And those stairs are long, and grand.

Back in former life, we spent every August up in the Black Sea.

And I always liked Odessa.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 12, 2024 10:05 AM (a1415)

166 ... the guy looks a little Tsar struck.

*******

That might be too strong. Maybe he's just been throne for a loop...

Posted by: Muldoon at June 12, 2024 10:05 AM (uCfKO)

167 A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children is thrown out by a federal "Hawaiian" judge

-
While this ruling itself is an abomination, the language in the opinion is even worse.

'Some transgender opponents invoke religion to support their position, just as some once invoked religion to support their racism or misogyny,' Hinkle wrote in his 105-page decision. 'Transgender opponents are of course free to hold their beliefs. But they are not free to discriminate against transgender individuals just for being transgender.
'In time, discrimination against transgender individuals will diminish, just as racism and misogyny have diminished,' he continued. 'To paraphrase a civil-rights advocate from an earlier time, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 10:05 AM (L/fGl)

168 I have the dies (they came with the rifle), but I am too lazy to start.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 12, 2024 10:03 AM (d9fT1)

Both Natchez and Brownells are waving hazmat fees right now.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 12, 2024 10:05 AM (aD39U)

169
“Well, that's good," says the farmer. “Because there's no effin' potatoes, either!”
Posted by: It's a classic at June 12, 2024 10:04 AM (IAPxu)

The farmer is shot five minutes later.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 12, 2024 10:06 AM (8sMut)

170 That was in the 1905 Revolution. In Odessa.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Odessa, Texas was founded in 1881.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)

171 162 That was in the 1905 Revolution. In Odessa.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

And those kids smelled Good, fat!

But the Turks killed Beau, or the Armenians, it was the Turkomenians
Posted by: Joe, the saviour of Odessa at June 12, 2024 10:04 AM (wWqRd)
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That's a fat Jack!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at June 12, 2024 10:06 AM (2xB3Z)

172 When your family tree has no branches.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

you might be a Hapsburg.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

*strokes chin*

*has one*

[ ] Hapsburg

[X] Not Hapsburg

Posted by: Miklos von un zu Miklostein at June 12, 2024 10:06 AM (wWqRd)

173 ~~St. Petersburg~~ ~~Petrograd~~ ~~Leningrad~~ ~~Petersburg~~ St. Petersburg

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 10:06 AM (ZdexC)

174 I have the dies (they came with the rifle), but I am too lazy to start.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 12, 2024 10:03 AM (d9fT1)

You're almost there...all you need is a case trimmer, powder measure, priming tool, bullet press.....

Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2024 10:07 AM (AwYPR)

175 And I always liked Odessa.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 12, 2024 10:05 AM (a1415)

What about Midland?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 12, 2024 10:07 AM (8sMut)

176
Somewhere near there for sure. I was in West Berlin in the very early 70's and it was short bus ride from there.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 12, 2024 10:00 AM (aD39U)

You rode the short bus?

Posted by: naturalfake at June 12, 2024 10:07 AM (eDfFs)

177 A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children is thrown out by a federal "Hawaiian" judge

Our side is in a lot of ways making a mistake with how we are approaching this stuff.

There are already laws on the books for mutilating people. Start arresting "doctors" for either doing OR referring kids for this sort of surgery, and frankly, judges that attempt to ok it.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2024 10:07 AM (ibTVg)

178 'In time, discrimination against transgender individuals will diminish, just as racism and misogyny have diminished,' he continued. 'To paraphrase a civil-rights advocate from an earlier time, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 10:05 AM

Sick... We're talking about the mutilation of Children here... Over 18 ? Do what you want

Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2024 10:07 AM (Akjoo)

179 Hinkle wrote in his 105-page decision.

Uh......Seems you're a bit too full of yourself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

180 "Things do seem to be going better on this front in the Orthodox world...but not so much the Protestants..."

The protestants ignored another doctrine.

thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 10:07 AM (XQ+xj)

181 Nicholas the Twoth was the worst leader for Russia at the worst possible time.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

You can say that again. Weak, weak man. His love of family being his only redeeming feature.

Posted by: Tuna at June 12, 2024 10:07 AM (oaGWv)

182 Reason Mag quote:
"...all of the world's worst famines during the 20th century were in communist countries: China (twice!), the Soviet Union, and North Korea.

Communism is a killer. And yet some still say they support the idea: According to a 2011 Rasmussen poll, 11% of Americans think that communism would better serve this country's needs than our current system."

I fear it's significantly more than 11% today. Fools.

Posted by: Dan at June 12, 2024 10:08 AM (3Zhyn)

183 181 Nicholas the Twoth was the worst leader for Russia at the worst possible time.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

You can say that again. Weak, weak man. His love of family being his only redeeming feature.
Posted by: Tuna at June 12, 2024 10:07 AM (oaGWv)

Takes a hard man to rule Russia, moreso than a good one.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 12, 2024 10:09 AM (eYoxG)

184 Communism is a killer. And yet some still say they support the idea: According to a 2011 Rasmussen poll, 11% of Americans think that communism would better serve this country's needs than our current system."

"Its because they didn't do it right."

- - - - John "F" Kerry

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

185 @167
He obviously had that high school level writing essay completed long before the Florida law was passed. Hopefully it gets overturned on appeal, because he just spent his load.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at June 12, 2024 10:09 AM (2xB3Z)

186 "...all of the world's worst famines during the 20th century were in communist countries: China (twice!), the Soviet Union, and North Korea.

I saw a statistic that there hasn't been a primarily natural famine since the 1800s. All the more modern ones were intentionally created, and in almost all the cases by socialist governments.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2024 10:10 AM (ibTVg)

187 Can't believe Reason is coming out against Communism. They're going to lose all their invites to cocktail parties

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 10:10 AM (XQ+xj)

188 178 'In time, discrimination against transgender individuals will diminish, just as racism and misogyny have diminished,' he continued. 'To paraphrase a civil-rights advocate from an earlier time, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 10:05 AM

Sick... We're talking about the mutilation of Children here... Over 18 ? Do what you want
Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2024 10:07 AM (Akjoo

10 years from now, they'll be writing opinions like this about "MAPs."

Posted by: Cause They're Perverts at June 12, 2024 10:10 AM (zuna6)

189 Thanks, Kris. Another wonderful interpretation of a painting, and a very good lesson in both art and history.

(There are many individuals named Sergei Lukin, both past and present, so maybe it's a surname similar to, for example, Smith or Jones. IDK)

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 12, 2024 10:11 AM (NFX2v)

190 Damn Jews just won't up and die!

WaPo: Iron Dome Defense Perpetuates Israel-Gaza Conflict

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 10:11 AM (L/fGl)

191 If you hang around the Book thread you might know as of these last some years I have been reading lots of Russian history, starting out in the Napoleonic era now well into reading the Russian Revolution and beyond.

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2024 10:11 AM (4SbJl)

192 Reason Mag quote:
"...all of the world's worst famines during the 20th century were in communist countries: China (twice!), the Soviet Union, and North Korea.

Meanwhile some non-trivial numbers of the idiots at Reason will vote for Bai-den over muh buttsechs

Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2024 10:11 AM (ibTVg)

193 186 "...all of the world's worst famines during the 20th century were in communist countries: China (twice!), the Soviet Union, and North Korea.

I saw a statistic that there hasn't been a primarily natural famine since the 1800s. All the more modern ones were intentionally created, and in almost all the cases by socialist governments.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2024 10:10 AM (ibTVg)

There also would've been famines created incidentally by war during that time period(not natural but not exactly intended either).

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 12, 2024 10:11 AM (eYoxG)

194 Takes a hard man to rule Russia, moreso than a good one.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Yep. Peter the Great had his own son tortured to death.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:11 AM (v6JzV)

195 @126 the interlocking alliances put in place by decrepit regimes dragged everyone in. The Russians were allied with the Serbs (pan slavs as you note), the Germans with the Austrians etc etc

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2024 10:12 AM (FTjSO)

196 Socialism. Even the Germans couldn't make it work.

Posted by: And they really, really tried at June 12, 2024 10:12 AM (dg+HA)

197
10 years from now, they'll be writing opinions like this about "MAPs."

And the GOPe will be arguing leftists are the real transphobes

Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2024 10:12 AM (ibTVg)

198 Famines?

Farming is easy.

Posted by: Mike Bloomberg at June 12, 2024 10:12 AM (zuna6)

199 172 When your family tree has no branches.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

you might be a Hapsburg.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

*strokes chin*

*has one*

[ ] Hapsburg

[X] Not Hapsburg
Posted by: Miklos von un zu Miklostein at June 12, 2024 10:06 AM (wWqRd)
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*sigh* OK, this has gone on long enough. It's HABSBURG, not Hapsburg.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at June 12, 2024 10:12 AM (2xB3Z)

200 177 Our side is in a lot of ways making a mistake with how we are approaching this stuff.

There are already laws on the books for mutilating people. Start arresting "doctors" for either doing OR referring kids for this sort of surgery, and frankly, judges that attempt to ok it.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2024 10:07 AM (ibTVg)

Keep making the same mistake of thinking just the law is enough, rather than actually seizing, using, and projecting real power and force.

You have to be willing to cause harm to your enemies.

Posted by: XTC at June 12, 2024 10:12 AM (UnA8+)

201 WaPo: Iron Dome Defense Perpetuates Israel-Gaza Conflict
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45!

I would say "The stupid. It burns" but that statement is damn evil.

Posted by: Tuna at June 12, 2024 10:13 AM (oaGWv)

202 "Meanwhile some non-trivial numbers of the idiots at Reason will vote for Bai-den over muh buttsechs"

They can continue losing and keep their 3%.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 10:13 AM (XQ+xj)

203 What about Midland?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Future headquarters of the EPA

Department of Energy goes to Alaska

Posted by: President Miklos J. Trump at June 12, 2024 10:13 AM (wWqRd)

204 194 Takes a hard man to rule Russia, moreso than a good one.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Yep. Peter the Great had his own son tortured to death.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:11 AM (v6JzV)

His childhood saw a power struggle with his half-sister for the throne.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 12, 2024 10:14 AM (eYoxG)

205 (There are many individuals named Sergei Lukin, both past and present, so maybe it's a surname similar to, for example, Smith or Jones. IDK)
Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too

It's from the Russian form of Luke, "Luka,"

So, equivalent to our surname "Lucas."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:14 AM (v6JzV)

206 It's come to pass. Let the killing begin.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at June 12, 2024 10:14 AM (ZtgZZ)

207 @205 Only if he lives on the second floor.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at June 12, 2024 10:14 AM (2xB3Z)

208 "Peter the Great had his own son tortured to death."

Current events indicate this may not always be a bad idea ?

Posted by: Next2Nothing at June 12, 2024 10:14 AM (tA1/w)

209 196 Socialism. Even the Germans couldn't make it work.
Posted by: And they really, really tried

National Socialists are actually conservative Republicans. The parties flipped!

Posted by: Socialist Apologist at June 12, 2024 10:15 AM (ycI94)

210 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Great art and explanation today. Thanxs!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 12, 2024 10:15 AM (W/lyH)

211 French singer, 60s pop culture icon Françoise Hardy dies at 80
French singer Francoise Hardy, whose crystalline voice and melancholy lyrics shot her to international stardom in the 1960s, has died at the age of 80, according to her son.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 10:15 AM (ZdexC)

212 There would be much upside to being Tsar, however the downside would be heavy enough for me to refuse the office.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 12, 2024 10:15 AM (pohLc)

213 *sigh* OK, this has gone on long enough. It's HABSBURG, not Hapsburg.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

Don't go stirring people of on the blog over incorrect "p's". It's like firing on Fort Sumpter.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:15 AM (v6JzV)

214 201 WaPo: Iron Dome Defense Perpetuates Israel-Gaza Conflict
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45!

I would say "The stupid. It burns" but that statement is damn evil.
Posted by: Tuna at June 12, 2024 10:13 AM (oaGWv)

Hebrew intransigence about getting in the ovens delays peace!

Posted by: Why is an institution as wise as the Washington Post bleeding money? at June 12, 2024 10:16 AM (zuna6)

215 RIP Jerry West , helluva player

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2024 10:16 AM (FTjSO)

216 202 "Meanwhile some non-trivial numbers of the idiots at Reason will vote for Bai-den over muh buttsechs"

They can continue losing and keep their 3%.
Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 10:13 AM (XQ+xj)

=======

It's really just 1%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 12, 2024 10:16 AM (GBKbO)

217 209 196 Socialism. Even the Germans couldn't make it work.
Posted by: And they really, really tried

National Socialists are actually conservative Republicans. The parties flipped!
Posted by: Socialist Apologist at June 12, 2024 10:15 AM (ycI94)

*does some calculations*

So conservative Republicans are really communists?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 12, 2024 10:16 AM (eYoxG)

218 Meanwhile, at NYP, "Aliens might be living among us disguised as humans — or in a base inside the moon, according to new Harvard study."

Posted by: gp's Mere Expressions Of Indecency at June 12, 2024 10:16 AM (MvF+J)

219 Supposably.

Posted by: Ross from Friends at June 12, 2024 10:16 AM (dg+HA)

220 Don't go stirring people of on the blog over incorrect "p's". It's like firing on Fort Sumpter.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Supposibly, some people find it REALLY triggering.

Posted by: Pet Peeve activated at June 12, 2024 10:17 AM (ycI94)

221 194 Takes a hard man to rule Russia, moreso than a good one.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Yep. Peter the Great had his own son tortured to death.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:11 AM (v6JzV)

Father. Of. The. Century.

Posted by: XTC at June 12, 2024 10:17 AM (UnA8+)

222 There is freedom at the tip of a bayonet:

https://tinyurl.com/59wrb3ec

Posted by: scottst at June 12, 2024 10:17 AM (qcvs8)

223
WaPo: Iron Dome Defense Perpetuates Israel-Gaza Conflict
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45!

This is pretty great. It's the ne plus ultra of Libtardism:

Basically- "If they didn't defend themselves, we could end this horrible war!!!!"

Well-done, jackoffs.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 12, 2024 10:18 AM (eDfFs)

224 sigh* OK, this has gone on long enough. It's HABSBURG, not Hapsburg.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert

In Austrian pronunciation, it sounds more like a "p" than a "b".

Posted by: Occasionally pedantic Miklos at June 12, 2024 10:18 AM (wWqRd)

225 More like the Haplessburgs.

Got schooler by . . . Russia.

Considered a viable going concern only because the Ottomans made them looking vigorous by comparison.

Posted by: Germany Sure Can Pick 'Em When It Comes to Allies at June 12, 2024 10:18 AM (zuna6)

226 In 1976, I visited Leningrad (as St Petersburg was known in those days), and stood in that same throne room in the Hermitage. As I was leaving the room, I saw a Russian enter - a stocky man, probably of peasant descent - and as he entered the throne room, he took off his hat. This was 60 years after the revolution: old habits die hard, it seems.

Posted by: Nemo at June 12, 2024 10:18 AM (S6ArX)

227 the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.'

********

I think what he meant to say is that this universe has no morality, and neither the universe nor morality follow an arc, but if they did, it would bend toward sin and chaos.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 12, 2024 10:18 AM (uCfKO)

228 Yep. Peter the Great had his own son tortured to death.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

And Ivan the Terrible killed his son as portrayed by Ilya Repin

https://tinyurl.com/2r58sr65

Posted by: Tuna at June 12, 2024 10:18 AM (oaGWv)

229 His childhood saw a power struggle with his half-sister for the throne.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Yep. The Regent Sofia. But even her punishment was only confinement in a convent.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:18 AM (v6JzV)

230 "It's really just 1%."

Yeah, but they like to feel important in their principled failure.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 10:18 AM (XQ+xj)

231 *does some calculations*

So conservative Republicans are really communists?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Only when the Communist government fails...which is always, inevitably.

Posted by: Communist Apologist at June 12, 2024 10:18 AM (ycI94)

232 212 There would be much upside to being Tsar, however the downside would be heavy enough for me to refuse the office.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 12, 2024 10:15 AM (pohLc)

Can one truly be a Hard Enough Man for The Horde if one is not a Hard Enough Man to rule Russia?

Posted by: XTC at June 12, 2024 10:18 AM (UnA8+)

233 RIP Jerry West , helluva player
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2024 10:16 AM (FTjSO)

Is the actual logo for the NBA.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

234 Basically- "If they didn't defend themselves, we could end this horrible war!!!!"

I would call this the "Ike Turner Defense".

Posted by: Procedurally minded Miklos at June 12, 2024 10:19 AM (wWqRd)

235 Supposably.
Posted by: Ross from Friends at June 12, 2024 10:16 AM (dg+HA)

I thought that was Chandler

Posted by: ... at June 12, 2024 10:19 AM (BSL0A)

236 Posted by: Ross from Friends at June 12, 2024 10:16 AM (dg+HA)

I thought that was Chandler
Posted by: ... at June 12, 2024 10:19 AM (BSL0A)

Meh. Pick an idiot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)

237 Kris, what a lovely interpretation of this painting. The only thing I can think to add is the solider, by leaning back slightly, shows effort exhausted from the battle won, catches his breath for a moment, before he inevitably leaves the now empty past to press on with creating the glorious socialist future. Depicted is a supreme moment of Soviet atheistic sainthood.

Knowing everything that followed from the Soviet revolution I find it impossible to not view this as also capturing unintentional irony.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at June 12, 2024 10:20 AM (7Os14)

238 It's not Habsburg or Hapsburg , it's chinless mfs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2024 10:20 AM (FTjSO)

239 and as he entered the throne room, he took off his hat. This was 60 years after the revolution: old habits die hard, it seems.

Posted by: Nemo at June 12, 2024 10:18 AM (S6ArX)

Your mama never told you not to wear a hat in the house?...see Bear Bryant.

Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2024 10:20 AM (AwYPR)

240 I saw Arc Of The Moral Universe open for Oingo Boingo at the Parthenon in Year Zero.

Gave me real hope for the future...

...until reality mugged me in the parking lot after the show.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 12, 2024 10:20 AM (uCfKO)

241 A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children is thrown out by a federal "Hawaiian" judge

DeSantis should tell that guy to piss up a rope, and quite frankly, that kind of response should happen more often. SCOTUS needs to step in a reign these clowns in. Otherwise invoke the 10th and tell SCOTUS to FOAD.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at June 12, 2024 10:20 AM (DIB8X)

242 "America Needs More Judges Like This" (3 mins)
https://tinyurl.com/bdd95w8k

Posted by: gp's Mere Expressions Of Indecency at June 12, 2024 10:20 AM (MvF+J)

243 If you'd stop fighting, we could both get laid.

Posted by: Washington Post Channeling Its Inner Rapist at June 12, 2024 10:21 AM (zuna6)

244 Smelly cat.

Posted by: Phoebe at June 12, 2024 10:21 AM (dg+HA)

245
Your mama never told you not to wear a hat in the house?...see Bear Bryant.
Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2024 10:20 AM (AwYPR)

Cowgirls are bowlegged cuz cowboys eat with their hats on.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

246 The Regent Sofia. But even her punishment was only confinement in a convent.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I...I could go for that

That Zoot....suits

Posted by: Crown Prince Miklos cedes all claims at June 12, 2024 10:21 AM (wWqRd)

247 And Ivan the Terrible killed his son as portrayed by Ilya Repin

https://tinyurl.com/2r58sr65
Posted by: Tuna

That's a great painting. The look of utter horror on Ivan's face.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:21 AM (v6JzV)

248 Ivan killed his Son for attacking Ivan who incidentally had just assaulted his pregnant DIL for not being dressesd properly. Ivan would spend hours in prayer, then go and do the Devil's work.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 12, 2024 10:21 AM (pohLc)

249 Prager U has an ad running asking you to sign their petition: :Should transgender athletes be allowed to compete in women's sports?". Well, if that "transgender" is a WOMAN, yes. The question is - should MEN be allowed to compete....". After 25+ years of listening to these talking heads on the right it eventually sinks in that they're part of the problem not the solution and why we seem to just keep sinking lower.

Posted by: Son of Dad at June 12, 2024 10:22 AM (8JB5s)

250 This is my brother Ivan and my other brother Ivan.

Posted by: Larry at June 12, 2024 10:22 AM (dg+HA)

251 That's a great painting. The look of utter horror on Ivan's face.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I love Repin's work.

Posted by: Tuna at June 12, 2024 10:23 AM (oaGWv)

252 Bends toward justice. From a godless commie fuck that's hilarious.

Posted by: ... at June 12, 2024 10:23 AM (BSL0A)

253 I love Repin's work.
Posted by: Tuna

So do I.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:23 AM (v6JzV)

254 Kris, what a lovely interpretation of this painting. The only thing I can think to add is the solider, by leaning back slightly, shows effort exhausted from the battle won, catches his breath for a moment, before he inevitably leaves the now empty past to press on with creating the glorious socialist future. Depicted is a supreme moment of Soviet atheistic sainthood.

Knowing everything that followed from the Soviet revolution I find it impossible to not view this as also capturing unintentional irony.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

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Alternatively, he just realized he forgot to pick up a gallon of milk while he was out running errands

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 12, 2024 10:23 AM (g4wZs)

255 "Otherwise invoke the 10th and tell SCOTUS to FOAD."

Governmenr had no right to tell people what drugs they can take or give to children is one hell of a take. If that's the argument, let's do it.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 10:24 AM (XQ+xj)

256 the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.'

********

I think what he meant to say is that this universe has no morality, and neither the universe nor morality follow an arc, but if they did, it would bend toward sin and chaos.
Posted by: Muldoon

There was a whole book about that. Maybe Punahau Private Academy couldn't afford a copy.

Posted by: Miklos read "Lord of the Flies", never wanted to live it at June 12, 2024 10:25 AM (wWqRd)

257 "America Needs More Judges Like This" (3 mins)
https://tinyurl.com/bdd95w8k
Posted by: gp's Mere Expressions Of Indecency at June 12, 2024 10:20 AM (MvF+J)

So, what days is he supposed to come in?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

258 Cowgirls are bowlegged cuz cowboys eat with their hats on.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

Ohhh....I get it!

Posted by: BignJames at June 12, 2024 10:25 AM (AwYPR)

259 Czar Beats Tina To Death
Czar dies 21 years before Tina Turner is born.

Posted by: Petrograd Post at June 12, 2024 10:26 AM (ZdexC)

260 Pure homophobia!

New "Gayest Ever" Stars Wars "Acolyte" Gets Crushed With Lowest Audience Score Of All Time

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 10:26 AM (L/fGl)

261 Kris, what a lovely interpretation of this painting. The only thing I can think to add is the solider, by leaning back slightly, shows effort exhausted from the battle won, catches his breath for a moment, before he inevitably leaves the now empty past to press on with creating the glorious socialist future. Depicted is a supreme moment of Soviet atheistic sainthood.

Knowing everything that followed from the Soviet revolution I find it impossible to not view this as also capturing unintentional irony.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

It's also interesting that the czar who was eventually murdered by these "saints" was later made a saint himself.

Posted by: Kris at June 12, 2024 10:26 AM (EwaUh)

262 Re : Fathers killing their own sons

I kind of hate that my mind is so screwed up that the idea of sons having to fight their fathers to the death to prove their right (or the father's right, for that matter) to exist almost seems "Well, why SHOULDN'T that happen?" :/

Posted by: XTC at June 12, 2024 10:28 AM (UnA8+)

263 Heaven’s light blesses his cause.
_______
At the time and place depicted, that statement would get you shot.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 12, 2024 10:28 AM (1bNHn)

264 BREAKING: National eating champion Joey Chestnut will miss the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Competition in New York for the first time in more than 15 years because he violated his agreement with the Frankfurter company by signing up to represent a company that makes vegan hot dogs.

Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2024 10:29 AM (RHGPo)

265 Czar Beats Tina To Death
Czar dies 21 years before Tina Turner is born.
Posted by: Petrograd Post

Headless crime found in topless bar!

Posted by: Miklos likes good headlines at June 12, 2024 10:29 AM (wWqRd)

266 Anyone who thinks it's weird or strange they keep pushing the gay and other Marxist bs in fiction despite it constantly failing needs to rethink a few things.

Kathleen Kennedy still has her job because she is doing it well. No one is trying to get rid of her. Just like Joe and Kamala.

Posted by: ... at June 12, 2024 10:29 AM (BSL0A)

267 260 Pure homophobia!

New "Gayest Ever" Stars Wars "Acolyte" Gets Crushed With Lowest Audience Score Of All Time
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 10:26 AM (L/fGl)

In Pride Month?!?

Why, it's almost like trying to replace your existing audience with fags and fag hags is a numerically losing proposition.

Posted by: Danged Homosapiens! at June 12, 2024 10:29 AM (zuna6)

268 Cowgirls are bowlegged cuz cowboys eat with their hats on.
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Why is the Urban Cowboy's mustache all brown and scuzzy??

Because he's looking for love in all the wrong places.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 10:30 AM (ZdexC)

269
Kathleen Kennedy still has her job because she is doing it well. No one is trying to get rid of her. Just like Joe and Kamala.
Posted by: ... at June 12, 2024 10:29 AM (BSL0A)

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

270
He takes it all in — savoring the moment.

And then the murders started.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2024 10:30 AM (63Dwl)

271 260 Pure homophobia!

New "Gayest Ever" Stars Wars "Acolyte" Gets Crushed With Lowest Audience Score Of All Time
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 10:26 AM (L/fGl)

=========

I get the RSS feed for Dark Horizons, a movie news site, and they prefaced their little story about the reaction to episode three by calling criticism of bad dialogue "nitpicking".

I'm sure it's going to convince people on the fence that all the criticisms are just invalid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 12, 2024 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

272 87 This painting is better than both the Owebama and King Charles portraits.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

A typical Sunday paper comic strip is better than either of those. And I'm talking mid-tier comic like Cathy, not a really good one like Calvin and Hobbes or Peanuts.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 12, 2024 10:30 AM (4XREA)

273 The Artists’ Union placed strict controls on art produced in the Soviet Union until its dissolution in the 1990s. According to the Union, art had to be productive, depict everyday events and regular people, support and champion the communist state and its socialist policies, and be easy to understand by the average person. Modernist styles were rejected in favor of traditionalist realism, and the subject matter had to be positive or heroic. This type of art is heavily propagandistic and called Socialist Realism.

Socialist Realism Realizing that Other Peoples Money and Over-regulating industry ends up with undrivable cars, over policing, and hyper-unflation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 12, 2024 10:30 AM (ENQN6)

274 "sons having to fight their fathers to the death to prove their right to exist almost seems Well, why SHOULDN'T that happen?"

A father should be wise enough to know that mortality is a fact of life and his sons contain his legacy that he has every incentive to perpetuate.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 10:31 AM (XQ+xj)

275 Is that a Mosin?
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 12, 2024 09:31 AM (4wq+Z)

sure looks like it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2024 10:31 AM (qNM55)

276 He takes it all in — savoring the moment.

And then the murders started.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Somewhere in the distance, a dog barks...

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2024 10:31 AM (BBFla)

277 253 I love Repin's work.
Posted by: Tuna

So do I.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I always get a chuckle out of this one:

https://tinyurl.com/p7nscr6b

The different looks on all the faces..priceless.

Posted by: Tuna at June 12, 2024 10:31 AM (oaGWv)

278 Comedian Bill Burr, however, did not appear to explain what exactly a white liberal would need to do in order to tackle “white supremacy” in the United States after he made the reference to Nazis.

Burr did, however, go on to warn his audience against people who label themselves “empaths,” which can also be referred to as someone who virtue signals.

“If you run into a white person who says they’re an empath, run the other way,” Burr said, explaining that white, self-proclaimed empaths are the type of people who “like making other peoples’ suffering about [themselves].”

Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2024 10:31 AM (RHGPo)

279 @260

>>New "Gayest Ever" Stars Wars "Acolyte" Gets Crushed With Lowest Audience Score Of All Time

As has been noted, telling compelling, rich and entertaining stories is no longer the point of any of this.

Which is why 10 and 20 year old television shows are dominating the ratings.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 12, 2024 10:31 AM (XV/Pl)

280 The murder of the czar and his family was such a surprise to the czar that he said "what?what?" just as the bullets started to fly. Oddly enough the only survivor, briefly was the tsarivich a hemophiliac who died when a Bolshevik put a bullet in his head as the boy lay on the ground gasping for air. Nice people those Bolshies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2024 10:31 AM (FTjSO)

281 People today don't understand the rivalry of the "Cold War". Music, entertainment. The Soviets insisted their orchestras and symphonies were superior. They did have good composers, but they weren't Soviet? Maybe. I kind of like Borodin and Prokofiev.

But all the "liberals" in the U.S.A. still adhered to "The West Is the Best" philosophy, generally. A relative was a card carrying leftist professor back in the 50s and 60s. She did go to Moscow, maybe in the 70s. English professor.

She did have some weird ideas for the 70s. The "UniSex" craze was an early iteration of the ... uh ... "fashion trends" we're seeing now.

One would think basic things like being able to provide food, or not, would be a sticking point in any free market versus command and control economy, but the experts always figure they have a better way.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 12, 2024 10:31 AM (3xPvb)

282 274 A father should be wise enough to know that mortality is a fact of life and his sons contain his legacy that he has every incentive to perpetuate.
Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 10:31 AM (XQ+xj)

But what about "Weak Men bring Hard Times"?

Shouldn't everything be orientated towards making sure there are NO Weak Men to bring those Hard Times?

Posted by: XTC at June 12, 2024 10:32 AM (UnA8+)

283 Update: “Queers for Palestine” Somehow No Longer The Most Insane Leftist Group

While groups like “Queers for Palestine” have been ruthlessly mocked over the years, another pro-Palestine LGBT group decided to step up the crazy one step further. In one video of the event, members of a group calling themselves “F*gs 4 Hamas” apparently now exists.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

284 And I'm talking mid-tier comic like Cathy, not a really good one like Calvin and Hobbes or Peanuts.
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ACK!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 10:32 AM (ZdexC)

285 Boston City Hall. I.M. Pi, only architect whose name I know, just so I can despise it.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 12, 2024 10:32 AM (4780s)

286 -------
Why is the Urban Cowboy's mustache all brown and scuzzy??

Because he's looking for love in all the wrong places.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 10:30 AM (ZdexC)

Got a meme sent to me yesterday. Hot blonde sitting with a frown on her face resting her chin on her fist. "He was eating me from behind and his nose touched my anus. I squeezed my butt and said "got your nose!" I haven't seen him since."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

287 In It Has Come to Pass, the glorious Russian Revolution has succeeded. The tyrannical czar is deposed, and the heroic soldier stands in the imperial throne room. He looks up and smiles.

He realizes he loves Big Brother.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 12, 2024 10:32 AM (ENQN6)

288 266 Anyone who thinks it's weird or strange they keep pushing the gay and other Marxist bs in fiction despite it constantly failing needs to rethink a few things.

Kathleen Kennedy still has her job because she is doing it well. No one is trying to get rid of her. Just like Joe and Kamala.
Posted by: ... at June 12, 2024 10:29 AM (BSL0A

Like the news orgs that don't fail despite losing millions. They're an investment in propaganda. They don't have to profit cause that's not the goal.

You do wonder if that can go on indefinitely though.

Posted by: Maybe they'll go the way of the Soviet dodo eventually at June 12, 2024 10:32 AM (zuna6)

289 "So, what days is he supposed to come in?"

He doesn't care. He has no intention of complying,

Posted by: gp's Mere Expressions Of Indecency at June 12, 2024 10:32 AM (MvF+J)

290 They put the 'ass' in Hamas!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 10:33 AM (ZdexC)

291
I'm sure it's going to convince people on the fence that all the criticisms are just invalid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 12, 2024 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

It's the new leftist mantra: "YOU'RE TOO STUPID TO KNOW HOW GOOD THINGS ARE!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

292 If TFG listens to his advisors, he won't debate. He would be lost on that stage with just Biden, the moderator, no teleprompter and a mic that can be turned off. His advisors will tell him if he doesn't debate, he deprives Biden of an opportunity to show millions of Americans that he is competent to serve a second term. I hope TFG follows his ego like normal.

I want this debate to happen, bigly. It will shatter so many illusions that it will sound like a sonic boom.

a refusal to debate should be disqualifying. Biden should go on the offense and propose several debates over the campaign.

I’d like to see them do a couple long-format podcasts..go for at least a couple hours. Much more informative than the overly controlled and managed crap we’ve been subjected to for decades. Biden shines in debates. He should play to that strength.

People made the same claims in 2016 and 2020 - that he wouldn't debate...and he did. He loves a stage, and there's no reason for him not to. The assertion that his performance, however poor, would be viewed as a negative by his base is wishful thinking.

Posted by: Communist Apologist at June 12, 2024 10:33 AM (ycI94)

293 Is that a Mosin?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Nope, just happy to see you

Posted by: Leon Nagant at June 12, 2024 10:33 AM (wWqRd)

294 278 Comedian Bill Burr, however, did not appear to explain what exactly a white liberal would need to do in order to tackle “white supremacy” in the United States after he made the reference to Nazis.

Burr did, however, go on to warn his audience against people who label themselves “empaths,” which can also be referred to as someone who virtue signals.

“If you run into a white person who says they’re an empath, run the other way,” Burr said, explaining that white, self-proclaimed empaths are the type of people who “like making other peoples’ suffering about [themselves].”
Posted by: SMOD at June 12, 2024 10:31 AM (RHGPo)

Man, that Bill Burr, always speaking truth to power. I mean, what bravery to go after...affluent, white, liberal women.

Though I'll admit, for a guy that's been neutered by his wife, he's managing to make a quite the career out of crushing low-hanging fruit.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 12, 2024 10:34 AM (KbCG3)

295 This painting is better than both the Owebama and King Charles portraits.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

Headline today: "King Charles III portrait vandalized with 'Wallace and Gromit' cartoon"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:34 AM (v6JzV)

296 291 It's the new leftist mantra: "YOU'RE TOO STUPID TO KNOW HOW GOOD THINGS ARE!!!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

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More along the lines of, "Sure, it kinda sucks, but you're still a bigot for not liking it."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 12, 2024 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

297 "Shouldn't everything be orientated towards making sure there are NO Weak Men to bring those Hard Times?"

You seem to be arguing tyranny and violence are strength. I believe principle and moral right are strength.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 10:34 AM (XQ+xj)

298 BREAKING: National eating champion Joey Chestnut will miss the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Competition in New York for the first time in more than 15 years because he violated his agreement with the Frankfurter company by signing up to represent a company that makes vegan hot dogs.
Posted by: SMOD

WTF is a vegan hotdog? A tube of bean paste?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2024 10:34 AM (BBFla)

299 Supposably.
Posted by: Ross from Friends at June 12, 2024

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Hey! That's my thing!

Posted by: Joey from Friends at June 12, 2024 10:34 AM (J2vNu)

300 A typical Sunday paper comic strip is better than either of those. And I'm talking mid-tier comic like Cathy, not a really good one like Calvin and Hobbes or Peanuts.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 12, 2024 10:30 AM (4XREA)

The Fusco Brothers?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)

301
More along the lines of, "Sure, it kinda sucks, but you're still a bigot for not liking it."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 12, 2024 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

"AND YOU'RE STUPID!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

302 292 a refusal to debate should be disqualifying. Biden should go on the offense and propose several debates over the campaign.

Posted by: Communist Apologist at June 12, 2024 10:33 AM (ycI94)

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Biden's team canceled the third debate of 2020 and refused to reschedule.

By DU's own standards, Biden is disqualified.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 12, 2024 10:35 AM (GBKbO)

303 So now DU posters are referring to Trump as "TFG," like we used to refer to Obama?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:35 AM (v6JzV)

304 @298

>>WTF is a vegan hotdog? A tube of bean paste?

Pretty much, with lots of sugar, salt and soy bean oil added.

Vegan is a substitute word for fake and gay.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 12, 2024 10:36 AM (XV/Pl)

305 I saw a statistic that there hasn't been a primarily natural famine since the 1800s. All the more modern ones were intentionally created, and in almost all the cases by socialist governments.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 12, 2024 10:10 AM (ibTVg)

Yup...remember all those water walking idiots in the 1980s who sang about the famine the savages in Ethiopia and other shitholes in Afrika enjoyed.

No one said a word about the marxist governments running those hell holes.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 12, 2024 10:36 AM (XRpj3)

306 I always get a chuckle out of this one:

https://tinyurl.com/p7nscr6b

The different looks on all the faces..priceless.

Posted by: Tuna at June 12, 2024 10:31 AM (oaGWv)

The little girl's eyes are haunting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

307 Which is why 10 and 20 year old television shows are dominating the ratings.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 12, 2024 10:31 AM (XV/Pl)

I'm enjoying the hell out of Kojak and Quincy these days.
70's and 80's TV shows are awesome.
Even the worst is better than anything made in modern times.

Posted by: Reforger at June 12, 2024 10:36 AM (xcIvR)

308 A typical Sunday paper comic strip is better than either of those. And I'm talking mid-tier comic like

Prince Valiant.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2024 10:37 AM (BBFla)

309 a refusal to debate should be disqualifying. Biden should go on the offense and propose several debates over the campaign.

Posted by: Communist Apologist at June 12, 2024 10:33 AM (ycI94)

I love comments like this. Armchair quarterbacks wondering why the team doesn't deploy the one strategy that will guarantee victory.

"Joe, debates are our strength. We should propose as many as possible."

"Nah. Playing to your strengths is what weak people do."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 12, 2024 10:37 AM (KbCG3)

310 "F*gs for Hamas."

Try that in Riyadh."

Posted by: Toldja at June 12, 2024 10:37 AM (dg+HA)

311 > Cowgirls are bowlegged cuz cowboys eat with their hats on.
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Ahhh.... lunch at the "Y."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 12, 2024 10:37 AM (Q4IgG)

312 WTF is a vegan hotdog? A tube of bean paste?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2024 10:34 AM (BBFla)

No trans fats, just trans.

Posted by: Vegan Cycling Cross-Fitters of the World Unite at June 12, 2024 10:37 AM (zuna6)

313 Which is why 10 and 20 year old television shows are dominating the ratings.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Gunsmoke and Bonanza FTW!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2024 10:37 AM (BBFla)

314 He takes it all in — savoring the moment.

And then the murders started.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
*
Somewhere in the distance, a dog barks...
Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2024

***
You creep along the catwalk of a rationale while the night shatters into a billion tinsel fragments. . . .

Posted by: Joey from Friends at June 12, 2024 10:37 AM (J2vNu)

315 I'm enjoying the hell out of Kojak and Quincy these days.
70's and 80's TV shows are awesome.
Even the worst is better than anything made in modern times.
Posted by: Reforger

Loved Quincy

Posted by: Tuna at June 12, 2024 10:39 AM (oaGWv)

316 ---------

Ahhh.... lunch at the "Y."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 12, 2024 10:37 AM (Q4IgG)

Daughter was around 4 years old. She went to the Y for swimming lessons, I think, back then. Wife asked one evening where I wanted to eat for dinner and I replied with "At the Y." Daughter looks up and says, "But daddy, they don't serve food at the Y!"

"A TRAVESTY!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

317 It was a dark and stormy Daniels

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2024 10:39 AM (FTjSO)

318 303 So now DU posters are referring to Trump as "TFG," like we used to refer to Obama?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Whoops! Forgot to change my name back! Actually, they've called Trump "TFG" for some time. Now, they call him "TSF" (That Shitty Fuck) because he poops his pants and wears a diaper. No, I'm 100% serious. I usually change it to "TFG" when posting here because no one outside of DU would understand TSF.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 12, 2024 10:40 AM (ycI94)

319
Gunsmoke and Bonanza FTW!
Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2024 10:37 AM (BBFla)

GRIT is one of the best channels on all of TV.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

320 Which is why 10 and 20 year old television shows are dominating the ratings.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 12, 2024 10:31 AM (XV/Pl)

I'm enjoying the hell out of Kojak and Quincy these days.
70's and 80's TV shows are awesome.
Even the worst is better than anything made in modern times.
Posted by: Reforger at June 12, 2024

***
Sixties stuff too like The Fugitive and Route 66. Not to mention The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible, and It Takes a Thief.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2024 10:40 AM (J2vNu)

321 If this soldier in the painting knew the hell he was helping to unleash on Mother Russia for the next 80 years he would have used his Mosin to kill as many officers and Party members as possible.

Communism, socialism, all come from the Devil.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at June 12, 2024 10:40 AM (icmmM)

322 We look back upon history and what do we see?

Empires rising and falling, revolutions and counterrevolutions, wealth accumulating and and then disbursed, one nation dominant and then another. Shakespeare speaks of the “rise and fall of great ones that ebb and flow with the moon.”
In one lifetime I have seen my own countrymen ruling over a quarter of the world, the great majority of them convinced, in the words of what is still a favorite song, that “God who’s made them mighty would make them mightier yet.”

I’ve heard a crazed, cracked Austrian proclaim to the world the establishment of a German Reich that would last for a thousand years; an Italian clown announce he would restart the calendar to begin with his own assumption of power; a murderous Georgian brigand in the Kremlin acclaimed by the intellectual elite of the western world as wiser than Solomon, more enlightened than Asoka, more humane than Marcus Aurelius.
1

Posted by: Ju at June 12, 2024 10:41 AM (aTmM/)

323 Gunsmoke and Bonanza FTW!
Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2024
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GRIT is one of the best channels on all of TV.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024

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It is. And MeTV has classic Westerns on Saturdays, and Heroes & Icons does too, early on weekday mornings.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2024 10:41 AM (J2vNu)

324 Is that a Mosin?
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 12, 2024 09:31 AM (4wq+Z)

Yep, M44 variant as oppossed to M91. I always liked shooting th M44's at dusk/dawn for the awesomely fun fireballs (a foot wide ball of fire sitting on the end on the barrel EVERYTIME!) .

Posted by: The Walking Dude at June 12, 2024 10:42 AM (cCxiu)

325 I want this debate to happen, bigly. It will shatter so many illusions that it will sound like a sonic boom.

a refusal to debate should be disqualifying. Biden should go on the offense and propose several debates over the campaign.

There's whistling past the graveyard and there's outright delusional. And then there's whatever this is.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 12, 2024 10:42 AM (/y8xj)

326 I’ve seen America wealthier and in terms of military weaponry more powerful than all the rest of the world put together, so that Americans, had they so wished, could have outdone an Alexander or a Julius Caesar in the range and scale of their conquests. All in one little lifetime. All gone with the wind.

England now part of an island off the coast of Europe and threatened with dismemberment and even bankruptcy. Hitler and Mussolini dead and remembered only in infamy. Stalin a forbidden name in the regime he helped to found and dominate for some three decades. America haunted by fears of running out of the precious fluid that keeps the motorways roaring and the smog settling, with troubled memories of a disastrous campaign in Vietnam and of the great victories of the Don Quixotes of the media when they charged the windmills of Watergate.

All in one lifetime, all in one lifetime, all gone. Gone with the wind.

—Malcom Muggeridge, “But Not of Christ" 2

Posted by: Ju at June 12, 2024 10:42 AM (aTmM/)

327 WTF is a vegan hotdog? A tube of bean paste?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2024 10:34 AM (BBFla)

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Bio-engineered mRNA soy cricket protein -- soon to be mandated as your daily staple, comrade!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 12, 2024 10:43 AM (h7VE6)

328 Are there any funny comedians?

A buddy of mind tried making me listen to Bill Burr and Jim Gaffigan. I don't think I could have been more stony faced if I was in a blast chiller.

"Hey how about that bacon. Everyone loves bacon, right. Who all loves bacon here? You ever notice that it's only white people who talk about bacon? Don't talk about it. Just eat it. We all know it's good. Just eat your bacon, and shut the fuck up."

I'm trying to find the high comedy in this kind of thing and I'm not seeing it.

Posted by: ... at June 12, 2024 10:43 AM (BSL0A)

329 Gunsmoke and Bonanza FTW!
Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2024

***
Have Gun -- Will Travel and The Rifleman have entered the chat. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2024 10:43 AM (J2vNu)

330 French singer, 60s pop culture icon Françoise Hardy dies at 80
French singer Francoise Hardy, whose crystalline voice and melancholy lyrics shot her to international stardom in the 1960s, has died at the age of 80, according to her son.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 10:15 AM (ZdexC)

I had a huge crush on Mirielle Mathieu back in the late 60's. What an amazing voice. A certain cuteness too. I was around 21 or so. *sigh*

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at June 12, 2024 10:43 AM (iODuv)

331 Hero of the Revolution:

Comrade Director Lean, Omar Sharif is still in his trailer. And, are you sure that a crane shot is good for this scene? I have some notes here from Rod Steiger.

Posted by: John Drake Atop The Kopet Dag Realizes It IS The Caspian Sea at June 12, 2024 10:44 AM (u/Zei)

332 Cancel Cable.
Starve them.
It's one way to fight back.
A good Antenna cost's less than one month of Cable.
Plus there are free streaming services.
Cable funds many opps.
ESPN and CNN being two.

Posted by: Reforger at June 12, 2024 10:44 AM (xcIvR)

333 325 There's whistling past the graveyard and there's outright delusional. And then there's whatever this is.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 12, 2024 10:42 AM (/y8xj)

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Their best case scenario is either Trump coming off as an asshole which will damage Trump so much that Democrats will have to cheat by mail for months and then shut down ballot counting across six states to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall or Trump is sedate and Biden is smug which will damage Trump so much that Democrats will have to cheat by mail for months and then shut down ballot counting across six states to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 12, 2024 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

334 Sorry that was my Bill Burr impression. I should have specified.

Posted by: ... at June 12, 2024 10:45 AM (BSL0A)

335 Are there any funny comedians?

Dave Chappelle has had a few comedy specials recently (Netflix?) that were okay. He took a little heat for it, too, because he made some jokes about trans ridiculousness.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 12, 2024 10:45 AM (ycI94)

336 334 Sorry that was my Bill Burr impression. I should have specified.
Posted by: ... at June 12, 2024 10:45 AM (BSL0A)

I thought it was an actual Gaffigan bit, except for the swearing.

Burr can be funny when he's ranting on things. His earlier stuff is hilarious.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 12, 2024 10:46 AM (KbCG3)

337 There's whistling past the graveyard and there's outright delusional. And then there's whatever this is.
Posted by: Oddbob

Whatever it is, I'd like a couple baggies of it.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at June 12, 2024 10:46 AM (ycI94)

338 Maybe cards aren't your thing, Joe. I know. Let's have a dpelling bee.

Posted by: Doc Trump at June 12, 2024 10:46 AM (XQ+xj)

339 A buddy of mind tried making me listen to Bill Burr and Jim Gaffigan. I don't think I could have been more stony faced if I was in a blast chiller.

Most comedians have maybe one or two tours in them, a great act or two, and then fade. I liked both of these guys early in their careers. But they've faded, in part no doubt because to be edgy these days you have to be willing to court the mob.

Posted by: I don't watch much comedy anymore, it committed suicide, or was murdered, maybe an assisted suicide at June 12, 2024 10:47 AM (zuna6)

340 Bill Burr's funniest act is when he plays the bagpipes.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:47 AM (v6JzV)

341 328 Are there any funny comedians?

A buddy of mind tried making me listen to Bill Burr and Jim Gaffigan. I don't think I could have been more stony faced if I was in a blast chiller.

"Hey how about that bacon. Everyone loves bacon, right. Who all loves bacon here? You ever notice that it's only white people who talk about bacon? Don't talk about it. Just eat it. We all know it's good. Just eat your bacon, and shut the fuck up."

I'm trying to find the high comedy in this kind of thing and I'm not seeing it.
Posted by: ...
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It takes an outsider absurdist viewpoint to make comedy. Hivemind is required nowadays by showbiz. Thus, no outsider absurdists can be comedians because they are not of the hivemind.

Same reason that Musk had to eliminate public likes because hivemind advocates were using that to cause real life damage to people and their careers for liking wrongthink.

Posted by: whig at June 12, 2024 10:47 AM (/0X3E)

342 All in one lifetime, all in one lifetime, all gone. Gone with the wind.
—Malcom Muggeridge, “But Not of Christ" 2
Posted by: Ju at June 12, 2024 10:42 AM (aTmM/)

Lawzy, we got to have a doctor. I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies.

Posted by: Prissy at June 12, 2024 10:47 AM (XRpj3)

343 I fail again.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 10:47 AM (XQ+xj)

344
It's the new leftist mantra: "YOU'RE TOO STUPID TO KNOW HOW GOOD THINGS ARE!!!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

New FBI stats show 'historic' declines in violent crime rate, with murder showing sharpest drop

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2024 10:47 AM (63Dwl)

345 In It Has Come to Pass, the glorious Russian Revolution has succeeded

(unspoken) "Now, let's get busy killing tens of millions of our fellow countrymen -- including, probably, myself and my family -- in the name of that glorious Revolution!"

Posted by: Half Dozen at June 12, 2024 10:48 AM (eHovo)

346 "Behind the debris of these solemn supermen, and self-styled imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of One, because of Whom, by Whom, in Whom and through Whom alone, mankind may still have peace:

The person of Jesus Christ.

I present Him as the way, the truth, and the life."

Posted by: Ju at June 12, 2024 10:48 AM (aTmM/)

347 344 New FBI stats show 'historic' declines in violent crime rate, with murder showing sharpest drop
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2024 10:47 AM (63Dwl)

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Amazing what happens when Pittsburg stops reporting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 12, 2024 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

348 I thought it was an actual Gaffigan bit, except for the swearing.

Burr can be funny when he's ranting on things. His earlier stuff is hilarious.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 12, 2024 10:46 AM (KbCG3)

LOL maybe they sound more similar than I thought

Perhaps I was listening to late stage Burr I don't know.

Posted by: ... at June 12, 2024 10:48 AM (BSL0A)

349 New FBI stats show 'historic' declines in violent crime rate, with murder showing sharpest drop
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2024 10:47 AM (63Dwl)

That's BS

Posted by: It's me donna at June 12, 2024 10:48 AM (Akjoo)

350 French singer, 60s pop culture icon Françoise Hardy dies at 80

She did good work solving crimes with her sister Josephine.

Posted by: spindrift at June 12, 2024 10:49 AM (OguvZ)

351 349 New FBI stats show 'historic' declines in violent crime rate, with murder showing sharpest drop
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 12, 2024 10:47 AM (63Dwl)

That's BS
Posted by: It's me donna

It's science!!!!

Posted by: Branch COVIDIANS at June 12, 2024 10:49 AM (ycI94)

352 French singer, 60s pop culture icon Françoise Hardy dies at 80

She did good work solving crimes with her sister Josephine.
Posted by: spindrift

She won laurels for her work.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:50 AM (v6JzV)

353 The FBI has given us no reason not to take them at their word.

Crime isn't going up and when it does it'll be a good thing.

Posted by: ... at June 12, 2024 10:50 AM (BSL0A)

354 I’ve seen America wealthier and in terms of military weaponry more powerful than all the rest of the world put together, so that Americans, had they so wished, could have outdone an Alexander or a Julius Caesar in the range and scale of their conquests. All in one little lifetime. All gone with the wind.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2024 10:50 AM (BBFla)

355 "Are there any funny comedians?"

There are quite a few right here.

Posted by: fd at June 12, 2024 10:51 AM (vFG9F)

356 Johnny Hallyday > Francoise Hardy

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 12, 2024 10:51 AM (XRpj3)

357 Gosh, guys, you think the same government that cooks the economic books would just tell lies about crime stats?

Posted by: I bruised my tailbone when I fell off that turnip truck at June 12, 2024 10:51 AM (zuna6)

358 French singer, 60s pop culture icon Françoise Hardy dies at 80

She did good work solving crimes with her sister Josephine.
Posted by: spindrift

She won laurels for her work.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Laurels and a hearty handshake!

THE SHERIFF IS NEAR!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2024 10:51 AM (BBFla)

359 Hero of the Revolution:

Also, Julie Christie keeps saying "Dee, you bitch!" every time she flubs a line. This is Ewok talk and a hindrance to People's Revolutionary-Cinematic Morale. And we are not comfortable with Uzbek Gaffers.

Posted by: John Drake Atop The Kopet Dag Realizes That It IS The Caspian Sea! at June 12, 2024 10:51 AM (u/Zei)

360 Federal Government had no right to tell people what drugs they can take or give to children is one hell of a take. If that's the argument, let's do it.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 10:24 AM (XQ+xj)

Hajime

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at June 12, 2024 10:51 AM (DIB8X)

361 Their best case scenario is either Trump coming off as an asshole which will damage Trump so much that Democrats will have to cheat by mail for months and then shut down ballot counting across six states to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall or Trump is sedate and Biden is smug which will damage Trump so much that Democrats will have to cheat by mail for months and then shut down ballot counting across six states to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Consolidation of power after a coup is always a stone cold bitch--more so if you put in office someone so vile and disreputable that even banana republic dictators of yore would turn their noses up at. And you accompany said puppet dictator with insane policy and an even more unlikeable sidekick.

In 2024, it is more whether the coup leaders are willing to destroy the remnants of any system legitimacy to try to cling onto power while the ship of state is sinking. Won't work in the end but it can cause a lot of deaths and misery.

Posted by: whig at June 12, 2024 10:52 AM (/0X3E)

362 "Are there any funny comedians?"

There are quite a few right here.
Posted by: fd

I have a ton of Dad jokes.
I keep them in my Dadabase.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2024 10:52 AM (BBFla)

363 355 "Are there any funny comedians?"

There are quite a few right here.
Posted by: fd

Funny how? Like a clown? Like I'm here to fucking amuse you?

Posted by: Tommy DiSimone at June 12, 2024 10:53 AM (ycI94)

364 I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...
Posted by: rickb223

I've seen London. I've seen France . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

365 361 In 2024, it is more whether the coup leaders are willing to destroy the remnants of any system legitimacy to try to cling onto power while the ship of state is sinking. Won't work in the end but it can cause a lot of deaths and misery.
Posted by: whig at June 12, 2024 10:52 AM (/0X3E)

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Spoiler alert:

They are willing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 12, 2024 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

366 It's like firing on Fort Sumpter.

We had some Clempson fans holding forth, just last night.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 12, 2024 10:53 AM (zdLoL)

367 Won't work in the end but it can cause a lot of deaths and misery.
Posted by: whig at June 12, 2024 10:52 AM (/0X3E)

They will take that trade.

Posted by: ... at June 12, 2024 10:54 AM (BSL0A)

368 In 2024, it is more whether the coup leaders are willing to destroy the remnants of any system legitimacy to try to cling onto power while the ship of state is sinking. Won't work in the end but it can cause a lot of deaths and misery.
Posted by: whig

So, we can't lose!!!

Posted by: WEF Globalists and Uniparty Elites at June 12, 2024 10:54 AM (ycI94)

369 AoSHQ: The Planet of the Hampsters

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2024 10:55 AM (J2vNu)

370 I am convinced this "school" exists to give me an aneurysm. Last day of the semester we are doing LITERALLY nothing, we need the instructors to sign off our grades (2 need to review and sign) before the office can issue our completion certificate and allow us to register for certification test. And the instructors are having a thumb browning contest while we sit.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 12, 2024 10:55 AM (CIS44)

371 News flash says former president Jimmy Cracker no longer awakens during the day.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 12, 2024 10:55 AM (L/fGl)

372 "Spoiler alert: They are willing"

And protected.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 10:55 AM (XQ+xj)

373 362 I keep them in my Dadabase.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2024 10:52 AM (BBFla)

My Dadabase is the Cabaret Voltaire.

Posted by: Hugo Ball at June 12, 2024 10:55 AM (4XREA)

374 366 It's like firing on Fort Sumpter.

We had some Clempson fans holding forth, just last night.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

I hope Jed found some oil!

Posted by: Confused Moron at June 12, 2024 10:56 AM (ycI94)

375 351 349 New FBI stats show 'historic' declines in violent crime rate, with murder showing sharpest drop
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Non-reporting of crimes by major jurisdictions. If you want to know what is happening with crime---the National Crime Victimization Survey is a better measure because it surveys people that never filed a crime report becuz their local justice system is incompetent.

But, the NCVS is a national survey, not one compiled of individual cities like the FBI one. The FBI does not compel cities and counties to actually file reports and does nothing to ascertain whether serious crimes are actually downgraded into misdemeanors.

Posted by: whig at June 12, 2024 10:56 AM (/0X3E)

376 Looking for a big helping of authentic Biden gibberish. Biden is heading back to Europe for G7 meeting. He'll be real "tired"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 12, 2024 10:56 AM (FTjSO)

377 Time for Mussorgsky, 'Pictures at an at an Exhibition' :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZsN0-482So

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 12, 2024 10:56 AM (XeU6L)

378 News flash says former president Jimmy Cracker no longer awakens during the day.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

So he's a vampire now? That explains a lot.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:56 AM (v6JzV)

379 369 AoSHQ: The Planet of the Hampsters
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2024 10:55 AM (J2vNu)

It's Habsters.

Posted by: Reforger at June 12, 2024 10:57 AM (xcIvR)

380 News flash says former president Jimmy Cracker no longer awakens during the day.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45!

So nightwalker.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 12, 2024 10:57 AM (qZEuM)

381 They will literally put Trump in jail so he can't challenge Biden to a debate.

If I hadn't seen it before, dems defending to the hilt the worst-kept-secrets-ever, I wouldn't believe it.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 12, 2024 10:57 AM (cf/0E)

382 "heading back to Europe for G7 meeting. He'll be real tired"

Make sure to get the super absorbent depends, hon.

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 12, 2024 10:57 AM (XQ+xj)

383 They will take that trade.
Posted by: ...
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The idiots pushing this think that they are immune from blowback. Robespierre and Trotsky thought the same.

Posted by: whig at June 12, 2024 10:57 AM (/0X3E)

384 So nightwalker.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Yesterday's art!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 10:58 AM (v6JzV)

385 News flash says former president Jimmy Cracker no longer awakens during the day.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45!

So nightwalker.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 12, 2024 10:57 AM (qZEuM)

Yesterday's art was a portrait of Jimmy Carter?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

386 The idiots pushing this think that they are immune from blowback. Robespierre and Trotsky thought the same.
Posted by: whig

And we come full circle to the art!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 12, 2024 10:58 AM (ycI94)

387 Yeah, Justin's on his way to Italy for the G7 too.

Enjoying the perks while he still can.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 10:58 AM (ZdexC)

388 The stock of the gun could almost double as the legs of the woman in the background. She is facing the wrong way for that, but the brown above the stock doesn't seem to belong to anything ... and it matches the color of the uniforms. Or maybe I just see legs too easily ...

Posted by: illiniwek at June 12, 2024 10:59 AM (Cus5s)

389 Yeah, Justin's on his way to Italy for the G7 too.

Enjoying the perks while he still can.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 10:58 AM (ZdexC)

So, you really think Canadians will vote him out of power?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 12, 2024 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

390 Yikes; I clicked on Ace and saw commie propaganda, and a reference to the "glorious" Russian Revolution -- my first thought was, "has the site been bought by The New York Times"?

Posted by: Bud Norton at June 12, 2024 10:59 AM (6cOMd)

391 WTF is a vegan hotdog? A tube of bean paste?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 12, 2024 10:34 AM (BBFla)

Kind of like a shit sammich, without the shit. Or the bread.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 12, 2024 10:59 AM (JcBxc)

392 General Beauregard: I'm gonna shell this fort, and they aren't gonna do shit about it. Hold my beer.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 12, 2024 10:59 AM (cf/0E)

393 Ice to see you.

Posted by: zombie leon trotsky at June 12, 2024 10:59 AM (ZdexC)

394 ITD MONKEY TIME

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2024 11:00 AM (4SbJl)

395 366 It's like firing on Fort Sumpter.

We had some Clempson fans holding forth, just last night.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 12, 2024 10:53 AM (zdLoL)
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Forth? Is that a gay fort?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at June 12, 2024 11:01 AM (2xB3Z)

396 U nas yest' shimpanzeh NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 12, 2024 11:01 AM (v6JzV)

397 So, you really think Canadians will vote him out of power?
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His own party wants to dump him before October 2025 by when the election must be held.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 12, 2024 11:01 AM (ZdexC)

398 Ice to see you.
Posted by: zombie leon trotsky

Crushing.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 12, 2024 11:01 AM (qZEuM)

399 Americans, had they so wished, could have outdone an Alexander or a Julius Caesar in the range and scale of their conquests.

So according to this frumpy demifag, if we'd only been better Christians we could have had a hell of an empire? Huh.

Not sure I'll ever truly understand "Conservatives."
But we sho'nuf hates us some liber-tarians yo.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 12, 2024 11:01 AM (zdLoL)

400 They are willing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

They will fail. It is one thing to get rid of a hated regime and replace it with a competent one (albeit kleptocratic). It is quite another to put in the most idiotic administration that can no longer claim any accordance with reality and multiple failing policies.

Never ascribe genius to repeated policy failures by arguing somehow it was planned all along. People, including Georgie Soros, the left, etc. become stupid when entranced with utopia. Gravity rapidly reasserts itself as watching any Roadrunner cartoon with Wile E. Coyote and cliffs.

Posted by: whig at June 12, 2024 11:02 AM (/0X3E)

401 We had some Clempson fans holding forth, just last night.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 12, 2024 10:53 AM (zdLoL)
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As an alum, not sure which one irks me more: Adding a P or the way ESPN stooges pronounce it like climmmziinnnn

Posted by: ballistic at June 12, 2024 11:02 AM (oqH4h)

402 386 The idiots pushing this think that they are immune from blowback. Robespierre and Trotsky thought the same.
Posted by: whig

And we come full circle to the art!
Posted by: Moron Analyst
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Meet the New Boss, Just the Same as the Old Boss. Or, there is nothing new under the sun.

Take your pick.

Posted by: whig at June 12, 2024 11:03 AM (/0X3E)

403 Or, there is nothing new under the sun.

Posted by: whig at June 12, 2024 11:03 AM (/0X3E)

Ecclesiastes 1:9

I'm often amazed by how much of our common wisdom comes straight out of that dusty old irrelevant book.

Posted by: ... at June 12, 2024 11:06 AM (BSL0A)

404 392 General Beauregard: I'm gonna shell this fort, and they aren't gonna do shit about it. Hold my beer.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

Comments at the time in the North were scarcely realistic either. Both sides assumed a quick end to the hostilities with their side winning. It was just this calculation that led Lincoln acting on that belief to actually making the crisis worse by directly causing 4 more states to leave the Union including Virginia.

Perfect example of leadership failure by intentionally using Fort Sumter as a casus belli to rally the North. Stupid for both the South Carolinians and stupid for Lincoln and his administration.

Americans had to live with the consequences.

Posted by: whig at June 12, 2024 11:09 AM (/0X3E)

405 I'm often amazed by how much of our common wisdom comes straight out of that dusty old irrelevant book.
Posted by: ...
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And to think all that book used to be common knowledge in our culture.

Posted by: whig at June 12, 2024 11:12 AM (/0X3E)

406 rickb223 at June 12, 2024 10:50 AM

Yeah, I know that line from B R.

Difference is, one is for real...and, (according to prophesied) current events, soon appearing in the clouds ('but not in a theatre near you')...

"And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.” Dan 12:2

Posted by: Ju at June 12, 2024 11:17 AM (aTmM/)

407 You can sally forth, but you can't hold forth.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 12, 2024 11:19 AM (cf/0E)

408 "So according to this frumpy demifag, if we'd only been better Christians we could have had a hell of an empire? Huh."

Don't pretend to be so dense.

Muggeridge is making a statement about American power that 'existed, able to conquer' the world.

Not that American power 'should have been used' to conquer the world.

Turn off the computer game and open a book.

Posted by: Ju at June 12, 2024 11:25 AM (aTmM/)

409 Kris, your art posts are a real treat. It's been a long time since I took art history, and you bring it all back.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 12, 2024 11:27 AM (w6EFb)

410 Art critique infused with projected motivation and emotion.
Elites are like that.

Posted by: Dan Patterson at June 12, 2024 11:46 AM (ln5wD)

411 Thank you, Kris.

Posted by: Dagwood at June 12, 2024 12:09 PM (CC0N1)

412 Although I consider myself a schematic artist, able to reproduce a scene, I never had the imagination to compose a piece that tells a story. Your interpretation projects a wonderful perceived image of the artist's intent and appears spot on!
Additional reflection suggests that although you captured the main theme of the artist's work there is more to the story there.
Why is the warrior with a gun at rest looking UP into the light? Socialists/Communists do not believe in a deity!

Posted by: john at June 12, 2024 03:11 PM (nEWxZ)

413 Cue in the Opening to The Rifleman with Chuck Conners and Johnny Crawford

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 12, 2024 04:23 PM (wGqjj)

414 Afternoon.

Needs more tractor.

Despite that? Would hang.

Posted by: Robert at June 12, 2024 07:56 PM (jS8P8)

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