The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

DEI is alive and well and living in the hearts and minds of many of our corporations. And that is okay. The overwhelming support for it has disappeared, as many companies ditch it, or cover it up, or simply make it a low priority. The remaining enthusiasts will be competing on an uneven playing field, and they will be punished by the markets.

If Apple wants keep DEI, that means they will be competing for competent employees from a smaller pool than their competitors. The numbers don't lie, and eventually their fixation on race and sexuality will damage their vaunted engineering and marketing prowess.

Apple's board recommended shareholders reject DEI rollback proposal

But Apple recommended shareholders vote against the proposal, stating that it was "unnecessary as Apple already has a well-established compliance program and the proposal inappropriately attempts to restrict Apple's ability to manage its own ordinary business operations, people and teams, and business strategies."
DEI often involves prioritizing race, gender or sexuality in hiring, training and programming, and the initiatives have been criticized by conservatives as divisive and discriminatory. Proponents of DEI say these efforts address racial divides and provide support for groups who have been historically marginalized.

California just got punched in the mouth by the repercussions of focusing on race and sexuality over competence. Los Angeles is burning, in part because they have a bunch of sub-wits running things, and that is a direct result of California's fixation on fat lesbians pretending to be firefighters.

Maybe Apple can hire Kristin Crowley as their chief engineer when she is tossed out of Los Angeles on her ample ass! Or maybe Kristine Larson, of 'He got himself in the wrong place' fame as head of marketing! She sure impressed everyone with her abilities!

Perhaps in 10 years, as Apple's tech skills decay in opposition to their diversity, their customer base will shrink to a base of iPhone fanbois and legacy users who can't switch to more modern systems without huge training and hardware costs.

Or...they quietly reevaluate their insane stance on choosing color and sexuality over quality, and move to a more sane hiring and advancement policy. Disney didn't do that, and has lost half its value, probably due to its ferocious commitment to every DEI and Woke idea. Because with race and sexuality fixated hiring comes race and sexuality fixated employees! Disney got movies filled with those obsessions, and how did it work out for its stockholders? Not well at all.

The real question is whether the obvious lack of interest among most Americans with regard to DEI policies will eventually sweep it away. Sadly, the indoctrination in our universities is still going gangbusters, and Griggs v. Duke Power Co. is still the law of the land, and gives disproportionate power and influence to the academy.

Who will win is anyone's guess, but the markets are difficult to beat in the long term without good products and growing profits. Hopefully they will get rid of DEI before it destroys our remaining industrial and technological base!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 14, 2025 11:00 AM (kgE5c)

2 Not 1st

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

3 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 14, 2025 11:01 AM (kgE5c)

4 hi

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 11:01 AM (u1uWe)

5 Kristen Gillibrand is doing her best right now to prove that DEI is a mistake.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 14, 2025 11:01 AM (u73oe)

6 It might be lunch time,

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2025 11:02 AM (ctrVS)

7 Top 10?

Posted by: OkJohn at January 14, 2025 11:02 AM (qfwwg)

8 5 Kristen Gillibrand is doing her best right now to prove that DEI is a mistake.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 14, 2025 11:01 AM (u73oe)

Is she still blimped up or did she use Ozempic ? Last time I saw a picture of her she was definitely not eating salad....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 11:02 AM (VE6XX)

9 I did not realized that 50 yo Senator is in essence a 12 yo child.

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 11:03 AM (g47mK)

10 So why are we in countries where we have to send females and trannies to go talk to villagers to gather intelligence.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 14, 2025 11:03 AM (YIxO9)

11

And the same diversity bulllshit is being flung at noble, competent and patriotic warrior Pet HEgseth by filthy commie shitwhores who are unworthy of licking a used latrine with their forked tongues.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 14, 2025 11:03 AM (x0n13)

12 Top 13?!?

Posted by: Grayman27 at January 14, 2025 11:03 AM (pgwxJ)

13 As far as I'm concerned, software engineering has already been compromised in a major way by DEI. Windows 11 is almost becoming malware.

And of course there was the CrowdStrike thing from last July.

The problem with DEI hires is that they know they are not fileable not matter what they do (or refuse to do, or neglect to do).

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 14, 2025 11:03 AM (905sj)

14 Here's the thing: These companies and the government will never feel the sting of consequenses. They can afford to pour money down the drain in their quest for a rainbow of diversity.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2025 11:03 AM (lXoJ5)

15 Wasn't Gillibrand somewhat attractive when she was first elected?

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

16 Gillibrand grandstanding? I have the sound off but she's seems animated.

Posted by: WisRich at January 14, 2025 11:04 AM (EL2wb)

17 My god, the ex-wife act in 2025....she ain't reading the room.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 14, 2025 11:04 AM (YIxO9)

18 "fire able" damn it.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 14, 2025 11:04 AM (905sj)

19 >>But Apple recommended shareholders vote against the proposal, stating that it was "unnecessary as Apple already has a well-established compliance program and the proposal inappropriately attempts to restrict Apple's ability to manage its own ordinary business operations, people and teams, and business strategies."

Just curious: what is the Apple board's feelings on using slave labor in China to build their products?

How does that fit in with their current DEI program?
Do they believe Uighurs should be hired (or "hired") for positions other than assembling iPhones from prison?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 11:04 AM (u1uWe)

20 15 Wasn't Gillibrand somewhat attractive when she was first elected?
Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

As attractive as a used Beaver Hunt is to a priapic 13-year-old boy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 14, 2025 11:04 AM (x0n13)

21 16 Gillibrand grandstanding? I have the sound off but she's seems animated.
Posted by: WisRich at January 14, 2025 11:04 AM (EL2wb)

Pete should tell her to calm down...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 11:05 AM (VE6XX)

22 Gillibrand grandstanding? I have the sound off but she's seems animated.

So Disney animatronic?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 14, 2025 11:05 AM (eEdHS)

23 Yesterday, I posted about the claims that the new TSMC fab in Arizona is making 4 nm chips with similar yields and quality as those in Taiwan. I didn't see anything about their DEI initiatives, but I'm gonna guess that it isn't one of their highest priorities.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:05 AM (xCA6C)

24 We are pretty much in a hole as it is. The number of capable people who can manage, support and repair our existing technical infrastructure is waning. When there's nobody around who can fix the machinery that supplies power or water, and there's nobody who can assemble something new, society is well and truly fucked.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2025 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)

25 Wasn't Gillibrand somewhat attractive when she was first elected?
Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

———

Meh. Waffle House 6.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 14, 2025 11:05 AM (u73oe)

26 Gilly is one dumb bunny, that's for sure. An hysterical bunny.

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:05 AM (Jfw7U)

27 Wasn't Gillibrand somewhat attractive when she was first elected?

She absolutely was.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:05 AM (xCA6C)

28 Gillibrand is just the warmup act. "Squats with Unions" will be the main event.

Posted by: WisRich at January 14, 2025 11:06 AM (EL2wb)

29 I wonder what the calculus is. Does Apple make THAT much money overseas that it can deemphasize the US market...?

I don't think so. This is likely a blind spot on the part of Apple leadership and the, um, CEO for unmentioned reasons.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 14, 2025 11:06 AM (PzXaK)

30
Gillibrand needs new Midol with Strychnine.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 14, 2025 11:06 AM (x0n13)

31 Think positive, instead of Gillibrand it could still be Hillary.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 14, 2025 11:06 AM (eEdHS)

32 Apple is DEI Hard.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 14, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)

33 On a cold, dull January morning, I am finding this hearing highly entertaining. Thanks, Gilly..that was a fun show.

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:07 AM (Jfw7U)

34 As we have all seen DEI has proven to be deadly

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 11:08 AM (VE6XX)

35
Munkey

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 14, 2025 11:08 AM (FoIOl)

36 This just means Americans are still by and large a racist, sexist, homophobic lot and must be re-educated until they are in full support of all DEI initiatives and their outcomes.

Posted by: You just know they're saying this at January 14, 2025 11:09 AM (ybSPO)

37 Apple is DEI Hard.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

It's a Christmas movie?

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)

38 Is she still blimped up or did she use Ozempic ? Last time I saw a picture of her she was definitely not eating salad....

Ozempic is bad news. As I understand it, it paralyzes the colon.
It’s very effective as weight loss mechanism but what happens when you can’t eliminate waste from your body anymore?

Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2025 11:09 AM (qz6mh)

39 DEI is IED spelled differently

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 14, 2025 11:09 AM (eEdHS)

40 Kirsten Gillibrand claiming Pete is hurting all the feelz of men and women currently serving in the military. 🤡🤡
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 14, 2025 10:59 AM (4tmpE)

Hegseth: Madam Senator, I would argue that anyone who is incapable of performing at their peak solely on the basis of the identity of the Secretary of Defense is ill suited for military service and our nation is less safe as a result of their presence.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 11:09 AM (ExV1e)

41 The apple board is virtue signaling. I think they know the shareholders will vote to rid themselves of DEI, so the board can recommend whatever it wants without consequence. The shareholders have certainly seen the recent shitstorms over DEI and how it hurts profits. I expect they will roundly vote to roll it back. That's the way I'm voting, obviously. But I've been surprised before at how stupid people can be.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 14, 2025 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

42 Apple is DEI Hard.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

It's a Christmas movie?
Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)

Golf clap

Posted by: Doof at January 14, 2025 11:10 AM (gEQYA)

43 41 The apple board is virtue signaling. I think they know the shareholders will vote to rid themselves of DEI, so the board can recommend whatever it wants without consequence. The shareholders have certainly seen the recent shitstorms over DEI and how it hurts profits. I expect they will roundly vote to roll it back. That's the way I'm voting, obviously. But I've been surprised before at how stupid people can be.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 14, 2025 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

=======

Will they?

Since most stock is going to be held in trust by firms like Blackrock, most individual stockholders won't vote, and most of those who do vote will just tell their investors to vote for them...

I suspect DEI will easily survive this vote from the shareholders.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

44 Analogies are not your thing, Tater.

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
"Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 14, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)

45 The lesbian world is too confusing. I can't separate the Kristines apart from the Kristins.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 14, 2025 11:11 AM (dDmld)

46 California just got punched in the mouth by the repercussions of focusing on race and sexuality over competence. Los Angeles is burning, in part because they have a bunch of sub-wits running things, and that is a direct result of California's fixation on fat lesbians pretending to be firefighters.

You call that 'incompetence'? When we present you with Rick Caruso and you trust the system again, will you call that 'competence'? You're not fighting the system, you're living within it, giving it life.

Posted by: The System at January 14, 2025 11:11 AM (+j7Fj)

47 Apple and Starbucks, don't have none don't want none

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2025 11:12 AM (0wWvl)

48 Good rant.

Unfortunately, when government stops, the others will too.

>U.S. General Service Administration: Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. Government works best when it works for everyone.

Advancing equity in FY 2024: Our vision for progress.

In part, "Our updated action plan [PDF - 351 KB] aims to further advance GSA’s work to reduce barriers to equity for the communities we serve through the agency’s high impact program areas like federal procurement, buildings and technology design and delivery. It also gives increased emphasis to GSA’s role in helping to strengthen the government’s ability to be more agile, responsive, and reflective of Americans’ needs through evaluation and data-driven insights."

>OPM - Office of Personnel Management
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

A workforce that draws from the full diversity of the American people is better able to serve the nation.

In part, "In the United States, diversity is one of our greatest strengths. And in the federal government, our mission is to recruit and support the best possible federal workforce, so we can deliver for the American people."

Posted by: L - When do we hit rock bottom? at January 14, 2025 11:12 AM (NFX2v)

49 MSNBC Precident steps down, Rashida Jones.

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 11:12 AM (g47mK)

50 Is it just me or do the morning fire briefings from LA, featuring Bass, look a lot like the Kremlin Wall on a May Day parade?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2025 11:12 AM (W/lyH)

51 An ette in the previous thread said that, she wants Hegseth to be confirmed because he's hot. I laughed. Thanks. Yes, he certainly is,

but I think the ette had other reasons in addition to that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 11:12 AM (MQJVv)

52 But Apple recommended shareholders vote against the proposal, stating that it was "unnecessary as Apple already has a well-established compliance program and the proposal inappropriately attempts to restrict Apple's ability to manage its own ordinary business operations, people and teams, and business strategies."

So Apple, who is routinely forced into hardware design changes via the EU, is concerned that having the people who own the company decide that they should operate differently would hinder their ability to not operate differently.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 11:12 AM (ExV1e)

53 Calm down, Karen. Commie hos don't belong anywhere near this country, let alone the military.

Signed, a woman who served and knows damn well you're just a Didn't Earn It grifter

Posted by: Saber Alter at January 14, 2025 11:13 AM (AZg1Q)

54 I haven't gotten my notice to vote my shares

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2025 11:13 AM (RHGPo)

55 Analogies are not your thing, Tater.

Look, I got a 400 on the verbal section of the SATs, okay. I'm doing the best I can.

Posted by: The Spud at January 14, 2025 11:13 AM (xCA6C)

56 Apple has 4 trillion stashed away. They can be dumb for a very long time. Funny how all the leftwits that scream about Corporate profits all have Apple products sitting on their stand up desks.

Posted by: Fisht at January 14, 2025 11:13 AM (BHEHK)

57 Brian Stelter@brianstelter
"Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department."

Having a fire department is like losing your house.

Posted by: Los Angeles Palisades at January 14, 2025 11:13 AM (HeV6l)

58 Posted by: Elric The Blade

--

I think that's about right. Apple's performance with new products has been very uneven of late. Advertised features are not consistently available at launch or are quietly discontinued, etc etc.

If Apple is not focusing on its core business, it's ignoring one of the major strategy pillars that brought the company back from the dead.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 14, 2025 11:13 AM (PzXaK)

59 Is it just me or do the morning fire briefings from LA, featuring Bass, look a lot like the Kremlin Wall on a May Day parade?

May they catch the COVID sniffles then?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 14, 2025 11:13 AM (eEdHS)

60 >>Or...they quietly reevaluate their insane stance on choosing color and sexuality over quality, and move to a more sane hiring and advancement policy. Disney didn't do that, and has lost half its value. . . .

As with MSNBC bringing back Maddow for M-F shows, DIsney is doubling down on its commitment to DEI/CRT agenda -- they intend to be a lot more stealth about it:

Impact + Profit Conference: Entertainment to Change the World
Learning techniques from CCP to embed social-behavioral influence in their content. . .

https://tinyurl.com/47d856yv

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 11:14 AM (u1uWe)

61 I’m late. I might as well read the post.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 14, 2025 11:14 AM (jbnUc)

62 Michelle Obama not attending the inauguration. Not surprising since she couldn't make it to President Carter's funeral.

Get that woman another Mai Tai.

Posted by: WisRich at January 14, 2025 11:15 AM (EL2wb)

63 Notice that Apple management writes their rejection like voting against DEI is somehow having the government step in.

Shareholders voting against DEI is having the shareholders step in.

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2025 11:15 AM (RHGPo)

64 Apple has 4 trillion stashed away. They can be dumb for a very long time. Funny how all the leftwits that scream about Corporate profits all have Apple products sitting on their stand up desks.
Posted by: Fisht at January 14, 2025 11:13 AM (BHEHK)

Made with slave labor in one of the most highly-polluting countries in the world.

Posted by: Self-awareness is not their forte at January 14, 2025 11:15 AM (ybSPO)

65 I can't believe this. Blumenthal, US SENATOR, is complaining about fiscal irresponsibility.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:15 AM (xCA6C)

66 Michelle looked totally bored during Ted Kennedy's funeral

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 14, 2025 11:15 AM (eEdHS)

67 stupidity will continue until the cost of continuing it is greater than the cost to its supporters for turning away from it.

For the last 8 to 20 years or so, loans were at almost zero interest, and socially stupidity has been fully supported by media and the governments, so no "price discovery" has been possible.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 14, 2025 11:16 AM (D7oie)

68 The apple board is virtue signaling. I think they know the shareholders will vote to rid themselves of DEI, so the board can recommend whatever it wants without consequence.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 14, 2025 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

=======

Will they?

Since most stock is going to be held in trust by firms like Blackrock, most individual stockholders won't vote, and most of those who do vote will just tell their investors to vote for them...

I suspect DEI will easily survive this vote from the shareholders.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
_________

Maybe. It's possible that apple investors don't care much one way or the other, because so much of the company is dependent on foreign manufacturing which is unaffected. But I think even woke institutional investors like BR are walking DEI back, at least in name. It's toxic now. But it can be removed from the masthead and just go underground.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 14, 2025 11:16 AM (iFTx/)

69 >>Brian Stelter@brianstelter
"Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department."

Old and busted: Don't politicize this tragedy!

New hotness: Let's steal the valor of firemen to promote our censorship industry!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 11:16 AM (u1uWe)

70 Blumenthal up.

Posted by: WisRich at January 14, 2025 11:16 AM (EL2wb)

71 I'm not sure why anyone should care what the New Yak Senatrix has to say.

Just vote him in, along party lines. Make those so-called tough on the border Senators vote with their party, and have a 53-47 confirmation.

Done and done.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2025 11:17 AM (dGCAG)

72 69 >>Brian Stelter@brianstelter
"Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department."

I think he means Arson Department

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 11:17 AM (VE6XX)

73 Keep in mind that Apple does provide interim employment for Democrats out of office, like Gina McCarthy

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2025 11:17 AM (RHGPo)

74 65 I can't believe this. Blumenthal, US SENATOR, is complaining about fiscal irresponsibility.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:15 AM (xCA6C)

========

Any talk about fiscal responsibility from anyone in Congress should be met with clown horn noises.

From Democrats, it should also be met with a fire hose.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

75 California in the 1980s had an arson investigator who was a pyromaniac.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 14, 2025 11:18 AM (eEdHS)

76 @13/BeckoningChasm: "Windows 11 is almost becoming malware."

I think you can scratch the word "almost".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 11:18 AM (O7YUW)

77 The iron fist will make a comeback. But I'll be far far away.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at January 14, 2025 11:18 AM (Luhlb)

78 Blume that is complaining about deficit spending? That’s rich.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 14, 2025 11:18 AM (u73oe)

79 California in the 1980s had an arson investigator who was a pyromaniac.

==

I give it three clowns !

🤡🤡🤡

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 11:18 AM (g47mK)

80 Old Sen. Blum is quite the contrast to young Hegseth.

What a sleazy old dude. Any of these leftist pols talking responsible finance is JUST ridiculous.

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:18 AM (Jfw7U)

81 Yet we are seeing slowly the demise of DIE, trying to figure is coming of Trump or backlash of the likes of Trannies in women's sports.

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2025 11:19 AM (ctrVS)

82 Brian Stelter@brianstelter
"Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department."
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Having a fire department is like losing your house.
Posted by: Los Angeles Palisades at January 14, 2025 11:13 AM (HeV6l)

If you think you're going to need me to separate Brian Stelter from his boyfriends penis, all I can say is, maybe Brian shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2025 11:19 AM (dGCAG)

83 11
‘ commie shitwhores who are unworthy of licking a used latrine with their forked tongues’

I disagree.
They’re exactly worthy of licking latrines clean.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 14, 2025 11:19 AM (jbnUc)

84 Blumenthal has balls to even show up at this hearing. Tell us all about your combat experience again, dick.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 14, 2025 11:19 AM (y7tvB)

85 Blumenthal is complaining about the problem he himself created ? That's rich.

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 11:19 AM (g47mK)

86 "Not the kind of fiscal management we want at the DOD"

Because God knows our DOD is marked by competent leadership, fiscal responsibility, and economic thinking.

We can now buy spare parts from the Chinese cache.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 14, 2025 11:19 AM (YIxO9)

87 We are pretty much in a hole as it is. The number of capable people who can manage, support and repair our existing technical infrastructure is waning. When there's nobody around who can fix the machinery that supplies power or water, and there's nobody who can assemble something new, society is well and truly fucked.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2025 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)

I suppose that is the third way to de-civilize

Posted by: Kindltot at January 14, 2025 11:19 AM (D7oie)

88 California in the 1980s had an arson investigator who was a pyromaniac.

Today he could collect two paychecks for that.

Posted by: t-bird at January 14, 2025 11:20 AM (HeV6l)

89 "Senator, getting rid of blowhards and liars like you will be the first step toward fiscal responsibility!"

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 11:20 AM (g47mK)

90 > But Apple recommended shareholders vote against the proposal, stating that it was "unnecessary as Apple already has a well-established compliance program and the proposal inappropriately attempts to restrict Apple's ability to manage its own ordinary business operations, people and teams, and business strategies."
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Yet some companies are being sued because they used ESG, the kissing cousin to DEI in their decision making processes on how to fund employee retirement funds.

So.... Apple.... are you looking out for your investors or not?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2025 11:20 AM (Q4IgG)

91 "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster shows where we are going.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 14, 2025 11:20 AM (905sj)

92 76 @13/BeckoningChasm: "Windows 11 is almost becoming malware."

I think you can scratch the word "almost".
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 11:18 AM (O7YUW)

I'd say everything past Windows 7 fits that description to one degree or another. Bloatware most certainly.

Posted by: It's crap but I'm too stupid to learn Linux at January 14, 2025 11:20 AM (ybSPO)

93 Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:18 AM (Jfw7U)

It's ludicrous having Democrats intone about fiscal responsibility. I laughed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 11:20 AM (MQJVv)

94 74 65 I can't believe this. Blumenthal, US SENATOR, is complaining about fiscal irresponsibility.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:15 AM (xCA6C)
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His multiple tours in Vietnam turned him into a budget hawk.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 14, 2025 11:20 AM (jFCkp)

95 80 Old Sen. Blum is quite the contrast to young Hegseth.

What a sleazy old dude. Any of these leftist pols talking responsible finance is JUST ridiculous.
Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:18 AM (Jfw7U)

Hey man, we were in 'Nam together. War changes you.

Posted by: Brian Williams at January 14, 2025 11:21 AM (PiwSw)

96 Ozempic is bad news. As I understand it, it paralyzes the colon.
It’s very effective as weight loss mechanism but what happens when you can’t eliminate waste from your body anymore?
Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2025 11:09 AM (qz6mh)

There are some studies that indicate that it doesn't work on your gut, but alters your brain functions.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 14, 2025 11:21 AM (D7oie)

97 Kindltot

It is a science fiction trope of after Earth collapsing the colony worlds regressing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 14, 2025 11:21 AM (eEdHS)

98 Brian Stelter@brianstelter
"Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department."

Tell me you haven't read Fahrenheit 451 without saying you haven't read Fahrenheit 451.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 14, 2025 11:21 AM (kgE5c)

99 >>>>Brian Stelter@brianstelter
"Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department."

"Uh, Brian. . . Right metaphor, wrong application?

-- Bill Ayers, author of "Prairie Fire: The Politics Of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism - The Political Statement Of The Weather Underground"

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 11:21 AM (u1uWe)

100 Fen, and they do it with such fake 'caring'.

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:22 AM (Jfw7U)

101 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025 11:22 AM (7Q7Ca)

102 I do think better than 2 decades of Cultural Marxist Seminaries has poisoning corporate America

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2025 11:22 AM (ctrVS)

103 I think his priorities, "warfighting, lethality, meritocracy, standards, and readiness,” sent the likes of Gillebrand through the roof. Meritocracy really got to her I think...

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 11:22 AM (g47mK)

104 >>Tell me you haven't read Fahrenheit 451 without saying you haven't read Fahrenheit 451.

Do you have an X account -- because dang, that nail it!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 11:22 AM (u1uWe)

105 There are some studies that indicate that it doesn't work on your gut, but alters your brain functions.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 14, 2025 11:21 AM (D7oie)

It doesn't know your head from your ass.

Posted by: Gluttony is bad at January 14, 2025 11:22 AM (ybSPO)

106 44 Analogies are not your thing, Tater.

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
"Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 14, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)

Tater, if misinfo is a fire your business model is arson.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 14, 2025 11:23 AM (pIfcn)

107 The problem with DEI hires is that they know they are not fileable not matter what they do (or refuse to do, or neglect to do).
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 14, 2025 11:03 AM (905sj)

You cannot file them, but you can grind them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2025 11:23 AM (8zz6B)

108 Ozempic is bad news. As I understand it, it paralyzes the colon.

If it was good for you, do you really think we'd make it so profitable to prescribe?

Posted by: Big Pharma, the AMA, and the CDC at January 14, 2025 11:23 AM (/tXXR)

109 The death of DEI only means that this management scam has played itself out like so many others before it. There'll be a new one shortly with training programs and government capture, and all the crap that comes with it, and C-level executives and managers everywhere will fall for it, ALL OVER AGAIN.

*ARGH*

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 11:23 AM (O7YUW)

110 Good news, guys! Jessica Simpson will soon be on the market again! She and her husband have separated after 10 years of marriage.

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)

111 We need to import tech people who suffer from divershitty because they will not hire whites.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 11:23 AM (YeGMU)

112 California is screwed because of their elected leadership. Polls show they don't like their leadership, but have already recalled Newsom once, and re-elected him overwhelmingly.

Polls in New York show that Andrew Cuomo is an overwhelming favorite should he run for NYC Mayor.

You can't fix stupid. I won't cry for you, Argentina........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025 11:23 AM (7Q7Ca)

113 I remain a Hegseth skeptic. But like what I’m seeing.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 14, 2025 11:24 AM (y7tvB)

114 There'll be a new one shortly with training programs and government capture, and all the crap that comes with it, and C-level executives and managers everywhere will fall for it, ALL OVER AGAIN.

As long as they get their phat bonuses they don't care.

Posted by: Shit products + poor wages = C suite bonus! at January 14, 2025 11:24 AM (ybSPO)

115 The very large corp I work for… just recently the CEO had a town hall for all employees which included him “assuring” everyone that they’re still “committed to DEI” because it “makes us a stronger company” blah blah blah yada yada yada…

I swear these people all go to some class to learn how to speak Kamala quality word salad….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 14, 2025 11:24 AM (ANuwa)

116 Has Da Nang Dick stroked out yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 14, 2025 11:24 AM (eEdHS)

117 112 California is screwed because of their elected leadership. Polls show they don't like their leadership, but have already recalled Newsom once, and re-elected him overwhelmingly.

Polls in New York show that Andrew Cuomo is an overwhelming favorite should he run for NYC Mayor.

You can't fix stupid. I won't cry for you, Argentina........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025 11:23 AM (7Q7Ca)

=======

Machine politics makes you stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

118 -- Bill Ayers, author of "Prairie Fire: The Politics Of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism - The Political Statement Of The Weather Underground"
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He is also the author of Barrack Hussein Obama's first autobiography. Pretty sure he got paid for it by the Pritzkers.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 14, 2025 11:25 AM (jFCkp)

119 "Not the kind of fiscal management we want at the DOD"

Hegseth: Senator, the DOD has never passed an audit. There are repeated stories in the press of the DOD being unable to account for billions in appropriations. Following the Afghan pullout, overseen by a man you voted to confirm, the Taliban posted video of multiple pallets of $100 bills we left behind. Are you afraid I'll oversee spending the taxpayers money wisely?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 11:25 AM (ExV1e)

120 Ozempic is bad news. As I understand it, it paralyzes the colon.
It’s very effective as weight loss mechanism but what happens when you can’t eliminate waste from your body anymore?
Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2025 11:09 AM (qz6mh)

There are some studies that indicate that it doesn't work on your gut, but alters your brain functions.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 14, 2025 11:21 AM (D7oie)

I thought that was the point, wasn't it? To shut down whatever processes there were, between organs and brain, to tell the person "you should stop eating now."

I didn't think it actually burned fat or anything like that. Trick the body into thinking it's full.

What could possibly go wrong.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2025 11:25 AM (dGCAG)

121 Do you have an X account -- because dang, that nail it!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 11:22 AM

I don't, but feel free to quote me.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 14, 2025 11:25 AM (kgE5c)

122 Who nedds Ozempic when we have keto carnivore? Al Bundy was right. Eat dead animals.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 11:25 AM (YeGMU)

123 @107/Alberta Oil Peon "You cannot file them, but you can grind them."

Now destroy them, CRUSH them Torg! Do as I say!

Posted by: Voldar at January 14, 2025 11:25 AM (O7YUW)

124 Some are behind the power curve on the new corporate word salad jargon.

You can't have BRIDGE without DEI.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 14, 2025 11:26 AM (eEdHS)

125 I swear these people all go to some class to learn how to speak Kamala quality word salad….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 14, 2025 11:24 AM (ANuwa)

It's all business school cant. All corpo dipshits talk this way.

Posted by: Baffle em with bullshit at January 14, 2025 11:26 AM (ybSPO)

126 Greg Price@greg_price11
Sen. Jack Reed claims that the military is more lethal than ever because it's more diverse than ever

-
Also, our fire departments are more fire putty outty than ever because they're more diverse than ever.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 14, 2025 11:26 AM (L/fGl)

127 Pete skeptic, too. But if he keeps strongly talking audit, well....

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:26 AM (Jfw7U)

128 Dick Blumenthal criticizing someone for fiscal irresponsibility is like Adolf Hitler crying because you didn't celebrate Kwanzaa.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:26 AM (xCA6C)

129 Apple has 4 trillion stashed away. They can be dumb for a very long time. Funny how all the leftwits that scream about Corporate profits all have Apple products sitting on their stand up desks.
Posted by: Fisht at January 14, 2025 11:13 AM (BHEHK)

Made with slave labor in one of the most highly-polluting countries in the world.
Posted by: Self-awareness is not their forte at January 14, 2025 11:15 AM

Then they hop in their virtue signaling EV, which aside from ironically beign a fire hazard. Is a big source of pollution and also uses slave labor.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 14, 2025 11:27 AM (ewjUl)

130 28
‘ Gillibrand is just the warmup act. "Squats with Unions" will be the main event.’

It sounds like they’re going to show men why they voted for Trump

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 14, 2025 11:27 AM (jbnUc)

131 24. "When there's nobody around who can fix the machinery that supplies power or water, and there's nobody who can assemble something new, society is well and truly fucked."
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Who can? The guys from the Balkans, eastern Europe.

CBSN: On Assignment
Made in America* -- How the U.S. auto industry was built with foreign labor, By Emily Rand, Updated on: August 1, 2017 CBS News

"When Gerald Greiner walked into his first job as a safety manager for Eisenmann Corporation, a subcontractor building the paint shop at the Mercedes plant in Vance Alabama back in 2013, he was surprised to see Eastern Europeans pouring concrete, erecting steel and fitting pipe at the company's expansion project.

"There was Polish and Slovenian and Croatian people there it was hard for me to believe because I just didn't understand why they would be here," Greiner told "CBSN On Assignment" correspondent Vladimir Duthiers during an interview at a neighborhood park near Greiner's home in San Jose, California."

Didn't know that? Reading suggested.
---
Later, kids.

Posted by: L - When do we hit rock bottom? at January 14, 2025 11:27 AM (NFX2v)

132 NATIONAL HOT PASTRAMI SANDWICH DAY - January 14

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2025 11:27 AM (RHGPo)

133 96 Ozempic is bad news. As I understand it, it paralyzes the colon.
It’s very effective as weight loss mechanism but what happens when you can’t eliminate waste from your body anymore?
Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2025 11:09 AM (qz6mh)

There are some studies that indicate that it doesn't work on your gut, but alters your brain functions.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 14, 2025 11:21 AM (D7oie)

ALL meds have side effects...normally, you should only take the med if your perceived benefit is worth more to your health than the detriment. Being a Hollywood actress, I guess they've decided monetary benefit to be perfectly slim is worth the health risk. Normal folks are probably gonna eventually class action when the long term side effects hit enough of them...

AKA - the only folks who should probably be taking this are the morbidly obese who have failed everything to lose weight...and the diabetics who have also tried most things to control their diabetes...but of course, miracle meds never end up use appropriately...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 14, 2025 11:27 AM (exHjb)

134 >>Ozempic is bad news. As I understand it, it paralyzes the colon.

There are a lot of other scary potential side-effects.

It's also a lifetime drug. You don't take it to lose the weight and then stop. You are hooked forever, at ~$1k per mth, iirc.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 11:28 AM (u1uWe)

135 Nobody, absolutely nobody, marginalizes competence, intelligence and work ethic. DEI (Didn't Earn It) pays no attention to those three important keystones to success. It has become apparent to anyone with a higher IQ than a moron that a majority of normal Americans abhor wokeism and its bastard stepchild DEI.

Posted by: Fight, Fight! at January 14, 2025 11:28 AM (VcHM+)

136 >>Sen. Jack Reed claims that the military is more lethal than ever because it's more diverse than ever

Hahahahahahaha

*breaths*

Hahahahahahnaha

Woohoo.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 14, 2025 11:28 AM (y7tvB)

137 i work for a hospital that is entangled with a medical school. sad to say that DEI is still steamrolling through. although i am amused by the recent announcement in that context that office chairs with a capacity of iirc 400 pounds are now available.

Posted by: DenverGregg at January 14, 2025 11:28 AM (MryGi)

138 Someone my sister works with matter-of-factly claimed that the reason LA ran out of water to fight the fires was because selfish rich people were using sprinklers to water their lawns. This is the level of stupidity we're doing with on the left.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at January 14, 2025 11:28 AM (qUkBO)

139 Blumenthal met his wife when he was 30 and she was 15. They married 6 years later.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 14, 2025 11:28 AM (eb5mD)

140 We gonna weed out weak women soldiers? Another point in Pete's favor!

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:28 AM (Jfw7U)

141 110 Good news, guys! Jessica Simpson will soon be on the market again! She and her husband have separated after 10 years of marriage.
Posted by: Bulg at January

I would keep in mind the matrix here. In her current state, she is looking a little rough and in need of a few good meals. She has a history of substance abuse. But I am happy to write a letter of reference for any of y’all if it will help! 😂

Posted by: Piper at January 14, 2025 11:28 AM (pZEOD)

142 The lesbian world is too confusing. I can't separate the Kristines apart from the Kristins.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 14, 2025 11:11 AM (dDmld)

Watching the feetsball game last, I noticed one of the Rams' coaches wore a jersey with an LAFD logo. I thought, "funny, he doesn't look lesbian".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2025 11:29 AM (8zz6B)

143 Just turned on the confirmation and saw that ridiculous bleach bitch from NY carrying on like a teenager. How anyone takes these people seriously is unfathomable to me.

Posted by: UGAdawg at January 14, 2025 11:29 AM (OP42g)

144 139 Blumenthal met his wife when he was 30 and she was 15. They married 6 years later.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 14, 2025 11:28 AM (eb5mD)

=======

Worse than Roy Moore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

145 Blindness is an eye opening side effect of Ozempic.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 11:29 AM (YeGMU)

146 It's also a lifetime drug. You don't take it to lose the weight and then stop. You are hooked forever, at ~$1k per mth, iirc.
Posted by: Lizzy

So what happens if you stop taking it?

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

147 It's also a lifetime drug. You don't take it to lose the weight and then stop. You are hooked forever, at ~$1k per mth, iirc.

The good news: that will change in < 17 years.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:29 AM (xCA6C)

148 Greg Price@greg_price11
Sen. Jack Reed claims that the military is more lethal than ever because it's more diverse than ever

-
Also, our fire departments are more fire putty outty than ever because they're more diverse than ever.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 14, 2025 11:26 AM (L/fGl)

The only place where diversity has improved the capabilities is in girl sports.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2025 11:29 AM (dGCAG)

149 "Sen. Reed, we did not need the 6 million rounds of 155mm artillery shells we sent to Ukraine then?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 14, 2025 11:29 AM (eEdHS)

150 I would never even consider ozempic or any diet drug. When I need to lose weight I just… oh I don’t know: eat less and exercise more. Crazy I know…. But it works!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 14, 2025 11:29 AM (ANuwa)

151 @13/BeckoningChasm: "Windows 11 is almost becoming malware."

I think you can scratch the word "almost".
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 14, 2025 11:18 AM

My computer did an update as it was shutting down, which I didn't catch in time. The next day, it was doing the Circle of Doom. But it was all good because when I rebooted it, it can't run the final touches to run Windows 11. Maybe it has too little memory. Maybe the hotspot isn't good enough.

It feels a lot like when Windows 10 turned my previous laptop into a brick until there were updates.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 14, 2025 11:30 AM (fxCK2)

152 I remain a Hegseth skeptic. But like what I’m seeing.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 14, 2025 11:24 AM (y7tvB)

https://youtu.be/u1f0MWuX55g?t=11

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 11:30 AM (ExV1e)

153 How did Hirono get on Armed Services ?

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 11:30 AM (g47mK)

154 It's also a lifetime drug. You don't take it to lose the weight and then stop. You are hooked forever, at ~$1k per mth, iirc.
Posted by: Lizzy

So what happens if you stop taking it?
Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

Pfizer sends goons to your house to shove Taco Bell and Hoho's down your throat.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2025 11:30 AM (dGCAG)

155 I cannot watch Maizie Hirono question Hegseth. Somebody else watching please let me know how it went.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 11:30 AM (MQJVv)

156 Soooo, if all military women can meet the same high physical standards of men, won't the cut down on rape and such? Because the women could fight back equally?

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:30 AM (Jfw7U)

157 146 It's also a lifetime drug. You don't take it to lose the weight and then stop. You are hooked forever, at ~$1k per mth, iirc.
Posted by: Lizzy

So what happens if you stop taking it?
Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

Most likely - you get fatter than before...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 14, 2025 11:31 AM (exHjb)

158 From the Art Thread:

I have put my anger over the War of 1812 behind me.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 14, 2025 11:07 AM

You're a better man than I.

Posted by: Gunga Din at January 14, 2025 11:31 AM (a3Q+t)

159 155 I cannot watch Maizie Hirono question Hegseth. Somebody else watching please let me know how it went.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 11:30 AM (MQJVv)

I'm imagining hilarity will ensue... Dumbest member of the Senate

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 11:31 AM (VE6XX)

160 Diet and exercise? Now that right there is crazy talk.

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:31 AM (Jfw7U)

161 Watching Maizie is rather amusing.

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:32 AM (Jfw7U)

162 Soooo, if all military women can meet the same high physical standards of men, won't the cut down on rape and such? Because the women could fight back equally?

Excellent point.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:32 AM (xCA6C)

163 You say fanbois like its a bad thing.

Posted by: Glock Fanbois at January 14, 2025 11:32 AM (a3Q+t)

164 One thing. Stop eating carbs. Then eat the fatty meat.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 11:32 AM (YeGMU)

165 I didn't think it actually burned fat or anything like that. Trick the body into thinking it's full.

What could possibly go wrong.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2025 11:25 AM (dGCAG)

Cancer. That's what goes wrong. Look at the side effect list of most of the drugs today. '....and cancer.' They've turned it into a side effect.

Radiologist oncologist yesterday told the wife that nowadays, ONE in EIGHT women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. That's almost 15% of women in the US.

And chemically altering brain function is NOT the cure. Remember, they prescribe you drugs for depression. The drugs can cause tardive dyskinesia, which is involuntary muscle movements that MAY BE PERMANENT.

I'll take my chances on getting my brain to overcome depression.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025 11:33 AM (7Q7Ca)

166 Such a typical, silly lefty female, our Maizie.
I wonder if Maizie drinks...LOL!

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:33 AM (Jfw7U)

167 I'm sure the Chinese politburo grills its Minister of Defense candidates on its equity, trannie, and female standards.

Let me guess:

"Are you preparing to annihilate Roundeyes?"

"Yes"

"He do"

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 14, 2025 11:33 AM (YIxO9)

168 I'd shoot 'em in the legs, hell ya!

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:34 AM (Jfw7U)

169 I cannot watch Maizie Hirono question Hegseth. Somebody else watching please let me know how it went.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 11:30 AM (MQJVv)

I'm imagining hilarity will ensue... Dumbest member of the Senate
Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 11:31 AM

I can feel myself losing IQ points listening to her speak. She really is dim.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 14, 2025 11:34 AM (kgE5c)

170 Analogies are not your thing, Tater.

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
"Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 14, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)

What's the difference between fact checkers and firefighters, Tater?

Democrats are willing to pay fact checkers.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 14, 2025 11:34 AM (Q0kLU)

171 Well done, Hawaii. I'm sorry, Hawai'i.

Should have let the Japs take it.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 14, 2025 11:34 AM (YIxO9)

172 I would keep in mind the matrix here. In her current state, she is looking a little rough and in need of a few good meals. She has a history of substance abuse. But I am happy to write a letter of reference for any of y’all if it will help! 😂
Posted by: Piper at January 14, 2025 11:28 AM (pZEOD)

Thats all well and good but I have one question.

Whom is Jessica Simpson? Never heard of her.

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. at January 14, 2025 11:34 AM (89Sog)

173 I have it on good authority that China asshoe.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 11:34 AM (YeGMU)

174 And chemically altering brain function is NOT the cure. Remember, they prescribe you drugs for depression. The drugs can cause tardive dyskinesia, which is involuntary muscle movements that MAY BE PERMANENT.

I'll take my chances on getting my brain to overcome depression.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025 11:33 AM (7Q7Ca)

But the cool thing about that is that we can then give you drugs to control the tardive dyskinesia!

Posted by: This was an actual commercial at January 14, 2025 11:34 AM (PiwSw)

175 OMG...she is hilarious! Now onto Greenland takeover.

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:35 AM (Jfw7U)

176 171 Well done, Hawaii. I'm sorry, Hawai'i.

Should have let the Japs take it.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 14, 2025 11:34 AM (YIxO9)

Wouldn't mind replacing Hawaii's Statehood with Greenland

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 11:35 AM (VE6XX)

177 Dumbest member of the Senate
Posted by: It's me donna

That is an extremely low bar you've set.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 14, 2025 11:35 AM (acgoB)

178 The lesbian world is too confusing. I can't separate the Kristines apart from the Kristins.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 14, 2025 11:11 AM

Would scissors help?

Posted by: Philosomoron at January 14, 2025 11:35 AM (a3Q+t)

179 Should have let the Japs take it.

Should have kept it as it was. A coaling station for the Navy and a leper colony.

Posted by: Grayman27 at January 14, 2025 11:35 AM (pgwxJ)

180 Good news, guys! Jessica Simpson will soon be on the market again! She and her husband have separated after 10 years of marriage.
Posted by: Bulg
-----------------------

I'd hit it...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 14, 2025 11:35 AM (5hfjS)

181 Hegseth is being smart by not responding. He just lets Hirono make a fool of herself.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

182 YouTube shorts are filling up with celebrities homes that were razed to the ground, Yesterday saw Jessica Simpson was. I do wonder if these are legit except lots of are

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2025 11:35 AM (ctrVS)

183 62
‘ Michelle Obama not attending the inauguration.’

I like this new Michelle Obama…that stays the hell off my TV and internet.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 14, 2025 11:36 AM (jbnUc)

184 Hegseth , just think of WWII POWs held by Japan had to go through , and you will feel much better !

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 11:36 AM (g47mK)

185 Cancer. That's what goes wrong. Look at the side effect list of most of the drugs today. '....and cancer.' They've turned it into a side effect.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025 11:33 AM (7Q7Ca)

That's what kills me about my cancer...I never took a med a day in my life til I got diagnosed...and now I take a bunch daily...

The problems of toxic exposure...which hilariously, the military said I had, but now have said it didn't cause my cancer b/c a doc with no experience in cancer, let alone blood cancer, decided I just got something no women in their 40s get, having had no other lifetime pills (or family history), b/c...so an appeal is happening, but probably no disability or rating for me, so let me continue to discourage anyone anywhere from ever letting their kids serve. Ever.

Okay, rant over...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 14, 2025 11:36 AM (exHjb)

186 I wonder if Maizie drinks...LOL!
Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:33 AM (Jfw7U)

She only stops to start again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025 11:36 AM (7Q7Ca)

187 134 >>Ozempic is bad news. As I understand it, it paralyzes the colon.

There are a lot of other scary potential side-effects.

It's also a lifetime drug. You don't take it to lose the weight and then stop. You are hooked forever, at ~$1k per mth, iirc.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025

I hadn’t heard the colon thing, but it does attack muscle mass as you lose, and your heart is a muscle. This is why you see the terms “ozempic face” and “ozempic butt”. The other issue is the speed in which you lose weight, your body just doesn’t have time to adjust and you end up with lose skin - now you are going to get this regardless of the method you use if you are losing a lot of weight and / or you are of a certain age and your skin is losing laxity.

Any weight loss support is lifetime if you don’t change everything about what you are doing while using it. If you still eat like garbage, just less garbage because your appetite is controlled, and you don’t exercise, you will not sustain the loss. Diets do not work long term. You have to change your lifestyle and stop thinking in terms of short term by doing x y z for a few months. It stinks. It’s hard. But it’s facts.

Posted by: Piper at January 14, 2025 11:36 AM (QzINz)

188 Greg Price@greg_price11
Sen. Jack Reed claims that the military is more lethal than ever because it's more diverse than ever

What a crock of crap.
No platoon wants a member who is too fat to do the work, too wimpy to lift the mortar or projectiles, too fixated on themselves that they need a time out, or too weak to carry a down man to safety.
Hey Reed, just let all the diaper wearing furries be your aides.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2025 11:36 AM (W/lyH)

189 @181, oh yes. If there ever was a poster-girl for the foolishness of women being in control of any military issue, Maizie is IT!

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:36 AM (Jfw7U)

190 ‘ Michelle Obama not attending the inauguration.’

Who invited her ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 11:37 AM (VE6XX)

191 To anyone with a sentient brain, it's demonstrating the incredible disconnect that Dems have with reality.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 14, 2025 11:37 AM (YIxO9)

192 Hegseth is being smart by not responding. He just lets Hirono make a fool of herself.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:35 AM

Hegseth: Thank you, Senator. Your concern is

[X] Noted
[ ] Other than noted

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 14, 2025 11:37 AM (kgE5c)

193 Gee, just scrolled up and I'm not alone. I put the Hegseth hearing on and there's Maizie Hrono. They keep her around to make Patty Murray look schmart. What a maroon.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 14, 2025 11:37 AM (gm9Sb)

194 190 ‘ Michelle Obama not attending the inauguration.’

Who invited her ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 11:37 AM (VE6XX)

======

She's a former first lady.

The idea that she's not invited seems...silly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

195 Billy Mitchell was a white male, so I don't know if he should be quoted.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 14, 2025 11:38 AM (YIxO9)

196
Okay, rant over...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 14, 2025 11:36 AM (exHjb)

Well, prayers your way and Godspeed to you. I wish you the best in your treatment. I know how bad it tends to suck watching the First Lady go through it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025 11:38 AM (7Q7Ca)

197 Jessica was in Dukes of Hazard movie I think

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2025 11:38 AM (ctrVS)

198 Translation: send AK more Fed money.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:38 AM (xCA6C)

199 When the DIE protestor was being sent out to glue himself to a priceless piece of art he asked his team leader, "Do you expect me to throw paint on the picture?" and his team leader responded ominously:

"No Mister DIE. I expect you to bond!"

Posted by: 1st Lt Andrew Rowan at January 14, 2025 11:38 AM (991eG)

200
Musk's (and others like him) next project should be establishing a non-DEI,

full bore STEM college focused on excellence.

Land and building-wise it could be easily done thanks to COVID. There are lots of dead business campuses like Perot's EDS that could be bought up and turned to a world-class educational facility.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 14, 2025 11:38 AM (iJfKG)

201 Whom is Jessica Simpson? Never heard of her.
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it

Singer and actress.

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

202 Is Dennis Rodman available to substitute for Michael Obama?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 11:39 AM (YeGMU)

203 79
‘ California in the 1980s had an arson investigator who was a pyromaniac.

I give it three clowns !’

You guys laugh but he knew who the firebug was before anyone else.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 14, 2025 11:39 AM (jbnUc)

204 Hegseth is being smart by not responding. He just lets Hirono make a fool of herself.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

I guess they lefties are preaching to their choirs, but the rest of us see it for what it is. The election didn't teach them anything. I gotta hope the GOP is collecting the soundbites.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2025 11:39 AM (W/lyH)

205 201 Whom is Jessica Simpson? Never heard of her.
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it

Singer and actress.
Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

=======

Farmer of chicken from the sea.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

206 "Senator Hirono, what you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

Posted by: Saber Alter at January 14, 2025 11:39 AM (AZg1Q)

207 Greg Price@greg_price11
Sen. Jack Reed claims that the military is more lethal than ever because it's more diverse than ever

What a crock of crap.
No platoon wants a member who is too fat to do the work, too wimpy to lift the mortar or projectiles, too fixated on themselves that they need a time out, or too weak to carry a down man to safety.
Hey Reed, just let all the diaper wearing furries be your aides.
Posted by: Diogenes

OTOG, it might be good to have a trannie that literally thinks "that outfit is to kill for!"

Posted by: Josephistan at January 14, 2025 11:39 AM (NhYBP)

208 Hirono is an embarrassment the Senate.

Put away the Spam and pineapple, Hawaiians, and elect someone who couldn't be confused with one of the babbling witches on The View.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2025 11:40 AM (LkLld)

209 Musk's (and others like him) next project should be establishing a non-DEI,

full bore STEM college focused on excellence.

Land and building-wise it could be easily done thanks to COVID. There are lots of dead business campuses like Perot's EDS that could be bought up and turned to a world-class educational facility.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 14, 2025 11:38 AM

I believe Musk has proposed establishing the Texas Institute of Technology and Science.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 14, 2025 11:40 AM (a3Q+t)

210 Greg Price@greg_price11
Sen. Jack Reed claims that the military is more lethal than ever because it's more diverse than ever

Lethal as in suicidal.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 14, 2025 11:40 AM (+oR7L)

211 Nothing is made better via diversity. Not one damn thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025 11:40 AM (7Q7Ca)

212 Apparently, chicken of the sea is actually tuna. Who knew?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 11:40 AM (YeGMU)

213 I cannot watch Maizie Hirono question Hegseth. Somebody else watching please let me know how it went.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 11:30 AM (MQJVv)

Sen. Hirono:Mr. Hegseth, my sources tell me that you have not visited any of my family's brothel's in Hawaii. Do you hate Asians?

Hegseth: Madam Senator, only you.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 11:40 AM (ExV1e)

214 Mazie always has a fresh allotment of 'daring do'

Posted by: micky at January 14, 2025 11:41 AM (3byMq)

215 Ok.

Back to work.

Laters.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025 11:41 AM (7Q7Ca)

216
I'll take my chances on getting my brain to overcome depression.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at

They did a study and exercise was better than the drugs or placebos in helping with depression. The issue is getting people who are depressed to exercise when they don’t feel like doing anything. If you are depressed, you have to force yourself to do it no matter what to start feeling the effects.

Posted by: Piper at January 14, 2025 11:41 AM (pZEOD)

217 196
Okay, rant over...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 14, 2025 11:36 AM (exHjb)

Well, prayers your way and Godspeed to you. I wish you the best in your treatment. I know how bad it tends to suck watching the First Lady go through it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025 11:38 AM (7Q7Ca)

Actually, it's going really well so far, except for the original insurance denials and now military denials...I'm expecting white Christian R voters to get negged everywhere for everything, and I'm not being disappointed.

As I told the spouse when we started this...I expected a no, which is why I never applied, until another vet sent my info to wounded warriors b/c I know the military never actually cared about its people. Americans care about the military, but the actual military service could not give a d&mn. So, I never got my hopes up, but figure it's one reason the One above is letting the start of my treatment go so well...you only get so much negative at one time

...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 14, 2025 11:41 AM (exHjb)

218 Singer and actress.
Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

That explains it. I watched Prometheus the other day. The first movie I've seen in years.

Pop culture is not my thing.

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. at January 14, 2025 11:41 AM (89Sog)

219 ‘ Michelle Obama not attending the inauguration.’

She's probably pissed she can't check out an Air Force Special Missions plane to take her and her buddies to Paris for shopping anymore.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2025 11:41 AM (W/lyH)

220 Diversity isn't a strength, it is a weakness. It is the willingness to sacrifice performance in the name of meeting quotas.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 14, 2025 11:42 AM (lTGtQ)

221 This Senator is a grandstanding fool. Shut the hell up and let Hegseth answer.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:42 AM (xCA6C)

222 Posted by: Nova Local at January 14, 2025 11:41 AM (exHjb)

Will add you to my prayer list

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 11:42 AM (VE6XX)

223 They did a study and exercise was better than the drugs or placebos in helping with depression. The issue is getting people who are depressed to exercise when they don’t feel like doing anything. If you are depressed, you have to force yourself to do it no matter what to start feeling the effects.
Posted by: Piper at January 14, 2025 11:41 AM

Sure. And after that come the kale smoothies.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 14, 2025 11:42 AM (a3Q+t)

224 209 I believe Musk has proposed establishing the Texas Institute of Technology and Science.

i'm surprised he's not proposing the greater mars technical conservatory.

Posted by: anachronda at January 14, 2025 11:43 AM (sGtp+)

225 82
‘ If you think you're going to need me to separate Brian Stelter from his boyfriends penis’

Yeah. I’ll let you have that gig.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 14, 2025 11:43 AM (jbnUc)

226 Whom is Jessica Simpson? Never heard of her.
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. at January 14, 2025 11:34 AM (89Sog)

Bart's ex?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2025 11:43 AM (8zz6B)

227 11
‘ commie shitwhores who are unworthy of licking a used latrine with their forked tongues’

I disagree.
They’re exactly worthy of licking latrines clean.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

See? They do serve a purpose.

Posted by: Captain Splatter at January 14, 2025 11:43 AM (v0R5T)

228 216
I'll take my chances on getting my brain to overcome depression.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at

They did a study and exercise was better than the drugs or placebos in helping with depression. The issue is getting people who are depressed to exercise when they don’t feel like doing anything. If you are depressed, you have to force yourself to do it no matter what to start feeling the effects.
Posted by: Piper at January 14, 2025 11:41 AM (pZEOD)

This is true...getting exercise (for the endorphins) and a life pattern of consistent sleep and eating patterns also help. You get someone in a routine and they will do it even when they don't feel like it b/c it's routine...breaking the depressive cycle before it has a chance to set in...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 14, 2025 11:43 AM (exHjb)

229 I'll take my chances on getting my brain to overcome depression.
—

Or the old fashioned way, alcohol.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at January 14, 2025 11:43 AM (17s+e)

230 Brian Stelter

Fat, dumb and stupid is no way to go through life.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025 11:43 AM (7Q7Ca)

231 If some companies have DEI and others don't.

DEI will drag the companies that have it to the ground, unless they have a virtual monopoly.

Because DEI is actually a virus, it infects the host and makes the host start producing DEI. Not service, not product, not innovation. DEI.

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 11:44 AM (krQz2)

232 211 Nothing is made better via diversity. Not one damn thing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025 11:40 AM (7Q7Ca)

How about we give meritocracy a chance (again).

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 14, 2025 11:44 AM (N39Ws)

233
The minute Pam Bondi is sworn in, she should make an announcement and tell anyone who thinks they have been discriminated against in Apple's hiring or promotion processes to contact her office.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 14, 2025 11:44 AM (qvjkP)

234 Recruiting numbers are up ? I wonder why ?

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 11:44 AM (g47mK)

235 223
Sure. And after that come the kale smoothies.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January

And after that, you tell everyone else to drink kale smoothies and get off their tales and move and post how to squat correctly or about your love of all things rows and in general be obnoxious!

Posted by: Piper at January 14, 2025 11:44 AM (p4NUW)

236 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025

Sponge - How is the Mrs doing with her treatment? Hope all is going well.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 14, 2025 11:44 AM (N39Ws)

237 Oh, FFS. Kaine is such a tool.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:44 AM (xCA6C)

238 169 I cannot watch Maizie Hirono question Hegseth. Somebody else watching please let me know how it went.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 11:30 AM (MQJVv)

I'm imagining hilarity will ensue... Dumbest member of the Senate
Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 11:31 AM

How can anyone vote for someone so magnificently stupid?

I can feel myself losing IQ points listening to her speak. She really is dim.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 14, 2025 11:34 AM (kgE5c)

Posted by: Seriously lurking at January 14, 2025 11:44 AM (kTd/k)

239 That explains it. I watched Prometheus the other day. The first movie I've seen in years.

Pop culture is not my thing.
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. at January 14, 2025 11:41 AM (89Sog)

And on that day, "Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it"s brain shrank three sizes."

Posted by: naturalfake at January 14, 2025 11:45 AM (iJfKG)

240 At least he knows how to father a child, Tim. Ask your former running mistress's husband.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 14, 2025 11:45 AM (YIxO9)

241 Speaking of walks...off to take one since my toe is all better (have been on it fully for a week+, so that's another good thing - healed better than I expected while in treatment)...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 14, 2025 11:45 AM (exHjb)

242 Kaine looks like an alcoholic vagrant.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:45 AM (xCA6C)

243 I believe Musk has proposed establishing the Texas Institute of Technology and Science.

===

i'm surprised he's not proposing the greater mars technical conservatory.
Posted by: anachronda at January 14, 2025 11:43 AM

TITS >>> GMTC when it comes to branded merchandise sales.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 14, 2025 11:45 AM (a3Q+t)

244 Nothing is made better via diversity. Not one damn thing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025 11:40 AM (7Q7Ca)

When the focus becomes the person and not the team, when it becomes 'diversity' and not the mission, then you are guaranteed the silver medal in every war.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2025 11:45 AM (W/lyH)

245 224 209 I believe Musk has proposed establishing the Texas Institute of Technology and Science.

i'm surprised he's not proposing the greater mars technical conservatory.
Posted by: anachronda at January 14, 2025 11:43 AM (sGtp+)

Dude. TITS > GMTC

Posted by: Missed it at January 14, 2025 11:45 AM (ybSPO)

246 Dr. Eli David@DrEliDavid
Unbelievable that these were Biden's officials: He suggests that Israel should have offered H×mas a state immediately after October 7
January 20th can't come soon enough...

https://is.gd/3GtXVc

-
Our State Department in action!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 14, 2025 11:45 AM (L/fGl)

247 Hirono is an embarrassment the Senate.
.......

Poi brain.

Posted by: wth at January 14, 2025 11:45 AM (v0R5T)

248 Kaine learned well from Hillary.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 14, 2025 11:45 AM (YIxO9)

249 Wait, I thought "it's just about sex" means you aren't to be held accountable.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:46 AM (xCA6C)

250 The issue is getting people who are depressed to exercise when they don’t feel like doing anything. If you are depressed, you have to force yourself to do it no matter what to start feeling the effects.
Posted by: Piper at January 14, 2025 11:41 AM (pZEOD)

There's a reason it's called 'paralyzing depression.'

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 14, 2025 11:46 AM (Q0kLU)

251 220 Diversity isn't a strength, it is a weakness. It is the willingness to sacrifice performance in the name of meeting quotas.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 14, 2025 11:42 AM (lTGtQ)
—-

Giving in to the stupidest and least talented people in a society. It is the biggest lie Obama ever told.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at January 14, 2025 11:46 AM (17s+e)

252 OTOH, I'm thinking that businesses are going where they think popular opinion is going. If they think DIE is popular, they'll use it as a marketing thing. Now that it's being considered garbage, they are backing off.

Is it actually taken seriously by the business? In my company, not really. "non-essential" employees tend to fall under its dictates, but when it comes to the core business staff/leadership it hasn't changed at all.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 14, 2025 11:46 AM (PzXaK)

253 Nothing is made better via diversity. Not one damn thing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 14, 2025 11:40 AM (7Q7Ca)

Diet. You cannot live on strip steaks alone. You need ribeyes, sirloins, filets... hell, even chop steak.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 11:46 AM (ExV1e)

254 Possible sexual assault should be a disqualifier from serving in the Senate. Dodd Kennedy sandwich anyone.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 14, 2025 11:47 AM (YIxO9)

255 Piper is an agent of Big Kale™. Use caution.

Posted by: Always watching us at January 14, 2025 11:47 AM (ybSPO)

256 Kaine's son is an indicted antifa terrorist. I hope that doesn't get brought up.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2025 11:47 AM (LkLld)

257 GMTC?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 11:47 AM (YeGMU)

258 Mornin', MP4.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 14, 2025 11:47 AM (kgE5c)

259 Dear America,
We're so sorry.
-Virginia

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:48 AM (xCA6C)

260 This Senator is a grandstanding fool. Shut the hell up and let Hegseth answer.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:42 AM (xCA6C)

Confirmation hearings don't exist to get answers from the appointees!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 11:48 AM (ExV1e)

261 That explains it. I watched Prometheus the other day. The first movie I've seen in years.

Pop culture is not my thing.
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. at January 14, 2025 11:41 AM (89Sog)

---

Geez, that's like saying the first episode of Star Trek you've ever watched is Spock's Brain.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 14, 2025 11:48 AM (PzXaK)

262 Thx CBD. Erastus Corning was mayor of Albany for 40+yrs. He was married and had two kids. While he was mayor he also had an insurance agency and if you wanted to do business with Albany county you had to go through his agency. He had a "friend and secretary " named Polly Noonan who was also a Dem party hack. When Corning died he left the agency and most of his estate to Polly and her kids. Polly had a daughter they called Polly Jr. She married an Albany attorney/lobbyist named Doug Rutnik and they had kids including a daughter who is now Kirsten Gillibrand. In other words Cornings illegitimate granddaughter. Allegedly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2025 11:48 AM (fcO1r)

263 Tim Kaine, running mate to Hilary, married to the BLUE DRESS CIC Bill Clinton.

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:48 AM (Jfw7U)

264 DEI is simply another way of saying most minorities and sexually disordered people are not capable of advancing in society due to lack of what is required to succeed. So they make some shit up which allows them to be foisted upon those who want nothing to do with them.

Posted by: Affirmative Action By Another Name at January 14, 2025 11:48 AM (jiYtH)

265 Such hypocrisy!

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:48 AM (Jfw7U)

266
Good.

We need more TITS in Texas.

You can never have enough.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 14, 2025 11:48 AM (iJfKG)

267 >>Possible sexual assault should be a disqualifier from serving in the Senate.

The hallowed halls where staffers buttfuck each other.

Posted by: garrett at January 14, 2025 11:48 AM (snN/i)

268 Well done VA.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 14, 2025 11:48 AM (YIxO9)

269 Diversity isn't a strength, it is a weakness.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 14, 2025 11:42 AM (lTGtQ)
---
Say that about a gene pool.

The thing is that diversity can be valuable. Influx of new ideas is not bad, New ideas might come from a new perspective. That's not bad.

However, if you had a diversity of contractions in your muscle fibers, that isn't strength. That's a disability.

Diversity IS Strength is a slogan, because it only helps when it helps.

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 11:48 AM (krQz2)

270 All we are saaaaaaayiiiing
Is take off your pants

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at January 14, 2025 11:49 AM (QSrLX)

271 268 Well done VA.

See my #259.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:49 AM (xCA6C)

272 Hegseth needs to just roll his chair back, put his feet up on the table and pretend to doze.

"Are we boring you Senator??!!"

"Yes"

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2025 11:49 AM (W/lyH)

273 Tim Kaine is competing with Gillibrand for the Nasty Hysterical Attack Chimp award.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 14, 2025 11:49 AM (paSBy)

274 How'd we get all these Senator for life people?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 11:49 AM (YeGMU)

275 Tim Kaine is lipless.

Posted by: lizabth at January 14, 2025 11:49 AM (Jfw7U)

276 And on that day, "Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it"s brain shrank three sizes."

Posted by: naturalfake at January 14, 2025 11:45 AM (iJfKG)

I disagree. Decent plot. Some good suspense. A little bit of horror. A decent ending.

Better than a lot of dreg I used to watch years ago.

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. at January 14, 2025 11:49 AM (89Sog)

277 >>>Or the old fashioned way, alcohol.
~~~~~

Trying to cure depression with alcohol is suicide.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 14, 2025 11:50 AM (3ImbR)

278 I want to see Eric Cartman as a Senator.

"Respect mah authoritah!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

279 Whom is Jessica Simpson? Never heard of her.
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it.

Really? She played Daisy Duke in the most recent reboot of that series: https://tinyurl.com/439rtfj3

She was a cute, kinda curvy blonde, but struggled with weight quite a bit...I think she may have even done ads for Weight Watchers or Atkins at some point.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 14, 2025 11:50 AM (JCZqz)

280 And after that, you tell everyone else to drink kale smoothies and get off their tales and move and post how to squat correctly or about your love of all things rows and in general be obnoxious!
Posted by: Piper at January 14, 2025 11:44 AM

I achieved that final state by itself. No kale was necessary!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 14, 2025 11:50 AM (a3Q+t)

281 Whom is Jessica Simpson? Never heard of her.
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. at January 14, 2025 11:34 AM (89Sog)

Does this help?

https://tinyurl.com/4p6u6uk6+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 11:50 AM (ExV1e)

282 Hegseth needs to just roll his chair back, put his feet up on the table and pretend to doze.

"Are we boring you Senator??!!"

"Yes"

These circuses have begun to rival SCOTUS nominations for the most pointless hearings. Everyone already knows how the senators will vote.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:50 AM (xCA6C)

283 >>How'd we get all these Senator for life people?

17th Amendment

Posted by: garrett at January 14, 2025 11:50 AM (snN/i)

284 Obviously, I'm not doing my part to keep the thread Prometheus free. I'll try harder next time.

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. at January 14, 2025 11:50 AM (89Sog)

285 Analogies are not your thing, Tater.

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
"Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 14, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)
---
Liberals love the phrase "is like" so much they use it for everything. They almost never use it right.

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 11:51 AM (krQz2)

286 Confirmation hearings don't exist to get answers from the appointees!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 11:48 AM (ExV1e)

"...advice and consent..."
One more thing the politicians have fu*ked up.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2025 11:51 AM (W/lyH)

287 The very large corp I work for… just recently the CEO had a town hall for all employees which included him “assuring” everyone that they’re still “committed to DEI” because it “makes us a stronger company” blah blah blah yada yada yada…

Same. Not a very large company, but large enough. And we had a bunch of middle-aged white women doing a high-school style cheer for DEI. Cringe factor over 9000.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 14, 2025 11:51 AM (2ocoG)

288 And on that day, "Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it"s brain shrank three sizes."

Posted by: naturalfake at January 14, 2025 11:45 AM (iJfKG)

I disagree. Decent plot. Some good suspense. A little bit of horror. A decent ending.

Better than a lot of dreg I used to watch years ago.
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. at January 14, 2025 11:49 AM (89Sog)

See?

The Science is now settled!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 14, 2025 11:51 AM (iJfKG)

289 When I was going through one of the worst bouts of depression in my life in 2003, my son was small. Spending time with him always made me feel better. Some nights, I would go into his room and sleep on the floor next to his crib, and even that made me feel better. One time he had a cough, and I sat with him on my lap in the dark, just rubbing his back. That helped, too.

He was a great antidepressant.

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

290 I want to tell you about military personnel and strippers.

If you don't know the actual first names of any stripper by your base, you're a fag.

I still get a Christmas card from Crystal from the Great Alaskan Bush company.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 14, 2025 11:52 AM (YIxO9)

291 Our Great War is a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives.

Posted by: Fight Club FTW at January 14, 2025 11:53 AM (ybSPO)

292 GAYTLA5 morning news announced interview with "married couple" who lost their home to fire. Of course they are faggots.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 14, 2025 11:53 AM (8RXzl)

293 The Science is now settled!
Posted by: naturalfake at January 14, 2025 11:51 AM (iJfKG)

I give...

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. at January 14, 2025 11:53 AM (89Sog)

294 Nothing is made better via diversity. Not one damn thing.

"Diversity" has a very special and limited definition inside your head. In short, it does not mean what you think it does.

The advantage of the tavern over broadcast is that you get a chance to check out who's in there before you hold forth.

For a few of you, this place has become a rock to hide under, where you can spout lines you practice in front of a mirror but would not expect to survive delivering in public. In that regard you have degraded yourselves to less than whole men. Your prayers need to be more introspective, and considerably less public.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 14, 2025 11:54 AM (zdLoL)

295 >>I still get a Christmas card from Crystal from the Great Alaskan Bush company.

Had a buddy who worked the Oil Patch up there...every time he was scheduled to fly back to AZ he would get waylaid there and miss a flight or two.

'What happened?'

"I fell in love!"

Posted by: garrett at January 14, 2025 11:54 AM (snN/i)

296
When are they going to get to accusing Hegseth of drugging girls in solo cups and raping them?

Kavanagh set the gold standard of confirmation hearings.

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 11:54 AM (krQz2)

297 f you don't know the actual first names of any stripper by your base, you're a fag.

===

Candy, Soleste, Lola, Lita, Jewel and Misty ?

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 11:54 AM (g47mK)

298 How long can the fires go?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 11:55 AM (YeGMU)

299 Sock change

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Cerified dangerous radical. at January 14, 2025 11:55 AM (89Sog)

300 Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 11:54 AM

--

You left out Destini.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 14, 2025 11:55 AM (PzXaK)

301 This is just too delicious.

ADMIN POST.

French leftist theatre faces bankruptcy after opening its doors to 250 African migrants for a free show... and they refused to leave and remain in the building five weeks later.

Go woke, go broke strikes again.

https://is.gd/Xf7yJg

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:55 AM (xCA6C)

302 > Tim Kaine is competing with Gillibrand for the Nasty Hysterical Attack Chimp award.
-------
I'm pretty sure they rehearse these little tantrums. It's pretty much scripted for them. Has to be. There's no way anyone questioning Hegseth and is having a hissy fit isn't simply putting on a show.

They all suck.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2025 11:55 AM (Q4IgG)

303 >>How long can the fires go?

Until the rain comes.

At least, that is how it works up in the Northern Rockies

Posted by: garrett at January 14, 2025 11:56 AM (snN/i)

304 301 This is just too delicious.

ADMIN POST.

French leftist theatre faces bankruptcy after opening its doors to 250 African migrants for a free show... and they refused to leave and remain in the building five weeks later.

Go woke, go broke strikes again.

https://is.gd/Xf7yJg
Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:55 AM (xCA6C)

=======

Charlie Hebdo's gonna have a great cartoon about this, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

305 lol. Ukrainistas are freaking out that Louis Vuitton champagne is being sold in Russia, even though the company officially pulled out of the eeeeeevil Russian market.

Imagine having such a good life that you can spend time worrying about shit like this.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 14, 2025 11:56 AM (Psw6C)

306 202
‘Is Dennis Rodman available to substitute for Michael Obama?’

I’d shit my pants laughing if Trump got Rodman to do that dressed up as her.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 14, 2025 11:56 AM (jbnUc)

307 For a few of you, this place has become a rock to hide under, where you can spout lines you practice in front of a mirror but would not expect to survive delivering in public. In that regard you have degraded yourselves to less than whole men. Your prayers need to be more introspective, and considerably less public.

And yet...here you are.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:56 AM (xCA6C)

308 ‘Is Dennis Rodman available to substitute for Michael Obama?’

---

I wonder if Michael Dorn is available....

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 14, 2025 11:56 AM (PzXaK)

309 I want to tell you about military personnel and strippers.

If you don't know the actual first names of any stripper by your base, you're a fag.

I still get a Christmas card from Crystal from the Great Alaskan Bush company.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 14, 2025 11:52 AM (YIxO9)
***

Margaret at Grafenwoer in the late 70's.
Ahhh...so I'm told.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2025 11:56 AM (W/lyH)

310 "I still get a Christmas card from Crystal from the Great Alaskan Bush company.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie"

What about Amber, Tiffany and Cherry?

Posted by: Ripley at January 14, 2025 11:57 AM (GUOwU)

311 Diversity IS Strength is a slogan, because it only helps when it helps.
Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 11:48 AM (krQz2)

Comrade! Ignorance Is Strength! Remember, Big Brother Is Watching You!

Posted by: The Party at January 14, 2025 11:57 AM (jiYtH)

312 French leftist theatre faces bankruptcy after opening its doors to 250 African migrants for a free show... and they refused to leave and remain in the building five weeks later.

—

They’ll never fucking learn.
Ever.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 14, 2025 11:57 AM (Psw6C)

313 You left out Destini.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 14, 2025 11:55 AM (PzXaK)

....Star, Asia, Angel....

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 11:57 AM (g47mK)

314 I saw the Great Alaskan Bush open for The Mounties at Riot Fest in 2014.

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 14, 2025 11:57 AM (B6F9D)

315
Ignorance IS Strength
Diversity IS Strength
---
Diversity IS Ignorance

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 11:57 AM (krQz2)

316 00 Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 11:54 AM

--

You left out Destini.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 14, 2025 11:55 AM (PzXaK)

Kristal, Mercedes, Portia, Tiffany

Posted by: Standard issue at January 14, 2025 11:57 AM (ybSPO)

317 How long can the fires go?
Posted by: Boss Moss

There are still homes to burn...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 14, 2025 11:58 AM (acgoB)

318 For a few of you, this place has become a rock to hide under, where you can spout lines you practice in front of a mirror but would not expect to survive delivering in public. In that regard you have degraded yourselves to less than whole men. Your prayers need to be more introspective, and considerably less public.

---

Whose bitch is this?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 14, 2025 11:58 AM (PzXaK)

319 Way, Way is here to admonish me in the Word.

Hallelujah.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 14, 2025 11:58 AM (paSBy)

320 312 They’ll never fucking learn.
Ever.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 14, 2025 11:57 AM (Psw6C)

========

If they could learn, they wouldn't have gone into theater.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

321 You left out Destini.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 14, 2025 11:55 AM (PzXaK)

Kristal, Mercedes, Portia, Tiffany
Posted by: Standard issue

Savannah

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

322 lol. Ukrainistas are freaking out that Louis Vuitton champagne is being sold in Russia, even though the company officially pulled out of the eeeeeevil Russian market.

Imagine having such a good life that you can spend time worrying about shit like this.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 14, 2025 11:56 AM (Psw6C)

You can brew up champagne out of luggage? who knew?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2025 11:58 AM (8zz6B)

323 French leftist theatre faces bankruptcy after opening its doors to 250 African migrants for a free show... and they refused to leave and remain in the building five weeks later.

Go woke, go broke strikes again.

https://is.gd/Xf7yJg
Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:55 AM (xCA6C)
***

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

deep breath

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2025 11:58 AM (W/lyH)

324 "Dear America,
We're so sorry.
-Virginia

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:48 AM (xCA6C)"

Too many swamp critters and street sh*tters infesting NoVA who can't afford Maryland anymore. Start prosecuting my neighbors for Medicare/tech support scam calls and add a tax for lobbyists trying to buy real estate and see VA flip at least purple.

Posted by: Saber Alter at January 14, 2025 11:58 AM (AZg1Q)

325 "Diversity" has a very special and limited definition inside your head. In short, it does not mean what you think it does.

It's from the Latin for "to tear asunder", which is the *actual* Marxist purpose of diversity.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 14, 2025 11:59 AM (2ocoG)

326 Must be in a depressive phase rather than manic this week.

Next time the abyss beckons, just jump the fuck in, pal.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at January 14, 2025 11:59 AM (UfRqq)

327 Kristal, Mercedes, Portia, Tiffany
Posted by: Standard issue at January 14, 2025 11:57 AM (ybSPO)

Lexus.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2025 11:59 AM (8zz6B)

328 Too many swamp critters and street sh*tters infesting NoVA who can't afford Maryland anymore.

As a general proposition, the NoVA suburbs are more expensive than the MD burbs.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:59 AM (xCA6C)

329 The Science is now settled!
Posted by: naturalfake at January 14, 2025 11:51 AM (iJfKG)

I give...
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. at January 14, 2025 11:53 AM (89Sog)

Just a silly joke.

Don't take it seriously.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 14, 2025 12:00 PM (iJfKG)

330 Somebody bring Hegseth water.

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 12:00 PM (g47mK)

331 French leftist theatre faces bankruptcy after opening its doors to 250 African migrants for a free show... and they refused to leave and remain in the building five weeks later.

—

They’ll never fucking learn.
Ever.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 14, 2025 11:57 AM (Psw6C)

------------

An apt metaphor for France and Western Europe in general, no?

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 14, 2025 12:00 PM (B6F9D)

332 Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 14, 2025 11:54 AM (zdLoL)

In the words of Michael Jordan: stop it. Get some help.

Posted by: Your public service advisory at January 14, 2025 12:00 PM (ybSPO)

333 For a few of you, this place has become a rock to hide under, where you can spout lines you practice in front of a mirror but would not expect to survive delivering in public. In that regard you have degraded yourselves to less than whole men. Your prayers need to be more introspective, and considerably less public.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 14, 2025 11:54 AM (zdLoL)

Crazy! I mean like so many positive waves maybe we can't lose! You're on!

Posted by: Oddball at January 14, 2025 12:00 PM (jiYtH)

334 NoVa is as high as fuck.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 12:00 PM (YeGMU)

335 "For a few of you, this place has become a rock to hide under, where you can spout lines you practice in front of a mirror but would not expect to survive delivering in public."

Would a MoMe in Texas be considered public?

Posted by: fd at January 14, 2025 12:00 PM (vFG9F)

336 Somebody bring Hegseth water.
Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 12:00 PM (g47mK)
---
Cause he shot a man on the Mexican border?

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 12:01 PM (krQz2)

337 335 "For a few of you, this place has become a rock to hide under, where you can spout lines you practice in front of a mirror but would not expect to survive delivering in public."

Mirror ?... I don't need no stinking mirror !

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 12:01 PM (VE6XX)

338 For a few of you, this place has become a rock to hide under, where you can spout lines you practice in front of a mirror but would not expect to survive delivering in public. In that regard you have degraded yourselves to less than whole men. Your prayers need to be more introspective, and considerably less public.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 14, 2025 11:54 AM (zdLoL)

Crazy! I mean like so many positive waves maybe we can't lose! You're on!
Posted by: Oddball at January 14, 2025 12:00 PM (jiYtH)
***

That is BS.
I don't even own a mirror!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2025 12:01 PM (W/lyH)

339 Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 14, 2025 11:54 AM (zdLoL)

Do you want to speak with our manager?

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

340 The stupidest member of the senate is a REALLY low bar…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 14, 2025 12:02 PM (5MZNC)

341 In the words of Michael Jordan: stop it. Get some help.
Posted by: Your public service advisory at January 14, 2025 12:00 PM (ybSPO)

https://youtu.be/l60MnDJklnM

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 12:02 PM (ExV1e)

342 Somebody bring Hegseth water.

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 12:00 PM (g47mK)

-------------

Where's Little Marco when you need him?

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 14, 2025 12:02 PM (B6F9D)

343 Diversity can be good.

Bourbon AND rye.
Handguns AND long guns.
Brunettes AND blondes.

FIVE different decades in which Rush released albums.

Want more??

Posted by: Doof at January 14, 2025 12:02 PM (gEQYA)

344 "As a general proposition, the NoVA suburbs are more expensive than the MD burbs.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 11:59 AM (xCA6C)"

They don't know that, though. If they were intelligent to figure that out, they wouldn't be proglodytes.

Posted by: Saber Alter at January 14, 2025 12:02 PM (AZg1Q)

345 "Do you want to speak with our manager?
Posted by: Bulg "

He's not out of bed yet.

Posted by: fd at January 14, 2025 12:03 PM (vFG9F)

346 Somebody bring Hegseth water.
Posted by: runner

Where's the regimental bhisti Gunga Din when you need him?

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

347 One Street is as good as another.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 12:03 PM (YeGMU)

348 Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 14, 2025 11:54 AM (zdLoL)

Go home Hirono, you're drunk again.

Posted by: Saber Alter at January 14, 2025 12:04 PM (AZg1Q)

349 Cause he shot a man on the Mexican border?
Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 12:01 PM (krQz2)

BECAUSE HIS GLASS IS EMPTY AND D CRETINS ARE REVOLTING !

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 12:04 PM (g47mK)

350 >>Do you want to speak with our manager?

We used to have a 'Suggestions' Box.

It lived on a shelf over in the break room.

Posted by: garrett at January 14, 2025 12:04 PM (snN/i)

351 Big Mike is a no show for Trump's inauguration. Regularly scheduled Adam's Apple abrasion

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2025 12:04 PM (fcO1r)

352 The stupidest member of the senate is a REALLY low bar…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 14, 2025 12:02 PM (5MZNC)
---
But Mazie holds her own for that title.

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 12:04 PM (krQz2)

353 334 NoVa is as high as fuck.
Posted by: Boss Moss

I'm just drinking coffee, I swear!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 14, 2025 12:04 PM (sAmhv)

354 "Do you want to speak with our manager?
Posted by: Bulg "

He's not out of bed yet.
Posted by: fd at January 14, 2025 12:03 PM (vFG9F)

Take this pager and it will let you know when the manager is ready to receive visitors.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2025 12:05 PM (W/lyH)

355 FIVE different decades in which Rush released albums.

Want more??
Posted by: Doof at January 14, 2025 12:02 PM (gEQYA)

————

Geddy Lee looks like a witch and sounds like he got his balls caught in a pasta maker.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 14, 2025 12:05 PM (u73oe)

356 "proglodytes"
Posted by: Saber Alter

So stolen

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

357
Geddy Lee looks like a witch and sounds like he got his balls caught in a pasta maker.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 14, 2025 12:05 PM (u73oe)

LOL... But true

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 12:05 PM (VE6XX)

358 Where's Little Marco when you need him?

His confirmation hearing is later.

It's worth noting the Senate has thus far refused to schedule the hearings for Kash, Tulsi, or RFK. I don't think it's a coincidence that those are the three the Dems are the most freaked out about.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 14, 2025 12:05 PM (2ocoG)

359 Somebody bring Hegseth water.
Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 12:00 PM (g47mK)
---
Cause he shot a man on the Mexican border?
Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 12:01 PM (krQz2)

That's a great reference! Zombie Eddie Money approves!!

Posted by: Doof at January 14, 2025 12:06 PM (gEQYA)

360 I just saw Ace's car over at that whore Twitter. For shame.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 14, 2025 12:06 PM (Y6IkP)

361 >>Big Mike is a no show for Trump's inauguration.

The problem is Melania.

No Dick Tape is strong enough.

Posted by: garrett at January 14, 2025 12:06 PM (snN/i)

362 Cause he shot a man on the Mexican border?

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 12:01 PM (krQz2)

BECAUSE HIS GLASS IS EMPTY AND D CRETINS ARE REVOLTING !
Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 12:04 PM (g47mK)
---
You said it, they stink on ice.

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 12:06 PM (krQz2)

363
So, Mike and Obama are like Billy Jeff and Hillary now, together but waaay apart?

Posted by: Auspex at January 14, 2025 12:07 PM (j4U/Z)

364 Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 14, 2025 11:54 AM (zdLoL)

Go home Hirono, you're drunk again.

Posted by: Saber Alter at January 14, 2025 12:04 PM (AZg1Q)

-------------

LOL. Anybody who takes this place seriously needs a better hobby, like policing comments for proper apostrophe usage.

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 14, 2025 12:07 PM (B6F9D)

365 Mirrors are useless to me. I have no reflection.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2025 12:08 PM (LkLld)

366 I just saw Ace's car over at that whore Twitter. For shame.

He's there bright and early many days. It's the only thing he reliably wakes up for other than shelves falling on his head.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 14, 2025 12:08 PM (2ocoG)

367 Apostrophe? What's that?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 12:08 PM (YeGMU)

368 Angus King is a queen.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 14, 2025 12:08 PM (ufFY8)

369 Will they?

Since most stock is going to be held in trust by firms like Blackrock, most individual stockholders won't vote, and most of those who do vote will just tell their investors to vote for them...

I suspect DEI will easily survive this vote from the shareholders.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

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I wonder what would happen if mutual funds were outlawed. I think ultimately they are a net negative on the economy.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 14, 2025 12:08 PM (Vh9CX)

370 Cause he shot a man on the Mexican border?
Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 12:01 PM (krQz2)

That's a great reference! Zombie Eddie Money approves!!
Posted by: Doof at January 14, 2025 12:06 PM (gEQYA)
---
It's really a good mid-rock song.

Think's is going into my rotation today.

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 12:08 PM (krQz2)

371 Both Tiffini from Houston and I have commented here in the past.

Posted by: Tiffini from Fort Worth at January 14, 2025 12:09 PM (a3Q+t)

372 366 I just saw Ace's car over at that whore Twitter. For shame.

He's there bright and early many days. It's the only thing he reliably wakes up for other than shelves falling on his head.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 14, 2025 12:08 PM (2ocoG)

=======

He's been managing his time between the two fairly well for the last year or so.

Insty even posts some of his Tweets from time to time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

373 >>Apostrophe? What's that?

Zappa's best selling LP.

Posted by: garrett at January 14, 2025 12:09 PM (snN/i)

374 296
‘ Kavanagh set the gold standard of confirmation hearings.’

I hope the Rs have people in place to arrest the leftist rioters when they try that again. Because they will. They’re as predictable as southern CA forest fires.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 14, 2025 12:09 PM (jbnUc)

375 Apostrophe? What's that?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 12:08 PM (YeGMU)
---
The crux of the biscuit.

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 12:09 PM (krQz2)

376 Apostrophe? What's that?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 12:08 PM (YeGMU)

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 12:09 PM (ExV1e)

377 >>Big Mike is a no show for Trump's inauguration.

The problem is Melania.

No Dick Tape is strong enough.

Posted by: garrett at January 14, 2025 12:06 PM (snN/i)

---------------

That could be the plotline for a new Disney movie.

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 14, 2025 12:09 PM (B6F9D)

378 Is there a break in these hearings, because after drinking all that water Pete Hegseth will have to pee

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 12:09 PM (MQJVv)

379 It's really a good mid-rock song.

Think's is going into my rotation today.
Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 12:08 PM (krQz2)

Been in mine for longer than I can remember. I featured it as an ONT mystery one night click last month.

Posted by: Doof at January 14, 2025 12:10 PM (gEQYA)

380 Apostrophe? What's that?

It's an asteroid that will wipe out mankind in 2029

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2025 12:10 PM (fcO1r)

381 318 For a few of you, this place has become a rock to hide under, where you can spout lines you practice in front of a mirror but would not expect to survive delivering in public. In that regard you have degraded yourselves to less than whole men. Your prayers need to be more introspective, and considerably less public.

---

Whose bitch is this?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 14, 2025 11:58 AM (PzXaK)

It's Scoggy ...

Posted by: browndog pawing at the window at January 14, 2025 12:10 PM (TTAGa)

382 Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 14, 2025 11:54 AM (zdLoL)

Would you like to name names? I would like to know who "those" people are.

Please and thank you to come again!

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Cerified dangerous radical. at January 14, 2025 12:10 PM (89Sog)

383 230 Brian Stelter

Fat, dumb and stupid is no way to go through life.......
Posted by: Sponge

Brian Stelter!

youtu.be/4Qqendp1kLE

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 14, 2025 12:10 PM (sAmhv)

384 Is there a break in these hearings, because after drinking all that water Pete Hegseth will have to pee

If he stood up on the desk and peed on Chuck Schumer, no jury would convict.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 14, 2025 12:11 PM (2ocoG)

385 >>Big Mike is a no show for Trump's inauguration.

Posing for a cryptozooologist blurry photo shoot as Bigfoot.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 14, 2025 12:11 PM (xxOtL)

386
My python boot was too tight
I couldn't get it off last night.
A week went by
And now it's July
I finally got it off
And my girlfriend cried.
"You got stinkfoot"

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 12:11 PM (krQz2)

387 Posted by: Ian S. at January 14, 2025 12:11 PM (2ocoG)

But probably wouldn't get confirmed,

although I can't stand Chuck Schumer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 12:12 PM (MQJVv)

388 Would you like to name names? I would like to know who "those" people are.

Please and thank you to come again!

Ooooh, ooooh, I know, pick me
*thrusts hand skywards*

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2025 12:12 PM (xCA6C)

389 *Shakes ipad*

Wake up, Ace!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 14, 2025 12:12 PM (u73oe)

390 The price of beef has just gone up
and your old lady has just gone down

Posted by: garrett at January 14, 2025 12:12 PM (snN/i)

391 Mirrors are useless to me. I have no reflection.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2025 12:08 PM (LkLld)

----------------

* golf clap *

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 14, 2025 12:13 PM (B6F9D)

392 Chuck Schumer the accompished grillman?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 12:13 PM (YeGMU)

393 The price of beef has just gone up
and your old lady has just gone down

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worst haiku ever...

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 12:13 PM (g47mK)

394 362 Cause he shot a man on the Mexican border?

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 12:01 PM (krQz2)

Great song that doesn't get anywhere near the love it deserves

Posted by: Just gimme some water at January 14, 2025 12:13 PM (ybSPO)

395 I don't know if WWD is Scogg. I don't care either way. EVERYONE here is behind a nic.

Posted by: fd at January 14, 2025 12:14 PM (vFG9F)

396 Has Schumer lowered his glasses down his nose yet?

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

397 No Dick Tape is strong enough.
Posted by: garrett

I'd recommend Gorilla Duct Tape, but might get cancelled.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 14, 2025 12:14 PM (xxOtL)

398 >>EVERYONE here is behind a nic.

Minus the less imaginative of us...

Posted by: garrett at January 14, 2025 12:14 PM (snN/i)

399 EVERYONE here is behind a nic.
Posted by: fd

What?????
-- Nikki Haley

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

400 "You got stinkfoot"
Posted by: Axeman "

*funky keyboard riff*

Posted by: George Duke at January 14, 2025 12:15 PM (vFG9F)

401 Posted by: browndog pawing at the window at January 14, 2025 12:10 PM (TTAGa)

No; I don't think so. Scogg tried to win the ASHQ award for most handles over a four day period last week, but the style and choice of words by Way, Way Downriver is different.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 12:15 PM (MQJVv)

402 RUSH!!

youtu.be/JXeb5jpdMds

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 14, 2025 12:15 PM (sAmhv)

403 Is there a break in these hearings, because after drinking all that water Pete Hegseth will have to pee

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 12:09 PM (MQJVv)

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During Joe Rogan's interview with Mel Gibson, more than halfway in Gibson turns to him and says "I've gotta pee" (lol) -- at which point they took a break (during which they likely talked about his "incident" and the public humiliation of it -- which I was hoping Rogan would ask him about).

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 14, 2025 12:15 PM (B6F9D)

404 399 EVERYONE here is behind a nic.
Posted by: fd

What?????
-- Nikki Haley
Posted by: Bulg

No need to hide my identity! I'm proud of who I am, and what I stand for!

Posted by: Pierre Delecto at January 14, 2025 12:16 PM (xxOtL)

405 Is Dennis Rodman available to substitute for Michael Obama?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025

***
I thought Dennis was an alien?

Posted by: Agent Jay at January 14, 2025 12:16 PM (J2vNu)

406 Apostrophe? What's that?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 14, 2025 12:08 PM (YeGMU)

A comma smoking dope and got high.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2025 12:16 PM (W/lyH)

407 Ace is up, bright and early.

Posted by: garrett at January 14, 2025 12:17 PM (snN/i)

408 You guys use nics?

Posted by: Carlos Danger at January 14, 2025 12:17 PM (YeGMU)

409 395 I don't know if WWD is Scogg. I don't care either way. EVERYONE here is behind a nic.
Posted by: fd at January 14, 2025 12:14 PM (vFG9F)

Nah. Scogg is cogent. This is something else entirely.

Posted by: not that it matters at January 14, 2025 12:17 PM (ybSPO)

410 >>Big Mike is a no show for Trump's inauguration.

Posing for a cryptozooologist blurry photo shoot as Bigfoot.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 14, 2025 12:11 PM (xxOtL)

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I'm old enough to remember when Bigfoot and Sasquatch references to The Mooch was a bannable offense (here and/or HotAir? -- I can't remember).

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 14, 2025 12:17 PM (B6F9D)

411 Great song that doesn't get anywhere near the love it deserves

Posted by: Just gimme some water at January 14, 2025 12:13 PM (ybSPO)
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Great vocals. Great rhythm riff. Good lead riff. Catchy.

Posted by: Axeman at January 14, 2025 12:18 PM (krQz2)

412 >>I'm old enough to remember when Bigfoot and Sasquatch references to The Mooch was a bannable offense

Couldn't call Mike a Klingon or Patrick Ewing, either.

Posted by: garrett at January 14, 2025 12:19 PM (snN/i)

413 Anyway, I feel for Mr. Hegseth but I'm guessing the questioning will be over today. The first time I came up for consideration for ordination as a Deacon you had to go off on "retreat" with the clergy for three days for questioning on your ordination papers. You had to have meals with at least some of the people doing the questioning. I kept thinking they would ordain me because I probably had a bit of errant spinach on my teeth. The second time for consideration as an Elder it was all finished in one day, thank God.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 12:19 PM (MQJVv)

414 Why would random lefty idiots care about Peter Hegseth?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 14, 2025 12:21 PM (kTd/k)

415 413-Meant "would not ordain me"....

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 12:21 PM (MQJVv)

416 I'm old enough to remember when Bigfoot and Sasquatch references to The Mooch was a bannable offense
Couldn't call Mike a Klingon or Patrick Ewing, either.
Posted by: garrett at January 14, 2025 12:19 PM (snN/i)

Don't forget me!

Posted by: General Urko at January 14, 2025 12:21 PM (jiYtH)

417 RUSH!!

youtu.be/JXeb5jpdMds
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 14, 2025 12:15 PM (sAmhv)

Outstanding song. Deep cuts always appreciated!!

Posted by: Doof at January 14, 2025 12:23 PM (gEQYA)

418 I voted my shares to end DEI policies!

Posted by: MacRadDoc at January 14, 2025 01:13 PM (IiVPQ)

419 RUSH!!

youtu.be/JXeb5jpdMds
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 14, 2025 12:15 PM (sAmhv)

Outstanding song. Deep cuts always appreciated!!

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+1

Thanks for that, Puddleglum. Soon as I saw the album cover, I thought "whatever it is, it'll be good", but had forgotten what it was, it's been so long.

Posted by: wifey of ShainS at January 14, 2025 01:31 PM (lY72Y)

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