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Biden Commutes the Sentences of Almost All Federal Convicts on Death Row
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates, including child killers and mass murderers, two days before Christmas. The clemency move, part of Biden's opposition to the death penalty, reduces their sentences to life in prison without parole. Key Details: Among those spared execution are Thomas Sanders, who brutally killed a 12-year-old girl and her mother, and Iouri Mikhel, responsible for the ransom killings of five immigrants. Three high-profile inmates, including Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, did not receive clemency. Biden defended the decision as necessary to ensure justice but provided no specifics on why these cases warranted commutations. Diving Deeper: President Joe Biden ignited a firestorm of controversy on Monday by commuting the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates. The move spares the lives of individuals convicted of some of the most heinous crimes, including the murder of children, mass killings, and acts of extreme violence while in custody. Biden cited his long-standing opposition to the death penalty as justification, framing the decision as an effort to establish a "fair and effective justice system." "Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims... and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss," Biden said in a statement. He added that he could not, in good conscience, allow a future administration to resume executions. The list of spared inmates includes Thomas Sanders, who killed a mother and her 12-year-old daughter, and Anthony Battle, who murdered a prison guard with a hammer while already serving a life sentence for raping and killing his wife. Others, like drug kingpins Kaboni Savage and James Roane, Jr., were responsible for the deaths of multiple victims, including children, in violent drug-related crimes. However, Biden excluded three infamous individuals: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber; Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter; and Dylann Roof, who killed nine worshippers at a Charleston church.So either he actually does believe in the death penalty, or he's just a weak cowardly leftist virtue-signaler who's too afraid of the consequences for commuting the sentences of these people.
... The president's decision has reignited debates over the death penalty and his broader approach to criminal justice. Some see his actions as aligning with progressive goals, while others view them as an affront to justice and accountability. With just weeks left in his presidency, Biden's clemency spree cements his legacy as a divisive figure in the criminal justice reform debate.I'll say. Some few of you might actually be almost 29 years old and may forget the presidency of Jimmy Carter. He was the worst. Carter's humiliating failure of the presidency set up three consecutive conservative presidential terms. Well, two Reagan terms and one liberalish Bush term. But the country was ready to vote for a conservative three times. For fifteen years the humiliation and misery of the Carter years was a powerful memory that animated voters to vote Republican. Joe Biden is now a worse president than Carter, and his corruption, fecklessness, failure and lying will set up at least two more Republican presidential terms.
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Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2024 12:16 PM (+QlJh)
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This will be his legacy.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2024 12:17 PM (u73oe)
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The Others have been summoned.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2024 12:17 PM (+QlJh)
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/plants flag
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2024 12:17 PM (OUMaO)
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Joe Biden is now a worse president than Carter, and his corruption, fecklessness, failure and lying will set up at least two more Republican presidential terms.
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We'll see.
But the Democrat brand does feel as broken today as the Republican brand was about 2007.
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We'll see.
But the Democrat brand does feel as broken today as the Republican brand was about 2007.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:17 PM (4LF+x)
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Dang.
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2024 12:18 PM (OUMaO)
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Carter gave away the canal. Trump will take it back.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 12:18 PM (LkLld)
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This will be his legacy.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2024 12:17 PM (u73oe)
that and dementia.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2024 12:17 PM (u73oe)
that and dementia.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 12:18 PM (D7oie)
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Where does Nidal Hassan fit into this?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2024 12:18 PM (C2QKs)
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How many will be back in prison before next February?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2024 12:18 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2024 12:19 PM (+QlJh)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2024 12:19 PM (+oR7L)
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Prolly pay to play deals
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Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 23, 2024 12:19 PM (wDJaI)
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NAACP says the pardon is great.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2024 12:19 PM (63Dwl)
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Bastard.
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 23, 2024 12:19 PM (rbKZ6)
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So either he actually does believe in the death penalty, or he's just a weak cowardly leftist virtue-signaler who's too afraid of the consequences for commuting the sentences of these people.
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Yeah, it's puzzling. If it's a principled case of "I oppose the death penalty, and so am converting all death sentences to life in prison without parole," then it should be universally applied. It wasn't universally applied, so it was no a matter of principle.
So what was the rationale?
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Yeah, it's puzzling. If it's a principled case of "I oppose the death penalty, and so am converting all death sentences to life in prison without parole," then it should be universally applied. It wasn't universally applied, so it was no a matter of principle.
So what was the rationale?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (HnUIn)
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Where does Nidal Hassan fit into this?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2024 12:18 PM (C2QKs)
My question, exactly.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2024 12:18 PM (C2QKs)
My question, exactly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (8zz6B)
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The Mariel Boat Lift crime wave was by accident.
The open invasion of the US southern border is by design.
Joey Bidet and his inner circle are far more evil than most want to admit.
The open invasion of the US southern border is by design.
Joey Bidet and his inner circle are far more evil than most want to admit.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (C2QKs)
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What a spiteful jerk. Bite-me cares nothing about the victims. He only wants to prevent Trump from possibly signing execution warrants.
Posted by: Cosda at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (xorLE)
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So do all these pardons need to be challenged? No way the president is competent to make them.
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (KQk9m)
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Here's your latest reminder: Joe Biden, the person, doesn't do anything. Other people are running the country. He doesn't know he commuted his own bowel movement this morning, let along a bunch of rapists and murderers and rappists.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (0Wq3v)
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'So either he actually does believe in the death penalty, or he's just a weak cowardly leftist virtue-signaler who's too afraid of the consequences for commuting the sentences of these people.'
And
And
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (3wi/L)
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Prolly pay to play deals
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Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 23, 2024 12:19 PM (wDJaI)
Some are, others were to hide the fact. I suspect.
.
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 23, 2024 12:19 PM (wDJaI)
Some are, others were to hide the fact. I suspect.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (D7oie)
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However, Biden excluded three infamous individuals: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber; Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter; and Dylann Roof, who killed nine worshippers at a Charleston church.
Biden almost believes in abolishing the death penalty.
Biden almost believes in abolishing the death penalty.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (uxCna)
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Still more pardons on the way, for the political junta ... unless Joe is too angry about getting bounced from the ticket.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (Cus5s)
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Why is no one demanding proof that Biden is signing these?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:21 PM (4LF+x)
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5 Joe Biden is now a worse president than Carter, and his corruption, fecklessness, failure and lying will set up at least two more Republican presidential terms.
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We'll see.
But the Democrat brand does feel as broken today as the Republican brand was about 2007.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Future events will tell the tale but we are far better off facing external and internal black swan events with Trump as president than Kamala.
Resilience to adversity is a very underrated quality in a leader.
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We'll see.
But the Democrat brand does feel as broken today as the Republican brand was about 2007.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Future events will tell the tale but we are far better off facing external and internal black swan events with Trump as president than Kamala.
Resilience to adversity is a very underrated quality in a leader.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:21 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2024 12:21 PM (t/2Uw)
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And I CAN'T STAND that garbage style of putting "key details" and "diving deeper" in nooz stories.
Just write the damn story.
It's as bad as autotune. And tattoos on chicks.
Just write the damn story.
It's as bad as autotune. And tattoos on chicks.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:21 PM (0Wq3v)
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Why is no one demanding proof that Biden is signing these?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Like that would matter?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Like that would matter?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 12:21 PM (v6JzV)
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The president's decision has reignited debates over the death penalty and his broader approach to criminal justice. Some see his actions as aligning with progressive goals, while others view them as an affront to justice and accountability. With just weeks left in his presidency, Biden's clemency spree cements his legacy as a divisive figure in the criminal justice reform debate.
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That last sentence is true, yes. Since it wasn't a principled change (since it wasn't universal, it clearly had nothing to do with some great principle), the rest of it is null. I could actually get behind a universal commutation and conversion, because I - while not a progressive - oppose the death penalty.
But this is just confusing and arbitrary.
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That last sentence is true, yes. Since it wasn't a principled change (since it wasn't universal, it clearly had nothing to do with some great principle), the rest of it is null. I could actually get behind a universal commutation and conversion, because I - while not a progressive - oppose the death penalty.
But this is just confusing and arbitrary.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:21 PM (HnUIn)
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DogEater's America.
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 23, 2024 12:22 PM (CESUr)
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Why is no one demanding proof that Biden is signing these?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:21 PM
Can we start with proof that he was aware of them?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:21 PM
Can we start with proof that he was aware of them?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2024 12:22 PM (+QlJh)
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Wasn't alive for Jimmah, but it's hard to think of anyone as being worse than the Gruesome Twosome of King Barry and Zombie Joe.
Posted by: XTC at December 23, 2024 12:22 PM (UnA8+)
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Joe Biden is now a worse president than Carter, and his corruption, fecklessness, failure and lying will set up at least two more Republican presidential terms.
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He's the right kind of bad to breed resentment and change behavior.
Obama was arguably worse than Carter in a lot of dimensions, but he was popular enough that it didn't poison the electorate across the land and across broad demographic lines.
Biden is the kind of bad that does do that.
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He's the right kind of bad to breed resentment and change behavior.
Obama was arguably worse than Carter in a lot of dimensions, but he was popular enough that it didn't poison the electorate across the land and across broad demographic lines.
Biden is the kind of bad that does do that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:23 PM (HnUIn)
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Confusing and Arbitrary: The Residency of Joey Bidet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2024 12:23 PM (C2QKs)
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However, Biden excluded three infamous individuals: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber; Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter; and Dylann Roof, who killed nine worshippers at a Charleston church.
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Biden almost believes in abolishing the death penalty.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (uxCna)
How the hell are those federal cases?
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Biden almost believes in abolishing the death penalty.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (uxCna)
How the hell are those federal cases?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:23 PM (0Wq3v)
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Nothing Biden does or doesn’t do will “reignite the debate” about the death penalty or anything else. The idiot has lost all credibility and people aren’t taking his actions seriously… they just want him to go away. That is the universal attitude… and this corrupt senile pathetic old fool richly deserves it
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2024 12:24 PM (lIWP8)
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Wasn't alive for Jimmah
Posted by: XTC
Please brush the fallen leaves off the bottoms of your shoes before kindly exiting my lawn.
This will be your only warning.
Posted by: XTC
Please brush the fallen leaves off the bottoms of your shoes before kindly exiting my lawn.
This will be your only warning.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 12:24 PM (v6JzV)
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21 Here's your latest reminder: Joe Biden, the person, doesn't do anything. Other people are running the country. He doesn't know he commuted his own bowel movement this morning, let along a bunch of rapists and murderers and rappists.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Pretty sure that Jill had to sign off on these and apparently from some reports, she wants the Dems to burn from pushing her and Joe out of the White House. Joe has mentioned passing an insider trading ban for the waning days of his presidency which would severely piss off Nanzi as well as Eyepatch McCain.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Pretty sure that Jill had to sign off on these and apparently from some reports, she wants the Dems to burn from pushing her and Joe out of the White House. Joe has mentioned passing an insider trading ban for the waning days of his presidency which would severely piss off Nanzi as well as Eyepatch McCain.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:24 PM (ctrM5)
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Confusing and Arbitrary: The Residency of Joey Bidet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2024 12:23 PM (C2QKs)
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*snort*
So very true.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2024 12:23 PM (C2QKs)
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*snort*
So very true.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:24 PM (HnUIn)
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Based on the recent events involving persons serving in Congress and being clueless, I have decided to run for Congress in the State of Georgia...
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at December 23, 2024 12:24 PM (A2iSa)
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And if Joker Czarsnephew is still alive, you don't really HAVE a death penalty, do you.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:24 PM (0Wq3v)
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Every future democrat presidential candidate will now have to make a promise not to pardon death row inmates that have killed children.
Posted by: Maroon at December 23, 2024 12:25 PM (ysaNs)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2024 12:25 PM (+oR7L)
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Joe Biden is now a worse president than Carter, and his corruption, fecklessness, failure and lying will set up at least two more Republican presidential terms.
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Should. Unless the GOP fcuks it up, which is within the Republican skill set.
But has any single Biden screw up hurt as much as Carter's handling of Iran, the effects of which still plague us?
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Should. Unless the GOP fcuks it up, which is within the Republican skill set.
But has any single Biden screw up hurt as much as Carter's handling of Iran, the effects of which still plague us?
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2024 12:25 PM (1bNHn)
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I'm surprised he didn't include Tsarnaev.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 12:25 PM (v6JzV)
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Damn, Mr. President loves him some killers!
So Mr. President if I confess to killing Biggie and Tupac, may I please have a Hunter pardon, sir?
So Mr. President if I confess to killing Biggie and Tupac, may I please have a Hunter pardon, sir?
Posted by: P Diddy at December 23, 2024 12:25 PM (wGKng)
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39 Wasn't alive for Jimmah
Posted by: XTC
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You did not miss much other than the after effects. By and large, political leadership in the 70's dealt the US one disaster after another.
Posted by: XTC
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You did not miss much other than the after effects. By and large, political leadership in the 70's dealt the US one disaster after another.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:25 PM (ctrM5)
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'So what was the rationale?'
The rationale is that he wanted to commute all of them but he's too chickenshit. You're looking for any reasoning beyond that in vain.
'So what was the rationale?'
The rationale is that he wanted to commute all of them but he's too chickenshit. You're looking for any reasoning beyond that in vain.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2024 12:25 PM (3wi/L)
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Lefties are pissed about Tsarnaev not getting commuted but pleased about most of the people escaping the death penalty.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:25 PM (QZThv)
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The president's decision has reignited debates over the death penalty and his broader approach to criminal justice.
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For example: is there any reason to recognize any official act taken by a "President" who is both illegitimate due to stealing his office and obviously mentally incompetent?
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For example: is there any reason to recognize any official act taken by a "President" who is both illegitimate due to stealing his office and obviously mentally incompetent?
Posted by: Methos at December 23, 2024 12:26 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 12:26 PM (L/fGl)
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These pardons are ideological, but one of DoJ's first orders of business is to investigate why all the other pardons were granted.
Biden has nothing to do with determining who gets the the pardons, of course, but for a lot of the other pardons it seems obvious that money or other benefits are changing hands.
Who on earth would anyone pardon the judge who was sending innocent children to for-profit prisons in exchange for kickbacks?
Money has to be involved.
The pardon power is legal - being bribed in exchange for arranging a pardon is not.
Biden has nothing to do with determining who gets the the pardons, of course, but for a lot of the other pardons it seems obvious that money or other benefits are changing hands.
Who on earth would anyone pardon the judge who was sending innocent children to for-profit prisons in exchange for kickbacks?
Money has to be involved.
The pardon power is legal - being bribed in exchange for arranging a pardon is not.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 23, 2024 12:26 PM (uxCna)
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37 However, Biden excluded three infamous individuals: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber; Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter; and Dylann Roof, who killed nine worshippers at a Charleston church.
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Biden almost believes in abolishing the death penalty.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (uxCna)
How the hell are those federal cases?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:23 PM (0Wq3v)
Shoot up a church, shoot up a place of worship, terrorism (or shoot up a public path)...
Not sure if this is how they charged it, but all 3 can go federal easily...
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Biden almost believes in abolishing the death penalty.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (uxCna)
How the hell are those federal cases?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:23 PM (0Wq3v)
Shoot up a church, shoot up a place of worship, terrorism (or shoot up a public path)...
Not sure if this is how they charged it, but all 3 can go federal easily...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (exHjb)
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Pretty sure that Jill had to sign off on these and apparently from some reports, she wants the Dems to burn from pushing her and Joe out of the White House. Joe has mentioned passing an insider trading ban for the waning days of his presidency which would severely piss off Nanzi as well as Eyepatch McCain.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:24 PM (ctrM5)
She's definitely on a warpath of destruction, I'm just not sure she's got the access to signing off on this kind of nonsense.
That strikes me as a do-gooder in his administration.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:24 PM (ctrM5)
She's definitely on a warpath of destruction, I'm just not sure she's got the access to signing off on this kind of nonsense.
That strikes me as a do-gooder in his administration.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (0Wq3v)
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In the previous post a commenter wanted to know who were "the powerful staffers?"
Well, they're making the suggestions on who to pardon. Which sentences to commute. Probably using the auto-pen to sign *biden's name to them too.
I'd say those staffers are "powerful."
Well, they're making the suggestions on who to pardon. Which sentences to commute. Probably using the auto-pen to sign *biden's name to them too.
I'd say those staffers are "powerful."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (Q4IgG)
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>>>But the Democrat brand does feel as broken today as the Republican brand was about 2007.
Worse wouldn't you say?
Worse wouldn't you say?
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (KRtlO)
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Sure, leave another ungodly mess for the real President to sort out. Par for the Biden Fraudulency.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Methos at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (Dnobf)
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The rationale is that he wanted to commute all of them but he's too chickenshit. You're looking for any reasoning beyond that in vain.
Two of the three are "white nationalists" according to your friendly neighborhood leftist. Not sure why Djoker wasn't commuted.
Two of the three are "white nationalists" according to your friendly neighborhood leftist. Not sure why Djoker wasn't commuted.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (QZThv)
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40 ...
Joe has mentioned passing an insider trading ban for the waning days of his presidency which would severely piss off Nanzi as well as Eyepatch McCain.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:24 PM (ctrM5)
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There are two Houses of Insider Trading, er, Congress, neither of which is likely to pass such a thing.
Joe has mentioned passing an insider trading ban for the waning days of his presidency which would severely piss off Nanzi as well as Eyepatch McCain.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:24 PM (ctrM5)
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There are two Houses of Insider Trading, er, Congress, neither of which is likely to pass such a thing.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (1bNHn)
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Biden's statement on these evil computations.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
I agree that math is evil. And racist.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
I agree that math is evil. And racist.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (v6JzV)
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Shoot up a church, shoot up a place of worship, terrorism (or shoot up a public path)...
Not sure if this is how they charged it, but all 3 can go federal easily...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (exHjb)
Evidently it can. It just shouldn't.
Not sure if this is how they charged it, but all 3 can go federal easily...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (exHjb)
Evidently it can. It just shouldn't.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:28 PM (0Wq3v)
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51 Lefties are pissed about Tsarnaev not getting commuted but pleased about most of the people escaping the death penalty.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:25 PM (QZThv)
Someone asked above: why wasn’t this guy charged under MA state law? Of course MA probably doesn’t have the death penalty… sigh
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:25 PM (QZThv)
Someone asked above: why wasn’t this guy charged under MA state law? Of course MA probably doesn’t have the death penalty… sigh
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2024 12:28 PM (lIWP8)
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Pardon every J6 defendant on day 1. No exceptions.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2024 12:28 PM (u73oe)
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When was the last time the Feds actually executed someone? What isthe average stay on death row before an execution?
These are commutations and not pardons. Changing death sentence to Life in prison without parole. Not that it makes it any less egregious.
Why not the remaining 3? Because racisim. That's why.
These are commutations and not pardons. Changing death sentence to Life in prison without parole. Not that it makes it any less egregious.
Why not the remaining 3? Because racisim. That's why.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2024 12:28 PM (t/2Uw)
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"For fifteen years the humiliation and misery of the Carter years was a powerful memory that animated voters to vote Republican. Joe Biden is now a worse president than Carter, and his corruption, fecklessness, failure and lying will set up at least two more Republican presidential terms."
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I felt that was what we got from 2 terms of Obama. And if it wasn't for the (deliberate to take out Trump?) release of COVID and the resulting "stop the spread" measures that opened the door for overwhelming voter fraud, it would've. The Biden years just upped that ante (3-4 terms of conservatives going forward?) IMHO...
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I felt that was what we got from 2 terms of Obama. And if it wasn't for the (deliberate to take out Trump?) release of COVID and the resulting "stop the spread" measures that opened the door for overwhelming voter fraud, it would've. The Biden years just upped that ante (3-4 terms of conservatives going forward?) IMHO...
Posted by: bearski at December 23, 2024 12:28 PM (Bhsk7)
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Biden's statement on these evil computations.
https://is.gd/Ya64sL
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 12:26 PM (L/fGl)
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It's not Biden.
It's the Regime.
It's intentional anarchy.
People need to swing from gallows.
https://is.gd/Ya64sL
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 12:26 PM (L/fGl)
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It's not Biden.
It's the Regime.
It's intentional anarchy.
People need to swing from gallows.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2024 12:28 PM (GHvvy)
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Most of those assholes commuted by Biden would not have been lolling about on Death Row if their sentences had been executed in a timely fashion. 90 days, people, 90 days.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 12:28 PM (8zz6B)
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Once off death row, they go back to general pop, right?
And they are a whole lot less safe from getting murdered?
And they are a whole lot less safe from getting murdered?
Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 23, 2024 12:28 PM (KiBMU)
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Two of the three are "white nationalists" according to your friendly neighborhood leftist. Not sure why Djoker wasn't commuted.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (QZThv)
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Because Boston is a Dem stronghold and it was far too public and would piss off a core constituency in a shaky period for the Party in a way that the other commutations wouldn't?
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (QZThv)
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Because Boston is a Dem stronghold and it was far too public and would piss off a core constituency in a shaky period for the Party in a way that the other commutations wouldn't?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:28 PM (HnUIn)
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The Biden administration has "lost" over 300,000 (probably more like 500,000) children who were trafficked into the US.
By the time everything his corrupt, garbage administration has done over the last 4 years he won't just be the worst president in US history, he will be on the list of worst leaders of any country ever.
By the time everything his corrupt, garbage administration has done over the last 4 years he won't just be the worst president in US history, he will be on the list of worst leaders of any country ever.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (LkLld)
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Who were the constituents for this brain-dead move? I don't get it. By not commuting the three most notorious federal death-row ghouls, Joey Shitbrains only exposes what a sham this is.
That homosexual terrorist Tsarnaev -- what is it about homos and murdering people? -- was the most popular call for commuting the sentence. But I agree, that would have caused too much outrage.
My guess is that buried in the 30-something who were commuted is at least one with very rich relatives who paid a nice fat vig to Biden.
That homosexual terrorist Tsarnaev -- what is it about homos and murdering people? -- was the most popular call for commuting the sentence. But I agree, that would have caused too much outrage.
My guess is that buried in the 30-something who were commuted is at least one with very rich relatives who paid a nice fat vig to Biden.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (iFTx/)
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... let alone a bunch of rapists and murderers and rappists.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (0Wq3v)
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Has he pardoned Diddy yet?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (0Wq3v)
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Has he pardoned Diddy yet?
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (CESUr)
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But has any single Biden screw up hurt as much as Carter's handling of Iran, the effects of which still plague us?
I believe strongly in the power of repetition. Biden has been so bad for so long and made so many inexplicably bad decisions it's almost impossible to forget. IMHO, he will cause problems for the Dems for AT LEAST the next three terms, and quite possibly more.
I believe strongly in the power of repetition. Biden has been so bad for so long and made so many inexplicably bad decisions it's almost impossible to forget. IMHO, he will cause problems for the Dems for AT LEAST the next three terms, and quite possibly more.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (xCA6C)
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I will probably get torched for this butt....
I don't care much about clemency. Life in prison on death row isn't much different than life without parole. And at the federal level, the President has full discretion to simply say "no executions on my watch" and criminal sits in limbo for who knows how long before another President says, "kill the bastards". In many ways the death sentence is just life without parole.
If he was pardoning these evil motherfuckers that would be a serious abomination.
I don't care much about clemency. Life in prison on death row isn't much different than life without parole. And at the federal level, the President has full discretion to simply say "no executions on my watch" and criminal sits in limbo for who knows how long before another President says, "kill the bastards". In many ways the death sentence is just life without parole.
If he was pardoning these evil motherfuckers that would be a serious abomination.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (4XwPj)
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When was the last time the Feds actually executed someone?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
Timothy McVeigh, I think.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
Timothy McVeigh, I think.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (v6JzV)
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In the previous post a commenter wanted to know who were "the powerful staffers?"
Well, they're making the suggestions on who to pardon. Which sentences to commute. Probably using the auto-pen to sign *biden's name to them too.
I'd say those staffers are "powerful."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (Q4IgG)
Yeah, but who are they?
Who, for example, signed Joe's "I'm not running" statement back in July.
He sure as hell didn't.
Well, they're making the suggestions on who to pardon. Which sentences to commute. Probably using the auto-pen to sign *biden's name to them too.
I'd say those staffers are "powerful."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (Q4IgG)
Yeah, but who are they?
Who, for example, signed Joe's "I'm not running" statement back in July.
He sure as hell didn't.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (0Wq3v)
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The worst part of the Biden presidency is that we still don't know who is calling the shots. All we know is that it isn't Biden.
Posted by: Eddie Baby at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (s19xO)
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69 People need to swing from gallows.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
Only if we build the kind that can serve 10 people at a time.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
Only if we build the kind that can serve 10 people at a time.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2024 12:30 PM (NR6c1)
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Joe has mentioned passing an insider trading ban for the waning days of his presidency which would severely piss off Nanzi as well as Eyepatch McCain.
Eyepatch McCain has been pretty quiet since he cursed someone out on X last week and everyone asked him if those were "muh norms" he said Trump violates.
Eyepatch McCain has been pretty quiet since he cursed someone out on X last week and everyone asked him if those were "muh norms" he said Trump violates.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:30 PM (QZThv)
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I know Gene Autrey had the song Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, but do the train crews have their own Christmas song, like "FRED the Red-Assed baboon" that Santa had ride on the back of the sleigh to warn off all other traffic in dark and foggy Christmas eves?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 12:30 PM (D7oie)
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64 Shoot up a church, shoot up a place of worship, terrorism (or shoot up a public path)...
Not sure if this is how they charged it, but all 3 can go federal easily...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (exHjb)
Evidently it can. It just shouldn't.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:28 PM (0Wq3v)
I agree...but then you need to change the laws.
And to be fair, some went federal b/c their states had no death penalty...prosecutors normally agree which jurisdiction will try the case (county or federal)...
Not sure if this is how they charged it, but all 3 can go federal easily...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (exHjb)
Evidently it can. It just shouldn't.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:28 PM (0Wq3v)
I agree...but then you need to change the laws.
And to be fair, some went federal b/c their states had no death penalty...prosecutors normally agree which jurisdiction will try the case (county or federal)...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2024 12:30 PM (exHjb)
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Biden's statement on these evil computations.
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"Biden" doesn't have a position on any issues any longer. I doubt "Biden" even has a position on his daily ice cream.
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"Biden" doesn't have a position on any issues any longer. I doubt "Biden" even has a position on his daily ice cream.
Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2024 12:30 PM (TN0g+)
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So either he actually does believe in the death penalty, or he's just a weak cowardly leftist virtue-signaler who's too afraid of the consequences for commuting the sentences of these people
embrace the healing power of "and"
embrace the healing power of "and"
Posted by: anachronda at December 23, 2024 12:30 PM (edU/H)
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5 ...
But the Democrat brand does feel as broken today as the Republican brand was about 2007.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:17 PM (4LF+x)
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I'm not yet convinced of that. It's not as if we have a big margin in either house, and we didn't win by all that much.
To my mind, it's more a matter of their being demoralized than of our actually having much of an edge.
But the Democrat brand does feel as broken today as the Republican brand was about 2007.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:17 PM (4LF+x)
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I'm not yet convinced of that. It's not as if we have a big margin in either house, and we didn't win by all that much.
To my mind, it's more a matter of their being demoralized than of our actually having much of an edge.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2024 12:31 PM (1bNHn)
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Notice the Beltway shooter, b/c VA had the death penalty, went county...even though feds also initially charged him...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2024 12:31 PM (exHjb)
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The Biden administration has "lost" over 300,000 (probably more like 500,000) children who were trafficked into the US.
By the time everything his corrupt, garbage administration has done over the last 4 years he won't just be the worst president in US history, he will be on the list of worst leaders of any country ever.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (LkLld)
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I haven't been calling him F. Joe Mugabe for nothin' ...
By the time everything his corrupt, garbage administration has done over the last 4 years he won't just be the worst president in US history, he will be on the list of worst leaders of any country ever.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (LkLld)
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I haven't been calling him F. Joe Mugabe for nothin' ...
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 23, 2024 12:31 PM (CESUr)
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Since I'm an optimist, silver lining time:
We don't have to believe a word out of the lying sewers that backstopped Joe Biden's dementia-ridden ass ever again. About anything.
Not just because we disagree with their politics, but because they're proven liars about essential things. Just to stay in power.
And that goes for people you meet in meat space. Any regurgitation of lines from The Great Glowing Screen can now be met with 'You believe that? After they lied about Joe Biden being mentally aware? I don't. Sorry."
That maddening assurance that lefties have about being on the 'right side of history'? Poof. Gone.
All we have to do is not let them forget it.
We don't have to believe a word out of the lying sewers that backstopped Joe Biden's dementia-ridden ass ever again. About anything.
Not just because we disagree with their politics, but because they're proven liars about essential things. Just to stay in power.
And that goes for people you meet in meat space. Any regurgitation of lines from The Great Glowing Screen can now be met with 'You believe that? After they lied about Joe Biden being mentally aware? I don't. Sorry."
That maddening assurance that lefties have about being on the 'right side of history'? Poof. Gone.
All we have to do is not let them forget it.
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at December 23, 2024 12:31 PM (Ft5W9)
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"Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims... and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss," Biden said in a statement.
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This is a bald-faced, unadulterated lie. He doesn't grieve for the victims or ache for their families.
This is perhaps the single most grotesque action this phony president has ever taken. He just took a big dump on these families and rubbed their noses in it.
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This is a bald-faced, unadulterated lie. He doesn't grieve for the victims or ache for their families.
This is perhaps the single most grotesque action this phony president has ever taken. He just took a big dump on these families and rubbed their noses in it.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2024 12:31 PM (qBdHI)
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19 What a spiteful jerk. Bite-me cares nothing about the victims. He only wants to prevent Trump from possibly signing execution warrants.
Posted by: Cosda at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (xorLE)
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Those were signed by the courts, the President has nothing to do with them. He can sign a pardon or a commutation only after the fact. I'm assuming this is what you meant?
Posted by: Cosda at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (xorLE)
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Those were signed by the courts, the President has nothing to do with them. He can sign a pardon or a commutation only after the fact. I'm assuming this is what you meant?
Posted by: Ciampino - No standing at December 23, 2024 12:32 PM (i0xsb)
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Dr. Jill has been busy burning down the Marxist party with the pardons and commuting of death penalty sentences. The cliche' is always right: Hell hath no fury something something... When Joey shuffles off and assumes room temperature, does Dr. Jill still get USSS protection? Funny if Trump rescinded it, when that occurs.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at December 23, 2024 12:32 PM (TN5A0)
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58 >>>But the Democrat brand does feel as broken today as the Republican brand was about 2007.
Worse wouldn't you say?
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (KRtlO)
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I actually think the GOP's might have been worse in 2007.
Amnesty + Iraq saw massive losses of support from the base, not just distaste from the middle.
W left with 25% approval for a reason.
Worse wouldn't you say?
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2024 12:27 PM (KRtlO)
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I actually think the GOP's might have been worse in 2007.
Amnesty + Iraq saw massive losses of support from the base, not just distaste from the middle.
W left with 25% approval for a reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:32 PM (4LF+x)
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Wasn't alive for Jimmah
Posted by: XTC
I thought that what with disaster of Cracker people would finally see the evil that was leftism so we'd never have to go through that again. OK, so I was wrong again!
Posted by: XTC
I thought that what with disaster of Cracker people would finally see the evil that was leftism so we'd never have to go through that again. OK, so I was wrong again!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 12:32 PM (L/fGl)
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I will probably get torched for this butt....
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (4XwPj)
Someone torched your butt? Is it uncomfortable to sit?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (4XwPj)
Someone torched your butt? Is it uncomfortable to sit?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2024 12:32 PM (lIWP8)
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Eyepatch McCain has been pretty quiet since he cursed someone out on X last week and everyone asked him if those were "muh norms" he said Trump violates.
It wouldn't surprise me if he declines to run again. He seems like he's not temperamentally suited to be a legislator.
It wouldn't surprise me if he declines to run again. He seems like he's not temperamentally suited to be a legislator.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2024 12:32 PM (xCA6C)
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Funny if Trump rescinded it, when that occurs.
Funnier would be if he made the Butler PA crew her permanent detail.
Funnier would be if he made the Butler PA crew her permanent detail.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:32 PM (QZThv)
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I don't understand the differences of state charges of murder and federal charges of murder. The state is the one that administers the lethal injection, firing squad, gas, whatever. What constitutes federal murder charges?
Posted by: Megthered at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (HZt/w)
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Has he pardoned Diddy yet?
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (CESUr)
Not really related, but true story: Back in the day, Isaac Asimov's son was busted in LA for running what was called at the time the largest kiddie pron operation in existence.
They had all the evidence, they had all the connections. The feds came in and took over the case. After some period of time passed, they dropped the case.
Who dropped the case? Robert Mueller dropped the case.
I guess you bring him in when you want to protect big names.
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (CESUr)
Not really related, but true story: Back in the day, Isaac Asimov's son was busted in LA for running what was called at the time the largest kiddie pron operation in existence.
They had all the evidence, they had all the connections. The feds came in and took over the case. After some period of time passed, they dropped the case.
Who dropped the case? Robert Mueller dropped the case.
I guess you bring him in when you want to protect big names.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (0Wq3v)
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Should. Unless the GOP fcuks it up, which is within the Republican skill set.
But has any single Biden screw up hurt as much as Carter's handling of Iran, the effects of which still plague us?
Posted by: Eeyore
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Yes. Biden's junta has nearly destroyed the public fisc. We are now borrowing about 1 out of every three dollars spent by Fed Gov and close to one third of the current federal debt was from Joe's junta adopting Modern Monetary Theory where deficits in this make believe world simply do not count. So, we all are at least 30 percent or more poorer from inflation in the costs of goods we need to survive.
Our military inside is shot through with traitors, grifters, and poor leadership.
And we have blown over 150 billion on a stupid war in Ukraine that failed other than killing a bunch of people--Russian and Ukrainian, spat in the face of Israel and kissed their enemies with cash and kindness, and blown more billions more from equipment left behind in a stupidly managed bugout from Afghanistan.
Then you have one of the biggest internal invasions of a sovereign country since Rome invited the Goths to come and stay a bit.
All in the space of a mere four years.
But has any single Biden screw up hurt as much as Carter's handling of Iran, the effects of which still plague us?
Posted by: Eeyore
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Yes. Biden's junta has nearly destroyed the public fisc. We are now borrowing about 1 out of every three dollars spent by Fed Gov and close to one third of the current federal debt was from Joe's junta adopting Modern Monetary Theory where deficits in this make believe world simply do not count. So, we all are at least 30 percent or more poorer from inflation in the costs of goods we need to survive.
Our military inside is shot through with traitors, grifters, and poor leadership.
And we have blown over 150 billion on a stupid war in Ukraine that failed other than killing a bunch of people--Russian and Ukrainian, spat in the face of Israel and kissed their enemies with cash and kindness, and blown more billions more from equipment left behind in a stupidly managed bugout from Afghanistan.
Then you have one of the biggest internal invasions of a sovereign country since Rome invited the Goths to come and stay a bit.
All in the space of a mere four years.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (ctrM5)
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If *biden was savvy and wanted to steal a centerpiece of Trump's first 100 days, he'd pardon every J6 prisoner. The political damage to his tormenters would be epic.
It'd take a huge propaganda victory from Trump's team and royally piss off every member of the J6 Committee... most notably, Nancy Pelosi.
But... *biden's not "savvy."
It'd take a huge propaganda victory from Trump's team and royally piss off every member of the J6 Committee... most notably, Nancy Pelosi.
But... *biden's not "savvy."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (Q4IgG)
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26 Why is no one demanding proof that Biden is signing these? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher
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As the WSJ made 'official' last week in what we sane, objective people already knew, Biden hasn't known WTF he's been signing his whole presidency. While I don't doubt he has at a minimum sympathies with everything he's signed, it's all a rubber stamp. Obama's radical Leftist mandarins + Jill run that show... Knowing that, it's kinda irrelevant that he's not signing. It *should* be, but if they haven't invoked the 25th after all this time that's now openly admitted, they ain't gonna now...
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As the WSJ made 'official' last week in what we sane, objective people already knew, Biden hasn't known WTF he's been signing his whole presidency. While I don't doubt he has at a minimum sympathies with everything he's signed, it's all a rubber stamp. Obama's radical Leftist mandarins + Jill run that show... Knowing that, it's kinda irrelevant that he's not signing. It *should* be, but if they haven't invoked the 25th after all this time that's now openly admitted, they ain't gonna now...
Posted by: bearski at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (Bhsk7)
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And at the federal level, the President has full discretion to simply say "no executions on my watch" and criminal sits in limbo for who knows how long before another President says, "kill the bastards". In many ways the death sentence is just life without parole.
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Part of the explanation given is that Trump was expected to execute this filth in fairly short order. So, no, they weren't already under 'life without parole'.
And remember, the evil of the Left never rests. Once they do away with the death penalty, they will immediately pivot to the European model where life without parole is considered cruel and unusual.
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Part of the explanation given is that Trump was expected to execute this filth in fairly short order. So, no, they weren't already under 'life without parole'.
And remember, the evil of the Left never rests. Once they do away with the death penalty, they will immediately pivot to the European model where life without parole is considered cruel and unusual.
Posted by: Methos at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (Dnobf)
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>>So either he actually does believe in the death penalty, or he's just a weak cowardly leftist virtue-signaler who's too afraid of the consequences for commuting the sentences of these people.
Or, he is ncm (non-compos mentis) and was told to do this.
Honestly, did he ever have any deeply held convictions besides greed?
Or, he is ncm (non-compos mentis) and was told to do this.
Honestly, did he ever have any deeply held convictions besides greed?
Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (Ypu3O)
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87 I'm not yet convinced of that. It's not as if we have a big margin in either house, and we didn't win by all that much.
To my mind, it's more a matter of their being demoralized than of our actually having much of an edge.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2024 12:31 PM (1bNHn)
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Any mention of the narrow House that does not mention the Census Bureau's admission that it screwed up the 2020 census and misallocated 17 seats is, bare minimum, incomplete.
One thing Trump should do (he won't) is to demand a reapportionment of the House right now based on the Census' corrected numbers.
And...remember...those corrected numbers also still include illegals being counted. If the GOP can retain control of the executive and force through changes to not count illegals in 2030, imagine the shift in the House.
To my mind, it's more a matter of their being demoralized than of our actually having much of an edge.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2024 12:31 PM (1bNHn)
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Any mention of the narrow House that does not mention the Census Bureau's admission that it screwed up the 2020 census and misallocated 17 seats is, bare minimum, incomplete.
One thing Trump should do (he won't) is to demand a reapportionment of the House right now based on the Census' corrected numbers.
And...remember...those corrected numbers also still include illegals being counted. If the GOP can retain control of the executive and force through changes to not count illegals in 2030, imagine the shift in the House.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (4LF+x)
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28 days
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (t/2Uw)
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97 Eyepatch McCain has been pretty quiet since he cursed someone out on X last week and everyone asked him if those were "muh norms" he said Trump violates.
It wouldn't surprise me if he declines to run again. He seems like he's not temperamentally suited to be a legislator.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Send his ass to Afghanistan as our one eyed ambassador to their One Eyed Omar. They would have a lot in common.
It wouldn't surprise me if he declines to run again. He seems like he's not temperamentally suited to be a legislator.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Send his ass to Afghanistan as our one eyed ambassador to their One Eyed Omar. They would have a lot in common.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (ctrM5)
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Why not the remaining 3? Because racisim. That's why.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2024 12:28 PM (t/2Uw)
Known wolves to the FBI that somehow got through the protective wall.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2024 12:28 PM (t/2Uw)
Known wolves to the FBI that somehow got through the protective wall.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (D7oie)
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I wonder if the majority of these pardoned death-row killers' victims are either black or Hispanic?
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (GHvvy)
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And...
Ann Vandersteel™️ @annvandersteel
BREAKING: The Subway Burning Victim’s Name was AMELIA CARTER.
She was 29 years old.
Biden State Media refuses to post her name and face, because she was a beautiful young white woman whose life was monstrously taken by one of Joe Biden’s savage and racist illegals.
She was neither drunk nor homeless.
Just another victim of circumstance in Joe Biden’s fcked-up America.
Please SAY HER NAME in your prayers.
Ann Vandersteel™️ @annvandersteel
BREAKING: The Subway Burning Victim’s Name was AMELIA CARTER.
She was 29 years old.
Biden State Media refuses to post her name and face, because she was a beautiful young white woman whose life was monstrously taken by one of Joe Biden’s savage and racist illegals.
She was neither drunk nor homeless.
Just another victim of circumstance in Joe Biden’s fcked-up America.
Please SAY HER NAME in your prayers.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (hovnC)
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Afternoon Ace. I have always believed that Buchanan was the worst having done nothing to prevent and actually encouraged the Civil War. The Barky / Biden exacta will end up blowing both Buchanan and Carter away for worst president (there is only one).
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (DopAq)
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What a rat bastard, wish he would stroke the fk out today
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (Wkv9q)
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What constitutes federal murder charges?
Posted by: Megthered at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (HZt/w)
Good question. I just know when a fedcop shoots an unarmed woman for trespassing, that's not murder.
Posted by: Megthered at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (HZt/w)
Good question. I just know when a fedcop shoots an unarmed woman for trespassing, that's not murder.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (0Wq3v)
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OK, as hard as it is to do, I gotta tear myself away from the Blog and go finish my Christmas shopping.
We're supposed to ice tomorrow in NoVa, so can't finish it on Christmas Eve like I normally do.
Later, y'all.
We're supposed to ice tomorrow in NoVa, so can't finish it on Christmas Eve like I normally do.
Later, y'all.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (v6JzV)
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Of course Biden's going to do this, and much, much more. Like a bitter child, he's determined to ruin a country that rejected him. A typical Democrat, in other words.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (WPL6O)
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103 As the WSJ made 'official' last week in what we sane, objective people already knew, Biden hasn't known WTF he's been signing his whole presidency. While I don't doubt he has at a minimum sympathies with everything he's signed, it's all a rubber stamp. Obama's radical Leftist mandarins + Jill run that show... Knowing that, it's kinda irrelevant that he's not signing. It *should* be, but if they haven't invoked the 25th after all this time that's now openly admitted, they ain't gonna now...
Posted by: bearski at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (Bhsk7)
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I don't think Biden is actually putting pen to paper on any of this.
It's the autopen.
Are government documents signed by autopen the same as those signed by elected officials? If so, why?
Posted by: bearski at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (Bhsk7)
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I don't think Biden is actually putting pen to paper on any of this.
It's the autopen.
Are government documents signed by autopen the same as those signed by elected officials? If so, why?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (4LF+x)
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Will Joe pardon the Rosenbergs?
"In 2021, Ethel's sons restarted the campaign to pardon Ethel as they were optimistic that President Joe Biden would consider this favorably."
Will Joe pardon the Rosenbergs?
"In 2021, Ethel's sons restarted the campaign to pardon Ethel as they were optimistic that President Joe Biden would consider this favorably."
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (+oR7L)
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28 days
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (t/2Uw)
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I'm afraid that until now, they've just been warming up.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (t/2Uw)
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I'm afraid that until now, they've just been warming up.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (GHvvy)
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Why does America pretend Biden's actions (like issuing pardons and commutations) should have legal force and effect? 25th amendment his bony ass right now, to prevent more damage.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (wqtxH)
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Ann Vandersteel™️ @annvandersteel
BREAKING: The Subway Burning Victim’s Name was AMELIA CARTER.
She was 29 years old.
Amelia Carter
Ann Vandersteel™️ @annvandersteel
BREAKING: The Subway Burning Victim’s Name was AMELIA CARTER.
She was 29 years old.
Amelia Carter
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (VE6XX)
123
His commutations are symptomatic of leftists: murderers, rapists, thieves, terrorists, traitors.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 12:36 PM (ynpvh)
124
Yes. Biden's junta has nearly destroyed the public fisc. We are now borrowing about 1 out of every three dollars spent by Fed Gov and close to one third of the current federal debt was from Joe's junta adopting Modern Monetary Theory where deficits in this make believe world simply do not count. So, we all are at least 30 percent or more poorer from inflation in the costs of goods we need to survive.
...
All in the space of a mere four years.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (ctrM5)
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In fairness - not that he deserves it - Biden merely accelerated the existing trend. Trump was a spendthrift, too (though even for him it went too far, and he had the shutdown battle that he lost). The real pivot into hardcore acceleration was the COVID response, which happened under Trump.
But until that comes under control, inflation is here to stay in a big way. Trump 2.0 is probably not going to be able to bring it under control, since so much of it is structural. He can quit pumping kerosene onto the fire, but the fire is still going to burn.
...
All in the space of a mere four years.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (ctrM5)
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In fairness - not that he deserves it - Biden merely accelerated the existing trend. Trump was a spendthrift, too (though even for him it went too far, and he had the shutdown battle that he lost). The real pivot into hardcore acceleration was the COVID response, which happened under Trump.
But until that comes under control, inflation is here to stay in a big way. Trump 2.0 is probably not going to be able to bring it under control, since so much of it is structural. He can quit pumping kerosene onto the fire, but the fire is still going to burn.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:36 PM (HnUIn)
125
Eyepatch McCain has been pretty quiet since he cursed someone out on X last week and everyone asked him if those were "muh norms" he said Trump violates.
It wouldn't surprise me if he declines to run again. He seems like he's not temperamentally suited to be a legislator.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2024 12:32 PM (xCA6C)
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What a total disappointment and failure that tool is. I had some hopes given his background, but within 30 seconds of taking office he grabbed GOPe dick with both hands and started gargling. He's also a total asshole.
It wouldn't surprise me if he declines to run again. He seems like he's not temperamentally suited to be a legislator.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2024 12:32 PM (xCA6C)
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What a total disappointment and failure that tool is. I had some hopes given his background, but within 30 seconds of taking office he grabbed GOPe dick with both hands and started gargling. He's also a total asshole.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 23, 2024 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
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But has any single Biden screw up hurt as much as Carter's handling of Iran, the effects of which still plague us?
Posted by: Eeyore
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20 million illegals on welfare, including 1 million psychopathic former prisoners want to know!
Posted by: Eeyore
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20 million illegals on welfare, including 1 million psychopathic former prisoners want to know!
Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 23, 2024 12:37 PM (Ypu3O)
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W left with 25% approval for a reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Think Biden is down to 33 or so now and these commutations will not help.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Think Biden is down to 33 or so now and these commutations will not help.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:37 PM (ctrM5)
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So do all these pardons need to be challenged? No way the president is competent to make them.
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (KQk9m)
That would be a waste of time. I can tell you already what the ruling would be.
1. The Constitution places only one limit on the Presidential power of clemency... impeachment.
2. The Constitution provides mechanisms for removal of a President.
Since no one in government took the steps necessary to remove Biden from the Presidency, his pardons/commutations stand.
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (KQk9m)
That would be a waste of time. I can tell you already what the ruling would be.
1. The Constitution places only one limit on the Presidential power of clemency... impeachment.
2. The Constitution provides mechanisms for removal of a President.
Since no one in government took the steps necessary to remove Biden from the Presidency, his pardons/commutations stand.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2024 12:37 PM (ExV1e)
129
Here's your latest reminder: Joe Biden, the person, doesn't do anything. Other people are running the country. He doesn't know he commuted his own bowel movement this morning, let along a bunch of rapists and murderers and rappists.
Posted by: BurtTC
I agree. It isn't just Joe Biden; it is liberals and democrats in general. They are pro criminal.
Posted by: BurtTC
I agree. It isn't just Joe Biden; it is liberals and democrats in general. They are pro criminal.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 23, 2024 12:37 PM (0Htd1)
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125 What a total disappointment and failure that tool is. I had some hopes given his background, but within 30 seconds of taking office he grabbed GOPe dick with both hands and started gargling. He's also a total asshole.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 23, 2024 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
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I remember when he was first elected and pro-Crenshaw sentiment was at its highest.
"I can't wait for him to run for president!" I kept reading.
"Let's wait, like, a year, to see if he's a waste of space or not."
"You're too cynical, TJM. He was great on SNL!"
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 23, 2024 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
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I remember when he was first elected and pro-Crenshaw sentiment was at its highest.
"I can't wait for him to run for president!" I kept reading.
"Let's wait, like, a year, to see if he's a waste of space or not."
"You're too cynical, TJM. He was great on SNL!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:38 PM (4LF+x)
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120 28 days
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (t/2Uw)
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I'm afraid that until now, they've just been warming up.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (GHvvy)
a lot can happen in 28 days...
https://youtu.be/mWEhfF27O0c
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (t/2Uw)
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I'm afraid that until now, they've just been warming up.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (GHvvy)
a lot can happen in 28 days...
https://youtu.be/mWEhfF27O0c
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 12:38 PM (ynpvh)
132
BREAKING: The Subway Burning Victim’s Name was AMELIA CARTER.
She was 29 years old.
She did wake up and stand up shortly before being unable to do so anymore. The Guatemalan illegal who set her on fire just sat there, and a cop walked by like nothing was happening. I think both NYC and Guatemala should be nuked.
She was 29 years old.
She did wake up and stand up shortly before being unable to do so anymore. The Guatemalan illegal who set her on fire just sat there, and a cop walked by like nothing was happening. I think both NYC and Guatemala should be nuked.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:38 PM (QZThv)
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It wouldn't surprise me if he declines to run again. He seems like he's not temperamentally suited to be a legislator.
Posted by: Archimedes
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He'll be there til months after he's admitted to an assisted living facility. If his Fox News-droned constituency wouldn't primary him last spring, I can't see how they ever will. Unless with Phelan et al running for the hills, we get *real* conservatives leading the state GOP to drive him out. Cornyn is dead man walking, but Eyepatch McCain still fits the Fox News profile too well. Can't see him leaving til he's carried out...
Posted by: Archimedes
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He'll be there til months after he's admitted to an assisted living facility. If his Fox News-droned constituency wouldn't primary him last spring, I can't see how they ever will. Unless with Phelan et al running for the hills, we get *real* conservatives leading the state GOP to drive him out. Cornyn is dead man walking, but Eyepatch McCain still fits the Fox News profile too well. Can't see him leaving til he's carried out...
Posted by: bearski at December 23, 2024 12:38 PM (Bhsk7)
134
All in the space of a mere four years.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (ctrM5)
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In fairness - not that he deserves it - Biden merely accelerated the existing trend. Trump was a spendthrift, too (though even for him it went too far, and he had the shutdown battle that he lost). The real pivot into hardcore acceleration was the COVID response, which happened under Trump.
But until that comes under control, inflation is here to stay in a big way. Trump 2.0 is probably not going to be able to bring it under control, since so much of it is structural. He can quit pumping kerosene onto the fire, but the fire is still going to burn.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:36 PM (HnUIn)
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I've been screaming about this from the rooftops since late 2020 . . . .
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (ctrM5)
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In fairness - not that he deserves it - Biden merely accelerated the existing trend. Trump was a spendthrift, too (though even for him it went too far, and he had the shutdown battle that he lost). The real pivot into hardcore acceleration was the COVID response, which happened under Trump.
But until that comes under control, inflation is here to stay in a big way. Trump 2.0 is probably not going to be able to bring it under control, since so much of it is structural. He can quit pumping kerosene onto the fire, but the fire is still going to burn.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:36 PM (HnUIn)
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I've been screaming about this from the rooftops since late 2020 . . . .
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 23, 2024 12:38 PM (iFTx/)
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I'm actually surprised he didn't commute the Boston Bomber's sentence since so many AWFLs lusted after him.
Were I Trump I would be strongly tempted to pardon this guy with the restriction he can't leave Boston. Make the Bostonians deal with the sort of shit they subject the rest of the country to
Were I Trump I would be strongly tempted to pardon this guy with the restriction he can't leave Boston. Make the Bostonians deal with the sort of shit they subject the rest of the country to
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:38 PM (oZhjI)
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"In 2021, Ethel's sons restarted the campaign to pardon Ethel as they were optimistic that President Joe Biden would consider this favorably."
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (+oR7L)
Julius and Ethel are currently unavailable.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (+oR7L)
Julius and Ethel are currently unavailable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 12:38 PM (8zz6B)
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It wouldn't surprise me if he declines to run again. He seems like he's not temperamentally suited to be a legislator.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2024 12:32 PM (xCA6C)
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What a total disappointment and failure that tool is. I had some hopes given his background, but within 30 seconds of taking office he grabbed GOPe dick with both hands and started gargling. He's also a total asshole.
Well, sure, that's another way to put it.
It wouldn't surprise me if he declines to run again. He seems like he's not temperamentally suited to be a legislator.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2024 12:32 PM (xCA6C)
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What a total disappointment and failure that tool is. I had some hopes given his background, but within 30 seconds of taking office he grabbed GOPe dick with both hands and started gargling. He's also a total asshole.
Well, sure, that's another way to put it.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2024 12:38 PM (xCA6C)
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My theory on Biden: He just wants to punish America as much as possible for not giving him the respect he deserved as one of the elite.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 23, 2024 12:38 PM (jGGMD)
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Will Joe pardon the Rosenbergs?
"In 2021, Ethel's sons restarted the campaign to pardon Ethel as they were optimistic that President Joe Biden would consider this favorably."
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (+oR7L)
Other than the fact she was guilty, I'm not sure what the point would be. She fried like bacon decades ago.
"In 2021, Ethel's sons restarted the campaign to pardon Ethel as they were optimistic that President Joe Biden would consider this favorably."
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (+oR7L)
Other than the fact she was guilty, I'm not sure what the point would be. She fried like bacon decades ago.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:39 PM (0Wq3v)
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>>I haven't been calling him F. Joe Mugabe for nothin' ...
An illegal scumbag from Ecuador that was deported by Trump reentered the country illegally under Biden and lit a lit a sleeping woman on fire on a NYC subway. She burned to death.
The media has been portraying Biden as a kindly old man who says dumb things from time to time. It was always a lie. Biden is fucking monster.
An illegal scumbag from Ecuador that was deported by Trump reentered the country illegally under Biden and lit a lit a sleeping woman on fire on a NYC subway. She burned to death.
The media has been portraying Biden as a kindly old man who says dumb things from time to time. It was always a lie. Biden is fucking monster.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 12:39 PM (LkLld)
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28 days
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (t/2Uw)
are you suggesting that Biden has the rage-virus?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (t/2Uw)
are you suggesting that Biden has the rage-virus?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 12:39 PM (D7oie)
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Thank you Donna. I was wondering about that. Pissed me off that the only thing people were talking about was the dirt bag that killed her. Even if it turns out she was a drug addicted homeless vagrant, no one should die like that and then be made invisible by the media.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2024 12:40 PM (t/2Uw)
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So can the Guatemalan fire starter apply for this in advance?
Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 23, 2024 12:40 PM (Ypu3O)
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>>My theory on Biden: He just wants to punish America as much as possible for not giving him the respect he deserved as one of the elite.
He will forever be known as a Venal Racist.
His legacy will be just that and that alone.
He will forever be known as a Venal Racist.
His legacy will be just that and that alone.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2024 12:40 PM (j6KoD)
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101 Should. Unless the GOP fcuks it up, which is within the Republican skill set.
But has any single Biden screw up hurt as much as Carter's handling of Iran, the effects of which still plague us?
Posted by: Eeyore
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Yes. Biden's junta has nearly destroyed the public fisc. We are now borrowing about 1 out of every three dollars spent by Fed Gov and close to one third of the current federal debt was from Joe's junta adopting Modern Monetary Theory where deficits in this make believe world simply do not count. So, we all are at least 30 percent or more poorer from inflation in the costs of goods we need to survive.
...
All in the space of a mere four years.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (ctrM5)
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If you go by the complete record like that, you must include the fact that the USSR was WINNING the Cold War to a degree beyond China's current position. Much of Europe was wavering to their side, and the 3rd World was clearly leaning that way.
Our military was in deep trouble then, too.
It's close, but distance if the biggest thing making Biden look better. (And let's not forget SCOAMF, while we're on the subject.)
But has any single Biden screw up hurt as much as Carter's handling of Iran, the effects of which still plague us?
Posted by: Eeyore
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Yes. Biden's junta has nearly destroyed the public fisc. We are now borrowing about 1 out of every three dollars spent by Fed Gov and close to one third of the current federal debt was from Joe's junta adopting Modern Monetary Theory where deficits in this make believe world simply do not count. So, we all are at least 30 percent or more poorer from inflation in the costs of goods we need to survive.
...
All in the space of a mere four years.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (ctrM5)
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If you go by the complete record like that, you must include the fact that the USSR was WINNING the Cold War to a degree beyond China's current position. Much of Europe was wavering to their side, and the 3rd World was clearly leaning that way.
Our military was in deep trouble then, too.
It's close, but distance if the biggest thing making Biden look better. (And let's not forget SCOAMF, while we're on the subject.)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2024 12:40 PM (1bNHn)
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I think both NYC and Guatemala should be nuked.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:38 PM (QZThv)
Vlad Pootin called, said that could be arranged.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:38 PM (QZThv)
Vlad Pootin called, said that could be arranged.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:40 PM (0Wq3v)
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Julius and Ethel are currently unavailable.
See this is why the death penalty is great - you can punish traitors and murders and not have to worry about some leftist scum letting them off later.
See this is why the death penalty is great - you can punish traitors and murders and not have to worry about some leftist scum letting them off later.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:40 PM (oZhjI)
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I'm surprised he didn't include Tsarnaev.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 12:25 PM (v6JzV)
Tsarnaev is Russian. Couldn't do that.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 12:25 PM (v6JzV)
Tsarnaev is Russian. Couldn't do that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2024 12:40 PM (ExV1e)
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Once off death row, they go back to general pop, right?
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Here are some details about the sparks of the divine that Biden saved. A surprising number were sentenced for killing other inmates while in prison.
https://is.gd/CIXkyY
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Here are some details about the sparks of the divine that Biden saved. A surprising number were sentenced for killing other inmates while in prison.
https://is.gd/CIXkyY
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 12:40 PM (L/fGl)
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132 BREAKING: The Subway Burning Victim’s Name was AMELIA CARTER.
She was 29 years old.
She did wake up and stand up shortly before being unable to do so anymore. The Guatemalan illegal who set her on fire just sat there, and a cop walked by like nothing was happening. I think both NYC and Guatemala should be nuked.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:38 PM (QZThv)
HAS BIDEN PARDONED HER GUATEMALAN MURDERER YET???
She was 29 years old.
She did wake up and stand up shortly before being unable to do so anymore. The Guatemalan illegal who set her on fire just sat there, and a cop walked by like nothing was happening. I think both NYC and Guatemala should be nuked.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:38 PM (QZThv)
HAS BIDEN PARDONED HER GUATEMALAN MURDERER YET???
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 23, 2024 12:41 PM (wtvvX)
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I don't think Biden is actually putting pen to paper on any of this. It's the autopen. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher
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Yep. They might wheel him behind the Resolute Desk to pose for a photo op sometimes. Gets some activity in his day... (serious eye roll...)
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Yep. They might wheel him behind the Resolute Desk to pose for a photo op sometimes. Gets some activity in his day... (serious eye roll...)
Posted by: bearski at December 23, 2024 12:41 PM (Bhsk7)
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are you suggesting that Biden has the rage-virus?
Posted by: Kindltot
I did have that thought....
Posted by: Kindltot
I did have that thought....
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 23, 2024 12:41 PM (t/2Uw)
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Pretty girl too, burned to death because she fell asleep on the subway.
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM (KQk9m)
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Some of these liberals aren't just against the death penalty. Some are also against life in prison. Pope Frank is one of them. If they managed to do away with the death penalty, their next target would be life sentences.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM (0Htd1)
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Any mention of the narrow House that does not mention the Census Bureau's admission that it screwed up the 2020 census and misallocated 17 seats is, bare minimum, incomplete.
One thing Trump should do (he won't) is to demand a reapportionment of the House right now based on the Census' corrected numbers.
And...remember...those corrected numbers also still include illegals being counted. If the GOP can retain control of the executive and force through changes to not count illegals in 2030, imagine the shift in the House.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (4LF+x)
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That's a great idea, TJM.
Who here has enough juice to get this trending and ultimately get this to Trump?
Seriously ... where are The Horde Influencers? VDH -- I know you're out there!
One thing Trump should do (he won't) is to demand a reapportionment of the House right now based on the Census' corrected numbers.
And...remember...those corrected numbers also still include illegals being counted. If the GOP can retain control of the executive and force through changes to not count illegals in 2030, imagine the shift in the House.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (4LF+x)
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That's a great idea, TJM.
Who here has enough juice to get this trending and ultimately get this to Trump?
Seriously ... where are The Horde Influencers? VDH -- I know you're out there!
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM (qvKKA)
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Tsarnaev is Russian. Couldn't do that.
I thought he was Chechen.
And remember, Russia told Obama this guy was a terrorist and a threat - just like the Saudis did with the jihadi in Germany that murdered all those Christians at the Christmas festival
I thought he was Chechen.
And remember, Russia told Obama this guy was a terrorist and a threat - just like the Saudis did with the jihadi in Germany that murdered all those Christians at the Christmas festival
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM (oZhjI)
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148 143
'Someone is telling Joe and DOCTOR Jill that pardoning or commuting the sentences of this group and the previous group of 1500 criminals will enhance his legacy. Why?'
He just visited the pope. The pope is both anti-American and anti-death penalty. Look no further than that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2024 08:25 AM (3wi/L)
Joe pretending to be a Mr. Moral Conscience makes me want to throw up.
'Someone is telling Joe and DOCTOR Jill that pardoning or commuting the sentences of this group and the previous group of 1500 criminals will enhance his legacy. Why?'
He just visited the pope. The pope is both anti-American and anti-death penalty. Look no further than that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2024 08:25 AM (3wi/L)
Joe pretending to be a Mr. Moral Conscience makes me want to throw up.
Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM (aBgBM)
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In fairness - not that he deserves it - Biden merely accelerated the existing trend. Trump was a spendthrift, too (though even for him it went too far, and he had the shutdown battle that he lost). The real pivot into hardcore acceleration was the COVID response, which happened under Trump.
But until that comes under control, inflation is here to stay in a big way. Trump 2.0 is probably not going to be able to bring it under control, since so much of it is structural. He can quit pumping kerosene onto the fire, but the fire is still going to burn.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Depends. Trump's plan was to increase GDP to increase faster than the debt which started working until Covid. Revising tax laws resulted in more revenue as well as the rising economy. A full employment economy while hated by employers actually reduces federal welfare expenditures.
Did not help that GOP Congress refused to actually take any spending reduction from the Obama years seriously nor did they permit much in the way of dislodging, preventing, and removing illegals. Trump's first budget had cuts that the GOP Congress ignored.
But until that comes under control, inflation is here to stay in a big way. Trump 2.0 is probably not going to be able to bring it under control, since so much of it is structural. He can quit pumping kerosene onto the fire, but the fire is still going to burn.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Depends. Trump's plan was to increase GDP to increase faster than the debt which started working until Covid. Revising tax laws resulted in more revenue as well as the rising economy. A full employment economy while hated by employers actually reduces federal welfare expenditures.
Did not help that GOP Congress refused to actually take any spending reduction from the Obama years seriously nor did they permit much in the way of dislodging, preventing, and removing illegals. Trump's first budget had cuts that the GOP Congress ignored.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM (ctrM5)
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Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
#BREAKING: The Trump administration previously DEPORTED the Guatemalan migrant who set a woman on fire, per NYP
But when he re-entered the country illegally under Biden, he was RELEASED into the interior
INFURIATING.
The kller was even living in an NYC migrant shelter, and being subsidized by YOUR tax dollars.
BL00D IS ON YOUR HANDS, JOE BIDEN.
@nicksortor
#BREAKING: The Trump administration previously DEPORTED the Guatemalan migrant who set a woman on fire, per NYP
But when he re-entered the country illegally under Biden, he was RELEASED into the interior
INFURIATING.
The kller was even living in an NYC migrant shelter, and being subsidized by YOUR tax dollars.
BL00D IS ON YOUR HANDS, JOE BIDEN.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM (NpAcC)
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Tsarnaev is Russian. Couldn't do that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2024 12:40 PM (ExV1e)
Well, Chechen, I believe. Russian-speaking muzztard.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2024 12:40 PM (ExV1e)
Well, Chechen, I believe. Russian-speaking muzztard.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM (8zz6B)
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“ Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.”
Isaiah 55:7
Isaiah 55:7
Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2024 12:43 PM (TbpGr)
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'Funnier would be if he made the Butler PA crew her permanent detail.'
Either them or some DEI/Trans clown crew. Scrape together all the human embarrassments. (Adm. Levine, Dogboy, etc.)
'Funnier would be if he made the Butler PA crew her permanent detail.'
Either them or some DEI/Trans clown crew. Scrape together all the human embarrassments. (Adm. Levine, Dogboy, etc.)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2024 12:43 PM (3wi/L)
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Joe Biden is now a worse president than Carter, and his corruption, fecklessness, failure and lying
I blame Obama. And moreso his handlers.
I blame Obama. And moreso his handlers.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2024 12:43 PM (a3Q+t)
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Would love to ask Eyepatch McCain if he thinks his fellow Texans were represented well by Kay Granger. He'd probably start cursing
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2024 12:43 PM (DopAq)
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When was the last time the Feds actually executed someone?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
Timothy McVeigh, I think.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (v6JzV)
Well, he killed government employees (among others) so that figures.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
Timothy McVeigh, I think.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 12:29 PM (v6JzV)
Well, he killed government employees (among others) so that figures.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2024 12:43 PM (ExV1e)
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Pretty girl too, burned to death because she fell asleep on the subway.
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM (KQk9m)
I know there are people who believe they can't, but you HAVE to get out of that city. If you are any kind of decent human being.
Whatever it takes, get out. Leave it to the rats.
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM (KQk9m)
I know there are people who believe they can't, but you HAVE to get out of that city. If you are any kind of decent human being.
Whatever it takes, get out. Leave it to the rats.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:43 PM (0Wq3v)
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Retributive Justice is the ONLY Justice.
Rehabilitation is a scam and does nothing to deter criminality.
Rehabilitation is a scam and does nothing to deter criminality.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2024 12:43 PM (j6KoD)
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She did wake up and stand up shortly before being unable to do so anymore. The Guatemalan illegal who set her on fire just sat there, and a cop walked by like nothing was happening. I think both NYC and Guatemala should be nuked.
Posted by: Ian S.
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That video is horrific. There was a lot of discussion on it last night on X, and no one seemed to understand.
- she was probably blind from the flames
- she probably could not scream due to the flames.
- so she stood there. On fire. I think the fire on her back was not even noticeable to her at that point.
One of the most horrific video I have seen on the internet.
Posted by: Ian S.
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That video is horrific. There was a lot of discussion on it last night on X, and no one seemed to understand.
- she was probably blind from the flames
- she probably could not scream due to the flames.
- so she stood there. On fire. I think the fire on her back was not even noticeable to her at that point.
One of the most horrific video I have seen on the internet.
Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 23, 2024 12:43 PM (Ypu3O)
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She was 29 years old.
She did wake up and stand up shortly before being unable to do so anymore. The Guatemalan illegal who set her on fire just sat there, and a cop walked by like nothing was happening. I think both NYC and Guatemala should be nuked.
I saw a purported video that shows a body standing and on fire. I can't say if it is real or not as the people around don't seem to be reacting in the way you would hope people would react.
She did wake up and stand up shortly before being unable to do so anymore. The Guatemalan illegal who set her on fire just sat there, and a cop walked by like nothing was happening. I think both NYC and Guatemala should be nuked.
I saw a purported video that shows a body standing and on fire. I can't say if it is real or not as the people around don't seem to be reacting in the way you would hope people would react.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:43 PM (oZhjI)
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Would love to ask Eyepatch McCain if he thinks his fellow Texans were represented well by Kay Granger. He'd probably start cursing
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2024 12:43 PM (DopAq)
I'd take a dozen Kay "Don't call me Wayne" Grangers over one Eyepatch Mccane.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2024 12:43 PM (DopAq)
I'd take a dozen Kay "Don't call me Wayne" Grangers over one Eyepatch Mccane.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:44 PM (0Wq3v)
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Any mention of the narrow House that does not mention the Census Bureau's admission that it screwed up the 2020 census and misallocated 17 seats is, bare minimum, incomplete.
One thing Trump should do (he won't) is to demand a reapportionment of the House right now based on the Census' corrected numbers.
And...remember...those corrected numbers also still include illegals being counted. If the GOP can retain control of the executive and force through changes to not count illegals in 2030, imagine the shift in the House.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (4LF+x)
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He might. It's almost a no-lose for him. It ties into all his pet peeves and reasons why he won. The Democraps and GOPe braying felchers would scream and squeal like stuck pigs, but that only means Trump is right over the target.
One thing Trump should do (he won't) is to demand a reapportionment of the House right now based on the Census' corrected numbers.
And...remember...those corrected numbers also still include illegals being counted. If the GOP can retain control of the executive and force through changes to not count illegals in 2030, imagine the shift in the House.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:34 PM (4LF+x)
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He might. It's almost a no-lose for him. It ties into all his pet peeves and reasons why he won. The Democraps and GOPe braying felchers would scream and squeal like stuck pigs, but that only means Trump is right over the target.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 23, 2024 12:44 PM (iFTx/)
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When was the last time the Feds actually executed someone?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
Timothy McVeigh, I think.
Fastest federal execution in living memory.
I suppose they had to make sure he didn't decide to talk about John Doe #2
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
Timothy McVeigh, I think.
Fastest federal execution in living memory.
I suppose they had to make sure he didn't decide to talk about John Doe #2
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:45 PM (oZhjI)
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Did not help that GOP Congress refused to actually take any spending reduction from the Obama years seriously nor did they permit much in the way of dislodging, preventing, and removing illegals. Trump's first budget had cuts that the GOP Congress ignored.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM
*We* have J-Street cocktail parties to attend (and donations to extort), and *you* do not.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM
*We* have J-Street cocktail parties to attend (and donations to extort), and *you* do not.
Posted by: GOPe at December 23, 2024 12:45 PM (a3Q+t)
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171 He might. It's almost a no-lose for him. It ties into all his pet peeves and reasons why he won. The Democraps and GOPe braying felchers would scream and squeal like stuck pigs, but that only means Trump is right over the target.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 23, 2024 12:44 PM (iFTx/)
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"It's unfair! It's disruptive!"
-the only argument against it, and it sucks
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 23, 2024 12:44 PM (iFTx/)
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"It's unfair! It's disruptive!"
-the only argument against it, and it sucks
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:45 PM (4LF+x)
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>>That's a great idea, TJM.
>>Who here has enough juice to get this trending and ultimately get this to Trump?
>>Seriously ... where are The Horde Influencers? VDH -- I know you're out there!
Trump took a shot at trying to fix the census problems in his first term. The swamp fought back. I suspect he will try again.
>>Who here has enough juice to get this trending and ultimately get this to Trump?
>>Seriously ... where are The Horde Influencers? VDH -- I know you're out there!
Trump took a shot at trying to fix the census problems in his first term. The swamp fought back. I suspect he will try again.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 12:45 PM (LkLld)
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Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello 3h
Joe Biden just commuted the sentences of 37 animals sitting on de*th row.
Now they will spend their lives in federal prison--instead of being put to de*th.
The mainstream media won't detail what landed them on de*th row in the first place.
I've read through the court filings for all 37 animals.
Here are the details regarding the vile crimes they committed:
Thomas Sanders was sentenced to de*th after he kidna*ped and then shot 12-year-Lexis Roberts four times and c*t her throat in Louisiana. Before kil*ing the girl, he forced her to watch him mu*der her mother on a road trip near the Grand Canyon. [... ALL at link]
https://tinyurl.com/yckep7he
Joe Biden just commuted the sentences of 37 animals sitting on de*th row.
Now they will spend their lives in federal prison--instead of being put to de*th.
The mainstream media won't detail what landed them on de*th row in the first place.
I've read through the court filings for all 37 animals.
Here are the details regarding the vile crimes they committed:
Thomas Sanders was sentenced to de*th after he kidna*ped and then shot 12-year-Lexis Roberts four times and c*t her throat in Louisiana. Before kil*ing the girl, he forced her to watch him mu*der her mother on a road trip near the Grand Canyon. [... ALL at link]
https://tinyurl.com/yckep7he
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 23, 2024 12:45 PM (hovnC)
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"Wasn't alive for Wilson or Buchanan, so they're OK now."
Because I can't read, never went to a school, and have never spoken with anyone outside my age group?
It appears that it was Benedict XVI who progressed from JP II's "do all you can to avoid using the death penalty" to "do all you can to do away with it."
Because I can't read, never went to a school, and have never spoken with anyone outside my age group?
It appears that it was Benedict XVI who progressed from JP II's "do all you can to avoid using the death penalty" to "do all you can to do away with it."
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 23, 2024 12:46 PM (zdLoL)
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Fastest federal execution in living memory.
I suppose they had to make sure he didn't decide to talk about John Doe #2
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:45 PM (oZhjI)
Jack Ruby called and said "second fastest."
I suppose they had to make sure he didn't decide to talk about John Doe #2
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:45 PM (oZhjI)
Jack Ruby called and said "second fastest."
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 12:46 PM (0Wq3v)
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But has any single Biden screw up hurt as much as Carter's handling of Iran, the effects of which still plague us?
The vaccine mandates and lockdowns are the worst decision/policy in American history. Nothing else comes close.
The vaccine mandates and lockdowns are the worst decision/policy in American history. Nothing else comes close.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:46 PM (oZhjI)
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It wouldn't surprise me if he [ Crenshaw ] declines to run again. He seems like he's not temperamentally suited to be a legislator.
Has he been in long enough to qualify for the congressional pension? If not, he'll run again. And win again. Because TX GOP.
Has he been in long enough to qualify for the congressional pension? If not, he'll run again. And win again. Because TX GOP.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 23, 2024 12:46 PM (/y8xj)
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Sundowner is trying to burn down the country
Shame he doesn't play the violin
Shame he doesn't play the violin
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2024 12:46 PM (Wkv9q)
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167 Retributive Justice is the ONLY Justice.
Rehabilitation is a scam and does nothing to deter criminality.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2024 12:43 PM (j6KoD)
A Righteous Kill is what a man lives for.
Rehabilitation is a scam and does nothing to deter criminality.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2024 12:43 PM (j6KoD)
A Righteous Kill is what a man lives for.
Posted by: XTC at December 23, 2024 12:46 PM (UnA8+)
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All in the space of a mere four years.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (ctrM5)
In fairness, Obama set it up for eight years and the deep state prevented Trump from undoing much of it for another four.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:33 PM (ctrM5)
In fairness, Obama set it up for eight years and the deep state prevented Trump from undoing much of it for another four.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2024 12:46 PM (ExV1e)
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Just took a two mile walk in 12° weather. I don't want to leave the house anymore today
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2024 12:47 PM (DopAq)
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Eyepatch McCain has been pretty quiet since he cursed someone out on X last week and everyone asked him if those were "muh norms" he said Trump violates.
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From the Bee . . .
National Debt Paid Off With The Change In Dan Crenshaw's Swear Jar
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From the Bee . . .
National Debt Paid Off With The Change In Dan Crenshaw's Swear Jar
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 12:47 PM (L/fGl)
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Biden loves criminals because they are a major portion of the Democrat base.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2024 12:47 PM (WPL6O)
Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2024 12:47 PM (TN0g+)
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Biden is all for the death penalty.. If it's the Unborn
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2024 12:47 PM (VE6XX)
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>>A Righteous Kill is what a man lives for.
Only God can truly judge a man.
...but we can get him to the front of that line.
Only God can truly judge a man.
...but we can get him to the front of that line.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2024 12:47 PM (j6KoD)
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Don't call them animals, they are savages.
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2024 12:48 PM (KQk9m)
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Sundowner is trying to burn down the country
Shame he doesn't play the violin
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2024 12:46 PM
To be fair, in Nero's era, the violin hadn't been invented yet.
Shame he doesn't play the violin
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2024 12:46 PM
To be fair, in Nero's era, the violin hadn't been invented yet.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 23, 2024 12:48 PM (a3Q+t)
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The vaccine mandates and lockdowns are the worst decision/policy in American history. Nothing else comes close.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:46 PM (oZhjI)
he vaccine mandates and lock-downs were absolutely necessary to hide the fact that Fauci and his tame virologists had created and released a bioweapon that they had spent 10 years developing
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:46 PM (oZhjI)
he vaccine mandates and lock-downs were absolutely necessary to hide the fact that Fauci and his tame virologists had created and released a bioweapon that they had spent 10 years developing
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 12:48 PM (D7oie)
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...Before kil*ing the girl, he forced her to watch him mu*der her mother on a road trip near the Grand Canyon. [... ALL at link]
https://tinyurl.com/yckep7he
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 23, 2024 12:45 PM (hovnC)
Fuckity-fuck! Can you not replace all the fucking asterisks with the proper letter? This stupid bowdlerization of normal words in normal discourse is fucking retarded.
https://tinyurl.com/yckep7he
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 23, 2024 12:45 PM (hovnC)
Fuckity-fuck! Can you not replace all the fucking asterisks with the proper letter? This stupid bowdlerization of normal words in normal discourse is fucking retarded.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 12:48 PM (8zz6B)
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And at the federal level, the President has full discretion to simply say "no executions on my watch" and criminal sits in limbo for who knows how long before another President says, "kill the bastards". In many ways the death sentence is just life without parole.
We should do the death penalty like Japan does the death penalty.
You will die at some point in the next year but we won't tell you when. Reflect on your crimes every time you hear footsteps and wonder if the day has come.
We should do the death penalty like Japan does the death penalty.
You will die at some point in the next year but we won't tell you when. Reflect on your crimes every time you hear footsteps and wonder if the day has come.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2024 12:49 PM (ExV1e)
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I saw a purported video that shows a body standing and on fire. I can't say if it is real or not as the people around don't seem to be reacting in the way you would hope people would react.
It's real. That's post-Daniel Penny New York.
It's real. That's post-Daniel Penny New York.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:49 PM (QZThv)
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Sundowner is trying to burn down the country
Shame he doesn't play the violin
His allies in Ukraine are taking his last few days in office to crash suicide drones into apartment buildings. And yes the video looks a lot like a smaller scale 9/11.
Shame he doesn't play the violin
His allies in Ukraine are taking his last few days in office to crash suicide drones into apartment buildings. And yes the video looks a lot like a smaller scale 9/11.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:49 PM (oZhjI)
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I could have sworn S.Carolina had sentenced Roof to death. I misremembered. That's the only reason he's still alive. Every breath he's taken since the day after he was convicted is a mockery of justice.
There shouldn't be a federal death sentence except in cases of high treason, because every state should be using it and fast-tracking the appeals process in every capital case. Justice is only served when the crime that precipitated the punishment is recent memory. The murderer shouldn't outlive those grieving.
There shouldn't be a federal death sentence except in cases of high treason, because every state should be using it and fast-tracking the appeals process in every capital case. Justice is only served when the crime that precipitated the punishment is recent memory. The murderer shouldn't outlive those grieving.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 23, 2024 12:49 PM (wzAuc)
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Fuckity-fuck! Can you not replace all the fucking asterisks with the proper letter? This stupid bowdlerization of normal words in normal discourse is fucking retarded.
All major services and quite a few minor ones will delete your post if you don't asterisk the hell out of everything. You've already lost that battle.
All major services and quite a few minor ones will delete your post if you don't asterisk the hell out of everything. You've already lost that battle.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:50 PM (QZThv)
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People like Dylan Roof should not be captured alive.
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2024 12:50 PM (KQk9m)
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And yes the video looks a lot like a smaller scale 9/11.
So like the 9/11 cheer routine WeirdDave had Thursday on the ONT?
So like the 9/11 cheer routine WeirdDave had Thursday on the ONT?
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:50 PM (QZThv)
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Depends. Trump's plan was to increase GDP to increase faster than the debt which started working until Covid. Revising tax laws resulted in more revenue as well as the rising economy. A full employment economy while hated by employers actually reduces federal welfare expenditures. ...
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM (ctrM5)
++++
I think we've moved past the "grow your way out of the problem" stage of things, and nibbling at the edges (DOGE, basically, which I fully support but also think will be ultimately inadequate) can't get there. We've waited too long and are well into "deep, painful cuts - particularly to the federal medical payments structure" territory.
We've borrowed more than 100% of our GDP growth for years, even under Trump (though Trump had a quarter or two, IIRC, where we posted real growth - quite an accomplishment, even of not enough).
As to your latter point, yes, absolutely. Trump picked that battle and fought it. He just lost.
Posted by: whig at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM (ctrM5)
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I think we've moved past the "grow your way out of the problem" stage of things, and nibbling at the edges (DOGE, basically, which I fully support but also think will be ultimately inadequate) can't get there. We've waited too long and are well into "deep, painful cuts - particularly to the federal medical payments structure" territory.
We've borrowed more than 100% of our GDP growth for years, even under Trump (though Trump had a quarter or two, IIRC, where we posted real growth - quite an accomplishment, even of not enough).
As to your latter point, yes, absolutely. Trump picked that battle and fought it. He just lost.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:50 PM (HnUIn)
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All major services and quite a few minor ones will delete your post if you don't asterisk the hell out of everything. You've already lost that battle.
I've noticed in the various places I follow news that involves crime there is all sort of this
"Grape"
"Ended himself"
etc...
All major services and quite a few minor ones will delete your post if you don't asterisk the hell out of everything. You've already lost that battle.
I've noticed in the various places I follow news that involves crime there is all sort of this
"Grape"
"Ended himself"
etc...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:51 PM (oZhjI)
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Shut up, Wesley!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2024 12:51 PM (+QlJh)
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Happy Festivus.
I have a lot of problems with you people
I have a lot of problems with you people
Posted by: RUReadingthis at December 23, 2024 12:51 PM (aQ25I)
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' Trump 2.0 is probably not going to be able to bring it under control, since so much of it is structural.'
Low fuel prices will mitigate inflation somewhat since fuel is an item in about every price.
' Trump 2.0 is probably not going to be able to bring it under control, since so much of it is structural.'
Low fuel prices will mitigate inflation somewhat since fuel is an item in about every price.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2024 12:51 PM (3wi/L)
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Fuckity-fuck! Can you not replace all the fucking asterisks with the proper letter? This stupid bowdlerization of normal words in normal discourse is fucking retarded.
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It's something with X twitter.
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It's something with X twitter.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 23, 2024 12:51 PM (hovnC)
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202 also pdf files
Shit gets deleted otherwise
Shit gets deleted otherwise
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2024 12:52 PM (KQk9m)
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Well I am kind of opposed to FEDERAL death sentences and stomach it for clear cases of terrorism. But in general the STATES should be handling murders, not the feds.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 23, 2024 12:52 PM (UKUm3)
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#206 I don't know the justification for it though.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 23, 2024 12:52 PM (hovnC)
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Just saw a video of Luigi doing his perp walk into the courtroom to enter a plea. Smug little turd.
Posted by: Tuna at December 23, 2024 12:52 PM (oaGWv)
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also pdf files
Shit gets deleted otherwise
And here I already thought I hated PDFs when they were just annoying file types...
Shit gets deleted otherwise
And here I already thought I hated PDFs when they were just annoying file types...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:52 PM (oZhjI)
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All major services and quite a few minor ones will delete your post if you don't asterisk the hell out of everything. You've already lost that battle.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:50 PM (QZThv)
We don't have to do that here. Please take the time to make appropriate corrections if pulling a quote from one of those sewers.
Or use "sic" to ridicule them.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:50 PM (QZThv)
We don't have to do that here. Please take the time to make appropriate corrections if pulling a quote from one of those sewers.
Or use "sic" to ridicule them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 12:53 PM (8zz6B)
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I wonder who decided to have Biden sugn the commutations
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2024 12:53 PM (U1FmN)
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All major services and quite a few minor ones will delete your post if you don't asterisk the hell out of everything. You've already lost that battle.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:50 PM (QZThv)
There is such a thing as "creep". Ev*ntually, ev*ry w*rd w*ll b* ast*risked mer*ly *ut *f f*ar th*t th* p*st w*ll b* b*nned s*nce the guid*lines w*re ext*nded du* t* th* pr*cautionary pr*nc*ple
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:50 PM (QZThv)
There is such a thing as "creep". Ev*ntually, ev*ry w*rd w*ll b* ast*risked mer*ly *ut *f f*ar th*t th* p*st w*ll b* b*nned s*nce the guid*lines w*re ext*nded du* t* th* pr*cautionary pr*nc*ple
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 12:53 PM (D7oie)
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Yeah, it's puzzling. If it's a principled case of "I oppose the death penalty, and so am converting all death sentences to life in prison without parole," then it should be universally applied. It wasn't universally applied, so it was no a matter of principle.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (HnUIn)
There was a Democrat governor of New York (Hugh Carey) who opposed the death penalty. It was an unpopular stance, but his rationale was that he saw too much death in combat in WWII, and didn't want to be responsible for any more.
While I might disagree, at least it was principled.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (HnUIn)
There was a Democrat governor of New York (Hugh Carey) who opposed the death penalty. It was an unpopular stance, but his rationale was that he saw too much death in combat in WWII, and didn't want to be responsible for any more.
While I might disagree, at least it was principled.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2024 12:53 PM (d9fT1)
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From AP: "Broadly, crime is down in the city transit system this year compared to the same time period in 2023. Data compiled by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority show a 6% decline in what the agency calls major felonies between January and November of this year and 2023."
Well, declines if you don't report the crimes or downgrade them to misdemeanors...and what is a "major felony"? I would guess not a crime committed by Sgt. Pepper and his band...
Well, declines if you don't report the crimes or downgrade them to misdemeanors...and what is a "major felony"? I would guess not a crime committed by Sgt. Pepper and his band...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 12:54 PM (ynpvh)
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I wonder who decided to have Biden sugn the commutations
And more interestingly who paid Biden for it...?
By the way I suspect this shit will get worse - remember Bill Clinton signed pardons on his way out explicitly for cash payments and in one case sex?
And more interestingly who paid Biden for it...?
By the way I suspect this shit will get worse - remember Bill Clinton signed pardons on his way out explicitly for cash payments and in one case sex?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:54 PM (oZhjI)
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210 Supposedly a large number of 20 something women all waiting to see him
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2024 12:54 PM (KQk9m)
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There was a Democrat governor of New York (Hugh Carey) who opposed the death penalty. It was an unpopular stance, but his rationale was that he saw too much death in combat in WWII, and didn't want to be responsible for any more.
While I might disagree, at least it was principled.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2024 12:53 PM (d9fT1)
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Yup. Which is not what this was. Just arbitrary and confusing.
I, too, oppose the death penalty for different reasons and so wouldn't even necessarily object to a move like this (even if it were for the wrong reasons, which it surely would be) had it been consistent.
But it wasn't. Just bizarre.
While I might disagree, at least it was principled.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2024 12:53 PM (d9fT1)
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Yup. Which is not what this was. Just arbitrary and confusing.
I, too, oppose the death penalty for different reasons and so wouldn't even necessarily object to a move like this (even if it were for the wrong reasons, which it surely would be) had it been consistent.
But it wasn't. Just bizarre.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:55 PM (HnUIn)
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215 Yeah, it's puzzling. If it's a principled case of "I oppose the death penalty, and so am converting all death sentences to life in prison without parole," then it should be universally applied. It wasn't universally applied, so it was no a matter of principle.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (HnUIn)
There was a Democrat governor of New York (Hugh Carey) who opposed the death penalty. It was an unpopular stance, but his rationale was that he saw too much death in combat in WWII, and didn't want to be responsible for any more.
While I might disagree, at least it was principled.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2024 12:53 PM (d9fT1)
Evil can be principled; it's just that those principles are perverse.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:20 PM (HnUIn)
There was a Democrat governor of New York (Hugh Carey) who opposed the death penalty. It was an unpopular stance, but his rationale was that he saw too much death in combat in WWII, and didn't want to be responsible for any more.
While I might disagree, at least it was principled.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2024 12:53 PM (d9fT1)
Evil can be principled; it's just that those principles are perverse.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 12:55 PM (ynpvh)
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I've noticed in the various places I follow news that involves crime there is all sort of this
"Grape"
"Ended himself"
Yup. That's one reason the funding for the State Department/CIA Center For Electing Democrats Perpetually was a big deal in the cramnibus fight. As always, I strongly suggest if you haven't listened to Mike Benz on Joe Rogan about a month ago, look it up.
"Grape"
"Ended himself"
Yup. That's one reason the funding for the State Department/CIA Center For Electing Democrats Perpetually was a big deal in the cramnibus fight. As always, I strongly suggest if you haven't listened to Mike Benz on Joe Rogan about a month ago, look it up.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:55 PM (QZThv)
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The loathsome Guardian is doing mass layoffs of the "freelancers" that they relied upon for much of its content.
Nature is healing.
Nature is healing.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 23, 2024 12:55 PM (uxCna)
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Biden's Christmas gift to us is grievances to air around the Festivus pole.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 12:55 PM (L/fGl)
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Shreveport Times, Politics
'Three remain on federal death row after Biden commutations: Who are Roof, Bowers, Tsarnaev?'
Of the 40 prisoners on federal death row, only three did not have their sentences commuted Monday by President Joe Biden. Eric Lagatta, Published today, by USA TODAY
In part, "... Though Biden was unable to fulfill his campaign pledge of ending the death penalty, the commutations are a way for the outgoing president to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from going forward with the executions after he's sworn in.
Unlike a blanket pardon, a commutation does not erase an inmate's conviction, but instead imposes a less harsh punishment. In this case, the death row inmates who received commutations from Biden will now serve life in prison without the possibility of parole."
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The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Writing
For distinguished feature writing giving prime consideration to quality of writing, originality and concision, using any available journalistic tool, $15,000). Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, freelance writer, For an unforgettable portrait of murderer* Dylann Roof, using a unique and powerful mix of reporting...
*autistic
'Three remain on federal death row after Biden commutations: Who are Roof, Bowers, Tsarnaev?'
Of the 40 prisoners on federal death row, only three did not have their sentences commuted Monday by President Joe Biden. Eric Lagatta, Published today, by USA TODAY
In part, "... Though Biden was unable to fulfill his campaign pledge of ending the death penalty, the commutations are a way for the outgoing president to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from going forward with the executions after he's sworn in.
Unlike a blanket pardon, a commutation does not erase an inmate's conviction, but instead imposes a less harsh punishment. In this case, the death row inmates who received commutations from Biden will now serve life in prison without the possibility of parole."
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The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Writing
For distinguished feature writing giving prime consideration to quality of writing, originality and concision, using any available journalistic tool, $15,000). Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, freelance writer, For an unforgettable portrait of murderer* Dylann Roof, using a unique and powerful mix of reporting...
*autistic
Posted by: L - Rooster one day, Feather duster another at December 23, 2024 12:55 PM (NFX2v)
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We've borrowed more than 100% of our GDP growth for years, even under Trump (though Trump had a quarter or two, IIRC, where we posted real growth - quite an accomplishment, even of not enough).
As to your latter point, yes, absolutely. Trump picked that battle and fought it. He just lost.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:50 PM (HnUIn)
I’m not an economist and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn last night…. But I’m very skeptical of this conventional wisdom…. Because I’ve heard economists and politicians wailing about the oncoming debt apocalypse since Reagan… 44 years and still no apocalypse. I’m not buying it… as long as the US economy is strong by comparison to the rest of the world we’ll be fine. I see no other country ready to supplant us
As to your latter point, yes, absolutely. Trump picked that battle and fought it. He just lost.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:50 PM (HnUIn)
I’m not an economist and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn last night…. But I’m very skeptical of this conventional wisdom…. Because I’ve heard economists and politicians wailing about the oncoming debt apocalypse since Reagan… 44 years and still no apocalypse. I’m not buying it… as long as the US economy is strong by comparison to the rest of the world we’ll be fine. I see no other country ready to supplant us
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (t3Itw)
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Good on President Biden! I honestly wouldn’t have held it against him for commuting the remaining three, despicable as they are, because there is zero purpose for the death penalty. But that would have probably caused heavy backlash due to the notoriety of those crimes.
The timing is the worst. Two days before Christmas when literally very few are paying attention to the news. January 2nd would have been better IMHO.
For Biden as a religious Catholic, this could be in the spirit of Christmas. I am glad he did it, but don't think this is something that is a political plus or minus.
Bravo! Wish it could have been all 40, but take what we can get.
Trump will probably do it for the racist, the antisemitic killer, and the one who killed Bostonians. Trump will be justified in not executing three folks whose motives his followers agree with. Pretty canny, actually. Their lives will be spared, too, I believe.
The timing is the worst. Two days before Christmas when literally very few are paying attention to the news. January 2nd would have been better IMHO.
For Biden as a religious Catholic, this could be in the spirit of Christmas. I am glad he did it, but don't think this is something that is a political plus or minus.
Bravo! Wish it could have been all 40, but take what we can get.
Trump will probably do it for the racist, the antisemitic killer, and the one who killed Bostonians. Trump will be justified in not executing three folks whose motives his followers agree with. Pretty canny, actually. Their lives will be spared, too, I believe.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (JCZqz)
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This busty redhead has long since stopped looking for things like "reasons" or "consistency" or "rationale" in anything coming from the Biden Administration:
http://tiny.cc/4fn2001
http://tiny.cc/4fn2001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (HnUIn)
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Just saw a video of Luigi doing his perp walk into the courtroom to enter a plea. Smug little turd.
With hundreds of pretty young women outside hoping to accidentally slip and fall on his dick. Unreal.
With hundreds of pretty young women outside hoping to accidentally slip and fall on his dick. Unreal.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (QZThv)
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Joke wants his"atta boy" from frankie
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2024 12:57 PM (XTmTf)
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'Three remain on federal death row after Biden commutations: Who are Roof, Bowers, Tsarnaev?'
Of the 40 prisoners on federal death row, only three did not have their sentences commuted Monday by President Joe Biden.
OTOH, that is an excellent way to say "f*** you" to the remaining three.
Winter is coming, and Trump is coming, bastards.
Of the 40 prisoners on federal death row, only three did not have their sentences commuted Monday by President Joe Biden.
OTOH, that is an excellent way to say "f*** you" to the remaining three.
Winter is coming, and Trump is coming, bastards.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 23, 2024 12:57 PM (uxCna)
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226 Good on President Biden! I honestly wouldn’t have held it against him for commuting the remaining three, despicable as they are, because there is zero purpose for the death penalty. But that would have probably caused heavy backlash due to the notoriety of those crimes.
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Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (JCZqz)
Recidivism is 0% when the death penalty is applied...
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Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (JCZqz)
Recidivism is 0% when the death penalty is applied...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 12:57 PM (ynpvh)
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Mumia (not sure got that right should still be hanging out as a guest in Pa.
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2024 12:58 PM (Wkv9q)
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There is such a thing as "creep". Ev*ntually, ev*ry w*rd w*ll b* ast*risked mer*ly *ut *f f*ar th*t th* p*st w*ll b* b*nned s*nce the guid*lines w*re ext*nded du* t* th* pr*cautionary pr*nc*ple
Posted by: Kindltot
Why? BECAUSE YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TR*TH!
Posted by: Kindltot
Why? BECAUSE YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TR*TH!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 12:58 PM (L/fGl)
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The loathsome Guardian is doing mass layoffs of the "freelancers" that they relied upon for much of its content.
Excellent.
Excellent.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:58 PM (QZThv)
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>>With hundreds of pretty young women outside hoping to accidentally slip and fall on his dick. Unreal.
With any luck, some will fall asleep on the Subway ride home.
With any luck, some will fall asleep on the Subway ride home.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2024 12:58 PM (j6KoD)
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I’m not an economist and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn last night…. But I’m very skeptical of this conventional wisdom…. Because I’ve heard economists and politicians wailing about the oncoming debt apocalypse since Reagan… 44 years and still no apocalypse. I’m not buying it… as long as the US economy is strong by comparison to the rest of the world we’ll be fine. I see no other country ready to supplant us
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (t3Itw)
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There's a lot of runway.
Or, there *was* a lot of runway. Once you turn the corner into a condition where each dollar you borrow buys you less than a dollar of growth, it starts eating itself and you get persistent, structural inflation.
We're in that territory now.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (t3Itw)
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There's a lot of runway.
Or, there *was* a lot of runway. Once you turn the corner into a condition where each dollar you borrow buys you less than a dollar of growth, it starts eating itself and you get persistent, structural inflation.
We're in that territory now.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:58 PM (HnUIn)
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231 226 Good on President Biden! I honestly wouldn’t have held it against him for commuting the remaining three, despicable as they are, because there is zero purpose for the death penalty. But that would have probably caused heavy backlash due to the notoriety of those crimes.
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Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (JCZqz)
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How many of these people were calling for Trump's death?
Just curious.
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Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (JCZqz)
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How many of these people were calling for Trump's death?
Just curious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 12:58 PM (4LF+x)
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#206 I don't know the justification for it though.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 23, 2024 12:52 PM (hovnC)
But it's within our powers, as posters here, to make the necessary corrections. We should not sit flaccidly and let the Twatter censors control our use of language. If you are unwilling to change "m*rder" to "murder", then please add (sic) after every such instance.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 23, 2024 12:52 PM (hovnC)
But it's within our powers, as posters here, to make the necessary corrections. We should not sit flaccidly and let the Twatter censors control our use of language. If you are unwilling to change "m*rder" to "murder", then please add (sic) after every such instance.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 12:58 PM (8zz6B)
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Evil can be principled; it's just that those principles are perverse.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 12:55 PM (ynpvh)
Interesting point. We always assume principles are moral correct, but obviously that is not the case.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 12:55 PM (ynpvh)
Interesting point. We always assume principles are moral correct, but obviously that is not the case.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2024 12:59 PM (d9fT1)
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Supposedly a large number of 20 something women all waiting to see him/i]
Online I see the average age of Luigi lovers is a bit older like eternal teen prognosticator Taylor Lorenz
Online I see the average age of Luigi lovers is a bit older like eternal teen prognosticator Taylor Lorenz
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:59 PM (oZhjI)
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I am so dreading turning 30 next year.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 23, 2024 12:59 PM (LPS7w)
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227 This busty redhead has long since stopped looking for things like "reasons" or "consistency" or "rationale" in anything coming from the Biden Administration:
http://tiny.cc/4fn2001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (HnUIn)
If she's a real redhead, she's not collected very many souls (or at least the amount of skin she's showing shows no evidence)...
http://tiny.cc/4fn2001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (HnUIn)
If she's a real redhead, she's not collected very many souls (or at least the amount of skin she's showing shows no evidence)...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 12:59 PM (ynpvh)
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Interesting point. We always assume principles are moral correct, but obviously that is not the case.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2024 12:59 PM (d9fT1)
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Not at all.
I know that *my* principles are morally correct. The other guy's, though, are definitely subject to scrutiny...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2024 12:59 PM (d9fT1)
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Not at all.
I know that *my* principles are morally correct. The other guy's, though, are definitely subject to scrutiny...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:59 PM (HnUIn)
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We're in that territory now.
Interest payments on the Federal debt are now greater than defense expenditures.
Interest payments on the Federal debt are now greater than defense expenditures.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 23, 2024 12:59 PM (uxCna)
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If you are unwilling to change "m*rder" to "murder", then please add (sic) after every such instance.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 12:58 PM (8zz6B)
I h*pe yo* real*ze wh*t yo* h*ve st*rted.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 12:58 PM (8zz6B)
I h*pe yo* real*ze wh*t yo* h*ve st*rted.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2024 01:00 PM (d9fT1)
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There is such a thing as "creep". Ev*ntually, ev*ry w*rd w*ll b* ast*risked mer*ly *ut *f f*ar th*t th* p*st w*ll b* b*nned s*nce the guid*lines w*re ext*nded du* t* th* pr*cautionary pr*nc*ple
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 12:53 PM (D7oie)
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F u cn rd ths, u cn mk lts f mony...
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 12:53 PM (D7oie)
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F u cn rd ths, u cn mk lts f mony...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 23, 2024 01:00 PM (6K6Eu)
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"Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims... and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,"
BULLSH*T. You don't give a rat's backside about the victims OR about justice. FU Joe.
BULLSH*T. You don't give a rat's backside about the victims OR about justice. FU Joe.
Posted by: GWB at December 23, 2024 01:00 PM (WlvCt)
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I’m not an economist and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn last night…. But I’m very skeptical of this conventional wisdom…. Because I’ve heard economists and politicians wailing about the oncoming debt apocalypse since Reagan… 44 years and still no apocalypse. I’m not buying it… as long as the US economy is strong by comparison to the rest of the world we’ll be fine. I see no other country ready to supplant us
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (t3Itw)
It will remain OK until the dollar starts losing value so quickly that no other nation wants to keep it as a store of value, or it is supplanted by an alternate currency as an international standard of trade, be it some sort of stablecoin or BRICS.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (t3Itw)
It will remain OK until the dollar starts losing value so quickly that no other nation wants to keep it as a store of value, or it is supplanted by an alternate currency as an international standard of trade, be it some sort of stablecoin or BRICS.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 01:00 PM (D7oie)
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Evil can be principled; it's just that those principles are perverse.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 12:55 PM
* cackles *
* synchronized wing flaps *
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 12:55 PM
* cackles *
* synchronized wing flaps *
Posted by: Big Penguin at December 23, 2024 01:00 PM (a3Q+t)
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"For Biden as a religious Catholic..."
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I'm not sure how these idiots are capable of even typing that collection of words. If there were unlimited choices of 2-word phrases to describe Biden, would even his leftist supporters even in his alleged prime ever select "religious Catholic"?
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I'm not sure how these idiots are capable of even typing that collection of words. If there were unlimited choices of 2-word phrases to describe Biden, would even his leftist supporters even in his alleged prime ever select "religious Catholic"?
Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2024 01:00 PM (TN0g+)
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Interest payments on the Federal debt are now greater than defense expenditures.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 23, 2024 12:59 PM (uxCna)
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I've never been fond of that standard, because both can vary and defense expenditure can vary wildly. The final fate is on interest costs as a percentage of receipts. It keeps soaring.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 23, 2024 12:59 PM (uxCna)
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I've never been fond of that standard, because both can vary and defense expenditure can vary wildly. The final fate is on interest costs as a percentage of receipts. It keeps soaring.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 01:01 PM (HnUIn)
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Fuckity-fuck! Can you not replace all the fucking asterisks with the proper letter? This stupid bowdlerization of normal words in normal discourse is fucking retarded.
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It's something with X twitter.
I do it a lot because I feel (probably incorrectly) that it's a bit more genteel than open swearing and it gives me the latitude to not bowdlerize when I want to convey that last bit of anger or scorn at something or someone. Also, at one point, Ace tried to get us to tone down the comments a bit because he thought it was causing his site to get down-rated for ad placement. He was probably right but eventually gave up trying to bail the ocean.
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It's something with X twitter.
I do it a lot because I feel (probably incorrectly) that it's a bit more genteel than open swearing and it gives me the latitude to not bowdlerize when I want to convey that last bit of anger or scorn at something or someone. Also, at one point, Ace tried to get us to tone down the comments a bit because he thought it was causing his site to get down-rated for ad placement. He was probably right but eventually gave up trying to bail the ocean.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 23, 2024 01:01 PM (/y8xj)
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All major services and quite a few minor ones will delete your post if you don't asterisk the hell out of everything. You've already lost that battle.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:50 PM (QZThv)
That may be true, but anyone who uses "unalived" instead of killed or suicide or whatever other word there is for death, I automatically stop listening/watching/reading.
There's my line in the sand. It's the hill I will unalive on.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 12:50 PM (QZThv)
That may be true, but anyone who uses "unalived" instead of killed or suicide or whatever other word there is for death, I automatically stop listening/watching/reading.
There's my line in the sand. It's the hill I will unalive on.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 01:01 PM (0Wq3v)
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I wonder who decided to have Biden sugn the commutations
We protect our own. ...as long as they don't talk.
We protect our own. ...as long as they don't talk.
Posted by: The Deep State at December 23, 2024 01:01 PM (Av2Ad)
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I saw a purported video that shows a body standing and on fire. I can't say if it is real or not as the people around don't seem to be reacting in the way you would hope people would react.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:43 PM (oZhjI)
NYC subway. It takes 30 minutes to mentally run through all the ways the city will fuck you over if you react.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 12:43 PM (oZhjI)
NYC subway. It takes 30 minutes to mentally run through all the ways the city will fuck you over if you react.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2024 01:01 PM (ExV1e)
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>>For Biden as a religious Catholic, this could be in the spirit of Christmas.
There should be an intelligence test as well as a test of current events for people to be able to vote.
Biden spent decades in the Senate pretending to be McGruff the crime dog culminating with his infamous crime bill that disproportionately targeted crack users like his dirtbag son but now he's super religious Joe who just loves abortion and mutilating children.
We shouldn't have our votes cancelled out by people with low double digit IQs.
There should be an intelligence test as well as a test of current events for people to be able to vote.
Biden spent decades in the Senate pretending to be McGruff the crime dog culminating with his infamous crime bill that disproportionately targeted crack users like his dirtbag son but now he's super religious Joe who just loves abortion and mutilating children.
We shouldn't have our votes cancelled out by people with low double digit IQs.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 01:01 PM (LkLld)
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How much did he and his family get paid ?
Posted by: runner at December 23, 2024 01:01 PM (0R9Xx)
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It's something with X twitter.
Google/YouTube is actually the strongest-form at it.
The justification is the op that MediaMatters ran against Twitter after Elon bought it where if you can show someone's ad next to terminology they don't like, they'll pull their advertising.
Making everything on the Internet "free with ads" was a mistake. Elon gets it, Gab knew a long time ago, Ace even understands it.
Google/YouTube is actually the strongest-form at it.
The justification is the op that MediaMatters ran against Twitter after Elon bought it where if you can show someone's ad next to terminology they don't like, they'll pull their advertising.
Making everything on the Internet "free with ads" was a mistake. Elon gets it, Gab knew a long time ago, Ace even understands it.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 01:01 PM (QZThv)
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Trump will probably do it for the racist, the antisemitic killer, and the one who killed Bostonians.
I love how Trump is both controlled by the Israelis AND he's an anti-semite. Oh and that he loves his Jewish daughter too much AND he hates all Jews.
And frankly a good portion of those "Boston Strong" assholes also want The Joker out because Shrub was man to muslims or something
I love how Trump is both controlled by the Israelis AND he's an anti-semite. Oh and that he loves his Jewish daughter too much AND he hates all Jews.
And frankly a good portion of those "Boston Strong" assholes also want The Joker out because Shrub was man to muslims or something
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 01:01 PM (oZhjI)
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Although Biden might be as religious a Catholic as Pope Francis...
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2024 01:02 PM (KQk9m)
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Trump will probably do it for the racist, the antisemitic killer, and the one who killed Bostonians. Trump will be justified in not executing three folks whose motives his followers agree with. Pretty canny, actually. Their lives will be spared, too, I believe.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (JCZqz)
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The level of disconnect and unreality from DU on the issues of what Trump voters think or want is incredible.
Trump voters agree with the Boston bomber??? With the synagogue murderer??? The church murderer???
What do you even say to something that supernaturally idiotic? Trump voters absolutely despise all three of these ghouls and want to see them executed asap.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (JCZqz)
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The level of disconnect and unreality from DU on the issues of what Trump voters think or want is incredible.
Trump voters agree with the Boston bomber??? With the synagogue murderer??? The church murderer???
What do you even say to something that supernaturally idiotic? Trump voters absolutely despise all three of these ghouls and want to see them executed asap.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 23, 2024 01:02 PM (iFTx/)
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W my nt s vwls, bt t lst w dn't fck rnd wth strcks!
Posted by: The Welsh at December 23, 2024 01:02 PM (a3Q+t)
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I do it a lot because I feel (probably incorrectly) that it's a bit more genteel than open swearing and it gives me the latitude to not bowdlerize when I want to convey that last bit of anger or scorn at something or someone. Also, at one point, Ace tried to get us to tone down the comments a bit because he thought it was causing his site to get down-rated for ad placement. He was probably right but eventually gave up trying to bail the ocean.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 23, 2024 01:01 PM (/y8xj)
I'm pretty sure I only used the word "f**k" one time on this here webzine.
And the person I used it on deserved it.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 23, 2024 01:01 PM (/y8xj)
I'm pretty sure I only used the word "f**k" one time on this here webzine.
And the person I used it on deserved it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2024 01:02 PM (0Wq3v)
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It will remain OK until the dollar starts losing value so quickly that no other nation wants to keep it as a store of value, or it is supplanted by an alternate currency as an international standard of trade, be it some sort of stablecoin or BRICS.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 01:00 PM (D7oie)
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Or, more likely: nothing. The world does not *need* a "reserve currency." It usually has one, because it makes trade easier, but it doesn't always and it isn't a requirement.
We might end up with another when the USD stops being it, but it could take a while. Until that sorts itself out, it'll be what it always: a bunch of currencies and commodities. No single thing. And trade gets some more friction and expense associated with it, and total trade volume declines at least somewhat.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 01:00 PM (D7oie)
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Or, more likely: nothing. The world does not *need* a "reserve currency." It usually has one, because it makes trade easier, but it doesn't always and it isn't a requirement.
We might end up with another when the USD stops being it, but it could take a while. Until that sorts itself out, it'll be what it always: a bunch of currencies and commodities. No single thing. And trade gets some more friction and expense associated with it, and total trade volume declines at least somewhat.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (HnUIn)
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What Joe Mannix said, re fiscal insanity. A key consideration is that not only is there little runway left, but not many if any tools in the toolbox for monetary authorities to use if/when a black swan comes along. Thanks to the idiotic incompetence dating back to 2008 (on the monetary/interest rate side).
Inflation might be tamed a bit, or more, by real growth and end of suppression of the real energy sector.
I don't recall Trump or team ever directly addressing the question, but everyone I know has agreed they have always thought they could grow their way out of the structural/discretionary fiscal disaster. It fits their (otherwise excellent) mindset. But it's not the 1990s, where a positive black swan of growth overwhelmed federal spending growth (with some Gingrich help on restraining that growth), for a time.
Inflation might be tamed a bit, or more, by real growth and end of suppression of the real energy sector.
I don't recall Trump or team ever directly addressing the question, but everyone I know has agreed they have always thought they could grow their way out of the structural/discretionary fiscal disaster. It fits their (otherwise excellent) mindset. But it's not the 1990s, where a positive black swan of growth overwhelmed federal spending growth (with some Gingrich help on restraining that growth), for a time.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (1m82a)
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261 Trump voters agree with the Boston bomber??? With the synagogue murderer??? The church murderer???
What do you even say to something that supernaturally idiotic? Trump voters absolutely despise all three of these ghouls and want to see them executed asap.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 23, 2024 01:02 PM (iFTx/)
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Probably more about Trump not caring about states that don't vote for him.
There have been anonymous reports of things like Trump refusing CA disaster relief until some staffer reminded him that some CA voters vote for him.
What do you even say to something that supernaturally idiotic? Trump voters absolutely despise all three of these ghouls and want to see them executed asap.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 23, 2024 01:02 PM (iFTx/)
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Probably more about Trump not caring about states that don't vote for him.
There have been anonymous reports of things like Trump refusing CA disaster relief until some staffer reminded him that some CA voters vote for him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (4LF+x)
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Probably more about Trump not caring about states that don't vote for him.
You mean like what just happened with NC?
Probably more about Trump not caring about states that don't vote for him.
You mean like what just happened with NC?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (oZhjI)
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Or, there *was* a lot of runway. Once you turn the corner into a condition where each dollar you borrow buys you less than a dollar of growth, it starts eating itself and you get persistent, structural inflation.
We're in that territory now.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:58 PM (HnUIn)
But I was promised Weimar Republic type inflation where I need a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a loaf of bread. I say that’s poppycock…. Biden type inflation yes, but I don’t buy the coming apocalypse
We're in that territory now.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:58 PM (HnUIn)
But I was promised Weimar Republic type inflation where I need a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a loaf of bread. I say that’s poppycock…. Biden type inflation yes, but I don’t buy the coming apocalypse
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2024 01:04 PM (t3Itw)
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Until that sorts itself out, it'll be what it always: a bunch of currencies and commodities. No single thing. And trade gets some more friction and expense associated with it, and total trade volume declines at least somewhat.
And arbitrage opportunities will be yuge.
And arbitrage opportunities will be yuge.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 01:04 PM (QZThv)
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Probably more about Trump not caring about states that don't vote for him.
You mean like what just happened with NC?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (oZhjI)
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"This is the fault of NC voters for murdering 13 FEMA employees. It was on Mother Jones."
Probably more about Trump not caring about states that don't vote for him.
You mean like what just happened with NC?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (oZhjI)
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"This is the fault of NC voters for murdering 13 FEMA employees. It was on Mother Jones."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 01:04 PM (4LF+x)
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I do it a lot because I feel (probably incorrectly) that it's a bit more genteel than open swearing and it gives me the latitude to not bowdlerize when I want to convey that last bit of anger or scorn at something or someone. Also, at one point, Ace tried to get us to tone down the comments a bit because he thought it was causing his site to get down-rated for ad placement. He was probably right but eventually gave up trying to bail the ocean.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 23, 2024 01:01 PM (/y8xj)
I was not speaking of curse words. Just ordinary words.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 23, 2024 01:01 PM (/y8xj)
I was not speaking of curse words. Just ordinary words.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 01:05 PM (8zz6B)
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Demonic. No other explanation needed.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2024 01:05 PM (K1FQ5)
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But I was promised Weimar Republic type inflation where I need a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a loaf of bread. I say that’s poppycock…. Biden type inflation yes, but I don’t buy the coming apocalypse
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2024 01:04 PM (t3Itw)
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They are not the same, and there are wildly different causes.
Inflation - even high, persistent inflation - is a monetary phenomenon.
Hyperinflation is a social/political phenomenon.
They are different things. Argentina had persistently high inflation for decades, but never a total loss of confidence resulting in outright collapse of the currency. They never went Weimar or Zimbabwe. They just had terrible fiscal behavior and ruinous inflation for long periods of time.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2024 01:04 PM (t3Itw)
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They are not the same, and there are wildly different causes.
Inflation - even high, persistent inflation - is a monetary phenomenon.
Hyperinflation is a social/political phenomenon.
They are different things. Argentina had persistently high inflation for decades, but never a total loss of confidence resulting in outright collapse of the currency. They never went Weimar or Zimbabwe. They just had terrible fiscal behavior and ruinous inflation for long periods of time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 01:05 PM (HnUIn)
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Posted by: Oddbob at December 23, 2024 01:01 PM (/y8xj)
Comments got moved to a different domain
Comments got moved to a different domain
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2024 01:06 PM (K1FQ5)
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I'd be watching the Biden Presidential Library donation numbers to see if any of these pardons coincide with $$$ they received.
This is the Biden Crime family we're talking about here.
I'd be watching the Biden Presidential Library donation numbers to see if any of these pardons coincide with $$$ they received.
This is the Biden Crime family we're talking about here.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2024 01:06 PM (+oR7L)
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There have been anonymous reports of things like Trump refusing CA disaster relief until some staffer reminded him that some CA voters vote for him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (4LF+x)
Anonymous reports about Trump are about as reliable as wind power.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (4LF+x)
Anonymous reports about Trump are about as reliable as wind power.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2024 01:07 PM (K1FQ5)
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But has any single Biden screw up hurt as much as Carter's handling of Iran, the effects of which still plague us?
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2024 12:25 PM (1bNHn)
Spreading his ass cheeks as he left afghanistan while gifting the chinese a nice airbase and 90 billion dollars worth of weapons to the goat fuckers comes to mind.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2024 12:25 PM (1bNHn)
Spreading his ass cheeks as he left afghanistan while gifting the chinese a nice airbase and 90 billion dollars worth of weapons to the goat fuckers comes to mind.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2024 01:07 PM (VwHCD)
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I wonder how many corrections officers (and others) have been killed by convicted murderers?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2024 01:07 PM (XeU6L)
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I'd be watching the Biden Presidential Library donation numbers to see if any of these pardons coincide with $$$ they received.
This is the Biden Crime family we're talking about here.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2024 01:06 PM (+oR7L)
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It's the Politboro using the autopen to accomplish true believer goals.
It's not about monetary corruption to Biden. It's about generalized corruption of authority in the federal executive.
I'd be watching the Biden Presidential Library donation numbers to see if any of these pardons coincide with $$$ they received.
This is the Biden Crime family we're talking about here.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2024 01:06 PM (+oR7L)
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It's the Politboro using the autopen to accomplish true believer goals.
It's not about monetary corruption to Biden. It's about generalized corruption of authority in the federal executive.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 01:07 PM (4LF+x)
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>>I say that’s poppycock…. Biden type inflation yes, but I don’t buy the coming apocalypse
Gravity would never do that to ME, though!
Gravity would never do that to ME, though!
Posted by: Amelia Earhart at December 23, 2024 01:08 PM (j6KoD)
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>>They are different things. Argentina had persistently high inflation for decades, but never a total loss of confidence resulting in outright collapse of the currency. They never went Weimar or Zimbabwe. They just had terrible fiscal behavior and ruinous inflation for long periods of time.
Last time I was in Argentina was about 10 years ago. When I entered I changed a couple hundred dollars just to have some cash. When I left 3 days later they told me the currency was fluctuating so wildly they couldn't do the transaction and I would have to wait a few days and do it back in the states.
Argentina was way out of control.
Last time I was in Argentina was about 10 years ago. When I entered I changed a couple hundred dollars just to have some cash. When I left 3 days later they told me the currency was fluctuating so wildly they couldn't do the transaction and I would have to wait a few days and do it back in the states.
Argentina was way out of control.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 01:08 PM (LkLld)
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Also, at one point, Ace tried to get us to tone down the comments a bit because he thought it was causing his site to get down-rated for ad placement. He was probably right but eventually gave up trying to bail the ocean.
Ace and most of the cobs still keep the front page pretty sanitized. Comments pages don't have ads so anything goes.
Ace and most of the cobs still keep the front page pretty sanitized. Comments pages don't have ads so anything goes.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2024 01:08 PM (QZThv)
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Probably more about Trump not caring about states that don't vote for him.
You mean like what just happened with NC?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (oZhjI)
How about every Red state Biden's admin sent illegal immigrants into? That was certainly a big FU. And don't forget they pulled the same stunt in FL as they did in NC...Trump signs mean "Do Not Enter"...
Probably more about Trump not caring about states that don't vote for him.
You mean like what just happened with NC?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (oZhjI)
How about every Red state Biden's admin sent illegal immigrants into? That was certainly a big FU. And don't forget they pulled the same stunt in FL as they did in NC...Trump signs mean "Do Not Enter"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 01:08 PM (ynpvh)
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Never forget these same people celebrate the execution of innocent babies. They lit up the Empire State Building for it.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2024 01:08 PM (K1FQ5)
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276 There have been anonymous reports of things like Trump refusing CA disaster relief until some staffer reminded him that some CA voters vote for him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (4LF+x)
Anonymous reports about Trump are about as reliable as wind power.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2024 01:07 PM (K1FQ5)
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I'm, of course, not saying I believe it.
But one anonymous report that says something not nice about Trump becomes accepted truth within DU before the sun is down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (4LF+x)
Anonymous reports about Trump are about as reliable as wind power.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2024 01:07 PM (K1FQ5)
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I'm, of course, not saying I believe it.
But one anonymous report that says something not nice about Trump becomes accepted truth within DU before the sun is down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 01:08 PM (4LF+x)
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Anonymous reports about Trump are about as reliable as wind power.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2024 01:07 PM (K1FQ5)
If you could place windmills before the pieholes of "anonymous sources" you'd have wind 24/7
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2024 01:07 PM (K1FQ5)
If you could place windmills before the pieholes of "anonymous sources" you'd have wind 24/7
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 01:08 PM (8zz6B)
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Or, more likely: nothing. The world does not *need* a "reserve currency." It usually has one, because it makes trade easier, but it doesn't always and it isn't a requirement.
We might end up with another when the USD stops being it, but it could take a while. Until that sorts itself out, it'll be what it always: a bunch of currencies and commodities. No single thing. And trade gets some more friction and expense associated with it, and total trade volume declines at least somewhat.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (HnUIn)
The first fiat currency was developed in China, and under the Mongols (Yuan dynasty) it was inflated to pay for Imperial expenses hand over fist. It was convenient and easy to use, and let merchants in central Asia trade easily with China. It eventually became hyperinflationary and started to collapse starting from China outwards, destroying economies as everyone realized that no one would take the paper. It is a very real issue because it was also a store of value, and that value evaporated. Even though it was widely used, was a store of value, in the end it was worth nothing.
We might end up with another when the USD stops being it, but it could take a while. Until that sorts itself out, it'll be what it always: a bunch of currencies and commodities. No single thing. And trade gets some more friction and expense associated with it, and total trade volume declines at least somewhat.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (HnUIn)
The first fiat currency was developed in China, and under the Mongols (Yuan dynasty) it was inflated to pay for Imperial expenses hand over fist. It was convenient and easy to use, and let merchants in central Asia trade easily with China. It eventually became hyperinflationary and started to collapse starting from China outwards, destroying economies as everyone realized that no one would take the paper. It is a very real issue because it was also a store of value, and that value evaporated. Even though it was widely used, was a store of value, in the end it was worth nothing.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 01:09 PM (D7oie)
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276 There have been anonymous reports of things like Trump refusing CA disaster relief until some staffer reminded him that some CA voters vote for him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (4LF+x)
Anonymous reports about Trump are about as reliable as wind power.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2024 01:07 PM (K1FQ5)
Or reports of Biden's amazingly sharp acuity and memory by the MSM...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (4LF+x)
Anonymous reports about Trump are about as reliable as wind power.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2024 01:07 PM (K1FQ5)
Or reports of Biden's amazingly sharp acuity and memory by the MSM...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 01:09 PM (ynpvh)
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I'd be watching the Biden Presidential Library donation numbers to see if any of these pardons coincide with $$$ they received.
This is the Biden Crime family we're talking about here.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2024 01:06 PM (+oR7L)
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It should be built in Zimbabwe, as a wing of the Obama Presidential Outhouse.
This is the Biden Crime family we're talking about here.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2024 01:06 PM (+oR7L)
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It should be built in Zimbabwe, as a wing of the Obama Presidential Outhouse.
Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 23, 2024 01:09 PM (pTC3n)
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Awww...little Joker didn't get a commutation? That's awful.
Anyway...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
Why is that cocksucker still breathing? Fry him already.
Anyway...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
Why is that cocksucker still breathing? Fry him already.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 23, 2024 01:09 PM (+eoWy)
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How about every Red state Biden's admin sent illegal immigrants into? That was certainly a big FU. And don't forget they pulled the same stunt in FL as they did in NC...Trump signs mean "Do Not Enter"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 01:08 PM (ynpvh)
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And yet...it seems like these illegals have this tendency to go from Iowa, where they don't get much in terms of social services, to places like NY and CA that promise them free bennies for life.
It's not just Abbott buses getting illegals from the Mexican border to NY and taking down their municipal services.
How about every Red state Biden's admin sent illegal immigrants into? That was certainly a big FU. And don't forget they pulled the same stunt in FL as they did in NC...Trump signs mean "Do Not Enter"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 01:08 PM (ynpvh)
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And yet...it seems like these illegals have this tendency to go from Iowa, where they don't get much in terms of social services, to places like NY and CA that promise them free bennies for life.
It's not just Abbott buses getting illegals from the Mexican border to NY and taking down their municipal services.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 01:09 PM (4LF+x)
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But I was promised Weimar Republic type inflation where I need a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a loaf of bread. I say that’s poppycock…. Biden type inflation yes, but I don’t buy the coming apocalypse
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
DAMMIT! This was may big retirement investment scheme!!! I hope i can return all these wheelbarrows for cash instead of store credit.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
DAMMIT! This was may big retirement investment scheme!!! I hope i can return all these wheelbarrows for cash instead of store credit.
Posted by: Doomer Libs stockpiling wheelbarrows at December 23, 2024 01:10 PM (JCZqz)
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One of the guys Biden pardon was a corrupt cop running protection rackets for cocaine dealers in New Orleans. Also murder of witnesses. His false testimony put half a dozen people for hundreds of cumulative years in prison to cover up for his crimes.
So, yeah, way to improve the justice system, f’ing idiot.
So, yeah, way to improve the justice system, f’ing idiot.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 23, 2024 01:10 PM (cBelj)
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Joe it's a Wittgenstein vs. Democritus* sort of discussion to have, but in effect Argentina's (and Brazil's) currencies did collapse several times in the 80s and 90s, in effect, or partially at least. Issuing new currencies (repeatedly) and dollarization of much of the economy could be considered a "soft" currency collapse.
* obscure but perfect Woody Allen joke reference from one of his books, not movies
* obscure but perfect Woody Allen joke reference from one of his books, not movies
Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2024 01:10 PM (1m82a)
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I wonder what book Joey would have in his library.
I assume it would be a pop-up or a coloring book.
I assume it would be a pop-up or a coloring book.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 01:10 PM (LkLld)
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'Joe pretending to be a Mr. Moral Conscience makes me want to throw up.'
Me too. That and beat the shit out of 82 year old man.
'Joe pretending to be a Mr. Moral Conscience makes me want to throw up.'
Me too. That and beat the shit out of 82 year old man.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2024 01:10 PM (3wi/L)
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THE TRUTH? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
Jorge Bonilla@BonillaJL
CBS Evening News was the only legacy media newscast to cover the horrendous burning to death of a woman on the NYC subway, and omitted details of the suspected murderer's migrant status. ABC and NBC didn't even bother airing a report at all.
Jorge Bonilla@BonillaJL
CBS Evening News was the only legacy media newscast to cover the horrendous burning to death of a woman on the NYC subway, and omitted details of the suspected murderer's migrant status. ABC and NBC didn't even bother airing a report at all.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 01:11 PM (L/fGl)
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* obscure but perfect Woody Allen joke reference from one of his books, not movies
His first 2 books are really good stuff.
His first 2 books are really good stuff.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2024 01:11 PM (j6KoD)
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Trump voters agree with the Boston bomber??? With the synagogue murderer??? The church murderer???
What do you even say to something that supernaturally idiotic? Trump voters absolutely despise all three of these ghouls and want to see them executed asap.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 23, 2024 01:02 PM (iFTx/)
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Probably more about Trump not caring about states that don't vote for him.
There have been anonymous reports of things like Trump refusing CA disaster relief until some staffer reminded him that some CA voters vote for him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (4LF+x)
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Even that doesn't make sense, though. Bowers was PA and Roof was South Carolina. Trump country.
What do you even say to something that supernaturally idiotic? Trump voters absolutely despise all three of these ghouls and want to see them executed asap.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 23, 2024 01:02 PM (iFTx/)
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Probably more about Trump not caring about states that don't vote for him.
There have been anonymous reports of things like Trump refusing CA disaster relief until some staffer reminded him that some CA voters vote for him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 23, 2024 01:03 PM (4LF+x)
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Even that doesn't make sense, though. Bowers was PA and Roof was South Carolina. Trump country.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 23, 2024 01:11 PM (iFTx/)
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Why is that cocksucker still breathing? Fry him already.
Put him in a small room with a pressure cooker filled with ball bearings and let him wonder when it will go off.
Put him in a small room with a pressure cooker filled with ball bearings and let him wonder when it will go off.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 23, 2024 01:11 PM (/y8xj)
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Trump nominated Ken Howery to be ambassador to Denmark. His announcement included this:
"For purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity."
Hmm...
"For purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity."
Hmm...
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 23, 2024 01:12 PM (paSBy)
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A single international currency is very useful because it stops the expenses of having to dive in and out of currencies to do business. If you had to buy Euros to sell Buicks to France or Natural gas to Germany then the cost is higher opposed to having everything denominated in dollars. Even saying you don't care is not important because after a while, most of the transactions will be done in whatever currency is the most stable, easiest to get and cheapest to run transactions in (which is why it will not be Bitcoin since Bitcoin is expensive to use)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 01:12 PM (D7oie)
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narf
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 01:12 PM (D7oie)
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The problem with abolishing the death penalty is that the same people who think the death penalty is inhumane also thing that life without parole is inhumane.
The problem with abolishing the death penalty is that the same people who think the death penalty is inhumane also thing that life without parole is inhumane.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2024 01:12 PM (dxSpM)
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Good news, Trump talks about buying Greenland again.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QprdN9wCJkw
He wrote it directly in his nomination for Ambassador to Denmark.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QprdN9wCJkw
He wrote it directly in his nomination for Ambassador to Denmark.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 01:12 PM (kquDM)
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There should be an intelligence test as well as a test of current events for people to be able to vote.
It'll never happen, of course. Alternatively, I'd like to see a cognition test for people seeking office, so we don't have any more dementia home patients in office. For example, we could use the citizenship test.
It'll never happen, of course. Alternatively, I'd like to see a cognition test for people seeking office, so we don't have any more dementia home patients in office. For example, we could use the citizenship test.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2024 01:12 PM (xCA6C)
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If you could place windmills before the pieholes of "anonymous sources" you'd have wind 24/7
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 01:08 PM
What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 01:08 PM
What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at December 23, 2024 01:13 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 01:13 PM (kquDM)
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Ace and most of the cobs still keep the front page pretty sanitized. Comments pages don't have ads so anything goes.
Posted by: Ian S.
Yeah, this place is pretty tame, considering. Go ahead and drop some hard-R N-Bombs, make some barely veiled racial death threats, and see how long you last before getting banned. AoS HQ is a pretty tight ship.
Posted by: Ian S.
Yeah, this place is pretty tame, considering. Go ahead and drop some hard-R N-Bombs, make some barely veiled racial death threats, and see how long you last before getting banned. AoS HQ is a pretty tight ship.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 23, 2024 01:13 PM (JCZqz)
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Trump is trying to secure the frozen polar bear poop supply!
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 23, 2024 01:13 PM (cBelj)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2024 01:14 PM (3wi/L)
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160 Tsarnaev is Russian. Couldn't do that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2024 12:40 PM (ExV1e)
Well, Chechen, I believe. Russian-speaking muzztard.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM (8zz6B)
He is dreamy is what he is!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2024 12:40 PM (ExV1e)
Well, Chechen, I believe. Russian-speaking muzztard.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 12:42 PM (8zz6B)
He is dreamy is what he is!
Posted by: Rolling Stone at December 23, 2024 01:14 PM (eb5mD)
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121 Why does America pretend Biden's actions (like issuing pardons and commutations) should have legal force and effect? 25th amendment his bony ass right now, to prevent more damage.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (wqtxH)
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Then they just convince Kamala to do it before she leaves in January.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2024 12:35 PM (wqtxH)
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Then they just convince Kamala to do it before she leaves in January.
Posted by: Ciampino - No standing on your ass at December 23, 2024 01:14 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2024 01:14 PM (dxSpM)
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Biden only commuted the sentences of those he personally felt didn’t deserve the death penalty.
So he’s not against the death penalty. He’s against the trial and jury system that adjudicated those cases.
This isn’t “Christian” in any sense of that word. It’s political, insidious and deliberately misleading by using moral reasoning as a pretext for political motivations.
So he’s not against the death penalty. He’s against the trial and jury system that adjudicated those cases.
This isn’t “Christian” in any sense of that word. It’s political, insidious and deliberately misleading by using moral reasoning as a pretext for political motivations.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2024 01:15 PM (Iusta)
316
Nidal Hassan not mentioned anywhere.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2024 01:15 PM (XTmTf)
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292 But I was promised Weimar Republic type inflation where I need a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a loaf of bread. I say that’s poppycock…. Biden type inflation yes, but I don’t buy the coming apocalypse
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
DAMMIT! This was may big retirement investment scheme!!! I hope i can return all these wheelbarrows for cash instead of store credit.
Posted by: Doomer Libs stockpiling wheelbarrows at December 23, 2024 01:10 PM (JCZqz)
Reminds me of this joke...
Every day, a Mexican would ride a bicycle loaded with cardboard through the border. The border guard, feeling in his gut that something was going on, would search the cardboard but find nothing. This went on for years until one day, the border guard retired. Going into Mexico for a drink at a local bar, he found the guy who rode the bicycle every day also in the bar, and they started chatting.
former Guard: "Hey, I'm retired now, but I just have to know: what were you smuggling across the border?"
Mexican: "Bicycles."...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
DAMMIT! This was may big retirement investment scheme!!! I hope i can return all these wheelbarrows for cash instead of store credit.
Posted by: Doomer Libs stockpiling wheelbarrows at December 23, 2024 01:10 PM (JCZqz)
Reminds me of this joke...
Every day, a Mexican would ride a bicycle loaded with cardboard through the border. The border guard, feeling in his gut that something was going on, would search the cardboard but find nothing. This went on for years until one day, the border guard retired. Going into Mexico for a drink at a local bar, he found the guy who rode the bicycle every day also in the bar, and they started chatting.
former Guard: "Hey, I'm retired now, but I just have to know: what were you smuggling across the border?"
Mexican: "Bicycles."...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 01:15 PM (ynpvh)
318
"Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims... and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss," Biden said in a statement.
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I don't think Biden can actually say/pronounce any of those words. Maybe have rudimentary thoughts of some.
Should not the attribution be "Biden staffers claimed he said"?
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I don't think Biden can actually say/pronounce any of those words. Maybe have rudimentary thoughts of some.
Should not the attribution be "Biden staffers claimed he said"?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2024 01:15 PM (/lPRQ)
319
The average voter's eyes glaze over when you talk about debt, deficit, monetary policy, etc. You lose them before you finish your sentence. It gets even worse if you try to educate them.
The price of gas or eggs on the other hand...
The price of gas or eggs on the other hand...
Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2024 01:15 PM (i0F8b)
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Supposedly a large number of 20 something women all waiting to see him
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2024 12:54 PM (KQk9m)
My pop was one of the corrections officers who watched over Charlie Manson at Corcoran. For years, Manson always had a full roster on visiting day, occasionally his lawyer, but mostly it was chicks.
Incidentally, Manson HATED to be called "Chuck", so of course when he acted up, the COs would spend the next week using the name.
Supposedly a large number of 20 something women all waiting to see him
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2024 12:54 PM (KQk9m)
My pop was one of the corrections officers who watched over Charlie Manson at Corcoran. For years, Manson always had a full roster on visiting day, occasionally his lawyer, but mostly it was chicks.
Incidentally, Manson HATED to be called "Chuck", so of course when he acted up, the COs would spend the next week using the name.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2024 01:16 PM (y9nCu)
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210
'Just saw a video of Luigi doing his perp walk into the courtroom to enter a plea. Smug little turd.'
Faggot probably already knows how popular he is with the left.
'Just saw a video of Luigi doing his perp walk into the courtroom to enter a plea. Smug little turd.'
Faggot probably already knows how popular he is with the left.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2024 01:16 PM (3wi/L)
322
AoS HQ is a pretty tight ship.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 23, 2024 01:13 PM (JCZqz)
Only the barrel has holes. I heard they were so the occupant can breathe, but I’ve also heard other things.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 23, 2024 01:13 PM (JCZqz)
Only the barrel has holes. I heard they were so the occupant can breathe, but I’ve also heard other things.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 23, 2024 01:16 PM (cBelj)
323
Compared to Insty, AoSHQ is tea and cucumber sandwiches.
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Comments at Insty get reliably *ruined* by 2 particular anti-Semitic pricks who could turn a story about Penguins into a reason to slime the Jews.
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Comments at Insty get reliably *ruined* by 2 particular anti-Semitic pricks who could turn a story about Penguins into a reason to slime the Jews.
Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2024 01:16 PM (TN0g+)
324
Eye patch McCain said nasty things about Catturd, including that he didn't know what it was like to serve. Problem is that Catturd is a veteran too. That seems to have been a bit of an embarrassment
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (NQtI0)
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304
The problem with abolishing the death penalty is that the same people who think the death penalty is inhumane also thing that life without parole is inhumane.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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People say, oh, killing them is not Christian. Really? What did Christ say about baby diddlers? Actually even less than that.
The problem with abolishing the death penalty is that the same people who think the death penalty is inhumane also thing that life without parole is inhumane.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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People say, oh, killing them is not Christian. Really? What did Christ say about baby diddlers? Actually even less than that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (kquDM)
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308 Here’s a prospective map of these United States.
https://tinyurl.com/3e5a7t6c
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 01:13 PM (kquDM)
Oh? Iceland and Cuba too?
https://tinyurl.com/3e5a7t6c
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 01:13 PM (kquDM)
Oh? Iceland and Cuba too?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (ynpvh)
327
Nidal Hassan not mentioned anywhere.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2024 01:15 PM (XTmTf)
Makes you wonder if he still in custody, or did he get secretly renditioned to a non-extradition country?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2024 01:15 PM (XTmTf)
Makes you wonder if he still in custody, or did he get secretly renditioned to a non-extradition country?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (8zz6B)
328
Compared to Insty, AoSHQ is tea and cucumber sandwiches.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2024 01:14 PM
Sadly, our observations show many Morons aren't yet extending their pinkies whilst sipping.
#BeBetter
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2024 01:14 PM
Sadly, our observations show many Morons aren't yet extending their pinkies whilst sipping.
#BeBetter
Posted by: Bob from NSA at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (a3Q+t)
329
They are different things. Argentina had persistently high inflation for decades, but never a total loss of confidence resulting in outright collapse of the currency. They never went Weimar or Zimbabwe. They just had terrible fiscal behavior and ruinous inflation for long periods of time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 01:05 PM (HnUIn)
I am sorry, but this is not right. Argentina had a series of revaluations on the Peso, and in the 80's they changed from the Peso to the Austral (an echo of Brazil's regular change in currency for the same reason) which also hyperinflated, and was then replaced by the Peso pegged against the US Dollar.
After a bit Argentina found the currency peg keeping them from buying all the votes and summer estates they wanted, so they loosened the rules with encouragement from the IMF but kept the peg and obligated all enforceable contracts in Argentina to be paid in Pesos, and this set up the current legal black market for floating peso exchanges for dollars called the "dollar blue" which is posted in all the major papers
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 01:05 PM (HnUIn)
I am sorry, but this is not right. Argentina had a series of revaluations on the Peso, and in the 80's they changed from the Peso to the Austral (an echo of Brazil's regular change in currency for the same reason) which also hyperinflated, and was then replaced by the Peso pegged against the US Dollar.
After a bit Argentina found the currency peg keeping them from buying all the votes and summer estates they wanted, so they loosened the rules with encouragement from the IMF but kept the peg and obligated all enforceable contracts in Argentina to be paid in Pesos, and this set up the current legal black market for floating peso exchanges for dollars called the "dollar blue" which is posted in all the major papers
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (D7oie)
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I thought "the end is near" back in 1999 with CNBC cheering on Dow 10,000 with their party hats. But then we got ever lower interest rates for 20 years, all the way to zero, to always keep the markets higher (Buy Every Dip).
Then TARP and the establishment of Modern Monetary Theory and its "Just Print It" mindset. Bailouts for Billionaires and Too Big To Fail or Jail. All these fattened the pigs and established the Globalist Oligarchy of Power.
Now rates have gone back up, and financing the Leviathan of Debt is not manageable. A few Giant Tech companies have floated the markets, but it sure seems some sort of dystopian future is ahead, or some Build Back Better scenario (headed by Trump/Musk instead of the WEF?
Then TARP and the establishment of Modern Monetary Theory and its "Just Print It" mindset. Bailouts for Billionaires and Too Big To Fail or Jail. All these fattened the pigs and established the Globalist Oligarchy of Power.
Now rates have gone back up, and financing the Leviathan of Debt is not manageable. A few Giant Tech companies have floated the markets, but it sure seems some sort of dystopian future is ahead, or some Build Back Better scenario (headed by Trump/Musk instead of the WEF?
Posted by: illiniwek at December 23, 2024 01:18 PM (Cus5s)
331
322 AoS HQ is a pretty tight ship.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 23, 2024 01:13 PM (JCZqz)
Only the barrel has holes. I heard they were so the occupant can breathe, but I’ve also heard other things.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 23, 2024 01:16 PM (cBelj)
There is no glory to be found in those holes...
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 23, 2024 01:13 PM (JCZqz)
Only the barrel has holes. I heard they were so the occupant can breathe, but I’ve also heard other things.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 23, 2024 01:16 PM (cBelj)
There is no glory to be found in those holes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 01:18 PM (ynpvh)
332
Oh? Iceland and Cuba too?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (ynpvh)
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Haiti! We need Haiti!
Oh? Iceland and Cuba too?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (ynpvh)
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Haiti! We need Haiti!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2024 01:19 PM (dxSpM)
333
The price of gas or eggs on the other hand...
Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2024 01:15 PM (i0F8b)
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This morning, one of my co-workers encountered a customer who was literally in tears of distress over the price of eggs.
Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2024 01:15 PM (i0F8b)
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This morning, one of my co-workers encountered a customer who was literally in tears of distress over the price of eggs.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 23, 2024 01:19 PM (6K6Eu)
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328 Compared to Insty, AoSHQ is tea and cucumber sandwiches.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2024 01:14 PM
Sadly, our observations show many Morons aren't yet extending their pinkies whilst sipping.
#BeBetter
Posted by: Bob from NSA at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (a3Q+t)
I asked the other day if having my middle finger extended with a little bend at the end was acceptable as a substitute, but was told it was not.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2024 01:14 PM
Sadly, our observations show many Morons aren't yet extending their pinkies whilst sipping.
#BeBetter
Posted by: Bob from NSA at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (a3Q+t)
I asked the other day if having my middle finger extended with a little bend at the end was acceptable as a substitute, but was told it was not.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 01:19 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 01:19 PM (L/fGl)
336
Hassan was sentenced under the UCMJ. He’s on Leavenworth death row along with that piece of shit fragger, Akbar and two other lowlifes.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2024 01:20 PM (Iusta)
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226
'For Biden as a religious Catholic, this could be in the spirit of Christmas.'
See. This was a gift to American Catholics. The least you could do is thank FJB.
'For Biden as a religious Catholic, this could be in the spirit of Christmas.'
See. This was a gift to American Catholics. The least you could do is thank FJB.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2024 01:20 PM (3wi/L)
338
I am sorry, but this is not right. Argentina had a series of revaluations on the Peso, and in the 80's they changed from the Peso to the Austral (an echo of Brazil's regular change in currency for the same reason) which also hyperinflated, and was then replaced by the Peso pegged against the US Dollar.
After a bit Argentina found the currency peg keeping them from buying all the votes and summer estates they wanted, so they loosened the rules with encouragement from the IMF but kept the peg and obligated all enforceable contracts in Argentina to be paid in Pesos, and this set up the current legal black market for floating peso exchanges for dollars called the "dollar blue" which is posted in all the major papers
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (D7oie)
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Yes, and the Blue Dollar has helped keep the ship from foundering, which is one of the reasons why, despite their wild inflation and huge fluctuations and revaluations, Argentina didn't get to "wheelbarrows of cash and total collapse" stage.
After a bit Argentina found the currency peg keeping them from buying all the votes and summer estates they wanted, so they loosened the rules with encouragement from the IMF but kept the peg and obligated all enforceable contracts in Argentina to be paid in Pesos, and this set up the current legal black market for floating peso exchanges for dollars called the "dollar blue" which is posted in all the major papers
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (D7oie)
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Yes, and the Blue Dollar has helped keep the ship from foundering, which is one of the reasons why, despite their wild inflation and huge fluctuations and revaluations, Argentina didn't get to "wheelbarrows of cash and total collapse" stage.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 01:20 PM (HnUIn)
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332
Oh? Iceland and Cuba too?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (ynpvh)
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Haiti! We need Haiti!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2024 01:19 PM (dxSpM)
H8i has no home here!
Oh? Iceland and Cuba too?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (ynpvh)
______
Haiti! We need Haiti!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2024 01:19 PM (dxSpM)
H8i has no home here!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 01:20 PM (ynpvh)
340
Haiti! We need Haiti!
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"I didn't bother with one--its not like I'm going to Haiti ever again."
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"I didn't bother with one--its not like I'm going to Haiti ever again."
Posted by: No Regrets Jeans at December 23, 2024 01:20 PM (TN0g+)
341
Compared to Insty, AoSHQ is tea and cucumber sandwiches.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I mean, without pants, so it's not the classiest of tea parties (except the weekend book thread).
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I mean, without pants, so it's not the classiest of tea parties (except the weekend book thread).
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 23, 2024 01:20 PM (JCZqz)
342
Only the barrel has holes. I heard they were so the occupant can breathe, but I’ve also heard other things.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 23, 2024 01:16 PM
Ask not for what those holes exist, they exist for us.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 23, 2024 01:16 PM
Ask not for what those holes exist, they exist for us.
Posted by: Penguins and their projectile pooping at December 23, 2024 01:21 PM (a3Q+t)
343
The media has been portraying Biden as a kindly old man who says dumb things from time to time. It was always a lie. Biden is fucking monster.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 12:39 PM
This is giving Biden way too much credit and completely absolving the Democrat Party and Deep State and leftists overall.
Biden has been a dementia-addled walking vegetable for at least 5 years. He has not been making any decisions. This is all on the Democrat Party, Deep State and leftists inhabiting institutions across the country.
The importance of this distinction is to highlight that this monstrous evil did not originate with Biden and does not end with the removal of Biden. This evil infects the country (and western nations in general) everywhere there is a Deep State operative and leftist.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 12:39 PM
This is giving Biden way too much credit and completely absolving the Democrat Party and Deep State and leftists overall.
Biden has been a dementia-addled walking vegetable for at least 5 years. He has not been making any decisions. This is all on the Democrat Party, Deep State and leftists inhabiting institutions across the country.
The importance of this distinction is to highlight that this monstrous evil did not originate with Biden and does not end with the removal of Biden. This evil infects the country (and western nations in general) everywhere there is a Deep State operative and leftist.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 23, 2024 01:21 PM (P5BPp)
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335 What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP)
https://is.gd/iNaveg
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 01:19 PM (L/fGl)
Maybe more of a Biden or Nadler...
Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP)
https://is.gd/iNaveg
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 01:19 PM (L/fGl)
Maybe more of a Biden or Nadler...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 01:21 PM (ynpvh)
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My pop was one of the corrections officers who watched over Charlie Manson at Corcoran. For years, Manson always had a full roster on visiting day, occasionally his lawyer, but mostly it was chicks.
Incidentally, Manson HATED to be called "Chuck", so of course when he acted up, the COs would spend the next week using the name.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2024 01:16 PM (y9nCu)
One of the funnier T-shirts I saw at a motorcycle rally (sturgis), had manson on the front, and on the back it said "Charlie don't ride".
Incidentally, Manson HATED to be called "Chuck", so of course when he acted up, the COs would spend the next week using the name.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2024 01:16 PM (y9nCu)
One of the funnier T-shirts I saw at a motorcycle rally (sturgis), had manson on the front, and on the back it said "Charlie don't ride".
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2024 01:21 PM (VwHCD)
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I don't understand the point of this. If you don't believe in the death penalty, and I don't either, why not commute everyone's? Roof, Bowers, and Tsarnaev?! Very bizarre, especially since they killed groups from the Dem demographic.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at December 23, 2024 01:22 PM (Vvh2V)
347
The problem with abolishing the death penalty is that the same people who think the death penalty is inhumane also thing that life without parole is inhumane.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2024 01:12 PM (dxSpM)
Bless you. I have been saying this for so long.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2024 01:12 PM (dxSpM)
Bless you. I have been saying this for so long.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2024 01:22 PM (K1FQ5)
348
Haiti! We need Haiti!
Types of bbq:
Memphis > Texas > Kansas City > Carolina >>>>>> Haitian (meow)
Types of bbq:
Memphis > Texas > Kansas City > Carolina >>>>>> Haitian (meow)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2024 01:22 PM (oZhjI)
349
Here’s a prospective map of these United States.
https://tinyurl.com/3e5a7t6c
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 01:13 PM (kquDM)
Oh? Iceland and Cuba too?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
We don't want the Irish!
https://tinyurl.com/3e5a7t6c
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 01:13 PM (kquDM)
Oh? Iceland and Cuba too?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
We don't want the Irish!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 01:22 PM (L/fGl)
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There is ZERO chance this is actually "Joe Biden" doing this. Seen the recent Xmas picture with all the misfit POC interns at the White House ? The absolute truest of true blue believers ? THIS is them, 100%.
This shit is out of control. I guarantee you at his absolute best, if the press asked Biden about this, he'd have no idea what you're talking about
This shit is out of control. I guarantee you at his absolute best, if the press asked Biden about this, he'd have no idea what you're talking about
Posted by: deadrody at December 23, 2024 01:22 PM (vgB0v)
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Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 12:56 PM (HnUIn)
Pretty girl ,And while it's delightful and thoroughly plausible that she has her head on straight about Biden ( lol) , she looks totally bored by sending yet another busty picture to a site where men don't know her. Perhaps she should regress to Only Fans for more attention.
Pretty girl ,And while it's delightful and thoroughly plausible that she has her head on straight about Biden ( lol) , she looks totally bored by sending yet another busty picture to a site where men don't know her. Perhaps she should regress to Only Fans for more attention.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2024 01:23 PM (Erp9W)
352
This is giving Biden way too much credit and completely absolving the Democrat Party and Deep State and leftists overall.
Biden has been a dementia-addled walking vegetable for at least 5 years. He has not been making any decisions. This is all on the Democrat Party, Deep State and leftists inhabiting institutions across the country.
The importance of this distinction is to highlight that this monstrous evil did not originate with Biden and does not end with the removal of Biden. This evil infects the country (and western nations in general) everywhere there is a Deep State operative and leftist.
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I posted it earlier--the abomination of a first attempt at a spending bill should have woke-everyone-the-hell-up. The game is over--our "leaders" no longer fear us at all, at is now all graft, all the time. And in the open.
Biden has been a dementia-addled walking vegetable for at least 5 years. He has not been making any decisions. This is all on the Democrat Party, Deep State and leftists inhabiting institutions across the country.
The importance of this distinction is to highlight that this monstrous evil did not originate with Biden and does not end with the removal of Biden. This evil infects the country (and western nations in general) everywhere there is a Deep State operative and leftist.
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I posted it earlier--the abomination of a first attempt at a spending bill should have woke-everyone-the-hell-up. The game is over--our "leaders" no longer fear us at all, at is now all graft, all the time. And in the open.
Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2024 01:23 PM (TN0g+)
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"Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims... and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss," Biden said in a statement
Bullsh*t!!!
Bullsh*t!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2024 01:23 PM (W/lyH)
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A moral argument would look something like this;
“I will commute all death sentences because I personally don’t believe in the death penalty”.
It doesn’t look like this;
“I will commute the death sentences of those I personally believe deserve it”. The others you can put to death”. Says me.
“I will commute all death sentences because I personally don’t believe in the death penalty”.
It doesn’t look like this;
“I will commute the death sentences of those I personally believe deserve it”. The others you can put to death”. Says me.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2024 01:23 PM (Iusta)
355
Used to be, men of virtue would occasionally ascend to the Presidency
Washington, Lincoln, Coolidge, Eisenhower, Reagan, Trump
some have been flawed
a few were terrible
but there's only one Joe Biden
Washington, Lincoln, Coolidge, Eisenhower, Reagan, Trump
some have been flawed
a few were terrible
but there's only one Joe Biden
Posted by: Don Black. Message: bring back the old kickoff rules at December 23, 2024 01:23 PM (/7KEl)
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I want to see the list of $$ given to the Bidens for each and every one of his pardons. None of them make the least bit of sense.
And if he didn't believe in the death penalty (which is perfectly licit under Canon Law, BTW), why didn't he do this first thing when he came into office?
And if he didn't believe in the death penalty (which is perfectly licit under Canon Law, BTW), why didn't he do this first thing when he came into office?
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2024 01:24 PM (K861k)
357
The problem with abolishing the death penalty is that the same people who think the death penalty is inhumane also thing that life without parole is inhumane.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2024 01:12 PM (dxSpM)
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Yes. Reasons matter.
I oppose the death penalty not because I think it's unjust or unjustifiable, but because the state can't be trusted. Too many people get railroaded. Someone who gets railroaded into prison can at least be released and compensated if/when discovered. He can't be resurrected.
But if you are in the "it's wrong because it's mean" camp, then life in prison can easily be next, and the ratchet keeps turning.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2024 01:12 PM (dxSpM)
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Yes. Reasons matter.
I oppose the death penalty not because I think it's unjust or unjustifiable, but because the state can't be trusted. Too many people get railroaded. Someone who gets railroaded into prison can at least be released and compensated if/when discovered. He can't be resurrected.
But if you are in the "it's wrong because it's mean" camp, then life in prison can easily be next, and the ratchet keeps turning.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 01:24 PM (HnUIn)
358
He added that he could not, in good conscience, allow a future administration to resume executions.
Not your decision to make a**hole.
Not your decision to make a**hole.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2024 01:24 PM (W/lyH)
359
We don't want the Irish!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 01:22 PM (L/fGl)
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Aw, prairie shit.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 01:22 PM (L/fGl)
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Aw, prairie shit.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 23, 2024 01:24 PM (6K6Eu)
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Yes, and the Blue Dollar has helped keep the ship from foundering, which is one of the reasons why, despite their wild inflation and huge fluctuations and revaluations, Argentina didn't get to "wheelbarrows of cash and total collapse" stage.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 01:20 PM (HnUIn)
The hyperinflation led to bread riots, and just about destroyed the country. There used to be a blog, Surviving Argentina, that is a sort of memoir of that time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 01:20 PM (HnUIn)
The hyperinflation led to bread riots, and just about destroyed the country. There used to be a blog, Surviving Argentina, that is a sort of memoir of that time.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 01:24 PM (D7oie)
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Types of bbq:
Memphis > Texas > Kansas City > Carolina >>>>>> Haitian (meow)
Posted by: 18-1
Uh-Oh: All The Animals From The Live Nativity In Springfield, Ohio Just Went Missing
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From the Bee.
Memphis > Texas > Kansas City > Carolina >>>>>> Haitian (meow)
Posted by: 18-1
Uh-Oh: All The Animals From The Live Nativity In Springfield, Ohio Just Went Missing
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From the Bee.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 23, 2024 01:24 PM (L/fGl)
362
Nidal Hassan not mentioned anywhere.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2024 01:15 PM (XTmTf)
Makes you wonder if he still in custody, or did he get secretly renditioned to a non-extradition country?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (8zz6B)
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He was court-martialed and tried in military court. I don't know if that means anything, but conceivably that could mean he's not part of "federal" death-row inmates.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2024 01:15 PM (XTmTf)
Makes you wonder if he still in custody, or did he get secretly renditioned to a non-extradition country?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 01:17 PM (8zz6B)
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He was court-martialed and tried in military court. I don't know if that means anything, but conceivably that could mean he's not part of "federal" death-row inmates.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 23, 2024 01:24 PM (iFTx/)
363
no no
we don't want Hispaniola
we don't want Hispaniola
Posted by: Don Black. Message: bring back the old kickoff rules at December 23, 2024 01:24 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2024 01:25 PM (xCA6C)
365
He’s on Leavenworth death row along with that piece of shit fragger, Akbar and two other lowlifes.
Posted by: Marcus T
I'm innocent, I tells ya! I didn't do nuffin!
Posted by: Marcus T
I'm innocent, I tells ya! I didn't do nuffin!
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 23, 2024 01:25 PM (JCZqz)
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FWP or 1st World Problem
Ski slope drama as 170 people are trapped in broken-down Colorado ski lift
https://mol.im/a/14221147
Ski slope drama as 170 people are trapped in broken-down Colorado ski lift
https://mol.im/a/14221147
Posted by: Ciampino - No skiing on your ass at December 23, 2024 01:25 PM (i0xsb)
367
Busty redhead? OK, she'll do.
Posted by: wth at December 23, 2024 01:25 PM (v0R5T)
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358 He added that he could not, in good conscience, allow a future administration to resume executions.
Except of course for the 3 you didn't pardon right Joe ?
Except of course for the 3 you didn't pardon right Joe ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2024 01:25 PM (VE6XX)
369
The hyperinflation led to bread riots, and just about destroyed the country. There used to be a blog, Surviving Argentina, that is a sort of memoir of that time.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 01:24 PM (D7oie)
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But survive it did, thanks largely to external assistance.
For us, should it come to that, there is no external assistance. We *are* the external assistance. No backstops. Best not to play games that result in such prizes.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 01:24 PM (D7oie)
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But survive it did, thanks largely to external assistance.
For us, should it come to that, there is no external assistance. We *are* the external assistance. No backstops. Best not to play games that result in such prizes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2024 01:25 PM (HnUIn)
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278 I wonder how many corrections officers (and others) have been killed by convicted murderers?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2024 01:07 PM
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Probably not zero. Somewhat related, there's the case of serial/contract killer Pee Wee Gaskins, who was sentenced to death in South Carolina around the time of the death penalty moratorium. After the state supreme court struck down his death penalty sentence, he pleaded guilty to seven other murders to avoid trial and got eight concurrent life sentences. A few years later, he murdered a death row inmate with a C4-enriched headset. (He'd been paid for the hit and provided the bomb-making materials by the son of the victims of the death row inmate.) It was THIS crime for which Gaskins received the death penalty that was actually carried out.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2024 01:07 PM
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Probably not zero. Somewhat related, there's the case of serial/contract killer Pee Wee Gaskins, who was sentenced to death in South Carolina around the time of the death penalty moratorium. After the state supreme court struck down his death penalty sentence, he pleaded guilty to seven other murders to avoid trial and got eight concurrent life sentences. A few years later, he murdered a death row inmate with a C4-enriched headset. (He'd been paid for the hit and provided the bomb-making materials by the son of the victims of the death row inmate.) It was THIS crime for which Gaskins received the death penalty that was actually carried out.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 23, 2024 01:25 PM (wzAuc)
371
Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims... and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss," Biden said in a statement
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Got a funny way of showing it
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Got a funny way of showing it
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2024 01:25 PM (K1FQ5)
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364 The game is over--our "leaders" no longer fear us at all
Joni Ernst would like a word.
Posted by: Archimedes
Ernest P. Worrell > Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst would like a word.
Posted by: Archimedes
Ernest P. Worrell > Joni Ernst
Posted by: Moron Math at December 23, 2024 01:26 PM (JCZqz)
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Hey you - why did you put this papers on my desk. No no I'm not signing anything until you bring me ice cream. No no fuck you you promised to let me go to a middle school craft fair and smell the girls and have ice cream. BOTH
/blinks
Uh...was I just talking to you? Oh we were talking about him much I enjoyed the ice cream I had and now I need to sign these papers? Oh, ok. Wish I remembered the ice cream but ok
/blinks
Uh...was I just talking to you? Oh we were talking about him much I enjoyed the ice cream I had and now I need to sign these papers? Oh, ok. Wish I remembered the ice cream but ok
Posted by: Biden's actual statement at the time of signing the commutations at December 23, 2024 01:26 PM (oZhjI)
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There is ZERO chance this is actually "Joe Biden" doing this. Seen the recent Xmas picture with all the misfit POC interns at the White House ? The absolute truest of true blue believers ? THIS is them, 100%.
This shit is out of control. I guarantee you at his absolute best, if the press asked Biden about this, he'd have no idea what you're talking about
Posted by: deadrody at December 23, 2024 01:22 PM
Exactly.
This shit is out of control. I guarantee you at his absolute best, if the press asked Biden about this, he'd have no idea what you're talking about
Posted by: deadrody at December 23, 2024 01:22 PM
Exactly.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 23, 2024 01:26 PM (P5BPp)
375
Kindltot adding excellent detail and expanding on what I said - a de facto currency collapse can take various forms.
Inertia is the greatest force in the universe, and is America's greatest asset (the positive things that remain despite the degradation). Inertia and the lack of competent major alternatives/competitors will protect the dollar's reserve status, probably forever. But the misery of inflation and the absence of any policy leeway for future crises are choices being made by continuing stupid monetary and fiscal policies.
Inertia is the greatest force in the universe, and is America's greatest asset (the positive things that remain despite the degradation). Inertia and the lack of competent major alternatives/competitors will protect the dollar's reserve status, probably forever. But the misery of inflation and the absence of any policy leeway for future crises are choices being made by continuing stupid monetary and fiscal policies.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2024 01:26 PM (1m82a)
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319 The average voter's eyes glaze over when you talk about debt, deficit, monetary policy, etc. You lose them before you finish your sentence. It gets even worse if you try to educate them.
The price of gas or eggs on the other hand...
Posted by: davidt
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Absolutely. Don't begin to even say the words Monetary or Policy,
ham and eggs get the thoughts rolling.
The price of gas or eggs on the other hand...
Posted by: davidt
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Absolutely. Don't begin to even say the words Monetary or Policy,
ham and eggs get the thoughts rolling.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 01:26 PM (kquDM)
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nood
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 01:26 PM (ynpvh)
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278 I wonder how many corrections officers (and others) have been killed by convicted murderers?
IDK but we can expect more now.
IDK but we can expect more now.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2024 01:27 PM (3wi/L)
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"So either he actually does believe in the death penalty, or he's just a weak cowardly leftist virtue-signaler who's too afraid of the consequences for commuting the sentences of these people."
Virtually the only insightful thing Obama ever said was "Never underestimate the ability of Joe to fuck things up!"
Yes, Jimmy Carter must be slapping his knee (softly) with glee at being "aced out" for the title of Worst President Ever!
And Biden's still got 28-some days to go! Putin, Xi, et al must be wracking their brains over how to help him score some even bigger own-goals in the time remaining!
Virtually the only insightful thing Obama ever said was "Never underestimate the ability of Joe to fuck things up!"
Yes, Jimmy Carter must be slapping his knee (softly) with glee at being "aced out" for the title of Worst President Ever!
And Biden's still got 28-some days to go! Putin, Xi, et al must be wracking their brains over how to help him score some even bigger own-goals in the time remaining!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 23, 2024 01:27 PM (gfztU)
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Yes yes. I condemn Karen Gillan wholesale and grieve for her auburn hair, milky complexion and abominable cursed legs that could do unimaginable heartbreaking damage to my windpipe.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2024 01:27 PM (K1FQ5)
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Biden has nothing to do with these pardons. An unknown, nameless, faceless apparatchik or cabal of them are doing this. It's criminal
Posted by: Life of Wryly at December 23, 2024 01:28 PM (1FWWQ)
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Luigi plans on being another John Hinckley - a moneyed, political family always helps - with an insanity plea accepted, and then being a folk hero for some. Or maybe a John DuPont.
Wikipedia, in part, "Du Pont pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. The insanity defense was thrown out by the court and, on February 25, 1997, a jury found him guilty of third-degree murder but mentally ill.[29] In Pennsylvania, third-degree murder is a lesser charge than first-degree (intentional) or second-degree (a killing occurring during the perpetration of a felony), and indicates a lack of intent to kill. In Pennsylvania criminal code, "insanity" applies to someone whose "disease or defect" leaves him unable either to understand that his conduct is wrong or to conform it to the law (the M'Naghten Rule).[30]"
Psychiatric Times Article, June 16, 2022
'Remember John Hinckley Jr: A Triumph for Psychiatry, But a Failure for Gun Safety'
Wikipedia, in part, "Du Pont pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. The insanity defense was thrown out by the court and, on February 25, 1997, a jury found him guilty of third-degree murder but mentally ill.[29] In Pennsylvania, third-degree murder is a lesser charge than first-degree (intentional) or second-degree (a killing occurring during the perpetration of a felony), and indicates a lack of intent to kill. In Pennsylvania criminal code, "insanity" applies to someone whose "disease or defect" leaves him unable either to understand that his conduct is wrong or to conform it to the law (the M'Naghten Rule).[30]"
Psychiatric Times Article, June 16, 2022
'Remember John Hinckley Jr: A Triumph for Psychiatry, But a Failure for Gun Safety'
Posted by: L - Rooster one day, Feather duster another at December 23, 2024 01:28 PM (NFX2v)
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Oh? Iceland and Cuba too?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Just a simple unified North America.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Just a simple unified North America.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 01:29 PM (kquDM)
384
However much you hate Biden, it's not enough.
Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2024 01:29 PM (TouVw)
385
Comments at Insty get reliably *ruined* by 2 particular anti-Semitic pricks who could turn a story about Penguins into a reason to slime the Jews.
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NeverTrump shits too, including 'posters'.
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NeverTrump shits too, including 'posters'.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 23, 2024 01:30 PM (hovnC)
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please add (sic) after every such instance. --AOP
SICCITY SIC SIC!
Of all the siccin' sons of a sic, the sicsuckers...
Yes, I can about see this catching on. Mothersiccers.
SICCITY SIC SIC!
Of all the siccin' sons of a sic, the sicsuckers...
Yes, I can about see this catching on. Mothersiccers.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 23, 2024 01:30 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 23, 2024 01:31 PM (hovnC)
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304
'The problem with abolishing the death penalty is that the same people who think the death penalty is inhumane also thing that life without parole is inhumane.'
The only opposition I have to the death penalty is if their is any room for doubt that the defendant did the crime.
'The problem with abolishing the death penalty is that the same people who think the death penalty is inhumane also thing that life without parole is inhumane.'
The only opposition I have to the death penalty is if their is any room for doubt that the defendant did the crime.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2024 01:31 PM (3wi/L)
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337 226
'For Biden as a religious Catholic, this could be in the spirit of Christmas.'
See. This was a gift to American Catholics. The least you could do is thank FJB.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2024 01:20 PM (3wi/L)
A gift to Catholics would be for him to publicly repent the constant scandal his behavior has caused, for the past 50 years, while claiming to be a good Catholic. This move was just another layer of bullshit to add to the rest of the odiferous pile.
'For Biden as a religious Catholic, this could be in the spirit of Christmas.'
See. This was a gift to American Catholics. The least you could do is thank FJB.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2024 01:20 PM (3wi/L)
A gift to Catholics would be for him to publicly repent the constant scandal his behavior has caused, for the past 50 years, while claiming to be a good Catholic. This move was just another layer of bullshit to add to the rest of the odiferous pile.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2024 01:31 PM (K861k)
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385 Comments at Insty get reliably *ruined* by 2 particular anti-Semitic pricks who could turn a story about Penguins into a reason to slime the Jews.
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NeverTrump shits too, including 'posters'.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC)
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Y'all do wear protection when you go to those places, I hope.
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NeverTrump shits too, including 'posters'.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC)
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Y'all do wear protection when you go to those places, I hope.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 01:32 PM (kquDM)
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The very fact that first CR was even attempted is a clear reminder of how little has changed. One darkly amusing detail is how "fiscal conservative" now = opposing insane, historic, unsustainable and idiotic deficit financing.
It's part of the destruction of language, always in one direction.
For example it's now "populist" and "hardline" to ...... support the most basic components of national sovereignty for every nation on earth, a border and rule of law in immigration. Amazing, there seem to be over 180 countries ruled by "populists" and "hardliners". Really something when you think about it.
It's part of the destruction of language, always in one direction.
For example it's now "populist" and "hardline" to ...... support the most basic components of national sovereignty for every nation on earth, a border and rule of law in immigration. Amazing, there seem to be over 180 countries ruled by "populists" and "hardliners". Really something when you think about it.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2024 01:33 PM (1m82a)
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The death penalty is the only sure remedy for recidivism. It's record of success is unbroken.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 23, 2024 01:38 PM (hKoQL)
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Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2024 01:23 PM (Iusta)
Exactly. It's just doesn't make any sense.
Exactly. It's just doesn't make any sense.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at December 23, 2024 01:39 PM (Vvh2V)
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I oppose the death penalty not because I think it's unjust or unjustifiable, but because the state can't be trusted. Too many people get railroaded. Someone who gets railroaded into prison can at least be released and compensated if/when discovered. He can't be resurrected.
I find this unpersuasive. If the state cannot be trusted to execute, then why can it be entrusted to imprison for life? Both effectively take away any meaningful life. While some wrongfully convicted will be eventually be freed, some won't. And even for those who are freed, you can't give them back the years they spent in prison, some a decade or more, or give them the life they might have built. You can give them some money, but how much money would you trade for a lengthy incarceration? No amount, right? So they can't be adequately compensated for the loss.
If you accept the idea of the state, with its near monopoly on violence, you accept that a certain number of innocents are going to die at its hands. We accept this with respect to street-level law enforcement. This is part and parcel of having a police force. But it's intolerable when the courts do it with more due process?
I find this unpersuasive. If the state cannot be trusted to execute, then why can it be entrusted to imprison for life? Both effectively take away any meaningful life. While some wrongfully convicted will be eventually be freed, some won't. And even for those who are freed, you can't give them back the years they spent in prison, some a decade or more, or give them the life they might have built. You can give them some money, but how much money would you trade for a lengthy incarceration? No amount, right? So they can't be adequately compensated for the loss.
If you accept the idea of the state, with its near monopoly on violence, you accept that a certain number of innocents are going to die at its hands. We accept this with respect to street-level law enforcement. This is part and parcel of having a police force. But it's intolerable when the courts do it with more due process?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 23, 2024 01:42 PM (2+SeL)
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Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 23, 2024 01:38 PM (hKoQL
No argument there. My main objection to the death penalty is giving the state the right to kill people.
No argument there. My main objection to the death penalty is giving the state the right to kill people.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at December 23, 2024 01:43 PM (Vvh2V)
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Those were signed by the courts, the President has nothing to do with them. He can sign a pardon or a commutati
on only after the fact. I'm assuming this is what you meant?
Posted by: Ciampino - No standing
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Biden had put executions on hold. Trump might have allowed them to proceed.
on only after the fact. I'm assuming this is what you meant?
Posted by: Ciampino - No standing
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Biden had put executions on hold. Trump might have allowed them to proceed.
Posted by: Cosda at December 23, 2024 01:46 PM (xorLE)
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I have no idea how reliable this is:
"A SHORT LIST OF MURDERERS RELEASED TO MURDER AGAIN"
https://www.wesleylowe.com/repoff.html
I have no idea how reliable this is:
"A SHORT LIST OF MURDERERS RELEASED TO MURDER AGAIN"
https://www.wesleylowe.com/repoff.html
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2024 01:48 PM (XeU6L)
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The death penalty exists because some acts are simply too egregious to justify the existence of a particular person.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 23, 2024 01:56 PM (hKoQL)
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NIH reports that 45 corrections officers died from assault 1999-2008. No idea how many of those were comitted by convicted murderers.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2024 01:58 PM (XeU6L)
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Anybody see potatohead going to the victims' funeral?
Posted by: Miflin at December 23, 2024 02:03 PM (aA6YN)
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Just sign an executive order to have the death penalty reinstated if it is at the behest of the victims or their nearest kin.
What are they going to do about it?
Cry that the victims shouldn't get the justice they want?
What are they going to do about it?
Cry that the victims shouldn't get the justice they want?
Posted by: STV at December 23, 2024 03:03 PM (Vicsq)
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Its just a good thing Manson and Einhorn are dead otherwise Parson Me Biden would Free them
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 23, 2024 04:17 PM (wGqjj)
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It'd be a shame if someone put word out that anyone in prison who tortures and kills these guys, who should have been dead years ago, may get many admirers filling their prison bank account.
That or some family sues and says that the pardons aren't valid since Biden is clearly not a functioning adult, and therefore doesn't have the wherewithal to pardon anyone.
That or some family sues and says that the pardons aren't valid since Biden is clearly not a functioning adult, and therefore doesn't have the wherewithal to pardon anyone.
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