"I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm smart and I want respect!"

Jeff Dunetz over at The Lid has some fun with Joy Reid, but it's like shooting fish in a barrel.
Joy Reid Rant About Trump’s 'Russian' Wives Is Proof You Can't Fix Stupid

Donald Trump married one American (his second wife) and two women from what used to be Soviet Yugoslavia: Ivana-Slovakia, Melania-Slovenia.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 21, 2017

This is becoming par for the course. The incredible insularity, ignorance and stupid laziness of the chattering classes. I accept that some people are simply less capable of higher-order thought. And I accept that some people are lazy. But why is the Venn diagram of those two segments of the population perfectly representative of the media? And it is unfortunately not restricted to the leftists....just talk to any of the mainstream Republican pundits about guns or the minimum wage or basic economics (supply and demand) and you will discover a startling stupidity.

So what's your favorite idiotic pronouncement from the buffoons of the fourth estate?

Posted by: CBD at 12:05 PM

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1 Its all in the feeling

Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2017 11:55 AM (9g/6M)

2 The Roy Bulgar award

Posted by: Avi at July 23, 2017 11:55 AM (PtAg5)

3 OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

Posted by: Batterup at July 23, 2017 11:55 AM (mtGE/)

4 Ray Bolger

Posted by: Avi at July 23, 2017 11:56 AM (PtAg5)

5 I'd probably have a good example but I never pay attention to the fourth estate. The stupid just burns.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2017 11:56 AM (0tfLf)

6 The pants creases, my God, the creases. **squirt**

Posted by: David Brooks at July 23, 2017 11:57 AM (LAe3v)

7 What enchants you? And my I stroke your willy? Please?

Posted by: Jeff Zeleny at July 23, 2017 11:57 AM (LAe3v)

8 Just like firefighters!

Posted by: Katy Tur at July 23, 2017 11:58 AM (mtGE/)

9 Also, I though we could retire the award for that peawit who asked a GOP rep (I forget which one) if he had a degree in economics, because he said something with which she disagreed.

He answered: "Yes, from Duke, with highest honors".

Posted by: pep at July 23, 2017 11:59 AM (LAe3v)

10 The difference between rape & rape-rape. Rape-rape is not okay, but rape is.

Posted by: Whoopie at July 23, 2017 12:00 PM (mtGE/)

11 I can do this all day long, people.

Posted by: pep at July 23, 2017 12:00 PM (LAe3v)

12 The good thing for her is Being on the Left means never having to say your sorry.

Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2017 12:01 PM (9g/6M)

13 White Hispanic

Posted by: CNN at July 23, 2017 12:01 PM (mtGE/)

14 >>He answered: "Yes, from Duke, with highest honors".

I remember that. Wasn't the Rep. from Georgia or one of the other ex-Soviet states?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2017 12:01 PM (/tuJf)

15 There is no famine in Ukraine. Well, if you want to count that mound of emaciated corpses over there, sure, but why would you?

Posted by: Walter Duranty at July 23, 2017 12:01 PM (LAe3v)

16 The key is making sure you signal that you haven't been exposed to unapproved thinking. Her ignorance of the facts/geography signals she didn't take the risk of inadvertent contact with a Trump supporter so she's safe.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 23, 2017 12:02 PM (mePeF)

17 over at british open there's a player hitting a ball with an improbable lie on the side of a hill.

that's why it's called "links" golf, from the old scottish "hlinc" meaning a rising ground or ridge.

perfect.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at July 23, 2017 12:02 PM (WTSFk)

18 Geography and history ain't Joy's thing, apparently. However being an idiot is.

Posted by: IC at July 23, 2017 12:02 PM (gcme+)

19 I remember that. Wasn't the Rep. from Georgia or one of the other ex-Soviet states?

Posted by: JackStraw

He was Southern, but that's the best I can do. Clearly not from Florida, though.

Posted by: pep at July 23, 2017 12:02 PM (LAe3v)

20 Their stupidity know no bounds!

Posted by: Basket O' Deplorables at July 23, 2017 12:02 PM (3S5It)

21 "Hate has no home." And we'll bash your head in with a bike lock if you disagree with us.

Posted by: fly gal at July 23, 2017 12:03 PM (QmGSa)

22 NYT columnist who wondered why our incarceration rate was so high while the crime rate was going down.

Posted by: mark1971 at July 23, 2017 12:03 PM (xPl2J)

23 Hands up don't shoot AFTER the violent perpetrators were shown to be horrible animals attempting to murder another human being. .

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 23, 2017 12:03 PM (psH+N)

24 What a maroon. She wears her ignorance as a badge of honor. She probably doesn't even know how to find Europe on a map of the world.

Posted by: Tuna at July 23, 2017 12:03 PM (jm1YL)

25 Affirmative Action in, uh, action.

Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 12:03 PM (0mRoj)

26 ... although "links" golf mostly refers to sandy, seaside courses.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at July 23, 2017 12:03 PM (WTSFk)

27 White Hispanics.

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 23, 2017 12:03 PM (psH+N)

28 22
NYT columnist who wondered why our incarceration rate was so high while the crime rate was going down.

Fox Butterfield. Good one.

Posted by: pep at July 23, 2017 12:03 PM (LAe3v)

29 We are anxiously waiting for the HuffPo "Looking For America" bus tour here in Nazi middle-America.

Posted by: Ripley at July 23, 2017 12:03 PM (MxEKc)

30 And Bill Clinton married Hillary. What's your point, that Trump is Da Man?

Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2017 12:03 PM (pszv/)

31 "NYT columnist who wondered why our incarceration rate was so high while the crime rate was going down."

Really? Bwahahaha

Posted by: Tuna at July 23, 2017 12:04 PM (jm1YL)

32 Don Lemon and the black hole.

Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 12:04 PM (0mRoj)

33 I have a tingle up my leg.

Posted by: Chris Matthews at July 23, 2017 12:04 PM (/qEW2)

34 So what's your favorite idiotic pronouncement from the buffoons of the fourth estate?

Straightforward from here:

1. Go to Sally Kohn's Twitter feed
2. Pick random tweet.
3. Ta-daaaah!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at July 23, 2017 12:05 PM (OiLIO)

35 Pep, that was Alabama's Mo Brooks. Peabrain was Contessa Brewer.

Posted by: roamingfirehydrant at July 23, 2017 12:05 PM (THS4q)

36 "Fake, but accurate"

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 23, 2017 12:06 PM (xPl2J)

37 Don't harsh my mellow. And don't inconvenience my truth bombs, yo.

Posted by: Al Gore at July 23, 2017 12:06 PM (/qEW2)

38 Can u see Russia from the US, Joy-toy?

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at July 23, 2017 12:06 PM (yKB8T)

39 "Trump is a stupid Pathetic!"

"I am leaving the House to spend more time with my family and my son who has diabetes." (2 wives/girlfriends/whores ago)

"Mika, will you marry me?"

Joe Scarhead is the ultimate buffoon of buffoon's in the so called 4th Estate.

He is the king.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 23, 2017 12:07 PM (5VlCp)

40 We both misremembered. It was that other genius, Contessa Brewer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMa-_fd0E0Q

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2017 12:08 PM (/tuJf)

41

♫We've all gone to look for America♫

Posted by: HuffPoo bus riders at July 23, 2017 12:08 PM (IqV8l)

42 There was no collusion

Posted by: Jared at July 23, 2017 12:08 PM (VvgWy)

43 Don't paint with a broad brush about Muslims after Muslims get all shooty, but paint with a broad brush about gun owners after Muslims get all shooty.

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 23, 2017 12:08 PM (psH+N)

44 HE. WILL. NOT. DIVIDE. US!!!

I can't even bring myself to mention that f*cker's name.

Posted by: Shia LaBeouf at July 23, 2017 12:08 PM (/qEW2)

45 So what's your favorite idiotic pronouncement from the buffoons of the fourth estate?

"What future could possibly be more terrible than the reality of what is happening to Cambodia now?'" - Anthony Lewis, New York.Times, April, 1975.

"Indochina without Americans: for most, a better life.'" - Sydney Schanberg, New York Times, April 13, 1975.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 12:08 PM (dhWsa)

46 51% of the population can somehow be a minority.

Posted by: Hate Has No Homo at July 23, 2017 12:10 PM (psH+N)

47 When Romney referred to his children as "my five boys" it was a dog whistle! Who you callin' "boy"?

It takes a village to raise a child, and whatever village Mitt lives in should confiscate his children so they don't grow up to be privileged capitalists like him.

Posted by: Chris Matthews at July 23, 2017 12:11 PM (/qEW2)

48 Sure, I'll go on Jeopardy. How hard could it be?

Posted by: Wolf Blitzer at July 23, 2017 12:11 PM (LAe3v)

49 Please note that being catastrophically wrong did not affect either the careers of Anthony Lewis ("The Man Who Was Wrong About Everything") or Sydney Schanberg.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 12:11 PM (dhWsa)

50 We should not be building walls. We should be breaking down barriers! And I ain't no ways taaarrhd. It's da hot sauce in mah purse, keeps me goin' yo! Word up.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 23, 2017 12:13 PM (/qEW2)

51 "Stalin has opened hundreds of all-you-can buffets all across the Ukraine!"

Posted by: Walter Duranty at July 23, 2017 12:13 PM (QmGSa)

52
I thought there was something different and quieter about this weekend. No ~~bi-polar~~ bi-partisan Senator McCain hitting the weekend political programs tossing feces around.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at July 23, 2017 12:14 PM (EgwCt)

53 Intersectional disparate impact privilege triggering.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 23, 2017 12:15 PM (/qEW2)

54 On journalists:

"Influence without responsibility is the prerogative of harlots." - Stanley Baldwin

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 12:15 PM (dhWsa)

55 We are anxiously waiting for the HuffPo "Looking For America" bus tour here in Nazi middle-America.
Posted by: Ripley at July 23, 2017 12:03 PM

We're here in Nazi Great Lakes America waiting as well. We're wearing our MAGA hats over our Klan-gear, so the Huffpo people will feel more comfortable with us.

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 12:15 PM (aT+Bx)

56 We will berry you! *tee-hee*

Posted by: Strawberry Kruschchev at July 23, 2017 12:16 PM (/qEW2)

57 "Billy Boy, I know real Irish tough guys. They don't look like you and sound like you."

Posted by: Lawrence O'Donnell, noted bas-ass, Harvard, offspring of an attorney and an office manager, man of t at July 23, 2017 12:16 PM (LAe3v)

58 My vote is for Melissa Harris-Perry for the tampon earring stunt.

Posted by: roamingfirehydrant at July 23, 2017 12:16 PM (THS4q)

59 Don't bust my balls.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at July 23, 2017 12:19 PM (/qEW2)

60 49 Please note that being catastrophically wrong did not affect either the careers of Anthony Lewis ("The Man Who Was Wrong About Everything") or Sydney Schanberg.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 12:11 PM (dhWsa)

I thought the man who was wrong about everything was Strobe Talbott.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at July 23, 2017 12:19 PM (OiLIO)

61 I thought the man who was wrong about everything was Strobe Talbott.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at July 23, 2017 12:19 PM (OiLIO)

He was just a flash in the pan.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 23, 2017 12:19 PM (SRKgf)

62 >>I thought the man who was wrong about everything was Strobe Talbott.

Joe Biden. Just ask Bill Gates.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2017 12:21 PM (/tuJf)

63 The whole Hillary has it in the bag from all of them.

Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2017 12:22 PM (9g/6M)

64
The bridge that connects Palestinian Gaza with Palestinian West Bank. Cited in Vox, IIRC.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 23, 2017 12:22 PM (pNxlR)

65 1. Go to Sally Kohn's Twitter feed
2. Pick random tweet.
3. Ta-daaaah!

Posted by: OregonMuse

I know, right? Like with me, just pick a random sermon. You pretty smart, for a whitey.

Posted by: Jeremiah Wright at July 23, 2017 12:23 PM (/qEW2)

66 "Act of love". I ain't feelin' the love, yeb.

Posted by: Kate Steinle at July 23, 2017 12:24 PM (/qEW2)

67 I know, right? Like with me, just pick a random sermon. You pretty smart, for a whitey.
Posted by: Jeremiah Wright at July 23, 2017 12:23 PM
--

Sorry.

I meant to say "racist fat ass cracker," not "a whitey."

Posted by: Jeremiah Wright at July 23, 2017 12:24 PM (aT+Bx)

68 42
There was no collusion

Posted by: Jared at July 23, 2017 12:08 PM (VvgWy)

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

Lot of people have been looking for a long time...............

Posted by: Javems at July 23, 2017 12:25 PM (yOqwj)

69 You have to pass it to know what's in it. Then you can read it and weep.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at July 23, 2017 12:25 PM (/qEW2)

70 I didn't know who Joy Reid was, so I googled her.

Harvard '91.

Lux et Veritas, baby.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 23, 2017 12:25 PM (gIRsn)

71 "There has never been a man or a woman, not me, not Bill, nobody more
qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United
States of America,"

Posted by: Barry Obama at July 23, 2017 12:25 PM (TO4Og)

72 Go to Sally Kohn's Twitter feed

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at July 23, 2017 12:05 PM (OiLIO)

No.

That's too easy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2017 12:25 PM (wYseH)

73 "Even Donald Trump no longer thinks Donald Trump will win the election, which is why he is spending so much time talking about the election being rigged and bragging about having gone to an Ivy League school.

Campaign coverage at this point has the feeling of a party that has gone on too long, but which still has an hour left on the official clock. Some reporters are gamely trying to keep in the spirit of things, but others are ostentatiously looking at their watches and starting conversations about the shape of a future Clinton presidency, or getting an early jump on the campaign autopsies.

An autopsy of the Trump campaign seems singularly pointless. To a first approximation, he has no campaign. The more interesting question is: What happens to the Republican Party in the wake of Trump?"

- Megan McArdle, October 25, 2016

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 12:26 PM (dhWsa)

74 What are the meaning of "is"?

Ah feel your pain, but I ain't gonna feel your penis.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at July 23, 2017 12:26 PM (/qEW2)

75
24 What a maroon. She wears her ignorance as a badge of honor. She probably doesn't even know how to find Europe on a map of the world.
Posted by: Tuna at July 23, 2017 12:03 PM (jm1YL)

IIRC, Reid was one of the jackasses who brayed at Ann Colter's assertion on Bill Maher's show that DJT would win the GOP nomination.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 23, 2017 12:27 PM (pNxlR)

76 My favorite lefty blog comments so far are:

"We know he is guilty of Russian influence; now all we need is the evidence."

and

"The Repubs are running scared, everyone knows that." (This was under recent general US politics discussion, and *seems* to overlook elections resulting in:

- Presidency, both houses of Congress, Supreme Court majority, majority of governors, majority of state governments, etc.)

Posted by: goatexchange at July 23, 2017 12:28 PM (YFnq5)

77 Who was the talking head who couldn't find her own ass without a producer directing her through her earpiece?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2017 12:28 PM (wYseH)

78 73 That was some brilliant prognostication right there.

Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2017 12:29 PM (rmVvL)

79
"There has never been a man or a woman, not me, not Bill, nobody more

qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United

States of America," Posted by: Barry Obama at July 23, 2017 12:25 PM (TO4Og)
=====

By the same: The future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 23, 2017 12:29 PM (MIKMs)

80 NYT columnist who wondered why our incarceration rate was so high while the crime rate was going down.
Posted by: mark1971 at July 23, 2017 12:03 PM

Refer them to last night's ONT for a mathematical interlude that is sure to elucidate, inspire, and delight.

Posted by: J. Random Moron at July 23, 2017 12:30 PM (DMUuz)

81
We both misremembered. It was that other genius, Contessa Brewer.

Please. Contessa Brewers' Yeast Infection.

Credit given where credit due.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 23, 2017 12:30 PM (pNxlR)

82 "The Republican party has become too extreme to attract voters." - Common journalistic trope

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 12:30 PM (dhWsa)

83 76 That's the Left wing way .They'll find the crime,Mueller is doing it right now.His real crime was winning and that must be punished.

Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2017 12:31 PM (rmVvL)

84 Not the MSM but one of the dumbest things I ever heard was Bill Clinton saying to a 99.9% white group of Portland college students in 1998:

"n fifty years there will no longer be a white majority in the United States"

What Clinton said was no so dumb as it almost undoubtedly, will be the reality. What was so stupid and disturbing was the wild cheering and applause by the clueless students cheering their demise.

Posted by: Ripley at July 23, 2017 12:31 PM (MxEKc)

85 "70 I didn't know who Joy Reid was, so I googled her.

Harvard '91.

Lux et Veritas, baby."

Really? LOL. Equal opportunity strikes again

Posted by: Tuna at July 23, 2017 12:31 PM (jm1YL)

86 "Lux et Veritas, baby."

That's Yale.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 12:33 PM (dhWsa)

87 I was shopping, and this white chick had the temeraudicity to aks ME to get somethin off the shelf for her, like I was still on the plantation or somethin'!

I gots a degree from a Ivy Leeg Univarsity, and even I don't know how to nutritiate my kids properly!!! Now if I don't know how to do that, you dumb white folk sure don't know. That's why you need my guidance of my government appointed nutrionologists.

Posted by: The Mooch at July 23, 2017 12:33 PM (/qEW2)

88
77 Who was the talking head who couldn't find her own ass without a producer directing her through her earpiece?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2017 12:28 PM (wYseH)

Soledad O'Brian

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 23, 2017 12:33 PM (pNxlR)

89 The more interesting question is: What happens to the Republican Party in the wake of Trump?"

- Megan McArdle, October 25, 2016

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 12:26 PM (dhWsa)

Well the last part; there actually is some truth to.

Will other Republican candidates emulate the 'Trump model' of confrontation vs capitulation? Will other Republican candidates get behind the Trump agenda or seek to undercut the president?

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at July 23, 2017 12:33 PM (EgwCt)

90 But goatexchange, even right here at the HQ we have commenters who claim to believe that the GOP, after being dragged almost against its will into its greatest partisan advantage (nationally) in history, doesn't dare actually address the main issues that brung 'em.

So the do-little/do-nothing GOP has a deep moat to protect it - the trap of a two-party system when neither party will do the people's will, and the apparently inexhaustible readiness even by many who support desperately needed change to rationalize GOP inaction.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 23, 2017 12:34 PM (iynDC)

91 I meant "nutritionologists". Sorry for the typo.

Posted by: The Mooch at July 23, 2017 12:34 PM (/qEW2)

92 " ... Campaign coverage at this point has the feeling of a
party that has gone on too long, but which still has an hour left on
the official clock. Some reporters are gamely trying to keep in the
spirit of things, but others are ostentatiously looking at their watches
and starting conversations about the shape of a future Clinton
presidency, or getting an early jump on the campaign autopsies."
- Megan McArdle, October 25, 2016
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 12:26 PM

See? I told you it was going to be an early night. But noooooooo! To this day, I am still mocked here.

Nevertheless, I persist.

Posted by: Bill Wynn at July 23, 2017 12:34 PM (DMUuz)

93 /sets the way back machine to 1968

Walter Cronkite saying the Viet Nam war was unwinnable, right after the Tet Offensive where we had more than decimated North VietNams military.

Posted by: Don Q. at July 23, 2017 12:35 PM (NgKpN)

94 That's Yale.

Shit.

Then the other one. You know, the one with the Latin words.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 23, 2017 12:37 PM (gIRsn)

95 Get off your high horse that you didn't build. Remember the Crusades.

Posted by: Barack Obama at July 23, 2017 12:38 PM (/qEW2)

96 92 " ... Campaign coverage at this point has the feeling of a
party that has gone on too long, but which still has an hour left on
the official clock. Some reporters are gamely trying to keep in the
spirit of things, but others are ostentatiously looking at their watches
and starting conversations about the shape of a future Clinton
presidency, or getting an early jump on the campaign autopsies."
- Megan McArdle, October 25, 2016
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 12:26 PM

Good times, good times...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2017 12:39 PM (O2RFr)

97 84 Not the MSM but one of the dumbest things I ever heard was Bill Clinton saying to a 99.9% white group of Portland college students in 1998:

"n fifty years there will no longer be a white majority in the United States"

What Clinton said was no so dumb as it almost undoubtedly, will be the reality. What was so stupid and disturbing was the wild cheering and applause by the clueless students cheering their demise.

Posted by: Ripley at July 23, 2017 12:31 PM (MxEKc)

For Dems, that was a goal, not a prediction.... and they are still trying...

Posted by: Don Q. at July 23, 2017 12:39 PM (NgKpN)

98 Joy Reid is the dumbest woman in all 57 states.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2017 12:40 PM (aZq03)

99 Will other Republican candidates get behind the Trump agenda or seek to undercut the president?

!Yeb!

"Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) on Saturday called out Republicans for not speaking out about the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia."

"If your opponent does things that you, your head explodes on, if Barack Obama did something as it's related to Russia, you say 'this is outrageous,' all this stuff, then when your guy does the same thing, have the same passion to be critical," Bush said.

http://tinyurl.com/y9cdk2jk

Posted by: V the K at July 23, 2017 12:40 PM (jn7FC)

100 Bring Back Our Gorillas!

*sad face*

Posted by: The Mooch at July 23, 2017 12:40 PM (/qEW2)

101 Look, there are plenty examples of laziness and a lack of simple constructive reasoning. But, absolute maliciousness and partisan shaping is, by far, more prevalent. A lot of the examples used to suggest stupidity is nothing more than purposeful misrepresentation on issues they can't possibly solidly defend with facts, so they shoehorn their point by applying unreasoned stupidity.

Most of their readers accept this as gospel. Those who point a finger and identify the inconsistencies (outlandishness) are called phobes, ists etc.

I'll go so far as saying most of these members of the fourth estate aren't stupid. They are dishonest and of average intelligence.

Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2017 12:40 PM (4zvR5)

102 As usual I will focus on the dumbing down of the "elites", even those who in general seem least clueless.

McArdle, quote above, is a good example. Like almost all of them, their high-water mark is to observe things that are ...... pretty obvious. Duh. From there, they generally descend into clueless stupidity like the passage quoted.

But CBD, it's the low effective intelligence and information base of much of the electorate that's the real problem.

We have a country stuffed full of smart people - smart when it comes to making a buck, developing a widget - as we always have. But that same populace, and large parts of even that highly effective minority, are utterly clueless as citizens.

I recall picking up a Bill Gates book back in the 90s. "The Way Ahead" or some such. In a bookstore. Flipped open to a few random spots. Even I was shocked at how idiotic it was. The guy is a good software businessman - end of story. I don't think the wave of clueless, ignorant tycoons who can't wait to share their lack of wisdom is random, it's a very telling aspect of America's civic cretinization.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 23, 2017 12:40 PM (iynDC)

103 Not a media quote, but wondering when 4Chan will strike, and what form it will take, since CNN did not give into the demands.

Posted by: LMD Outer Banker at July 23, 2017 12:41 PM (SoJdk)

104 73
- Megan McArdle, October 25, 2016
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 12:26 PM (dhWsa)

I'm old enough to remember when she was taken seriously as an internet commentator.

Nobody pays me for my opinion, but at that point I thought Trump had an excellent chance of winning. The only thing I was worried about was vote fraud.

Posted by: rickl at July 23, 2017 12:41 PM (sdi6R)

105 Donna Brazile, of the setting up debate questions for the DNC, 'I'm a Christian woman' non sequitur.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 23, 2017 12:41 PM (MIKMs)

106 Nobody pays me for my opinion, but at that point I thought Trump had an excellent chance of winning. The only thing I was worried about was vote fraud.
Posted by: rickl at July 23, 2017 12:41 PM (sdi6R)

Same here. My family thought Trump was a no-hoper, but I thought otherwise right from the get-go. I didn't predict he would win, but that he might win, and shouldn't be laughed off.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 23, 2017 12:43 PM (SRKgf)

107 Joy Reid is the dumbest woman in all 57 states.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2017 12:40 PM

Thats a pretty high bar your setting

Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2017 12:43 PM (9g/6M)

108 Joy Reid is the dumbest woman in all 57 states.

Have you heard of Sally Kohn?

Posted by: V the K at July 23, 2017 12:44 PM (jn7FC)

109 "In fifty years there will no longer be a white majority in the United States"

What Clinton said was no so dumb as it almost undoubtedly, will be the reality. What was so stupid and disturbing was the wild cheering and applause by the clueless students cheering their demise.

Posted by: Ripley at July 23, 2017 12:31 PM (MxEKc)

For Dems, that was a goal, not a prediction.... and they are still trying...

Posted by: Don Q.

Maybe in California, when it secedes. And then the red states need to help give the libs in California that dream. What was that article? California will be a feudal state with a few Silicon Valley lords, with everyone else as peasants.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 12:44 PM (/qEW2)

110 Same here. My family thought Trump was a no-hoper, but I thought otherwise right from the get-go. I didn't predict he would win, but that he might win, and shouldn't be laughed off.

I gave it a 50/50 chance.... My main concern was voter fraud...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 23, 2017 12:44 PM (O2RFr)

111 "Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) on Saturday called out Republicans for not speaking out about the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia."

"If your opponent does things that you, your head explodes on, if Barack Obama did something as it's related to Russia, you say 'this is outrageous,' all this stuff, then when your guy does the same thing, have the same passion to be critical," Bush said.

Posted by: V the K at July 23, 2017 12:40 PM (jn7FC)

Well my question was more to future candidates. Jeb Bush can now only see his career in the rear view mirror.

Apparently he can't come to terms with the phrase 'massive repudiation' and 'final act of political dynasty'.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at July 23, 2017 12:45 PM (EgwCt)

112 Posted by: V the K at July 23, 2017 12:40 PM (jn7FC)

Reading what he actually said, he was not calling out Republicans...

It could be read as calling out Trump supporters as well.

Posted by: Don Q. at July 23, 2017 12:45 PM (NgKpN)

113 We should not be building walls. We should be breaking down barriers!
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Agreed mortal.

Posted by: Archaon the Three Eyed King standing before the Wall of Faith at July 23, 2017 12:45 PM (aZq03)

114 I recall picking up a Bill Gates book back in the 90s. "The Way Ahead" or some such. In a bookstore. Flipped open to a few random spots. Even I was shocked at how idiotic it was. The guy is a good software businessman - end of story. I don't think the wave of clueless, ignorant tycoons who can't wait to share their lack of wisdom is random, it's a very telling aspect of America's civic cretinization.
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Did Bill Gates actually write the book? Debatable.

Did Bill Gates even read the book? Not sure.

Did Bill Gates get money from the publisher to put his name on a book written by a ghostwriter for the unwashed, uneducated masses that would make a lot of money, becuase of the name BIll Gates? Probably.

/yes, I am cynical, thank you for noticing!

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 12:45 PM (aT+Bx)

115 108 Joy Reid is the dumbest woman in all 57 states.

Have you heard of Sally Kohn?

Don't forget me!

Posted by: Rachael Maddow at July 23, 2017 12:45 PM (O2RFr)

116 when your guy does the same thing, have the same passion to be critical," Bush said.
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Obama promised Russia he would champion their interests if he was re-elected in 2012.

Trump offered Russia....nothing

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2017 12:46 PM (aZq03)

117 I thought Trump might win when my died in the wool, democrat voting friends started taking me aside and asking in quiet tones which candidate I would be voting for. When I said Trump, they would say, so am I but don't tell anyone. This happened many times coming up to the election.

Posted by: LMD Outer Banker at July 23, 2017 12:46 PM (SoJdk)

118
My most favorite pronouncement?

That ANY consider themselves journalists.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 23, 2017 12:47 PM (S/hVx)

119 have the same passion to be critical," Bush said.

Go give another medal to the traitor Hillary Clinton, fuckhole.

Posted by: then FOAD at July 23, 2017 12:47 PM (9jUku)

120 last weekend joe buck had to bring politics into womens golf.
he said something along the lines of, 'POTUS is here bringing controversy and protesters'

the other male announcer shut him down by saying 'every president has that'

it shut buck up.

Posted by: concrete girl at July 23, 2017 12:47 PM (6Soaw)

121 The guy is a good software businessman - end of story. I don't think the wave of clueless, ignorant tycoons who can't wait to share their lack of wisdom is random, it's a very telling aspect of America's civic cretinization.

Posted by: rhomboid

I saw Civic Cretinization open for Hard Niffles at the Cow Palace in '94.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 12:48 PM (/qEW2)

122
Maybe in California, when it secedes
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I think we should be looking to sell it back to Mexico right now...at least the Southern part.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2017 12:48 PM (aZq03)

123 Jeb! 2020.....Free the Merkin!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 23, 2017 12:49 PM (5VlCp)

124 My most favorite pronouncement?

That ANY consider themselves journalists.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 23, 2017 12:47 PM
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They don't.

They're "activists for the DNC."

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 12:49 PM (aT+Bx)

125 /yes, I am cynical, thank you for noticing!
Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 12:45 PM

shibumi, you are far too young to be so cynical.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2017 12:49 PM (DMUuz)

126 Democracy Dies in Dorkness.

Posted by: WaPo at July 23, 2017 12:50 PM (/qEW2)

127 Even I was shocked at how idiotic it was
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Just because someone is good at one thing, doesn't mean they are good at everything.

Writing and running a business aren't skills that overlap particularly strongly.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2017 12:50 PM (aZq03)

128 shibumi, you are far too young to be so cynical.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2017 12:49 PM
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LOL.

Some of us have been 29 longer than others.

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 12:50 PM (aT+Bx)

129 "9 Also, I though we could retire the award for that peawit who asked a GOP rep (I forget which one) if he had a degree in economics, because he said something with which she disagreed.

He answered: "Yes, from Duke, with highest honors"."

That was Mo Brooks, who's running for Sessions' senate seat.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at July 23, 2017 12:50 PM (398bZ)

130 I think this is the natural and inevitable result of a focus on narrative and having the politically correct positions on all issues to the exclusion of truth, facts, and reason.

We have for decades been watching kids being taught nonsense and stupidity in schools, not being taught the basics of what they need to know, and wondering how this was going to turn out. Well now we know what being taught leftist morality in the place of math, grammar, science, art, and geography results in: Susan Rice, Joy Reid, Sally Kohn, Ta-Nahisi Coates, and all the rest.

Kids are taught to revere science and its trappings but not its philosophy and meaning. They are taught who to honor in the past (never white men) but not what these people believed in. The only philosophy allowed is the ideology of the hard left.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 12:51 PM (39g3+)

131 126 LOL

Posted by: LMD Outer Banker at July 23, 2017 12:51 PM (SoJdk)

132 "It's going to be an early night for Donald Trump"

/every MSM journalist election night.

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 12:51 PM (aT+Bx)

133 That was Mo Brooks, who's running for Sessions' senate seat.
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Heh? What? He's going to take my chair? That's despicable!

Posted by: Slumber'n Sessions at July 23, 2017 12:51 PM (aZq03)

134 Maybe in California, when it secedes
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I think we should be looking to sell it back to Mexico right now...at least the Southern part.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2017 12:48 PM

Why buy la vaca when la leche is free?

Posted by: El Jefe Grande at July 23, 2017 12:52 PM (DMUuz)

135 Conservatism the Fountain of Youth? Blog Claims to Keep Posters at Age 29 Forever.

Posted by: WaPo at July 23, 2017 12:52 PM (/qEW2)

136 I don't think the wave of clueless, ignorant tycoons
who can't wait to share their lack of wisdom is random, it's a very
telling aspect of America's civic cretinization.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 23, 2017 12:40 PM (iynDC)

I wonder if specialization is driving that.

John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie had to know a lot about many different things.

But Gates, as you point out, knows one thing. And that idiot FaceBook fascist is probably even worse.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2017 12:52 PM (wYseH)

137 "It's going to be an early night for Donald Trump"

/every MSM journalist election night.

I just can't understand how he won!

Posted by: Zombie Pauline Kael at July 23, 2017 12:52 PM (PXj2C)

138
"Those three letters J-O-B-S"

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 23, 2017 12:54 PM (t6XCL)

139 118
My most favorite pronouncement?

That ANY consider themselves journalists.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 23, 2017 12:47 PM (S/hVx)

I read something a couple of days ago; I don't remember whether it was here or somewhere else.

A reporter is one who reports the facts.

A journalist tells a story.

In the old days, a guy would come in off the street and get a job as a reporter at the local newspaper. Today people go to college to get a degree in Journalism.

Posted by: rickl at July 23, 2017 12:54 PM (sdi6R)

140 Conservatism the Fountain of Youth? Blog Claims to Keep Posters at Age 29 Forever.
Posted by: WaPo at July 23, 2017 12:52 PM

"Our reporter gets the facts from blogger Charlie Brown's Dildo."

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 12:54 PM (aT+Bx)

141 "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"

and

"Fake but Real"

Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2017 12:54 PM (9q7Dl)

142 I thought Trump would lose....too much stacked against him... but in the last week, as all the guerrilla reporting started to reveal the size and scope and widespreadness (not a word) of the Trump rallies...i began to hope and wonder..........what if....?

Posted by: goatexchange at July 23, 2017 12:55 PM (YFnq5)

143 John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie had to know a lot about many different things.

But Gates, as you point out, knows one thing. And that idiot FaceBook fascist is probably even worse.

And Elon Musk only has to know one thing: how to get money out of the federal government

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 12:55 PM (39g3+)

144 Quite the comeback for Spieth.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2017 12:55 PM (O5U4s)

145 Conservatism the Fountain of Youth? Blog Claims to Keep Posters at Age 29 Forever.

Conservative blog readers stayed 29 using this one weird trick!

Posted by: Facebook Clickbait at July 23, 2017 12:55 PM (PXj2C)

146 The United States is the largest Muslim nation in the world. It's always been Muslim, like Thomas Jefferson.

Posted by: Barack Obama at July 23, 2017 12:56 PM (/qEW2)

147 128 shibumi, you are far too young to be so cynical.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2017 12:49 PM
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LOL.

Some of us have been 29 longer than others.
Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 12:50 PM (aT+Bx)

Some of us were born cynical.

Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 12:57 PM (0mRoj)

148 The curious thing to me is that Joy Reid gets one thing out of these multiple marriages: "Boy the Trump guy sure seems to like Russians!" Sure, they aren't Russian, she got her geography all wrong and all that. But look at the point she's missing:

He really likes immigrants.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 12:57 PM (39g3+)

149 Conservative blog readers stayed 29 using this one weird trick!
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We're stealing this.

Posted by: Buzzfeed at July 23, 2017 12:57 PM (aT+Bx)

150

"I'm smaerter than the average person"

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 23, 2017 12:57 PM (t6XCL)

151 Didn't they used to call that 'xenophobia?'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 23, 2017 12:58 PM (Mt8T4)

152 Fountain of youth my ass. For 29, I look like shit.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2017 12:59 PM (kfM5N)

153 #TeamSpieth.

That gutsy shot on 13....to me, he's never been more brilliant.

It was like Phil's shot through the trees, which was the greatest shot I ever saw.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 12:59 PM (smD62)

154 152 Fountain of youth my ass. For 29, I look like shit.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2017 12:59 PM (kfM5N)

Meth will do that to you.

Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 12:59 PM (0mRoj)

155
He really likes immigrants.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 12:57 PM

Why does Trump hate American women?

And American women of color?

And American women who were born men?

And American women who only have sex other women, but might slide once and a while?

WHY DOESN'T TRUMP MARRY ANY OF THESE WOMEN????

Posted by: Joy Reid at July 23, 2017 12:59 PM (aT+Bx)

156 91 I meant "nutritionologists". Sorry for the typo.
************

That's OK. We thought you were using the pluperfect subjunctive mood.

'Coz it's sexy....

Posted by: Naughty Nude Grammarian at July 23, 2017 01:00 PM (611Lm)

157
The sweetest moment of the last week of the campaign was when Drudge put up some link about some Hillary fireworks display planned on the Hudson River, iirc. Then the next day another link that they were canceled. They *knew* it was going down.

The Clinton's are many things and incredibly cheap is one of them.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at July 23, 2017 01:00 PM (EgwCt)

158 So what's your favorite idiotic pronouncement from the buffoons of the fourth estate?

===========

Gore wins Florida! -- All television networks, including FOX News

"Let's get one thing straight right from the get-go: We would rather be last in reporting returns than be wrong. If we say somebody's carried the state, you can take that to the bank." -- Dan Rather, CBS, at the outset of coverage (2000)

"We don't just have egg on our face; we have an omelette." -- Tom Brokaw, NBC, afterward

Posted by: ShainS at July 23, 2017 01:00 PM (ZcAbN)

159 The white working class *spit* have gotten a really good deal in the past. Now they've got to realize that's over. They should flagellate themselves with yet another Democrat administration, and no one is more qualified to do that than Hillary.

Posted by: Barack Obama at July 23, 2017 01:01 PM (/qEW2)

160 The United States is the largest Muslim nation in the world. It's always been Muslim, like Thomas Jefferson. Posted by: Barack Obama at July 23, 2017 12:56 PM (/qEW2)
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Muslims were part of our foundation. (To the shores of Tripoli . . . )

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 23, 2017 01:01 PM (MIKMs)

161 And American women who were born men?

He hates these fake cans!

Posted by: Caitlyn "Bruce" Jenner at July 23, 2017 01:01 PM (PXj2C)

162 159 The white working class *spit* have gotten a really good deal in the past. Now they've got to realize that's over. They should flagellate themselves with yet another Democrat administration, and no one is more qualified to do that than Hillary.
Posted by: Barack Obama at July 23, 2017 01:01 PM (/qEW2)

Flagellate hell, they should just die.

Posted by: Kevin D. Williamson at July 23, 2017 01:02 PM (0mRoj)

163 Aristotle was a muslim. True fact.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 01:03 PM (PXj2C)

164 When your goals in hiring are not talent, intelligence or experience, but "diversity," then you're hiring stupid people. Stupid people tend to say stupid things.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2017 01:04 PM (MZcWR)

165 The sweetest moment of the last week of the campaign was when Drudge put up some link about some Hillary fireworks display planned on the Hudson River, iirc. Then the next day another link that they were canceled. They *knew* it was going down.
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As some know, I had a freelance client I worked closely with a few years ago. One partner was a bully with rage issues, and the other was a passive aggressive nut job who thought I was his psychiatrist. Strangely enough, I liked the former better.

In any case, their firm was the one charged with Hillary's fireworks. My guess is that they ate a lot of the cost themselves, since their client (who also did the convetion and Baracks Immaculation) is their god, and they would eat their own sh*t if it made him happyp.

Anecdotally, the two partners both vote Republican, and Obamacare is killing their bottom line.

But all their clients think they're hardcore leftists.

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 01:06 PM (aT+Bx)

166 When your goals in hiring are not talent, intelligence or experience, but "diversity," then you're hiring stupid people. Stupid people tend to say stupid things.
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I worked in local tv.

They hire people who are attractive, who are good at reading out loud while sitting down AND standing up.

Those are the qualifications.

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 01:07 PM (aT+Bx)

167 If you like your doctor, you can keep it.

I really, really wanted to be gay, but I thought "Nah. That's too easy".

Posted by: Barack Obama at July 23, 2017 01:07 PM (/qEW2)

168 CBD - exactly my theory (referring to the civic idiocy of smart rich people).

Gates actually had to do some of the hard stuff, building a business, competing ruthlessly (and some would say shadily). But he didn't seem to pick up much about life - though recently he stunned the world by saying that, um, maybe Europe admitting a zillion unassimilable migrants might, um, not work out too well. And his philanthropy hasn't been *entirely* damaging and stupid, far as I can tell (don't make a hobby of following it, but have some idea).

Zuckerberg on the other hand is a perfect example. Dude is a zillionaire before, and without, having to be a citizen or an adult, without building a business over decades, and certainly nothing like Carnegie and Rockefeller went through. Very unworldly kid, who with one tiny tweak in timing or circumstance, would be unheard of.

The old tycoons actually built. They created ex nihilo, in many cases, in areas involving huge risk, effort, and time. Today's IT tycoons? Some exceptions, but in many cases all it takes is one double or triple, and you're on the All-Star team.

Not a complaint - it's the very base of wealth of the country that makes instant tycoons possible - the wealth created almost entirely the old-fashioned way, in industries very different from IT.

And note that most of the biggest old tycoons didn't even dabble in politics or public affairs. They endowed foundations ...... which, two generations later, were tirelessly working to destroy mindset and civic infrastructure and freedom that made the success of the eponymous founders possible! (Ford Foundation, Carnegie Endowment)

Posted by: rhomboid at July 23, 2017 01:08 PM (iynDC)

169 Haven't been around much lately. How are things, Insomniac?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2017 01:09 PM (O5U4s)

170 When your goals in hiring are not talent, intelligence or experience, but "diversity," then you're hiring stupid people. Stupid people tend to say stupid things.

You draft pitchers for pitching ability, they usually can't hit. They weren't selected for that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 23, 2017 01:09 PM (SRKgf)

171 The sweetest moment of the last week of the campaign was when Drudge put
up some link about some Hillary fireworks display planned on the Hudson
River, iirc. Then the next day another link that they were canceled.
They *knew* it was going down.

I remember when I first read that, and tried not to jump to the obvious conclusion, because the disappointment would have been too great. That was the obvious conclusion nonetheless.

Posted by: pep at July 23, 2017 01:09 PM (LAe3v)

172 Aristotle was a muslim. True fact.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 01:03 PM

Dude. A few things you read on the Internet can't be proven. There's "Eureka!" and there's "U reek'a."

Posted by: Euclid at July 23, 2017 01:10 PM (DMUuz)

173 Thank you, Joy. That was almost a cogent thought and you kept it under our Department's 140-character limit.

You have passed your thesis defense and we hereby award you a Doctorate of Letters in Journalism. Welcome to the club!

Posted by: Journalism School Board of Regents at July 23, 2017 01:11 PM (jCMs8)

174 Aristotle also remembered to close his html tags.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 01:11 PM (PXj2C)

175 Even I'm aware of the value of close tags! To Hades with The Barrel!

Posted by: Euclid at July 23, 2017 01:12 PM (DMUuz)

176

Superb day to do yard work--so I guess I'll grab the pole and visit the pond. Gotta be ONE bass I haven't pissed off yet.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 23, 2017 01:12 PM (S/hVx)

177
I worked in local tv.

They hire people who are attractive, who are good at reading out loud while sitting down AND standing up.

Those are the qualifications

IOW, they're mannequins*, but they're convinced they're geniuses. For all I know, that's what actual mannequins think as they stand in the store front windows.

*stolen from Barney Miller

Posted by: pep at July 23, 2017 01:13 PM (LAe3v)

178 Hillary campaign thought they'd win right up to the moment they didn't. Lots of accounts, including the book Shattered. So did MSM, hence their shock and tears as Election Night played out.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 23, 2017 01:14 PM (pV/54)

179 166
I worked in local tv.

They hire people who are attractive, who are good at reading out loud while sitting down AND standing up.

Those are the qualifications.
Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 01:07 PM (aT+Bx)

In England, they're called "newsreaders", which is a pretty accurate job description.

Posted by: rickl at July 23, 2017 01:15 PM (sdi6R)

180 Cosmo says listening to Rachel Madcow is 100 times hotter than sex.

http://tinyurl.com/yb4svm9m

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 23, 2017 01:15 PM (Nwg0u)

181 He really likes immigrants.
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I think I could get behind an immigration policy that allows unlimited attractive, single, non-feminist women to come in.

Posted by: Obligatory at July 23, 2017 01:16 PM (aZq03)

182 Who was the idiot who googled the name of a shooter and said there was a Tea Party guy by that name?

I didn't so much predict that Trump would win as I never ever understood for a moment why anyone thought that a majority of people would have any burning desire to get up off the couch and vote for Hillary.

Of course it was close enough that I was barely correct...ish, but I am relieved that Hillary Clinton will never be president.

Posted by: Mama AJ at July 23, 2017 01:16 PM (wwL6Q)

183 Cosmo says listening to Rachel Madcow is 100 times hotter than sex...

... with her.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 23, 2017 01:16 PM (SRKgf)

184 In England, they're called "newsreaders", which is a pretty accurate job description.
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Yes, that is exactly what they do.

The only ones that have to think on their feet are the reporters on the street, who do not have teleprompters, but are also chosen for attractiveness and minority status.

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 01:16 PM (aT+Bx)

185 Trump's wife was from Herzegoslovina.

Herzegoslovina has always been at war with Peruvia.

There's your proof of collusion!

Posted by: Joy Reed - pole dancer for hire at July 23, 2017 01:16 PM (PG1FL)

186 169 Haven't been around much lately. How are things, Insomniac?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2017 01:09 PM (O5U4s)

Pretty much the same old same old. Still waiting to hear something about the last interview. I may have another prospect coming up that looks good, but there's no telling. Otherwise I'm just in this crap limbo state.

So how's TN and everything else that's going on?

Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 01:18 PM (0mRoj)

187 Cosmo says listening to Rachel Madcow is 100 times hotter than sex.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 23, 2017 01:15 PM

Do we have a medal, or award, or something for Horde members who, at the risk of life, limb, or mental and/or emotional well-being, go above-and-beyond to recon things so we don't have to? You know, in the finest traditions of the Horde Service?

Maybe even a shirt, or an upgrade from cardboard membership?

Posted by: Euclid at July 23, 2017 01:21 PM (DMUuz)

188 Aristotle was a muslim. True fact.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)

Maimonides was a muslim as well! It's amazing how many dead people who can't respond were really muslims.

Posted by: United Nations at July 23, 2017 01:22 PM (/qEW2)

189 For my money, it's still hard to beat the Clown Nose Network telling its viewers that the shuttle _Columbia_ had been traveling at 18 times the speed of light when it broke up on re-entry.

"Layers of fact-checkers and editors." Every last one of them an abject scientific ignoramus, apparently.

http://tinyurl.com/ycgunph4

Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 01:22 PM (ujwCG)

190
Gotta be ONE bass I haven't pissed off yet.
Posted by: irongrampa

It's me. It's me. It's Ernest T.

Posted by: Ernest T. Bass at July 23, 2017 01:23 PM (IqV8l)

191 TN is going well. Leased a townhouse that we'll move into a week from tomorrow. Headed back to IL on Friday to load up uhaul. 10 hour drive back should be loads of fun.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2017 01:24 PM (kfM5N)

192 191 TN is going well. Leased a townhouse that we'll move into a week from tomorrow. Headed back to IL on Friday to load up uhaul. 10 hour drive back should be loads of fun.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2017 01:24 PM (kfM5N)

Good times.

Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 01:24 PM (0mRoj)

193
I have boxes of leftover diversity in my garage. There's no strength there. I have to place inordinate effort into creating any degree of strength out of that mess.

In the same way that public schools have to place inordinate effort into placing a huge number of ESL (English as Second Language) aides into classrooms. To the everlasting detriment of english speaking students who fall behind because the diverse cannot possibly catch up.

It just flows for the left, almost '1984'-ish;

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Diversity is Strength.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at July 23, 2017 01:25 PM (EgwCt)

194 189 For my money, it's still hard to beat the Clown Nose Network telling its viewers that the shuttle _Columbia_ had been traveling at 18 times the speed of light when it broke up on re-entry.

"Layers of fact-checkers and editors." Every last one of them an abject scientific ignoramus, apparently.

http://tinyurl.com/ycgunph4
Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 01:22 PM (ujwCG)

Oh man, I had forgotten that.

Posted by: rickl at July 23, 2017 01:25 PM (sdi6R)

195 MH370 disappered into a black hole.

/Don Lemon, the gift that keeps giving!

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 01:26 PM (aT+Bx)

196 Donna Brazile: My insurance premium jumped. No good reason.

Posted by: Ripley at July 23, 2017 01:27 PM (MxEKc)

197
Who was the idiot who googled the name of a shooter and said there was a Tea Party guy by that name?

Brian Ross

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2017 01:27 PM (IqV8l)

198 I thought stuffing my face with Big Macs all day would give me GAINZZZ. They said it had beef, which is healthy.

Posted by: Caeser Barber at July 23, 2017 01:27 PM (/qEW2)

199 After a disaster on 13, Spieth goes five under on the last five holes to win. Nice win.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2017 01:28 PM (O5U4s)

200 13 White Hispanic
Posted by: CNN at July 23, 2017 12:01 PM (mtGE/)
------------------------------
Yeah, that's really stupid!

Posted by: Cameron Diaz at July 23, 2017 01:28 PM (0jtPF)

201
For my money, it's still hard to beat the Clown Nose Network telling its viewers that the shuttle _Columbia_ had been traveling at 18 times the speed of light when it broke up on re-entry.

Ludicrous speed!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2017 01:28 PM (IqV8l)

202 "The only ones that have to think on their feet are the reporters on the street"

On the street, or floating in the street.

Thinking here of the glossy newsbint who had decked herself out in expensive brand new rain gear and climbed into a kayak, to show her viewers the "devastating flooding".

Only to then have the illusion punctured by a pair of guys in waders wandering through her live shot next to her in the kayak, showing the "devastating flood" to be about mid-calf height.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 01:28 PM (ujwCG)

203 "While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us.FAKE NEWS"

I read this Trump tweet as telling Mueller that if he brings bullshit charges then Mueller will have created a constitutional crisis.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 23, 2017 01:28 PM (pV/54)

204 The Sally Kohn Wing of the Twitter Museum of Stupid is over capacity, The Joy Reid Wing is under construction now

Posted by: kbdabear at July 23, 2017 01:28 PM (3i2nH)

205 199 After a disaster on 13, Spieth goes five under on the last five holes to win. Nice win.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 23, 2017 01:28 PM (O5U4s)

Heh heh. Holes. Heh heh heh.

Posted by: Butthead at July 23, 2017 01:28 PM (0mRoj)

206 My all-time favorite is from 1984 - indignant female columnist (Mary McGrory) predicting that Reagan would lose big that year. After all, the women were against him, the people of color were against him, the poor were against him. Who could possibly be voting FOR him?

(49 states, as it turned out.)

Posted by: Annalucia at July 23, 2017 01:29 PM (a5bF3)

207 "I don't know how you can be a believer in Christianity and support the death penalty." - Dan Bongino

(Dan Bongino podcast - Friday, July 21st, 2017 - 26-27 min into podcast)

Posted by: Dan Bongino at July 23, 2017 01:30 PM (/vTjn)

208 Aristotle was a muslim. True fact.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 01:03 PM

Dude. A few things you read on the Internet can't be proven. There's "Eureka!" and there's "U reek'a."

Posted by: Euclid

Cicero had to have been joking. Aristotle was born many centuries before Mohammed was feeling up 6 year olds.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 01:31 PM (/qEW2)

209 >>Brian Ross

Thanks!

Posted by: Mama AJ at July 23, 2017 01:31 PM (wwL6Q)

210 189 For my money, it's still hard to beat the Clown Nose Network telling its viewers that the shuttle _Columbia_ had been traveling at 18 times the speed of light when it broke up on re-entry.

"Layers of fact-checkers and editors." Every last one of them an abject scientific ignoramus, apparently.

http://tinyurl.com/ycgunph4
Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 01:22 PM (ujwCG)

While he's not a reporter, I liked Algore's somber pronouncement that the center of the earth was "millions of degrees."

Perhaps not, Al.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 23, 2017 01:31 PM (SRKgf)

211 OMG! They've resorted to cannibalism in the Super-dome!

Posted by: Shep, I'm Out! at July 23, 2017 01:32 PM (2+gSO)

212 Who could possibly be voting FOR him?

Grownups?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 23, 2017 01:32 PM (SRKgf)

213 Once their "truth" became part of BAMN then anything can be "true."

"Since everything that has actually happened in the realm of human affairs could just as well have been otherwise, the possibilities for lying are boundless...." Hannah Arendt "Truth and Politics."

Posted by: geoffb5 at July 23, 2017 01:33 PM (d3wbb)

214 My takeaway on the media is just how they present things.

Healthcare, soft drinks widen political divide

WASHINGTON -- As the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate considers dismantling the health care system that has helped Americans gain access to medical services for nearly a decade, some GOP lawmakers betray their loyalties in their choice of beverage.

Sen. John Smith (R-W.Car.) opted for only a Coca-Cola during a lunchtime recess on Friday, despite needing more nutritious food to think clearly during recent proceedings. Smith attempted to defend his midday meal, despite numerous advisories from the U.S. Department of Health and former First Lady Michelle Obama to consume healthy meals.

"I wasn't hungry," Smith admitted.

"Besides, I like Coke," he went on to say, referring to the beverage produced by one of the few Western corporations that did not divest from South Africa during that nation's apartheid reign.

Smith offered no comment as to whether he supported apartheid.

Smith did not elaborate as to the whether he bought his carbonated beverage, the bubbles of which release harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere which hasten the destruction of the polar ice caps, or acquired his drink at taxpayer expense.

Meanwhile, Democratic colleague Sen. Jane Doe of Pennsyltucky was also in Washington for the debate, despite a schedule summer recess for the Senate.

"We have work to do," Doe proclaimed.

"Sometimes, I grab a Pepsi for lunch and get right back to work," she continued.

Doe went on to say that she is a member of the "Pepsi generation," alluding to a decades-old advertising slogan by Pepsi Cola, the underdog challenger to its corporate behemoth rival, Coca-Cola. "The Pepsi generation brings fresh ideas to the table," she continued.

Smith did not comment on the link between his beverage's fizziness and the recent iceberg that broke off from the Antarctic ice shelf earlier in the week.

-- 30 --

You get the idea.

Posted by: FireHorse at July 23, 2017 01:33 PM (zkGZ8)

215 Sally and friends saying "hands up don't shoot" with their hands up.

Can't get any worse than that, since their breathless coverage and lies stirred up ppl and caused riots.

Posted by: Mama AJ at July 23, 2017 01:34 PM (wwL6Q)

216 Cicero had to have been joking. Aristotle was born many centuries before Mohammed was feeling up 6 year olds.

If Aristotle traveled at 18 times the speed of light he would have gone backwards in time, so yeah, its possible.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 01:34 PM (PXj2C)

217 Ah Joy---yo mama raised at least one idiot.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 23, 2017 01:34 PM (Sda6L)

218 Posted by: FireHorse at July 23, 2017 01:33 PM (zkGZ

I won't drink Pepsi, which is run by that Indian (dot, not feather) leftist bint who has run her mouth on more than one occasion.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 23, 2017 01:34 PM (SRKgf)

219 OMG! They've resorted to cannibalism in the Super-dome!

Holy crap. What's the situation at the Food King?

Posted by: Katy at July 23, 2017 01:35 PM (PXj2C)

220 'Fake news' label 'the equivalent of the N-word for journalists' - Chris Cuomo

Posted by: Under Fire at July 23, 2017 01:35 PM (mcI77)

221 202
Only to then have the illusion punctured by a pair of guys in waders wandering through her live shot next to her in the kayak, showing the "devastating flood" to be about mid-calf height.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 01:28 PM (ujwCG)

I remember that. That was a classic. Even the anchors back in the studio couldn't help laughing.

Posted by: rickl at July 23, 2017 01:35 PM (sdi6R)

222 I thought Scaramucci did well on the Sunday shows. He knocked Jake Tapper around quite a bit.

You know all the talking heads wanted to call him a wartime consigliere, but had been sternly warned by their producers.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 23, 2017 01:35 PM (pV/54)

223 220 'Fake news' label 'the equivalent of the N-word for journalists' - Chris Cuomo
Posted by: Under Fire at July 23, 2017 01:35 PM (mcI77)

Nice try.

Also "journalist" --> "reporter."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 23, 2017 01:36 PM (SRKgf)

224 They hire people who are attractive, who are good at reading out loud while sitting down AND standing up.

Those are the qualifications.

Yeah I think news people have always been thumping great idiots, they just never gave the world any indication of it. now, they think they are so important the whole world needs to know their hot take on all issues on social media -- and even worse, in the middle of allegedly news broadcasts -- and the stupid comes pouring out like a Pepsi bottle someone dumped a whole sleeve of Mentos into

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 01:36 PM (39g3+)

225 93 million gun deaths per year.

"climate justice"

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 01:36 PM (/qEW2)

226 "I didn't know who Joy Reid was, so I googled her. Harvard '91. Lux et Veritas, baby."

The pack of jackals referred to as the press corps regularly and snootily remind those of us in the serf class that journalism is a profession. A PROFESSION. Not something that can be done by scruffy bloggers in pajamas. Heavens no! It is a refined and demanding profession, they will go on to say, with corresponding high professional requirements and standards.

Standards which must have been imported at a professional SCHOOL of journalism. Where prospective journalists will be put through the mill, for years, and subjected to severe intellectual rigors, and carefully taught what's what. So that they will provide valuable service to the general public later on, as PRACTICING PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS thankyouverymuch. The guardians of the gate. The defenders of truth.

Except... when you look at it, as a practical matter, the snooze media turns out to be chock full of people like Joy Ann Reid who never themselves went to J-school.

And who are thus essentially down in the muck with those "unprofessional, untrained, undisciplined" scruffy pajama-clad bloggers whom the professional press corps so vocally and acidly disdain.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 01:37 PM (ujwCG)

227 While he's not a reporter, I liked Algore's somber pronouncement that the center of the earth was "millions of degrees."

Perhaps not, Al.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 23, 2017 01:31 PM (SRKgf)

That was the very last time that a Democrat running for President released his/her college transcripts. Turned out that AlGore's achievements in 'Earth Science' garnered him a 'D' grade.

To me, I'm a grade snob. Pretty much anyone can muck through and graduate. I wanna see the grades.

I don't wanna have an auto mechanic that only gets things right 5 or 6 out of 10 times. I hit the brakes, I expect the car to stop.

Someday I hope to live long enough to see Obama's transcript. I'm thinking he was C- material at best. Good enough graduate. GEG.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at July 23, 2017 01:38 PM (EgwCt)

228 225 93 million gun deaths per year.

"climate justice"
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 01:36 PM (/qEW2)

A day, per Terry McAuliffe

Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 01:38 PM (0mRoj)

229 Reporter fail on reporting flood:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm3_jzcNm4

It's an evergreen.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 23, 2017 01:38 PM (SRKgf)

230 O/T but my son is at Boy Scout National Jamboree and just texted me that President Trump is making an appearance tomorrow. He said everyone is excited. I guess that POS Obama boycotted the last two Jamboree s.

Posted by: Benji Carver at July 23, 2017 01:39 PM (y3yPT)

231 Detachable penis.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at July 23, 2017 01:39 PM (/qEW2)

232 Why is a Republican-controlled Congress forcing Trump to put sanctions on Russia? It's almost a vote of no confidence.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 23, 2017 01:39 PM (pV/54)

233 My favorite, Geraldo on the bulkhead reporting on a hurricane when a wave comes up and almost knocks him into the water. I was rooting for the wave

Posted by: LMD Outer Banker at July 23, 2017 01:40 PM (SoJdk)

234 Cicero had to have been joking. Aristotle was born many centuries before Mohammed was feeling up 6 year olds.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 01:31 PM

In Trvth, Cicero's sense of humor did vex me.

Posted by: Marc Antony at July 23, 2017 01:41 PM (DMUuz)

235 Someday I hope to live long enough to see Obama's transcript. I'm
thinking he was C- material at best. Good enough graduate. GEG.
=====

Pretty sure most of the curriculum back then was Pass/Fail because that was a big thing back then. If you made it in, you were already so good that any kind of 'grading' was nonsensical.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 23, 2017 01:42 PM (MIKMs)

236 I go for the classics: "Crime Rate Falling Despite Rising Prison Population"

Posted by: Socratese at July 23, 2017 01:42 PM (2GbWn)

237 Gender confirmation surgery. Sexual minority. Heteronormativity. "Gender assigned at birth".

Climate change. Climate chaos. Climate terrorism. Anthropogenic Global Warming. Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming. Sustainability.

Microaggression. Manspreading. Mansplaining.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 01:44 PM (/qEW2)

238 Another classic:

Upchuck Todd, on camera, looking at the first returns from the upper Midwest on Election Day 2016, and stammering in surprise that "We're in trouble here."

Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 01:44 PM (ujwCG)

239 I won't drink Pepsi, which is run by that Indian (dot, not feather) leftist bint who has run her mouth on more than one occasion.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
________

Indra Nooyi: Woman, immigrant -- it's inspiring. It also makes me (still in my journalist role, not me for real) wonder why Trump wants to ban people like her from the country. (Hearts and minds now, because I can issue a correction later, if I have to, when it doesn't matter.)

One more thing:

Guevara has not issued any statement of apology for his recent use of the word "bint." (You disagree with us, we go after you. Got to cover all the bases.)

Posted by: FireHorse at July 23, 2017 01:44 PM (zkGZ8)

240 Pretty much everything coming from the fourth estate is stupid, it's why I stopped paying attention to them.

Posted by: Gmac - 'All politics in this country now is dress-rehearsal for civil war' at July 23, 2017 01:45 PM (qZdIZ)

241 235 Someday I hope to live long enough to see Obama's transcript. I'm
thinking he was C- material at best. Good enough graduate. GEG.
=====

Pretty sure most of the curriculum back then was Pass/Fail because that was a big thing back then. If you made it in, you were already so good that any kind of 'grading' was nonsensical.
Posted by: mustbequantum at July 23, 2017 01:42 PM (MIKMs)

+++

If that's the case, why are they under lock and key in a two million dollar strong box?

Posted by: washrivergal at July 23, 2017 01:45 PM (2+gSO)

242 Perhaps not specifically from anointed members of the chattering class but too good to pass up. From the twitter (where else):

"jesus wasn't white. he was born in a predominantly muslim country. goodbye."

Followed by:

"Jesus was a Muslim, confirmed.

Islam didn't exist...but he was a Muslim.

Islam is a race."

The last one my be Poe's Law in action, but who knows anymore.

Posted by: Scotch and Tritium at July 23, 2017 01:45 PM (uN4Ye)

243 Gotta be ONE bass I haven't pissed off yet.
Posted by: irongrampa

youtube.com/watch?v=m80jt6bm6ZA

Posted by: Take me to the river! at July 23, 2017 01:46 PM (L7t0A)

244 "We're in trouble here."

That wasn't the royal we, it was "me and the Clinton campaign who I worked with closely to write my articles"

Indra Nooyi: Woman, immigrant -- it's inspiring.

Yeah, not like that First Lady who's clearly an awful Russian mole.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 01:46 PM (39g3+)

245 Obama's transcripts would likely show that he only got into Harvard Law because he was black. They may also show that he claimed to be a foreign student to boost his admissibility as an Exotic.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 23, 2017 01:47 PM (pV/54)

246 If that's the case, why are they under lock and key in a two million dollar strong box?

I think they can't lock up just the grades, there's also papers he wrote and, well, didn't as well as possible attendance info. Choom boy was not in class much, I suspect.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 01:47 PM (39g3+)

247 Another admission against interest, conveyed inadvertently via the chyron. Revealing just how seriously the journalistas view what they're doing for a living.

http://tinyurl.com/yczyyqs9

Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 01:47 PM (ujwCG)

248 >> Perhaps not specifically from anointed members of the chattering class

She's a librarian.

*sigh*

Posted by: Mama AJ at July 23, 2017 01:48 PM (wwL6Q)

249 Oh, wait, I might be mixing that up with another stupidity.

Posted by: Mama AJ at July 23, 2017 01:49 PM (wwL6Q)

250

Posted by: FireHorse at July 23, 2017 01:49 PM (zkGZ8)

251 Jesus. Muslim. Classic!

Posted by: FireHorse at July 23, 2017 01:49 PM (zkGZ8)

252 They may also show that he claimed to be a foreign student to boost his admissibility as an Exotic.

A foreign student who used a fake ID, no less.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 01:50 PM (39g3+)

253 Hillary campaign thought they'd win right up to the moment they didn't. Lots of accounts, including the book Shattered. So did MSM, hence their shock and tears as Election Night played out.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 23, 2017 01:14 PM (pV/54)
Probably true, but I believe it's too early for a definitive post-mortem of 2016. "Shattered" was first out of the box and they probably got some things wrong.
I believed Trump would lose, but in retrospect, there were signs that Clinton was worried. I've always wondered why they were so insistent on Trump abiding by the results of the election. Why didn't they just laugh and move on to something else when he said "We'll see." It was bugging them. Also Hillary and Kaine were already on full Tourette's on "Russia!" during the debates.
Why?

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2017 01:50 PM (7uYFy)

254 248 >> Perhaps not specifically from anointed members of the chattering class

She's a librarian.

*sigh*

Posted by: Mama AJ at July 23, 2017 01:48 PM (wwL6Q)

Oh.... she's one of those people who go around and get Mythical Artifacts from all over the world?? for the secret Library???

Posted by: Don Q. at July 23, 2017 01:51 PM (NgKpN)

255 I wish Anonymous would hack into the Chyron and pop up systems at CNN, MSNBC, Fox, etc. Put stuff that's true or at least hilarious on there, instead of the crap they scroll.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 01:51 PM (39g3+)

256 248 >> Perhaps not specifically from anointed members of the chattering class

She's a librarian.

*sigh*

Posted by: Mama AJ at July 23, 2017 01:48 PM (wwL6Q)

Works for Reason.com?

Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 01:52 PM (0mRoj)

257 255 I wish Anonymous would hack into the Chyron and pop up systems at CNN, MSNBC, Fox, etc. Put stuff that's true or at least hilarious on there, instead of the crap they scroll.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 01:51 PM (39g3+)

This sounds like a job for 4chan.

Posted by: rickl at July 23, 2017 01:52 PM (sdi6R)

258 Also Hillary and Kaine were already on full Tourette's on "Russia!" during the debates.

I think their internal polling showed that Trump was getting momentum and were trying to reach out to the John Birch sector of Republican voters, to get them to stay home.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 01:53 PM (39g3+)

259 "Obama's transcripts would likely show that he only got into Harvard Law
because he was black."

With regard to Harvard, we have the old interview with longtime black civil rights lawer Percy Sutton, who said that he had been called out of the blue with a request to pull strings at HLS (where Sutton had an inside line) to get a particular applicant, at the time personally unknown to Sutton, approved.

The applicant turned out to have been the young Barack Obama. Sutton never identified the intercessor on Obama's behalf other than to say that it had been "one of the richest men in the world".

"They may also show that he claimed to be a
foreign student to boost his admissibility as an Exotic."

I suspect this gambit happened at Occidental and Columbia, before Obama had his mysterious wealthy benefactor clouting for him.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 01:53 PM (ujwCG)

260 242 Perhaps not specifically from anointed members of the chattering class but too good to pass up. From the twitter (where else):

"jesus wasn't white. he was born in a predominantly muslim country. goodbye."

Followed by:

"Jesus was a Muslim, confirmed.

Islam didn't exist...but he was a Muslim.

Islam is a race."

The last one my be Poe's Law in action, but who knows anymore.

Posted by: Scotch and Tritium at July 23, 2017 01:45 PM (uN4Ye)

And of course the old Moslem thing about Jews killing Jesus...

Well... Pontius Pilate was most probably a follower of Mithra, as much of the ruling and military classes of Rome were then...

Mithra... a God who stemmed from the area now known as.... Iran...

Posted by: Don Q. at July 23, 2017 01:54 PM (NgKpN)

261 Yeah, that's really stupid!

Posted by: Cameron Diaz

"White hispanic" is a weasel word creation of the left, borne out of the ignorant contempt they have for conservatives. It's like the "Russia" bullshit. They think conservatives have a Pavlovian type negative reaction to Russia, so if they associate Trump with Russia, conservatives will hate him.

Likewise, they think conservatives are racist, and if they label illegals from Central America as "white hispanics", then conservatives will all of a sudden love them and desire more.

Diaz's ancestry is European. She's not from Central America.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 01:57 PM (/qEW2)

262 "Choom boy was not in class much, I suspect."

There's Wayne Allyn Root, who had been at Columbia at the same time that Obama purported to be a student there, who was in classes which Obama would have *had* to have taken for his course of study at that time, who says he never saw Obama even once.

I've personally spoken to university professors who tell me off the record that they've been outright ordered by their administrations to give passing grades to certain protected-class students no matter how dismal the performance or attendance record.

It was probably just like that for Obama. A guaranteed "C" for the act of enrolling in the course.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 01:59 PM (ujwCG)

263 They think conservatives have a Pavlovian type negative reaction to Russia, so if they associate Trump with Russia, conservatives will hate him.

Right, that was the original idea. Then it became a way to cover up the spying and shenanigans with Trump by the Obama administration. Why he hasn't turned the focus of the investigation on that I have no idea.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 01:59 PM (39g3+)

264 Its what courses he took, and did he actually show up. Many a classmate has said they don't remember him.

Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2017 02:01 PM (9g/6M)

265 Likewise, they think conservatives are racist, and if they label illegals from Central America as "white hispanics", then conservatives will all of a sudden love them and desire more.

Diaz's ancestry is European. She's not from Central America.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 01:57 PM (/qEW2)

Yet the same people hate it when you point out that blue-eyed troublemaker Jorge Ramos is a "white Hispanic."

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2017 02:01 PM (7uYFy)

266 The worst are the ones that have become embedded in conventional wisdom as true and are then used by everyone as something that just everybody knows is true. There are examples ranging back over a hundred years.

That the internet gives the means to push back now is the one hopeful sign but it will be a slog to shoot down all the false "history" that has been built up over a century.

Posted by: geoffb5 at July 23, 2017 02:02 PM (d3wbb)

267 Perhaps not specifically from anointed members of the chattering class but too good to pass up. From the twitter (where else):

"jesus wasn't white. he was born in a predominantly muslim country. goodbye."

Followed by:

"Jesus was a Muslim, confirmed.

Islam didn't exist...but he was a Muslim.

Islam is a race."

The last one my be Poe's Law in action, but who knows anymore.

Posted by: Scotch and Tritium

Oh yes. In John's gospel, Jesus tells his disciples that he will send the Comforter (Paraclete) ie. the Holy Spirit. Muslims discovered that by changing one greek letter, Comforter becomes Prophet. So he was obviously talking about sending a prophet in the future. And who else? The prophet Mohammed of course (pbuh).

The only problem is, despite there being millions of variant spellings in thousands of New Testament manuscripts, that variant never occurs. This whole theory rests on a *hypothetical* error that even then would be kind of vague.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 02:02 PM (/qEW2)

268 That the internet gives the means to push back now is the one hopeful sign but it will be a slog to shoot down all the false "history" that has been built up over a century

Some people seem to think they have a vested interest in the myths being true, too. Just challenge what people think is true about some topics like Kitty Genovese or Radon gas and you get plenty of flack. Its not like it impacts anyone's livelihood, I just think for many people finding out that they were wrong bothers them a lot more than actually being wrong.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:04 PM (39g3+)

269 Augustine of Hippo -- wasn't he African-American?

Posted by: FireHorse at July 23, 2017 02:05 PM (zkGZ8)

270 Augustine of Hippo -- wasn't he African-American?
Posted by: FireHorse at July 23, 2017 02:05 PM (zkGZ

Are you implying all African-American's are obese, like this "Hippo" dude?

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2017 02:06 PM (7uYFy)

271 smartest man in the room and noted prognosticator b. o. - Donald Trump will not be President.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2017 02:07 PM (fjidl)

272 Jorge Ramos is a "white Hispanic."

He's a POS.

Posted by: Infidel at July 23, 2017 02:07 PM (gDoff)

273 Augustine of Hippo -- wasn't he African-American?

Possibly, but not necessarily. He lived in Hippo, but that's around Tunisia/Algeria right now, so possibly more Arabic or Greek in appearance.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:08 PM (39g3+)

274 Jorge Ramos is a "white Hispanic."

He's a POS.
Posted by: Infidel at July 23, 2017 02:07 PM (gDoff)

He could be a Swede with a nice tan for all we know....

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2017 02:08 PM (7uYFy)

275 Aren't some Spaniards blue eyed?

Posted by: Infidel at July 23, 2017 02:10 PM (gDoff)

276 "I'm so smart", Joe Biden version, 1988 --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1j0FS0Z6ho

Almost every word he uttered there has been debunked, btw.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 23, 2017 02:10 PM (6jaju)

277 Are you implying all African-American's are obese, like this "Hippo" dude?

Posted by: JoeF.
________

No no no no no! I was just asking. Some of my best friends are African-American. African-Americans account for some -- OK, most -- fine, ALL of the historical figures I most admire. For example:

Hannibal -- an African-American would could have saved Jesus from the Roman backlash against Muslims

Martin Luther King Jr. -- he set up that boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, to get Walmart to stop using plastic bags

Freddie Mercury -- African-American and LGBT. All he wanted was for someone to find him someone to love. Is that so wrong?

Posted by: FireHorse at July 23, 2017 02:12 PM (zkGZ8)

278 >re "White Hispanic"

I learned while living in Albuquerque that NM natives of Spanish descent consider that an important difference as compared to the Hispanics from Mexico.

Their ancestors were the conquistadors.

Posted by: booknlass at July 23, 2017 02:12 PM (6Xf+s)

279 "Unarmed teen. Gentle giant, turning his life around".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 02:13 PM (/qEW2)

280 Right, that was the original idea. Then it became a
way to cover up the spying and shenanigans with Trump by the Obama
administration. Why he hasn't turned the focus of the investigation on
that I have no idea.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 01:59 PM (39g3+)

There are rumors of large cash payments for speaking fees and writings being given to state legislature members and media people I wonder if part of the Hate Russia/we've always been at war with EastAsia screaming has something to do with that attitude.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2017 02:14 PM (mkDpn)

281 I just think for many people finding out that they were wrong bothers them a lot more than actually being wrong.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I agree. the chattering class and even xprez declared President Trump wouldn't win, and were proven wrong in a big way. They're humiliated.

heh.

ps how are you doing, Christopher?

Posted by: booknlass at July 23, 2017 02:15 PM (6Xf+s)

282 I wonder if part of the Hate Russia/we've always been at war with EastAsia screaming has something to do with that attitude.

It is possible that China has been spending an awful lot of money to turn people against Russia. They are not at all friendly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:16 PM (39g3+)

283 "Unarmed teen. Gentle giant, turning his life around".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear
________

The photos they use are just precious, too. Cub scout. Graduation cap and gown. All he was after was iced tea and candy.

Posted by: FireHorse at July 23, 2017 02:16 PM (zkGZ8)

284 And yet another:

Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose, in the aftermath of Obama's 2008 victory, idly musing to one another that, gee, y'know, we _don't really know who this guy is_.

Ponder that for a moment.

The candidate into whose infinitely strange backstory the press had stubbornly refused to delve, and whose every lofty pronouncement, no matter how absurd, the press had dutifully revoiced to the public as if fresh from Mount Olympus. But they didn't know who he even was.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 02:16 PM (ujwCG)

285 i can't stand that crap from xprez about America always having a rich muslim history. WTactualF?

Posted by: booknlass at July 23, 2017 02:18 PM (6Xf+s)

286 284 They knew that they didn't want the public to know...

Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2017 02:18 PM (rmVvL)

287 Time for a Sunday afternoon gun thread.

Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 02:19 PM (ZLmoR)

288 Before the food thread.

Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 02:19 PM (ZLmoR)

289 Doing better booknlass, I had a few days of a incredibly weariness and a fever, that seems to have passed. Thanks for asking

I hope you are doing better as well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:20 PM (39g3+)

290 Guns and food. Two of my favorite things.

Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 02:20 PM (0mRoj)

291 The reception signal from my tin foil Stetson is coming in really clear. Jeb rails at some forum that R 's are not castigating Trump enough over Russian involvement.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 23, 2017 02:22 PM (fjidl)

292 Guns and food. Two of my favorite things.

"Chew that pop tart into a gun again and you're suspended young man!"
-SJW teacher

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:23 PM (39g3+)

293 i can't stand that crap from xprez about America always having a rich muslim history. WTactualF?

Posted by: booknlass

I've seen liberals do this tactic before. It is maddening. There was one commentator on a conservative Anglican blog, an ordained minister, and he tried to argue several times that the Church was historically pro-gay from its inception, and that only in recent decades, people calling themselves Anglican conservatives had invented homophobia and were trying to persecute the traditionally pro-gay Anglican Church. He wasn't even gay, as far as I could tell. A self hating heterosexual.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 02:24 PM (/qEW2)

294

We can discuss .308 vs. .223, lots of discussion of the future of big green. Time to upgrade to 7.62 or another hard hitting, long range caliber.

Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 02:24 PM (ZLmoR)

295 292 Guns and food. Two of my favorite things.

"Chew that pop tart into a gun again and you're suspended young man!"
-SJW teacher
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:23 PM (39g3+)

Sure thing, teach. But first...

Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 02:24 PM (0mRoj)

296
Just challenge what people think is true about some topics like Kitty Genovese or Radon gas and you get plenty of flack.

You mean to say she didn't die from Radon gas?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2017 02:24 PM (IqV8l)

297 The First Rule of Dunning-Kruger Club is you don't know you're in Dunning-Kruger Club.

Posted by: Kristophr at July 23, 2017 02:25 PM (Vkf+s)

298 Christopher, I've been dealing with some adversity, but it's to be expected in this Devil's world, I guess.

hanging out here at the HQ helps me.

Posted by: booknlass at July 23, 2017 02:25 PM (6Xf+s)

299 Radon gas caused the ozone hole....

Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2017 02:26 PM (rmVvL)

300 Only problem with .308 / 7.62 is the kick. I've moved my recoil pad from the pump 12ga, it helps. Large red dot sight helps too.

Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 02:27 PM (ZLmoR)

301 An acquaintance of mine is still thoroughly unmovable on the "Sarah Palin said she can see Russia from her house" thing. Flatly refuses to look up the truth, as all information was already learned on this matter and she saw it with her very own eyes.

Shakes her head sadly at what a poor dear I am, for doubting this "fact".

Posted by: Cheddar Fried Provolone at July 23, 2017 02:28 PM (WmuSq)

302 OT, but what also helps is sitting here by the open window in my swimming suit, and admiring this old sycamore's leaves and branches shading my little house, and listening to old Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, loud.

Posted by: booknlass at July 23, 2017 02:29 PM (6Xf+s)

303 So what's your favorite idiotic pronouncement from the buffoons of the fourth estate?

All of them.

Posted by: That deplorable guy who always says... at July 23, 2017 02:29 PM (Tyii7)

304 I fear we are the one s tat will introduce the "re-education camps". Not because we want to, but because we have too. These people are just that STUPID!

Ignorance can be fixed, but Stupid runs clear to the Bone!

Posted by: Paladin at July 23, 2017 02:30 PM (/TE1w)

305 Speaking of guns (we were, right?), I saw two guys (separately) open-carrying yesterday (Colorado). Not the least bit alarming, but somewhat unusual, as one can go years w/o seeing a non-LEO packing heat, in a city anyway. Was there a "let's all open-carry" day I was unaware of?

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at July 23, 2017 02:30 PM (3JQ/p)

306 Current concern with .223 is ability to pierce body armor at range and the stopping power. Discussion on soldier systems spoke of a need for a heavier round with more energy at longer ranges. Many candidates, but .308 / 7.62 in the inventory and available.

Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 02:32 PM (ZLmoR)

307 The ozone layer is a great one. Ever since they banned all those cfcs and made refrigeration suck?

No change. The ozone hole is there every summer and goes away every winter like it always has for long before refrigeration The cycle is like clockwork, almost unchanged each year.

The idea some woman in New Jersey with a spray can is causing a hole in the ozone in Antarctica defies logic and science anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:32 PM (39g3+)

308 Speaking of guns (we were, right?), I saw two guys (separately) open-carrying yesterday (Colorado). Not the least bit alarming, but somewhat unusual, as one can go years w/o seeing a non-LEO packing heat, in a city anyway. Was there a "let's all open-carry" day I was unaware of?
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at July 23, 2017 02:30 PM (3JQ/p)

Colorado allows open carry outside of Denver and a few other cities. I have a former boss who lives in Divide for precisely this reason.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 23, 2017 02:32 PM (Tnhbr)

309 No change. The ozone hole is there every summer and goes away every winter like it always has for long before refrigeration The cycle is like clockwork, almost unchanged each year.

The idea some woman in New Jersey with a spray can is causing a hole in the ozone in Antarctica defies logic and science anyway.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:32 PM (39g3+)

I blame hair metal bands.

Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 02:33 PM (0mRoj)

310 "Mithra... a God who stemmed from the area now known as.... Iran..."

No, Mithra hatched from an egg on Infant island and swam to Tokyo, where she made a cocoon and then turned into a giant mith.

Posted by: Scotch and Tritium at July 23, 2017 02:34 PM (uN4Ye)

311 Once you start looking, I've seen several people concealed carry IWB right side, shirt out, bulge in the back. Got to use a carry rig that keeps the pistol grip from bulging out.

Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 02:34 PM (ZLmoR)

312 Poison almost killed us all until Al Gore ended their evil ozone-killing big hair ways.

Actually I think most of those guys used mousse. It was the wonder-product of the 80s.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:36 PM (39g3+)

313 That Malaysian airline got lost in an ozone hole.

Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 23, 2017 02:36 PM (Nwg0u)

314 When I sang "That one looks Jewish, and that one's a coon! Who let all this riffraff into the room?"

I was totally serious.

Posted by: Roger Waters at July 23, 2017 02:37 PM (/qEW2)

315 I was totally serious.

If he had his way, he'd have all of them shot. (musical bridge)

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:38 PM (39g3+)

316 315 I was totally serious.

If he had his way, he'd have all of them shot. (musical bridge)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:38 PM (39g3+)

Are there any queeeers in the audience tonight?

Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 02:39 PM (0mRoj)

317 The Malaysian triangle is opposite from the Bermuda Triangle, something to do with magnetic fields. Not a black hole, but a navigational disruption which leads to modern technologies failing.

Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 02:39 PM (ZLmoR)

318 Got to use a carry rig that keeps the pistol grip from bulging out.

Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 02:34 PM (ZLmoR)

Good holsters are hard to find.

My best one is from Dillon, but the mouth has softened so much that it doesn't stay wide enough to reholster easily. I am thinking of impregnating it with epoxy or maybe even gluing some spring steel onto the outside.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2017 02:40 PM (wYseH)

319 Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 02:24 PM (/qEW2)

Right, which is why it got the death penalty through the 19th century.

Posted by: dagny at July 23, 2017 02:41 PM (wZuWv)

320 307 The ozone layer is a great one. Ever since they banned all those cfcs and made refrigeration suck?

No change. The ozone hole is there every summer and goes away every winter like it always has for long before refrigeration The cycle is like clockwork, almost unchanged each year.

The idea some woman in New Jersey with a spray can is causing a hole in the ozone in Antarctica defies logic and science anyway.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:32 PM (39g3+)

I thought the problem with CFCs was that the Chlorine gets up there and starts scavenging the ozone endlessly. Course the CFCs were heavier than air, sink to the ground and quickly react with water to release the chlorine which then rises... but nobody ever had a problem with chlorine bleach and water disinfection.

Kind of how bad 'carbon' is so bad now but nobody bothered to outlaw soda-pop.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 23, 2017 02:41 PM (Od33b)

321 With regard to Harvard, we have the old interview with longtime black civil rights lawer Percy Sutton, who said that he had been called out of the blue with a request to pull strings at HLS (where Sutton had an inside line) to get a particular applicant, at the time personally unknown to Sutton, approved.

The applicant turned out to have been the young Barack Obama. Sutton never identified the intercessor on Obama's behalf other than to say that it had been "one of the richest men in the world".

"They may also show that he claimed to be a
foreign student to boost his admissibility as an Exotic."

I suspect this gambit happened at Occidental and Columbia, before Obama had his mysterious wealthy benefactor clouting for him.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 01:53 PM (ujwCG)

You're fueling my paranoid musings that Obama was selected, groomed, and propelled into office by a shadowy leftist cabal.

Yeah, Soros, I'm looking at you.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 23, 2017 02:42 PM (SRKgf)

322 Worst lie is that the democrats in the south and the republicans suddenly and inexplicably "switched sides" and the "southern strategy." Both of which are just made up.

Posted by: dagny at July 23, 2017 02:43 PM (wZuWv)

323 I've sometimes thought that a curved pistol grip would be a good idea for IWB, but the magazines would be a problem. Ergonomics might be poor too.

Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 02:43 PM (ZLmoR)

324 i can't stand that crap from xprez about America always having a rich muslim history. WTactualF?
Posted by: booknlass at July 23, 2017 02:18 PM (6Xf+s)

That has made my blood boil since i first heard him say that. There was no Muslim presence in the Americas. None.I doubt any of the slave brought over were Muslim--like the recent "Roots" remake tried to sell.
They are trying to make up feel good bullshit for the growing number of Muslim students.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2017 02:45 PM (7uYFy)

325 I thought the problem with CFCs was that the Chlorine gets up there and starts scavenging the ozone endlessly.

Yeah but even if that were the case, the amount of air movement between north and south hemisphere is incredibly minute.

I've sometimes thought that a curved pistol grip would be a good idea for IWB

Those guys in Texas have curved pistol grips...

Curved.
Pistol.
Grips.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:45 PM (39g3+)

326 But I think the move from Occidental to Columbia was arranged.

Posted by: dagny at July 23, 2017 02:45 PM (wZuWv)

327 You're fueling my paranoid musings that Obama was selected, groomed, and propelled into office by a shadowy leftist cabal.

Yeah, Soros, I'm looking at you.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 23, 2017 02:42 PM (SRKgf)

My theory is that they wanted to groom him for Mayor of Chicago, or even a governorship somewhere, but jumped at the chance to run him for President.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 23, 2017 02:45 PM (Tnhbr)

328 Once you start looking, I've seen several people concealed carry IWB right side, shirt out, bulge in the back. Got to use a carry rig that keeps the pistol grip from bulging out.
Posted by: Uncle Si

I like Alien Gear for this. Very comfortable iwb, held very close with a Ruger SR1911 Commander.

Posted by: A good holster is hard to find at July 23, 2017 02:45 PM (L7t0A)

329 @9 - That was Mo Brooks, AL-5.

Posted by: Afroman at July 23, 2017 02:47 PM (h2GcB)

330 I want to move to Texas so I can open carry a sword. I figure a nice rig over the shoulder would work.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:47 PM (39g3+)

331 Worst lie is that the democrats in the south and the republicans suddenly and inexplicably "switched sides" and the "southern strategy." Both of which are just made up.
Posted by: dagny at July 23, 2017 02:43 PM (wZuWv)

Yes, when Strom Thurmond suddenly switched parties. Never mind that plenty of Southern Dems remained loyal to the party til their dying day and never mind that there were other issues going on besides race--such as Vietnam and other things.
YouTube Jimmy Carter accepting the nomination in 1976. There's old George Wallace right at his side...

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2017 02:48 PM (7uYFy)

332 Those guys in Texas have curved pistol grips...

Curved.
Pistol.
Grips.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:45 PM (39g3+)

Actually looking for a single action Colt .45.... want to learn to quick draw... just... because... /smile

Posted by: Don Q. at July 23, 2017 02:48 PM (NgKpN)

333 Kind of how bad 'carbon' is so bad now but nobody bothered to outlaw soda-pop.

Posted by: Burnt Toast

Don't worry. We're working on it. The best way to eliminate something is to tax it.

Posted by: Pensylvannia and Seattle at July 23, 2017 02:48 PM (/qEW2)

334 My theory is that they wanted to groom him for Mayor of Chicago, or even a governorship somewhere, but jumped at the chance to run him for President.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 23, 2017 02:45 PM (Tnhbr)

I absolutely agree that when Obama threw his hat into the ring, he and his supporters doubted he had a chance and were merely laying the groundwork for a future campaign.
Then one thing led to another and on and on....

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2017 02:50 PM (7uYFy)

335 Old Democrat Party: Bull Connor

New Democrat Party: Bull Dyke Connor

Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 23, 2017 02:50 PM (Nwg0u)

336 330 I want to move to Texas so I can open carry a sword. I figure a nice rig over the shoulder would work.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:47 PM (39g3+)

Believe it or not, it is perfectly legal to open carry a sword in a Sheath, in CALIFORNIA...

They can't make it illegal because it IS still part of US Military Officers uniforms... as well as Senior Enlisted (Cutlass for those Chief Petty Officers ... ya know... )

Posted by: Don Q. at July 23, 2017 02:50 PM (NgKpN)

337 My theory is that they wanted to groom him for Mayor of Chicago, or even a governorship somewhere, but jumped at the chance to run him for President.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 23, 2017 02:45 PM (Tnhbr)

My conjecture: a shadowy leftist cabal, playing the long game, probably had a whole farm system of potential future candidates for all sorts of offices, grooming them, getting them impressive credentials, getting book contracts for them (!), promoting them, eliminating their opponents, etc., and then selecting which one went to which office.

Too paranoid? I don't think so. It's what I would do in their position, and the facts to hand are consistent with that conjecture.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 23, 2017 02:52 PM (SRKgf)

338 Kind of how bad 'carbon' is so bad now but nobody bothered to outlaw soda-pop.

Posted by: Burnt Toast
________

To the contrary, public funds (SNAP) buy $4 billion of it a year.

Posted by: FireHorse at July 23, 2017 02:52 PM (zkGZ8)

339
332 Those guys in Texas have curved pistol grips...

Curved.
Pistol.
Grips.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:45 PM (39g3+)

Actually looking for a single action Colt .45.... want to learn to quick draw... just... because... /smile
Posted by: Don Q. at July 23, 2017 02:48 PM (NgKpN)

Please steel toed boots, please steel toed boots ...

Posted by: The little piggies at July 23, 2017 02:53 PM (e1mEI)

340 XD compact .45, easy concealed carry with 10 rds., IWB. I usually carry an extra 15 mag, just in case.

Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 02:54 PM (ZLmoR)

341 Since there are some workboot-wearing Morons here: what is the best way to stop blisters? I finally told youngest kidlet to put duct tape on her heels, but that is not really working well.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 23, 2017 02:55 PM (MIKMs)

342 Too paranoid? I don't think so. It's what I would do in their position, and the facts to hand are consistent with that conjecture.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 23, 2017 02:52 PM (SRKgf)

I don't think that's paranoid at all. And i believe that political operatives are always on the lookout for fresh "talent." This one-TFG--just happened to hit pay dirt.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2017 02:55 PM (7uYFy)

343 316 315 I was totally serious.

If he had his way, he'd have all of them shot. (musical bridge)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:38 PM (39g3+)

---

is that the one that connects Gaza to the West Bank?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at July 23, 2017 02:55 PM (vChNs)

344 Just watch the movie Idiocracy. It's pretty dumb but is prophetic.

Posted by: LGoPs at July 23, 2017 02:56 PM (FJr2+)

345 I always put water type pads in my steel toe boots. I think they are made by Dr. Scholl's. Takes a while to break in steel toe boots.

Posted by: Infidel at July 23, 2017 02:57 PM (gDoff)

346 Pre-food thread Jiffy cornbread, better with shredded cheddar and 1/2 stick of butter. Just sayin'!

Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 02:57 PM (ZLmoR)

347 261
"White hispanic" is a weasel word creation of the left,
....they think conservatives are racist, and if they label illegals from Central America as "white hispanics", then conservatives will all of a sudden love them and desire more.

Diaz's ancestry is European. She's not from Central America.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 01:57 PM (/qEW2)
------------------------------------------
She's Cuban and, like my green-eyed, red-haired Cuban mother, her racial ancestry is indeed Euro-white. Cuba is, of course, a Hispanic nation. Hence, white Hispanic.

Big Papi Ortiz (Dom Rep) and Yasiel Puig (Cuba) and a good chunk of MLB are black Hispanics.

Then there are the immigrants from Meso-America. They, especially the illegals, are overwhelmingly Amerindian or mestizo.

The Left constantly uses the word "Hispanic" as if it designated a race. It does not. People like La Raza (most of whose leaders are FAR more white than Indian or black) use the term so they can play a race card for themselves.

I disagree with your explanation of the use of "white Hispanic." The only time the Left uses that term is when they want to Uncle-Tom Hispanics who are conservative ---or, as in the case of George Zimmerman, when their narrative demands a white villain. You can bet that, if Zimmerman had been killed by a redneck, they would have portrayed him as a Person of Color.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 23, 2017 02:59 PM (0jtPF)

348 I finally told youngest kidlet to put duct tape on her heels, but that is not really working well.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 23, 2017 02:55 PM (MIKMs)

cloth surgical tape, or moleskin on the hot spot. Two pair of socks: a poly wicking sock under a wool blend.

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at July 23, 2017 02:59 PM (yKB8T)

349 They are trying to make up feel good bullshit for the growing number of Muslim students.

Posted by: JoeF.

I think it's more to con ignorant non Muslims. "Oh golly gee. If we were always an Islamic country, I guess it would be bigoted to start banning them. Funny, they never used to kill people in the 19th century, or even most of the 20th. I wonder what we did to offend them. I feel so guilty".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 03:00 PM (/qEW2)

350 341 Since there are some workboot-wearing Morons here: what is the best way to stop blisters? I finally told youngest kidlet to put duct tape on her heels, but that is not really working well.
Posted by: mustbequantum at July 23, 2017 02:55 PM (MIKMs)

If they are getting blisters, then the boots don't fit correctly....

Insoles.... go to like Walmart, and have them use the Dr. Sholes machine... may be an arch issue causing the heal to move more than it should...

Posted by: Don Q. at July 23, 2017 03:01 PM (NgKpN)

351 I always put water type pads in my steel toe boots. I think they are made by Dr. Scholl's. Takes a while to break in steel toe boots.

Posted by: Infidel

Whenever I have to move over rocky terrain, I always make it a practice to steal toad boots.

Posted by: Kermit the Frog at July 23, 2017 03:01 PM (/qEW2)

352 Makers Mark bourbon whiskey, better with.... nothing. Just sayin'!

Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 03:01 PM (ZLmoR)

353 Actually looking for a single action Colt .45.... want to learn to quick draw... just... because... /smile
Posted by: Don Q. at July 23, 2017 02:48 PM (NgKpN)

Please steel toed boots, please steel toed boots ...

-
I saw a crime documentary a while back in which a woman had shot her husband six times in the back. She contended she mistook him in the dark for a burglar and emptied the revolver into him in self defense. It was a single action revolver and it was pointed out to her that while she was cocking the hammer for each shot she had time to recognize who she was shooting. She said no, she fanned the hammer and hit every time. She had no prior firearm experience but beginner's luck saw her through.

The jury didn't believe her.

Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 23, 2017 03:03 PM (Nwg0u)

354 finally told youngest kidlet to put duct tape on her heels, but that is not really working well.
Posted by: mustbequantum

Wear two pairs of socks. Inner set are cotton, outer are wool (or some other thick padding). Sweat is wicked from skin, through inner sock, and skin is less subject to friction and blisters.

Never tried duct tape, but it could work if used like moleskin. The trick with moleskin is to cut a small hole in it, so that when appliedthat hole is just over the problem area of skin.

Posted by: many miles walked at July 23, 2017 03:05 PM (L7t0A)

355 My conjecture: a shadowy leftist cabal, playing the long game, probably had a whole farm system of potential future candidates for all sorts of offices, grooming them, getting them impressive credentials, getting book contracts for them (!), promoting them, eliminating their opponents, etc., and then selecting which one went to which office.

Too paranoid? I don't think so. It's what I would do in their position, and the facts to hand are consistent with that conjecture.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 23, 2017 02:52 PM (SRKgf)

I believe it's close to the truth. Rich liberal activists from the 60s had money and influence by the 80s, so they started mentoring a new generation.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 23, 2017 03:05 PM (Tnhbr)

356 In the dark, no. Unless she added tritium night sights. Shows pre-meditated intent to shoot someone at night.

Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 03:06 PM (ZLmoR)

357 There was one commentator on a conservative Anglican blog, an ordained minister, and he tried to argue several times that the Church was historically pro-gay from its inception,

Steve and Cold Bear, so many people have said to me that the early Christian church was communist, and the communism is the Biblical economic system.

They're wrong, as far as my studies and pastor-teachers have taught me. but that myth persists.

Posted by: booknlass at July 23, 2017 03:07 PM (6Xf+s)

358 I have some steel toed shoes for welding and hiking. Poly-propelyne socks absolutely rock. Smell bad after a while though. Vinegar soak then bleach seems to help.

Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 03:08 PM (ZLmoR)

359 Someone above mentioned the very-white Jorge Ramos. He is not a "white Hispanic" because he is a leftist! He is an oppressed PoC!
But he never tires of calling Marco Rubio a "white Hispanic." (Which is true, but.......!!!)

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 23, 2017 03:09 PM (0jtPF)

360 Has President Trump been blamed for the eight dead in the semi parked at the WalMart in Texas yet? Because I can really see that one coming down the pike.

Posted by: washrivergal at July 23, 2017 03:09 PM (2+gSO)

361 Re: Jeb wanting r's/Trump supporters to attack Trump because of Russia. Wasn't Jeb the GOP candidate that used Fusion to initiate the oppo research on Trump and then bequeathed it to Hillary? Seemed too coincidental that W's AG Mukaskey (sp?) was also an attorney for the Russian lawyer's client's firm.

Posted by: Ever at July 23, 2017 03:10 PM (QZdJj)

362 "Since there are some workboot-wearing Morons here: what is the best way to stop blisters?"

I tend to figure that if footwear consistently induces blisters, there's an underlying problem. Bad design of the boot, poor fabrication thereof, incorrect sizing, or a last that isn't a good match to the shape of the foot. Mass production sometimes doesn't work for individual humans.

There have been times when I've had to pass on buying boots (or shoes) even though I liked them, because the signs were there that they wouldn't be comfortable in the long haul.

A trick I know about but haven't ever used is choosing slightly loose oversize and then stacking socks to fill them out.

On an existing pair that couldn't be returned, I would be echoing the suggestion of moleskin at the painful spot.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 03:11 PM (ujwCG)

363 Funny, they never used to kill people in the 19th century, or even most of the 20th. I wonder what we did to offend them. I feel so guilty".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 03:00 PM (/qEW2)

And the Marines used to wear those leather collars just to look macho.

Posted by: gNewt at July 23, 2017 03:12 PM (zO1cf)

364 I had a friend who kept a Vaquero .45 single action in his car. He was surrounded by some "yoots" at a parking garage leaving work one night and pulled the pistol up from the console. He said, "I've got one for each of you and two for you." They backed away and he drove out.
I want one just because but I think it has some deterrent effect when you pull out a cowboy gun.

Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at July 23, 2017 03:12 PM (B9t7n)

365
My conjecture: a shadowy leftist cabal, playing the long game, probably had a whole farm system of potential future candidates for all sorts of offices, grooming them, getting them impressive credentials, getting book contracts for them (!), promoting them, eliminating their opponents, etc., and then selecting which one went to which office.

Too paranoid? I don't think so. It's what I would do.
-----
Yep.

For reasons I don't understand, they're not able to rig the elections completely yet. We put a big dent in their plans for a New World Order/ One World Government.

Western Europe is on schedule though.

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 03:13 PM (aT+Bx)

366 My conjecture: a shadowy leftist cabal, playing the long game, probably had a whole farm system of potential future candidates for all sorts of offices, grooming them, getting them impressive credentials, getting book contracts for them (!), promoting them, eliminating their opponents, etc., and then selecting which one went to which office.

Deplorable Jay, I've been taught that this is exactly what Lucifer is doing so he'll have the anti-Christ ready once the Tribulation starts. No joke.

Posted by: booknlass at July 23, 2017 03:14 PM (6Xf+s)

367 "Since there are some workboot-wearing Morons here: what is the best way to stop blisters?"

I tend to figure that if footwear consistently induces blisters, there's an underlying problem. Bad design of the boot, poor fabrication thereof, incorrect sizing, or a last that isn't a good match to the shape of the foot. Mass production sometimes doesn't work for individual humans.
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THIS.

Really good work boots cost a lot; try Red Wing, they carry a variety of sizes. But be prepared, they are certainly not cheap.

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 03:14 PM (aT+Bx)

368
The Army taught me the value of proper foot care. A painful lesson, to be sure but never forgotten.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 23, 2017 03:16 PM (S/hVx)

369 I do get fairly good work boots, and always steel toe, don't know if I ever had blisters.

Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2017 03:17 PM (9g/6M)

370 >>>Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 23, 2017 02:59 PM (0jtPF)

You're obviously more well informed on this than I am, so I believe you. But when I was trying to move out of NYC back to the 'burbs and I was looking at demographics of various townships, I routinely saw things like "80% white, 5% black, 10% non-white hispanics". It seemed like some sort of demographic trick. But maybe I'm just paranoid because of all the leftist word games. If what you say is true, it can be taken at face value.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 03:17 PM (/qEW2)

371 "Dewey Wins !"

Posted by: Robert17 at July 23, 2017 03:18 PM (19WHj)

372 Come to think of it, not only did Joy's Mama raise an idiot, the doctor should have slapped Mama instead of Joy's bottom when she was born.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 23, 2017 03:18 PM (Sda6L)

373 I've been taught that this is exactly what Lucifer is doing so he'll have the anti-Christ ready once the Tribulation starts. No joke.
Posted by: booknlass at July 23, 2017 03:14 PM
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This makes sense.

Have you checked out the book Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill?

Really interesting text that was held back for many years due to the content.

The gist of it is that the Devil influences us all daily, and most are too lazy to resist.

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 03:18 PM (aT+Bx)

374 They are the expensive RedWings. She put the gel insoles in because she is on her feet all day. The moleskin wasn't working on the heels, so I recommended the duct tape fix -- son wears a 16-17, so he has always had trouble getting good-fitting boots -- but we'll try the moleskin with a hole over the bad heel spots.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 23, 2017 03:19 PM (MIKMs)

375 Joy would have trouble finding those countries on a map, much less knowing anything about them.

Posted by: Jean at July 23, 2017 03:19 PM (9TU00)

376 According to the LIV I spoke to last night, here's why Trump is going to get impeached:

He sold a hotel for $91mm to someone connected to Russia and the sale wasn't at market value.
See, there was no reason for Trump to run but, the Russians had bailed him out of his bankruptcies ("No one comes back from several bankruptcies like he did.") and so, they laundered money to Trump.

And, since the Russians bailed him out of those bankruptcies, he owes them money.

He watches CNN.

No, he did not know who said, "I'll have more flexibility after the election."
No, he did not know about the uranium sale to Russia under Obama.
Or the canceling of the missile defense shield for Poland (because Russia opposed it).
Nor that Russia stands to be the only nation with the capability to build the nuclear reactors allowed to Iran under Obama's deal.
Nor that Russia's main export is petroleum--which sales were helped by Obama denying LNG exports, the pipelines and trying to ban fracking.

He also didn't want to put $100 down that Trump will NOT be impeached.

But, he was sure he was well informed.

Posted by: RoyalOil at July 23, 2017 03:20 PM (W1XyZ)

377
For reasons I don't understand, they're not able to rig the elections completely yet. We put a big dent in their plans for a New World Order/ One World Government.

Western Europe is on schedule though.
Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 03:13 PM (aT+Bx)

+++

A large part of me wants to believe they were able to rig the elections and that is the only reason we got that fucker in '08 and '12.

Posted by: washrivergal at July 23, 2017 03:21 PM (2+gSO)

378 I had a friend who kept a Vaquero .45 single action in his car. He was surrounded by some "yoots" at a parking garage leaving work one night and pulled the pistol up from the console. He said, "I've got one for each of you and two for you." They backed away and he drove out.

THAT'S NOT WHO WE ARE!!!

Posted by: Barack Obama at July 23, 2017 03:22 PM (/qEW2)

379 Joy, how about all the young maids he imports from Peruvia? Gotta be story there..

Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2017 03:22 PM (jCMs8)

380 "Since there are some workboot-wearing Morons here: what is the best way to stop blisters?"

Mole skin.

Also, White's Boots. There is no substitute.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 23, 2017 03:23 PM (mcI77)

381 373

Hi bright Shibumi! nice to see you.

I'll check out Hill's book.

The Word has plenty of information about this being the Devil's world, and human history's being his chance to prove he can "be like the Most High." But he can't. He's a creature, not the Creator, and in the end, even he will have to admit defeat.

Posted by: booknlass at July 23, 2017 03:23 PM (6Xf+s)

382 Thank you, morons. The gun talk reminds me it's time to renew my carry permit.

Posted by: Meremortal, 49 at July 23, 2017 03:24 PM (3myMJ)

383 Mika Brzshinskikowsky and her reading realtime White House talking points live during a debate.

That has to be some category of buffoonish. Literally a thoughtless recitation parroting WH messaging like a press secretary. Yep, that's some fine, independent reportage right there.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 23, 2017 03:24 PM (H8S+R)

384 A large part of me wants to believe they were able to rig the elections and that is the only reason we got that fucker in '08 and '12.
Posted by: washrivergal at July 23, 2017 03:21 PM (2+gSO)
Close elections are easier to rig. They miscalculated in 2000--hence the Florida fuck-up. I don't think they tried hard enough in '16 because Invincible Pantsuit.
This is why they want a do-over

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2017 03:25 PM (7uYFy)

385
380 "Since there are some workboot-wearing Morons here: what is the best way to stop blisters?"

Mole skin.

Also, White's Boots. There is no substitute.
Posted by: Under Fire at July 23, 2017 03:23 PM (mcI77)

Whites Boots! Discrimination!

Posted by: The little piggies at July 23, 2017 03:25 PM (e1mEI)

386 but we'll try the moleskin with a hole over the bad heel spots.
Posted by: mustbequantum

Good writeup on using moleskin-

https://www.backpacker.com/gear/
the-cure-beating-blisters

Posted by: many miles walked at July 23, 2017 03:26 PM (L7t0A)

387
Whites Boots! Discrimination!

Get your shine box.

Posted by: Doc Marten at July 23, 2017 03:27 PM (mcI77)

388 The little piggies are finally getting a sock change.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 23, 2017 03:28 PM (e1mEI)

389 "A large part of me wants to believe they were able to rig the elections and that is the only reason we got that fucker in '08 and '12."
*********************************

He got elected because America is full of stupid.

Posted by: gNewt at July 23, 2017 03:28 PM (zO1cf)

390 How 'bout these two articles from The Guardian?

1.) "Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children."

2.) "Refugee influx helps halt decline in Germany's population."

Genius.

Pic here: http://moonbattery.com/?p=86323

Posted by: RKae at July 23, 2017 03:28 PM (cHQu9)

391 Has President Trump been blamed for the eight dead in the semi parked at the WalMart in Texas yet? Because I can really see that one coming down the pike.

Posted by: washrivergal

I can't feel anything for these cases. It's like reading about someone trying to invade a home and getting shot to death. There's an easy way to avoid this. Whenever I read about a raft sinking in the Mediterranean, my only thought is "the same number of women in Europe won't be groped. Good. This is awesome. Maybe the others will learn a lesson from this".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 03:28 PM (/qEW2)

392 >>But, he was sure he was well informed

It's worse than that, actually. Gorbachev when he was still running the Soviet Union was a key mover and shaker in the global warming scam. It is largely a communist/socialist scam to get the west to destroy its own industrial base. And Al Gore was right there with him at the very beginning.

Liberals, by supporting the AGW scam, are actually helping Russia far more than Trump ever could and they don't even realize it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2017 03:28 PM (/tuJf)

393 Carry permits are good, but you should also get a good book on laws in your state. Worth it to protect yourself and fam, but to protect others really need to weigh the legal risks. Depends on how your local community views self defense, jury trials are a gamble.

Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 03:29 PM (ZLmoR)

394 I wonder what a conversation between Joy Reid and Jordan Peterson would be like?

Posted by: Kreplach at July 23, 2017 03:29 PM (T8Ayg)

395 I wonder what a conversation between Joy Reid and Jordan Peterson would be like?

Posted by: Kreplach

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Like Shakespeare talking to a coffee table.

Posted by: RKae at July 23, 2017 03:30 PM (cHQu9)

396 "So what's your favorite..."

Go to Media Research Center an pick a day, any day. The number of media idiocies is limitless. It's pretty tough to pick a favorite once you go down memory lane.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 23, 2017 03:30 PM (H8S+R)

397 In order to address all these issues about blisters, boots, etc. I think we need a foot thread. Complete with LOTS of pictures.

Posted by: Dick Morris at July 23, 2017 03:31 PM (/qEW2)

398 Haven't mentioned this yet but on a morning radio show a Leftist caller a few weeks ago tried to explain how the Russians helped DT win.
Seems they knew exactly which precincts in just a few states would sway the election DT's way, so somehow they got just a few thousand voters to vote Trump in very key areas .

Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2017 03:32 PM (9g/6M)

399 And a White Board Dick?

Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2017 03:33 PM (9g/6M)

400 The WH has a new communications director. I liked Spicer but this guy, Scaramucci, looks like he's going to be a hit.

lifezette.com/ polizette/ scaramucci-going-fix-white-house-leaks- not-fair-president/

Posted by: gNewt at July 23, 2017 03:33 PM (zO1cf)

401 Seems they knew exactly which precincts in just a few states would sway the election DT's way, so somehow they got just a few thousand voters to vote Trump in very key areas .
Posted by: Skip

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So that's it? They did their homework and shifted things totally within the rules?

Posted by: RKae at July 23, 2017 03:33 PM (cHQu9)

402 White's is good, Wesco (Scapoose, OR), Belleville also (though not true workboots).

Posted by: Skookumchuk at July 23, 2017 03:33 PM (TKmA0)

403 Hillary still got schlonged back in November 2016.

Best line ever.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 23, 2017 03:33 PM (5VlCp)

404 Why do you hate children????
--- said by leftist everywhere

You want to cut taxes? You hate children
You want to allow people to talk, not text just talk, on cell phones in their cars? You hate children
You want to allow constitutional carry? You hate children
You want to cut funding to PP? You hate women
You want to allow people to cut down trees on their private property without a permit? You hate children
You don't believe the climate change scam? You hate children
I could do this all day.......
I'm really getting to despise Austin.....

Posted by: lin-duh meh at July 23, 2017 03:33 PM (kufk0)

405 I wonder what a conversation between Joy Reid and Jordan Peterson would be like?

Posted by: Kreplach

---

Like Shakespeare talking to a coffee table.

Posted by: RKae

I'm envisioning a movie. "My Dinner With Sheila Jackson-Lee".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 03:34 PM (/qEW2)

406 An eclipse vacation to John Day, Oregon. If you haven't made reservations some time ago, best to forget it - hotel rooms now are $1,500 and up per night.

Posted by: Skookumchuk at July 23, 2017 03:36 PM (TKmA0)

407 Posted by: booknlass at July 23, 2017 03:23 PM

{{{waving}}} Hi Booknlass!

I think you'll really like the Hill book, very out of the box. But reads very true as well.

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 03:36 PM (aT+Bx)

408 377
A large part of me wants to believe they were able to rig the elections and that is the only reason we got that fucker in '08 and '12.
Posted by: washrivergal at July 23, 2017 03:21 PM (2+gSO)

It certainly looks to me like the Republicans threw the '08 and '12 elections.

First we had McCain, who seems like a D in R clothing. He suspended his campaign during the financial crisis to vote for a massively unpopular bank bailout. He also said, "You have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency." Who in the entire history of politics has ever said anything like that about their opponent?

Then there was Romney, who most of the base couldn't stand, and was almost a caricature of an Eeevil Capitalist against Obama's class warfare rhetoric. The Republicans may as well have run Scrooge McDuck or the Monopoly Man.

Posted by: rickl at July 23, 2017 03:37 PM (sdi6R)

409 370 ,,,, when I was trying to move out of NYC back to the 'burbs and I was looking at demographics of various townships, I routinely saw things like "80% white, 5% black, 10% non-white hispanics". It seemed like some sort of demographic trick.....
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 03:17 PM (/qEW2)
----------------------------
Ah! That's a salesman trick, much more than an ideological/political one.

The fact is that most people, given a choice, would prefer a heavily white neighborhood and school district, no? It's not skin color so much as culture.

I say "people" rather than "Americans" because I can guarantee you that this is true in all of Latin America at least. And I don't say "white people" either because all races with certain values would agree.
Heh.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 23, 2017 03:37 PM (0jtPF)

410 A large part of me wants to believe they were able
to rig the elections and that is the only reason we got that fucker in
'08 and '12.

Posted by: washrivergal at July 23, 2017 03:21 PM (2+gSO)

John McCain and Mitt Romney.Those are two other reasons.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 23, 2017 03:37 PM (8iiMU)

411
Why do you hate children???? --- said by leftist everywhere
=====

Fascinating little fact is that the movers and shakers of the EU are all childless. For those of us with 'hostages to fortune', that is a really big tell that they are liars and cheats. Apres moi le deluge.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 23, 2017 03:37 PM (MIKMs)

412 I'm envisioning a movie. "My Dinner With Sheila Jackson-Lee".
*************************

Ha! Lock Sheila Jackson-Lee and Maxine Waters in a room.

Posted by: gNewt at July 23, 2017 03:38 PM (zO1cf)

413 A large part of me wants to believe they were able
to rig the elections and that is the only reason we got that fucker in
'08 and '12.

Posted by: washrivergal at July 23, 2017 03:21 PM (2+gSO)
----
John McCain and Mitt Romney.Those are two other reasons.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 23, 2017 03:37 PM
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White guilt. Another reason.

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 03:38 PM (aT+Bx)

414 Could Trump's visit to the BS Jamboree in WV also be a veiled threat to WV Senator Capito she needs to get on board the HC train?

Posted by: Ever at July 23, 2017 03:39 PM (QZdJj)

415 Hillary still got schlonged back in November 2016.

Best line ever.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy

People kept pissing their pants. Remember the stuff about Cruz's father? Trump didn't GAF, and he was right. But if one idiot on twitter writes something about the Confederate flag, Amazon soils its pants and will remove things like games or books whose *subject* is the Civil War, just because they have *AAAAAAAHHH!* images of the Confederate flag.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 03:39 PM (/qEW2)

416 406 An eclipse vacation to John Day, Oregon. If you haven't made reservations some time ago, best to forget it - hotel rooms now are $1,500 and up per night.
Posted by: Skookumchuk at July 23, 2017 03:36 PM (TKmA0)

+++

What am I missing? People are running all over the place to get the best view of an event that lasts for what, a minute, minute and a half? I heard about some flea-bag motel in Bend, OR that normally costs less than $50 a night and they are charging $2,000 for the eclipse.

Posted by: washrivergal at July 23, 2017 03:39 PM (2+gSO)

417 I just read the story on Breitbart about the village in India that calls itself Trump Village. pretty funny. smile worthy. They admire our President and want to emulate him.

Posted by: booknlass at July 23, 2017 03:39 PM (6Xf+s)

418 Euro talking points:

White children kill Mother Gaia.

Muslim children give Mother Gaia sustenance.

/native Europeans, you're not dying fast enough, so Your Betters have to bring in some Muslims to help the process along.

Posted by: shibumi at July 23, 2017 03:40 PM (aT+Bx)

419 In Soviet Yugoslavia Slovachia checks YOU!

Posted by: Yakhov Smirnochekovic at July 23, 2017 03:40 PM (qomDP)

420 Scrooge McDuck or the Monopoly Man.

Posted by: rickl at July 23, 2017 03:37 PM (sdi6R)
408 and 410.
Great minds think alike.
You just used more words and were more cleverer....

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 23, 2017 03:41 PM (8iiMU)

421 398 Haven't mentioned this yet but on a morning radio show a Leftist caller a few weeks ago tried to explain how the Russians helped DT win.
Seems they knew exactly which precincts in just a few states would sway the election DT's way, so somehow they got just a few thousand voters to vote Trump in very key areas .
Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2017 03:32 PM (9g/6M)

I suspected something was up when I went to my polling place and found the little old ladies who usually work there replaced by grim-faced young men who said, "Please to step into woting booth."

Posted by: rickl at July 23, 2017 03:41 PM (sdi6R)

422 Dave Workman wrote a comprehensive gun rights and responsibility book for Washington State. If anything occurs outside of Seattle/King County, it applies. If it happens inside of either jurisdiction, you are so boned.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 23, 2017 03:41 PM (e1mEI)

423
Obama won in '08 because of six states with a total of around 200,000 votes. 10,000 here, 25,000 there, etc.

If McCain could have flipped that tiny amount he would have won an Electoral College victory - which is the one that matters -- not popular votes. This stuff isn't rocket science... it's political science.

Fortunately Trump had some actual political science types on his side.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at July 23, 2017 03:43 PM (EgwCt)

424 Posted by: Uncle Si at July 23, 2017 03:29 PM (ZLmoR)

I got LEO, EMS and firefighter connections and yes, that's good advice for anyone with or applying for a concealed carry permit, or anyone planning on open carry, which is allowed in my location.

Posted by: Meremortal, 49 at July 23, 2017 03:45 PM (3myMJ)

425 If anything occurs outside of Seattle/King County, it applies. If it happens inside of either jurisdiction, you are so boned.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew

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I live about three feet outside the King County border! Saved!

Posted by: RKae at July 23, 2017 03:46 PM (cHQu9)

426 Anyone remember Obama during his primary run against Hillary trying to spin a potential loss in Kentucky?

He said Hillary would likely win because she has the advantage of being from Arkansas which is closer to Kentucky than Illinois.

Freaking Illinois borders Kentucky you dumbass!!

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 03:46 PM (IDPbH)

427 You want to allow people to cut down trees on their private property without a permit? You hate children
You don't believe the climate change scam? You hate children
I could do this all day.......
I'm really getting to despise Austin.....

Posted by: lin-duh meh at July 23, 2017 03:33 PM (kufk0)

If I cannot seize your assets on a whim, you must hate children. So tell me, Linda, why do you hate children? We have a camp for you, that can cure you. We raise the blade, we make the change. We'll rearrange you till you're sane.

Posted by: Lois Lerner at July 23, 2017 03:46 PM (/qEW2)

428 The fact is that most people, given a choice, would prefer a heavily white neighborhood and school district, no? It's not skin color so much as culture.

I say "people" rather than "Americans" because I can guarantee you that this is true in all of Latin America at least. And I don't say "white people" either because all races with certain values would agree.
Heh.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 23, 2017 03:37 PM (0jtPF)

"Great School System" has always been code for "overwhelmingly white--with just enough Asians to make it even more competitive-- School System"

This has been known for decades.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2017 03:46 PM (7uYFy)

429 425
I live about three feet outside the King County border! Saved!
Posted by: RKae at July 23, 2017 03:46 PM (cHQu9)

Just hope that if you have to shoot a bad guy, he doesn't fall the wrong way.

Posted by: rickl at July 23, 2017 03:47 PM (sdi6R)

430 408---Posted by: rickl at July 23, 2017 03:37 PM (sdi6R)
---------------------------------
I don't think anyone, much less a secret cabal, threw those elections by deliberately nominating bad candidates. I think the nominees were pretty much a natural result of the decay of the GOP as a whole.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 23, 2017 03:47 PM (0jtPF)

431 >>Fortunately Trump had some actual political science types on his side.

He also had the good fortune to run against one of the least like politicians in recent history. Had he run against Obama he would have been the one getting schlonged.

Every election is different, different environment, different issues. After 8 years of Obama it was pretty obvious that while he was personally popular with a large percentage of the public his policies were definitely not.

Sometimes it helps to be lucky.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 23, 2017 03:48 PM (/tuJf)

432 410 A large part of me wants to believe they were able
to rig the elections and that is the only reason we got that fucker in
'08 and '12.

Posted by: washrivergal at July 23, 2017 03:21 PM (2+gSO)

John McCain and Mitt Romney.Those are two other reasons.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 23, 2017 03:37 PM

Speaking of whom, I'm guessing McCain didn't use the VA hospital???

Posted by: Diogenes at July 23, 2017 03:48 PM (0tfLf)

433 425
I live about three feet outside the King County border! Saved!
Posted by: RKae at July 23, 2017 03:46 PM (cHQu9)

Just hope that if you have to shoot a bad guy, he doesn't fall the wrong way.
Posted by: rickl

---

Or hope that he's under three feet tall.

(My fear of midgets is showing, isn't it?)

Posted by: RKae at July 23, 2017 03:49 PM (cHQu9)

434 Afternoon all..Home finally.

The Left is at War with us...I suggest we return the favor.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2017 03:49 PM (SjImc)

435 It's gotta be Sally Kohn. I read Twitchy mainly to hear about her latest idiocy. Islamists could be throwing her off of a building while shouting "Allahu akhbar" and she'd continue lecturing us on Islamophobia.

Posted by: CPT11A at July 23, 2017 03:50 PM (hxUdS)

436 Food Nood

Posted by: Skip at July 23, 2017 03:51 PM (9g/6M)

437 >>> We raise the blade, we make the change. We'll rearrange you till you're sane.

Wield the spade! Ready the blade! Sacrifices must be made!

Posted by: Mr. Oysterhead at July 23, 2017 03:51 PM (jw2Xw)

438 Don't get upset by the "Birchers" at MSNBC

Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at July 23, 2017 03:52 PM (e8kgV)

439 Jews in Turkey under attack over Temple Mount crisis
Temple Mount crisis escalates into religious rift abroad, as Muslims in Turkey block entry into, and vandalize synagogues, threatening to 'come back again' unless Israel changes its policy.

Moderates ha?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2017 03:52 PM (SjImc)

440 88
77 Who was the talking head who couldn't find her own ass without a producer directing her through her earpiece?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2017 12:28 PM (wYseH)

I was the talking head who couldn't find my ass without a producer directing me through my earpiece.

Posted by: Soledad O'Brian's Earpiece at July 23, 2017 03:52 PM (qomDP)

441 There is an official Prince yt channel. This one did not air on MTV...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rYboMkLluKo&feature=youtu.be

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 23, 2017 03:53 PM (PUmDY)

442 I suspected something was up when I went to my polling place and found the little old ladies who usually work there replaced by grim-faced young men who said, "Please to step into woting booth."

Posted by: rickl at July 23, 2017 03:41 PM (sdi6R)

In my blackest moments last year, I was thinking 'if the left cheats and engages in voter fraud, and they are allowed to continue, we've got to do the same thing'. I don't think the Russians engaged in voter fraud or "hacking the machines" - it's obviously stupid. I doubt they did *anything* - the email dumps AFAIK were done by Assange's people and no one else. But if someone did things to swing the election, I don't care. The Dems have been cheating for too long.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2017 03:54 PM (/qEW2)

443 the xprecident doesn't know about Illinois's border with KY because he was raised in Indonesia.

he thinks there's 57 states.

Posted by: booknlass at July 23, 2017 03:55 PM (6Xf+s)

444
Has President Trump been blamed for the eight dead in the semi parked at the WalMart in Texas yet? Because I can really see that one coming down the pike.
Posted by: washrivergal at July 23, 2017 03:09 PM

Two more died. Total now is ten.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2017 03:56 PM (IqV8l)

445 So the Democrats have unveiled a new slogan for the next election cycle:

"A Better Deal." "A Better Deal:Better Jobs, Better Wages, Better Paychecks, Better Sex, Better Orgasms, Better
Future, Better Nonsense, Better Delusions"

Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at July 23, 2017 03:56 PM (e8kgV)

446 what's wrong with you? The ignorant and stupid people need their "news" too! What have you got against diversity?

Posted by: RAH at July 23, 2017 03:56 PM (IUyE2)

447 Those guys in Texas have curved pistol grips...

Curved.
Pistol.
Grips.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 23, 2017 02:45 PM (39g3+)

Actually looking for a single action Colt .45.... want to learn to quick draw... just... because... /smile
Posted by: Don Q. at July 23, 2017 02:48 PM (NgKpN)

Yay gun thread! (Gotta love Sunday afternoons around this place.)

Curved grips: Have you seen the Taurus Curve? I'm not a big Taurus fan and IMO .380 is juuust on the wrong side of the "enough gun" line but my wife has one that she carries IWB in the appendix position and she likes it a lot.

Colt SSA: The ones actually sold by Colt are crazy expensive and are really intended for collectors more than shooters. I believe the guys who do competitive quick-draw mostly use modified Ruger Vaqueros.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at July 23, 2017 04:00 PM (7oUUT)

448 430
I don't think anyone, much less a secret cabal, threw those elections by deliberately nominating bad candidates. I think the nominees were pretty much a natural result of the decay of the GOP as a whole.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 23, 2017 03:47 PM (0jtPF)

You're probably right. Although I read an article at PJM a few years ago that compared McCain's selection of an unknown governor from Alaska as his running mate to "The Producers". Everyone was taken by surprise when she turned out to be a smash hit with the conservative base.

I think the writer was being tongue-in-cheek, but it's an interesting thought. Maybe they thought everyone was going to go, "Sarah who?"

Posted by: rickl at July 23, 2017 04:02 PM (sdi6R)

449 Everyone was taken by surprise when she turned out to be a smash hit with the conservative base.

I had to stop my freaking campaign because of her! Too much momentum. Even then we almost "won".

Posted by: Juan "Ese" McCain at July 23, 2017 04:19 PM (zEjuG)

450 Red wing boots. Stock number 6674 you'll thank me. 12-14 hrs a day. 11 days a week( I work 11/3) and they are a dream.

Posted by: FtWorthMike at July 23, 2017 04:22 PM (gECZB)

451 >>>- Megan McArdle, October 25, 2016

ha ha ha ha ha
I used to like her.

Posted by: m at July 23, 2017 04:32 PM (LRfkc)

452
Sorry if I'm late, but Soviet Yugoslavia? Slovakia was part of Yugoslavia? History and geography, how do they work?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 23, 2017 04:37 PM (auHtY)

453 Obviously, a Space Corps could not have a 6th brigade because everybody knows the "6th guy" dies before the first commercial.

Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at July 23, 2017 05:07 PM (e8kgV)

454 This just in from Joyce Carol Oates, Sooper Jenious:

"Lies are the helium holding aloft our Hindenberg slow-drifting across the sky & blotting out our light."

Posted by: Scotch and Tritium at July 23, 2017 05:12 PM (uN4Ye)

455 The reporter pulled a double dumbass.

Yugoslavia was a CAPTIVE state of the USSR.

So if you accept her looney standard, Trump RESCUED 2 women from the Soviets, like bringing two wives out of East Berlin.

A normal media would praise anyone who did that.

"Trump could stand in the middle of Times Square and take a bullet while shielding a child, and his critics wouldn't even care"

Trump endangered 5 year old's life, knocking him of his bike! Pearl clutching Baron-bashers join with Planned Parenthood to demand a six year $300 million investigation. Schwinn denies any connection with hottie from a nation neighboring RUSSIA! Mika's face slips off skull in momentous moment of despair!

Posted by: Future Bandersnatch, wih Cybernetic at July 23, 2017 05:29 PM (Yi2pH)

456 Ruger and Uberti both make terrific SAA's. Love my Uberti .44 Magnum, even though I mostly run .44 Specials through it.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at July 23, 2017 06:06 PM (v9gSJ)

457 Oops.

Posted by: Fen at July 23, 2017 06:36 PM (Yi2pH)

458 "Hacking the voting machines.... it's stupid"

And dishonest. We can actually prove a negative here (waves, Hi Mom!)

You want proof the Russians did NOT hack the voting machines?

Easy - not a SINGLE Democrat has called for a return to paper ballots.

Ding Dong!

Why hello Mr. Insrance Fraud Investigator. What brings you here?

Just wrapping up your claim and confrming the facts. Let's see, 6 months ago you claimed someone stole your priceless painting. But Police found no signs of a break in. But then you remembered your wife left hers at Omega Virbrators. And that must be how the culprits got in. That about sum things up?

Yuppers. And thank you for all you have -

So about what date did you have the locks changed?

...... huh?

Your spare house key, you said it's missing. If someone is running around out there with the key to your front door, Why haven't you changed the lock in the ensuing 6 months?

Ah! Uhm no er uh.... Russia?

Thank you for your time Sir. You might consider asking Mercedes if you can return the car. Have a wonderful day.

Posted by: Fen at July 23, 2017 07:06 PM (Yi2pH)

459 Omega Vibrators. Because nothing is more frustrating than tiny inferior batteries going limp at the first onset of pure bliss.

Omega!.If a nuclear reaction can't rock your world, there is something seriously wrong with your vagina.

Posted by: Fen at July 23, 2017 07:14 PM (Yi2pH)

460 Yes, I know more than a man should about vibrators. So what. I was doing research. Also, Russia!

Seriously, for women it seems like a quest for the holy grail. No wonder they hate us? I routinely achieve pure bliss inside of 5 min. And no issues with intensity. Can't do much better than Blackout Bliss.

Posted by: Fen at July 23, 2017 07:22 PM (Yi2pH)

461 "Mostly peaceful protests."

Posted by: aquaviva at July 23, 2017 07:43 PM (PXlKS)

462 Is Joy having Sally draft her tweets? 'Cause that one is registering a good 750-800 mKohns.

Posted by: moronhorde minion at July 23, 2017 08:40 PM (Ae45Z)

463 201 THAT WAS THE EVENT THAT GENERATED THE BLACK HOLE THAT DESTROYED THAT MALAYSIAN AIRLINER! WHY WON'T ANYBODY TELL THE TRUTH?!

Posted by: Chris Cuomo at July 23, 2017 10:12 PM (L7t0A)

464 Somebody probably caught this but Slovakia was never Yugoslavia. And she isn't Slovak but Czech.

Posted by: Mondo at July 24, 2017 02:20 PM (hunQC)

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