The Morning Report — 2/ 28 /25

Good morning kids. Given the fact that the greatest threat to our national security sadly comes from within our own nation. No, not necessarily the the upwards of perhaps greater than 40 million illegal alien foreigners who have been permitted to live among us for decades (but as we all know that has been a massive drain on us economically, politically and culturally, finally being addressed as it should have been years ago). I mean the cancerous, poisonous alien ideology that resides in the brain cases of our own native-born Democrat Leftists whose hatred of their own country and desire for absolute power has torn us apart for deades, and will continue to do so unless and until a real sea change in our culture takes hold and burns this rot out once and for all.

It's why this otherwise well-written essay, is nevertheless today's recipient of the Pollyanna/Ostrich head-in-the-sand award winner.

It’s an important check on undemocratic liberalism, but its practitioners must move beyond “tear it all down” partisanship and toward a vision of national unity. . .
. . . Populism, which Trump has embodied, is an important check on what Yascha Mounk has termed undemocratic liberalism. However, national populists must move beyond “tear it all down” partisanship to construct a new, mainstream vision of national unity. The negative impulses of populism need to be reined in: we need a rational populism. Liberal institutions must learn from the populist moment, and populists need a vision for the institutions.

Yes, you could've stopped reading as soon as you hit the words "National Unity."

There will be no national unity when, beyond mere issues, one side views the nation itself and its history as more than merely an illegitimate mistake of history but as the embodiment of evil itself. And since a nation is not merely land but the people who live in it, by extension the other side views us as the living embodiment of evil that is to to be eradicated. We can elect Donald Trumps in every office in the land for the next 50 years, that is if we are allowed to, but the beast that is the Democrat Left is going to have to change its spots for there to be national unity. The two-state solution? Guess what? We're soaking in it right now!

State 1= A restored USA as founded, State 2 = The Democrat Left at or below room temperature in the mass grave they've been digging for us since forever. Recall Bill Ayers planning to liquidate 25 million Americans who refused Communist reeducation once he and the Left seized absolute power.

And in the very concise and colorful words of commenter Sturmtoddler:

why, WHY is it always US who must move and never EVER!! the left that has to move to the center????? to whomever wrote that steaming pile of horseshit, i say fuck off sir, fuck ALL the way off and the horse you rode in on....

Indeed,sir.

With that as the set up, I have a message for anyone who may lurk that is in or has a pipeline to the Trump administration and Pam Bondi in particular. But first, I have to inflict this on you as the set up. Apologies in advance.

Whatever her influence may or may not be, I give you the words of a truly horrid harridan upon receiving a SAG award. Yes, the folds of unbotoxed and un-18-hour-girdled and non-surgically-lifted flab abound, but I refer to the Screen Actors' Guild:

Yes, Jane Fonda the other night.

"Make no mistake, empathy is not weak or woke," she said in her speech. "And by the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people. . . “A whole lot of people are going to be really hurt by what is happening, what is coming our way,” she said.The Oscar winner and activist did not mention President Donald Trump by name but appeared to reference the actions of his administration. She also reference actor Sebastian Stan’s portrayal of a young Trump in the SAG award-nominated film “The Apprentice.” “And even if they’re of a different political persuasion, we need to call upon our empathy and not judge, but listen from our hearts and welcome them into our tent, because we are going to need a big tent to resist successfully what’s coming at us," she continued."

Giving a damn about other people? Like American servicemen being held captive and tortured by North Vietnam in the Infamous "Hanoi Hilton" Prison while you were maybe a half mile if that down the road sitting on an NVA flak gun yucking it up for their propagandists and spouting Anti-American bullshit for the world media to gobble up. Yeah, not so much. And when Richard Nixon actually did deliver peace with honor by guaranteeing the territorial integrity of South Vietnam, you and your ilk were overjoyed as the North rolled South in 1975 and we abrogated our agreement and let it happen. Only for the bloodthirsty Khmer Rouge communists to be enabled to conquer Cambodia and slaughter a few million in the Killing Fields, a movie you were not in, Jane. Probably eating a box of Raisinettes in the front row and giggling with glee when Dith Prahn watched his family get butchered.

Funny how you and yours are all upset about Ukraine being overrun by Putin and demanding US troops be sent there to start World War 3 with Putin.

All of that said, I must remind her and anyone reading this post that There is No Statute of Limitations on Treason, and what Jane Fonda engaged in a little over 50 years ago in giving aid and comfort to the enemy during time of war was indeed Treason. A crime for which she should have been tried. A mantra of the Left that I actually ascribe to is "Justice Delayed is Justice Denied."

In our case, real justice, not the Kangaroo Court Stalinist show trial Democrat variety. There is no doubt in my mind that Jane Fonda, by all that is right and good, should face the consequences of her actions. But, what would be the political fallout for doing so?

Frankly, I think she should have been dining with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Tokyo Rose, Axis Sally and Lord Haw Haw a long time ago. Then again, I still cannot figure out how an actual verifiable CPUSA cheerleader and voter like John Brennan could ever have been hired on as a CIA agent back in the old days, let alone rise to the top slot (Meh, given who Obama is, that's not so mysterious).

And yet, with the aforementioned Obama, Brennan, Bernardo Sandersnista and 99% of Academia, the media and show business, Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here did happen here. And miracle of miracles we have been pulled back from the precipice with the emergence of as unlikely a figure as Donald Trump and a movement of American revival and renewal that he has engendered, and please God, sustained, maintained and we shall see totally victorious in our lifetimes.

On a postive note, we have this from a place that at many crucial times in the very recent past has disgusted and disappointed us mightily:

History of a sort was made last night when Chief Justice Roberts issued an order blocking, as Sean Davis called him, “an unhinged federal district court” that joined the chorus of federal judges recently who have either never read Article II of the Constitution or have arrogantly decided it doesn’t apply to them. In issuing his order, the district court judge assumed the powers of the presidency in directing that the administration immediately, repeat: immediately, release two billion dollars in foreign aid. To be clear, that was not a typo and that word began with a “b” -- billion! The chief justice’s order was historical in that it was the first time the High Court has acted in any way to show some willingness to rein in what has become a torrent of arbitrary orders from activist judges as part of the new lawfare against President Trump and his program of reshaping federal government functions, including deep spending cuts.
It must be emphasized that this is only a temporary action by one justice and may or may not result in the entire court taking up the matter for a full review of whether the Constitution actually means what it says: that all executive power of the Federal Government “shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” It does, however, at the very least indicate that the Chief Justice of the United States was concerned enough about the action of this particular lower court judge that he decided to step in and take a deeper look at this type of judicial “resistance” to the President and his policies.
Just a tiny little glimmer of hope that we might be seeing a course correction by the High Court in sending a strong message to these Obama-Biden far-left activists in robes? Yes, but a healthy and encouraging first step, nonetheless.

We shall see if the Hawaiian Judiciary's motto of Marbury Kaliki-MAGA will prevail, or not. The pessimist in me thinks the latter.

The hard cold reality is the Constitution states quite clearly that Donald Trump and the Executive Branch has the legal authority to do what he is doing in cutting off funds, firing people and sacking generals (um, he is after all the Commander in Chief and as such the highest ranking officer in the US military).

Article I, § 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution says: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

Of course the Democrat Left uses and abuses the Constitution as both a shield and a cudgel to get what it wants. (By any means necessary, yo). It's living and breathing and since they are the only ones that can understand and interpret the language, to suit their will and political expediency only, originalists and strict constructionists are the apostates at the temple who must be annihilated.

And Please God, after Jane Fonda gets the needle, here's hoping a Seal Team can repatriate Joanne Chesimard from California to pay for her heinous murdering of a police officer.

And here's also hoping Pam Bondi and Kash Patel go after Antica, BLM, SJP and the TIDES FOUNDATION with all they've got.

Have a great weekend.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

EXC: Inside Pam Bondi’s Influencer ‘Clusterf*ck’ Over the Epstein Files at the White House Today.
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The Left’s lawfare against President Trump’s cleanup of the executive branch.
Activist Judges’ War on the Separation of Powers
The Chief Justice steps in.
Federal judge who thinks he's president blocked

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

Really. It’s actually there. At least the most important part of it is.
DOGE Is in the Constitution
The order requires agency heads to answer to DOGE on how they can reduce federal government spending or "reallocate spending to promote efficiency..."
Trump Signs Executive Order Giving DOGE More Power
Essentially, this committee hearing was called by these congress critters to advocate the status quo, which is likely why NASA declined to send a witness.
House committee holds hearing to protect its Artemis pork
"That's what Medicaid is for. Not for 29-year-old males sitting on their couches playing video games.”
Speaker Johnson Gives Prime Example Of How To Reduce Fraud In Medicaid
LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES
The uphill fight now shifts to the City Council, where Crowley will need support from at least 10 of 15 council members to be reinstated–an outcome that remains highly uncertain.
Fired L.A. Fire Chief Kristin Crowley Fights Back; Appeals to City Council

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“Anything is on the table. The commander-in-chief, ultimately, with my consultation and with the chairman and others, will make those determinations. But nothing’s off the table. Our sovereignty will be defended,” Hegseth said.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Does Not Rule Out Strikes on Fentanyl Labs in Mexico
Trump has apparently brought peace to cartel-wracked northern Mexico.
Trump closes the border and suddenly, Mexico's cartel problems are nowhere to be found, Tijuana resident says
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
The terrorist, a 50-year-old 'Palestinian' from the West Bank, critically wounded a 17-year-old girl and left two people in serious condition, the Jerusalem Post reported. At least three others suffered moderate injuries. The attacker "ran over several people at a bus station, then proceeded to stab others with a screwdriver and crashed into a police vehicle," Israeli police said.
Terror in Central Israel: At Least 14 Wounded in Car-Ramming, Stabbing Attack
"It’s going to be decisive," said Amir Avivi, a former Israeli brigadier general who has advised the Israeli government and military during the war. "Israel will use every tool it has to conquer Gaza and eradicate Hamas."
Exclusive: Israel To Resume War in Gaza and ‘Eradicate Hamas,’ Cutting Off Aid and Bombarding Strip with Troops
Trump proposed relocating 'Palestinians' and rebuilding Gaza as an international zone, drawing comparisons to past global cities like Shanghai and Tangier—an idea some say is worth considering.
Back to the Future
And Israel's unique 'salute'.
Notes From Hassan Nasrallah’s Funeral
". . . by the way, when it first happened. We’ve now seen more and more countries, even quietly, I don’t want to say who they are yet because they’ve been quiet about it, but we’ve had more and more countries sort of come forward and say they would like to join as well from the region.including Africa. so I think it’s something we can build on and to me it would be one of the great developments of this term.”
Exclusive — Rubio: ‘Strong Desire’ in Middle East for Abraham Accords Expansion, ‘World Has Been Dying for’ Trump’s ‘Kind of Leadership’

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“footage of the storming of a Barnard campus building, Milbank Hall, shows droves of keffiyeh-clad student radicals shoving their way into a building entrance”
Masked Anti-Israel Students Take Over Barnard College Building After Expulsion of Two Others
The latest proof: Anti-Israel goons at Barnard College just sent a school worker to the hospital.
Hapless Kathy Hochul refuses to hold college Jew-haters accountable (Anti-Semites are a substantial Democrat constituency group, duh! - jjs)
Daniel Greenfield: In an article written by a former Jihadist. (
A Gov Agency Smeared Us as a Hate Group for Writing About Oct 7
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The award was announced in the House of Commons by Paul Waugh, the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochdale, and welcomed by Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell on behalf of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer‘s Labour government. “It’s got a fantastic cultural heritage,” Powell said of Rochdale.
Rape Gang Hotspot Receives ‘Town of Culture’ Award.
Whom Israel should be allying with in Europe.
Israel’s Minister for the Diaspora: Muslim Migrants in Europe are Now the Main Carriers of Jew-Hate
Images of the Islamic Relief banners went viral on social media after being flagged by Shahar Ali of the far-left Green Party, who argued, “These are public lampposts & public sphere must remain secular, without fear or favour to any particular religion or lack of faith.” Social conservatives agreed the banners were inappropriate but for different reasons, with Anglican minister Calvin Robinson arguing, “The United Kingdom is not a secular state. It is a Christian country… I have a problem with this level of religious advertising [because it] should be distinctly Christian in nature.”
‘Trust in Allah’ Signs Blanket London as King Charles Hands Out Ramadan Treats.
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
In a hard-hitting new book, Robert Spencer recounts the bleak history of antisemitism.
The Forever Holocaust
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Lucy Grace Nelson, a 40-year-old male who identifies as a transgender woman, was arrested on Monday night following “several” instances of vandalism at the Loveland Tesla dealership, leading to “incendiary devices” being found at the scene,” police announced Wednesday.
Police: Transgender Suspect Planted Explosives at Colorado Tesla Dealership
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has already predicted that their efforts will end in failure.
All The State Democrat Attorneys General Are Meeting Daily To Undermine Trump
Justices hostile to claim that ‘majority’ plaintiffs have extra burden of proof. Justice Samuel Alito at oral argument raised point EPP made in its Amicus Brief, that discrimination against majority parties (White/Male/Straight) was no longer “rare”.
Supreme Court Appears Ready to Give Reverse Discrimination Claims a Big Boost, and DEI a Big Blow
Walz defended the Democrat Party’s loud protests against President Donald Trump and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) overseer Elon Musk by stating that his party wants to protect the U.S. from so-called “Nazis,” according to a recording obtained by Alpha News. The outlet claimed to have received the recording from Republican Minnesota State Sen. Nate Wesenberg, who said the remarks were made at a Minnesota Nurses Association event.
Tim Walz Claims America Was Stolen ‘By Fascists And ‘Nazis’
Bondi has requested the missing documents from FBI Director Kash Patel.
Bondi has requested the missing documents from FBI Director Kash Patel.
Robert Spencer: Baldwin is a living manifestation of leftist privilege.
Alec Baldwin Threatens to Snap the Neck of Trump Impersonator
Like most hypocritical bullies, Baldwin becomes enraged when he receives what he usually serves to others.
Alec Baldwin gets a Taste of his own Toxic ‘Comedy'
If Democrats didn’t have debunked lies, they’d have nothing at all. (Sadly they have millions who believe the lies as absolute truth - jjs)
Ohio rep. tries to stir up racial strife by claiming Trayvon Martin was a victim of ‘racially motivated violence’ and ‘police brutality’
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Here’s a look at where not to move. Hint: It’s been run by progressive Democrats for a long time.
The most dangerous city in the most dangerous state
TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AFTERMATH
Nine months after Thomas Matthew Crooks fired eight shots at President Trump during a rally in Butler, Pa., we're still being kept in the dark about what really happened. And if you think we're getting the full story from the FBI, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you because something isn’t adding up.
Did Would-Be Trump Assassin Have Help? What Is the FBI Hiding?
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Shockingly, most, 68 percent, trusted the mass media either a great deal or fair amount in 1972, ticking up to 69 percent in 1974. It hit an all-time high of 72 percent in 1976.
Poll: Americans Trust in Mass Media ‘Lowest Point’ in over 50 Years
Amazon founder and owner of the Washington Post Jeff Bezos announced Wednesday that change is coming to the paper’s opinion pages. Going forward, they will be supporting and defending the “two pillars” that are “right for America,” “personal liberties and free markets.” It was helpful for those who oppose the change to identify themselves as enemies of personal liberties and free markets.
Did Jeff Bezos Just Kill Karl Marx On K Street?
Christian Toto: Amazon founder's plea for personal liberties at odds with company's censorship
Will the Real Jeff Bezos Please Stand Up?
The media pearl-clutch about a ‘free press’ when they really mean their power and control are threatened.
WHCA Cartel Is Freaking Out Because It’s Losing Power And Control, Not Press Freedom
This has nothing to do with the ‘free press’ and everything to do with the Washington media, so arrogant as to have someone like Eugene Daniels as its mascot, dying a slow death.
Eugene Daniels Encapsulates All The Reasons The WHCA Deserves To Burn Down In Flames
The Embarrassment of the Day.
Prager U Video: Joy Reid’s Bills Have Been Affected
Republican Commissioner Nathan Simington of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repeated his remarks in Romanian Thursday in a jab at Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez during the agency’s monthly open meeting of commissioners. Gomez has a habit of repeating her remarks in Spanish during meetings, which some viewed as wasting time and labor, Joe Verde, a former Simington staffer, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The agenda for the meeting included regaining authority to auction off parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
FCC Commissioner Trolls Time-Wasting Dem By Showing Off His Own Linguistic Skills
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
“We’re going to bring back the American dream…. And we’re going to have an America that’s bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer, and stronger than ever before,” declared President Trump.
Trump’s Economic Revolution: How His Plan Could Create 20 Million New American Millionaires
If Trump is to be successful as regards tariffs, he must look at President William McKinley’s successes and mistakes.
What Trump can Learn from McKinley's Tariffs
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Despite the UK accounting for less than one per cent of global emissions, official advice to the government from the Climate Change Committee (CCC), a quango established under the previous Labour government in 2008, argued that British citizens will need to eat at least 260 grams less meat per week in order to meet planned emissions reductions.
Great Reset: Eat Less Meat to Meet Green Goals, Says UK Climate Change Committee
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Without fresh thinking by religious, educational, and political leaders, parochial schools will continue to vanish.
New York’s Catholic Schools Are in Crisisq
ABORTION
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS
The Trump administration has launched a review of every Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) role related to election security and so-called mis- and disinformation after CISA began censoring speech. CISA, originally established in 2018 to address cybersecurity threats, quickly transformed into a government-run censorship operation, particularly during the 2020 election. In response, the propaganda press has been scrambling to defend CISA’s expanded role in silencing free speech for several weeks now.
Propaganda Press Upset Trump Could Shut Down CISA’s Election Censorship
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Ever heard of “behested payments”? Politicians are perfecting the pay-to-play hustle.
Land of the Artful Dodgers (They need a dose of DOGErs - jjs)
POLITICS
Harris swore her long-time disciple into office last month
Kamala Harris' Far-Left Protégée To Deliver Progressive Wing's State of the Union Response as Former Vice President Reportedly Eyes Governor's Mansion
CPAC always winds up its proceedings by polling its audience as to their favorite to next lead the conservative movement, or as it has increasingly identified as in the last decade, the MAGA movement. Vice President JD Vance won that ad hoc survey Sunday, with 61 percent of respondents choosing him as the MAGA heir. We said Trump's choice of Vance as his running mate was "inspired." That he is also the choice for the future is both logical and obvious.
JD Vance is heir to the MAGA movement
Health-conscious centrists, crunchy hippies and political agnostics are all part of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. They’ve become strange bedfellows to Trump’s MAGA contingent. Now, the ball is in the GOP’s court on how to keep them around. (By becoming more crunchy and Lefty? Thanks but no thanks. They need to become more NORMAL - jjs)
RFK Jr. Brought Republicans A New Wave Of Voters — Can They Keep Them?
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
The United States and Ukraine agreed on the text of an initial framework for a mineral rights deal on Tuesday, and may be signed by President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky in person as soon as tomorrow. But now a Ukrainian newspaper claims to have published the full text of that deal, seeming to reveal the concessions made to both sides to get the agreement over the line.
Full Text: Kyiv Allegedly Leaks ‘Free, Sovereign, and Secure Ukraine’ Rare Earth Mineral Deal
“You’ve created a moment of tremendous opportunity to reach a historic peace deal. A deal that I think would celebrated in Ukraine and around the world. That is the prize, but we have to get it right,” Starmer added. (The filthy Islamo-loving Lefty Worm reveals his true colors - jjs)
British PM Starmer Lauds Trump for Creating Peace Opportunity in Russia-Ukraine War
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
“[W]e… know that there have been infringements of free speech that actually affect not just the British—of course, what the British do in their own country is up to them—but also affect American technology companies and by extension American citizens, so that is something that we’ll talk about today at lunch,” the Vice President said at a media event alongside Starmer and President Donald J. Trump.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/02/27/watch-vance-calls-out-uk-pm-for-infringements-on-free-speech-to-his-face/
Finally, the U.S. – which is to say Trump and Vance – gives the Old World a dose of its own medicine.
Finally, the U.S. – which is to say Trump and Vance – gives the Old World a dose of its own medicine.
Drugs such as fentanyl “are still pouring into our country from Mexico and Canada at very high and unacceptable levels,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, stating that many of them are “made in, and supplied by, China.”
Trump: 25% Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and Additional 10% on China Starting March 4
The U.S. props up Canada on the world stage and allows its little brother to sit at the grown-up stable during international meetings.
Canada is a Liability
Brazil’s democracy does not resemble a system many in the West would find familiar.
Trump should help Bolsonaro—and Brazil—become great again
Prosecutors say there were no legal grounds to organize the presidential election of 2020 in that way. In the end the election Morawiecki wanted to hold in May was postponed and conducted at polling stations several weeks later. The cost to taxpayers of organizing the postal vote which didn’t happen is estimated to be at least 70 million zlotys ($17.5).
Lawfare Alert: Poland Charges Conservative Former Prime Minister Over Calling Covid-Time Election

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The memo spoke about how meeting “high standards” is essential to serve for many reasons, including “cohesion,” which can be difficult if someone is not mentally equipped as the other members they’re serving with. It basically breaks the chain of how they’re trained to fight in combat as a group.
Pentagon Memo States Trans Service Members to be Removed from Military
I’m not sure which is stranger here, that someone dragged out 98-year-old (possibly 97-year-old) William Perry, who served in both WWII and the Clinton administration before turning into a full-time arms control crank or that there were five former secretaries of defense willing to go on the record with such a ridiculous claim.
Clinton’s 98-Year-Old Secretary of Defense Claims Trump Can’t Fire Generals
"You guys are looking for max damage, right?
The Navy May Want to Stop Recruiting Chinese Nationals
Donald Trump and his Cabinet have much to clean up.
Our crashing, rusty Navy (With Admiral Levine it's a rusty trombone - jjs)
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The press asserts Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is downplaying the seriousness of the outbreak; yet, there was little such drama over the many measles cases during the Biden term.
Child Dies of Measles During Recent Outbreak in Texas and New Mexico
Meanwhile, dozens of bird-flu-struck geese found in New Jersey parks, leading to their closure.
Human Bird Flu Hospitalizations Now Reported in Wyoming and Ohio
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
This [landing] This location had originally been picked for NASA’s now canceled VIPER rover, because the terrain would have allowed the rover to travel down into some permanently shadowed regions. NASA now hopes to use the Grace hopper on Athena to accomplish the same task.
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/all-is-so-far-well-with-intuitive-machines-athena-lunar-lander/
Robert Zimmerman: "Damn! The future is going to so grand!"
Exploring the canyons and plateaus of Valles Marineris
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Pro-transgender activists stormed the state capitol building in Des Moines, Iowa, on February 27 amid discussions on a bill to scrap gender identity protections. Hundreds of protesters were seen entering the capitol rotunda while holding pro-transgender signs and demanding the bill be scrapped.The bill was introduced last week and seeks to remove gender identity from the state civil rights code. The legislature, then Democrat-controlled, added it in 2007. The bill will explicitly define gender as male and female, and Republicans in the state argue the change will stop biological males from entering women’s spaces and playing in women’s sports.
Trans Activists Storm State Capitol.
Maddison Wilson, 37, of Portsmouth, was discovered dead by hanging.
UK trans-identified male charged with rape, sexual abuse of children dies by suicide before court hearing
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
So the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has got 'Conclave' up for its big award this year?
The Oscars, the Pope and the Woke, Oh My!

HITHER & YON
Authorities initially said there were no signs of foul play, but celebrity news outlet TMZ, citing a search warrant, said a detective believed the deaths were “suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation.”
Gene Hackman and Wife Found in ‘Suspicious’ Circumstances — Dead ‘for Some Time’

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1 Happy Fricking Friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 07:39 AM (gbOdA)

2 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 07:39 AM (Q4IgG)

3 Good morning, all!

Posted by: NR Pax at February 28, 2025 07:40 AM (NR6c1)

4 20 minutes until E-Day

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2025 07:40 AM (HUlc3)

5 morning horde, happy friday

thank God

time to go to the content...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 28, 2025 07:41 AM (nXhwP)

6 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at February 28, 2025 07:41 AM (53oGX)

7 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 28, 2025 07:41 AM (e5NfL)

8 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

9 must move beyond “tear it all down” partisanship and toward a vision of national unity

why, WHY is it always US who must move and never EVER!! the left that has to move to the center?????

to whomever wrong that steaming pile of horseshit, i say fuck off sir, fuck ALL the way off

and the horse you rode in on....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 28, 2025 07:44 AM (nXhwP)

10
Jane who?

Posted by: Most people at February 28, 2025 07:45 AM (dg+HA)

11 "Make no mistake, empathy is not weak or woke," she said in her speech. "And by the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people. . . “A whole lot of people are going to be really hurt by what is happening, what is coming our way,” she said.

You cannot give a damn about people with other peoples money.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 07:47 AM (gbOdA)

12 Charlie bought some popcorn, Billy bought a car
Someone almost bought the farm, but they didn't go that far
Things shut down at midnight, at least round here they do
Cause we all reside down the block inside 23 Skidoo...

Posted by: Joe Biden, Lost In The Supermarket at February 28, 2025 07:48 AM (EEZHI)

13
It’s an important check on undemocratic liberalism, but its practitioners must move beyond “tear it all down” partisanship and toward a vision of national unity

"National Unity" means you can agree 100% to whatever the Left says.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 28, 2025 07:48 AM (dxSpM)

14 Epic rant, Sefton. Sometimes I worry about your blood pressure.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 07:49 AM (9aAxm)

15 Unemployment claims in Washington DC metro up 25 percent this week.
Washington Post.

Posted by: Redenzo at February 28, 2025 07:50 AM (V/pbu)

16 Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts

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Bet they didn't see that coming...

Posted by: muldoon at February 28, 2025 07:51 AM (/iMjX)

17 20 minutes until E-Day
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2025 07:40 AM (HUlc3)

I assume this means we get to spend yet another day being inundated by comments about how Bondi and Patel are incompetent and should be immediately fired and replaced by someone who'll also spend weeks getting through the Senate and face the same obstructionism and so on, and so on, and so on.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

18 Hey Jane, about that gun you posed with:

My dad was a pilot in Vietnam. He probably got shot at by the same kind of weapon you got your photo op with. That's more than enough reason to not like or trust you.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 28, 2025 07:53 AM (NR6c1)

19 woke just means you give a damn about other people
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I give a damn you're still breathing my air.

Words mean whatever commies claim they mean that day.

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 07:53 AM (89FJt)

20 The GOPe, for years, has tried to "go along to get along" for sake of "national unity."

All that has given us is government secure in its overreach and a political party who's dominant aim is to run the life of everyone in the country and destroy those who would dissent.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 07:53 AM (tT6L1)

21 Morning, J.J. Thanks again for all your hard work.

I'm not a swearing man but it really gets difficult not to scream at the idiots who talk about "national unity" what part of "death to those who dare to question" don't you understand?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 07:55 AM (tT6L1)

22 I assume this means we get to spend yet another day being inundated by comments about how Bondi and Patel are incompetent and should be immediately fired.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

1) Lighter....check.
2) Hair.....check.
3) Spine made of cardboard....check.

Posted by: Folding Like A Wet Taco Guy at February 28, 2025 07:56 AM (EEZHI)

23 16 Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts

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Bet they didn't see that coming...
Posted by: muldoon at February 28, 2025 07:51 AM (/iMjX)

Lol

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2025 07:56 AM (OA79/)

24 Make a balance scale-type gallows with two nooses. Put her in one and that SOB Kerry in the other and see which one weighs more.

Posted by: Roy at February 28, 2025 07:56 AM (z+ik4)

25 > Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts
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As a weather 'enthusiast' who groks out on it, the wailing on social media from NOAA employees and many of the TV and web forecasters is something to see.

TL;DR all of you are going to die because of DOGE and send money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 07:57 AM (Q4IgG)

26 I always bring this up but my dad *hated* Jane Fonda.

And the Redgraves possibly more.

I never saw him hate anyone like he hated those three. He would get so mad when the Weight Watchers commercials came on. She'd be twirling in some sequined red dress and you would just hear him say "that commie whore".

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 07:57 AM (89FJt)

27 Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts

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Bet they didn't see that coming...
Posted by: muldoon at February 28, 2025 07:51 AM (/iMjX)

so they keep their record intact at least....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 28, 2025 07:57 AM (nXhwP)

28 So, is Pam Bondi as AG a complete waste of Trump's effort? Or, as she says, was she somehow put in a bad position through malign FBI action she did not see coming? Is it incompetence or... incompetence?

Hard to say.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 07:57 AM (ppzWn)

29 19 woke just means you give a damn about other people
--------

I give a damn you're still breathing my air.

Words mean whatever commies claim they mean that day.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 07:53 AM (89FJt)

Like grandma's arrested and in jail for silently praying outside abortion clinics, peepo?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2025 07:58 AM (OA79/)

30 First thing I see "retail giants facing pushback over DEI".
They can't help themselves.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 28, 2025 07:58 AM (n4GiU)

31 I always bring this up but my dad *hated* Jane Fonda.

And the Redgraves possibly more.

I never saw him hate anyone like he hated those three. He would get so mad when the Weight Watchers commercials came on. She'd be twirling in some sequined red dress and you would just hear him say "that commie whore".

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 07:57 AM

We had "hanoi jane" urinal targets at our VFW in Kentucky. They were quite popular.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 28, 2025 07:58 AM (e5NfL)

32 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

I think Joanne Chesimard is in Cuba, not California!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 28, 2025 07:58 AM (RIvkX)

33 "National Unity" means you can agree 100% to whatever the Left says.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 28, 2025 07:48 AM (dxSpM)

Or more to the point that anyone who disagrees is dead.

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 07:58 AM (89FJt)

34 Orwell noted that amongst the worst practitioners in any sort of revolutionary scenario are women, particularly young women. Henry Fonda’s alleged daughter certainly qualifies. The Manson girls, Patty Hearst et al., as early prototypes.

Did the fact there was no declaration of war by congress factor at all in her never being held to account? Kerry also had a “stay out of jail” free card or pass. Shows up before the Senate Fullbright commitee looking like a rag bag and talking shit about the gubbmint. More USAID funding no doubt.

Biden was a new Senator - and ready to cutoff funding to the South Vietnamese, as well as declaring he didn’t want any Vietnamese “boat people” coming to our shores. Genuine refugees mind you.

Way to go, Joe

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 07:58 AM (9aAxm)

35 I got an Urgent Alert on an Outlook email pop-up this morning saying RFK Jr has just dropped a bomb on Big Pharma, but I don't see anything in the news.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 07:59 AM (SfhV1)

36 And in what ways has multi millionaire Jane Fonda given her own money and time to help others aside from herself and her family? I think some group did a study- as a general rule conservatives are more generous in helping others than leftists.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 28, 2025 07:59 AM (Qa+vM)

37 Morning, Grammie! How is The Rev doing?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 07:59 AM (tT6L1)

38 The local gas company in Santa Fe says they've found no evidence of a gas leak at the Hackman home. But the circumstances sure do suggest one. Odd.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 08:00 AM (ppzWn)

39 28 So, is Pam Bondi as AG a complete waste of Trump's effort? Or, as she says, was she somehow put in a bad position through malign FBI action she did not see coming? Is it incompetence or... incompetence?

Hard to say.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 07:57 AM (ppzWn)

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My opinion, just let the Deep State reveal who they are and hang itself out to dry. Whether intentional or not, I don’t care.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2025 08:00 AM (HUlc3)

40 35 I got an Urgent Alert on an Outlook email pop-up this morning saying RFK Jr has just dropped a bomb on Big Pharma, but I don't see anything in the news.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 07:59 AM (SfhV1)

Was that just yesterday's news of delaying the covid vax formulation program and now reviewing its need?

Posted by: Nova Local at February 28, 2025 08:01 AM (exHjb)

41 Good morning blake! He is doing pretty well. He has no appetite and he sleeps a lot but I think it just takes time.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 08:01 AM (SfhV1)

42 23 16 Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts

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Bet they didn't see that coming...
Posted by: muldoon at February 28, 2025 07:51 AM (/iMjX)

Here's the thing about all theses weather people and climate scientists. If you pay these people billions billions billions to research "climate change" then you are damn sure they are gonna find some, cause they got a 30 year career to fund. Talk about a self reinforcing feedback loop.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2025 08:01 AM (OA79/)

43 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

Well said. Fortunately, I don't have time for it,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 28, 2025 08:01 AM (Qa+vM)

44 I’ve been thinking (I do that sometimes… really). Remember Andrew Breitbart famously said: Politics is downstream from culture.

That truism was inverted starting in 2020 to present day. Starting with covid, politicians drove the culture(not the other way around)… first with covid panic, then with summer of love hysteria, and finally with a stolen election. Then for all 4 years of Biden the culture was driven by political forces cooking up the excitement of the day (eg Ukraine pins and flags everywhere, tranny stuff for kids or you’re a hater, etc)…. None of it was the real culture but it’s what you saw overwhelmingly. Many conservatives kept their mouths shut. Then a politician (Trump, though a very unconventional one) almost single-handedly drove the culture back to its origins last year. Suddenly conservatives are cool.

It’s been backwards for about 5 years because radicals ran a pandemic op and a color revolution and almost succeeded. Maybe I should stop thinking….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 28, 2025 08:01 AM (HSqCq)

45 28 So, is Pam Bondi as AG a complete waste of Trump's effort? Or, as she says, was she somehow put in a bad position through malign FBI action she did not see coming? Is it incompetence or... incompetence?

Hard to say.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 07:57 AM (ppzWn)

Two words - Merrick Garland.

Posted by: Roy at February 28, 2025 08:02 AM (z+ik4)

46 Was that just yesterday's news of delaying the covid vax formulation program and now reviewing its need?

Posted by: Nova Local at February 28, 2025 08:01 AM (exHjb)

Maybe that's it. Thanks!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 08:02 AM (SfhV1)

47 My opinion, just let the Deep State reveal who they are and hang itself out to dry. Whether intentional or not, I don’t care.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2025 08:00 AM (HUlc3)

Can't fire the bad actors in the FBI without getting them to show you clear cause and disobedience...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 28, 2025 08:02 AM (exHjb)

48 JJ really roped in a lot with this morning's essay.

That author is all about the fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Definitely seeming to subvert the narrative of a mandate.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 28, 2025 08:02 AM (RIvkX)

49 Thanks for the update, grammie. I'll keep him, and you, in my prayers.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 08:02 AM (tT6L1)

50 "...but I don't see anything in the news."

LOL.
"news"
That's cute.

Posted by: It died long ago at February 28, 2025 08:03 AM (dg+HA)

51 Here's the thing about all theses weather people and climate scientists. If you pay these people billions billions billions to research "climate change" then you are damn sure they are gonna find some, cause they got a 30 year career to fund. Talk about a self reinforcing feedback loop.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2025 08:01 AM (OA79/)

True.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 28, 2025 08:03 AM (exHjb)

52 35 I got an Urgent Alert on an Outlook email pop-up this morning saying RFK Jr has just dropped a bomb on Big Pharma, but I don't see anything in the news.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 07:59 AM (SfhV1)

Don't open it. You just get rick-rolled to a Gap Band video.

Posted by: Roy at February 28, 2025 08:03 AM (z+ik4)

53 From the LegalInsurrection story it seems NJ has finally found a way to get rid of Canada Geese infesting parks, and that is to infect them with bird flu.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 08:04 AM (ppzWn)

54 This [landing] This location had originally been picked for NASA’s now canceled VIPER rover, because the terrain would have allowed the rover to travel down into some permanently shadowed regions.

VIPER isn't cancelled, exactly. It lost its ride because of scheduling difficulties, but the people who are working on it still have some hope that it might get to the moon someday.

But it doesn't look good.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at February 28, 2025 08:04 AM (iZEhM)

55 Bondi is either dumb as a stump, unprepared for the job at hand, a saboteur, got played by someone she trusts, a grand master playing 19 Dimensional Space Chess, or doing somebody else's bidding. Or some combination thereof.

I can't see anything beyond those six and I am always looking. Not a great plan.

Just remember she got approved, and someone else did not.

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 08:04 AM (89FJt)

56 Hmm. Just how many times has the Brooklyn Bridge been "sold" in to last almost 150 years? And why not some other bridges? GW Bridge, Whitestone, Manhattan Bridge, Pulaski Skyway? And who are the hapless rubes who keep buying it?

Posted by: Chaim Yankel at February 28, 2025 08:04 AM (G5+As)

57 A “gas leak” is an explosion hazard. I’m not sure the press even knows what questions to ask.

A Carbon Monoxide hazard is due to defective combustion, lack of adequate ventilation.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 08:05 AM (9aAxm)

58 Code phrases
1. Bipartisan or nonpartisan
2. "We have to show we can govern"
3. Maverick
4. "Reach across the aisle"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 28, 2025 08:06 AM (RIvkX)

59 ‘Trust in Allah’ Signs Blanket London as King Charles Hands Out Ramadan Treats.

==

Merry Old England is just about given itself over to Islamization. King Chuck is 100% behind it, it seems. He appears completely daft on the matter. He's fostering a system and a people that will eventually take over his country, and thus his heirs will be no more. At least, not in the sense we know them to be today. How can he not see this?

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 28, 2025 08:06 AM (qBdHI)

60 Why are we disappointed with Bondi? I’m not following…. Not fast enough on the Epstein info release?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 28, 2025 08:07 AM (HSqCq)

61 Prayer for complete and speedy recovery for the Rev and also Ciampino who popped into the ONT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 28, 2025 08:08 AM (RIvkX)

62 Trump is busy trolling Canada again this morning, or at least trolling Trudeau. Just for something to do, I guess.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 08:08 AM (ppzWn)

63 Thank you San Franpsycho

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 08:08 AM (SfhV1)

64 60 Why are we disappointed with Bondi? I’m not following…. Not fast enough on the Epstein info release?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 28, 2025 08:07 AM (HSqCq)

B/c no one wants to blame Patel yet...technically, if you're mad about the Epstein files, it hits both of them and they both need to fix it...more so, Patel, b/c his people seemingly are the coverup artists...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 28, 2025 08:08 AM (exHjb)

65 It wasn't a pandemic.

Posted by: It was a delusion at February 28, 2025 08:08 AM (dg+HA)

66 Thank you JJ!
I like to start my day by remembering that God is in charge, and is in control, so this AM , as I was reflecting on all that's going on, inexplicably I had a thought that Gods sense humor is evident in the Trump/Musk situation. From the start God put a BIG stumbling block in Musk being an African American! Another stumbling block is both Trump and Musk are heterosexual , and are proud of it! And both are trying to save America! There are so many evidences of God having a hand in this!

Posted by: Chillin the most at February 28, 2025 08:08 AM (Ofe5D)

67 However, national populists must move beyond “tear it all down” partisanship to construct a new, mainstream vision of national unity. The negative impulses of populism need to be reined in: we need a rational populism.

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No. Wrong. Stupid. Sad.

Reflexive, supine timidity is the negative impulse, and it needs to be frozen out.

These are not people you unite with. You give them an ultimatum. Quiet down, and fall into line with the new direction we're going, or get left behind.

People advocating this kind of pusillanimous garbage need to go home, put on their JNCO jeans and Doc Martens, press play on the VHS tape of the The Rock, and pretend it's 1997 in the privacy of their own homes.

The rest of us are far past done with this crap. .

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 28, 2025 08:09 AM (BI5O2)

68 Patel has been on the job - what? A week?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 08:09 AM (SfhV1)

69 “Bipartisan” - when Democrats act partisan, and Republicans act Bi. All that means, is some particularly especially egregious fvckery has been perpetrated on the American people.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 08:10 AM (9aAxm)

70 Alec Baldwin Threatens to Snap the Neck of Trump Impersonator

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This man has serious anger management issues. He's been a walking time bomb for years. I can't imagine what living with him is like.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 28, 2025 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

71 I'm going to wait a few months before I set my hair on fire over Pam Bondi.

She's been in her position for what, a month? She's in an almost impossible position, She not only needs to clean house in the DOJ, she also needs to defend the Trump administration in court, plus making sure law is properly followed.

From what I understand, Pam is working under incredibly pressure. I'd not want to be in her shoes dealing with not only the job but also the media circus.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 08:10 AM (tT6L1)

72 Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 08:05 AM (9aAxm)
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Thank you for the very cogent explanation. I imagine it gets pretty chilly at night in the area where the Hackmans lived, so space heaters would be unsurprising. Or maybe natgas fireplaces.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 08:10 AM (ppzWn)

73 67 However, national populists must move beyond “tear it all down” partisanship to construct a new, mainstream vision of national unity. The negative impulses of populism need to be reined in: we need a rational populism.

This is dog whistle language for populist must quit reforming government and join with the leftists and grow the blob so large that left can bury their grift in perpiruity again.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2025 08:11 AM (OA79/)

74 7 It's Flapjack Friday!
Posted by: Mister Scott

Still not funny!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at February 28, 2025 08:12 AM (G5+As)

75 60 Why are we disappointed with Bondi? I’m not following…. Not fast enough on the Epstein info release?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 28, 2025 08:07 AM (HSqCq)

Give her and all of them a decent amount of time in their jobs before passing judgment is my position on the matter… 5 weeks is an unseemly amount of time to start a lynch mob..

Posted by: tubal at February 28, 2025 08:12 AM (PCK5/)

76 This man has serious anger management issues. He's been a walking time bomb for years. I can't imagine what living with him is like.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 28, 2025 08:10 AM (qBdHI)
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My conclusion is living with him requires a woman to be pregnant and muttering quietly in Spanish.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 08:12 AM (ppzWn)

77 70 Alec Baldwin Threatens to Snap the Neck of Trump Impersonator

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This man has serious anger management issues. He's been a walking time bomb for years. I can't imagine what living with him is like.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 28, 2025 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

One of these days he's gonna kill somebody!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2025 08:12 AM (OA79/)

78 "Jane Fonda, isn't she the one in those whore movies?" Cheech and Chong, Big Bamboo.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at February 28, 2025 08:12 AM (gxokI)

79 Trump closes the border and suddenly, Mexico's cartel problems are nowhere to be found, Tijuana resident says

Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 08:12 AM (RHGPo)

80 One of these days he's gonna kill somebody!
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2025 08:12 AM (OA79/)
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Yeah, he should watch what he says!

Posted by: Eyepatch McCain at February 28, 2025 08:13 AM (tT6L1)

81 This man has serious anger management issues. He's been a walking time bomb for years. I can't imagine what living with him is like.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 28, 2025 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

I swear one day he's gonna kill someone.

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 08:13 AM (89FJt)

82 Geez get your own material Cuth

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 08:13 AM (89FJt)

83 Still not funny!
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at February 28, 2025 08:12 AM (G5+As)
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It is from where I sit.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 08:14 AM (tT6L1)

84 This is dog whistle language for populist must quit reforming government and join with the leftists and grow the blob so large that left can bury their grift in perpiruity again.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2025 08:11 AM (OA79/)

Of course it is. ConInc never changes. The fainting goats of American politics. The Left makes a loud noise, and down they go.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 28, 2025 08:14 AM (BI5O2)

85 Jane Fonda's masterpiece ... Barbarella (196

Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 08:14 AM (RHGPo)

86 68 Patel has been on the job - what? A week?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 08:09 AM (SfhV1)

Yup, and she's been about 2.5 weeks, so maybe we hold off blaming both for now...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 28, 2025 08:14 AM (exHjb)

87 82 Geez get your own material Cuth
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 08:13 AM (89FJt)

Lol

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2025 08:14 AM (OA79/)

88 Posted by: tubal at February 28, 2025 08:12 AM (PCK5/

I agree. I think Pam Bondi was approved Feb 4th and Kash Patel more recently.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 28, 2025 08:15 AM (Ob+1r)

89 > Why are we disappointed with Bondi?
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Her office with or without her input put on a dog and pony show with conservative influencers that bombed.

- dog and pony show
- influencers

See?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 08:15 AM (Q4IgG)

90 >>Why are we disappointed with Bondi? I’m not following…. Not fast enough on the Epstein info release?

I'm not disappointed in either Bondi or Patel. I think it's silly to blame people we supported 15 minutes ago for walking into a place that is the center of corruption in our government and expect the same people who have been undermining this country for years miraculously do a 180 and release evidence of their corruption.

A bad team doesn't automatically become a good one just by inserting a new manager. It takes some time to either fix the bad players or replace them with good ones. Bondi gave an order to have all the documents given to her. Elements in the FBI defied her. I'm not surprised. How she and Kash deal with this insubordination is the question.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 28, 2025 08:16 AM (LkLld)

91 Boris Spassky, 10th world champion of chess who lost his title to Bobby Fischer in 1972, has passed away at the age of 88.

Posted by: cheztrainor at February 28, 2025 08:16 AM (y1P/6)

92 I can't imagine what living with him is like.
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Dying with him ain’t so hot either. They need to check under his crawlspace. A little DNA testing might clear up a cold case or two from the 70s, ya never know …

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 08:16 AM (9aAxm)

93 That Jane seems like a nice lady.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 28, 2025 08:16 AM (MGB5H)

94 Signing letters is a favorite sport in D.C. and the media is currently hyping the letter signed by Clinton, Obama and Biden’s secretaries of defense (and Trump’s ex, Mattis) arguing that the Commander in Chief can’t fire top military leaders.
======================
How lame can you get, Democrats? I guess they think the civilian CinC can only "advise" the independent military?

So much for a military subservient to civilian control.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 08:16 AM (ppzWn)

95 Give her and all of them a decent amount of time in their jobs before passing judgment is my position on the matter… 5 weeks is an unseemly amount of time to start a lynch mob..
Posted by: tubal at February 28, 2025 08:12 AM (PCK5/)

Correct. But we live in the "information" age where any idiot can look at their phone and expects everything within 5 minutes or there will be hell to pay. People order crap from Amazon and shit their pants with anger if it's not delivered in 1 day, like an 8 year old child would do. Used to be 2-4 weeks for delivery if you were lucky.

Posted by: Patience Is A Virtue at February 28, 2025 08:17 AM (EEZHI)

96 I guess the seventh option on Bondi was Trump himself wanted a release no matter what it was. But that would *not* explain the quotes from Bondi about having it all on her desk and the other announcements about forthcoming prosecutions.

The best explanation people could come up with yesterday was Bondi made her grand proncouncements without checking what she really had. And that's from the people who *like* her.

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 08:17 AM (89FJt)

97 I have zero patience for the bipartisan sentiment. Mike Gallagher on the radio yesterday hit the nail on the head: He noted the savages of Hamas murdered those two toddlers with their bare hands and then asked “how do you negotiate with someone like that??” It’s rhetorical: you don’t. You can’t… the very notion is absurd. You cannot deal with such people

Forget bipartisanship… defeat them so they never hold another office again

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 28, 2025 08:17 AM (O1oUp)

98 However, national populists must move beyond “tear it all down” partisanship to construct a new, mainstream vision of national unity.

In the US the corrupt system we live under has been 26 years in the making.

Trump in his first term didn't do much to address the problem, so we are one month into trying to fix things.

Trump is moving fast but give him four full years and then you can start to *think* about some sort of national unity crap.

Hell we are only a couple of years out from the government forcibly injecting people with what it knew was poison as a damn loyalty check and no one has paid a price for it.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:18 AM (t0Rmr)

99 Good morning. *reads up the thread*

I see we are in a mood today.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 28, 2025 08:18 AM (Aqu9a)

100 Pete Fonda was a real piece of work hisself.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 08:18 AM (9aAxm)

101 Good morning!

Posted by: gp Declines 2028 Nomination at February 28, 2025 08:18 AM (IaVIh)

102 36 And in what ways has multi millionaire Jane Fonda given her own money and time to help others aside from herself and her family?

This being me: She knows what's waiting for her on the other side and is trying to make this world as comfortable for her as possible.

But I'm a bit harsh on the topic of her.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 28, 2025 08:18 AM (NR6c1)

103 44 I’ve been thinking (I do that sometimes… really). Remember Andrew Breitbart famously said: Politics is downstream from culture.
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I'm not convinced Breitbart died from natural causes. I'd be shocked if FBI doesn't have a file on him, which might be worth looking through.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 28, 2025 08:19 AM (Dv3i1)

104 Chill. It's Saturday Eve.

Posted by: And a weekend at February 28, 2025 08:19 AM (dg+HA)

105 Signing letters is a favorite sport in D.C. and the media is currently hyping the letter signed by Clinton, Obama and Biden’s secretaries of defense (and Trump’s ex, Mattis) arguing that the Commander in Chief can’t fire top military leaders.

The last conflict the US military won was 1991. Every single commanding level officer should have resigned and apologized to the soldiers they command. If they won't they should be universally removed. And this isn't counting forcibly injecting the men under their command with what they knew was poison

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:19 AM (t0Rmr)

106 The US declared measles “eliminated” in 2000, but the country has seen outbreaks in recent years amid a rise in anti-vaccine sentiment.

Yes, it's entirely due to "a rise in anti-vaccine sentiment". Don't look at the millions of people who weren't in the US as children who never got those vaccines. People who shouldn't be in the country now. No, it's all because of vaccine deniers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 08:20 AM (ExV1e)

107 “And here's also hoping Pam Bondi and Kash Patel go after Antica, BLM, SJP and the TIDES FOUNDATION with all they've got.”

Bondi may get to those well deserving investigative targets………after innumerable Fox News Appearances.
Then again may be not. In fact most likely not. Bondi is Trumps weak link who performs decently before the cameras. Nothing more.

Posted by: Voter theater. at February 28, 2025 08:20 AM (EMODM)

108 I'm not blaming Bondi or Patel. But I'm not kidding myself either. They aren't going to be able to fix DoJ or FBI. That can't be done.

What happened yesterday was totally predictable, and many of us did predict it. It's no different than the many other times Trump ordered something declassified and they said "no. Fuck you."

Nothing "fixes" these crooked spooks besides purging them all together. You don't put some human in charge of a building full of demons and think they'll obey. That's retarded.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 28, 2025 08:20 AM (BI5O2)

109 I'm not disappointed in either Bondi or Patel. I think it's silly to blame people we supported 15 minutes ago for walking into a place that is the center of corruption in our government and expect the same people who have been undermining this country for years miraculously do a 180 and release evidence of their corruption.

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Yes, THIS! ^^^

I couldn't believe the meltdown over this yesterday. It was irritating and exhausting. So many hair trigger reactions that wanted to throw Bondi into a volcano. All the hair on fire "I'm done!", "she has to resign!", "I've never trusted her!" that was all over X Thursday just made me SMH. Jesus, give these people a chance.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 28, 2025 08:20 AM (qBdHI)

110 Jane Fonda's masterpiece ... Barbarella (196
Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 08:14 AM (RHGPo)

Being remade with Sydney Sweeney. Hanoi Jane offered to reach out to her Syd say "no thanks"

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 28, 2025 08:21 AM (MGB5H)

111 Gotta admit, the ad of King Harv molesting the shark makes me want some coffee.

Posted by: gp Declines 2028 Nomination at February 28, 2025 08:21 AM (IaVIh)

112 I think President Trump 1.0 tried the "national unity" canard. For his efforts, he was roundly abused by everyone in DC.

President Trump appears to understand this very well, hence his "slash and burn" approach this time around.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 08:21 AM (tT6L1)

113 > Strikes on Mexican cartels?

"Anything is on the table. The commander-in-chief, ultimately, with my consultation and with the chairman and others, will make those determinations. But nothing’s off the table. Our sovereignty will be defended, Hegseth said."
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The US military and CIA have been flying signals intelligence aircraft and Reaper drones over northern Mexico for the last couple weeks. The USAF used one of their signals gathering aircraft several weeks ago in and around Baja Mexico... an unusual area for this aircraft to operate. The CIA reportedly has been flying the drones along a swath of northern Mexico... from the Gulf of America to points south of New Mexico.

The purpose is apparently to locate cartel strongholds, storage centers, leadership compounds and so on. Back in January it was revealed that the administration had not ruled out the creation of a "buffer zone" in northern Mexico and would use the US military to enforce it... possibly leaving those forces inside Mexican territory for as long as necessary.

We're demonstrating this isn't a bluff.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 08:22 AM (Q4IgG)

114 Rare Earth had some hits back in the day, but 1968 was a long time ago. Just why is everyone still talking about them and what connection does Zelensky have?

Posted by: Emily Litella. at February 28, 2025 08:22 AM (G5+As)

115 I'm not convinced Breitbart died from natural causes. I'd be shocked if FBI doesn't have a file on him, which might be worth looking through.

We also had one of Clinton's senior advisers talking about wetworks right before Scalia died.

On the one hand it is hard to believe they could and would do stuff like this, on the other hand you look at the Epstein operation, the COVID operation, and the two assassination attempts on Trump and...maybe not.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:22 AM (t0Rmr)

116 My Bible reading this morning was in Jeremiah. I noted frequent references to a coming whirlwind which will bring disaster to the wicked.
I thought of Donald Trump.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 28, 2025 08:22 AM (kTd/k)

117 Our side, so “we”, are dealing with cornered wounded animals now… “ they” will fight to the death about everything.. resistance every step of the way is what we ought to get used to from them. I never ever thought Trump et al would have an easy time of it.

Posted by: tubal at February 28, 2025 08:23 AM (PCK5/)

118 The Traitor Fonda says" we're going to need a big tent". Wel the Right HAS a big tent. It just has gender specific bathrooms.

Posted by: Jeff james at February 28, 2025 08:23 AM (md6pz)

119 No sharks were harmed in the making of this advertisement.

Posted by: King Harv's lawyers at February 28, 2025 08:23 AM (dg+HA)

120
A bad team doesn't automatically become a good one just by inserting a new manager. It takes some time to either fix the bad players or replace them with good ones. Bondi gave an order to have all the documents given to her. Elements in the FBI defied her. I'm not surprised. How she and Kash deal with this insubordination is the question.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 28, 2025 08:16 AM (LkLld)

This. The deep state still thinks they can protect their own. This is a battle of a lifetime. They will try to embarrass and obfuscate. I am sure there are ops proceeding to try and get bondi and Patel to step on landmines somewhere. I think the Achilles heal of the deep state is that they feel invulnerable and will try to work the same ops they have been running since forever. Basically B and P need to fire everyone for fuck ups that are explained by lost documents. You are the fbi and doj, you don't get to use the dog ate my homework. Sure as shit no target of the fbi and doj would get to.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2025 08:23 AM (OA79/)

121 Today IS National Pancake Day. 🥞

Posted by: redridinghood at February 28, 2025 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

122
Yes, it's entirely due to "a rise in anti-vaccine sentiment". Don't look at the millions of people who weren't in the US as children who never got those vaccines. People who shouldn't be in the country now. No, it's all because of vaccine deniers.

Disease outbreaks in the US follow the government ferrying illegals around.

And of course every year we get a new strain of flu from China.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:23 AM (t0Rmr)

123 Rare Earth had some hits back in the day, but 1968 was a long time ago. Just why is everyone still talking about them and what connection does Zelensky have?
Posted by: Emily Litella. at February 28, 2025 08:22 AM (G5+As)
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Rare Earth had talent and Zelensky isn't even a third rate comic?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 08:24 AM (tT6L1)

124 Has anyone seen a real picture of Crooks?

Not the one of him at 14 or 15.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

125 Inside Pam Bondi’s Influencer ‘Clusterf*ck’ Over the Epstein Files at the White House Today.
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Fire the entire office; indict every one you can. (But try to do it outside NY.)

Posted by: Eeyore at February 28, 2025 08:24 AM (1bNHn)

126 119 I didn't know sharks had a blowhole.

Posted by: gp Declines 2028 Nomination at February 28, 2025 08:24 AM (IaVIh)

127 It’s an important check on undemocratic liberalism, but its practitioners must move beyond “tear it all down” partisanship and toward a vision of national unity

We have a, theoretically, agreed upon vision of national unity. It's called the Constitution. That means that all the little, and not so little, things that have grown up over the years which are repugnant to the Constitution must be torn down. All of those people who view themselves as petty kings must be torn down. That, or annihilation, are the only roads to national unity.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 08:24 AM (ExV1e)

128 Rare Earth had some hits back in the day, but 1968 was a long time ago. Just why is everyone still talking about them and what connection does Zelensky have?

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He just wants to Celebrate Another Day of Living.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 28, 2025 08:24 AM (qBdHI)

129 Nothing "fixes" these crooked spooks besides purging them all together. You don't put some human in charge of a building full of demons and think they'll obey. That's retarded.

I would suggest though we have to move from just firing them to prosecuting them.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:24 AM (t0Rmr)

130 I can name 3 Rare Earth songs.

Posted by: Don Black at February 28, 2025 08:25 AM (AOsQT)

131 Morning Horde, thanks JJ.

Eugene Daniels the head of the White House correspondents association had a hissy fit and told the legacy media they couldn't use the listserv if they "cooperate" with the WH.

The funniest part. Now he's going to be the host of a weekend roundtable on that racist network MSNBC. Oh and he talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 08:25 AM (EG7Bp)

132 He just wants to Celebrate Another Day of Living.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 28, 2025 08:24 AM (qBdHI)
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I'm completely jealous I missed the obvious line.

Bravo!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 08:25 AM (tT6L1)

133 Q4IgG)
114 Rare Earth had some hits back in the day, but 1968 was a long time ago. Just why is everyone still talking about them and what connection does Zelensky have?

Posted by: Emily Litella

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You misheard, Emily. We're discussing rare earth elephants

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 28, 2025 08:26 AM (8AONa)

134 126 119 I didn't know sharks had a blowhole.

The sea was angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at February 28, 2025 08:26 AM (dg+HA)

135 Federal judge who thinks he's president blocked
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Roberts has repeatedly shown himself a through and through institutionalist. We all know the flaws that go with that; here we see the good side.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 28, 2025 08:26 AM (1bNHn)

136 The funniest part. Now he's going to be the host of a weekend roundtable on that racist network MSNBC. Oh and he talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 08:25 AM (EG7Bp)

Isn't that a prerequisite for working at MSDNC?

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 28, 2025 08:26 AM (MGB5H)

137 by: Lady in Black at February 28, 2025 08:20 AM (qBdHI

Yes indeed. Thanks Well said by both you and Jack Straw.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 28, 2025 08:26 AM (y2oqm)

138 124 Has anyone seen a real picture of Crooks?

Not the one of him at 14 or 15.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

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There is video of him walking around Butler on the day of the assassination.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2025 08:27 AM (Vh9CX)

139
We have a, theoretically, agreed upon vision of national unity. It's called the Constitution. That means that all the little, and not so little, things that have grown up over the years which are repugnant to the Constitution must be torn down./i]

I don't how many discussions I've had with leftists that go something like this...

L) We have to do something about X we can't let this continue its an emergency. We will do Y!

M) Y violates the constitution, you'll have to pass a constitutional amendment.

L) No way, that's impossible. You are saying we can never do something about X and people are DYING! And anyway if judges agree with us it IS constitutional. And the constitution is just some racist document written be old white slave owners anyway

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:27 AM (t0Rmr)

140 "what Jane Fonda engaged in a little over 50 years ago in giving aid and comfort to the enemy during time of war was indeed Treason."

We declared war on North Vietnam?

Posted by: SFGoth at February 28, 2025 08:28 AM (KAi1n)

141 Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

Federal worker: It’s very hard to focus on your job “when you’re getting threatened and harassed” by an email asking what you did last week.

https://tinyurl.com/mt8tvuk9

Posted by: redridinghood at February 28, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

142 DeSantis still has the CIA would be Trump assassin in FL right? How come we haven't gotten anything out of him yet? He didn't seem the sort to be able to handle real interrogation...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:29 AM (t0Rmr)

143 L) No way, that's impossible. You are saying we can never do something about X and people are DYING! And anyway if judges agree with us it IS constitutional. And the constitution is just some racist document written be old white slave owners anyway
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:27 AM (t0Rmr)
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Yeah, try telling a leftist "just because the courts rule something Constitutional doesn't make it so." They're incapable of understanding the concept.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 08:29 AM (tT6L1)

144 I would suggest though we have to move from just firing them to prosecuting them.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:24 AM (t0Rmr

There's more than one way to conduct a purge. And if I were in Trump's shoes, my methods wouldn't include any crooked judges or faggy HR managers or autistic billionaires, I'll tell ya that much.

Just German shepherds, firehouses, knouts, and razor wire.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 28, 2025 08:30 AM (BI5O2)

145 Three veterans were fired from the Milwaukee VA this week. I wish he wouldn't do that. VA services are hard enough to access. I think they need more help not less. My two cents.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 08:30 AM (SfhV1)

146 141 Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

Federal worker: It’s very hard to focus on your job “when you’re getting threatened and harassed” by an email asking what you did last week.

https://tinyurl.com/mt8tvuk9
Posted by: redridinghood at February 28, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

Try doing it with some dei goon looking over your shoulder for wrong think.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2025 08:30 AM (OA79/)

147 Fired L.A. Fire Chief Kristin Crowley Fights Back; Appeals to City Council
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What happened to LA is not funny. But what happened to the lefties running the city and state is. I love how they are showing their loyalty to one another.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 28, 2025 08:30 AM (1bNHn)

148 The editors of the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, and Reuters co-wrote a statement noting “an independent, free press” is “essential in a democracy,” and declaring that such a “principle” would be “threaten[ed]” by any limitation of the AP’s, Bloomberg’s, or Reuters’ special White House access.

Biden deleted over 400 Hard Card (access passes) reporters in his first 90 days and no one spoke one single word about it.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 08:30 AM (gbOdA)

149 Art III Sec 3

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

nothing in there about requiring a declaration of war

Posted by: Don Black at February 28, 2025 08:30 AM (AOsQT)

150 Wow, the US Army actually defending America's borders. WTF?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2025 08:31 AM (pLaQB)

151 140 "what Jane Fonda engaged in a little over 50 years ago in giving aid and comfort to the enemy during time of war was indeed Treason."

We declared war on North Vietnam?
Posted by: SFGoth

Prize cases addressed that issue. Taney neatly sidestepped over whether 'war' had been declared on the South in order for Lincoln to exercise 'war' powers. Basically, it is only necessary for a war to exist in fact rather than the legal form of it.

Framers would have thrown a fit but then again, you have Jefferson's popular campaign against the Barbary pirates and the constant Indian wars. None of these were ever declared wars.

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 08:31 AM (ctrM5)

152 The state of Hawaii, not to be outdone, has declared the “spirit of aloha” shall reign supreme in all matters of jurisprudence. Despite SCOTUS pronouncements to the contrary, there is no right of self defense outside your home, they claim.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 08:31 AM (9aAxm)

153 Federal worker: It’s very hard to focus on your job “when you’re getting threatened and harassed” by an email asking what you did last week.

https://tinyurl.com/mt8tvuk9
Posted by: redridinghood at February 28, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)
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I noticed she said she worked Saturday night to "catch up" on her work that wasn't being done because of the "distraction" from the email.

Most likely, she was scrambling to figure out how to save her job by actually DOING her job (somewhat).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2025 08:31 AM (7fElN)

154 Somebody here the other day said that within a couple of months of her death Hanoi Jane's grave will be a toxic waste site. Piss be upon her

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 08:31 AM (EG7Bp)

155 Ben Carson said (about the horrendous border invasion) that it is equivalent of somebody handing you a bag of the best candy in the.world, but telling you that one of the pieces is filled with the most poisonous candy ever created. Would you eat a piece? He was saying we don't really know who is Corning over the border, but nobody wants to listen to him. After all, he is an intelligent, successful, and educated black man! Wrong narrative!

Posted by: Chillin the most at February 28, 2025 08:32 AM (Ofe5D)

156 Yeah, try telling a leftist "just because the courts rule something Constitutional doesn't make it so." They're incapable of understanding the concept.

One thing right leaning pols/bureaucrats could start doing to help here is to start ignoring blatantly unconstitutional rulings.

The expectation is each branch will follow the constitution - if the courts go off the rails that is no excuse for the executive or legislative following them.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:32 AM (t0Rmr)

157 I'm not disappointed in either Bondi or Patel. I think it's silly to blame people we supported 15 minutes ago....

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It's kind of what we do here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 28, 2025 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

158 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Crooked judges, faggy HR managers, and autistic billionaires at February 28, 2025 08:32 AM (dg+HA)

159 Merry Old England is just about given itself over to Islamization. King Chuck is 100% behind it, it seems. He appears completely daft on the matter. He's fostering a system and a people that will eventually take over his country, and thus his heirs will be no more. At least, not in the sense we know them to be today. How can he not see this?
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 28, 2025 08:06 AM (qBdHI)

The King, and the rest of the "working" members of his family, are just dancing monkeys. They have no real power and little influence. People line up to see them the same way people in this country do for actors.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

160 I noticed she said she worked Saturday night to "catch up" on her work that wasn't being done because of the "distraction" from the email.

Most likely, she was scrambling to figure out how to save her job by actually DOING her job (somewhat).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2025 08:31 AM (7fElN)
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I noticed that too. My follow-up would have been, "Why did you find it necessary to work Saturday?"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 08:32 AM (tT6L1)

161 When NBC announced $$$ cuts to the Tonight Show, Jay Leno famously took a pay cut so that his staff wouldn't get canned. Has Madcow done the same, now that MSNBC is cutting her show's $$$?
Leno invested in and has tens of millions worth of vintage cars. Where has Rachel invested?

Posted by: Rachel Madcow's Marital Aids at February 28, 2025 08:33 AM (G5+As)

162 Federal worker: It’s very hard to focus on your job “when you’re getting threatened and harassed” by an email asking what you did last week.

https://tinyurl.com/mt8tvuk9
Posted by: redridinghood at February 28, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)
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An interesting follow up question: "So what's your title and your job responsibilities "

Posted by: WisRich at February 28, 2025 08:33 AM (Qgr0I)

163 The state of Hawaii, not to be outdone, has declared the “spirit of aloha” shall reign supreme in all matters of jurisprudence. Despite SCOTUS pronouncements to the contrary, there is no right of self defense outside your home, they claim.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 08:31 AM (9aAxm)
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Spirit of Aloha > Constitution?

Hmmm....Seems like a good reason to revert Hawaii back to territorial status.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2025 08:33 AM (7fElN)

164 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 28, 2025 08:33 AM (qXgJp)

165 Good morning horde

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 28, 2025 08:33 AM (0JWOm)

166 157 I'm not disappointed in either Bondi or Patel. I think it's silly to blame people we supported 15 minutes ago....

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It's kind of what we do here.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 28, 2025 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

I know right! Where's my pitchfork!?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2025 08:34 AM (OA79/)

167 138 124 Has anyone seen a real picture of Crooks?

Not the one of him at 14 or 15.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

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There is video of him walking around Butler on the day of the assassination.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

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There were earlier stories, now vanished, that considered whether Crooks was considering becoming a troon. From the NSA, it appears that there is a vicious nasty troon faction in office probably across the fedgov and on the streets in auntiefa and other degenerative cults.

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 08:34 AM (ctrM5)

168 Spirit of Aloha > Constitution?

Hmmm....Seems like a good reason to revert Hawaii back to territorial status.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2025 08:33 AM (7fElN)
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Invade, conquer, subjugate due to being in rebellion.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 08:34 AM (tT6L1)

169 > I noticed she said she worked Saturday night to "catch up" on her work that wasn't being done because of the "distraction" from the email.
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A distraction that requires an entire day to recover from.

lol

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 08:34 AM (Q4IgG)

170 Despite SCOTUS pronouncements to the contrary, there is no right of self defense outside your home, they claim.
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Umm, you don't know Hawaiian Surfers.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2025 08:34 AM (pLaQB)

171 "the most poisonous candy ever created."

Jujubes.

Posted by: gp Declines 2028 Nomination at February 28, 2025 08:34 AM (IaVIh)

172 Just German shepherds, firehouses, knouts, and razor wire.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 28, 2025 08:30 AM (BI5O2)
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Don't forget the helicopters.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 28, 2025 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

173 The Senior Federal Judge in SF (Clinton appointment) ruled that Trump acted illegally in firing probationary employees. He did not however order their reinstatement. Weird decision, akin to farting in Trump's general direction

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 08:35 AM (EG7Bp)

174 "what Jane Fonda engaged in a little over 50 years ago in giving aid and comfort to the enemy during time of war was indeed Treason."

As an interesting comparison to the Fonda case, Gonzalo Lira did something similar in Ukraine - he didn't lie about the handling of American POWs, but he went to a war zone and advocated for the "other" side.

Biden let Ukraine murder him in response. And of course, unlike in Vietnam, America is formally neutral in the Uke conflict

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:35 AM (t0Rmr)

175
We're not angry.
Just disappointed.

Posted by: Your parents at February 28, 2025 08:35 AM (dg+HA)

176 166 157 I'm not disappointed in either Bondi or Patel. I think it's silly to blame people we supported 15 minutes ago....

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It's kind of what we do here.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 28, 2025 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

I know right! Where's my pitchfork!?
Posted by: Cuthbert
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Always easier to critique surface events because those are readily observed. Thus 'optics' becomes the topic rather than the underlying subject.

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 08:35 AM (ctrM5)

177 DOGE is on a rampage:

DENVER (KDVR) — All Del Taco restaurants across Colorado closed suddenly on Thursday.

Signs were posted on the doors alerting customers that, effective Thursday, “all Colorado Del Taco locations are closed until further notice.” Signs were also posted in the drive-through.

Posted by: Don Black at February 28, 2025 08:36 AM (AOsQT)

178 Just like I can’t dismiss the possibility with Brietbart, I think the circumstances around Angelo Codevilla’s death are suspicious…. Also Scalia… and Seth Rich

I’m just a crazy conspiracy theorist

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 28, 2025 08:36 AM (nrfI8)

179 The Undisputed Truth version of Smiling Faces is better than the more famous Rare Earth version.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 28, 2025 08:36 AM (BI5O2)

180 Eat more Jujubes!

Posted by: Dental Amalgam Association of America at February 28, 2025 08:36 AM (IaVIh)

181 Why are we disappointed with Bondi? I’m not following…. Not fast enough on the Epstein info release?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 28, 2025 08:07 AM (HSqCq)

1. She "hyped" the release of the Epstein files - by saying that she had them on her desk and would release them once she reviewed them.
2. She handed out the information she had to social media celebrities despite discovering that NY had withheld massive amounts of the data.
3. It's a PR disaster! Cuz the media will say bad things.

If I didn't know better, and I don't, I'd suspect that most of the complaints are coming from people who preferred someone else for AG, with occasional chiming in by the usual shit-stirrers. Sometimes we get suspiciously unrecognized names who'll pop up to complain.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 08:36 AM (ExV1e)

182 @161: Maddow has invested in trout

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 08:36 AM (EG7Bp)

183 Whole lot of content to read over today.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 28, 2025 08:36 AM (y9ksN)

184 Fired L.A. Fire Chief Kristin Crowley Fights Back; Appeals to City Council

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Hey, she's just trying to get the band back together for the Three Lesbians Named Kristin reunion tour.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 28, 2025 08:37 AM (YnIVK)

185 It takes some time to either fix the bad players or replace them with good ones.

It's been a cold dry winter. Some people could use a little fabric softener to un-bunch their panties.

Posted by: DaveA at February 28, 2025 08:37 AM (FhXTo)

186 Good morning good people. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 28, 2025 08:37 AM (cYBz/)

187 173 The Senior Federal Judge in SF (Clinton appointment) ruled that Trump acted illegally in firing probationary employees. He did not however order their reinstatement. Weird decision, akin to farting in Trump's general direction
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Depending on the circumstances, a SF district judge does not necessarily have jurisdiction to rule in cases involving agencies in DC.

Like many of these resistance judges, they are issuing performative art as Clinton/Gore themselves RIF'ed folks using the same legal provisions that Trump is using.

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 08:37 AM (ctrM5)

188 There were earlier stories, now vanished, that considered whether Crooks was considering becoming a troon. From the NSA, it appears that there is a vicious nasty troon faction in office probably across the fedgov and on the streets in auntiefa and other degenerative cults.

As we've seen there are Troon death squads operating in this country - they killed that border agent in Vermont.

Somehow the FNM is very uninterested in that which is quite a different from when a part time census taker killed himself a few decades ago and the FNM falsely claimed we had right wing death squads hunting federal workers

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:37 AM (t0Rmr)

189 0 I noticed she said she worked Saturday night to "catch up" on her work that wasn't being done because of the "distraction" from the email.

Most likely, she was scrambling to figure out how to save her job by actually DOING her job (somewhat).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2025 08:31 AM (7fElN)
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I noticed that too. My follow-up would have been, "Why did you find it necessary to work Saturday?"
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 08:32 AM (tT6L1)
*******
It's like I am living in an alternate universe. These people are nuts.
If she is traumatized over that email then maybe it's time to retire.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 28, 2025 08:38 AM (NpAcC)

190 We're not angry.
Just disappointed.
Posted by: Your parents at February 28, 2025 08:35 AM (dg+HA)
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Yeah, yeah and I never call.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 28, 2025 08:38 AM (RIvkX)

191 If I didn't know better, and I don't, I'd suspect that most of the complaints are coming from people who preferred someone else for AG, with occasional chiming in by the usual shit-stirrers. Sometimes we get suspiciously unrecognized names who'll pop up to complain.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Lots of new short nics yesterday in the threads.

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 08:38 AM (ctrM5)

192 Patel has been on the job - what? A week?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 08:09 AM (SfhV1)

And Bondi 2? And they haven't cleaned up one of the two dirtiest areas of the federal government yet. Trump's cabinet is a disaster. Woe is us.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

193 187 Just don't tease expectations in the future. If you've got the goods, wait until you know for sure you've got the goods before you tell everybody you are a good-haver.

Posted by: Dental Amalgam Association of America at February 28, 2025 08:38 AM (IaVIh)

194 Actually, Bill Ayers meant to HYDRATE 25 million Americans, JJ! He didn't want them getting heat stroke in those camps in the Southwest!

Posted by: hysterical Austin hipster at February 28, 2025 08:39 AM (qXgJp)

195 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 08:39 AM (vHL8T)

196

Funny how no one in the usual propaganda machine is looking at 11 million invading illegal aliens as a "possible" source of the Measles outbreak.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 28, 2025 08:39 AM (x0n13)

197 Just like I can’t dismiss the possibility with Brietbart, I think the circumstances around Angelo Codevilla’s death are suspicious…. Also Scalia… and Seth Rich

The Seth Rich one isn't just suspicious.

The first time a DC staffer is murdered since 2002 and it is right after he leaked internal DNC communication to the press. The cops/FNM claim it was a mugging gone bad, but neither his wallet nor possessions are taken and there are no further muggings in this area? And of course no mugger is ever caught

I'm supposed to believe that?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:40 AM (t0Rmr)

198 Meanwhile, stuff the media won't report.

>>@matt_vanswol

>>🚨#BREAKING: Dozens of families in Western North Carolina are confirming that the Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA are PERSONALLY SHOWING UP to their homes to remove debris and trash.

>>One man said he signed up for help in early December, now confirms he is finally getting it!

Posted by: JackStraw at February 28, 2025 08:41 AM (LkLld)

199 The View’s Joy [ less] Behar Tells a Vicious Lie About Elon Musk During Anti-Immigrant Tirade Against Him – Then She Begs Musk Not to Sue Her

Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

200 Funny how no one in the usual propaganda machine is looking at 11 million invading illegal aliens as a "possible" source of the Measles outbreak.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Funny that. I mentioned that very thing to my uber lib pediatrician SIL the other day. Apparently, according to her, the only important fact of the entire case is 'Orange Man Bad'.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 28, 2025 08:42 AM (cYBz/)

201 Always easier to critique surface events because those are readily observed. Thus 'optics' becomes the topic rather than the underlying subject.
Posted by: whig

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Yes. It's one of the first things I had to accept once I was given clearance. You NEVER have the full picture.

Example I like to use is a TS being ordered to destroy a "baby milk factory." That's all you know. Of course it's horrible to destroy such a place, but you don't know what the higher ups know - that's it's in reality a bioweapons research site. You only see the order and may decide to leak it without the underlying context.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 28, 2025 08:42 AM (YnIVK)

202 Bondi's information drop was disappointing but...it all comes down to what she does from here.

If she does get the rest of the files and get them out there it won't matter.

Also and this really is the core of the issues - if she now arrests people like Pritzker and Dubin...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:42 AM (t0Rmr)

203 NBCnews:

Mexico deports 29 drug cartel figures to the U.S. as officials meet with Trump team

The unprecedented show of security cooperation comes as the Trump administration has threatened to impose 25% tariffs on all Mexican imports starting Tuesday.

Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 08:42 AM (RHGPo)

204 >Spirit of Aloha > Constitution?

Hawaii is very full of itself.

Which is also a good description of the liberal/progressive mindset.

Posted by: davidt at February 28, 2025 08:42 AM (i0F8b)

205 I've consulted the charts and am now calling Aug 2024 as the peak of Solar Cycle 25. That sucks. Cycle, we hardly knew ye.

Posted by: gp Stares At Sun at February 28, 2025 08:43 AM (IaVIh)

206 Posted by: Lady in Black at February 28, 2025 08:20 AM (qBdHI)

We don't have time for a chance. Sessions and Barr were the number one problem with the last administration before covid hit. To an extent Wray as well but that was somewhat different.

Sessions and Barr fucked us so hard. AG is probably the most important slot. This isn't hair trigger stuff, this is our lives and future.

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 08:43 AM (89FJt)

207 "VIPER isn't cancelled, exactly. It lost its ride because of scheduling difficulties, but the people who are working on it still have some hope that it might get to the moon someday."

People are still "working" on it to spend the funds remaining in this fiscal year.

A lot of what VIPER is about is inside baseball NASA stuff.

Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 08:43 AM (QB+5g)

208 NYPost:

Trump taps Hung Cao – who wants military recruits willing to ‘rip out their own guts’ – to serve as No. 2 Navy official

Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 08:43 AM (RHGPo)

209 Trump nominated Hung Cao as Undersecretary of the Navy. Seems like a good move. He wants a navy of snake eaters.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 28, 2025 08:44 AM (paSBy)

210 The best explanation people could come up with yesterday was Bondi made her grand proncouncements without checking what she really had. And that's from the people who *like* her.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 08:17 AM (89FJt)

If she'd waited to check and see what she had, people would have bitched that she was delaying the release. The people who want to bitch are going to bitch. It gets a bit tiresome when the coalesce on a single target and say the same things over and again in ever thread but it is what it is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

211
Hung Cow!

Posted by: Cool name, bro at February 28, 2025 08:44 AM (dg+HA)

212 Wow, the US Army actually defending America's borders. WTF?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2025 08:31 AM (pLaQB)

How am I supposed to make money doing that? We need to send the Army thousands of miles overseas fighting pointless undeclared wars in places we are not wanted so I can rack up some serious kickback dough. Some serious dough. Lockheed please help!

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at February 28, 2025 08:45 AM (EEZHI)

213 As we've seen there are Troon death squads operating in this country - they killed that border agent in Vermont.

Somehow the FNM is very uninterested in that which is quite a different from when a part time census taker killed himself a few decades ago and the FNM falsely claimed we had right wing death squads hunting federal workers
Posted by: 18-1
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That troon death cult has racked up at least five deaths so far. Part of the issue, I think, is that some straight white males that cannot get laid in a whorehouse have decided that being female (varying degrees of commitment) is easy mode to advancement in a system stacked against them. Thus, angry. Then you have white females who believe that being male is easy mode and then are pumped full of testosterone that their bodies were not designed to produce in such quantities. Thus, angry and depressed as well.

Probably due to DEI and society since the 90's in part because someone who is white and straight is disadvantaged, told they are oppressors, etc. and some people find psychotic ways to escape that pressure. The troon movement seems mostly composed of whites rather than racial minorities.

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 08:45 AM (ctrM5)

214 Hung Cao's two election losses were really disappointing. He ran in blue areas and lost to NPC drones in both cases.

He ran about as good of a campaign in both cases as I think he could have, but we have way, way too many people voting that shouldn't be

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:45 AM (t0Rmr)

215 Hung Cao is a very good pick. He ran for Senate here in VA and showed exactly the right temperament for things like this.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 28, 2025 08:46 AM (YnIVK)

216 115 I'm not convinced Breitbart died from natural causes. I'd be shocked if FBI doesn't have a file on him, which might be worth looking through.

We also had one of Clinton's senior advisers talking about wetworks right before Scalia died.

On the one hand it is hard to believe they could and would do stuff like this, on the other hand you look at the Epstein operation, the COVID operation, and the two assassination attempts on Trump and...maybe not.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:22 AM (t0Rmr)

Didn't Breitbart die very soon after he did that whole "Dinner with Bill Ayers" stunt?

Posted by: XTC at February 28, 2025 08:46 AM (UnA8+)

217 "military recruits willing to ‘rip out their own guts’ "

As long as they're willing to wait until they get the order, that'll work. In the meantime, there's Mylanta.

Posted by: gp Stares At Sun at February 28, 2025 08:46 AM (IaVIh)

218 All Del Taco restaurants across Colorado closed suddenly on Thursday.

==

Busted.

Posted by: runner at February 28, 2025 08:46 AM (g47mK)

219 I too think Bondi and Patel will "find their way." It was disappointing to see Bondi fall into the "influencer" trap however. The *biden administration used them extensively and it was cringe then, it's cringe now.

Don't do cringe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 08:46 AM (Q4IgG)

220 Hung Cow!
Posted by: Cool name, bro

"Everybody Hung Cow tonight!"

Mmmm. . .still needs work. Wait! I've got it!!
-- Wang Chung

Posted by: Tonypete at February 28, 2025 08:47 AM (cYBz/)

221 Probably due to DEI and society since the 90's in part because someone who is white and straight is disadvantaged, told they are oppressors, etc. and some people find psychotic ways to escape that pressure.

Someone pointed out back when discrimination against black people was rife you'd find cases of black people pretending to be white.

In 2025 though you have white people pretending to be black, or American Indian, or other minority groups. So...what does that signify in terms of "oppression"?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:47 AM (t0Rmr)

222 Trump taps Hung Cao – who wants military recruits willing to ‘rip out their own guts’ – to serve as No. 2 Navy official
Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 08:43 AM (RHGPo)
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So, ritual disemboweling when they fail their superiors?

Or would it make sense to hire recruits willing to rip out the ENEMY'S guts?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2025 08:47 AM (7fElN)

223 >>Hung Cao

Paging The Paolo

Posted by: one hour sober at February 28, 2025 08:47 AM (Y1sOo)

224 Del Taco's employees have decided to make a run for the border.

Posted by: Oh, wait. That's the other place at February 28, 2025 08:47 AM (dg+HA)

225 213 Probably due to DEI and society since the 90's in part because someone who is white and straight is disadvantaged, told they are oppressors, etc. and some people find psychotic ways to escape that pressure. The troon movement seems mostly composed of whites rather than racial minorities.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 08:45 AM (ctrM5)

Because to people who want to rise up the "Progressive Stack", becoming a Troon (MtF) or a Pooner (FtM) is the only way to escape being White.

Posted by: XTC at February 28, 2025 08:48 AM (UnA8+)

226 So.......Everybody was Hung Cow fightin'?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 28, 2025 08:48 AM (LxER7)

227 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl

Woman tries to rob a food market in Houston and gets stopped for not paying.

Robber threatens to come back with her detective mom.

She never returns with her mommy.

https://tinyurl.com/83u756ct

Posted by: redridinghood at February 28, 2025 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

228 TGIF, all!!

>>Giving a damn about other people? Like American servicemen being held captive and tortured by North Vietnam

Right?
And unborn babies
And the numerous women raped and killed by criminal aliens
And the residents of Springfield, OH ad many other towns being effectively erased, converting into company town foreign worker barracks
And all the careers and businesses destroyed for being deemed "not woke enough"

I am so very tired of these people claiming they care more. No, no you don't. You use your fake caring to bully and bulldoze over half the country. STFU

Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 08:48 AM (Cki93)

229 Trump taps Hung Cao – who wants military recruits willing to ‘rip out their own guts’ – to serve as No. 2 Navy official
Posted by: SMOD

Hoping here that Hung will requisition some gray paint so that our ships don't look like rusting tramp steamers.

Posted by: Sherwin-Williams-Cover The Earth (and Seas) at February 28, 2025 08:48 AM (G5+As)

230

Momma would've turned 97 today. Miss that great lady dearly and I am sad she is not around to have witnessed Trump becoming POTUS as she was always a big fan of his even before his turn to politics.

Glad she did not live to see the butchery and Jew hate in the wake of 10/7.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 28, 2025 08:48 AM (x0n13)

231 Breitbart:

Dem Sen. Blunt Rochester: Dems Are Fighting to Ensure Egg Prices Aren’t Rising

DailyCaller:

“I will kick myself that I got sucked in. I bet you I spent three or four days, maybe longer, not clowning, but just hammering them over the eating dogs and cats because it was so ridiculous,” Walz said. “And I took that hook, line and sinker. We were talking about immigration at a critical part of the campaign. And it was hurtful. And it pissed me off. And I was standing there to defend people. And it didn’t do a damn bit of good electorally.”

... these are examples of problems, not the root problem

Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 08:49 AM (RHGPo)

232 I'm going to call Bondi's Epstein file release a partial success. Files we've not been privy to were actually given to people who have a media platform.

This, in and of itself, is unprecedented.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 08:49 AM (tT6L1)

233 military recruits willing to ‘rip out their own guts

You will understand that mindset Once you have two MREs in the field.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 28, 2025 08:49 AM (NR6c1)

234 In the US the corrupt system we live under has been 26 years in the making.

Marbury v Madison was decided in 1803.
The Pendleton Act was signed in 1883.
The FBI was formed in 1908.
Woodrow Wilson was elected in 1913.
The CIA was formed in 1947.
USAID was formed in 1961.
The Impoundment Control Act was signed in 1974.
The Department of Education was formed in 1979.

It's been way more than 26 years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

235 A senior aide for former President Joe Biden has admitted the administration was “gaslighting” Americans when it repeatedly dismissed growing concerns about the oldest-ever president’s age and ability.

~~ NY Post, today
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The only one who is surprised is Fake Jake Tapper

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 08:50 AM (deJNz)

236 I've consulted the charts and am now calling Aug 2024 as the peak of Solar Cycle 25. That sucks. Cycle, we hardly knew ye.

Posted by: gp Stares

I was fortunate to be in Alaska at the time and caught some northern lights. The good news, however, is that this means that a new little ice age is upon us.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 28, 2025 08:50 AM (lTGtQ)

237 Those cats were fast as lightning!

Posted by: Hung Cow fighting at February 28, 2025 08:50 AM (dg+HA)

238 @197 18-1, the part that stinks to high heaven is that the FBI immediately took over the investigation. The murder may have occurred in DC but the DC cops should have been in charge. Rich wasn't a federal employee, so the FBI rushing in is covering up for someone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 08:50 AM (EG7Bp)

239 And it pissed me off. And I was standing there to defend people. And it didn’t do a damn bit of good electorally.”

We have sworn statements from the people in the town that Haitians ate their pets.

Did you go talk to them Timpon? Did you ask the police to investigate their complaints and find the truth? No. You called a bunch of American citizens lying racists because you thought it would help you politically and you are mad that it didn't.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:50 AM (t0Rmr)

240 209 Trump nominated Hung Cao as Undersecretary of the Navy. Seems like a good move. He wants a navy of snake eaters.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis
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They need it. You have a navy that has shrunk in numbers, cannot build new ships in a timely manner, has suffered serious damage to its morale and fitness for combat, and has global responsibilities.

At the same time, the Chinese navy has grown by leaps and bounds and their merchant marine fleet spans the globe. Quantity has a quality all of its own. And China is a near peer or peer now far more dangerous than the old Soviet fleet ever was. The areas that China is concentrating upon are also vital trade routes for US allies such as the Indian Ocean and the South China Seas.

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 08:51 AM (ctrM5)

241 Both Bondi and Patel made some pretty bold statements while their nominations were pending. This led many people to have heightened expectations. People do that.

I know many people want that Hollywood movie moment where the crusading public figure releases all the damning evidence, and the guilty are marched off to jail in handcuffs. That is so exceedingly rare as to be a myth.

I would be happy with a tenth of that. Astonished, even.

Posted by: Don Black at February 28, 2025 08:51 AM (AOsQT)

242 If she'd waited to check and see what she had, people would have bitched that she was delaying the release. The people who want to bitch are going to bitch. It gets a bit tiresome when the coalesce on a single target and say the same things over and again in ever thread but it is what it is.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

Well I'm bitching and I said practically NOTHING about Bondi during Fun Month. But I will remind anyone who cares to know that Bondi *enthusiastically* prosecuted George Zimmerman, the case which launched a thousand BLM's and helped tear this country apart.

Whatever people say about negativity, this everyone clap their hands for Tinkerbell stuff is *more* tiresome. Analysis is allowed especially on a day when senior admin got its ass handed to them for no apparent reason.

And BTW any delays would have been seen rightfully for what they were. Stonewalling by the usual suspects. This charade puts Bondi's judgment in question among other things. Sorry.

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 08:52 AM (89FJt)

243 It's been way more than 26 years.

There have been significant problems for a while - but the most important moment when everything started to go to shit on the federal level was when the left got Pedo-Hastert installed as leader of the GOP. From then until Trump the GOP acted as controlled opposition for whatever the left wanted.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:52 AM (t0Rmr)

244 JD at the National Prayer Breakfast.
Continues to be awesome.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 08:52 AM (Cki93)

245 Does Hung Cao is a very good choice!

Posted by: runner at February 28, 2025 08:52 AM (g47mK)

246 We have sworn statements from the people in the town that Haitians ate their pets.

The artist posted the other day his song has raised over $100,000 for the area's animal shelter.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 08:53 AM (SfhV1)

247 Trump taps Hung Cao – who wants military recruits willing to ‘rip out their own guts’ – to serve as No. 2 Navy official
Posted by: SMOD

Hoping here that Hung will requisition some gray paint so that our ships don't look like rusting tramp steamers.

-----

Maybe we can go back to the cool dazzle camouflage from WWI

Posted by: Josephistan at February 28, 2025 08:53 AM (y9ksN)

248 JD at the National Prayer Breakfast.

Him telling off Despot Starmer to his face was one of the greatest moments of an American VP in history

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:53 AM (t0Rmr)

249 JJ may her memory be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 28, 2025 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

250 But, hey. It made for a good song.

Posted by: The people of Springfield at February 28, 2025 08:53 AM (dg+HA)

251 Because to people who want to rise up the "Progressive Stack", becoming a Troon (MtF) or a Pooner (FtM) is the only way to escape being White.
Posted by: XTC
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That is about it. Incentives matter and that is especially so of people that want to climb aboard the ruling class.

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 08:53 AM (ctrM5)

252 248 Him telling off Despot Starmer to his face was one of the greatest moments of an American VP in history
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:53 AM (t0Rmr)

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*rumples the newspaper angrily while presiding over the Senate*
-John Adams

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 08:54 AM (GBKbO)

253 I noticed she said she worked Saturday night to "catch up" on her work that wasn't being done because of the "distraction" from the email.

Most likely, she was scrambling to figure out how to save her job by actually DOING her job (somewhat).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
______

What's worse than being a lying, lazy layabout? Telling the whole world you are a lying, lazy layabout.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 28, 2025 08:54 AM (Dv3i1)

254 235 A senior aide for former President Joe Biden has admitted the administration was “gaslighting” Americans when it repeatedly dismissed growing concerns about the oldest-ever president’s age and ability.

~~ NY Post, today
======================
The only one who is surprised is Fake Jake Tapper

... Oh NO. There are still millions of Democrats who don't believe Dementia Joe had a problem.

Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 08:54 AM (RHGPo)

255 Walz is still going on about Haitians eating dogs and cats? Way to lose the plot, genius.

Again, 20K people were dropped in a town of 60K. There is no way for a town that size to support such a massive and sudden increase in population.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 08:54 AM (tT6L1)

256 There have been significant problems for a while - but the most important moment when everything started to go to shit on the federal level was when the left got Pedo-Hastert installed as leader of the GOP. From then until Trump the GOP acted as controlled opposition for whatever the left wanted.
Posted by: 18-1
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Also consider the fact that the Clinton operatives went through all the natsec security files on GOP administration figures etc. to find any dirt they could exploit.

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 08:55 AM (ctrM5)

257 >>A senior aide for former President Joe Biden has admitted the administration was “gaslighting” Americans when it repeatedly dismissed growing concerns about the oldest-ever president’s age and ability.

Why admit this now?
Are we supposed to be grateful they've come clean?
Forgive them?
Has this senior aide admitting to running the country in place of the (allegedly) elected president -- because this was criminal.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 08:55 AM (Cki93)

258 Our side, so “we”, are dealing with cornered wounded animals now… “ they” will fight to the death about everything.. resistance every step of the way is what we ought to get used to from them. I never ever thought Trump et al would have an easy time of it.
Posted by: tubal at February 28, 2025 08:23 AM (PCK5/)

Their side has always fought everything to the death. They always resist. This isn't new. What's new is our side having someone who doesn't say "they'll resist so we won't try".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 08:55 AM (ExV1e)

259 Federal Judge Rules Against CIA DEI Hires, Says Trump CAN Fire Employees

Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 08:55 AM (RHGPo)

260 254 ... Oh NO. There are still millions of Democrats who don't believe Dementia Joe had a problem.
Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 08:54 AM (RHGPo)

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And their firmware on this issue will never, ever get updated.

Biden being sharp as a tac will remain an ironclad truth to them the same as Palin saying that she can see Russia from her house.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 08:55 AM (GBKbO)

261 Again, 20K people were dropped in a town of 60K. There is no way for a town that size to support such a massive and sudden increase in population.
Posted by: blake
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The assholes in a lot of this is Governor DeWine (who was supporting this under the table for his own ends) and the supposed mayor who was also grabbing Biden bucks to be slumlord to the Haitians.

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 08:56 AM (ctrM5)

262 Anyone know anything about the shooting in Crozet, Virginia?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

263 JD at the National Prayer Breakfast.

Him telling off Despot Starmer to his face was one of the greatest moments of an American VP in history

Posted by: 18-1

That plus his speech in Munich, telling the Euros that we stand up for people who actually believe in democracy, which was one of the best speeches I have heard in years. Vance is going to be a great president.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 28, 2025 08:57 AM (lTGtQ)

264 >>Sorry.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 08:52 AM (89FJt)
__
Feel sorry for yourself. You're going to be oh so very disappointed when not everything goes perfect during Trump 2.0. Be prepared for many absolute, end of the world disasters like this one.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 28, 2025 08:57 AM (bNf8H)

265 259 Federal Judge Rules Against CIA DEI Hires, Says Trump CAN Fire Employees
Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 08:55 AM (RHGPo)

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I just can't wait for the RIFs to start.

Hundreds of thousands of fed employees spiking the unemployment rate, but suddenly needing to get real jobs instead of sucking off the government teet.

All while illegal immigrants are leaving the country and opening up jobs in exciting fields like garden management and barista relations that will need filling.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 08:57 AM (GBKbO)

266 Bondi Vows 'No Stone Unturned' in Trayvon Investigation

She said Angela Corey, who is now heading the case, is the ideal person for the job, describing the Jacksonville-based state attorney as “one of the toughest prosecutors in the country.”

“They are going to leave no stone unturned in this investigation. When you have a young man who was shot and killed walking home, we have to have all these questions answered. The citizens deserve to have the questions answered as well as, and especially, Trayvon’s family.”
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Everyone knew by this point that Zimmerman's head was being bashed into concrete by a guy who was carrying burglary tools and looking in homes. Ben Crump. Angela Corey. Pam Bondi. EVERYONE.

And BTW Zimmerman is a fucking tool, but the case against him was garbage.

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 08:57 AM (89FJt)

267 Also consider the fact that the Clinton operatives went through all the natsec security files on GOP administration figures etc. to find any dirt they could exploit.

Indeed that's how they got rid of Newt and Livingstone to make room for Hastert.

They got two guys to drop out of the Speakership because they had affairs with willing adult women so they could install a guy that was assaulting kids - that's how committed, and horrible, these people on the other side are...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 08:57 AM (t0Rmr)

268 And their firmware on this issue will never, ever get updated.

Biden being sharp as a tac will remain an ironclad truth to them the same as Palin saying that she can see Russia from her house.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And his 'signature aviators' being mentioned ad nauseum was further proof of his style, dash, and vigor!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 28, 2025 08:57 AM (cYBz/)

269 Biden being sharp as a tac will remain an ironclad truth to them the same as Palin saying that she can see Russia from her house.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 08:55 AM (GBKbO)

Or that Trump said Nazis are very fine people

Posted by: Josephistan at February 28, 2025 08:58 AM (y9ksN)

270 More thoughts on Hung Cao.

Somewhere along the line it stopped being my Navy. My reasons for joining were a little complex, but I did have the perspective that I would honor the people who came before me and inspire the ones who come after me. At no point was it a jobs program or get my penis lopped off or whatever else. I had to make my peace with the fact that I was to find subs and order drops of torps which would kill a hundred people. At no point did my preferred pronouns enter into the paradigm.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 28, 2025 08:58 AM (YnIVK)

271

Lurking on Facebook and supposedly we're all supposed to not spend any money today and "Disrupt the System"

Oh to have a flaming bag of dog shit to slam in some of my acquaintances' faces.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 28, 2025 08:58 AM (x0n13)

272 The US declared measles “eliminated” in 2000, but the country has seen outbreaks in recent years amid a rise in anti-vaccine sentiment. The last US measles death was in 2015, according to the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

So where did the new measles come from?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 08:58 AM (gbOdA)

273 We don't have a Congress.
We don't have a Presidency.

We have 816 unelected, unaccountable Judges.

And every one of them must approve of the acts of Congress or the President.
Because any one of them can overturn the will of the People and/or their representatives.

816 tyrants.
816 despots.
816 kings.
Every one of them now asserting they--and they alone--decide how the Legislative and Executive Branches and act or not act.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2025 08:58 AM (uLKZx)

274 "Democrats who don't believe Dementia Joe had a problem."

He's probably alone in a hospital bed in some basement, with nobody bothering even to change his diapers anymore.

Posted by: gp Stares At Sun at February 28, 2025 08:59 AM (IaVIh)

275 > Walz is still going on about Haitians eating dogs and cats? Way to lose the plot, genius.

Again, 20K people were dropped in a town of 60K. There is no way for a town that size to support such a massive and sudden increase in population.
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Has any of the city's elected officials who sanctioned the dumping of those 20K Haitians, and probably took bribes to do so, been held accountable?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 08:59 AM (Q4IgG)

276 269 Biden being sharp as a tac will remain an ironclad truth to them the same as Palin saying that she can see Russia from her house.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 08:55 AM (GBKbO)

Or that Trump said Nazis are very fine people
Posted by: Josephistan at February 28, 2025 08:58 AM (y9ksN)

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And showing them direct evidence of it will just get rejected.

"If it were true, the NYT would have reported on it."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 08:59 AM (GBKbO)

277 So where did the new measles come from?

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Menonites.

Posted by: runner at February 28, 2025 08:59 AM (g47mK)

278 Tapper and Reid yelling at people because they weren't experts in psychology when noting Biden was a veg is right out of 1984. The Party told you to reject what your eyes and ears told you. We all saw it , but nooo, Joey was at the top of his game mentally

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 08:59 AM (EG7Bp)

279 "We shall see if the Hawaiian Judiciary's motto of Marbury Kaliki-MAGA"

There's a lot of cunning word play around here. That's just outstanding.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 28, 2025 08:59 AM (pIfcn)

280 *Mennonites

Posted by: runner at February 28, 2025 08:59 AM (g47mK)

281 RFK Jr. Brought Republicans A New Wave Of Voters — Can They Keep Them?
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No. Only the Democrats can keep our current coalition together.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 28, 2025 08:59 AM (1bNHn)

282 "Anyone know anything about the shooting in Crozet, Virginia?"

I know for certain that I did not do it.

Posted by: gp Stares At Sun at February 28, 2025 08:59 AM (IaVIh)

283 Hoping here that Hung will requisition some gray paint so that our ships don't look like rusting tramp steamers.
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Trump has commented on that, so ships will start looking clean again, and probably soon.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 28, 2025 09:00 AM (paSBy)

284 Our side, so “we”, are dealing with cornered wounded animals now… “ they” will fight to the death about everything.

Their terms are acceptable.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 09:00 AM (vHL8T)

285 Yes, Canada is our 51st state.

And it's long past time we re-exile the Loyalist back there.

The ones who desire to be ruled by kings, by judges:
The Democrats.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2025 09:00 AM (uLKZx)

286 Lurking on Facebook and supposedly we're all supposed to not spend any money today and "Disrupt the System"

Oh to have a flaming bag of dog shit to slam in some of my acquaintances' faces.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Being promoted by the leftwing site linkedin.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 28, 2025 09:00 AM (lTGtQ)

287 Feel sorry for yourself. You're going to be oh so very disappointed when not everything goes perfect during Trump 2.0. Be prepared for many absolute, end of the world disasters like this one.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 28, 2025 08:57 AM (bNf8H)

Save it. It's Friday and ironically for you it's my awesome mood that will keep me from doing what I like to do on other days. Take the reprieve and move on.

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 09:01 AM (89FJt)

288 Lurking on Facebook and supposedly we're all supposed to not spend any money today and "Disrupt the System"

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Just makes it a great day to get any shopping you need to do done.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 28, 2025 09:01 AM (MGB5H)

289
262 Anyone know anything about the shooting in Crozet, Virginia?
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I'm here to help.

https://tinyurl.com/mr3b73pt

Posted by: The Internet at February 28, 2025 09:01 AM (dg+HA)

290 251 That is about it. Incentives matter and that is especially so of people that want to climb aboard the ruling class.
Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 08:53 AM (ctrM5)

I've got theories on why it's not as prevalent among black people, but I don't think it's worth going there.

Posted by: XTC at February 28, 2025 09:01 AM (UnA8+)

291 Computer issues today.

Everyone have a better day than me. Then aim much higher.

Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 28, 2025 09:02 AM (jvJvP)

292 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 28, 2025 08:58 AM (x0n13)

I think if you want to protest the "No buy day" by the leftists you don't actually have to buy dog shit😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 28, 2025 09:02 AM (L6ufF)

293 8 shots? I’m still convinced TMC is only responsible for 5 of those.

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 28, 2025 09:02 AM (LC56R)

294 Why admit this now?
Are we supposed to be grateful they've come clean?
Forgive them?
Has this senior aide admitting to running the country in place of the (allegedly) elected president -- because this was criminal.
Posted by: Lizzy
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Same crap as on Covid. Professional courtiers floating around DC pining for their next gig.

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 09:03 AM (ctrM5)

295 Everyone knew by this point that Zimmerman's head was being bashed into concrete by a guy who was carrying burglary tools and looking in homes. Ben Crump. Angela Corey. Pam Bondi. EVERYONE.

And BTW Zimmerman is a fucking tool, but the case against him was garbage.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 08:57 AM (89FJt)

Trayvon was coming back from the store with those mixed flavor skittles and Arizona Ice Tea to make some purple drank. My guess he was breaking into houses to find cough syrup or pill to crush up.
That was NOT his so called girlfriend at the trial. Why the Judge and Defense allowed a fake girlfriend to testify was just plain criminal.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 09:03 AM (gbOdA)

296 I was just thinking of what I need that I could buy today. It's a great day for shopping.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 28, 2025 09:03 AM (paSBy)

297 Just for the record, I am not a short nic troll.
But you knew that.

Happy Friday, all! Mr. S is picking up his new car today and we're checking out the new natural foods grocery in Waco. We might hit the H-P B remainder store and get some items for the Sharing Library.

Hope your day looks good as well.
Thank you, JJ- you're our hero!

Posted by: sal at February 28, 2025 09:03 AM (f+FmA)

298 Menonites.
Posted by: runner at February 28, 2025 08:59 AM (g47mK)

WHo brought it to the Mennonites?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 09:04 AM (gbOdA)

299 Ontario had their election yesterday. It was called about an hour after polls closed.

The 'conservatives' - subhuman bastards that tortured me the last several years because of jab status - won a majority.

Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 28, 2025 09:04 AM (jvJvP)

300 @288 if Al Sharpton is calling for a boycott , I'm buying stuff

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 09:04 AM (EG7Bp)

301 >>I had to make my peace with the fact that I was to find subs and order drops of torps

I always preferred "bomb the buoy" in the training sim.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 28, 2025 09:05 AM (Y1sOo)

302 The Forever Holocaust
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I am suspicious of any treatment which fails to distinguish between religious and ethnic hostility. They really are different.

I have a 1928 Britannica, in which the entry on Antisemitism is a British rabbi, who insists that antisemitism, properly understood, is modern, post Darwin. IMO that is going too far, as the Spanish attitude to conversos shows. But there is a point to it.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 28, 2025 09:06 AM (1bNHn)

303 Today is boycott day? And here I was thinking about hitting a few gun stores in the area.

I guess I won't do that now.

Hahahaha, yeah, no, I've now got even more incentive to check on a few things.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 09:06 AM (tT6L1)

304 Sounds like Bondi is trying to fob off some of the blame onto Patel. I assume there is some great institutional reluctance to release the true Epstein dirt, and she's been trying to play it out because she's a player and has generally been good at that in the past.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 28, 2025 09:06 AM (ZlOcj)

305 145 Three veterans were fired from the Milwaukee VA this week. I wish he wouldn't do that. VA services are hard enough to access. I think they need more help not less. My two cents.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 08:30 AM (SfhV1)

A - what job were they doing?
B - how well were they doing it? We don't just pay for make work jobs when we're $36T in debt.
C - were they probationary? Again, we expanded fed levels so much the last 4 years, sometimes, that does bite good ones in the butt.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 28, 2025 09:06 AM (exHjb)

306 So where did the new measles come from?

🎶 South of the border
Down Mexico way
That's where I fell in love
When the stars come out to play 🎵

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 09:06 AM (vHL8T)

307 296 I was just thinking of what I need that I could buy today. It's a great day for shopping.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 28, 2025 09:03 AM (paSBy)
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My wife thinks EVERY day is a great day for shopping. I could get onboard with a few boycott days from time to time.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 28, 2025 09:06 AM (LxER7)

308 I always preferred "bomb the buoy" in the training sim.
Posted by: one hour sober

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And at no point did you have to wonder if your SS-2 was more worried about being misgendered than monitoring the buoys.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 28, 2025 09:07 AM (YnIVK)

309 I did not know it was Do Not Spend Money Day.
Is it just certain vendors, like those who dropped DEI, or anyone?

Posted by: sal at February 28, 2025 09:07 AM (f+FmA)

310 Funny how no one in the usual propaganda machine is looking at 11 million invading illegal aliens as a "possible" source of the Measles outbreak.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 28, 2025 08:39 AM (x0n13)

It's unpossible that one of our precious sparks of divinity could possibly bring in a common childhood disease with them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 09:07 AM (ExV1e)

311 did not know it was Do Not Spend Money Day.
Is it just certain vendors, like those who dropped DEI, or anyone?
Posted by: sal at February 28, 2025 09:07 AM (f+FmA

Total blackout.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 28, 2025 09:07 AM (MGB5H)

312 311 did not know it was Do Not Spend Money Day.
Is it just certain vendors, like those who dropped DEI, or anyone?
Posted by: sal at February 28, 2025 09:07 AM (f+FmA

Total blackout.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 28, 2025 09:07 AM (MGB5H)

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It's supposed to be a protest against Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:08 AM (GBKbO)

313 Today is boycott day? And here I was thinking about hitting a few gun stores in the area.

I guess I won't do that now.

Hahahaha, yeah, no, I've now got even more incentive to check on a few things.
Posted by: blake

I've got one inbound now. Probably should hit up a local gun store for some ammo.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 09:08 AM (vHL8T)

314 were they probationary? Again, we expanded fed levels so much the last 4 years, sometimes, that does bite good ones in the butt.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 28, 2025 09:06 AM (exHjb)

Yes, they were probationary. A couple of others were let go as well, but these three were the only veterans.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 09:08 AM (SfhV1)

315 >>Dem Sen. Blunt Rochester: Dems Are Fighting to Ensure Egg Prices Aren’t Rising

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T GIVE A D@MN ABOUT DOUBLING THE PRICES OF EVERYTHING DURING BIDEN'S PRESIDENCY. HOW ABOUT YOU FOCUS ON ELECTRICITY AND INSURANCE PRICES, AT LEAST?

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 28, 2025 09:09 AM (Cki93)

316 If I knew what my bonus was, for sure, going to be in 2 weeks, I'd go ahead and by my Steam Deck today.

But...work is being weirdly cagey about it.

It should be 7.5% of my yearly salary. We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO)

317 303 Today is boycott day? And here I was thinking about hitting a few gun stores in the area.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 09:06 AM (tT6L1

At least you can avoid all the leftists and trannies there today.

Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 28, 2025 09:09 AM (jvJvP)

318 People forget the role that the Obama administration and his ed department played in the Trayvon mess. He was originally found with stolen property in his school locker in Miami. Because of the move away from involving police in Hs matters per Arne Duncan it was suggested that Trayvon go live with his father for a while. Dad lived in Tampa area and in the development things started disappearing. Hence Zimmerman.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 09:09 AM (EG7Bp)

319 did not know it was Do Not Spend Money Day.

My microwave died. I'm headed to Lowe's, because patriotic.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 09:10 AM (SfhV1)

320 > Lurking on Facebook and supposedly we're all supposed to not spend any money today and "Disrupt the System"
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Pfffffttttt

If they were serious they'd "disrupt the system" by not buying anything... forever. Show some moxie.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 09:10 AM (Q4IgG)

321 Next time someone claims measles are making a comeback show them this.

https://tinyurl.com/ycymr25d

Posted by: JackStraw at February 28, 2025 09:10 AM (LkLld)

322 I knew what my bonus was, for sure, going to be in 2 weeks, I'd go ahead and by my Steam Deck today.

But...work is being weirdly cagey about it.

It should be 7.5% of my yearly salary. We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO

You get 30 days...

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 28, 2025 09:10 AM (MGB5H)

323 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T GIVE A D@MN ABOUT DOUBLING THE PRICES OF EVERYTHING DURING BIDEN'S PRESIDENCY. HOW ABOUT YOU FOCUS ON ELECTRICITY AND INSURANCE PRICES, AT LEAST?
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 28, 2025 09:09 AM (Cki93)
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Expanding on Ben's brilliant point, the fixed income people have really taken it in the shorts the last 4 years and Democrats said nothing about the problem or told us not to believe our lying eyes.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 09:10 AM (tT6L1)

324 It's supposed to be a protest against Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:08 AM (GBKbO)

Well, as I said above, he's buying a car- so I guess we're good.
Might have to throw in some yarn, as well.
MAGA!

Posted by: sal at February 28, 2025 09:11 AM (f+FmA)

325 322 You get 30 days...
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 28, 2025 09:10 AM (MGB5H)

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30 days to love it so much that I travel back in time and demand of my past self why I didn't buy it 3 years ago?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:11 AM (GBKbO)

326 @304

>>Sounds like Bondi is trying to fob off some of the blame onto Patel. I assume there is some great institutional reluctance to release the true Epstein dirt, and she's been trying to play it out because she's a player and has generally been good at that in the past.

Again, I don't care about the Epstein list, it's immaterial at this point and is a squirrel and stray voltage.

What I want to know and is more essential: what IC/LE/Deep State apparatus was running and bankrolling him, who was monitoring and controlling him, what was his scope and purpose, etc. Who killed him and why.

Kash and Bondi have the power to get to the bottom of it, as Tucco might opine, don't ask, order.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 28, 2025 09:11 AM (XV/Pl)

327 310 Funny how no one in the usual propaganda machine is looking at 11 million invading illegal aliens as a "possible" source of the Measles outbreak.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 28, 2025 08:39 AM (x0n13)

It's unpossible that one of our precious sparks of divinity could possibly bring in a common childhood disease with them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 09:07 AM (ExV1e)

American kids have vaccine cards a foot long
Illegal kids show up to school to get free lunch and free education with ZERO medical history.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 09:12 AM (gbOdA)

328 30 days to love it so much that I travel back in time and demand of my past self why I didn't buy it 3 years ago?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:11 AM (GBKbO)

Exactly.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 28, 2025 09:12 AM (MGB5H)

329 That was NOT his so called girlfriend at the trial. Why the Judge and Defense allowed a fake girlfriend to testify was just plain criminal.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 09:03 AM (gbOdA)

Dats be retarded Sir!

Posted by: Rachel Jeantel, Fat Rayciss Fake Witness at February 28, 2025 09:12 AM (EEZHI)

330 He wants a navy of snake eaters.

Really? Couldn't use a different expression?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 09:12 AM (ExV1e)

331 >>Same crap as on Covid. Professional courtiers floating around DC pining for their next gig.

"Well, it worked, didn't it?"
-- Harry Reid, coming clean about lying about Romney's taxes after Obama was safely re-elected

Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 09:12 AM (Cki93)

332 'Cruel and thoughtless': Trump fires hundreds at US climate agency Noaa. On Thursday afternoon, the commerce department sent emails to employees saying their jobs would be cut off at the end of the day, in a move that one worker called “wrong all around”.

for an admin thats looking to sow chaos in the American streets, this is a lot of bang for the buck. Surprise destruction will do wonders for your support, sick fuck.

This won't last long. The deep south is about to have a tornado filled couple days next week so that will be a point of issue along with no FEMA to help afterward. I can see a new J6 at the WH, many of the same people too.

Fox news and the other suck ups just won't report it or that it never happened. Is it time for Radio Free America yet?

I feel sick to my stomach. On some level this is infantile "payback", for them not giving in to his sharpie modified hurricane path. ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT. The citizenry is hereby advised not to look up. (Gay-ass climate change propaganda movie reference?)

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 28, 2025 09:12 AM (JCZqz)

333 323 Expanding on Ben's brilliant point, the fixed income people have really taken it in the shorts the last 4 years and Democrats said nothing about the problem or told us not to believe our lying eyes.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 09:10 AM (tT6L1)

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"Inflation is a creation of right wing media led by Fox News and doesn't exist. Also, inflation is real and caused by big grocery. Also, Biden fixed inflation with the Inflation Reduction Act. Also, inflation continues because of Trump's terrible economy. Also, we can't use egg prices because there was a bad flu in 2023. Also, it's all Trump's economy now and inflation from the past 4 years, which didn't happen and is just a creation of Fox News, is all his fault."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:13 AM (GBKbO)

334 257 Has this senior aide admitting to running the country in place of the (allegedly) elected president -- because this was criminal.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 08:55 AM (Cki93)
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It sure seems like it ought to be viewed as criminal. Common sense says that, but who to prosecute and for what? Impersonating a President? I honestly do not know what the law might be in this case, but I hope there is an investigation.

Who ran the White House and shoved documents in front of Dementia Joe?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 09:13 AM (EZz54)

335 328 30 days to love it so much that I travel back in time and demand of my past self why I didn't buy it 3 years ago?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:11 AM (GBKbO)

Exactly.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 28, 2025 09:12 AM (MGB5H)

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I have now discovered that a shocking number of PC games are available on archive.org.

I'm prepping.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:13 AM (GBKbO)

336 "Woke", like every other asinine and poorly defined political messianic cult in the last two hundred years, means you care so much about The People that you will sacrifice the lives and happiness of as many people as you can for it, while patting yourself on the back for your efforts.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 09:14 AM (VoAdT)

337 332 for an admin thats looking to sow chaos in the American streets, this is a lot of bang for the buck. Surprise destruction will do wonders for your support, sick fuck.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 28, 2025 09:12 AM (JCZqz)

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Did energy workers who lost their jobs under Biden's regulatory environment turn into raging paramilitaries who burned buildings down during Biden's administration?

Why would government workers do it? They're smart and cultured and moral who would never do anything wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:15 AM (GBKbO)

338 "Inflation is a creation of right wing media led by Fox News and doesn't exist. Also, inflation is real and caused by big grocery. Also, Biden fixed inflation with the Inflation Reduction Act. Also, inflation continues because of Trump's terrible economy. Also, we can't use egg prices because there was a bad flu in 2023. Also, it's all Trump's economy now and inflation from the past 4 years, which didn't happen and is just a creation of Fox News, is all his fault."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:13 AM (GBKbO)
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Do you have some sort of post modern democrat talking point generator? Impressive output there.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 09:17 AM (tT6L1)

339 Did energy workers who lost their jobs under Biden's regulatory environment turn into raging paramilitaries who burned buildings down during Biden's administration?

Now that's an interesting thought. Imagine if the people who actually do things for this country like energy workers and farmers decided "Screw you, handle things without us" and walked away.

2-3 days later, Our Moral Betters™ would be praising them harder than Mike Rowe.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 28, 2025 09:17 AM (NR6c1)

340 This won't last long. The deep south is about to have a tornado filled couple days next week so that will be a point of issue along with no FEMA to help afterward. I can see a new J6 at the WH, many of the same people too.

FEMA didn't help during fire & hurricane season. You've got to be a special kind of stupid to think they'll help the Deep South.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 09:17 AM (vHL8T)

341 Did energy workers who lost their jobs under Biden's regulatory environment turn into raging paramilitaries who burned buildings down during Biden's administration?

Why would government workers do it? They're smart and cultured and moral who would never do anything wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:15 AM (GBKbO)

Between killing XL and shutting down a few coal mines it added somewhere around 150k lost jobs in Feb and Mar of 2021.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 09:17 AM (gbOdA)

342 I can't imagine what living with [Alec Baldwin] is like.
Posted by: Lady in Black

*********

Neither can I...

Posted by: Halyma Hutchins at February 28, 2025 09:17 AM (/iMjX)

343 Lol. Okay, this from Daily Kos made me feel better.

"Don’t you people realize that civility will get us absolutely nowhere?

Let me lay it on the line. We lost. It’s over. And I’m not talking about an election, I’m talking about America. It’s done. Rule of law? Done. Democracy? Done.

You want to keep America as we know it? You’d better arm up, because civil war is coming. Look, I’m 60 and not in good health. I’ve never fired a gun in my life and couldn’t right now because I just had surgery on both hands. (I must really want to get this screed off my chest because typing HURTS. Ow.) But, once my hands heal, I’m getting weapons."

Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 28, 2025 09:17 AM (jvJvP)

344 Who ran the White House and shoved documents in front of Dementia Joe?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 09:13 AM (EZz54)

I always try to point out when this comes up.... who stole that privilege from Harris?

She was the second in line. If Number One took a number two in the bed, it was her right and duty to take over, not some nameless windowlicking wormtongue.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 09:17 AM (VoAdT)

345 343 You want to keep America as we know it? You’d better arm up, because civil war is coming. Look, I’m 60 and not in good health. I’ve never fired a gun in my life and couldn’t right now because I just had surgery on both hands. (I must really want to get this screed off my chest because typing HURTS. Ow.) But, once my hands heal, I’m getting weapons."
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 28, 2025 09:17 AM (jvJvP)

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Dude needs to realize no one cares about him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:18 AM (GBKbO)

346 Again, Bill Barr's father gave Epstein his first job, I want that thread pulled at rather than wasting time on nonsensical sh*t like some VIP name on a flight log.

This is of a piece of chicken f**king the origins of the steele dossier for going on 10 years rather than getting to the crux of the biscuit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 28, 2025 09:19 AM (XV/Pl)

347 Dude needs to realize no one cares about him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:18 AM (GBKbO)

He just wants everyone to leave Britney alone.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 09:19 AM (VoAdT)

348 Look, I’m 60 and not in good health. I’ve never fired a gun in my life and couldn’t right now because I just had surgery on both hands. (I must really want to get this screed off my chest because typing HURTS. Ow.) But, once my hands heal, I’m getting weapons.

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Oh brother.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 28, 2025 09:19 AM (YnIVK)

349 Story at GP that the little Hispanic girl who killed herself told friends that she was being inappropriately touched by a relative. She also may have been bullied by siblings. So much for the narrative

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 09:19 AM (EG7Bp)

350 299 Ontario had their election yesterday. It was called about an hour after polls closed.

The 'conservatives' - subhuman bastards that tortured me the last several years because of jab status - won a majority.
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 28, 2025 09:04 AM (jvJvP)

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My opinion is that things started to go to shit with the fall of the Berlin wall. There really was a new world order created. It's a straight line from that to the first Gulf War to the Twin Towers, China MFN status, second Gulf War and where we are now.

A key part of that was Newt getting shitcanned too.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 28, 2025 09:19 AM (Vh9CX)

351 You want to keep America as we know it? You’d better arm up, because civil war is coming. Look, I’m 60 and not in good health. I’ve never fired a gun in my life and couldn’t right now because I just had surgery on both hands. (I must really want to get this screed off my chest because typing HURTS. Ow.) But, once my hands heal, I’m getting weapons."
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 28, 2025 09:17 AM (jvJvP)
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I guarantee you that was typed by someone who's never had a callus in their life. Good luck with the whole gun thing because owning one and being proficient with one are two completely different things. And there's no way to get proficient with a firearm without a certain amount of pain.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 09:19 AM (tT6L1)

352 You want to keep America as we know it? You’d better arm up, because civil war is coming. Look, I’m 60 and not in good health. I’ve never fired a gun in my life and couldn’t right now because I just had surgery on both hands. (I must really want to get this screed off my chest because typing HURTS. Ow.) But, once my hands heal, I’m getting weapons."
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 28, 2025 09:17 AM (jvJvP)

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Dude needs to realize no one cares about him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:18 AM (GBKbO

You've heard of the Six Day War - this would be a Six Hour War.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 28, 2025 09:19 AM (y9ksN)

353 349 Story at GP that the little Hispanic girl who killed herself told friends that she was being inappropriately touched by a relative. She also may have been bullied by siblings. So much for the narrative
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 09:19 AM (EG7Bp)

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Is this the one that was supposed to be "suicide by being made fun of for possibly being illegal"?

By a bunch of kids in a predominantly Hispanic school?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:20 AM (GBKbO)

354 >>Expanding on Ben's brilliant point, the fixed income people have really taken it in the shorts the last 4 years and Democrats said nothing about the problem or told us not to believe our lying eyes.

Right?
You can't afford rent, to buy a new car let alone insure one, your electricity bill has tripled, food has doubled, and don;t even think about eating out or some type of live sports/entertainment.

But yeah, please spend ALL your energy of getting the price of eggs down from 7.99/doz to 3.99 -- that's totally a gamechanger, you ~~guys~~ freaking idiots!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 09:20 AM (Cki93)

355 When Biden shut down the Keystone pipeline on his first day in office, did a lot of people lose their jobs?

Why, yes they did and not one judge said anything about it. Isn't that weird, huh?

Posted by: dantesed at February 28, 2025 09:20 AM (Oy/m2)

356 >>FEMA didn't help during fire & hurricane season. You've got to be a special kind of stupid to think they'll help the Deep South.

As I posted above FEMA and the US Army Corps of Engineers are now on the ground in N. Carolina and have been for a few weeks. Turns out a little leadership makes a difference.

I've got a hunch that despite the cuts FEMA will do a much better job at the next natural disaster.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 28, 2025 09:20 AM (LkLld)

357 Despite several days of unhinged Lefty protests at the Iowa Capitol, the State legislature has passed a bill focusing on trans-issues. The Republican summary of the bill is that it will keep men out of women's sports, locker rooms and other gender-based areas, and prohibited gender-affirming care on minors. As well as possible modifying state civil rights laws to remove/prevent "trans" being a protected class.

The Dems are claiming it is erasing trans people from existence, will kill children, and drive people and business away from the state because it's so hateful.

Our DeSantis-clone (at least, policy-wise) governor will obviously sign it. Iowa went Trump +13% or so in 2024, and all federal reps and senators are Republican. We've come a long way from Senator Harkin and voting for Obama twice...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 28, 2025 09:21 AM (JCZqz)

358 FEMA didn't help during fire & hurricane season. You've got to be a special kind of stupid to think they'll help the Deep South.

Even worse, they were actively thwarting aid from "non-official" sources.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 28, 2025 09:21 AM (sHoES)

359 355 When Biden shut down the Keystone pipeline on his first day in office, did a lot of people lose their jobs?

Why, yes they did and not one judge said anything about it. Isn't that weird, huh?
Posted by: dantesed at February 28, 2025 09:20 AM (Oy/m2)

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I remember the 60 Minutes episode that highlighted their plight.

Also, I just came from another dimension.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

360 And BTW any delays would have been seen rightfully for what they were. Stonewalling by the usual suspects.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 08:52 AM (89FJt)

No, they wouldn't. People were bitching about where's my files, where's my files. So she released what she had and people people are bitching about these are stupid files.

People who're predisposed to dislike Bondi - maybe because she "*enthusiastically* prosecuted George Zimmerman" - are going to be predisposed to give her a short leash.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

361 300 @288 if Al Sharpton is calling for a boycott , I'm buying stuff
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Me too. Couple hundred bucks worth of food and a hundred bucks of Quikrete and fence posts on the agenda today. Doing my part.

Posted by: Industrious Senior Citizen at February 28, 2025 09:21 AM (G5+As)

362 @353 TJM, yup , one and the same

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 09:21 AM (EG7Bp)

363 Posted by: WitchDoktor

My squadron was selected by COMPATWINGSPAC to drop a live Mk-46 on the range off Hawaii.

My crew was selected by the CO to do it. I was PP2P at the time.

I listened on "aux" as the fish was doing it's thing looking. When the seeker locked onto the target, it went nuts, homed in and denotated.

It was pretty cool.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 28, 2025 09:21 AM (Y1sOo)

364 362 @353 TJM, yup , one and the same
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 09:21 AM (EG7Bp)

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I retain way too much stupid information.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:22 AM (GBKbO)

365 Neither can I...
Posted by: Halyma Hutchins at February 28, 2025 09:17 AM (/iMjX)

LMFAO

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 09:22 AM (89FJt)

366 266 Thank you for that, ...

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 28, 2025 09:22 AM (qXgJp)

367 Did energy workers who lost their jobs under Biden's regulatory environment turn into raging paramilitaries who burned buildings down during Biden's administration?

10,000 pipeline workers who lost their jobs on Day 1, could have really messed stuff up.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 09:22 AM (vHL8T)

368 The Dems are claiming it is erasing trans people from existence, will kill children, and drive people and business away from the state because it's so hateful.

Our DeSantis-clone (at least, policy-wise) governor will obviously sign it. Iowa went Trump +13% or so in 2024, and all federal reps and senators are Republican. We've come a long way from Senator Harkin and voting for Obama twice...
Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 28, 2025 09:21 AM (JCZqz)
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Considering the last few mass shooters have been trannies, I'm okay with them disappearing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 09:22 AM (tT6L1)

369 If every single fedgov employee who has been laid off is performing critical work that would endanger public safety if not done, (as claimed by the Left), if they are all essential...

...why is it that every time there is a squabble over a Continuing Resolution that we send home all the "non-essential" employees?

Posted by: muldoon at February 28, 2025 09:23 AM (/iMjX)

370 355 When Biden shut down the Keystone pipeline on his first day in office, did a lot of people lose their jobs?

Why, yes they did and not one judge said anything about it. Isn't that weird, huh?
Posted by: dantesed at February 28, 2025 09:20 AM (Oy/m2)

Around 100k people start to finish.
And they bankrupted the joint venture and sold it off for pennies.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 09:23 AM (gbOdA)

371 369 If every single fedgov employee who has been laid off is performing critical work that would endanger public safety if not done, (as claimed by the Left), if they are all essential...

...why is it that every time there is a squabble over a Continuing Resolution that we send home all the "non-essential" employees?
Posted by: muldoon at February 28, 2025 09:23 AM (/iMjX)

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We need people to set up signs in front of national parks that they can't go in!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:23 AM (GBKbO)

372 351

I guarantee you that was typed by someone who's never had a callus in their life. Good luck with the whole gun thing because owning one and being proficient with one are two completely different things. And there's no way to get proficient with a firearm without a certain amount of pain.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 09:19 AM (tT6L1)

Yep. unlike TV guns, real guns have recoil, will deafen you without ear protection, need constant reloading, are surprisingly heavy, hard on the wrists, jam, get dirty, pinch when you get in a hurry, cost money and range time…..

Posted by: tubal at February 28, 2025 09:23 AM (PCK5/)

373 Walz defended the Democrat Party’s loud protests against President Donald Trump and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) overseer Elon Musk by stating that his party wants to protect the U.S. from so-called “Nazis,” according to a recording obtained by Alpha News. The outlet claimed to have received the recording from Republican Minnesota State Sen. Nate Wesenberg, who said the remarks were made at a Minnesota Nurses Association event.
>>

Nearly half of Walz's MN constituents voted for Donald Trump and JD Vance.

It has been said that "Coach" is thinking of another run for governor. I guess he plans to spend his entire campaign in Metro Somaliland.

Posted by: mrp at February 28, 2025 09:24 AM (rj6Yv)

374 People who're predisposed to dislike Bondi - maybe because she "*enthusiastically* prosecuted George Zimmerman" - are going to be predisposed to give her a short leash.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

Everyone is on a short leash. We don't have time to fuck around.

You can take my frank honesty about Blondi any way you like, even to accuse me of some kind of bias or whatever.

But bear in mind I have alternately been accused on here of being a Trump Cheerleader Cultist and Not Sufficiently Positive Enough About Trump. Sometimes on the same day.

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 09:25 AM (89FJt)

375 Ontario had their election yesterday. It was called about an hour after polls closed.

The 'conservatives' - subhuman bastards that tortured me the last several years because of jab status - won a majority.
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 28, 2025 09:04 AM (jvJvP)

Doug Ford:s crack smoking brother was twice the man he is.

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Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 28, 2025 09:25 AM (kTd/k)

376 It has been said that "Coach" is thinking of another run for governor. I guess he plans to spend his entire campaign in Metro Somaliland.
Posted by: mrp at February 28, 2025 09:24 AM (rj6Yv)
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It's going to be interesting to see how Coach defends teaching elementary school age kids about condoms, pronouns and same sex relationships.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 09:26 AM (tT6L1)

377 woke just means you give a damn about other people

No, woke just means you want to see certain people damned.

Posted by: Paco at February 28, 2025 09:26 AM (mADJX)

378 As I posted above FEMA and the US Army Corps of Engineers are now on the ground in N. Carolina and have been for a few weeks. Turns out a little leadership makes a difference.

I've got a hunch that despite the cuts FEMA will do a much better job at the next natural disaster.
Posted by: JackStraw

Except the shit happened LAST YEAR.
September 2024 to be exact. And this is the last day of February 2025.

That's pretty piss poor for an agency that's supposed to be on the ground in 3 to 5 days no matter who's in charge.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 09:26 AM (vHL8T)

379 The Dems are claiming it is erasing trans people from existence

That's a fair trade for some peace and quiet.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 28, 2025 09:27 AM (NR6c1)

380 >> @288 if Al Sharpton is calling for a boycott , I'm buying stuff

#MeToo!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 09:27 AM (Cki93)

381 Well, late start today. Pooch walking finally arrives.

Later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 28, 2025 09:27 AM (tT6L1)

382 Yep. unlike TV guns, real guns have recoil, will deafen you without ear protection, need constant reloading, are surprisingly heavy, hard on the wrists, jam, get dirty, pinch when you get in a hurry, cost money and range time…..
Posted by: tubal

And are about the one thing you can have the most fun with, with your clothes on.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 09:28 AM (vHL8T)

383 Time to go get the gainzzz

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 28, 2025 09:28 AM (MGB5H)

384 379 The Dems are claiming it is erasing trans people from existence

That's a fair trade for some peace and quiet.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 28, 2025 09:27 AM (NR6c1)

It's a nice window into their mindset.

If you can't make other people care about your genitals, you basically aren't even a person anymore.

"Identity Politics" means getting people to completely jettison their identity and replace it with melanin and genitals.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 09:29 AM (VoAdT)

385 I guarantee you that was typed by someone who's never had a callus in their life. Good luck with the whole gun thing because owning one and being proficient with one are two completely different things. And there's no way to get proficient with a firearm without a certain amount of pain.
Posted by: blake
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If the nic has had carpal tunnel surgery or any other kind of hand or elbow surgery, you are recommended not to shoot firearms for awhile as it can undo the surgery. They use dissolvable internal stitching in most cases.

Stateless is an Canadian I think and has had a rough load to tote recently caring for his now deceased mother.

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 09:29 AM (ctrM5)

386 listened on "aux" as the fish was doing it's thing looking.

RIP Abe Vigoda 🕯

Posted by: Barney Miller at February 28, 2025 09:29 AM (JCZqz)

387 From the ONT in case you haven't seen it:

Hey again guys, Ciampino's daughter here.

Dad is doing better. He had some tests and scans today. He has double pneumonia and he has several small cysts on both kidneys and one huge cyst on one kidney that is pushing out his abdomen and causing bowel blockage.

They were going to do surgery to remove the large cyst, but have decided to try treating with medication for now. I am assuming that is because of the pneumonia and not wanting to put him under in his current condition.

My sister has taken Dad his laptop, so he should be able to post himself now, but he was asleep when she dropped it off. That's all that we know for now.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 28, 2025 09:30 AM (Eo96p)

388 >>Except the shit happened LAST YEAR.
September 2024 to be exact. And this is the last day of February 2025.

I know. But Trump didn't take office until Jan 20th of this year.

That's the point. There's a new administration in town and they are both slicing down the bloat throughout the government and getting those that remain to start doing their jobs.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 28, 2025 09:31 AM (LkLld)

389 Noodus gratia artis.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2025 09:31 AM (kgE5c)

390 >>I noticed she said she worked Saturday night to "catch up" on her work that wasn't being done because of the "distraction" from the email.

I continue to be amazed at how upsetting that simple request was. It unintentionally pulled the curtain back on what losers so many of these fed employees are. They only have themselves to blame.

It takes 5 minutes to legitimately respond to that email, but instead, they've spent hours on their pathetic tantrums about it.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 09:31 AM (Cki93)

391 382 Yep. unlike TV guns, real guns have recoil, will deafen you without ear protection, need constant reloading, are surprisingly heavy, hard on the wrists, jam, get dirty, pinch when you get in a hurry, cost money and range time…..
Posted by: tubal

22 LRs or even 32 ACP/32 S&W Long don't nor does 38 Special wadcutters in a service size revolver.

Low recoil are the easiest for a beginner to start and learn with handgun cartridges like that and for .223/5.56 in rifles. 20 Gauge for shotties. Don't develop flinch that way.

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 09:32 AM (ctrM5)

392 Post 343 seemed to be Stateless quoting someone from a left wing site.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 28, 2025 09:33 AM (42Vb+)

393 Funny how no one in the usual propaganda machine is looking at 11 million invading illegal aliens as a "possible" source of the Measles outbreak.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 28, 2025 08:39 AM (x0n13)

It's unpossible that one of our precious sparks of divinity could possibly bring in a common childhood disease with them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 28, 2025 09:07 AM (ExV1e)

Measles went on a Spring Break Road Trip to the US with Ebola and various other Hemorrhagic Fevers, Polio, and a whole gang of Third World shithole microbes.

Be a good host and invite Our Visitors into your body!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2025 09:33 AM (iJfKG)

394 But bear in mind I have alternately been accused on here of being a Trump Cheerleader Cultist and Not Sufficiently Positive Enough About Trump. Sometimes on the same day.

Posted by: ...
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Schrodinger's MAGA.

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 09:33 AM (ctrM5)

395 >>> Walz defended the Democrat Party’s loud protests against President Donald Trump and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) overseer Elon Musk by stating that his party wants to protect the U.S. from so-called “Nazis,” according to a recording obtained by Alpha News.

Why do the homos always call people they don't like Nazis?

Because the nazi party did in form in part as a reaction to rampant fagotry in post war Germany.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 28, 2025 09:34 AM (iWS2z)

396 392 Post 343 seemed to be Stateless quoting someone from a left wing site.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Yes...Daily Kos. Extremely unhinged and radically Left.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 28, 2025 09:34 AM (JCZqz)

397 Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 09:33 AM (ctrM5)

Heh

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 09:35 AM (89FJt)

398 Case is probably going to be upset (so sorry) but I wanted to add some stuff I found out about the...

Victory Vertical Fighting Pianos (who opened for the Berlin Philharmonic in 1945 somewhere):

https://tinyurl.com/4yse2k6b

That story fascinated me like the guy in "The Gods Must be Crazy" and the Coke bottle. I mean a literal WTF moment in the middle of a war.

Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 09:36 AM (QB+5g)

399 I continue to be amazed at how upsetting that simple request was. It unintentionally pulled the curtain back on what losers so many of these fed employees are. They only have themselves to blame.

It takes 5 minutes to legitimately respond to that email, but instead, they've spent hours on their pathetic tantrums about it.
Posted by: Lizzy
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These are people that need fake drama and emo in their lives to function. There is a funny short story by H. Beam Piper, "Naudsonce" that applies here. You can find it online for free at project Gutenberg. Needless to say, H. Beam was in no way, shape, or form, 'Woke".

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 09:36 AM (ctrM5)

400 Punxsutawney CBD is Nood

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 09:36 AM (JhljX)

401 Have fun storming the castle. Gotta go to a doc appt.

With all the lefties staying home, it should be an easy drive.

Posted by: whig at February 28, 2025 09:36 AM (ctrM5)

402 Good luck whig

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 09:40 AM (89FJt)

403 Anonymous Conservative says: "DC Draino, Mike Cernovich and other X influencers seen with ‘Epstein Files: Phase 1’ binders at White House. I do not know what staffer decided to release it that way, but it is worth noting suspicion and paranoia, which today is basically just realism, means the right does not trust those “influencer” people, even if they claim to be MAGA, an the network has all its members show up in their comments praising them. And since they are untrustworthy, people are asking why the White House is giving them scoops, when it could simply have released the files on the Whitehouse.gov website and let 4Chan, and everyone else dig through it." 1/2

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 28, 2025 09:41 AM (CljNn)

404 But bear in mind I have alternately been accused on here of being a Trump Cheerleader Cultist and Not Sufficiently Positive Enough About Trump. Sometimes on the same day.

Posted by: ... at February 28, 2025 09:25 AM (89FJt)

I don't believe I have met you at any of the meetings.

Posted by: New nick time! Certified dangerous radical that puts ketchup on hotdogs plus, imma wannabe ratfink a at February 28, 2025 09:41 AM (89Sog)

405 Just to clarify, that wasn't me.

It was a poster on DailyKos.

Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 28, 2025 09:42 AM (jvJvP)

406 Cont

"And this didn’t help:"

https://is.gd/2eYNJq

The General
@GeneralMCNews
BREAKING: Social media influencers who received the Epstein binder were caught posting identical messages, making it seem like a coordinated advertisement.

AC continues: "The more aggressively you push these glowing assholes with no talent or ability, and the more you try to bottleneck shit through them, the more people will reject them, and begin to question you. I am a huge Trump fan, and I cannot stand any of those assholes, and do not want to have to look at them to see Trump news. Everybody knows how they got there, that they are fake as fuck, and that the serve either what tried to destroy the country, or something exceedingly similar."

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 28, 2025 09:43 AM (CljNn)

407 “A whole lot of people are going to be really hurt by what is happening, what is coming our way,” she said.

Some people deserve all the pain they are getting and more.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 28, 2025 09:55 AM (jc0TO)

408 Taq,

It looks like the Admin made a tactical error. Need to remember that the influencers have been influencing the Admin too. Maybe the Admin thought that this was tossing them a bone for supporting Trump.

Overturning the legacy media is pretty much an adventure, there's no manual. Mistakes were made. I hope they get the message from the public and just post the materials on a Government website.

Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 09:58 AM (QB+5g)

409 Pawn, I don't know. I'm just throwing AC's comments out there as food for thought. What I do believe is influencers, such as these, smelled funny to me before, and now even moreso.

I read vociferously, near to the point of being a "wonk", every comment here, at CTH, not the comments but every post at Insty, TGP, several Substacks, AC, Vox Day, Takimag, and a dozen other independent bloggers for nearly two decades, and yet... I've barely or never heard *of* let alone read the opinions of ANY of these supposedly HUGE influencers.

I know that's anecdotal, but it makes them smell a bit fake and their status and success as more than a bit manufactured.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 28, 2025 10:09 AM (CljNn)

410

AL Sharpton? So he's saying not to go shopping. What about mass shoplifting and looting?!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 28, 2025 10:21 AM (x0n13)

411 Some people deserve all the pain they are getting and more.

>>>>>Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 28, 2025 09:55 AM (jc0TO)

Long overdue!

Posted by: test pattern at February 28, 2025 10:50 AM (qnw3j)

412 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J. (Early dr. appt. mea culpa)
How Jane & Bill grew up
(In part) Nikita Khrushchev speaking to the National Press Club in Washington on September 16, 1959

QUESTION: It is frequently attributed to you, Mr. Khrushchev, that at a diplomatic reception you said that you would bury us. If you didn't say it, you could deny it; and if you did say it, could you please explain what you meant?
'"KHRUSHCHEV: There is only a small section of the American people in this hall. My life would be too short to bury every one of you if this were to occur to me. (Laughter.) I did speak about it, but my statement has been deliberately misconstrued. It was not a question of any physical burial of anyone at any time but of how
the social system changes in the course of the historical progress of society. Every educated person knows that there is now more than one social system in the world. The various states, the various peoples have different systems. The social system changes as society develops. There was the feudal system. It was superseded by capitalism. Capitalism was more progressive than feudalism. Capitalism created better conditions than feudalism for the

Posted by: L - Another fine day at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (NFX2v)

413 development of the productive forces. But capitalism engendered irreconcilable contradictions. As it outlives
itself, every system gives birth to its successors.
Capitalism, as Marx, Engels and Lenin have proved, will be succeeded by communism. We believe in that. Many of you do not. But among you, too, there are people who believe in that. At the reception concerned, I said that in the course of historical progress and in the historical sense, capitalism would be buried and communism would come to replace capitalism. You will say that this is out of the question. But then the feudal lords burned at the stake those who fought against feudalism and yet capitalism won out. Capitalism fights against communism. I am convinced that the winner will be communism, a social system which creates better conditions for the development of a country's productive forces, enables every individual to prove his worth and guarantees complete freedom for society, for every member of society. You may disagree with me. I disagree with you. What are we to do, then? We push coexist, live on under capitalism, and we will build communism. The new and progressive will win; and the

Posted by: L - Another fine day at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (NFX2v)

414 old and moribund will die. You believe that the capitalist system is more productive, that it creates better conditions for social progress, that it will win. But the brief history of our Soviet state does not speak in favor of capitalism. What place did Russia hold for economic development before the Revolution? She was backward and illiterate. And now we have a powerful economy, our science and culture are highly developed.
Some say in your country that if the USSR will
have more scientists, we will perish. We are willing to "perish" in that sense, we are seeing to it that there are more scientists in our country, that all our people are educated, because communism cannot be built unless we do so. Communism is a science.
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Archive dot org/stream, from full texts of the speeches made by N. S. Khrushchev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, on his tour of the US, September 15-27, 1959. Translated from the book published in the USSR entitled, "In Peace And Friendship!" Crosscurrents Press, New York, 1960
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Ramadan starts Friday evening, Feb. 28, and runs through March 30, '25

Posted by: L - Another fine day at February 28, 2025 11:26 AM (NFX2v)

415 I have zero patience for the bipartisan sentiment. Mike Gallagher on the radio yesterday hit the nail on the head: He noted the savages of Hamas murdered those two toddlers with their bare hands and then asked “how do you negotiate with someone like that??” It’s rhetorical: you don’t. You can’t… the very notion is absurd. You cannot deal with such people

Forget bipartisanship… defeat them so they never hold another office again.

From "Will" by G. Gordon Liddy
Nixon ordered, "...that they should make certain that Woodward never bothers me again."
We later discussed it and as attorneys we decided that the only way we could logically make that happen was to kill him."

Posted by: waepnedmann at February 28, 2025 12:02 PM (RCOtX)

416 In the late 1970s, every Bomb Squadron in SAC had a photo of Hanoi Jane that is no longer on the internet. She actually looked like she was aiming the weapon and lot in the tentative manner shown above.

She and her family were profoundly ungrateful to the USA for the opportunities they received.

Posted by: setnaffa at February 28, 2025 01:48 PM (dKSNq)

417 416. Posted by: setnaffa

Jane Fonda Calls Her Vietnam Photo 'A Huge, Huge Mistake' The picture "made a lot of people think I was against the soldiers," she said. By ABC News, January 20, 2015

Jane Fonda earned the nickname "Hanoi Jane" in 1972 for visiting North Vietnam and getting photographed atop an anti-aircraft battery, holding a weapon.

Now, she deeply regrets those pictures.

"Whenever possible I try to sit down with vets and talk with them, because I understand and it makes me sad," Fonda said at a recent speaking engagement, according to The Frederick News-Post. "It hurts me and it will to my grave that I made a huge, huge mistake that made a lot of people think I was against the soldiers."

Fonda, 77, added that she doesn't regret taking the trip, calling it, "an incredible experience." However, she does understand why military veterans picket her events sometimes, as they did last week.

“I’m a lightning rod,” Fonda said. "This famous person goes and does something that looks like I’m against the troops, which wasn’t true, but it looked that way, and I’m a convenient target. So I understand."

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They never admit they're wrong and their true intentions.

Posted by: L - Another fine day at February 28, 2025 03:06 PM (NFX2v)

418 I understand that Pol Pot-Head was a Vegan just like Manson(Charles)and Hitler as well as Genghis Khan

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 28, 2025 05:46 PM (wGqjj)

419 I would like to strand those idiots from the UK Climate Change Commitiy in the Yukon for the whole Winter and lets see those jerks survive. Proof of a Strict Vegan Diet effecting the Brain and That's why PETA is so Stupid their already in trouble(PETA) for handing out their LIFE OF A COW pamphlet to School Kids and calling it Educational with graphic comic pictures of Tourtured Cows

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 28, 2025 06:05 PM (wGqjj)

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