The Morning Rant

"So it turns out that you can get banned from Facebook not only for saying bad things, but for being associated with people who say bad things. Facebook hates Gavin McGinnes, whom they've already banned, so they kicked out Alex Jones because he appeared in a video with him. Milo Yiannopolous got the boot for saying nice things about Tommy Robinson, whom Facebook has designated a 'hate figure'. So if someone says something nice about Alex Jones, will they be banned, too? This is all guilt by association, and my question is, if A appears in a video with B who once caught a ride with C who had lunch with D who once spoke at an auditorium where Milo once gave a speech, will that be enough to get A banned? Seriously, how long can these guilt chains get? And I don't understand so-called conservatives like Ana Navarro applauding this. Does she honestly think they won't eventually come for her? 'Oh no, I'm not a h8r' I can hear her say. But it never seems to enter her pea brain that what constitutes 'hate speech' is going to get redefined, and then we'll see a new wave of bannings, and then redefined again, and again, until everyone who's even a *little* bit to her right has been de-platformed. And then what is she going to do? She is simply too dumb to see the endgame here. She may think there will be safety in running further and further left, but she obviously hasn't read her Solzhenitsyn. He saw that the gulags were full of men who considered themselves good communists and Party members and they kept writing letters to Comrade Stalin telling them that they've been imprisoned by mistake. So, a couple three years from now, someone is going to dig up some of Ana's old tweets or video clips where she expresses some tepidly conservative views, and that will be enough to toss her, kicking and squealing, off the platform. And nobody will defend her, because anyone who could or would defend her will have long been silenced."

"Climate of Hate":

Some variation of the 'climate of hate' trope gets applied by the MSM (and the Democrats)(BIRM) to whichever Republican is most prominent on the national radar. No matter how squishy or not-really-conservative they actually are. Heck, they would even say this about John Kasich if he had run a competent campaign and earned more than 3 or 4 votes.

You Will Never See A Better Example of White Privilege In Action:

Indicative of the kind of discussions happening outside the Venezuelan embassy right now. pic.twitter.com/LhNGDhkiBa
— Alex Ward (@AlexWardVox) May 2, 2019

Once this clueless white lady is finished fluffing for Maduro, she'll fly back to her comfortable home in the USA where there's plenty of food in all of the grocery stories, good restaurants and all-night coffee shops in every strip mall and supermarket shopping complex, where government thugs aren't murdering people in the street, and her lights stay on all of the time. All of which she takes for granted.

Old-School Facebook:

Who Dis:

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For the 'Ettes:

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Friday's celebs: From the movie Shazam!, we have Zachary Levi and Meagan Good.

Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By Baked Sriracha Glazed Bacon Wrapped Onion Rings:

(you can get the recipe for these bad boys here.)

Posted by: OregonMuse at 11:15 AM

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1 B2B

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 06, 2019 11:16 AM (gC2IV)

2 Don Lemon, saying and tweeting really, really stupid things for over 10 years... and no end in sight.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at May 06, 2019 11:17 AM (pw+jk)

3 Danarys and Jamie.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 06, 2019 11:17 AM (gC2IV)

4
Alex Ward

@AlexWardVox
Indicative of the kind of discussions happening outside the Venezuelan embassy right now.

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The modern left sucks.

In case you didn't already know.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:17 AM (9cans)

5 Emilia Clarke and Nikolai Coster-Waldau

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:18 AM (9cans)

6 GoT pics .

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 06, 2019 11:19 AM (glJL/)

7 This is all guilt by association, and my question is, if A appears in a video with B who once caught a ride with C who had lunch with D who once spoke at an auditorium where Milo once gave a speech, will that be enough to get A banned? Seriously, how long can these guilt chains get?

a more important question is "have they banned kevin bacon yet?"

Posted by: Anachronda at May 06, 2019 11:19 AM (v3pYe)

8 Heart attacks come in ring form nowadays, I see!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 06, 2019 11:19 AM (so+oy)

9 3 Danarys and Jamie.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 06, 2019 11:17 AM (gC2IV)

3/4 credit.

5 Emilia Clarke and Nikolai Coster-Waldau
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:18 AM (9cans)

Full credit.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:19 AM (EiZIA)

10 Who dis?

Alf Landon?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 06, 2019 11:19 AM (mvenn)

11 Weird. You picked the two people my me and my wife's "cheat list"

Posted by: Defenestratus at May 06, 2019 11:19 AM (kI/3T)

12 If that's Emilia, she looks a LOT better with dark hair.

I thought the guy was Dennis Leary, except here he doesn't look as narrow-faced.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 06, 2019 11:19 AM (elsTe)

13 I like the bookburning contrast. It has a certain visceral punch.

Posted by: pep at May 06, 2019 11:20 AM (wW03z)

14 5 Emilia Clarke and Nikolai Coster-Waldau
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:18 AM (9cans)

Full credit.

LOL, I've actually never heard of either

Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2019 11:20 AM (O2RFr)

15 Heck, they would even say this about John Kasich if he had run a competent campaign and earned more than 3 or 4 votes.

The MFM would have called Mr. Rogers Hitler if he ran for office as a Republican

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 06, 2019 11:20 AM (OLCnA)

16 14 5 Emilia Clarke and Nikolai Coster-Waldau
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:18 AM (9cans)

Full credit.

LOL, I've actually never heard of either
Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2019 11:20 AM (O2RFr)

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Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:20 AM (9cans)

17 12 If that's Emilia, she looks a LOT better with dark hair.

I thought the guy was Dennis Leary, except here he doesn't look as narrow-faced.

Agreed on both points.

Posted by: pep at May 06, 2019 11:20 AM (wW03z)

18 ...Quick scroll-through...

...Girl in red *PAUSE!!!*

Pretty.

...Finish scroll-through...

...Grabs chair near the buffet...

Posted by: mindful webworker - click me and win! at May 06, 2019 11:21 AM (VQjKe)

19 I'm guess I've become completely wicked, because I was picturing how enjoyable it would be to watch that old white socialist being beaten into the ground with a truncheon.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 06, 2019 11:21 AM (Kpl3J)

20 Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.

Which show?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2019 11:21 AM (O2RFr)

21 Jennifer.

Back in the day, if I had been a creepy stalker type, it would have been Jennifer.

Posted by: davidt at May 06, 2019 11:21 AM (w/wKz)

22 2 Don Lemon, saying and tweeting really, really stupid things for over 10 years... and no end in sight.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at May 06, 2019 11:17 AM (pw+jk)

But it IS illustrative of how the Demunists operate. And I think the porcine Anna Navarro knows this.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 11:21 AM (ujg0T)

23 20 Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.

Which show?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2019 11:21 AM (O2RFr)

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Game of Thrones.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:21 AM (9cans)

24 YES! I finally know one of the actress photos.

Riley Reid.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:21 AM (uTPtJ)

25 >>Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.

And then Trump defeated the evil queen and there was peace, joy and prosperity in the land.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 11:21 AM (/tuJf)

26 Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.

--

Friends.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (uTPtJ)

27 Just a reminder: some of us won't see the GoT finale until it comes out on Netflix, so please, no spoilers.

Posted by: pep at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (wW03z)

28
The modern left sucks.

In case you didn't already know.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts

IOW meet the new left, same as the old left.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (aKsyK)

29
Game of Thrones.

That explains it. Never seen it.. It's the show with dragons and stuff right?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (O2RFr)

30 Willowed:

Well, the she-snek got stressed and left about 50 tiny snakes to round up as my poor mother shrieked in horror and stood on a chair crying.

There is no chair high enough.

Posted by: dagny at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (nRWPy)

31 25 >>Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.

And then Trump defeated the evil queen and there was peace, joy and prosperity in the land.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 11:21 AM (/tuJf)

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Well, save for the half of the population that's been lighting cars on fire for the last 2 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (9cans)

32 Hottie in red is breathtaking.

Please tell me she's topless in something, somewhere, out there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (bcbK8)

33 LOL, I've actually never heard of either
Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2019 11:20 AM (O2RFr)

Neither had I, but I wanted to do a GoT-themed 'who dis', so I looked it up on imdb.com. I was very impressed with the photo of Ms. Clarke.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (EiZIA)

34 Bad News For Omar and Tlaib:

On the eve of its 71st Independence Day, Israel's population stands at 9,021,000, crossing 9 million for the first time, according to figures released on Monday by the Central Bureau of Statistics.
...
Since last Independence Day, the population of Israel has grown by 177,000 (an increase of 2%). During that period, 188,000 babies were born, 47,000 people died and 31,000 immigrants arrived in the country.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 06, 2019 11:23 AM (I2/tG)

35 >>Well, save for the half of the population that's been lighting cars on fire for the last 2 years.

Noisy, ignorant children have always been with us. This bunch just has bigger megaphones.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 11:23 AM (/tuJf)

36 Ward, you were a little rough on the Beaver last night.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at May 06, 2019 11:23 AM (jsWA8)

37 Censorship is the refuge of the weak and insecure. It's the admission that your ideology can't withstand criticism or scrutiny.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 06, 2019 11:23 AM (xfb67)

38 They are running Biden as a way of pretending that Obama et al isn't being discredited right before our eyes.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 06, 2019 11:23 AM (uC3HV)

39 I've only recognized Nikolai Coster-Waldau in one other movie, Oblivion .

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 06, 2019 11:23 AM (glJL/)

40 >>This is all guilt by association, and my question is, if A appears in a video with B who once caught a ride with C who had lunch with D who once spoke at an auditorium where Milo once gave a speech, will that be enough to get A banned? Seriously, how long can these guilt chains get?

***Association outside of the platform***

That is seriously wrong. Facebook is saying you can't be fiends or in the same room as an unperson, regardless of whether you ever mention them/picture them on your site. They are grading your personal life, not just your facebook activity.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:23 AM (W+vEI)

41 32 Hottie in red is breathtaking.
Please tell me she's topless in something, somewhere, out there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (bcbK

Does she get nekkid in GoT? I wouldn't know because that's not a show I watch.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:24 AM (EiZIA)

42 27 Just a reminder: some of us won't see the GoT finale until it comes out on Netflix, so please, no spoilers.
Posted by: pep at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (wW03z)

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Dany brings Khal Drogo back from the dead by harnessing the power of the White Walkers.

Jon Snow is turned into the new Night King when the white walkers push dragonglass into his heart.

Arya kills Sansa because of something Sansa said to her when she was 5.

The large wildling and Lady Brienne make beautiful babies together.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:24 AM (9cans)

43
Comrade, that picture of the cast of Leave it to Beaver is doubleplus ungood. A husband and wife raising their two sons and none of them are gay or transitioning and all of them are white. This is a hate crime and will be reported

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 06, 2019 11:24 AM (OLCnA)

44 And yes, the censorship is real. And it's targeting Trump supporters.

If Trump doesn't fight it now, he's going to have a tougher election than he, by rights, should have in 2020.

God knows nobody else has the balls to go after Big Tech.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:24 AM (bcbK8)

45 oh dear, that was said boldly!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:24 AM (W+vEI)

46 32 Hottie in red is breathtaking.

Please tell me she's topless in something, somewhere, out there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (bcbK

She's nekkid a lot in GoT, at least in the beginning. I stopped watching after a couple of seasons.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 06, 2019 11:24 AM (Ez6QX)

47 32 Hottie in red is breathtaking.

Please tell me she's topless in something, somewhere, out there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (bcbK

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Her very first scene in Game of Thrones.

And several thereafter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:24 AM (9cans)

48 >>Please tell me she's topless in something, somewhere, out there.

Game of Thrones. I'm sure Bander has a catalog of her topless shots.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 11:24 AM (/tuJf)

49 39 I've only recognized Nikolai Coster-Waldau in one other movie, Oblivion .
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 06, 2019 11:23 AM (glJL/)

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He's all baby-faced in Kingdom of Heaven.

Liam Neeson kills him good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:25 AM (9cans)

50 Wait, is that eyebrows from GoT? She looks a lot worse with bleached hair.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:25 AM (uTPtJ)

51 I would pay a significant sum to have a big batch of those rings right now.

Posted by: irright at May 06, 2019 11:25 AM (aSKRB)

52 Danarys and Jamie.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 06, 2019 11:17 AM (gC2IV)

3/4 credit.

5 Emilia Clarke and Nikolai Coster-Waldau
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:18 AM (9cans)

Full credit.
Posted by: OregonMuse

Danarys Stormborn & Jamie Lannister.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2019 11:25 AM (gPTe0)

53 Hottie in red is breathtaking.

Please tell me she's topless in something, somewhere, out there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (bcbK

Uh Game of Thrones. Nekkid is its main attraction.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 06, 2019 11:25 AM (glJL/)

54 Ooh, Ooh.Game of ThronesEmelia Clarke and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Posted by: Frodo at May 06, 2019 11:25 AM (ctEmO)

55 That is seriously wrong. Facebook is saying you can't be friends or in the same room as an unperson, regardless of whether you ever mention them/picture them on your site. They are grading your personal life, not just your facebook activity.

Where do you think they got the idea?

Posted by: China's Social Credit System at May 06, 2019 11:25 AM (I2/tG)

56 Just a reminder: some of us won't see the GoT finale until it comes out on Netflix, so please, no spoilers.
Posted by: pep at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (wW03z)

Hillary finally takes the throne of Westeros, only to have a giant glass ceiling fall, killing both her and Hand of the Bitch Huma.

John Kasich then becomes King of Westeros, and reforms mail service to unheard-of levels of efficiency.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 06, 2019 11:25 AM (4knXT)

57 The MFM would have called Mr. Rogers Hitler if he ran for office as a Republican
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 06, 2019 11:20 AM (OLCnA)

It's a wonderful day in the Master Race neighborhood is what he *really* meant.

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 06, 2019 11:26 AM (y7DUB)

58 Wait, what? Not Jennifer? I gotta update my shrine?

Posted by: davidt at May 06, 2019 11:26 AM (w/wKz)

59 26
Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.

Was that fulfilling?

Posted by: Roscoe at May 06, 2019 11:26 AM (QxMUy)

60 That's the blonde from the swords and sorcerers show.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 11:26 AM (AzW6q)

61 59 26
Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.

Was that fulfilling?

Posted by: Roscoe at May 06, 2019 11:26 AM (QxMUy)

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Since I've never gotten THAT invested with the show, sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:26 AM (9cans)

62 Well, I wouldn't call it hate, but Kasich posted quite a climate of dislike here.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 06, 2019 11:26 AM (nIiI+)

63 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:25 AM (9cans)

I have not seen KoH. I was advised not to bother.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 06, 2019 11:26 AM (glJL/)

64 >>And then Trump defeated the evil queen and there was peace, joy and prosperity in the land.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 11:21 AM (/tuJf)

In the "Lion/Witch/Wardrobe" context, NeverTrumpers are represented by that nasty little shitheel Edmund.

Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 11:27 AM (Bdeb0)

65 I was very impressed with the photo of Ms. Clarke.
...........

yeah.. I was... ummm.. "impressed" too!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 06, 2019 11:27 AM (so+oy)

66 So no Nads Nadler is starting his contempt of Congress shit on Barr... I hold the whole Congress in contempt.

Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2019 11:27 AM (O2RFr)

67

I didn't see the subplot on GOT last night... Don Lemonparty takes it up the pooper dry by three dragons and a White Walker company... The WW should have gone first 'cause after the dragons they were just tossing hotdogs down hallways...

Posted by: M K Ultra at May 06, 2019 11:27 AM (obq+7)

68 53 Hottie in red is breathtaking.

Please tell me she's topless in something, somewhere, out there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (bcbK

Uh Game of Thrones. Nekkid is its main attraction.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 06, 2019 11:25 AM (glJL/)

Oh is she in that?

I only watched Season 1. Logan ate one of my DVDs when he was a pup.

I was mad at the time but he probably spared me some anger and frustration.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:27 AM (bcbK8)

69 >>And yes, the censorship is real. And it's targeting Trump supporters.

And considering 6 degrees o separation, how easy is it to follow a chain from one undesirable to justify banning another?

Someone like Joe Rogan interviews a variety of people, so find cause to ban him and you can then ban all his podcast visitors (as needed), such as Jordan Peterson, Tim Pool, Ben Shapiro.

And. . .Rogan's interviewed Alex Jones, so they already have cause.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:27 AM (W+vEI)

70 63 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:25 AM (9cans)

I have not seen KoH. I was advised not to bother.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 06, 2019 11:26 AM (glJL/)

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I think the director's cut is one of the great historical epics.

Several people here disagree with me quite vociferously.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:27 AM (9cans)

71 We're all for freedom of speech.

Here are the things you're free to say...

Posted by: Facebook.comm at May 06, 2019 11:28 AM (IMdOQ)

72 Baked Sriracha Glazed Bacon Wrapped Onion Rings

Oh my! Droooool....

Posted by: Tami at May 06, 2019 11:28 AM (cF8AT)

73 My spousal unit, the inestimable Mrs D, just read where they were filming a scene from GoT and someone left a Starbucks cup on the table. Apparently the director got pissed and the actors laughed. I think they should leave that stuff in the scene.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 06, 2019 11:28 AM (0tfLf)

74 She is simply too dumb

-
I think you've put your finger on it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 06, 2019 11:28 AM (+y/Ru)

75 Dany brings Khal Drogo back from the dead by harnessing the power of the White Walkers.

Jon Snow is turned into the new Night King when the white walkers push dragonglass into his heart.

Arya kills Sansa because of something Sansa said to her when she was 5.

The large wildling and Lady Brienne make beautiful babies together.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts

Yeah, pretty much exactly what I expected.

Posted by: pep at May 06, 2019 11:28 AM (wW03z)

76 71 We're all for freedom of speech.

Here are the things you're free to say...
Posted by: Facebook.comm at May 06, 2019 11:28 AM (IMdOQ)

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Nothing. Everything must go through the public safety council first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:28 AM (9cans)

77 This is like that Kevin Bacon degrees of separation game.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 06, 2019 11:28 AM (xfb67)

78 Too late to say Joan Collins? (It's never too late!)

Posted by: zeera at May 06, 2019 11:28 AM (GuGrG)

79 "Once this clueless white lady is finished fluffing for Maduro, she'll fly back to her comfortable home in the US"

Not to nit-pick but I think this was at their embassy in D.C. Okay maybe I am nit-picking.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 06, 2019 11:29 AM (4thlk)

80 mmmm, bacon wrapped life savers.

Posted by: Frodo at May 06, 2019 11:29 AM (ctEmO)

81 Obama appeared in a photo with banned Facebook person Louis Farrakhan.

Will Obama now be banned?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 06, 2019 11:29 AM (gL8Ep)

82 Who Dis:

No idea, but she has my attention. The guy looks a lot like Dennis Leary, but younger.

Posted by: t-bird at May 06, 2019 11:29 AM (IMdOQ)

83 47 32 Hottie in red is breathtaking.

Please tell me she's topless in something, somewhere, out there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:22 AM (bcbK

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Her very first scene in Game of Thrones.

And several thereafter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:24 AM (9cans)

Didn't recognize her as a brunette.

Pretty on the outside.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:29 AM (bcbK8)

84 We're all for freedom of speech.

Here are the things you're free to say...

--

Look, nobody NEEDS more than one bullet at a time. Anything more than that in an easily-accessed storage device is clearly just for killing other humans.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:29 AM (uTPtJ)

85
I've only recognized Nikolai Coster-Waldau in one other movie, Oblivion .

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 06, 2019 11:23 AM (glJL/)

He also played Gary Gordon in Black Hawk Down

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 06, 2019 11:29 AM (veoSD)

86 Obama appeared in a photo with banned Facebook person Louis Farrakhan.

Will Obama now be banned?

That's different!

Posted by: Farcebook at May 06, 2019 11:30 AM (IMdOQ)

87 Pics: Khaleesi and the Kingslayer! (should be a band.)

>>> Does she get nekkid in GoT? I wouldn't know because that's not a show I watch.

Very, very much so, at several points in the series. And unlike some of the other actresses, she did not use a body double; you can see her in all her natural birthdaysuit-ness. (Well, as natural as Hollywood lets anything be nowadays.)

Posted by: LizLem at May 06, 2019 11:30 AM (hvf9s)

88 Does she get nekkid in GoT? I wouldn't know because that's not a show I watch.

She did. A lot. Then she got full of herself.

I didn't recognize her with eyebrows that match her hair color.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2019 11:30 AM (fuK7c)

89 Didn't recognize her as a brunette.

Pretty on the outside.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Much prettier as a brunette.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2019 11:30 AM (gPTe0)

90 34 Bad News For Omar and Tlaib:

On the eve of its 71st Independence Day, Israel's population stands at 9,021,000, crossing 9 million for the first time, according to figures released on Monday by the Central Bureau of Statistics.

____

Yeah but how many Arabs are there out of that 9M? I remember reading that with current birth rates, Arabs could become a majority of Israel's population.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at May 06, 2019 11:30 AM (FiUMj)

91 Nadler's contempt charges are obstruction of justice.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 06, 2019 11:30 AM (gL8Ep)

92 My spousal unit, the inestimable Mrs D, just read where they were filming a scene from GoT and someone left a Starbucks cup on the table.

--

That's interesting. You'd think a multi-billion dollar show would have the capabilities for some tasty coffee in the food service trailer.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:30 AM (uTPtJ)

93 I don't know. Mixed feelings. Ace can ban folks for posting racist rants. His blog, his rules. If Twitter and Facebook, effectively do the same thing with MAGA, (Yes, I know MAGA is not racist) it's their platform, their rules.

Posted by: JAS at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (KOCKb)

94 Look, nobody NEEDS more than one bullet at a time. Anything more than that in an easily-accessed storage device is clearly just for killing other humans.

***

Except of course for the people acting as bodyguards for Our Betters.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (GEpFD)

95 Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:20 AM (9cans)

But enough about the Obama presidency...

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (EiZIA)

96 Good Lord, is that meme of Biden terrifying. Accurate and terrifying. What movie is that giant bug creature from?

Posted by: LizLem at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (hvf9s)

97 69 >>And yes, the censorship is real. And it's targeting Trump supporters.

And considering 6 degrees o separation, how easy is it to follow a chain from one undesirable to justify banning another?

Someone like Joe Rogan interviews a variety of people, so find cause to ban him and you can then ban all his podcast visitors (as needed), such as Jordan Peterson, Tim Pool, Ben Shapiro.

And. . .Rogan's interviewed Alex Jones, so they already have cause.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:27 AM (W+vEI)

Rogan will be made to grovel.
But he smokes a lot of dope so he's on 'their side', they think. Heck, maybe he is. But he's willing to let people on the Right come on and have their say.

And his Alex Jones interview is freaking hilarious.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (bcbK8)

98 95 Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:20 AM (9cans)

But enough about the Obama presidency...

Lol

Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (O2RFr)

99 He also played Gary Gordon in Black Hawk Down
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 06, 2019 11:29 AM (veoSD)

Okay. Should have remembered that one.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (glJL/)

100 The "Continuity Director" is suppose to catch that sort of thing.

Posted by: JAS at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (KOCKb)

101 I don't know. Mixed feelings. Ace can ban folks for posting racist rants. His blog, his rules. If Twitter and Facebook, effectively do the same thing with MAGA, (Yes, I know MAGA is not racist) it's their platform, their rules.

---

But employers and universities don't require HQ memberships.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:32 AM (uTPtJ)

102
I'm guess I've become completely wicked, because I was picturing how
enjoyable it would be to watch that old white socialist being beaten
into the ground with a truncheon.
=====

Old-fashioned socialists used to do pilgrimage to revolutionary situations -- allegedly to help. /s

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 06, 2019 11:33 AM (MIKMs)

103 Rogan will be made to grovel.
But he smokes a lot of dope so he's on 'their side', they think. Heck, maybe he is.

***

He's a "Truther," so that should answer that question.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 11:33 AM (GEpFD)

104 There are six degrees of separation put seven degrees of guilt by association.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 06, 2019 11:33 AM (+y/Ru)

105 101 I don't know. Mixed feelings. Ace can ban folks for posting racist rants. His blog, his rules. If Twitter and Facebook, effectively do the same thing with MAGA, (Yes, I know MAGA is not racist) it's their platform, their rules.

---

But employers and universities don't require HQ memberships.
Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:32 AM (uTPtJ)

==========

Once I get my business off the ground, I will.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:33 AM (9cans)

106 93 I don't know. Mixed feelings. Ace can ban folks for posting racist rants. His blog, his rules. If Twitter and Facebook, effectively do the same thing with MAGA, (Yes, I know MAGA is not racist) it's their platform, their rules.
Posted by: JAS at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (KOCKb)

That's fine at the blog level. But when you serve as a platform for hundreds of millions of people, you are no longer acting as a private entity but rather a public service.

Google is in EVERYTHING online.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:33 AM (bcbK8)

107 102
Old-fashioned socialists used to do pilgrimage to revolutionary situations -- allegedly to help. /s
Posted by: mustbequantum at May 06, 2019 11:33 AM (MIKMs)

==========

Like Bernie to the USSR!

Totally different from Rodman going to NK.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:33 AM (9cans)

108 Since public universities are part of the government, 1st amendment protections of speech apply. Not so much in a private enterprise.

Posted by: JAS at May 06, 2019 11:33 AM (KOCKb)

109 Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:20 AM (9cans)

We tried to watch GoT when it first came out. We lasted about 3/4th of the way through the first episode. After the 3rd scene of doggie-style, barnyard sex, I said enough, there must be better things for us to watch.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:34 AM (EiZIA)

110 They will not allow message control to slip again. That never happened to the Left before, and it took them by surprise. Once.

I expect there to be minimal media coverage of the Trump campaign next year, as well as an aggressively accelerated push for deplatforming every one of his influential supporters.

This time they won't be complacent, and they won't chase ratings and clicks - they'll use every tool in their kit to isolate and silence Trump and his hated deplorables.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 11:34 AM (AzW6q)

111 At the very least, we need laws requiring Social Media to post very clear, and easy to follow TOS. From what I've seen, the ones they use now are kinda vague.

Posted by: Serious Cat at May 06, 2019 11:34 AM (Xqo6t)

112 If Twitter and Facebook, effectively do the same thing with MAGA, (Yes, I know MAGA is not racist) it's their platform, their rules.
Posted by: JAS

As I understand it, Twitter and Facebook claim to be platforms, and are therefore not legally responsible for the posted content. It's different when you assume responsibility for what's on your site.

T & FB want it both ways. They want to be legally innocent for the material on their sites, yet still censor.

Posted by: pep at May 06, 2019 11:34 AM (wW03z)

113
Good Lord, is that meme of Biden terrifying. Accurate and terrifying. What movie is that giant bug creature from?

Posted by: LizLem at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (hvf9s)

The Monster That Challenged The World

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 06, 2019 11:34 AM (veoSD)

114 watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other."

This is CNN.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 06, 2019 11:34 AM (HaNEn)

115 108 Since public universities are part of the government, 1st amendment protections of speech apply. Not so much in a private enterprise.
Posted by: JAS at May 06, 2019 11:33 AM (KOCKb)

Unless you make cakes or pizza.

Posted by: Roy at May 06, 2019 11:34 AM (fG1QA)

116 >>> Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:24 AM (9cans)

You forgot to add the volcano scene in your spoilers!

Posted by: LizLem at May 06, 2019 11:34 AM (hvf9s)

117 I dare you to not use google. I mean REALLY not use them. Not just their email or search engine, but anything they touch. What do you figure, 2% of all websites don't have something google related that you're participating in when you visit?

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:35 AM (uTPtJ)

118 I don't know. Mixed feelings. Ace can ban folks for
posting racist rants. His blog, his rules. If Twitter and Facebook,
effectively do the same thing with MAGA, (Yes, I know MAGA is not
racist) it's their platform, their rules.

Posted by: JAS at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (KOCKb)

====
The cuckservative view and it's wrong. Fascistbook, googalog, etc have 85%+ of a market. AoS is but one of tens of millions of sites. Fascistbook, googalog are defacto monopolies and need to be broken up into tiny tiny pieces, become a public utility, or be treated as a publisher is.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at May 06, 2019 11:35 AM (pw+jk)

119 109
We tried to watch GoT when it first came out. We lasted about 3/4th of the way through the first episode. After the 3rd scene of doggie-style, barnyard sex, I said enough, there must be better things for us to watch.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:34 AM (EiZIA)

===========

Right before they started the show, they released the first 10 minutes for free online.

I fell head over heels in love with the show with that.

I've never loved it as much as then and the end of a certain late season 1 episode, but I've enjoyed the nihilistic exploration of power that it is every since.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:35 AM (9cans)

120 Since public universities are part of the government, 1st amendment protections of speech apply. Not so much in a private enterprise.

Posted by: JAS at May 06, 2019 11:33 AM (KOCKb)

--

I'm not sure if you're saying that supporting the students or supporting the social media companies.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:36 AM (uTPtJ)

121 Since Google controls so much, more than any private party should, they should either be nationalized or broken up.

Ordinarily I'd be against nationalization, but as shitty as they've gotten I don't care anymore. Fuck them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 06, 2019 11:36 AM (Kpl3J)

122 116 >>> Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:24 AM (9cans)

You forgot to add the volcano scene in your spoilers!
Posted by: LizLem at May 06, 2019 11:34 AM (hvf9s)

=========

I was trying to hold something back.

But there you go, ruining it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:36 AM (9cans)

123 The Rise of the SJW Snowflakes. They will take their ball and go home.

Posted by: Burger Chef at May 06, 2019 11:36 AM (RuIsu)

124 >>it's their platform, their rules. Posted by: JAS at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (KOCKb)

Trump Stammlager 17 is Zod's platform.

Zod's rules.

Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 11:36 AM (Bdeb0)

125 And. . .Rogan's interviewed Alex Jones, so they already have cause.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:27 AM (W+vEI)
Rogan will be made to grovel.
But he smokes a lot of dope so he's on 'their side', they think. Heck, maybe he is. But he's willing to let people on the Right come on and have their say.
And his Alex Jones interview is freaking hilarious.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (bcbK

All the social media giants need to do is find reason to ban Kevin Bacon. Heck, that guy is connected to *everybody*.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:36 AM (EiZIA)

126 >>I don't know. Mixed feelings. Ace can ban folks for posting racist rants. His blog, his rules. If Twitter and Facebook, effectively do the same thing with MAGA, (Yes, I know MAGA is not racist) it's their platform, their rules.

But that isn't the rule they are operating under, one which benefits them tremendously.

The distinction comes down to platform versus publisher. There are significantly different rules and benefits for each Facebook and twitter claim to be platforms but by editing content they are in reality a publisher and should be operating under much different, more restrictive rules.

They are trying to have it both ways. They need to be forced to choose, either operate like a platform and stop censoring speech or by governed as a publisher which is what they are doing.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 11:36 AM (/tuJf)

127 I thought we were discussing Twitter and Facebook. How is Google involved? They are not, as far as I know, censoring my email.

Posted by: JAS at May 06, 2019 11:36 AM (KOCKb)

128 The lady in the Venezuela illustrates that You Cannot Teach Those Who Refuse To Learn.

You Cannot Teach Those Who Know Everything.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 06, 2019 11:36 AM (AB9tT)

129 Being thrown off of Facebook would be good for most people. The dose makes the poison, of course, but a lot of folks seem to be suffering from social media poisoning.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 06, 2019 11:37 AM (ppBhU)

130 109 Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:20 AM (9cans)

We tried to watch GoT when it first came out. We lasted about 3/4th of the way through the first episode. After the 3rd scene of doggie-style, barnyard sex, I said enough, there must be better things for us to watch.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:34 AM (EiZIA)

Stop making me want to watch this show!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:37 AM (bcbK8)

131 Onion Rings.

My wife should be getting a quart of maple syrup very soon (someone at here work has a sugar bush) so I am going to get my daughter (the cook) to modify this recipe for her. I've already sent the recipe ... with a suggestion for my daughter to modify the recipe to make it kosher for her sister and sister's husband ... just taunting them, really.

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 11:37 AM (vWMNq)

132 This time they won't be complacent, and they won't chase ratings and clicks - they'll use every tool in their kit to isolate and silence Trump and his hated deplorables.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 11:34 AM

Ahhh...going to the mattresses.
Good. Its about time.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 06, 2019 11:37 AM (0tfLf)

133 >> I don't know. Mixed feelings. Ace can ban folks for posting racist rants. His blog, his rules. If Twitter and Facebook, effectively do the same thing with MAGA, (Yes, I know MAGA is not racist) it's their platform, their rules.

I would recommending checking out what independent journalist Tim Pool has to say on this. He is an Occupy Wal Street/Bernie supporter, so he is not a rabid conservative. He strives to be as non-partisan, down the middle as he can.

@Timcast

He was on Joe Rogan's podcast when Joe brought back Jack Dorsey and a legal representative from twitter (she filled in a lot of the details Jack was unaware of). It's long, but it's a really informative debate about social media censorship.

Might help clarify the arguments outside of the "your business, your riles" take on this.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:37 AM (W+vEI)

134 The lady in the Venezuela illustrates that You Cannot Teach Those Who Refuse To Learn.

You Cannot Teach Those Who Know Everything.

***

Also, it's impossible to reason someone out of a position they didn't reason into in the first place.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 11:37 AM (GEpFD)

135 Good Lord, is that meme of Biden terrifying. Accurate and terrifying. What movie is that giant bug creature from?

Posted by: LizLem at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (hvf9s)

Just this morning, Biden supporter Mega McCain said Biden is a "class act."

Someone please 'splain to me what "conservative" Ben Domenech sees in her, other than the big boobs and Mommy's money?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2019 11:37 AM (ptqGC)

136 127 I thought we were discussing Twitter and Facebook. How is Google involved? They are not, as far as I know, censoring my email.

They censor certain" information." and slant stories. They give what they want you to see.

Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (O2RFr)

137 The universities MUST protect free speech.

Posted by: JAS at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (KOCKb)

138 The case for nationalization - 1st Amendment Rules would then apply.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (Kpl3J)

139 And the argument as I understand it is that "their rules" pretty much only see badthink as bannable, and it just so happens that all the goodthink is leftist and supports everything (D).

When they begin editing content like that they are no longer just an impartial carrier.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (uTPtJ)

140 There are other search engines.

Posted by: JAS at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (KOCKb)

141 why is it okay to take down bakers and florists that don't want to participate in gay shit but its okay to allow censoring in the social medias?

Posted by: DanMan at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (XTiHL)

142 Link check

Posted by: zeera at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (GuGrG)

143 Mommy's money?

BINGO

Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (O2RFr)

144 HBO overdid the first several seasons of GOT. It gets better.

Posted by: dagny at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (nRWPy)

145 93�I don't know. Mixed feelings. Ace can ban folks for posting racist rants. His blog, his rules. If Twitter and Facebook, effectively do the same thing with MAGA, (Yes, I know MAGA is not racist) it's their platform, their rules.

Posted by: JAS at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (KOCKb)

Nah. I used to think that way, but worshipping the "free" market is how we got a Bush dynasty and an even less effective Libertarian Party. Persuading conservatives to expropriate Facebook, Twitter, and even Google will be easy. Assuming the worst case scenario, taking them out of enemy hands needs to be a priority.

Posted by: trev006 at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (OnEJV)

146 Ace doesn't ban someone for knowing a person that posted something racist. He bans for what they actually post.

Posted by: notsothoreau at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (JKNZq)

147 96
Good Lord, is that meme of Biden terrifying. Accurate and terrifying. What movie is that giant bug creature from?

Posted by: LizLem at May 06, 2019 11:31 AM (hvf9s)

Personally, I find Biden more terrifying.

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 11:39 AM (vWMNq)

148 Mommy's money?

BINGO

***

Hey now. Don't be so quick to dismiss the big boobs.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 11:39 AM (GEpFD)

149 Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.

I've watched every character that I originally liked be brutally and pointlessly murdered.

That's commitment.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 11:39 AM (Niu5G)

150 >>I thought we were discussing Twitter and Facebook. How is Google involved? They are not, as far as I know, censoring my email.

Ranking/hiding search results and YouTube demonetizing, suspensions.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:39 AM (W+vEI)

151 I expect there to be minimal media coverage of the Trump campaign next year, as well as an aggressively accelerated push for deplatforming every one of his influential supporters.

This time they won't be complacent, and they won't chase ratings and clicks - they'll use every tool in their kit to isolate and silence Trump and his hated deplorables.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

They can't help themselves. Let one outlet cover something and everyone else's ratings tank, and they'll all be back off to the races.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2019 11:39 AM (gPTe0)

152 7 This is all guilt by association, and my question is, if A appears in a video with B who once caught a ride with C who had lunch with D who once spoke at an auditorium where Milo once gave a speech, will that be enough to get A banned? Seriously, how long can these guilt chains get?

a more important question is "have they banned kevin bacon yet?"
Posted by: Anachronda at May 06, 2019 11:19 AM (v3pYe)

Only in Moslem countries because,

Bacon is Haram!

Posted by: Don Q at May 06, 2019 11:39 AM (NgKpN)

153 Got my UHD 4K of Hannibal today.

I'm looking forward to actually popping it into the player.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:40 AM (9cans)

154 Hey now. Don't be so quick to dismiss the big boobs.

But their attached to her.

Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2019 11:40 AM (O2RFr)

155 I used to think that I lean Libertarian - that was before it turned into nothing but Open Borders and Free Weed for All.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 06, 2019 11:40 AM (Kpl3J)

156 Go ahead and google "american inventors" and ponder how they return the search results for badthink.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:40 AM (uTPtJ)

157 Hey now. Don't be so quick to dismiss the big boobs.
Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 11:39 AM (GEpFD)

True. The urge to squeeze and fondle Meggy's boobs is understandable. Come to think of it, so is the money.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 11:40 AM (ujg0T)

158 >>> Ace can ban folks for posting racist rants. His blog, his rules. If Twitter and Facebook, effectively do the same thing with MAGA, (Yes, I know MAGA is not racist) it's their platform, their rules.

If ppl are banned here they can go somewhere else. As Laura Loomer pointed out in her pleas for Trump to help her, when you are banned on all social media (especially as a journalist, for whom social media is life), where do you go? You are effectively Thanos finger-snapped from modern society.

Posted by: LizLem at May 06, 2019 11:40 AM (hvf9s)

159 I've never loved it as much as then and the end of a certain late season 1 episode, but I've enjoyed the nihilistic exploration of power that it is every since.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:35 AM (9cans)

Personally, I don't enjoy that sort of thing. If a show or movie is about a bad guy fighting with another (but different kind) of bad guy or bad guys over some MacGuffin, power, money, or whatever, I find a steady diet of that very wearisome to my soul.

On the other hand, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is one of my all-time favorite movies I watch again and again, so there you go.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:40 AM (EiZIA)

160 Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.

I've watched every character that I originally liked be brutally and pointlessly murdered.

That's commitment.
Posted by: Grump928

I liked watching King Joffrey gargle poison.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2019 11:40 AM (gPTe0)

161 149 Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.

I've watched every character that I originally liked be brutally and pointlessly murdered.

That's commitment.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 11:39 AM (Niu5G)

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

Once Ned got it, I knew that everyone had it coming.

A few years ago, it became obvious that that was no longer true.

Plot armor is strong with some of these people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:40 AM (9cans)

162 Got my UHD 4K of Hannibal today.

***

Ugh. Intercourse Hannibal. I love Silence of the Lambs, but Hannibal is shit.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 11:41 AM (GEpFD)

163 OK, I give up, what's the coding to put a URL in my nic?

Posted by: zeera at May 06, 2019 11:41 AM (GuGrG)

164 Ranking/hiding search results and YouTube demonetizing, suspensions.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:39 AM (W+vEI)

Don't forget algorithm fuckery. It's fun to watch them contort so that they avoid truths you get on Bing or DuckDuckGo.

Posted by: trev006 at May 06, 2019 11:41 AM (OnEJV)

165 140 There are other search engines.
Posted by: JAS at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (KOCKb)

1: Google is the dominant search engine. It isn't even close.
2. Google is a lot more than search. It's Youtube, ads, email, and most of all: e-commerce largely runs on google aplets.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:41 AM (bcbK8)

166 I thought we were discussing Twitter and Facebook. How is Google involved? They are not, as far as I know, censoring my email.

-------

Google cynically censors and manipulates the world's largest streaming video service.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 11:41 AM (AzW6q)

167 Have to disagree with just about the entire social media rant.

There is no such thing as "hate speech". Every time the phrase is used, it should be some variation or elaboration on that central fact.

The argument is not that idiots like Navarro might some day be banned - it's that all expression (except that advocating violence), including the odious variety, is protected in an open society, the people decide what to listen to, the solution for bad speech is more free speech - and, fill in the rest of the familiar, but correct, cliches.

As a practical matter, quite simple. Either these companies and their platforms are deemed public accommodations/utilities, in which case they abide by govt.-enforced standards of access, or they are publishers, like ace, and get to control their content - but also face lawsuits for it.

Or they're "monopolies" subject to regulation/break-up/change of practices (a sort of hybrid of the other two situations).

These people are idiots as citizens, they are totalitarian in their instinct, mostly racist and ignorant outside narrow tech topics. You're not going to appeal to some American sensibility that's not there. They need to be labeled, demonized, and abused, not "reasoned" with. You're dealing with a North Korean border guard - do you "reason" with him, or shoot him/force him to comply?

Posted by: rhomboid at May 06, 2019 11:41 AM (QDnY+)

168 155 I used to think that I lean Libertarian - that was before it turned into nothing but Open Borders and Free Weed for All.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 06, 2019 11:40 AM (Kpl3J)

==========

There's a difference between libertarianism and the Libertarian Party.

Just like there's a different between conservatism and the Republican Party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:41 AM (9cans)

169 NPR interviewette this morning: "But for 27 days we only had Barr's 4-page summary of the report!"

Jonah Goldberg, National Review: "So?"

Actually this was the high point. The rest of the interview he was pretty squishy. Oh, he did slip in the fact that Mueller said Barr's summary was accurate, a first mention on NPR, I believe. Maybe I just didn't like the way he seemed to buy into the interviewer's conceit that Barr is hurting Trump's 2020 chances. I would have said "No, Sugar Tits, NPR is re-electing Trump as we speak!"

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at May 06, 2019 11:41 AM (Vuy5X)

170 mikhaelsmits

Cory Booker won't say whether he'll jail Americans who refuse to surrender firearms they lawfully purchased if he's president:

Posted by: HA at May 06, 2019 11:41 AM (MAstk)

171 164 Ranking/hiding search results and YouTube demonetizing, suspensions.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:39 AM (W+vEI)

Don't forget algorithm fuckery. It's fun to watch them contort so that they avoid truths you get on Bing or DuckDuckGo.
Posted by: trev006 at May 06, 2019 11:41 AM (OnEJV)

DuckDuckGo is ALSO based on Google search, just with some of the tracking and filtering stripped out.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:42 AM (bcbK8)

172 >>I liked watching King Joffrey gargle poison.

Who was the knight who came from the south to avenge his sister and had his head squashed like a grape by the Mountain?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 11:42 AM (/tuJf)

173 141 why is it okay to take down bakers and florists that don't want to participate in gay shit but its okay to allow censoring in the social medias?
Posted by: DanMan at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (XTiHL)

Sadly, the Rule Of Law has ended with Obregefell and other court cases. We have entered The Rule Of The Anus.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 11:42 AM (ujg0T)

174 162 Got my UHD 4K of Hannibal today.

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Ugh. Intercourse Hannibal. I love Silence of the Lambs, but Hannibal is shit.
Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 11:41 AM (GEpFD)

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I'm a Ridley Scott fanboi. I really like it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:42 AM (9cans)

175 92 My spousal unit, the inestimable Mrs D, just read where they were filming a scene from GoT and someone left a Starbucks cup on the table.

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That's interesting. You'd think a multi-billion dollar show would have the capabilities for some tasty coffee in the food service trailer.
Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:30 AM (uTPtJ)

When something like that happens, a wizard did it.

Posted by: josephistan at May 06, 2019 11:42 AM (7HtZB)

176 Cory Booker won't say whether he'll jail Americans who refuse to surrender firearms they lawfully purchased if he's president:

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To quote the Spartans:

"If."

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 11:42 AM (GEpFD)

177 >>taking them out of enemy hands needs to be a priority. Posted by: trev006 at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (OnEJV)

Or leveraging them as the sole communication medium within the Trumplag Archipelago of camps for entertainment value:

"Bob's Status: Toil."
"(picture of a bowl of gruel and a crust of bread) Bob and 569,223 liked this."

Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 11:42 AM (Bdeb0)

178

Need a YouTube channel of just GOT fuck scenes.

Posted by: M K Ultra at May 06, 2019 11:42 AM (obq+7)

179 >>> The Monster That Challenged The World
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 06, 2019 11:34 AM (veoSD)

Thank you Cur!! And thanks to the magics of the internets I can watch it online for free.

Posted by: LizLem at May 06, 2019 11:43 AM (hvf9s)

180 If ppl are banned here they can go somewhere else. As Laura Loomer pointed out in her pleas for Trump to help her, when you are banned on all social media (especially as a journalist, for whom social media is life), where do you go? You are effectively Thanos finger-snapped from modern society.
Posted by: LizLem

But, but, but, people SWORE to me here that that very thing wasn't possible. That you could just go to a different isp.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2019 11:43 AM (gPTe0)

181 >>If ppl are banned here they can go somewhere else. As Laura Loomer pointed out in her pleas for Trump to help her, when you are banned on all social media (especially as a journalist, for whom social media is life), where do you go? You are effectively Thanos finger-snapped from modern society.

And not just banned, purged.

They erase all links to your work.
They erase all pictures in which you appear.
They erase mention of your freakin' name.

Think about that. Your friends can't even mention you, it's like you no longer exist.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:43 AM (W+vEI)

182 117
I dare you to not use google. I mean REALLY not use them.

I recently switched to duckduckgo because google maps no longer works in my browser and startpage does not have useful maps.

But startpage was using google as the backend and DDG uses your choice of bing, google, and two others as a backend for their map service.

At least google is somewhat open (allowing others to build front-ends to their data) ... but yeah.

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 11:43 AM (vWMNq)

183 155 I used to think that I lean Libertarian - that was before it turned into nothing but Open Borders and Free Weed for All.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 06, 2019 11:40 AM (Kpl3J)

There are two types of libertarian. The first is in it for the small government and few regulations. the second is in it for the polyamory and weed. Unfortunately, both share the same mailing address.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:43 AM (EiZIA)

184 I used to think that I lean Libertarian - that was before it turned into nothing but Open Borders and Free Weed for All.

I am so fucking sick of this line of drivel.

Libertarian means what it's always meant. Limited government, personal autonomy. Free minds and free markets.

Some potheads saying it means open borders does not make it mean open borders or free pot. Do not let assholes steal the word.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2019 11:43 AM (fuK7c)

185 Still hung up this morning on the ability to mass produce dragon bolt launcher things and mount them everywhere.

Posted by: jhawk90 at May 06, 2019 11:43 AM (Xvo1a)

186 DuckDuckGo is ALSO based on Google search, just with some of the tracking and filtering stripped out.

Posted by:�Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo�at May 06, 2019 11:42 AM (bcbK

Right. But still looks different when I use it. Do you have an alternative?

Posted by: trev006 at May 06, 2019 11:44 AM (OnEJV)

187 163 OK, I give up, what's the coding to put a URL in my nic?
Posted by: zeera at May 06, 2019 11:41 AM (GuGrG)

Are you putting the URL for the site you want to link in the URL field?

Just http:// and then the URL?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:44 AM (bcbK8)

188 There are certainly other search engines, browsers, and operating systems. And 1% of users changing to them won't affect the manipulation of voters who can barely figure out how to adjust their clock settings.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:44 AM (uTPtJ)

189 Need a YouTube channel of just GOT fuck scenes.
Posted by: M K Ultra at May 06, 2019 11:42 AM (obq+7)

I didn't think that kind of thing would be permitted on YouTube.

Posted by: Surfperch at May 06, 2019 11:44 AM (B3gSz)

190 GoT is character driven, which is why it's been such a success. Sometimes it's like a telenovela but it's entertaining

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 06, 2019 11:44 AM (nMaPl)

191 163 OK, I give up, what's the coding to put a URL in my nic?
Posted by: zeera at May 06, 2019 11:41 AM (GuGrG)

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Just the url.

But Pixy has logic to prevent certain sites (like Amazon).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:45 AM (9cans)

192 Yeah but how many Arabs are there out of that 9M? I remember reading that with current birth rates, Arabs could become a majority of Israel's population.

20% Arab. Actually the Jewish birth rate is now higher than the Arab birthrate - Israel's birth rate has been going up over time, which is fairly unique among developed countries.

Not a bad indication of societal self-confidence.

Posted by: The ARC of History at May 06, 2019 11:45 AM (I2/tG)

193 Posted by: rhomboid at May 06, 2019 11:41 AM (QDnY+)

Once they started moderating comments based on the content, and what they think is acceptable and what is "hateful," well...

I'd say they're publishers, no longer platforms, and should lose their DMCA safe harbor.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 11:45 AM (GBteo)

194 Need a YouTube channel of just GOT fuck scenes.
Posted by: M K Ultra at May 06, 2019 11:42 AM (obq+7)

I didn't think that kind of thing would be permitted on YouTube.

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Now Dailymotion, on the other hand...

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 11:45 AM (GEpFD)

195 I find it amusing that the very people who would SUE in a heartbeat for banning a Gay, or Black, or Woman, for being what they are, will support a company banning others for what they believe.

Actually, not amusing, sad.

we need a law that says, if you are a company doing business in the US, then you need to abide by the Constitutions Bill of Rights.

We now have BANKS killing the accounts of Legal businesses here in the US, because they don't like what those businesses sell?

Posted by: Don Q at May 06, 2019 11:45 AM (NgKpN)

196 186 DuckDuckGo is ALSO based on Google search, just with some of the tracking and filtering stripped out.

Posted by:Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammoat May 06, 2019 11:42 AM (bcbK

Right. But still looks different when I use it. Do you have an alternative?
Posted by: trev006 at May 06, 2019 11:44 AM (OnEJV)

My point is, there is no easy way to avoid Google. If you watch videos, use a map, send email, buy online...Google touches it.

Bing uses a different search algo but....Microsoft. Pick your poison.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:45 AM (bcbK8)

197 It looks like the Cleavers just turned the photo album to the page with Beaver's naked baby pictures. Check out the look on his face compared to Ward and June's.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 06, 2019 11:46 AM (mvenn)

198 Emilia is so much better looking as a brunette. And now her eyebrows match her hair.

Posted by: physics geek at May 06, 2019 11:46 AM (huQJB)

199 194 Need a YouTube channel of just GOT fuck scenes.
Posted by: M K Ultra at May 06, 2019 11:42 AM (obq+7)

I didn't think that kind of thing would be permitted on YouTube.

***

Now Dailymotion, on the other hand...
Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 11:45 AM (GEpFD)

It's on Pornhub too

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 11:46 AM (bcbK8)

200 But that isn't the rule they are operating under, one which benefits them tremendously.

The distinction comes down to platform versus publisher. There are significantly different rules and benefits for each Facebook and twitter claim to be platforms but by editing content they are in reality a publisher and should be operating under much different, more restrictive rules.

They are trying to have it both ways. They need to be forced to choose, either operate like a platform and stop censoring speech or by governed as a publisher which is what they are doing.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 11:36 AM (/tuJf)

But if they were forced to allow any and all "legal" content on their platform, much of their customers would be chased away if it became rampant with racism, gore, and online harassment.

The core of the issue, as I see it, is that these companies have very wishy washy definitions of what "hate" and other objectionable content and behavior is.... and when the enforcers themselves are overwhelmingly left-wing, then you get selective enforcement.

Posted by: Serious Cat at May 06, 2019 11:46 AM (Xqo6t)

201 Plot armor is strong with some of these people.

Obviously, GeorgeR3 picked and chose who bought the farm, but the casualty rate was so high in the first three books that he had to stop killing off people or else the story itself would have to be told exclusively through newly introduced characters. There's a limit to how many main characters you can kill and still tell a story. (It's also why the story has foundered; there are only so many possible endings, all of which can be anticipated, given who is still alive and kicking.)

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 06, 2019 11:46 AM (ppBhU)

202 137 The universities MUST protect free speech

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We refuse, whatcha gonna do about it, chump!

- All of Academia.

Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at May 06, 2019 11:46 AM (8hUqJ)

203 Cory Booker won't say whether he'll jail Americans who refuse to surrender firearms they lawfully purchased if he's president:

***

To quote the Spartans:

"If."
Posted by: CLINT FLICKER

Molon Labe = Come. Take.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2019 11:46 AM (gPTe0)

204 >>Once they started moderating comments based on the content, and what they think is acceptable and what is "hateful," well...

>>I'd say they're publishers, no longer platforms, and should lose their DMCA safe harbor.

Cruz made this ominous threat to them at the last hearing. They didn't seem to get the point so I got a feeling we are going to see some action on this.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 11:47 AM (/tuJf)

205 141 why is it okay to take down bakers and florists that don't want to participate in gay shit but its okay to allow censoring in the social medias?
Posted by: DanMan at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (XTiHL)

You're confusing peace-time with war-time. What you're saying is true in a peace-time environment. But when Trump was elected, the progressives declared all-out war.

I refuse to play by peace-time rules when progressives are trying to kill me.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:47 AM (EiZIA)

206 Emilia could be teh hawtness if she had a bigger boobs-to-butt ratio.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 11:47 AM (GEpFD)

207 For my money, the ginger witch was the hottest woman in GoT

Posted by: josephistan at May 06, 2019 11:47 AM (7HtZB)

208 >>Bing uses a different search algo but....Microsoft. Pick your poison.

Bing sucks now, too.
Can't find things I used to be able to Bing.
You can search "Obama lies about X" and you'll get a page of "Obama says Trump lies" - yeah, no.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:47 AM (W+vEI)

209 184 I used to think that I lean Libertarian - that was before it turned into nothing but Open Borders and Free Weed for All.

I am so fucking sick of this line of drivel.

Libertarian means what it's always meant. Limited government, personal autonomy. Free minds and free markets.

Some potheads saying it means open borders does not make it mean open borders or free pot. Do not let assholes steal the word.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2019 11:43 AM (fuK7c)

Unfortunately, it isn't drivel. the Big L Libertarian Party is an utter joke, and that point was driven home when they had William Weld, an otherwise statist RINO, running under their banner. Zombie Harry Browne wept.

Small "el(le)" libertarian ideas are of course fine.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 11:47 AM (ujg0T)

210 Bing uses a different search algo but....Microsoft. Pick your poison.

Posted by:�Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo�at May 06, 2019 11:45 AM (bcbK

If everything's poison, lick the dish. It's why I support Trump seizing Google.

Posted by: trev006 at May 06, 2019 11:47 AM (OnEJV)

211 Once they started moderating comments based on the content, and what they think is acceptable and what is "hateful," well...

I'd say they're publishers, no longer platforms, and should lose their DMCA safe harbor.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 11:45 AM (GBteo)

Craziest part is WHO they have making those decisions! It isn't people in the US, its people from Pakistan, or India, or other low pay places.

So we have people from another entire culture, one that does NOT embrace Freedom of Speech, monitoring Americans speech.

Posted by: Don Q at May 06, 2019 11:47 AM (NgKpN)

212 201 Plot armor is strong with some of these people.

Obviously, GeorgeR3 picked and chose who bought the farm, but the casualty rate was so high in the first three books that he had to stop killing off people or else the story itself would have to be told exclusively through newly introduced characters. There's a limit to how many main characters you can kill and still tell a story. (It's also why the story has foundered; there are only so many possible endings, all of which can be anticipated, given who is still alive and kicking.)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 06, 2019 11:46 AM (ppBhU)

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It would have helped if he had told his story in no more than 4 or 5 books instead of constantly stretching them out into 7.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:48 AM (9cans)

213 Libertarian means what it's always meant. Limited government, personal autonomy. Free minds and free markets.

Some potheads saying it means open borders does not make it mean open borders or free pot. Do not let assholes steal the word.

Decades ago, I considered myself a Libertarian. Then they went pro-abortion. I was already gone when they became the Weed Party.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 11:48 AM (Niu5G)

214 I'm reminded of the following video every time HBO and GOT shows another sex scene: It's Not Porn, It's HBO

https://bit.ly/2J0Svbf

Posted by: physics geek at May 06, 2019 11:48 AM (huQJB)

215 Lizzy, I love Tim Pool. Honest voice on the left with a true journalistic heart . Listened to him this morning was was getting ready for work.

He has spread out on multiple youtube channels and websites, so that in case he gets banned from one he will still have a platform to connect to his audience. Clever boy. I swap between his Timcast and TimPool channels on Youtube.

Posted by: LizLem at May 06, 2019 11:48 AM (hvf9s)

216 I didn't recognize the woman pic until I imagined her naked.

Posted by: Panchito Pistoles at May 06, 2019 11:48 AM (8+c8C)

217 The core of the issue, as I see it, is that these companies have very wishy washy definitions of what "hate" and other objectionable content and behavior is.... and when the enforcers themselves are overwhelmingly left-wing, then you get selective enforcement.
Posted by: Serious Cat at May 06, 2019 11:46 AM (Xqo6t)

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Right. And I'd argue that their clear, obvious pattern of censoring conservatives, and only conservatives, and often for no clear violation of stated ToS, constitutes a policy of editorial control in violation of Section 230 of the Telecommunications Decency Act.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 11:48 AM (AzW6q)

218 Libertarian means what it's always meant. Limited government, personal autonomy. Free minds and free markets.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2019 11:43 AM (fuK7c)

Free Minds=Free Weed

Free Markets=Open Borders

Posted by: The Libertarian Party, making it's name meaningless at May 06, 2019 11:49 AM (B3gSz)

219 recheck

Posted by: zeera at May 06, 2019 11:49 AM (GuGrG)

220 I am so fucking sick of this line of drivel.

Libertarian means what it's always meant. Limited government, personal autonomy. Free minds and free markets.

Some potheads saying it means open borders does not make it mean open borders or free pot. Do not let assholes steal the word.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2019 11:43 AM (fuK7c)

So, real libertarianism hasn't been tried yet, by the right people.

Posted by: DR.WTF at May 06, 2019 11:49 AM (aS1PU)

221 Emilia could be teh hawtness if she had a bigger boobs-to-butt ratio.

Childbearing hips and thighs like Pillars of the Morning.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 11:49 AM (Niu5G)

222 You are effectively Thanos finger-snapped from modern society."

I guess that's me, since except for this blog, I don't "do" social media. Don't need it, don't want it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 06, 2019 11:49 AM (Kpl3J)

223 ...the second is in it for the polyamory and weed.

********

Ah, those would be the Libertine-arians.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 06, 2019 11:50 AM (mvenn)

224 I actually love Mondays!

Posted by: RBG at May 06, 2019 11:50 AM (MAstk)

225 Joe Scarborough was unhinged (again) on Murderin' Joe this morning. This time, over Mike Pompeo's appearance on Chris Wallace.

https://tinyurl.com/yyurf7an

This is priceless: "It's just disgraceful! It's just disgraceful! Mike Pompeo is unworthy to hold any public office for the rest of his life. And put him at the top of the list of day traders who don't understand: Donald Trump is going to be out of office in a year and a half, and he's going to be at home, sitting at home because he's disgracing himself every day, attacking Chris Wallace, attacking Fox News Sunday, and attacking the viewers."

So much insanity.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2019 11:50 AM (ptqGC)

226 They are trying to have it both ways. They need to be forced to choose,
either operate like a platform and stop censoring speech or by governed
as a publisher which is what they are doing.
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Technical companies separated from information conveyances? Sure makes the turn of the last century's trustbusting look like preschool.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 06, 2019 11:50 AM (MIKMs)

227 141�why is it okay to take down bakers and florists that don't want to participate in gay shit but its okay to allow censoring in the social medias?

Posted by: DanMan at May 06, 2019 11:38 AM (XTiHL)

Reciprocity, bro. We have zero time and less inclination to pretty please ask a Hawaiian judge to unfuck the law. So if the enemy refuses to accept the alleged law, show them what a world without law actually looks like.

Posted by: trev006 at May 06, 2019 11:50 AM (OnEJV)

228 Emilia's just fine.

Mmm hmmm...

Posted by: eleven at May 06, 2019 11:50 AM (NLLmE)

229 207
For my money, the ginger witch was the hottest woman in GoT

Posted by: josephistan at May 06, 2019 11:47 AM (7HtZB)
I know, she's a red head, but the actress who played Ygritte (Rose Leslie) was smoking hawt.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2019 11:50 AM (jxbfJ)

230 -
--
There are certainly other search engines, browsers, and operating systems. And 1% of users changing to them won't affect the manipulation of voters who can barely figure out how to adjust their clock settings.
Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:44 AM

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THIS.

Posted by: irright at May 06, 2019 11:50 AM (aSKRB)

231 216 I didn't recognize the woman pic until I imagined her naked."

Just like your Mother, Trebek!!!

Posted by: Sean Connery at May 06, 2019 11:50 AM (Kpl3J)

232 225 Joe Scarborough was unhinged (again) on Murderin' Joe this morning. This time, over Mike Pompeo's appearance on Chris Wallace.

https://tinyurl.com/yyurf7an

This is priceless: "It's just disgraceful! It's just disgraceful! Mike Pompeo is unworthy to hold any public office for the rest of his life. And put him at the top of the list of day traders who don't understand: Donald Trump is going to be out of office in a year and a half, and he's going to be at home, sitting at home because he's disgracing himself every day, attacking Chris Wallace, attacking Fox News Sunday, and attacking the viewers."

So much insanity.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2019 11:50 AM (ptqGC)

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What is with him?

Afraid that someone's going to look into dead girls, or something?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:51 AM (9cans)

233 So, I just said something positive about Tommy Jones on Facebook. Let's see what happens. I only have a FB account to sometimes see what others have posted.

Posted by: Valerie Jarrett at May 06, 2019 11:51 AM (1jbjx)

234 Canada Removes All References To Islamic Extremism From Terror Report

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Seems fair.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 06, 2019 11:51 AM (+y/Ru)

235 184 I used to think that I lean Libertarian - that was before it turned into nothing but Open Borders and Free Weed for All.

I am so fucking sick of this line of drivel.

Libertarian means what it's always meant. Limited government, personal autonomy. Free minds and free markets.

Some potheads saying it means open borders does not make it mean open borders or free pot. Do not let assholes steal the word.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2019 11:43 AM (fuK7c)

Open Borders and the current Welfare, SS, and Healthcare systems are just fukn stupid. You cannot have both!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2019 11:51 AM (JFO2v)

236 181 And not just banned, purged.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:43 AM (W+vEI)

ON DELETE CASCADE

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 11:51 AM (vWMNq)

237 I know, she's a red head, but the actress who played Ygritte (Rose Leslie) was smoking hawt.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2019 11:50 AM (jxbfJ)

And she married Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) IRL. Lucky bastard

Posted by: physics geek at May 06, 2019 11:51 AM (huQJB)

238 I'm more of a "Limited Government Self-Responsibilitist"

Posted by: Muldoon at May 06, 2019 11:51 AM (mvenn)

239 Be a crying shame if anything happened to cohen in prison ha?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 06, 2019 11:51 AM (bim/x)

240 Canada Removes All References To Islamic Extremism From Terror Report

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So the report is going to be a blank piece of paper?

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 11:52 AM (GEpFD)

241 225
Joe Scarborough was unhinged (again) on Murderin' Joe this morning. This time, over Mike Pompeo's appearance on Chris Wallace.

https://tinyurl.com/yyurf7an

This
is priceless: "It's just disgraceful! It's just disgraceful! Mike
Pompeo is unworthy to hold any public office for the rest of his life.
And put him at the top of the list of day traders who don't understand:
Donald Trump is going to be out of office in a year and a half, and he's
going to be at home, sitting at home because he's disgracing himself
every day, attacking Chris Wallace, attacking Fox News Sunday, and
attacking the viewers."

So much insanity.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2019 11:50 AM (ptqGC)
We should keep that link handy for the day after Trump wins reelection. This will make Scarborough him completely sane compared election day +1 in 2020.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2019 11:52 AM (jxbfJ)

242 they are also banning/suspending people for using effective memes ... like the whole "NPC" thing is an accurate portrayal, and has impact. So they just deem it hate ... use it and get banned. Same with guys like Paul Joseph Watson ... hard hitting and accurate, so easy fix ... ban him and those that talk about him.

Another thing is on YouTube videos, they auto-play the next video, so I watch Steve Bannon, and the next one is "Bannon exposed" ... some video showing Bannon is Satan or something. They are at war with us, and with reality.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 06, 2019 11:52 AM (Cus5s)

243 >>This is priceless: "It's just disgraceful! It's just disgraceful! Mike Pompeo is unworthy to hold any public office...!"

Your squealing is music, prole.

Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 11:52 AM (Bdeb0)

244 Gracias all who replied. Stupid computer INSISTS on getting the syntax correct.... instead of knowing what I want and being helpful about it.

Posted by: zeera at May 06, 2019 11:52 AM (GuGrG)

245 236
181 And not just banned, purged.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:43 AM (W+vEI)

ON DELETE CASCADE

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 11:51 AM (vWMNq)
A fellow DBA!!

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2019 11:53 AM (jxbfJ)

246 Some potheads saying it means open borders does not make it mean open borders or free pot. Do not let assholes steal the word.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Dude, srsly? They've already stolen the word, killed it and are wearing it as a skin suit.
When it's a fucking plank in their platform, they own it.

You are going to have to throw them out and change the party before their image changes.

They will ALWAYS be thought of as pot and open borders. And anyone calling themselves that will own and wear that taint.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2019 11:53 AM (gPTe0)

247 For my money, the ginger witch was the hottest woman in GoT
Posted by: josephistan at May 06, 2019 11:47 AM

On the island, too.

Posted by: The Skipper at May 06, 2019 11:53 AM (nIiI+)

248 Be a crying shame if anything happened to cohen in prison ha?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 06, 2019 11:51 AM (bim/x)

He's going to Club Fed, where he'll be pals with some Jersey Shores douche called The Situation.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2019 11:53 AM (ptqGC)

249 So, real libertarianism hasn't been tried yet, by the right people.
Posted by: DR.WTF at May 06, 2019 11:49 AM (aS1PU)

Actually it was tried, by the right people.

they created a really cool document explaining it all, and laying out the way it should work.

Maybe you have heard of it? The US Constitution?

Problem is that then the WRONG people got in government and mucked it up.

Posted by: Don Q at May 06, 2019 11:53 AM (NgKpN)

250 239
Be a crying shame if anything happened to cohen in prison ha?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 06, 2019 11:51 AM (bim/x)
Curious - will he go in and act like a raving lunatic so people will leave him alone? Or will he quickly find someone who wants him as his bitch?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2019 11:53 AM (jxbfJ)

251 George Papadopoulos @GeorgePapa19
28s
Clinton errand boy, Alexander Downer, is having a meltdown on Twitter about POTUS. He is terrified that the world will now see that he was a wannabe spy who I caught right away and reported to the FBI/congress/Mueller. Unfortunately for him, POTUS is declassifying everything!

Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at May 06, 2019 11:54 AM (BqBId)

252 I know, she's a red head, but the actress who played Ygritte (Rose Leslie) was smoking hawt.

Absolutely the smokingest. And she and Jon Snow are a thing in real life.

And I'm thrilled that we got to see her nekkid, but that was one of the most suspension of disbeliefy scenes ever. Oh yeah, we're in Scotland in Winter, or maybe it's Iceland, and there's snow and it's really freaking cold but when it's time for a seduction we can find a cave with a hot tub in it.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2019 11:54 AM (fuK7c)

253 George Papadopoulos @GeorgePapa19
28s
Clinton errand boy, Alexander Downer, is having a meltdown on Twitter about POTUS. He is terrified that the world will now see that he was a wannabe spy who I caught right away and reported to the FBI/congress/Mueller. Unfortunately for him, POTUS is declassifying everything!

***

Ma'am and Webster must be so proud.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 11:55 AM (GEpFD)

254 I was a county chairman of the old Big-L party, back in the Hospers era.
It was the Harry Browne "How you can profit from the coming cholera epidemic" period that made up my mind about them as a "Party."

Howsoever. If you want to hear some real trash talked, sit on on some old libertarians trying on the various definitions of "Conservative."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 06, 2019 11:55 AM (8ZmvG)

255 the casualty rate was so high in the first three books that he had to stop killing off people or else the story itself would have to be told exclusively through newly introduced characters.

*******

"Bewitched" had the same problem with old Darren and new Darren.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 06, 2019 11:55 AM (mvenn)

256 Childbearing hips and thighs like Pillars of the Morning.

I'd do her in daylight and three times on Sunday besides.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at May 06, 2019 11:55 AM (7s3Gx)

257 250 239
Be a crying shame if anything happened to cohen in prison ha?

Probably crying like a baby right now... LOL... POS was trying to the last to say he had "stuff" on trump but they still hauled his ass to jail...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2019 11:55 AM (O2RFr)

258 The giant bug monster is from "The Monster That Challenged The World," a not-bad 50's giant monster film.

The picture in question is a publicity still, the creature never grabbed a little girl. It was more evolved than Biden.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 06, 2019 11:55 AM (AB9tT)

259

It's Sarah and Jim Leyhe...

Posted by: Trailer Park Boys at May 06, 2019 11:55 AM (0mskG)

260 https://bit.ly/2J0Svbf
Posted by: physics geek at May 06, 2019 11:48 AM (huQJB)

This is so hilarious, I'm not going to show it to Mrs. Muse.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:55 AM (EiZIA)

261 Some of us have spent 8 years watching a show about terrible people doing terrible things to each other.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:20 AM (9cans)

______

CSPAN?

Posted by: ShainS -- Born Again Easter Worshipper at May 06, 2019 11:55 AM (CE2Fi)

262 I'm more of a "Limited Government Self-Responsibilitist"

The problem I have with most all political organizations is their drive to universalize their beliefs. I am less conserved with the specifics of laws than I am with their reach. If my town wanted to once again outlaw trade on Sunday, I would argue against it, then vote against it, but if the majority wanted it, I would just move beyond their, if I could. One size does not, in fact, fit all.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 11:56 AM (Niu5G)

263 245 A fellow DBA!!

Wash your mouth out with soap. BOFH.

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 11:56 AM (vWMNq)

264 voters who can barely figure out how to adjust their clock settings.
Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:44 AM

Luxury!

Posted by: VCR, blinking 12:00 at May 06, 2019 11:56 AM (nIiI+)

265 What is Joe Scarborough so terrified about?

Am I guilty of hate speech when I take note that Don Lemon is a low IQ idiot?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at May 06, 2019 11:56 AM (JgA4k)

266 242 they are also banning/suspending people for using effective memes ... like the whole "NPC" thing is an accurate portrayal, and has impact. So they just deem it hate ... use it and get banned. Same with guys like Paul Joseph Watson ... hard hitting and accurate, so easy fix ... ban him and those that talk about him.

Another thing is on YouTube videos, they auto-play the next video, so I watch Steve Bannon, and the next one is "Bannon exposed" ... some video showing Bannon is Satan or something. They are at war with us, and with reality.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 06, 2019 11:52 AM (Cus5s)

Their new line of thought is that its demeaning to make anyone LOOK stupid, ergo you can be banned for it.

Sorry Lefty, I didn't make you look stupid, you ARE stupid, and I'm just pointing it out.

Posted by: Don Q at May 06, 2019 11:56 AM (NgKpN)

267 Let's play 6 Degrees of Facebooo-k Banning!

Posted by: Burger Chef at May 06, 2019 11:56 AM (RuIsu)

268 "Bewitched" had the same problem with old Darren and new Darren.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 06, 2019 11:55 AM (mvenn)

Wasn't the new Darren played by Alf Landon?

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:56 AM (EiZIA)

269 Applied to a couple of jobs today. We'll see what happens. I need a break, dammit!

Posted by: Insomniac at May 06, 2019 11:56 AM (NWiLs)

270 "Bewitched" had the same problem with old Darren and new Darren.

Thank you for that, Muldoon. I needed that laugh this morning.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 06, 2019 11:57 AM (ppBhU)

271 Shot:

CNN
@CNN
.@brianstelter: Trump's furious reaction to Facebook's ban of some high-profile users shows us that he is, I'm sorry to say, the Infowars president. He's promoting the same alternative universe as Infowars and sharing videos from repugnant characters.

Chaser:

Steven Crowder
@scrowder
The phrase "alternative universe" is pretty rich coming from a network that pushed
-Kavanaugh rape hoax allegations
-Russian collusion conspiracy / Fake Steele dossier
-Jussie Smollett hate hoax
-Covington HS MAGA Hat Kid Hoax

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 06, 2019 11:57 AM (+y/Ru)

272 >> I love Tim Pool. Honest voice on the left with a true journalistic heart . Listened to him this morning was was getting ready for work.

Yup!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:57 AM (W+vEI)

273 CNBC proves today it is only degrees of different from MSDNC. In the story about Michael Cohen reporting to Federal prison CNB explicitly says some of his convictions were for crimes committed to benefit PDJT.

Which crimes would that be, CNBC? Tax fraud? Hmmmm, no. Bank fraud? Hmmm, no again.

You guys are full of shit. Your next home should be in a used cardboard box under a freeway underpass, somewhere in Venezuela (hopefully).

Posted by: Huck Follywood, the Bwana returns! at May 06, 2019 11:57 AM (LISuA)

274 This is so hilarious, I'm not going to show it to Mrs. Muse.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:55 AM (EiZIA)

Mrs. Physics Geek thinks it's hysterical, too. Also, it applies to pretty much everything HBO has done for many years, predating the GoT series by a lot.

Posted by: physics geek at May 06, 2019 11:57 AM (huQJB)

275 My criticism of Libertarianism is similar to my criticism of Leftism, it's rooting in fantasy not reality. They ignore how human behavior works and structures culture.

All I've heard from Scott Lincicome and Ben Shapiro for two years now is how Trump is going to kill the economy with his tariffs, as if our trade agreements were devoid of any tariffs before Trump or every will be. They're selling a fantasy.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 06, 2019 11:57 AM (4thlk)

276 Tim Pool really owns the tech censorship issue - he's an excellent resource.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:58 AM (W+vEI)

277 Where does one apply to get unerased from history?
Zombie Kate Smith

Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2019 11:58 AM (AjVAj)

278 254 I was a county chairman of the old Big-L party, back in the Hospers era.
It was the Harry Browne "How you can profit from the coming cholera epidemic" period that made up my mind about them as a "Party."

Howsoever. If you want to hear some real trash talked, sit on on some old libertarians trying on the various definitions of "Conservative."
Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 06, 2019 11:55 AM (8ZmvG)

Oh, don't get me wrong, there have always been kooks in that Party. Murry Rothbard, anyone? But at least back in the day, when they talked limited government, they really meant it.

But jokes like *William Weld*?

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 11:58 AM (ujg0T)

279 Commenting from Brave for Android. Works so far, though it looks a little different. Firefox needs to fix their certificate issues. The bastards.

Posted by: Yabba Dabba Doo, Man at May 06, 2019 11:59 AM (Qw0Z/)

280 >>What is Joe Scarborough so terrified about?

Mika making him wear the gimp mask.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 11:59 AM (/tuJf)

281 but that was one of the most suspension of disbeliefy scenes ever.

*******

Wait! Game of Thrones required suspension of disbelief?

This is my shocked face:

(O)(O)

Posted by: Muldoon at May 06, 2019 11:59 AM (mvenn)

282 277 Where does one apply to get unerased from history?
Zombie Kate Smith

You don't

Posted by: Zombie Robert E Lee at May 06, 2019 11:59 AM (O2RFr)

283 257 250 239
Be a crying shame if anything happened to cohen in prison ha?

Probably crying like a baby right now... LOL... POS was trying to the last to say he had "stuff" on trump but they still hauled his ass to jail...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2019 11:55 AM (O2RFr)

Cohen was sent to a minimum security prison, basically Club Fed.

Where he will now write his memoirs, and be interviewed by hundreds of journalists, to take down the President.

Posted by: Don Q at May 06, 2019 11:59 AM (NgKpN)

284 But jokes like *William Weld*?

***

Have we already forgotten Gary Johnson?

Yes. Yes, we have.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 11:59 AM (GEpFD)

285 278
But jokes like *William Weld*?
Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 11:58 AM (ujg0T)

===========

It was the LP's attempt to appeal to recalcitrant Republicans.

Unfortunately, the top of their ticket was Gary Johnson.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:59 AM (9cans)

286 240 Canada Removes All References To Islamic Extremism From Terror Report
***
So the report is going to be a blank piece of paper?
Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 11:52 AM (GEpFD)

The Obama administration did something similar in 2011.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 12:00 PM (EiZIA)

287 281
but that was one of the most suspension of disbeliefy scenes ever.

*******

Wait! Game of Thrones required suspension of disbelief?

This is my shocked face:

(O)(O)

Posted by: Muldoon at May 06, 2019 11:59 AM (mvenn)

Look's like Daenerys' bewbs, actually.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2019 12:00 PM (jxbfJ)

288 Where does one apply to get unerased from history?
Zombie Kate Smith

You don't
Posted by: Zombie Robert E Lee at May 06, 2019 11:59 AM (O2RFr)

------

Sometimes it can be nice.

Posted by: zombie James Hodgkinson at May 06, 2019 12:00 PM (AzW6q)

289 >>Mrs. Physics Geek thinks it's hysterical, too. Also, it applies to pretty much everything HBO has done for many years, predating the GoT series by a lot.

Heh, yes. It's really obvious on shows they make from books, such as GoT. Suddenly a brothel becomes the site of many scenes that are elsewhere in the book, and through this they justify including all manner of deviant sexual acts.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 12:00 PM (W+vEI)

290 If there were only one newspaper or one news channel in the country as a result of logistics caused by the monopolistic aspect that prevented competion, the government would not allow it.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 06, 2019 12:00 PM (glJL/)

291 The Obama administration did something similar in 2011.

We all saw how well that worked

Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2019 12:00 PM (O2RFr)

292
Wasn't the new Darren played by Alf Landon?

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:56 AM

both Darrens were Dicks

Posted by: AltonJackson link in nick for the MiMoMe at May 06, 2019 12:01 PM (9C0cu)

293 285 278
But jokes like *William Weld*?
Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 11:58 AM (ujg0T)

===========

It was the LP's attempt to appeal to recalcitrant Republicans.

Unfortunately, the top of their ticket was Gary Johnson.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:59 AM (9cans)

Gary Johnson was the Punch Line. Every joke needs a punch line. :-D

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 12:01 PM (ujg0T)

294 >>the Harry Browne "How you can profit from the coming cholera epidemic" period

An entire generation of Washington Times dystopia/survivalist-gadgetry ad-men was wiped out when Y2K didn't deliver.

Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 12:01 PM (Bdeb0)

295 both Darrens were Dicks

***

Yeah but only one sucked them.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:01 PM (GEpFD)

296 Jane, thanks for reporting on Muderin' Joe. I am glad not to watch, and double his viewership, since I can depend on you to report the latest.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, the Bwana returns! at May 06, 2019 12:02 PM (LISuA)

297 267 Let's play 6 Degrees of Facebooo-k Banning!
Posted by: Burger Chef at May 06, 2019 11:56 AM (RuIsu)

the real game is:

6 Degrees of separation from OrangeManBad.

Same thing really though.

Posted by: Don Q at May 06, 2019 12:02 PM (NgKpN)

298
Some potheads saying it means open borders does not make it mean open borders or free pot. Do not let assholes steal the word.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Have you ever heard the radio show "Free Talk Live?"
It's all open borders, weed, cop hate and weed.
They call themselves libertarians.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 06, 2019 12:02 PM (aKsyK)

299 I still don't know what the fuck an aleppo is!
Gary Johnson

Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2019 12:02 PM (AjVAj)

300 271 Shot:

CNN
@CNN
.@brianstelter: Trump's furious reaction to Facebook's ban of some high-profile users shows us that he is, I'm sorry to say, the Infowars president. He's promoting the same alternative universe as Infowars and sharing videos from repugnant characters.

Chaser:

Steven Crowder
@scrowder
The phrase "alternative universe" is pretty rich coming from a network that pushed
-Kavanaugh rape hoax allegations
-Russian collusion conspiracy / Fake Steele dossier
-Jussie Smollett hate hoax
-Covington HS MAGA Hat Kid Hoax
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 06, 2019 11:57 AM (+y/Ru)

- Malaysian Airlines getting sucked into black holes

Posted by: josephistan at May 06, 2019 12:02 PM (7HtZB)

301 Wasn't the new Darren played by Alf Landon?

********

Not true, but a common misconception. Alf texted me that he used to get comments to that effect quite frequently.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 06, 2019 12:02 PM (mvenn)

302 260 This is so hilarious, I'm not going to show it to Mrs. Muse.

I sent your comment to a friend but I missed your *not* until I pasted it into the email after watching the video.

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:03 PM (vWMNq)

303 Don Lemon, gobsmackingly dumb in 2008 and still dumb after all these years.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at May 06, 2019 12:03 PM (WRSbt)

304 soonish no conservative voices will be on social networks.

conform citizens.

Posted by: willow at May 06, 2019 12:03 PM (r/xAU)

305 Cohen was sent to a minimum security prison, basically Club Fed.�

Where he will now write his memoirs, and be interviewed by hundreds of journalists, to take down the President.

Posted by: Don Q at May 06, 2019 11:59 AM (NgKpN)

Be a real shame if some bureaucrat transfers him to an actual prison, for reasons. Yes sir, real big shame.

Posted by: trev006 at May 06, 2019 12:03 PM (OnEJV)

306 I still don't know what the fuck an aleppo is!
Gary Johnson

Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2019 12:02 PM (AjVAj)

brand of dog food?

Posted by: BignJames at May 06, 2019 12:03 PM (ykq7q)

307 Neither Darren should ever have scored a hot piece of ass like Samantha....

Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2019 12:03 PM (AjVAj)

308 264 voters who can barely figure out how to adjust their clock settings.
Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:44 AM

Luxury!

Posted by: VCR, blinking 12:00 at May 06, 2019 11:56 AM (nIiI+)

what's that?

Posted by: millenials at May 06, 2019 12:04 PM (sGtp+)

309 I'm sure Bander has a catalog of her topless shots.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 11:24 AM (/tuJf)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 06, 2019 12:04 PM (FSPNP)

310 Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora announced Sunday that he will not accompany his team to celebrate its World Series title at the White House on Thursday.

In a statement in Spanish sent to El Nuevo Dia, Cora cited the fact that Puerto Rico still has not recovered from Hurricane Maria in 2017 for his decision.

FUCK YOU IGNORANT PUTZ

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 06, 2019 12:04 PM (bim/x)

311 304 soonish no conservative voices will be on social networks.

conform citizens.
Posted by: willow at May 06, 2019 12:03 PM (r/xAU)

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

Won't that make it that much harder to track conservative voices in the service of a centralized bureaucracy?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 12:04 PM (9cans)

312 294 >>the Harry Browne "How you can profit from the coming cholera epidemic" period

An entire generation of Washington Times dystopia/survivalist-gadgetry ad-men was wiped out when Y2K didn't deliver.
Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 12:01 PM (Bdeb0)

In fairness, Howard Ruff made A LOT of sense if you assumed that Jimmuh Carter like policies would sadly continue under Gerry Fordesque Republicans.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 12:04 PM (ujg0T)

313
anada Removes All References To Islamic Extremism From Terror Report
***
So the report is going to be a blank piece of paper?
Posted by: CLINT FLICKER

It will be about Great White North Nationalism

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 06, 2019 12:04 PM (aKsyK)

314 thisiks like big tech stating , 'we're going to help the next socialist candidate over the finish line .

who knew someone other than a socialist ran any campaign?

Posted by: willow at May 06, 2019 12:04 PM (r/xAU)

315 I'm sure Bander has a catalog of her topless shots.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 11:24 AM (/tuJf)

Sorry; Jumpy computer. No doubt he does.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 06, 2019 12:04 PM (FSPNP)

316 >>Steven Crowder
@scrowder
The phrase "alternative universe" is pretty rich coming from a network that pushed
-Kavanaugh rape hoax allegations
-Russian collusion conspiracy / Fake Steele dossier
-Jussie Smollett hate hoax
-Covington HS MAGA Hat Kid Hoax
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 06, 2019 11:57 AM (+y/Ru)

- Malaysian Airlines getting sucked into black holes

Stetler wondering if the reason Melania has not made public appearances in a while is because Trump beat her.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 12:05 PM (W+vEI)

317 275 My criticism of Libertarianism is similar to my criticism of Leftism, it's rooting in fantasy not reality. They ignore how human behavior works and structures culture.

All I've heard from Scott Lincicome and Ben Shapiro for two years now is how Trump is going to kill the economy with his tariffs, as if our trade agreements were devoid of any tariffs before Trump or every will be. They're selling a fantasy.
Posted by: lowandslow at May 06, 2019 11:57 AM (4thlk)

Well I don't know who the first person is, and I don't listen to Ben Shapiro, but I think what most of us here mean by "libertarian" is the basic idea that we believe in very limited government, and recognize that for us all to survive together somewhat peacefully in society, we need to compromise with each other.

You want gay marriage? Fine. I want guns.
You want legal weed? Fine, I want low taxes.

As Thomas Jefferson said, "if it doesn't break my leg, or pick my pocket, what do I care about what my neighbor does?" (paraphrasing.)

If you want to ban drugs, or dictate private behavior, or whatever... well, the more you want government to do, the bigger government has to be. And that all might be fine and well while your party controls the government, when others control it, you'll quickly find yourself on the receiving end of a lot of policies you don't like.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:05 PM (GBteo)

318 I always thought Samantha's dark haired sister was way hotter.

Posted by: eleven at May 06, 2019 12:05 PM (NLLmE)

319 TheJames, I guess we could call that a silver lining?

Posted by: willow at May 06, 2019 12:05 PM (r/xAU)

320 Unfortunately, the top of their ticket was Gary Johnson.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:59 AM (9cans)

That's Gary "What's a leppo?" Johnson to you, bub.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 12:05 PM (EiZIA)

321 the casualty rate was so high in the first three books that he had to stop killing off people or else the story itself would have to be told exclusively through newly introduced characters.

*******

"Bewitched" had the same problem with old Darren and new Darren.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 06, 2019 11:55 AM

What am I? Chopped liver?
Becky on Rosanne.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 06, 2019 12:05 PM (0tfLf)

322 Go to Google and trype in : Happy white ( American)family, and see what comes up.
My kids did it and you will be amazed at the results.

They control the output of anything you want to see. Even if it's the exact opposite of what you've asked for.

Posted by: Loveulongtime at May 06, 2019 12:05 PM (mns+z)

323 274 Mrs. Physics Geek thinks it's hysterical, too.

Um ... "not" ...

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:06 PM (vWMNq)

324 Won't that make it that much harder to track conservative voices in the service of a centralized bureaucracy?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 12:04 PM (9can

--------

I think they've calculated that the value of the censorship outweighs the value of the intelligence gathering.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 12:06 PM (AzW6q)

325 voters who can barely figure out how to adjust their clock settings.
Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:44 AM
-----------------------
Um, could we not make this personal?
*gulp*

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 06, 2019 12:06 PM (Rxduq)

326 6 I still don't know what the fuck an aleppo is!
Gary Johnson

It's only fair. I don't know what a Gary Johnson is.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 06, 2019 12:06 PM (+y/Ru)

327 It will be about Great White North Nationalism

Juggalos. Juggalos everywhere. Tearing at the fabric of society.

Posted by: FBI at May 06, 2019 12:06 PM (ppBhU)

328 >>> I was trying to hold something back.

But there you go, ruining it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:36 AM (9cans)

It's what I do.

Posted by: LizLem at May 06, 2019 12:06 PM (hvf9s)

329 I read somewhere that all the major GoTs female stars got no nudity clauses when they got new contracts.All their nudity is in the first season or 2.

Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2019 12:06 PM (AjVAj)

330 Trump says he is watching but honestly where have Our other leaders been through the last several years? Are they all getting some graft from big tech? or only waiting until they can use it for themselves?

Posted by: willow at May 06, 2019 12:06 PM (r/xAU)

331 Unfortunately, the top of their ticket was Gary Johnson.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:59 AM (9cans)

Yeah, "Vote for Gary Johnson: He's only baked 50% of the time" was not a winning slogan.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 12:06 PM (EiZIA)

332 Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora announced Sunday that he will not accompany his team to celebrate its World Series title at the White House on Thursday.

Good.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 12:06 PM (Niu5G)

333 Gary Johnson was Beto before Beto was cool.

Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 12:07 PM (Bdeb0)

334 As I recall it was William Weld who, two weeks before the last election, while he was still on the ticket for the Libertarians, came out and said in a public interview that it was really a waste of time to vote for him or Johnson, and that anyone thinking of doing so should really just go ahead and vote for Hillary instead. Yes, he said that.

I made a note of that moment as the Bell that signaled that the Libertarian Party, such as it was, was now dead and gone forever.

Posted by: Sean Connery at May 06, 2019 12:07 PM (Kpl3J)

335
Don Lemon accused the sainted Juan McCain (and unindicted Keating Five co-ospirator) of inciting hate speech?

Shocker!

Posted by: FULL Mueller Report: I Gotcher Answers ... Right Cheer! * punches your junk * at May 06, 2019 12:07 PM (pNxlR)

336 Steven Crowder
@scrowder
The phrase "alternative universe" is pretty rich coming from a network that pushed
-Kavanaugh rape hoax allegations
-Russian collusion conspiracy / Fake Steele dossier
-Jussie Smollett hate hoax
-Covington HS MAGA Hat Kid Hoax
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 06, 2019 11:57 AM (+y/Ru)

- Malaysian Airlines getting sucked into black holes

Stetler wondering if the reason Melania has not made public appearances in a while is because Trump beat her.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 12:05 PM (W+vEI)

You mean he network that colluded with Saddam Hussein against American interests during a time of war? Can you imagine that happening in the middle of the war with Germany or Japan.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 06, 2019 12:07 PM (glJL/)

337 264 voters who can barely figure out how to adjust their clock settings.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 11:44 AM

Luxury!

Posted by: VCR, blinking 12:00 at May 06, 2019 11:56 AM (nIiI+)

what's that?

Posted by: millenials at May 06, 2019 12:04 PM (sGtp+)

The "smart ones" put a piece of tape over the display. The "really smart ones" use either masking or duct tape.

Posted by: Archer at May 06, 2019 12:08 PM (gmo/4)

338 >>Won't that make it that much harder to track conservative voices in the service of a centralized bureaucracy?

Bing Richard Fernandez's PJ Media post "The broadband empire and the game of drones."

I have no doubt now Obama was doing the stuff described. Spoiler alert: you don't have to ban/shut up all conservatives, just the key voices.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 12:08 PM (W+vEI)

339 330 Trump says he is watching but honestly where have Our other leaders been through the last several years? Are they all getting some graft from big tech? or only waiting until they can use it for themselves?

Posted by: willow at May 06, 2019 12:06 PM (r/xAU)

Yup. I think it's a uniparty thing. The only major media figure who's been sounding the alarm on this has been Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 12:08 PM (EiZIA)

340 I always thought Samantha's dark haired sister was way hotter.

How old are you people? I'm old. I was 5 in 1965. I know that Samantha made me tingle in a surprising way, but I don't remember any plot points, two Darrens, or for fucks' sake a sister.

Did you all grow up in Rerun Land or are you older than Vic?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2019 12:08 PM (fuK7c)

341 If I were Mika, I'd be seriously worried about Joe's temper when Trump wins in a landslide in 2020.

All the masks are off. All of them. On Friday Alisyn Camerota actually said she felt "broken" by the Mueller report and nothing happening to PDT.

There is serious mental illness on the left. All of us were depressed after 2008 and 2016, but we got up every day and put on our big girl and big boy pants and went about life. These people need serious therapy.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2019 12:08 PM (ptqGC)

342 I hate the climate of hate. Does it result from climate change?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:08 PM (YqDXo)

343 I always thought Samantha's dark haired sister was way hotter.

Cousin Serena.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 12:08 PM (Niu5G)

344 The hilarious thing about the iron grip of FB is that it only applies to boomers and millennials. Gen Z is avoiding it like the plague ("that is for old ppl") and use other platforms.

TikTok is the new hawtness. Basically Vine 2.0. I'm not sure how you politicize an app use to make short meme vids, but I'm sure the left will find away.

Posted by: LizLem at May 06, 2019 12:09 PM (hvf9s)

345
You want gay marriage? Fine. I want guns.
You want legal weed? Fine, I want low taxes.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:05 PM

I'd be perfectly happy living in a world where gay married couples can defend their marijuana plants with guns

Posted by: AltonJackson link in nick for the MiMoMe at May 06, 2019 12:09 PM (ceIDk)

346 Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2019 12:08 PM (fuK7c)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 06, 2019 12:09 PM (FSPNP)

347 Monday NASCAR just underway on FS1. Sky looks pretty good so we'll probably get the entire race in

Posted by: Methos at May 06, 2019 12:09 PM (kOpft)

348 Cousin Serena.

***

Played by Pandora Spocks. Whatever happened to her?

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:09 PM (GEpFD)

349 Gary Johnson was Beto before Beto was cool.
Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 12:07 PM (Bdeb0)

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Now, now... Gary was just a stoned-out space case. Beto is a crackhead who feeds poop to people. He's a good deal worse.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 12:09 PM (AzW6q)

350 Well I don't know who the first person is, and I don't listen to Ben Shapiro, but I think what most of us here mean by "libertarian" is the basic idea that we believe in very limited government, and recognize that for us all to survive together somewhat peacefully in society, we need to compromise with each other.

You want gay marriage? Fine. I want guns.
You want legal weed? Fine, I want low taxes.

As Thomas Jefferson said, "if it doesn't break my leg, or pick my pocket, what do I care about what my neighbor does?" (paraphrasing.)

If you want to ban drugs, or dictate private behavior, or whatever... well, the more you want government to do, the bigger government has to be. And that all might be fine and well while your party controls the government, when others control it, you'll quickly find yourself on the receiving end of a lot of policies you don't like.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:05 PM (GBteo)

The problem I see with Big L Libertarians is the same problem I see with self-proclaimed "Fiscal Conservatives and Social Liberals".

We are starting to see that many so-called "Social Issues" have Yuuuuge Fiscal Implications, from swingers and potheads to transgenderbenders. Increasingly, the consequences of their actions have massive fiscal impacts. And yes, one way or another, the rest of society ends up paying the bill. If only we could all go Galt. But we can't.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 12:10 PM (ujg0T)

351 Oh wait, I just saw Lemoan's tweet, and it reminded me: it's BLM that's creating the climate of hate.

And I don't mean the Bureau of Land Management.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:10 PM (YqDXo)

352 262
The problem I have with most all political organizations is their drive to universalize their beliefs. I am less conserved with the specifics of laws than I am with their reach. If my town wanted to once again outlaw trade on Sunday, I would argue against it, then vote against it, but if the majority wanted it, I would just move beyond there, if I could. One size does not, in fact, fit all.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 11:56 AM (Niu5G)
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OMG.
You're talking about REAL diversity.
Can't have that!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 06, 2019 12:10 PM (Rxduq)

353
Nice of that white cow to wear the hat with a diagram that shows where to apply the wrench, vigorously and multiple times.

Posted by: FULL Mueller Report: I Gotcher Answers ... Right Cheer! * punches your junk * at May 06, 2019 12:10 PM (pNxlR)

354 329 I read somewhere that all the major GoTs female stars got no nudity clauses when they got new contracts.All their nudity is in the first season or 2.
Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2019 12:06 PM (AjVAj)

After they chop off a few more heads, they'll hire new actresses who will show some T&A.

Posted by: Roy at May 06, 2019 12:10 PM (fG1QA)

355 Sorry; Jumpy You were "tingling" at 5 years old?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 06, 2019 12:10 PM (FSPNP)

356 In a statement in Spanish sent to El Nuevo Dia, Cora cited the fact that Puerto Rico still has not recovered from Hurricane Maria in 2017 for his decision.
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FUCK YOU IGNORANT PUTZ
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 06, 2019 12:04 PM

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Exactly. 91 BILLION! We could have used that amount to just buy the pathetic shithole island and turn it into the most luxurious resort in human history. Instead, it will remain a pathetic shithole island because its run by incompetent thieving lefties.

Posted by: irright at May 06, 2019 12:10 PM (aSKRB)

357 >>I always thought Samantha's dark haired sister was way hotter.

My old assistant was smoking hot and sexy as hell. She was also the most competent assistant I've ever had and was like Radar, always anticipating what I would need.

She also had an identical twin sister. Identical. Only difference was my assistant was a brunette, her sister a blond. Every couple months we'd all go to lunch together and the looks we would get were funny as hell. I should have worn a sign that said "Get your mind out of the gutter you pigs."

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 12:10 PM (/tuJf)

358 I'd be perfectly happy living in a world where gay married couples can defend their marijuana plants with guns

Now we're talking.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2019 12:11 PM (fuK7c)

359
And I don't mean the Bureau of Land Management.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:10 PM (YqDXo)

To be fair, your BLM isn't pure as the driven snow, either.

Posted by: FULL Mueller Report: I Gotcher Answers ... Right Cheer! * punches your junk * at May 06, 2019 12:11 PM (pNxlR)

360 348 Played by Pandora Spocks. Whatever happened to her?

Weird. I guess I didn't read the credits as a kid but it comes up on wiki.

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:11 PM (vWMNq)

361 Now, now... Gary was just a stoned-out space case. Beto is a crackhead who feeds poop to people. He's a good deal worse.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 12:09 PM (AzW6q)

I propose that hereinafter we refer to them both as an example of "A Leppo."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:11 PM (YqDXo)

362 Re: the senile white communist arguing with the Venezuelan dude:

They're all for "brown people" as long as the "brown people" keep their mouths shut and do what the white communists say.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 06, 2019 12:11 PM (0OWcv)

363 >>How old are you people? I'm old. I was 5 in 1965. I know that Samantha made me tingle in a surprising way, but I don't remember any plot points, two Darrens, or for fucks' sake a sister. Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2019 12:08 PM (fuK7c)

I'll bet you also don't remember Mrs. Kravitz, the nosy, cranky, constipated biddy who lived across the street and spied on the witch-house.

Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 12:11 PM (Bdeb0)

364 The hilarious thing about the iron grip of FB is that it only applies to boomers and millennials. Gen Z is avoiding it like the plague ("that is for old ppl") and use other platforms.

TikTok is the new hawtness. Basically Vine 2.0. I'm not sure how you politicize an app use to make short meme vids, but I'm sure the left will find away.
Posted by: LizLem at May 06, 2019 12:09 PM (hvf9s)

I didn't know that until I saw it used in a scene in a sitcom a few years ago.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 06, 2019 12:11 PM (glJL/)

365 anyway I suppose we'll all just accept our betters helping with all the information we're allowed to see.

It's a perfect solution for social harmony, we wouldn't want any social justice warriors to have to think for themselves.

Posted by: willow at May 06, 2019 12:11 PM (r/xAU)

366 "but that was one of the most suspension of disbeliefy scenes ever."

Still doesn't beat the incestuous brother rapes sister at their dead son's feet after his wake scene.

And of course, this whole last season so far is a train wreck. It's what you get when you set up a nihilistic world with a bunch of manipulative sociopaths.

Posted by: McLurkerson at May 06, 2019 12:11 PM (eXZrW)

367 If Puerto Rico has not recovered I would look to local politicians not Trump.

Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2019 12:11 PM (AjVAj)

368 I don't know. Mixed feelings. Ace can ban folks for posting racist
rants. His blog, his rules. If Twitter and Facebook, effectively do the
same thing with MAGA, (Yes, I know MAGA is not racist) it's their
platform, their rules.

It is entirely dependent on the intent of the person(s) running the show. If the intent is to pretend to be a platform open to all but to actually silence and de-platform people with whom they don't agree, that is a conspiracy to oppress their freedom of speech and it is a federal felony. (18 USC 241). This is true if they are claiming an exemption from the libel laws by their common carrier status. In other words if they claim to have no editorial control over what is published - but then conspire to oppress certain opinions - yeah that is a felony. It would be like the phone company not allowing you to talk because they don't like what you are saying.

Ace of Spades is a conservative site, Democratic Underground is a progressive site. Both have a right to censor and ban non compliant posters who run counter to the standards of the site.

Posted by: An Observation at May 06, 2019 12:12 PM (n7Z3n)

369 How old are you people? I'm old. I was 5 in 1965. I know that Samantha made me tingle in a surprising way, but I don't remember any plot points, two Darrens, or for fucks' sake a sister. "

I'm your age, and I remember that I always thought Paul Lynde (Uncle Arthur) was funny and creepy at the same time, and Gladys Cravitz was funny too.

Next we'll on about how Joe Biden was in Petticoat Junction. "Here's Uncle Joe and he's movin' kinda slow, at the Junction!"

Posted by: Sean Connery at May 06, 2019 12:12 PM (Kpl3J)

370 354 After they chop off a few more heads, they'll hire new actresses who will show some TA.

They use body doubles ...

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:12 PM (vWMNq)

371
349 Gary Johnson was Beto before Beto was cool.
Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 12:07 PM (Bdeb0)

A leper!

Posted by: FULL Mueller Report: I Gotcher Answers ... Right Cheer! * punches your junk * at May 06, 2019 12:12 PM (pNxlR)

372 One cannot justify being a doctrinaire libertarian in a world of totalitarians. It's unilateral disarmament. Trying to get others to follow suit--or making it public policy--is even worse, and ultimately morally indefensible.

Shrewd as serpents, folks, shrewd as serpents.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 06, 2019 12:12 PM (AM1GF)

373 So Fatass Nadler says he will issue a contempt citation for Barr, and will have him physically brought before the House. All for not complying with their illegal demand for the full unredacted Mueller report.

That's unprecedented in our history. It's also one of the most belligerent political acts since the Civil War.

But go ahead and do that, assholes.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2019 12:12 PM (VpIIl)

374 369
How old are you people? I'm old. I was 5 in 1965.

I was 7.

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:12 PM (vWMNq)

375 We are starting to see that many so-called "Social Issues" have Yuuuuge Fiscal Implications, from swingers and potheads to transgenderbenders. Increasingly, the consequences of their actions have massive fiscal impacts. And yes, one way or another, the rest of society ends up paying the bill. If only we could all go Galt. But we can't.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 12:10 PM (ujg0T)

Then you're back to a big government that controls marriages, bans substances, involves a big police state, and is powerful enough to attempt to exercise all that power (which requires the courts to engage in all kinds of pretzel logic disconnecting "constitutional rights" from the constitution so that the government can enforce all of that); which leads you back to where we are today.

So I mean I don't know how someone can say we need a massive, incredibly expensive and intrusive all hands on deck effort to ban marijuana, but then say "but I want a smaller government that doesn't intrude in my life."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:13 PM (GBteo)

376 They're all for "brown people" as long as the "brown people" keep their mouths shut and do what the white communists say.

***

Ever notice how the white communists are the only one who actually use the term "brown people?"

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:13 PM (GEpFD)

377 She also had an identical twin sister. Identical. Only difference was my assistant was a brunette, her sister a blond.

Were you able to determine which had the original hair color?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 12:13 PM (Niu5G)

378 To be fair, your BLM isn't pure as the driven snow, either.
Posted by: FULL Mueller Report: I Gotcher Answers ... Right Cheer! * punches your junk * at May 06, 2019 12:11 PM (pNxlR)

It isn't, God knows, but it's cubic light years better than the other BLM, which has never anything good even by mistake.

At BLM is kicking Burning Man in the balls, by applying to it the same rules that we kulaks have to observe. You've got to laugh.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:13 PM (YqDXo)

379 Another check

Posted by: zeera at May 06, 2019 12:13 PM (GuGrG)

380 >>354 329 I read somewhere that all the major GoTs female stars got no nudity clauses when they got new contracts.All their nudity is in the first season or 2. Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2019 12:06 PM (AjVAj)

Talent management negotiation fail.

"Cast reduction-by-plot is a feature in this series. The amount of onscreen time that you have is in direct correlation to the amount of self-debasement you're willing to tolerate."

Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 12:14 PM (Bdeb0)

381 I remember a lot of the old shows because TV Land was basically the only channel I watched as a kid. When I was young, my dad didn't let us watch any TV at all - the only reason I ended up getting to watch TV Land was when we moved to a rural area and my dad had to get a satellite dish for Bronco games.

Oddly, he also found MTV to be acceptable, because it was still music back then. That was about it, IIRC.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 12:14 PM (AzW6q)

382 Every couple months we'd all go to lunch together and the looks we would get were funny as hell. I should have worn a sign that said "Get your mind out of the gutter you pigs."

You should have worn a sign on your back (that the twins couldn't see) that said "You're Damned Right I'm Doin' It!"

Posted by: Sean Connery at May 06, 2019 12:14 PM (Kpl3J)

383 Then you're back to a big government that controls marriages, bans substances,

Yeah, meth, fentanyl, and heroin should definitely not be banned. Free Willy!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:14 PM (YqDXo)

384 360 348 Played by Pandora Spocks. Whatever happened to her?

Weird. I guess I didn't read the credits as a kid but it comes up on wiki.

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:11 PM (vWMNq)
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It was Liz Montgomery as well.

Posted by: jhawk90 at May 06, 2019 12:14 PM (Xvo1a)

385 It's funny how the facebook, twitter, google, et al argument comes back to the same basic argument conservatives have about every single thing.

Don't make new laws. Enforce the law now.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's Spirit Animal is Alfred D. Whintle at May 06, 2019 12:15 PM (uTPtJ)

386 >>Were you able to determine which had the original hair color?

My assistant was the original. They were also incredibly open and honest, they would talk about anything, which could make things a tad uncomfortable at times.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 12:15 PM (/tuJf)

387 So we have people from another entire culture, one that does NOT embrace Freedom of Speech, monitoring Americans speech.

Posted by: Don Q at May 06, 2019 11:47 AM (NgKpN)

This! This! This! It's also why I'm very uncomfortable with foreign nationals as CEOs of American based corporations. They don't understand the concern about freedom because they *can't* understand it based on their world view. They don't even understand the question and, all too often, assume that it is a fake to mask something else.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 06, 2019 12:15 PM (uquGJ)

388
Click on my nic for the most recent Gab post about Big Tech's illegal censorship. Not only are they actively denying our right to free speech, but now they're denying us the right to free association.

Re-Gab and retweet that page, spread it far and wide. We have to demand that our freedom be preserved by enforcing the law.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivismBAMN at May 06, 2019 12:15 PM (HaL55)

389 That's unprecedented in our history. It's also one of the most belligerent political acts since the Civil War.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2019 12:12 PM (VpIIl)

The House has the Capitol Police. The President has the Marines.

I'm all for it. Get to work boys.

Posted by: trev006 at May 06, 2019 12:15 PM (OnEJV)

390 You want gay marriage? Fine. I want guns.
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Um, no.

We already agreed that 'I get guns', America's domestic enemies do not get a concession in exchange for what we already have.

Posted by: Methos at May 06, 2019 12:16 PM (kOpft)

391 276 Tim Pool really owns the tech censorship issue - he's an excellent resource.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:58 AM (W+vEI)

I wish Sharyl Attkisson would investigate it. She's another honest reporter.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 12:16 PM (EiZIA)

392 OM, I am actually surprised that this has gone on so long, since when is talking illegal?

and where in the HELL is OUR big tech?

I guess we can assume everyone Big now is a facist?

so what do I defend big Corp for?

Posted by: willow at May 06, 2019 12:16 PM (r/xAU)

393 I remember the big song in first grade was "It's about Time, it's about Space, it's about Time to punch your Face!"

Posted by: Sean Connery at May 06, 2019 12:17 PM (Kpl3J)

394 384 It was Liz Montgomery as well.

I knew that ... even as a kid. I didn't know about the credit.

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:17 PM (vWMNq)

395 Then you're back to a big government that controls marriages, bans substances, involves a big police state, and is powerful enough to attempt to exercise all that power (which requires the courts to engage in all kinds of pretzel logic disconnecting "constitutional rights" from the constitution so that the government can enforce all of that); which leads you back to where we are today.

So I mean I don't know how someone can say we need a massive, incredibly expensive and intrusive all hands on deck effort to ban marijuana, but then say "but I want a smaller government that doesn't intrude in my life."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:13 PM (GBteo)

Once upon a time, we DID have notions of local Community Standards (which yes, DID define what an actual marriage was and what was clearly not) and freedom of religion. But now, in an age of enforced cake-baking, we have state enforced Libertinism. And I don't see the Big L Libertarians raising any fuss about that, do you?

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 12:17 PM (ujg0T)

396 3 Danarys and Jamie.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 06, 2019 11:17 AM (gC2IV)

3/4 credit.

5 Emilia Clarke and Nikolai Coster-Waldau
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 06, 2019 11:18 AM (9cans)

Full credit.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 11:19 AM (EiZIA)

Aha! Thar explains why I don't recognize them at all, let alone remember their names. Never seen 'em at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2019 12:17 PM (7njPr)

397 If France wanted to legalize infanticide and execute pot smokers, I would horrified but fairly indifferent. If Utah or Boston wanted to do the same thing my reaction would be nearly the same. If my town wanted to follow suit, I would vote, fight, or flee.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 12:17 PM (Niu5G)

398 How could people not know even as kids that Samantha and Serena were played by the same actress?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 06, 2019 12:17 PM (FSPNP)

399 I guess we can assume everyone Big now is a facist?

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Yes. That was the point of the Gramscian March, which is pretty much complete in the US and Europe.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 12:17 PM (AzW6q)

400
342 I hate the climate of hate. Does it result from climate change?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:08 PM (YqDXo)

IT's the fault of the polar bears. Remember when Coca-Cola used to run documentary commercials where penguins and polar bears would gather and enjoys frosty "co-colas"? We don't see those anymore, do we? Do you know why? It's because those hateful asshole bears gobbled up every last penguin in the neighborhood.

Posted by: FULL Mueller Report: I Gotcher Answers ... Right Cheer! * punches your junk * at May 06, 2019 12:18 PM (pNxlR)

401 I guess we can assume everyone Big now is a facist?

so what do I defend big Corp for?

Posted by: willow

It may not be how they get big, but it sure seems to be how they stay big.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 06, 2019 12:18 PM (AM1GF)

402 Aha! Thar explains why I don't recognize them at all, let alone remember their names. Never seen 'em at all.

***

I only know her because she was in the last Terminator movie.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:18 PM (GEpFD)

403 > Ever notice how the white communists are the only one who actually use the term "brown people?"

Yep. They like to pretend that Mexicans and blacks don't hate each other's guts, that the zillions of different kinds of Asians don't all hate each other's guts, that the zillions of different African tribes don't all hate each other's guts, that the zillions of different ethnic and religious groups in the Middle East don't all hate each others' guts...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 06, 2019 12:18 PM (0OWcv)

404 Um, no.

We already agreed that 'I get guns', America's domestic enemies do not get a concession in exchange for what we already have.
Posted by: Methos at May 06, 2019 12:16 PM (kOpft)

::shrug:: okay, then you get assault weapons bans, automatic weapons bans, "enhanced back ground checks," and whatever other nuisance laws they can throw at you and get cover from the courts for.

I mean... it's not that complicated -- we live in the most diverse country in the world. 320 million people. We're not all going to agree on anything.

So we can either wield government power to try to push our views, or we can all try to agree to live and let live to the extent possible, and use "smallest government possible, I'll leave you alone if you leave me alone" as our rallying cry.

Kind of like they did in 1789 when they adopted the constitution.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:18 PM (GBteo)

405 276 Tim Pool really owns the tech censorship issue - he's an excellent resource.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 11:58 AM (W+vEI)

Look for Joe Rogan podcast #1258 on YouTube, where he interviews Pool, and Jack Dorsey and one of his enforcers from Twitter. It's really funny watching them denying they're progressively biased while describing their decisions that could only come from their being progressively biased. Tim really hammers them hard.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 12:18 PM (EiZIA)

406 Israelis living near Gaza border angry about ceasefire
Residents feel ignored, that Eurovision set the agenda and government agreed to truce because it did not want rockets raining down during Independence Day holiday

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 06, 2019 12:19 PM (bim/x)

407
Big Diabetes is the conglomerate that'll kill us all.

Mark my words.

Posted by: FULL Mueller Report: I Gotcher Answers ... Right Cheer! * punches your junk * at May 06, 2019 12:19 PM (pNxlR)

408 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2019 12:17 PM (7njPr)

The guy has a 1800's Western look to him. That was part of GoT-Oh, yes, they had Westeros.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 06, 2019 12:19 PM (FSPNP)

409 So Fatass Nadler says he will issue a contempt citation for Barr, and will have him physically brought before the House.
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Nadler and what army?

Posted by: Methos at May 06, 2019 12:19 PM (kOpft)

410 I only know her because she was in the last Terminator movie.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER

I try not to hold that against those involved. I'm sure that movie seemed like a perfectly good idea at the time.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 06, 2019 12:20 PM (AM1GF)

411 Big Diabetes is the conglomerate that'll kill us all.

***

Only Wilford Brimley can save us!

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:20 PM (GEpFD)

412 > How could people not know even as kids that Samantha and Serena were played by the same actress?

You have to remember that in TV/Comic BookWorld, someone who looks like Lynda Carter becomes totally unrecognizable when she exchanges her star-spangled booty shorts and bustier for an Air Force uniform, puts her hair in a bun, and puts on a pair of glasses.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 06, 2019 12:20 PM (0OWcv)

413 Sorry, but I consider libertarianism as late night dorm room political philosophy for poseurs.

I'm all in favor of limited government, but libertarians fail to grasp that the purpose of government is to "oppress" people who need to be oppressed. Criminals, gang members, drug dealers, child molesters, terrorists, etc. leap to mind in this connection.

Going for a society with little or no "oppression" is sophomoric. New Orleans after Katrina should have been a wake-up call for libertarians. I think Gary Johnson is an intellectual heavyweight by libertarian standards.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:20 PM (YqDXo)

414 Nadler and what army?
Posted by: Methos at May 06, 2019 12:19 PM (kOpft)

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An army could march on Nadler's stomach...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 12:20 PM (AzW6q)

415 Kind of like they did in 1789 when they adopted the constitution.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:18 PM (GBteo)

You are aware that half the states that ratified the Constitution had State Churches, Right?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 12:20 PM (Niu5G)

416 Does anyone thing Navarro has convictions to defend? She's just chasing the media contract.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 06, 2019 12:21 PM (MkTMW)

417 So Fatass Nadler says he will issue a contempt citation for Barr, and will have him physically brought before the House.
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Nadler and what army?

Posted by: Methos

If the redactions address ongoing investigations, could Nadler get arrested for...obstruction of justice?

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 06, 2019 12:21 PM (AM1GF)

418 "Then you're back to a big government that controls marriages, bans
substances, involves a big police state, and is powerful enough to
attempt to exercise all that power"

Now we're back to ignoring how people behave. There has to laws and regulations to insure a functional society. The conservative position is trying to think how enacting laws or repealing laws will effect everything. Or at least it used to be, they've caved to the left on marriage and drugs long ago, that's the problem.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 06, 2019 12:21 PM (4thlk)

419 Thinking people rightfully fear and despise corporatism, and uniparty elitism. Bernie Sanders goes down the road of criticizing both. But he is a hypocritical asshole, a slave to his masters. He does suck in a lot of disaffected types, that are too brainwashed to consider the Conservative alternatives to corporatism, and uniparty elitist government. This is a problem, and too damned bad.

Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2019 12:21 PM (90T4r)

420 I really don't understand what Biden meant when he corrected himself over saying Margaret Thatcher instead of Theresa May as being a "Freudian slip".Did he mean that he would have rather have talked to Thatcher about Trump, or was "Thatcher" some mystery sexual word to him - which strikes me as creepy.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 06, 2019 12:21 PM (aWjrD)

421 wonderful video clip of katie couric interviewing biden at instapundit.

couric: do you have to be uber careful and disciplined on the campaign trail?

biden: no... no. part of what a leader does is instill confidence to demonstrate he or she knows what they're talking about... when the stock market crashed franklin roosevelt got on the television and he didn't just talk about the princes of greed he said 'here's what happened'..."

very funny. check it out.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 06, 2019 12:21 PM (Pg+x7)

422 Once upon a time, we DID have notions of local Community Standards (which yes, DID define what an actual marriage was and what was clearly not) and freedom of religion. But now, in an age of enforced cake-baking, we have state enforced Libertinism. And I don't see the Big L Libertarians raising any fuss about that, do you?
Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 12:17 PM (ujg0T)

Well, I'm not talking about the libertarian party, and have no interest in their views.

But, again, if you want to use government to say what marriage is and what it isn't, then you can't complain when someone else uses those same mechanisms to change the definition on you.

Or, you could just leave it up to churches and individuals to decide and get the government completely out of it.

As for gay cake baking? Again -- in 1964, our elected leaders passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (over the strenuous objections of Barry Goldwater, a libertarian, who completely foresaw what was coming) which said any business in the US open to the public is a "public accommodation" and as such, the federal government could tell who they must serve.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:22 PM (GBteo)

423 405 Tim really hammers them hard.

I find Tim's voice and presentation almost as annoying as Abby Shapiro's brother ... but I *will* watch Tim on several topics, where he knows his stuff. Ben, not so much.

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:22 PM (vWMNq)

424 403 > Ever notice how the white communists are the only one who actually use the term "brown people?"

Yep. They like to pretend that Mexicans and blacks don't hate each other's guts, that the zillions of different kinds of Asians don't all hate each other's guts, that the zillions of different African tribes don't all hate each other's guts, that the zillions of different ethnic and religious groups in the Middle East don't all hate each others' guts...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 06, 2019 12:18 PM (0OWcv)

~~Hate~~ Diversity makes them strong!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:22 PM (YqDXo)

425 Going for a society with little or no "oppression" is sophomoric. New Orleans after Katrina should have been a wake-up call for libertarians. I think Gary Johnson is an intellectual heavyweight by libertarian standards.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Immune systems are just there so the Man can keep hard-workin' microorganisms down!

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 06, 2019 12:22 PM (AM1GF)

426 Kyrsten Sinema @SenatorSinema
I condemn the rocket attacks on innocent civilians and stand in support of Israel and peace.
*******
HMMMM she might be more Conservative than ShitStain

Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at May 06, 2019 12:22 PM (BqBId)

427 Joey Biden has no fucking idea what a Freudian slip means. Hell, who believes that he knows who Freud is?

Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2019 12:22 PM (90T4r)

428 so if facebook twit er gets away with this, what about all our googles, bings ?

how long will ace, powerline, legal insurrection last ?

sure they are going for the most outspoken or bigger megaphones, some with even ideas I don't personally appreciate, but will everyone wait until the last 'other' voice is gone?

Posted by: willow at May 06, 2019 12:23 PM (r/xAU)

429 Our government(s) in America have long defined marriage; it predates big government. The idea that that is inimical to limited government is counter-factual to say the least.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 06, 2019 12:23 PM (ppBhU)

430 I knew that ... even as a kid. I didn't know about the credit.

Yep. Montgomery was credited with the pseudonym Pandora Spock when she played Serena...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at May 06, 2019 12:23 PM (7s3Gx)

431 You are aware that half the states that ratified the Constitution had State Churches, Right?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 12:20 PM (Niu5G)

I don't know the numbers, but yes, several states had state religions.

And yet, they expressly banned the federal government from following suit.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:23 PM (GBteo)

432 Before they became obsessed with weed and open borders, I agreed with much of the libertarian worldview. The part I always had trouble getting behind was the complete isolationism/lack of foreign policy.

I understand it, and in theory I approve of it. But that horse is out of the barn. We made our choice to become a hegemon already, and now most of the world wants us dead or defeated.

Unless we had implemented these policies long ago, they can't ever be practical.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 12:23 PM (AzW6q)

433 How old are you people? I'm old. I was 5 in 1965.

I was playing my senior year of high school football in 1965...

Posted by: An Observation at May 06, 2019 12:23 PM (n7Z3n)

434 420 Did he mean that he would have rather have talked to Thatcher about Trump,

No. He meant he'd rather have Thatcher in bed than May.

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:23 PM (vWMNq)

435 HMMMM she might be more Conservative than ShitStain

***

Faint praise if ever there was.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:23 PM (GEpFD)

436 > One cannot justify being a doctrinaire libertarian in a world of totalitarians.

Libertarianism is an excellent political philosophy for a society of enlightened, civilized men of good will.

It is utterly useless for dealing with savages.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 06, 2019 12:23 PM (0OWcv)

437 Joe Biden is old and confused.I look forward to him saying multiple stupid things daily.

Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2019 12:24 PM (AjVAj)

438 ... i count 5 mistakes in that biden sentence.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 06, 2019 12:24 PM (Pg+x7)

439
So Fatass Nadler says he will issue a contempt citation for Barr, and will have him physically brought before the House.

Like some pudgy Capitol Police sergeant is going to push aside Barr's DoJ protection detail and take him into custody

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 06, 2019 12:24 PM (TAmPV)

440 O/T for which I apologize but. A friend just sent me a video on Vimeo. The Diary of Eva... Eva Heyman. Murdered in Auswitch in 1944. From Hungary. One of Soros' victims most likely.
Her diary survived because of a Christian woman. The video is engrossing. She was 13.
Then, I think of how the MSM is all in on Jew Hate and praising the blackshirts of Antifa.
To quote Mark... Buy ammo. And, my own, and magazines.
I'm not Jewish but not only Never Again, but Don't even try it again.

Posted by: Winston a dreg of society at May 06, 2019 12:24 PM (5U303)

441 You are aware that half the states that ratified the Constitution had State Churches, Right?

Your point?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2019 12:24 PM (fuK7c)

442 Now we're back to ignoring how people behave. There has to laws and regulations to insure a functional society. The conservative position is trying to think how enacting laws or repealing laws will effect everything. Or at least it used to be, they've caved to the left on marriage and drugs long ago, that's the problem.
Posted by: lowandslow at May 06, 2019 12:21 PM (4thlk)

Well, you're already 90% of the way to accepting the lefts premises then.

They left says "we need to regulate haters behavior otherwise poor gay people can't get a wedding cake."

So there you go.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:24 PM (GBteo)

443 Yeah, when you legalize drugs, all the public health costs just disappear. It's how you magically reduce the size of government, doncha know?

Posted by: McLurkerson at May 06, 2019 12:24 PM (eXZrW)

444 A contempt citation and 50 cents will not get you on the NY Subway

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 06, 2019 12:24 PM (bim/x)

445 >>426 Kyrsten Sinema @SenatorSinema
I condemn the rocket attacks on innocent civilians and stand in support of Israel and peace.

Yao. Wears The Boots.

Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 12:24 PM (Bdeb0)

446 So I mean I don't know how someone can say we need a massive, incredibly expensive and intrusive all hands on deck effort to ban marijuana, but then say "but I want a smaller government that doesn't intrude in my life."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:13 PM (GBteo)

Yup, the war on drugs was the reason they were able to push through Civil Asset Forfeiture.

It was also the 'reason' they used so the Feds get access to everyone's bank data, to see if they have suspicious withdrawls of large amounts of cash.

Just as the War on Terror is the reason used to spy on every American citizen.

Posted by: Don Q at May 06, 2019 12:25 PM (NgKpN)

447 So we can either wield government power to try to push our views, or we can all try to agree to live and let live to the extent possible, and use "smallest government possible, I'll leave you alone if you leave me alone" as our rallying cry.�

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:18 PM (GBteo)

Tried that, didn't fly. You realize that major media oligopolies and technology companies are willing to risk losing millions of customers before permitting opposing political views? The Libertarian Party in 2016 is the logical endgame of libertarianism: an ineffectual debating club until they are effortlessly subverted by a more competent power. Like the Hillary campaign.

Actual white supremacy has more potential as a governing philosophy (a very small amount).

Posted by: trev006 at May 06, 2019 12:25 PM (OnEJV)

448
Kyrsten Sinema @SenatorSinema I condemn the rocket attacks on innocent civilians and stand in support of Israel and peace. *******

She's made herself hitable.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 06, 2019 12:25 PM (TAmPV)

449 > Yeah, when you legalize drugs, all the public health costs just disappear.

No, they don't all disappear. Just the ones related to overdoses connected to street drugs of uncertain purity and composition. Which is a lot of them.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 06, 2019 12:25 PM (0OWcv)

450 Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:23 PM (GEpFD)
*******
1st of all baby steps & #2 not bad for a Lesbo who is also Bisexual who wore thigh high boot to the Senate

Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at May 06, 2019 12:25 PM (BqBId)

451 392 OM, I am actually surprised that this has gone on so long, since when is talking illegal?
and where in the HELL is OUR big tech?
I guess we can assume everyone Big now is a facist?
so what do I defend big Corp for?
Posted by: willow at May 06, 2019 12:16 PM (r/xAU)

Amazon fulfillment centers are real sweatshops. Long hours, low pay, insanely high production quotas.

Traditionally, this is a labor issue that Democrats and their union allies would be screaming bloody murder about, organizing protests, congressional hearings, etc.

But this time, nary a peep of protest. It's all good. Because Amazon is in the pocket of the Democrat Party. Or vice versa.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 12:25 PM (EiZIA)

452 Biden: when the stock market crashed franklin roosevelt got on the television

See, this is what happens when you legalize too many drugs.

Notwithstanding that there was no television at that time - we hadn't yet stolen the idea from Africa - when the stock market crashed Franklin Roosevelt was ... governor of New York.

You'd think a politician in the Democrat Party would know that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:26 PM (YqDXo)

453 So we can either wield government power to try to push our views, or we
can all try to agree to live and let live to the extent possible
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There is no excuse to try to live and let live with the left. They must be defeated utterly. Period. Full stop.

There can be no deals with them as equals because they will never acknowledge us as equals. It is simply not in their character.

Posted by: Methos at May 06, 2019 12:26 PM (kOpft)

454 No. He meant he'd rather have Thatcher in bed than May.

Too cold, too cold...

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 12:26 PM (Niu5G)

455

She's made herself hitable.

Only if it has a smaller diameter than your thumb.

Posted by: Ask The Imam at May 06, 2019 12:26 PM (MkTMW)

456 429 Our government(s) in America have long defined marriage; it predates big government. The idea that that is inimical to limited government is counter-factual to say the least.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 06, 2019 12:23 PM (ppBhU)

Not really. In the early history of the States, marriages (and births and deaths, for that matter) were recorded by the local churches.

As we moved west, many states said "fuck it" and gave up on even trying to keep track of marriages, thus we get the concept of common law marriage.

The only real interest the State historically had in marriage was in how to divide peoples estates upon death.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:26 PM (GBteo)

457 That was a big device in the 60's Cousin/Sister who looks exactly like the main female character-just has a different hair style or color and a different personality. Jeannie/Samantha/Patty Duke, although to be fair the twin idea has been around since the Roman drama at least. I think Patty Duke did it best. At least her cousin had a different accent.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 06, 2019 12:26 PM (FSPNP)

458 > Kyrsten Sinema @SenatorSinema I condemn the rocket attacks on innocent civilians and stand in support of Israel and peace.

She is turning out to be way better than I expected.

All in all, a pretty good trade for McCain, even if she does have a D after her name.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 06, 2019 12:26 PM (0OWcv)

459 > Jeannie/Samantha/Patty Duke, although to be fair the twin idea has been around since the Roman drama at least. I think Patty Duke did it best. At least her cousin had a different accent.

Don't forget Haley Mills.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 06, 2019 12:27 PM (0OWcv)

460 >>She's made herself hitable.

I believe Zod has already placed a claim on this unit.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 12:27 PM (/tuJf)

461 Yup, the war on drugs was the reason they were able to push through Civil Asset Forfeiture.

It was also the 'reason' they used so the Feds get access to everyone's bank data, to see if they have suspicious withdrawls of large amounts of cash.

Just as the War on Terror is the reason used to spy on every American citizen.

Posted by: Don Q at May 06, 2019 12:25 PM (NgKpN)

This man. He gets it.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2019 12:27 PM (fuK7c)

462 All in all, a pretty good trade for McCain, even if she does have a D after her name.

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No kiddin'. So far that Democrat whack-job has been more conservative than The Bastard was.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 12:27 PM (AzW6q)

463 You are aware that half the states that ratified the Constitution had State Churches, Right?

Your point?

That most of the Founders were in no way Libertarians.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 12:28 PM (Niu5G)

464 So your thesis is that if we can just get the States out of marriage, there will be a peaceable return the land as it was when the West was being settled. You sound very reasonable.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 06, 2019 12:28 PM (ppBhU)

465 No, they don't all disappear. Just the ones related to overdoses connected to street drugs of uncertain purity and composition. Which is a lot of them.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 06, 2019 12:25 PM (0OWcv)

So meth is a health product now? Heroin? Cocaine?

These things turn productive people into criminal zombies. Where do you think half of the vagrants come from? Mental illness and drug abusers.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:28 PM (YqDXo)

466 Most Jews just say Never Again. They don't really mean it.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at May 06, 2019 12:28 PM (oZ6kz)

467 Ace, given what has come out recently, how should we take Schumer's warning to Trump as to the intelligence community's ability to retaliate? Is it time to ask Schumer what he knew and when did he know it?

https://tinyurl.com/yblwzgeb

Posted by: Dangerously Cheezy at May 06, 2019 12:28 PM (Ai1hj)

468 We are "The Barr".
Your "spying" will be investigated.
Resistance is futile

Posted by: SMOD at May 06, 2019 12:29 PM (QkjLD)

469 OM, the union turning themselves inside out for progress is not a surprise. it's really as usual only about how to convince their dogs THEY are for them. And you cannot survive without them.
much like all progressives /dems lie about now

Posted by: willow at May 06, 2019 12:29 PM (r/xAU)

470 Libertarianism is an excellent political philosophy for a society of enlightened, civilized men of good will.

It is utterly useless for dealing with savages.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 06, 2019 12:23 PM (0OWcv)

Just like the U.S. Constitution.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 12:29 PM (EiZIA)

471 Yup, the war on drugs was the reason they were able to push through Civil Asset Forfeiture.

It was also the 'reason' they used so the Feds get access to everyone's bank data, to see if they have suspicious withdrawls of large amounts of cash.

Just as the War on Terror is the reason used to spy on every American citizen.
Posted by: Don Q at May 06, 2019 12:25 PM (NgKpN)

I'd say 75%+ of the major scotus case law eroding our 4th amendment rights are drug related.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:29 PM (GBteo)

472 Most Jews just say Never Again. They don't really mean it.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at May 06, 2019 12:28 PM (oZ6kz)

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Can't speak for them. Me and my Zastava mean it, though.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 12:29 PM (AzW6q)

473 Kyrsten Sinema @SenatorSinema I condemn the rocket attacks on innocent civilians and stand in support of Israel and peace.

She is turning out to be way better than I expected.

All in all, a pretty good trade for McCain, even if she does have a D after her name.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 06, 2019 12:26 PM (0OWcv)

Wow. I hadn't known that. Good for her.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:29 PM (YqDXo)

474 It's a mistake to think the problem is defining institutions through laws. The problem is multiple cultures in the same space trying to use the legal system for cross purposes, and each has a differing attitude towards how it should work. It's fatally flawed at its very foundations. Either one comes to dominate and grind down the rest, or everything flies apart and collapses in a pile of crumbled concrete and mangled flesh.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 06, 2019 12:30 PM (AM1GF)

475 ... i count 5 mistakes in that biden sentence.

If you're trying to make sense of anything Ol' Slow Joe Biden says, good luck with that.

They put his hair plugs in just a little bit too deep, it would appear.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivismBAMN at May 06, 2019 12:30 PM (HaL55)

476 As we moved west, many states said "fuck it" and gave up on even trying to keep track of marriages, thus we get the concept of common law marriage.

The only real interest the State historically had in marriage was in how to divide peoples estates upon death.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:26 PM (GBteo)

The Feds didn't get involved in marriage until the Mormon question hit.

Posted by: Don Q at May 06, 2019 12:30 PM (NgKpN)

477 458
> Kyrsten Sinema @SenatorSinema I condemn the rocket attacks on innocent civilians and stand in support of Israel and peace.

She is turning out to be way better than I expected.

All in all, a pretty good trade for McCain, even if she does have a D after her name.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 06, 2019 12:26 PM (0OWcv)

+++
She has been a surprise. (So far)

Posted by: washrivergal at May 06, 2019 12:30 PM (aWjrD)

478 464 So your thesis is that if we can just get the States out of marriage, there will be a peaceable return the land as it was when the West was being settled. You sound very reasonable.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 06, 2019 12:28 PM (ppBhU)

Is that really what you read in what I wrote?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:30 PM (GBteo)

479 "They left says "we need to regulate haters behavior otherwise poor gay people can't get a wedding cake."
"So there you go."

I care less about how the left and right reacts to gay marriage than I do about how they reacted to marriage at all. In our effort to limit government interference in families they allowed no-fault divorce and it basically destroyed the family and we now have widespread negative issues effecting everyone because of that. That's what I mean by ignoring human behavior.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 06, 2019 12:31 PM (4thlk)

480 Think about who this platform was made for. And similarly twitter.

High school kids. Maybe College. Because what do you see when you see zuckerberg?

I see a geek in his senior year. Awkward but smart with lots of ideas of how he's going to "help" the world be a better place.

But it's only a better place for Mark Zuckerberg. And his pals and if you don't fit his definition of pals then he bans you from his presence and his clique shuns you too.

IT'S FREAKING HIGH SCHOOL WRIT LARGE and using the Internet.

It's why most of it is meaningless. Sure some smart people have monetized it as a communications device and for folks to use for THEIR little cliques.

But Marks Clique takes precedence and don't you think he'll abide by ANYBODY making money off it. Particularly those who he thinks are icky or mean.

Which is also why those he doesn't think are mean but maybe downtrodden or who are known to be disadvantaged are given a lot of room to say stuff cause they deserve it.

But not icky conservatives.

Saw a tweet or article whatever about how the GOP has allowed the left to paint them as CRIMINALS and thus nothing they say or do is taken well by those who have accepted this viewpoint or subscribe to the Democrat party.

The GOP and conservatives are always the party poopers even if they aren't. They they're the ones who are mean spirited and hateful while others are just giving vent to justified anger at how they've been treated by you guessed it CONSERVATIVES and the GOP.

So yeah you're gonna get banned if Mark don't like you. It's also why there's no telling who will get banned next because there really aren't any rules it's how someone FEELZ about what was said or the video that was played or whatever.

Just like High School. You can get kicked out of a clique for wearing the wrong clothes or colors or talking to others who have been banned.

IT'S THE MEAN GIRLS IN REAL LIFE!

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at May 06, 2019 12:31 PM (XmlCz)

481 "No, they don't all disappear. Just the ones related to overdoses
connected to street drugs of uncertain purity and composition. Which is a
lot of them.
"

It was sarcasm.

Posted by: McLurkerson at May 06, 2019 12:31 PM (eXZrW)

482 Libertarianism is an excellent political philosophy for a society of enlightened, civilized men of good will.

I wouldn't go that far with big-L libertarianism. It too want to universalize itself, even if the local polity wants none of it.

It's just to weak to achieve it.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 12:31 PM (Niu5G)

483 So meth is a health product now? Heroin? Cocaine?

These things turn productive people into criminal zombies. Where do you think half of the vagrants come from? Mental illness and drug abusers.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:28 PM (YqDXo)

Bingo. Like I said, when a "Social Issue" starts to have a big Fiscal Impact, we all end up paying for it.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 12:31 PM (ujg0T)

484 Libertarianism is an excellent political philosophy for a society of enlightened, civilized men of good will.

It is utterly useless for dealing with savages.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Just like the U.S. Constitution.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor

John Adams was right.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 06, 2019 12:31 PM (AM1GF)

485
Joey Biden has no fucking idea what a Freudian slip means. Hell, who believes that he knows who Freud is?
Posted by: tubal

Pink Freud is my favorite band!

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 06, 2019 12:31 PM (aKsyK)

486 The Feds didn't get involved in marriage until the Mormon question hit.
Posted by: Don Q at May 06, 2019 12:30 PM (NgKpN)

Right. People were uncomfortable with polygamy, and, IIRC, one of the prerequisites for Utah being allowed to become a state was for them to ban it. (you know, back when the federal government knew it couldn't directly do anything about marriage.)

I have a feeling that the same types of people who wanted to federalize marriage back then are the ones arguing against the logical conclusion of that move, which is Obergefell.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:32 PM (GBteo)

487 I mean, there might have been a TV in 1929 in a lab somewhere with Philo T Farnsworth, but that's it.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at May 06, 2019 12:32 PM (oZ6kz)

488 Pink Fraud

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:33 PM (vWMNq)

489 I have a feeling that the same types of people who wanted to federalize marriage back then are the ones arguing against the logical conclusion of that move, which is Obergefell.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes

You're not far from right. In each case it's a question of what culture is to be enshrined and which is to be refused.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 06, 2019 12:33 PM (AM1GF)

490 >>460 >>She's made herself hitable.
I believe Zod has already placed a claim on this unit.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019 12:27 PM (/tuJf)

This is correct. She features prominently in my postapocalyptic population regeneration plan.

Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 12:33 PM (Bdeb0)

491 There has to laws and regulations to insure a functional society.

There have to be laws and regulations to ensure that people aren't murdering each other, stealing shit or putting the country at risk. Other than that the market will take care of almost anything else, if there is a moral order and a concept of shame. We did have laws about marriage and the border, but those seem passe now. The regulatory state is a danger not a feature.

Posted by: dagny at May 06, 2019 12:34 PM (nRWPy)

492 I have a feeling that the same types of people who wanted to federalize marriage back then are the ones arguing against the logical conclusion of that move, which is Obergefell.

Actually, Obergefell would be better viewed as unaccountable mandarans abolishing marriage rather than to compare it to a state legislature's attempt to codify the will of it's polity.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 12:34 PM (Niu5G)

493 punk fraud

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 06, 2019 12:34 PM (Pg+x7)

494 I have a feeling that the same types of people who wanted to federalize marriage back then are the ones arguing against the logical conclusion of that move, which is Obergefell.

There is a possible future world (I live there in my head) in which Obergefell does us all a world of good. Your state has to recognize my state's permission to carry, so I can concealed carry in New Jersey.

It's consistent.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2019 12:34 PM (fuK7c)

495 Don't forget Haley Mills.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 06, 2019 12:27 PM (0OWcv)

Thanks; I was forgetting that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 06, 2019 12:34 PM (FSPNP)

496 So we can either wield government power to try to push our views, or we can all try to agree to live and let live to the extent possible, and use "smallest government possible, I'll leave you alone if you leave me alone" as our rallying cry.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:18 PM (GBteo)

New market for Coexist bumper stickers?

But here's the rub: what if people DON'T leave you alone? (Because some people will not, guaranteed.) OK, you can arm yourself. But so can they. Who will enforce contracts, and adjudicate disputes, imperfectly perhaps with ideally without prejudice?

Next stop: Somalia.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:34 PM (YqDXo)

497 I see ilhan omar and rashid tlaib are still on facebook and twitter

Posted by: willow at May 06, 2019 12:34 PM (r/xAU)

498 It's a mistake to think the problem is defining institutions through
laws. The problem is multiple cultures in the same space trying to use
the legal system for cross purposes, and each has a differing attitude
towards how it should work. It's fatally flawed at its very
foundations. Either one comes to dominate and grind down the rest, or
everything flies apart and collapses in a pile of crumbled concrete and
mangled flesh.
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This.

All this live and let live discussion has as its presumption some basic agreement to do so, as Americans had in our Declaration of Independence and Constitusion. The left has no interest in either of those save for how they can be leveraged against us.

Posted by: Methos at May 06, 2019 12:34 PM (kOpft)

499 >>These things turn productive people into criminal zombies. Where do you think half of the vagrants come from? Mental illness and drug abusers. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:28 PM (YqDXo)

This reads like something straight from the script of "Repo Man."

Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 12:35 PM (Bdeb0)

500 punk flawed

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 06, 2019 12:35 PM (Pg+x7)

501 I care less about how the left and right reacts to gay marriage than I do about how they reacted to marriage at all. In our effort to limit government interference in families they allowed no-fault divorce and it basically destroyed the family and we now have widespread negative issues effecting everyone because of that. That's what I mean by ignoring human behavior.
Posted by: lowandslow at May 06, 2019 12:31 PM (4thlk)

I'm no fan of the current marriage / divorce system either, and I would like to see more societal pressure for people (women especially, not to be too controversial here) to easily and readily walk away from marriages / long term relationships / whatever you want to call it.

But that said -- again, this is the logical outcome of putting our government in charge of these institutions.

Government tends to fuck up pretty much every thing it touches, if you hadn't noticed, and apply shitty one-size-fits-all solutions to problems that end up with a lot of unanticipated side effects.

So allowing people out of shitty marriages (an admirable goal) gives us a culture where 50% of marriages end in divorce, and whatever percentage of kids grow up in a house without both of their biological parents living there.

But the impetus of these problems is putting government in charge of more and more of our lives.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:35 PM (GBteo)

502 punk floyd

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 06, 2019 12:35 PM (Pg+x7)

503 Is that really what you read in what I wrote?

Yes. It's the libertarian equivalent of letters to Penthouse Forum. "You see, on the prairie it was like so. So if you'll just give up using the government to enforce any conservative values, you'll return to Utopia. Libertarian Utopia." It's the cultural analogue of advocating unilateral disarmament in the 1970s.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 06, 2019 12:35 PM (ppBhU)

504 to not so easily and readily walk away*

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:36 PM (GBteo)

505 pink floyd

tada!

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 06, 2019 12:36 PM (Pg+x7)

506 Is the girl Frieda Kahlo?

Posted by: kallisto at May 06, 2019 12:36 PM (VidtX)

507 No Ewok Sign yet.

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:37 PM (vWMNq)

508 Pink Droid

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at May 06, 2019 12:37 PM (XmlCz)

509 Apropos of nothing, my congregation has dealt with Obergefell and it's overreach by simply no longer recognizing or participating in government marriage. We will marry you in the eyes of god and the congregation but not sign any state forms to that effect. You have to do that at the courthouse if you are so inclined.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 12:37 PM (Niu5G)

510 Protocol Droid

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:38 PM (vWMNq)

511 Obergefell is hardly a logical conclusion. Logically, the federal government has a vested interest in promoting heterosexual couplings for what should be obvious reasons. There was no logical reason to sanction homosexual couplings at the federal level when the issue could have been solved by a properly drawn up will.

Posted by: McLurkerson at May 06, 2019 12:38 PM (eXZrW)

512 Another thing is on YouTube videos, they auto-play the next video, so I watch Steve Bannon, and the next one is "Bannon exposed" ... some video showing Bannon is Satan or something. They are at war with us, and with reality.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 06, 2019 11:52 AM (Cus5s)

The way to avoid that is to use Hooktube. www.hooktube.com

Just substitute "hook" for "you" in any youtube URL. Blocks the damned ads, too! I always try to use hooktube when posting video links here. Learn it, and prosper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2019 12:38 PM (7njPr)

513 Time to flood every [preferably known lefty] Facebook account with messages extolling the virtues of Alex Jones and Tommy Robinson. Algorithm, Schmalgorihthmn.

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr Barnky at May 06, 2019 12:38 PM (hKi6n)

514 They put his hair plugs in just a little bit too deep, it would appear.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy

******

"I think we've hit bedrock!"

/Plug drilling team foreman

Posted by: Muldoon at May 06, 2019 12:38 PM (mvenn)

515
So meth is a health product now? Heroin? Cocaine?

It's not like they've never been sold as a health product before.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 06, 2019 12:39 PM (TAmPV)

516 lol. I'm over talking to the liberal about Biden. They're all like "he's gonna be the second coming of Obama".

I said, "Nah, too white and dopey". Plus he' so old he dribbles his oatmeal down his chin.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2019 12:39 PM (VpIIl)

517 I'm no fan of the current marriage / divorce system either, and I would like to see more societal pressure for people (women especially, not to be too controversial here) to easily and readily walk away from marriages / long term relationships / whatever you want to call it.

Eh? People already easily and readily walk away from marriages.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 06, 2019 12:39 PM (NWiLs)

518 Yes. It's the libertarian equivalent of letters to Penthouse Forum. "You see, on the prairie it was like so. So if you'll just give up using the government to enforce any conservative values, you'll return to Utopia. Libertarian Utopia." It's the cultural analogue of advocating unilateral disarmament in the 1970s.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 06, 2019 12:35 PM (ppBhU)

You said "governments always been involved in marriage" I said "no it hasnt, here's an example from not that long ago when it wasn't involved. And to the extent it was historically involved, it was for judicial convenience of splitting up peoples estates, not to enforce views on people."

...and your take away from that exchange is some nonsense about penthouse forums?

I mean, whatever. That's not really a recipe for having an honest discussion on a topic, but feel free to mock away. Your certainly not changing any minds, but if you feel the need to vent, I won't stop you.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:39 PM (GBteo)

519 Eh? People already easily and readily walk away from marriages.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 06, 2019 12:39 PM (NWiLs)

Yeah, I meant the opposite of what I wrote. haha

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:39 PM (GBteo)

520 Schumer's warning to Trump as to the intelligence community's ability to retaliate

That, by the way, is not and never will be an acceptable state of affairs in a democratic society. The fact that a Senator of any party or ideological slant is OK with a domestically weaponized IC.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 06, 2019 12:40 PM (Boy/L)

521 Right. People were uncomfortable with polygamy, and, IIRC, one of the prerequisites for Utah being allowed to become a state was for them to ban it. (you know, back when the federal government knew it couldn't directly do anything about marriage.)

Uncomfortable is an understatement.

IIRC, the Mormon practice of polygamy outraged populations, and led to violence. Forcing the Mormons to abandon it was necessary to keep the peace.

Of course, now we have the Muzzies bidding fair to reinstitute it, but that's another issue.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:40 PM (YqDXo)

522 519 Eh? People already easily and readily walk away from marriages.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 06, 2019 12:39 PM (NWiLs)

Yeah, I meant the opposite of what I wrote. haha
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:39 PM (GBteo)

Today's Opposite Day? Shit, nobody tells me nothin'.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 06, 2019 12:40 PM (NWiLs)

523 499 >>These things turn productive people into criminal zombies. Where do you think half of the vagrants come from? Mental illness and drug abusers. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:28 PM (YqDXo)

This reads like something straight from the script of "Repo Man."
Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 12:35 PM (Bdeb0)

"Bud" WAS right. "Credit is what our free society is founded upon. It's a sacred trust. You think they care about their bills in Russia?"

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 12:40 PM (ujg0T)

524 The big money is on Biden as the candidate. But I talked to a pretty reliable Democrat in Washington today who told me he won't even be the candidate. I was shocked, But he told me, remember you heard it here first.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2019 12:41 PM (VpIIl)

525 Proctology? Avoid!

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:41 PM (vWMNq)

526 Today's Opposite Day? Shit, nobody tells me nothin'.

If it was, they would tell you everything.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 12:41 PM (Niu5G)

527 >>Kyrsten Sinema @SenatorSinema I condemn the rocket attacks on innocent civilians and stand in support of Israel and peace. *******

She was/is part of Code Pink?
They are pro-Hama, MB, so that tweet is interesting.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 12:41 PM (W+vEI)

528 So meth is a health product now? Heroin? Cocaine?

It's not like they've never been sold as a health product before.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 06, 2019 12:39 PM (TAmPV)

Amphetamines have been used in medicine for years, heroin was invented by big pharma as non-addictive alternative to morphine, and cocaine was used a cough suppressant, local anesthetic, and all around "miracle drug" for many decades.

So yes, you're right.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:41 PM (GBteo)

529 515
So meth is a health product now? Heroin? Cocaine?

It's not like they've never been sold as a health product before.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 06, 2019 12:39 PM (TAmPV)

So was radium. You might profitably consider why they're not sold as such now.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:41 PM (YqDXo)

530 Is the girl Frieda Kahlo?
Posted by: kallisto at May 06, 2019 12:36 PM (VidtX)
----
LOL.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 12:41 PM (AzW6q)

531 I haven't heard the term "moral hazard" in a long time. Too bad. Everything the Left proposes and does is a moral hazard. They're a moral hazard themselves.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 06, 2019 12:42 PM (H8QX8)

532 Mark Zuckerberg is the latest poster child for this evergreen saying:

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Posted by: Gref at May 06, 2019 12:42 PM (AMIL/)

533 348
Cousin Serena.

***

Played by Pandora Spocks. Whatever happened to her?

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019
*
*
. . .

The story goes that the first time Liz Montgomery wore the black wig as Serena, her husband Bill Asher got so turned on, and so did she, that they stopped at a motel on the way home after filming. They'd been married about 8-10 years at that point, too. Don't know if the story is true. But I'm sure a lot of us here could relate. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 06, 2019 12:42 PM (elsTe)

534 I'm not interested in having an "honest" discussion about how I should surrender. That's all conservatives have done in my lifetime on cultural issues and it hasn't been for the better.

And speaking of honest, I did not say that "governments always been involved in marriage." Anyone can look up thread and see that you are lying about what I said.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 06, 2019 12:42 PM (ppBhU)

535 >>She was/is part of Code Pink? They are pro-Hama, MB, so that tweet is interesting. Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2019 12:41 PM (W+vEI)

The bio plaque on her enclosure says nothing of this.

Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 12:43 PM (Bdeb0)

536 524 The big money is on Biden as the candidate. But I talked to a pretty reliable Democrat in Washington today who told me he won't even be the candidate. I was shocked, But he told me, remember you heard it here first.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2019 12:41 PM (VpIIl)

Did he tell you who would be? Or who's being pushed?

My money is on Kameltoe

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at May 06, 2019 12:43 PM (bcbK8)

537 Yeah, when you legalize drugs, all the public health costs just disappear.

No, they don't all disappear. Just the ones related to overdoses connected to street drugs of uncertain purity and composition. Which is a lot of them.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Sure they will. Does the phrase, "close enough for government work" mean anything to you?

Posted by: VA and other governmental forays into healthcare at May 06, 2019 12:43 PM (nEOLy)

538 Today's Opposite Day? Shit, nobody tells me nothin'.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 06, 2019 12:40 PM (NWiLs)

Sorry, I meant to make it a negative.

I don't like how our government (and society) incentivizes people to walk away from marriage, is what I meant to say.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:44 PM (GBteo)

539 The story goes that the first time Liz Montgomery wore the black wig as Serena

-------

When she was first in H'wood, she did a Twilight Zone as a brunette, opposite Charlie Bronson.

It was very much a "Beauty and the Beast" scenario.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 06, 2019 12:44 PM (AzW6q)

540 My money is on Kameltoe

***

I doubt it. Whoever the Donks run next year is probably going to be cannon fodder.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:44 PM (GEpFD)

541 >>Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Posted by: Gref at May 06, 2019 12:42 PM (AMIL/)

Demotivators correctly altered this statement:

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it also rocks absolutely.

Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 12:44 PM (Bdeb0)

542 Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 06, 2019 12:37 PM (Niu5G)

The church was the only record keeper of marriages for many centuries. The entire point of a marriage was to show the community that these two people are having sex which will produce children. The guy is now responsible for feeding and protecting those children he sired and the woman who birthed them. It also served as a signal for other males to not have sex with "his" wife he was supporting and protecting so that he would know the kids were his and not waste his labor on "not his sex product." By making buttsex "marriage" it eradicates the point.

Posted by: dagny at May 06, 2019 12:44 PM (nRWPy)

543 "So allowing people out of shitty marriages (an admirable goal) gives us a
culture where 50% of marriages end in divorce, and whatever percentage
of kids grow up in a house without both of their biological parents
living there.

But the impetus of these problems is putting government in charge of more and more of our lives."

I'm not following you here, how is allowing the government to loosen contact law and freeing people to divorce easier letting the government more into our lives? It's how people reacted to that that expanded the government. Destroyed families led to more mandated welfare, more prisons, more waste, etc., etc.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 06, 2019 12:45 PM (4thlk)

544 I doubt it. Whoever the Donks run next year is probably going to be cannon fodder.
Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:44 PM (GEpFD)

---

Hillary?

Posted by: SMH at May 06, 2019 12:45 PM (RU4sa)

545 So meth is a health product now? Heroin? Cocaine?

It's not like they've never been sold as a health product before.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 06, 2019 12:39 PM (TAmPV)

So was radium. You might profitably consider why they're not sold as such now.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Get your mercury, laudanum and leeches here!

Posted by: Good Humors, man at May 06, 2019 12:45 PM (nEOLy)

546 I chuckle when some drug ad touts "FDA approved"

Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2019 12:45 PM (AjVAj)

547 My old assistant was smoking hot and sexy as hell.
She was also the most competent assistant I've ever had and was like
Radar, always anticipating what I would need.

She also had an identical twin sister. Identical. Only difference
was my assistant was a brunette, her sister a blond. Every couple months
we'd all go to lunch together and the looks we would get were funny as
hell. I should have worn a sign that said "Get your mind out of the
gutter you pigs."

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2019
*
*
. . .
Wife No. 2 looked like Bailey on WKRP, and his mother, only about 20 years older, looked a lot the young Marsha Mason. Almost every time I went out to dinner with them, if we had a male waiter, he would take a chance to say to me, "You must be livin' right, brother."

Unfortunately, we never, uh, we never, well . . . (And believe me, I wanted to.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 06, 2019 12:45 PM (elsTe)

548 I'm not interested in having an "honest" discussion about how I should surrender. That's all conservatives have done in my lifetime on cultural issues and it hasn't been for the better.

And speaking of honest, I did not say that "governments always been involved in marriage." Anyone can look up thread and see that you are lying about what I said.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 06, 2019 12:42 PM (ppBhU)

I'm not lying, just summarizing your argument.

And I don't know what you mean by "conservative" values, and I don't think most people agree with whatever it is you mean by it anyways, and my entire point with everything I've been saying here is that when you create the government apparatus that enshrines your "values" on all kinds of issues in to law, you can't be too upset when someone else comes along and changes the law to enshrine THEIR values.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:45 PM (GBteo)

549 So was radium. You might profitably consider why they're not sold as such now.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:41 PM (YqDXo)

Yes, please, on the radium. It cures electoral blues and TDS. I saw it on the internet.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at May 06, 2019 12:46 PM (t6MX/)

550 Amphetamines have been used in medicine for years, heroin was invented by big pharma as non-addictive alternative to morphine, and cocaine was used a cough suppressant, local anesthetic, and all around "miracle drug" for many decades.

So yes, you're right.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:41 PM (GBteo)

Again, why are they not freely available now? The use of some compounds in medicine does not justify their widespread availability (nor does their origin, in the case of heroin, which was indeed synthesized in an effort to find a compound with morphine's analgesic properties but without the addictive ones).

As an example of a useful compound used under tight medical supervision, I give you thalidomide. Thalidomide is basically a wonder drug, useful for all kinds of things. No one knew that it racemized in the body, and that one of the enantiomers is teratogenic.

But it's so useful, it's used to this day, in fact, under rigorous medical supervision.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:46 PM (YqDXo)

551 32 Hottie in red is breathtaking.

Please tell me she's topless in something, somewhere, out there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo

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Posted by: Downcast at May 06, 2019 12:46 PM (1Tubq)

552 Get your mercury, laudanum and leeches here!

***

Now there's a hell of a cocktail.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:46 PM (GEpFD)

553 Biden's only topping the polls because of name recognition and unless they figure out a way for him to run without making speeches, getting interviewed or participating in debates, the jig will be up real soon.

The more he's seen and heard, the more his numbers will go down.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 06, 2019 12:46 PM (NFEMn)

554 He mentioned a few candidates, even a dark horse. But his premise was the party faithful, who will vote, won't vote in a majority for Biden. They want a new direction. He felt all this nostalgia was by old people who haven't figured out the party has moved on, and they don't have the numbers. I told him that was a pretty ballsy prediction, given that primaries are typically decided by small turnouts. But he believes the small turnout will be hard core, younger voters who won't vote for an old guy that "held Obama's coat". His words.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2019 12:47 PM (VpIIl)

555 She's purty.

Posted by: wth at May 06, 2019 12:47 PM (v0R5T)

556
The big money is on Biden as the candidate. But I talked to a pretty reliable Democrat in Washington today who told me he won't even be the candidate. I was shocked, But he told me, remember you heard it here first.
Posted by: Marcus T

He's the Jeb! of the Democrats.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 06, 2019 12:47 PM (aKsyK)

557 Yes, please, on the radium. It cures electoral blues and TDS. I saw it on the internet.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at May 06, 2019 12:46 PM (t6MX/)

Excellent idea. And it promotes social justice, and inhibits climate change. Get some at your local Democrat Party HQ!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:47 PM (YqDXo)

558 536 524 The big money is on Biden as the candidate. But I talked to a pretty reliable Democrat in Washington today who told me he won't even be the candidate. I was shocked, But he told me, remember you heard it here first.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2019 12:41 PM (VpIIl)

Did he tell you who would be? Or who's being pushed?

My money is on Kameltoe
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo
____________

Biden will turn out to be the Communist Party's version of The Jebacle in 2016.

Posted by: Furious George at May 06, 2019 12:47 PM (9vQJW)

559 I'm not following you here, how is allowing the government to loosen contact law and freeing people to divorce easier letting the government more into our lives? It's how people reacted to that that expanded the government. Destroyed families led to more mandated welfare, more prisons, more waste, etc., etc.
Posted by: lowandslow

Easy. Divorce tends to make both parents poorer, increasing government role post-divorce. Then there's family court and paying "child support' via government agency.

Then there's all the wonderful fallout from raising kids in one or more broken homes.

Posted by: Good Humors, man at May 06, 2019 12:48 PM (nEOLy)

560 mphetamines have been used in medicine for years, heroin was invented by big pharma as non-addictive alternative to morphine, and cocaine was used a cough suppressant, local anesthetic, and all around "miracle drug" for many decades.

So yes, you're right.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:41 PM (GBteo)

Keith Richards was getting pharma quality coke directly from Merck for many years.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 06, 2019 12:48 PM (NFEMn)

561 Can brain-damaged doofii like Don Lemon conceive of conservative speech that is not hate speech?
Can they conceive of leftwing speech that is hate speech?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at May 06, 2019 12:48 PM (JgA4k)

562 I'm not following you here, how is allowing the government to loosen contact law and freeing people to divorce easier letting the government more into our lives? It's how people reacted to that that expanded the government. Destroyed families led to more mandated welfare, more prisons, more waste, etc., etc.
Posted by: lowandslow at May 06, 2019 12:45 PM (4thlk)

My point is that there are two separate issues at play -- the way I think people should live their lives, and the power I think government should have to enforce those values.

And when you merge those two ideas in to one, you end up in a situation where the government dictates how people should live their lives, and the government is fickle and responds to the will of the people, so when 51% decide no fault divorce is a good idea, and should encourage people to break up, then that's what happens.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:48 PM (GBteo)

563 My money is on Kameltoe
.......

I'm still hoping for hILLRY o O to waddle in.

Posted by: wth at May 06, 2019 12:48 PM (v0R5T)

564 Can brain-damaged doofii like Don Lemon conceive of conservative speech that is not hate speech?
Can they conceive of leftwing speech that is hate speech?

***

No, and no.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:49 PM (GEpFD)

565 I still believe Hillary will jump in unless her health really goes down the tubes.

Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2019 12:49 PM (AjVAj)

566 It was Liz Montgomery as well.

********

Hey! Hey! Hey now! Stop with the spoilers!!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 06, 2019 12:49 PM (mvenn)

567 It must have Don, because I sure hate you.

Posted by: wth at May 06, 2019 12:49 PM (v0R5T)

568
514 They put his hair plugs in just a little bit too deep, it would appear.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy

******

"I think we've hit bedrock!"

/Plug drilling team foreman

we've struck sprinkles!

Posted by: Anachronda at May 06, 2019 12:50 PM (sGtp+)

569 I still believe Hillary will jump in unless her health really goes down the tubes.
Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2019 12:49 PM (AjVAj)

She can fantasize about that when she's on a drinking binge, but it ain't happening.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 06, 2019 12:50 PM (NFEMn)

570 Again, why are they not freely available now? The use of some compounds in medicine does not justify their widespread availability (nor does their origin, in the case of heroin, which was indeed synthesized in an effort to find a compound with morphine's analgesic properties but without the addictive ones).

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:46 PM (YqDXo)

Well, they kind of are freely available today, all over this country.

They're just illegal to buy, sell or possess.

But you can find meth or street opiates or cocaine anywhere in this country (including inside prisons!) in a fairly short amount of time.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:50 PM (GBteo)

571 556
The big money is on Biden as the candidate. But I talked to a pretty reliable Democrat in Washington today who told me he won't even be the candidate. I was shocked, But he told me, remember you heard it here first.
Posted by: Marcus T

He's the Jeb! of the Democrats.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 06, 2019 12:47 PM (aKsyK)

But do the Demunists have their equivalent of The Donald to upset the arrangements? I say NO, they do not. They have over a dozen Bernie Sanders revisiteds, with different ages and genders yes, but that will not matter against the Party Boss Candidate Biden.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 12:50 PM (ujg0T)

572
What would be worse?

In Berlin 2019, the #1 name for baby boys to be Adolph or Mohammed?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 06, 2019 12:50 PM (USlTa)

573 I don't like how our government (and society) incentivizes people to walk away from marriage, is what I meant to say.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:44 PM (GBteo)

Yep, me too. Especially having gotten fucked over royally in that area.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 06, 2019 12:51 PM (NWiLs)

574 Sure, if by "summarizing" you mean restating inaccurately so that you can knock down a strawman by babbling about frontier marriages.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 06, 2019 12:51 PM (ppBhU)

575 The church was the only record keeper of marriages for many centuries. The entire point of a marriage was to show the community that these two people are having sex which will produce children. The guy is now responsible for feeding and protecting those children he sired and the woman who birthed them. It also served as a signal for other males to not have sex with "his" wife he was supporting and protecting so that he would know the kids were his and not waste his labor on "not his sex product." By making buttsex "marriage" it eradicates the point.
Posted by: dagny at May 06, 2019 12:44 PM (nRWPy)

Wow. Well said!

And further to your point about the signal to other males, that promotes social stability. There's a reason why adultery appeared in the Ten Commandments. Adultery, along with murder, theft (coveting other's goods), bearing false witness, etc. undermine social stability and law and order and lead to ... Somalia.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:51 PM (YqDXo)

576 564 Can brain-damaged doofii like Don Lemon conceive of conservative speech that is not hate speech?
Can they conceive of leftwing speech that is hate speech?
***
No, and no.
Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:49 PM (GEpFD)

I can't understand how it is that obvious buffoons like Lemon and Stelter can get such high-profile jobs. Do they have sugar daddies who can buy all the nice things for them, or something?

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 12:51 PM (EiZIA)

577 She can fantasize about that when she's on a drinking binge, but it ain't happening.

***

So always, basically?

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:51 PM (GEpFD)

578 we've struck sprinkles! Cankles

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:51 PM (vWMNq)

579
557 Yes, please, on the radium. It cures electoral blues and TDS. I saw it on the internet.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at May 06, 2019 12:46 PM (t6MX/)

Excellent idea. And it promotes social justice, and inhibits climate change. Get some at your local Democrat Party HQ!

and gives your clocks a healthy glow

Posted by: Anachronda at May 06, 2019 12:51 PM (sGtp+)

580 That's Emilia Clarke, obviously, and HOO BOY was that a terrible episode of gay my thrones last night. Total garbage. Talk about jumping the shark.

Posted by: phone of kari at May 06, 2019 12:51 PM (Wb0q8)

581
I was playing my senior year of high school football in 1965...

Posted by: An Observation
__________________

This is about me getting off your lawn,, isn't it?

Posted by: Trailer Park Boys at May 06, 2019 12:52 PM (0mskG)

582 Damn ... it *looked* as if it would work ... I guess the <> is obligatory.

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:52 PM (vWMNq)

583

Two Darrins
Two Gladys

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 06, 2019 12:52 PM (aKsyK)

584 Biden is old, and has a record that requires a lot of explaining and walk backs. He also now has a China and Ukraine problem. That's before we get to gaffes and lies, which is why Biden is a terrible candidate. They are actually trying to keep some journalists from asking questions, because they know it's only a matter of time before foot goes in mouth. He's already made his own "deplorables" comment and intimated the people who voted for Trump are all racists. Then there's his Jim Crow comment, which shows he totally lacks awareness on the Democrat Party's history. Anyway, he says it's only a matter of time before he falls in the polls.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2019 12:52 PM (VpIIl)

585 1965? Isn't that the year Al Bundy played in the Chicago City Championships for Polk High?

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at May 06, 2019 12:53 PM (oZ6kz)

586 Well, they kind of are freely available today, all over this country.

They're just illegal to buy, sell or possess.

But you can find meth or street opiates or cocaine anywhere in this country (including inside prisons!) in a fairly short amount of time.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:50 PM (GBteo)

So what's your point? Murder happens all the time all over the country, but particularly in the shittier parts of any Democrat-controlled city. Should we legalize it?

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:53 PM (YqDXo)

587 Two Darrins
Two Gladys

***

Two Marilyn Munsters
Two Chris Patridges
Two Becky Connors

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:53 PM (GEpFD)

588 Kamala Harris will be the nominee. She not only satisfies the necessary identity checkmarks but is fittingly and audaciously duplicitous. This is now the standard the democrat candidate must meet -- Obama set the bar. The others lack her straightfaced pathological capacity to lie.

The democrats are not a political party anymore but a mafia.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 06, 2019 12:53 PM (H8QX8)

589 >>I'm still hoping for hILLRY o O to waddle in.
Posted by: wth at May 06, 2019 12:48 PM (v0R5T)

You and me both. Third time's a schlong.

Posted by: Zod at May 06, 2019 12:54 PM (Bdeb0)

590 Then there's his Jim Crow comment, which shows he totally lacks awareness on the Democrat Party's history.

Hence his Franklin Roosevelt, stock market, and television anachronism.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:54 PM (YqDXo)

591 581
I was playing my senior year of high school football in 1965...
Posted by: An Observation
__________________
This is about me getting off your lawn,, isn't it?
Posted by: Trailer Park Boys at May 06, 2019 12:52 PM (0mskG)

Heh. And I thought me being born in 1956 made me the old fart around here.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at May 06, 2019 12:54 PM (EiZIA)

592 I still maintain a surprise late-entrance by Biden in 2016 would have sunk Trump, but not now. Biden, they say, has support with the very type of blue-collar mid-westerners who gave Trump his victory. But WHY would they switch now after trump gave them everything they wanted?
Also, Biden is the nominee and the Berniebots, mini-bernie bots and young voters stay home on election day.....

Posted by: JoeF. at May 06, 2019 12:54 PM (NFEMn)

593 Biden is old, and has a record that requires a lot of explaining and walk backs. He also now has a China and Ukraine problem. That's before we get to gaffes and lies, which is why Biden is a terrible candidate. They are actually trying to keep some journalists from asking questions, because they know it's only a matter of time before foot goes in mouth. He's already made his own "deplorables" comment and intimated the people who voted for Trump are all racists. Then there's his Jim Crow comment, which shows he totally lacks awareness on the Democrat Party's history. Anyway, he says it's only a matter of time before he falls in the polls.
Posted by: Marcus T

Remember kids, he's the "foreign policy genius".

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 06, 2019 12:54 PM (nEOLy)

594
Jennifer Franco @jennfranconews
11m
#BREAKING: Pres. Trump says he's considering a waiver for players on service academy sports teams that would allow them to play professionally first and fulfill their military service later. #OANN

Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at May 06, 2019 12:54 PM (BqBId)

595 She's purty.

Yup, she shore is.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivismBAMN at May 06, 2019 12:55 PM (HaL55)

596 588 Kamala Harris will be the nominee. She not only satisfies the necessary identity checkmarks but is fittingly and audaciously duplicitous. This is now the standard the democrat candidate must meet -- Obama set the bar. The others lack her straightfaced pathological capacity to lie.

The democrats are not a political party anymore but a mafia.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 06, 2019 12:53 PM (H8QX

While the Lamestream media *will* perform political cunnilingus upon her, unlike the Obanunist, she is not affable and cannot easily hide her crypto communism. She IS quite shrill.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 12:55 PM (ujg0T)

597 594 Seems in every high profile case they let them go anyway.

Posted by: steevy at May 06, 2019 12:55 PM (AjVAj)

598 Freud is a Fraud by Freed.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 06, 2019 12:55 PM (AB9tT)

599 588 Kamala Harris will be the nominee. She not only satisfies the necessary identity checkmarks but is fittingly and audaciously duplicitous.

True, but she's faltering badly in the polls, and has the personality of a rattlesnake. Even in California, the bruthas here are unhappy with her for having prosecuted them. I guess they were supposed to get a skip based on having a similar heinie color. She used to brag about it, but now soft-peddles that fact.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 12:56 PM (YqDXo)

600 Two Darrins
Two Gladys

***

Two Marilyn Munsters
Two Chris Patridges
Two Becky Connors
Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:53 PM (GEpFD)

At least three Trixie Nortons

Posted by: JoeF. at May 06, 2019 12:56 PM (NFEMn)

601 596 unlike the Obanunist, she is not affable and cannot easily hide her crypto communism

Too many millenials see that as a plus.

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:57 PM (vWMNq)

602 "Posted by: JoeF. at May 06, 2019 12:54 PM (NFEMn)"

Part of his premise was just that. He feels that Democrats wrote off and abused the Blue Collar voters and never delivered. In two years Trump did, and they won't forget that. Plus he feels that most Blue Collar voters see what's going on with Democrats today and don't like it.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2019 12:57 PM (VpIIl)

603 At least three Trixie Nortons

***

And don't even get me started on Catwoman

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:57 PM (GEpFD)

604 579

557 Yes, please, on the radium. It cures electoral blues and TDS. I saw it on the internet.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at May 06, 2019 12:46 PM (t6MX/)

Excellent idea. And it promotes social justice, and inhibits climate change. Get some at your local Democrat Party HQ!

and gives your clocks a healthy glow

Posted by: Anachronda at May 06, 2019 12:51 PM (sGtp+)

And cures low T.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at May 06, 2019 12:58 PM (t6MX/)

605 Remember kids, he's the "foreign policy genius".
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 06, 2019 12:54 PM (nEOLy)

How did Creepy Joe get that reputation. Oh, the lying, imbelic media?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at May 06, 2019 12:58 PM (JgA4k)

606 I imagine that a deep drilled core sample of Joe Biden's brain would test out as about 97% olfactory cortex.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 06, 2019 12:59 PM (mvenn)

607 NUDE EWOK

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:59 PM (vWMNq)

608 Remember kids, he's the "foreign policy genius".

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 06, 2019 12:54 PM (nEOLy)

How did Creepy Joe get that reputation. Oh, the lying, imbelic media?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at May 06, 2019 12:58 PM (JgA4k)

Yup, Joe 'them thars freindly indians" Biden

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 06, 2019 12:59 PM (9Om/r)

609 "And when you merge those two ideas in to one, you end up in a situation
where the government dictates how people should live their lives, and
the government is fickle and responds to the will of the people, so when
51% decide no fault divorce is a good idea, and should encourage people
to break up, then that's what happens"

You're not arguing against big government here, your arguing against mob rule and the faults of democracy. I agree that's bad but it was always going to end this way when the left chipped away at the cultural Christian based morals and pushed their Marxist replacement. The right was supposed to resist that, they didn't.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 06, 2019 12:59 PM (4thlk)

610 doctor Carol Cooper had said previously it was more likely Meghan will have opted for a caesarean because of her age...
........

that and the herpes.

Posted by: wth - don't forget to brush and floss at May 06, 2019 12:59 PM (v0R5T)

611 How did Creepy Joe get that reputation.

***

Same place Algore got his reputation as an "intellectual."

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:59 PM (GEpFD)

612 601 596 unlike the Obanunist, she is not affable and cannot easily hide her crypto communism

Too many millenials see that as a plus.

Posted by: Off the reservation at May 06, 2019 12:57 PM (vWMNq)

While they do, Commielah is unlike Occassional Cortex, who said millennials could see themselves banging. Commielah comes across as their bitchy single mom.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 06, 2019 12:59 PM (ujg0T)

613
Two Marilyn Munsters
Two Chris Patridges
Two Becky Connors
Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 12:53 PM (GEpFD)

At least three Trixie Nortons
Posted by: JoeF
________________

Only one Chuck Cunningham...

Posted by: Trailer Park Boys at May 06, 2019 01:00 PM (0mskG)

614 Only one Chuck Cunningham...

***

And then there were none.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 01:00 PM (GEpFD)

615 Plus he feels that most Blue Collar voters see what's going on with Democrats today and don't like it.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2019 12:57 PM (VpIIl)

True, but even if they are foolish enough to believe that Biden is a blue collar guy--which he ain't--the Party would never let him govern as one anyway. And his running mate would have to be far-left

Posted by: JoeF. at May 06, 2019 01:00 PM (NFEMn)

616 605
Remember kids, he's the "foreign policy genius".

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 06, 2019 12:54 PM (nEOLy)

How did Creepy Joe get that reputation. Oh, the lying, imbelic media?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at May 06, 2019 12:58 PM (JgA4k)

Relative to obama's "do nothing stupid," genius is one step above stupid for the MSM. Can't say that I am shocked that THEY might consider that genius, considering the "talent" in the MSM.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at May 06, 2019 01:00 PM (t6MX/)

617 I can't understand how it is that obvious buffoons like Lemon and
Stelter can get such high-profile jobs. Do they have sugar daddies who
can buy all the nice things for them, or something?

Best I can figure, there are enough Progs who bought their way into media, who then found "useful idiots" to prop up and spew propaganda, whom they pay very well in order to attract more UI. I'm fairly certain that early on, that's exactly what American Communists did to gain a foothold in media and academia. Money. Lots and lots of it.

McCarthy wasn't wrong about the communist infiltration in Hollyweird from what I can tell. Naturally, the Commies poo-poohed his accusations.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivismBAMN at May 06, 2019 01:01 PM (HaL55)

618 Nood, by the way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 06, 2019 01:01 PM (elsTe)

619

nood cuckery

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 06, 2019 01:02 PM (USlTa)

620 34 Bad News For Omar and Tlaib:

On the eve of its 71st Independence Day, Israel's population stands at 9,021,000, crossing 9 million for the first time, according to figures released on Monday by the Central Bureau of Statistics.
_____________________

If American Indians decided to take up arms and managed to re-claim some of our states for themselves, or if native Mexicans took up arms and re-claimed AZ and CA and NM for themselves (beyond what they've already done to displace us there), or if aboriginies took up arms and re-claimed part of Australia, the left would be wildly cheering them on and saying that the natives had every right to re-claim their ancestral lands for themselves, since the lands were "stolen" from them by later arrivals.

Yet when the Jews re-claimed Israel in 1948, the land which they originally settled and where they had lived for thousands of years, this victory was greeted with outrage and condemnation from the left, which continues to this day to support the much-later-arriving Arab "Palestinians" and their claim to the land.

Apparently, lands belong to the people who originally settled on them and lived there, unless those people happen to be Jews.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at May 06, 2019 01:02 PM (k4dH2)

621 McCarthy wasn't wrong about the communist infiltration in Hollyweird from what I can tell. Naturally, the Commies poo-poohed his accusations.

***

The amazing thing to me about the McCarthy era is the realization that left-wing politics used to a detriment to a career in Hollywood.

Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 01:02 PM (GEpFD)

622 One of the media outlets did an in person survey. I want to say it was Fox. What they did is walk around with a video showing Biden sniffing hair and touching people. Every woman they showed it to believed it was creepy, and said they would not vote for him.

Don't think that commercial will run at one point and make an impact? Politics ain't beanbag.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2019 01:02 PM (VpIIl)

623 602 "Posted by: JoeF. at May 06, 2019 12:54 PM (NFEMn)"

Part of his premise was just that. He feels that Democrats wrote off and abused the Blue Collar voters and never delivered. In two years Trump did, and they won't forget that. Plus he feels that most Blue Collar voters see what's going on with Democrats today and don't like it.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2019 12:57 PM (VpIIl)

As Joe pointed out, the problem the Democrat Party has now is that it includes raving lunatics on the left who will go ape-shit if the nominee is also a raving lunatic. (Think Chicago 1968 at the next Democrat convention.) The raving lunatics aren't a majority in the party, but they're extremely loud and high profile, and prone to violence (e.g., antifa). Keeping them onside and nominating someone who can win the general election is going to be a tough needle to thread.

is going to be

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 01:02 PM (YqDXo)

624 is NOT also a raving lunatic

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 01:03 PM (YqDXo)

625 The amazing thing to me about the McCarthy era is the realization that left-wing politics used to a detriment to a career in Hollywood.
Posted by: CLINT FLICKER at May 06, 2019 01:02 PM (GEpFD)

Ditto being publicly known as homosexual.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2019 01:03 PM (YqDXo)

626 431---And yet, they expressly banned the federal government from following suit.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 06, 2019 12:23 PM (GBteo)
--------------------------
They expressly banned the federal government from DISestablishment, too.
The prohibition is against Congress making any law "respecting the establishment of religion," whether for or against.

The states with established churches did not want VA/PA imposing their own views on them any more than VA/PA wanted Massachusetts calling the shots nationally.

Likewise, the prohibition of a "religious test" only applied to the federal government. Thus Congress could not bar,say, a Catholic elected in MD or a Baptist elected in RI from being seated. But states and localities could (and did) have religious qualifications.

What the mid-20th-century Court did was turn this around 180 degrees. We now have a federal establishment.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 06, 2019 01:06 PM (Rxduq)

627 So was radium. You might profitably consider why they're not sold as such now.

Part of my brother's cancer treatment a couple of months ago was injecting him with a radium isotope.

Posted by: An Observation at May 06, 2019 01:10 PM (n7Z3n)

628 bearing false witness,

I guess that is one neither the Democrats or their buddies in the MFM have ever heard of.

Posted by: An Observation at May 06, 2019 01:14 PM (n7Z3n)

629 >>> Right. People were uncomfortable with polygamy, and, IIRC, one of the prerequisites for Utah being allowed to become a state was for them to ban it. (you know, back when the federal government knew it couldn't directly do anything about marriage.)
Uncomfortable is an understatement.
IIRC, the Mormon practice of polygamy outraged populations, and led to violence. Forcing the Mormons to abandon it was necessary to keep the peace.

I know, dead thread, but I was in a meeting. Search for the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887. Stripped their judicial, property, and constitutional rights away due to certain religious practices. Anyone who doesn't think the soulless left wants to enforce a new version of this on modern Christians is not paying attention.

Also, many other things besides polygamy led to ppl being violent against Mormons at that time. The church under Smith was a pretty abolitionist church for the era. That does not lead to friendly white democrat neighbors in a slave state like Missouri. Which is why they were butchered, raped and their lands ransacked, leading them to leave Missouri for Illinois.

Peace for whom? It is a tricky subject in the eye of the beholder, and a slippery slope. Look the second amendment and wanting to disarm Americans in the name of "peace" as a good example.

Posted by: LizLem at May 06, 2019 01:49 PM (hvf9s)

630 someone put some glazed bacon onion rings in that poor lil schoolboys lunch slate.....he could be another Trump with the right nutrition......

all it needs is piece (aka Scottish sammich/snack)

Posted by: saf at May 06, 2019 03:55 PM (5IHGB)

631 I swear that smoldering red babe has eyes only FOR ME..or is the Biden Monster that haunts my peeping???

Posted by: saf at May 06, 2019 03:57 PM (5IHGB)

632 Those onion rings are a pain to make, but totally worth it. Best if cooked on a smoker, but still good on the grill or in the oven (as long as you've got them on a rack so they don't get soggy).

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