Teresa May's Brexit Plan Fails by <i>230 Votes,</i> Failing 432 Against, 202 in Favor

Teresa May's Brexit Plan Fails by 230 Votes, Failing 432 Against, 202 in Favor

Both Brexiteers and Remainers joined forces to vote the plan down.

This was the worst defeat of a proposal put forth by the government in history.

There's a lurking suspicion that May and her cohort have deliberately negotiated such a terrible plan that they will wind up getting (they hope) what they wanted all along, a revote on Brexit in which Brexit is voted down.

The complete rejection of this plan tends to support that conspiracy theory.

With the clock ticking down to March 29, the date set in law for Brexit, the United Kingdom is now ensnared in the deepest political crisis in half a century as it grapples with how, or even whether, to exit the European project that it joined in 1973.
May's crushing loss, the first British parliamentary defeat of a treaty since 1864, marks the collapse of her two-year strategy of forging an amicable divorce with close ties to the EU after the March 29 exit.
"It is clear that the House does not support this deal, but tonight's vote tells us nothing about what it does support," May told parliament, moments after the result was announced.
"We need to confirm whether this government still enjoys the confidence of this House," May said.

There remains the possibility of a No-Deal Brexit, also called the "Hard Brexit," where Britain just leaves the EU without making any new agreements as far as the Irish border, trade, immigration status of UK citizens living in the EU and vice versa, and the 39 billion pound debt Britain supposedly owes the EU for the pleasure of having been the victim of it.

Sargon of Akkad makes the case that the No-Deal Brexit is preferable to any deal, because the EU needs and wants, for example, the 39 billion pounds it claims the UK "owes" it, and will become a lot more amenable to negotiation once it gets the sense that the UK is fine with just walking away and repudiating this alleged debt.

Only a few countries are net contributors to the EU as far as taxes; most are net recipients. Of the few countries which are net contributors, the UK is the second biggest (after Germany).

Without that 39 billion pounds from the UK, Germany, France, etc. will have to kick in more money to support the EU. Which means higher taxes.

Which will exacerbate the Yellow Jacket problem.

Which means that the UK has a stronger negotiating position than the media and establishment are telling the population.

That said, I don't think many Establishment types in the UK or anywhere else are comfortable making bold moves of any kind. They are cautious, cowardly types who cannot imagine doing something without having a bunch of their fellow cucks signing an agreement giving them permission to do it.

The British press is already painting a Hard Brexit as a Mad Max level apocalypse, claiming that because the UK imports a lot of beef and fish from the EU (specifically, mostly Ireland), therefore when the UK leaves the EU, it will have a massive beef and fish shortage, because it seems 1, you can't buy beef and fish from Ireland unless you're in the EU and 2, you can't buy beef and fish from any other country but Ireland.

So they're definitely making the case that unless May's (possibly deliberately) awful plan is passed, which it won't be, the UK must revote and reject Brexit or else WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 04:15 PM

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1 PDT should ride in to the rescue

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 15, 2019 04:13 PM (bim/x)

2 How many votes until they get the outcome they want?

Posted by: NCKate at January 15, 2019 04:14 PM (JyTrc)

3 1 PDT should ride in to the rescue
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 15, 2019 04:13 PM (bim/x)

IIRC, historian Paul Johnson had in the past written advocating that the UK try to get into NAFTA instead of the EU.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 15, 2019 04:14 PM (ujg0T)

4 If only the UK had a coastline where it could get its own fish without having to import

Posted by: brak at January 15, 2019 04:15 PM (VckGX)

5 May is out?
MAY IS OUT ?

eh, whatever

Posted by: Roman Maroni at January 15, 2019 04:15 PM (vCA4F)

6 Sargon of Akkad. Now that's someone whose opinion really matters to me. Almost as much as Kamel Toe Harris and Crazy Eyes-Horse Teeth.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at January 15, 2019 04:15 PM (3sjI6)

7 She is not good at her job.
But she'll hang on to power for as long as she can because of COURSE she will.

Say as much bad about our system of government, it could be worse: we could be British.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:15 PM (bcbK8)

8 The British press is already painting a Hard Brexit as a Mad Max level apocalypse"

Ok, that's funny.

The Lord Humungous riding thru Sherwood Forest...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 04:15 PM (6qErC)

9 May is helping put an anti-semite in charge in the UK

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 15, 2019 04:15 PM (bim/x)

10 Britain is done for. The Germans have won.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 15, 2019 04:15 PM (2LelM)

11 Bring me a shrubbery !

Posted by: Roman Maroni at January 15, 2019 04:16 PM (vCA4F)

12 I think its a lot more likely there's an election to replace May than there is to re-consider Brexit. People don't like having what they voted on brought before them again.

The British press is already painting a Hard Brexit as a Mad Max level apocalypse

Yeah they've been pushing that line since before the vote. HARD. On every possible entertainment outlet. Constantly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:16 PM (39g3+)

13 Sargon has a good take on this, I think.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at January 15, 2019 04:16 PM (IfYaq)

14 The New World Order will continue apace.

Posted by: dananjcon at January 15, 2019 04:16 PM (xqfqx)

15 I also support anyone who wants to run guns to the rebels in the Occupied Kingdom.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:16 PM (bcbK8)

16 Say as much bad about our system of government, it could be worse: we could be British.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:15 PM (bcbK

It always amuses me how we encourage other countries to create parliamentary systems.

Well, our State Department does. Because it's full of weirdo Europhiles.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 15, 2019 04:17 PM (wCmLp)

17 May just got re-elected right?

And those Brits raped/stabbed/shot/bombed by Muzzies are still required by the government to pretend that nothing happened right?

And the Mayor of London is a fucking semi-terrorist and Caliph right?

Fuck 'em. They're done.

Posted by: mikeyG at January 15, 2019 04:17 PM (LL1Be)

18
Yeah, Lauren Graham.

She's cute like the girl in high school you wanted to be your girlfriend.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at January 15, 2019 04:17 PM (o6i/R)

19 I also support anyone who wants to run guns to the rebels in the Occupied Kingdom.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:16 PM (bcbK

We're back in business!

Posted by: Irish gun runners at January 15, 2019 04:17 PM (wCmLp)

20 When you think about it, this is really the story of one Barack Hussein Obama isn't it?

Posted by: Dakota Dodge at January 15, 2019 04:17 PM (xptlg)

21 Which means that the UK has a stronger negotiating position than the media and establishment are telling the population.
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You'll notice that appears to be the kind of thing the US media tells us.

Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by: simplemind at January 15, 2019 04:17 PM (m1yvP)

22 UK tell the EU to shove it, go Hard Brexit and tell the EU they can suck their $39 billion out of your collective dicks.

Posted by: Guzalot at January 15, 2019 04:17 PM (prSvo)

23 Crazy Eyes-Horse Teeth.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at January 15, 2019 04:15 PM (3sjI6)

How wonderful that you can say that, and we all know precisely who you mean.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 15, 2019 04:18 PM (AURKQ)

24 6 Sargon of Akkad. Now that's someone whose opinion really matters to me. Almost as much as Kamel Toe Harris and Crazy Eyes-Horse Teeth.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at January 15, 2019 04:15 PM (3sjI6)

He's a Brit with skin in the game. More than most pundits.

I am eagerly awaiting PJW and Dan Hannan's take though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:18 PM (bcbK8)

25 So the vote failed and that means no "deal" on Brexit and that theresa may is gone as PM.
Not seeing a problem here.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 15, 2019 04:18 PM (JUOKG)

26 IIRC, historian Paul Johnson had in the past written advocating that the UK try to get into NAFTA instead of the EU.

I've been advocating an anglosphere for a long time now. New Zealand, Canada, Australia, UK, USA. That's our special trading partner relationship. Would have been even better if the Brits had won the Boer war and controlled South Africa and kept India, but still. Great coalition. Could throw India in just on the grounds that its basically British now anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:18 PM (39g3+)

27 Britain? Is that still a thing?

Posted by: eleven at January 15, 2019 04:18 PM (NLLmE)

28 UK tell the EU to shove it, go Hard Brexit and tell the EU they can suck their $39 billion out of your collective dicks.
Posted by: Guzalot at January 15, 2019 04:17 PM (prSvo)

Yup.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 15, 2019 04:18 PM (bim/x)

29 How will the Brits get their beef and fish, so they can boil them into a tasteless globs of shit?

Posted by: Roy at January 15, 2019 04:18 PM (xqdqQ)

30
Goes to show how a female would be better at this job. Not electing Hillary Clinton was the biggest misteak in the nations history.

Posted by: nO at January 15, 2019 04:18 PM (jYje5)

31 Coming to the UK: yellow chalupas.

Posted by: wth at January 15, 2019 04:18 PM (v0R5T)

32 Well, our State Department does. Because it's full of weirdo Europhiles"

Yep. State loves some parliamentary gov...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 04:18 PM (6qErC)

33 Wasn't excluding Britain from European trade the Continental System that Napoleon came up with? How'd that work?

Posted by: josephistan at January 15, 2019 04:18 PM (7HtZB)

34 6 Sargon of Akkad. Now that's someone whose opinion really matters to me. Almost as much as Kamel Toe Harris and Crazy Eyes-Horse Teeth.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at January 15, 2019 04:15 PM (3sjI6)

He's a good Righty commentator, and also wickedly funny when it comes to relationship and sexual matters, which is a side project of his.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 15, 2019 04:19 PM (ujg0T)

35 Fuck the UK

They are the shitbags behind the pre- AND post-2016 Illegal As Fuck Spying on Trump.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 15, 2019 04:19 PM (yTo22)

36 Don't the British raise any cattle? And fishing: How does it work?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2019 04:19 PM (ptqGC)

37 The complete rejection of this plan tends to support that conspiracy theory.

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It is the practice of EU Member States to force re-votes or fake treaties for any issue whose vote runs counter to the interests of the EU.

It's happened over and over again.

At some point it stops being a "theory" and becomes an "operative governing philosophy."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 15, 2019 04:19 PM (AzW6q)

38 It always amuses me how we encourage other countries to create parliamentary systems.

Well, our State Department does. Because it's full of weirdo Europhiles.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 15, 2019 04:17 PM (wCmLp)

I rate this as: True

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:19 PM (bcbK8)

39 And those Brits raped/stabbed/shot/bombed by Muzzies are still required by the government to pretend that nothing happened right?

Carry On

and

Don't Report Muslim Crime

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:19 PM (39g3+)

40 Once they pay their debt, the EU will agree to negotiate, I'm sure.

Posted by: Mitt Romney at January 15, 2019 04:19 PM (JgLEu)

41 We have beef. We have fish. So do the Canucks. FFS, just leave and save yourself a lot of grief.

Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at January 15, 2019 04:19 PM (RD7QR)

42 Given the state of the EU right now, might not more people vote to get out of it this time if they have another vote?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2019 04:19 PM (AllCR)

43 Sargon of Akkad.

Na-noo, na-noo.

Posted by: Roy at January 15, 2019 04:19 PM (xqdqQ)

44 The EU, like other criminal gangs, make it almost impossible to leave them.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (HmZuC)

45 We're back in business!
Posted by: Irish gun runners "

The IRA is back?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (6qErC)

46 How do you say Yellow Vests in English?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (/tuJf)

47 Wow, troll...or whoever is socking troll...even fucked up capitalizing their own nic.

We're getting into Brattleboro territory here.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (bcbK8)

48 They are the shitbags behind the pre- AND post-2016 Illegal As Fuck Spying on Trump.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 15, 2019 04:19 PM (yTo22)

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DoJ was behind it. UK was just all-too-happy to assist.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (AzW6q)

49 May is the worse kind of Torrie or Conservtive.

A cock sucking RINO Bitch who folds and does not have the power of her convictions

Never GIVE IN
Never SURRENDER
Never COMPROMISE on Principal

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (bim/x)

50 Pretty sure Texas would be happy to take over any beef exports Ireland can't make.

And we don't care what the EU says about it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (2lndx)

51 26 IIRC, historian Paul Johnson had in the past written advocating that the UK try to get into NAFTA instead of the EU.

I've been advocating an anglosphere for a long time now. New Zealand, Canada, Australia, UK, USA. That's our special trading partner relationship. Would have been even better if the Brits had won the Boer war and controlled South Africa and kept India, but still. Great coalition. Could throw India in just on the grounds that its basically British now anyway.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:18 PM (39g3+)

It would be interesting to see the "British Commonwealth of Nations" turn into an American one, I will give you that.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (ujg0T)

52 Sounds vaguely analogous to the shutdown; what is portrayed as imminent doom is actually an improved bargaining position.
This makes perfect sense if you look at it from the point of view that the media is the devoted enemy of the nation and its people.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (5fNnO)

53 46 How do you say Yellow Vests in English?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (/tuJf)

NRA

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (bcbK8)

54
You owe somebody a billion dollars, you're in trouble. Owe someone 39 billion dollars? They're in trouble.

Posted by: Newest Nic at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (jYje5)

55 The just need a "no-deal" Brexit. Why would anyone kowtow to the EU? This is all very confusing. And, as someone pointed out somewhere, not like the EU has an army. And London IS the center of financial services. Doesn't seem like it should be this difficult.

Posted by: peaches at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (14URa)

56 does ANYONE remember CALEXIT ??

Posted by: mikeywing plover at January 15, 2019 04:21 PM (LL1Be)

57 From the last thread...

Stockard was kind of hot, in a dirty way. Not super pretty but something about her.

Kinda like the girl from Gilmore Girls.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at January 15, 2019 03:59 PM (o6i/R)

I call it "soccer mom cute". She's the kind of gal you can imagine would put the kids to bed and then ride you all night.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 15, 2019 04:14 PM (wCmLp)

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 15, 2019 04:21 PM (wCmLp)

58 There was an obvious way to play this, which May is too dense to have seen - the way is to talk to America about making up any shortfalls in goods that would come about because of no agreement. Just having the talks would have panicked the Euros, who actually do need to be able to sell that stuff to someone, and they would have quickly started trying to negotiate a much more friendly deal.

May has done this incredibly stupidly from the start. She make Neville Chamberlain look brilliant by comparison.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 15, 2019 04:21 PM (Kpl3J)

59 "We need to confirm whether this government still enjoys the confidence of this House," May said.
...........

Who gives a shit about the people.

Posted by: wth at January 15, 2019 04:21 PM (v0R5T)

60 You owe somebody a billion dollars, you're in trouble. Owe someone 39 billion dollars? They're in trouble.
Posted by: Newest Nic at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (jYje5)

BINGO

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 15, 2019 04:21 PM (bim/x)

61 Let the Brits eat the Muslims.

Problem. Solved.

Posted by: JayDub Walker at January 15, 2019 04:21 PM (z8H9I)

62 The brave island nation that gave us Lord Nelson, Sir Winston Churchill, and Benny Hill.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 15, 2019 04:21 PM (xzqr4)

63 "The British press is already painting a Hard Brexit as a Mad Max level apocalypse ...."

As was that stupid ass, Shep Smith, during the noon hour.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at January 15, 2019 04:21 PM (jWe5r)

64 29 How will the Brits get their beef and fish, so they can boil them into a tasteless globs of shit?
Posted by: Roy at January 15, 2019 04:18 PM (xqdqQ)

Flavorist.

Posted by: eleven at January 15, 2019 04:21 PM (NLLmE)

65 You Brexit, you bought it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 15, 2019 04:21 PM (+y/Ru)

66 Fuck the UK

They are the shitbags behind the pre- AND post-2016 Illegal As Fuck Spying on Trump.

Posted by: Sharkman
-------------------------------------------------------------

That was the UK government not the people. God knows we don't want to be blamed for all the shady shit Obama pulled.

Posted by: Guzalot at January 15, 2019 04:22 PM (prSvo)

67 56 does ANYONE remember CALEXIT ??
Posted by: mikeywing plover at January 15, 2019 04:21 PM (LL1Be)

Next exit past the Slauson Cutoff?

Posted by: Roy at January 15, 2019 04:22 PM (xqdqQ)

68 49 May is the worse kind of Torrie or Conservtive.

A cock sucking RINO Bitch who folds and does not have the power of her convictions

Never GIVE IN
Never SURRENDER
Never COMPROMISE on Principal
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (bim/x)

Sadly, "Toryism" has the unfortunate habit of "Conserving" whatever prior Labour or Liberal Governments ruined.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 15, 2019 04:22 PM (ujg0T)

69 So you're saying that only toxic masculinity save the UK now?

Posted by: ShainS at January 15, 2019 04:22 PM (Bqh5L)

70 54
You owe somebody a billion dollars, you're in trouble. Owe someone 39 billion dollars? They're in trouble.
Posted by: Newest Nic at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (jYje5)

That is priceless! :-)

Posted by: peaches at January 15, 2019 04:22 PM (14URa)

71 " How do you say Yellow Vests in English?"

I think the 'e' gets that little omelet on top of it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 15, 2019 04:22 PM (cqNba)

72 Power-mongers and bureaucrats are the same on both sides of the Atlantic. They see the "hard Brexit" as a threat to their power and perquisites. What impresses me is how many of the MPs had the good sense to vote down the May proposal. You can be sure that the "permanent government" is seething over that turn of events.

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at January 15, 2019 04:22 PM (RmBQf)

73 The taunt from the pro-EU side is basically "what are you so afraid of, why not have another vote?!!!"

I don't follow UK politics enough to really understand all of this, but my guess is another vote will probably not go for Brexit and that vote will damn sure stick.

I don't know what to make of May, but I'm amazed she is so in love with the EU she's willing to destroy herself all to save the European Union.

Posted by: Blago at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (UfkIY)

74 The just need a "no-deal" Brexit. Why would anyone kowtow to the EU? This is all very confusing. And, as someone pointed out somewhere, not like the EU has an army. And London IS the center of financial services. Doesn't seem like it should be this difficult.
Posted by: peaches at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (14URa)

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And then there's the really important thing:

The entire EU is completely dependent on the German economy. Britain is Germany's most important export market.

They can't freeze out Britain.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (AzW6q)

75 Well beef production creates too much methane and use of crop land to feed the cattle. And we're overfishing the oceans and destroying them. So clearly a hard brexit where they need to reduce their consumption of beef and fish is better for the environment. Those pussy soy cucks of Britain should love a brexit!

Posted by: Buzzion at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (WaxcS)

76 Get the Astute Class SSNs over here to Georgia and Virginia ASAP

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (bim/x)

77 " How do you say Yellow Vests in English?"

MAGA?

Posted by: Roy at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (xqdqQ)

78 61 Let the Brits eat the Muslims.

Problem. Solved.
Posted by: JayDub Walker at January 15, 2019 04:21 PM (z8H9I)

"Hello? Yes, as a Naval Officer, I reject the idea that the Royal Navy is a haven for cannibalism! It's well know that we have the situation relatively under control and it is the RAF that has greatest losses in this area. What do you think the Argyles ate in Aden?"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (bcbK8)

79 Los Americanos must elect Hillary !!! Vamanos !!!

Posted by: Nada at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (z8H9I)

80
So you're saying that only toxic masculinity save the UK now?

Posted by: ShainS at January 15, 2019 04:22 PM (Bqh5L)

Are there any actual masculine males left in Britain?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (ptqGC)

81 The British press is already painting a Hard Brexit as a Mad Max level apocalypse ...."
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Teresa May is no Aunty Entity

Posted by: simplemind at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (VFi0u)

82
He's a good Righty commentator, and also wickedly funny when it comes to relationship and sexual matters, which is a side project of his.
Posted by: Curmudgeon

He's more of a liberal than a righty. It's just that he hates Leftists more than conservatives.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (ZejZP)

83
Odd how this political turmoil is going on all over the globe.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (kJWoP)

84 May has done this incredibly stupidly from the start. She make Neville Chamberlain look brilliant by comparison.

Her entire motivation has been to find some way to stay in despite the people's vote. She doesn't want to negotiate crap. She wants to defy the will of the people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (39g3+)

85 What if the world runs out of yellow vests before it's our turn?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (/tuJf)

86 Britain is done for. The Germans have won.

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So Sitzkrieg worked!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (+y/Ru)

87
Trump should pounce on this. All the oil and beef and whatever the hell else it wants to buy from us WITHOUT the EU bullshit.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 15, 2019 04:24 PM (/9p9e)

88 I liked Lauren Graham until she started with the left-lib crap.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at January 15, 2019 04:24 PM (IfYaq)

89 You owe somebody a billion dollars, you're in trouble. Owe someone 39 billion dollars? They're in trouble.

You can't expect to get a compromise if you don't first give the other side everything that they want.

I learned that from my new colleagues.

Posted by: Mitt Romney at January 15, 2019 04:24 PM (nR2Re)

90 Let them eat soy.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2019 04:24 PM (ptqGC)

91 She wants to defy the will of the people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (39g3+)

And that was obvious from the get go

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 15, 2019 04:24 PM (bim/x)

92 Well, ain't we a pair, raggedy man.

Posted by: simplemind at January 15, 2019 04:24 PM (sX90E)

93 85 What if the world runs out of yellow vests before it's our turn?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (/tuJf)

We wear Multicam instead?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:24 PM (bcbK8)

94 "Don't the British raise any cattle? And fishing: How does it work?"

You put "work" and "british" in the same sentence.

Their gov has spent the better part of a century breeding up quite the shiftless population.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 04:24 PM (6qErC)

95 Odd how this political turmoil is going on all over the globe.

We're at Peak Elite.

Posted by: t-bird at January 15, 2019 04:24 PM (nR2Re)

96 Trump should pounce on this. All the oil and beef and whatever the hell else it wants to buy from us WITHOUT the EU bullshit.

And tripe. And treacle.

And spotted dick.

Posted by: mikeyG at January 15, 2019 04:25 PM (LL1Be)

97 41 We have beef.

australia has beef, too, if those wendy's commercials are to be believed.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 15, 2019 04:25 PM (v3pYe)

98 87
Trump should pounce on this. All the oil and beef and whatever the hell else it wants to buy from us WITHOUT the EU bullshit.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 15, 2019 04:24 PM (/9p9e)

Like it

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:25 PM (bcbK8)

99 There is absolutely no cannibalism in the Royal Navy. And by none, I mean "very little."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:25 PM (39g3+)

100 82
He's a good Righty commentator, and also wickedly funny when it comes to relationship and sexual matters, which is a side project of his.
Posted by: Curmudgeon

He's more of a liberal than a righty. It's just that he hates Leftists more than conservatives.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (ZejZP)

He certainly is no traditionalist, I will give you that.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 15, 2019 04:25 PM (ujg0T)

101 Trump should pounce on this. All the oil and beef and whatever the hell else it wants to buy from us WITHOUT the EU bullshit.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 15, 2019 04:24 PM (/9p9e)

Yup tell the EU to pound sand

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 15, 2019 04:25 PM (bim/x)

102 If Trump really wanted to stir the pot, he would negotiate a trade agreement with Britain with effective zero tarriffs in either direction and tell anyone else that wants to leave the EU they can have the same deal.

Posted by: Joe, no that other one at January 15, 2019 04:25 PM (7pOq5)

103 "Sadly, "Toryism" has the unfortunate habit of "Conserving" whatever prior Labour or Liberal Governments ruined.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 15, 2019 04:22 PM (ujg0T) "

Huh, just like republicans.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 15, 2019 04:25 PM (5fNnO)

104 Her entire motivation has been to find some way to stay in despite the people's vote. She doesn't want to negotiate crap. She wants to defy the will of the people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM (39g3+)

Bingo! It's literally the only part of the whole thing that I understand completely.

Posted by: peaches at January 15, 2019 04:25 PM (14URa)

105 IIRC YouTube tried to deplatform Sargon.

That helps his cred in my book.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at January 15, 2019 04:26 PM (IfYaq)

106 "What if the world runs out of yellow vests before it's our turn? "

See our website

Posted by: Alibaba at January 15, 2019 04:26 PM (cqNba)

107 The just need a "no-deal" Brexit. Why would anyone kowtow to the EU? This is all very confusing. And, as someone pointed out somewhere, not like the EU has an army. And London IS the center of financial services. Doesn't seem like it should be this difficult.

Posted by: peaches at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (14URa)

Because, shut up.

Posted by: Politicians at January 15, 2019 04:26 PM (v0R5T)

108 Boy it sure would be a shame if the UK just plum couldn't pay that $39 Billion. Why France might have to squeeze the populace a bit more to pay for all the leeches in the EU. It's a good thing the current French political climate is so stable. Stable genius.

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at January 15, 2019 04:26 PM (oZ6kz)

109 Uncle Palpy?!!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:26 PM (bcbK8)

110 Can we bring WSC's body here for safe keeping?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 15, 2019 04:26 PM (bim/x)

111 103 "Sadly, "Toryism" has the unfortunate habit of "Conserving" whatever prior Labour or Liberal Governments ruined.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 15, 2019 04:22 PM (ujg0T) "

Huh, just like republicans.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 15, 2019 04:25 PM (5fNnO)

Yep. Uncle Ron once said that the UK was two decades further down the Socialist Road To Ruin than the USA was.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 15, 2019 04:26 PM (ujg0T)

112 I saw Sargon of Akkad open for Moby Grape at The Chicago Amphitheater in '67

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 15, 2019 04:26 PM (so+oy)

113
95 We're at Peak Elite.

ah. an optimist.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 15, 2019 04:27 PM (v3pYe)

114 It would seem Ireland might like to make deal with UK. All that beef and fish going to a UK-less EU is certainly going to drive down the price of beef and fish.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 15, 2019 04:27 PM (f6S+V)

115 See, we here in the US would care except we all died from net neutrality repeal, Trump tax cuts and the confirmation of Kauvanugh.

There's only like 20 people left in America now

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at January 15, 2019 04:27 PM (TN1P5)

116 Funny thing is the average continental doesn't even like the Brits.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:27 PM (/tuJf)

117 108 Boy it sure would be a shame if the UK just plum couldn't pay that $39 Billion.

they're going to need it to build a wall around northern ireland.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 15, 2019 04:27 PM (v3pYe)

118 Surely we are witnessing the death of populism.

Posted by: Grump928(C) snorts at January 15, 2019 04:28 PM (dKbOt)

119 110 Can we bring WSC's body here for safe keeping?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 15, 2019 04:26 PM (bim/x)

And the sluttier half of the Spice Girls?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:28 PM (bcbK8)

120 Theresa May is globalist c--t
I'm shocked

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at January 15, 2019 04:28 PM (BJlbN)

121 With Or without the UK the EU is toast they just don't recognize it yet. The UK should leave but they won't. And no; fuck no, no way the US should ever bail out Europe again.

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at January 15, 2019 04:28 PM (0OmEj)

122 We're at Peak Elite.
Posted by: t-bird at January 15, 2019 04:24 PM (nR2Re)

Hah. No shit.

Posted by: eleven at January 15, 2019 04:28 PM (NLLmE)

123 I see an opportunity for some savvy Tolleeebon to sell goats to the Brits.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2019 04:28 PM (ptqGC)

124 89
You owe somebody a billion dollars, you're in trouble. Owe someone 39 billion dollars? They're in trouble.

You can't expect to get a compromise if you don't first give the other side everything that they want.

I learned that from my new colleagues.

Posted by: Mitt Romney
You mean like Chuck Schumer's "let's reopen the government, and then set to negotiating, now that you've given up all of your leverage". No, really. There are people who think this is a good idea.

Posted by: pep at January 15, 2019 04:28 PM (T6t7i)

125 She's just not that smart.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 15, 2019 04:28 PM (cqNba)

126

Posted by: pep at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM (T6t7i)

127
Teresa May's Brexit Plan Fails by 230 Votes, Failing 432 Against, 202 in Favor

Maybe she should ask for another.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM (BWL+E)

128 I'm going.

Posted by: pep at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM (T6t7i)

129 BREAKING on CNN: Chuck and Nancy Rosenberg* promise 39 billion pounds of funding to the EU if Britain stays. Developing ...

*stolen from a moron in an earlier thread

Posted by: ShainS at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM (Bqh5L)

130 Test

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM (cqNba)

131 Back to our discussion about Mexico from the last thread - testimony today from El Chapo was that at one point he made a $100 Million payment directly to former Mexican President Pena Nieto. Very believable, the corruption goes all the way to the top. It's a big reason why "left" and "right" don't even make any sense in Mexico's political situation right now. The only division is between those few who want to fight back against the cartels, and those who are glad to let the cartels take over everything as long they themselves get paid off.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM (Kpl3J)

132 Should Britain go Italy will be next. Then France and then EU is a wreck on the side of the road.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM (2LelM)

133 There is absolutely no cannibalism in the Royal Navy. And by none, I mean "very little."

Sodomy?

Lash?

Rum?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM (6qErC)

134 *BURP*

Posted by: The hungry, hungry barrel at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM (ptqGC)

135 There's only like 20 people left in America now

And the shutdown is endangering all the survivors

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM (39g3+)

136 Texas beef, 100 percent Mad Cow Disease free.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM (SRQO0)

137 94 "Don't the British raise any cattle? And fishing: How does it work?"

You put "work" and "british" in the same sentence.

i'm not sure that word means what you think it means.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (v3pYe)

138 121 With Or without the UK the EU is toast they just don't recognize it yet. The UK should leave but they won't. And no; fuck no, no way the US should ever bail out Europe again.
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at January 15, 2019 04:28 PM (0OmEj)

Agreed.

I'm not convinced we should bail out Mexico either.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (bcbK8)

139

British pacifist,1939 : "If we go to war, the Germans will invade and conquer us!"

Churchill: "Bring it, Fritz."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (/dN1M)

140 pep at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM (T6t7i)

Sorry, another comment was made before you closed.

Enjoy your stay.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (/tuJf)

141 See, we here in the US would care except we all died from net neutrality
repeal, Trump tax cuts and the confirmation of Kauvanugh.

There's only like 20 people left in America now

Those 20 dudes? All suffocated after we pulled out of the Paris Climate Accords.

Posted by: mikeyG at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (LL1Be)

142 Funny thing is the average continental doesn't even like the Brits.
====
TBF it is hard to like soccer hooligans and skinny spotty, undersexed drunken gits on holiday from University.

Posted by: simplemind at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (VFi0u)

143 maybe there is beef and fish in the barrel?

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (vzaiS)

144
Chaos at No. 10!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (BWL+E)

145 123 I see an opportunity for some savvy Tolleeebon to sell goats to the Brits.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2019 04:28 PM (ptqGC)

Infidel !!! These goats, they are not for the eating !!! I keel you now !!!

Posted by: Achmed The Goat Dealer at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (z8H9I)

146 Originally the EU was just a trading pack. Then it grew into the idea of a Untied States of Europe. A capital in Brussels and millions of bureaucrats. A common currency, and laws, laws, laws from those bureaucrats.

Posted by: Colin at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (POrl/)

147 i'm not sure that word means what you think it means."

Snort.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (6qErC)

148 In the long run it doesn't matter; the UK can sink alone, or with the EU, but they're both riding along to the same destination regardless of how many handbaskets they're doing it in.

Posted by: lurker (the other one) at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (eAshZ)

149 I'd just laugh at an EU that only contained Germany and ... Greece.

Posted by: Grump928(C) snorts at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (dKbOt)

150 WRT to May the only real question is which is slower, hemp rope or piano wire?

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (RObQ6)

151 And, as someone pointed out somewhere, not like the EU has an army.

A war between the EU and the UK would be like the gay hipster slap fight.

Posted by: pep at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM (T6t7i)

152 114 It would seem Ireland might like to make deal with UK. All that beef and fish going to a UK-less EU is certainly going to drive down the price of beef and fish.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 15, 2019 04:27 PM (f6S+V)

IIRC, there was an essay titled "Reunited Kingdom" (no doubt also a Tolkien reference there) arguing that for all The Troubles and other sad history, Ireland would still much better off dealing with London than with Brussels.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM (ujg0T)

153 144
Chaos at No. 10!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (BWL+E)

Anarchy in the UK!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM (bcbK8)

154 I'm just amazed so many Europeans support the EU when it's basically just a racket for Germany.

Posted by: Blago at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM (UfkIY)

155 128 I'm going.
Posted by: pep at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM (T6t7i)

You go now!

Posted by: eleven at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM (NLLmE)

156 Originally the EU was just a trading pack. Then it grew into the idea of a Untied States of Europe. A capital in Brussels and millions of bureaucrats. A common currency, and laws, laws, laws from those bureaucrats.
Posted by: Colin at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (POrl/)

Remind you of Fredocare?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM (bim/x)

157
I'd just laugh at an EU that only contained Germany and ... Greece.

Posted by: Grump928(C) snorts

The Odd Couple.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM (BWL+E)

158 Chaos at No. 10!!

Walls closing in.

Posted by: eleven at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM (NLLmE)

159 I learned all about how when there was a vote, it was important to respect the will of the people when I read My Weekly Reader back in grade school.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM (FTlwv)

160 150 WRT to May the only real question is which is slower, hemp rope or piano wire?
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (RObQ6)

Hemp makes everything slower.

Wire causes massive blood loss unless you're very creative.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM (bcbK8)

161 The new EU army will take care of the rowdy ones.

Posted by: Colin at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM (POrl/)

162 >>Originally the EU was just a trading pack. Then it grew into the idea of a Untied States of Europe. A capital in Brussels and millions of bureaucrats. A common currency, and laws, laws, laws from those bureaucrats.

You wanna see traffic? Try leaving Brussels on a Friday afternoon.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:32 PM (/tuJf)

163 I'm laughing though, at a very earnest sophomore in my college International Econ class, dead certain to the point of fervor that the EU would become the world's ruling superpower by the mid 21st century.

I wonder what happened to that little punk.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at January 15, 2019 04:32 PM (IfYaq)

164 140
pep at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM (T6t7i)

Sorry, another comment was made before you closed.

Enjoy your stay.

Posted by: JackStraw
But I meant well. Surely that's more important than results.

Posted by: pep at January 15, 2019 04:32 PM (T6t7i)

165 161 The new EU army will take care of the rowdy ones.
Posted by: Colin at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM (POrl/)

Snort. Giggle.

No, go on...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:32 PM (bcbK8)

166 The new EU army will take care of the rowdy ones.

Posted by: Colin

You kiddin' me, right? They couldn't handle a rowdy bunch of MU hooligans...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at January 15, 2019 04:33 PM (AM1GF)

167 I don't think the Brits use it but we call our RINOs "Red Tories".

Posted by: andycanuck at January 15, 2019 04:33 PM (Evws/)

168 164 140
pep at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM (T6t7i)

Sorry, another comment was made before you closed.

Enjoy your stay.

Posted by: JackStraw
But I meant well. Surely that's more important than results.
Posted by: pep at January 15, 2019 04:32 PM (T6t7i)

Your moral correctness will be a model to us all

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:33 PM (bcbK8)

169 BREAKING on CNN: Chuck and Nancy Rosenberg* promise 39 billion pounds of funding to the EU if Britain stays. Developing ...

-
Building bridges instead of walls.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 15, 2019 04:33 PM (+y/Ru)

170 Ben Had. Did you get my email?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2019 04:33 PM (ptqGC)

171
If only Britain was surrounded by water like Ireland they could catch their own fish.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at January 15, 2019 04:33 PM (TAmPV)

172 Only a few countries are net contributors to the EU as far as taxes; most are net recipients.

Ja!
Oui!

The Prussians and the French - zey have successfully purchased what we failed to conquer.

Posted by: Zombie Kaiser Wilhelm andZombie Napoleon Bonaparte at January 15, 2019 04:33 PM (786Ro)

173 My Weekly Reader back in grade school.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM (FTlwv)

Is that still around?? I remember getting a free copy in grade school only.

Posted by: Colin at January 15, 2019 04:33 PM (POrl/)

174 Chaos at No. 10!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (BWL+E)

Anarchy in the UK!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

..............

Drudge headlines?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 15, 2019 04:34 PM (so+oy)

175 Even the AfD _alternative for Germany party is calling for an Dexit, so the EU is not in good shape:

https://tinyurl.com/yddxh9gt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2019 04:34 PM (AllCR)

176 163 I'm laughing though, at a very earnest sophomore in my college International Econ class, dead certain to the point of fervor that the EU would become the world's ruling superpower by the mid 21st century.

I wonder what happened to that little punk.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at January 15, 2019 04:32 PM (IfYaq)

Yeah, I read sci-fi with that theme back in the 90's.

It wasn't very good.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:34 PM (bcbK8)

177 Britain leaving is comparatively easy because they kept the pound

If Italy leaves its like one of the drunks trying to leave the party early by leaving $10, with the rest stuck with the tab

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 15, 2019 04:34 PM (iW7OB)

178 WRT to May the only real question is which is slower, hemp rope or piano wire?
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler

Depends on the drop.
Piano wire acts like a cheese cutter at certain heights.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 15, 2019 04:34 PM (qjfjx)

179 That said, I don't think many Establishment types in the UK or anywhere else are comfortable making bold moves of any kind. They are cautious, cowardly types...

May I subscribe to their newsletter?

Posted by: The Junior Senator from Utah at January 15, 2019 04:34 PM (786Ro)

180 Chaos at No. 10!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (BWL+E)

Anarchy in the UK!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

..............

Drudge headlines?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 15, 2019 04:34 PM (so+oy)

DEVELOPING......

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2019 04:34 PM (ptqGC)

181 10 Britain is done for. The Germans have won.

I don't see chaos there. It's a good comment.

Oh.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at January 15, 2019 04:34 PM (IfYaq)

182 Very believable, the corruption goes all the way to the top"

Missed the previous - but interesting tale that's not making the US press. The theft and corruption is so pervasive across the oil and gas industry that US firms are having to draw up new info for the now new (legal) operations.

It'd be funny if we had a wall...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 04:34 PM (6qErC)

183 >>But I meant well. Surely that's more important than results.

This is a results oriented blog.

And don't call me Surely.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:34 PM (/tuJf)

184 See, we here in the US would care except we all died from net neutrality repeal, Trump tax cuts and the confirmation of Kauvanugh.

There's only like 20 people left in America now
Posted by: RoyalOil
-------

You forgot 'guns'. 93,000,000 gun deaths per day.

Posted by: Terry McAuliffe at January 15, 2019 04:35 PM (/dN1M)

185 The British press is already painting a Hard Brexit as a Mad Max level apocalypse

As if that would be a bad thing.

Posted by: Hands at January 15, 2019 04:35 PM (786Ro)

186 163 I'm laughing though, at a very earnest sophomore in my college International Econ class, dead certain to the point of fervor that the EU would become the world's ruling superpower by the mid 21st century. "

Imagine an army with Scandinavian troops, British generals, and Italian equipment.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 15, 2019 04:35 PM (Kpl3J)

187 Originally the EU was just a trading pack.
Posted by: Colin at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM
~~~~~

It was always intended to be much more than that. Read "Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis" by Bat Ye'or.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 15, 2019 04:35 PM (NtglE)

188
So, Trump is the absolutely worst leader ever and he's turned the US into a joke, right?

UK: Government about to fall
Germany: Merkel barely limping along
France: Rioting

If you added the approval ratings of May, Merkel and Macron, you still wouldn't get Trump's.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:35 PM (BWL+E)

189 153 144
Chaos at No. 10!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:30 PM (BWL+E)

Anarchy in the UK!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM (bcbK

I wanna be anarchy!
It's the only way to be!

Posted by: Insomniac at January 15, 2019 04:35 PM (NWiLs)

190 >>>I'm just amazed so many Europeans support the EU when it's basically just a racket for Germany.

It's actually a racket for Greece, Italy and Spain. They can live like teenagers with their parent's credit cards while the northern European countries pay the bills.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 15, 2019 04:35 PM (HmZuC)

191 If only Britain was surrounded by water like Ireland they could catch their own fish.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic

They could also control their immigration.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 15, 2019 04:35 PM (qjfjx)

192 Like the predictions of disaster from when Trump was elected, I suspect that nothing much will happen in a hard Brexit.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Globalist Griefs - Two for One - at The Outrage Outlet! at January 15, 2019 04:36 PM (0QYMt)

193 Originally the EU was just a trading pack. Then it grew into the idea of a Untied States of Europe.

-------

Without regard to the things they told everyone else, Adenauer always intended for that eventual outcome - to achieve with the Deutschmark what Germany could not with the Wehrmacht.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 15, 2019 04:36 PM (AzW6q)

194 Leave the EU, Tell the EU to eat their 39 Billion, Blow up the chunnel, Sign trader agreement with the USA

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 15, 2019 04:36 PM (bim/x)

195 Eat MohR ChiKin ... (say the Irish cows)

A chicken in every Brexit pot ... or maybe they will now be allowed to fish? idk, but clearly they need more Muslims to tell them what to do.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 15, 2019 04:36 PM (Cus5s)

196 130 Fail

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2019 04:36 PM (1ISKN)

197 Someone should remind the British that Soft Power is a Wanker Ploy. If you have defendable borders and a nice navy you don't need the EUies, they need you. 39B pounds will build very nice ships and subs and aircraft.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 15, 2019 04:36 PM (2LelM)

198 I'm just amazed so many Europeans support the EU when it's basically just a racket for Germany.

Posted by: Blago at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM---You do realize that Germany is paying the debt for Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain right?

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 15, 2019 04:36 PM (JUOKG)

199 I wonder what happened to that little punk.

Europe is a powerhouse. A POWERHOUSE.

Why are you laughing, you giant 5 foot plus freaks?

Posted by: Paul Krugman stamping his tiny tiny feet at January 15, 2019 04:36 PM (LL1Be)

200 the EU needs and wants, for example, the 39 billion pounds it claims the UK "owes" it,

Gettin' ready to sell short the Pound again here, like a boss.

Posted by: Soros at January 15, 2019 04:36 PM (786Ro)

201 Imagine an army with Scandinavian troops, British generals, and Italian equipment.

Fed by Germans, with French transportation

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:36 PM (39g3+)

202
What if the world runs out of yellow vests before it's our turn?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:23 PM

I bought mine weeks ago. In fact, when I take my daily walk I wear it. Hunting season and visibility and all that. Hand on Bible placed, I walk past the 'Hate Has No Homos Here' bearing house every day. A sign which has been up for well over a year.

Correlation and causation whatever, the sign is now gone.

Posted by: Newest Nic at January 15, 2019 04:37 PM (jYje5)

203 Mad Max and Thunderdome only comes when the citizens vote to leave the EU and you basically tell them to sod off, we're going to redo the vote until we get the result WE want.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 15, 2019 04:37 PM (VpIIl)

204 I'm sure we would be happy to sell beef to the U.K. .

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 15, 2019 04:37 PM (0/zKO)

205 My Weekly Reader back in grade school.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat
----------

What I don't recall, is actually reading it. Boy's Life, now that I read.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 15, 2019 04:37 PM (YvUf/)

206

Quick who wrote "Needles And Pins," done by The Searchers and covered later by The Ramones?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGWR3uI3Qa0

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at January 15, 2019 04:37 PM (o6i/R)

207
The average EU official has the flexibility of the Germans, the organizational skill of the Italians, the imagination of the Belgians and the humility of the French.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:38 PM (BWL+E)

208 163 I'm laughing though, at a very earnest sophomore in my college International Econ class, dead certain to the point of fervor that the EU would become the world's ruling superpower by the mid 21st century.

I wonder what happened to that little punk.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at January 15, 2019 04:32 PM (IfYaq)

I do remember "moderate Leftists" in academia pushing that meme all through the late 1980s and 1990s, with a claim that unlike we unplanned American ruffians, the technocrats in Brussels and Tokyo would create superstates that would leave the USA in the dust.

"moderate Leftists" to distinguish them from the hardcore Leftists who still believed in the Soviet model.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 15, 2019 04:38 PM (ujg0T)

209 I'm sure we would be happy to sell beef to the U.K. .
Posted by: Can't resist temptation
----------

I wonder how much we shipped over during WWII?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 15, 2019 04:38 PM (YvUf/)

210 The funny thing is that Germany finally conquered Europe and found itself responsible for Greece.

Suckers.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Globalist Griefs - Two for One - at The Outrage Outlet! at January 15, 2019 04:38 PM (0QYMt)

211 The new EU army will take care of the rowdy ones.

-
We'll just tell the Eagles fan that the EU said that their team couldn't beat an EU girls soccer team and that if they prove different they can have all the beer they can drink.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 15, 2019 04:38 PM (+y/Ru)

212 Opening at the Old Globe:

FAILURE THEATRE

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 15, 2019 04:38 PM (oVJmc)

213 @Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Jan 13

No deal is still better than a bad deal.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 15, 2019 04:38 PM (ZejZP)

214 Is the UK not an island? Does no one have boats to fish from?

Posted by: Inogame at January 15, 2019 04:38 PM (ySZHT)

215 The message is clear.Fuck the will of the people.

Posted by: steevy at January 15, 2019 04:39 PM (BXMxN)

216 If you added the approval ratings of May, Merkel and Macron, you still wouldn't get Trump's.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:35 PM (BWL+E)

Kinda' been a day, boss. Not really digging the whole "math" thing right now.

Posted by: JayDub Walker at January 15, 2019 04:39 PM (/DNGU)

217 Daily Mail UK actually has a pretty good flowchart showing some of the possible scenarios/outcomes from here.

From my reading, the hard Brexiteers have the edge right now, since with no solution by March 29, the No Deal happens without some sort of EU 'extension'.

Farage is for No Deal; good enough for me.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 15, 2019 04:39 PM (Z4rgH)

218 >>Leave the EU, Tell the EU to eat their 39 Billion, Blow up the chunnel, Sign trader agreement with the USA

I did some work on the Chunnel project. It's jointly owned by the British and French government with a few minority partners.

It took forever to get anything done because British and French ownership. And this is when they were playing nice.

No need to waste the explosives. It will die of neglect.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:39 PM (/tuJf)

219 Jane, Yes I did. Thank You for the info. I apologize for not getting right back to you.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 15, 2019 04:39 PM (SRQO0)

220 because the EU needs and wants, for example, the 39 billion pounds it claims the UK "owes" it

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There was a time when an English king (or queen) would scoff at the continent's demand for payment.

Posted by: SH at January 15, 2019 04:39 PM (sX1BW)

221 "Sargon of Akkad. Now that's someone whose opinion really matters to me"

I've always found his analysis to be sound, even when I don't agree with him. He's worth listening to.

Posted by: Fenrisulven at January 15, 2019 04:39 PM (y0A9r)

222 178 WRT to May the only real question is which is slower, hemp rope or piano wire?
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler

Depends on the drop.
Piano wire acts like a cheese cutter at certain heights.
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Who said anyting about a drop?

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at January 15, 2019 04:40 PM (RObQ6)

223
The wogs start at Calais.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:40 PM (BWL+E)

224 May is TOAST

Posted by: Mittens Romney AKA John McCain at January 15, 2019 04:40 PM (BqBId)

225 198 I'm just amazed so many Europeans support the EU when it's basically just a racket for Germany.

Posted by: Blago at January 15, 2019 04:31 PM---You do realize that Germany is paying the debt for Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain right?
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 15, 2019 04:36 PM (JUOKG)

Nobody said it was a GOOD racket.

Posted by: eleven at January 15, 2019 04:40 PM (NLLmE)

226 It may be chaos immediately, but people especially in the market are mostly prepared. Most market participants have opened legal entities in the EU and UK. They have split their businesses and figured out things like tax structures. We basically looked at some of the pre EU models and worked from there.

Things will straighten out and the UK will bounce back. The EU delenda est. That's why the EU cucks are pushing Armageddon.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 15, 2019 04:40 PM (VpIIl)

227 Fuck the will of the people.

We have this on our new Congressional t shirts.

Posted by: US Congress at January 15, 2019 04:40 PM (LL1Be)

228 Quick who wrote "Needles And Pins," done by The Searchers and covered later by The Ramones?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGWR3uI3Qa0
Posted by: Soothsayer

..............

Sonny Bono and someone else..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 15, 2019 04:40 PM (so+oy)

229 I'd love to see the Irish, forced not to sell their fish to the UK... instead it rots. That's so EU.

Posted by: Inogame at January 15, 2019 04:41 PM (ySZHT)

230 Quick who wrote "Needles And Pins," done by The Searchers and covered later by The Ramones?

I dunno but I liked how Megadeth used it

https://youtu.be/6OycJh8wegU

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:41 PM (39g3+)

231 Farage is for No Deal; good enough for me.
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He's a nice fellow. Bought him a beer once.

Posted by: simplemind at January 15, 2019 04:41 PM (RF8Kh)

232 190 >>>I'm just amazed so many Europeans support the EU when it's basically just a racket for Germany.

It's actually a racket for Greece, Italy and Spain. They can live like teenagers with their parent's credit cards while the northern European countries pay the bills.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 15, 2019 04:35 PM (HmZuC)

And whenever the Germans have the temerity to complain about this, the "PIGS" invoke War Guilt.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 15, 2019 04:41 PM (ujg0T)

233 The European Union will not last three years once Britain leaves. They are the number two source of funds and Germany cant cover the entire cost of subsidizing Italy, Spain, Portugal, etc.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 15, 2019 04:41 PM (0TYt/)

234 97 41 We have beef.

australia has beef, too, if those wendy's commercials are to be believed.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 15, 2019 04:25 PM (v3pYe)

====================
(Other old timers will get the below)

Next time someone asks you, "Where's the Beef?"

Respond: "It's in Wendy's buns!"

Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at January 15, 2019 04:41 PM (+8HzQ)

235 I'm just amazed so many Europeans support the EU when it's basically just a racket for Germany.

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Germany's other racket is ... well you know.

Posted by: SH at January 15, 2019 04:41 PM (sX1BW)

236 Farage is for No Deal; good enough for me.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 15, 2019 04:39 PM (Z4rgH)

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I keep up with European news, but I know a lot of people don't. If you want to know what's up with a given issue in Britain WRT to the EU, start with Farage.

He is the only prominent Englishman. The rest are Eurocrats, and will make a tremendous amount of confusing noise, whereas Farage will just cut to the core of it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 15, 2019 04:41 PM (AzW6q)

237 Actually, I'm pretty sure that we're all going to die if the border wall is built.

Also... is the UK not going Muslim fast enough? Has the national surrender stalled, so the EU needs to step in to make the UK an islamic nation? Is that why they need the EU?

Posted by: shibumi at January 15, 2019 04:41 PM (OXL6p)

238 My Weekly Reader back in grade school.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat
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What I don't recall, is actually reading it. Boy's Life, now that I read.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

And National Geographic!

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 15, 2019 04:41 PM (FTlwv)

239 It's insane - but completely not surprising - that the EU has established requirements that must be met before a country can leave. It's not enough for the citizens to vote to leave - oh no. Naturally they're convoluted, and the goalpost keeps moving. The EU is like the psychotic girlfriend that won't accept that the relationship is over.
Face it, EU - the Brits are just not that into you.

Posted by: Super Genius at January 15, 2019 04:41 PM (DGD99)

240
The EU: the Sears of political entities.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:42 PM (BWL+E)

241 Europe, including the U.K. are socialists that are coming to the end of their ponzi scheme.

The U.K. is like a wild lion that was capture but has been in a zoo for decades. If you let him free, it will take sometime before he learns to hunt again, if ever.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 15, 2019 04:42 PM (0/zKO)

242 There's a lurking suspicion that May and her cohort have deliberately negotiated such a terrible plan that they will wind up getting (they hope) what they wanted all along, a revote on Brexit in which Brexit is voted down.

Theresa: "Hello, Jean-Claude?"

JCJ: "Oui?"

Theresa: "They've voted it down! We WILL stay in the EU. We can't let the white devils win, you know"

JCJ: "That would be disastaire. How could we get rid of the filthy deplorable racist garbaage once and for all if Brexit succeeded?"

Theresa: "Praise Allah, we must destroy them and make this continent a bulwark for House of Islam. Inshallah. If only I weren't white, I would have been able to have children that weren't white privileged racist scum. But I shall have my revenge for not being born a Muslim"

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I don't know if their texting conversations are like that, but nothing would surprise me any more. People really have drunk the Koolaid. Europe is in the final phases of Jonestown.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 15, 2019 04:42 PM (/qEW2)

243 May has done this incredibly stupidly from the start. She make Neville Chamberlain look brilliant by comparison.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 15, 2019 04:21 PM

*waves sheet of paper*

I have returned from with pieces Irish fish for our time.

Posted by: PM May at January 15, 2019 04:42 PM (786Ro)

244 Ah, how we long for the simple days of the "Continental System" in which Napoleon tried to screw the Brits to the wall with a Euro sized embargo against trading with Britain, and the Brits for their part, bribed every European monarchy with 15 men who could almost stand in a coherent line to go to war with the French.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 15, 2019 04:42 PM (37IEG)

245 227 Fuck the will of the people.

We have this on our new Congressional t shirts.
Posted by: US Congress at January 15, 2019 04:40 PM (LL1Be)

Posted by: peaches at January 15, 2019 04:42 PM (14URa)

246 There are a few EU denizens I'd like to supply with beef.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 15, 2019 04:43 PM (VpIIl)

247 We may ultimately learn that war settled these disputes more peacefully.

Posted by: SH at January 15, 2019 04:43 PM (sX1BW)

248 Carry On

And

Don't Report Muslim Crime

That was the worst of the Carry On movies. Especially the scene where they threw Kenneth Williams off a roof

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 15, 2019 04:43 PM (OLCnA)

249 1973?

I feel like that's deliberately misleading. The EU wasn't really a thing in 1973. 1993, sure, but 1973 it was just a really bad idea.

Posted by: moviegique at January 15, 2019 04:43 PM (oRIVo)

250 i dont think the 39 billion are as big a deal for the Europeans as you suggest, ace. Germany and France will have to step up and pay the British share in EU budgets at some point anyway and especially Germany is used to whipping out the checkbook to keep the EU going.

With a hard Brexit Britain will basically have the same trade relations with the EU as we have and Trump rightly pointed out, in the trade squabbles with the Euros, how protectionist they actually are (and we have obviously much more leverage than the British). Its not that Britain wont have fish or beef anymore, its that the price increases on a lot of goods will be quite the shock to the British economy.

Posted by: Nurse Ratchet at January 15, 2019 04:43 PM (RT0U4)

251
They subsidize the arts, though. That's really important, I'm told.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:43 PM (BWL+E)

252 You people are out of your fucking minds. Have you seen what the Brits do to beef ? While we're sending them more, why not drop a few kegs off at the local AA meeting while we're at it ?

Posted by: JayDub Walker at January 15, 2019 04:44 PM (1P/QA)

253 213 @Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Jan 13

No deal is still better than a bad deal.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 15, 2019 04:38 PM (ZejZP)

He has read the Art of the Deal..

Posted by: IC at January 15, 2019 04:45 PM (a0IVu)

254 244 Ah, how we long for the simple days of the "Continental System" in which Napoleon tried to screw the Brits to the wall with a Euro sized embargo against trading with Britain, and the Brits for their part, bribed every European monarchy with 15 men who could almost stand in a coherent line to go to war with the French.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 15, 2019 04:42 PM (37IEG)

and the Brits decided to bide their time and go build an overseas Empire too.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 15, 2019 04:45 PM (ujg0T)

255 Honestly, I'm starting to see why the Europeans tried to kill everyone on the continent last century.

Twice.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2019 04:45 PM (1ISKN)

256 else WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE.
Posted by: Ace of Spades at 04:15 PM

*cashes out stocks. Plans extended getaway to Anstradam and Eastern Europe*

Posted by: literally serious at January 15, 2019 04:45 PM (xQJTG)

257 PIGS is definitely an apt description.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 15, 2019 04:45 PM (SRQO0)

258 Posted by: Nurse Ratchet

You look ...different.
Something is bigger.

Posted by: mikeyG at January 15, 2019 04:45 PM (LL1Be)

259 I was always amazed that the Germans were willing to give up the Deutschmark in the first place.

Posted by: Grump928(C) snorts at January 15, 2019 04:45 PM (dKbOt)

260 Its not that Britain wont have fish or beef anymore, its that the price increases on a lot of goods will be quite the shock to the British economy.

The thing is, they can get a lot of the goods they presently do from the EU from other sources, they just have to work out new deals and new sources. With Trump in office, they're likely to get a good deal from the US for a lot of goods, and well you can live without roquefort cheese and schnitzengruben

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:45 PM (39g3+)

261 The first Brexit was still the best.

'Merica!

Posted by: SH at January 15, 2019 04:46 PM (sX1BW)

262
Have you seen what the Brits do to beef?

"Thank you, but we've always boiled it."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:46 PM (BWL+E)

263 Theresa May really didn't want to build that wall after all.

Posted by: rd at January 15, 2019 04:46 PM (kfj5i)

264 I'm sure we would be happy to sell beef to the U.K. .
Posted by: Can't resist temptation
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I wonder how much we shipped over during WWII?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 15, 2019 04:38 PM (YvUf/)

Interesting factoid is that Britain made its last payment to the USA for its WWII war debt in 2006.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 15, 2019 04:46 PM (0/zKO)

265 We "May" see the pound fall as low as 1.11 globalists will like that you know Soros would love it
Nationalists? They might see the pound lose 1/3 of its value in 3 years it was as high as $1.70 4 years ago

Posted by: No at January 15, 2019 04:47 PM (/oXpE)

266
Protip: Never, ever try to take toasters away from the unenlightened British.

The EU

Posted by: Newest Nic at January 15, 2019 04:47 PM (jYje5)

267 257 PIGS is definitely an apt description.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 15, 2019 04:45 PM (SRQO0)

Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain. Extort stuff from Germany, invoke War Guilt to get it.

At some point, one would think that the Statute Of Limitations on WW2 would expire.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 15, 2019 04:47 PM (ujg0T)

268 Keep Calm and Doink the Citizens.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 15, 2019 04:47 PM (VpIIl)

269 Ben, you might say we've got a beef with the EU over that.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 15, 2019 04:47 PM (2lndx)

270 i dont think the 39 billion are as big a deal for the Europeans as you suggest, ace. Germany and France will have to step up and pay the British share in EU budgets at some point anyway and especially Germany is used to whipping out the checkbook to keep the EU going.

With a hard Brexit Britain will basically have the same trade relations with the EU as we have and Trump rightly pointed out, in the trade squabbles with the Euros, how protectionist they actually are (and we have obviously much more leverage than the British). Its not that Britain wont have fish or beef anymore, its that the price increases on a lot of goods will be quite the shock to the British economy.
Posted by: Nurse Ratchet at January 15, 2019 04:43 PM (RT0U4)

the difference is that after Brexit the Brits can just buy American, Canadian, or Argentinan. Estimates are food costs will drop substantially for them. Average Brits may like that no matter what the champagne set thinks.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 15, 2019 04:47 PM (FTPn0)

271 Its not that Britain wont have fish or beef anymore, its that the price increases on a lot of goods will be quite the shock to the British economy

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Under the latest failed Brexit deal, Britain had to get permission to fish their own waters, IIRC.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 15, 2019 04:47 PM (0TYt/)

272 but 1973 it was just a really bad idea.

In 1973 it was the Common Market. A pretty protectionist market, I might add.

Posted by: Grump928(C) snorts at January 15, 2019 04:47 PM (dKbOt)

273 hey, wait a minute.

i haven't been posting for a couple hours.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 15, 2019 04:47 PM (d7Ww2)

274
Face it, EU - the Brits are just not that into you.
Posted by: Super Genius

Isn't it about 50-50?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 15, 2019 04:48 PM (aKsyK)

275 I was in Germany in 2000 right after the DM tanked after switching to the EU. They were pissed.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2019 04:48 PM (1ISKN)

276 I would point out the Swiss seem to be getting along with the Europenis governments without being members of the EU.

I guess they don't import beef and fish from Paddy.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 15, 2019 04:48 PM (37IEG)

277 The British will be priced out of BMWs.

Posted by: Grump928(C) snorts at January 15, 2019 04:48 PM (dKbOt)

278 Britain's still an island- right? Wait, this is a trick question on fish, isn't it.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 15, 2019 04:48 PM (VpIIl)

279 Clones.

Posted by: literally serious at January 15, 2019 04:49 PM (xQJTG)

280 Britain died with Terry-Thomas.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 15, 2019 04:49 PM (oVJmc)

281 I was always amazed that the Germans were willing to give up the Deutschmark in the first place.
Posted by: Grump928(C) snorts at January 15, 2019 04:45 PM (dKbOt)

Just because some Germans profit from the EU, doesn't mean the nation does. Diluting the sound currency is one of those ways.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 15, 2019 04:49 PM (FTPn0)

282 Isn't it about 50-50?

If your girlfriend was 51% inclined to dump you, I wouldn't call that a close relationship

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:49 PM (39g3+)

283
The British will be priced out of BMWs.

Posted by: Grump928(C) snorts

Yay! British Leyland makes a comeback!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:49 PM (BWL+E)

284
Jane, Yes I did. Thank You for the info. I apologize for not getting right back to you.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 15, 2019 04:39 PM (SRQO0)

Hope the info helped. That's all I could come up with.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2019 04:50 PM (ptqGC)

285 hey, wait a minute.

i haven't been posting for a couple hours.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 15, 2019 04:47 PM

Someone has apparently capitalized on your nic.

Posted by: Newest Nic at January 15, 2019 04:50 PM (jYje5)

286 hey, wait a minute.

i haven't been posting for a couple hours.

whoa.

Posted by: Keanu at January 15, 2019 04:50 PM (LL1Be)

287 285 hey, wait a minute.

i haven't been posting for a couple hours.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 15, 2019 04:47 PM

Someone has apparently capitalized on your nic.
Posted by: Newest Nic

well that's not very sporting.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 15, 2019 04:50 PM (d7Ww2)

288 The Germans gave up the Deutschmark because the plan was to go back to the Reichsmark once all the papers were signed and all the proper Frenchmen were bought and paid for.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 15, 2019 04:50 PM (37IEG)

289 Sodomy?

Lash?

Rum?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 04:29 PM

So sorry! Per regulations, you can't buy Sodomy from any other country but Greece, you can't buy the Lash from any other country but Germany, and you can't buy Rum (you have to settle for warm beer).

Posted by: The EU at January 15, 2019 04:50 PM (786Ro)

290
"All parts falling off this car are of the finest British workmanship."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:50 PM (BWL+E)

291 Brits will have to face up to the fact that ~~Net Neutrality~~, ~~The Wall~~, ~~Trump's Tweets~~, ~~Judge Kavanaugh~~, Brexit means we are all going to die gruesome deaths.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, drinking deeply from the whine glass at January 15, 2019 04:51 PM (LISuA)

292 Yay! British Leyland makes a comeback!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:49 PM (BWL+E)

With Lucas electronics, what could possibly go wrong ?

Posted by: JayDub Walker at January 15, 2019 04:51 PM (INDIf)

293 So to sum up, our consensus is that this epic fail is a boon.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2019 04:51 PM (dKbOt)

294 I was always amazed that the Germans were willing to give up the Deutschmark in the first place.
Posted by: Grump928(C)

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I was more amazed that the Germans were willing to pay substantially more tax and work until 70 in order to pay for Greeks to retire at 50.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 15, 2019 04:51 PM (0TYt/)

295 I was always amazed that the Germans were willing to give up the Deutschmark in the first place.
Posted by: Grump928(C) snorts at January 15, 2019 04:45 PM (dKbOt)

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Hard to conquer the continent without tanks. Germany guessed that the progressive bureaucratic class might do the trick especially from a continent still war weary after all those years. And for a while that worked.

Posted by: SH at January 15, 2019 04:52 PM (sX1BW)

296 Yay! British Leyland makes a comeback!

Second look at the Morris Minor?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:52 PM (39g3+)

297 all the proper Frenchmen were bought and paid for.

There's an easier method

Posted by: the Wehrmacht at January 15, 2019 04:52 PM (LISuA)

298 Meanwhile, the brain trust that is Brian Williams, is blaming Russian "election meddling" for Brexit. (Newsbusters)

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2019 04:52 PM (ptqGC)

299 all the proper Frenchmen were bought and paid for.

There's an easier method

Germany will make the trains run on time.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2019 04:53 PM (dKbOt)

300
I was more amazed that the Germans were willing
to pay substantially more tax and work until 70 in order to pay for
Greeks to retire at 50.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 15, 2019 04:51 PM (0TYt/)
It was cheaper than buying a shitload of new tanks and artillery and sending 'the boys' off to visit Greece again.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 15, 2019 04:53 PM (37IEG)

301 Probably not the best time for Deutsche Bank to go tits up but that's what you get for running the biggest money laundering operation in the world and pretending it's a bank.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:53 PM (/tuJf)

302 I was more amazed that the Germans were willing to pay substantially more tax and work until 70 in order to pay for Greeks to retire at 50.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 15, 2019 04:51 PM (0TYt/)

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Their accomodations to Europe over WWII guilt are jaw dropping.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at January 15, 2019 04:53 PM (ffYR/)

303 Meanwhile, the brain trust that is Brian Williams, is blaming Russian "election meddling" for Brexit. (Newsbusters)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2019 04:52 PM (ptqGC)

no point in a second vote then, they will just do it again.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 15, 2019 04:53 PM (FTPn0)

304 I'm okay with "Ace of Spades," "Charlie Brown's Dildo," "Niedermeyer's Dead Horse," "Mr. Peebles" and so on, but "Sargon of Akkad' is a nic too far. Preposterous!!!

Posted by: Donald Trump, Moron at January 15, 2019 04:53 PM (PbpT7)

305 It was cheaper than buying a shitload of new tanks and artillery and sending 'the boys' off to visit Greece again.

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Also, no boys.

Posted by: SH at January 15, 2019 04:53 PM (sX1BW)

306 Hard to conquer the continent without tanks.

"ULULULULU!!! All you need is a hijab on your worthless subhuman women and a bottle of acid!"
--Muhammad Muahmmed Mahomed

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:53 PM (39g3+)

307 Their accomodations to Europe over WWII guilt are jaw dropping.

I blame reunification.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2019 04:53 PM (dKbOt)

308 >>With Lucas electronics, what could possibly go wrong ?

I own a TR6. How much time you got?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:54 PM (/tuJf)

309 Hard to conquer the continent without tanks.

"ULULULULU!!! All you need is a hijab on your worthless subhuman women and a bottle of acid!"
--Muhammad Muahmmed Mahomed
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:53 PM (39g3+)

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Fair

Posted by: SH at January 15, 2019 04:54 PM (sX1BW)

310 Posted by: Newest Nic at January 15, 2019 04:50 PM (jYje5)

Eh, I didnt wanna infringe on anybodys handle. Ive posted under that one before and didnt know it was taken since then.

Posted by: TheNextBigNurse at January 15, 2019 04:54 PM (RT0U4)

311 You can't take in that many communists without bad effects.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2019 04:54 PM (dKbOt)

312 Hard Brexit as a Mad Max level apocalypse

Super Easy, barely a World Cup Final

Posted by: DaveA at January 15, 2019 04:54 PM (FhXTo)

313
De Gaulle said he like Germany so much he wished there was more than one of them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 15, 2019 04:54 PM (BWL+E)

314 297
all the proper Frenchmen were bought and paid for.

There's an easier method

Posted by: the Wehrmacht at January 15, 2019 04:52 PM (LISuA)
We tried that once, now we're going to use capitalism and buy the Gottverdamnt place. No more blowing things up Herr General!

Posted by: OKW at January 15, 2019 04:54 PM (37IEG)

315 Meanwhile, the brain trust that is Brian Williams, is blaming Russian "election meddling" for Brexit.

The marching orders and daily talking points have been released from the Open Borders Society aka Soros Central aka Obama's subversive living room.

Posted by: mikeyG at January 15, 2019 04:55 PM (LL1Be)

316 Irish beef smells like whisky and potatoes.

Posted by: The EU at January 15, 2019 04:55 PM (786Ro)

317 May will keep the UK in the EU alive for as long as she is able, and Labour will help her.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, drinking deeply from the whine glass at January 15, 2019 04:55 PM (LISuA)

318 Barr's an asshole!

Cory Booker
@CoryBooker
William Barr literally wrote and published a book called "The Case for More Incarceration" while leading the Department of Justice. Found a copy in a law library. It's real.

The fight for criminal justice reform has made so much progress - we can't let forces take us back.

Cory Booker
@CoryBooker
Today is the confirmation hearing on William Barr, Trump's pick for AG. I have objections. Take for example, this awful claim from Barr:
"The benefits of increased incarceration would be enjoyed disproportionately by black Americans living in inner cities."

Absolutely not.

-
What kinda nutcase wants to lockup criminals?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 15, 2019 04:55 PM (+y/Ru)

319 We need all the nurses we can get.

Posted by: eleven at January 15, 2019 04:55 PM (NLLmE)

320 Joni Ernst has to be wearing a wig, right? Although, she has grayed quite a bit since her original campaign. Or maybe she just bought a gray wig.

How the hell do I know!?!!

Posted by: IrishEi at January 15, 2019 04:55 PM (NtglE)

321 Irish beef smells like whisky and potatoes.

that's the women.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2019 04:55 PM (dKbOt)

322 Willam Barr "literally" wrote a book?

As opposed to....?

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at January 15, 2019 04:56 PM (IfYaq)

323 that's the women.

No way Irish girls all smell like sunshine and Irish Spring, in my dreams.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:57 PM (39g3+)

324 Willam Barr "literally" wrote a book?

As opposed to....?

Barry once read a book.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2019 04:57 PM (dKbOt)

325 322
Willam Barr "literally" wrote a book?

As opposed to....?

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at January 15, 2019 04:56 PM (IfYaq)
Getting Barack Obama to write it. He's such a good author you know!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 15, 2019 04:57 PM (37IEG)

326 CoryBooker

William Barr literally wrote and published a book

Cory Booker can read?

huh.

Posted by: mikeyG at January 15, 2019 04:57 PM (LL1Be)

327 Willam Barr "literally" wrote a book?

As opposed to....?

They way ~~Bill Ayers~~ Barack O'Bama wrote one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 04:57 PM (39g3+)

328 Willam Barr "literally" wrote a book?

As opposed to....?
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at January 15, 2019 04:56 PM (IfYaq)

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Having a ghostwriter do it?

Posted by: Calm Mentor at January 15, 2019 04:57 PM (ffYR/)

329
I literally just wrote a comment minutes ago.

Posted by: Newest Nic at January 15, 2019 04:57 PM (jYje5)

330 William Barr walks into himself.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 15, 2019 04:57 PM (0/zKO)

331 Obviously Hard Brexiters are racist against Frenchmen and Germans.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at January 15, 2019 04:58 PM (koNhm)

332 Yumping Yiminie.

Witness at El Chapo trial claims ex Mexican President Nieto took a $100 million bribe.

https://tinyurl.com/yccmcbee

Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:58 PM (/tuJf)

333 >>>Have you seen what the Brits do to beef ?

I've always thought the reason for Brits coming down with mad cow disease is the beef getting revenge for the malpractice performed on it in the name of British cuisine.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 15, 2019 04:58 PM (HmZuC)

334 Irish Women and a guy named Barr - there's gotta be a joke there somewhere.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 15, 2019 04:58 PM (37IEG)

335
Haha, McConnell blocked another bill to fund the government and said the Senate won't try to override any vetoes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 15, 2019 04:59 PM (H421K)

336 William Barr walks into himself.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 15, 2019 04:57 PM (0/zKO)

He raises himself.

Posted by: JayDub Walker at January 15, 2019 04:59 PM (xhmI2)

337 Britain has two choices - align itself with America or Europe.

Why is this so hard?

Posted by: SH at January 15, 2019 04:59 PM (sX1BW)

338 If I was a Mexican president I'd take a $100 million bribe too.

Posted by: eleven at January 15, 2019 04:59 PM (NLLmE)

339 Witness at El Chapo trial claims ex Mexican President Nieto took a $100 million bribe.

To be fair I'm not sure there are many people on earth who'd turn down a HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 05:00 PM (39g3+)

340 332>> That's a given. Wait until they tie him to US politicians.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 15, 2019 05:00 PM (YndB3)

341
I was more amazed that the Germans were willing to pay substantially more tax and work until 70 in order to pay for Greeks to retire at 50.
________________

Und now ve work 'til 70 so ve can pay fur de welfare fur de Muhammads and der wives dat Frau Merkel -- piss be upon her -- imported.

Posted by: Hans Und Gretl at January 15, 2019 05:00 PM (fqUgw)

342 Corey Booker needs to be the victim of a drive-by by a twice convicted felon on early parole.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 15, 2019 05:01 PM (0/zKO)

343 Witness at El Chapo trial claims ex Mexican President Nieto took a $100 million bribe.

Bribery?

In Mexico?

Posted by: mikeyG at January 15, 2019 05:01 PM (LL1Be)

344 "The British press is already painting a Hard Brexit as a Mad Max level apocalypse, claiming that because the UK imports a lot of beef and fish from the EU (specifically, mostly Ireland), therefore when the UK leaves the EU, it will have a massive beef and fish shortage, because it seems 1, you can't buy beef and fish from Ireland unless you're in the EU and 2, you can't buy beef and fish from any other country but Ireland."

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That is a complete nonsense. Australia has a massive beef industry and is prepared to supply them with all they need almost at a moment's notice. In fact UK stiffed Australia, their closest Commonwealth member, when they joint the EU as they imported a huge range of products from them before then.

Canada is also standing by to export to U.K. anything they need.

Posted by: Decaf at January 15, 2019 05:01 PM (hT1qM)

345 224 May is TOAST

It's only January.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 15, 2019 05:01 PM (NWiLs)

346 318 Barr's an asshole!

Cory Booker
@CoryBooker
William Barr literally wrote and published a book called "The Case for More Incarceration" while leading the Department of Justice. Found a copy in a law library. It's real.

The fight for criminal justice reform has made so much progress - we can't let forces take us back.

Cory Booker
@CoryBooker
Today is the confirmation hearing on William Barr, Trump's pick for AG. I have objections. Take for example, this awful claim from Barr:
"The benefits of increased incarceration would be enjoyed disproportionately by black Americans living in inner cities."

Absolutely not.

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What kinda nutcase wants to lockup criminals?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 15, 2019 04:55 PM (+y/Ru)

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Keep Breaking Windows!

The economic growth from window repair will soon employ every person in the ghetto!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi Economics at January 15, 2019 05:01 PM (kfj5i)

347 Bribery?

In Mexico?

Shocking, and unexpected.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2019 05:01 PM (dKbOt)

348 Didn't realize the Euro is at about 87 cents. I remember not long ago when it reached 1.40 or so. My cousin who lives in Spain claimed that her dollar didn't go very far. She must be much happier now.

Posted by: Colin at January 15, 2019 05:01 PM (POrl/)

349 the 39 billion pound debt Britain supposedly owes the EU for the pleasure of having been the victim of it.
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Ultimately the best solution for any nation's debt is total repudiation.

People need to learn lessons the hard way

Posted by: Methos at January 15, 2019 05:02 PM (kOpft)

350 Taking form the Glenn Reynolds Class Warfare article at USA Today:

Not only are the elites, technocrats, and embedded, entrenched government workers taking up the mantel anti-racist and anti-fascist against the deplorables but have now convinced many (lower) middle class students and non-full time workers to take on the fight.

So these students that will never pay off their debt and these hourly baristas, barkeeps, and waitresses are actively fighting a war for against the productive, hardworking class at the behest of the of the elitist (that will never associate with them) and the entrenched government employee (that will never retire).

So they are resisting against what exactly? Change, yes! Hope, maybe!

So years down the road they can say the fought Trump and the Great Hordians to recover positions of power for tired old white people that want to give away the country to illegals and criminals.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 15, 2019 05:02 PM (JFO2v)

351 Germans were willing to pay substantially more tax and work until 70"

And import more workers.

And by workers I mean mo'hamhand and abdul...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 05:02 PM (6qErC)

352 Witness at El Chapo trial claims ex Mexican President Nieto took a $100 million bribe.
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Just a few weeks' profits for the border cartels.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 15, 2019 05:02 PM (fqUgw)

353 If England leaves the EU they will be poor, isolated, the stores will be empty and quality imported consumer goods will be impossible to find. Just like Switzerland.

Posted by: Ripley at January 15, 2019 05:02 PM (MxEKc)

354 That is a complete nonsense. Australia has a massive beef industry and is prepared to supply them with all they need almost at a moment's notice. In fact UK stiffed Australia, their closest Commonwealth member, when they joint the EU as they imported a huge range of products from them before then.

Canada is also standing by to export to U.K. anything they need.

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The US has lots of beef to export. By that I mean sheep. And goats. The cows stay here.

Posted by: SH at January 15, 2019 05:03 PM (sX1BW)

355 Germans are notoriously incurious, and willing to put up with crap from their government. But they do have limits. "Ze taxes have gone up again? Ach Mein Gott, zome day ve vill not put up vis dis!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 05:03 PM (39g3+)

356 The UK doesn't know what it wants, and it shows.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at January 15, 2019 05:03 PM (uJ0St)

357 Irish beef smells like whisky and potatoes.

I resemble this remark.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 15, 2019 05:03 PM (Z4rgH)

358 Witness at El Chapo trial claims ex Mexican President Nieto took a $100 million bribe.

To be fair I'm not sure there are many people on earth who'd turn down a HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Pikers.

Posted by: Congress of the United States at January 15, 2019 05:03 PM (AM1GF)

359 Witness at El Chapo trial claims ex Mexican President Nieto took a $100 million bribe.

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So, how much does it cost to bribe a US rep or senator? Hopefully, we find out soon.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 15, 2019 05:03 PM (0TYt/)

360
343 Witness at El Chapo trial claims ex Mexican President Nieto took a $100 million bribe.

Bribery?

In Mexico?
Posted by: mikeyG at January 15, 2019 05:01 PM (LL1Be)

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He didn't even need to bribe us not to build the wall..

We took his money anyway!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi Economics at January 15, 2019 05:03 PM (kfj5i)

361 Cory is not the brightest bulb in the box, Why didn't he say, "Barr wrote a book....."? Is Cory literally shaking about the book?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2019 05:03 PM (AllCR)

362 Bribery?

In Mexico?

Shocking, and unexpected.
Posted by: Grump928

Shut the front door!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 15, 2019 05:03 PM (qjfjx)

363
Fuck 'em. They're done.

Posted by: mikeyG at January 15, 2019 04:17 PM (LL1Be)

THIS. yeah, care not, except it could happen here.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'invite a friend for dinner!' at January 15, 2019 05:04 PM (FJqw3)

364 Witness at El Chapo trial claims ex Mexican President Nieto took a $100 million bribe.

--

So, how much does it cost to bribe a US rep or senator? Hopefully, we find out soon.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada

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Much less.

Posted by: SH at January 15, 2019 05:04 PM (sX1BW)

365 I own a TR6.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:54 PM
~~~~~

What year?

I had a '70-something Spitfire once. Fun car to drive, but frankly, a headache. One of my brothers still has a project '69 TR6. I don't know that he's driven it in ten years.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 15, 2019 05:04 PM (NtglE)

366 Euro started out, out of the gate, at over 2 dollars value per Euro, which was just ridiculous nonsense. Blatantly meant to powerhouse Europe into a world leader and humble the USA. Every single year after that it dropped in value and is finally getting around its proper level - roughly Canada Dollar territory.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 05:04 PM (39g3+)

367 Someone should break it to Booker when his mother told him as a child he was special, she meant short bus special.

Posted by: BluesFish at January 15, 2019 05:05 PM (oDAkR)

368 "May is helping put an anti-semite in charge in the UK

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 15, 2019 04:15 PM (bim/x)"

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There is no reason to believe she isn't one as well. She is certainly an anti-Christian, allowing her government to oppress those who do not bow before the Muslim takeover.

Posted by: Decaf at January 15, 2019 05:05 PM (hT1qM)

369 In America, our Presidents come in as millionaires, and leave as multimilionaires. In Mexico they come in as millionaires and leave as billionaires.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2019 05:05 PM (dKbOt)

370
"Bar nun." I literally don't understand this. I've never been in a bar where a nun was present.

Posted by: Cory Booker - alleged heterosexual at January 15, 2019 05:05 PM (jYje5)

371 356
The UK doesn't know what it wants, and it shows.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at January 15, 2019 05:03 PM (uJ0St)
That's because their media lies just as hard to them as ours does to us.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 15, 2019 05:05 PM (37IEG)

372 And import more workers.

And by workers I mean mo'hamhand and abdul...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 05:02 PM (6qErC)

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Importing people who immediately go on the Gov tit, never to positively contribute anything. Brilliant.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at January 15, 2019 05:05 PM (ffYR/)

373
343 Witness at El Chapo trial claims ex Mexican President Nieto took a $100 million bribe.

Bribery?

In Mexico?
Posted by: mikeyG at January 15, 2019 05:01 PM (LL1Be)

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You should see how much Bill charges him for a speech!

Posted by: Hillary C at January 15, 2019 05:05 PM (kfj5i)

374 POLL: Majority of Americans want Brexit, but blame Trump for May's Parliamentary vote failure.

Posted by: This is CNN at January 15, 2019 05:05 PM (786Ro)

375 So, how much does it cost to bribe a US rep or senator? Hopefully, we find out soon.

Offer them matching estates on both sides of the border.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2019 05:06 PM (dKbOt)

376 The UK doesn't know what it wants, and it shows.

I think the people there don't care for the EU bullcrap and being dictated to by unelected officials in Belgium of all places. I think they are tired of having cricket bat wood banned and being told they can't share memes. But they're being told from every single source every single day that they are doomed economically to perpetual rags and misery if they leave the EU so they're being scared.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 05:06 PM (39g3+)

377 That is a complete nonsense. Australia has a massive beef industry and is prepared to supply them with all they need almost at a moment's notice. In fact UK stiffed Australia, their closest Commonwealth member, when they joint the EU as they imported a huge range of products from them before then

Red Feather Brand canned butter.

Awesome prepper/storage butter.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 15, 2019 05:06 PM (qjfjx)

378 I would love to find out how much bribe money our congress has gotten over the past decade.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 15, 2019 05:06 PM (0TYt/)

379 >>What year?

>>I had a '70-something Spitfire once. Fun car to drive, but frankly, a headache. One of my brothers still has a project '69 TR6. I don't know that he's driven it in ten years.

'75ish. It's been pretty highly modified at this point, brakes, suspension, hand built motor, etc. but the evil spirit of Lucas remains.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 05:06 PM (/tuJf)

380 "Britain is done for. The Germans have won.
Posted by: Puddin Head at January 15, 2019 04:15 PM (2LelM)"

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Funny how that worked out, and with French help.

Posted by: Decaf at January 15, 2019 05:06 PM (hT1qM)

381 Australia has a massive beef industry"

Texas says "howdy", and is a bit closer...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 05:06 PM (6qErC)

382 Speaking of Britian, my wife was watching the TV show Victoria this past weekend. During the 1848 Revolutions I had no idea a black guy and Megan Markle look a like were the head of the Chartists. Who knew

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 15, 2019 05:07 PM (OLCnA)

383 Australia has a massive beef industry"

Texas says "howdy", and is a bit closer...

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There are a lot of goats in west Texas for them.

Posted by: SH at January 15, 2019 05:07 PM (sX1BW)

384 So, how much does it cost to bribe a US rep or senator?

Ask Bernie. Just a house.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 15, 2019 05:07 PM (qjfjx)

385 Importing people who immediately go on the Gov tit, never to positively contribute anything. Brilliant."

That's rayciss, dontchaknow?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 05:08 PM (6qErC)

386 If a police box were to materialize in London and Tom Baker were to step out and offer all conservative Brits some refuge and then take off, how many would rush through those doors?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 15, 2019 05:08 PM (/qEW2)

387 Witness at El Chapo trial claims ex Mexican President Nieto took a $100 million bribe.

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If we paid government workers a decent salary, he wouldn't have had to do that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 15, 2019 05:08 PM (+y/Ru)

388
Here's why women earn less in the workplace:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPY4HkZDyHc

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at January 15, 2019 05:08 PM (o6i/R)

389 This slow-roll on Brexit is Britain's version of the Mueller Fraud-- a foot-dragging rear-guard action to thwart the will of the voters.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 15, 2019 05:08 PM (LjXLa)

390
343 Witness at El Chapo trial claims ex Mexican President Nieto took a $100 million bribe.

Bribery?

In Mexico?
Posted by: mikeyG at January 15, 2019 05:01 PM (LL1Be)

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I feel so cheated.

Posted by: Crying Boehner at January 15, 2019 05:08 PM (kfj5i)

391 Trump may be the only recent President to actually lose personal wealth during his time in office.

And do so, voluntarily.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 15, 2019 05:08 PM (OQiTD)

392 I own a TR6.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:54 PM
~~~~~

What year?

I had a '70-something Spitfire once. Fun car to drive, but frankly, a headache. One of my brothers still has a project '69 TR6. I don't know that he's driven it in ten years.
Posted by: IrishEi at January 15, 2019 05:04 PM

First car I had was an MGB. Just like your Spitfire it was so fun to drive, but a PITA to maintain.

I had an Anglophile friend who thought the coolest thing was the "MADE IN ENGLAND" stamped on everything.

Manual brakes that failed - Dad showed me how to bleed them, so that part was interesting.

Posted by: Hands at January 15, 2019 05:09 PM (786Ro)

393 378 I would love to find out how much bribe money our congress has gotten over the past decade.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 15, 2019 05:06 PM (0TYt/)

I'd settle for knowing how much taxpayer money's been paid out to their groping "victims." Well, for starters.

Posted by: peaches at January 15, 2019 05:09 PM (14URa)

394 Didn't Farage help PDT prep for his second debate with The Beast? If they're good friends, PDT would probably listen to his advice about helping with Brexit. In a hands off way, of course.

Posted by: jmel at January 15, 2019 05:09 PM (OeWgo)

395 386 If a police box were to materialize in London and Tom Baker were to step out and offer all conservative Brits some refuge and then take off, how many would rush through those doors?

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Hmm.

Is Leela with him....?

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at January 15, 2019 05:09 PM (IfYaq)

396 While I'm sure both the prosecution and the defense have agreed to make sure nothing bad comes out about US (Democrat) politicians in the trial, wouldn't be surprised if something did.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 05:09 PM (39g3+)

397 Most of our menbers of congress become millionaires...I assume that Occasional Kotex will be worth millions in a few years.

Posted by: Colin at January 15, 2019 05:09 PM (POrl/)

398 381
Australia has a massive beef industry"

Texas says "howdy", and is a bit closer...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 05:06 PM (6qErC)
Yes, I suppose we could use that Intercontinental railway that was built by muslim railroad workers, but really I would prefer to see England remain in the clutches of the globalist EU.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at January 15, 2019 05:09 PM (37IEG)

399 So, how much does it cost to bribe a US rep or senator? Hopefully, we find out soon.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 15, 2019 05:03 PM (0TYt/)

You can get Menendez for for the price of a 2nd class PR hoor with cottage cheese ass.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 15, 2019 05:10 PM (JFO2v)

400 Witness at El Chapo trial claims ex Mexican President Nieto took a $100 million bribe.

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If we paid government workers a decent salary, he wouldn't have had to do that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

--

No, you fool, what is needed is a bonus system. That, or vouchers.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 15, 2019 05:10 PM (0TYt/)

401 Britain is done for. The Germans have won.

Basil Fawlty: Who won the bloody war?!?!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 15, 2019 05:10 PM (OLCnA)

402 Well for all intensive purposes, Barr did literally write a book.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 15, 2019 05:10 PM (0/zKO)

403 Britain is done for. The Germans have won.
Posted by: Puddin Head at January 15, 2019 04:15 PM (2LelM)

That happened musically when Handel moved there.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 15, 2019 05:10 PM (/qEW2)

404 Prince of Darkness, Lucas.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at January 15, 2019 05:10 PM (pw+jk)

405 '75ish. It's been pretty highly modified at this point, brakes, suspension, hand built motor, etc. but the evil spirit of Lucas remains."

I had a friend with an MG-A, beautiful car, used to go over when he tinkered with it. His favorite joke was - Why do the English drink their beer warm? A) they've got refrigerators by Lucas

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 15, 2019 05:10 PM (Kpl3J)

406
Is Leela with him....?

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at January 15, 2019 05:09 PM (IfYaq)
Was that the chick in the leather bikini?

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 15, 2019 05:10 PM (37IEG)

407 Most of our members of congress become millionaires

This being the primary and possibly only reason the Democrats want to control congress again. To get at that cheddar.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 05:10 PM (39g3+)

408 If I was a Mexican president I'd take a $100 million bribe too

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Especially if the alternative was a bullet.

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at January 15, 2019 05:11 PM (RObQ6)

409 Don't mention The War.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2019 05:11 PM (dKbOt)

410 Bribery?

In Mexico?

Posted by: mikeyG at January 15, 2019 05:01 PM

I heard that in the Oak Island narrator's voice.

Posted by: Hands at January 15, 2019 05:11 PM (786Ro)

411 If a police box were to materialize in London and Tom Baker were to step out and offer all conservative Brits some refuge and then take off, how many would rush through those doors? "

Both of them?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 05:11 PM (6qErC)

412
I would love to find out how much bribe money our congress has gotten over the past decade.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 15, 2019 05:06 PM (0TYt/)

Why don't we start with how much of our tax $$$$ they paid to silence the victims of their sexual misconduct?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2019 05:11 PM (ptqGC)

413 Trump may be the only recent President to actually lose personal wealth during his time in office.

And do so, voluntarily.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 15, 2019 05:08 PM (OQiTD)

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The last estimate I saw was that he was down $1.4 billion. It's difficult to estimate because of the value he places on the Trump brand.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at January 15, 2019 05:12 PM (ffYR/)

414 402 Well for all intensive purposes, Barr did literally write a book.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 15, 2019 05:10 PM (0/zKO)

I could care less

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at January 15, 2019 05:12 PM (BJlbN)

415 Hey there big bois - I'm hard for Brexit right now!

Posted by: Anthony Weiner - Gyrating in a Thong at January 15, 2019 05:12 PM (KESMe)

416
343 Witness at El Chapo trial claims ex Mexican President Nieto took a $100 million bribe.

Bribery?

In Mexico?
Posted by: mikeyG at January 15, 2019 05:01 PM (LL1Be)

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Sometimes you have no good choices.

Posted by: The Surviving DEA Agents at January 15, 2019 05:12 PM (kfj5i)

417
341 Und now ve work 'til 70 so ve can pay fur de welfare fur de Muhammads and der wives dat Frau Merkel -- piss be upon her -- imported.

you're gonna need a bigger dossier

Posted by: Anachronda at January 15, 2019 05:12 PM (v3pYe)

418 The last estimate I saw was that he was down $1.4 billion. It's difficult to estimate because of the value he places on the Trump brand.

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I suspect that has appreciated. Though it is harder to monetize for now.

Posted by: SH at January 15, 2019 05:12 PM (sX1BW)

419 414
402 Well for all intensive purposes, Barr did literally write a book.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 15, 2019 05:10 PM (0/zKO)

I could care less

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at January 15, 2019 05:12 PM (BJlbN)
Irregardless!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 15, 2019 05:12 PM (37IEG)

420 Brejected.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 15, 2019 05:13 PM (oVJmc)

421 But they're being told from every single source every single day that they are doomed economically to perpetual rags and misery if they leave the EU so they're being scared.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 05:06 PM (39g3+)

The tyranny of the store shelves. A lot of people like to talk high-minded ideas ... but that shit stops pretty quick when we get down to discussing no stores or utilities.

People ridicule and mock drug addicts - but John Q Public ain't no better.

If you ain't got a Thirty Day Plan at this point - you get what you get. Its not like you haven't been warned.

Posted by: JayDub Walker at January 15, 2019 05:13 PM (1P/QA)

422 Hmm.

Is Leela with him....?"

Rather have LeeLoo

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 05:14 PM (6qErC)

423 Famine? In Englad?
Ah, sure, the ships from Amerikay will send all the grain they can use (and import the potato blight in the process)

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 15, 2019 05:14 PM (37IEG)

424 Well for all intensive purposes, Barr did literally write a book.

I could care less

It's all one in the same.

Posted by: mikeyG at January 15, 2019 05:15 PM (LL1Be)

425 Well for all intensive purposes, Barr did literally write a book.

I could care less

It's all one in the same.

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Irregardless

Posted by: SH at January 15, 2019 05:15 PM (sX1BW)

426 407 Most of our members of congress become millionaires

This being the primary and possibly only reason the Democrats want to control congress again. To get at that cheddar.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2019 05:10 PM (39g3+)

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I was in the US Senate for over twenty years, and I am still not a millionaire. Tell me how this works?

Posted by: Slow Joe Biden at January 15, 2019 05:16 PM (kfj5i)

427 If you ain't got a Thirty Day Plan at this point - you get what you get. Its not like you haven't been warned.
Posted by: JayDub Walker at January 15, 2019 05:13 PM (1P/QA)

If they've laid in a good supply of toilet paper and spotted dick, they'll be fine until Australia gets them the beef.

Posted by: peaches at January 15, 2019 05:16 PM (14URa)

428 Sometimes I feel like I'd do a Thanos - eliminate half the population
But unlike him I'd hand pick who goes
might only need to decimate

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at January 15, 2019 05:16 PM (BJlbN)

429 Haha, McConnell blocked another bill to fund the government and said the Senate won't try to override any vetoes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 15, 2019 04:59 PM (H421K)

Hang strong War Turtle, the Golden Scalp Weasel is depending on you.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Globalist Griefs - Two for One - at The Outrage Outlet! at January 15, 2019 05:16 PM (0QYMt)

430 Well for all intensive purposes, Barr did literally write a book.

I could care less

It's all one in the same.
Posted by: mikeyG at January 15, 2019 05:15 PM (LL1Be)

You guys are going to do a 360 and come around to my way of thinking.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 15, 2019 05:17 PM (0/zKO)

431 Nood.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at January 15, 2019 05:17 PM (ffYR/)

432 Gamera, friend to children.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2019 05:17 PM (dKbOt)

433 You want Leela.

You'd settle for Tegan.

You'll get Adric.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 15, 2019 05:17 PM (oVJmc)

434 Nood."

Nood Brazilian.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 15, 2019 05:17 PM (6qErC)

435 Going to get a new thread any minute but anyway its my understanding if nothing gets done Brexit happens ona certain date.

Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2019 05:18 PM (/rm4P)

436 If you ain't got a Thirty Day Plan at this point - you get what you get. Its not like you haven't been warned.

Posted by: JayDub Walker at January 15, 2019 05:13 PM (1P/QA)

British subject musing: "I wonder what beer goes well with boiled bureaucrat?"

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Globalist Griefs - Two for One - at The Outrage Outlet! at January 15, 2019 05:18 PM (0QYMt)

437 NOOD Making Brazil Great Again

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2019 05:19 PM (ptqGC)

438
May is TOAST

It's only January.

It's May in January
Because I'm in love
It always is spring in my heart
With you in my arms

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 15, 2019 05:20 PM (aKsyK)

439 JackStraw: "Witness at El Chapo trial claims ex Mexican President Nieto took a $100 million bribe."

El Chapo made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Either my fingerprints were going to be on that money or my blood.

Posted by: President Nieto at January 15, 2019 05:20 PM (6eEQ+)

440 "The British press is already painting a Hard Brexit as a Mad Max level
apocalypse, claiming that because the UK imports a lot of beef and fish
from the EU (specifically, mostly Ireland), therefore when the UK leaves
the EU, it will have a massive beef and fish shortage, because it seems
1, you can't buy beef and fish from Ireland unless you're in the EU and
2, you can't buy beef and fish from any other country but Ireland."
Buy? Buy!? From Ireland? I believe I told them to go to Hell or Connaught!

Posted by: Zombie Oliver Comwell, roasting warmly in Hell at January 15, 2019 05:21 PM (rznWS)

441 The British press is as Leftist as out press

Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2019 05:23 PM (/rm4P)

442 The EU, like other criminal gangs, make it almost impossible to leave them.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (HmZuC

A friend of mine is originally from Detroit and her uncle was a member of hells angels. He said ozone time the rule is... you get beaten in and you get beaten out. Want to be a member? Survive the initiation beating, you are in. Want to get out? Survive the beating, you are out and free. Uncle Larry was a skinny 5 and a half feet. Uncle Larry was a former hells angel. The EU is worse than the angels and UK is not uncle Larry.

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 15, 2019 05:26 PM (myjNJ)

443
202 in Favor
432 say NI!

Posted by: Knights Who Say Ni at January 15, 2019 05:28 PM (t6XCL)

444 82

> "He's a good Righty commentator, and also wickedly funny when it
comes to relationship and sexual matters, which is a side project of
his."
---Posted by: Curmudgeon

>> "He's more of a liberal than a righty. It's just that he hates Leftists more than conservatives "-- Posted by: weft cut-loop

Both Sargon of Akkad and Paul Joseph Watson classify themselves as "classical liberals" which, to my way of thinking is still ... problematic.

But carry on, lads... aside from Paul Weston and Nigel Farage you're about the best political commentators that Britain has to offer right now.

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at January 15, 2019 05:29 PM (6Jh/O)

445 The reason Britain is done is not the 39 million nor the EU.

They are done because they can't even field the Royal navy they have.

Hell they can't even keep the RAF in the air at this point.

Unless there is a sea change in British pride the Nation of Nelson and Churchill is going to die with a whimper.

The whole idea of an EU armed force is so all of the EU members can't point to another country and ask them to do the fighting.

At some point someone will see this and come knocking on Brussel's door.

Posted by: Big V at January 15, 2019 05:37 PM (sN665)

446 Neville Chamberlain was fine with Lebenstraum as long as it took the Ukraine. Spineless people.

Posted by: David Santacroce at January 15, 2019 05:44 PM (u+hAv)

447 46 How do you say Yellow Vests in English?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2019 04:20 PM (/tuJf)

LOL - really

Posted by: dagmar at January 15, 2019 06:08 PM (D4BQa)

448 The whole idea of an EU armed force is so all of the EU members can't point to another country and ask them to do the fighting.

At some point someone will see this and come knocking on Brussel's door.
Posted by: Big V at January 15, 2019 05:37 PM (sN665)

No, the idea of an EU armed force is to have the English put down the French and the French put down the English when they get uppity. Typical imperial strategy.

Making it work and paying for it are another matter.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 15, 2019 06:09 PM (FTPn0)

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