Did Jill Biden Signal Her Puppet Husk Husband to Stop Talking on The View?

Almost certainly. She illegally puppeted an invalid four for years of his "presidency."

Jill Biden appeared to give her former president husband Joe a secret signal on The View after co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked a very risky question.
Biden, 82, was asked about Democrat insiders saying he'd suffered a sharp cognitive decline during his final year in office and began answering the question.
But after a few moments of relatively fluid speech the former president suddenly stopped and said: 'I've spoken enough.'
Jill, who was sat beside her husband, picked up the answer without a beat, sparking theories she may have nudged him or kicked him under the table to shut him up.
The former first lady has long been accused of hiding her ailing husband away during his doomed 2024 presidential campaign and telling him not to stand down despite growing outrage over his clear mental decline.
But she angrily denied 'sequestering' him during Thursday's live appearance on the ABC show.
Meanwhile, Biden was also seen sporting a mysterious band aid on his left hand.
The president was previously seen with a bruise on the same hand, sparking theories about whether he had undergone some kind of infusion for the benefit of his health.

When he was asked the question on his mental health, Biden awkwardly cut himself off mid-answer as he gave a halting and mumbling performance on the show.
Jill's sudden interjection appeared rehearsed, as she added in her retort that she was infuriated by books about her husband's struggles in office because 'nobody saw how hard Joe worked.'

Posted by: Ace at 01:44 PM

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1 Dude spent 90% of his time at the beach and the other 10% watching his myrmidons shove reporters around.

Hard work my ass.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 01:45 PM (yvnLa)

2 What, is everyone downstairs arguing about the filioque or something?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 01:46 PM (yvnLa)

3 Nothing says he was super fit for office like nodding off after two minutes and having his spouse take over an interview.

Posted by: Ann at May 09, 2025 01:47 PM (4neFu)

4 Good afternoon all!

I wonder if Biden made a deal with Old Scratch to be POTUS? The Devil always tricks you, though. He let him be POTUS, but he won't remember it or, if he does, he will be humiliated by that memory.

Posted by: jmel at May 09, 2025 01:47 PM (RWHIh)

5 Imma disappointed he didn't shit himself. They must have corked him.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 09, 2025 01:48 PM (pZ64F)

6 Old Joe lacked the motor skills to even pieces of paper shoved in front of. That was as of about two years. Everything was 'robosigned' after that. Except his withdrawal letter.

Whether he was aware of what he was signing is something else. But, no he was never mentally there.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 09, 2025 01:48 PM (zhin0)

7 Meanwhile, Biden was also seen sporting a mysterious band aid on his left hand.

The president was previously seen with a bruise on the same hand, sparking theories about whether he had undergone some kind of infusion for the benefit of his health.

It's where they stapled the strings. Duh.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 01:50 PM (s8j++)

8 Joe Biden was showing signs of dementia back when he was VP.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 09, 2025 01:50 PM (wgbpW)

9 She probably grabbed and squeezed his junk. Probably the only way to get his attention when there is no ice cream readily available.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 09, 2025 01:50 PM (Vyll1)

10 Of course he has a bandaid to camouflage where the IV was inserted so Dr Feelgood can pump him up.

Posted by: CaliGirl at May 09, 2025 01:51 PM (MFuOv)

11 I don't care. I'm just ready for ol' Nosferatu Joe to walk out into the sunlight and immediately become a pile of ash.

Posted by: XTC at May 09, 2025 01:51 PM (UnA8+)

12 sores showing up on your skin without any known cause is one of the last signs in elderly people. That, and losing sense of taste, where they don't like how anything tastes because its breaking down.

He is not long for this world.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 01:51 PM (2VST1)

13 Imma disappointed he didn't shit himself. They must have corked him.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Inflatable butt plug.
Same thing plumbers use to block lines for pressure testing.

Same idea anyway.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 09, 2025 01:51 PM (zhin0)

14 4 Good afternoon all!

I wonder if Biden made a deal with Old Scratch to be POTUS? The Devil always tricks you, though. He let him be POTUS, but he won't remember it or, if he does, he will be humiliated by that memory.
Posted by: jmel at May 09, 2025 01:47 PM (RWHIh)

I have been wondering if it was Jill who made the deal.

Posted by: mishdog at May 09, 2025 01:52 PM (Lv3q+)

15 13 Imma disappointed he didn't shit himself. They must have corked him.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Inflatable butt plug.
Same thing plumbers use to block lines for pressure testing.

Same idea anyway.
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Bet it also helps his blood pressure.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 09, 2025 01:52 PM (pZ64F)

16 What, is everyone downstairs arguing about the filioque or something?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Filioque vs. Homoiousian. The usual stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 01:52 PM (77rzZ)

17 I'm sure Biden worked very hard to stay awake and coherent. One might say it is a constant burden and struggle.

Posted by: El Mariachi at May 09, 2025 01:52 PM (gDhA9)

18 The worst part of puppeting Joe is reaching through his Depends..

Posted by: Dr. Jill Biden, EdD at May 09, 2025 01:52 PM (l3YAf)

19 I think his handlers forced him to personally sign his resignation so he or his wife could say it was illegit. Like everything else that was robosigned.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at May 09, 2025 01:52 PM (+YI9v)

20
Was there a busty, pouting nurse in a low-cut, short uniform taking care of him?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 01:52 PM (QnmlO)

21 Of course he has a bandaid to camouflage where the IV was inserted so Dr Feelgood can pump him up.

That's not impossible, although it is not hard to find another, less obvious spot to do it. They are definitely blasting him with uppers and a sinister cocktail of baby spinal fluid, adrenochrome, and virgin's blood.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 01:52 PM (2VST1)

22 Stepford President?

Posted by: Ciampino - just dreaming of ice cream at May 09, 2025 01:52 PM (sPQoU)

23 Jeebus, DR. Jill acts like anyone gives the smallest s*** what she thinks. Why are you even there? Oh yeah, to bail the vegetable in chief out of his hole.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 01:53 PM (s8j++)

24 17 I'm sure Biden worked very hard to stay awake and coherent. One might say it is a constant burden and struggle.
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He's no way tard like Hillary.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 09, 2025 01:53 PM (pZ64F)

25 Please tell me that the signal involved inserting her knuckle into an orifice. Lie to me if you must ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 09, 2025 01:53 PM (ebq2B)

26 Was there a busty, pouting nurse in a low-cut, short uniform taking care of him?

"yeah I wish they would get rid of that granny and bring me a little girl with long, lustrous, wonderful-smelling hair"
--Joey Fingers

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 01:53 PM (2VST1)

27 Yeah, that 10 to 1 schedule, 2 days a week was brutal.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 09, 2025 01:53 PM (NVNRw)

28 He is not long for this world.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 01:51 PM (2VST1)

I honestly thought that when he got the nom in 2020.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at May 09, 2025 01:53 PM (lg881)

29 Inflatable butt plug.
Same thing plumbers use to block lines for pressure testing.

Same idea anyway.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 09, 2025 01:51 PM (zhin0)

Is the shut off for the air pump manual or automatic? You don't want to blow the gasket.

Posted by: mishdog at May 09, 2025 01:53 PM (Lv3q+)

30 Almost certainly. She illegally puppeted an invalid four for years of his "presidency."

No one seriously believes Dr. Jill was in charge of anything, do they?

I can't imagine the cognitive dissonance required to think Trump can't fight the Deep State despite his most virulent efforts, but when Dr. Jill called the shots and the Deep State stepped and fetched.

Her level of involvement in decision making was zero. She was tasked with managing the corpse of her former husband in exchange for a few million bucks.

Posted by: Unsavory Truth at May 09, 2025 01:54 PM (IqKUv)

31 23 Jeebus, DR. Jill acts like anyone gives the smallest s*** what she thinks. Why are you even there? Oh yeah, to bail the vegetable in chief out of his hole.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 01:53 PM (s8j++)

She was running cabinet meetings so long she forgot that no one outside the WH is supposed to care what she thinks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 01:54 PM (yvnLa)

32 Joe, clearly, has had Parkinsons for some time. The infusions are what is keeping his around, but they wear off. And become less effective over time.

Question: why was his wife at the interview at all? And why did she speak, at all? Can't Joe answer for himself?

Posted by: El Mariachi at May 09, 2025 01:54 PM (gDhA9)

33 Jill using her husband the way she does is a fitting end to the asshole that is Joe Biden.

Posted by: 13times at May 09, 2025 01:54 PM (WDRj6)

34 Now that everybody has left the previous thread, and I was Willowed I have a book question . Sorry. Is there a clear dividing line between science fiction and fantasy genres ?. Does it have to take place in space in order to be science fiction.?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 01:54 PM (kjWDa)

35
Yeah, that 10 to 1 schedule, 2 days a week was brutal.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 09, 2025 01:53 PM (NVNRw)

_________

By 1944, with monumental decisions on postwar Europe looming, FDR was working four hours a day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 01:55 PM (QnmlO)

36 The blank stare.

Posted by: wth at May 09, 2025 01:55 PM (v0R5T)

37 "Nobody saw how hard Joe worked". I'm sure he did work hard. To get through each day as President, even with a greatly reduced workload, must have been a legitimately tough sled for someone in his condition. And if nobody saw it, it was because you did your best to hide it.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at May 09, 2025 01:56 PM (lg881)

38
I have been wondering if it was Jill who made the deal

She was way behind and in a bind. Willing to make a deal.

Posted by: Charles Daniels at May 09, 2025 01:56 PM (YStF8)

39 I wasn't signaling Joe I was healing him with Mind Powers I received in Doctor School.

Posted by: Jill Biden at May 09, 2025 01:56 PM (fTG6a)

40 Did they give him an ice cream cone?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 09, 2025 01:56 PM (pZ64F)

41 Lets ask Fake Jake Tapper. He's the self-proclaimed authority on Biden's cognitive status.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 01:56 PM (Whbv0)

42 Does it have to take place in space in order to be science fiction.?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I don't think so. Look at "Frankenstein." Or any of the critters-turning-into-giants-due-to-nuclear-fallout flicks of the 50s.

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 01:57 PM (77rzZ)

43 The dead eyes.

Posted by: wth at May 09, 2025 01:57 PM (v0R5T)

44
"Nobody saw how hard Joe worked"

___________

Should read, "Nobody saw how Joe worked hard."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 01:57 PM (QnmlO)

45 That interview was obviously intended to try to rehab Biden's image. But did nobody do any prep or mock interviews beforehand to see whether Biden could perform on anything approaching an acceptable level?

He was a disaster. And presumably, the clips that were aired were the best parts of the interview. He clearly has deteriorated even further since the disastrous debate with BOM.

Over-under on whether he lives to see 2026?

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 09, 2025 01:57 PM (iFTx/)

46 "Nobody saw how hard Joe worked".

So what? The acid test for a president is effectiveness, not hours put in.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 01:57 PM (s8j++)

47 Joe works the same way special Olympians work to finish the race.

Posted by: El Mariachi at May 09, 2025 01:57 PM (gDhA9)

48 Nobody saw Joe work.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 09, 2025 01:57 PM (NVNRw)

49 The smell, oh the smell.

Posted by: wth at May 09, 2025 01:57 PM (v0R5T)

50 By 1944, with monumental decisions on postwar Europe looming, FDR was working four hours a day.
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He was running circles around Woody Wilson.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 09, 2025 01:58 PM (pZ64F)

51 Her level of involvement in decision making was zero. She was tasked with managing the corpse of her former husband in exchange for a few million bucks.
Posted by: Unsavory Truth at May 09, 2025 01:54 PM (IqKUv)

You don't think there's actually a half dozen Jooos in preposterously expensive suits actually "calling the shots" in some room somewhere, do you?

She likely was involved in the decision making in her own little sphere of influence. There's no cabal of secret elders running everything. It's just a couple thousand retards all trying to out-retard each other, and whatever they happen to shit out gets called "The Law" so people with cushy pensions can enforce it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 01:58 PM (yvnLa)

52 Nobody saw how hard Joe worked
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Nobody has seen the tooth fairy either.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 01:58 PM (gt60b)

53 Honestly I don’t think slow Joe was awful at all in that clip. Like many of my lackluster drives on the links: serviceable

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 09, 2025 01:58 PM (ZiaCc)

54 Does joe Biden remind anyone else of Cotten on king of the hill?

Posted by: El Mariachi at May 09, 2025 01:58 PM (gDhA9)

55 Nobody saw Joe work.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 09, 2025 01:57 PM (NVNRw)

Nobody saw work.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 01:58 PM (gt60b)

56 Does it have to take place in space in order to be science fiction.?

No. The core of science fiction is the examination of a concept or innovation in science or technology and exploring the meaning or danger of it. Andromeda Strain is a sci fi book, so is Jurassic Park. Neither of them have anything to do with space. All of Jules Verne's stories were on earth, I believe.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (2VST1)

57 That interview was obviously intended to try to rehab Biden's image. But did nobody do any prep or mock interviews beforehand to see whether Biden could perform on anything approaching an acceptable level?

But why? His presidency is over. There's no reason to further humiliate him by putting him on national TV. Don't get me wrong, I love seeing the corrupt old bastard humiliated, but I can't understand what they hope to gain.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (s8j++)

58 He was running circles around Woody Wilson.

That was partly because he had mismatched wheels.

Posted by: Unsavory Truth at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (IqKUv)

59 Also, Fen, I've seen it theorized that the earliest work of science fiction is Milton's Paradise Lost. (All of the hell and Satan stuff has a certain sci-fi vibe to it, I guess.)

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)

60 Nobody saw how hard Joe worked

Because he didn't work LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (2VST1)

61 Good afternoon all!

I wonder if Biden made a deal with Old Scratch to be POTUS? The Devil always tricks you, though. He let him be POTUS, but he won't remember it or, if he does, he will be humiliated by that memory.
Posted by: jmel

Waiting for the day when we see pictures of the Bidens in the traffic median, Dr. Doctor sitting in a lawn chair underneath a broken umbrella and Slow Joe holding the cardboard sign:
Social security doesn't cut it, anything helps!

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (Uzn0I)

62
There's no cabal of secret elders running everything. It's just a couple thousand retards all trying to out-retard each other, and whatever they happen to shit out gets called "The Law" so people with cushy pensions can enforce it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 01:58 PM (yvnLa)

___________

Like the Court of Charles II.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (QnmlO)

63 Good afternoon all!

I wonder if Biden made a deal with Old Scratch to be POTUS? The Devil always tricks you, though. He let him be POTUS, but he won't remember it or, if he does, he will be humiliated by that memory.
Posted by: jmel

Be a good Twilight Zone -
Deep inside he is fully aware but brain cannot control body...
When Jill takes him home she shoves his wheelchair into spare bathroom and leaves him there.
But when Hunter visits they wheel him into the BR...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (zhin0)

64 If Ol Joe kicks it during Trump's term, isn't it standard practice for the sitting POTUS to give the eulogy? LOL. Must see TV.

Posted by: jmel at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (RWHIh)

65 9 She probably grabbed and squeezed his junk. Probably the only way to get his attention when there is no ice cream readily available.
______

I was amazed at the video snippets of him making a beeline towards whatever pre-teen girls were in the vicinity.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 09, 2025 02:00 PM (Dv3i1)

66 By 1944, with monumental decisions on postwar Europe looming, FDR was working four hours a day.
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and doing a couple of TV hits in between

Posted by: Joe Biden (I was there!) at May 09, 2025 02:00 PM (Whbv0)

67 His eyes keep getting weirdly...smaller and more beady.

Posted by: El Mariachi at May 09, 2025 02:00 PM (gDhA9)

68 But why? His presidency is over.

Money. If everyone thinks the Biden family is powerless and ruined, nobody will throw them cash and free things.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:00 PM (2VST1)

69 52 Nobody saw how hard Joe worked
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Nobody has seen the tooth fairy either.
Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 01:58 PM (gt60b)

Wait.... so if nobody has ever seen Joe and Hard Work in the same room together, that means that...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 02:00 PM (yvnLa)

70 Sorry. Is there a clear dividing line between science fiction and fantasy genres ?. Does it have to take place in space in order to be science fiction.?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 01:54 PM (kjWDa)
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Nope. Plenty of science fiction takes place in a present-day environment with maybe slightly more advanced technology. (Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park is a good example).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 09, 2025 02:00 PM (7fElN)

71 If Ol Joe kicks it during Trump's term, isn't it standard practice for the sitting POTUS to give the eulogy? LOL. Must see TV.

Trump has class. He'd do a good job.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 02:01 PM (s8j++)

72 59 Also, Fen, I've seen it theorized that the earliest work of science fiction is Milton's Paradise Lost. (All of the hell and Satan stuff has a certain sci-fi vibe to it, I guess.)
Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)
Read Neil Stephenson's Fall, or Dodge in Hell. Put you off your feed.

Posted by: Eromero at May 09, 2025 02:01 PM (LHPAg)

73 67 His eyes keep getting weirdly...smaller and more beady.

Like two burnt holes in a blanket

Posted by: Charles Daniels at May 09, 2025 02:01 PM (YStF8)

74 Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)

I 've never seen that theory about Milton. It's interesting .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 02:01 PM (kjWDa)

75 Trump has class. He'd do a good job.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 02:01 PM (s8j++)

He could hand it off to Vance I suppose

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 02:01 PM (gt60b)

76 4 Good afternoon all!

I wonder if Biden made a deal with Old Scratch to be POTUS? The Devil always tricks you, though. He let him be POTUS, but he won't remember it or, if he does, he will be humiliated by that memory.
Posted by: jmel
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Ya never know. Depends on whether one takes the powers and principalities argument seriously as a matter of belief.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 02:02 PM (ctrM5)

77 Does joe Biden remind anyone else of Cotten on king of the hill?

In facial expression, yeah. In demeanor, Cotton was a cantankerous old bastard but he wasn't demented.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 09, 2025 02:03 PM (/y8xj)

78 34 Now that everybody has left the previous thread, and I was Willowed I have a book question . Sorry. Is there a clear dividing line between science fiction and fantasy genres ?. Does it have to take place in space in order to be science fiction.?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 01:54 PM (kjWDa)
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You have 2 questions. The number of the questions shall be 2.

For me there is a clear distinction. I love scifi and will not read fantasy stuff.
Fantasy involves magic of some sort. I've never been into that.
(Outer) Space does not have to be involved for it to be scifi.

Posted by: Ciampino - just my 2 cents at May 09, 2025 02:03 PM (sPQoU)

79
Trump has class. He'd do a good job.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 02:01 PM (s8j++)

________

Agreed. I think Trump would be gracious. He might be a brass knuckles guy, but I don't see him as petty or vindictive towards a dead man.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 02:03 PM (QnmlO)

80 I can't believe my ears! Bulwark was in the "New Media Seat" during WH briefing. Who the fk recommended that ??! First, they are not new, and second, this is akin to inviting the Atlantic into a classified chat.

Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 02:03 PM (g47mK)

81 I can see reason to believe that bag of blow found in the White House was being smuggled in for The Big Guy. Just a little pick me up for Daddy, brought in by Sonny. FDR was getting cocaine nasal swabs for a supposed long lasting sinus condition.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 09, 2025 02:04 PM (gm9Sb)

82 The dead eyes.
Posted by: wth at May 09, 2025 01:57 PM

Like dolls' eyes...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 09, 2025 02:04 PM (kgE5c)

83 Does joe Biden remind anyone else of Cotten on king of the hill?

Joe still has his shins, but other than that they are a pretty close match.

Posted by: Unsavory Truth at May 09, 2025 02:04 PM (IqKUv)

84 I was thinking that with the mysterious bandage Joe Biden is becoming Les Nessman. But the I remembered that Les was an endearing nerd and Biden is asshoe

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 02:04 PM (vmkyp)

85 If Ol Joe kicks it during Trump's term, isn't it standard practice for the sitting POTUS to give the eulogy? LOL. Must see TV.

Trump has class. He'd do a good job.
Posted by: Archimedes

Trump: "So, anyway..."

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 02:04 PM (y6oPX)

86 In facial expression, yeah. In demeanor, Cotton was a cantankerous old bastard but he wasn't demented

And hie killed fiddy men

Posted by: Charles Daniels at May 09, 2025 02:04 PM (YStF8)

87 Be a good Twilight Zone -
Deep inside he is fully aware but brain cannot control body...
When Jill takes him home she shoves his wheelchair into spare bathroom and leaves him there.
But when Hunter visits they wheel him into the BR...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (zhin0)

Sounds a bit like a Harlan Ellison story. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 09, 2025 02:04 PM (/HDaX)

88 Bulwark was in the "New Media Seat"
____

Is there only one seat for new media? If so, they're doing it wrong. It should be the other way around with an "Old Media Seat".

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 09, 2025 02:05 PM (Dv3i1)

89 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (2VST1)

Thanks. Them I have read some science fiction. I have read Jules Verne and Frankenstein.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 02:05 PM (kjWDa)

90 She was also first out of the gate with a quick “no” when Joe was asked if he was surprised Kamala lost. Joe then says no, too but gives an answer that matched a yes better.

Posted by: Piper at May 09, 2025 02:05 PM (p4NUW)

91 The eyes are the window to the soul.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 09, 2025 02:05 PM (NVNRw)

92 Fantasy is about supernatural forces, usually presented as magic but also possibly divine powers. It usually has monsters as well, but not always. Star Wars, for example, is a fantasy posing as science fiction. The first movie was more sci fi or space opera, but it turned into a focus on magic in later movies and shows.

The first Song of Fire and Ice books had no magic whatsoever and were just speculative fiction about another world with monsters in it, not fantasy at all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:05 PM (2VST1)

93 I'm still convinced he was wearing contacts in his last presidential debate since he was pumped full of focus drugs.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 09, 2025 02:05 PM (EES2L)

94 I don't see him as petty or vindictive towards a dead man.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 02:03 PM (QnmlO)

I guess nobody's perfect.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 02:05 PM (gt60b)

95 I understand that there's been some buzz about getting the *biden's to write a 'tell all' sort of book about their time in the White House.

It would be a complete work of fiction.

However, I'd be interested if there are any disgruntled former staffers who feel like they may have been disrespected by the family and have an ax to grind about it. I would presume there are outfits that would publish such if it happened.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 02:06 PM (Q4IgG)

96 DOCTOR Jill and whoever else is giving public relations advice to her and Joe are screwing-up just like Joe's White House Handlers did after his crash-and-burn debate performance.

Then and now the plan appears to be countering the post-debate and post-election books narratives that Joe is mentally feeble, by pushing Joe out into the public eye to demonstrate he is sharp-as-a-tack, the Smartest Man in the World, and stronk as a bull. Some people never learn. Especially Bidens and their enablers.

Posted by: Gref at May 09, 2025 02:06 PM (aBgBM)

97 Trump has class. He'd do a good job.

Yeah, he'd slip a double meaning line or two in there like the Buttgag bicycle thing but it would overall be decent and respectful.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:06 PM (2VST1)

98 He was running circles around Woody Wilson.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Woodrow Wilson was dead in 1944. So FDR might have been doing wheelies around Wilson's grave but not Wilson himself.

If you mean before that, Wilson's stroke did not occur until after WWI ended.

Posted by: whig at May 09, 2025 02:06 PM (ctrM5)

99 What a legend he was when nobody was looking! Shame he couldn't show that laser-sharpness and hard work in FRONT of the scenes, eh? That Joe, always hiding his light under a bushel. Or maybe it's like how the camera adds 10 pounds to a person, only in this case, it added 20 years of brain maggots.

Posted by: lauraw at May 09, 2025 02:06 PM (B0A2B)

100 Science fiction is the improbable made possible, and fantasy is the impossible made probable.

Posted by: Rod Serling at May 09, 2025 02:07 PM (WDRj6)

101 'nobody saw how hard Joe worked.'

How could we? He was always at the beach.

Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2025 02:07 PM (kkfAA)

102 But why? His presidency is over. There's no reason to further humiliate him by putting him on national TV. Don't get me wrong, I love seeing the corrupt old bastard humiliated, but I can't understand what they hope to gain.

I think they're trying to show he's relevant and most importantly not dead. I think they want the lefty powers that be to redirect some money to them since PDT cut off the gravy train.

Posted by: Nelly at May 09, 2025 02:07 PM (pSknm)

103 Joe and Jill will be doing guest shots on QVC before too long.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 02:08 PM (7JcxA)

104 Is there a clear dividing line between science fiction and fantasy genres ?

All just IMO, but all speculative fiction begins with the premise "What if this thing that doesn't work in our reality does work in some other reality?" If the thing is technological, like faster than light travel or planetary terraforming, then it's science fiction. If the thing is magic, then it's fantasy.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 09, 2025 02:08 PM (/y8xj)

105 > If Ol Joe kicks it during Trump's term, isn't it standard practice for the sitting POTUS to give the eulogy?
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I imagine the family has a veto on that they can use. If they're so inclined.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 02:08 PM (Q4IgG)

106
Joe has the clearest brain in the Democratic party right now.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 02:08 PM (QnmlO)

107 Meanwhile, Biden was also seen sporting a mysterious band aid on his left hand.

Cut himself shaving.

Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2025 02:08 PM (kkfAA)

108 Agreed. I think Trump would be gracious. He might be a brass knuckles guy, but I don't see him as petty or vindictive towards a dead man.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

But he could take the opportunity to rif on Dr Jill being a no class gutter ho?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 09, 2025 02:08 PM (zhin0)

109 103 Joe and Jill will be doing guest shots on QVC before too long.
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Jill could sell some hideous slip covers.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 09, 2025 02:09 PM (pZ64F)

110 The crowd on The View clapped like trained seals after Jill gave her little apologia for POTATUS. I wonder if the staff was working overtime to pump up the crowd after she spoke. I can't believe that many people still love Old Joe.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 09, 2025 02:09 PM (x/+r1)

111 You'd work hard too if you were around Jill all the time. I mean, look at the turd cutter on her. No joke. I'm not messing around here

Posted by: Joe at May 09, 2025 02:09 PM (YStF8)

112 Joe has never really been good at anything but politickin'. If he had been in private practice it would have been a small office upstairs from a downtown hardware store. Specializing in wills where he could be appointed executor of the estate. (Joe, rubbing hands together, saying "excellent" in his best Monty Burns voice, getting ready to raid an old lady's estate).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 09, 2025 02:09 PM (gm9Sb)

113 "Nobody saw how hard he worked"

And as proof, she cites tropes so common they'd be "B reel" or montage sequences in any movie.

Things that are the bare-bones, absolute minimum you'd expect a President to be doing.

It's a 24/7 job and she's praising him like a superman for reading his daily briefing (that every other President gets by 9am) before he goes to bed at 7:45pm.

But I particularly like the part where he was so engaged in the answer, so tuned into the dialog with the hosts that he ... stared at the table while he answered.

Totally not like a mentally infirm reciting canned answers or listening to an earpiece would do.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 09, 2025 02:09 PM (sMW+k)

114 56
All of Jules Verne's stories were on earth, I believe.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (2VST1)
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hmm!
From the Earth to the Moon

Posted by: Ciampino - from a cannon too at May 09, 2025 02:09 PM (sPQoU)

115 job.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 09, 2025 02:01 PM (s8j++)

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Agreed. I think Trump would be gracious. He might be a brass knuckles guy, but I don't see him as petty or vindictive towards a dead man.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Agreed also, but, you know that in the aftermath, the retards would moan and scream because Trump. It wouldn't matter how gracious Trump was, they would literally blame him for Joe's death and Trump would eat them alive, like the Troll King at a buffet.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at May 09, 2025 02:09 PM (Uzn0I)

116 I have to imagine "They" don't give a rat's ass what Biden does one way or the other anymore, and the dipshit producers who schedule for the Spew are simply lazy idiots who figured the guy has to be good for some kind of ratings bump. And Biden herself is just flat out desperate.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 02:09 PM (yvnLa)

117 Joe's calendar isn't filled with 500,000 a pop speaking engagements.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 09, 2025 02:09 PM (NVNRw)

118 All just IMO, but all speculative fiction begins with the premise "What if this thing that doesn't work in our reality does work in some other reality?"

Some sci fi is just taking new tech and exploring the possibilities and dangers of it, like AI or cloning. To me the best sci fi is cautionary: this is the threat of this new idea, be careful.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:09 PM (2VST1)

119 Nobody saw how hard Joe worked
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Nobody has seen the tooth fairy either.
Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 01:58 PM (gt60b)

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Heh

Posted by: Easter Bunny at May 09, 2025 02:10 PM (1FWWQ)

120 From the Earth to the Moon

Is that a Verne story? I stand corrected

Well, sit, but you get the idea

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:10 PM (2VST1)

121 Nobody saw how hard Joe worked
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Maybe because you kept cutting him off in public

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 02:10 PM (gt60b)

122
"... But compared to Hunter, he was a saint."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 02:11 PM (QnmlO)

123 If the thing is technological, like faster than light travel or planetary terraforming, then it's science fiction. If the thing is magic, then it's fantasy.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 09, 2025 02:08 PM (/y8xj)

"Hard SF" would argue that planetary terraforming is physically possible, but that FTL is not.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 09, 2025 02:11 PM (gKWVE)

124 111 You'd work hard too if you were around Jill all the time. I mean, look at the turd cutter on her. No joke. I'm not messing around here
Posted by: Joe at May 09, 2025 02:09 PM (YStF

'turd cutter.' How romantic.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 09, 2025 02:11 PM (x/+r1)

125 Pakistan formally declared war on India

Posted by: gKWVE at May 09, 2025 02:12 PM (gKWVE)

126 That vile, homewrecking harpy needs to know that nobody believes her shit. Joe is racist, venal asshole, but even he doesn't deserve to be paraded out by this vapid unserious bitch. The both of them together are a singularity of grift and incompetence and I truly wish, in a most Christian sense, that they just go the fuck away.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 09, 2025 02:12 PM (a4NoL)

127 The president was previously seen with a bruise on the same hand, sparking theories about whether he had undergone some kind of infusion for the benefit of his health.

When he was asked the question on his mental health, Biden awkwardly cut himself off mid-answer as he gave a halting and mumbling performance on the show.

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"Infusion for his heath" -- do they even listen to themselves? What was this a potion given from an Elvish princess craftable only under the full moon?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 09, 2025 02:12 PM (8avO+)

128 125 Pakistan formally declared war on India
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Time to short 7-11s.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 09, 2025 02:13 PM (pZ64F)

129 but that FTL is not.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 09, 2025 02:11 PM (gKWVE)

There's always the translation vs. transportation angle that every sci fi thing always uses. Wormholes, space folding, blah blah yadda yadda.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 02:13 PM (yvnLa)

130 The only thing *biden "worked at" was grifting. On that matter, Jill's correct. He did work hard. But to be honest, there were likely a dozen or so family/staff who were running the *biden crime family's™ side biz lining their pockets.

*biden apparently used his positions in government, his perceived political clout to forge deals where he got 'paid' for it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 02:13 PM (Q4IgG)

131 My favorite clip was the cycling of pictures of Joe at the beach--sleeping, lounging, standing aimlessly, etc.--while Jill is describing how hard he worked.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 09, 2025 02:13 PM (sMW+k)

132 One of the things in all this that people don't talk about...their are medicines and treatments they have been giving to Joe Biden and before that RBG that are not available to the general public.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 02:14 PM (t0Rmr)

133 The Meat Puppet has to work hard just to not shit himself.

And he doesn't always manage it...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 09, 2025 02:14 PM (xcxpd)

134 Pakistan formally declared war on India
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India: Please hold.

Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 02:14 PM (gt60b)

135 Some sci fi is just taking new tech and exploring the possibilities and dangers of it, like AI or cloning. To me the best sci fi is cautionary: this is the threat of this new idea, be careful.

This is fair. In fact, if someone were to ask me what the first science fiction story was, I'd say "Frankenstein." The technology in that case being reanimation but the real threat being knowledge unbounded by hubris.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 09, 2025 02:14 PM (/y8xj)

136 If the thing is technological, like faster than light travel or planetary terraforming, then it's science fiction. If the thing is magic, then it's fantasy.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 09, 2025 02:08 PM (/y8xj)

"Hard SF" would argue that planetary terraforming is physically possible, but that FTL is not.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 09, 2025 02:11 PM (gKWVE)

There's usually an exception given for FTL in super hard SF just to get you to where you need to go. It just can't be integral to the plot.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 09, 2025 02:14 PM (8avO+)

137 132 One of the things in all this that people don't talk about...their are medicines and treatments they have been giving to Joe Biden and before that RBG that are not available to the general public.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 02:14 PM (t0Rmr)

Probably because they aren't safe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 02:15 PM (yvnLa)

138 The crowd on The View clapped like trained seals after Jill gave her little apologia for POTATUS. I wonder if the staff was working overtime to pump up the crowd after she spoke. I can't believe that many people still love Old Joe.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 09, 2025 02:09 PM (x/+r1)
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Agree but would add I don't think anyone ever loved Biden. He just sort of happened. Like the girl you take to the prom just to have a date, after all the girls you really like give you the Heisman. Then, after Kamala got wrecked in November, Biden is liked even less because he was (mostly) blamed.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 09, 2025 02:15 PM (iFTx/)

139 Speaking of PDT, the coming Afrikanner Refugees should give the asshoe left something to scream and shout about. Just because they are threatened with property seizure and violence from the government doesn't mean PDT has to take them in. Because they're white and probably Musk's relatives. I hope he gives them special customs dispensation and allows them to bring in the family's guns from the farm, just to assure head explosions on the left.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 09, 2025 02:15 PM (gm9Sb)

140 @110 trained seals are smarter than The View's audience. At least the seals get fish for their efforts

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 02:15 PM (vmkyp)

141 123 If the thing is technological, like faster than light travel or planetary terraforming, then it's science fiction. If the thing is magic, then it's fantasy.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 09, 2025 02:08 PM (/y8xj)

"Hard SF" would argue that planetary terraforming is physically possible, but that FTL is not.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 09, 2025 02:11 PM (gKWVE)

Considering how weird physics is, and how rapidly science changes in a single century, I'd suggest there are Hard Science Fiction options for faster than light travel.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 09, 2025 02:16 PM (xcxpd)

142 Pakistan formally declared war on India

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I'll NEVER get my tech questions answered now...

Posted by: Life of Wryly at May 09, 2025 02:16 PM (1FWWQ)

143 My other thought was, "this is their counter to the rumor that Trump is going to release the Hur interview audio?"

Quite a play, show that you are popular with ... The View.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 09, 2025 02:16 PM (sMW+k)

144 Tje Weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2025 02:16 PM (ypFCm)

145 Pakistan formally declared war on India

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India: Please hold.

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"no, I am Bob from Iowa!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:16 PM (2VST1)

146 Trump has class. He'd do a good job.

He's been very generous in such circumstances and it would be classy.

Would the family instead want Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and. Chuck Schumer carting his body about on a hand truck for an all-day spectacle of ghoulishness?

Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2025 02:16 PM (1XOgo)

147 33 Jill using her husband the way she does is a fitting end to the asshole that is Joe Biden.
Posted by: 13times
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They are so flawed. Put them in a time machine to a time Joe is cogent. Describe to Joe what his condition will be at this time and ask him if he approves of the way Jill is using him.
He will say she's doing a good job.

Their morality is not our morality.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 02:16 PM (sB5dv)

148 All of Jules Verne's stories were on earth, I believe.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (2VST1)
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hmm!
From the Earth to the Moon
Posted by: Ciampino - from a cannon too at May 09, 2025 02:09 PM (sPQoU)

and the sequel of course.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 09, 2025 02:18 PM (8avO+)

149 Probably because they aren't safe.

In RBG's case it extended her life by years.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 02:18 PM (t0Rmr)

150 Pakistan formally declared war on India

Yes! Now we just need our units in India to respond...

Posted by: The CIA at May 09, 2025 02:18 PM (/GaVB)

151 Would the family instead want Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and. Chuck Schumer carting his body about on a hand truck for an all-day spectacle of ghoulishness?
Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2025 02:16 PM (1XOgo)

I'm not dead yet. Oh, come on get on the cart

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 09, 2025 02:18 PM (NtVYv)

152 Considering how weird physics is, and how rapidly science changes in a single century, I'd suggest there are Hard Science Fiction options for faster than light travel.

Yeah teleportation etc. My guess is that this is less that they are finding bizarre breakdowns and impossibilities in physics than that they are bumping up against the limits of our observations.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:18 PM (2VST1)

153 92 Fantasy is about supernatural forces, usually presented as magic but also possibly divine powers. It usually has monsters as well, but not always. Star Wars, for example, is a fantasy posing as science fiction. The first movie was more sci fi or space opera, but it turned into a focus on magic in later movies and shows.

The first Song of Fire and Ice books had no magic whatsoever and were just speculative fiction about another world with monsters in it, not fantasy at all.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:05 PM (2VST1)

Well...there are the White Walkers, Valyrian steel and, at the end, dragons. But yes it's mostly just historical fantasy re-dressed in the first book.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 09, 2025 02:18 PM (xcxpd)

154
Pakistan formally declared war on India

Well, now we know which one was losing.

Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar at May 09, 2025 02:18 PM (msmTE)

155 Someone is pulling his strings
I still want him to stroke out every day

Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2025 02:19 PM (ypFCm)

156 That scene with Joe and the giant rabbit on the White House lawn was a screamer.

Posted by: torabora at May 09, 2025 02:19 PM (WtlE+)

157 "Hard SF" would argue that planetary terraforming is physically possible, but that FTL is not.

Also a fair point. The boundaries between genres, sub-genres, and sub-sub-genres can get pretty fuzzy at the edges.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 09, 2025 02:19 PM (/y8xj)

158 Fenelon, there used to be a lot of difference between science fiction and fantasy, having more to do with whether there is magic or technology making up the world. In a away it used to be exclusive in that the fantasy worlds were generally medieval - renaissance level of tech and science fiction at current or future levels. That has sort of blended together, since one of the elements of fantasy was the character and cultural exploration, and the element of science fiction was the tech development - and characters and culture are much more important in scifi now.

The real element of blending the genres was Terry Pratchett who started out writing a fantasy world, and then the characters kept turning the fantasy elements into technology. It started with the civilization on the edge of the flat Earth developing a space program by pushing air-tight vessels off the edge of the world and depending on orbital mechanics to bring them back.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 02:20 PM (D7oie)

159 Joe Biden is an evil man, a living monster who has done just about every awful thing a man can do in his long, ghastly life. And Jill was there along with him, not just protecting and covering for him but cooperating and playing along.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:20 PM (2VST1)

160 The Deep State sounds like a small group of Eminences Grise who no one has ever seen (ok fine i have no idea how to pluralize that), controlling events like some kind of latter day Borgias or Medicis. But we already know who "They" are. It's the Victoria Nulands. The Anthony Faucis. The Bidens. The Clintons. All their nieces and nephews and in-laws. Everyone who's on the board of a corporation that they have no idea what they even do, but hey they're married to so-and-so... They Deep State isn't very deep at all, and none of them on their own are particularly powerful. We ought to call it the Wide State, but then it'd be nothing but Sotomayor jokes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 02:20 PM (yvnLa)

161 can't imagine the cognitive dissonance required to think Trump can't fight the Deep State despite his most virulent efforts, but when Dr. Jill called the shots and the Deep State stepped and fetched.

Her level of involvement in decision making was zero. She was tasked with managing the corpse of her former husband in exchange for a few million bucks.
Posted by: Unsavory Truth at May 09, 2025 01:54 PM (IqKUv)

Disagree. She didn't make decisions but she 'sold' access to Biden to the highest bidder in the contending factions in the government. This made policy even more incoherent than normal with a senile President.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 09, 2025 02:20 PM (8avO+)

162 I could stop men competing against women almost immediately if the requirement for allowing them to compete was that they had to have their men parts removed.

Posted by: polynikes at May 09, 2025 02:21 PM (qpUT+)

163 They Deep State isn't very deep at all, and none of them on their own are particularly powerful. We ought to call it the Wide State, but then it'd be nothing but Sotomayor jokes.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 02:20 PM (yvnLa)

There isn't a "The" deep state, there are many factions and power groups contending in the Government.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 09, 2025 02:22 PM (8avO+)

164 No one seriously believes Dr. Jill was in charge of anything, do they?

No, but she definitely used her position to put out some self-serving orders. The Deep State (via Obama, most likely) issued Joe's resignation letter, but then DOCTOR JILL issued his endorsement of Kamala as his successor to blow things up.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 09, 2025 02:22 PM (2ocoG)

165 South Asia has absolutely nothing to offer anyone. It may as well become a glass parking lot, because at least that would put upward pressure on American wages.

Posted by: The Obvious, Plain Truth at May 09, 2025 02:22 PM (uxQCS)

166 I can't find a Pakistan war declaration, but they did cancel their Cricket league. Probably as good as a formal war declaration

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 02:23 PM (vmkyp)

167 This would be a bad time for Pockeeston to shut down all their U.S. gas stations.

Posted by: Eromero at May 09, 2025 02:24 PM (LHPAg)

168 This is fair. In fact, if someone were to ask me what the first science fiction story was, I'd say "Frankenstein." The technology in that case being reanimation but the real threat being knowledge unbounded by hubris.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 09, 2025 02:14 PM (/y8xj)

There were some Earth to the Moon travel stories from back in the 1600's, Johannes Kepler wrote one.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 02:24 PM (D7oie)

169 Is it a jihad or just a regular boring old war?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 02:25 PM (yvnLa)

170 I can't find a Pakistan war declaration, but they did cancel their Cricket league. Probably as good as a formal war declaration
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I haven't received any scam calls since the war started.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 02:25 PM (y6oPX)

171 I could stop men competing against women almost immediately if the requirement for allowing them to compete was that they had to have their men parts removed.
Posted by: polynikes at May 09, 2025 02:21 PM (qpUT+)
______

"We are women. We're not WOMEN, you hater!"

-- Trannies

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 09, 2025 02:26 PM (iFTx/)

172 It was no doubt easier to conceal Biden's cognitive decline because he was so fucking stupid to begin with.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 02:26 PM (W5ArC)

173 Joe, Jill, The View, MSMBC, none of that matters; they are the 33%. Regardless the events, regardless what we say or do they will always be the 33%. It's human nature that a certain percent of society will be perverse and obtuse.

Our problem is that 20% or so to the right of the 33 that are soft and malleable, that's warmed by the siren song of concession who must be helped to understand that the soft songs are lies and that steadfastness is true comfort and security.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 02:26 PM (sB5dv)

174 I haven't received any scam calls since the war started.
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Can we do this to Timu, too?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 09, 2025 02:26 PM (pZ64F)

175 Thanks, everyone . These comments about what is science fiction and what is fantasy are so interesting to me, but I'll let you back to politics.😊

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 02:26 PM (kjWDa)

176 There were some Earth to the Moon travel stories from back in the 1600's, Johannes Kepler wrote one.

They didn't really write novels back then, though at least as we understand the term.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:26 PM (2VST1)

177 Is it a jihad or just a regular boring old war?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

The Great Curry War of 2025!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 02:26 PM (y6oPX)

178 There isn't a "The" deep state, there are many factions and power groups contending in the Government.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 09, 2025 02:22 PM

Indeed. We wouldn't have people thinking any other way.

* wing flaps in unison *

Posted by: Big Penguin at May 09, 2025 02:27 PM (0sNs1)

179 59 Also, Fen, I've seen it theorized that the earliest work of science fiction is Milton's Paradise Lost. (All of the hell and Satan stuff has a certain sci-fi vibe to it, I guess.)
Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)

Fully agree. And there's Dante's Inferno, which got a remake courtesy of Niven and Pournelle, two hard-scifi authors. (Then again, Niven also released straight fantasy.)

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at May 09, 2025 02:27 PM (L5pYh)

180 What I find amazing is that not that did Biden obviously have dementia as far back as 2020 and it was denied by his supporters but that he was forced out of the race in 2024 and still , 1 year later, the the people around him and most Dems refuse to acknowledge that he has problem. No mention or acknowledgment of why he was forced out, ever, and endlessly repeat the obvious lie he is as sharp as ever. They say this with a straight face and expect everybody to swallow the lie.

They really are delusional and think we are all stupid. Or more likely they just hate us so much they prefer to brazenly lie to our face than ever admit we were right.

Posted by: Ripley at May 09, 2025 02:27 PM (GUOwU)

181 People back in the day would write all kinds of fantasies about life on the Moon. You look, and see it's bare, but there was the assumption that "hey, you know, it's really far away, maybe you can't make out the detail and it's really busy up there!" We know that about Earth. We've got pictures from way the hell up there.

...

But how did *they* know that?

You would think the default position would be "it's empty you dopes, you can just look at it and see that it's empty. Come on."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 02:27 PM (yvnLa)

182 Biden was an expert liar.
If you didn't have the facts solid he was quite believable.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 02:27 PM (sB5dv)

183
It was no doubt easier to conceal Biden's cognitive decline because he was so fucking stupid to begin with.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

__________

Was it concealed? Pretty obvious, if you ask me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 02:28 PM (QnmlO)

184 141 Considering how weird physics is, and how rapidly science changes in a single century, I'd suggest there are Hard Science Fiction options for faster than light travel.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 09, 2025 02:16 PM (xcxpd)

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Hard scifi doesn't need to be real.

It needs to be remotely plausible based on current scientific research.

Roddenberry inventing the transporter for budgetary reasons? Fantasy. Doesn't matter than decades later people were saying, "Maybe we can do this with atoms."

Clarke saying, "Space elevator!" Science fiction, because he was inspired by a research paper on light materials that could be used to make one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

185 Pratchett, Colour of Magic was 1983. By then oldschool D&D was already pretty blurry on what was magic and what was Buck Rogers tech. Barrier Peaks and Temple of the Frog even before that.
I think they got it from stuff Poul Anderson and Robert Howard was doing.
Riding dinosaurs with a laser gun in your hand has never not been cool.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 09, 2025 02:28 PM (gKWVE)

186 > 166 I can't find a Pakistan war declaration, but they did cancel their Cricket league. Probably as good as a formal war declaration
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 02:23 PM (vmkyp)

They and the Indians take that shit seriously.

I remember when I was still in academia there was a period when India and Pakistan were playing in whatever the equivalent of the World Series is for cricket.

The student union would be fucking packed in the middle of the night (daytime on the subcontinent), 'cause it had a projection TV with cable.

Fortunately, violence never broke out.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 02:29 PM (W5ArC)

187 I have not heard of major data thefts since they imposed tariffs on China.

Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 02:29 PM (g47mK)

188 Considering how weird physics is, and how rapidly science changes in a single century, I'd suggest there are Hard Science Fiction options for faster than light travel.

Yeah teleportation etc. My guess is that this is less that they are finding bizarre breakdowns and impossibilities in physics than that they are bumping up against the limits of our observations.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:18 PM (2VST1)

One I saw was FTL using slow probes by alien races, when they found something interesting they directed the probes to land, and the probe could build a receiver. They would then 'transport' people to the other end...but the original person didn't travel. A copy was made on the other side using tachyons for the FTL. The story was about some anomalous star like object the build a station near to study there but everyone on the station was going to die from radiation damage that their other copy 'volunteered' them for

Posted by: Oldcat at May 09, 2025 02:29 PM (8avO+)

189 I say that if his family has no hesitation to use him, we shouldn't either.

Trot him out, mention him at every opportunity, etc, to define the Democratic Party.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 09, 2025 02:30 PM (MvZ7K)

190 This is fair. In fact, if someone were to ask me what the first science fiction story was, I'd say "Frankenstein." The technology in that case being reanimation but the real threat being knowledge unbounded by hubris.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 09, 2025 02:14 PM (/y8xj)

There were some Earth to the Moon travel stories from back in the 1600's, Johannes Kepler wrote one.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 02:24 PM (D7oie)
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I think sci-fi goes back to Homer, although of course they didn't have any conception of sci-fi then. Some of these ancient Greek myths, and the mechanisms and events they described, are pretty close to sci-fi in my opinion. Hephaestus' creations (Talos, etc) in particular.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 09, 2025 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

191 They would then 'transport' people to the other end...but the original person didn't travel. A copy was made on the other side using tachyons for the FTL.

Like my time travel concept. You can go back in time, but you go into a pocket copy of the past, not YOUR past. When you leave, it closes and is gone. So you can travel to the past, but cannot ever affect your present or future.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:31 PM (2VST1)

192 The Golden Goose ain't dead yet, but he's certainly faltering.

Posted by: red speck at May 09, 2025 02:31 PM (0Id0S)

193 > Was it concealed? Pretty obvious, if you ask me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 02:28 PM (QnmlO)

Yeah, bad choice of words. Made it easier for them to deny that he was in cognitive decline.

Gotta remember, these are the same people with imaginary vaginas.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 02:31 PM (W5ArC)

194 I hope ol' Joey shit-pants lives a long life of dementia and soiling himself, with occasional bouts of lucidity so he can revel in the soulless husk of his barely functional being, wheeled around like a drooling turd for another decade or so unable to communicate, but fully aware of his situation.

Seriously, what a vile human being. He deserves much worse that he's getting.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at May 09, 2025 02:32 PM (Wu4HK)

195 Pratchett, Colour of Magic was 1983. By then oldschool D&D was already pretty blurry on what was magic and what was Buck Rogers tech. Barrier Peaks and Temple of the Frog even before that.
I think they got it from stuff Poul Anderson and Robert Howard was doing.
Riding dinosaurs with a laser gun in your hand has never not been cool.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 09, 2025 02:28 PM (gKWVE)

Yes, mixing magic and tech is older that Pratchett for sure. Even the assumption in "pure" fantasy that Cold Iron destroys magic or blocks it is a tech vs magic idea.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 09, 2025 02:32 PM (8avO+)

196 there was also Lucian of Samosata, who invented the SF parody before SF itself.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 09, 2025 02:32 PM (gKWVE)

197 189 I say that if his family has no hesitation to use him, we shouldn't either.

Trot him out, mention him at every opportunity, etc, to define the Democratic Party.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 09, 2025 02:30 PM (MvZ7K)

There is a danger that doing so gives up a tempo. If you're attacking yesterday's asshole, you're two days behind because you ought to be attacking tomorrow's asshole today.

Or i guess just attack all of them all the time because they're all shitheads. All the time.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 02:32 PM (yvnLa)

198 If Pakistan and India really get into it, who will be the first to deliver a wicked googly?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 09, 2025 02:32 PM (0sNs1)

199 Did Jill Biden Signal Her Puppet Husk Husband to Stop Talking on The View?
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Thankfully she didn’t do a Sharon Stone Basic Instinct leg cross.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at May 09, 2025 02:32 PM (+K1xO)

200 Oh great, WWIII is getting started uo

Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2025 02:33 PM (ypFCm)

201 David Williams, had a space elevator in his mirrored shades series, paolini's sanderson sized epic tried to work out ftl travel, in his work

Posted by: miguel cervantes at May 09, 2025 02:33 PM (bXbFr)

202 I can't find a Pakistan war declaration

Can't find anything, either. Quite a few accounts describing various attacks as 'declarations of war', but that's pretty retarded.

Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2025 02:33 PM (9Mm3A)

203 Even the assumption in "pure" fantasy that Cold Iron destroys magic or blocks it is a tech vs magic idea.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 09, 2025 02:32 PM

Hot Iron saves lives.

Posted by: HordeSource (tm) at May 09, 2025 02:33 PM (0sNs1)

204 They would then 'transport' people to the other end...but the original person didn't travel. A copy was made on the other side using tachyons for the FTL.

Like my time travel concept. You can go back in time, but you go into a pocket copy of the past, not YOUR past. When you leave, it closes and is gone. So you can travel to the past, but cannot ever affect your present or future.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

John Carter & Mars.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 02:34 PM (y6oPX)

205 They didn't really write novels back then, though at least as we understand the term.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:26 PM (2VST1)

The first "modern" novel was La Celestina, 1499, which was considered "a book of dialogue" in place of some sort of poetic work or chanson geste. Canterbury Tales was written around 1400 though it was more of a poetic work set up as individual tales held together by a central narrative of a pilgrimage. For my sins I have read them both.

The modern novel is a creation of the Romantic age following the Napoleonic wars, but the concept has smeared out to "not technical and non-poetic works" so I dunno. My back hurts.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 02:34 PM (D7oie)

206 177 Is it a jihad or just a regular boring old war?
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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India? Pakistan is calling it war. Last I read, India hit only terrorist installations and told the Pakis to let it go. They didn't. Looked last night and there was escalation but India seems to have gone dark about their activities.

There is talk that if it goes much harder Paki may be split in three.
There market cratered, the Baluchs are attacking from the SW and there is another aggrieved group rattling sabers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 02:34 PM (sB5dv)

207 The Golden Goose ain't dead yet, but he's certainly faltering.
Posted by: red speck at May 09, 2025 02:31 PM (0Id0S)

Asimov wrote a story about a Goose laying Golden eggs and went into detail on the nuclear reaction the Goose had to do to produce the Gold from lighter elements.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 09, 2025 02:34 PM (8avO+)

208 I've seen it theorized that the earliest work of science fiction is Milton's Paradise Lost. (All of the hell and Satan stuff has a certain sci-fi vibe to it, I guess.)

==

A True Story by Lucian of Samosata, 2nd century AD.

Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 02:34 PM (g47mK)

209 She should know better than to put the dementia patient in front of tv cameras. But then, politicians and their families are like celebrities; they crave attention.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 09, 2025 02:34 PM (0Htd1)

210 ICYMI -- In an interview this morning with Vince Coglianese (who took over Bongino's talk radio radio gig), Ed Martin told him did the US Marshals know the identity of the woman who spit on Martin during a street interview yesterday -- and will be arresting her for assault on a federal official (she FAFO'd herself by exclaiming his name a couple times -- proving she was aware of his identity -- immediately prior to the assault).

Is the Garland Archipelago still available -- and if not, how 'bout Club Gitmo?

Posted by: ShainS at May 09, 2025 02:35 PM (ebq2B)

211 They travel to the moon and everything !

Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 02:35 PM (g47mK)

212 The murderer of Daniel Pearl killed, thank you India.

What a shame on George Bush, what a shame on all of our agencies who were involved and did NOTHING. What a shame on us for allowing them to get away with doing NOTHING.

India, thank you. And thank you for showing the world how to respect terrorists.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 02:35 PM (sB5dv)

213 He doesn't even begin to answer the question posed. He goes on a generic Democrat smear tirade -- J6, Covid response, "a bunch of other things I can[t say for the sake of time..." And then Jill rolls out a pat response against the character of those who dared state the obvious.

The sooner these two disappear from any seat of power, the better. Go away. But not too far. Subpoenas are on their way.

Posted by: red speck at May 09, 2025 02:36 PM (0Id0S)

214 The real element of blending the genres was Terry Pratchett who started out writing a fantasy world, and then the characters kept turning the fantasy elements into technology. It started with the civilization on the edge of the flat Earth developing a space program by pushing air-tight vessels off the edge of the world and depending on orbital mechanics to bring them back.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 02:20 PM (D7oie)

Andre Norton's Witch World series...

Witches of Karres came out in... 68? James Schmitz.

Discworld was actually kinda late to the genre IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 09, 2025 02:36 PM (QAkQ3)

215 Canterbury Tales was written around 1400 though it was more of a poetic work set up as individual tales held together by a central narrative of a pilgrimage. For my sins I have read them both.

Canterbury Tales was funnier than shit, and straight up dirty. Even better if you read it with a Monty Python style of voice.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at May 09, 2025 02:36 PM (Wu4HK)

216 Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy used defined magical techniques to solve murder mysteries. Magic was never used to cheat a solution, and sometimes the twist was that magic was used to cover up a "mundane" solution.

Posted by: Lirio100 at May 09, 2025 02:36 PM (zS4/f)

217 I think sci-fi goes back to Homer, although of course they didn't have any conception of sci-fi then.

My people wrote about a thing called the 'wheel', which was basically faster-than-light poppycock that couldn't really be done.

Posted by: Liz Warren at May 09, 2025 02:37 PM (p0167)

218 How many attorneys and judges has Pirro dispatched in a dank basement cell, using a bolt gun?

If the answer is </= 0, I am disappointed.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 09, 2025 02:38 PM (BI5O2)

219 Posted by: Liz Warren at May 09, 2025 02:37 PM

How!

Posted by: Iron Eyes Cody at May 09, 2025 02:38 PM (0sNs1)

220 Lucian wasn't actually writing about Rome conquering the moon (although he should have). He was talking trash about other Roman / Hellenistic novelists who were writing popular lies about the countries they'd visited, usually India or "Scythia" (= silk road).
Lucian was kind of a Greek-speaking Mencken.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 09, 2025 02:38 PM (gKWVE)

221 > Canterbury Tales was funnier than shit, and straight up dirty.

My favorite was the one where the woman and her lover had another prospective lover coming to the window in the middle of the night asking for a kiss. The woman presented her backside. Dude knew something was up, so he went to the smithy and got a red hot plow blade. Came back for another kiss, but this time it was the male lover who stuck his ass out the window, and received the hot plow blade for his troubles.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 02:39 PM (W5ArC)

222 Like my time travel concept. You can go back in time, but you go into a pocket copy of the past, not YOUR past. When you leave, it closes and is gone. So you can travel to the past, but cannot ever affect your present or future.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Alfred Bester's "The Men who Murdered Mohammed had the exact reverse idea. You could go back into the past, but it was just YOURS. When you came back nothing was different. The more you damaged the past you turned yourself into a unphysical ghost unbound by time or place.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 09, 2025 02:39 PM (8avO+)

223 Don't get me started on Chaucer.

Posted by: Giovanni Boccaccio at May 09, 2025 02:39 PM (gKWVE)

224 𝖦 𝖫 𝖠 𝖲 𝖲 𝖨𝖳 @LetsGlassit 5h

“Pakistan is using civilian aircraft’s as shields expecting Indian retaliation”
- Wing Command[er] Vyomika Singh

Hiding behind civilians, women & children, Pakistan proving their impotence again

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 02:40 PM (sB5dv)

225 Was there a busty, pouting nurse in a low-cut, short uniform taking care of him?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 01:52 PM (QnmlO)

https://tinyurl.com/328aj8wc

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 09, 2025 02:40 PM (5xuJ/)

226 My favorite was the one where the woman and her lover had another prospective lover coming to the window in the middle of the night asking for a kiss. The woman presented her backside. Dude knew something was up, so he went to the smithy and got a red hot plow blade. Came back for another kiss, but this time it was the male lover who stuck his ass out the window, and received the hot plow blade for his troubles.

Yes! I remember reading this in study hall one day about 40 years ago, laughing my ass off.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at May 09, 2025 02:40 PM (Wu4HK)

227 A couple years back Disney+ had the All India cricket league broadcast rights. They lost the contract to a competitor and within 30 days had lost over 20 m subscribers.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 02:40 PM (vmkyp)

228 221 > Canterbury Tales was funnier than shit, and straight up dirty.

My favorite was the one where the woman and her lover had another prospective lover coming to the window in the middle of the night asking for a kiss. The woman presented her backside. Dude knew something was up, so he went to the smithy and got a red hot plow blade. Came back for another kiss, but this time it was the male lover who stuck his ass out the window, and received the hot plow blade for his troubles.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 02:39 PM (W5ArC)

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Passolini recreated this episode in his adaptation of The Canterbury Tales.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)

229 I've been hoping that Biden would stroke out and drown in a pool of his own spew on live TV. However him face planting in one of the View's harpies ample laps splattered in death rattle fluids will do.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 09, 2025 02:40 PM (wBaIH)

230 I fought that Corn-Pop, and saved the world;
Just can't remember when.
On Iwo Jima I held that pole as the flag unfurled;
Just can't remember when.
Maybe my noggin is a little squirreled.
BUT, I still have my auto-pen.

Posted by: Maya Angelou after the Ambien wears off at May 09, 2025 02:40 PM (dIske)

231 227 A couple years back Disney+ had the All India cricket league broadcast rights. They lost the contract to a competitor and within 30 days had lost over 20 m subscribers.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 02:40 PM (vmkyp)

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Probably Indian subscribers who, on average, paid about $1 a month for the subscription.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

232 India, thank you. And thank you for showing the world how to respect terrorists.

Meanwhile the UK has arrested someone and charged them with blasphemy against Islam.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 09, 2025 02:41 PM (2ocoG)

233 Legalinsurrection.com saying the Biddn Pipe Line is drying up.
Guess his Biden's Word ain't worth anything anymore

Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2025 02:41 PM (ypFCm)

234 Canterbury Tales was funnier than shit, and straight up dirty.

My favorite was the one where the woman and her lover had another prospective lover coming to the window in the middle of the night asking for a kiss. The woman presented her backside. Dude knew something was up, so he went to the smithy and got a red hot plow blade. Came back for another kiss, but this time it was the male lover who stuck his ass out the window, and received the hot plow blade for his troubles.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 02:39 PM (W5ArC)

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Passolini recreated this episode in his adaptation of The Canterbury Tales.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)
________

Sounds gay

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 09, 2025 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

235 180 What I find amazing is that not that did Biden obviously have dementia as far back as 2020 and it was denied by his supporters but that he was forced out of the race in 2024 and still , 1 year later, the the people around him and most Dems refuse to acknowledge that he has problem. No mention or acknowledgment of why he was forced out, ever, and endlessly repeat the obvious lie he is as sharp as ever. They say this with a straight face and expect everybody to swallow the lie.

They really are delusional and think we are all stupid. Or more likely they just hate us so much they prefer to brazenly lie to our face than ever admit we were right.
Posted by: Ripley at May 09, 2025 02:27 PM (GUOwU)
They wanted President Trump back in office so they could destroy him and those who voted for him. Think about it, he's right where they want him now, and the the House election steal of 26 will be the mother all frauds, birthing Son of Impeachment. This is their plan, and to be honest, they plan better than we do.

Posted by: Eromero at May 09, 2025 02:41 PM (LHPAg)

236
Jill's sudden interjection appeared rehearsed, as she added in her retort that she was infuriated by books about her husband's struggles in office because 'nobody saw how hard Joe worked.'

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She's right. Nobody saw that.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 09, 2025 02:41 PM (QwK6F)

237 Canterbury Tales was funnier than shit, and straight up dirty. Even better if you read it with a Monty Python style of voice.

Many of Shakespeare's plays are that way as well. He really played to the galleries with dirty jokes and twists on words, even in his tragedies. Its really tough to get the references now, but if you have a good book with notes, they explain the lines and jokes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:41 PM (2VST1)

238 Yes! I remember reading this in study hall one day about 40 years ago, laughing my ass off.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at May 09, 2025 02:40 PM

To be fair, that's better than burning it off.

Posted by: The male lover at May 09, 2025 02:43 PM (0sNs1)

239 So these sycophants on The View asked all these "hard" questions.
uh huh.

But don't you think it would super awkward and, Idk, embarrassing, to say to his face, "Hey, are you senile? Cuz that's what people are saying."
Of course he's going to deny it. Why ask that question? Geez, these people are something else.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 09, 2025 02:43 PM (Eo96p)

240 𝖦 𝖫 𝖠 𝖲 𝖲 𝖨𝖳 @LetsGlassit 12h
This is exactly how you represent India:

“We all stand united as country & behind our Govt & armed forces”

Not like, “we fight among ourselves bs etc”

Somebody unleash this @ShashiTharoor on International media already
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Here is a clip (opposition politician) expressing what I've seen from all the sites: 43seconds

https://tinyurl.com/bdh8xuuk

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 02:44 PM (sB5dv)

241 > Passolini recreated this episode in his adaptation of The Canterbury Tales.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)

The Miller's Tale.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 02:44 PM (W5ArC)

242 Fully agree. And there's Dante's Inferno, which got a remake courtesy of Niven and Pournelle, two hard-scifi authors. (Then again, Niven also released straight fantasy.)
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at May 09, 2025 02:27 PM (L5pYh)

he has a world where magic is a finite resource and not renewable so if you did magic in one spot too long it quit working.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 09, 2025 02:44 PM (8avO+)

243 Everyone likes to point at Israel/Iran or Eastern Europe as potential flashpoints for the inevitable nuclear war that we're going to have. And it's fair, they both have strong potential.

But my nickel continues to sit on India/Pakistan, with another penny on East Asia, just to hedge that bet.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 09, 2025 02:44 PM (BI5O2)

244 You could go back into the past, but it was just YOURS. When you came back nothing was different

I see this as a future opportunity for tourism and entertainment, at significant personal risk: you might die. But billionaires going back in time to meet their heroes or watch events take place. Or governments using the system to test ideas and plots out: will this work, what happens as a result?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:44 PM (2VST1)

245 Canterbury Tales was funnier than shit, and straight up dirty. Even better if you read it with a Monty Python style of voice.

Many of Shakespeare's plays are that way as well. He really played to the galleries with dirty jokes and twists on words, even in his tragedies. Its really tough to get the references now, but if you have a good book with notes, they explain the lines and jokes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:41 PM (2VST1)
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The ancient "bard" tradition in the middle ages is pretty risque and dirty too. They got away with it because they were considered low class and by hiding the most salacious details behind euphemisms like "courtly love." Everyone knew what was really meant by that.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 09, 2025 02:45 PM (iFTx/)

246 India, thank you. And thank you for showing the world how to respect terrorists.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 02:35 PM (sB5dv)

The guy they killed was indirectly tied to Pearl's murder which was carried out by a faction of Al Queda . I think we responded pretty hard against Al Queda in 2002.

Posted by: polynikes at May 09, 2025 02:45 PM (qpUT+)

247 They wanted President Trump back in office so they could destroy him and those who voted for him. Think about it, he's right where they want him now, and the the House election steal of 26 will be the mother all frauds, birthing Son of Impeachment. This is their plan, and to be honest, they plan better than we do.
Posted by: Eromero at May 09, 2025 02:41 PM (LHPAg)

Yeah that's why the Dems are in bits and pieces and Trump is flying high. Its the long con.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 09, 2025 02:45 PM (8avO+)

248 233 Legalinsurrection.com saying the Biddn Pipe Line is drying up.
Guess his Biden's Word ain't worth anything anymore
Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2025 02:41 PM (ypFCm)
_______________________

Halperin was saying this the other day. Halperin is a hack (ABCnews, MSNBC...etc). Think about something for a second. They had to pry Biden away from running a second time. He wouldn't do that out of the goodness of his heart, or for the good of the country. He got paid to step down. Whether it be from his $30 Million book deal or some other source...who knows. We've seen that the Left has more than a handful of ways to pay someone off.

The Bidens are financially set. Hell, Biden used to sit at a card table with John Murtha and hand out earmarks in the Capitol building. He gave the eulogy at Murtha's funeral. He got paid many times over. And in November of last year he got paid again.

Posted by: Maya Angelou after the Ambien wears off at May 09, 2025 02:46 PM (dIske)

249 234 Passolini recreated this episode in his adaptation of The Canterbury Tales.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)
________

Sounds gay
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 09, 2025 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

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And Marxist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

250 > Many of Shakespeare's plays are that way as well. He really played to the galleries with dirty jokes and twists on words, even in his tragedies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:41 PM (2VST1)

Yep. Lovely poetry mixed with dick and fart jokes.

Ol' Willy knew how to include something for everyone.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 02:46 PM (W5ArC)

251 247 They wanted President Trump back in office so they could destroy him and those who voted for him. Think about it, he's right where they want him now, and the the House election steal of 26 will be the mother all frauds, birthing Son of Impeachment. This is their plan, and to be honest, they plan better than we do.
Posted by: Eromero at May 09, 2025 02:41 PM (LHPAg)

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Having Trump out of power seems to be an easier place to defeat him.

I swear, the conspiratorial thinking in some places is a bit out of control.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

252 he has a world where magic is a finite resource and not renewable so if you did magic in one spot too long it quit working.

Yeah I worked something similar to that into my world, although magic is renewable. Its actually a pretty complex system that can cause things to go horribly wrong if you overuse magic in a specific area, though.

I like Niven's "Magic Goes Away" setting where the wizards were so wasteful and extreme that they ruined everything and burned all the magic with their wastefulness.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:47 PM (2VST1)

253 > Many of Shakespeare's plays are that way as well. He really played to the galleries with dirty jokes and twists on words, even in his tragedies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 09, 2025 02:41 PM (2VST1)

Yep. Lovely poetry mixed with dick and fart jokes.

Ol' Willy knew how to include something for everyone.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 02:46 PM (W5ArC)

Never read your Catullus, eh?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 09, 2025 02:47 PM (8avO+)

254 The Bidens are financially set.

Not necessarily. They’re basically trailer trash lottery winners, and now maybe the money is gone.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 09, 2025 02:47 PM (ziUvL)

255 NUDE

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 09, 2025 02:48 PM (iFTx/)

256 Some of Edgar Allen Poe's stuff is also considered sci-fi.

Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 02:48 PM (77rzZ)

257 I used to remind myself when I'd start thinking "Oh no, what if a muzzie regime gets nukes!" that Pakistan already had them. Still Pakistan and India at war or on the verge of being at war is rather scary to think about.

When did the notion of 'don't kill civilians in war' really take hold? Germany bombed London, the Allies bombed german and japanese cities. Did it happen only because the Hiroshimo blast was so powerful?

Posted by: PaleRider at May 09, 2025 02:49 PM (bP/i4)

258 I think sci-fi goes back to Homer, although of course they didn't have any conception of sci-fi then.

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He also invented the pull-my-finger joke.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 09, 2025 02:50 PM (L/fGl)

259 But tje Biden offspring probably can run through money like socks

Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2025 02:52 PM (ypFCm)

260 I saved a quote that was offered here a while back:

"Biden's cognitive capacity had already been a bus crash, but now it has further deteriorated to the level of not merely a bus crash, but a bus full of circus clowns crashing into a school for blind children and even worse the clowns were doing their 'Gasoline Comedy' act that day and now all the blind children are on fire and the clowns are trying to squirt water on them with their stupid lapel-flowers but the flowers are just squirting out more gasoline and the children are crying tears of fire out of their Unseeing Dead Eyes and holy shit a couple of the clowns look like they have boners and they're chasing around the fiery blind children trying to rub up on them with these bobbling clown-boners with big red bulbs on their tips." -- Ace of Spades, credited to ShainS

Posted by: Drumwaster at May 09, 2025 02:57 PM (uqpWt)

261 Yeah that's why the Dems are in bits and pieces and Trump is flying high. Its the long con.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 09, 2025 02:45 PM (8avO+)
Deepstate still exists and is being protected by judicial and political traitors at every turn. My humble point, Oldcat.

Posted by: Eromero at May 09, 2025 02:58 PM (LHPAg)

262 Jill's sudden interjection appeared rehearsed, as she added in her retort that she was infuriated by books about her husband's struggles in office because 'nobody saw how hard Joe worked.'

That's funny.

I don't think Joe Biden has worked a hard day since before law school.

He has, literally, run his mouth for a living his entire adult life.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 09, 2025 03:05 PM (6ydKt)

263 Jilly probably has a buzzer implanted on the corpse of her husband. Similar to a dog collar.

When ole Joe barks wrong she zaps him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 09, 2025 03:07 PM (6PCLE)

264 Who gives a fuck about those two. I just hope that NO ONE offers them money for a book deal.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at May 09, 2025 03:17 PM (KiBMU)

265 'nobody saw how hard Joe worked.'

Absolutely true, but not in the way she meant.

Posted by: Nonna Turney, Spokesperson at May 09, 2025 03:32 PM (HN9JN)

266 With war declared in Pakistan, we need trans-Himalayan support by China to take the shite-show on the road...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at May 09, 2025 03:34 PM (5EOdb)

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