The Morning Rant

"I want to know why antifa, black bloc, BLM, Women's March, and all of the other groups who love to brag about how 'love trumps hate' aren't down there in Houston slogging through the floodwater helping people. And also, why none of the crack reporters in the MSM are asking this question."

Our Media-Driven National Freak-out:

Will Trigglypuff be a featured speaker?

From here. (h/t The Patriarch Tree)

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Well, let's see how the National Laughingstock covered the weekend riot in Berkeley:

Black-clad antifa members attack peaceful right-wing demonstrators in Berkeley.

Wait, what? That headline appeard in The National Laughingstock? Are you sure it wasn't the Washington Times or the Washington Examiner?

Their faces hidden behind black bandannas and hoodies, about 100 anarchists and antifa— “anti-fascist” — members barreled into a protest Sunday afternoon in Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park.

Jumping over plastic and concrete barriers, the group melted into a larger crowd of around 2,000 that had marched peacefully throughout the sunny afternoon for a “Rally Against Hate” gathering.

I checked. It is indeed the National Laughingstock. Here is the link:

http://TheNationalLaughingstock.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/28/black-clad-antifa-attack-right-wing-demonstrators-in-berkeley/

So I'll bet the headline writer was immediately scheduled for some mandatory diversity training. Because democracy dies in darkness.

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Quiz:

“Our democracy has no room for inciting violence or endangering the public, no matter the ideology of those who commit such acts. The violent actions of people calling themselves antifa in Berkeley this weekend deserve unequivocal condemnation, and the perpetrators should be arrested and prosecuted.

Who made the above statement?

a) Donald Trump
b) Sherriff Clarke
c) GorillaPundit
d) Nancy Pelosi

The answer, believe it or not, is (d) Nancy Pelosi.

Pro tip to progressives: when you've lost Nancy Pelosi, your movement has pretty much screwed the pooch.

I would've paid good money to see this:

HOUSTON, TX—After Joel Osteen took a Bible verse out of context for the fifth time during his Sunday morning service, pastor John MacArthur reportedly launched himself out of his hidden perch in the rafters of Lakewood Church and elbow dropped the prosperity gospel preacher, knocking him out cold.

Fortunately, this incident was caught on camera:

This was a few weeks ago. Lately, Osteen has been taking hits for closing his Houston church in the wake of Hurricane Harvey instead actually helping anybody, but he aims to change all that:

HOUSTON, TX—Although Joel Osteen took flak over the weekend for closing up his church to flood victims and all but disappearing during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, the megachurch pastor reportedly returned to the city on his luxury yacht “S.S. Blessed” to make amends Tuesday by tossing copies of Your Best Life Now to stranded flood survivors.

Osteen is a con man who deserves to get it good and hard.

Quiz:

Posted by: OregonMuse at 11:29 AM

Comments

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1 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 30, 2017 11:29 AM (Tdl6i)

2 Botox Pelosi denounced Antifa before RINO Ryan...

Posted by: Hikaru at August 30, 2017 11:30 AM (ZRCF4)

3 And believe me, the liberalism mental disorder is not confined to Millennials. People old enough to know better still get the affliction. A member of my writing group, approx. 67 years old, was and is a BernieBro, thinks Pres. Trump is "demented," and that the NYTimes is a "conservative" newspapers. Direct quotes.

He's otherwise very sensible. Amazing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 30, 2017 11:31 AM (Tdl6i)

4 Hey? Where's the food thread not his teddy bear stuff?!

Posted by: barack hussein obama at August 30, 2017 11:33 AM (mJ8mX)

5 Rustic bunk? Do you get splinters when you turn over?

Posted by: BignJames at August 30, 2017 11:33 AM (x9c8r)

6 The answer, believe it or not, is (d) Nancy Pelosi.
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Only a year overdue and after her own Party was giving her grief over it.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 30, 2017 11:33 AM (mpXpK)

7 3>>>

The Left is baying for blood, and anybody who doesn't give it to them is cast out as "conservative".

Posted by: Hikaru at August 30, 2017 11:34 AM (ZRCF4)

8 "Our mission is to radicalize our relationships with our fat bodies by creating community space in which we share our experiences, struggles and triumphs."

Really large spaces.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 30, 2017 11:34 AM (QQ+il)

9 Our mission is to radicalize our relationships with our fat bodies by creating community space in which we share our experiences, struggles and triumphs.

They already have that. It's called the All You Can Eat Buffet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 30, 2017 11:35 AM (c8EhQ)

10 Mainstream Dems are worried that the antifa-ggots are doing damage to the Dems for 2018 as the GOP ads write themselves.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 30, 2017 11:36 AM (mJ8mX)

11 I increasingly feel like the real, unspoken message of the entire American left/liberal coalition is, "We want all you white people to die as soon as possible."

They think of us the way the English settlers thought of the Indians: your time here is done-- just get out of our way!

Posted by: mnw at August 30, 2017 11:36 AM (5cCew)

12 For that Fat Affirmative Tactical Camp, I'm afraid I'm going to have to insist on having the top bunk.

Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at August 30, 2017 11:36 AM (PFy0L)

13 Looks like somebody got caught cheating on Harvey donations

https://www.weaselzippers.us/?p=355211

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 30, 2017 11:36 AM (J+eG2)

14 Makes no sense to me. I work in the tech world.(programmers, db's, etc.)
I work with some VERY smart people. People that make me feel not so smart. Yet it is a Lib haven.
Bernie fans galore. I...just dont get it. How can you be that smart but so fucking dumb?

Posted by: lowfibass at August 30, 2017 11:36 AM (BrqlK)

15 Sorry honey. No amount of re-education is ever going to make fat attractive.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 30, 2017 11:36 AM (c8EhQ)

16 That xersons teeth are photoshopped, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 30, 2017 11:37 AM (4E7oS)

17 Mainstream Dems are worried that the antifa-ggots are doing damage to the Dems for 2018 as the GOP ads write themselves.
Posted by: andycanuck

As well they should. Because they are.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2017 11:37 AM (T2Zv1)

18 The pic of the woman-creature screaming is eerily reminiscent of the creature at the end of Prometheus, especially when it extended its jaw.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 30, 2017 11:37 AM (vg8iE)

19 I love that pic of John McArthur. Makes me smile everytime I see it.

Posted by: tbodie at August 30, 2017 11:37 AM (k+zgr)

20 "Fat Affirmative."

Beautifully mutated.

Posted by: Zod at August 30, 2017 11:38 AM (Bdeb0)

21 Obama never ate a teddy bear.

Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at August 30, 2017 11:38 AM (5fSr7)

22 Yeah, I radicalize my relationship with my fat body every time I eat ice cream. My relationship with my cardiovascular system is pretty strained too.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at August 30, 2017 11:38 AM (RD7QR)

23 8 "Our mission is to radicalize our relationships with our fat bodies by creating community space in which we share our experiences, struggles and triumphs."

Really large spaces.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 30, 2017 11:34 AM

Damn it, I just cleaned this keyboard!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2017 11:38 AM (0tfLf)

24 Makes no sense to me. I work in the tech world.(programmers, db's, etc.)
I work with some VERY smart people. People that make me feel not so smart. Yet it is a Lib haven.
Bernie fans galore. I...just dont get it.

How can you be that smart but so fucking dumb?
Posted by: lowfibass

Same way that they can land a man on the moon but have no idea how to change a flat tire.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2017 11:38 AM (T2Zv1)

25 Joel Osteen yacht comment courtesy of the Babylon Bee ladies and germs.

Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 30, 2017 11:38 AM (Jcg9Q)

26 Looks like somebody got caught cheating on Harvey donations

Just like her group raised money to restore the Jewish cemetery. What a bitch! Meanwhile, I'm watching my friends and family pull together to rescue others in Jefferson and Hardin county. That's where my cash is going.

Posted by: no good deed at August 30, 2017 11:38 AM (eIQHF)

27 Botox Pelosi denounced Antifa before RINO Ryan...

Posted by: Hikaru at August 30, 2017 11:30 AM (ZRCF4)

Scientists -- by careful examination of billion year old rocks, tell us the planets poles have switched magnetic direction many times in the history of the planet.

Is this the political equivalent?

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at August 30, 2017 11:39 AM (EgwCt)

28 Rustic bunk? Do you get splinters when you turn over?

Posted by: BignJames at August 30, 2017 11:33 AM (x9c8r)

They will get worse than that when the "rustic" bunk collapses under the weight of 450 pounds of blubber.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2017 11:39 AM (2le8w)

29 14 Makes no sense to me. I work in the tech world.(programmers, db's, etc.)
I work with some VERY smart people. People that make me feel not so smart. Yet it is a Lib haven.
Bernie fans galore. I...just dont get it. How can you be that smart but so fucking dumb?
Posted by: lowfibass at August 30, 2017
*
*
I know, right? I point out to my writer friend, the BernieBro (who is sensible enough to know that Cankles would have been a true disaster), that "Bernie the Socialist has never had a real job, never met a payroll, never been in the military -- and yet you think he could run a *country*?"

To which his answer is, "Trump's never been in the military either." Gahhhh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 30, 2017 11:39 AM (Tdl6i)

30 Botox Pelosi denounced Antifa before RINO Ryan...

Sad.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 30, 2017 11:39 AM (QQ+il)

31 That one chick: upper lip peeled back like an angry mandrill.

Fooking gross.

*shudders*

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 30, 2017 11:39 AM (sGSvK)

32 The weekend includes lodging in rustic bunks(or your own tent!), gourmet hearty meals, big ol' crowd of fatty fat friends, and the entire campground to our fat selves in beautiful Walton, Oregon!

"A big ol' crowd of fatty fat friends."

I.
Am.
IN!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 30, 2017 11:39 AM (c8EhQ)

33 And believe me, the liberalism mental disorder is not confined to Millennials. People old enough to know better still get the affliction. A member of my writing group, approx. 67 years old, was and is a BernieBro, thinks Pres. Trump is "demented," and that the NYTimes is a "conservative" newspapers. Direct quotes.

He's otherwise very sensible. Amazing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 30, 2017 11:31 AM (Tdl6i)

Acquaintance of mine was ranting on Facebook about Trump merely "sitting at a table in Texas and talking shit instead of being out "with the people".

I pointed out that Greg Abbott is wheelchair bound as a paraplegic and Trump and others chose to sit at the table with him since Abbott can't stand and by the way, it is Abbotts' state.

Haven't heard anything back yet.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 30, 2017 11:40 AM (/Qs0S)

34 "Is this the political equivalent?"

Nope.

Just her way of trying to get behind a political shit-storm.

Instead of in front of it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 30, 2017 11:40 AM (J+eG2)

35 Any of you weirdos going to DragonCon this year? I mean, like I am?

Posted by: Sporkatus at August 30, 2017 11:40 AM (eXSOZ)

36 The Dems have a year to turn this around, and it's going to take everything they have in their arsenal.

Diane Feinstein is already hard at work, working with Trump, to convert him to the proper way of thinking and make him a democrat the democrats can work with. It will be a huge and daunting task, but Feinstein has the skills and experts who can deprogram Trump and get him on the right side of history for the children.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at August 30, 2017 11:40 AM (m9X4Y)

37 Our mission is to radicalize our relationships with our fat bodies by creating community space in which we share our experiences, struggles and triumphs."

Now, I am singing "Home on the Range."

Posted by: no good deed at August 30, 2017 11:40 AM (eIQHF)

38 >>"A big ol' crowd of fatty fat friends."

Good place to go hoggin'.

Posted by: Zod at August 30, 2017 11:41 AM (Bdeb0)

39 14 Makes no sense to me. I work in the tech world.(programmers, db's, etc.)
I work with some VERY smart people. People that make me feel not so smart. Yet it is a Lib haven.
Bernie fans galore. I...just dont get it. How can you be that smart but so fucking dumb?

Posted by: lowfibass at August 30, 2017 11:36 AM (BrqlK)

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I think a lot of it is guilt. I don't know how that level is cultivated, but I think many of them truly feel guilty about being smarter, more driven, more attractive, etc. and, lacking the willpower to give their own* money, stuff, or time freely, demand the government help.

* They're also pissed that you want to keep yours to give to your two kids instead of to other fatherless homes' seven, so that's why they need to have the men with guns** assistance.

** They're still somehow convinced that they're anti-gun, though. They're not. They're just pro-proxy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 30, 2017 11:41 AM (4E7oS)

40 12 For that Fat Affirmative Tactical Camp, I'm afraid I'm going to have to insist on having the top bunk.

Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at August 30, 2017 11:36 AM (PFy0L)

Wouldn't happen to have bladder control problems, do you? Cause that would be karma on the person in the bottom bunk.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 30, 2017 11:41 AM (jxbfJ)

41 17 Mainstream Dems are worried that the antifa-ggots are doing damage to the Dems for 2018 as the GOP ads write themselves.
Posted by: andycanuck

As well they should. Because they are.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2017 11:37 AM (T2Zv1)
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Their internal polling must be god awful. They screwed the pooch.

You know who comes out smelling like a rose...Trump.

Posted by: WisRich at August 30, 2017 11:41 AM (G0vdT)

42 So, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, and Marco Rubio are to the left of Nancy Pelosi. Good to know.

Posted by: Under Fire at August 30, 2017 11:41 AM (mcI77)

43 The Washington Post story makes it appear that Antifags were just a small fringe and that the righteous protestors were in the majority to protest against the hateful whitey nazis. The Post or this reporter deserves no kudos.

Posted by: Jack Sock at August 30, 2017 11:41 AM (LuKE7)

44 Damn it, I just cleaned this keyboard!

I'm seeing it like a Bull Seal mating beach from National Geographic.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 30, 2017 11:41 AM (QQ+il)

45 According to recent FaceBook posts. Osteen's church was closed *Sunday* *Just Like All The Other Churches* because everybody was up all Saturday night/Sunday morning trying to keep water out of their homes and the roads were pretty much impassable. I know our church was closed Sunday as well, but Monday was being used as a donation drop-off center and place for launching boat rescues into nearby neighborhoods.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2017 11:41 AM (rp9xB)

46 wait no ... elephant seal

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 30, 2017 11:42 AM (QQ+il)

47 How can you be that smart but so fucking dumb?
There's a good Calvin & Hobbes cartoon on that:
http://tinyurl.com/yc8kzxd8

Posted by: Sporkatus at August 30, 2017 11:42 AM (eXSOZ)

48 Any of you weirdos going to DragonCon this year? I mean, like I am?

I might if the date doesn't conflict with Pork-o-palooza.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 30, 2017 11:42 AM (c8EhQ)

49 Our mission is to radicalize our relationships with our fat bodies by creating community space in which we share our experiences, struggles and triumphs."
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How hard is it to find a room somewhere and sit down and bitch about how terrible your life is?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 30, 2017 11:42 AM (vg8iE)

50 Acquaintance of mine was ranting on Facebook about Trump merely "sitting at a table in Texas and talking shit instead of being out "with the people".

What the hell is he supposed to do "out with the people," drive a dump truck? He can direct resources. Geez.

Posted by: no good deed at August 30, 2017 11:42 AM (eIQHF)

51 2- Isn't it so funny that the antifa loving GOPe turds are being hung out to dry by their donkey and media friends

Posted by: kallisto at August 30, 2017 11:42 AM (qV5PD)

52 Botox Pelosi denounced Antifa before RINO Ryan...

Sad.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 30, 2017 11:39 AM (QQ+il)

Hmmm. Might make a great ad for anyone wanting to primary that idiot.

Posted by: tbodie at August 30, 2017 11:43 AM (k+zgr)

53 36 The Dems have a year to turn this around, and it's going to take everything they have in their arsenal.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at August 30, 2017 11:40 AM (m9X4Y)

Unfortunately there's going to be a market realignment sooner or later. If it happens now there's time enough for the GOP to recover; if the Dems get their captive traders to hold things off until just before the election it could be grim.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at August 30, 2017 11:43 AM (RD7QR)

54 I think many of them truly feel guilty about being smarter, more driven, more attractive, etc.
*
*
I'm all those things, and I've never felt any guilt about them. (Well, okay, there could be some discussion about the "attractive" part. But I'm certainly no hominid baboon.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 30, 2017 11:43 AM (Tdl6i)

55 Acquaintance of mine was ranting on Facebook about Trump merely "sitting at a table in Texas and talking shit instead of being out "with the people".

I pointed out that Greg Abbott is wheelchair bound as a paraplegic and Trump and others chose to sit at the table with him since Abbott can't stand and by the way, it is Abbotts' state.

Haven't heard anything back yet.
Posted by: Jen the original at August 30, 2017 11:40 AM (/Qs0S)

Didn't Abortion Barbie say some crap about Abbott when she was running for Governor.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 30, 2017 11:44 AM (dKiJG)

56 And also, why none of the crack reporters in the MSM are asking this question.

This is rhetorical, right?

Posted by: Monkey busy with The Chicken at August 30, 2017 11:44 AM (jAZCo)

57 How can you be that smart but so fucking dumb?

Well, dear boy, please sit down and let me explain...

Posted by: Obama in a smoking jacket at August 30, 2017 11:44 AM (7n4KQ)

58 Pro tip to progressives: when you've lost Nancy Pelosi, your movement has pretty much screwed the pooch.

The internal polls must be horrendous.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 30, 2017 11:44 AM (c8EhQ)

59 I might if the date doesn't conflict with Pork-o-palooza.
It's this weekend in Atlanta. I'll be driving four hours there in a '63 Ford because I'm a glutton for punishment.

Posted by: Sporkatus at August 30, 2017 11:44 AM (eXSOZ)

60 that smart but so fucking dumb?

Ask them if they believe in magic.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at August 30, 2017 11:44 AM (m9X4Y)

61 OCare bureaucrat to TrigglyPuff, "I'm sorry but you do not meet the proper criteria for the surgery required to save your live from obesity."

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 30, 2017 11:44 AM (VPhy/)

62 Fat affirmative tactical camp?? With gourmet meals??

Posted by: IC at August 30, 2017 11:44 AM (a0IVu)

63 Osteen was interviewed on Maria B this morning. His slimy demeanor and ducking of questions of why he closed his church were disgusting. He kept grinning that big toothy grin while trying to say,
But we are here today to help".

How many of these mega church ministers have to drop like Jim Bakker before people stop donating their life savings to them?

Posted by: Jen the original at August 30, 2017 11:44 AM (/Qs0S)

64 I'm seeing it like a Bull Seal mating beach from National Geographic.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 30, 2017 11:41 AM (QQ+il)

I remember boating past a sea lion colony on an island in British Columbia. The smell would knock a buzzard off a shit-wagon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2017 11:45 AM (2le8w)

65 Didn't Abortion Barbie say some crap about Abbott when she was running for Governor.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 30, 2017 11:44 AM (dKiJG)

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The gold-digging slut said something like "She would stand up to him" or "He won't stand up against" something. Yeah, it was mocking his disability.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 30, 2017 11:45 AM (vg8iE)

66 I hate it when GP puts "screwed the pooch" and "Trigglypuff" in the same post

Posted by: Roy at August 30, 2017 11:45 AM (7n4KQ)

67 And from a headline I just skimmed through - Feinstein apparently wished Trump well or something like that. Wonders never cease.

Posted by: IC at August 30, 2017 11:46 AM (a0IVu)

68 Cheeky monkey.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2017 11:46 AM (0mRoj)

69 "Fat Affirmative."

You're fat. That's affirmative.

Posted by: josephistan at August 30, 2017 11:46 AM (7HtZB)

70 "14 Makes no sense to me. I work in the tech world.(programmers, db's, etc.)
I work with some VERY smart people. People that make me feel not so smart. Yet it is a Lib haven.
Bernie fans galore. I...just dont get it. How can you be that smart but so fucking dumb?
Posted by: lowfibass at August 30, 2017 11:36 AM (BrqlK)"

I have a feeling you're quite young. You're going to find out that the "book smart" people, like academics, and a lot of the "machine smart" people, like programmers and other techies, have an intelligence that only applies to their specific, chosen tasks, which they focus on exclusively.

When it comes to actual life, they are often miserable failures and know far less about people and how they work than your average janitor does. And especially with respect to Techies, Sheldon Cooper is not a stereotype, he's more of a role model.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2017 11:46 AM (k1TUh)

71 Jeebus, ABC 13 reporter can't translate between meters and yards. Google much honey??

Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 30, 2017 11:46 AM (Jcg9Q)

72 That xersons teeth are photoshopped, right?
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 30, 2017 11:37 AM (4E7oS)

I was wondering that myself, she does look like something from one of those 'Alien' movies.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 30, 2017 11:46 AM (bjWNl)

73 41 17 Mainstream Dems are worried that the antifa-ggots are doing damage to the Dems for 2018 as the GOP ads write themselves.
Posted by: andycanuck

As well they should. Because they are.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2017 11:37 AM (T2Zv1)
--

Their internal polling must be god awful. They screwed the pooch.

You know who comes out smelling like a rose...Trump.
Posted by: WisRich at August 30, 2017 11:41 AM (G0vdT)

Yet, with all of these opportunities for the GOP turds to capitalize on, they still manage to trip on their own two feet.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 30, 2017 11:47 AM (jxbfJ)

74 Feinstein apparently wished Trump well or something like that.
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CENSORED!!!

Posted by: Feinstein's Twitter Feed at August 30, 2017 11:47 AM (vg8iE)

75 Set sail foah Olegon!

Posted by: Japanese whalers at August 30, 2017 11:47 AM (0mRoj)

76 I was wondering that myself, she does look like something from one of those 'Alien' movies.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at August 30, 2017 11:46 AM (bjWNl)

I was thinking "baboon."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 30, 2017 11:47 AM (c8EhQ)

77 Democrats are still supporting Antifa. It is their tip of the spear.

Buuuut.... they need some distance at the moment, hence the nice words in support of sanity (ironic coming from a batshit crazy like Pelosi)

Lemme know when the funding dries up and these cells have to self-fund for those logistical things like shields and transportation.

Then maybe we'll start seeing SLA-type band robberies and kidnappings. That'll get the 'folks" on their side for sure.

oh, and Paul Ryan? Crickets.

Posted by: Lavrently Beria at August 30, 2017 11:48 AM (z79tQ)

78 Actually one should ask of that screaming woman's image, is that a young Nancy Pelosi?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 30, 2017 11:48 AM (VPhy/)

79 Good God, this broad is just dumb. Can't remember shit from one minute to the next.

Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 30, 2017 11:48 AM (Jcg9Q)

80 5 Rustic bunk? Do you get splinters when you turn over?
Posted by: BignJames at August 30, 2017 11:33 AM (x9c8r)

Rustic bunk, pig sty, these are just words.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2017 11:48 AM (SRKgf)

81 They task me.

Posted by: Ahab at August 30, 2017 11:49 AM (QQ+il)

82 I was wondering that myself, she does look like something from one of those 'Alien' movies.

Mouth like a Goblin shark.

Posted by: no good deed at August 30, 2017 11:49 AM (eIQHF)

83 I'm still trying to unpack "radicalizing our relationships with our fat bodies..."

Radicalizing?

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 30, 2017 11:49 AM (ul9CR)

84 Botox Pelosi denounced Antifa before RINO Ryan...

Posted by: Hikaru at August 30, 2017 11:30 AM (ZRCF4)

Does that make her a h8r and on the side of the Nazis and Klan now?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 30, 2017 11:49 AM (493sH)

85 (Well, okay, there could be some discussion about the "attractive" part. But I'm certainly no hominid baboon.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 30, 2017 11:43 AM

Hey, we could redden each other's cheeks ...

Posted by: Shep! at August 30, 2017 11:49 AM (ctuyM)

86 78 Actually one should ask of that screaming woman's image, is that a young Nancy Pelosi?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 30, 2017 11:48 AM (VPhy/)

No, she was pre-photography.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at August 30, 2017 11:49 AM (RD7QR)

87 52: indict that fucker. i'm sure ryan has something in his closet.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 30, 2017 11:49 AM (KP5rU)

88 I'm healthy! I'm beautiful! You fat-shamers talking about heart disease, osteoarthritis and diabetes are just tools of the fat-hating medical-industrial-skinny people complex!

Posted by: 400 pound fat chick at August 30, 2017 11:50 AM (0mRoj)

89 In yet another iteration of The Dog Talk with Stringereuse just yesterday, I sciento-theorised that, banning a general cultural collapse involving Chinese occupation or another stock market crash, gene-manipulators will very soon be creating Monsanto Dogs, so that the non-shedding and hypoallergenic properties of the AussieDoodle may be shared with Wire-Haired Terriers and Springer Spaniels. And I believe these will be called Round-Up Hounds.

I for one do not believe that a non-shedding Labradog can be created.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 30, 2017 11:50 AM (H5rtT)

90 The 'beetus will get them before I figure it out.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 30, 2017 11:50 AM (ul9CR)

91 "Ask them if they believe in magic. "

HA!
Yeah...its just that....they should be able to look at the rest of the world and see what socialism is.
Or hell just look at dem run cities and states. But...not good enough unless the whole country is like that.
I just cant grasp it.
I know...its the same ol conundrum. Just nice to be in an echo chamber of my own once in awhile.

Posted by: lowfibass at August 30, 2017 11:50 AM (BrqlK)

92 indict that fucker. i'm sure ryan has something in his closet.
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Yeah, it's 24" long, purple, studded at one end and made of rubber!

Posted by: Pauli-Girl Ryan at August 30, 2017 11:50 AM (vg8iE)

93 indict that fucker. i'm sure ryan has something in his closet.

Put Niedermeyer on it. He's a sneaky little shit.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at August 30, 2017 11:50 AM (c8EhQ)

94 Jeebus, ABC 13 reporter can't translate between meters and yards. Google much honey??

Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 30, 2017 11:46 AM (Jcg9Q)

Mostly, I just equate the two unless great precision is required.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2017 11:51 AM (2le8w)

95 "Our mission is to radicalize our relationships with our fat bodies by creating community space in which we share our experiences, struggles and triumphs."

If you want to create some space, you can start by losing some weight. Fatties.

Posted by: Big McLargehuge Mk I at August 30, 2017 11:51 AM (u9OP6)

96 Actually one should ask of that screaming woman's image, is that a young Nancy Pelosi?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 30, 2017 11:48 AM (VPhy/)

Believe it or not, I think old Nancy was kind of hot when she was young.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 30, 2017 11:51 AM (7uYFy)

97 Just got around to reading the McCarthy piece about the Awan story. Good lord - they had the wife in custody at the airport... WITH $12,000 IN CASH... and allowed her to board the plane.

This story is insane and there has got to be some sort of connection with this all the way to the JEF to allow that kind of BS to take place.

I am partially excited about this case, but given what is/has been occuring, I know in my heart that nothing will happen and eventually, due to lack of interest or some other BS, this guy will board a plane to Pock-kee-stan in the darkness of night and we will never utter his name again.

(insert obligatory Deputy Dawg Sessions wake up call here)

Posted by: Eli Cash at August 30, 2017 11:52 AM (a+WIL)

98 I've seen some neverTrumpers insisting Trump's comments about Charlotte being beyond the pale because of the evil that white racism is. It is, in their minds, unacceptable to do anything that even smacks of moral equivalence because racism is an outright evil.
Fair enough.
But the Antifa scum are the contemporary face of a movement that killed of 100 million people in the 20th century. Seems evilish to me.

Posted by: Northernlurker, phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 30, 2017 11:52 AM (nBr1j)

99 oh, and Paul Ryan? Crickets.
Posted by: Lavrently Beria at August 30, 2017 11:48 AM

I'm having a salubrious effect on the boy.

Posted by: Thad Cochran at August 30, 2017 11:52 AM (ctuyM)

100 They wanted to camp here, but the risks were too great.

Posted by: Guam at August 30, 2017 11:52 AM (/qEW2)

101 Sheldon Cooper? Who? Wait.

Oh, him. B.S.M.S. M.A.PhD, JD ScD, Order of the Garter, Knight of the Bath, Member of the Queen's Privy, Knights of Columbus, Order of the Eagles, Theoretical Physicists, M.D, and plays professional Poker at Vegas.

That Guy, Wizard Emeritus, and knows about the Man in the Boat.

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Posted by: Skandia Recluse at August 30, 2017 11:52 AM (m9X4Y)

102 Does that "lady" have a retractable jaw? She may be related to Alien.

Posted by: Eli Cash at August 30, 2017 11:52 AM (a+WIL)

103 this guy will board a plane to Pock-kee-stan in the darkness of night and we will never utter his name again.
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And probably with even more of our tax money in tow.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 30, 2017 11:53 AM (vg8iE)

104 Damn I use to many ellipsis.

Posted by: lowfibass at August 30, 2017 11:53 AM (BrqlK)

105 Didn't Abortion Barbie say some crap about Abbott when she was running for Governor.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 30, 2017 11:44 AM (dKiJG)

She said in a TV ad during her campaign against him that " a tree fell on him and he sued and won millions and now spends it on fighting other victims." Then goes on to claim he voted against a rape victim, etc.

Abbot did become a paraplegic due to a tree falling on him while he was jogging. And he did sue the homeowner for negligence (tree was dead, apparently) and won $10M from insurance.

And none of that has nothing to do with Abbott's performance as a judge or as Gov.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 30, 2017 11:53 AM (/Qs0S)

106 Pre-photography Pelosi:
http://tinyurl.com/y7ztu9tl

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 30, 2017 11:53 AM (H5rtT)

107 Re: that Liberalism pic with the naked wimmins, the one front and center has a set of choppers like a donkey. Can you imagine being married to that? Mrs. Harcourt Fenton Mudd is child's play compared to this screeching harridan.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at August 30, 2017 11:53 AM (mQ0Mc)

108 Joel Osteen, and others of his ilk, are, IMO, false profits who get rich off shearing their naive flock.

Posted by: Strobe at August 30, 2017 11:53 AM (gbWkA)

109 Officially labeling antifa a terrorist organization should now be a slam dunk. Amiright?

Posted by: Under Fire at August 30, 2017 11:54 AM (mcI77)

110 I work with some VERY smart people. People that make me feel not so smart. Yet it is a Lib haven.
Bernie fans galore. I...just dont get it.

How can you be that smart but so fucking dumb?
Posted by: lowfibass

Intelligence isn't a scalar; it's a tensor. It's perfectly possible to be bright in some respects and idiotic in others.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2017 11:54 AM (SRKgf)

111 106 Pre-photography Pelosi:
http://tinyurl.com/y7ztu9tl
Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 30, 2017 11:53 AM (H5rtT)

Miss. Lube. Rack. Just roll that around in your mind for a while.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at August 30, 2017 11:54 AM (RD7QR)

112 I reside in a district with a newish GOP congressman, one Mike Bost in the Illinois part of metro St. Louis.

Boat has already drawn a formidable DEM opponent-- a well-known elected state's atty.

I confess that I worry about this race. I worry that Bost will have no accomplishments to point to, thx to the moribund GOP leadership in Congress.

If Bost is just a pincushion surrogate for PDT, I fear that he (& a lot of similarly situated GOP congresspersons) will lose.

I doubt that Bost can win re-election on an "Antifa sucks!" platform.

Posted by: mnw at August 30, 2017 11:54 AM (5cCew)

113 Well need to get some writing done.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 30, 2017 11:55 AM (VPhy/)

114 I for one do not believe that a non-shedding Labradog can be created.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 30, 2017
*
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Right along with a non-shedding Persian cat. While you're tinkering, guys, it would be nice to have a Persian that doesn't look like its face ran into a door.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 30, 2017 11:55 AM (Tdl6i)

115 I for one do not believe that a non-shedding Labradog can be created.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 30, 2017 11:50 AM (H5rtT)

(furiously crosses Mexican Hairless with Shar Pei)

Behold! The Trigglypug.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2017 11:55 AM (2le8w)

116 How many cubits is Joel Osteen's yacht?

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at August 30, 2017 11:56 AM (oZ6kz)

117 looks like somebody in that liberalism picture pissed themself. no surprise.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 30, 2017 11:56 AM (KP5rU)

118 108 Joel Osteen, and others of his ilk, are, IMO, false profits who get rich off shearing their naive flock.
Posted by: Strobe at August 30, 2017 11:53 AM (gbWkA)

I believe you mean false prophets, who profit.

Posted by: Northernlurker, phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 30, 2017 11:56 AM (nBr1j)

119 There's a picture of JFK with a young Nancy Pelosi out there.
I wonder if he banged her.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 30, 2017 11:56 AM (7uYFy)

120 Jeebus, ABC 13 reporter can't translate between meters and yards. Google much honey??
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 30, 2017 11:46 AM

Given a sufficiently high BC and velocity, it doesn't matter much within reasonable ranges.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2017 11:56 AM (ctuyM)

121 "Fat Affirmative Camp"

I would love to see how they would react if 30 or 40 old rednecks with big potbellies signed up for their course.

I know a guy, a casual acquaintence, who was just hospitalized for a TIA (mini-stroke). He has gotten quite large, probably due to his legendary love of barbecued meat, covered with sauces and more spices than you've ever seen - that's guy will eat anything! But after the TIA, he couldn't even remember his own name for a day, and then they found that his blood pressure is super high - like 210 over 150 or something (and he's in his 50's) So doctors are telling him that he has just got to cut, cut cut out that food if he wants to live much longer.

Last I heard from his family, he's all pissed off because the hospital won't give him any salt to put on his hospital meals.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2017 11:56 AM (k1TUh)

122 Mostly, I just equate the two unless great precision is required.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2017 11:51 AM (2le8w)

The math is trivial: a meter is 10% longer than a yard. Even reporters ought to be able to do that calculation. If they can't, how do they figure how much to tip?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2017 11:56 AM (SRKgf)

123 There's a picture of JFK with a young Nancy Pelosi out there.
I wonder if he banged her.
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I've often wondered that. I figured she probably blew him. I would lay money she was hoping he would grab her mish.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 30, 2017 11:56 AM (vg8iE)

124 ...it would be nice to have a Persian that doesn't look like its face ran into a door....

that's just mean

Posted by: Valerie Jarret at August 30, 2017 11:57 AM (ZQfW9)

125 Miss. Lube. Rack. Just roll that around in your mind for a while.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at August 30, 2017 11:54 AM (RD7QR)

The killjoys at Snopes say that's not Nancy, but another woman.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 30, 2017 11:57 AM (7uYFy)

126 TCM has been plugging a book about powerful women in Hollywood.They show a picture of the author and she is wearing a tee shirt saying "TheFuture is Female"

Posted by: steevy at August 30, 2017 11:57 AM (rmVvL)

127 I work with some VERY smart people. People that make me feel not so smart. Yet it is a Lib haven.
Bernie fans galore. I...just dont get it.

How can you be that smart but so fucking dumb?
Posted by: lowfibass

My dear departed mother used to call them, "educated idiots".

Posted by: Strobe at August 30, 2017 11:57 AM (gbWkA)

128 Well need to get some writing done.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 30, 2017 11:55 AM (VPhy/)

Yes, please add some more prurient details to your battery powered bath submission and re-submit it.

Posted by: Penthouse Letters at August 30, 2017 11:57 AM (EgwCt)

129 The dems' attempt to separate themselves from political violence has been around for several days. Fauxahontas said protests should be nonviolent last week, then WaPo tells the truth for once, now Pelosi denounces violence. Next will come a torrent of denunciations.

It won't work. There's too much video of dems encouraging and endorsing violence for them to get away with this pretense.

The Democrat party is toast.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 30, 2017 11:58 AM (398bZ)

130 I pointed out that Greg Abbott is wheelchair bound
as a paraplegic and Trump and others chose to sit at the table with him
since Abbott can't stand and by the way, it is Abbotts' state.
Haven't heard anything back yet. Posted by: Jen the original at August 30, 2017 11:40 AM (/Qs0S)
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My own take is that Pres DJT was courteous and supportive. I liked his seated posture, showing that Gov Abbott was in charge.

Gov Abbott has done very good things and his work on the disaster has demonstrated why he da Gov rather than some preening idiot. Good man.

Wish we had a few like him in IL.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 30, 2017 11:58 AM (MIKMs)

131 I'm taking a break from cleaning the laundry room.
It's more fun than current events at this point.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at August 30, 2017 11:58 AM (hMwEB)

132 The very brief love affair between the MSM and Antifa is over.

Posted by: Hamilton at August 30, 2017 11:58 AM (sCjDS)

133 If Bost is just a pincushion surrogate for PDT, I fear that he (& a lot of similarly situated GOP congresspersons) will lose.

I doubt that Bost can win re-election on an "Antifa sucks!" platform.
Posted by: mnw at August 30, 2017 11:54 AM (5cCew)

That's why I'm going a different direction.
Oh, who am I kidding. I got enough cash in my war chest to keep me in office til I"m dead or am sick of it! Suck it, Losers!

Posted by: Paul "Lyin" Ryan at August 30, 2017 11:58 AM (z79tQ)

134 >>There's a picture of JFK with a young Nancy Pelosi out there.
I wonder if he banged her.

Just her mouth.

Posted by: Zombie JFK at August 30, 2017 11:58 AM (9oWeQ)

135 "Any of you weirdos going to DragonCon this year? I mean, like I am?

Posted by: Sporkatus at August 30, 2017 11:40 AM (eXSOZ) "

I need to make it back one of these years - haven't gone since 2014.

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at August 30, 2017 11:58 AM (oZ6kz)

136 she is wearing a tee shirt saying "TheFuture is Female"

Saw a bunch of girls clad in the same shirts parading through the Rayburn building a couple of months ago for a...leadership conference. Yeah, I'll go with that.

Posted by: no good deed at August 30, 2017 11:58 AM (eIQHF)

137 Steve Crowder and his producer once crashed a fat acceptance/promotion panel being given by some fat chicks. It was interesting, such as them attributing the known health risks of morbid obesity to bias in the medical industry. They are an unbelievably self-deluded bunch.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2017 11:59 AM (0mRoj)

138 Joel Osteen, and others of his ilk, are, IMO, false profits who get rich off shearing their naive flock.

Posted by: Strobe at August 30, 2017 11:53 AM (gbWkA)

The profits are plenty real. The prophets, not so much.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2017 11:59 AM (2le8w)

139 Nancy Pelosi denounced Antifa. Mitt Romney called them the good guys. I have no idea What's going on anymore.

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at August 30, 2017 11:59 AM (rX06+)

140 Prophets not profits. Typing and auto cucumber, sorry

Posted by: Strobe at August 30, 2017 11:59 AM (gbWkA)

141 "Joel Osteen, and others of his ilk, are, IMO, false profits who get rich off shearing their naive flock.

Posted by: Strobe at August 30, 2017 11:53 AM (gbWkA) "

False prophet, real profits.

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at August 30, 2017 11:59 AM (oZ6kz)

142 It won't work. There's too much video of dems encouraging and endorsing violence for them to get away with this pretense.

The Democrat party is toast.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 30, 2017 11:58 AM (398bZ)

Let's hope so, but effectively using all the video would require a functional GOP.

Hence my concern.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2017 11:59 AM (SRKgf)

143 Regarding educated idiots, there's a guy in my church who is forever whining about how he can't get a job despite being smart and degreed.
But then he admits to getting fired because he's a jerk. To be fair he seems to be relationship handicapped.

Posted by: Northernlurker, phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 30, 2017 11:59 AM (nBr1j)

144 I'm all those things, and I've never felt any guilt about them. (Well, okay, there could be some discussion about the "attractive" part. But I'm certainly no hominid baboon.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 30, 2017 11:43 AM (Tdl6i)

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I don't mean attractive like Tricia Helfer vs Dianne Feinstein. I mean they know they don't find black people very attractive unless they look like Halle Berry, who looks like a deeply-tanned white woman. They won't admit it, of course, but it's why there was so much gushing in the media over how beautiful and glamorous Micheal was. She wasn't. Everyone could see she wasn't. But no one wanted to be the one to stop clapping first.

I don't care what you like, and I don't want you to care what I like. Your brain might not want a pink car, either, but that doesn't make you a horrible person. Neither does liking or not liking general, broadly-held common characteristics of X group. That doesn't make me a horrible person, though.

That's what I meant by attractive.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 30, 2017 12:00 PM (4E7oS)

145 That's a joke about Joel Osteen , correct?.

I don't like the name it and claim it theology and I read "Your best life now" only because my BIL gave it to me and I hated the book, but I don't know who the flack is coming from and whether it's justified. If they had flooding there in his church they couldn't house people and it's no easy task to look after a huge group of people.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2017 12:00 PM (iVOAv)

146 140 Prophets not profits. Typing and auto cucumber, sorry
Posted by: Strobe at August 30, 2017 11:59 AM (gbWkA)

No need to apologize; it worked either way.

I wondered if it were intentional.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2017 12:00 PM (SRKgf)

147 I've seen some neverTrumpers insisting Trump's comments about Charlotte being beyond the pale because of the evil that white racism is. It is, in their minds, unacceptable to do anything that even smacks of moral equivalence because racism is an outright evil.
Fair enough.
But the Antifa scum are the contemporary face of a movement that killed of 100 million people in the 20th century. Seems evilish to me.
Posted by: Northernlurker, phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 30, 2017 11:52 AM (nBr1j)

Racism is evil when it is acted upon. Otherwise, it's just loathsome.

My father was a bigot in the vein of Archie Bunker. He never acted on his bigotry, he hired and fired people based on performance. He was a US Navy vet, never graduated HS, worked his whole life, got into one bar fight as a young man and otherwise, never hurt anyone.

Antifa's entire existence is based upon using violence to silence the supposed evil of the day. In actuality, they are Marxists who are using violence to forward their ideology, using cover of fighting racism , or whatever SJW issue seems to work to continue silencing and frightening those in power to give up power.

So a bunch of Illinois Nazi's all standing around with signs proclaiming white power after they have obtained their legal permits and are standing in their designated protest areas are a hell of a lot less dangerous than the Antifa animals.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 30, 2017 12:00 PM (/Qs0S)

148 141 "Joel Osteen, and others of his ilk, are, IMO, false profits who get rich off shearing their naive flock.

Posted by: Strobe at August 30, 2017 11:53 AM (gbWkA) "

False prophet, real profits.
Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at August 30, 2017 11:59 AM (oZ6kz)

I keep telling Fen to start selling prayer cloths for $19.99 on late-night TV.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2017 12:00 PM (0mRoj)

149 It won't work. There's too much video of dems encouraging and endorsing violence for them to get away with this pretense.

The Democrat party is toast.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 30, 2017 11:58 AM (398bZ)

But the Repubs won't listen to their base, and do what they promised... and are going to be toast as well.

Both parties have jerrymandered the election laws to give themselves advantages, but I think we may soon see the destruction of the two party system....

Because BOTH major parties are broken....

Posted by: Don Quixote, looking for a new Party at August 30, 2017 12:00 PM (NgKpN)

150 The profits are plenty real. The prophets, not so much.Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2017 11:59 AM (2le8w)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2017 12:00 PM (iVOAv)

151 WTF does "radicalize our relationships" even mean? Going further, wtf is a relationship with your body?

Who in the hell reads this, understands what the fck it means and doesn't simply shake their head in disgust at the stupidity?

There really are just too many dumb people in the world. The leftist control of academia for the past 50 years has truly fcked the future of this country. G-DDamn leftists. (spit).

Posted by: Eli Cash at August 30, 2017 12:01 PM (a+WIL)

152 Antifada? My niece had those laid out at her wedding for desert I think. zzzzZZZZzzzz

Posted by: J. Sessions at August 30, 2017 12:01 PM (mcI77)

153 Touch your television screen and pah-ray with me!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2017 12:01 PM (0mRoj)

154 Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2017 12:00 PM (0mRoj)

Only if you be my evangelist partner and play the guitar and sing. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2017 12:01 PM (iVOAv)

155 Melania was rocking those sneakers, FLOTUS hat, and Stretch pants yesterday.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at August 30, 2017 12:02 PM (jsWA8)

156 154 Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2017 12:00 PM (0mRoj)

Only if you be my evangelist partner and play the guitar and sing. ;^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2017 12:01 PM (iVOAv)

Sure, why not. Always wanted to try my hand at con artistry!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2017 12:02 PM (0mRoj)

157 I work with some VERY smart people. People that make me feel not so smart. Yet it is a Lib haven.
Bernie fans galore. I...just dont get it.

How can you be that smart but so fucking dumb?
Posted by: lowfibass

My dear departed mother used to call them, "educated idiots".
Posted by: Strobe at August 30, 2017 11:57 AM (gbWkA)

A good friend of mine has three kids and all of them are bright and successful. She is conservative, but all of her kids --while not obnoxious SJW-types themselves--buy the liberal line in total--including that Trump is an unfit, incompetent Nazi who hates Muslims and gays.
There are a lot more of these types out there than there are actual antifa protesters...

Posted by: JoeF. at August 30, 2017 12:02 PM (7uYFy)

158 155 Melania was rocking those sneakers, FLOTUS hat, and Stretch pants yesterday.
Posted by: CSMBigBird at August 30, 2017 12:02 PM (jsWA

Melania could rock a burlap sack.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2017 12:03 PM (0mRoj)

159 Makes no sense to me. I work in the tech world.(programmers, db's, etc.)

I work with some VERY smart people. People that make me feel not so smart. Yet it is a Lib haven.

Bernie fans galore. I...just dont get it.

***
Most LIV liberals outsource their political thinking to "experts" who all happen to be far left wing zealots. Whatever show they watch on Comedy Central or NPR tells them Bernie-Socialism is the answer and they don't think about it any further then that.

If you ask them, for example, if they support a guaranteed minimum income they are likely to agree. If you ask them if they should pay twice (or more) the taxes they pay now they will deny that will happen. Why? Because John Oliver told them it won't. And he sited "studies" proving it man!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2017 12:03 PM (eSx+E)

160 Regarding educated idiots, there's a guy in my church who is forever whining about how he can't get a job despite being smart and degreed.
But then he admits to getting fired because he's a jerk. To be fair he seems to be relationship handicapped.

Posted by: Northernlurker, phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 30, 2017 11:59 AM (nBr1j)

This is about me, isn't it??

Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 30, 2017 12:03 PM (Jcg9Q)

161 Let's hope so, but effectively using all the video would require a functional GOP.

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Oh, they function alright. For the Uniparty. Not us.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at August 30, 2017 12:03 PM (mQ0Mc)

162 Well, to be fair, it was false profits back in oh eight that caused the derivative markets to collapse.

Which is completely different from today's inflated profits. Completely different thing. It's the inflated debt we have to worry about. When the debt monster starts bleeding, it means we're all going to die a horrible death.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at August 30, 2017 12:03 PM (m9X4Y)

163 145 That's a joke about Joel Osteen , correct?.

I don't like the name it and claim it theology and I read "Your best life now" only because my BIL gave it to me and I hated the book, but I don't know who the flack is coming from and whether it's justified. If they had flooding there in his church they couldn't house people and it's no easy task to look after a huge group of people.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2017 12:00 PM (iVOAv)

THIS. As much as Mr. Osteen may be wrong theologically, some of the comments here read like sneering leftists. I think his church was flooded too, and I think people couldn't get to it due to road flooding anyway.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 30, 2017 12:03 PM (ujg0T)

164 "Gorilla Pundit, how much can you bench?"
"I don't know for sure. By the time I finish my 50 rep warmup with 1200 lbs a large crowd interrupts my workout and I spend the rest of the time signing autographs..."
"GP is our hero!"

Posted by: Tentotwo at August 30, 2017 12:04 PM (yhf6w)

165 Our Media-Driven National Freak-out:
***
I still remember when Bush 43 was gonna bring back the draft.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2017 12:04 PM (eSx+E)

166 In defence of Joel Osteen I take it for granted that the media is lying about him, because that's what the media does--end of story, period.
I'm somewhat familiar with his writing--self-improvement, motivational stuff, which has nothing to do with the gospel.
I have no idea what the day-to-day life and practice of his church is. If it's the same thing I have a big problem.

Posted by: Northernlurker, phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 30, 2017 12:04 PM (nBr1j)

167 Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2017 12:00 PM (0mRoj)

Besides, in order to get on T.V you have to have money to begin with. I am a part time penurious parson. Ain't happening. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2017 12:04 PM (iVOAv)

168 "Because BOTH major parties are broken...."

I think so too. One unfortunate aspect of the Dem party's complete meltdown is that it leaves the GOP with much more "room to destroy."

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 30, 2017 12:04 PM (398bZ)

169 THIS. As much as Mr. Osteen may be wrong theologically, some of the comments here read like sneering leftists. I think his church was flooded too, and I think people couldn't get to it due to road flooding anyway.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at August 30, 2017 12:03 PM (ujg0T)

There's never a bad time to sneer at Joel Osteen.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2017 12:04 PM (0mRoj)

170 Several years ago I either heard or read, I don't remember which, an interesting comment about Osteen's sermons, or what ever he calls them.

'It's like cotten candy. Tastes great, but has no nutritional value.'

Posted by: Jake Holenhead, ex JackS at August 30, 2017 12:04 PM (DknNB)

171 I don't get the Joel Osteen hate myself.

Posted by: blaster at August 30, 2017 12:04 PM (Id17h)

172 You're going to find out that the "book smart" people, like academics, and a lot of the "machine smart" people, like programmers and other techies, have an intelligence that only applies to their specific, chosen tasks, which they focus on exclusively.

When it comes to actual life, they are often miserable failures and know far less about people and how they work than your average janitor does. . . .

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2017

Heinlein's 5 levels of intelligence comes in here. These people are level 3s, people who actually can and do think, though they are often as dim as the rest outside their studies or laboratories. Level 3s, he says, are responsible for all the progress made in human history.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 30, 2017 12:04 PM (Tdl6i)

173 The Democrat party is toast.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 30, 2017 11:58 AM

Your naivety is charming.

Posted by: The MSM at August 30, 2017 12:05 PM (ctuyM)

174 "Joel Osteen, and others of his ilk, are, IMO, false profits who get rich off shearing their naive flock.

Posted by: Strobe at August 30, 2017 11:53 AM (gbWkA) "

False prophet, real profits.
Posted by: broseidon

Someone was trying to defend him on Fb, and the fact that he lives in a $10 million home. Claims he was a millionaire before he bought the house.

But I thought he dropped out of college to run the sound equipment in his father's church. How does that work?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2017 12:05 PM (T2Zv1)

175 I'm starting a meme: Antifa is surburban white kids with daddy issues dressed in Che Guevara under-roos.

Pass it on.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2017 12:05 PM (xfb67)

176 Don't forget Sheldon Coopers wall of famous autographs he's collected, including restraining orders from Leonard Nimoy. Carl Sagan, Stan Lee, and lately Bill Nye, even.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2017 12:05 PM (k1TUh)

177 Besides, in order to get on T.V you have to have money to begin with. I am a part time penurious parson. Ain't happening. ;^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2017 12:04 PM (iVOAv)

Points for alliteration. Maybe we could find backers.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2017 12:05 PM (0mRoj)

178 instapundit has a number of articles indicating a corner has been turned on a number of issues. some due to trump, some due to wretched excess being finally reined in. we'll see.

i think this hurricane does hold a silver lining for trump. i think the unceasing attacks in the media may abate some. we'll see.

finally, as i've warned, weight watchers to become a hate group at splc.

we'll see.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at August 30, 2017 12:05 PM (AxFdW)

179 Aaaaand there goes the Cajun Navy, redeploying elsewhere. Awesome.

Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 30, 2017 12:05 PM (Jcg9Q)

180 I still remember when Bush 43 was gonna bring back the draft.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2017 12:04 PM (eSx+E)

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OMERGERD!!! Trump's gonna put me in a camp with a bunch of other scared lesbians who are going to need to be comforted.... oh, wait....

Posted by: Sally Kohn at August 30, 2017 12:05 PM (vg8iE)

181 153 Touch your television screen and pah-ray with me!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2017 12:01 PM (0mRoj)
154 Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2017 12:00 PM (0mRoj)

Only if you be my evangelist partner and play the guitar and sing. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2017 12:01 PM (iVOAv)

Whoever is playing with the time machine, cut that out right now. You know what will happen last time!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2017 12:05 PM (2le8w)

182 It won't work. There's too much video of dems encouraging and endorsing violence for them to get away with this pretense.

The Democrat party is toast.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 30, 2017 11:58 AM (398bZ)

Let's hope so, but effectively using all the video would require a functional GOP.

Hence my concern.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2017 11:59 AM (SRKg

---
Let me assuage those concerns.
We have a functional GOP.
They are in on it.
My belief is they won't care that much (in fact would like it) to lose the house to the Dems.

Then they can go back to getting where they want to go without being responsible for it. So some new guys (freedom caucus) lose. Big deal.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 30, 2017 12:06 PM (z79tQ)

183 btw, boy those labradoodles are cute!

supercute!

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at August 30, 2017 12:06 PM (AxFdW)

184 One of the labradoodle pictures fooled me completely. And all the Joel Osteen stuff is hilarious. Yes, the media is playing unfair "gotcha" with him. Yes, he's a con-man who deserves it. If we're going to have a weaponized media, at least get out of their way when they're actually doing something useful.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 30, 2017 12:06 PM (toi7g)

185 He has gotten quite large, probably due to his legendary love of barbecued meat, covered with sauces and more spices than you've ever seen - that's guy will eat anything! But after the TIA, he couldn't even remember his own name for a day

---

I once saw a 400lb+ guy who was made to leave an all-you-can-eat BBQ buffet because his nose started bleeding after the fourth or fifth plate.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 30, 2017 12:06 PM (4E7oS)

186 NOOD Pelosi

Posted by: Buzzsaw at August 30, 2017 12:06 PM (r5KeJ)

187 Someone was trying to defend him on Fb, and the fact that he lives in a $10 million home. Claims he was a millionaire before he bought the house.

But I thought he dropped out of college to run the sound equipment in his father's church. How does that work?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2017 12:05 PM (T2Zv1)

He's made so much money from his books, he no longer takes a salary from his church. Don't know about his wife though.

Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 30, 2017 12:06 PM (Jcg9Q)

188 "I work with some VERY smart people. People that make me feel not so smart. Yet it is a Lib haven."

It's based in the desperate need for others to realize you are virtuous (without religion) and an enlightened superior being.

It is not connected to native intelligence, but emotional disability.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 30, 2017 12:07 PM (3myMJ)

189 Whoever is playing with the time machine, cut that out right now. You know what will happen last time!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2017 12:05 PM (2le8w)

That totally hasn't happened next week.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2017 12:07 PM (0mRoj)

190 I think I saw this Osteen guy on a late night infomercial. He was trying to sell a Schticky.

Posted by: Under Fire at August 30, 2017 12:07 PM (mcI77)

191 Posted by: Northernlurker, phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 30, 2017 12:04 PM (nBr1j)

Someone posted a comment from the media, I assume of other vineagry (sp) leftists, saying 60% of churches in Houston are not helping after the floods with no supporting data, so I look with a jaundiced eye on the critique of Osteen and the work of his church, not being in Houston. I mean.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2017 12:07 PM (iVOAv)

192 I don't get the Joel Osteen hate myself.
Posted by: blaster at August 30, 2017 12:04 PM

Maybe he wears Crocs?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2017 12:07 PM (ctuyM)

193 NOOD Pelosi

Posted by: Buzzsaw at August 30, 2017 12:06 PM

Would never click.

Okay, after a bottle of Popov and some Xanax, I might click.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 30, 2017 12:08 PM (toi7g)

194 I've seen some neverTrumpers insisting Trump's comments about Charlotte
being beyond the pale because of the evil that white racism is.
***
Of course the actual facts are interesting here. There is *no* ideology in the history of the wold *including Islam here* that has killed or enslaved more people then socialism. In the hundred years since modern socialism came to power in Russia socialist have killed something like 200M people, and enslaved billions.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2017 12:08 PM (eSx+E)

195 Call me cynical, but why have the cheerleaders of the Anti-fa movement suddenly reversed course?

Thoughts:

- It didn't work. They never were able to get the reaction they wanted from the right. The fight did not materialize & was instead going in the reverse direction. Fewer people were showing up to fight/join the Anti-fa. There was not the shooting in the streets dream they wanted.

- The timing corresponded with the March on Washington or whatever boondoggle name they picked. 200 people down to 35 in one day. FAIL. So all the fury they thought they was building was an illusion propped up by the media. Uh-oh.

- There was possibly blowback from sane Dems, or money donors, about the Anti-fa. The dem party is split into so many factions, it is impossible to know. And there are Berkeley parents who had to be pissed off, or alumni donors, or residents.

- if most of this anti-fa crap was orchestrated & paid for, which it was, and it was not getting the job done but backfiring, then time to cut ties. It's been going on for a year, yes?

Maybe I'm too optimistic that this is the death knell of the Anti-fa. I'm thinking they'll still use the people in a different fashion. It's not like things are over. Just round one.

Oh, and the statues & all things connected, is that still going on? That was at peak crazy volume...has that subsided?

Thoughts over. Probably wackadoodle anyway.

Carry on.

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 30, 2017 12:08 PM (IsEQq)

196 101 Sheldon Cooper? Who? Wait.

Oh, him. B.S.M.S. M.A.PhD, JD ScD, Order of the Garter, Knight of the Bath, Member of the Queen's Privy, Knights of Columbus, Order of the Eagles, Theoretical Physicists, M.D, and plays professional Poker at Vegas.

That Guy, Wizard Emeritus, and knows about the Man in the Boat.

You forgot the Bronze Swimming Certificate and the Silver Swimming Certificate.

Posted by: Arthur J. Rimmer at August 30, 2017 12:09 PM (sGtp+)

197 134 >>There's a picture of JFK with a young Nancy Pelosi out there.

*
*
I just located that. She looked like Elinor Donahue from Father Knows Best. She might have been nutty even back then -- but she was very good-looking.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 30, 2017 12:09 PM (Tdl6i)

198 Our family lost our home, cars and most of our belongings to Harvey. We are now in the shelter of Lakeway Church along
with more than a hundred other Houstonians. We have almost as many volunteers providing for or needs with donated food, drink, clothes and other items, including a fully staffed volunteer clinic. By the way the Red Cross hasn't shown up yet. Whatever you think of Osteen he his church have done more for Houstonians than all of you yapping idiots combined so maybe you should learn the facts before mouthing off.

Posted by: KHorn at August 30, 2017 12:10 PM (kaCWe)

199 31
That one chick: upper lip peeled back like an angry mandrill.

Fooking gross.

*shudders*

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 30, 2017 11:39 AM (sGSvK)

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

Feed her a couple of sugar cubes and she'll calm down.

Posted by: Javems at August 30, 2017 12:10 PM (yOqwj)

200 You're going to find out that the "book smart" people, like academics, and a lot of the "machine smart" people, like programmers and other techies, have an intelligence that only applies to their specific, chosen tasks, which they focus on exclusively.

As said above, intelligence isn't a scalar. I had a friend in college who was a brilliant mathematician; he taught graduate courses in math at age 19.

Yet he barely spoke English (he was a red-headed, freckled, native-born and raised American). His speech consisted entirely of simple subject-verb-object sentences, much like a Dick and Jane reader. I used to call it the orthopedic shoes of speech.

We had a foreign language "fluency" requirement that entailed speaking with several native speakers for 20 minutes. He could barely do that in English, never mind anything else. He tried and tried, and couldn't pass it. Eventually the university waived the requirement for him, or he'd be there to this day.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2017 12:10 PM (SRKgf)

201
The math is trivial: a meter is 10% longer than a yard. Even reporters ought to be able to do that calculation. If they can't, how do they figure how much to tip?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2017 11:56 AM (SRKgf)

Ha, like the preening a**holes care about leaving a proper tip.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at August 30, 2017 12:10 PM (lKyWE)

202 103
this guy will board a plane to Pock-kee-stan in the darkness of night and we will never utter his name again.

======

And probably with even more of our tax money in tow.
-----

All told - the Awan family was paid over $4 million in taxpayer money. What. The. Fck.

Posted by: Eli Cash at August 30, 2017 12:11 PM (a+WIL)

203 Melania could rock a burlap sack.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2017 12:03 PM (0mRoj)

When I see that reference I'm always reminded of a lady I met on a WWII history tour in Luxembourg. She was 4 years old when the Germans occupied her area. 4 years later, a burlap sack was all she had to wear. Her father slaughtered a pig without permission and the family was terrified as that was a death-penalty offense.

Real Nazis, what can't they do?

Posted by: Meremortal at August 30, 2017 12:11 PM (3myMJ)

204 To repeat something I posted yesterday - I care nothing for Osteen, but I think it is wrong and as someone said, playing along with the leftists to sit here and criticize him for the decisions he made.

What was the lesson of the Superdome during Katrina? The lesson was that it is insanely dangerous to invite a pile of freaked out people into some big empty space when you've got no utilities, no electricity, no sewage facilities, and especially NO SECURITY.

Now when you get those things set up then you can think about doing something for people, but if you haven't got it then it is just creating disaster to try and put on a show of "helping the needy".

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2017 12:11 PM (k1TUh)

205 So that I understand things here...

A wealthy Christian preacher is a hypocrite and should be shunned.

However...

An environmental activist that has the carbon footprint of 1000 normal people is...ok?

Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy can be feminist heroes?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2017 12:11 PM (eSx+E)

206 >>>Gorilla Pundit, how much can you bench?

Gorillas are notoriously weak benchers. They tend to make up for it with freakishly huge deadlifts, however.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 30, 2017 12:11 PM (HId5C)

207 Posted by: KHorn at August 30, 2017 12:10 PM (kaCWe)

God be with you. I wasn't yapping off. I'm not there so I couldn't critique how the church is handling things.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2017 12:12 PM (iVOAv)

208 - if most of this anti-fa crap was orchestrated & paid for, which it was, and it was not getting the job done but backfiring, then time to cut ties. It's been going on for a year, yes?

Maybe I'm too optimistic that this is the death knell of the Anti-fa. I'm thinking they'll still use the people in a different fashion. It's not like things are over. Just round one.

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 30, 2017 12:08 PM (IsEQq)

And whatever happened to Occupy Wall Street? Sunk without trace, with all hands aboard.

Want to bet that there is substantial overlap between antifa and OWS participants?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2017 12:13 PM (SRKgf)

209 Posted by: KHorn at August 30, 2017 12:10 PM (kaCWe)

May God bless and keep you and family.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 30, 2017 12:13 PM (3myMJ)

210 Damn, the guy on Fox being interviewed is talking about a place about 2 miles from my childhood home.

Posted by: no good deed at August 30, 2017 12:14 PM (eIQHF)

211 Call me cynical, but why have the cheerleaders of the Anti-fa movement suddenly reversed course?
***
I think the Dems weren't able to stop ameri-fa from going after GOPe types - look at their assassin that tried to kill the whole House Republican baseball team.

And if the GOPe really believed that the Dems were going to beat/murder them in the streets it might have convinced them to join the Trumpkins and Tea Partiers.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2017 12:14 PM (eSx+E)

212 Good gawd, I visited the fat acceptance camp promoter's website. I cannot tell what xe or xhe is, but it has moobs.

Posted by: fly gal at August 30, 2017 12:16 PM (OwhRE)

213 195 Call me cynical, but why have the cheerleaders of the Anti-fa movement suddenly reversed course?

Thoughts:

- It didn't work. They never were able to get the reaction they wanted from the right. The fight did not materialize & was instead going in the reverse direction. Fewer people were showing up to fight/join the Anti-fa. There was not the shooting in the streets dream they wanted.

- The timing corresponded with the March on Washington or whatever boondoggle name they picked. 200 people down to 35 in one day. FAIL. So all the fury they thought they was building was an illusion propped up by the media. Uh-oh.

- There was possibly blowback from sane Dems, or money donors, about the Anti-fa. The dem party is split into so many factions, it is impossible to know. And there are Berkeley parents who had to be pissed off, or alumni donors, or residents.

- if most of this anti-fa crap was orchestrated & paid for, which it was, and it was not getting the job done but backfiring, then time to cut ties. It's been going on for a year, yes?

Maybe I'm too optimistic that this is the death knell of the Anti-fa. I'm thinking they'll still use the people in a different fashion. It's not like things are over. Just round one.

Oh, and the statues & all things connected, is that still going on? That was at peak crazy volume...has that subsided?

Thoughts over. Probably wackadoodle anyway.

Carry on.
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 30, 2017 12:08 PM (IsEQq)

Antifa and Block Bloc are still very strong in Europe, but I think one or all of your suppositions is correct. America is sliding down the primrose path, but we're not quite at the level Antifa needs to become a mainstream force. Everyone outside of liberal bubble zones views them as evil lunatics, and even some of the more well-to-do progressives seem the way a mobster might think of a complete psychopath- a mad dog who's "bad for business."

Even the left requires some stability.

Posted by: The Deplorable Mr. Trumpkin at August 30, 2017 12:17 PM (wwd4n)

214 "Someone was trying to defend him on Fb, and the fact that he lives in a $10 million home. Claims he was a millionaire before he bought the house."

It's kind of hard to buy a $10 million house if you aren't a multi-millionaire.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 30, 2017 12:17 PM (3myMJ)

215
Call me cynical, but why have the cheerleaders of the Anti-fa movement suddenly reversed course?***

Lawsuits

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at August 30, 2017 12:18 PM (lKyWE)

216 And whatever happened to Occupy Wall Street? Sunk without trace, with all hands aboard.

Want to bet that there is substantial overlap between antifa and OWS participants?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2017 12:13 PM (SRKgf)

FWIW, I read an account written (anonymously) by an early participant in OWS. He said the very earliest organizations and demonstrations were largely headed up by lefty white men. He said it went off the rails when women and minorities got involved. They lost their central purpose as the movement got overtaken by identity politics infighting and debates over the hierarchy of privilege.

Posted by: The Deplorable Mr. Trumpkin at August 30, 2017 12:19 PM (wwd4n)

217 "Heinlein's 5 levels of intelligence comes in here. These people are level 3s, people who actually can and do think, though they are often as dim as the rest outside their studies or laboratories. Level 3s, he says, are responsible for all the progress made in human history"

Nice...have read a few of his books. Will look into that.

Posted by: lowfibass at August 30, 2017 12:20 PM (BrqlK)

218 Antifa served it's purpose, now it's causing harm. If they need it again, they can reactivate.

But until that happens, don't be surprised if a few antifa skulls get cracked the next time they act up.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 30, 2017 12:26 PM (7uYFy)

219 Fat Affirmative Tactical Camp.

A good rule of thumb is 4 cups of Wesson oil per 100 pounds.

Posted by: Jolo at August 30, 2017 12:30 PM (M238e)

220 I am not aware of any real misdeeds by Joel Osteen, by frankly the guy creeps me out.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at August 30, 2017 12:30 PM (hZGkh)

221 FWIW, I read an account written (anonymously) by an early participant in OWS. He said the very earliest organizations and demonstrations were largely headed up by lefty white men. He said it went off the rails when women and minorities got involved. They lost their central purpose as the movement got overtaken by identity politics infighting and debates over the hierarchy of privilege.

Posted by: The Deplorable Mr. Trumpkin at August 30, 2017 12:19 PM (wwd4n)

You have to laugh.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2017 12:35 PM (SRKgf)

222 Makes no sense to me. I work in the tech world.(programmers, db's, etc.)
I work with some VERY smart people. People that make me feel not so smart. Yet it is a Lib haven.
Bernie fans galore. I...just dont get it. How can you be that smart but so fucking dumb?
Posted by: lowfibass at August 30, 2017 11:36 AM (BrqlK)"

I have a feeling you're quite young. You're going to find out that the "book smart" people, like academics, and a lot of the "machine smart" people, like programmers and other techies, have an intelligence that only applies to their specific, chosen tasks, which they focus on exclusively.

When it comes to actual life, they are often miserable failures and know far less about people and how they work than your average janitor does. And especially with respect to Techies, Sheldon Cooper is not a stereotype, he's more of a role model.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I think they are very bright, but their empirical knowledge and experience of the world is limited. I think they reinforce each others opinions, and are not contradicted, or questioned in a reasonable way.
Confirmation bias; everyone they "know" that is a Trump supporter is "stupid". I was told by one bright young man last winter that Trump was "totally unqualified" to be President, yet Bernie Sanders was the ideal leader. He's been out in the real world, out of college and working, for four months, at that time.

Actual empirical knowledge of how the world works is time consuming and painful (at times) to accumulate. One of my bosses is quite a successful director and manager, is 61 years old (like me) and has a wide range of experiences in the world.
Democrat, voted for Hillary. Thinks Trump is an idiot. Is largely influenced by his upbringing (in South Carolina, motherly influence, Southern woman, hated Republicans) and his second wife (asshole Democrat) and his now third wife (Democrat, but not an asshole).
One of my other bosses is British, votes Labor, likes Jeremy Corbyn (echh!), and is also about my age (a little older), and is sometimes totally irrational about politics, but has persuaded himself he's right, with his superior intellect. British and all that, chum.

People persuade themselves they are right, regardless of what reality sometimes tells them.
Trump is ok, but is really kind of a jerk at times. I voted for him, sent him a lot of money last year. The other choice was Hillary, who is, frankly, a criminal.

The hardest part is keeping your eyes open, your mind open, especially when it comes to yourself. You are the easiest person that you can deceive.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at August 30, 2017 12:36 PM (vcOmj)

223 Someone was trying to defend him on Fb, and the fact that he lives in a $10 million home. Claims he was a millionaire before he bought the house.

But I thought he dropped out of college to run the sound equipment in his father's church. How does that work?
Posted by: rickb223

"it is harder for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven than it is for a camel to pass through they eye of a needle...but with God, all things are possible" - stuff that Jesus Christ was supposed to have said.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at August 30, 2017 12:37 PM (vcOmj)

224 Pelosi's statement makes sense when you figure how interlocked the democrats are, and that eventually some sane democrat would eventually break through to her. Since the RINOS get all their guiding instructions from the news, they don't have a secondary reality-based feedback loop.

Posted by: Downcast at August 30, 2017 12:40 PM (CUAUu)

225 "Call me cynical, but why have the cheerleaders of the Anti-fa movement suddenly reversed course?"

Polls. People don't want riots. Riots took out LBJ.

Democrats thought Trump would get the blame for the riots. They were wrong.

Posted by: Mudd at August 30, 2017 12:40 PM (cfHE9)

226 116 How many cubits is Joel Osteen's yacht?

Riiiiight. What's a cubit?

Posted by: pre-perv Bill Cosby at August 30, 2017 12:43 PM (ul9CR)

227 I saw Yapping Idiots open for Talking Heads, Rochester Memorial Auditorium 1982

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 30, 2017 12:51 PM (ul9CR)

228 Riiiiight. What's a cubit?

Posted by: pre-perv Bill Cosby at August 30, 2017 12:43 PM (ul9CR)

A little orange video game guy with a trumpet nose.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 30, 2017 01:00 PM (yzxic)

229 Is fat-spreading a thing yet?

Posted by: Glenn John at August 30, 2017 01:04 PM (LilNs)

230 I notice my comment noting that Lakewood opened yesterday as a shelter didn't post. Nice to see you have less courage in your convictions than Huffpo or Salon.

Posted by: KHorn at August 30, 2017 02:15 PM (8eVay)

231 wrt Olsteen, all else aside...

When your preacher lives in a $10 million mansion and has $93+ million in assets, you've got to wonder what's happening to your tithes and offerings.

Posted by: The Hot Gates at August 30, 2017 02:22 PM (Na/F1)

232 Um, also wrt to Osteen (not Olsteen),
my 17,000 seat arena
the Superdome - Katrina - crimes violence filth
some assembly required

Can't blame him.

Posted by: theMoomintroll at August 30, 2017 03:28 PM (c5aiv)

233 I touched my screen and got flooded with donations...I see a Moldy Mansion for $100K in my future.

Osteen Osteen
we all want Osteen
put it in the plate
and cover it with sawbucks
his mansion wasn't flooded

so God does work in mysterious ways......

Posted by: saf at August 31, 2017 09:58 AM (cS/ge)

234 Stop the crap. My family lost everything in the flood, our house, our cars and most of our belongings. Lakewood church took us and several hundred other Houstonians for shelter. We were provided a safe place to sleep, clothes, food, water and most other needs all donated by private citizens and sorted and distributed by volunteers, most Lackwood members. We even had a fully staffed volunteer clinic. I understand why people are cynical about the Osteens, but until you've done as much to help as they have you should shut your yap. You know, the mote in his eye versus the beam in yours.

Posted by: KHorn at August 31, 2017 12:30 PM (u5NuV)

235 But, but why do we need to see that same picture of Maxine Waters over and over?

Posted by: Bully at September 02, 2017 02:40 PM (7LVfh)

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