How to Create a Cooperative and Mutually Beneficial Environment, Even When Dealing With People Who are Uncooperative and Sneaky

I've said this before, but I don't like social justice mobbing. Or boycotts. Or the rest of the coercions -- rather than persuasions -- that are currently the default method of political "argumentation" in this country in Current Year.

But: The way to stop this regime is to inflict the same tactics on our enemies (and yes, I think "enemies" is an apt term at this point) until they stop using those tactics against us.

I have proof for this proposition. It's called Science.

There is a famous study -- look it up -- about how to push noncooperative opponents into behaving cooperatively, how to force them to start acting in a fair way instead of a self-serving, aggressive, hostile way.

The study involved a small variation of the famous Prisoner's Dilemma game.

I won't describe that game -- read it on Wikipedia if you like -- but I'll describe the rules of the variation that interests me.

The variation was designed to see if any particular tactic was useful in forcing a change of behavior of a noncooperative, hostile opponent, making him into a cooperative, helpful ally.

I'm going to repeat this a few times, until the Cucks get it:

The variation was designed to see if any particular tactic was useful in forcing a change of behavior of a noncooperative, hostile opponent, making him into a cooperative, helpful ally.

The variation was not designed to see Who Can Make the Liberals Cry. The game was constructed for the purpose of figuring out what tactic, if any, would foster inter-player cooperation instead of inter-player strife.

The game works like this:

First of all, there's real money involved, to make sure that people have an actual tangible investment in the outcome of the game. The money -- which the players keep, if they win it -- is there to make sure people aren't just doing the "nice, cooperative" thing because it is literally zero cost to do so.

The money is there to make sure that there is a cost associated with losing and a benefit -- a real one-- associated with winning.

Each round of the game, two five dollar bills are placed on the table between the two players. (Or a like amount of money which is nontrivial, and yet won't bankrupt the researchers conducting the tests.)

Each player has two moves they can make: "SHARE" or "STEAL."

They choose a move and keep it hidden until they both reveal it simultaneously.

Here's how the money gets divided:

If both players SHARE, then both take $5 from the pot. They split the pot evenly. Fairly.

If one player SHARES and the other player STEALS, the player who STEALS gets both $5 bills -- $10 -- and the sap who SHARED gets zip.

If both players STEAL, their noncooperation means that they both lose. Both $5 bills are forfeited and kept by the researchers.

So, let's take a look at the trivial situation first, the situation in which both players are inherently cooperative and always pick SHARE as their move.

In the course of, say, twenty rounds, both pick "SHARE" again and again, and both keep pocketing $5 each.

This is cooperative play -- and this is the best scenario for both players taken together, as it pulls the most money into the players' combined hands and out of the hands of the researchers.

But that situation is, as I say, trivial -- if all men were angels, we should not have any need of government at all, as the saying goes.

What happens when one player starts playing STEAL and swiping the pot from a cooperatively-inclined player who has been playing SHARE?

What does the cooperatively-inclined player do to encourage his noncooperative opponent to begin playing cooperatively -- playing SHARE, and thus taking the most money (for both players) from the researchers -- if the noncooperative player wants to keep taking advantage of the cooperative one and STEALing the money?

Should he keep playing SHARE?

Should he keep showing what a Great Guy he is?

Should he keep showing he's Not Like Those Other Conservatives and so is willing to play the doormat sap for the liberal?

Remember, this study is meant to see if there is any tactic that can be used to shift a situation of noncooperation and hostility to cooperation and amity.

You will not be surprised to hear that if the sap keeps playing SHARE, his aggressive, advantage-taking opposite player will keep playing STEAL and take all the money, at his expense.

So, is there a way to force the noncooperative, advantage-taking player to cooperate and play fairly and share equally?

Yes there is, and studies have consistently shown this.

The tactic is not to keep showing what an Ostentatious Christian Commentator you are by playing the fool for the opponent.

The tactic is called Tit For Tat. Simple, really: You start playing STEAL, over and over again, to show you are willing to blow the game up and make both you and your opponent poorer for it.

At least -- until your opponent gets the message and starts showing the SHARE play. Until he backs down from his aggressive, unfair advantage taking and begins signalling that he would now like to SHARE the future pots.

At which point, you can begin cooperating, and playing SHARE.

And if he cheats again, by playing STEAL, you once again bully him by playing STEAL yourself over and over again until he shows he's willing to cooperate again by showing SHARE several rounds in a row.

This simple system -- obvious to any child as the only strategy that makes any sense -- has been shown to not only benefit the player employing it, but also, the two players taken together, because, over time, the Tit for Tat strategy results in more cooperation and more money going into the players' hands from the researcher.

Let me repeat: Tit For Tat does not just benefit the person playing this strategy. It also benefits both players as a group (well, a group of two people) because it results in cooperation and fair play.

And let me also repeat: Playing the sap over and over again to a STEALing player and always showing #MuhPrinciples and #MuhSacredConservativeBeliefs by playing SHARE with a player who has repeatedly shown his intention to steal you blind is simply a way to reward the STEALing player, and convince him that he should always STEAL, because look, after 20 rounds, he's walking out of there with $200.

Tit for Tat may sound cynical and nihilistic, but social scientists and game theorists have demonstrated its actual end result is enhanced cooperation, fairer play, and greater amity.

So for the last time:

The cucks screaming that we must permit every depredation of our rights by progressive mobs and may never act in our own self interest to impose some Tit For Tat retaliation/cooperation-encouragement should just shut the fuck up already and read a goddamn scientific paper instead of yammering about how we must always behave like Saints while permitting our opponents to rob us blind.

The left enjoys its social justice muggings, and why shouldn't it? It pays no price for these muggings, and it actually profits from them. It scares corporations into firing people; it scares corporations into using their billions of dollars of capital and advertising budget to propagate the left's memes.

The game, as it's currently being played by Conservatism, Inc., is literally all upside for the left. It's all wins. It's all cash in pocket. It's all silencing their foes, without any fear of being silenced in return.

Why would they stop playing this way? Why abandon a strategy that is almost nothing but pure win?

What do the Frenches of the world suggest we do about this? That we just let David French write more of his fey, moist columns that have done fuck-all to improve the situation so far?

That we keep advertising what Perfect Saps we are in an effort to make the left tolerate us to allow us some rights?

Or do we play Tit for Tat until the left learns that this is no longer a game they play pain-free, but that the same pain they inflict on others is now fair game to be inflicted on them as well?

If you say "Keep playing the sap and writing Strongly Worded letters" -- well, they've run this game thousands of times and scientists have found that's a terrific way to exit the game with $15 while your opponent leaves it with $170.

Think of those cash amounts instead as the rights in practice you are still permitted to possess, and you can see how serious this is.

And if that's your idea of a fair system -- well, that's what makes you a cuck.

How many more decades of failure shall we give this tactic before the Smugly Righteous even permit themselves an inch of imagination in their minds to ponder the possibility that another tactic may be worth attempting?

Note: In 2015, a new tactic was deployed called "Coercion." I haven't seen this tactic described, but based on its name, I'd guess it's something like just STEALing most of the time but then randomly showing "SHARE" every 3-5 rounds, to convince the opponent that if he wants any money at all, he must just always play "SHARE" and take what you'll give him.

That's just a guess, though.

Supposedly this tactic is undefeatable by any other tactic (including itself? Wouldn't Coercion counter Coercion).

Just a note. I'm not sure if this matters overall, because if the left is playing Coercion against us -- and it feels like they are -- then we'd be fools not to blow the game up by deploying Counter-Coercion in response, or just blowing the game up out of spite, until they change their tactic.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 05:28 PM

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1 First?

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at May 24, 2018 05:20 PM (xQfPr)

2 Hah! Now I can read what Ace wrote.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at May 24, 2018 05:21 PM (xQfPr)

3 Shorter version: tire iron.

Posted by: pep at May 24, 2018 05:21 PM (LAe3v)

4 I am going to do something novel, and read the post...

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 05:24 PM (zSVEm)

5 TL; DR - Start Up the Rotors

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 24, 2018 05:24 PM (fA1SL)

6 What do the Frenches of the world suggest we do about this? That we just let David French write more of his fey, moist columns
"Fey, moist columns"
**snork**

Posted by: pep at May 24, 2018 05:24 PM (LAe3v)

7 This is what Trump is doing with No Ko and China isn't he? To force them into cooperative play.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2018 05:25 PM (a0IVu)

8 *Turns Over Card*

STEELE

Posted by: John Brennan at May 24, 2018 05:25 PM (5XTAs)

9 Read the post and top 10?

Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at May 24, 2018 05:25 PM (qC1Sy)

10 That's going to take a while to read

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2018 05:25 PM (aC6Sd)

11 Wow.

Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at May 24, 2018 05:25 PM (qC1Sy)

12 *Turns Over Card*

HAIR

Posted by: Michele Obama's Landing Strip at May 24, 2018 05:26 PM (5XTAs)

13 Why would they stop playing this way? Why abandon a strategy that is almost nothing but pure win?
The only possible counter to that is to note that when the reckoning comes, no mercy will be shown. Spitting in people's faces tends to irritate them eventually.

Posted by: pep at May 24, 2018 05:26 PM (LAe3v)

14 Is it Beat on David French Thursday? Not that I have a problem with that.

Posted by: tu3031 at May 24, 2018 05:26 PM (O5Q3r)

15 Read Job... the Devil pointed out that someone gets pretty motivated when they have skin in the game..... now back to the post...

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 05:26 PM (zSVEm)

16 7. Yep. This very thing. Kim's got nothing. He never jad anything, anyway. He can cooperate, and prosper. Or he can not cooperate, amd continue to rely on the forbearance of his generals and the US.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 24, 2018 05:26 PM (fA1SL)

17 This is totally and completely dead on balls accurate.

It works.

Subsidize bad behavior you get more of it, tax it you get less. Thomas Sowell is pithy.

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 05:27 PM (IEixW)

18 >>That's going to take a while to read

Meh. Once you get to 'Prisoner's Dilemma' it's pretty self explanatory.

Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2018 05:28 PM (5XTAs)

19 7
This is what Trump is doing with No Ko and China isn't he? To force them into cooperative play.

Posted by: IC
It is. It's amazing to me how few people recognize real negotiation when it's staring them in the face. What Barry did wasn't negotiation, it was fellatio.

Posted by: pep at May 24, 2018 05:28 PM (LAe3v)

20 about how to push noncooperative opponents into behaving cooperatively, how to force them to start acting in a fair way instead of a self-serving, aggressive, hostile way."

I intend to be non cooperative. It's a lifestyle...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 05:28 PM (7LY+6)

21 Excellent Post...nothing more to add.

Posted by: William Eaton at May 24, 2018 05:28 PM (MuTTO)

22 Cooperation...try a manual attitude adjustment.

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2018 05:29 PM (0+nbW)

23 Tit for Tat is actually a great motivator... ask the Israelis... of course they have a LOT Bigger Tits....

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 05:29 PM (zSVEm)

24 Tit for tat?

Another AtC thread?

Posted by: filbert at May 24, 2018 05:29 PM (953wK)

25 "The art of the deal" was not just a cool title for a book.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at May 24, 2018 05:29 PM (ppaKI)

26 The variation was not designed to see Who Can Make the Liberals Cry.

Crap. I live to make liberals cry.
Just by using facts.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2018 05:29 PM (3oX+R)

27 how to push noncooperative opponents into behaving cooperatively, how to force them to start acting in a fair way instead of a self-serving, aggressive, hostile way."
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Or you could have entitled this

"How to raise Children"

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 05:29 PM (5ETV3)

28 This lesson can (and honestly -MUST) be used across the board: The conservatives are being silenced by schools, universities, the media (including Whoreywood), and even in the town square. Those who exercise their 2A rights are demonized with no less fervor.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2018 05:30 PM (jxbfJ)

29 23
Tit for Tat is actually a great motivator... ask the Israelis... of course they have a LOT Bigger Tits....

Posted by: kraken[/i
**mind goes a-wanderin' to Girls of the IDF**

Posted by: pep at May 24, 2018 05:30 PM (LAe3v)

31 Just by using facts.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2018 05:29 PM (3oX+R)

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Liberals don't need facts because they got feelingzzzzz....

Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at May 24, 2018 05:30 PM (qC1Sy)

32 Coming Soon to the Octagon, only on PayPerView

Carrot v Stick

Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2018 05:30 PM (5XTAs)

33 27Or you could have entitled this

"How to raise Children"

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 05:29 PM (5ETV3)

Isn't that how they (the left) are behaving? Like petulant, stubborn, obnoxious little sh*ts.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2018 05:30 PM (jxbfJ)

34 If you listen closely to Trump, his entire international trade approach is pretty much exactly tit for tat.

Or, instead of "free trade" it's "fair trade" or if you want to be a pointy-headed intellectual, "reciprocal trade."

Posted by: filbert at May 24, 2018 05:31 PM (953wK)

35 I've just found that you can make a passable breakfast topping out of crappy "maple" "syrup" from a plastic jar if you heat it up a bit and mix in a healthy glug of blackstrap molasses and a pinch of salt.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 24, 2018 05:31 PM (BRvh1)

36

I'm all about the Tits.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at May 24, 2018 05:31 PM (UFLLM)

37 "So, is there a way to force the noncooperative, advantage-taking player to cooperate and play fairly and share equally?"

Yes. Take out your 2nd Amendment .38 Proxy Tool and demand back your money. Then take your initial investment and go buy more ammo because it's clear the experiment proved being Mr. Nice Guy all the time remains a fool's errand.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 24, 2018 05:31 PM (H8S+R)

38 27Or you could have entitled this

"How to raise Children"

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 05:29 PM (5ETV3)

Isn't that how they (the left) are behaving? Like petulant, stubborn, obnoxious little sh*ts.
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yep and Trump is Daddy.

Its hilarious.

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 05:32 PM (ocVHK)

39 The way I look at it is this: you should always play nice, always play by the rules, always do the right thing, and always take the high road... until you should not.

The reason war exists, the reason prison and other punishments exist, is that there comes a time eventually when you are dealing with bad people that you must stop doing the nice thing and do the mean thing.

Its always reluctant, its always with regret, and it should never be entered eagerly and swiftly. You should exhaust all other possibilities and options first. But once you have, then you must with all your heart and with all your effort wage war until it is no longer needed. Because half-hearted or weakly prosecuted justice or war is worse than nothing at all.

Have we exhausted every other option? In some areas, I think so. Its obvious, every day more so, that the left has abandoned all rules of society, behavior, law, reason, sanity, and truth to win. For them, power is the goal, the final prize, not anything to use that power with. They view power as the answer, not the tool by which to find the answer.

If your opponent is that sort, then you have to be willing to do what it takes to stop them, because they are far more damaging to society than the results of fighting back.

BUt make no mistake. You WILL damage society by fighting on their terms. You WILL damage yourself. You will cause harm. Its just a question of degree and time; what will do the least damage while leading to the greatest good?

That's why the founding fathers said they were willing to fight and sacrifice so their children would not need to. They knew what it would cost them and the nation.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 05:32 PM (39g3+)

40 But to share is muh principlez...

Posted by: GOPe at May 24, 2018 05:32 PM (c/EDo)

41 35
I've just found that you can make a passable breakfast topping out of
crappy "maple" "syrup" from a plastic jar if you heat it up a bit and
mix in a healthy glug of blackstrap molasses and a pinch of salt.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

There's OT, and then there's OT.

Posted by: pep at May 24, 2018 05:32 PM (LAe3v)

42 They only care about keeping their jobs and their friends in the journalism set, along with their self-perceived intellectual superiorty. Advancing a conservative cause or getting a win for the right is irrelevant.

Posted by: brak at May 24, 2018 05:32 PM (WT+Ie)

43 >>If you listen closely to Trump, his entire international trade approach is pretty much exactly tit for tat.

Well, more like 'Dickpunch for Tat'.

Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2018 05:32 PM (5XTAs)

44 How about if I just punch him in the mouth and take both $5 bills and his lunch money?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 05:32 PM (/tuJf)

45 "The cucks screaming that we must permit every depredation of our rights by progressive mobs and may never
act in our own self interest to impose some Tit For Tat
retaliation/cooperation-encouragement should just shut the fuck up
already and read a goddamn scientific paper instead of yammering about
how we must always behave like Saints while permitting our opponents to
rob us blind."

Hmmm.... now where have I heard this sort of thinking before? It sounds vaguely familiar somehow.

Posted by: D-Lamp at May 24, 2018 05:32 PM (fue0c)

46 Tit for tat, also known as "never start a fight but always finish one."

Posted by: filbert at May 24, 2018 05:33 PM (953wK)

47 The way I look at it is this: you should always play nice, always play
by the rules, always do the right thing, and always take the high
road... until you should not.
That sounds familiar.

Posted by: zombie Patrick Swayze at May 24, 2018 05:33 PM (LAe3v)

48 This is Mom 101.

Mom: Do you want eggs or French toast?

Kid: I want a bagel.

Mom: Fine, you get nothing.

Kid: Okay, Ill have the eggs.

Problem solved.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2018 05:33 PM (7UW64)

49 For those still on Twitter - I'm not - I wonder if mass unfollowings of Cuck, Inc would at least send a message.

Nah, probably not.

Posted by: Wyatt at May 24, 2018 05:33 PM (kFnmp)

50 Maybe the GOP is finally a bunch of masochistic snivellers, who Like to have their lunch money stolen, get their ears flipped, and have boogers wiped on them...

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 05:33 PM (zSVEm)

51 The greatest natural rule is: One Cuts, the Other Chooses.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 24, 2018 05:33 PM (QQ+il)

52 >>Kid: Okay, Ill have the eggs.

Dad : Too late. Go mow the lawn.

Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2018 05:33 PM (5XTAs)

53 Just got a chance to read PDT's letter to Whoa Fat. That's what I call diplomacy! He just out and out told him that we'd swat him like the fruit fly he is if he steps out of line. Think it over Chubby and ring me up if you change your mind. Love Donald.

I just love it.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2018 05:33 PM (jm1YL)

54 Boycotting cracked the NFL on the kneeling issue.

The sports pundits have been whining about it all day.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 24, 2018 05:33 PM (WglMe)

55 I prefer to not think of my dumping Netflix as a boycott. Instead, I am redirecting my resources in such a way that I feel I am no longer bashing my dick with a brick.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 24, 2018 05:34 PM (0ogQG)

56 My question is because these clowns pride themselves on their follower count, and while they would never admit it, they would not like people leaving their Twitter feeds in droves.

Posted by: Wyatt at May 24, 2018 05:34 PM (kFnmp)

57 Cliffnotes version for the GoPe: This is how you got Trump. And your actions since will be how you get more Trump.

Kid from Terminator 2 : "Are we learning yet?"

Posted by: Bete, deplorable bot of melancholy at May 24, 2018 05:34 PM (Ojki1)

58 scientists have found that's a terrific way to exit the game with $15 while your opponent leaves it with $170.
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The think is that in the current game Hillary (or her ilk) walk home with the $170 and French (and his ilk) with the $15...but its our money not theirs.
So...he's willing to give Hillary $170 of YOUR dollars. As long as he gets his cut.

It is the GOPe's game overall. And they've been winning by losing for a long time now...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2018 05:34 PM (Z8FFX)

59 51. There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who have a gun, and those who dig.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 24, 2018 05:34 PM (fA1SL)

60 How about if I just punch him in the mouth and take both $5 bills and his lunch money?

Posted by: JackStraw
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You'll achieve your short term goals, but your chance of enriching your self long term is shot since the game ends. And also, you'll probably wind up in the penitentiary before you are 18.

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 05:34 PM (ocVHK)

61 There's OT, and then there's OT.
Posted by: pep at May 24, 2018 05:32 PM (LAe3v)

I know, I was kinda being OT in a facetious manner. I had mentioned something about going off and having French toast for dinner, because of all this David French talk.

And it was also to subtly signal how little I give a f--- about David French's opinions.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 24, 2018 05:34 PM (BRvh1)

62 Or you could have entitled this

"How to raise Children"

Posted by: simplemind

When does the ass beatings begin?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2018 05:34 PM (3oX+R)

63 This is what Trump is doing with No Ko and China isn't he? To force them into cooperative play. Posted by: IC at May 24, 2018 05:25 PM (a0IVu)
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Silly old person that I am, we used to call 'cooperative play' Diplomacy.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 24, 2018 05:35 PM (MIKMs)

64

Screw Tat, go straight to water-boarding. Swift, massive punishment and then an offer to behave more reasonably generally works. If not, wash, rinse, repeat.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at May 24, 2018 05:35 PM (UFLLM)

65 *turns over card*

ACQUIESCE

Posted by: GOPe at May 24, 2018 05:35 PM (FJXGr)

66 Holy mackerel, it's wall to wall movie reviews today. Better go back and read this one now.

Posted by: Decaf at May 24, 2018 05:35 PM (/3+Sg)

67 I'm thinking Singapore is feeling pretty bad right now. Just think of the influx of money into their economy had the summit taken place.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2018 05:35 PM (jm1YL)

68 If you always lose, at some point you no longer care whether you survive and unleash the Gotterdammerung.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 24, 2018 05:35 PM (QQ+il)

69 BUt make no mistake. You WILL damage society by fighting on their terms. You WILL damage yourself. You will cause harm. Its just a question of degree and time; what will do the least damage while leading to the greatest good?

That's why the founding fathers said they were willing to fight and sacrifice so their children would not need to. They knew what it would cost them and the nation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 05:32 PM (39g3+)

It's taken a hundred years of appeasement to the "progressives" to bring us to this point.

How much more ruin is in our country--especially given that the rest of the world is much farther down the path of dissolute corruption than even we are?

The USA continues to be the last best hope of Man on Earth.

How much more appeasement can we, and the world, afford?

Posted by: filbert at May 24, 2018 05:35 PM (953wK)

70 Dear Netflix,

You should advertise Yeti coolers at the beginning of all of Obama's $60M new shows.

Love,
A person who has used your service for a decade and who won't continue past next month

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 24, 2018 05:35 PM (VgKNm)

71 Maybe it's time conservatives/right/anyone but liberal start playing the Chicago Way....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZ6eaL3S2E&t=5s

Posted by: DugDeep at May 24, 2018 05:36 PM (otDpI)

72 Why do you think there are so many decrepit old fucks in the Senate? Playing the long game has made them all rich. Term limits!

Posted by: Fritz at May 24, 2018 05:36 PM (J7XgW)

73 There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who have a gun, and those who dig.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine

Those who beat their swords into plowshares, will plow for those who didn't. Long time history lesson.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2018 05:36 PM (3oX+R)

74 Hobbes had it right.

Posted by: 13times at May 24, 2018 05:36 PM (K3B2k)

75 I bet the Netflix shows are still trivially easy to see, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 24, 2018 05:36 PM (VgKNm)

76 The biggest mistake free trade types make is the assumption that its possible between competing hostile countries. Free trade within your country? Sure. But with foes and rivals? Make it fair or not at all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 05:37 PM (39g3+)

77 >>Hobbes had it right.

Never seen anyone play Calvinball like that Cat, before or since.

Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2018 05:37 PM (5XTAs)

78 Just signed up to Gab. Found the horde. Yay me!

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 24, 2018 05:37 PM (dUJdY)

79 Never had Netflix, but I have proudly boycotted the NFL since the Ferguson on-field protests. I recently quit Twitter, and stopped visiting cuck sites like NRO and the like.

Why should I patronize people who despise me?

Posted by: Wyatt at May 24, 2018 05:37 PM (kFnmp)

80 Sounds pragmatic

Posted by: Pappy Freakscene at May 24, 2018 05:37 PM (FTPVM)

81 What Jackstraw said. " I wish you had more time".

Posted by: Ben Had at May 24, 2018 05:38 PM (+mYkQ)

82 This is Mom 101.

Mom: Do you want eggs or French toast?

Kid: I want a bagel.

Mom: Fine, you get nothing.

Kid: Okay, Ill have the eggs.

Problem solved.
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Kid: Okay, Ill have the eggs.

Dad : Too late. Go mow the lawn.
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This is, in a nutshell why father's are important.
There are times in life where negotiation costs you an opportunity. Fathers teach that. Trump just taught the fat kid a valuable lesson.

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 05:38 PM (Ev/E9)

83 http://bit.ly/2GMn272
+++++
John McCain: 'Go to Hell' If You Don't Like that I Passed Pee Dossier to FBI
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Nope SHITSTAIN that is where you are going

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at May 24, 2018 05:38 PM (y3aQB)

84 Ace, your Google Ad at the top of the page under your header drops down and covers a portion of the first paragraph of your top article when viewing with safari. You need to fix that...

Posted by: pete at May 24, 2018 05:38 PM (Hel/g)

85 >>You'll achieve your short term goals, but your chance of enriching your self long term is shot since the game ends. And also, you'll probably wind up in the penitentiary before you are 18.

No. I will change the game. I'm more interested in crushing liberals than having them play nice with me.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 05:38 PM (/tuJf)

86 Trump just played the "Steal" card on Kim.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2018 05:38 PM (k1TUh)

87 Honestly, I don't think the game is pain free for a lot of the players anymore. Here in the Hudson Valley many of the people who have cheered for the Kneeling Democrat Players are moving out. They can't or won't pay for the pain they've inflicted on us from playing politics like a team sport.

The worst part for Fl, NC and TN is they are locusts and will just start the same crap all over again in a new place.

They have zero self awareness or just don't plain give a fig.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 24, 2018 05:39 PM (arw4g)

88 77 Your bull-s wears thin

Posted by: 13times at May 24, 2018 05:39 PM (K3B2k)

89 84 Ace, your Google Ad at the top of the page under your header drops down and covers a portion of the first paragraph of your top article when viewing with safari. You need to fix that...
Posted by: pete at May 24, 2018 05:38 PM (Hel/g)

Two weeks... aka Sonobi......

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 05:39 PM (zSVEm)

90 I think the first 15 minutes of Glengarry Glen Ross
covers this as well.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 24, 2018 05:39 PM (Y9uH4)

91 It's a fight between us and a pack of amoral, rabid dogs.

David French, self-appointed referee, says we are obliged to follow the Marquess of Queensberry rules.

Why would anyone take this seriously? He's a con man. His opinion of conservative intellect is offensive.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2018 05:39 PM (/qEW2)

92 There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who have a gun, and those who dig.

Touche. Though not the best, that is the first natural rule.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 24, 2018 05:40 PM (QQ+il)

93 Kid: Okay, Ill have the eggs.

Dad : Too late. Go mow the lawn.

-

These are some of my favorite moments as a dad. They can't happen often, but they teach very valuable lessons that don't need repeating too often.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 24, 2018 05:40 PM (VgKNm)

94 52 >>Kid: Okay, Ill have the eggs.

Dad : Too late. Go mow the lawn.
Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2018 05:33 PM (5XTAs)

...

fist bump.

The greatest part is saying it with a smile.

I'm sorry you made that choice. Discipline stinks, doesn't it? I'm sure you'll make the right choice the first time tomorrow.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 24, 2018 05:40 PM (yL25O)

95 Is this game anything like Hide the Salami?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 24, 2018 05:40 PM (arw4g)

96 Bitter Clinger: "The sports pundits have been whining about it all day."

I boycotted them looong before I boycotted the NFL. Those guys really don't know when to quit. Talk about an irrelevant profession.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 24, 2018 05:40 PM (H8S+R)

97 Hobbes had it right.

Posted by: 13times at May 24, 2018 05:36 PM (K3B2k)

Tiger blood!

Posted by: Charlie Sheen at May 24, 2018 05:40 PM (sXefu)

98 This is, in a nutshell why father's are important.

There are times in life where negotiation costs you an opportunity.
Fathers teach that. Trump just taught the fat kid a valuable lesson.

Posted by: simplemind
Exactly. You must be prepared to walk away. You can never let your opponent know that you're so desperate for a deal that you won't. IOW, the exact opposite of Obama and Kerry. What a couple of impotent, feckless, putzes.

Posted by: pep at May 24, 2018 05:41 PM (LAe3v)

99 Shoot the asshole

Posted by: Archer at May 24, 2018 05:41 PM (gmo/4)

100 When does the ass beatings begin?
=======
there was an allusion to a mighty nuclear arsenal

the most effective ass beatings are the ones you never have to deal out . . .because they know you will

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 05:41 PM (cwr+u)

101 scientists have found that's a terrific way to exit the game with $15 while your opponent leaves it with $170.

In the game ace outlines, the jerk is always going to end up slightly ahead of the nice guy, because the nice guy has to feel out whether the other one is a jerk or not. TO make matters worse, the jerk can once in a while pull the "steal" card in a run of "shares" and get a little bit extra for a while. Unless the nice guy does it every so often, they'll always be slightly behind.

But the point isn't who gets the most. Its whether or not you can get a scumbag to learn to share and work with society or not.

And that's what capitalism is about; bad guys can get ahead, for a while, and will tend to get a slight advantage. But overall it will benefit the most people the greatest amount by taking advantage of innate greed and fallen man's selfish nature.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 05:41 PM (39g3+)

102 Nunes and Growdy were snubbed by the FBI.

My shocked face o_o

Posted by: Under Fire at May 24, 2018 05:41 PM (r9UYA)

103 91 It's a fight between us and a pack of amoral, rabid dogs.

David French, self-appointed referee, says we are obliged to follow the Marquess of Queensberry rules.

Why would anyone take this seriously? He's a con man. His opinion of conservative intellect is offensive.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2018 05:39 PM (/qEW2)

Like those pro wrestling refs who spend the whole match scrutinizing the Face, while the Heel spends the first five minutes on the other side of the ring pulling various brass, knuckle shaped objects out of his boots.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 24, 2018 05:41 PM (BRvh1)

104 Hobbes was the " nasty, brutish, and short" guy right? And he was talking about Islam, right?

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 05:41 PM (zSVEm)

105 French's ears must be burning today.
That, or his exposed butt cheeks in assless chaps.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at May 24, 2018 05:42 PM (koNhm)

106 Well said.

As all of us who espouse the game theory approach to this keep saying, we are going to apply the Left's rules to them until they comprehend that those rules are horrible and should be abandoned.

It's not just drinking the sweet sweet liberal tears, though that is a lovely side benefit. It is using the stick because words did not work with the expressed goal of changing the system back to a more reasonable set of rules.

It's not merely punitive, it's meant to be instructive.

Focusing on the use their rules part while ignoring the until they agree to change part is acting in flat out bad faith in responding to the position.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at May 24, 2018 05:42 PM (dEQP3)

107 Trump only won, and I mean ONLY, because he never apologized, backtracked, or surrendered. You will never hear him say he "misspoked." The war is on for the future of the country. We can either be globalist appeasers of Chinese ascendancy or be proponents of the West.

And ONLY the U.S. can lead this struggle. Some of the smaller European states get it. Australia shows signs of life sometimes, but only we can lead. Trump understands this. Obama did everything that he could to reject it. And for that all the idiots over there still upset that we sent Jeb packing can kiss my ass.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 24, 2018 05:42 PM (y4sLz)

108 Please forward this post link to Frenchie. It probably won't help, but perhaps if enough of us do it?

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 24, 2018 05:42 PM (ujg0T)

109 "BUt make no mistake. You WILL damage society by fighting on their terms. You WILL damage yourself. You will cause harm. Its just a question of degree and time; what will do the least damage while leading to the greatest good? "

The Jews would not have "damaged Germany" by fighting back early, rather than going to the death camps peacefully.

The Russians would not have "damaged the Soviet Union" by refusing to allow themselves to be rounded up by Stalin's secret police at night.

In both cases, and many others, a powerful resistance might have just saved those countries. As has been said, all that it takes for Evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2018 05:42 PM (k1TUh)

110

How do Bebe and Gushka feel about this Tit for Pudding Cup strategy?

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at May 24, 2018 05:42 PM (UFLLM)

111 Some economists did a study once where there was a pot of money with two players. One player got to divide the money and the other player could only accept or reject the deal. If rejected, no one go anything.
Being economists, they were shocked when people would reject deals that weren't 50/50 splits for even trivial amounts like a one cent. They didn't recognize that a sense of fairness drives a lot of human interaction.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 24, 2018 05:43 PM (WVeiZ)

112 Or, walk out of the new car showroom until they beg you to come back with the deal you wanted in the first place.

Posted by: Archer at May 24, 2018 05:43 PM (gmo/4)

113 Oooh sounds like fun!

Can I use a card that says fuck my wife?

--David French

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 24, 2018 05:43 PM (4ErVI)

114 I would like to grind out a Marlboro in French's eye socket.

Posted by: Under Fire at May 24, 2018 05:43 PM (r9UYA)

115 No. I will change the game. I'm more interested in crushing liberals than having them play nice with me.
Posted by: JackStraw

Kobayashi Maru.

Reprogram the bitch to win.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2018 05:43 PM (3oX+R)

116 Yep. This very thing. Kim's got nothing. He never jad anything, anyway. He can cooperate, and prosper. Or he can not cooperate, amd continue to rely on the forbearance of his generals and the US.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 24, 2018 05:26 PM (fA1SL)

Or he can not cooperate and still own all of North Korea. He''ll get the best women (if that's what he likes), the best kimchi, the best of everything North Korea has to offer. It's everyone else in North Korea that will be screwed. Except his entourage.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at May 24, 2018 05:43 PM (9BLnV)

117 John McCain: 'Go to Hell' If You Don't Like that I Passed Pee Dossier to FBI
============
Wow. Thoughtful and contemplative he's not. Seems unusual for someone on their deathbed.
Weren't they just planning his funeral?

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 05:43 PM (liOer)

118 Some people just aren't cut our for Booshwood !!

Posted by: David French *shaking tiny fist* at May 24, 2018 05:44 PM (koNhm)

119 My problem is I don't play the game. Once they start with damaging, unreasonable, despotic demands, I put the P229 on the table.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 24, 2018 05:44 PM (arw4g)

120 No. I will change the game. I'm more interested in crushing liberals than having them play nice with me.

Posted by: JackStraw
This is what the effete boneheads don't understand. They want to play by the rules, even when the deck is stacked. (unless their opponents are Republicans, of course)

Trump never accepts the situation as it is. He ALWAYS starts by shaping the battlefield.

Posted by: pep at May 24, 2018 05:44 PM (LAe3v)

121 I played this once with blowjobs and not $5 bills -- blow me; 69; being the choices.

Boy, I sucked alot of cock that day but I showed who the bigger man was.

Well, not about cock size, of course, but personal morality.

Posted by: david french at May 24, 2018 05:44 PM (Evws/)

122 there was an allusion to a mighty nuclear arsenal

the most effective ass beatings are the ones you never have to deal out . . .because they know you will
Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 05:41 PM (cwr+u)

...

Trump should follow that Frank guy's advice and nuke the moon this weekend.

I bet the summit would be back on, except it would be an unconditional surrender on the hull of the USS Ohio.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 24, 2018 05:44 PM (yL25O)

123 I don't understand. Can you explain the rules again, please?

Posted by: Weasel at May 24, 2018 05:44 PM (Tbklz)

124 When does the ass beatings begin?
=======
there was an allusion to a mighty nuclear arsenal

the most effective ass beatings are the ones you never have to deal out . . .because they know you will
Posted by: simplemind

I wish you'd have told that to my parents when I was growing up.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2018 05:45 PM (3oX+R)

125 117 John McCain: 'Go to Hell' If You Don't Like that I Passed Pee Dossier to FBI
============
Wow. Thoughtful and contemplative he's not. Seems unusual for someone on their deathbed.
Weren't they just planning his funeral?
Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 05:43 PM (liOer)

Eh, it's the tumah talkin', maybe.... as the Reaper approaches, he might be getting frantic...

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 05:45 PM (zSVEm)

126 Great work today, Ace.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2018 05:45 PM (I2dne)

127 I boycotted them looong before I boycotted the NFL. Those guys really don't know when to quit. Talk about an irrelevant profession.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 24, 2018 05:40 PM (H8S+R)

I've often wondered why they don't just record a bunch of guys in a bar watching the big screen. You get about the same dialog, but more colorful conversation.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2018 05:45 PM (7UW64)

128 Ha. I forgot that I've done that at a car dealership.

I'll give you this and drive it off your lot.
Well, after tax tags, title, doc fees, lot fees, the 5% dealer 3M treatment, and...
Thank you for your time.
MR ROBBIE WAIT!
No, now I'll give you $500 less.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 24, 2018 05:46 PM (VgKNm)

129 The Jews would not have "damaged Germany" by fighting back early, rather than going to the death camps peacefully.

Yes, they would have... just not as much as in the end Germany got damaged by them not fighting back. Again, like I said, its a question of how much damage and how much benefit. War is awful, but less awful than the alternative, sometimes. So we go to war, even knowing its going to be awful and destructive and a horrific grinder for the men who fight and the places we fight in.

Because we know that not doing so would be worse, overall.

But make no mistake, there's always a price, and walking in without realizing that leads only to misery and the potential of quitting before the work is done out of horror and shock.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 05:46 PM (39g3+)

130 Show me a tit and I give you the $5

Posted by: steevy at May 24, 2018 05:46 PM (LiyEm)

131 I'm not so fond of tits with tats, TBH. No offense.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 24, 2018 05:46 PM (CPk08)

132 73
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who have a gun, and those who dig.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine

Those who beat their swords into plowshares, will plow for those who didn't. Long time history lesson.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2018 05:36 PM (3oX+R)

Those who are forced to get on the train. Those who say "GTFO my lawn, now!".

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2018 05:46 PM (jxbfJ)

133 "John McCain: 'Go to Hell' If You Don't Like that I Passed Pee Dossier to FBI"

I'll meet you there asshole. Looks like you'll be there first.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 24, 2018 05:46 PM (arw4g)

134 Shoot the hostage.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 24, 2018 05:46 PM (QQ+il)

135 McStain would be dead ass broke in real life if this was the game he played.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 05:46 PM (JFO2v)

136 While I agree with her on nothing, I have to say I've become a bit of a Marie Harf fan. She's certainly easier on the eyes in the Liberal Seat than Juan.

Posted by: The Wolf at May 24, 2018 05:46 PM (pxOl8)

137 116. His generals. They're his greatest danger and his only asset. He's snuffed enough of their peers to make them all a bit nervous. Kill or be killed.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 24, 2018 05:46 PM (fA1SL)

138 https://hooktube.com/watch?v=nTh5JzRziHE

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at May 24, 2018 05:47 PM (xQfPr)

139 Eh, it's the tumah talkin', maybe.... as the Reaper approaches, he might be getting frantic...
Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 05:45 PM (zSVEm)

Why on earth would you spend your last days dealing out bitter comments and insults? Of course, if you spent ALL of your days doing that, I guess you don't know how to die with dignity...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 24, 2018 05:47 PM (MX7xj)

140 Useless took McCain shared the dossier they already had and in fact bought and paid for.He got played for the chump he is.

Posted by: steevy at May 24, 2018 05:47 PM (LiyEm)

141 >>I don't understand. Can you explain the rules again, please?

Certainly. For $5.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 05:47 PM (/tuJf)

142 What do the Frenches of the world suggest we do about this? That we just let David French write more of his fey, moist columns that have done fuck-all to improve the situation so far?
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I wouldn't worry what French says. From the look of his mastery of Alinskyan tropes, he's a Washington General of the press-corps.

His equation stunk almost to the level of about every cargo-cult lib trying to beat anything into a vaguely hypocrite shape.

Posted by: Axeman at May 24, 2018 05:47 PM (vDqXW)

143 Or he can not cooperate and still own all of North Korea. He''ll get the best women (if that's what he likes), the best kimchi, the best of everything North Korea has to offer. It's everyone else in North Korea that will be screwed. Except his entourage.

The thing you're missing is that North Korea has no trading partners and produces almost nothing. They exist and continue to live by taking from gullible, weak leaders around the world. They blackmail the world into sending goods and money to them, then live a while, run out, and try again.

If everyone just says "f you" and stops, then they run out and now he's got a serious dilemma as a leader: eventually people who have no hope or future will decide to go out with a bang, taking him with them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 05:48 PM (39g3+)

144 $2, same as in town.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at May 24, 2018 05:48 PM (QQ+il)

145 Not to be "that guy" but this seems to be another example of where the old fogies from ancient got it right. "Tit for tat" is very close to "an eye for an eye" (ayin tachat ayin). This doesn't leave the whole world blind - it leaves two men half-blind as a lesson to those who in their community.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2018 05:48 PM (I2dne)

146 Great post Ace. But what can I do? How do we fight?

Posted by: JAS at May 24, 2018 05:48 PM (ii30j)

147 ''Trump never accepts the situation as it is. He ALWAYS starts by shaping the battlefield. ''

The brilliance behind the bluster. Don't get me wrong, I love the bluster but there's a brilliant mind operating in the background. We haven't seen anything like it in recent history.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2018 05:49 PM (jm1YL)

148 OT, but man, the chili I started this morning has reached its perfect point... now to turn the heat down, and simmer, and get betterer and betterer....

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 05:49 PM (zSVEm)

149 117
John McCain: 'Go to Hell' If You Don't Like that I Passed Pee Dossier to FBI

============

Wow. Thoughtful and contemplative he's not. Seems unusual for someone on their deathbed.

Weren't they just planning his funeral?

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 05:43 PM (liOer)

Hey John -save a spot for me, OK?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2018 05:49 PM (jxbfJ)

150 His generals. They're his greatest danger and his only asset.

There's only so many medals you can give out. They're already festooned so much they literally have pinned gongs to their pants legs. And you can't eat a medal.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 05:49 PM (39g3+)

151 >>Useless took McCain shared the dossier they already had and in fact bought and paid for.He got played for the chump he is.

McCain is part of the coup.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 05:49 PM (/tuJf)

152 Coming Soon to the Octagon, only on PayPerView

Carrot v Stick

This is a cooking thread? With chili?

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at May 24, 2018 05:50 PM (87ijN)

153 Eh, it's the tumah talkin', maybe.... as the Reaper approaches, he might be getting frantic...

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 05:45 PM (zSVEm)

Why on earth would you spend your last days dealing out bitter
comments and insults? Of course, if you spent ALL of your days doing
that, I guess you don't know how to die with dignity...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 24, 2018 05:47 PM (MX7xj)

Because, contrary to what the piece of paper said, you were neither an officer or a gentleman. Plus, not really a christian.

Posted by: Archer at May 24, 2018 05:50 PM (gmo/4)

154 83
http://bit.ly/2GMn272

+++++

John McCain: 'Go to Hell' If You Don't Like that I Passed Pee Dossier to FBI

=====

Nope SHITSTAIN that is where you are going

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at May 24, 2018 05:38 PM (y3aQB)
There is something fundamentally wrong with this man.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2018 05:50 PM (a0IVu)

155 OT, but man, the chili I started this morning has reached its perfect point... now to turn the heat down, and simmer, and get betterer and betterer....
Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 05:49 PM (zSVEm)
---
... and then add the carrots....

Posted by: Axeman at May 24, 2018 05:50 PM (vDqXW)

156 151 >>Useless took McCain shared the dossier they already had and in fact bought and paid for.He got played for the chump he is.

McCain is part of the coup.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 05:49 PM (/tuJf)

A statue... the Left should make a statue of him...

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 05:50 PM (zSVEm)

157 At what point do the North Korean people decide they've taken enough? Some things are worth dying for. I would think that caring for my children would be number one, and feeding them is the first step.

At what point does Trump put the serious squeeze on China to take that little tin pot dictator out? Seems like a local problem they could handle easily.

And then, when do we decide that we are done playing and just nuke 'em? Oh, yeah, we don't do that. Probably just as well.

So, maybe we set up an underground railroad and clear the country of people, instead. See if ol' Tubby can plow his own fields and harvest his own crops.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2018 05:50 PM (7UW64)

158 Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at May 24, 2018 05:38 PM (y3aQB)
There is something fundamentally wrong with this man.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2018 05:50 PM (a0IVu)
I don't mean you, Internet Tough Guy - I meant with McCain.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2018 05:51 PM (a0IVu)

159 Trump is making America Great again.

If he does it all.

Carve up a mountain and put his face on it.

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 05:51 PM (liOer)

160 145
Not to be "that guy" but this seems to be another example of where the
old fogies from ancient got it right. "Tit for tat" is very close to
"an eye for an eye" (ayin tachat ayin). This doesn't leave the whole
world blind - it leaves two men half-blind as a lesson to those who in
their community.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2018 05:48 PM (I2dne)

Perhaps. But I think we are at the point where the community is willing to let far more men go half (or completely) blind for a chance at winning the whole thing. And those men that "take it for the team" certainly aren't the "beautiful people" - they are the common Joes and Janes of the world. The betters simply egg them on, collect the money and watch the show.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2018 05:51 PM (jxbfJ)

161 I think it suffices to observe that there's nothing immoral about self defense. Especially when the well being of your family, friends, and community are at stake. Then it becomes kind of a duty.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2018 05:51 PM (/qEW2)

162 Tit for tat in the macro, definitely. Clearly the Obama strategy of Suck the Tit does not work on the world stage. But in private life? "If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat. If they are thirsty, give them water to drink. In this way you will heap burning coals on their head."

Posted by: Caliban at May 24, 2018 05:51 PM (QE8X6)

163 150. Yep. And they know he'll kill them and purge their families if he even suspects they're up to something, or even just as an example to anyone who might think about getting up to something. Smart play is to kill the chief, pin it on one of his lackeys, amd snuff that lackey. Make it his most loyal one, too.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 24, 2018 05:52 PM (fA1SL)

164 There is something fundamentally wrong with this man.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2018 05:50 PM (a0IVu)

He has a brain tumor. Clearly, there is something wrong with him. We should really not listen to him now, because I'm sure his brain is unreliable. Also, he's an idiot, but the first thing is true, too.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2018 05:52 PM (7UW64)

165 Stop watching the nfl and nba--I have
Stop buying from any sponsor- I am not so good at this one yet
Stop listening to sports talk radio- I am going cold turkey
Drink and fuck more...well I'm ok on the drinking part

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 05:52 PM (SjImc)

166 But make no mistake, there's always a price, and walking in without realizing that leads only to misery and the potential of quitting before the work is done out of horror and shock."

I agree there's always a price - except in the game, the way it's being played today, conservative voters are paying the price already, and progressives get to do what they want for free. So we are effectively free to do whatever we want - what worse can happen to us than is happening already?

Blow up the NFL? Who cares, the NFL is already against me.
Blow up the University System? Who cares, the Universities are already trying to destroy everything I believe in.
Blow up the media? Who cares, they hate me, and I lose nothing if they are gone.
Blow up any remaining ideas of a common culture? That ship has sailed, we no longer have one.

Anything that I could have possibly lost from fighting back, I have already lost. I truly have nothing left to lose in these fights. But my enemies have a WHOLE lot to lose. I want to make them lose what they have. I don't want to gain anything myself - I just want them to feel pain. Lots of pain.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2018 05:52 PM (k1TUh)

167 The brilliance behind the bluster. Don't get me
wrong, I love the bluster but there's a brilliant mind operating in the
background. We haven't seen anything like it in recent history.

Posted by: Tuna
Oh, I don't know. I'm sure "please clap" and "I'll have more flexibility" put the fear of God in some people.

Posted by: pep at May 24, 2018 05:52 PM (LAe3v)

168 Trump obviously wants to play share share, it's how you make money grow. But Kim Jong Un is a bad actor and should not be allowed to do anything besides feed the worms.

Posted by: Ben Wa at May 24, 2018 05:52 PM (FTPVM)

169 Harf just revealed herself to be a hockey fan.

Now I do agree with her on something.

Posted by: The Wolf at May 24, 2018 05:53 PM (pxOl8)

170 155

zSVEm)
---
... and then add the carrots....
Posted by: Axeman at May 24, 2018 05:50 PM (vDqXW)

Nay, fie... no carrot shall ever mix with jalapenos in my crockpot...

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 05:53 PM (zSVEm)

171 TRUMP!

Posted by: MAGA at May 24, 2018 05:53 PM (LnOh3)

172 no.

that's not how "Hooray For Me and Fuck You" is played.

The bad guys just keep stealing the $5 spots and pissing in your cheerios.

I worked for a Community College behind enemy lines in California. You gamble that the pension won't get cut too.

Posted by: torabora at May 24, 2018 05:53 PM (Y274z)

173 But my enemies have a WHOLE lot to lose. I want to make them lose what they have. I don't want to gain anything myself - I just want them to feel pain. Lots of pain.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2018 05:52 PM (k1TUh)

You might be a brother from another mother. Yehudi?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 05:53 PM (SjImc)

174 No. I will change the game. I'm more interested in crushing liberals than having them play nice with me."

Cut, jib, etc...

and shove the "negotiation to yes" theories up the world's collective arse.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 05:53 PM (7LY+6)

175 He has a brain tumor. Clearly, there is something wrong with him. We should really not listen to him now, because I'm sure his brain is unreliable. Also, he's an idiot, but the first thing is true, too.
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*golf clap*

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 05:53 PM (g5Qer)

176 Kim will bluster as long as it suits China...they pull the plug and fat man goes tits up..

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2018 05:53 PM (a0IVu)

177 Harf just revealed herself to be a hockey fan.

She is a stick man?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 05:53 PM (SjImc)

178 Again as ace puts it: these guys have no skin in the game. However it turns out, they're covered by their connections and foundations and sinecures. They can pontificate on what ought to be done and how we all should behave, they can make lectures and whiteboard drawings and videos, but in the end, it doesn't matter all that much to them except on a theoretical level.

That's why they never actually do anything. They don't have to. They just talk because that's what they get paid and lauded to do. And as long as it accomplishes nothing... they will be left alone by their enemies. Who cares what old man yells at cloud says, that's all he ever does.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 05:53 PM (39g3+)

179 Are you a chili tease or a chili pimp, 'cause I'm walking away from this table.

Posted by: Fritz at May 24, 2018 05:54 PM (J7XgW)

180 I can't wait to see Trump's tweet when McShitty finally shuffles off his mortal coil.

It'll be a riot.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 24, 2018 05:54 PM (EimXz)

181 Yup. Words of wisdom Mr O spades. well said ol boy.

Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at May 24, 2018 05:54 PM (0OmEj)

182
At what point do the North Korean people decide they've taken enough?

When do the mice attack the cat?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2018 05:55 PM (IqV8l)

183 I can't wait to see Trump's tweet when McShitty finally shuffles off his mortal coil.

It'll be a riot.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 24, 2018 05:54 PM (EimXz)

He'll be mench

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 05:55 PM (SjImc)

184 McCain knew he was committing treason and also betraying everyone who ever had voted for him, just to stoke his own ego. And his answer to any one who criticizes that is "Go To Hell."

You're gonna get there first, Traitor.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2018 05:55 PM (k1TUh)

185 So we are effectively free to do whatever we want "

Exactly so.

Once one has declared themselves my enemy, all "games" are over. To do less than the other side is willing to do is wasteful.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 05:55 PM (7LY+6)

186 If you can't win, change the game.

In the game mentioned, if my opponent kept playing "steal", I would grab all of his winnings and dare him to take them back.

Posted by: Zogger at May 24, 2018 05:55 PM (SKahJ)

187 I can't wait to see Trump's tweet when McShitty finally shuffles off his mortal coil.

It'll be a riot.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 24, 2018 05:54 PM (EimXz)

My guess is that it will be slightly nicer than the letter he sent to the Norks.

Posted by: filbert at May 24, 2018 05:55 PM (953wK)

188 I'm rooting for the tumor. No shame in that.

Posted by: Ben Wa at May 24, 2018 05:56 PM (FTPVM)

189 IMDY?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 05:56 PM (SjImc)

190 steevy: "Show me a tit and I give you the $5"

See, this is the AoSHQ Lifestyle everyone talks about. It's like finding a prize in a box of Cracker Jacks.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 24, 2018 05:56 PM (H8S+R)

191
Harf just revealed herself to be a hockey fan.

I think she can be turned

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 24, 2018 05:56 PM (10vO4)

192 "The tactic is called Tit For Tat."

Classic Game Theory.

Works in war and diplomacy. This is why Trump is using/threatening tariffs. Why not use tit for tat with the Taliban? Trump suggested it but it didn't go over well, despite our history of tit for tat in warfare.

Posted by: wodun at May 24, 2018 05:56 PM (lFga6)

193 This is all well and good, can anyone spare $2, and when is the last time anyone has seen a $2 bill?

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2018 05:56 PM (aC6Sd)

194 sarahcwestwood

Sources tell me Gowdy and Nunes did not receive the documents they requested during the noon meeting at DOJ, despite the pleas for openness from Kelly and Flood at the start of the briefing

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at May 24, 2018 05:56 PM (y3aQB)

195 Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 05:53 PM (SjImc)

Hey, I can forgive a lot for a hockey gal.

Did I really just see a video of Little Marco attacking PDT over the cancelled summit, using the same inane arguments as the Left?

STFD, Pubio. Taking L'il Kim's side is not a good look on you.

Posted by: The Wolf at May 24, 2018 05:56 PM (pxOl8)

196 ''Oh, I don't know. I'm sure "please clap" and "I'll have more flexibility" put the fear of God in some people.''

I was scared shitless. Scared shitless for the life of my country.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2018 05:56 PM (jm1YL)

197 182
At what point do the North Korean people decide they've taken enough?

When do the mice attack the cat?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2018 05:55 PM (IqV8l)

Is there something peculiar about us? How about the Jews? I'm thinking about the Revolutionary War, and the Maccabean Revolt. How do these things come to a boiling point, and can we tweak that for the North Koreans?

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2018 05:57 PM (7UW64)

198 Mutual Assured Destruction strategy was Tit for Tat... potentially...

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 05:57 PM (zSVEm)

199 steevy: "Show me a tit and I give you the $5"

Double down...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 05:57 PM (7LY+6)

200 185
So we are effectively free to do whatever we want "

Exactly so.

Once one has declared themselves my enemy, all "games" are over. To do less than the other side is willing to do is wasteful.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 05:55 PM (7LY+6)

And if this does come down to a war -- in whatever form that may take -- the winner will be the one who fights the dirtiest the fastest.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2018 05:57 PM (jxbfJ)

201 STFD, Pubio. Taking L'il Kim's side is not a good look on you.
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Trump tweet: short guys always stick together.

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 05:57 PM (IEixW)

202 I think when all is said and done we will find that McCain and his henchmen were eyeball deep in criminal acts for years. He is the very definition of the swamp, playing both sides while trying to play the role of statesman.

He didn't go along with the coup because of patriotism or any other good intentions. He did it because he wanted his crimes covered up as much as the rest.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 05:57 PM (/tuJf)

203 199
steevy: "Show me a tit and I give you the $5"

Double down...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 05:57 PM (7LY+6)

Double down -definitely. Because once you've seen one....... you want to see them both.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2018 05:57 PM (jxbfJ)

204 That "Little Marco" that Trump stuck him with must have really hurt.The lifts don't even help...

Posted by: steevy at May 24, 2018 05:58 PM (LiyEm)

205 127 I boycotted them looong before I boycotted the NFL. Those guys really don't know when to quit. Talk about an irrelevant profession.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 24, 2018 05:40 PM (H8S+R)

I've often wondered why they don't just record a bunch of guys in a bar watching the big screen. You get about the same dialog, but more colorful conversation.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2018 05:45 PM (7UW64)

In a bar you might actually have varying opinions, as opposed to sports pundits, who only debate each other on who is more socially pious.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 24, 2018 05:58 PM (WglMe)

206 Did I really just see a video of Little Marco attacking PDT over the cancelled summit, using the same inane arguments as the Left?

STFD, Pubio. Taking L'il Kim's side is not a good look on you.
Posted by: The Wolf at May 24, 2018 05:56 PM (pxOl

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Chuck Schumer probably convinced him it was a good move for him politically.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 24, 2018 05:58 PM (EimXz)

207 the winner will be the one who fights the dirtiest the fastest."

A lesson that's usually learned after the first blood is drawn...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 05:59 PM (7LY+6)

208 While this is all quite logical, what we are fighting for is not $5 but all the marbles. When the left gets control, opposition becomes illegal. The notion that a conservative can be heckled and violently attacked on a college campus is insane. The very first time it happened, the appropriate response would have been to march en masse. When the IRS came after conservative groups, the appropriate response should have been to march en masse. The left is crazy. You get to pick your gender. Women occupy 56% of college enrollment and higher levels in graduate schools, yet there is a war on women and campuses promote rape culture. You can't get more insane than this. We are not playing the same game, and they sure as hell aren't playing by any rules except one; destroy any one who opposes what is currently vogue in leftist circles.

Posted by: IanDeal at May 24, 2018 05:59 PM (5mrLG)

209 With this game, the two players are forced to play against each other.

In real life, the hostile player, once he's realized we're countering his strategy, will try to get the opponent replaced by a Mexican or a Muslim.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2018 05:59 PM (/qEW2)

210 Note: In 2015, a new tactic was deployed called "Coercion." I haven't seen this tactic described, but based on its name, I'd guess it's something like just STEALing most of the time but then randomly showing "SHARE" every 3-5 rounds, to convince the opponent that if he wants any money at all, he must just always play "SHARE" and take what you'll give him.

Great post. Strangely I've been reading Maschler, Solan & Zamir's Game Theory book cover to cover these past months.

Unfortunately it was last edited 2014, so missed Coercion I guess by this much.

Loved reading this.

Great posts today.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 24, 2018 05:59 PM (fceHP)

211 You might be a brother from another mother. Yehudi?"

Even though I'm not, I have been told more than once that I should be, by those of the tribe that have gotten to know me. It makes me wonder.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2018 05:59 PM (k1TUh)

212 ''I think she can be turned'

Kind of like the Chief of Police turned a pseudo BLM activist on "Bosch" this season. He hired her to work for him. Maybe PDT could hire her to fetch Diet Coke.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2018 05:59 PM (jm1YL)

213 Damn. ace is on fire today.

May be the most continuous time I've spent on content EVER.

Keep up the good work, Boss.

Posted by: golfman at May 24, 2018 05:59 PM (If3tB)

214 In a bar you might actually have varying opinions, as opposed to sports pundits, who only debate each other on who is more socially pious.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 24, 2018 05:58 PM (WglMe)

I loved listening to GBP when Max McGee was on the announcing staff. He never pulled punches. After one particularly egregious play, he said "Well, that was horrible." That was the extend of his commentary. Hilarious.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2018 06:00 PM (7UW64)

215 206
Did I really just see a video of Little Marco attacking PDT over the
cancelled summit, using the same inane arguments as the Left?

STFD, Pubio. Taking L'il Kim's side is not a good look on you.

Posted by: The Wolf at May 24, 2018 05:56 PM (pxOl

--------

Chuck Schumer probably convinced him it was a good move for him politically.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 24, 2018 05:58 PM (EimXz)

Next time Little Marco does Chuckie's bidding, someone should remind him to wipe his chin.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2018 06:00 PM (jxbfJ)

216 Is there something peculiar about us? How about the Jews? I'm thinking about the Revolutionary War, and the Maccabean Revolt. How do these things come to a boiling point, and can we tweak that for the North Koreans?
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Its pretty bad there. Which is a significant understatement. The whole country is slowly starving to death. Its not like you have a healthy well fed middle class that can fight. THe only people eating regularly are in the military and government. You'd have better luck starting a revolution in Iran.

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 06:00 PM (ocVHK)

217 190 steevy: "Show me a tit and I give you the $5"

See, this is the AoSHQ Lifestyle everyone talks about. It's like finding a prize in a box of Cracker Jacks.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 24, 2018 05:56 PM (H8S+R)

Inmy misspent youth I went to an establishment where the Lady Entertainers would " kick for dollars"... there was a line stretched across the stage, and we reprobates would fold bills across it, and they would kick them off.... you might imagine what they were wearing....

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:00 PM (zSVEm)

218 Dear son taught dear hubby how to hook up a speaker to the tablet. Now that the weather is nice, hubby has taken to sitting on the porch and blasting music at unbearable volume. We have no close neighbors but there is a concrete building across the street that it bounces off and amplifies even more.

Uriah Heep, James Gang, Rainbow, etc. I like it all... but it's SO LOUD. I'm inside, have earplugs in and am still losing my mind. After this long weekend, if you never see my nic again it will be because I am in jail.

Posted by: cfo mom at May 24, 2018 06:00 PM (RfzVr)

219 Steevy:

Show me a tit and I'll give you $5.00

This shows several tits:

https://tinyurl.com/y8qkg7yl

Please send the money ASAP!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2018 06:00 PM (vw6r3)

220 The tactic is called Tit For Tat."
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Makes me want to get a tat.

Posted by: Axeman at May 24, 2018 06:00 PM (vDqXW)

221 Matthew 5:39 King James Version (KJV)
39... but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

My dad liked to tell me "The Bible makes it clear, you only have 2 cheeks."

Posted by: Derptastic at May 24, 2018 06:01 PM (DB16e)

222 Congressman Schiff says there is no evidence the FBI spyed on the Trump campaign so call it all off I guess.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2018 06:01 PM (aC6Sd)

223 ''Next time Little Marco does Chuckie's bidding, someone should remind him to wipe his chin.''

Struggling to find a way back to relevance again. Poor guy.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2018 06:01 PM (jm1YL)

224 Tom Servo: "But my enemies have a WHOLE lot to lose. I want to make them lose what they have. I don't want to gain anything myself - I just want them to feel pain. Lots of pain."

Firmly ensconced in the STEAL position, eh? Probably the best option.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 24, 2018 06:02 PM (H8S+R)

225 This shows several tits:"

*scrolls down, reads name, realizes it's probably birds. Cute birds.*

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:02 PM (7LY+6)

226 McTumor should take a lesson from the Lion in Winter - "...as if the way one fell down mattered. Well, when the fall is all that is left, it matters a great deal."

Posted by: Archer at May 24, 2018 06:02 PM (gmo/4)

227 Rubio is getting ready to switch parties

Posted by: Ben Wa at May 24, 2018 06:02 PM (FTPVM)

228 Two fantastic posts in a row , thanks ace & atc!

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at May 24, 2018 06:02 PM (hMwEB)

229 Turns over card:

*Secret Grand Jury Investigation*

Posted by: Max Power at May 24, 2018 06:02 PM (q177U)

230 Weinstein's getting charged for hot lovin' in New Yawk.

The police say the ficus has been granted immunity and will testify.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 24, 2018 06:02 PM (4ErVI)

231 to be honest, I hate Pelosi a tad bit more than I hate McCain.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2018 06:03 PM (a0IVu)

232 Congressman Schiff says there is no evidence the FBI spyed on the Trump campaign so call it all off I guess.
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2018 06:01 PM (aC6Sd)

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I thought we already established that it wasn't spying. It was HELPING.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 24, 2018 06:03 PM (EimXz)

233 It always does come down to show me yours and I'll show you mine or pay you to do it.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2018 06:03 PM (aC6Sd)

234 Congressman Schiff says there is no evidence the FBI spyed on the Trump campaign so call it all off I guess.
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No evidence is the first stage of the full admission process.

See no evidence isn't no it isn't true. Its no you can't prove it (yet). Its kinda funny but they have a standard scandal playbook and they are running the numbers.

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 06:04 PM (g5Qer)

235 Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:02 PM (7LY+6)

He said he wanted to see a tit; He didn't say what kind.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2018 06:04 PM (vw6r3)

236 Blow up the NFL? Who cares, the NFL is already against me.
Blow up the University System? Who cares, the Universities are already trying to destroy everything I believe in.
Blow up the media? Who cares, they hate me, and I lose nothing if they are gone.
Blow up any remaining ideas of a common culture? That ship has sailed, we no longer have one.

Right, and this is the third potential outcome from the game.

-Outcome one: both players share and get money -- even if one has to be taught to do so.
-Outcome two: one player is just a sap and always tries to share, losing everything.
-Outcome three: one player is so filled with rage and hate that they always choose steal no matter how much it hurts them because they hate the other person so much

2 and 3 look the same, but for different reasons. 2 is due to stupidity, and 3 is because of hate. And if someone is in state 3, then the only way to settle things is violence. You go across the table and beat the crap out of them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 06:04 PM (39g3+)

237 >>>>OT, but man, the chili I started this morning has reached its perfect point... now to turn the heat down, and simmer, and get betterer and betterer....

Any secrets to success?

Posted by: Max Power at May 24, 2018 06:04 PM (q177U)

238 228 Two fantastic posts in a row , thanks ace & atc!

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at May 24, 2018 06:02 PM (hMwEB)

Why isn't AtC a cob by now?

Maybe she doesn't want the position. Probably she can't afford to sleep until noon.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 24, 2018 06:04 PM (4ErVI)

239 Little Marco nipping at the heels

Posted by: Ben Wa at May 24, 2018 06:04 PM (FTPVM)

240 Shorter: Punch back twice as hard.

Posted by: Law of Self Defense at May 24, 2018 06:04 PM (eciqi)

241 >>to be honest, I hate Pelosi a tad bit more than I hate McCain

I'm the opposite.

Pelosi is scum but at least she's honest in her position. McCain has pretended to be my "friend" for years while constantly stabbing me in the back.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 06:04 PM (/tuJf)

242 161 I think it suffices to observe that there's nothing immoral about self defense.

And yet we do not protect our children by having a good person with a gun standing at the front door.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:05 PM (JFO2v)

243 Congressman Schiff says there is no evidence the FBI spyed on the Trump campaign so call it all off I guess.
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2018 06:01 PM (aC6Sd)

The MFM us a prelude to this narrative yesterday.

Posted by: golfman at May 24, 2018 06:05 PM (If3tB)

244 Turns over card:

*Secret Grand Jury Investigation*
Posted by: Max Power

Slips "Life in Supermax" card into deck.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2018 06:05 PM (3oX+R)

245 * provided...

Duh.

Posted by: golfman at May 24, 2018 06:06 PM (If3tB)

246 ''McTumor should take a lesson from the Lion in Winter - "...as if the way one fell down mattered. Well, when the fall is all that is left, it matters a great deal."

Gawd, I love that movie. A lot of people didn't like Hepburn as Eleanor but I thought she was splendid and played off O'Toole perfectly.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2018 06:06 PM (jm1YL)

247 -Outcome three: one player is so filled with rage and hate that they always choose steal no matter how much it hurts them because they hate the other person so much "

Funny how that or "refuses to play" are never brought up in "game theory" (a really, really vapid line of thought).

There are those who want the world to burn.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:06 PM (7LY+6)

248 Little Marco has been uber never trump lately. Something must have gotten in his cherrios

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:06 PM (SjImc)

249 Any secrets to success?
Posted by: Max Power at May 24, 2018 06:04 PM (q177U)

Put it in the fridge.

Re-heat tomorrow.

Posted by: golfman at May 24, 2018 06:06 PM (If3tB)

250 I beat my sword, but all I got was sore.

Posted by: Shep at May 24, 2018 06:07 PM (B/2Ej)

251 No. I will change the game. I'm more interested in crushing liberals than having them play nice with me.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 05:38 PM (/tuJf)I
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I think in the short- to medium-term, it amounts to the same thing. They've been crushing us for a long, long time now, and it's gonna take a LOT of crushing back before they learn to "share."

That's why I keep on saying it... whenever we have the left within arm's reach (which is more often these days), then grab them by the tie and punch til they have a st- st- stutter.

But I feel ya, part of me just wants revenge. Both purposes are served by a no-holds-barred approach. Make every liberal in the public square, and in your personal life (if possible) suffer as much as you can.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2018 06:07 PM (UiRxW)

252 Speaking of Game Theory,

Here's "Shelter" by Hex, with Donette Thayer of Game Theory on vocals:

https://youtu.be/pOTJuKLjOHo

Posted by: logprof at May 24, 2018 06:07 PM (e7oj4)

253 Apparently I need to study up on the "Just War" theory because I totally agree with Ace's post, and yet as a Christian I struggle with the ironclad precept that "it is not ethical to say the ends justify the means." There are some things I should not do, but I definitely want to fight back. Just trying to figure out how to do it in harmony with my Faith.

Posted by: Iris at May 24, 2018 06:07 PM (dYDe7)

254 Roger Stone saying Brennan just nosh on his cyanide pill now because he's going to spend life in the penitentiary made me laugh.

That's probably a character flaw on my part?

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 06:07 PM (ocVHK)

255

What can Legal Insurrection do with the Amazon dissing?

He tried to be reasonable with Amazon, but they just cut him off completely. Stunning for a business to do this. Legal Insurrection is a legitimate site and a worthy read. They are out for blood.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 24, 2018 06:08 PM (fceHP)

256 Help a Moron out.

Did a search. What did Rocket Boy say that blew up the summit?

All I can find is how Big Winner rigged it up.

Posted by: golfman at May 24, 2018 06:08 PM (If3tB)

257 ''McTumor should take a lesson from the Lion in
Winter - "...as if the way one fell down mattered. Well, when the fall
is all that is left, it matters a great deal."

Gawd, I love that movie. A lot of people didn't like Hepburn as
Eleanor but I thought she was splendid and played off O'Toole perfectly.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2018 06:06 PM (jm1YL)

I think you're absolutely right! I try to watch it every time its on TCM.

Posted by: Archer at May 24, 2018 06:09 PM (gmo/4)

258 Gawd, I love that movie. A lot of people didn't like Hepburn as Eleanor but I thought she was splendid and played off O'Toole perfectly.

Its a masterpiece, and in no small part due to the extraordinary casting. The only weak character is Alys, who has basically no role anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 06:09 PM (39g3+)

259 In chili, adding a little sugar, and a little cider vinegar really enhances the other flavors... a little... also, several different kinds of beans... black beans stay firm the best, but pintos will give a nice thickening if you want that.

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:10 PM (zSVEm)

260 Just trying to figure out how to do it in harmony with my Faith.
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Sometimes the ground the seed falls on isn't good.

Sometimes the enemy sows weeds in your field.

You gotta deal with the weeds in your field if they start choking you out.

Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 06:10 PM (g5Qer)

261 ''Roger Stone saying Brennan just nosh on his cyanide pill now because he's going to spend life in the penitentiary made me laugh. ''

Wouldn't you love to see Obama and his minions sitting in the dock like the Nazis during the Nuremberg trials? LOL

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2018 06:10 PM (jm1YL)

262 There's less stealing amongst factions in less "diverse" societies.

Just sayin', as the kids say.

Posted by: logprof at May 24, 2018 06:10 PM (e7oj4)

263 Funny how that or "refuses to play" are never brought up in "game theory" (a really, really vapid line of thought).

There are those who want the world to burn.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:06 PM (7LY+6)

You can certainly have a "refuse" or "pass" condition if it's designed into your experiment, but if the subject tries to do something outside the parameters of the experiment as designed as you describe here, you don't have a neat new thing to look at, you have a dead data point. "Refuses to play" means "Get the hell out of my office, and no you're not getting paid for this."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 24, 2018 06:10 PM (BRvh1)

264 What can Legal Insurrection do with the Amazon dissing? "

Appeal to Amazon, or go elsewhere.

BTW, I note that several largish interwebz players are now keeping the vig for themselves - I wonder if the free money stream to sillycone valley is drying up a bit...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:10 PM (7LY+6)

265 Thanks Ace, this was a very good post.

Posted by: random ~~lurker~~ commenter at May 24, 2018 06:10 PM (57plp)

266 Show me a tit and I'll give you $5.00

At a fishing tourny many year ago a Compleat Angler in Bimini (it burned since then) when 4 or 4 sailboat of 18 year olds celebrating HS grad. So about a hour into the drinking my bud and I start walking around the bar asking for a few buck here and there. When we have a 100 we go find a gal with a nice set of B++s and ask her would she flash us for 100 bucks. She did and place went crazy. We then had girls approach us!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:11 PM (JFO2v)

267 black beans stay firm the best, but pintos will give a nice thickening if you want that.
Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:10 PM (zSVEm)

Beans in chili!? Sacrilege!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 24, 2018 06:11 PM (MX7xj)

268 I totally agree with Ace's post, and yet as a Christian I struggle with the ironclad precept that "it is not ethical to say the ends justify the means."

We live in a fallen world and cannot ever have a perfect solution. That's the first rule to remember. Thus, we seek the best solution we can find, the one that most achieves our goals with the least bad we can manage. Sometimes, that means doing things we would rather not, like invading France and shooting a whole lot of Germans. Because the cost and the outcome of not doing so is worse than doing so.

Its not about the ends justifying the means. Its not a pragmatic decision, simply viewing the outcome and deciding anything at all you do makes that okay. Its about seeing the alternatives and choosing the least bad for the most good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 06:11 PM (39g3+)

269 "Refuses to play" means "Get the hell out of my office, and no you're not getting paid for this."

Then don't invite me in. That's a data point, btw, just not one that fits the scheme.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:11 PM (7LY+6)

270 You gotta deal with the weeds in your field if they start choking you out.
Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 06:10 PM (g5Qer)

--Jesus was not a pussy.

He in fact used the metaphor of throwing the weeds into the fire.

Posted by: logprof at May 24, 2018 06:12 PM (e7oj4)

271 The rules of the game are biased towards stealing. The first player to steal gets an extra $5. This forces both players to steal, and the researcher keeps the money. Odd, what? The Researcher has set it up so the Researcher gets the money. What a game!

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at May 24, 2018 06:12 PM (roQNm)

272 LI is the first political blog I read daily, thats how I got here. Leftists are going to cut off any conservative sites they can in any way possible.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2018 06:12 PM (aC6Sd)

273 Its pretty bad there. Which is a significant understatement. The whole country is slowly starving to death. Its not like you have a healthy well fed middle class that can fight. THe only people eating regularly are in the military and government. You'd have better luck starting a revolution in Iran."

Iran still has the vestiges of a civil society predating the Mullahs - they haven't completely eradicated it, and it can be a base to rebuild on, just as Germany and Japan had enough remnants of civilized behavior in them for a rebuilt to be possible after the destruction of WW2.

North Korea has nothing like that - it is a nation of starving slaves, incapable of thinking like anything but starving slaves. There are a number of places around the world today where not just governments, but civilization itself has collapsed, and there is simply no hope for those places, unless some outside power wanted to come in and administer them as a colonial possession for a few decades. (But I don't see that happening) Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and now Venezuela - they are all in that boat, and the only likely future those places have is a long grinding descent into a world that Mad Max would feel at home in.

It is possible for a nation to go so far down that it will never come back up. The countries on the fringe are already getting there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2018 06:12 PM (k1TUh)

274 Persuasion and a 1911 will get you more than persuasion.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 24, 2018 06:12 PM (+y/Ru)

275 Interesting that Amazon dumped Legal Insurrection... reason seems unknown... Instapundit is rife and rampant with Amazon ads, is sometimes openly critical of some Amazon doings, and yet.... curiouser and curiouser....

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:12 PM (zSVEm)

276 259 In chili, adding a little sugar, and a little cider vinegar really enhances the other flavors... a little... also, several different kinds of beans... black beans stay firm the best, but pintos will give a nice thickening if you want that.
Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:10 PM (zSVEm)

Oh shit beans in the chili, just stop! Step away from the stove.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:12 PM (JFO2v)

277 Pintos in chili are best. Anything else has the wrong flavor. I've never experimented with it but unsweetened cocoa is supposed to give a rich flavor.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 06:13 PM (39g3+)

278 259: Beans in chili. Now you've done it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 24, 2018 06:13 PM (89T5c)

279 Oh shit beans in the chili, just stop! Step away from the stove.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:12 PM (JFO2v)

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Posted by: reason at May 24, 2018 06:13 PM (q/kmn)

280 There are a number of places around the world today where not just governments, but civilization itself has collapsed"

Reverting to the norm of human history.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:13 PM (7LY+6)

281 274 Persuasion and a 1911 will get you more than persuasion.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 24, 2018 06:12 PM (+y/Ru)

I carry a 45 cause they dont make a 46

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:13 PM (JFO2v)

282 McCain maintains he had an obligation to pass the wild charges against Donald Trump to FBI Director James Comey and he would even do it again. Anyone who doesnt like it can go to hell, McCain exclaimed.

Yeah, ah no...You first cocksucker and you have 1 1/2 feet in the grave already.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:13 PM (SjImc)

283 Then don't invite me in. That's a data point, btw, just not one that fits the scheme.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:11 PM (7LY+6)

And you're just the type that the pre-experiment questionnaire is designed to filter out.

(in case you're not assuming so immediately, I mean that as a compliment)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 24, 2018 06:14 PM (BRvh1)

284 267 black beans stay firm the best, but pintos will give a nice thickening if you want that.
Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:10 PM (zSVEm)

Beans in chili!? Sacrilege!
Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 24, 2018 06:11 PM (MX7xj)

well,yeah, beans... I suppose you are going to object to my cauliflower addition next....

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:14 PM (zSVEm)

285 adding a little sugar, and a little cider vinegar really enhances the other flavors... a little... also, several different kinds of beans"

Sounds delicious.

For a stew, that is.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:14 PM (7LY+6)

286 >>LI is the first political blog I read daily, thats how I got here. Leftists are going to cut off any conservative sites they can in any way possible.

Which is why I have no interest in playing games with progressives. They have no intention of "sharing" or even playing by the rules.

They want to crush us and are willing to sacrifice in the short term to do so. If we continue to play by the rules there will be no game to play. We need to crush them first.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 06:14 PM (/tuJf)

287
OT, but man, the chili I started this morning has reached its perfect point... now to turn the heat down, and simmer, and get betterer and betterer....

Any secrets to success?
Posted by: Max Power

Ehhhhhhhhhh, could be!

Posted by: Bugs Bunny at May 24, 2018 06:15 PM (IqV8l)

288 "Refuses to play" means "Get the hell out of my office, and no you're not getting paid for this."

Refuses to play is the same thing as putting steal in the hand of your opponent every time and playing share. All you're doing is giving them all the money no matter what they play. If they share between all the players, and you're not playing... they get $10. If they play steal and you don't play steal... they get $10. Congratulations, you're a sap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 06:15 PM (39g3+)

289 In the book The Restless Wave, McCain provides an inside account of how he says he came across the dossier.

He writes that he was told about the claims in the document at a security conference in Canada in November 2016, where he was approached by Sir Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to Moscow and friend of ex-British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier.

So McShit is either a total fool or in on it or both

This guy Steele keeps coming up and so does the British Intel which has apparently gone rogue

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:15 PM (SjImc)

290 Beans in chili ? BEANS IN CHILI?! I... just... can't... even.

I need a savory, spicy space right now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2018 06:15 PM (UiRxW)

291 And you're just the type that the pre-experiment questionnaire is designed to filter out. "

Thank goodness!

/and yeah, I got it...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:16 PM (7LY+6)

292 My chili is more stew like than soup like....

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:16 PM (zSVEm)

293 Like with marinara, the longer it sits, the better it gets so next day is always better.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 06:16 PM (39g3+)

294 280 There are a number of places around the world today where not just governments, but civilization itself has collapsed"

Reverting to the norm of human history.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:13 PM (7LY+6)

NORK they have become a different race than the SKs. The men are 3 or 4 inches shorter and weigh 40 lbs less. The average Maduran weighs 20 lbs less than last year.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:16 PM (JFO2v)

295 243 Congressman Schiff says there is no evidence the FBI spyed on the Trump campaign so call it all off I guess.
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2018 06:01 PM (aC6Sd)

The MFM us a prelude to this narrative yesterday.

Posted by: golfman at May 24, 2018 06:05 PM (If3tB)

Spaceman Spiff > Congresscritter Schiff

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2018 06:16 PM (7UW64)

296 Yes, the left enjoys almost complete dominance in the social justice game. The latest victim group is the "homeless" and we must be kind and compassionate while the left uses them to destroy our traditional society.
Until now.
I call them the Wives of the Roof Koreans. Show us the way, ladies!

https://tinyurl.com/yboe5jqx

Posted by: PJ at May 24, 2018 06:16 PM (qlTN9)

297 well,yeah, beans... I suppose you are going to object to my cauliflower addition next....
Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:14 PM (zSVEm)

Don't make me come over there.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 24, 2018 06:16 PM (MX7xj)

298 Gawd, I love that movie. A lot of people didn't like Hepburn as Eleanor but I thought she was splendid and played off O'Toole perfectly.

I think you're absolutely right! I try to watch it every time its on TCM."

One of my favorite lines (out of so many) is when Henry and Eleanore are parading in front of the courtiers, trying to look happy and united, and Henry hisses at her "Woman, won't you give me a little peace???"

and she pops back "Peace? Why not Eternal Peace, there's a thought."

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2018 06:16 PM (k1TUh)

299 292 My chili is more stew like than soup like....
Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:16 PM (zSVEm)

yep we buy a rump or round roast

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:17 PM (JFO2v)

300 If only there was some ancient book that contained the inherent wisdom of employing "tit for tat" before any such study even existed.

It would have to be pretty big though......

Posted by: Mega at May 24, 2018 06:17 PM (rv0Fo)

301
My wife and I did that at the car lot too. Our budget is this, all in, this is the car we want, that's the total check we will write.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 24, 2018 06:17 PM (r+sAi)

302 Matthew Continetti: There are three Americans home today who would dispute the notion that
President Trump's attempt to hold a summit with North Korea achieved
"nothing."

Posted by: andycanuck at May 24, 2018 06:17 PM (Evws/)

303 Kill the Wabbit, kill the Wabbet!

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2018 06:17 PM (aC6Sd)

304 "And if he cheats again, by playing STEAL, you once again bully him by playing STEAL yourself over and over again until he shows he's willing to cooperate again by showing SHARE several rounds in a row."
The Left is playing a longer game. The main question for them now is how many concessions they must make before the Right returns to the negotiating table. Is it enough for them to admit that Trump is their president now? Must they pretend that they like country music? Should they once again promise they won't confiscate all firearms? Let the transgender issue drop quietly, for now?
And then they can go back to their usual tactics, until next time.

Posted by: PG at May 24, 2018 06:17 PM (iqCkn)

305 There wasn't a single liberal who was ever made uneasy or annoyed by David French.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 24, 2018 06:17 PM (rnAwa)

306 I will not comment on Schiff since I would probably say something that might get me banned

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:17 PM (SjImc)

307 300 If only there was some ancient book that contained the inherent wisdom of employing "tit for tat" before any such study even existed.

It would have to be pretty big though......
Posted by: Mega at May 24, 2018 06:17 PM (rv0Fo)

At your service!

Posted by: Hammurabai at May 24, 2018 06:18 PM (e7oj4)

308 It would have to be pretty big though

Biblical, even

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 06:18 PM (39g3+)

309 Ace, I have been reading your website practically since you started it. Congratulations to you and those who write for the website. It is the only website worth reading entirely everyday (as I do, mostly several times a day as it is updated). I agree with the term 'enemies' because it is what they are. The country is perilously on the edge of a 'soft' or 'hard' civil confrontation, and these people must be stopped. I came to America escaping communism (never use a capital c here) and what I see here now it is no different that what I escaped from. Lies, perverse narratives, every conceivable way to subjugate and manipulate people by the left. Sorry, but a game theory is not going to cut it. They need to get hit hard first. They only understand violence regrettably.

Posted by: kilroy at May 24, 2018 06:18 PM (MHWCt)

310
Mutual Assured Destruction strategy was Tit for Tat... potentially...
Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 05:57 PM

Mutual Assured Cultural Destruction is what I have pondered for some time. If they destroy your culture, then you destroy theirs.

Posted by: Hands at May 24, 2018 06:18 PM (EzdLW)

311 My chili is more stew like than soup like....
Posted by: kraken

I've got your six.
Bitches don't like beans in chili can not eat my chili and starve. THAT'S how that game is played.

Beans add protein and stretch a lean beef ration. Sorta like the original trail drives a day or two out of the next town.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2018 06:18 PM (3oX+R)

312 I have noticed this same message repeated almost verbatim rom 4 or 5 different heavily liberal institutions talking to their liberal charges:

"Get to know people that are different than you, who think differently than you and really listen to them".

The optimist in me says this is great, because we do need to have dialogues and hopefully a liberal would begin to understand my position.

Unfortunately the realist in me realizes this is just a talking point based on two ideas, one that liberalism is now just viewed as a coastal phenomenon that no one outside of there believes and the other that they want to infiltrate conservative enclaves to rip them apart from the inside.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 24, 2018 06:19 PM (WglMe)

313 They had chili at the Last Supper, according the book of Pedro ( in the Apocrypha) and it is said Jesus was tolerant of beans...

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:19 PM (zSVEm)

314 There is actually another more sinister way to play this....

The two players cooperate by one 'signaling' that every other round they will switch from share, to steal, then back....

As long as the other partner figures out the pattern... they alternately STEAL the entire pot...

This is the current situation in Washington DC, between the Dems and Repub parties...

They are cooperating on the pattern, and can BOAST that they have 'stolen' all their cash.... when in actuality they are cooperating with the opposition party.

Posted by: Don Q. at May 24, 2018 06:19 PM (NgKpN)

315 Crash McCain was in on it. Piece of shit. Tell the nurse to yank the plug.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 24, 2018 06:19 PM (89T5c)

316 well,yeah, beans... I suppose you are going to object to my cauliflower addition next....
Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:14 PM (zSVEm)

Kraken, you're a g-ddamned animal.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2018 06:19 PM (UiRxW)

317 It would have to be pretty big though...... "

A couple of stone tablets would be a good start.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:19 PM (7LY+6)

318 Posted by: kilroy at May 24, 2018 06:18 PM (MHWCt)

You should comment more.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:19 PM (SjImc)

319 Christopher R Taylor

I think I agree with your thoughtful posts. Just trying to consider where the line goes.

For me, Trumps rude/crude style doesn't bother me in the slightest. Really wish I could get some NTs to be less sensitive.

Posted by: Iris at May 24, 2018 06:20 PM (dYDe7)

320 301
My wife and I did that at the car lot too. Our budget is this, all in, this is the car we want, that's the total check we will write.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 24, 2018 06:17 PM (r+sAi)

My bank does sight drafts. Instant money. I take a sight draft to dealer with title on old truck and point and say give me that truck.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:20 PM (JFO2v)

321 I a few months ago in a 'is it chile with beans or not?' discussion started research and quickly came to the conclusion cowboys in the old west had beans in their chile.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2018 06:20 PM (aC6Sd)

322
Funny how mccain never felt obligated to ask the fbi about uranium one or the clinton foundation.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 24, 2018 06:21 PM (r+sAi)

323 316 well,yeah, beans... I suppose you are going to object to my cauliflower addition next....
Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:14 PM (zSVEm)

Kraken, you're a g-ddamned animal.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2018 06:19 PM (UiRxW)

Cephalopod.... inky....

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:21 PM (zSVEm)

324 313 They had chili at the Last Supper, according the book of Pedro ( in the Apocrypha) and it is said Jesus was tolerant of beans...
Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:19 PM (zSVEm)

On the side in another bowl.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:21 PM (JFO2v)

325 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 24, 2018 06:19 PM (WglMe)

The heavily implied codicil to that injunction is obviously:

"... and then tell them they're dumb and racist and wrong and that you're better than their whole dumb, racist, wrong family tree combined."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 24, 2018 06:21 PM (BRvh1)

326 Apparently I need to study up on the "Just War" theory because I totally agree with Ace's post, and yet as a Christian I struggle with the ironclad precept that "it is not ethical to say the ends justify the means." There are some things I should not do, but I definitely want to fight back. Just trying to figure out how to do it in harmony with my Faith.
Posted by: Iris at May 24, 2018 06:07 PM (dYDe7)

"The ends justify the means" is only unethical if the means are unethical, like stealing someone's kidney to save a dying relative. There's nothing immoral about self defense, or sticking up for your rights. Jesus in Luke 22 advises his disciples "If you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one". In Acts 22, Paul invoked his right as a Roman citizen not to be flogged for interrogation if he had not been tried.

There is no conflict with any principles expressed here and Christianity.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2018 06:21 PM (/qEW2)

327 Thou shall eat thy chili with.beans and crop dust throughout the land.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 24, 2018 06:21 PM (89T5c)

328 Holy schmokes, lots of words written today. My scroll-wheel complained about working conditions as I cycled down to the start of the day's posts.

Posted by: checking in at May 24, 2018 06:21 PM (IWPEN)

329 Counter to COERCION is FUCK YOU and STEAL every time.

Posted by: gm at May 24, 2018 06:21 PM (giV1k)

330 quickly came to the conclusion cowboys in the old west had beans in their chile."

Sure thing, Mr. Taggart.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:22 PM (7LY+6)

331

How about after a while you get the baseball bat out and teach the thief it's not a good idea to steal from you?
Even better, why would you decide to play games with a thief in the first place?

Fuck the researchers, let THEM indulge in stupidity for once.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 24, 2018 06:22 PM (S/hVx)

332 The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) revealed in a new report on Wednesday that Obamacare premiums will spike premiums by 15 percent next year.

Thank G-D for Tricare and for PERs giving me a age waiver

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:22 PM (SjImc)

333 Ever notice McStain sounds like Katherine Hepburn?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:22 PM (JFO2v)

334 He writes that he was told about the claims in the document at a security conference in Canada in November 2016, where he was approached by Sir Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to Moscow and friend of ex-British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier.

So McShit is either a total fool or in on it or both

This guy Steele keeps coming up and so does the British Intel which has apparently gone rogue
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:15 PM (SjImc)

More, it certainly looks like it was the BRITS, more than the Russians, who were interfereing in our Election Process.

When are the sanctions on the Royal Family and rich people of England going to start????

Posted by: Don Q. at May 24, 2018 06:22 PM (NgKpN)

335 332 The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) revealed in a new report on Wednesday that Obamacare premiums will spike premiums by 15 percent next year.

Thank G-D for Tricare and for PERs giving me a age waiver
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:22 PM (SjImc)

And uninsured have never ever ever changed!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:23 PM (JFO2v)

336 Ever notice McStain sounds like Katherine Hepburn?
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:22 PM (JFO2v)

I bet right about now he looks like Franco

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:23 PM (SjImc)

337 Beans in chili are there for cheap filler, as chili is basically just a tasty way to throw all the crap you got into one pot and make a meal out of it. They also add body and texture - I've found a surprisingly good substitute for beans, without the drawbacks for those who's digestion doesn't really "tolerate" beans, is a big can of white hominy. Not something that's eaten much outside the south, I think, but it works surprisingly well.

It functions to make your chili x percent bigger without changing the taste.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2018 06:23 PM (k1TUh)

338 The larger phenomenon at play here is the Overton Window.

The Left played STEAL first (and second, third, etc) in this game, and the Right is only just now starting to play STEAL in retaliation. The problem is that the Left still ends up with more money in the end. And once the smoke settles, they'll start playing STEAL again.

And in the case of say, Comics, Gaming, the NFL...they're not even playing with their own money.

Posted by: McLurkerson at May 24, 2018 06:23 PM (35/F6)

339
Interesting that Amazon dumped Legal Insurrection... reason seems unknown... Instapundit is rife and rampant with Amazon ads, is sometimes openly critical of some Amazon doings, and yet.... curiouser and curiouser....
Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:12 PM

Maybe when Amazon starts selling pot, Stephen Green's agreed to to be their spokesman at Insty? Just spitballin

Posted by: Hands at May 24, 2018 06:24 PM (EzdLW)

340 Hominy is excellent eating...

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:24 PM (zSVEm)

341 Hominy is excellent eating...

Hermione is too ...

Posted by: Harry Potter at May 24, 2018 06:25 PM (IWPEN)

342 I bet right about now he looks like Franco
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:23 PM (SjImc)

And this just in Generalissimo Franco is still dead.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:25 PM (JFO2v)

343 There is no conflict with any principles expressed here and Christianity.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2018 06:21 PM (/qEW2)

God Himself destroyed entire cities... sent Angels down to destroy the Wicked... Laid waste to entire regions...

Even used Biological Warfare (Plagues) on Egypt.

Posted by: Don Q. at May 24, 2018 06:25 PM (NgKpN)

344 Woe to me.... just found out I have no oyster crackers....

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:25 PM (zSVEm)

345 Apparently Texas chili has no tomato or tomato sauce...

Posted by: Max Power at May 24, 2018 06:25 PM (q177U)

346 313 They had chili at the Last Supper, according the book of Pedro ( in the Apocrypha) and it is said Jesus was tolerant of beans...

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:19 PM (zSVEm)

----

LIES. In fact, the tale of Christ turning over the tables of the moneychangers was ACTUALLY set in a city-wide annual chili cookoff. Jesus was so incensed with the incorporation and acceptance of beans into the recipes that he knocked over all the stations.

Let not a little bean spoil the entire pot!

This story was left unaltered until King James, a notorious kidneybean aficionado, claimed to have divined a new interpretation of the original translation...

Posted by: reason at May 24, 2018 06:25 PM (q/kmn)

347 341 Hominy is excellent eating...

Hermione is too ...
Posted by: Harry Potter at May 24, 2018 06:25 PM (IWPEN)

Furry though....

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:26 PM (zSVEm)

348 Hominy = acceptable. Beans = possible communist.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2018 06:26 PM (UiRxW)

349 And uninsured have never ever ever changed!
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:23 PM (JFO2v)

Yup. And punished everyone else

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:26 PM (SjImc)

350 Hermione is too ...
Posted by: Harry Potter at May 24, 2018 06:25 PM (IWPEN)

Thot Ron tapped that.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:26 PM (JFO2v)

351 I knew a heathen who put corn in with his beans and chili. He was shunned from polite society like a would-be cannibal.

Posted by: Fritz at May 24, 2018 06:26 PM (J7XgW)

352 345 Apparently Texas chili has no tomato or tomato sauce...
Posted by: Max Power at May 24, 2018 06:25 PM (q177U)

So... it has.... braised shortribs, and ???

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:27 PM (zSVEm)

353
Sale on flat front pleated all natural cotton khaki tan cargo loose fit men's trousers at amazon deal of the day.

--since so many morons don't seem to own pants.--

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at May 24, 2018 06:27 PM (roQNm)

354 Corn. Yer shittin' me.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 24, 2018 06:27 PM (EimXz)

355 Jalapeno cornbread with the chili.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (89T5c)

356 348 Hominy = acceptable. Beans = possible communist.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2018 06:26 PM (UiRxW)

This is about my Order of Lenin, isn't it????

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (zSVEm)

357
He writes that he was told about the claims in the document at a security conference in Canada in November 2016, where he was approached by Sir Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to Moscow and friend of ex-British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:15 P

The other day, Mark Steyn wrote a long piece, noting in passing how the key players in SPYGATE were always crossing paths at conferences. Conferences where people like Halper, Mifsud, even Madeleine Albright, started talking to Carter Page, Papadapolous, e.g.

Posted by: Hands at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (EzdLW)

358 Steve and Cold Bear 326

Excellent point. Apparently my thoughts of revenge/pay back are not a civilized as yours, hence my concerns.

Posted by: Iris at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (dYDe7)

359 "Keep playing the sap and writing Strongly Worded letters"
Heh, reminds me of "Team America World Police", the scene where Hans Blix confronts Kim Jong Il and threatens to write a strongly-worded letter if Kim did not cooperate.

Posted by: jim at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (gjGvH)

360 FWIW, ol' stats prof was fond of pointing out that data sets on "behavior" of human "groups" was actually data collected from "people willing to sit thru crap for 5 bucks. Grad students, usually"

So I take all "research" of "game theory" and such with a pinch of salt.

A big pinch.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (7LY+6)

361 Hermione is too ...

Posted by: Harry Potter at May 24, 2018 06:25 PM (IWPEN)

Never put your wand in crazy.

Posted by: Dobby at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (sXefu)

362 Yup. And punished everyone else
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:26 PM (SjImc)

So we had 30 to 35 million uninsured. Husseincare would help maybe 10 million. 300 M had plans. So we fukd over 300 million to help 10?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (JFO2v)

363 In CA they put corn in the gasoline. True fact,

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (EimXz)

364 It's not a game, Ace.

Posted by: David French, with a sneer, after wiping off the chair with a handkerchief at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (Cw3TC)

365 How to Create a Cooperative and Mutually Beneficial Environment, Even When Dealing With People Who are Uncooperative and Sneaky

But DC only knows "STEAL".

How does one play with this?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 24, 2018 06:29 PM (UsCnO)

366 68 If you always lose, at some point you no longer care whether you survive and unleash the Gotterdammerung.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 24, 2018 05:35 PM (QQ+il)

Three days of Presidential level meetings means two weeks of prep work for logistics, security, etc. all at medium level or better hotels for the working stiffs. Then five days of second level hotels for the special assistants. And, finally, three days at the first class plus for the principals and Very Special Assistants.

All gone.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 24, 2018 06:29 PM (brIR5)

367 Just saw a picture of Sean Astin,damn he has become Captain Neck Fat.

Posted by: steevy at May 24, 2018 06:29 PM (LiyEm)

368 The Air Force is integrating the B61 Mod 12 nuclear weapon into the F-35 this year as part of a long-range plan to deploy a nuclear-armed, dual-capable F-35 able to give commanders a wider envelope of precision nuclear attack options.

Hello NK, Iran are you home?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:29 PM (SjImc)

369 It's not a game, Ace.
Posted by: David French, with a sneer, after wiping off the chair with a handkerchief at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (Cw3TC)

Suck all of the Horde's dicks, French.

Posted by: filbert at May 24, 2018 06:30 PM (953wK)

370 Apparently Texas chili has no tomato or tomato sauce..."

Nope.

The concoctions mentioned here are "stews".

Honorable food, improperly labeled.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:30 PM (7LY+6)

371 So I take all "research" of "game theory" and such with a pinch of salt.

A big pinch.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (7LY+6)

--Marketing studies with undergrads are even lamer.

Computer simulations FTW.

Posted by: logprof at May 24, 2018 06:30 PM (e7oj4)

372 So we had 30 to 35 million uninsured. Husseincare would help maybe 10 million. 300 M had plans. So we fukd over 300 million to help 10?
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (JFO2v)

Yup.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:30 PM (SjImc)

373 345. This is correct. Beer, a splash of apple cider vinegar - soak yer chiles in that until they're nice and soft and mushy. Mash em up into a sorta loose pulp. Cook yer meat with garlic and onion, drain. Dump into the chiles/beer & cider vinegar. Simmer as low and as long as possible. Done.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 24, 2018 06:30 PM (fA1SL)

374 351 put corn in

Corn holy shit I am Baptist and Saying the Rosary.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:30 PM (JFO2v)

375 The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) revealed in a new report on
Wednesday that Obamacare premiums will spike premiums by 15 percent next
year.

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i've got a buck that says they will go up MOAR than that...

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2018 06:30 PM (rAq5V)

376 This is about my Order of Lenin, isn't it????
Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (zSVEm)
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I'm just saying it's pretty suspicious... you wouldn't happen to know who won the 2006 world series, by chance?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2018 06:31 PM (UiRxW)

377 Put a wire around their balls, and every time they don't get the $5, they get a jolt of electricity.
I am positive the outcome would immediately change after a couple of rounds.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 24, 2018 06:31 PM (UsCnO)

378 How does one play with this?"

"When in the course of Human Events..."

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:31 PM (7LY+6)

379
Suck all of the Horde's dicks, French.
Posted by: filbert at May 24, 2018 06:30 PM (953wK)

------

And we are an ARMY of dicks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 24, 2018 06:32 PM (EimXz)

380 376 This is about my Order of Lenin, isn't it????
Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (zSVEm)
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I'm just saying it's pretty suspicious... you wouldn't happen to know who won the 2006 world series, by chance?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2018 06:31 PM (UiRxW)

Sorry, I don't really follow basketball......

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:32 PM (zSVEm)

381 372 So we had 30 to 35 million uninsured. Husseincare would help maybe 10 million. 300 M had plans. So we fukd over 300 million to help 10?
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:28 PM (JFO2v)

Yup.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:30 PM (SjImc)

The only decrease in numbers of uninsured, were because More people were able to get Medicaid... i

Posted by: Don Q. at May 24, 2018 06:32 PM (NgKpN)

382 >>>How does one play with this?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg<<<
Make these fucking scumbags pass a budget? Cut their funding? Lower taxes to a miniscule flat rate?

Posted by: Fritz at May 24, 2018 06:32 PM (J7XgW)

383 373,

I'll bring the beer. Chilled, of course. Ice f'ing cold.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:33 PM (7LY+6)

384 379
Suck all of the Horde's dicks, French.
Posted by: filbert at May 24, 2018 06:30 PM (953wK)

------

And we are an ARMY of dicks.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 24, 2018 06:32 PM (EimXz)

So..... we live in a Bag????

/looks confused...

Posted by: Don Q. at May 24, 2018 06:33 PM (NgKpN)

385 NK GDP 28 B
TX GDP 1.6 T

A hog or cow in Texas eats more than a NORK family of 4.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:33 PM (JFO2v)

386 So..... we live in a Bag????

End.

We've been called hobbits, of course.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:33 PM (7LY+6)

387 Ace and Insty have the nail guns powered up today:

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/297680/

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 24, 2018 06:34 PM (y4sLz)

388 The only decrease in numbers of uninsured, were because More people were able to get Medicaid... i
Posted by: Don Q. at May 24, 2018 06:32 PM (NgKpN)

Spot on

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:34 PM (SjImc)

389 A hog or cow in Texas eats more than a NORK family of 4."

Rosie O'Donnell eats more than any of those.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2018 06:34 PM (k1TUh)

390 A hog or cow in Texas eats more than a NORK family of 4.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:33 PM (JFO2v)

How about a FAB in Chappaqua

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:35 PM (SjImc)

391 Rosie O'Donnell eats more than any of those.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2018 06:34 PM (k1TUh)

The Views daily feed bag could fee Africa.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:35 PM (JFO2v)

392 Rosie O'Donnell eats more than any of those.

Not since the funnel was invented.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 24, 2018 06:36 PM (y4sLz)

393 385 A hog or cow in Texas eats more than a NORK family of 4.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:33 PM (JFO2v)

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Kind of a hard metric to really measure. Hogs and cows usually die before getting desperate enough to bake dirt cookies or drink tree-bark tea.

Posted by: reason at May 24, 2018 06:36 PM (q/kmn)

394 >>>How about a FAB in Chappaqua<<<
She drinks more gin than a flop house of Limey layabouts on the gov't dole.

Posted by: Fritz at May 24, 2018 06:37 PM (J7XgW)

395 That all being said, Who Can Make the Liberals Cry is a pretty fun game.

Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2018 06:38 PM (0s3bJ)

396 Re: coercion as a gaming tactic:

It seems the counter to coercion is a super long string of steal plays to force the opponent to give up coercion.

Doesn't it ultimately come down to who is willing to break the other opponent in terms of ending up with zero income?

Posted by: TexasDan at May 24, 2018 06:38 PM (yL25O)

397 Here's the late Stephen Den Beste's treatment of the same subject:
(See the link on my name.)

Posted by: Dave G at May 24, 2018 06:38 PM (Jofd7)

398 Just trying to figure out how to do it in harmony with my Faith.
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Sometimes the ground the seed falls on isn't good.

Sometimes the enemy sows weeds in your field.

You gotta deal with the weeds in your field if they start choking you out.
Posted by: simplemind at May 24, 2018 06:10 PM (g5Qer)

Hmmm... there's a parable about the 4 soils and one about the wheat and the tares. They're not really about personal ethics and thus not applicable.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2018 06:38 PM (/qEW2)

399 Ohhh spite!

I have a new working theory that the most powerful motivation in politics right now is spite.

The more the people who very, very, very wrongful think they are better than me tell me how awful Trump is, the more I support him out of nothing deeper than plain old spite.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at May 24, 2018 06:38 PM (dEQP3)

400 395 That all being said, Who Can Make the Liberals Cry is a pretty fun game.

Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2018 06:38 PM (0s3bJ)

I'll second that, shibs.
(can I call you shibs?)

Posted by: reason at May 24, 2018 06:39 PM (q/kmn)

401 I've said for a while, if conservatives really started stealing elections like Democrats do (ie busing in people from out of state, fake absentee ballots, car trunks full of ballots, etc) you'd see Democrats come to the table and some bipartisan rules formed (like voter ID for starters)

But as long as we keep taking it and judges keep overruling common sense laws trying to regulate it, why in the world would they stop stealing elections?

Posted by: Maritime at May 24, 2018 06:39 PM (lKmt3)

402 Ace used a phrase in 2016 about Hillary's "shadow government in waiting". At the time I thought it was an exaggeration.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 24, 2018 06:39 PM (rnAwa)

403 She drinks more gin than a flop house of Limey layabouts on the gov't dole.

Posted by: Fritz at May 24, 2018 06:37 PM (J7XgW)

It comes in tuns!

Posted by: Hills at May 24, 2018 06:39 PM (sXefu)

404 367 Just saw a picture of Sean Astin,damn he has become Captain Neck Fat.
Posted by: steevy at May 24, 2018 06:29 PM (LiyEm)

Is there a George Lucas biopic in development I was unaware of?

Posted by: buzzion at May 24, 2018 06:39 PM (lKs2v)

405 We've been called hobbits, of course.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 24, 2018 06:33 PM (7LY+6)

I know it was meant as an insult, but I didn't take it as such. Hobbits turned out to be very brave and defeated the greatest evil.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 24, 2018 06:39 PM (MX7xj)

406 399 Ohhh spite!

I have a new working theory that the most powerful motivation in politics right now is spite.

The more the people who very, very, very wrongful think they are better than me tell me how awful Trump is, the more I support him out of nothing deeper than plain old spite.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at May 24, 2018 06:38 PM (dEQP3)

Hate keeps me warm.

Spite makes me smile.

Posted by: buzzion at May 24, 2018 06:40 PM (lKs2v)

407 Kind of a hard metric to really measure. Hogs and cows usually die before getting desperate enough to bake dirt cookies or drink tree-bark tea.
Posted by: reason at May 24, 2018 06:36 PM (q/kmn)

I have read several books about people that escaped. The women are so malnourished they do not periods for many years. The men look like big midget with misshapen arms and legs.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:40 PM (JFO2v)

408 399.
Spite makes right.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 24, 2018 06:41 PM (fA1SL)

409 Trying again. Here's the shortened link:
https://tinyurl.com/y842k8af

Posted by: Dave G at May 24, 2018 06:41 PM (Jofd7)

410 Also, I seem to have a regrettable lack of consistency. I get that a private business should be able to do as it sees fit, but I find the boycott and find a million friends to open a competitor to Amazon/Google/Twitter/Academia/Media/Government recommendation to be not as swift, viable and retaliatory as I would like.

How do we compel them to play fair when the left has judges who prevent fairness?

Posted by: Iris at May 24, 2018 06:41 PM (dYDe7)

411 Suck all of the Horde's dicks, French.
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Goody! Blow me-69 again!

Posted by: david french at May 24, 2018 06:41 PM (Evws/)

412 You read McCain's book. I hope you didn't purchase it.

Posted by: You are the illegal alien at May 24, 2018 06:41 PM (NqZ29)

413 They had chili at the Last Supper, according the book of Pedro ( in the Apocrypha) and it is said Jesus was tolerant of beans...

Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:19 PM (zSVEm)

Book of Pedro 5:27

And his disciples came unto the Lord, and said

"Lord, we are quite hungry. Yet we have naught but this bit of raw hamburger and a single pinto bean and a carrot."

And the Lord said unto them, "Build a fire. Puteth the bit of hamburger and the pinto bean into this pot and the pot upon the fire."

The Twelve Disciples did as they were told and soon a delightful aroma arose from the pot. When the Twelve looked inside the pot it was filled with a delightful stew.

"This is chili.", saideth the Lord, "It is the food of the Tribe of Texas and the savory combination of beans and meat is most pleasing in the sight of My Father."

"There are those who say the bean does not belong with the meat in chili, but these, the bean-deniers, shall not live in the House of My Father. Rather they shall live in a tent next to the creek behind the Outhouse of My Father."

Judas, who would betray the Lord said, "I'd like to put this carrot in the chili."

"Nay! For that is an Abomination before the Lord. Those who put the carrot into chili shall not enter My Father's Kingdom."

Then the Lord smiled and said, "Let us eat. Who made the cornbread?"

Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2018 06:42 PM (9q7Dl)

414 @407 - I've heard similar tales. Even to the point that those in the worst prison camps are so malnourished their hair grows in blonde because their body can no longer support the normal black pigment production...

I can't believe a person could cling to life long enough in that state for that to happen.

Posted by: reason at May 24, 2018 06:42 PM (q/kmn)

415 402 Ace used a phrase in 2016 about Hillary's "shadow government in waiting". At the time I thought it was an exaggeration.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 24, 2018 06:39 PM (rnAwa)

They think they will be in charge. They write article about Trump impeachment, HRC as Speaker, Pence resigning, dogs and cat living together.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:43 PM (JFO2v)

416 Every nfl asshole who knocks PDT makes me hate the nfl more...I hope they fold

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:43 PM (SjImc)

417 Sorry, I don't really follow basketball......
Posted by: kraken at May 24, 2018 06:32 PM (zSVEm)
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That's it I'm calling Mueller.

BTW, Don't know if it's true, but I had a German professor who told me the Army would ask suspected spies to identify a picture of a squirrel, because they'd almost always say chipmunk or marmot, since it's very hard for Germans to pronounce the "qu" diphthong. Comes out as "skvirrel."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2018 06:43 PM (UiRxW)

418 http://bit.ly/2J64nIp
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FBI Spy Program Used On Trump Has Long History Of Vicious Abuses

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at May 24, 2018 06:43 PM (y3aQB)

419 WOW

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/
harvey-weinstein-set-turn-sex-crime-charges
-article-1.4007960

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2018 06:43 PM (rAq5V)

420 New Jersey version of "Share or Steal"

Opponent; "I'll share my 5 bucks..."

Jersey; "Thanks ya stupid fuck, now go find yourself 5 more bucks to share"

Posted by: kbdabear at May 24, 2018 06:44 PM (eh0Va)

421 You read McCain's book. I hope you didn't purchase it.
Posted by: You are the illegal alien at May 24, 2018 06:41 PM (NqZ29)

I wouldn't piss on it....well ok maybe...outakes are all over the place

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:44 PM (SjImc)

422 417. Just the punchline: 'The bear screams out - All right! All right! You caught me! I'm the rabbit.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 24, 2018 06:44 PM (fA1SL)

423 I can't believe a person could cling to life long enough in that state for that to happen.
Posted by: reason at May 24, 2018 06:42 PM (q/kmn)

I cannot believe we let people live in concentration camps after WWII. Shows you how bad UN is!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:44 PM (JFO2v)

424 t's very hard for Germans to pronounce the "qu" diphthong. Comes out as "skvirrel."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2018 06:43 PM (UiRxW)

But they can say "Hands UP" ok ha?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:45 PM (SjImc)

425 Did anyone bring up the obvious solution of slaughtering the researchers and your opponent and taking all the money and all their stuff?

Posted by: The Cos at May 24, 2018 06:45 PM (UdKB7)

426 425 Did anyone bring up the obvious solution of slaughtering the researchers and your opponent and taking all the money and all their stuff?
Posted by: The Cos at May 24, 2018 06:45 PM (UdKB7)

Every Progressive did.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:46 PM (JFO2v)

427 I wouldn't piss on it [McCain's book]....well ok maybe...outakes are all over the place

Whew, I feel better.

Posted by: You are the illegal alien at May 24, 2018 06:47 PM (NqZ29)

428
I'll second that, shibs.

(can I call you shibs?)

Posted by: reason at May 24, 2018 06:39 PM

Sure.

Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2018 06:47 PM (0s3bJ)

429 421 You read McCain's book. I hope you didn't purchase it.

I would not piss on the bookseller on fire that sold me the McCain book.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:48 PM (JFO2v)

430 425: Mao was the master.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 24, 2018 06:48 PM (89T5c)

431 What it the point in trying to work with an out-and-out enemy? The Left understands that enemies are to be destroyed. The Right doesn't seem to want to understand that.

Put it this way, instead of playing a "SHARE" or "STEAL" card, the Left plays a "KILL" card. That way, the get all of the money and no risk that their enemy will ever get any of the money in the future. They've also very graphically made the point to the experimenters that they need to keep making with the money, or that "KILL" card will get played again.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at May 24, 2018 06:48 PM (rznWS)

432 Re No Ko, they have some sort of response out..not sure I understand what they are saying..

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2018 06:48 PM (a0IVu)

433 But as long as we keep taking it and judges keep overruling common sense laws trying to regulate it, why in the world would they stop stealing elections?
Posted by: Maritime at May 24, 2018 06:39 PM (lKmt3)
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This. We gazed into the abyss for far too long. If we don't let it look back into us, we won't win.

It sucks, but it is. We allowed the monster to grow so large, that if we wish to fight him, we must become him.

PS, no fan of Netscape, but a blind skvirrel occasionally finds an acorn.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2018 06:48 PM (UiRxW)

434 419 WOW

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/
harvey-weinstein-set-turn-sex-crime-charges
-article-1.4007960
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2018 06:43 PM (rAq5V)

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I love it when a plan comes together.

*chews on cigar and grins*

Posted by: GOD at May 24, 2018 06:49 PM (6mPBH)

435 422 417. Just the punchline: 'The bear screams out - All right! All right! You caught me! I'm the rabbit.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 24, 2018 06:44 PM (fA1SL)

Reminds me of an old joke about a bear and a rabbit...

Bear and a rabbit are taking a dump in the woods next to each other and the bear asks...

Bear: "Hey rabbit, does shit ever stick to your fur?"
Rabbit: "No, never does"

So the bear reached down and wiped his ass with the rabbit

Posted by: kbdabear at May 24, 2018 06:49 PM (eh0Va)

436 Netscape=Nietzsche.

But Netscape IS the browser of the untetmenschen, FTR.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2018 06:50 PM (UiRxW)

437 Ask not for whom the bell tolls, for it is for the absence of cumin in your chili and your obsession with beans.

Posted by: Fritz at May 24, 2018 06:50 PM (J7XgW)

438 LOL. The Art of the Deal in action:

North Korea Comes Crawling Back: Stresses "Desperate Need" For Summit "Whenever, However"

/at Zero Hedge.

Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2018 06:50 PM (0s3bJ)

439 Warriors head coach Steve Kerr accused the NFL of trying to appeal to their fanbase and using the anthem as fake patriotism, after the league enacted a rule change on Wednesday which required players on the field to stand for the anthem.

the nba is chuck full of left wingers also...and more of the white kind. I hate their fuckin guts. Have not watched one game this year and THAT is the G-D's honest truth.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:50 PM (SjImc)

440 the counter tactic to "Coercion" is "Fuck You, WAR!"

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2018 06:50 PM (rAq5V)

441 430 425: Mao was the master.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 24, 2018 06:48 PM (89T5c)

I work in a dotcom company where the chinese geniuses had pics of Moa Moa. BTW I could play some kickass ping pong when I went to another comonay.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:50 PM (JFO2v)

442 Create an environment of cooperation? Easy, The Mattis plan.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 24, 2018 06:51 PM (6c32m)

443 Heh...interesting hash.

Posted by: SMH in wonder at May 24, 2018 06:51 PM (6mPBH)

444 Hey Ben Had!

Posted by: SMH in wonder at May 24, 2018 06:51 PM (6mPBH)

445 And North Korea folds.

That didn't take long.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 06:51 PM (/tuJf)

446 As with most research this is not what would happen in the real world. Assume a Honest man vs a liberal / progressive / communist:
Round 1: Honest Man=Share, Liberal=Steal
Round 2: Honest Man=Share, Liberal=Steal
Round 3: Honest Man=Share, Liberal=Steal
Round 4: Honest Man=Steal, Liberal=Steal

Immediately the Liberal objects saying one or all of the following:
-I thought only I could play Steal
-The Honest Man is contemptible because he played Steal and hence should be forced to always play Share
-I am unhappy because I didn't get the money, I am going to my safe space
-I will take everyone to court to force them to always give me the money because I deserve it and they don't

Posted by: Zogger at May 24, 2018 06:52 PM (SKahJ)

447 And North Korea folds.

That didn't take long.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 06:51 PM (/tuJf)

?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2018 06:52 PM (SjImc)

448 North Korea Comes Crawling Back: Stresses "Desperate Need" For Summit "Whenever, However"

/at Zero Hedge.

Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2018 06:50 PM (0s3bJ)
heh...that ZH bullet points is teh funny

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2018 06:52 PM (a0IVu)

449 North Korea Comes Crawling Back: Stresses "Desperate Need" For Summit "Whenever, However"
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2018 06:50 PM (0s3bJ)

I love the sound of groveling in the morning...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 24, 2018 06:52 PM (MX7xj)

450 http://bit.ly/2LuvxHo
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North Korea Comes Crawling Back: Stresses "Desperate Need" For Summit "Whenever, However" | Zero Hedge

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at May 24, 2018 06:52 PM (y3aQB)

451 434 419 WOW

I do not want to live in a country where powerful hollywood moguls cannot rape girls.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2018 06:52 PM (JFO2v)

452 LOL. The Art of the Deal in action:

North Korea Comes Crawling Back: Stresses "Desperate Need" For Summit "Whenever, However"

/at Zero Hedge.
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2018 06:50 PM (0s3bJ)

Another unforced error by that oh-so feminine Trump.

I shall now adjourn to the fainting couch. Adieu.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, sarc tags at the cleaners at May 24, 2018 06:52 PM (xPJvm)

453 Mr. Tlump?? Hewwo Hewwoooo?? Mr. Tlump

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at May 24, 2018 06:53 PM (y3aQB)

454 193
This is all well and good, can anyone spare $2, and when is the last time anyone has seen a $2 bill?

I carry a couple of $2 bills in my wallet, mainly to mess with Millennials.
"Yes, there is a $2 bill. A real, US currency $2 bill."
"No way! Quit messing with me, old man!"
OK, you put two $1 bills on the table, as will I. Then if I show you a real $2 bill, I keep the money, otherwise you do."
Millennial
puts two $1 on the table as do I. Then, I slowly reach the $2 out of
my wallet, let them stare at it, then pick up the ones and get back my
$2 bill.

I have done this 4 or 5 times in the last few years, always to mouthy Millennials.

Yeah, I'm just a dumb old man, now with your two dollars

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 24, 2018 06:53 PM (UsCnO)

455 And North Korea folds.

That didn't take long.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 06:51 PM (/tuJf)

THAT, my good and dear Morons, is how The Game is played.

Posted by: filbert at May 24, 2018 06:53 PM (953wK)

456 Ace had a Youtube sidebar link of Germans trying to pronounce 'squirrel'; and there was a hot German waitress (at a Cajun place oddly enough, now since out of business -- thanks, Liberal assholes for wiping out the province's economy) and she asked what those animals were called and when I said 'chipmunks if they're brown striped and squirrels if they're all grey or dark brown' and she repeated 'squirrel' several times trying to pronounce it properly. Cute as hell.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 24, 2018 06:53 PM (Evws/)

457 Kim must have got his ass kicked by Beijing..

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2018 06:53 PM (a0IVu)

458 The variation was not designed to see Who Can Make the Liberals Cry.

A beloved side-effect emerges.

Posted by: DaveA at May 24, 2018 06:54 PM (FhXTo)

459 Book of Pedro.

Golf clap.

Which book has street tacos?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2018 06:54 PM (3oX+R)

460 But we have team play and someone on the R side always SHAREs and most of the D side always STEALs.

Posted by: DaveA at May 24, 2018 06:55 PM (FhXTo)

461 You start playing STEAL, over and over again, to show you are willing to blow the game up and make both you and your opponent poorer for it.

Heh

Posted by: Donny at May 24, 2018 06:55 PM (NqZ29)

462 413

Posted by: naturalfake

And Satan smiled because he knew he had made The Lord partake of the magical fruit that he KNEW The Texas Tribe would not abide.....in chili.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 24, 2018 06:55 PM (Y9uH4)

463 Is it wrong that I don't want to cooperate anymore?

I've sorta become like an old injured dog. There are only two people that I'll wag my tail for, I don't want anything from anyone other than left alone and if you try to come bother me I'll bite the f*ck out of you.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 24, 2018 06:56 PM (WglMe)

464 450. TGE - Master of Dread Game

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 24, 2018 06:57 PM (fA1SL)

465 This is all well and good, can anyone spare $2, and when is the last time anyone has seen a $2 bill?

Have one. Series 1957.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2018 06:57 PM (3oX+R)

466 Kim Jong-il learned long ago that you can't make the kimchi without the American spice.

Posted by: Fritz at May 24, 2018 06:58 PM (J7XgW)

467 Is it wrong that I don't want to cooperate anymore?

I've sorta become like an old injured dog. There are only two people that I'll wag my tail for, I don't want anything from anyone other than left alone and if you try to come bother me I'll bite the f*ck out of you.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Amen.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2018 06:58 PM (3oX+R)

468 2$ bills are common. The 3$ bill with Bubba on it is a no go.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 24, 2018 06:58 PM (Y9uH4)

469 457 Kim must have got his ass kicked by Beijing..
Posted by: IC at May 24, 2018 06:53 PM (a0IVu)

...

Whatever was being offered in the negotiation for him personally must be like the best Christmas ever X100.

And Trump cancelled Christmas.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 24, 2018 06:59 PM (yL25O)

470 LOL...

Boy, when the Lord uses someone, He goes all out.

Posted by: SMH in wonder at May 24, 2018 06:59 PM (6mPBH)

471 >>Kim must have got his ass kicked by Beijing..

Exactly. Trump isn't negotiating with North Korea. He is negotiating with China.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 07:00 PM (/tuJf)

472 SMH- BIG hug for you dear Lady. How are the Grandbabies?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 24, 2018 07:00 PM (6c32m)

473 or OBLITERATE

Then you can explain the stains to the next player.

Posted by: DaveA at May 24, 2018 07:01 PM (FhXTo)

474 This (tit-for-tat is best strategy) was in Scientific American when I was in high school (1970s).

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 24, 2018 07:01 PM (vWMNq)

475 Cannot wait to hear how the leftists and Nevers will try spinning this to make PDT look bad.

It should be mystifying, and vastly amusing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 24, 2018 07:03 PM (xPJvm)

476 475. By a Puzzling Coincidence, they're nowhere to be found.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 24, 2018 07:03 PM (fA1SL)

477 It should be mystifying, and vastly amusing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 24, 2018 07:03 PM (xPJvm)
Trump is being a bully and that is not who we are.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2018 07:03 PM (a0IVu)

478 472 SMH- BIG hug for you dear Lady. How are the Grandbabies?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 24, 2018 07:00 PM (6c32m)

---

They're awesome, 'cept when they're trying to outdo who can be more muck-robin-ier, which, funnily enough, is before naptime...

Posted by: SMH in wonder at May 24, 2018 07:03 PM (6mPBH)

479 Kim Hong Fat-Fuc is nothing more than a pawn in global power chess. Trump is playing the puppet master.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 24, 2018 07:04 PM (89T5c)

480 how the leftists and Nevers will try spinning this to make PDT look bad.

It should be mystifying, and vastly amusing.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May

For quick preview go here http://www.thedrive.com

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 24, 2018 07:04 PM (MTjB1)

481 No True Conservative would ever write a strongly worded letter
Principles people!

Posted by: Jihadi at May 24, 2018 07:04 PM (blf2l)

482 This just in:

Mean old Trump knocks down fat kid on playground, administers an atomic wedgie.

This is CNN.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 24, 2018 07:04 PM (xPJvm)

483 Big win in this non negotiation is so far no plane loads of unidentified bills by the pallet load haven't changed hands.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2018 07:05 PM (aC6Sd)

484 China lost face ?

Posted by: runner at May 24, 2018 07:06 PM (bUjCl)

485 465
This is all well and good, can anyone spare $2, and when is the last time anyone has seen a $2 bill?

Have one. Series 1957.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2018 06:57 PM (3oX+R)

Those in my wallet are Series 2009. Still crispy, except for the fold for being in the wallet so long.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 24, 2018 07:06 PM (UsCnO)

486 Y'all keep confusing chili with Texas Red. Yeah, I know, but the folks in Terlingua will argue with you. A Lot.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 24, 2018 07:06 PM (Y9uH4)

487 As with most research this is not what would happen
in the real world. Assume a Honest man vs a liberal / progressive /
communist:

Round 1: Honest Man=Share, Liberal=Steal

Round 2: Honest Man=Share, Liberal=Steal

Round 3: Honest Man=Share, Liberal=Steal

Round 4: Honest Man=Steal, Liberal=Steal

Immediately the Liberal objects saying one or all of the following:

-I thought only I could play Steal

-The Honest Man is contemptible because he played Steal and hence should be forced to always play Share

-I am unhappy because I didn't get the money, I am going to my safe space

-I will take everyone to court to force them to always give me the money because I deserve it and they don't

Posted by: Zogger at May 24, 2018 06:52 PM (SKahJ)

Don't forget the flipping over of the game table and then strutting around loudly declaring victory. Like playing checkers with a pigeon.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 24, 2018 07:06 PM (QLvwG)

488 482 This just in:

Mean old Trump knocks down fat kid on playground, administers an atomic wedgie.

This is CNN.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 24, 2018 07:04 PM (xPJvm)

---

*spews*

Thanks Pug...

Nothing like sweet tea out the nose...

Posted by: SMH in wonder at May 24, 2018 07:06 PM (6mPBH)

489 484. Nope. My guess is TGE has persuaded them they have more to lose from crossing us than they have to gain by appeasing Kim.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 24, 2018 07:07 PM (fA1SL)

490 I predict that Frenchy's next column will excoriate the NRA for daring to suggest that the media be restrained in their gleeful reporting on school shootings while standing on the bodies of dead children.

Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at May 24, 2018 07:07 PM (5fSr7)

491 The other day, Mark Steyn wrote a long piece, noting in passing how the key players in SPYGATE were always crossing paths at conferences. Conferences where people like Halper, Mifsud, even Madeleine Albright, started talking to Carter Page, Papadapolous, e.g.
Posted by: Hands

It's when they start bumping into each other at COMICON ... that's when I freak out!

Posted by: Adriane the Political Critic ... at May 24, 2018 07:07 PM (AoK0a)

492 hey y5!

Posted by: SMH in wonder at May 24, 2018 07:07 PM (6mPBH)

493 I took three semesters of game theory in college because the professor, Dr. Winslow at IUPUI, was considered one of the best game theory experts in the country at that time, and he was an extraordinary teacher. This was at the height of the Cold War and conflict analysis was just then coming into its own. I breathed that stuff. I dreamt it at night.

So yeah, what Ace said.

Posted by: Troy L Riser at May 24, 2018 07:08 PM (3ypBZ)

494 >>Nope. My guess is TGE has persuaded them they have more to lose from crossing us than they have to gain by appeasing Kim.

It is not a coincidence that as this North Korea thing is playing out we are right in the middle of yuuuge trade negotiations with China.

De-nuking NK is an enormous chip for China. Bu they need our trade more than they need a nuclear armed North Korea.

Trump appears to be pretty good at negotiating. Who knew?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 07:10 PM (/tuJf)

495 Note: In 2015, a new tactic was deployed called "Coercion." I haven't seen this tactic described, but based on its name, I'd guess it's something like just STEALing most of the time but then randomly showing "SHARE" every 3-5 rounds, to convince the opponent that if he wants any money at all, he must just always play "SHARE" and take what you'll give him.

That's just a guess, though.

Supposedly this tactic is undefeatable by any other tactic (including itself? Wouldn't Coercion counter Coercion).

This won't work against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 24, 2018 07:11 PM (yQpMk)

496 Nope. My guess is TGE has persuaded them they have more to lose from crossing us than they have to gain by appeasing Kim.

It is not a coincidence that as this North Korea thing is playing out we are right in the middle of yuuuge trade negotiations with China.

De-nuking NK is an enormous chip for China. Bu they need our trade more than they need a nuclear armed North Korea.

Trump appears to be pretty good at negotiating. Who knew?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 07:10 PM (/tuJf)

I just wanted to use *lose face* in a sentence...

Posted by: runner at May 24, 2018 07:11 PM (bUjCl)

497 De-nuking NK is an enormous chip for China. Bu they need our trade more than they need a nuclear armed North Korea.

Trump appears to be pretty good at negotiating. Who knew?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2018 07:10 PM (/tuJf)
If we cut off even a small access of our markets from the chinese, their sham economy collapses pretty quickly. And they know this.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2018 07:11 PM (a0IVu)

498 nood Rosencrantz and Guildenstein.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2018 07:11 PM (/qEW2)

499 How do these things come to a boiling point, and can we tweak that for the North Koreans?

Malnutrition and cult indoctrination work horribly well.

Posted by: DaveA at May 24, 2018 07:11 PM (FhXTo)

500 One again, Donny Two Scoops makes the media freak out, and once again, he is proven correct. Satisfaction Level: Winning.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 24, 2018 07:12 PM (Y9uH4)

501 Autofill sucks.

Posted by: troyriser at May 24, 2018 07:12 PM (3ypBZ)

502 The military sent me a survey about leaving the army. For my trouble they sent me a crisp new $2 bill. (It sounds like the wind up for a joke, but it is true.) I did stare at it before I put it in my wallet.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 24, 2018 07:12 PM (rnAwa)

503 494. I know, eh? A lifetime ago, I admired scholars and academics and detested mere 'businessmen.' As I learned more if the world, I understood that there is a tremendous difference between theory/history and praxis, and that both are needful and noble and proper.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 24, 2018 07:12 PM (fA1SL)

504 I just wanted to use *lose face* in a sentence...
Posted by: runner

As long as you're not a medical transplant specialist, I'm good ...

Posted by: Adriane the Political Critic ... at May 24, 2018 07:14 PM (AoK0a)

505 China lost face ?
Posted by: runner at May

they should call madonna, she gives face.

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 24, 2018 07:15 PM (MTjB1)

506 nood Rosencrantz and Guildenstein.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear

Flip dat coin!

Posted by: Adriane the Literary Critic ... at May 24, 2018 07:15 PM (AoK0a)

507 How about a version of the game where a cuck is is playing with your money, and losing every time by playing "share" while the opponent is playing "steal?"

The best move is punching the cuck in the back of the head every time he wimps out with your money. If he doesn't learn from that after a fewcrepetitions, savagely beat him, the opponent, the graduate student running the game, the researcher who thought the game up, and the funding committee who awarded the research grant. All those beatings are a big job, so you may need to use farm implements.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 24, 2018 07:19 PM (YH519)

508 Spontaneous combustion, hair on fire, it will be war.

Oh my gosh, he's going back, we're going to ..., that, oh my.

I'LL TELL YOU THIS, IF HILLARY WERE PRESIDENT IT WOULDN'T BE HAPPENING THIS WAY.

Posted by: gNewt at May 24, 2018 07:20 PM (NqZ29)

509 Your last graf, ace, is all that matters. The cucks (caveat--they may not in fact be mentally ill so rationality doesn't work) and their communist overlords have to fear us before they ever will draw a "share" card. Until that fear becomes palpable, it has to be all-Steal all the time. There is no peaceful, rational way to stalemate here.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 24, 2018 07:20 PM (pz4T5)

510 Trump is, the more I support him out of nothing deeper than plain old spite.

For people acting like 13yr olds having their first period you'd think they'd be familiar with "I hate you worse"?

Posted by: DaveA at May 24, 2018 07:23 PM (FhXTo)

511 There is no peaceful, rational way to stalemate here.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat
********************************

Be still and watch Donald.

Posted by: gNewt at May 24, 2018 07:23 PM (NqZ29)

512 The thing you're missing is that North Korea has no trading partners and produces almost nothing. They exist and continue to live by taking from gullible, weak leaders around the world. They blackmail the world into sending goods and money to them, then live a while, run out, and try again.

If everyone just says "f you" and stops, then they run out and now he's got a serious dilemma as a leader: eventually people who have no hope or future will decide to go out with a bang, taking him with them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 24, 2018 05:48 PM (39g3+)

Oh. I'm not missing anything. Just pointing out that a two dimensional game doesn't have that much to do with real countries. There are so many other variables involved, not the least of which is the "Deep World" system of finance, or fiat currency. Its all "pay to play" and how can you benefit me. You mentioned foreign aid. Kim controls that, which gives him less incentive to play "the game". North Korea also has lumber, fishing, and mining assets. And Kim is at the top of the pyramid. He essentially takes a cut from every person in North Korea. With a population of 25 million and a GDP of about $40 billion, I'm sure Kim lives like any other billionaire. This ignores whatever he and his father and grandfather salted away in foreign banks over the years. No, Kim and his family will not rule North Korea at some point, and the South and the North will merge. Whether that will be soon or not, well, we'll see.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at May 24, 2018 07:29 PM (9BLnV)

513 an atomic wedgie.

How do you tell if it's an atomic wedgie?
The Fruit of the Loom apple says "Hey, I can see the tree I was born on".

Posted by: DaveA at May 24, 2018 07:30 PM (FhXTo)

514 Isn't this just a long way of saying, "make them play by their own rules"

Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 24, 2018 07:32 PM (M+Lyo)

515 Trump appears to be pretty good at negotiating. Who knew?

I imagine there's some dealing going on with HRC and TFG.
You'll take a pardon, turn over the cash and everyone else does some time!
Should've taken that graceful exit after the inauguration.

Posted by: DaveA at May 24, 2018 07:33 PM (FhXTo)

516 I like it; I have always like Tit for Tat. I have never liked playing the doormat. Conservatives who do, aren't conservatives: They are jerks.

Posted by: Kim Jong-fu at May 24, 2018 07:37 PM (artIV)

517 A guy on the Brit Show that does this particular scenario had an interesting variation where he told his opponent that he was going going to pick "steal" and that she could either trust him to split it of his own accord or they would both get nothing.

She chose "share" taking him at his word and he in fact also chose "share". It was an interesting psychological approach for a single event decision.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue Tarrasque Enthusiast at May 24, 2018 07:44 PM (BRpqW)

518 Ace, when you speak of the "christian commenter" mindset, please bear in mind that its basis is - or should be - in an old testament where God would harshly punish His people just for complaining.

Tit for tat would be playing fairly.

I think those who brought us to this point should be purged and punished.

Posted by: SGTYork at May 24, 2018 07:48 PM (ITvKk)

519 Then there is the Trump play. Declare ahead of time that you will STEAL. The other guy can STEAL and get nothing, or he can SHARE and Trump will promise to split with him after he collects the winnings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qjK3TWZE8

Posted by: MikeN at May 24, 2018 07:58 PM (o/eHL)

520 Ronna McDaniel and Brad Parcel addressed it this morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj7OgaEnQpE
Keep pushing your Congressmen and women and Senators... providing they're not Democrats.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 24, 2018 09:41 PM (PvFoN)

521 That "Coercion" game sounds a lot like B.F. Skinner's "partial reinforcement":
- never reward them, and they quickly stop playing;
- always reward them, and they keep playing. Then stopping the reward altogether, and they very quickly stop playing;
- reward them just some of the time, and they will play for a lot longer than the other two scenarios yield.

The example I best remember was the question of how often do you drive past the front rows in a parking lot on the off-chance that one of them will be open? The 'reward rate' for that is abysmal, but most people keep playing it. For years.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at May 24, 2018 11:07 PM (o7l6R)

522 Here is the flaw in your logic, Ace. When establishment Republicans are secretly Democrats, or so consumed with self interest that any party affiliation is just superficial. They don't care one bit whether Conservative principles win, as long as they continue to win, and that is why your game won't work.

Posted by: DFCtomm at May 25, 2018 08:07 AM (50gG9)

523 An excellent resource for articles on medical topics

Posted by: https://nursingessaywriting.com/ at May 25, 2018 09:18 AM (yO3dF)

524 "The tactic is called Tit For Tat. Simple, really: You start playing STEAL, over and over again, to show you are willing to blow the game up and make both you and your opponent poorer for it.

At least -- until your opponent gets the message and starts showing the SHARE play."

What you've described is not tit-for-tat -- you have to start with SHARE until your opponent chooses STEAL, then you punish them on the next turn to negatively reinforce that choice. The only message you're sending with what you've described is that you don't understand the topic you wrote 1500 words about.

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Posted by: 188bet at May 25, 2018 10:09 PM (Y7wPd)

526 Seems to me that coercion (and any other greedy technique) is pretty easy to counter. If you want to be a good guy, you always start with "Share" and continue playing "Share" as long as your opponent does the same. If your opponent plays "Steal," you immediately counter with a "Steal" of your own and continue playing "Steal" every single turn until they play "Share." When they do, you get back to even (they were $10 ahead with the initial steal, but it will be even when they play "Share" because you played "Steal" and got the $10 back). You then play "Share" every time until your opponent plays "Steal" again, and then you keep playing "Steal" every turn until your opponent plays "Share." This way, your opponent will never come out more than $10 ahead of you and can decide if he'd rather you both get a lot or both get a little. This lets you be the good guy while also not being a sap. David French is a guy who keeps playing "Share" every single time no matter what and gets cleaned out.

Posted by: John at May 26, 2018 05:57 PM (1B1oh)

527 I have a very liberal roommate (nice enough guy, even though I disagree with most of his politics), and he says that David French is his favorite conservative. So there you go.

Posted by: J at May 26, 2018 06:09 PM (1B1oh)

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