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Victor Davis Hanson: The NeverTrumpers Are Cultural Kin of the Progressive Left, And Would Rather Lose All Political Points Than Lose Face With Their Leftist Political Brethren Being Seen Associating With Embarrassing Walmart Republican Bumpkins
Dem's fighting words-- and completely accurate, down to the punctuation.
Have you noticed the Detestables -- the cohort of liberal-leaning #FakeNews Republicans largely ensconced in liberal industries in liberal neighborhoods in liberal cities -- emulate their liberal pals' use of the curled-lip sneer as their primary method of disagreeing with actual Republicans? There's a reason for that. It's not just a coincidence. They are liberals in most of the ways that count, and that includes the belief that they are members of the High Caste and do not need to answer insolent questions from their lessers, but merely need to sneer such questions down. The aristocrat does not stoop to answer the objections of the commoner; he merely fixes an aristocratic glare at him and expects him to whither under the force of his sun-like bearing.We rightly associate the elite disdain for the clingers, irredeemables, and deplorables with progressives like Obama and Hillary Clinton. But politics is incidental to the matrix; more essential is class. It was Mitt Romney who said he could not work with 47 percent of the population and wrote them off as hopelessly lost voters. It was David Brooks and Bill Kristol who caricatured the white working class as near Neanderthal and romanticized illegal aliens (often by deliberating conflating them with legal immigrants.) If one were to read carefully through the disparagement of Americans in the texts of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, with their slurs against hillbilly Virginians and Texans and smelly Trump supporters, one can see that Strzok appears likely to be a suburban Republican or independent of the sort who would vote for John Kasich. The point is not that Strzok and Page are hyperpartisans, but that they are comfortable with candidates who foremost reflect their cultural tastes and proper cursus honorum [the traditional route of rising through the ranks through various offices in the Roman imperial government -- ace]. And as we have witnessed with some in the NeverTrump movement, for these sorts, being grateful that new economic policies might reinvigorate the old rust-belt and the hinterland is more than offset by the concomitant price of an ascendant working class that lacks the tastes of the elite and the romance of the deliberately distant poor and minorities. The Trump catharsis has shown that about 10 percent of the Republican Party, the NeverTrumpers, was largely apolitical. That is, former cornerstone positions of deregulation and tax reform, oil and gas production, charter schools, deterrent foreign policy, restoring friendship with Israel and moving the embassy to Jerusalem were apparently always secondary to the more important criterion of offering a mild, sober and judicious frown to progressivism, through discerning losers like George H.W. Bush, John McCain, or Mitt Romney. Such a Republican elite was so embedded within American establishment institutions as to be both immune from the economic stagnation of an Obama neo-socialist revolution (remember income inequality soared under Obama) and in no real need of a Reagan revolution or Trump’s often messy radical push-back against progressivism. Its creed was not really, as advertised, the ethics of "losing nobly is better than winning ugly," but rather the snobbery of "losing a cultural image is worse than winning a political agenda." Put more bluntly, it is better to put up with a socialist with a "perfectly creased pant" than a prairie-fire conservative in rumpled Walmart slacks.Well, it depends on which Walmart line of clothing you're talking about. Faded Glory is a top-shelf clothier and definitely for the better sort of people in the market for a more upscale $19 pair of pants, whereas Puritan is for the riff-raff and railway hobos.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: SteveOReno at February 12, 2018 03:15 PM (2sCft)
Posted by: SteveOReno at February 12, 2018 03:16 PM (2sCft)
Posted by: wooga at February 12, 2018 03:16 PM (6pvkK)
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Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 12, 2018 03:17 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: SteveOReno at February 12, 2018 03:17 PM (2sCft)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 12, 2018 03:17 PM (fceHP)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 03:17 PM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Lefty Jackass at February 12, 2018 03:18 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 12, 2018 03:19 PM (+Dllb)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 12, 2018 03:19 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: gNewt-Always Late at February 12, 2018 03:19 PM (m/vQu)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 12, 2018 03:19 PM (YV+SU)
"Treet" vs "Spam" then?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 12, 2018 03:20 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 12, 2018 03:20 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 03:17 PM (QQ+il)
Embonening, indeed. But who's on the giving end and who's on the receiving end?
Posted by: SteveOReno at February 12, 2018 03:20 PM (2sCft)
Posted by: pep at February 12, 2018 03:20 PM (JkmZR)
Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (LiyEm)
Wait, what? Romney's 47% remark wasn't about deplorables so much as a significant block of Democrat voters who see any Republican as someone who is going to derail the gravy train.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (iv0p7)
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Its been no secret that American's have polled 65% against illegal immigration for the past 45 years. Hell, even Bill Clinton ran on building a wall and his wife voted for one as a Senator. Jeebus - we Americans can never get what we want. I wonder why?
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (YV+SU)
But his choice of typeface is slightly imprecise.
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (42M22)
Posted by: Vic
Yeah, kari "warned" us as much. Glad you're aboard too.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: SteveOReno at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (2sCft)
Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (+Tibp)
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The Embonening II.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 03:17 PM (QQ+il)
Embonening, indeed. But who's on the giving end and who's on the receiving end?
Posted by: SteveOReno at February 12, 2018 03:20 PM
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No one. It's bonings all the way down.
Posted by: irright at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (pMGkg)
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (+1EJs)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 12, 2018 03:22 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2018 03:22 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at February 12, 2018 03:22 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 12, 2018 03:22 PM (RD7QR)
Please don't look on peopleofwalmart.com
You might find me.
Posted by: Exile at February 12, 2018 03:23 PM (Fikbq)
Posted by: irright at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (pMGkg)
I feared it was so....
Posted by: SteveOReno at February 12, 2018 03:23 PM (2sCft)
Posted by: mustbequantum at February 12, 2018 03:23 PM (MIKMs)
But! It is now half over!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 12, 2018 03:23 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 12, 2018 03:23 PM (7LY+6)
You'd think that all votes for the GOP originate solely from the duck dynasty ranch and not, you know, from every corner of the country.
Posted by: zibbly wibbly at February 12, 2018 03:23 PM (V3U1L)
Dayum, you're right...
Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2018 03:23 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles
Turn those machines back on!!!
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at February 12, 2018 03:23 PM (+Tibp)
Posted by: George LeS at February 12, 2018 03:23 PM (+TcCF)
And Trump will sign it. Even though he made a clear and firm statement against bail-outs for the insurance ticks not that long ago. Meanwhile the only remaining national secret, the financial devastation of the individual market (3 times the size of the O-care welfare market) continues and worsens.
Not so much winning, on this front.
Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius, AKA rhomboid at February 12, 2018 03:24 PM (fZlu3)
Posted by: gNewt-Always Late at February 12, 2018 03:19 PM (m/vQu)
Yes.
Posted by: Big McLargehuge Mk I at February 12, 2018 03:24 PM (u9OP6)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke"
That's not batter...
eccchhh
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 12, 2018 03:23 PM (7LY+6)
Baby batter.
Posted by: SteveOReno at February 12, 2018 03:24 PM (2sCft)
Posted by: fox at February 12, 2018 03:24 PM (GmdGB)
It's called the "Plum Book".
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 12, 2018 03:24 PM (7LY+6)
I'd rather shop locally, where I don't get run over by shopping carts pushed by hugely fat zombies whose clothes wouldn't fit a Q-tip.
Also, I worry when the checkout clerks wear rubber gloves. What are they being protected from that I am not?
But I'm not a never-Trumper; I voted for that glorious bastard and freely claim him and his honey-badger-in-a-hen-house political effects.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 12, 2018 03:24 PM (7UW64)
Vic's Uniparty = Rethugocrat Party
Posted by: Hrothgar at February 12, 2018 03:24 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: CN at February 12, 2018 03:24 PM (5gaNQ)
against bail-outs for the insurance ticks not that long ago. Meanwhile
the only remaining national secret, the financial devastation of the
individual market (3 times the size of the O-care welfare market)
continues and worsens.
Not so much winning, on this front.
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.November 2016 was a binary choice, would you rather have hillary?
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 12, 2018 03:25 PM (+Dllb)
Posted by: So Meaty at February 12, 2018 03:25 PM (TA9CI)
Posted by: George LeS at February 12, 2018 03:23 PM (+TcCF)
Yes, VDH is the only sane one over there and only one I'll read if i see a link.
Posted by: SteveOReno at February 12, 2018 03:25 PM (2sCft)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 12, 2018 03:26 PM (dr8BY)
Posted by: Erik Erickson at February 12, 2018 03:26 PM (TA9CI)
Posted by: torabora at February 12, 2018 03:26 PM (t/aSm)
Someone else, good point about Romney's 47% - it was directed at the combined robotic/racist/machine/rent-seeking Dem bloc, not at "regular people" per se.
This is good for VDH. His foreign policy stuff can be meh to sub-meh, but he's on more solid ground here.
Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius, AKA rhomboid at February 12, 2018 03:26 PM (fZlu3)
Posted by: NCKate at February 12, 2018 03:27 PM (MM8mf)
Well, speaking of useless GOP, as it has looked all along, it seems they
will be rescuing O-care. You remember, that constitutional and
practical and financial abomination the opposition to which, primarily,
gave them their current majorities on the Hill.
And Trump will sign it. Even though he made a clear and firm
statement against bail-outs for the insurance ticks not that long ago.
Meanwhile the only remaining national secret, the financial devastation
of the individual market (3 times the size of the O-care welfare market)
continues and worsens.
Not so much winning, on this front.
Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius, AKA rhomboid at February 12, 2018 03:24 PM (fZlu3)
I do not believe anything reported by the MFM about Trump. When it actually happens then I will believe it.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 12, 2018 03:27 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: zeera at February 12, 2018 03:27 PM (UWlp+)
Heck, I don't want to be around me half the time, so there...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 12, 2018 03:27 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: pookysgirl at February 12, 2018 03:27 PM (XKZwp)
Sure.
The Walmart near my of place had a lot of new Americans, so hubby called it "Walid World." Used to hate seeing the burka'd women, even some with the eyes-only showing garb. Ugh.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2018 03:28 PM (W+vEI)
Notice how there's no real conservative coordinated effort to primary these mfers?
Posted by: Hrothgar at February 12, 2018 03:28 PM (gwPgz)
I mentioned this to an employee and he said most them use EBT cards. Ah. I felt so foolish. Funny I'd never noticed that before.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at February 12, 2018 03:28 PM (+Tibp)
Posted by: wth at February 12, 2018 03:28 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 03:29 PM (QQ+il)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody"
David Brooks got weekly swirlies in high school.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 12, 2018 03:29 PM (OD2ni)
Exactly so. There's been a laughable amount of 180 degree wrong "reportz" in just the first year...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 12, 2018 03:29 PM (7LY+6)
Had to turn off JavaScript
Anyway, what's the latest on Mrs Don Trump Jr?
Posted by: Votermom's phone at February 12, 2018 03:29 PM (Zv4RG)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 03:29 PM (QQ+il)
But to the never Trumpers it is about slogans mostly meant to distract the cobs while they hobnob with their Democrat buddies over vodka martinis, served by illegal immigrants.
They have sat by and watched while the country moves closer to the precipice, and along with the media I blame them for most of what ills our country today.
May much pain be in their future.
May Bill Kristols small dick fall off.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 12, 2018 03:29 PM (NLCi6)
Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius, AKA rhomboid at February 12, 2018 03:29 PM (fZlu3)
them use EBT cards. Ah. I felt so foolish. Funny I'd never noticed
that before.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at February 12, 2018 03:28 PM (+Tibp)
I never go to Walmart during the first week of the month. And I try to go at 4 am Sunday morning.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 12, 2018 03:29 PM (mpXpK)
Been to a Costco lately?
Posted by: Hrothgar at February 12, 2018 03:30 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (LiyEm)
...........
I hope they're not extinct, my Governor wants to build them a new train.
Posted by: wth at February 12, 2018 03:30 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 12, 2018 03:30 PM (dr8BY)
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It came off in my mouth and I swallowed it. I thought it was an errant Tic Tac.
Posted by: Shep! at February 12, 2018 03:30 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Votermom's phone at February 12, 2018 03:29 PM (Zv4RG)
Article at Fox news says the white powder was harmless.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 12, 2018 03:30 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: CN at February 12, 2018 03:24 PM (5gaNQ)
Wait, I'm suppose to be lazy?
Then why in hell did I get up and go to work this morning?
Lazy, my ass.
Americans are the most productive and dedicated workforce available. We don't take siestas and we don't get 8 weeks a year off and we work 40+ hours a week instead of 32 like the Europeans, and we feed then entire damned world.
What is it with proggies and all the self-hate?
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 12, 2018 03:30 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: mustbequantum at February 12, 2018 03:31 PM (MIKMs)
Posted by: MAGA at February 12, 2018 03:31 PM (015m0)
Bill Burr put it succinctly:
Without a gun prepping doesn't matter because I'd just be gathering stuff for the biggest guy on the block(paraphrase).
Posted by: Concerned People's Front Splitter Chapter at February 12, 2018 03:31 PM (rdl6o)
Posted by: Lucius Cornelius Sulla at February 12, 2018 03:31 PM (FTPVM)
The Walmart near my of place had a lot of new Americans, so hubby called it "Walid World." Used to hate seeing the burka'd women, even some with the eyes-only showing garb. Ugh.
Posted by: Lizzy"
Sounds like the Costco in Beltsville, Maryalnd. Always found it interesting that the three or 4 generations of the family would go shopping together (like 20 people shopping together).
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 12, 2018 03:31 PM (OD2ni)
Been to a Costco lately?
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.Went to the one in Plano TX today.....hijabs as far as the eye could see.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 12, 2018 03:32 PM (+Dllb)
Of course Clinton with his FBI files and later Obama with the whole national security establishment were able to find ways to persuade Republican leaders they couldn't bribe.
As one sterling example - the left outed Newt's affair to take him down since he wouldn't work with them...but say on Hastert's crimes to make sure he did...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2018 03:32 PM (Z8FFX)
Posted by: Fritz at February 12, 2018 03:32 PM (2Mnv1)
No.
Went to the closest Sam's club (back in CO) and it was mostly Spanish language labels and brands - they had clearly decided to be the bulk store that catered to that demographic.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2018 03:32 PM (W+vEI)
Well, there is a reason the West Coast is the same way. They don't have that connection to our culture either. The East Coast has physical reminders of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. The West Coast does not.
Posted by: notsothoreau at February 12, 2018 03:32 PM (5HBd1)
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Yep. problem is, we always seem to end up with a Roy Moore or O'Donnell.
Posted by: Fortunato at February 12, 2018 03:32 PM (Uj/qF)
"It was David Brooks and Bill Kristol who caricatured the white working class as near Neanderthal and romanticized illegal aliens (often by deliberating conflating them with legal immigrants.)"
If there's one book that EVERYONE should read, it's "The Blank Slate" by Steven Pinker, in which he first exposes and then completely, utterly and irrevocably destroys the foundational pillars of leftist philosophy, in particular "the noble savage" theory of sociology and "the blank slate" theory of psychology.
A huge amount of what we see played out every day in American culture is the left playing the "noble savage" card and the right pointing out that the noble-savage myth is a gigantic lie. Over and over and over this argument-cycle goes on a daily basis.
Read the book: You will NOT be disappointed.
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 03:32 PM (42M22)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 12, 2018 03:32 PM (VWsDy)
Posted by: Marcus T at February 12, 2018 03:33 PM (NLCi6)
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This article was on American Greatness. You know, the site that Jonah was making fun of before he destroyed NR.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 12, 2018 03:33 PM (YV+SU)
Posted by: NCKate at February 12, 2018 03:33 PM (MM8mf)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine"
NERDS!!!
Posted by: Ogre at February 12, 2018 03:33 PM (OD2ni)
Come to think he does know the Italian words for ham sandwich.
Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at February 12, 2018 03:34 PM (5fRCd)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 03:34 PM (QQ+il)
I could see this with the absolute hysteria that Sarah Palin faced, a hatred surpassing anything I'd seen before.
It may not have been the ONLY thing, but it was the main thing.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 12, 2018 03:34 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 12, 2018 03:22 PM (RD7QR)
And got it wrong while doing so.
Posted by: George LeS at February 12, 2018 03:34 PM (+TcCF)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at February 12, 2018 03:34 PM (ECDXs)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 03:34 PM (QQ+il)
Done! Thank you very much!
Posted by: Hawkpilot /i] /s] /u] /b] at February 12, 2018 03:34 PM (fqHZs)
Posted by: torabora at February 12, 2018 03:26 PM
Doesn't matter. As long as there's no penalty for purchasing non-ObamaCare-compliant insurance, or even going without -- a dagger has been driven into the heart of ObamaCare.
The leeches can continue to leech, the rest of us get a free market back again. Not the perfect solution, but good-enough.
Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 12, 2018 03:35 PM (2FqvZ)
Not true. He said, "Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect."
Romney is absolutely correct. He *never* wrote these people off; but he was correct in saying that it would be nearly impossible for his message of classic fiscal responsibility to connect with them.
However, what Trump gets and Romney didn't is that raising income *does* connect with the 47-percenters. Trump is doing this through the corporate tax cuts, and by stifling illegal immigration. The former increases business activity, which heats up the market for labor (the demand side); the latter stops the dilution of the labor pool by people working here illegally (the supply side). Trump knows that working-class people understand this: they see it in the want ads and in their pay stubs. Mitt Romney doesn't; which is a big reason why Donald Trump is president and Mitt Romney isn't.
As long as I'm on this subject: Trump had 40 years of experience in dealing with the tabloid press, which is excellent preparation for handling the "journalism" of our day; and, as a real-estate developer in New Jersey, he's had plenty of experience in dealing with organized crime, which is excellent preparation for handling Obama's Democratic Party. Romney was too much the patrician to succeed in the politics in our time: too afraid to get his hands soiled.
Posted by: Brown Line at February 12, 2018 03:35 PM (S6ArX)
Posted by: Egg McMuffin at February 12, 2018 03:35 PM (FTPVM)
Been to a Costco lately?
Posted by: Hrothgar"
Heh. I swaear I did not see your post when I posted mine at 83 about Costco.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 12, 2018 03:35 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 12, 2018 03:36 PM (juCZM)
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I think you are looking at this the wrong way. The left can pull whatever accusations it wants to out of whole cloth.
So either you convince people that charges like those against Moore are BS, or you lose.
I fully expect every election that has a close Senate race to get the Moore treatment come election time. It worked from them in AL of all places...so they will use it everywhere.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2018 03:36 PM (Z8FFX)
Posted by: Hawkpilot /i] /s] /u] /b] at February 12, 2018 03:36 PM (fqHZs)
Posted by: notsothoreau at February 12, 2018 03:32 PM (5HBd1)
Yeah, you are so right about that. We on the West Coast don't even read history books, or take history lessons, or civics, or any of that, so obviously we cannot understand what it is to be American.
/s
Try again, Skippy. Not everyone outside of your little world is an ignoramus.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 12, 2018 03:36 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (LiyEm)
They run railways now. And mooch money ohh government to keep them running. Amtrak, q.v.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 12, 2018 03:36 PM (Dbv1R)
Renton, WA Walmart on EBT day, same deal. Full burkas everywhere.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 12, 2018 03:36 PM (iv0p7)
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at February 12, 2018 03:36 PM (+Tibp)
You can likely believe it early, in this case.
Of course who knows if it is passed, in any form.
The point is, the *starting point* on this matter, from the WH itself, is now - bail-out of "risk corridors". Senate (as currently constituted) would pass it by voice vote in 5 minutes; I doubt the HFC in the House could block it alone. And as O-care actually doesn't dramatically directly obviously affect most people, this kind of back-door rescue of the debacle is unlikely fodder for a "burn down the phone lines" grassroots rebellion.
We will see.
Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius, AKA rhomboid at February 12, 2018 03:36 PM (fZlu3)
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 12, 2018 03:36 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: SteveOReno at February 12, 2018 03:25 PM (2sCft)
There's also Andy McCarthy.
Posted by: George LeS at February 12, 2018 03:36 PM (+TcCF)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke"
That's not batter...
eccchhh
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 12, 2018 03:23 PM (7LY+6)
Baby batter.
Posted by: SteveOReno at February 12, 2018 03:24 PM (2sCft)
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Can you smell what the Fluke is cooking?
Posted by: The Fluke at February 12, 2018 03:37 PM (oGRue)
Posted by: Charles Ullyses Farleigh at February 12, 2018 03:37 PM (EsHMF)
Posted by: Egg McMuffin at February 12, 2018 03:35 PM (FTPVM)
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It feels so good in my butt!
Posted by: William at February 12, 2018 03:37 PM (vg8iE)
And that's why they end up in tumbrils.
Posted by: Fox2! at February 12, 2018 03:37 PM (jLChk)
Posted by: Erik Erickson at February 12, 2018 03:37 PM (TA9CI)
They're now engaged in the thing that SJW companies do where they decide that they'd rather trade all of their unwoke customers who actually use their product for the "childless weirdo purple-haired Tumblrina class" (h/t to The Dark Herald) who they're more naturally inclined to associate with anyway but, more importantly, are NOT icky proles.
Posted by: Mr_UNIVAC at February 12, 2018 03:37 PM (GefuU)
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 12, 2018 03:37 PM (fqUgw)
Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (LiyEm)
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look up Britt (Iowa) Hobo Days......
Posted by: the Butcher at February 12, 2018 03:38 PM (DIosY)
I could see this with the absolute hysteria that Sarah Palin faced, a hatred surpassing anything I'd seen before.
It may not have been the ONLY thing, but it was the main thing.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 12, 2018 03:34 PM (0jtPF)
The snobbery was an excuse.
They were afraid because she had their number.
They used snobbery because most LIV's would find that appealing.
She still has their number.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 12, 2018 03:38 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: bonhomme at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (iv0p7)
Wondered about that myself. Say what you will about Romney, he was dead on about that 47%, as he was referring to the 47% of the populace who do not pay taxes. And he was exactly right. By the IRS's own data, the top 50% of wage earners pay about 95% of the taxes. I remember Limbaugh talking about this years ago, like back when Billy Jeff was still in the White House. But as usual, Romney was lousy at defending himself and the LSM twisted his words. A shame, really...
Posted by: The Oort Cloud - Source of all SMODs at February 12, 2018 03:38 PM (S5WMi)
Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at February 12, 2018 03:38 PM (5fRCd)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 12, 2018 03:22 PM (RD7QR)
Incorrectly corrected, at that.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2018 03:38 PM (jnLXM)
*slaps it across the sanctimonious mug of the nearest Commie/Lib*
"Aristocrat, eh? Draw your sword, sir. If you have one . . ."
Posted by: Sharkman at February 12, 2018 03:39 PM (BfOXk)
Posted by: Kim Jong-nun at February 12, 2018 03:39 PM (artIV)
Posted by: Sheppy Smiff at February 12, 2018 03:39 PM (FTPVM)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 12, 2018 03:22 PM (RD7QR)
Speaking as an annoying pedant, it's "wither", not "whither" up above, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 12, 2018 03:39 PM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: 18-1"
I think most people figured there was some truth to the Moore thing which at the very least made him a weirdo. And his handling of it was downright bizarre. Doubt he sets much precedent except to use primaries to get rid of weirdos.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 12, 2018 03:39 PM (OD2ni)
They get the middle finger from me.
Posted by: MAGA at February 12, 2018 03:39 PM (015m0)
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That frown wasn't even sincere. It was meant to dupe voters.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 12, 2018 03:39 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 12, 2018 03:31 PM (OD2ni)
Easier to swipe stuff. Not kidding. Groups of people in groups moving down aisles, palming, passing and opening.
Posted by: auscolpyr at February 12, 2018 03:39 PM (suO/a)
Posted by: CN at February 12, 2018 03:40 PM (5gaNQ)
VDH lives out in the countryside and gets to see first hand what Obama did to America.
I imagine it gives him perspective the rest of NRO lacks...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2018 03:40 PM (Z8FFX)
Posted by: thathalfrican - barely posting cuz I'm cuttin' at February 12, 2018 03:40 PM (RYvf+)
No daggers have been driven into any hearts of O-care. And a bailout of "risk corridors" ensures the deformed dwarf of welfare policies can continue shambling along.
And the largest immediate negative impact of O-care - the destruction (not an exaggeration) of the individual market, which was about 15% of all insured households, may not be affected one bit.
Some states might see a return to the old days, with good individual policies costing 1/5 of what they do now. But the biggest markets/biggest "blue" states - no relief in sight.
Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius, AKA rhomboid at February 12, 2018 03:40 PM (fZlu3)
Posted by: Patrick Bateman at February 12, 2018 03:40 PM (TA9CI)
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at February 12, 2018 03:40 PM (+Tibp)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2018 03:41 PM (jnLXM)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 12, 2018 03:41 PM (/qEW2)
don't take siestas and we don't get 8 weeks a year off and we work 40+
hours a week instead of 32 like the Europeans, and we feed then entire
damned world."
German Union wants to cut the work week to 28 hours. I guess 32 is to hard on them.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8kbfqz5
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 12, 2018 03:41 PM (aVYsC)
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0
haven't seen him on TV lately so he's likely in worse shape than John McCain
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 12, 2018 03:41 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Egg McMuffin at February 12, 2018 03:41 PM (FTPVM)
Ours is clean and well-stocked and the staff is as good as you'll get in a WM. I only go there for things like bulk paper products, pet stuff, greeting cards, that kind of thing, no Chinese junk.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 12, 2018 03:41 PM (juCZM)
I think I got it now...
Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 12, 2018 03:42 PM (fqHZs)
"I fully expect every election that has a close Senate race to get the
Moore treatment come election time. It worked from them in AL of all
places...so they will use it everywhere.
Posted by: 18-1"
.
.
.I seriously doubt that the dems will have the resources and the alleged *victims* lined up to do that in the 10 Senate seats they are vulnerable in.
Not saying they aren't putting out feelers, but it took almost everything the DNC had to do that once and their fundraising is in the $hitter.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 12, 2018 03:42 PM (+Dllb)
Posted by: Patrick Bateman at February 12, 2018 03:42 PM (TA9CI)
Well, I don't shop much --- but when I do, it's the first place I look.
The stores are clean and the staff is pleasant.
Of course, here in SW VA it's mostly hillbillies.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 12, 2018 03:42 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Marcus T at February 12, 2018 03:43 PM (NLCi6)
Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2018 03:43 PM (LiyEm)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8kbfqz5
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 12, 2018 03:41 PM (aVYsC)
Idiots.
Everyone knows the whole damn point of a union is to get paid for 40 hours of work, but only put in 20.
You make your work week 28 hours, you're just shooting yourself in the foot!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2018 03:43 PM (jnLXM)
Posted by: SteveOReno at February 12, 2018 03:25 PM (2sCft)
There's also Andy McCarthy.
Posted by: George LeS"
Kyle Smith writes there now (fromer NY Post movie reviewer) and he is hilarious. Lowry has gotten much better. Cooke is still pretty good and has a "credit where due" attitide towards Trump. I still like Jonah when the subject is not Trump, but he seems obsesses with writing about him.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 12, 2018 03:44 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: Luis Carruthers at February 12, 2018 03:44 PM (FTPVM)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 12, 2018 03:22 PM (RD7QR)
Incorrectly corrected, at that.
Corrected that with which incorrectly!
Posted by: David Brooks at February 12, 2018 03:44 PM (6pvkK)
Only after they've paid back all the misspent "only for the roads" $ they've pissed away already and been shot for it.
Posted by: DaveA at February 12, 2018 03:44 PM (FhXTo)
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True, but Moore had other issues as well.
The Dave Brats of the world are the exception, not the rule. Good candidates are either co-opted or destroyed.
Posted by: Fortunato at February 12, 2018 03:44 PM (Uj/qF)
"Bet you can't buy just one."
Posted by: wth at February 12, 2018 03:44 PM (HgMAr)
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Really? Its pretty clear it was a mix of made up bullshit - the star "victim" admitting to plagiarizing his signature - and the guy liking women in their early 20s...which makes him as much of a dog as say...President John Adams.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2018 03:45 PM (Z8FFX)
Posted by: Bill Kristol at February 12, 2018 03:45 PM (O5Q3r)
>>They were afraid because she had their number.
- - - - -
Sarah Palin was the proof that Feminism is a destructive lie. Most key decisions she's made were the opposite of what feminists instruct --- and she was happy and successful (e.g., marrying young, having lots of kids, having a Downs kid, non-ivy school, Christian, etc.). They had to destroy her, particularly the unmarried feminist shrews like Maureen Dowd.
Palin has disappointed me in recent years, but it doesn't take away from what she represented to the Mikas and MoDo's of the NYC-DC-Hollywood set who were bonkers with their hatred for her in 2008.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2018 03:45 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 03:45 PM (42M22)
Also, sorry, I no longer believe that George W. Bush is a good man without malice. It is quite malicious indeed to take a shot at Trump after keeping his lips sealed throughout the Obama presidency and to do it whilst in Dubai.
Yeah, I'm done with considering him a good guy.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Totally the most innocentest. Hopping all around. at February 12, 2018 03:45 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Ever at February 12, 2018 03:45 PM (OLS0m)
Posted by: Marcus T at February 12, 2018 03:46 PM (NLCi6)
Posted by: Egg McMuffin at February 12, 2018 03:46 PM (FTPVM)
I mentioned this to an employee and he said most them use EBT cards. Ah. I felt so foolish. Funny I'd never noticed that before."
Think about this - Walmart is making huge profits from these purchases. And some of those profits are invested in the campaigns of the politicians who will keep those EBT cards coming, as well as the people who use them. The more EBT cars, the more Walmart earns, the more politicians they can finance.
It's the Cycle of (Commercial) Life
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 12, 2018 03:46 PM (V2Yro)
Late-hit scandal smears are not new, but with the effective disappearance of anything resembling a press, their potential has increased.
And the GOPe (as shown by MS) will go to any length to protect against outsiders intruding. The already sketchy prospects for a genuine revolution in the GOP Senate primaries - key to Trump achieving most of his potential as president, in a very real sense - are even dimmer now.
The tremendous inertial advantage of incumbency, and "establishment" blessing, is pretty well understood. But the now much increased power of "deterrence" to challengers isn't, so much. I know people on both ends of the recruiting/challenging equation, and the chill is dramatic.
Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius, AKA rhomboid at February 12, 2018 03:46 PM (fZlu3)
I lament the loss of AI assisted punditry for who else can navigate the complexity of the modern internet of things, eh?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at February 12, 2018 03:46 PM (ECDXs)
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One of my kids' friends is a supervisor at a gas station. Apparently, big packages from the US are dependable sources of income for over half the smaller towns in Bangladesh, Pakistan, et al. He did explain that the EBT system allowed purchases for large families -- just not how large and where located. I really think we are doing the on-the-ground humanitarian work and don't need State Dept to award money to various warlords.
Please, please, please -- a small tax on remittances to foreign countries would pay for the wall and enforcement for a long time.
Posted by: mustbequantum at February 12, 2018 03:46 PM (MIKMs)
German Union wants to cut the work week to 28 hours. I guess 32 is to hard on them.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8kbfqz5
Posted by: Buzzsaw
One of the commenters at that article says Germany has a $21 per hour minimum wage!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 12, 2018 03:46 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: NCKate at February 12, 2018 03:47 PM (MM8mf)
Posted by: auscolpyr"
I used to work in a bar and the owner told me I can make change for customers onbly. She said certain elements would come in and ask for change and then swipe money off the bar when your back was turned.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 12, 2018 03:47 PM (OD2ni)
As I've noted before, I've never been to a Wal-Mart. That remains true.
In fact, shockingly, as far as I know, I don't think I've ever even SEEN
a Wal-Mart! That's how disassociated I am from various aspects of the
American socio-economic landscape. I don't "avoid" Wal-Mart as some sort
of pretentious virtue-signalling -- it's just that I have never
encountered the entire Wal-Mart-verse. My path through life has never
intersected with it.
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 03:45 PM (42M22)
So you are from Mars?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 12, 2018 03:47 PM (ymnmz)
In fact, shockingly, as far as I know, I don't think I've ever even SEEN
a Wal-Mart! That's how disassociated I am from various aspects of the
American socio-economic landscape. I don't "avoid" Wal-Mart as some sort
of pretentious virtue-signalling -- it's just that I have never
encountered the entire Wal-Mart-verse. My path through life has never
intersected with it.
.
.
.Does California even allow Walmarts to be built? I don't recall seeing any when I was stationed there in the late 1980s.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 12, 2018 03:47 PM (+Dllb)
Our attack on big pharma came w/ a warning letter today.
Message received.
Response forthcoming.
Q
Posted by: Rockysan99 at February 12, 2018 03:48 PM (m7LQK)
That depends on how much you're getting hourly.
And you're forgetting the two months paid vacation.
Posted by: JEM at February 12, 2018 03:48 PM (ejv4q)
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Why not? Every politician/public figure has some people that hate them.
Get Gloria Allred to tell them that the candidate did bad things to them and get the FNM to hand them a microphone and then you are done.
Hell, if you have trouble using hate, just offer them no-shows jobs after the election.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2018 03:48 PM (Z8FFX)
Posted by: Luis Carruthers at February 12, 2018 03:44 PM (FTPVM)
Fuck off, Luis!
Posted by: Patrick Bateman at February 12, 2018 03:48 PM (TA9CI)
He forgot to include George Will.
Posted by: buzzion at February 12, 2018 03:48 PM (lKs2v)
Romney was too much the patrician to succeed in the politics in our time: too afraid to get his hands soiled.
We need him in the Senate, though! 'Cause totes principled!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 12, 2018 03:48 PM (pNxlR)
Walmart's strategy was to be ubiquitous. A store every 12 miles or so. To not have run into the vicinity of a Walmart signals supernatural abilities.
Do you avoid all big box stores?
Posted by: severance package at February 12, 2018 03:48 PM (FTPVM)
Bingo. Despite the tactics used against him, he was a bad candidate.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2018 03:48 PM (/tuJf)
I'll guarantee you if I made a point of it, I could get some pics on my phone of some pretty righteous looking mutants at a Trader Joe's or a Whole Foods the same as these people do at wally world.
All that proves is that the world is full of mutants.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2018 03:49 PM (jnLXM)
Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2018 03:49 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: thathalfrican - barely posting cuz I'm cuttin' at February 12, 2018 03:49 PM (RYvf+)
Posted by: Roland THTG at February 12, 2018 03:49 PM (xBSm0)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 12, 2018 03:49 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 12, 2018 03:49 PM (wWJIH)
Posted by: Chainsaw Whore at February 12, 2018 03:50 PM (FTPVM)
Well that's something I never, ever expected to do.
I just read that entire article in The Nation linked in the sidebar without screaming "FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING COMMIES!!"
The Nation.
Doing the reporting that
ABCCBSNBCCNNWaPoNYTMSNBCMSM
won't do (because they are still blowing Barack Obama all day)
Posted by: Sharkman at February 12, 2018 03:50 PM (BfOXk)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 12, 2018 03:50 PM (KUaJL)
When a friend from TX claimed Barbara said something imperious to the Katrina folks in Houston I thought she was exaggerating. Not now.
Posted by: Ever at February 12, 2018 03:50 PM (OLS0m)
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 03:50 PM (42M22)
They were afraid because she had their number.
They used snobbery because most LIV's would find that appealing.
She still has their number.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 12, 2018 03:38 PM (7UW64)
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NO. The snobbery was all too real, not just an excuse.
But I very much agree with the fear component, which you home in on so well --- "she had their number." She had their number, she was not impressed by them, and therefore she was not afraid of them.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 12, 2018 03:50 PM (0jtPF)
He forgot to include George Will.
Kevin Williamson would not even give the working classes that much respect.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 12, 2018 03:50 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 12, 2018 03:50 PM (NWiLs)
It's the Cycle of (Commercial) Life
Posted by: Tom Servo
_________
Its not just retailers also that want the EBT scam to keep going, its also big agribusiness and other consumer staple companies. Its like a guaranteed income stream.
I see all the time restaurants now saying they accept EBT.
And remember, Republicans control Congress and the White House as well as most state Governorships and legislatures. But somehow we can't even talk about some basic reforms like how about a time limit of qualifying for EBT similar to welfare reform.
Posted by: Maritime at February 12, 2018 03:50 PM (lKmt3)
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 12, 2018 03:51 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 12, 2018 03:47 PM (+Dllb)
There is one in Ventura and another in Oxnard.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 12, 2018 03:51 PM (Tnhbr)
Most of the Dem $$ are in the individual campaigns, and those are swimming in money.
Many have wisely long ago decided to support individual candidates, not the extremely problematic national GOP structure. Well Dem big fish are doing that now, in spades.
Part of it is blowback from Clinton's typical theft and chicanery and hijacking of the DNC. Part of it is the same wisdom people here show - the impact and desirability of campaign giving are much higher for specific candidates who have at least some credibility on key issues.
Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius, AKA rhomboid at February 12, 2018 03:51 PM (fZlu3)
Ironic that is shit is being debated and considered a good thing in this post.
Posted by: Patrick Bateman at February 12, 2018 03:51 PM (TA9CI)
Posted by: alexthechick
Welcome to the Dark Side. May I interest you in some of these cookies what are baked here over in this side, the dark one.
They have chocolate.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 12, 2018 03:51 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 03:45 PM (42M22)
I imagine it's not common in your neck of the woods. We had a brand new WalMart open in Florida, when we lived there. A little air force base town near Destin. It was lovely, and was staffed with well trained people who were part of the community. I could run in at 6:45 am in sweats, grab a coffee pot to replace the one I just broke, and the cashier would give me a gift certificate for free donuts, because I was obviously having a bad start to my day. But it's not like that at all up here NoVa. They are dirty, packed, and difficult to negotiate, and I simply don't enjoy shopping there, even though they have decent prices. The shopping experience makes it not worth it. So, no judgment on not going to a wal-mart. You don't have to give up your Ace O Spades Platinum card and shelf mallet.
Posted by: moki at February 12, 2018 03:51 PM (V+V48)
Posted by: !jeb and the family Bush at February 12, 2018 03:51 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman
I assume there must be Wal-Marts in CA, but wherever they may be around here, I don't go to those areas.
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 03:51 PM (42M22)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 12, 2018 03:51 PM (wWJIH)
Posted by: notsothoreau at February 12, 2018 03:51 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 12, 2018 03:52 PM (V2Yro)
I go for the low prices, but the entertainment is what keeps me going back.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 12, 2018 03:52 PM (xfb67)
Posted by: NCKate at February 12, 2018 03:52 PM (MM8mf)
Yet he was leading by 15pts before the false accusations.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 03:52 PM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Roland THTG at February 12, 2018 03:52 PM (xBSm0)
Anyhoo....the judge must have told 12 different people they could never go into any Walmart ever again.
Posted by: eleven at February 12, 2018 03:52 PM (+lOpA)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 12, 2018 03:53 PM (VWsDy)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 12, 2018 03:53 PM (3BFzK)
I can forgive people who can admit they were wrong.
Posted by: thathalfrican - barely posting cuz I'm cuttin' at February 12, 2018 03:53 PM (RYvf+)
Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at February 12, 2018 03:38 PM (5fRCd)
I expect they don't. And that's probably why the whole fam-damnily shows up for a shopping trip; to run interference for the ones boosting goods.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 12, 2018 03:53 PM (Dbv1R)
The snobbery was an excuse.
They were afraid because she had their number.
They used snobbery because most LIV's would find that appealing.
She still has their number.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 12, 2018 03:38 PM (7UW64)
Part of her platform was fighting corruption.
Part of Trump's platform is draining the swamp.
They are both hated by the Establishment. I wonder why?
Posted by: rickl at February 12, 2018 03:53 PM (xjiRE)
And except for predictable city bans on them (big cities), they're all over.
Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius, AKA rhomboid at February 12, 2018 03:53 PM (fZlu3)
What shot did he take at Trump?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 12, 2018 03:54 PM (wWJIH)
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 12, 2018 03:54 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: thathalfrican - barely posting cuz I'm cuttin' at February 12, 2018 03:54 PM (RYvf+)
That's weird, they give them out on the highways here
Posted by: REDACTED at February 12, 2018 03:54 PM (VWsDy)
Walmart's strategy was to be ubiquitous. A store every 12 miles or so. To not have run into the vicinity of a Walmart signals supernatural abilities.
Do you avoid all big box stores?
Posted by: severance package
Well, yes, I don't shop in big box stores. I don't consciously "avoid" them, it would just never occur to me to go to such a place. I don't even know where most of them are located. Sure I could look it up, but for what purpose? I wouldn't go anyway.
Wal-Marts are ubiquitous? News to me. I swear, I have never seen one (in person).
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 03:54 PM (42M22)
Posted by: Ever at February 12, 2018 03:50 PM (OLS0m)
What did she say?
Posted by: MAC SOG and nothing will happen at February 12, 2018 03:54 PM (czkHE)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 12, 2018 03:54 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2018 03:55 PM (/tuJf)
"Bet you can't buy just one."
Posted by: wth at February 12, 2018 03:44 PM (HgMAr)
Motto? More like policy!
Here! Here is a huge box of Lucky Charms. But, you can't just buy one, because we only sell them in packs of two!
How about a really really really big bottle of Hershey's syrup, big enough to last for months? Perfect for those occasions when you want a home made sundae. Reach for it and find out 2 more are clipped to it!
How about a bottle of Ranch dressing that would suffice for a vegan for about a year? Nope! Fucking Two is the number mister, and you'll like it!
And yet.
I keep going back, like a dog to its vomit.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 12, 2018 03:55 PM (z79tQ)
- Looks at people living in DC, Congress, and institutions.
- Roy Moore is called weird and people eat it up.
Whateves, buckoroos!
Posted by: Patrick Bateman at February 12, 2018 03:55 PM (TA9CI)
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Back when NR used Disquis I had a long go with Jonah pointing out that Trump had become his white whale. It didn't work. Seems boys from West Manhattan know everything and are impossible to persuade. That, and I think he got a big donation from Zuckerburg.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 12, 2018 03:55 PM (YV+SU)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 12, 2018 03:55 PM (6FqZa)
One thing I love about Trump, People show there true colors when it comes to him. I have never seen anything like it.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 12, 2018 03:55 PM (dKiJG)
inland. Not quite Spartanburg. That is too far. Anything about an hour
closer to ocean?
Posted by: Marcus T at February 12, 2018 03:46 PM (NLCi6)
Aiken ain't bad.
Posted by: Bert G aka Country Singer at February 12, 2018 03:55 PM (uiwCw)
So you are from Mars?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless
Nope -- liberal part of the SF Bay Area.
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 03:50 PM (42M22)
The liberal part? How can you tell? What other parts are there?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 12, 2018 03:56 PM (ymnmz)
The GOP.
Posted by: Under Fire at February 12, 2018 03:56 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 03:56 PM (QQ+il)
They didn't start opening Wal-Marts in Southern California until the lates 1990's
Posted by: Deploraqble Male Logic at February 12, 2018 03:56 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: Chainsaw Whore at February 12, 2018 03:56 PM (FTPVM)
A distant Sharkman relative over a hundred years ago was a well-regarded Judge who served as Attorney for the US State Department and argued before The Hague several times.
His honor was insulted in the US Senate by a Senator from the South over something fairly minor, and a Senator from my relative's home state asked the insulting Senator to withdraw the comments. Insulter declined, and then tried to strangle the other Senator, who mildly continued to smoke his cigar after the gendarmes were called to pull the clown Senator off.
Ha! Fisticuffs in the US Senate over the honor of a Sharkman relative! I love history.
Oh, and my relative later wrote a lengthy defense of his actions in the matter that caused the insult, ending with:
"The affair is simply one of the spasmodic displays of asininity in which Senator X indulges at regular periods."
Posted by: Sharkman at February 12, 2018 03:56 PM (BfOXk)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 12, 2018 03:56 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Exile at February 12, 2018 03:56 PM (Fikbq)
If Ace's analysis is correct, Trump may have a weakness to keeping his reputation in a popular sense. Hopefully this doesn't lead to bad policy choices in the future.
Posted by: goodluckduck at February 12, 2018 03:57 PM (rwaEp)
took DJT to break the chain
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 12, 2018 03:54 PM (FZYNt)
But Stevie Nicks said they'd never break the chain!
Posted by: Insomniac at February 12, 2018 03:57 PM (NWiLs)
* imagines Fremen midwife holding the child up before the sietch: 'A Moron! A fighter for the cause!' *
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 12, 2018 03:57 PM (fA1SL)
family-targeted-trump-jr-s-wife-hospitalized-after-
opening-suspicious-letter/
Posted by: Exile at February 12, 2018 03:58 PM (Fikbq)
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 12, 2018 03:58 PM (n+6mJ)
Posted by: Tom Servo
????!!!???!???!???!!!!!
That blows my mind.
It's like we live in two completely different cultures/nations/eras.
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 03:58 PM (42M22)
Posted by: Exile at February 12, 2018 03:56 PM (Fikbq)
Whatever it was, it IS terrorism.
Posted by: buzzion at February 12, 2018 03:58 PM (lKs2v)
Posted by: Archer at February 12, 2018 03:58 PM (gbWkA)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 12, 2018 03:58 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 12, 2018 03:58 PM (NWiLs)
They have chocolate.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 12, 2018 03:51 PM (6FqZa)
Thank you!
Om nom nom
Obligatory Alex and Liam do WalMart:
https://youtu.be/Gzj1OF7d9m4
The best parts to me are how the British guys see the endcap of the Arizona Iced Tea and say that's what you keep your petrol in and the Americans watching think hey that's a good price, I should grab like three to make it until Thursday and what are you doing having my blood pressure taken because you do that here.
Oh and how they start out mocking and end up stunned and amazed.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Totally the most innocentest. Hopping all around. at February 12, 2018 03:58 PM (mf5HN)
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Given that every 'glam' pol was hitting Trump up for a donation prior to his presidency is probably why he views them as parasites.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 12, 2018 03:58 PM (YV+SU)
Jonah still has a bit of that Manhattan snobbiness against blue collar guys from the outer boroughs and has said that Trump reminds him of the "bigoted doorman from Queens" that works at his fancy building.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 12, 2018 03:58 PM (OD2ni)
***
I presume that the big money train that funds most of the left isn't going to the likes of the Nation any more. So they aren't as wedded to the party line.
Lefties used to love movies about the evil FBI/CIA/NSA destroying some reformist candidate that would change things up. Well..now it happened and most of the left is endorsing it.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2018 03:59 PM (Z8FFX)
So Sarah Palin is a weirdo too? Or does that only apply to Moore because he is a man?
Seriously. Stop letting the MSM and Marxists get on your head and define your world. Roy Moore was different but a fighter and MAGA. Would rather have that than another baby killing Marxist in DC.
Posted by: Patrick Bateman at February 12, 2018 03:59 PM (TA9CI)
WTF is with that?
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 12, 2018 03:59 PM (3BFzK)
Posted by: George Will at February 12, 2018 04:00 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2018 04:00 PM (LiyEm)
It's their CIA now.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 04:00 PM (QQ+il)
* imagines Fremen midwife holding the child up before the sietch: 'A Moron! A fighter for the cause!' *
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 12, 2018 03:57 PM (fA1SL)
*presses flat of crysknife over heart*
For Muad D'ib!
Posted by: Insomniac at February 12, 2018 04:00 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Totally the most innocentest. Hopping all around. at February 12, 2018 03:58 PM (mf5HN)
Kind of like those stories about Soviets or East Germans who visit a supermarket for the first time...
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 12, 2018 04:00 PM (Tnhbr)
So nice areas to live in SC? Would like to be inland. Not quite
Spartanburg. That is too far. Anything about an hour closer to ocean?
Posted by: Marcus T at February 12, 2018 03:46 PM (NLCi6)
I would look at one of the small towns close to where I-95 and I-26 intersect. Anything closer gets expensive,
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 12, 2018 04:00 PM (mpXpK)
Thanks man!
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 12, 2018 03:55 PM (dKiJG)
My cousin and I have discussed the exact same thing. All these people who warned of leftism were willing to throw the country away for a generation or more, because they didn't like Trump on a personal level.
Which is a shame because he's good a progressive hunter and history.
Posted by: thathalfrican - barely posting cuz I'm cuttin' at February 12, 2018 04:01 PM (RYvf+)
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Come to the one in South Philly. I dare you. English might be the 4th language spoken in there.
I drive over the bridge to a Jersey Walmart. It's very clean, and the savings on the food items well outweighs the toll and gas.
Posted by: Fortunato at February 12, 2018 04:01 PM (Uj/qF)
I would be shocked to find ME in the SF area. How did I get here?
Posted by: eleven at February 12, 2018 04:01 PM (+lOpA)
I have a motorcycle with no key. To make a key I need to remove the ignition tumbler to cut the key. The tumbler is set into its housing with three rolled pins in a blind hole (no ability to tap out). Does anyone have a simple suggesting on removing blind hole roll pins?
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 12, 2018 04:02 PM (YV+SU)
Their whole business model was rural towns that didn't have access. It seems like to me they were nicer stores back then. And always had a good selection of guns and ammo.
Now its more metro locations and their clientele is the free shirt army along with a lot of people from shit hole countries that shouldn't be here sprinkled with Jerry Springer type white trash (not lovable Rednecks).
Posted by: Maritime at February 12, 2018 04:02 PM (lKmt3)
Posted by: At the Close at February 12, 2018 04:02 PM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Marcus T at February 12, 2018 04:02 PM (NLCi6)
I have a motorcycle with no key. To make a key I need to remove the ignition tumbler to cut the key. The tumbler is set into its housing with three rolled pins in a blind hole (no ability to tap out). Does anyone have a simple suggesting on removing blind hole roll pins?
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 12, 2018 04:02 PM (YV+SU)
*lights up the Berserker signal*
Posted by: Insomniac at February 12, 2018 04:03 PM (NWiLs)
...........
Oh give me a home where the buttfellows roam
Where the queers and the antifa play
Posted by: wth at February 12, 2018 04:03 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Patrick Bateman at February 12, 2018 03:59 PM (TA9CI)
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I suspect that all of the people here saying Moore was 'weird' would still have voted for him over the Dem without hesitation.
At least I hope so.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 12, 2018 04:03 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 03:51 PM (42M22)
Northbay, Southbay, 580/680 corridor?
You need to get out more....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 12, 2018 04:03 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: junior at February 12, 2018 04:03 PM (r2ZL+)
Posted by: Puddin Head
I'll make you tap out
Posted by: Royce Gracie at February 12, 2018 04:04 PM (FZYNt)
Strange world.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 12, 2018 04:04 PM (wWJIH)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 12, 2018 04:04 PM (dKiJG)
I have tried shopping at NOT Walmart and I can't do it. Costs me too much money.
Although, I just checked the price on an eight terabyte USB hard drive and it is cheaper on Amazon. Probably a one terabyte drive would be large enough for what I want to do, but I've never before had any difficulty filling my hard drives with data, until recently when the multi-terabyte drives appeared on store shelves.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at February 12, 2018 04:04 PM (ECDXs)
I don't like Trump on a personal level. But then there are things like today when he says to the states "hey, if you're going to take 15 years to approve permits we're going to take our money back".
I like that, I approve of it. My lefty friends can't see past the distaste to just taking the issues as they are.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 12, 2018 04:04 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 12, 2018 04:03 PM (0jtPF)
Dead girl or live boy...I wouldn't have cared. He would have gotten my vote.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 12, 2018 04:04 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 12, 2018 04:00 PM (Tnhbr)
I'm trying to remember where I read it but there was a story from a defector about how he and the group he was with were on a bus driving from the airport into DC and the KGB guy was lecturing them about how downtrodden everyone was and all he and the rest of the group noticed was that they were passing miles and miles and miles of houses and that everyone had their own car.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Totally the most innocentest. Hopping all around. at February 12, 2018 04:04 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2018 03:55 PM
Oh, come on. We both would have predicted that before-hand.
In the same way it's predictable for a former school teacher to want to cut her ex-husband off at the knees ( and a foot higher ) for dating Hope Hicks.
Hell hath no fury...
btw: Question for you. Black eyes and scuba diving? I vaguely recall a connection, but you would know.
Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 12, 2018 04:05 PM (2FqvZ)
At least 400,000 Trump voters stayed home.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 12, 2018 04:05 PM (wWJIH)
We had a rapist as a President in the 90s, and just had a bisexual one just leave office.
We have a House member who think islands can tip over and a vice president that thinks jobs is a three letter word.
And Roy Moore is weird?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2018 04:05 PM (Z8FFX)
/CNN
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 12, 2018 03:56 PM (oVJmc)
We wholeheartedly endorse Mr.Kehinde Wiley as the national police sketch artist
Posted by: The union of black fugitives at February 12, 2018 04:05 PM (VWsDy)
I'm pretty sure that there's a Wal-Mart or two here in LA County. But I've never seen them.
Posted by: junior at February 12, 2018 04:03 PM (r2ZL+)
There's one in Newhall
Posted by: Deploraqble Male Logic at February 12, 2018 04:05 PM (lKyWE)
Mine is right next to a Navy base. You can't see most of the customers because their wearing that blue camo so they look like waves.
Walmart is great for buying certain staple products, it was never intended to be an upscale trendy store.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2018 04:05 PM (/tuJf)
??? He probably wouldn't let them stay at his hotel unless they paid either.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 04:05 PM (QQ+il)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2018 04:06 PM (8+Ozj)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 12, 2018 04:06 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Puddin Head "
That was a cool feature and it sucks they got rid of it. I had a friendly back and forth with Charles Cooke once. He's a prettty witty guy.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 12, 2018 04:06 PM (OD2ni)
they recognised all this THEN. in fact they were presumably 'withus' on nixing Obamacare , at least the dunning for money to help them fights stated so.
so when we say ENOUGH, We vote 1 a guy that argues the same arguments but Isn't a known Liar already as our 'betters' were We believed this.. (well we can't do worse so lets try this to get their attention, we're not just there to be promised they care' take money and laugh at us)
So what did they do? Lied, they knew Hillarys Corruption, They Knew Obamas corruption, The Knew why We were angry and Gave us the finger.
and we did so back..
their problem. not walmart rubes. Theirs.
Posted by: willow at February 12, 2018 04:07 PM (Z8j2x)
1. The "hotel" was for foreigners and was shit. Like a crack whore hourly motel in Detroit.
2. The food was terrible in the "hotel."
3. Lots of food stores (bread, vegetables, meat,...) all of them were pretty big and had brown butcher wrap with what they sold. All of them were empty of said sellable thing.
4. The people were in line to get what little showed up at the "stores" and "stores" were sold out by 20 minutes after opening. Staff stayed and cleaned.
5. The guys helping us install the machine had clear glass bottles with clear liquid. I was hot as hell in the factory and thought it was water. Wrong! Took huge swig of terrible vodka, Valurite would have been top shelf.
6. The night before we left all of our tools disappeared. This was just cost of doing business.
The USSR was nothing like our all knowing and pro-American media said ti was.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 12, 2018 04:07 PM (3BFzK)
Which was fairly typical for a special election. The Democrats allegedly turned out 92% of their presidential voters. That is what's unheard of.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 04:07 PM (QQ+il)
Had a co-worker once from Sudan. He talked as if he'd found out he was heir to the Hughes' fortune and had won the powerball. He was a doorman and lived in the worst part of town, and was amazed at his good fortune.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 12, 2018 04:07 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Holier than Thou Asshole Bot at February 12, 2018 04:07 PM (SkuXa)
At least I hope so.
I would have. But let's be honest, he has not exactly been an electoral juggernaut in his career. And that's in Alabama.
I would have voted for him but he is kind of a weird dude.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2018 04:07 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: JAS at February 12, 2018 04:08 PM (7JbXq)
271 OT - a call for help
I have a motorcycle with no key.
Have you checked the bike for the key code? Dealer may get you one with the VIN #
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLnWoISd5U8
Posted by: Under Fire at February 12, 2018 04:08 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 12, 2018 04:08 PM (fA1SL)
I love my $12 jeans from WalMart ... maybe the $29 ones would show off my fine arse a little better, idk. Or the $200 jeans that are pre torn and acid washed with a designer name stitched in ... would get me respect with the NeverTrumpers ... heh.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 12, 2018 04:08 PM (bT8Z4)
Which is a shame because he's good a progressive hunter and history.
Posted by: thathalfrican - barely posting cuz I'm cuttin' at February 12, 2018 04:01 PM (RYvf+)
Best way to explain Trump is that he's the sunglasses as in THEY LIVE, as you as you put them you see the truth.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 12, 2018 04:09 PM (dKiJG)
Had a co-worker once from Sudan. He talked as if he'd found out he was heir to the Hughes' fortune and had won the powerball. He was a doorman and lived in the worst part of town, and was amazed at his good fortune.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 12, 2018 04:07 PM (fA1SL)
It's really easy to forget how good we have it.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 12, 2018 04:09 PM (NWiLs)
***
I remember the news media caught a few people saying that had come from out of state to vote for the Dem.
Did the State AG prosecute any of them?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2018 04:09 PM (Z8FFX)
Posted by: blaster at February 12, 2018 04:09 PM (GjigR)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 12, 2018 04:09 PM (mPeei)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 12, 2018 04:09 PM (IqV8l)
Among this "artist's" previous work, is a painting of an angry black woman holding a knife in one hand, and the blonde pony-tailed severed head of a white girl in the other.
So, there ya go. (Heard it on the radio several minutes ago.)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 12, 2018 04:09 PM (ptqGC)
It's been awhile, obviously, but, iirc, don't think Mama Bush liked the little ppl needing a hug or a kind word. Only there bc of W and, I think, elder Bush, too, who always knew the value of political pretense.
Posted by: Ever at February 12, 2018 04:09 PM (OLS0m)
Strange world."
Don't see the problem with that. I you are rich and like to golf, it makes sense to join an exclusive club that is not crowded and you can get on the course pretty much whenever you want. There are other courses for people with different expectations.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 12, 2018 04:09 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Totally the most innocentest. Hopping all around. at February 12, 2018 04:04 PM (mf5HN)
"The Americans force their poor and elderly to eat dog food."
"Wait... they're so rich that they have food specially made for their pets?"
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 12, 2018 04:10 PM (Tnhbr)
Thanks Vic. Really like Spartanburg. Greenville area. But some people want to be closer to coast -_-
Posted by: Marcus T at February 12, 2018 04:02 PM (NLCi6)
The Spartanburg-Greenville area is pricey too. Too close to Charlotte.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 12, 2018 04:10 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: NCKate at February 12, 2018 04:10 PM (MM8mf)
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 03:51 PM (42M22)
Northbay, Southbay, 580/680 corridor?
You need to get out more....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Out of curiosity, I just googled to see where the Walmarts are in the SF Bay Area. There are indeed a few of them, mostly in big shopping centers in industrial/business regions of the East Bay and South Bay. The kinds of neighborhoods/areas I've never visited.
Keep in mind, thing one, I don't drive or have a car. From what I can grasp, it seems that Walmarts are placed almost exclusively in areas accessible for car-drivers only. I think that explains a lot of it (my non-interaction with the Walmart-verse). If I want something, I'll usually go to some funky doodad outlet where the proprietor only speaks Cantonese and nothing has a price tag, but most things are 99˘ or less anyway.
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 04:10 PM (42M22)
So is Ace all in on Trump finally or is he just once again being a Deplorable for a day?
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 12, 2018 04:10 PM (n+6mJ)
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 04:10 PM (42M22)
need to remove the ignition tumbler to cut the key. The tumbler is set
into its housing with three rolled pins in a blind hole (no ability to
tap out). Does anyone have a simple suggesting on removing blind hole
roll pins?
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 12, 2018 04:02 PM (YV+SU)
This might be a very good instance of a situation where calling in a mobile locksmith might be the most prudent action.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 12, 2018 04:10 PM (Dbv1R)
But the main point is, whenever the cry to "primary" GOP incumbents comes up, you better make sure you vet the shit out of the challenger.
Posted by: Fortunato at February 12, 2018 04:11 PM (Uj/qF)
So exclusive country clubs are not a thing anymore to identify the elite? I will have to tell all those country club Republicans to stand down.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 12, 2018 04:11 PM (wWJIH)
Posted by: junior
THANK YOU! I've not alone.
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 04:11 PM (42M22)
Posted by: zombie at February 12, 2018 04:11 PM (42M22)
Or straight wire it with a hidden toggle switch.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 04:11 PM (QQ+il)
It's typically been about 6-10% in the middle that swings presidential elections. Denial of that is Pollyannaish, at best.
Posted by: GWB at February 12, 2018 04:12 PM (bPZSS)
"Trump , man of the people, would not let The People join any of his country clubs unless they have a six figure initiation fee.
You know what the call a country club that lets in people who can't pay large iniation fees? A public course.
Posted by: Deploraqble Male Logic at February 12, 2018 04:12 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: Fortunato"
Yes. See Nehlen, Paul.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 12, 2018 04:12 PM (OD2ni)
Wait, what? Romney's 47% remark wasn't about deplorables so much as a significant block of Democrat voters who see any Republican as someone who is going to derail the gravy train.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (iv0p7)
This. The author significantly sharpened Romney's statement. IIRC, the import of his comment was that lowering taxes, etc. wouldn't have much appeal to the 47% of the population who didn't pay taxes.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2018 04:12 PM (MjCfq)
They identify the rich.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 04:12 PM (QQ+il)
Easy Rider was an awful, boring movie.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 12, 2018 04:12 PM (YV+SU)
This explains why Mooch chose the "artist" she selected for her portrait.
Among
this "artist's" previous work, is a painting of an angry black woman
holding a knife in one hand, and the blonde pony-tailed severed head of a
white girl in the other.
So, there ya go. (Heard it on the radio several minutes ago.)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 12, 2018 04:09 PM (ptqGC)
So how long before Michelle's head winds up Photoshop into the other painting. Cause that is the one she really wanted.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 12, 2018 04:12 PM (ymnmz)
What's that?
*hic*
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 12, 2018 04:09 PM (mPeei)
You served on their board.
Posted by: Bert G aka Country Singer at February 12, 2018 04:12 PM (uiwCw)
It is amazing talking to European middle/working class people that get over here. They can't believe how rich their peers in the US are compared to them.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2018 04:12 PM (Z8FFX)
Posted by: willow at February 12, 2018 04:13 PM (Z8j2x)
Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at February 12, 2018 04:13 PM (e8kgV)
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That's what worries me about the upcoming midterms. You see all of these special elections and the Democrats are turning people out like crazy and we're not.
Sure you can explain some of it with individual candidates like Roy Moore, but even people like Governor Scott Walker have said the GOP better wake up and figure out a ground game as he saw a pretty "safe" Republican seat get flipped in his state.
Posted by: Maritime at February 12, 2018 04:13 PM (lKmt3)
Hope those faggits find their balls in the coming elections.
Posted by: Patrick Bateman at February 12, 2018 04:14 PM (TA9CI)
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 12, 2018 04:14 PM (cmtKu)
Or straight wire it with a hidden toggle switch.
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It's a Kawasaki Concourse. It has a bunch of locks - gas can in particular.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 12, 2018 04:14 PM (YV+SU)
Posted by: Drew in MO at February 12, 2018 04:14 PM (cGlgB)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 12, 2018 04:14 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: JAS at February 12, 2018 04:14 PM (7JbXq)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 04:07 PM (QQ+il)
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That's what scares me about the midterms.
They seem so much more motivated.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 12, 2018 04:14 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2018 03:21 PM (LiyEm)
Made so partly by all the Amtrak crashes. The ones left have taken up hitchhiking in Detroit and Baltimore, as it's safer.
Posted by: GWB at February 12, 2018 04:14 PM (bPZSS)
She's all about racial grievance. Perfect for angry Mooch.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 12, 2018 04:15 PM (ptqGC)
Such a sexual deviant that he's been married to his first wife for 33 years.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 04:15 PM (QQ+il)
Posted by: concrete girl at February 12, 2018 04:16 PM (Gz24F)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 12, 2018 04:16 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: willow at February 12, 2018 04:16 PM (Z8j2x)
Among this "artist's" previous work, is a painting of an angry black woman holding a knife in one hand, and the blonde pony-tailed severed head of a white girl in the other.
So, there ya go. (Heard it on the radio several minutes ago.)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 12, 2018 04:09 PM (ptqGC)
It's just one more way for the Obamas to give us the finger.
Posted by: rickl at February 12, 2018 04:16 PM (xjiRE)
-rightscoop
Surrender caucus at it again.
Posted by: Under Fire at February 12, 2018 04:16 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: willow at February 12, 2018 04:16 PM (Z8j2x)
Among
this "artist's" previous work, is a painting of an angry black woman
holding a knife in one hand, and the blonde pony-tailed severed head of a
white girl in the other.
She did a bust of Shoeonhead
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 12, 2018 04:16 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Methos at February 12, 2018 04:16 PM (XQvuQ)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 12, 2018 04:17 PM (dKiJG)
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We don't have a VAT Tax. Noticed my Ukrainian translator wore the same shirt for five days. Then I priced basic clothing in Ukraine and realized why. Australia does this too. Tons of Brits vacation in Florida and come with three bags - two empty. They get tans and buy clothes. Then return and sell half of the cloths to subsidize their vacation.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 12, 2018 04:17 PM (YV+SU)
Posted by: JAS at February 12, 2018 04:17 PM (7JbXq)
Also, sorry, I no longer believe that George W. Bush is a good man without malice.
If the E in GOPe stood for execution of the things we elected them to do vs. elite in their own sneerage neither Clinton nor Obama would have happened and Trump wouldn't be the minimum necessary dethronement.
Posted by: DaveA at February 12, 2018 04:17 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2018 04:17 PM (aC6Sd)
-rightscoop
Surrender caucus at it again.
So again I ask, what is our best course when the Republicans, rightly, lose the House? More ammo?
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 04:18 PM (QQ+il)
God what a hateful piece of shit he turned out to be. Truth be told I knew nothing about him until Kurt Schlicter retweeted John Cardillo - mocking Nehlen- and Nehlen himself.
Posted by: thathalfrican - barely posting cuz I'm cuttin' at February 12, 2018 04:18 PM (RYvf+)
Posted by: JAS at February 12, 2018 04:18 PM (7JbXq)
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at February 12, 2018 04:19 PM (0OmEj)
Posted by: DaveA at February 12, 2018 04:17 PM (FhXTo)
That is what I think the far too many in the GOP still do not comprehend. Trump is the opening bid in holding the GOP accountable, not the ultimate end.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Totally the most innocentest. Hopping all around. at February 12, 2018 04:19 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: SteveOReno at February 12, 2018 04:19 PM (2sCft)
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Those were real Levi's then. Today's Levi's suck.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 12, 2018 04:20 PM (YV+SU)
Anyone can play golf. We have municipal golf courses. Depending on the municipality they can be well-maintained or ratty. In my area there's a ratty 9-hole that you can play for about $12. There's an 18 hole muni that costs about $43 which is a wonderful layout and well groomed, but the pace of play is slow because it's crowded.
So, yeah, there are private clubs. Better gooming, limited access, of course it costs more. I've never been in that bracket, but I've been invited in plenty of times.
You get a men's grill where they don't even allow girl waiters. You may find caddies who will hook you up with reefer. When you take off your golf shoes in the locker room someone cleans them without you having asked.
If you want to play 36 holes that day the starter will make sure that you get on conveniently after a couple of gin and tonics and some seared ahi tuna in between.
It's a world set up to make a perfect golf experience for people who love golf and can afford it. Of course there's an iniation fee, and annual dues, and a monthly spending requirement. That's how the ecosystem works.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 12, 2018 04:20 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 12, 2018 04:20 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Burger Chef at February 12, 2018 04:20 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 04:11 PM (QQ+il)
If you have a little ambition, you can disconnect the horn and rewire to that button. As a momentary switch, you'd depress that one and then hit the start. Easy peasy.
Unless you really need a horn. By time I need one, I'm too busy swerving, downshifting and braking to think to use it.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 12, 2018 04:21 PM (z79tQ)
If not, you're probably going to have to drill em out.
Plan on spending $ on really good bits if so.
A really good locksmith might be able to impression a key.
That would have been my first route back in my locksmithing days.
Posted by: CFR at February 12, 2018 04:21 PM (jUilJ)
Funny. I think I was the only person to actually buy a ticket for the light rail. No conductor ever came through the cabin to check for tickets.
Posted by: JAS at February 12, 2018 04:21 PM (7JbXq)
In retrospect, Cruz and Haley came across as genuine and true believers. Toomey and Rubio came across as good politicians. In fairness to Toomey though, I had talked to him before socially for a few hours and he had a lot of battle scars from that debacle trying to primary that party flipping jerk who gave the Dems the 60 votes they needed for Obamacare.
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at February 12, 2018 04:21 PM (8RnJ/)
Posted by: Patrick Bateman at February 12, 2018 03:59 PM (TA9CI)
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I suspect that all of the people here saying Moore was 'weird' would still have voted for him over the Dem without hesitation.
At least I hope so.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 12, 2018 04:03 PM (0jtPF)
I don't know about that. Considering that a few people here kept acting like Moore was trolling high schools in van the week before the election.
Posted by: buzzion at February 12, 2018 04:21 PM (lKs2v)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 12, 2018 04:20 PM (fuK7c)
You are correct sir!
Posted by: MAC SOG and nothing will happen at February 12, 2018 04:22 PM (czkHE)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 12, 2018 04:23 PM (z79tQ)
What I don't like is rich, coddled, protected people lecturing the rest of us about how WE should give up everything for the poor, for the earth, for the borderless utopia, etc.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 12, 2018 04:24 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 12, 2018 03:34 PM (QQ+il)
*BINGO!*
Posted by: GWB at February 12, 2018 04:24 PM (bPZSS)
Posted by: Eromero at February 12, 2018 04:25 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 12, 2018 04:25 PM (dKiJG)
The mini-me Emperor's With
Hermes
H. Huntsman and Sons
House of Bijan
Loro Piana
Dolce & Gabbana
Stefano Ricci
Zegna
Tom Ford
Brioni
Ravazzolo
Hugo Boss
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 12, 2018 04:26 PM (fceHP)
You served on their board.
Posted by: Bert G aka Country Singer
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Is that like,, a plank?
*hic*
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 12, 2018 04:26 PM (mPeei)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February
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Home of the Make Texas Blue outfit.
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The only difference between Walmart and Target is style...........and price............and variety of merchandise.
Posted by: gNewt-Always Late at February 12, 2018 04:27 PM (m/vQu)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February 12, 2018 04:28 PM (398bZ)
Posted by: Comanche Voter at February 12, 2018 04:29 PM (Sda6L)
Price of real estate.
Plus the antipathy of hard left regions to having Wal-Mart, even if Wal-Mart was prepared to cough up for the pricey real estate.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2018 04:30 PM (MjCfq)
I thought my point was quite simple. That is the eco client world Trump lives in. The Walmart kids clients live in the other world. Their political perception of them is just opposite. Thats all I was saying .
But of course everything that is not praise of Trump is considered an insult.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 12, 2018 04:30 PM (wWJIH)
Posted by: gNewt-Always Late at February 12, 2018 04:27 PM (m/vQu)
And the demography of who uses which bathroom.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2018 04:30 PM (MjCfq)
I will keep asking since no one answers. What shot did he take at Trump?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 12, 2018 04:31 PM (wWJIH)
We the Moron Horde see your bid and raise AtC.
*** pauses, adjusts jack ***
Raise AtC.
Posted by: DaveA at February 12, 2018 04:32 PM (FhXTo)
What I don't like is rich, coddled, protected people lecturing the rest of us about how WE should give up everything for the poor, for the earth, for the borderless utopia, etc.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 12, 2018 04:24 PM (0jtPF)
This.
Or how we should embrace ex-cons and "give them another chance" bleated by someone living in a gated community.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2018 04:32 PM (MjCfq)
I thought my point was quite simple. That is the eco client world Trump lives in. The Walmart kids clients live in the other world. Their political perception of them is just opposite. Thats all I was saying .
But of course everything that is not praise of Trump is considered an insult.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
Point taken. I read it differently, but this is all ascii.
Fwiw, I'm not on the "not in praise of Trump is an insult team". I've made it pretty clear that I hate Trump, I have a vested interest in hating him because I've been at it for 35 years, but when he does good things I say "hey, that's a good thing".
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 12, 2018 04:34 PM (fuK7c)
It is amazing talking to European middle/working class people that get over here. They can't believe how rich their peers in the US are compared to them.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2018 04:12 PM (Z8FFX)
Our poor people are obese, drive cars and have big screen tvs.
Not poor.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 12, 2018 04:41 PM (7UW64)
Posted by: Bert G aka Country Singer at February 12, 2018 03:55 PM (uiwCw)
No, he was a bad candidate, too.
Wait, what?
Posted by: GWB at February 12, 2018 04:45 PM (bPZSS)
Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 12, 2018 04:48 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 12, 2018 04:50 PM (M+Lyo)
If you're not going to help the cause, then Shut the Fuck Up!
And I'm looking at you GWB. What a disappointment that man has become.
Posted by: LGoPs at February 12, 2018 06:07 PM (UThOJ)
Posted by: torabora at February 12, 2018 07:29 PM (K0z2U)
Posted by: Byzantine_General at February 12, 2018 08:52 PM (lnK2O)
Posted by: Joe Mack at February 12, 2018 09:21 PM (30Hwk)
Not to take away from Dr. Hanson's larger cultural point, but Strzok and Page had another burden to meet. I don't care if they were biased, only that they keep their biases separate from their law enforcement work. They thought the two things were identical.
But the fish rots from the top. They were only carrying out the corrupt vision of their leaders.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at February 12, 2018 10:18 PM (Ndje9)
making $1 bets between them over how they can ruin the lives of us, the
little people.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 12, 2018 03:22 PM (oVJmc)
I totally have to steal that. Will credit you when I do, thanks!!!!
Posted by: NC Ref at February 13, 2018 12:00 AM (pAx+1)
I think he might be right about a few people, but mostly VDH is right up there with the elites who don't get most of America... after all he's still living in communist California. How sincere can he be?
Posted by: petunia at February 13, 2018 02:18 AM (VoCyE)
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