The Morning Report — 2/ 17 /25

Good morning kids. Happy Presidents Day. And that naturally does not include the predominantly Democrat and so-called progressives that have laid us so low in the course of about a century. Yet, here we are on the verge of, or perhaps at a minimum with a good shot at reversing much of the damage caused by the aforementioned and putting us on the path towards an American renaissance.

Of course, as the wizards of smart in Foggy Bottom used to say "Changing Hearts and Minds." When one looks at the state of politics and culture here at home, that statement certainly is applicable. And while I am revolted by the concept of nation-building, the fact is we have had successive generations of citizens that voted for and participated in the aforementioned laying low of our Republic that we must somehow deprogram them and prevent further brainwashing of successive generations of children from being poisoned. One of the most potent weapons is language, its use, misuse and who gets to use it and in what manner. Language creates the mythologies, shibboleths and delusions that become passed down in the blood in many cases generation to generation, dictating who and what people will and will not vote for, regardless of their "lived experiences," and what their lying eyes show them. Setting a sleeping woman on fire in the NYC subway? Watching as half of LA is turned to ashes? Meaningless when all you've been told all your life is Trump, conservatives, Christians are literally Hitler, and the Big "F" word - FASCIST. Talk about a dog whistle.

There are several illustrative links about language and one's innate perceptions about the world that hold us back from seeing things as they really are.

First up, is Vice President J.D. Vance's figurative taking out to the woodshed of Euro-peon so-called elites at a conference of foreign dignitaries in Munich.

The panic that gripped Europe’s political elites after J.D. Vance delivered some overdue home truths in Munich found expression back home in the most embarrassing question ever asked by a network anchor.
Our vice president had accused smug Eurocrats at the Munich Security Conference of abandoning free speech and allowing unchecked migration to roil their countries, warned them to respect their voters and told them America should not bear the primary burden of funding Europe’s security.
“If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people who elected me and elected President Trump,” he said. “You need democratic mandates to accomplish anything of value.”
Cue apoplexy here and abroad. The critiques of Vance’s speech all seemed deliberately to miss the point, but the most ridiculous of all came from Vance’s old sparring partner, CBS anchor Margaret Brennan. While trying to excoriate Secretary of State Marco Rubio over Vance’s message Sunday, Brennan blamed the Nazi Holocaust on . . . wait for it . . . too much free speech. Vance made his appalling remarks, she huffed, while “he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.”
Huh? After a momentary insanity check of his interlocutor, Rubio patiently put her straight on the history: “Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide,” he said. “The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal, because they hated Jews and they hated minorities . . . There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were the sole and only party that governed that country. So that’s not an accurate reflection of history.”To say the least.

The abject cluelessness or worse the intentional distortion of the facts about how the Holocaust came about are stomach-churning in the extreme. Or was it intentional distortion or does this yammering sack of hysteria and halitosis actually believe what she actually said?

Putting aside for a moment the fact that this took place in Germany and that the AFD party is in favor of deporting Muslim immigrants who are on a rampage of raping, murder and Islamic conquest everywhere they are allowed to live and breed, and restoring and preserving some semblance of postwar German civil society, let's go back and examine language. The received wisdom around the world is that the political RIGHT wherever they may be and whatever they call themselves are the inheritors of Hitler and Nazism. Therefore, being on and of the Left is or is supposed to be the counterbalance to that. In short Left is Good Right is Evil.

The inconvenient historical truth is that Hitler, Nazism and Fascism are also of the Left. Hello, Nazi is an abbreviation of the German words National Socialism. And of course socialism is the stepping stone to full on Communism, and in the space of about a century Communism killed well over 100 million people and counting. Much more when you include Mr. Schickelgruber and the Holocaust along with all the other casualties of the Second World War that he and his Italian and Japanese allies unleashed on humanity.

Again, this is why the Right/Center/Left paradigm is a complete fantasy. There is only freedom and liberty on one end of the spectrum and totalitarianism on the other.

I look forward to Vance's 8 years as POTUS 48 followed by the 8 years of his Veep's two terms as president 49.

Meanwhile, I sure hope Tom Homan goes full steam ahead with this!

Democrat New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is picking a fight with the worst possible Trump official she could beef with: border czar Tom Homan.
During the virtual event “Know Your Rights With ICE,” live-streamed Tuesday on Ocasio-Cortez’s Facebook page, the congresswoman gave illegal aliens advice on how to handle a raid from ICE on their home or workplace. Ocasio-Cortez’s government website has also featured guidance on how illegal aliens can avoid the feds, with tips such as “You do not have to open the door,” “You can ask them to leave,” and “You can stay silent.” (Subscribe to MR. RIGHT, a weekly newsletter about modern masculinity)Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar who has been conducting ICE raids across the country, addressed Ocasio-Cortez’s stunt Thursday night, suggesting the lawmaker may ultimately face consequences.

I'm thinking prosecution, conviction and imprisonment, and not motorboating her mastoids.

Anyone and everyone who interferes with the proper and legal functioning of our government and law enforcement should be on a chain gang breaking boulders into pebbles with teaspoons.

In any case, the winning continues as Musk lets the DOGE's loose!!! Have a great Day!

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

“Americans lack the language to talk about social class. . . Politics today is the struggle for supremacy between these two segments of the elite.”
DOGE as Class War
The president, as the chief executive officer of the country, is not obligated to heel every time an out-of-control federal judge jerks his leash.
Trump Need Not Bend To The 19-State Lawfare Coup Trying To Thwart His Treasury
Politicians and bureaucrats may be searching for ways to cover their tracks before they leave their positions or if they believe they may soon be investigated for their past activities.
Democrats Prepare for the Big House

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

In this Star Trek analogy, Elon Musk is captain of the Department of Government Efficiency crew using tech power to stop death by bureaucracy.
Will the Deep State Be Beaten via a ‘Kobayshi Maru’ Maneuver by DOGE Team?
Clarice Feldman: The creation of the Department of Government Efficiency has exposed the often-archaic bookkeeping and computer systems and the enormous waste and grifting in the operation of the federal government.
Week Four: No Rest for the Grifters
Robert Spencer: And the Dems are in hysterics.
In an Old Limestone Mine, Musk Uncovers the Most Inefficient Government Operation Yet
My Hot Take on Democat Lawfare: “There is no constitutional crisis other than the Democrats lost. They are trying to create a constitutional crisis by having the judiciary and the federal district courts assume control of the executive branch.”
The Only “Constitutional Crisis” is That Democrats Lost, Now They’re Trying To Govern from the Courtroom
A flood of lawsuits against early Trump administration moves, which have led judges to temporarily block Trump’s spending freeze and force health agencies to reinstate pages removed from their websites, have only created opportunities to leave a lasting mark on how the executive branch operates, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Left’s Sue-Everything-That-Moves Strategy May End Up Delivering Trump Ultimate Victory
President Trump’s firing of 17 inspectors general puts him on the path to fulfill a campaign promise: making inspectors general independent from the people they investigate.
The Inspector General Scandal That Wasn’t
SCOTUS must rule on whether nation-wide injunctions are even Constitutional.
It's time to end nationwide injunctions by any single activist judge hell-bent on 'resistance'
Congress can act to change this, so the big question is whether Congress will act to save taxpayers money.
A 1974 federal law forces the President to avoid efficiency and cost savings

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Union graft and needlessly stringent safety standards have inflated construction costs in the U.S. and Canada.
America Doesn’t Have Enough Elevators

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
[Tom] Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar who has been conducting ICE raids across the country, addressed Ocasio-Cortez’s stunt Thursday night, suggesting the lawmaker may ultimately face consequences.
Titty Caca AOC Picks Fight With Worst Possible Trump Official After Livestream Stunt
Nonprofit aims to 'stop Trump’s deportation dystopia'
Taxpayer-Funded Immigration Group Works To ‘Disrupt Trump’s Deportation Machine’
We have a situation where elements in law enforcement, a state AG, a lawmaker, religious leaders, and the media are siding with lawbreakers.
Open Border Fanatics vs. the Trump Administration
“This matter is before the Court on Respondents’ Notice of Removal, filed February 11, 2025. Having considered the information provided in the Notice of Removal, the Court hereby vacates the status conference set for March 3, 2025,” an order signed by the Chief Judge on Friday reads. The judicial order goes on to note that while the Court had issued a TRO preventing the three plaintiffs from being removed from the United States to the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Trump administration opted instead to return them to their home country of Venezuela. The Chief Judge rightfully notes this negates the need for further proceedings.
Hearing for Illegals Suing to Prevent Being Sent to Gitmo Canceled After They’re Deported to Venezuela Instead.
If crossing America’s border illegally is so easy, why is it so hard to do it legally?
Trump is Closing the Border. Now What About Legal Immigration?
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
The bombs are used for destroying buildings where terrorists are hiding; the alternative is to send Israeli troops into the buildings, which are often booby-trapped. Dozens of Israeli soldiers were killed by collapsing buildings in Gaza.
Heavy Bombs Withheld by Biden Arrive in Israel, Thanks to Trump
Once one understands the Islamic-Arab culture, a ready solution presents itself.
How to free the hostages peacefully
Just as the Romans used language manipulation to dissociate Judea from the Jews, totalitarian ideologues created the myth of 'Palestinian' martyrdom and resistance.
The Myth of 'Palestine': Language Manipulation and Historical Fabrication
While President Donald J. Trump is proposing the United States take temporary control of the Gaza Strip to clear it of unexploded ordnance, remove ruble, and redevelop the land—and possibly displace the territory’s Palestinian residents—it isn’t clear who exactly the U.S. would be taking the land from. A nebulous series of treaties—some dating to the Ottoman Empire—conflicting land claims, and a breakdown in civil society and governance has left the Gaza Strip a patchwork of private and public landholdings with no apparent governing authority.Ostensibly, the Gaza Strip—which hugs the Mediterranian coast between Israel and Egypt—is controlled by the Islamist Hamas terrorist group, which seized control of the territory in 2007. Previously, the Gaza Strip—in accordance with the Oslo Accords—was governed by the Palestinian Authority, which also administers the West Bank territory between Israel and Jordan. The Palestinian Authority still maintains that it is rightfully the governing authority in the territory, though it currently has no effective presence there.
Who Controls Gaza? It’s Complicated…
The prisoners don't even bother to make their preposterous lies believable.
Released Palestinian Tells of Horrors He Claims to Have Endured
'We are frustrated by the exploitation of our diverse backgrounds as shields to deflect criticism away from the State Department,' the fellows wrote (Severance package should come with Mossad pagers. To sever their heads - jjs)
State Department 'Diversity' Fellows Launched an Internal 'Resistance' Against Israel—and Blinken's Staff Offered Them a Meeting, Emails Show
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Just days after terror struck in Munich, a 23-year-old supposed refugee from Syria launched into a vicious stabbing spree in the Carinthian town of Villach on Saturday afternoon. Five people were injured during the attack, and tragically, a 14-year-old was killed after bleeding out on the street.
Syrian Refugee Suspected in ‘Allahu Akbar’ Mass Stabbing in Austria that left Five Injured and 14-Year-Old Dead
Daniel Greenfield: That was never going to end well.(they must’ve been munching on the prayer rugs, and not the shag carpet - jjs)
World’s First Gay Imam Shot After Lesbian Wedding
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
The board walked out of the last meeting after parents raised objections to LGBT book "The Rainbow Parade."
School Board Walks Out On Parents, Then Bars All Public Comments, Citing Racism
Musk has been the target of Democrats over his support for Trump and work at DOGE.
‘Who Will Kill Elon?’: Apparent Threat Against Elon Musk Scrawled On NY Overpass
“Don’t buy swasticars!”
Anti-Elon Activists Target Tesla – Protests at Showrooms, Reports of Car Owners Being Threatened
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Police were alerted to Shockley’s alleged plans and arrested him 48-hours before the planned attack. FOX News noted “the FBI in Indianapolis received a tip and contacted the Mooresville Metropolitan Police Department (MMPD) to assess the credibility.” The “tip” indicated that Shockley allegedly planned to carry out a school shooting with an AR-15 and that he “had ordered a bullet proof vest.”
Transgender Student Under Arrest for Allegedly Planning Parkland-Style School Shooting
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
John Eastman should be a household name among conservatives.
The Eastman Dilemma: John Eastman vs. the Left
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
CBS’s “Face the Nation” anchor Margaret Brennan said Sunday on “Face the Nation” that Nazis “weaponized” free speech to conduct the Holocaust during an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
CBS’ Margaret Brennan: Nazis ‘Weaponized’ Free Speech to Conduct the Holocaust
Nearly half a billion in taxpayer-funded media manipulation.
The USAID–Internews Media Cartel:
wait until Trump nixes the 1934 Firearms Control Act! - jjs
Mother Jones: All Biden’s Gun Control ‘At Risk’ Under Trump

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The new property tax revolt aims to correct the flaws in current state and local property tax laws.
A New Property Tax Revolt
Not only is it long past time for the IRS to be audited, it's also long past time for a national discussion on replacing the current federal income tax code with an alternative.
Auditing the IRS: A Step Towards Tax Reform
Bernie Sanders loves to pound the table about this, but the fact is that America’s problems are far removed from ‘income inequality.’
The Myth of Income Inequality
“The only way you can make money in business is by providing customers with value!” says Yaron Brook, head of the Ayn Rand Institute.
“The biggest problem we have in our culture is this perception that when you pursue your own self-interest, you are somehow a villain . . . it’s why socialism is still viewed as morally noble, capitalism as evil and bad.”
John Stossel:Greed is good — how capitalism makes the world better for us all (Oh FFS, enlightened self-interest is not greed, but okay - jjs)
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Permanent tariffs are the only shield against a rigged global market that exploits cheap labor, lax regulations, and state-backed industry to gut American manufacturing.
Why Trump’s Steel Tariffs Must Be Permanent
Yet Democrats are losing their minds over Team Trump’s efforts to trim fat and waste. Do they want the Uncle Sam to go belly up? (Yes - jjs)
Alarming report shows US drowning in red ink — as Democrats block spending cuts

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Seeking payback for the violent protests that disrupted its Dakota Access project, pipeline company Energy Transfer targets Greenpeace with a potentially groundbreaking lawsuit.
The Legal War on Greenpeace
"Daniel Greenfield: No pipelines exist to feed gasoline in from other states."
California is One Refinery Closure Away From an Economic Collapse

AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Remarkably, as of the signing of the EO, over a dozen colleges and universities across the country still cruelly mandated — with no true public health rationale — the shots in order for their students and staff to attend class.
Trump Executive Order Nukes University COVID-19 Vax Mandates

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
As test scores plunge, Teachers' unions cash in, While Ed. Dept. wastes billions.
Isn’t 46 Years Of Failure Enough? Time To Kill The Education Dept.
‘Minimal education experience’ is a qualification for running an unconstitutional education agency that poses an existential threat to our republic.
Why ‘Education Experience’ Makes An Education Secretary Worse
Kids don't need Chromebooks. They don't need apps. They don't need portals.
While you're defunding the DOE, get rid of Chromebooks and 'portals' in schools
‘If these school districts had any common sense, they’d end their trip to fantasyland and return to earth. If they don’t, they should absolutely lose their federal funding.’
Education Department Launches Investigation Into 5 Virginia School Districts For Allowing Boys In Girls’ Bathrooms
ABORTION
We extend the right to life to a wounded criminal despite having broken the law -- why not then for the innocent life of an aborted live-birth child who has survived a failed effort to kill it?
Democrat Hypocrisy on Born-Alive Care
SECOND AMENDMENT
Their ignorance is often funny, but in this case it’s deadly—to the innocent.
New Jersey bans safe, effective ammunition
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS
The fate of the Republican majority is at stake. Are Republicans paying attention?
Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Alert: Dark Money Boosting Liberal Susan Crawford’s Bid
They are saying women who figured out how to change their name are not smart enough to provide documentation of that name change.
Leftists’ Claims The SAVE Act Won’t Let Married Women Vote Are An Insult To Their Intelligence
POLITICS
The poll comes less than four weeks into President Donald Trump’s second, non-consecutive term in office. In less than a month, Trump and his newly minted Department of Government Efficiency have begun rooting out hundreds of millions in waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars, ended work-from-home allowances for federal employees, and threatened to cut entire federal departments and agencies including FEMA, USAID, and the Department of Education.
Rasmussen: More Americans Now Say US Is On the 'Right Track,' Breaking a 20-Year Streak of Pessimism
Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats seem stuck in a cycle of rage and resistance, recycling failed anti-Trump tactics while losing ground with voters and donors alike.
Is There a Democrat Blueprint to Regain Power?
Kurt Schlichter: And no, we are not sick of all the winning.
Democrats Have Trump Fever, and There Is No Cure
The group affiliated with Ramaswamy, 39, filed the paperwork with the office of Ohio’s secretary of state, Frank LaRose. Ramaswamy is expected to launch his campaign Feb. 24, 2025 at the aerospace company CTL Aerospace, Inc. in his native Cincinnati. He will then speak at Axium Packaging in New Albany, the Glass City Center in Toledo and The Local Bar in the Cleveland suburb of Strongsville, The Associated Press (AP) reported, citing an anonymous source.
Vivek Ramaswamy’s Political Future Appears To Take Shape Ahead Of ‘Big Announcement’ Days Away
Tim Walz, Bro-Fo Omar reportedly considering runs
Sinking Ship? Sen. Tina Smith Becomes Latest Dem To Drop Reelection Bid
“Things that we thought that would kill a political career, would be poisonous for whatever reason, this guy keeps chugging along.”
James Carville Laments Effect of Trump’s Fast Pace on Democrats: ‘We’re Getting Overwhelmed’
When politicians say the “strategy is evolving,” it means there is no strategy.
Decoding Democrat Doublespeak: Their ‘Masterplan’ to Defeat Trump Is Revealed

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
For progressives and their allies, diplomacy is mostly about fostering good feelings. They tend to hope that the process of negotiating will create trust and hopefully goodwill that should improve the overall relationship between the countries involved. In this view, having something to sign is more important than driving a hard bargain that protects American interests. Withdrawing from any deal is a terrible misstep, even if staying in accomplishes nothing or if the other side is violating the terms. That is not how Trump views things at all. He thinks that the United States is bound by agreements only to the extent that the other side complies—and even then, he reserves the right to pull out when he finds it advantageous.
Donald Trump’s Art of Diplomacy
The vice president’s confrontational remarks at the Munich Security Conference apparently surprised many officials who were expecting him to focus his remarks on Ukraine and Russia.
European Leaders ‘Horrified’ After JD Vance Rips Their Censorship Laws and Mass Immigration Policies at Munich Security Conference
The European elites hated it.
J.D. Vance’s “Unacceptable” Speech
Miranda Devine: The panic that gripped Europe’s political elites after J.D. Vance delivered some overdue home truths in Munich found expression back home in the most embarrassing question ever asked by a network anchor.
J.D. Vance rightly warns Europeans against the dark cloud of censorship — and critics freak out
“Europe has to be careful,” the America First leader told journalists in the Oval Office. “[Vance] talked about immigration, and Europe has a big immigration problem. Just take a look at what’s happened with crime,” he added.
Trump Says Vance Is Right, Europe Is Losing Free Speech and Overrun by Migrant Crime.
Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te said Friday that his country would communicate more with the U.S. about Trump’s concerns over the semiconductor chip industry and would also invest more in the U.S., according to multiple reports. The Taiwanese president’s announcement came after Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday outlining a plan to impose “reciprocal” and “fair” tariffs on U.S. trading partners across the globe.
Taiwan Says It’ll Pour More Cash Into US After Trump Tariff Threats
The Vatican News reported that Pope Francis was admitted to Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital in Rome, where he is currently receiving medical care. The Holy See Press Office announced the Pope was scheduled to undergo several diagnostic tests and is expected to continue receiving treatment for his ongoing bout of bronchitis. They reported the Holy Father has been suffering from the condition for several days.
Pope [Fiction] Francis Hospitalized

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
You may be wondering how an aircraft carrier can possibly run into a merchant ship.
What? U.S. Aircraft Carrier Harry S. Truman Collides with Merchant Ship off the Coast of Egypt
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Vaccine-injury registries, ending government-paid junk food, finding ways to help farmers -- RFK, Jr. has gotten to work.
MAHA: HHS's RFK, Jr. gets off to an impressive start

ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Blue Ghost on February 13, 2025 successfully completed a long four-minute engine burn to complete its transfer from Earth to lunar orbit, with a target date for the actual landing on March 2, 2025.
Blue Ghost enters lunar orbit, targets March 2, 2025 for landing
It appears this particular effort by a very tiny minority of leftist anti-Musk activists has finally been shut down. We can only hope that these groups will now fade away, not because they want to give up but because their funding could be gone. I suspect their money came from somewhere within the fraudulent grant programs at EPA and other federal agencies that DOGE has now identified and shut down.
Texas commission rejects anti-SpaceX calls to deny company its Starship deluge water permit
It is long past time for astronomers and the IAU to stop trying to use government to squelch everyone else and get in the game. Initiate the building of telescopes both in space and the Moon. Not only are these better places to build telescopes than on Earth, it will give astronomers some credibility when they ask others to give them their own space.
Astronomers demand more regulations to prevent industry from ruining the Moon’s “environment”
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The bill, titled “The Conception Begins at Erection Act,” was introduced by Ohio state Reps. Anita Somani and Tristan Rade, would make it illegal for men to ejaculate while having sex without the intent of impregnating a woman. Men would potentially face a fine of $10,000 per ejaculation. But the bill makes some exceptions — how could it not? — for the Democratic Party’s favorite pet groups: porn-addicted masturbators, sperm donors, and everyone living in the LGBT fantasy world.
Ohio State Democrats Commit The Self-Own Of The Century
Maddison Wilson, 37, stands accused of abusing the child with what the court documents refer to as “your penis,” affirming that no matter how hard this pervert insists that he’s a woman, he is, in fact, a dude with a dong. The alleged incident reportedly took place in 2011. (Chop it off and shove it down his throat, Cosa Nostra style- jjs)
Gender-Deluded Child Rapist Accused of Using 'Her Penis' to Abuse Kids
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“What I personally believe matters less than what we collectively believe. People who describe gender as a social construction often deny that gender identities can spread socially.”
The Uses and Abuses of ‘Social Construction’
On the 10th anniversary of their savage murder.
Oscar-Shortlisted Film Honors the 21 Christians Martyred by ISIS
Christian Toto: 'Breaking Bad' creator dissects key problem plaguing TV and movies
Why Vince Gilligan’s Anti-Trump Rant Got One Thing Right

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1 Mornin' J.J. and again to the Horde.

I'll go let the others know this one's live.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 17, 2025 07:37 AM (O7YUW)

2 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, horde.

Posted by: Inogame at February 17, 2025 07:38 AM (53oGX)

3 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

4 Good morning, one and all. Just had a random thought about the wailings and gnashing of teeth going on from Doge's audits.

If auditing this viciously had been a normal thing, the ridiculous spending would never have happened.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2025 07:39 AM (lXCUP)

5 Rise n Shine!!!

Posted by: JROD at February 17, 2025 07:39 AM (IlL6s)

6 In 16 days Trump will give the State of the Union speech.
March 4th. I've got a feeling the sh!ts going to hit the fan.

Posted by: Case at February 17, 2025 07:41 AM (27pJk)

7 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 17, 2025 07:42 AM (Lovir)

8 That’s so much content, I’m going to have to have my AI summarize it for me.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2025 07:43 AM (XV/Pl)

9 I'm up early enough, I think, to comment on Pixy Thread, but no, this JJ guy is up even earlier! Drat!

Prayers up for all the horde in KY and TN. Praying you are all safe in this weird weather.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 17, 2025 07:43 AM (Eo96p)

10 About the "Weimar fallacy" which Margaret Brennan tried to pass of as history:

https://tinyurl.com/4nd9yh2y

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2025 07:44 AM (1o8D5)

11 The only reason AOC is attacking Tom Homan is she wants him sexually. AOC has fantasies of Tom's wrinkly man sack bouncing off of her tonsils and other body parts. AOC wants it balls and all while her fiance watches and even films it, to watch again later.

Posted by: Ed Buck, democrat Rump Ranger at February 17, 2025 07:45 AM (NAF5O)

12 Good morning. I saw Hysteria and Halitosis open for Seals and Crofts at The Folkal Point in '74.

Posted by: Ol' Codger at February 17, 2025 07:45 AM (G5+As)

13 4 If auditing this viciously had been a normal thing, the ridiculous spending would never have happened.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2025 07:39 AM (lXCUP)

If the New Deal 16th and17th Amendments were strangled in their crib...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2025 07:46 AM (x0n13)

14
Those of you who didn't see Pixy's thread, Elon has uncovered massive fraud in the Social Security system. See his X feed.

Some highlights. There are 20 million people in the system over 100 years listed as still alive. There are over a million people listed as 150-159 years old. There are a thousand people listed as 220-229 years old There is 1 person over 360 years old.

There are about 60 million more people listed as alive in the database than the entire US population.

Elon posted the numbers.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 17, 2025 07:46 AM (w6EFb)

15 Sen. Tom Cotton, we hardly knew ye (No, not that Ye!):

https://tinyurl.com/32s5pe2u

Explains the inconsistencies.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2025 07:46 AM (1o8D5)

16 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Dear Margaret,

What the fvck is wrong with you? Seriously.

Love, Franpsycho

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2025 07:46 AM (RIvkX)

17 SOTU opening act:

https://youtu.be/iZj5XmGeEko

(This was posted a few days ago on the Valentine's Day ONT by Miley, okravangelist, though that link was to the video on X and it had been posted by someone reposting from the original creators who are Jason Coursey and Joshua Youngbluth.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 17, 2025 07:46 AM (O7YUW)

18 "That’s so much content, I’m going to have to have my AI summarize it for me.
Posted by: Thomas Bender"

TRUMP!!!

Posted by: AI Commentator at February 17, 2025 07:47 AM (vFG9F)

19 In 16 days Trump will give the State of the Union speech.
March 4th. I've got a feeling the sh!ts going to hit the fan.

Posted by: Case at February 17, 2025 07:41 AM (27pJk)
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Beware the hides of March!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2025 07:47 AM (1o8D5)

20 Dear Margaret,

What the fvck is wrong with you? Seriously.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2025 07:46 AM (RIvkX)
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Education.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2025 07:48 AM (1o8D5)

21 ...she huffed, while “he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.”

She went on to say that Poland was conquered by a combination of TikTok dances and sick memes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

22 About 90% of the responses to Brennan's odious attack on free speech missed the point. It wasn't about being stupid. The Left fears and despises the idea of speech they cannot control and Brennan is a catspaw of the Left and so the whole act was intentional. This is a war, not against entirely stupid people (though not to say many are not stupid), but malicious people who hate us and hate the Constitution and hate all features of Western culture that enable and empower individual free and individual will.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 17, 2025 07:49 AM (h/ffs)

23 A few of thoughts the Munich speech, one of the 3 most important speeches (Kennedy, Reagan, Trump) since the end of WWII.

This was the most Trumpian speech possible. Power revels and what was reveled is he is preparing the USA for the rapidly approaching end of the post-World War II order.

Significantly, noted is Europe is now on a path that rejects the hallmarks of Western Civilization, liberty, wealth, Christianity, and the absolute right of the governed to govern the governors.

Slyly he warned the European regimes that their schemes of instituting a totalitarian neo-feudal world and nullifying its existing citizenry and replacing with 7th century savages out to cut throats is a fool's errand.

That JD gave this speech and not Felonious D is a paramount moment: the philosophy and future direction of the USA is not about one man but a cultural return to bedrock principles of Western Civilization. Felonious D's absence is one of his finest moments of communication.

This speech was a revolutionary declaration of independence from European entanglements and a hint of what Trumpian America First means as a political philosophy. The audacity is breathtaking. And necessary.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 17, 2025 07:49 AM (Q8Bj8)

24 "There are 20 million people in the system over 100 years listed as still alive. There are over a million people listed as 150-159 years old. There are a thousand people listed as 220-229 years old There is 1 person over 360 years old.

There are about 60 million more people listed as alive in the database than the entire US population."

Yet I can't collect even though I'm old enough because I am still working. That's why I'm f'd.

Posted by: f'd at February 17, 2025 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

25 “he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.”

Her message seems muddled to me. Is she saying that free speech leads to genocide?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 17, 2025 07:50 AM (SfhV1)

26 ...motorboating her mastoids.

You are one weird dude. How would you even do that?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2025 07:51 AM (ExV1e)

27 Ducks and geese and Margaret - oh my!!!!

https://tinyurl.com/2vwk4f4e

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2025 07:51 AM (1o8D5)

28 Wow, that article at the top "DOGE as Class War" is awesome.

Good insight for those who don't understand why Elon et. all appear to be on "our side" now.

Ultimately, the non-tech elites (DC DS) are the only thing in the way of the tech elites.

Posted by: pawn at February 17, 2025 07:52 AM (QB+5g)

29 "Her message seems muddled to me. Is she saying that free speech leads to genocide?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead"

I think she is saying she is an idiot.

Posted by: f'd at February 17, 2025 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

30 >New Jersey bans safe, effective ammunition
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Hollow points
this makes no sense- does this make the attacker you shoot 'less dead' ?

also I'm no ballistic expert, but isn't a FMJ round more likely to over-penetrate than a hollow point?

the JJ-linked article does not include New Jersey's reasoning behind the ban, therefore I must assume NJ pols are assholes and fools

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2025 07:52 AM (AOsQT)

31 I think she is saying she is an idiot.

Posted by: f'd at February 17, 2025 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

On that point she is correct.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 17, 2025 07:53 AM (SfhV1)

32 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2025 07:53 AM (Q4IgG)

33 would make it illegal for men to ejaculate while having sex without the intent of impregnating a woman.

If I were in that government, I'd add a paragraph that says real women who are still menstruating also have to pay out for every death of an egg cell they shed.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2025 07:53 AM (lXCUP)

34 Besides what has been found and posted about social security, WHAT IS PROOF of waste and fraud in the agencies like USAID that have been audited? I'm hazy on authorized spending and unauthorized spending. I know that tracing the money has been difficult because of the layers of NGO's and lack of info on grants. Can someone straighten me out on what is actual proof of fraud? Been to usaspending.gov and seen Musk's posts on X. This is the lefts rallying cry now that they're getting past hollering about the price of eggs.

Posted by: JROD at February 17, 2025 07:54 AM (IlL6s)

35 >Her message seems muddled to me. Is she saying that free speech leads to genocide?

Posted by: grammie winger
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she's saying that anything she doesn't like is literally Hitler

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2025 07:54 AM (AOsQT)

36 I'm thinking prosecution, conviction and imprisonment, and not motorboating her [AOC] mastoids.
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Wouldn't that propeller to martyrdom? May she rot in hull.

Your turn.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2025 07:55 AM (1o8D5)

37 she's saying that anything she doesn't like is literally Hitler
Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2025 07:54 AM (AOsQT)

Exactly.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 17, 2025 07:56 AM (h/ffs)

38 "Yet I can't collect even though I'm old enough because I am still working. That's why I'm f'd."

Huh?

Posted by: pawn at February 17, 2025 07:57 AM (QB+5g)

39 Thanks JJ. I had no idea that USA has an "elevator deficit". Of course, Big Elevator is to blame. Call in the DOGE boys.

Posted by: Stairs Into The Abyss at February 17, 2025 07:59 AM (G5+As)

40 >Posted by: Ordinary American

Was it you who asked me about a book about color revolutions? I forgot who asked.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2025 08:00 AM (LkLld)

41 The Pope's on the ropes:

https://tinyurl.com/4nrhnxyh

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2025 08:00 AM (1o8D5)

42 "While trying to excoriate Secretary of State Marco Rubio over Vance’s message Sunday, Brennan blamed the Nazi Holocaust on . . . wait for it . . . too much free speech."

Margaret is a nitwit. Nazi free speech was a one time use thing as it resulted in you being executed. She should be forced to read William Shirer's Berlin Diary. Ironically, or not, she is blind that the modern Left's approach to free speech is remarkably similar to that used in Nazi Germany. These TV people are complete "educated" ignoramuses.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 17, 2025 08:00 AM (Q8Bj8)

43 How long before Trump runs up against the Impoundment Control Act of 1974? I know funding has been "paused" or "temporarily frozen". I haven't heard this argument coming from the left yet. This is what got Trump I believe when he tried to stop funding going to Ukraine for which he was impeached his first term. I guess this would be part II of my first question. Apologies if this has already been discussed here at AoS, but I haven't seen it yet.

Posted by: JROD at February 17, 2025 08:01 AM (IlL6s)

44 Collectivism. Totalitarian. Tribalism.

There is no way to square the circle, either the US has a shared vision or we devolve into something like the Balkans or Yugoslavia. Demonizing people based on race, ethnicity, or national origin etc., cannot function.

Basically Progressives won’t shut up, and they won’t change the subject - because we reject their ideas, their policies, they are reduced to rejecting people.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 17, 2025 08:02 AM (rFLpo)

45 I couldn't get through the piece on DOGE and the class war. Is he saying Musk and what he represents is not sympathetic to or not advancing the interests of the working class?

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 17, 2025 08:02 AM (h/ffs)

46 Tim Walz, Bro-Fo Omar reportedly considering runs
Sinking Ship? Sen. Tina Smith Becomes Latest Dem To Drop Reelection Bid

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Dear Lord in the heavens above...we could be saddled with a Tim Walz, or even worse, BroFo Omar as a senator?

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2025 08:02 AM (qBdHI)

47 So being for free speech, a smaller government and against anti-Semitism makes you nazi. Just trying to keep up.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 17, 2025 08:02 AM (ARtwq)

48 Was it you who asked me about a book about color revolutions? I forgot who asked.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2025 08:00 AM (LkLld)

Yes.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 17, 2025 08:03 AM (h/ffs)

49 Thank you JJ. Great commentary as always.

JD Vance’s speech in Munich was glorious. This Margaret Brennan flunky…. What a hag and a hack she is… maybe some credit for originality because I’ve never ever heard “free speech caused the Holocaust”…. But zero points because it’s idiotic in the extreme (to say the least). One more example of incurable TDS which causes people to twist themselves into logic pretzels and make utter fools of themselves (looking at you Bill Kristol)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 17, 2025 08:04 AM (WdMlw)

50 It's a tough question. Who is dumber? AOC or Margaret Brennan? Together their IQs couldn't reach low normal--and it takes two of them to get there.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at February 17, 2025 08:04 AM (cB7nX)

51 Margaret is a nitwit.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 17, 2025 08:00 AM (Q8Bj

No, I don't think so. She is simply doing her job as a narrative engineer.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 17, 2025 08:05 AM (h/ffs)

52
"I don't care, Margaret."

Posted by: About whatever she's talking about at February 17, 2025 08:05 AM (dg+HA)

53 John Eastman should be a household name among conservatives.
The Eastman Dilemma: John Eastman vs. the Left
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Put John Eastman on the Supreme Court!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 17, 2025 08:05 AM (Dv3i1)

54 "I couldn't get through the piece on DOGE and the class war. Is he saying Musk and what he represents is not sympathetic to or not advancing the interests of the working class?"

Essentially yes. Right now these interests coincide but it hasn't always been so. The ultimate objectives differ.

Posted by: pawn at February 17, 2025 08:05 AM (QB+5g)

55 “Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months.”

-

And, like the video from the physicist pointed out over the weekend, the excuse is "we can't change this approach because these people have families"

All while importing 50-100M illegals to destroy the families of those not connected to money laundering operations.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 08:05 AM (sG4Li)

56 "Huh?
Posted by: pawn"

I'm fd by the SS.

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2025 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

57 Never thought I would read the headline-World's First Gay Imam Shot After Lesbian Wedding. We live in a nuthouse World.

Posted by: Pilgrim State Graduate at February 17, 2025 08:06 AM (G5+As)

58 Was it you who asked me about a book about color revolutions? I forgot who asked.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2025 08:00 AM (LkLld)
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While on the subject of color revolutions, let's read up on Norm Eisen:

https://tinyurl.com/yc5hdavw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2025 08:06 AM (1o8D5)

59 33 would make it illegal for men to ejaculate while having sex without the intent of impregnating a woman.

If I were in that government, I'd add a paragraph that says real women who are still menstruating also have to pay out for every death of an egg cell they shed.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2025 07:53 AM (lXCUP)

Or at least have to pay for the basic product themselves to clean that up.

Posted by: Roy at February 17, 2025 08:07 AM (z+ik4)

60 There used to be an agency that performed like DOGE is performing but they were toothless:

Government Accountability Office.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2025 08:08 AM (RIvkX)

61 Margaret is a nitwit.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 17, 2025 08:00 AM (Q8Bj

No, I don't think so. She is simply doing her job as a narrative engineer.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 17, 2025 08:05 AM (h/ffs)
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True but that could be because she's a useful idiot.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2025 08:08 AM (1o8D5)

62 DOGE as Class War
_______
That was hopelessly imaginary. It talked about nothing real, at all. Despite claiming to disavow Marx, it was nonetheless trapped in Marx's model.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 17, 2025 08:08 AM (1bNHn)

63 Essentially yes. Right now these interests coincide but it hasn't always been so. The ultimate objectives differ.
Posted by: pawn at February 17, 2025 08:05 AM (QB+5g)

Okay. I will pipe up with a personal observation. I worked for Elon Musk. And I totally dispute any contention that he does not understand or sympathize with the working class and that his efforts with DOGE are not fully aligned with his love for America as it was founded.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 17, 2025 08:09 AM (h/ffs)

64 would make it illegal for men to ejaculate while having sex without the intent of impregnating a woman.

-

Add one tiny line:

The woman has to be a virgin.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 08:09 AM (sG4Li)

65 Lesbian wedding?

https://youtu.be/8BQBEAMeOec

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at February 17, 2025 08:09 AM (dg+HA)

66 Margaret is a nitwit.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 17, 2025 08:00 AM (Q8Bj

No, I don't think so. She is simply doing her job as a narrative engineer.

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Narrative engineer. I like that! I can't decide whether Margaret is completely saturated with pure ignorance, or if she's just trying to plant the seed of the following equation for their dunce audience: Trump + free speech = Nazi.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2025 08:09 AM (qBdHI)

67 All those nonexistent people collecting SS also vote.

Posted by: davidt at February 17, 2025 08:09 AM (i0F8b)

68 Margaret aspires to be a nitwit so they can move up to management.

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2025 08:10 AM (vFG9F)

69 A Cliff's Notes version of what Margaret Brennan, Dem-Media Complex apparatchik, said to Rubio:

State and media censorship of speech is necessary!

Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2025 08:10 AM (aBgBM)

70 @IDFBabes keeps tweeting this stuff

it's very distracting

https://x.com/IDFBabes/status/
1891473675074851270

mild nsfw

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2025 08:10 AM (AOsQT)

71 New Jersey bans safe, effective ammunition

Since this doesn't change the choice of ammunition for criminals, it appears to be a workplace safety measure instituted by New Jersey to protect their preferred class of "worker" from death an severe injury.

Its a backdoor way of answering the question .45 or 9mm debate where the pro-Europellet tribe talks about advanced ammunition making the caliber selection moot.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 17, 2025 08:11 AM (a4flb)

72 Are all those nonexistent people collecting SS also counted in the census?

Posted by: davidt at February 17, 2025 08:11 AM (i0F8b)

73 41 The Pope's on the ropes:

https://tinyurl.com/4nrhnxyh
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2025 08:00 AM (1o8D5)

Oh no... Anyway...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2025 08:11 AM (VE6XX)

74 64 would make it illegal for men to ejaculate while having sex without the intent of impregnating a woman.

-

Add one tiny line:

The woman has to be a virgin.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 08:09 AM (sG4Li)

So, mayor Peter puffer and Chasten et al up the culo? Prosecutable?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)

75 "would make it illegal for men to ejaculate while having sex without the intent of impregnating a woman"

Hey, just because that woman was 1500 miles away doesn't mean I didn't have intent.

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2025 08:12 AM (vFG9F)

76 >>Yes.
Posted by: Ordinary American

Ok. This book is largely credited as laying out the framework for what eventually became known as color revolutions. It was written by a far left professor who taught at both the University of Massachusetts and Harvard named Gene Sharp.

It's been called the inspiration for other movements such as defund the police and occupy wall street.

All of these movements rely on an uprising of the downtrodden masses to overthrow a dictatorial government. Like Trump or anyone else who isn't a far left whack job. Not a fun read but it does help layout the framework for what the left keeps doing to us.

From Dictatorship to Democracy.

https://tinyurl.com/yf3utjea

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2025 08:12 AM (LkLld)

77 Great, I really don't want to buy a Tesla but the lure of threats for owning one suddenly makes the Tesla that much more appealing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 17, 2025 08:13 AM (tT6L1)

78
Margaret also probably wonders why the scientific community hasn't named an element after Hitler: "Hitlerium" or "Adolfium". What is the element with atomic number 88, anyway?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 17, 2025 08:14 AM (xG4kz)

79 so the NJ law says you can only use the JHP in your home

out on the street, JHP will be illegal

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2025 08:14 AM (AOsQT)

80 "What we need is safer guns and safer bullets."

Posted by: Jocelyn Elders at February 17, 2025 08:14 AM (dg+HA)

81 So, mayor Peter puffer and Chasten et al up the culo? Prosecutable?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)
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I'm pretty sure those Democrat lawmakers didn't really think this one through.

The male homosexual population should be freaking out over this right about now.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 17, 2025 08:14 AM (tT6L1)

82 "And I totally dispute any contention that he does not understand or sympathize with the working class and that his efforts with DOGE are not fully aligned with his love for America as it was founded."

Oh really? Explain why he discriminates against people over the age of 35? I've been told this by a number of people and one very highly ranked corporate person.

Posted by: pawn at February 17, 2025 08:14 AM (QB+5g)

83 We all should stretch and do morning calisthenics so we can withstand another week of winning!

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 17, 2025 08:15 AM (EES2L)

84 77 Great, I really don't want to buy a Tesla but the lure of threats for owning one suddenly makes the Tesla that much more appealing.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 17, 2025 08:13 AM (tT6L1)

Daughter has one.. She likes it but it's not their only car.. For longer trips she has a gasoline car..Said her acquaintances that have one have stickers that say "I bought this before Musk became President. "

Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2025 08:15 AM (VE6XX)

85 Free speech during the Third Reich. You could stand on a soap box by the Brandenburg Gate and condemn the NSDAP. Later that afternoon, the same soap box would be kicked out from your feet and the piano wire would tighten.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 17, 2025 08:15 AM (gm9Sb)

86 Lesbian wedding?
https://youtu.be/8BQBEAMeOec
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at February 17, 2025 08:09 AM (dg+HA)

It's Adam and Eve, not Eve and Louise!

Posted by: Reverend Billy Ray Collins, The Sword Of Joshua, Independent, Full Gospel, Pentecost Assembly at February 17, 2025 08:15 AM (NAF5O)

87
Sheryl Crow selling off her Tesla could be turned into a positive marketing point by a really creative promoter.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 17, 2025 08:15 AM (xG4kz)

88 And, like the video from the physicist pointed out over the weekend, the excuse is "we can't change this approach because these people have families"

All while importing 50-100M illegals to destroy the families of those not connected to money laundering operations.

The party of atheism, radical feminism, abortion, multi-generational welfare and child trafficking / mutilation can take a seat when it comes to talking about "Family".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 17, 2025 08:16 AM (a4flb)

89 would make it illegal for men to ejaculate while having sex without the intent of impregnating a woman.

-

Add one tiny line:

The woman has to be a virgin.
-

So, mayor Peter puffer and Chasten et al up the culo? Prosecutable?

-

They're not having sex.

As much as society wants to insist that poop-covered penis jammed violently into a torn and inflamed butthole is sex, it's not. No more than thrusting your penis into a splinter-covered knothole of a tree.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 08:16 AM (sG4Li)

90 Insty has a link to some desiccated crone interviewing another crone, Klobuchar. The talking head crone allows elected crone to ramble on at length without challenging anything said.

It's quite amazing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 17, 2025 08:17 AM (tT6L1)

91 "Lesbian wedding?"

Not a nice day for one.

Posted by: Billy Idull at February 17, 2025 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

92 Happy Presidents' Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

93 Sheryl Crow selling off her Tesla could be turned into a positive marketing point by a really creative promoter.

Just don't talk about the seats in Sheryl "Single Square of Toilet Tissue" Crow's car.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 17, 2025 08:17 AM (a4flb)

94 No more than thrusting your penis into a splinter-covered knothole of a tree.

There's bound to be at least one porn covering that fetish.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2025 08:17 AM (lXCUP)

95 From Dictatorship to Democracy.

https://tinyurl.com/yf3utjea
Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2025 08:12 AM (LkLld)

Excellent. Thanks.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 17, 2025 08:17 AM (h/ffs)

96 >>While on the subject of color revolutions, let's read up on Norm Eisen:

Yep. And everything Eisen did was based on Sharp's work. No surprise it all emanated from Harvard and other leftwing academic pits.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2025 08:18 AM (LkLld)

97
Free has become a dirty word for Democrats unless it's describing shoplifted merchandise.

Posted by: Auspex at February 17, 2025 08:18 AM (j4U/Z)

98 It's also...
National Café au Lait Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2025 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

99 Yes, Pope Francis has a condition that isn't responding to treatment, he's dying. He's old, frail and has been for years.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 17, 2025 08:18 AM (2NHgQ)

100 Good morning again everyone. Thx JJ for the large report. Happy Monday.
Its never good to make fun of a murder, but the murder of the world's first gay imam reminds me of the great Oscar Wilde quip (, paraphrase ) " one would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 08:18 AM (KXtU1)

101 I was looking for a status on Dennis Prager’s condition over the weekend and got good news, thank the Lord from a video his son posted. Still a long way to go in recovery though…. But it also led me to and old video from 2010 of Prager on Larry King and Kamala. The topic: gay marriage….. Kamala was blindingly stupid and full of word salad even then….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 17, 2025 08:20 AM (WdMlw)

102 No more than thrusting your penis into a splinter-covered knothole of a tree.

There's bound to be at least one porn covering that fetish.
Posted by: NR Pax

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Oh, I'm sure. If the internet has taught people anything it's that their own secretive "I like pretty women with ankle bracelets and tan lines" sort of "fetish" probably doesn't even qualify as weird

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 08:20 AM (sG4Li)

103 100 Good morning again everyone. Thx JJ for the large report. Happy Monday.
Its never good to make fun of a murder, but the murder of the world's first gay imam reminds me of the great Oscar Wilde quip (, paraphrase ) " one would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 08:18 AM (KXtU1)

Munching on Prayer rug is halal. Munching on Bro-Fo's carpet, haram!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2025 08:20 AM (x0n13)

104 Put John Eastman on the Supreme Court!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 17, 2025 08:05 AM (Dv3i1)

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But Michael W. Smith told me to "Go west, young man"!

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 17, 2025 08:20 AM (EES2L)

105 Thanks to Margaret Brennan, I now know what 'Weimar fallacy' means

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2025 08:21 AM (AOsQT)

106 Margaret also probably wonders why the scientific community hasn't named an element after Hitler: "Hitlerium" or "Adolfium". What is the element with atomic number 88, anyway?

Radium

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 17, 2025 08:21 AM (a4flb)

107 Margaret Brennan is weaponizing Nazism to combat free speech.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2025 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

108
Never thought I would read the headline-World's First Gay Imam Shot After Lesbian Wedding

The guy lives on the edge, you have to credit him for that much.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 17, 2025 08:22 AM (xG4kz)

109 Symbolic Engineer : Artificial Intelligence :: Narrative Engineer : Artificial Stupidity

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 08:22 AM (VoAdT)

110 Reports of the Pope's condition reminds me of the reports of Brezhnev, Chernenko and Andropov's health.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 08:22 AM (KXtU1)

111 Never thought I would read the headline-World's First Gay Imam Shot After Lesbian Wedding

The guy lives on the edge, you have to credit him for that much.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 17, 2025 08:22 AM (xG4kz)

That's I-MA'AM!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 08:22 AM (VoAdT)

112 101 I was looking for a status on Dennis Prager’s condition over the weekend and got good news, thank the Lord from a video his son posted. Still a long way to go in recovery though…. But it also led me to and old video from 2010 of Prager on Larry King and Kamala. The topic: gay marriage….. Kamala was blindingly stupid and full of word salad even then….

oh thank you for this! I kept wondering as well!

hi guys had a fantastic weekend do have to work today sadly. parade was amazing just a massive party. the shooting was just some plaxico-emulating chick who was packing in her sweats and messed up trying to use a port-a-potty

the only downbeat was I tried to watch the SNL thing - just atrocious. I thought it would be clips or something? it was obviously written by the current staff so just unfunny and boring

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 17, 2025 08:23 AM (Pv3Rg)

113 Today we take the Wayback Machine to Germany,1938 to attend one of the many "Town Hall" discussion groups hosted by Mr. Himmler.

Posted by: MR PEABODY at February 17, 2025 08:23 AM (qoB0Q)

114 Tik History did a deep dive video into what is Fascism, National Socialism, and to a lessor degree Marxism. I find it worth its 40 minute run time.

A critical notion is the word Fascism came out of the word fascio which is Italian for a bundle of sticks or union. Fascism means "trade unionism." Tik clearly enjoys pointing out that Marxists screaming about being anti-Fascist and the necessity for unions in the same breath is amusing.

https://youtu.be/qdY_IMZH2Ko

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 17, 2025 08:23 AM (Q8Bj8)

115 Well "nation-building" was always just code for "overthrowing a hostile government and then standing up a new one friendly to America," so yeah, it's high time we did some nation-building here at home.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2025 08:23 AM (BI5O2)

116 No girl band ever chose the name, The Desiccated Crones.

Posted by: davidt at February 17, 2025 08:23 AM (i0F8b)

117 btw at the eagles parade they blasted music and I was NOT the only one trump-dancing when they played YMCA! it was awesome!

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 17, 2025 08:24 AM (Pv3Rg)

118 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Pretty women with ankle bracelets and tan lines at February 17, 2025 08:24 AM (dg+HA)

119 https://youtu.be/qdY_IMZH2Ko
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 17, 2025 08:23 AM (Q8Bj

Everyone always forgets that in the middle of the bundle of sticks is a great big F.O. axe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 08:25 AM (VoAdT)

120 Thanks to Margaret Brennan, I now know what 'Weimar fallacy' means
Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2025 08:21 AM (AOsQT)
====

My favorite is, "Hitler got elected...!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2025 08:25 AM (RIvkX)

121 Well "nation-building" was always just code for "overthrowing a hostile government and then standing up a new one friendly to ~~America~~ Babylon DC," so yeah, it's high time we did some nation-building here at home.

FIFY

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 17, 2025 08:25 AM (a4flb)

122
Yes, Pope Francis has a condition that isn't responding to treatment, he's dying. He's old, frail and has been for years.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

Have they filled the queue of his potential replacements with the requisite number of commies?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 17, 2025 08:25 AM (xG4kz)

123 115 Well "nation-building" was always just code for "overthrowing a hostile government and then standing up a new one friendly to America," so yeah, it's high time we did some nation-building here at home.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2025 08:23 AM (BI5O2)

Call it a "clear revolution". In opposition to a "color revolution".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 08:26 AM (VoAdT)

124 Oh really? Explain why he discriminates against people over the age of 35? I've been told this by a number of people and one very highly ranked corporate person.
Posted by: pawn at February 17, 2025 08:14 AM (QB+5g)

I don't know. As I said, mine was just a personal observation and a gut feeling.

But he seems to have no problem with the 78 year old Donald Trump.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 17, 2025 08:26 AM (h/ffs)

125 Have they filled the queue of his potential replacements with the requisite number of commies?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 17, 2025 08:25 AM (xG4kz)

Has there ever been a case where there was a dude with actual job experience as an applicant?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 08:26 AM (VoAdT)

126
No girl band ever chose the name, The Desiccated Crones.
Posted by: davidt

We considered it!

Posted by: Members of the Wizened Duga at February 17, 2025 08:27 AM (xG4kz)

127 You'd think that if the media was going to call everyone they don't like Nazis, they would at least learn about the Nazis. If they did that however , they would never call anyone Nazis

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 08:27 AM (KXtU1)

128
Dugs, dammit, dugs!

Posted by: Members of the Wizened Duga at February 17, 2025 08:27 AM (xG4kz)

129 107 Margaret Brennan is weaponizing Nazism to combat free speech.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2025 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

Nazis. The Left's one-stop-shop for slander of its opponents.

Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2025 08:28 AM (aBgBM)

130 (looks at money laundering system established by Our Betters, thinks about capitalism, remembers the left's "true socialism has never been tried" argument.)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 08:28 AM (sG4Li)

131
That could have been done better ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 17, 2025 08:28 AM (xG4kz)

132 Happy Monday!

Apparently, 60 Minutes last night has several poor, sad USAID employees sharing their sob story about mean Trump killing their ~~opportunities to help the international poors~~ cushy, comfy, well-paid careers.

Aaand of course, X sleuths have already determined that the two interviewed were contractors - not directly employed by USAID, and the female one was Samantha Powers' speech writer. Oh! Gues you weren't saving the world after all. Have fun on your job search!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2025 08:29 AM (Cki93)

133 Reports of the Pope's condition reminds me of the reports of Brezhnev, Chernenko and Andropov's health.

I didn't know that the Pope was chronic alcoholic.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 17, 2025 08:29 AM (a4flb)

134 All publicity is good publicity!

Posted by: CBS Management at February 17, 2025 08:29 AM (1Dbez)

135 If they did that however , they would never call anyone Nazis
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 08:27 AM (KXtU1)

State control of everything? Single charismatic leader presiding over a network of hatchet men? Disgusting "medical" experimentation on human beings? Blame everything on the Joos and try to exterminate them?

They ought to be running out of armbands by now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 08:29 AM (VoAdT)

136 "Free speech has also caused ED, your dog to run away, Trump grabbing them by the you-know-where, dinosaur extinction, higher taxes..."

Posted by: Margaret "am I a good soldier for the cause?" Brennan at February 17, 2025 08:29 AM (EES2L)

137 The Hessians wept for their lost empire, but more strongly for their lost coffers.
Bravo to Mister Vance.

Posted by: Clear-Eyed Killer at February 17, 2025 08:29 AM (DqTIB)

138 Join us as we sing number 223 in your Bureaucratic
Criminal Hymnals:

In a hill far away, stands an old limestone mine
The emblem of red tape and mire
And I love that old mine where the filers and clerks
For a world of retirees were hired

CHORUS:
So I'll cherish the old limestone mine
Till my bennies at last I lay down
I will cling to the old limestone mine
And exchange it some day for a legacy media sinecure downtown

Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2025 08:29 AM (/iMjX)

139 The Myth of 'Palestine': Language Manipulation and Historical Fabrication
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I'm afraid I just do not see the point of objecting to the term "Palestine". It's a word the Romans used to refer to a place, and it's hardly unique that we adopted it. Britain, Germany, and Greece are just three others that we use. It frankly sounds to me a bit like insisting on "Denali".

Posted by: Eeyore at February 17, 2025 08:30 AM (1bNHn)

140

Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl
According to the Social Security database, there are almost 3,000 people over 200 years old who are alive in the US.

There’s even someone at least 360.

Are any of these impossible people collecting benefits?

Here's the chart-

https://tinyurl.com/n6vtf78c

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

141 I grew up around elitists. I learned a lot about their manner and behavioral cues. I do not believe Elon Musk is an elitist. Obviously he values very bright people, so I'm sue he holds a bias in their favor. But as for looking down on ordinary people, no, I don't think so.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 17, 2025 08:30 AM (h/ffs)

142 125 Have they filled the queue of his potential replacements with the requisite number of commies?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 17, 2025 08:25 AM (xG4kz)

Has there ever been a case where there was a dude with actual job experience as an applicant?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 08:26 AM (VoAdT)

Haven't the past few months shown we should have a little more faith in the hand of the One above?

Posted by: Nova Local at February 17, 2025 08:30 AM (exHjb)

143 Willowed, good news for a Monday morning, the Israelis took out a senior Hamas official in Lebanon.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 08:30 AM (KXtU1)

144 >>You'd think that if the media was going to call everyone they don't like Nazis, they would at least learn about the Nazis. If they did that however , they would never call anyone Nazis

They don't care. It's become an article of faith for them that Nazis and every fascist movement is from the right. As JJ pointed out above, Nazi is short for National Socialism.

I've pointed this out to leftist for years and they come back with some idiocy like "the parties switched sides" to tell me socialism doesn't mean exactly what it's always meant.

They are impossible to reason with because reason plays no part in their lives. Facts do not matter to leftist zealots.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2025 08:31 AM (LkLld)

145 @43

>> How long before Trump runs up against the Impoundment Control Act of 1974?

It's patently unconstitutional and hopefully all of this get sorted appropriately by SCOTUS at some point.

What we have here is simple, yes, congress appropriates funds, and unless the money is specifically directed to how it is to be spent, the executive gets to make decisions on how best to make use of that money and can direct it to other uses.

Using the USAID boondoggle as an example, congress appropriated 40B for USAID, but there is no delineated line item or priority list of what that 40B is to fund, so the actual funding of initiatives and priorities are left to the executive agency, which in this case were run by subordinates of the previous unitary executive, and the courts are saying that the current unitary executive has no say in what the spending priorities of the agency are and that the previous subordinates priorities get to control what the money is spent on and that no alterations or claw back of money is permitted.

It's lunacy, but here we are.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2025 08:31 AM (XV/Pl)

146 the shooting was just some plaxico-emulating chick who was packing in her sweats and messed up trying to use a port-a-potty

That's some high-quality writing right there, Black Orchid!

Posted by: Highly Entertained at February 17, 2025 08:31 AM (G5+As)

147 Mornin' all.

Thanks for the link about the attack in Villach, I hadn't heard that.

BTW: Today marks the fourth anniversary of the passing of Rush Limbaugh.

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at February 17, 2025 08:31 AM (NezMn)

148 @133 with some of the stuff Pope Frankie says I'm not so sure

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 08:32 AM (KXtU1)

149 Bravo, Muldoon!

Posted by: Come, come, come to the church in the limestone at February 17, 2025 08:32 AM (dg+HA)

150
Kamala was blindingly stupid

Well, her stupidity is a universal constant.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 17, 2025 08:33 AM (xG4kz)

151 Thanks for the update on Dennis Prager b"h

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2025 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

152 Happy Monday!

Apparently, 60 Minutes last night has several poor, sad USAID employees sharing their sob story about mean Trump killing their opportunities to help the international poors cushy, comfy, well-paid careers.

Aaand of course, X sleuths have already determined that the two interviewed were contractors - not directly employed by USAID, and the female one was Samantha Powers' speech writer. Oh! Gues you weren't saving the world after all. Have fun on your job search!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2025 08:29 AM (Cki93)

Job Search Tip:
Let me tell you it's always cool
And the boss don't mind sometimes if you act a fool.

Working at the car wash
Working at the car wash, yeah

Posted by: Rose Royce at February 17, 2025 08:33 AM (Aqu9a)

153
I posited the Margaret Brennan "Secret Agent" theory yesterday which was promptly shot down with the more plausible "She's an idiot" conclusion.

Second conspiracy theory: When government employee Democrats are inevitably charged with criminal behavior they've been practicing, they will act like her in hopes of presenting an insanity defense.

It worked for Joey.

Posted by: Auspex at February 17, 2025 08:33 AM (j4U/Z)

154 Mornin', All. Happy Monday.

And Presidents' Day is a stupid holiday.

Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2025 08:34 AM (77rzZ)

155 According to the Social Security database, there are almost 3,000 people over 200 years old who are alive in the US.

There’s even someone at least 360.

That must be the Apostle John.†

$dagger; An interesting interpretation of Matthew 16:28

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 17, 2025 08:34 AM (a4flb)

156 "I never gave anybody hell. I just told them the truth and they thought it was hell." /Harry S Truman

"Here. Hold my beer." /JD Vance

Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2025 08:34 AM (/iMjX)

157 You'd think that if the media was going to call everyone they don't like Nazis, they would at least learn about the Nazis. If they did that however , they would never call anyone Nazis
Posted by: Smell the Glove

-

The problem, but they're way too dense to understand it, is similar to "racist" and "misogynist" and "homophobe."

People were called those names repeatedly. Their children were called those names repeatedly. They and their children were told they were inherently those things by virtue of being born.

And so normal people began to examine those things that they were supposed to be, and they discovered the degeneracy, the failure, the DEI "successes", the plagiarism, the violence, the pretend-equality, etc.

And they agreed. Yes, black culture is less-than. Yes, gay culture is mostly disease-ridden degeneracy and they should stay the heck away from our children. Yes, it appears that women only want equality when it benefits them.

I believe the phrase was: "I don't really care, Margaret."

So yes, maybe not using Nazi in the same way would be a great idea.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 08:34 AM (sG4Li)

158 @114 Altaria Pilgrim-I refer a lot of people to Tik History about the subject of fascism and socialism(Nazi, commie)

Posted by: JROD at February 17, 2025 08:34 AM (IlL6s)

159 @153 with Joey it wasn't an act

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 08:35 AM (KXtU1)

160 One of the unexpected pleasures of Trump 2.0 administration has been how his team are immediately out there and getting sh#t done!

Rubio is confirmed, and then he's off to Panama getting control of the canal and rescuing 6 AMericans held by Venezuela. Homan is doing raids within24-48 hors of Trump being sworn in. DOGE is showing up at a new agency building every day (or so?), getting into their systems, cutting off funds, cutting staff. Noem is immediately on the border on horseback, then helping clean up in NC. AND on and on.

They all seem to be active *and* wonderful at communicating what they're doing, what their plans are, etc. More of this!!

This is particularly amazing after 4 years of a hidden POTUS and cabinet, essentially a government run by unnamed, unseen actors.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2025 08:35 AM (Cki93)

161 Word Power.

UNPOSSIBLE. The state just before something considered 100% impossible just before it becomes 100% possible.

Example:
As of Monday, Jan 10th: it is unpossible that Social Security is sending out checks to people who are listed as being 150 year old in Social Security's records.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 17, 2025 08:35 AM (Q8Bj8)

162 Well, her stupidity is a universal constant.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 17, 2025 08:33 AM (xG4kz)

A milliHarris (mH) is equivalent to spending more than thirty seconds looking for the car keys that are in your left hand.

A deciHarris (dH) is telling your wife her pants kinda do make her ass look fat.

1.0 Harrises is forgetting that you didn't rig your own election.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 08:35 AM (VoAdT)

163 From the LI article-

"Conservatives are raising concerns over liberal Judge Susan Crawford’s campaign for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, pointing to a flood of dark money backing her, including contributions from groups tied to billionaire George Soros. With the election fast approaching, several prominent conservatives and media outlets have sounded the alarm about what they see as an effort to reshape Wisconsin’s highest court through massive outside spending."

This is our problem. Not enough conservatives focus on winning judgeships across the country.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2025 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

164 - easier or better to build telescopes in space or on the moon

A) Well, if you leave out that whole having to wear one of those bulky space suits, with the bulky gloves, restricted time of breathing aparatus...

B) We already have a telescope that is the result of incredible engineering. And what do the mainstream astronomers do with the data that has been coming back?
With the initial images it was 'galaxies must have started forming much earlier than we thought' or 'the universe must be much older than we thought.'

One of the saddest parts, people not realizing that yes, they too have been indoctrinated. Ultimately though, it's not a "head" condition. It's a "heart" condition.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 17, 2025 08:35 AM (ItCQP)

165 @Bubblebathgirl
According to the Social Security database, there are almost 3,000 people over 200 years old who are alive in the US.

There’s even someone at least 360.

_

I wonder how they voted.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 08:36 AM (sG4Li)

166 Wonder which is more lucrative-working in the limestone mine, or working in the Wolfus electron mine?

Posted by: Mine Kampf at February 17, 2025 08:36 AM (G5+As)

167
I've pointed this out to leftist for years and they come back with some idiocy like "the parties switched sides" to tell me socialism doesn't mean exactly what it's always meant.

Just like the "Hey! Presto!" switch of the Dims with the Republicans in the South in the year ** mumbles **!

They do have a tell, do they not?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 17, 2025 08:36 AM (xG4kz)

168 @165

>>I wonder how they voted.

It is a well know fact that anyone over the age of 120 is a democrat voter.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2025 08:37 AM (XV/Pl)

169 Altaria Pilgrim-I refer a lot of people to Tik History about the subject of fascism and socialism(Nazi, commie)
Posted by: JROD

His work is first rate. The Stalingrad series is mind boggling. In one of his videos he answered a question Elon Musk sent him. He was pretty happy with that.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 17, 2025 08:37 AM (Q8Bj8)

170 "One refinery away from economic collapse"
/---------------

I almost feel sorry for Californians. Out of shortsightedness, the state has voted itself into s mess that will take decades to fix.

Posted by: CBS Management at February 17, 2025 08:37 AM (xZeEg)

171 And Presidents' Day is a stupid holiday.

yes that's why I just celebrate Washington's Birthday

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 17, 2025 08:37 AM (Pv3Rg)

172 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2025 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

173 BTW: Today marks the fourth anniversary of the passing of Rush Limbaugh.
Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at February 17, 2025 08:31 AM (NezMn)

----------------------

Thank you for the reminder. Talent returned to God. It would be great to hear Rush's perspective on all of this winning.

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 17, 2025 08:37 AM (EES2L)

174 157 You'd think that if the media was going to call everyone they don't like Nazis, they would at least learn about the Nazis. If they did that however , they would never call anyone Nazis
Posted by: Smell the Glove

That's the whole point about narratives. They're limited, fictive (anti-historical) and emotional -- by design. Brennan reading up on the Nazis would defeat the purpose, and even be discouraged. And if she did read up on them, no, it wouldn't change a thing. She'd still indulge in the blood libel.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 17, 2025 08:37 AM (h/ffs)

175 The media: Forever proving they truly are the enemy of the people.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2025 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

176 BTW: Today marks the fourth anniversary of the passing of Rush Limbaugh.

A couple weeks ago, I had a vivid, memorable dream that he returned to the air and was current on all the daily events.

What was remarkable, is that the dream had his voice, cadence, eloquence and manner of speech.

When I woke up, knowing that my mind can conjure up a Rush Limbaugh, surely, with decades of audio recordings, Generative AI could replicate him today.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 17, 2025 08:38 AM (a4flb)

177 CBS’ Margaret Brennan: Nazis ‘Weaponized’ Free Speech to Conduct the Holocaust
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Bad as they are, and as accustomed as I've become to that fact, I was still shocked by the brazenness of her claim. The concept of Truth is simply irrelevant to the words of the press. I don't think they inhabit a mental world where applies. Asking if a journalist is telling the truth is like asking if Wednesday is doing so.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 17, 2025 08:38 AM (1bNHn)

178 FREE SPEECH killed the Jews.

That's one helluva take, there, stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2025 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

179 The abject cluelessness or worse the intentional distortion of the facts about how the Holocaust came about are stomach-churning in the extreme.

-

It was not abject cluelessness.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 17, 2025 08:39 AM (lTGtQ)

180 A question for the Horde. Has Margaret Brennan passed Sally Kohn as being the standard for calibrating stupid? I think so given that Margaret reaches a wider audience. Other thoughts?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 08:39 AM (KXtU1)

181 World’s First Gay Imam Shot After Lesbian Wedding
________
Stop the voting. We have a winning headline for the week, if not the year.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 17, 2025 08:39 AM (1bNHn)

182 (thinks about the Trump era in regards to "the parties switched sides", wonders if the party is more the uniparty/government than the people)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 08:39 AM (sG4Li)

183 "Vaccine-injury registries, ending government-paid junk food, finding ways to help farmers -- RFK, Jr. has gotten to work.
MAHA: HHS's RFK, Jr. gets off to an impressive start"

Dear Secretary Kennedy

STOP MAKING ME LIKE A FUCKING KENNEDY YOU BASTARD!!!

Regards
Mayhem

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 17, 2025 08:39 AM (4XwPj)

184 Bad as they are, and as accustomed as I've become to that fact, I was still shocked by the brazenness of her claim.
**

I wasn't, not in the least. I expected it. I always expect the most absurd and fantastical lies out of the mouths of the Left. It's not only who they are, it's what, from time to time, expedience demands and their ideology compels.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 17, 2025 08:40 AM (h/ffs)

185 Other thoughts?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 08:39 AM (KXtU1)

No one knows who the hell Steven Meter or Roberta Inch were, but we still use the units named for them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 08:40 AM (VoAdT)

186 government-paid junk food

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I'd love to see the connections between this and pharmaceutical companies.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 08:41 AM (sG4Li)

187 "I never gave anybody hell. I just told them the truth and they thought it was hell." /Harry S Truman

"Here. Hold my beer." /JD Vance
Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2025 08:34 AM (/iMjX)

He was an extreme D, Truman was one of the worst. Don't think he told as much truth as he thought he did.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 17, 2025 08:41 AM (0eaVi)

188 World’s First Gay Imam Shot After Lesbian Wedding
________
Stop the voting. We have a winning headline for the week, if not the year.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 17, 2025 08:39 AM (1bNHn)

Which came first, the Imam or the gay?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

189 I almost feel sorry for Californians. Out of shortsightedness, the state has voted itself into s mess that will take decades to fix.

In the 1930s, using that level of technology, tools and manpower, it took four years to build the Golden Gate Bridge, a modern wonder, and less than 14 months to build the Empire State Building.

The cost of regulations, grift and garden variety corruption are that high.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 17, 2025 08:41 AM (a4flb)

190 The really shocking thing is CBS makes zero effort to hire smarter people.

Posted by: Hick Follywood at February 17, 2025 08:42 AM (pVsOB)

191 yes that's why I just celebrate Washington's Birthday
Posted by: Black Orchid

I actually object to making anybody's birthday a holiday (with the exception of Christ's, of course).

But Presidents' Day doesn't commemorate anything. It's just a stupid pretense devoid of meaning.

Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2025 08:42 AM (77rzZ)

192 The really shocking thing is CBS makes zero effort to hire smarter people.
Posted by: Hick Follywood at February 17, 2025 08:42 AM (pVsOB)

There is no such requirement in the world of DIE.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2025 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

193 Where did Margaret Brennan come up with her idiocy? Is she smart enough to actually make it up?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 17, 2025 08:43 AM (kTd/k)

194 OA,

It's pretty much known that it really doesn't matter how bright you are, if your over 35 you aren't "qualified".

I don't think this bias represents the opinion of the working class both blue and white collar.

Elon is an opportunist. That's how he got rich. Now he has an opportunity to decimate the old Guard that stand in his way now.

Don't get me wrong, I admire the guy immensely but he's no hero of the working class. That is pure BS.

Posted by: pawn at February 17, 2025 08:43 AM (QB+5g)

195 AI Rush would have to run on a Mac.

Posted by: Billy Idull at February 17, 2025 08:43 AM (vFG9F)

196 > 173 Amen to that, Cray Cray!

> 176 What a great dream, Unknown. Also, I think Gab has an AI version of El Rushbo.

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at February 17, 2025 08:43 AM (NezMn)

197 193 Where did Margaret Brennan come up with her idiocy? Is she smart enough to actually make it up?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 17, 2025 08:43 AM (kTd/k)

Well that's a take.

"Is she even smart enough to be that stupid?"

lol

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 08:44 AM (VoAdT)

198 My new favorite joke:

Tom Sauer
@thomasbsauer

You hear that, @NATO? You guys are such a mess that even *ELON MUSK* wants to pull out of you.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2025 08:44 AM (QZThv)

199 194 OA,

It's pretty much known that it really doesn't matter how bright you are, if your over 35 you aren't "qualified".

I don't think this bias represents the opinion of the working class both blue and white collar.

Elon is an opportunist. That's how he got rich. Now he has an opportunity to decimate the old Guard that stand in his way now.

Don't get me wrong, I admire the guy immensely but he's no hero of the working class. That is pure BS.
Posted by: pawn at February 17, 2025 08:43 AM (QB+5g)

It will be interesting if Elon learns as he now ages into those he normally doesn't want...sorta like his learning on H1-Bs this year...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 17, 2025 08:44 AM (exHjb)

200 >A question for the Horde. Has Margaret Brennan passed Sally Kohn as being the standard for calibrating stupid?
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haven't heard from Sally lately
weird- she was bloviating about everything for a while there
even had her own standard for stupid: millikohns

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2025 08:45 AM (AOsQT)

201 Yet I can't collect even though I'm old enough because I am still working. That's why I'm f'd.

Posted by: f'd at February 17, 2025 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

I was still working when I began collecting. Why can't you? If you work and earn over a certain amount (depending on your age), they will deduct monies from your payment each month.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 17, 2025 08:45 AM (dgRL6)

202
Visit comment #118 and have them send photos for proof.

Posted by: Dan Patterson at February 17, 2025 08:45 AM (DqTIB)

203 Just because they say stupid shit doesn't necessarily prove them stupid.

They're telling suckers what suckers want to hear.

Posted by: davidt at February 17, 2025 08:45 AM (i0F8b)

204 I almost feel sorry for Californians. Out of shortsightedness, the state has voted itself into s mess that will take decades to fix.

The Big Inch Pipeline, spanning 1254 miles, crossing several major rivers including the Mississippi, and requiring the construction of 28 pumping stations was built in less than a year by people unfit to fight in WW2.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 17, 2025 08:45 AM (a4flb)

205
"Is she even smart enough to be that stupid?"

Toss that one to a gaggle of learned philosophers to keep them out of your hair for a long, long time.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 17, 2025 08:45 AM (xG4kz)

206 @145 Thomas Bender-Thank You for the response. I believe Trump has mentioned challenging the constitutionality of the Impoundment Act in SCOTUS. The hazy part for me with what they've posted is what is authorized and what isn't as you allude to. Authorized funds are going to things they're not authorized for and trying to figure out which is which of things that have been posted online.

Posted by: JROD at February 17, 2025 08:45 AM (IlL6s)

207 Brennan put me in mind of of Dean Wormer’s instruction to the men of the Delta House fraternity in Animal House: “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
-Scott Johnson

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2025 08:46 AM (RIvkX)

208 Where did Margaret Brennan come up with her idiocy? Is she smart enough to actually make it up?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 17, 2025 08:43 AM (kTd/k)

University of Virginia product. Say no more, say no more!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2025 08:47 AM (Aqu9a)

209 This exhaustive Morning Report should bring high praise and accolades from all Morons. I hope the Dental Plan will provide two cleanings per year instead of one.

Posted by: Flossie Debride at February 17, 2025 08:47 AM (G5+As)

210 That proposed Ohio law on ejaculations is about the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2025 08:47 AM (77rzZ)

211 I saw a TV host arguing over DOGE cliams they clawed back "millions of FEMA dollars paid to luxury hotels to house migrants", the argument being the Roosevelt Hotel is not a luxury hotel.

No one bickered over the amount, or that disaster
money that could have helped North Carolina was used illegitimately. No one argued that illegal immigrants were getting American tax dollars by the boatload.

Posted by: Hick Follywood at February 17, 2025 08:47 AM (po03/)

212 Willowed, good news for a Monday morning, the Israelis took out a senior Hamas official in Lebanon.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 08:30 AM (KXtU1)
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One down...

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2025 08:48 AM (1o8D5)

213 MSNBC this morning is still whining about how he prosecutors who resigned over the Adams case. Looks to me like Trump cleaned out a nest of vipers with that move.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2025 08:48 AM (LERtE)

214
haven't heard from Sally lately
weird- she was bloviating about everything for a while there
even had her own standard for stupid: millikohns
Posted by: Don Black

By failing to defend her title by showing up, Sally, like Bobby Fisher, has vacated her title. We are free to proceed with the investiture of Margaret Brennan.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 17, 2025 08:48 AM (xG4kz)

215 >>No girl band ever chose the name, The Desiccated Crones.

"Daaaaaaamn! Missed opportunity."
-- Four Non Blondes

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2025 08:49 AM (Cki93)

216 Where are the hackers who will hack into AOCs tutorials on how to break the law?

Posted by: Vivi at February 17, 2025 08:49 AM (Egz6Y)

217 No one bickered over the amount, or that disaster
money that could have helped North Carolina was used illegitimately. No one argued that illegal immigrants were getting American tax dollars by the boatload.
Posted by: Hick Follywood at February 17, 2025 08:47 AM (po03/)
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And the people arguing got it wrong. President Trump in a press conference clearly stated these were non luxury hotels charging luxury rates. But, of course, the guy who built hotels for a living would know nothing about that, of course.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 17, 2025 08:50 AM (tT6L1)

218 According to the Social Security database, there are almost 3,000 people over 200 years old who are alive in the US.

There’s even someone at least 360.
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There was someone on X trying to refute all this by claiming that COBOL (what a lot of the Social Security software is written in, or was) does dating in a way that Musk and his team "don't understand."

Certainly a take on the fraud. Maybe not a "hot take" but one nonetheless.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2025 08:50 AM (Q4IgG)

219 >>I was still working when I began collecting. Why can't you? If you work and earn over a certain amount (depending on your age), they will deduct monies from your payment each month.

Which is really stupid. It's our money. We paid into under the force of law. At worse we should be able to take our money back once we have reached a certain age.

I'm not interested in retiring, not yet anyway. But I should be able to take the maximum amount when I reach retirement age not what some dick in DC says I am entitled to have.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2025 08:50 AM (LkLld)

220 Working to totally computerize the Civil Service Retirement Office in the mine is a waste of effort by Trump's Admin and of money, IMHO. The process works well, in my experience, and I doubt digitizing the entire process will get retirements processed faster and better.

I am a retired Civil Servant. The process worked on the schedule advertised. First check, an estimate, arrived in 4 weeks. Within another month my annuity amount was finalized and the next check was that monthly amount plus a small amount to make up for the intentionally smaller initial estimate. All seamless and accurate in my experience.

If the limestone mine paper files operation was lousy and endlessly slow, complaints from the continuous large number of retiring Civil Servants in the DC area would have forced a change before now. The Civil Service Retirement Office is self-funded. By taking a teeny-tiny share of the Civ Service Retirement Funds. Meaning its work doesn't stop for Govt Shutdowns.

I consider this a Don't Fix What Ain't Broke situation. One that TrumpElon should address if at all only after they've fixed thousands of higher priority DeepState problems.

OK, denounce me!

Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2025 08:50 AM (aBgBM)

221 The Uses and Abuses of ‘Social Construction’
_________
Actually a pretty good article. It would have been improved by discussing the importance of which categories we put something in.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 17, 2025 08:50 AM (1bNHn)

222 The really shocking thing is CBS makes zero effort to hire smarter people.

-

See also:

That ABC muscle hunk talking head that got caught clothes-pinning the back of his borrowed fireman's coat that fit him fine.

Everything is fake and gay.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 08:51 AM (sG4Li)

223
Margaret Brennan
She searched the world over looking for True Love
She met Yado Yakub and then he was ruint.

Posted by: Buck Owens at February 17, 2025 08:51 AM (Aqu9a)

224 >>MSNBC this morning is still whining about how he prosecutors who resigned over the Adams case. Looks to me like Trump cleaned out a nest of vipers with that move.

I can't wait to NOT read the books some of them write.
Can't tell you how many of those books end up at the used book store in pristine condition, just sitting there collecting dust.

Which reminds me, how's Liz Cheney doing?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2025 08:51 AM (Cki93)

225 I saw Desiccated Crones open for The Slits at the Bowery Ballroom

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 08:52 AM (KXtU1)

226 I’m sure Brennan’s Islamonazi husband beats her

Posted by: Avi at February 17, 2025 08:52 AM (hdV+w)

227 >>MSNBC this morning is still whining about how he prosecutors who resigned over the Adams case. Looks to me like Trump cleaned out a nest of vipers with that move.

The nickname for the Southern District of NY has long been the Sovereign District of NY. For some reason this lone district was allowed to act with almost complete independence for years.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2025 08:52 AM (LkLld)

228 John Stossel:Greed is good — how capitalism makes the world better for us all (Oh FFS, enlightened self-interest is not greed, but okay - jjs)
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You're right JJ. And that's why I've stopped bothering with Stossel. He's one-note, and it's an off note at that.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 17, 2025 08:52 AM (1bNHn)

229 That proposed Ohio law on ejaculations is about the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2025 08:47 AM (77rzZ)

The year is still early so hold on!

Posted by: Big Homo, democrats and Sheryl Crow at February 17, 2025 08:52 AM (NAF5O)

230 Yet Democrats are losing their minds over Team Trump’s efforts to trim fat and waste. Do they want the Uncle Sam to go belly up? (Yes - jjs)
_______
Maybe they've invested in pork bellies.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 17, 2025 08:53 AM (1bNHn)

231 There was someone on X trying to refute all this by claiming that COBOL (what a lot of the Social Security software is written in, or was) does dating in a way that Musk and his team "don't understand."

The specific claim was that if someone had an invalid birth date it would default to 1875 for handwavy reasons. (There was a COBOL spec that does that, but it was ratified 20 years after the SS database was stood up).

People asked this guy why it would be OK for a program that keys eligibility by birth date to even accept an invalid date to begin with, other than fraud. That person has not posted on their X account in several days now.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2025 08:53 AM (QZThv)

232 "I was still working when I began collecting. Why can't you? If you work and earn over a certain amount (depending on your age), they will deduct monies from your payment each month.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy "

Yeah, up to all of it.

Posted by: f'd at February 17, 2025 08:54 AM (vFG9F)

233 @213

>>Looks to me like Trump cleaned out a nest of vipers with that move.

Indeed, they seem to be self identifying.

Also what needs to be stated is what Adams alleged wrong doing was, his crimes were that he got some first class airfare upgrades and smoothed the permitting process for the construction of a Turkish welcoming center that would obviously generate property tax and beneficial economic activity for the city.

If something as seemingly small ball as that can be construed as corruption, what could withholding 1B dollars in aid unless a prosecutor who is investigating your sons company be construed as?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2025 08:54 AM (XV/Pl)

234 The hazy part for me with what they've posted is what is authorized and what isn't as you allude to. Authorized funds are going to things they're not authorized for and trying to figure out which is which of things that have been posted online.

Adding to the legal chaos is that hundreds of programs have had their authorizations expire - many for years have been continuing without authorization.

Then the cherry on top is that the USG has been operating on Continuing Resolutions and debt financing for well over a decade. That is, Congress has been derelict in even addressing the funding of any particular program, just leaving it on cruise control plus COLA.

Is the Executive required to plunge the country deeper in debt, which is a taxation on future generations not yet born or of age of representation.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 17, 2025 08:54 AM (a4flb)

235 190 The really shocking thing is CBS makes zero effort to hire smarter people.
Posted by: Hick Follywood

Fake, but accurate.

Posted by: Dan Rather at February 17, 2025 08:54 AM (dg+HA)

236 ...where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.?

You mean free speech like the freedom that allowed a gang of brownshirts to pummel a principled Jewish German citizen nearly to death for having the temerity to turn his back on a Nazi rally or parade? That type of free speech?

Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2025 08:55 AM (/iMjX)

237 > OK, denounce me!
Posted by: Gref
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Nah... you got it right. The actual retirement process is mostly done online. I did fax and mail some paperwork, once it was signed off on. And I do have a copy of the whole package floating around here somewhere.

I've no doubt the completed papers are filed somewhere. Maybe in a mineshaft. The federal government files, and stores a lot of stuff. Like the person who just can't seem to throw anything away.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2025 08:55 AM (Q4IgG)

238 Kentucky Kernels Of Truth
@TrackDaddyKy
60 Minutes falsely framed two USAID contractors as longtime employees fired for political reasons. In reality, they were communications consultants, not permanent staff. Their contracts ended as part of routine government transitions, not a “loyalty purge.” But of course, the media spun it into a manufactured crisis.
11:22 PM · Feb 16, 2025

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 08:55 AM (P6XsQ)

239 Working to totally computerize the Civil Service Retirement Office in the mine is a waste of effort by Trump's Admin and of money, IMHO.

The process works well, in my experience, and I doubt digitizing the entire process will get retirements processed faster and better.

I consider this a Don't Fix What Ain't Broke situation. One that TrumpElon should address if at all only after they've fixed thousands of higher priority DeepState problems.

OK, denounce me!
Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2025 08:50 AM (aBgBM)

Maybe digitized won't work faster and better, but it would be wildly, wildly cheaper. One server vs an entire mine of upkeep with personnel for the upkeep.

And I doubt you couldn't get faster than 4 weeks if you digitized. Nothing digital ever takes 4 weeks if someone is dedicated to clicking the buttons for approve/disapprove. Heck, AI might be able to do just that...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 17, 2025 08:56 AM (exHjb)

240 I'm not interested in retiring, not yet anyway. But I should be able to take the maximum amount when I reach retirement age not what some dick in DC says I am entitled to have. Posted by: JackStraw

The Communists in Santa Fe tax social security if you have a total income in excess their approved amount. I am l like, why the f' should I be deprived of my money because I made damn sure I had enough money to retire. Then I go, oh yeah, we have Communists in Santa Fe.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 17, 2025 08:56 AM (Q8Bj8)

241 >>I saw a TV host arguing over DOGE cliams they clawed back "millions of FEMA dollars paid to luxury hotels to house migrants", the argument being the Roosevelt Hotel is not a luxury hotel.

No one bickered over the amount, or that disaster
money that could have helped North Carolina was used illegitimately. No one argued that illegal immigrants were getting American tax dollars by the boatload.
- - - -

You have just described the MSM Fact Checking game.

Find one word that you can criticize -- it's imprecise, or it's an exaggeration, whatever -- and they declare the entire thing false.

As you say, quibbling over the use of "luxury" to describe the hotel misses the point. By design!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2025 08:56 AM (Cki93)

242 The Communists in Santa Fe tax social security if you have a total income in excess their approved amount. I am l like, why the f' should I be deprived of my money because I made damn sure I had enough money to retire. Then I go, oh yeah, we have Communists in Santa Fe.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 17, 2025 08:56 AM (Q8Bj

That sounds like a "law" that's very, very easy to get around. By design.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 08:57 AM (VoAdT)

243 I consider this a Don't Fix What Ain't Broke situation. One that TrumpElon should address if at all only after they've fixed thousands of higher priority DeepState problems.

OK, denounce me!

Everyone’s a Democrat when their grift is threatened. That’s why over 65s went overwhelmingly for Kamala.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2025 08:57 AM (QZThv)

244 It's time for common sense ejaculation laws.

Posted by: Karen McMansion at February 17, 2025 08:57 AM (dg+HA)

245 By design!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2025 08:56 AM (Cki93)
By design.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 08:57 AM (VoAdT)

Heh. HordeMinde.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 08:57 AM (VoAdT)

246 Apparently, the $20 billion that OMG had a Biden EPA official as "throwing gold bars of the Titanic" were actual gold bars in an outside bank with "loose controls".

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 08:58 AM (RHGPo)

247
As you say, quibbling over the use of "luxury" to describe the hotel misses the point. By design!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2025 08:56 AM (Cki93)

I imagine coming from Mexico or some other third World s**t hole it would seem quite luxurious...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2025 08:58 AM (VE6XX)

248 Working to totally computerize the Civil Service Retirement Office in the mine is a waste of effort by Trump's Admin and of money, IMHO. The process works well, in my experience, and I doubt digitizing the entire process will get retirements processed faster and better.
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I doubt it has much to do with $$$ and true efficiency yet so much as getting the public on board, similar to going after the IRS and having the IRS complain to normal people that their finances were being investigated. And people laughed at the IRS and Trumps numbers went up.

This is literally happening underground. Hidden away from view. Antiquated, rubber-stamp techniques, slow, plodding, etc., and all tied back to pensions that normal people outside of government no longer get. Pensions that died off for regular Americans 30 odd years ago. Pensions for people who were paid during COVID and didn't have to worry about a thing during the extended vacation.

Trump is a promoter. I suspect that's what this is.

He's going to have 80% approval before six months are out.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 08:58 AM (sG4Li)

249 and not motorboating her mastoids.

Kinky! Most 'Rons seem to think about motorboating other anatomical features.

Is mastoidal attraction a New York City thing?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2025 08:59 AM (a3Q+t)

250 "Her message seems muddled to me. Is she saying that free speech leads to genocide?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead"

I think she is saying she is an idiot.
Posted by: f'd at February 17, 2025 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

She is a propogandist. She says what her handlers tell her to say.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2025 08:59 AM (ExV1e)

251 @amuse
@amuse

UKRAINE: The Chair of the Munich Security Conference breaks down in tears, unable to finish his speech. The Europeans respond to his display of weakness with a standing ovation. Once mighty, Europe has been vanquished by feeble men. If it does not fall to Russia, it will fall to Islam.

https://tinyurl.com/4xcu7d9t

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2025 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

252 Sally Kohn, last I heard, is living in New Hope Pa, a gay celebrity mecca, and selling public speaking coaching. I think she's given up media punditry.

Posted by: Hick Follywood at February 17, 2025 08:59 AM (GvQq9)

253 Why does anyone still watch 60 Minutes?

Posted by: I gotta ask at February 17, 2025 09:00 AM (dg+HA)

254 https://tinyurl.com/4xcu7d9t
Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2025 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

"My racket! My poor, poor racket! Look what they've done to my boy!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 09:00 AM (VoAdT)

255 UKRAINE: The Chair of the Munich Security Conference breaks down in tears, unable to finish his speech.

Winston Churchill needs to return and kick this sissy's ass.

Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2025 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

256
The specific claim was that if someone had an invalid birth date it would default to 1875 for handwavy reasons.

In Afghanistan, we were doing biometric enrollments of pretty much everyone in the country, and birthdates were often Jan 1 or July 1 because the culture didn't observe particular birth days and only knew if the child was born closer to the summer or winter (or thereabouts) .

But NOT having a specific birthdate is a NO-GO in the finance industry,

If you don't know your birthdate, come back later when you have one and several authoritative accompanying documents (eg "Birth Certificate)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 17, 2025 09:01 AM (a4flb)

257 The really shocking thing is CBS makes zero effort to hire smarter people.

I contend that CBS spends enormous effort making sure they hire people preciously like Margaret Brennan.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 17, 2025 09:01 AM (Q8Bj8)

258 COBOL COmmon Business Oriented Language

It was supposed to be the computer programming language everyone would use to program their computers. Like the guys in Mad Men

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2025 09:01 AM (RIvkX)

259 DOGE refers 3 Senators to DOJ when it appears that $20 million "appeared" in their accounts.

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 09:01 AM (RHGPo)

260 Why does anyone still watch 60 Minutes?

Nobody watches it, they just record it to look for stupidity. It’s not a hard search.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2025 09:01 AM (QZThv)

261 would make it illegal for men to ejaculate while having sex without the intent of impregnating a woman.

If I were in that government, I'd add a paragraph that says real women who are still menstruating also have to pay out for every death of an egg cell they shed.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2025 07:53 AM (lXCUP)

Given that nocturnal emission are a thing for the celibate, and given that this would be a violation of law, it would be only reasonable for the law to include a provision that child-bearing age women are required to provide sex, on demand, to prevent wholesale lawlessness.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

262 @218/Martini Farmer: { There was someone on X trying to refute all this by claiming that COBOL (what a lot of the Social Security software is written in, or was) does dating in a way that Musk and his team "don't understand." }

Typical Democrat response: You're just too stupid to understand how smart we are.

This immediately falls apart when you look at the accomplishments of Musk, his companies, and the very capable young men he has on his DOGE team and what they've already accomplished.

Keep lying and slinging mud, Dems, that's been working out SO well for you lately.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 17, 2025 09:02 AM (O7YUW)

263 259 DOGE refers 3 Senators to DOJ when it appears that $20 million "appeared" in their accounts.
Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 09:01 AM (RHGPo)

Oh boy... McConnell ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2025 09:02 AM (VE6XX)

264 Speaking of AOC, her creator, Saikat Chakrabarti, is running for Congress in San Francisco:

“I’ve got some news: I’ve decided to run against Nancy Pelosi to represent San Francisco in Congress. I know some of you might be surprised that Speaker Emeritus Pelosi is running again, but she is — for her 21st term!" he said on X. . .
“Watching Trump and Elon freely unleash chaos in their illegal seizure of government, it’s become clear to me that the Democratic Party needs new leadership. I don’t understand how DC’s Democratic leaders are so paralyzed and unprepared for this moment after living through President Trump’s first term — and after Trump and Elon warned us exactly what they planned to do," he said in his lengthy post.

AOC may be dumb. Saikat is not.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2025 09:03 AM (Cki93)

265 Sally Kohn, last I heard, is living in New Hope Pa, a gay celebrity mecca, and selling public speaking coaching. I think she's given up media punditry.
Posted by: Hick Follywood at February 17, 2025 08:59 AM (GvQq9)

Ah, hiding out in an "Art Colony" selling ridiculously overpriced wares and attending "festivals."

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2025 09:03 AM (Aqu9a)

266 Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett made an "admission to MAGA" about immigrants taking jobs. "There’s an immigrant taking people’s jobs…his name is Elon Musk...He’s snatching farms, government jobs...admit to MAGA that I was wrong when I said immigrants wouldn’t take our jobs. You were 1000 percent correct."

she could rub it in even further by reminding us that Musk is an illegal immigrant. He came here on a student visa, dropped out of Stanford after 2 days, and stayed on despite no longer qualifying. So he should be deported ASAP - right?

That's going to leave a mark. I love this and her messaging. She is another person that should be delivering formal opposition statements.

Crockett is a freaking warrior. History will shine brightly on her, she is smart and fearless. It's voices like HERS that will eventually turn this tide.

Looks like I'll have to change my long-time admiration of Rep. Crockett to full-scale worship. I just wish other Democratic officials were as sharp-edged and articulate over what trump is doing to this country---we sure as hell need it, and we need it now.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 17, 2025 09:03 AM (ycI94)

267 I'm reading that some of the 100+ year old accounts in SS are because of limitations of COBOL at the time. I know nothing of programming. Is there anything to that? Or is it more misdirection?

Posted by: Henry O. at February 17, 2025 09:03 AM (Wnkzy)

268 >>UKRAINE: The Chair of the Munich Security Conference breaks down in tears, unable to finish his speech.

Bonus. Remember when Trump addressed the UN during his first term and warned that Germany was risking it's economic and national security by relying so heavily on Russia gas and the German delegation laughed at him?

The head of the Munich Security Conference was one of the guys laughing.

Who is laughing now, Hans?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2025 09:03 AM (LkLld)

269 Mrs. F. and I are watching JD's Munich speech now.

He is literally hectoring them.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2025 09:03 AM (RIvkX)

270 "Why does anyone still watch 60 Minutes?"

My MIL only watches one channel. If her TV gets off that channel I have to go over there and turn it back.

What channel is that? The local CBS station.

Posted by: f'd at February 17, 2025 09:04 AM (vFG9F)

271 As test scores plunge, Teachers' unions cash in, While Ed. Dept. wastes billions.
Isn’t 46 Years Of Failure Enough? Time To Kill The Education Dept.
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Circular link; comes right back here.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 17, 2025 09:04 AM (1bNHn)

272 263 259 DOGE refers 3 Senators to DOJ when it appears that $20 million "appeared" in their accounts.
Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 09:01 AM (RHGPo)

Oh boy... McConnell ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2025 09:02 AM (VE6XX)

Got a link?

Posted by: Nova Local at February 17, 2025 09:04 AM (exHjb)

273 I'm reading that some of the 100+ year old accounts in SS are because of limitations of COBOL at the time.

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hahaha, if this is true this will only help.

Barbara Streisand would be so proud.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 09:04 AM (sG4Li)

274 He is literally hectoring them.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2025 09:03 AM (RIvkX)

Like.... behind a chariot?

Be still, my heart.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 09:04 AM (VoAdT)

275
That's going to leave a mark. I love this and her messaging. She is another person that should be delivering formal opposition statements.

Hahahahahahahahahaha Crockett? Hahahahahahahaha

Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2025 09:04 AM (VE6XX)

276
Wasn't it Margaret who tried to cut off JD's objection to the moderators' de facto fact checking in his debate with Timpon?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 17, 2025 09:04 AM (xG4kz)

277 That's going to leave a mark. I love this and her messaging. She is another person that should be delivering formal opposition statements.

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This is the most recent pink foam cowboy hat ebonics woman, right?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 09:05 AM (sG4Li)

278 Margaret Brennan has been anointed the "chosen one" to verbally attack the administration at every chance.

There have been others. They are no longer working for whatever propaganda outlet they were with, self isolating for mental health reasons, without a microphone or podcast... whatever. Just look at all those people who've been sidelined.

The left just pulls someone pliable and stupid to be their whipping horse. Margaret's "the one" right now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2025 09:05 AM (Q4IgG)

279 271 As test scores plunge, Teachers' unions cash in, While Ed. Dept. wastes billions.
Isn’t 46 Years Of Failure Enough? Time To Kill The Education Dept.
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Circular link; comes right back here.
Posted by: Eeyore a

Should be fixed now. Thanks, sorry!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2025 09:05 AM (x0n13)

280 >>UKRAINE: The Chair of the Munich Security Conference breaks down in tears, unable to finish his speech.

Beating down Canadians, making Germans cry - we are so back!

Posted by: Josephistan at February 17, 2025 09:05 AM (DCtFS)

281 This is the most recent pink foam cowboy hat ebonics woman, right?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 09:05 AM (sG4Li)

Yes... extensions and fake nails

Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2025 09:05 AM (VE6XX)

282 Good morning JJ and horde

Heater isn't working, it's trying to run but nothing coming out

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2025 09:05 AM (fwDg9)

283 Ohio State Democrats Commit The Self-Own Of The Century
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I assume that was inspired by Kamala's "I'm your Republican Congressman" ad.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 17, 2025 09:05 AM (1bNHn)

284
EM' ECLAIR ELLIOT HUSK!!!11!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at February 17, 2025 09:06 AM (c0tJM)

285 Sally Kohn, last I heard, is living in New Hope Pa, a gay celebrity mecca, and selling public speaking coaching. I think she's given up media punditry.
Posted by: Hick Follywood at February 17, 2025 08:59 AM (GvQq9)

Whose hotter, Sally Kohn or Ranae Holland from "Finding Bigfoot"?

Posted by: James BoBo Fay at February 17, 2025 09:06 AM (NAF5O)

286 We are free to proceed with the investiture of Margaret Brennan.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 17, 2025 08:48 AM

Poll: Investiture of Margaret Brennan, or Devestiture of AOC?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2025 09:06 AM (a3Q+t)

287 Jack "ass" Smith appears to have taken gifts while working at DOJ, in violation of DOJ rules.

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

288 "Looks like I'll have to change my long-time admiration of Rep. Crockett to full-scale worship."

All hail gaabba gooo badda!

Posted by: An insane person at February 17, 2025 09:06 AM (vFG9F)

289 I can't drink all day if I don't start now.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at February 17, 2025 09:06 AM (dg+HA)

290 Good morning!

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at February 17, 2025 09:06 AM (PZreb)

291 60Minutes inferring that the two laid off people were USAID employees is more evidence of the death of the propaganda ministries. Everyone can look up and find out they worked for contractors who were Samantha Power's speechwriters. Of course LIVs will buy it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 09:07 AM (KXtU1)

292 I'm reading that some of the 100+ year old accounts in SS are because of limitations of COBOL at the time. I know nothing of programming. Is there anything to that? Or is it more misdirection?

See my comment at 231. In short, the limitation of COBOL cited is from 1988. The SS database is from the late 60s.

Also Elon trapped them. He initially said there were a lot of 250 year olds. The “rebuttal” showed a way that could be true, but it wouldn’t allow anyone to be older than that. Elon then posted the real age data showing millions of living recipients up to 360 years old.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2025 09:07 AM (QZThv)

293 He was an extreme D, Truman was one of the worst. Don't think he told as much truth as he thought he did.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

The McCullough biography, among others, outlined what a bitch his wife Bess was and how he meekly suffered through it.

Kind of a model for Bill and Hill.

Posted by: Auspex at February 17, 2025 09:07 AM (j4U/Z)

294 What about involuntary nocturnal emissions?

Posted by: Crusty Sheetz at February 17, 2025 09:07 AM (G5+As)

295 Margaret Brennan attended the University of Virginia, graduating with highest distinction in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in foreign affairs and Middle Eastern studies and a minor in Arabic.

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

296 would make it illegal for men to ejaculate while having sex without the intent of impregnating a woman.

If I were in that government, I'd add a paragraph that says real women who are still menstruating also have to pay out for every death of an egg cell they shed.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2025 07:53 AM (lXCUP)

Given that nocturnal emission are a thing for the celibate, and given that this would be a violation of law, it would be only reasonable for the law to include a provision that child-bearing age women are required to provide sex, on demand, to prevent wholesale lawlessness.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

Every sperm is sacred
Every sperm is great
If a sperm is wasted
God gets quite irate

Posted by: Monty Python Was Way Ahead Of Its Time at February 17, 2025 09:07 AM (Aqu9a)

297 I feel like the phrase "Donald Trump's Speechwriter" should be a bigger punchline and meme than it is...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 17, 2025 09:08 AM (VoAdT)

298 @287

>>Jack "ass" Smith appears to have taken gifts while working at DOJ, in violation of DOJ rules.

Again, Adams was being prosecuted for getting some first class airfare upgrades, Jack Squat Nothing got 140K, what was the quid for that quo, the world wonders.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2025 09:08 AM (XV/Pl)

299 MSNBC this morning is still whining about how he prosecutors who resigned over the Adams case. Looks to me like Trump cleaned out a nest of vipers with that move.

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There was an excellent article in Reason late last week or over the weekend that detailed many of the political prosecutions like this one, and how virtually all of them were dismissed unanimously by the supreme court.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 17, 2025 09:08 AM (lTGtQ)

300
"...it's trying to run but nothing coming out."

I know the feeling.

Posted by: Comma Lah at February 17, 2025 09:09 AM (dg+HA)

301 Big stupid is the new big lie.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 17, 2025 09:09 AM (kTd/k)

302 Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) got suckered by a Lara Trump lookalike X account

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

303 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

Church in Dallas, TX held a drag show and the drag queen threatened to kill Trump supporters.
@FBI

https://tinyurl.com/3r8pv8ra

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2025 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

304 would make it illegal for men to ejaculate while having sex without the intent of impregnating a woman

Democrats women will do literally anything except not be rawdogged.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2025 09:10 AM (QZThv)

305 >>That's going to leave a mark. I love this and her messaging. She is another person that should be delivering formal opposition statements.

Oh, they are so desperate for heroes.
They are wired to worship politicians to fill that God-shaped hole in their bodies, eh?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2025 09:11 AM (Cki93)

306 JD's audience filled with grim faces and crossed arms.

He named names.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2025 09:11 AM (RIvkX)

307 Tom Hanks just came out on SNL in a MAGA hat for a bit where he acted like he didn’t want to shake a black man’s hand.

This show wonders why their ratings are in the gutter. Trump won the popular vote. This tired trope that MAGA is racist is disgusting. SNL is an unfunny show for snobbish liberal elites. The current Republican Party is a big tent coalition compromised of many former Democrats. Good riddance, SNL!

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 09:11 AM (RHGPo)

308 would make it illegal for men to ejaculate while having sex without the intent of impregnating a woman

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Women are Awesome and Stronk and Empowered and Equal and also have no power when it comes to sexual access or preventing pregnancy.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 17, 2025 09:12 AM (sG4Li)

309 What? U.S. Aircraft Carrier Harry S. Truman Collides with Merchant Ship off the Coast of Egypt
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I'm still pissed that we named a carrier after a guy who wanted to get rid of all of ours. Screw him.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 17, 2025 09:12 AM (1bNHn)

310 UKRAINE: The Chair of the Munich Security Conference breaks down in tears, unable to finish his speech. The Europeans respond to his display of weakness with a standing ovation. Once mighty, Europe has been vanquished by feeble men. If it does not fall to Russia, it will fall to Islam.
https://tinyurl.com/4xcu7d9t
Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2025 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

Hahahahaha...and all the dirty euros in the audience clap like this nancy boy did something special. Wish I was still alive to slap this girly man.

Posted by: Zombie General Patton at February 17, 2025 09:12 AM (NAF5O)

311 If a man can be a woman, can a masturbating man be having sex with a woman?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 17, 2025 09:12 AM (kTd/k)

312 >>That's going to leave a mark. I love this and her messaging. She is another person that should be delivering formal opposition statements.

Her tweets were making the rounds on X this weekend. It was barely coherent ghetto gibberish.

Please, make her one of the faces of the left.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2025 09:13 AM (LkLld)

313 UKRAINE: The Chair of the Munich Security Conference breaks down in tears, unable to finish his speech.
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The future is female, etc....

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 17, 2025 09:13 AM (Dv3i1)

314 289 I can't drink all day if I don't start now.
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff

Jeez, Kamala, it's 6 am out in California!

9 here and I haven't even thought of making my first Valu-rite Bloody yet!

Posted by: Auspex at February 17, 2025 09:13 AM (j4U/Z)

315 J.D. Vance rightly warns Europeans against the dark cloud of censorship — and critics freak out
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You'd have thought that they'd at least have sense not to have a German (!) give a rebuttal on that subject.

But no.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 17, 2025 09:14 AM (1bNHn)

316 Jeez, Kamala, it's 6 am out in California!

9 here and I haven't even thought of making my first Valu-rite Bloody yet!
Posted by: Auspex at February 17, 2025 09:13 AM (j4U/Z)

It's 5PM somewhere.. Hiccup

Posted by: Kamala at February 17, 2025 09:14 AM (VE6XX)

317 Lee Zeldin
@epaleezeldin
My team @EPA is ALL OVER this Biden Admin scheme parking $20 BILLION in gold bars at an outside bank. Just reviewed docs I received today and they are stunning. Biden officials went to great lengths to purposefully limit gov’t oversight and control as much as possible.

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

318 >>Wasn't it Margaret who tried to cut off JD's objection to the moderators' de facto fact checking in his debate with Timpon?

Yes, yes it was.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2025 09:15 AM (Cki93)

319 Astronomers demand more regulations to prevent industry from ruining the Moon’s “environment”
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Mispelled "astrologers".

Posted by: Eeyore at February 17, 2025 09:15 AM (1bNHn)

320 265 Sally Kohn, last I heard, is living in New Hope Pa, a gay celebrity mecca, and selling public speaking coaching.

"Gay celebrity mecca" sounds funny, weird, and dangerous all at the same time.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at February 17, 2025 09:15 AM (G5+As)

321 GRAY WOLF UPDATE: An uncollared wolf killed a rancher's cow in northern Colorado last week.

https://is.gd/J89Mhv

Colorado Parks & Wildlife nimbly sidesteps and says 'don't blame us, it wasn't one of our wolves and besides this is what wolves do, duh, and it probably came across the border from Wyoming.'

CPW also euphemized the incident. [paraphrased] "A cow suffered depredation. We are working with ~~ranchers~~ "producers" to ensure that they have non-lethal deterrent measures in place to ensure that they might possibly prevent similar depredations in the future."

They really seem to want a human victim from their scheme to bring wolves closer to people.

Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2025 09:16 AM (/iMjX)

322 What if a man believes his hand is a fertile woman?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 17, 2025 09:17 AM (kTd/k)

323 Does "gay celebrity mecca" have a gay imam? Asking for a jihadist friend

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 09:18 AM (KXtU1)

324 Last night I watched the first episode of SNL from October 11, 1975 via YouTube.
It wasn't very funny. There was one funny skit involving a courtroom scene, but overall it felt like a high school play with better sets. Other than the novelty of seeing comedians before they became wildly famous, the whole thing was kinda meh.

Posted by: I was in the 11th grade back then at February 17, 2025 09:18 AM (dg+HA)

325 "Gay celebrity mecca"

A mecca for gay celebrities?
A celebrated mecca for gays
A mecca of gayness that only famous people can visit?

WTF does that even mean?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 17, 2025 09:20 AM (4XwPj)

326 >>Tom Hanks just came out on SNL in a MAGA hat for a bit where he acted like he didn’t want to shake a black man’s hand.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE SNL IS THE 'OK, BOOMER' OF COMEDY.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 17, 2025 09:20 AM (Cki93)

327 When I saw Don Rickles in Vegas he entered from the side and worked his way down the front row viciously insulting each person as he went.

Yeah, JD was like that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2025 09:21 AM (RIvkX)

328 DC Internet Searches For "Criminal Defense Lawyer" & "RICO Law" Erupt As DOGE Drains Swamp

Zerohedge:
Eruption In "BleachBit," "Wipe Hard Drive," "Offshore Bank" Searches In DC Suggest Deep State Panic Mode

WikiLeaks:
@wikileaks
Washington DC searches soar for "Swiss bank" (yellow), "offshore bank" (green), "wire money" (red) and "IBAN" (blue)

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

329 Why do lycanthropes make such bad fashion models?

Because they can only wear wolf.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2025 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

330 >> Last night I watched the first episode of SNL from October 11, 1975 via YouTube.
It wasn't very funny. There was one funny skit involving a courtroom scene, but overall it felt like a high school play with better sets. Other than the novelty of seeing comedians before they became wildly famous, the whole thing was kinda meh.

I think what made SNL funny was that it as at 11pm on Saturday night -- when you're buzzed, high and/or tired. Plays differently in daylight.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2025 09:22 AM (Cki93)

331 New Hope Pa was always referred to as "a artsy Bohemian community"

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

332
the pork's in the cooker and it won't be soon
it's gotta slow cook til it's way past noon
I'll shred it to pieces and I'll try it then
but I'm not gonna cook this again, no
I'm not gonna cook this again

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2025 09:23 AM (AOsQT)

333 322 What if a man believes his hand is a fertile woman?
Posted by: Northernlurker

My truth is as valid as everybody else's delusion.

Posted by: Auspex at February 17, 2025 09:23 AM (j4U/Z)

334 Posted by: I was in the 11th grade back then at February 17, 2025 09:18 AM (dg+HA)

Hey, it took a while to develop...my character!

Posted by: Roseanne Rosannadanna at February 17, 2025 09:23 AM (RIvkX)

335 DC Internet Searches For "Criminal Defense Lawyer" & "RICO Law" Erupt As DOGE Drains Swamp

Zerohedge:
Eruption In "BleachBit," "Wipe Hard Drive," "Offshore Bank" Searches In DC Suggest Deep State Panic Mode

WikiLeaks:
@wikileaks
Washington DC searches soar for "Swiss bank" (yellow), "offshore bank" (green), "wire money" (red) and "IBAN" (blue)
Posted by: SMOD

This is hilarious but, what do the color codes mean?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 17, 2025 09:23 AM (4XwPj)

336 [banana Dream, standing on a stage, dressed in khakis, and a white shirt. An impossibly large sliderule projects up from his shirt pocket. A majestic US flag hangs in the background]

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm here to inform you that today is the beginning of National Engineers Week. I want each and every one of you to violently grab any engineers you see out in the wild and smother them with wet sloppy kisses and inappropriate carassing.

They won't like it, because they're engineers, but tradition demands it, and it is vital to maintain progress in the industry. Why do we not have flying cars? Because you, dear reader, have never once flown into a sprint, jumped flying through the air to glomp a poor unsuspecting engineer.

It's time for everyone to do their part.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 17, 2025 09:24 AM (Y6IkP)

337 329 Why do lycanthropes make such bad fashion models?

Because they can only wear wolf.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
Posted by: Bulg

EVEN IF I EXPLAIN IT, IT ISN'T FUNNY.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 17, 2025 09:24 AM (ycI94)

338 >>I think what made SNL funny was that it as at 11pm on Saturday night -- when you're buzzed, high and/or tired. Plays differently in daylight.

Also played different 50 years ago when nothing like that was on TV. Some of the early years when the cast was Belushi, Ackroyd, etc. were very funny.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2025 09:24 AM (LkLld)

339 322 What if a man believes his hand is a fertile woman?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 17, 2025 09:17 AM (kTd/k)

Senor Wences!!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2025 09:24 AM (x0n13)

340 "Gay celebrity mecca" sounds funny, weird, and dangerous all at the same time.
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at February 17, 2025 09:15 AM (G5+As)

Do they need a mayor?

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at February 17, 2025 09:24 AM (PiwSw)

341 Free speech caused Dutch Elm disease.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 17, 2025 09:25 AM (CljNn)

342 >>. . . CPW also euphemized the incident. [paraphrased] "A cow suffered depredation. We are working with ranchers "producers" to ensure that they have non-lethal deterrent measures in place to ensure that they might possibly prevent similar depredations in the future."

They really seem to want a human victim from their scheme to bring wolves closer to people.
- - - -

And really, isn't this the story of opening our borders to fill the state with TdA and other criminals?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2025 09:25 AM (Cki93)

343 331 New Hope Pa was always referred to as "a artsy Bohemian community
+++
Ahem.

Posted by: Fairhope, Alabama at February 17, 2025 09:25 AM (dg+HA)

344 Bubba Wallace finished 29th at Daytona. I don't follow NASCAR that much but has that guy ever won a race?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 09:25 AM (KXtU1)

345 >I think what made SNL funny was that it as at 11pm on Saturday night -- when you're buzzed, high and/or tired. Plays differently in daylight.

Posted by: Lizzy
---

exactly
me and my HS pals always made it a point to be in front of a TV at 11:30 on a Saturday night

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2025 09:25 AM (AOsQT)

346 Free speech caused Dutch Elm disease.
Posted by: Taq

And killed Beau Biden.

Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2025 09:26 AM (77rzZ)

347 344 Bubba Wallace finished 29th at Daytona. I don't follow NASCAR that much but has that guy ever won a race?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 09:25 AM (KXtU1)

What's your point?

Posted by: Danica Patrick at February 17, 2025 09:27 AM (PiwSw)

348 New Hope PA is a touristy, t-shirts and flavored popcorn shops kind of town.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2025 09:27 AM (706cY)

349
Does Tom Hanks still go for bike rides with Obama or has Chocolate Jesus decided he's too gay to hang out with?

Posted by: Auspex at February 17, 2025 09:27 AM (j4U/Z)

350 I take it Tom Hanks hasn't moved yet.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 17, 2025 09:28 AM (kTd/k)

351 Beau Biden died from Dutch Elm disease.

Posted by: Not a joke at February 17, 2025 09:28 AM (dg+HA)

352 Bubba Wallace finished 29th at Daytona. I don't follow NASCAR that much but has that guy ever won a race?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2025 09:25 AM (KXtU1)

Negative, Ghost Rider. #2 is the best he do.

Posted by: Zombie Chris Economaki at February 17, 2025 09:28 AM (Aqu9a)

353 SNL went to sh*t along with the rest of the culture during the reign of The SCOAMF.

Name the last truly great book of the last 15 years, or the last television series, or the last movie, or the last great anything relating to culture.

Or as a great man once opined, Woke turns everything to sh*t.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2025 09:29 AM (XV/Pl)

354 Margaret Brennan attended the University of Virginia, graduating with highest distinction in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in foreign affairs and Middle Eastern studies and a minor in Arabic.

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

She had an Arabic minor!!!1111!!!

Is there nothing these perverts won't stoop to?!?!!!!*

*Yes, it's a joke.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 17, 2025 09:29 AM (iJfKG)

355 20 million people in the system over 100 years listed as still alive

++++

Hey stop picking on these democrat voters! Corpses can be president and they deserve to vote.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at February 17, 2025 09:29 AM (jPdyB)

356 Bubba Wallace finished 29th at Daytona. I don't follow NASCAR that much but has that guy ever won a race?
Posted by: Smell the Glove

If he ever did, it's noose to me.

Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2025 09:29 AM (77rzZ)

357 338 >>I think what made SNL funny was that it as at 11pm on Saturday night -- when you're buzzed, high and/or tired. Plays differently in daylight.

Also played different 50 years ago when nothing like that was on TV. Some of the early years when the cast was Belushi, Ackroyd, etc. were very funny.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2025 09:24 AM (LkLld)

SNL came 20 years after the heyday of Your Show of Shows. And IIRC they found the old kinescopes of Ernie Kovacs and aired them later that year.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2025 09:29 AM (x0n13)

358 Hey, it took a while to develop...my character!
Posted by: Roseanne Rosannadanna

If you weren't from NY and couldn't watch Channel 7 Eyewitness News, did anyone know who Roseanne was parodying?

Posted by: Bill Beautiful, Roger Grimace, Tex Antenna, and Melba Toast at February 17, 2025 09:29 AM (G5+As)

359 And IIRC they found the old kinescopes of Ernie Kovacs and aired them later that year.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Kovacs was hilarious.

Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2025 09:30 AM (77rzZ)

360 344 Bubba Wallace finished 29th at Daytona. I don't follow NASCAR that much but has that guy ever won a race?
Posted by: Smell the Glove

At least Danica Patrick was easy to watch while losing.

Posted by: Auspex at February 17, 2025 09:31 AM (j4U/Z)

361 I have never watched an entire episode of SNL. I have seen lots of clips. The Blues Brothers, The Church Lady, Eddie Murphy, Belushi Samurai, Ackroid saying Jane you ignorant slut, Norm doing the weekend update thing.
When it was good, it was very good. It's not good very often.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 17, 2025 09:31 AM (4XwPj)

362 "Bubba Wallace finished 29th at Daytona."

He was roped into it.

Posted by: Rimshot at February 17, 2025 09:31 AM (dg+HA)

363 [banana Dream, standing on a stage, dressed in khakis, and a white shirt. An impossibly large sliderule projects up from his shirt pocket. A majestic US flag hangs in the background]

Posted by: banana Dream at February 17, 2025 09:24 AM

megaStylePoints deducted for lack of pocket protector and white socks.

#BeBetter

Posted by: AoSHQ Fashion Consultants at February 17, 2025 09:31 AM (a3Q+t)

364 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

365 France. We come from France.

Posted by: The Coneheads at February 17, 2025 09:33 AM (dg+HA)

366 >>She had an Arabic minor!!!1111!!!

Is there nothing these perverts won't stoop to?!?!!!!*

Half-Arabic minors - "On April 11, 2015, Brennan married Yado Yakub, a Syrian-American[30] attorney who is a judge advocate in the United States Marine Corps."
They have two kids.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2025 09:33 AM (Cki93)

367 Danica Patrick won an IndyCar race in Japan

2008 Indy Japan 300

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2025 09:36 AM (AOsQT)

368 Danica Patrick won an IndyCar race in Japan

2008 Indy Japan 300
Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2025 09:36 AM (AOsQT)

Rain shortened. She was leading when the race was called.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2025 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

369 "I know, let's tax Thingy!!!!"

Posted by: Ancient Python skit at February 17, 2025 09:39 AM (QB+5g)

370 DOJ "intends to urge the Supreme Court to overturn” Humphrey’s Executor, “which prevents the President from adequately supervising principal officers in the Executive Branch who execute the laws on the President’s behalf.”

The Acting Solicitor General has notified Congress of DOJ's intent to ask #SCOTUS to overrule Humphrey's Executor—a major 1935 ruling upholding the independence of agencies like the FCC, FTC, NLRB, etc.

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 09:40 AM (RHGPo)

371 "Who Let The DOGEs Out?" by the MAGA Men. Now on youtube.

Posted by: Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed at February 17, 2025 09:40 AM (kvDvI)

372 Midnight Special holds up pretty well.

Posted by: Wolfman Jack at February 17, 2025 09:49 AM (paSBy)

373 Social Security © Age Range Count

110-119 3,627,007
120-129 3,472,849
130-139 3,936,311
140-149 3,542,044
150-159 1,345,083
160-169 121,807
170-179 6,087
180-189 695
190-199 448
200-209 879
210-219 866
220-229 1,039
240-249 1
360-369 1

The oldest person ever authenticated was Jeanne Louise Calment from France, who lived to be 122 years and 164 days old. The current oldest person alive is Sister André, also from France, who is 118 years and 73 days old.

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 09:56 AM (RHGPo)

374 Rachel Bovard
@rachelbovard
What’s happening in DC right now is what an actual transfer of power looks like. The political right hasn’t engaged in exercising real authority over the exec branch in so long (eg: we elect GOP presidents who sit atop a thoroughly Democratic infrastructure that undermines them at every turn) that everyone has forgotten what’s involved.

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2025 10:14 AM (RHGPo)

375 Hearing for Illegals Suing to Prevent Being Sent to Gitmo Canceled After They’re Deported to Venezuela Instead.

I prefer the term repatriated.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2025 10:26 AM (ynpvh)

376 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J.

Today is Presidents' Day, officially Washington's Birthday at the federal governmental level, a holiday in the United States celebrated on the third Monday of February. He's known as the "Father of the United States" because of his role in the American Revolutionary War and service as the first president. Our 1st President was born February 22, 1732 Popes Creek, Colony of Virginia, British America.
Teach that US public schools.

NY Post, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025: 'Feds drop corruption case against Mayor Adams' NY Post, Feb. 14, 2025, 'Adams to sue Trump admin over $80M in FEMA migrant shelter funding clawed back from NYC' 🤔 So like the Scorpion and the Frog?

Lots of conversation over the weekend about housing around the D.C. area. May not just be feds on the move:
Forbes, Feb. 3, 2025, 'These Are The Top USAID Recipients—From Religious Groups To Major U.S. Companies—As Trump Targets Agency'

Here's their listed headquarters: #1 Baltimore, MD; #2 Washington, D.C.; #3 North Carolina; #4 Global - including Bethesda, MD, 3 cities in the UK, 2 cities in Nigeria, and Brussels, Vienna and other European capitals.

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Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 17, 2025 10:31 AM (NFX2v)

377 #5 Rockville, MD; #6 North Carolina; #7 Boston, MA; #8 Fairfax, CT; #9 Tuscaloosa, AL but was acquired by Tetra Tech which has too many locations to list in the grey box universe; all over the nation & all over the world & including Serbia and Ukraine. #10 Baltimore, MD #11 Philadelphia, PA (Deloitte US) Go Birds! #12 Federal Way, WA; #13 Portland, OR (overseas refugee asst programs for the Western Hemisphere); #14 Washington, D.C. & #15 Washington, D.C. MANY PO'd people there, not even counting their subcontractors and so on.
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'CBS’ Margaret Brennan: Nazis ‘Weaponized’ Free Speech to Conduct the Holocaust'

Peg ain't an original thinker.

>See website: UN Organization, 'Hate speech and real harm'

At the bottom of the page there's the quote: "Over the past 75 years, hate speech has been a precursor to atrocity crimes, including genocide from Rwanda to Bosnia to Cambodia."- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, June 2019

The site also includes subsections on The Holocaust, The Cambodian genocide; The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda; Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar.

Cont'd

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 17, 2025 10:31 AM (NFX2v)

378 Holocaust (in part) "The Holocaust did not start with the gas chambers, with the hate speech against a minority. The Nazi regime adopted law and regulations to crush Germany's independent media, replacing it with state-controlled radio and print media that disseminated hate speech, anti-Semitic, racist stereotypes, disinformation and lies. The media campaigns contributed significantly to normalizing atrocity crimes." (Reading ALL suggested)
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Trump-Vance shaking up EU & NATO -

>Aljazeera News, Live: Russia-Ukraine war updates: Zelenskyy says won’t recognise US-Russia deal, Published On 17 Feb 2025
>BBC News, 2 days ago, 'JD Vance's blast at Europe ignores Ukraine and defence agenda'
>France 24, 02/16/25, 'Trump's plan for Gaza: 'Ethnic cleansing is not acceptable,' UN chief Guterres says'
>PBS, European leaders gather for emergency meeting over fear Trump is isolating EU allies, Feb. 17, 2025
>EU's Kallas: listening to Vance speech felt like United States was trying to pick fight with us' By Reuters, 3 days ago.

👍

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 17, 2025 10:31 AM (NFX2v)

379 Greenpeace got into Big Trouble a few years ago in Peru for messing up the Nazca Plain with their stupid message on Renewibles right in front of the Giant Hummingbird

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at February 17, 2025 03:31 PM (FLiOE)

380 There are various tools and websites that allegation to allow users to view private Instagram profiles,
but it's important to retrieve these taking into account caution. Many of these tools can be unreliable, may require personal
information, or could violate Instagram's terms of service.
Additionally, using such tools can compromise your own security or lead to scams.
The safest and most ethical way to view a private profile is to send a follow request directly
to the user. Always prioritize privacy and admiration in your online interactions.

Posted by: website to view private instagram at February 17, 2025 07:27 PM (Q8cv0)

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