Conspiracy Theories about Conspiracy Theories

Good morning, Horde! Have you noticed a few unexpected issues (or narratives) appearing lately? Let's return to the thrilling days of yesteryear, namely January 2024, when the luminaries of the WEF in Davos chose "misinformation and disinformation" as the most severe short-term risk the world faced. Especially with AI taking over the internet.

Their aim was control. Something to think about, given the events of this year.

How do you think control of "the narrative" has proceeded during 2024?

BABYLON BEE

FBI Asks X Users To Please Stop Solving Crimes Before They Do

The statement reads in part:
"It is in the public interest that all X users stop solving crimes immediately. Solving crime is the responsibility of the federal government and local law enforcement. If we do not solve crimes first, we cannot control the narrative, and that's important for national security reasons we cannot discuss at this time."

As an incentive, the FBI is promising not to raid anyone who complies. "All you have to do is not report on suspects, observe obvious connections to other crimes, or complain when we prosecute parents of school-aged children," a spokesman for the bureau explained. "You scratch our back, we leave your back alone. Get it?"
At publishing time, the FBI had prosecuted an X user for interfering with a cover-up.

Conspiracy Theories

Why would the police be releasing so much information to the public on this?

Seems odd to me. Oh, let’s send them down THIS rabbit hole while we clear this one over here.
— Texas Made (@Texas_Made67) January 4, 2025

Do folks have a point here?

Walter Kirn:

Be careful podcast world and indy media of "muh Chinese anti-gravity super drones" mega-game
Very careful
Bite too hard on this exploding bait and everyone gets had and discredited
Authorities will make official network TV news viewing mandatory

FOLLOW-UP: Is there something Rogan could not possibly resist?

Walter Kirn again:

I'm a conspiracy theorist about conspiracy theories, I realized today
I think some of these theories are built right into "news" stories, pre-planted secrets and meant to be dug up and form ever-so intriguing patterns for suspicious sleuths

Hmmmm . . . Are you seeing this?

Don't get stuck in the intrigue. Live your life.

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Weekend

Steven Hayward's The Week in Pictures: The Longest 17 Days

Only seventeen more days to go. But even a senile president can do a lot of damage in 17 days when he is a malevolent narcissist. Makes you long for the good old days when the worst thing an outgoing Democrat did was steal the White House china and furniture and rip out all the ‘W” keys from the computers.

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Music

Debussy plays his Golliwog's Cakewalk

Golliwog's Cakewalk for Sax ensemble

History of Dolls - Golliwogs

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, December 28, Weird Words - like Grok

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:20 AM

Comments

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1 Morning, KT!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 04, 2025 11:22 AM (2UnvF)

2 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 11:23 AM (fwDg9)

3 Called em

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 04, 2025 11:23 AM (2UnvF)

4 The job ( undefined) of the Eff Bee Eye is disinformation and smother the facts

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 11:26 AM (fwDg9)

5 Hi, Duke and Skip. Sorry I'm late, but I may have headed off another YouTube debacle.

Posted by: KT at January 04, 2025 11:26 AM (xekrU)

6 Biden giving Soros and Clinton the Medal of Freedom : means there will be jihad—ie by ANY means necessary —to assure that Trump is not in functional control of Leviathan.

This situation cannot end well.

Posted by: Voter theater. at January 04, 2025 11:27 AM (1o4Au)

7 Been pointed out the NO car attack information has been smothered, LV bomber is getting more open

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 11:27 AM (fwDg9)

8 I think that black FBI agent might have some Hapsburg blood.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 04, 2025 11:27 AM (xCA6C)

9 WILLOWED
The miniseries "Shaka Zulu" from the 80s was excellent.

That's about all I can think of.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 04, 2025 11:22 AM (6K6Eu)
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In the 80s, it was possible to address complex social issues without resorting to caricature and absurdity. Thus, the "North and South" miniseries' could show the reality of slavery, its complexity, and have southern characters were were good people and awful northern ones. One of the most toxic characters was the rabid abolitionist played by Kirstie Alley in one of her finest roles.

Nowawadys, everything has to be sanitized to conform with a narrative, which makes it feel fake and dull.

As a result, there are actually LESS authentic roles for black actors because they're not allowed to be anything other than put-upon and perfect. (cont)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 04, 2025 11:28 AM (ZOv7s)

10 Beautiful morning here.

Thanks for the open thread KT!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 04, 2025 11:28 AM (60ahJ)

11 >>I think that black FBI agent might have some Hapsburg blood.

I'm just glad she took the plate out of her lip so we could understand her.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 11:29 AM (qu/pS)

12 I watched the Shawn Ryan podcast with the intelligence analyst last night. So he bit quickly.

Ryan seemed to be overacting the "holy shit" aspect of this.

And if I recall correctly, he seemed to make an appeal to enhanced security measures at the end.

So deep state and tech bros combine to push enhanced security for all to keep the masses safe.

Where have I heard this before?

Yeah. I'll pay attention when the east coast gets vaporized by anti gravity warp speed drones.

I dont think they have a security protocol for that yet.

Posted by: Derak at January 04, 2025 11:29 AM (Oq3mj)

13 I'm a conspiracy theorist about conspiracy theories, I realized today

Yes!
The dots are all connected. To the turtles. That go all the way down.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 04, 2025 11:30 AM (NehaE)

14 h/t to Hannah Arendt but evil is banal, and most of these conspiracy theories are presuming a complexity I doubt exists.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2025 11:30 AM (RIvkX)

15 You know what's wrong with this country? They're all trying to kill us.

Posted by: Archer at January 04, 2025 11:30 AM (IDphi)

16 As an incentive, the FBI is promising not to raid anyone who complies. "All you have to do is not report on suspects, observe obvious connections to other crimes, or complain when we prosecute parents of school-aged children," a spokesman for the bureau explained. "You scratch our back, we leave your back alone. Get it?"

Got it.

Posted by: BignJames at January 04, 2025 11:30 AM (Yj6Os)

17 Been pointed out the NO car attack information has been smothered, LV bomber is getting more open
Posted by: Skip

They PTB don't want any more people looking into the muzzie enclave where he lived. The "Crescent" with a rabid muzzie imam preaching death and destruction of USA.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 04, 2025 11:31 AM (60ahJ)

18 (cont) Netflix illustrates this pefectly with their stupid "Six Triple Eight," which - like just about every other movie in the genre - has to show black people acting surprised and annoyed AT THE WORLD THEY WERE BORN INTO.

As part of being an Air Force camera jockey, I got to know several of the Tuskegee Airmen, interviewing them, seeing them at recurring events, etc., and they LOATHED the way Hollywood treated them. They hated the scene where they learn that the Army/Navy/Marines are raaacist.

No, dumbass, that was the world. It wasn't surprising and it didn't bother them that much. They worked to change it, but acting like they were crying over it is just insulting to them. (cont)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 04, 2025 11:32 AM (ZOv7s)

19 NOLA incident and the LV incident had an awful lot of pretty detailed information released within 6 hours by people who supposedly were not involved in law enforcement or the FBI.
On New Year's Day. You know, when the average academic or researcher is taking time to spend time with the family on vacations.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 04, 2025 11:32 AM (D7oie)

20 OT - vmom, I'm sending you an email in response to your comment in the last thread.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 04, 2025 11:33 AM (YTktQ)

21 Have feeling they wanted to pin white supremacist on LV

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 11:33 AM (fwDg9)

22 >>Biden giving Soros and Clinton the Medal of Freedom

Prelude to proactive pardons? I kid. . .

Biden is settling all his accounts. Most of us fear what he and his handlers will do in the next 16 days. Say some quote from Jake Sullivan about possible action against Iran - would these deep-staters really start a war days before exit? Yikes.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2025 11:34 AM (u1uWe)

23 But yes, completely agree: don't take the bait.
Too much weirdness happening right now.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2025 11:35 AM (u1uWe)

24 Sitting here waiting on the snowpocalypse. Forecast is for 8-13 inches of snow with a possibility of freezing rain. I'm just hoping the power stays on.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 04, 2025 11:36 AM (2UnvF)

25 (cont) The Tuskegee Airmen knew what they were up against, and contra Hollywood's 90s take, none committed suicide. They were determined to prove the world wrong and never complained.

They also let me in on a secret: because the government didn't want black fighter pilots, they set the bar really, really high. So the only guys who even got to apply were elite in every way - college-educated in the age of Jim Crow, superior athletes. The conscript "flying sergeants" never had a chance, and they were held back in training for so long that they had flying hours well beyond any other new pilots.

So when they got their aircraft, they were inadvertently positioned for success, and they knew it. They knew they were smarter, more agile, better-trained and they loved showing it off.

Most importantly, they loved their country deeply, and would not hear any nonsense about their service being in vain. finis

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 04, 2025 11:36 AM (ZOv7s)

26 Been pointed out the NO car attack information has been smothered, LV bomber is getting more open

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 11:27 AM

IMO they are doing that because they want to take the heat off of the new orleans terror attack, which just keeps getting worse. The mosque that he went to in Austin TX has told everyone there to not cooperate with anyone from the fib. They want this out of the news cycle.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 04, 2025 11:36 AM (Rcnd3)

27 How do you think control of "the narrative" has proceeded during 2024?

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I think the legacy media used to drive a single narrative that often was contradicted by reality.

The new media puts forth thousands of competing narratives that often are contradicted by reality.

I'm not sure we're better off. Believing the guy on the 5 o'clock news because it's comforting or trying to pick the occasional nugget of truth out of the billions of pixels swirling around the internet.

Posted by: muldoon at January 04, 2025 11:36 AM (991eG)

28 Leaving NO attackers laptop tells you they want no part of any online connections

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 11:37 AM (fwDg9)

29 A increasingly common tactic by the Junta/Deep State is to haphazardly around looney false flag conspiracy theories then accuse the opposition (almost anybody that doesn't suck deep state cock enthusiasticlly) of seditious conspiracy of one flavor or another and then 'react accordingly'.

Recent example is baseless accusations of MAGA people literally attacking FEMA workers in hurricane impact zones which FEMA / Junta then used to deny assistance of any sort.
Thing is, before denying assistance it was already argued that FEMA workers themselves were knowingly spreading lies. Not something they played on national news, but by observers via X, etc.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 04, 2025 11:38 AM (/lPRQ)

30 I see that Hillary Clinton and George Soros are being awarded the Medal of Freedom. Unless the intent was to hang them from a lamppost by the ribbons of same, I imagine that there was a mix-up and the Hero of Socialist Labor medals were inadvertently sent to the wrong address.

Posted by: Paco at January 04, 2025 11:38 AM (mADJX)

31 >>Leaving NO attackers laptop tells you they want no part of any online connections

Their Handlers hate Spam.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 11:38 AM (qu/pS)

32 Posted by: Mister Scott

**********

I thought it was Houston, not Austin

Posted by: muldoon at January 04, 2025 11:39 AM (991eG)

33 I love the classical sax quartet! These players have striven for a uniform sonority in their playing, a very nice blend.
Contrast this the jazz saxophone idiom where the search for an immediately recognizable sound or tone makes getting an ensemble blend more of a challenge.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 04, 2025 11:41 AM (c6hLR)

34 KT, thank you for the link to the Week in Pictures. Always some laughs there. Now I cannot unsee the resemblance between Jimmy Carter and Scarlet Johansson. Lol.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 04, 2025 11:41 AM (a8Yoi)

35 I thought it was Houston, not Austin

Posted by: muldoon at January 04, 2025 11:39 AM

Yep, my mistake. But is it really a mistake? Both of those blue city $hitholes are pretty much the same.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 04, 2025 11:42 AM (Rcnd3)

36 "trying to pick the occasional nugget of truth out of the billions of pixels swirling around the internet."

A fools errand for sure. What the heck am I doing? I think the best course of action is to reorganize the pantry. Far better results than wasting my day chasing orchestrated nonsense.

Seems like AI will kill the last nugget of truth on the internet. By design. Pantry, here I come!

Posted by: Derak at January 04, 2025 11:42 AM (Oq3mj)

37 Why would the police be releasing so much information to the public on this?

Because they made it up. They would NEVER release facts during an investigation, which is how you can also infer that there is no investigation.

Posted by: t-bird at January 04, 2025 11:43 AM (D5SRX)

38 I think some of these theories are built right into "news" stories, pre-planted secrets and meant to be dug up and form ever-so intriguing patterns for suspicious sleuths

Layers, like an onion.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 04, 2025 11:44 AM (aD39U)

39 Heads up y'all: Hobby Lobby is having a big sale on red yarn and thumbtacks. Stock up while supplies last.

Posted by: muldoon at January 04, 2025 11:45 AM (991eG)

40 Our Big Lots is going out of business. We will need to go over and see if any of their crap is worth picking up cheap.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 04, 2025 11:46 AM (aD39U)

41 Ha! You think that was the terrorists actual laptop?

Good grief!

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 04, 2025 11:46 AM (QB+5g)

42 I just love the expression on the face of the Congressman from LA. Can't recall his name. He is always a breath of fresh air when they have Congressional investigations.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2025 11:47 AM (/Pvx2)

43 gourmand du jour at January 04, 2025 11:41 AM

I really liked the sax ensemble. And I was surprised by the Debussy piano roll, too.

Posted by: KT at January 04, 2025 11:47 AM (xekrU)

44 >>Netflix illustrates this pefectly with their stupid "Six Triple Eight," which - like just about every other movie in the genre - has to show black people acting surprised and annoyed AT THE WORLD THEY WERE BORN INTO.

Interesting about the Tuskegee airmen loathing Hollywood. I enjoy watching "Finding Your Roots" (you have to accept that Gates likely created this to document slavery). What's fascinating is the complexity of the guests' ancestors' lives, as you can see it challenging their identity (no doubt selected for this reason). For example, a bi-racial BLM activist actor discovered he was a direct descendent of the constable in Salem, MA who arrested the witches. Or Lena Dunham discovering her great (whatever) grandfather was a con artist who swindled American Indians in olde NY. Then there's the hardships relatives endured. Many have no conception of how hard and unfair life was for people in the past, and so many like those mentioned above imagine themselves great warriors for humanity with no recognition that yes, people can and do make bad choices -- or what you would judge bad choices - to function within the reality of their environment at the time.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2025 11:47 AM (u1uWe)

45 Pantry, here I come!

Posted by: Derak

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Pantry Raid at Derak's place!!!!!!

Posted by: muldoon at January 04, 2025 11:48 AM (991eG)

46 The FBI spokescreature is proof positive as to why they should be abolished. The spokescreature should be working for Avis cleaning the returned rentals not serving up lies and attitude at fake press conferences.

Posted by: Fire Them All at January 04, 2025 11:49 AM (R/m4+)

47 John Glenn hated the movie "The Right Stuff". made a seriously derogative statement to an engineer he was surprising with an award at his desk when he saw the engineer had the movie poster pinned up in his cube.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 04, 2025 11:50 AM (QB+5g)

48
Netflix does carry Gudetama, the egg yolk hero of an adolescent Japanese live actor film series that adults like me find hilarious.

Posted by: Auspex at January 04, 2025 11:50 AM (j4U/Z)

49 Both of those blue city $hitholes are pretty much the same.
Posted by: Mister Scott

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Point taken!

Posted by: muldoon at January 04, 2025 11:50 AM (991eG)

50 In Memoriam: Jimmy Carter

His longevity was truly amazing
And his undaunted courage worth praising
He went into battle
With naught but a paddle
That canoe trip was truly hare razing

Posted by: muldoon at January 04, 2025 11:51 AM (991eG)

51 Las Vegas Police Department - most reliable and trustworthy source of information regarding violent events in Las Vegas.

Posted by: epador at January 04, 2025 11:51 AM (ijqvy)

52 I've got my fingers crossed for the reveal of the Mother of All Conspiracies.

For years I put the highest odds on Khruschev and Castro being the ones who gave the order for the JFK hit. In the last year I switched to the CIA with Allen Dulles giving the order. Dulles was the first CIA director starting with Ike and carried over until JFK fired him over the Bay of Pigs fiasco and generally trying to start WWIII.

Tucker and JFK Jr suggested it's coming. CIA Director Mike Pompeo begged Trump 45 not to reveal what's still been withheld. Will Trump 47 throw the Holy Hand Grenade into Langley. Let us pray ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 04, 2025 11:51 AM (Gqoy+)

53 Apologies for another OT, but I see the cries of Morons and 'Ettes in need...

grammie winger, try one of these for 3 pounds of coffee:
https://shorturl.at/xJ3N2
(not sure if the direct link will work; if not, go to page three in the list)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 04, 2025 11:52 AM (YTktQ)

54 >> In the last year I switched to the CIA with Allen Dulles giving the order.

LBJ was your guy.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 11:53 AM (qu/pS)

55 39 Heads up y'all: Hobby Lobby is having a big sale on red yarn and thumbtacks. Stock up while supplies last.
Posted by: muldoon

Closed on Sundays Mr. Punster.

Posted by: Auspex at January 04, 2025 11:53 AM (j4U/Z)

56 Funny how you can tell which person is female in that picture of two people wearing hazmat gear...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 04, 2025 11:53 AM (XMwZJ)

57 I'm not sure we're better off. Believing the guy on the 5 o'clock news because it's comforting or trying to pick the occasional nugget of truth out of the billions of pixels swirling around the internet.
Posted by: muldoon at January 04, 2025 11:36 AM (991eG)

I don't believe that's how it works though. Those "billions of pixels" tend to coalesce around a few specific theories, which tend to come to conclusions that are MUCH closer to the truth, because the pressure is applied for as many sources as it is.

In other words, if you start with a believe that, say, Ivermectin is an effective treatment for Covid, and someone else is saying "drink bleach," and most people are saying "ignore all those crazies, and listen to Tony Fauci," eventually reality does win.

Turns out those crazies on the internet were right, it didn't come from people eating bats, social distancing was a fraud, the gene therapy injection caused more harm than good, the collateral damage from lockdowns is going to be felt for decades to come.

And the thing is, if we'd all just listened to the one channel, we'd be worse off than we already are.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 11:54 AM (lH8E4)

58 Week in pictures is always priceless. Biden’s corn maze 😂

I have a friend who’s really going down a black hole on this Livelberger guy… I think sadly he was probably just broken with PTSD, plus his marriage just ended apparently. A lot of conspiracy theories came true but sometimes it’s just an unfortunate human acting strangely

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2025 11:54 AM (5MZNC)

59 Las Vegas Police Department - most reliable and trustworthy source of information regarding violent events in Las Vegas.
Posted by: epador at January 04, 2025 11:51 AM (ijqvy)

Same here! *fistbump*

Posted by: New Orleans Police Department at January 04, 2025 11:55 AM (Aqu9a)

60 >>I have a friend who’s really going down a black hole on this Livelberger guy… I think sadly he was probably just broken with PTSD

I agree.

Unfortunately, we tend to lionize ALL Service Members to a degree that is simply unrealistic.

Just like ALL NFL Players are not Walter Payton, ALL Service Members are not Audie Murphy.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 11:56 AM (qu/pS)

61 Anyone who opens the lid on that laptop is in for a very serious surprise.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 04, 2025 11:56 AM (QB+5g)

62 'morning, running late, hot coffee, on to content

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 11:56 AM (3CVIc)

63 54 >> In the last year I switched to the CIA with Allen Dulles giving the order.
LBJ was your guy.
Posted by: garrett

I think LBJ, CIA and the mob were basically all one big happy family.

Posted by: Auspex at January 04, 2025 11:57 AM (j4U/Z)

64 In the last year I switched to the CIA with Allen Dulles giving the order.
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LBJ was your guy.
Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 11:53 AM (qu/pS)

Once he became Prez, LBJ had zero trust in the Secret Service. He insisted on having his own security people around him, and would treat the SS agents with absolute disdain. As if his life depended on it.

I think LBJ knew things. I don't believe he ordered anything, and governed as Prez like others were pulling a lot of the strings.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 11:58 AM (lH8E4)

65 >> In the last year I switched to the CIA with Allen Dulles giving the order.
LBJ was your guy.
Posted by: garrett

I think LBJ, CIA and the mob were basically all one big happy family.
Posted by: Auspex at January 04, 2025 11:57 AM (j4U/Z)

It's a regular Murder On The Orient Express situation!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 04, 2025 12:01 PM (Aqu9a)

66 Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 11:54 AM (lH8E4)

*******

I rather think that competing narratives draw adherents who are predisposed to a particular perspective, and that the coalescing that you refer to is more of a self-fulfilling consensus within a particular bubble than a confirmation of absolute truth. YMMV

Posted by: muldoon at January 04, 2025 12:01 PM (991eG)

67 42 I just love the expression on the face of the Congressman from LA. Can't recall his name.

Kennedy.

Posted by: He sounds like Foghorn Leghorn at January 04, 2025 12:01 PM (dg+HA)

68 Just like ALL NFL Players are not Walter Payton, ALL Service Members are not Audie Murphy.
Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 11:56 AM (qu/pS)

Thank you for mentioning Sweetness, Garrett. He’s always been my ideal football player. Great running back obviously but his most memorable play for me was a Monday night game in Minnesota…. The Vikings blitzed fragile Jim McMahon up the gut…. Payton just leveled that blitzing linebacker allowing McMahon to complete a TD pass. Great football player

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2025 12:01 PM (WnEm5)

69 Unfortunately, we tend to lionize ALL Service Members to a degree that is simply unrealistic.

Just like ALL NFL Players are not Walter Payton, ALL Service Members are not Audie Murphy.
Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 11:56 AM (qu/pS)

Audie Murphy had his own problems after the war. As did the Mt. Suribachi flag raisers.

What we know is men have their limits. You can't keep putting them in combat settings. Eventually they all break. All. Of. Them.

We knew that in 2001. And we did it anyway. If this guy went nuts after multiple deployments, it's not just a tragedy, it's criminal complicity on the part of the politicians who keep doing this to good men.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:02 PM (lH8E4)

70 Posted by: He sounds like Foghorn Leghorn at January 04, 2025 12:01 PM (dg+HA

Thanks!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2025 12:03 PM (Qx84Y)

71 Livelberger was out of Ft. Bragg which has more suicide deaths than active service and training (read it here) also SEALs and Psych Warfare. Mix that with steroid abuse and an impressionable personality.

Not ruling out an Acronym PsyOp.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 12:04 PM (3CVIc)

72 I suppose we all knew our place better when Walter Cronkite was the pre-eminent voice of what was true and accepted.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 04, 2025 12:05 PM (D7oie)

73 I rather think that competing narratives draw adherents who are predisposed to a particular perspective, and that the coalescing that you refer to is more of a self-fulfilling consensus within a particular bubble than a confirmation of absolute truth. YMMV
Posted by: muldoon at January 04, 2025 12:01 PM (991eG)

As you say, reality is going to continue to be reality.

Either we see it eventually, or we don't. Some of these lies we tell ourselves continue for decades, maybe even centuries.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:05 PM (lH8E4)

74 I just love the expression on the face of the Congressman from LA. Can't recall his name.

John Kennedy, I believe.

Posted by: t-bird at January 04, 2025 12:05 PM (1dUol)

75 Turns out those crazies on the internet were right, it didn't come from people eating bats, social distancing was a fraud, the gene therapy injection caused more harm than good, the collateral damage from lockdowns is going to be felt for decades to come.

And the thing is, if we'd all just listened to the one channel, we'd be worse off than we already are.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 11:54 AM (lH8E4)

What is worse though... is that even after the truth is actually out, the media still controls the narrative enough that NOTHING has been fixed... no one has been held accountable... and in fact, the government has given it self MORE power in case of an 'emergency'.

I was disowned by many relatives during Covid... now with no apology, they just want to act as though nothing ever happened.

I discovered as a single Dad trying to raise teen agers, that the worst thing in the world you can do... is warn someone of something, and later be proven correct.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 04, 2025 12:05 PM (QAkQ3)

76 Oh, there's a clip of him charging his vehicle mid-trip. He has a full beard, he's clean shaven in LV.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 12:05 PM (3CVIc)

77 I agree "I think LBJ knew things."

He knew things because he was told.

He also knew when it was time to leave for simaler reasons.

The CIA has been running things with varying degrees of success on the world stage for a long time.

I'm sure they are pretty uncomfortable with Trump showing up in DC again with a posse this time.

I don't think Trump is a "High Noon" kind of guy. He'll make a deal.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 04, 2025 12:06 PM (QB+5g)

78 >>I think LBJ knew things. I don't believe he ordered anything, and governed as Prez like others were pulling a lot of the strings.

I gotta disagree with you. LBJ wanted both Kennedys dead and he was not shy about asserting that.

Dulles and the CIA were absolutely complicit. But LBJ was not a dupe. He was as venal, corrupt and evil as Joe Biden, he just wasn't a low functioning retard.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 12:07 PM (qu/pS)

79 Las Vegas Police Department - most reliable and trustworthy source of information regarding violent events in Las Vegas.
Posted by: epador at January 04, 2025 11:51 AM (ijqvy)

Same here! *fistbump*
Posted by: New Orleans Police Department at January 04, 2025 11:55 AM (Aqu9a)

The Nashville PD called, and asked how you got that information.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:07 PM (lH8E4)

80 @39 Hobby Lobby is having a big sale on red yarn and thumbtacks.

Whoever this guy Lincoln Allasis is, he's tearin' it up over here.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 04, 2025 12:07 PM (zdLoL)

81 My conspiracy theory is that the Brain of Pinky and the Brain has finally won and Biden is Pinky.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 04, 2025 12:09 PM (L/fGl)

82 There was a lot of PTSDin WWI.

From Into the Silence:

Nearly 1 million dead in Britain alone, some 2.5 million wounded, 40,000 amputees, 60,000 without sight, 2.4 million on disability a decade after the end, including 65,000 men who never recovered from the mental ravages of shell shock.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 04, 2025 12:10 PM (NQtI0)

83 I gotta disagree with you. LBJ wanted both Kennedys dead and he was not shy about asserting that.

Dulles and the CIA were absolutely complicit. But LBJ was not a dupe. He was as venal, corrupt and evil as Joe Biden, he just wasn't a low functioning retard.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 12:07 PM (qu/pS)

I'm not saying LBJ wasn't involved, just that he wasn't in charge.

Think of it like the mob, because it is. The powers that be behind the Don say "we're taking out the Don, because he's going off script."

Then they go to the guy who's next in line, tell them what they're going to do, then do it, and then tell him, "You're in charge. But you better watch yourself."

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:11 PM (lH8E4)

84 If Livelberger had the explosives training and expertise one would expect he did; then it seems like he went out of his way to make an non effective IED that would do little harm to anyone but himself. A screenwriter could make an interesting movie plot out of that.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 04, 2025 12:11 PM (UKUm3)

85 My pantry is fine, but my sock drawer could stand to be sorted.

Hasta Lumbago y'all. (= I'll be back pain)

Have fun storming the castle!

Endeavor to persevere!

Posted by: muldoon at January 04, 2025 12:11 PM (991eG)

86 Las Vegas Police Department - most reliable and trustworthy source of information regarding violent events in Las Vegas.
Posted by: epador at January 04, 2025 11:51 AM (ijqvy)

Same here! *fistbump*
Posted by: New Orleans Police Department

The Nashville PD called, and asked how you got that information.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:07 PM (lH8E4)

Our lips are sealed.

Posted by: Dallas Police Department at January 04, 2025 12:12 PM (Aqu9a)

87 Either we see it eventually, or we don't. Some of these lies we tell ourselves continue for decades, maybe even centuries.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:05 PM (lH8E4)

and those who wake up will be woke? But the right politically woke?

(Woke is the idea of awakening to an awareness of the allegedly systemic nature of oppressive power dynamics and the true nature of privilege, domination, and marginalization in society and understanding the role in dominant discourses in producing and maintaining these oppression as structural forces within the culture. It isn't just dying your nosering blue)

Don't be woke, woke means you can never be successful or find peace, you only have conflict

Posted by: Kindltot at January 04, 2025 12:12 PM (D7oie)

88 >>I'm not saying LBJ wasn't involved, just that he wasn't in charge.

I don't get the feeling he was in charge of Miami and Chicago...but, Dallas?

I think he worked hand in hand with Dulles to make sure it happened in Dallas.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 12:13 PM (qu/pS)

89 Audie Murphy had his own problems after the war. As did the Mt. Suribachi flag raisers.

Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinking Indian
Or the marine that went to war...

Posted by: Zombie Johnny Cash at January 04, 2025 12:14 PM (R/m4+)

90 There was a lot of PTSDin WWI.

From Into the Silence:

Nearly 1 million dead in Britain alone, some 2.5 million wounded, 40,000 amputees, 60,000 without sight, 2.4 million on disability a decade after the end, including 65,000 men who never recovered from the mental ravages of shell shock.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 04, 2025 12:10 PM (NQtI0)

People with vested interests in these things looked into the data, and determined there was a finite number of days you could leave a man in combat (I forget the actual number, but there is a number).

If you leave him in longer than that, he becomes useless as a fighting unit, and is broken as a human being.

We knew that, and adjusted how they rotated units in and out of combat in WWII, in Korea (we weren't really there that long), and in Vietnam.

Then in the BushCheney Globull Warofterror, we broke the rule. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:14 PM (lH8E4)

91 PTSD…. George Carlin had a funny bit about how using more and fancier words obfuscates….. in WWI, it was shell shock (two simple words), in WWII combat fatigue…. Then by Vietnam it was PTSD

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2025 12:14 PM (+kWhq)

92 >>If Livelberger had the explosives training and expertise one would expect he did; then it seems like he went out of his way to make an non effective IED that would do little harm to anyone but himself.

I doubt there are many hours of the day that Valet Dropoff Spot and adjacent Lobby are nearly empty.
We know he cruised the site earlier and didn't return until it was.
So, yeah. I don't get the impression he was looking to create a mass casualty event.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 12:15 PM (qu/pS)

93
Robert Caro's "The Path To Power" was an excellent LBJ biography; Johnson's part in financing the New Deal and Roosevelt through Texas oil was instrumental in the deep state takeover of federal institutions.

Posted by: Auspex at January 04, 2025 12:17 PM (j4U/Z)

94 The Civil War term for combat shock was "nostalgia."

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 04, 2025 12:18 PM (zdLoL)

95 I've got PTSD from being exposed to Taylor Swift.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 04, 2025 12:19 PM (L/fGl)

96 If Livelberger had the explosives training and expertise one would expect he did; then it seems like he went out of his way to make an non effective IED that would do little harm to anyone but himself. A screenwriter could make an interesting movie plot out of that.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 04, 2025 12:11 PM (UKUm3)

I do think that's possible. That he could have done more damage to others, if he'd chosen to.

Was anyone else harmed? I haven't seen any report of casualties.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:19 PM (lH8E4)

97 >>Was anyone else harmed? I haven't seen any report of casualties.

There was one guy close enough that he could not have completely escaped injury, but I don't recall seeing a report of serious injuries/death besides the driver.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 12:20 PM (qu/pS)

98 Then by Vietnam it was PTSD
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2025 12:14 PM (+kWhq)

Yeah, it's a funny bit, but if you work with people with PTSD, it's not a softer term. It's a more accurate one, and what fits under its umbrella is all the horror you can imagine. And more.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:21 PM (lH8E4)

99 My other conspiracy theory is that Elon Musk and Elton John are different incarnations of the same person overlapping only on Rocket Man.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 04, 2025 12:22 PM (L/fGl)

100 I think that black FBI agent might have some Hapsburg blood.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 04, 2025 11:27 AM (xCA6C)

She looks like like a drooling retard. There are plenty of black folks that look alert and engaged with the world. She isn't one.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 04, 2025 12:23 PM (8zz6B)

101 If he blamed Texas oil he missed the mark. Oil money kept the Republican Party off life support. Lady Bird was Brown and Root, you might look there.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 12:23 PM (3CVIc)

102 Pantry Raid at Derak's place!!!!!!
Posted by: muldoon at January 04, 2025 11:48 AM (991eG)

Panty raid at Derak's place?? I'm in!!

Posted by: BJ Clinton at January 04, 2025 12:23 PM (iODuv)

103 There was one guy close enough that he could not have completely escaped injury, but I don't recall seeing a report of serious injuries/death besides the driver.
Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 12:20 PM (qu/pS)

Reminds me a little of the football player who shot himself in the chest, so they could study his brain.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:23 PM (lH8E4)

104 Every time I think I hate FDR enough:
Mises Wire
Happy New Year: A Toast to 50 Years of Legalized Gold
https://shorturl.at/oRwlP
How the FCK can an EO ban ownership of anything???

Yeah, I know, because we allowed the shitbags to get away with it...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 04, 2025 12:24 PM (YTktQ)

105 She looks like like a drooling retard. There are plenty of black folks that look alert and engaged with the world. She isn't one.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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She can't speak simple grammar.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 12:24 PM (3CVIc)

106 The Civil War term for combat shock was "nostalgia."
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver

The Civil War term for first experiencing combat was "seeing the elephant."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 04, 2025 12:25 PM (L/fGl)

107 My other conspiracy theory is that Elon Musk and Elton John are different incarnations of the same person overlapping only on Rocket Man.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 04, 2025 12:22 PM (L/fGl)

I'm always a little bit envious of those who have what appear to be inconsequential conspiracy theories bouncing around in their head. You know, things like Elvis being alive, Bigfoot, faked moon landings, etc.

Mine tend to focus around the powerful, and how they're f**king over the rest of us.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:27 PM (lH8E4)

108 >>If he blamed Texas oil he missed the mark. Oil money kept the Republican Party off life support.

I wouldn't discount the notion that some people saw LBJ as the lesser of 2 evils:
'He's at least a Good Ol' Boy from Texas that we can work with!'.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 12:28 PM (qu/pS)

109 >>faked moon landings, etc.

Funniest take on this I have ever read was something like...

The Moon landing WAS fake, but Kubrik was such a stickler for realism that he demanded they shoot the footage on the Moon!

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 12:30 PM (qu/pS)

110 Over the years, I've been a little surprised, when people (civilians) learn that I'm a Vet, their first question is 'Oh, were you in Viet Nam'?

Don't do that . Some guys have been trying to forget shit for fifty years. Just posing the question can cause an avalanche of recollection. Thank them for their service, if you are inclined. If they want to talk about what they did while in
service, they will, otherwise leave it be.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 04, 2025 12:30 PM (XeU6L)

111 "Biden To Award Highest Civilian Honor To George Soros, Hillary Clinton"

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What, there's no room to award one to Jeffrey Epstein, posthumously*?

*My pet conspiracy theory: Epstein ain't dead, they faked it to get him out of the public eyeball.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:31 PM (lH8E4)

112 My other conspiracy theory is that KJP is a f*cking idiot.

Karine Jean-Pierre@PressSec
Here's to the best team in the business. I couldn't do it without you. Let's run through the tape! #thewestwing #POTUS #WhiteHouse

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 04, 2025 12:32 PM (L/fGl)

113 Las Vegas Police Department
New Orleans Police Department
The Nashville PD
Posted by: Dallas Police Department

What really frosts my behind is the four stars on the shoulders of the Chiefs. Emulating Muammar Gaddafi much?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2025 12:32 PM (WXNFJ)

114 99 My other conspiracy theory is that Elon Musk and Elton John are different incarnations of the same person overlapping only on Rocket Man.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Kamala Harris has a Venn diagram to show you.

Posted by: Auspex at January 04, 2025 12:32 PM (j4U/Z)

115 But even a senile president can do a lot of damage in 17 days when he is a malevolent narcissist.

Just imagine all the pardons Biden will issue at the last minute, given the ones that he has already issued.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 04, 2025 12:33 PM (uxCna)

116 Funniest take on this I have ever read was something like...

The Moon landing WAS fake, but Kubrik was such a stickler for realism that he demanded they shoot the footage on the Moon!
Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 12:30 PM (qu/pS)

Heh, yeah I heard that one.

In a way, it's very revealing that they did film fake moon landings. As if it's routine for them to have a cover story. A Plan B.

Which, I'm pretty sure it is.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:33 PM (lH8E4)

117 She can't speak simple grammar.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 12:24 PM (3CVIc)

I would love to know what was going through John Kennedy's mind right then....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 04, 2025 12:33 PM (PiwSw)

118 Every time I think I hate FDR enough:

Moron recomended read:
'The New Dealer's War', Thomas Fleming

GoodReads review: t.ly/Q7JjS

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 04, 2025 12:35 PM (XeU6L)

119 Good news, everyone!

President Biden@POTUS
Since I took office, we've recovered all of the jobs lost during the pandemic. And added 7 million more.
We didn't just recover – we built a foundation of stable growth for years to come.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 04, 2025 12:36 PM (L/fGl)

120 What really frosts my behind is the four stars on the shoulders of the Chiefs. Emulating Muammar Gaddafi much?

How about Grandma Police Chief wearing Grandpa's hat? New Orleans, I think?

Posted by: t-bird at January 04, 2025 12:36 PM (QrkKu)

121 Conspiracy mashup in my head for days; He's So Fine by the Chiffons and My Sweet Lord by Harrison. Put those together.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 12:36 PM (3CVIc)

122 I have a question about presidential pardons: does the person being pardoned need to acknowledge their guilt to receive it? Or they’re good to go without taking action whatsoever? Did Nixon acknowledge guilt of any kind when Ford blanket pardoned him? I don’t remember that happening so probably no?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2025 12:36 PM (5MZNC)

123 FDR brought in the Socialists
Carter brought in the Muslims
Barky brought in the Cultural Marxists
Sundowner just brought in the wrecking ball

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 12:37 PM (fwDg9)

124 119 Good news, everyone!

President Biden@POTUS
Since I took office, we've recovered all of the jobs lost during the pandemic. And added 7 million more.
We didn't just recover – we built a foundation of stable growth for years to come.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 04, 2025 12:36 PM (L/fGl)

OMG.. What a F'ing liar

Posted by: It's me donna at January 04, 2025 12:37 PM (VE6XX)

125 Conspiracy mashup in my head for days; He's So Fine by the Chiffons and My Sweet Lord by Harrison. Put those together.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 12:36 PM (3CVIc)

Not really a mashup conspiracy. They took Harrison to court, and he lost.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:38 PM (lH8E4)

126 Then they go to the guy who's next in line, tell them what they're going to do, then do it, and then tell him, "You're in charge. But you better watch yourself."

Mike Benz says that's exactly how it went down with Zelensky. CIA told him he's in charge, but only if he does what they say.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 04, 2025 12:38 PM (QZThv)

127 The Week in Pictures had one that used picture of Gorilla Pundit. The one that Oregon Muse used in his Morning Rant. Sure miss him. RIP, OM.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 04, 2025 12:39 PM (hoCmQ)

128 >>I have a question about presidential pardons: does the person being pardoned need to acknowledge their guilt to receive it?

A Pardon is for the Punishment not the Crime.
You need to accept a Pardon, but in doing so you are tacitly admitting to the validity of a conviction.
You do not need to expressly admit to guilt, however. It's merely implied.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 12:40 PM (qu/pS)

129 The second worst PTSD wave was the 2016 Presidential election, the worst was the 2024 Presidential election. People be PTSDing all over, cryin’ and slingin’ snot, and goin’ on.

Posted by: Eromero at January 04, 2025 12:40 PM (jgmnb)

130 FDR brought in the Communists.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 04, 2025 12:41 PM (NQtI0)

131 I have a question about presidential pardons: does the person being pardoned need to acknowledge their guilt to receive it? Or they’re good to go without taking action whatsoever? Did Nixon acknowledge guilt of any kind when Ford blanket pardoned him? I don’t remember that happening so probably no?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2025 12:36 PM (5MZNC)

No admission of guilt. Think of it like a legal maneuver, where the pardon simply removes the conviction, as if it never happened.

I think it's a bit weird to have pardons when they haven't even gone to trial yet, and I'm sure the legal beagles can explain it, but it strikes me as putting the cart before the horse.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:41 PM (lH8E4)

132 124. the aide the generates Bribem's tweets may even be factually correct. 7 million lost jobs from the forced closings came back and some new jobs were added, just a lot fewer jobs than workforce age population growth.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 04, 2025 12:41 PM (UKUm3)

133 123 FDR brought in the Socialists
Carter brought in the Muslims
Barky brought in the Cultural Marxists
Sundowner just brought in the wrecking ball
Posted by: Skip
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Clinton brought in Somalis.
Carter also brought in Cuban felons

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 12:43 PM (3CVIc)

134 >> Think of it like a legal maneuver, where the pardon simply removes the conviction, as if it never happened.

I do not believe you can be charged with libel for referring to a Pardon recipient as a convicted criminal.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 12:43 PM (qu/pS)

135 I'm a conspiracy theorist about conspiracy theories, I realized today

I think some of these theories are built right into "news" stories, pre-planted secrets and meant to be dug up and form ever-so intriguing patterns for suspicious sleuths

The US federal government has been caught repeatedly suggesting that various operations they have been engaged in are "ALIENS!!!" to both discredit witnesses and make the public ignore them - remember all those sightings of quiet, stealthy, oddly shaped things in they sky that didn't show up on radar...a few years before they informed the public about stealth aircraft?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 04, 2025 12:43 PM (t0Rmr)

136 FDR brought in the Communists.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Zombie Joe Macarthy at January 04, 2025 12:44 PM (WXNFJ)

137 Mike Benz says that's exactly how it went down with Zelensky. CIA told him he's in charge, but only if he does what they say.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 04, 2025 12:38 PM (QZThv)

These people are consistent.

For example, I think Crooks was a patsy, that he didn't fire the (would-be) kill shot. Just like LH Oswald.

I suspect that's true of JE Ray, and MLK as well. Ray was a loser, recruited to be where he was, while someone else with better aim took the actual shot that hit its mark.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:44 PM (lH8E4)

138 "I have a question about presidential pardons: does the person being pardoned need to acknowledge their guilt to receive it?"

Biden can give out a blanket pardon to Science! and thereby a lot of good intended actors can avoid any misplaced blame/court trial.

Posted by: Dr T Fauci at January 04, 2025 12:44 PM (A75H2)

139
I think the story with LBJ is that he was a nobody congressman who happened to have Herman and George Brown on his side for saving their skins over a dam they were building.

In 1940, FDR was scared he might lose control of Congress. The GOP made big gains in 1938 and were looking to make more. LBJ became the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign and started calling in his IOUs, including a lot of oil money.

The Democrats held Congress, but two years later the GOP made more gains and, along with conservative Southern Democrats, hamstrung FDR.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 04, 2025 12:44 PM (dxSpM)

140 I ran across an amusing quote from Noam Chompsky where he argues the only place power is wielded well and for everyone's benefit is in fairy tales.

And while he might going to a bit too far there is no question that power corrupts (as a more serious intellectual famously noted) but...how the f*ck can a damned socialist complain about power? Their whole ideology centers on giving the government enough power to make everyone do what they want.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 04, 2025 12:45 PM (t0Rmr)

141 John Glenn hated the movie "The Right Stuff". made a seriously derogative statement to an engineer he was surprising with an award at his desk when he saw the engineer had the movie poster pinned up in his cube.

Glenn's a good example of a guy who was brave and had good character - until he went into politics, and then became a particularly obnoxious partisan a$$hole. I think the devil's best recruiting grounds are the halls of politics.

Posted by: Paco at January 04, 2025 12:46 PM (mADJX)

142 I suspect that's true of JE Ray, and MLK as well. Ray was a loser, recruited to be where he was, while someone else with better aim took the actual shot that hit its mark.
Posted by: BurtTC

But, The Parallax View is just a film.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2025 12:46 PM (WXNFJ)

143
Not really a mashup conspiracy. They took Harrison to court, and he lost.
Posted by: BurtTC
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They do go well together. Someone should make a recording interposing the two.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 12:47 PM (3CVIc)

144 >>I ran across an amusing quote from Noam Chompsky where he argues the only place power is wielded well and for everyone's benefit is in fairy tales.

Stoicism and Chivalry couldn't be reached for comment.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 12:47 PM (qu/pS)

145 resident Biden@POTUS
Since I took office, we've recovered all of the jobs lost during the pandemic. And added 7 million more.

Viva El Residente Biden!

Posted by: The Human, Child, Sex, and Drug Trafficking Cartels at January 04, 2025 12:47 PM (3l0s/)

146 My other conspiracy theory is that Elon Musk and Elton John are different incarnations of the same person overlapping only on Rocket Man.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 04, 2025 12:22 PM (L/fGl)

Please, my friends call me "Space Daddy". You do want to be my friend, No?

Posted by: Elon Musk, Space Daddy at January 04, 2025 12:48 PM (R/m4+)

147 I do not believe you can be charged with libel for referring to a Pardon recipient as a convicted criminal.
Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 12:43 PM (qu/pS)

I'm sure that's true.

Who did Trump pardon... Stone, Flynn, Manafort, others...

They still talk about all the criminals in his administration.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:48 PM (lH8E4)

148 Since I took office, we've recovered all of the jobs lost during the pandemic. And added 7 million more.

Isn't the actual stat that there are still fewer American citizens working then before Biden was installed via COVID?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 04, 2025 12:48 PM (t0Rmr)

149 FDR brought in the Communists.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Additional highly recommended read:
'Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies'

t.ly/Ok-Hf

This a staggering, thoroughly documented account of the extent of Red infiltration into the Federal Government. It is not a biography of McCarthy in the common sense, it is an examination of what was going on, as revealed by documents that are only now becoming available. Remarkable book. Should be read by everyone.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 04, 2025 12:49 PM (XeU6L)

150 145 resident Biden@POTUS
Since I took office, we've recovered all of the jobs lost during the pandemic. And added 7 million more.

Gracias El Presidente Biden

Posted by: the "Newcomers" now employed at January 04, 2025 12:49 PM (VE6XX)

151 My other conspiracy theory is that Elon Musk and Elton John are different incarnations of the same person overlapping only on Rocket Man.

Musk has enough kids to field a soccer team and John, well, let's just say John was not a fan of the ladies...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 04, 2025 12:50 PM (t0Rmr)

152 Not really a mashup conspiracy. They took Harrison to court, and he lost.

Yeah. I generally don't like those lawsuits, and I don't think Harrison was deliberately ripping anyone off. He should've done what McCartney did with "Yesterday" and play it for a bunch of people and ask if it's similar to something first though.

There was one semi-recently where the heirs (red flag) sued for "a similar feel" rather than any actual copying and won.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 04, 2025 12:50 PM (QZThv)

153 And while he might going to a bit too far there is no question that power corrupts (as a more serious intellectual famously noted) but...how the f*ck can a damned socialist complain about power? Their whole ideology centers on giving the government enough power to make everyone do what they want.

The #1 rule of communists: it's only bad if you're doing it. It's fine when they are.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 04, 2025 12:51 PM (QZThv)

154 Remember McCarthy was a villain because he made unsubstantiated charges that people were communists.

However every leftwing politician and talking head is a hero for making unsubstantiated charges that people are racists.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 04, 2025 12:51 PM (t0Rmr)

155 >> LBJ became the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign and started calling in his IOUs, including a lot of oil money.
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Don't forget Sam Rayburn.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 12:52 PM (3CVIc)

156 Remember McCarthy was a villain because he made unsubstantiated charges that people were communists.

And the Venona intercepts showed he was actually under-counting the communists.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 04, 2025 12:53 PM (QZThv)

157 Before the left embraced Globo-Homo LBJ was clearly the most personally immoral man to ever hold the office of President.

Now its not so clear between he and Pedo Clinton/Biden

Posted by: 18-1 at January 04, 2025 12:53 PM (t0Rmr)

158 FDR brought in the Communists.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Tell me about it.
Posted by: Zombie Joe Macarthy at January 04, 2025 12:44 PM (WXNFJ)

Speaking of conspiracies, the story goes FDR's people knew Wallace was a commie, and that was a bridge too far for them. They fully expected FDR wasn't going to survive the complete his next term, so in '44 they made damn sure they got a simple-minded dupe to be his running mate.

Someone who could be controlled, but wasn't no damn commie.

And they got their man.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:54 PM (lH8E4)

159 A Pardon is for the Punishment not the Crime.
You need to accept a Pardon, but in doing so you are tacitly admitting to the validity of a conviction.
You do not need to expressly admit to guilt, however. It's merely implied.
Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 12:40 PM (qu/pS)

So (theoretically only — it won’t happen), if Biden pardoned Trump for his “insurrection” then Trump could say: I reject your pardon, stick it where the sun don’t shine?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2025 12:55 PM (i5Vkf)

160 Every time I see the picture of the Gorilla I think of OM
RIP

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 12:55 PM (fwDg9)

161 Remember McCarthy was a villain because he made unsubstantiated charges that people were communists.
And the Venona intercepts showed he was actually under-counting the communists.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 04, 2025 12:53 PM (QZThv)

There are exactly 57 card-carrying members of the Communist Party in the Department of Defense at this time!

Posted by: Senator Johnny Iselin at January 04, 2025 12:56 PM (R/m4+)

162 Article at American Thinker the other week from a Jan6 Rallier said he didn't want a pardon, just a fair court case to clear themselves

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 12:56 PM (fwDg9)

163 There was one semi-recently where the heirs (red flag) sued for "a similar feel" rather than any actual copying and won.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 04, 2025 12:50 PM (QZThv)

There was the nepo baby, last name Thicke, don't recall his first name. He was made famous, not just for his song, but a pic of himself, in front of a mirror, where you could see his fingers up the stinkhole of the groupie standing with him.

Anyhoo, he was sued for his song, by the "owners" of Marvin Gaye's catalog, and frankly, I don't hear it.

They won anyway. Pretty sure that's the one you're referring to.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:58 PM (lH8E4)

164 Before the left embraced Globo-Homo LBJ was clearly the most personally immoral man to ever hold the office of President.

The Great Society alone puts him in contention for the title of "history's most effective racist".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 04, 2025 12:58 PM (QZThv)

165 Wallace wasn't a bridge too far for them he was a bridge too far for the public. (they were catching on). They pulled him to assure Roosevelt's re-election. They picked Truman not for a dupe but because he was a deep machine man.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 01:02 PM (3CVIc)

166 Anyhoo, he was sued for his song, by the "owners" of Marvin Gaye's catalog, and frankly, I don't hear it.

Yeah, Robin Thicke, that's the one. I don't hear a bit of it.

I'm surprised they didn't go after Weird Al for "Word Crimes" too.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 04, 2025 01:03 PM (QZThv)

167 . . . a Jan6 Rallier said he didn't want a pardon, just a fair court case to clear themselves. . . .
Posted by: Skip

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Posted by: Crooked 'Justice' System at January 04, 2025 01:03 PM (WXNFJ)

168 Musical copyrignt is about the sheet music, not the actual arrangement and recording. i.e. the notes on the page.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 04, 2025 01:05 PM (Gqoy+)

169 They won anyway. Pretty sure that's the one you're referring to.
Posted by: BurtTC
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The music thing is absurd. It's not plagiarism it's who's got the best lawyer. Time past if a new song referenced or a portion referenced and older song it was considered a complement to the originator.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 01:06 PM (3CVIc)

170 Musical copyrignt is about the sheet music, not the actual arrangement and recording. i.e. the notes on the page.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 04, 2025 01:05 PM (Gqoy+)

Pop Music for the past 50 years called and asked "what's sheet music?"

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 01:07 PM (lH8E4)

171 "Honduras President Threatens To Shut Down U.S. Military Base Over Trump’s Plan To Deport Illegal Honduran Immigrants"

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Why the Flying F do we have a military base in Honduras??

Yes please, shut it down.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 01:10 PM (lH8E4)

172 Sheeiiteee we have.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 04, 2025 01:10 PM (2Jptx)

173 Scott Presler meets with John Fetterman, and they come to an agreement of sorts: Presler tells Fetterman to put on some pants, and Fetterstein tells Presler to get a haircut.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 01:12 PM (lH8E4)

174 171 Why do we have a military base in the Honduras? Punishment Battalions.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 04, 2025 01:13 PM (gm9Sb)

175 Why the Flying F do we have a military base in Honduras??

Yes please, shut it down.
Posted by: BurtTC at January

....

The senators from New Jersey appreciate the ability to charge the taxpayers for their underage escapades under the pretense of "visiting the troops"

Posted by: TexasDan at January 04, 2025 01:15 PM (rAsBA)

176 174 171 Why do we have a military base in the Honduras? Punishment Battalions.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 04, 2025 01:13 PM (gm9Sb)

As in, it's punishment for the people stationed there, or they're there to punish natives?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 01:15 PM (lH8E4)

177 Shut down Honduras base, get everything out and just walk way, oh but send plane loads of Hondurans back

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 01:15 PM (fwDg9)

178 If you want to punish military personnel, just send them to Ft. Polk in LA, or Ft. Lostinthewoods,in MO.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 01:17 PM (lH8E4)

179 >>So (theoretically only — it won’t happen), if Biden pardoned Trump for his “insurrection” then Trump could say: I reject your pardon, stick it where the sun don’t shine?

Yes.

A Commutation of your sentence, however, you do not get a say in.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 01:19 PM (qu/pS)

180 Ft Irwin CA.

Posted by: Reforger at January 04, 2025 01:19 PM (xcIvR)

181 173 Fetterstein tells Presler to get a haircut. Read a story one time about Bobby Kennedy having a sit down with Sam Giancanna. It started with RFK saying "Sammy, lose the sunglasses, they make you look like a gangster". Sam responded, reaching in his pocket, "Bobby, here's five bucks. Get a haircut, you look like a queer".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 04, 2025 01:19 PM (gm9Sb)

182 I see that Hillary Clinton and George Soros are being awarded the Medal of Freedom. Unless the intent was to hang them from a lamppost by the ribbons of same, I imagine that there was a mix-up and the Hero of Socialist Labor medals were inadvertently sent to the wrong address.
Posted by: Paco at January 04, 2025 11:38 AM (mADJX)

The full title for those two is the Medal of Freedom from Federal Prosecution award.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 04, 2025 01:20 PM (VNX3d)

183 Before the left embraced Globo-Homo LBJ was clearly the most personally immoral man to ever hold the office of President.

Now its not so clear between he and Pedo Clinton/Biden
Posted by: 18-1
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Franklin Roosevelt had Lucy Mercer living in the WH. She was at Warm Springs when he keeled over.

In fairness Lucy was a real looker compared to Eleanor, and also not a proto-socialist. Pic: t.ly/iZ41o

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 04, 2025 01:21 PM (XeU6L)

184 Honduras can have our Haitians as well. Your welcome.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 04, 2025 01:21 PM (2Jptx)

185 >>Why the Flying F do we have a military base in Honduras??

Drug Interdiction and to keep an eye on Hezbollah.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 01:22 PM (qu/pS)

186 I have had fun talking to people who believe someone has a working gravity drive or anti-gravity drive or whatever. That level of tech is so advanced over what exists now that any country who had it would easily conquer the entire world in a year, and after that the solar system on their way to going interstellar. No, nobody has a gravity drive.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 04, 2025 01:22 PM (7MHHr)

187 Presler tells Fetterman to put on a festive little cap on the lump.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 04, 2025 01:22 PM (BEOIm)

188 No, nobody has a gravity drive.

Just put it in neutral going down hill, duh.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 04, 2025 01:24 PM (BEOIm)

189 187 And take the lump in for a trim and teeth cleaning.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 04, 2025 01:24 PM (gm9Sb)

190 I think the US has a number of facilities in Central America. Honduras, Panama, etc. At one time we were told they were for "the war on drugs™."

Now, IMO, they're used as staging areas for illegal child trafficking. And drugs.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 04, 2025 01:24 PM (Q4IgG)

191 Honduras President Threatens To Shut Down U.S. Military Base Over Trump’s Plan To Deport Illegal Honduran Immigrants

It's almost like their functions are equivalent and this is an even trade.

Posted by: t-bird at January 04, 2025 01:26 PM (hKf3k)

192 Can the Mexipults reach Honduras?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 04, 2025 01:26 PM (2Jptx)

193 Can the Mexipults reach Honduras?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Sure, if you put them on ships parked offshore.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 04, 2025 01:27 PM (IG4Id)

194
Don't forget Sam Rayburn.
Posted by: Braenyard

The Match Game!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 04, 2025 01:27 PM (63Dwl)

195 Drug Interdiction and to keep an eye on Hezbollah.
Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 01:22 PM (qu/pS)

That makes sense. We're doing about as well in the War on Drugs as we are the War on Terror.

I mean, you could almost start to believe the government does what they do to KEEP those things flowing.

Almost.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 01:28 PM (lH8E4)

196 Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have long been a haven for Hez and other Jihadi.

A ton of their money has come from there.

Posted by: garrett at January 04, 2025 01:28 PM (qu/pS)

197 The Air Force or possibly now Space Force does have a satellite downlink receiver in Honduras. Its useful to have the station fairly close to the equator. But the footprint for one of those is pretty small. If Puerto Rico is a bit too far north we should just demand that Granada give us a spot.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 04, 2025 01:28 PM (UKUm3)

198 Lucy Mercer, also, was not a lesbian. Don't think Eleanor cared what Franklin did as long as he was discrete.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 01:29 PM (3CVIc)

199 Now, IMO, they're used as staging areas for illegal child trafficking. And drugs.

None of which can be done without banking services!

Posted by: Jeb! at January 04, 2025 01:29 PM (l5F6b)

200 GARDEN THREAD IS BLOOMING

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 01:29 PM (fwDg9)

201 Now, IMO, they're used as staging areas for illegal child trafficking. And drugs.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 04, 2025 01:24 PM (Q4IgG)

Yeah, if the fedgov announced it was going to war against sex traffickers, I think we could reasonably assume sex trafficking would increase exponentially in the subsequent years.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 01:30 PM (lH8E4)

202 We had bases during the cold war but honduras has gone full commie

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 04, 2025 01:31 PM (dJR17)

203 196 Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have long been a haven for Hez and other Jihadi.

A ton of their money has come from there.
Posted by: garrett
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Wouldn't have a problem with extra-territorial hunt teams.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 01:32 PM (3CVIc)

204 Don't forget Sam Rayburn.
Posted by: Braenyard

The Match Game!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot,
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Lest we forget:

James Claude Wright Jr. (December 22, 1922 – May 6, 2015) was an American politician who served as the 48th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989. He represented Texas' 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1955 to 1989.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 04, 2025 01:32 PM (XeU6L)

205 It's been eight years since Pooky's attempted suicide. (He's not dealing with the anniversary well.) The LV Cybertruck guy sounds a lot like Pooky did back then. I'm not willing to rule out a conspiracy in his case, but there are a lot of similarities. Including the fact that Pooky left behind a note that was far more of a manifesto than a suicide note.

Pray for the wives and especially the baby girl that just had their lives ruined.

Posted by: pookysgirl has unfortunately been there, done that at January 04, 2025 01:33 PM (dtlDP)

206 Praying you, pooky and the pookettes too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 01:35 PM (3CVIc)

207 pookysgirl has unfortunately been there, done that at January 04, 2025 01:33 PM

Wow. Prayers.

Posted by: KT at January 04, 2025 01:42 PM (xekrU)

208 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 01:35 PM (3CVIc)

Thank you.

Posted by: pookysgirl, just getting through today at January 04, 2025 01:42 PM (dtlDP)

209 As Rush often said "Fort Worthess Jim"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 04, 2025 01:52 PM (63Dwl)

210 Why the Flying F do we have a military base in Honduras??

Yes please, shut it down.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 01:10 PM (lH8E4)

We have some US Military presence in 80 of 195 countries of the world.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 04, 2025 01:59 PM (QAkQ3)

211 I just got served by a transgender waitthing. I almost said thank you sir. The thing is he/ could beat the crap out of mem

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 04, 2025 01:59 PM (z7rHe)

212 As Rush often said "Fort Worthess Jim"
Posted by: Bertram Cabot
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Well, at least:

"He was the first Speaker to resign because of a scandal. On June 6, the Democratic Caucus brought Wright's speakership to an end by selecting his replacement, Tom Foley of Washington, and on June 30 Wright resigned his seat in Congress"

I add that that was largely on account of a book deal.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 04, 2025 02:00 PM (XeU6L)

213
We have some US Military presence in 80 of 195 countries of the world.
Posted by: Romeo13
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That we know of...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 04, 2025 02:01 PM (XeU6L)

214 Watched that sidebar video of NPR on election night. It was a pure Democrats Propaganda Ministry episode. They should get 0 funding, let the Democrats fund them if they want a Propaganda out of them.

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 02:05 PM (fwDg9)

215 So it' would be 79 then, who would miss 1?

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 02:06 PM (fwDg9)

216 >>Why the Flying F do we have a military base in Honduras??

One purported reason I've seen is the runway is capable of accommodating C5s and would be available for humanitarian assistance in case of natural disaster. Not sure how much of that I believe.

Posted by: Aviator at January 04, 2025 02:19 PM (HQ9Sl)

217 211
'I just got served by a transgender waitthing. I almost said thank you sir.'

Where do you live?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 04, 2025 02:24 PM (3wi/L)

218 216
'the runway is capable of accommodating C5s and would be available for humanitarian assistance in case of natural disaster. '

It sounds like it will be a bigger problem for Honduras than for us if we didn't have that airstrip. By all means, give it back.

Btw I agree with the commenter who said to send the Haitians to Honduras as a 'bonus' for being difficult.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 04, 2025 02:29 PM (3wi/L)

219 86 Las Vegas Police Department - most reliable and trustworthy source of information regarding violent events in Las Vegas.
Posted by: epador at January 04, 2025 11:51 AM (ijqvy)

Same here! *fistbump*
Posted by: New Orleans Police Department

The Nashville PD called, and asked how you got that information.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 12:07 PM (lH8E4)

Our lips are sealed.
Posted by: Dallas Police Department
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Blame the DoJ Community Relations office. They swoop in like Flying Monkeys whenever there is an inconvenient criminal story to be squashed. Threaten everyone with prosecution for obstruction, etc.

Defund and unemploy their ass and render the Feebs advisory only to local PDs in investigations. A lot of crap will float to the surface then.

Posted by: whig at January 04, 2025 02:30 PM (ctrM5)

220 216 >>Why the Flying F do we have a military base in Honduras??

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Was a key base back in the Reagan years and aid to the Contras in Nicaragua. Not so much anymore as the US stupidly gave up more valuable bases in the Canal Zone so that China can takeover the canal operations.

Spent some time for Uncle Sam in Honduras doing Civil Engineering projects. Not a place I would like to live and full of corrupt government officials.

Posted by: whig at January 04, 2025 02:32 PM (ctrM5)

221 Pray for the wives and especially the baby girl that just had their lives ruined.
Posted by: pookysgirl has unfortunately been there, done that at January 04, 2025 01:33 PM (dtlDP)
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Families ajd loved ones left behind are the real victims of suicide. Needs to be mentioned more often, so thank you for the reminder and prayers up.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 04, 2025 02:34 PM (hIKBt)

222 Honduras President Threatens To Shut Down U.S. Military Base Over Trump’s Plan To Deport Illegal Honduran Immigrants

Ok...well if Greenland is off the table...

Posted by: Diogenes at January 04, 2025 02:37 PM (W/lyH)

223 We are still waiting for that mass shooting answers in LV

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 02:40 PM (fwDg9)

224 If you want to punish military personnel, just send them to Ft. Polk in LA, or Ft. Lostinthewoods,in MO.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 04, 2025 01:17 PM (lH8E4)

Heh.
I spent a lifetime one weekend at Ft.Polk.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 04, 2025 02:42 PM (W/lyH)

225 Bill Nye getting the medal of freedom is as big a joke as giving one to Soros.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 04, 2025 02:48 PM (W/lyH)

226 Bill Nye the Global Warming guy got one?
Too funny

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 02:53 PM (fwDg9)

227 PET NOOD

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2025 03:20 PM (fwDg9)

228
I add that that was largely on account of a book deal.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Who to I make the check out to?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 04, 2025 03:26 PM (3CVIc)

229 This is probably the strangest version of Golliwog's Cakewalk you'll ever here, done by Tomita with Moog synthesizers. My parent's had this album when I was a kid (I still have it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aX1PJ3kLJ4

Posted by: Zombie Art Bell at January 04, 2025 03:39 PM (lg881)

230 Good news, everyone!

President Biden@POTUS
Since I took office, we've recovered all of the jobs lost during the pandemic. And added 7 million more.
We didn't just recover – we built a foundation of stable growth for years to come.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 04, 2025 12:36 PM (L/fGl)

OMG.. What a F'ing liar
Posted by: It's me donna

If the 'emergency' issued for the so-called pandemic is still in effect then is the pandemic really over?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 04, 2025 04:04 PM (/lPRQ)

231 I am extremely impressed with your writing skills and also
with the layout on your blog. Is this a paid theme or did you customize it yourself?
Either way keep up the nice quality writing, it's rare to see a great blog like
this one today.

Posted by: Tips Bermain at January 04, 2025 04:04 PM (FHY6W)

232 "Honduras President Threatens To Shut Down U.S. Military Base Over Trump’s Plan To Deport Illegal Honduran Immigrants"
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Why the Flying F do we have a military base in Honduras??

Yes please, shut it down.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Not until it is filled with repatriated Hondos

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 04, 2025 04:17 PM (/lPRQ)

233 Saw a photo of Hillary all fluffed and puffed up posing with her medal while Michael J. Fox stood for his...and his is far more worthy for fighting Parkinson's Disease.

What, exactly, has Hil ever done other than somehow marry Willie? Without him she'd still be a smelly old hippie in hideous striped pants. Now she's a smelly old ugly hippie mostly wearing tents. She's one of my favorite people as I am sure you can tell. My hate reached epic levels post Benghazi.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 04, 2025 05:18 PM (gi+MR)

234 The Cincinnati Kid is a comedy-drama?
The descriptions of movies on the cable listings have been getting progressively more retarded.

And Ann Margret was primo.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 04, 2025 05:48 PM (ufFY8)

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