Importing Chinese Consumer Goods Is One Thing...Importing Their Authoritarian "Social Credit System" Is Something Entirely Different

It's actually too late, as we have seen over the past several years. Curiously, debits seem to fall primarily in the conservative thoughts and behaviors column. Funny, that...

The Invisible Shackles of America's Social Credit System

There are hundreds of examples that have been prominently discussed in the right-of-center world. The Oberlin College vs. Gibson's Bakery is a excellent example with a happy ending, but far too many of these censorious events slip past the media and become embedded in the default behaviors of regular folk.

And it's censorship, plain and simple. And yes, I know what censorship really is, but when the internet police, with their monopoly on most communication decide to censor, it is indistinguishable from government action. And when banks (with government licenses!) limit speech and behavior and commerce to leftist-approved businesses, how does it differ from government's jack-booted thugs shutting down a legal business?

Social media platforms are the modern “town square,” a place where everyone comes to discover and share information and weigh-in with opinions. Everyone, regardless of their politics, class, or creed, should have access to this marketplace of ideas.

As much as the idea of defining internet and social media access as a civil right makes me queasy, it may be the only way around the pinch-faced scolds of Silicon Valley. Access to the banking system is less problematic, but never forget the law of unintended consequences: it will always bite you in the ass!

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1 First?

Posted by: lin-duh at September 15, 2019 12:15 PM (UUBmN)

2 Almost 1st!

Posted by: Norman Spiny at September 15, 2019 12:17 PM (A5B6s)

3 2nd again

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2019 12:17 PM (ZCEU2)

4
Lin-duh,
Feeling better after last week? I hope so.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 15, 2019 12:17 PM (7rVsF)

5 Just got home from church... I really needed it. We were in John 15:12-17... I have to let it all go and forgive. We've been in John all year.

Posted by: lin-duh at September 15, 2019 12:17 PM (UUBmN)

6 How many points per LOLGF?

Posted by: DaveA at September 15, 2019 12:18 PM (FhXTo)

7 Dropping worse than I thought.

I'm beginning to think if I had a time machine going back and stopping Nixon going to China might be the best thing.

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2019 12:18 PM (ZCEU2)

8 Morning Hordemates.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 15, 2019 12:19 PM (axyOa)

9 China should have been allowed to self implode like NK.

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2019 12:19 PM (ZCEU2)

10 stopping Nixon going to China

The problem started long after Nixon.

Posted by: DaveA at September 15, 2019 12:20 PM (FhXTo)

11 Social Credit systems are just a formalization and natural extension of PC. Perhaps even delayed from the progtards desired timelime.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 15, 2019 12:21 PM (1g7ch)

12 I find it interesting that our Founders thought Free Speech was important enough that in a document outlining Federal Powers, they said the government shall not infringe upon it.

Yet for some reason that same Government does not feel it has the duty to protect that SAME free speech Right, from other entities, like BUSINESSES that they DO regulate.

Posted by: Don Q at September 15, 2019 12:22 PM (NgKpN)

13 Saw an incredibly long and one sided fb anti-2nd Amendment thread this a.m. It illustrated for me why one cannot rationally discuss or argue with libs. Their talking points are not just arguments, but the gospel. And conservatives who attempt to have the discussion are simply overwhelmed by their self-righteousness.

Posted by: Harlan at September 15, 2019 12:24 PM (suaaH)

14 China reformed nothing in response to the efforts of Nixon. In fact one gets the impression that Nixon was okay with China's murderous ways.

Big mistake.

Posted by: torabora at September 15, 2019 12:24 PM (S71/C)

15 Bring it on, Corn Pop!

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 15, 2019 12:25 PM (trLrb)

16 It might be time to take on our violence is speech, just like the leftists.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at September 15, 2019 12:25 PM (35Uor)

17 Imports? Okie dokie, I'll get the others.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at September 15, 2019 12:25 PM (qFllo)

18 A few decades ago the California Supreme Court held that owners of private shopping centers could not exclude protestors and activists from their property on the theory that these privately-owned spaces had supplanted the traditional town square and exclusion would subvert the protestors' First Amendment rights.

It seems like a principle that is well suited to the new internet oligarchs -- Google, Facebook, Twitter, et. al. -- who seek to mold public opinion by systematically marginalizing speakers with whom they disagree.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 15, 2019 12:26 PM (ZYB2s)

19 He's a complicated man and no one understands him but his woman, Dr. Jill.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 15, 2019 12:27 PM (rQe9y)

20 The article at the link is frightening.

Posted by: Infidel at September 15, 2019 12:27 PM (BLFnH)

21 Google designed and created that social credit system for China.

We're not importing it here. It got imported there.

Posted by: Hereogar at September 15, 2019 12:27 PM (eQ0LF)

22
Bring it on, Corn Pop!
Posted by: Joe Biden

Yang is Rice Krispies

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 15, 2019 12:27 PM (aKsyK)

23 >>> As much as the idea of defining internet and social media access as a civil right makes me queasy, it...

If internet and social media is so important to modern then it is a 'utility'. Very similar to Ma Bell actually.

But for reason whenever some assclown comes up with an entirely new idea using the internet the only thing new about it is 'internet'. For example,

Hey! I have a great new invention, instead of calling a taxi on the phone we can 'call it' using the internet. And on the other side, instead of the dispatcher, all the available drivers call use the internet when they are available to see if there is a 'fare' nearby then get get to asap... and instead of calling it 'internet taxi' we can call it 'ride share'...

So free?

No, you still have to pay for it, just like a taxi, but it's not a taxi because internet.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 15, 2019 12:29 PM (1g7ch)

24 Google has a tracking device in over 85% of the pockets of Americans.

Apple has most of the rest.

Devices that listen, record, and coordinate every form of activity.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 15, 2019 12:29 PM (oVJmc)

25 My social rate would be a -3K

at best

Posted by: REDACTED at September 15, 2019 12:30 PM (AQBtr)

26 That is why conservatives should support vigorous anti trust actions that break up monopoly and oligarchic companies. The libertarian strains of economic thought that argue these are a positive good ignore the collateral consequences that monopolies and oligopolies bring to the table: notably corruption of government officials, treating one set of customers better than others on things like pricing, disdain for customer service, and ultimately stagnation in the market until either the monopoly is outflanked or collapses under its misdeeds.

Have enough competition where you will go broke if you screw your customers because they will go elsewhere or if you engage in government corruption is a good thing.

What I have learned is that any government based action can be captured by the persistent monopoly or oligopoly companies. Eliminate gatekeepers where individual and lawyers can sue their butts into oblivion makes it a lot harder to choke off opposition.

Anti-trust is like that.

Posted by: whig at September 15, 2019 12:30 PM (hqUZK)

27 Check out mylife.com. They already are running a "reputation" algorithm with a numeric score.

It's here already.

Posted by: pawn at September 15, 2019 12:31 PM (IlM5L)

28 The end user is not Big Tech's customer, it is the product they sell.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 15, 2019 12:32 PM (oVJmc)

29 24 Google has a tracking device in over 85% of the pockets of Americans.

Apple has most of the rest.

Devices that listen, record, and coordinate every form of activity.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles

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Bull hockey!! That argument is totally false!!

Posted by: Siri at September 15, 2019 12:32 PM (Y4EXg)

30
Sorry, your child can't get into college. Your social credit score is too low.

Oh, he can't get into HVAC training either.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 15, 2019 12:32 PM (7rVsF)

31 Historically, the ability of a government to effectively tyrannize 100 percent of its subjects has been constrained by technology and cost. The East bloc had to rely on hordes of watchers to watch the citizenry and it was still a hit or miss situation at best.

With the amount of data that is routinely collected on every person every day by electronic devices, that barrier is gone. When seen in conjunction with the Left's wholesale embrace of totalitarianism, this does not bode well for the future.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 15, 2019 12:36 PM (ZYB2s)

32 American Thinker has a article Ever have a Shocking Experience from a Liberal ' friend ' on Facebook?
They have no grounding of facts to reality, their heads are in the clouds and only believe what they want to believe.

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2019 12:36 PM (ZCEU2)

33 Checking the scoreboard:

Desert Mouse 1

Dishwasher 0

Not tired of winning.

Posted by: Muad'dib at September 15, 2019 12:38 PM (uDh3k)

34 Totalitarian governments of the past would salivate over the tools that are available today. If they get entrenched again, there may be no way to uproot them short of a civilizational reset like SMOD or Yellowstone.

Posted by: rickl at September 15, 2019 12:40 PM (sdi6R)

35 Desert Mouse 1

Dishwasher 0
?

Posted by: Infidel at September 15, 2019 12:41 PM (BLFnH)

36 "But almost all of those facing bans have been right-leaning voices speaking out against the mainstream narrative in the culture war."

ALMOST all?

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at September 15, 2019 12:41 PM (H8QX8)

37 Historically, the ability of a government to effectively tyrannize 100 percent of its subjects has been constrained by technology and cost. The East bloc had to rely on hordes of watchers to watch the citizenry and it was still a hit or miss situation at best.

With the amount of data that is routinely collected on every person every day by electronic devices, that barrier is gone. When seen in conjunction with the Left's wholesale embrace of totalitarianism, this does not bode well for the future.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 15, 2019 12:36 PM (ZYB2s)

Historically, that is the reason for the 3rd Amendment.
Like much of the rest of the Constitution, regardless of one's belief in a living breathing Constitution, many of the concepts have not kept up with the times.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 15, 2019 12:41 PM (1g7ch)

38 Communism was all about party standing and how that got you job placement, school enrollment, living space.

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2019 12:42 PM (ZCEU2)

39 I have never used fakebook nor any other social media sites that broadcast my personal opinions or beliefs.

Except here at the HQ. Which most likely means I will be at the top of some "to liquidate" list.

When the Thought Police come for me, I want to go out like Franceska Mann.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 15, 2019 12:42 PM (Z+IKu)

40
Our pastor stopped me before Mass and thanked me for the gift cards I sent him and the curate for International Buy A Priest A Beer Day.

It was nice of him to do so but I was rather surprised by this. 1) if I wanted to be thanked I shouldn't have done it. 2) if he spent his time thanking parishoners for stuff they do for him, he'd never get anything else done. 3) I hadn't thought he even knew who I was since I'm just an anonymous pew sitter who never talks to him or anyone.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 15, 2019 12:43 PM (7rVsF)

41 Whenever Reds have said that the government should have some power over people, I used to reply, "I'm sure President Pat Buchanan will appreciate your support, and use his power wisely."

Brought them up sharpish.

Apparently the possibility that that power might be used in ways they would not like never occurs to them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 15, 2019 12:44 PM (dPSi6)

42 >?
Posted by: Infidel at September 15,

Dishwasher broke this morning. I fixed it.

Posted by: Muad'dib at September 15, 2019 12:44 PM (uDh3k)

43 Big Tech and WokeCorporate currently do present a threat to free speech and even the livelihoods and safety of 'wrong thinkers'. However, the tide is turning. Ace has posted three recent items about comedians mocking SJW tyranny. This is going to snowball into a greater movement ammg the yutes.

Posted by: kallisto at September 15, 2019 12:45 PM (OxYQ1)

44 It was nice of him to do so but I was rather surprised by this. 1) if I wanted to be thanked I shouldn't have done it. 2) if he spent his time thanking parishoners for stuff they do for him, he'd never get anything else done. 3) I hadn't thought he even knew who I was since I'm just an anonymous pew sitter who never talks to him or anyone.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 15, 2019 12:43 PM (7rVsF)
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Here's my take on it:

1) It's common courtesy to acknowledge a gift. Just because he acknowledges it - and thanks you for it! - doesn't mean that that's why you did it!
2) I doubt that many parishioners do all that much for him that he could be spending his days thanking him for.
3) I think you'd be surprised who they know - and it probably meant a lot to him that you thought enough of him to send him that gift card.

Posted by: bluebell at September 15, 2019 12:47 PM (aXucN)

45 from the last thread which applies here "They took hideous losses and came back for more. The current mob are mostly LARPers and trolls for rent. Hard to sustain a revolution when you can't put down your i-phone." Lloyd

that was referring to the Spanish War iirc, versus today's soy boy antifa. BUT we should not fight the last war (or other old wars) ... the PsyOps that have been run on US for the last 50-100 may not need to go hot ... look at what they accomplish while we claim that "if it ever goes hto, we win". They have incredible authority already, without going hot much at all ... they get a few crazies to shoot up schools or whatever ... but mostly they win with paid Soros activists.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 15, 2019 12:47 PM (Cus5s)

46
Which most likely means I will be at the top of some "to liquidate" list.

Would you please come along with us? Sorry, there's been a mix-up. It will take just a few minutes to resolve.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 15, 2019 12:47 PM (7rVsF)

47 Apparently the possibility that that power might be used in ways they would not like never occurs to them.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 15, 2019 12:44 PM (dPSi6)

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You tend to think that way when your opponents are on The Wrong Side of History

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 15, 2019 12:47 PM (ZYB2s)

48 Infidel - you miss a minute you miss a lot

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2019 12:47 PM (ZCEU2)

49 Commenters on AoSHQ will absolutely be the first people dinged for credit scores.

My next door neighbor works from home and teaches Chinese people English. If you can speak fluent English without an accent, it is a boost to your social credit score. Basically, she says when she teaches rural students, the entire family will be in the room trying to learn so they all improve their scores on the test. If your score is too low, you aren't allowed to travel across the country or even apply for jobs in cities.

What scares me is if I am advertising on Google or Facebook for my business and they're logging whether I am a second amendment supporter or anti-LGBT, etc., that they will in turn penalize my business. I guarantee if I turned my business website into a LGBT holiday, it would immediately see SEO benefits. Some of this social score will be hidden- i.e. business that back the approved public thinking will be the only ones that show up in the results. No due process or debate needed.

Posted by: BacktoGA at September 15, 2019 12:48 PM (GX3JQ)

50 Check out mylife.com. They already are running a "reputation" algorithm with a numeric score.

It's here already.
Posted by: pawn at September 15, 2019 12:31 PM (IlM5L)

You can go into "mylife" or anyone else's "mylife" and change the summary info plus a lot of the other public stuff. I know it doesn't change the "reputation" rating but it fun to make up shit - it makes the site looks as unreputable as it is.

Posted by: batterup at September 15, 2019 12:49 PM (U2JQS)

51 Big Brother has had his sights trained on cmservatives. His real problem is going to come from moderates and center-leftoids, and libs who get red-pilled.

Posted by: kallisto at September 15, 2019 12:50 PM (OxYQ1)

52 Chinese made products can be dangerous.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at September 15, 2019 12:51 PM (PUmDY)

53 that was referring to the Spanish War

I missed the book thread, but I'm reading Hugh Thomas's "The Spanish Civil War" right now (having finished Conquest's "The Great Terror"), and chuckled grimly to read that Herbert Walker, Madrid correspondent for the NYT in 1936, carried water for the Reds in a book he wrote afterwards. His assertion - that a Nationalist claim was spurious, and lacked contemporaneous validation - was contradicted by ... an article published in the NYT at the time.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 15, 2019 12:52 PM (dPSi6)

54 The lawn calls, later.

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2019 12:52 PM (ZCEU2)

55 I'm sure my social credit score won't be helped by being registered in the American Constitution party.

Posted by: Infidel at September 15, 2019 12:53 PM (BLFnH)

56 You tend to think that way when your opponents are on The Wrong Side of History
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 15, 2019 12:47 PM (ZYB2s)

And you yearn to put them on the wrong side of the grass.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 15, 2019 12:53 PM (dPSi6)

57 Never Trumpers will like their new masters.

Posted by: torabora at September 15, 2019 12:57 PM (S71/C)

58 I did not know Ken Burns wears a ridiculous wig until today.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at September 15, 2019 12:57 PM (PUmDY)

59 You can go into "mylife" or anyone else's "mylife" and change the summary info plus a lot of the other public stuff. I know it doesn't change the "reputation" rating but it fun to make up shit - it makes the site looks as unreputable as it is.
Posted by: batterup

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One of the pro life sites I belong to has a review section: 1-5 stars. We rank at about 2.5 stars overall and when you drill down to see the reviews, all of the 1 start reviews are exactly the same - something about poor service, waitress brought water and never came back, overpriced food, etc. Hundreds and hundreds of the same trolling review. The owner of the site decided to leave the bot generated reviews to point out (to any sentient being) the killing center proponents have no argument at all and basically have been reduced to yelling.

LOL

Posted by: Tonypete at September 15, 2019 12:57 PM (Y4EXg)

60 I have never used fakebook nor any other social media sites that broadcast my personal opinions or beliefs.

A recent news story outlined how many apps send information to Facebook, whether you are subscribed to Facebook or not, or ever.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 15, 2019 12:58 PM (oVJmc)

61 Never Trumpers will like their new masters.
Posted by: torabora at September 15, 2019 12:57 PM (S71/C)

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They do so far. Look at how they all scramble for crumbs from their leftist paymasters' table.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 15, 2019 12:59 PM (ZYB2s)

62 What does it matter if you break up the companies?

The problem is in the mindset of the people writing and running the code and capturing and using the data.

Breaking up Google into separate search, cloud, apps, etc. divisions or companies will do nothing. The same poisoned mindset will run all of those companies.

The ideas poisoning these people need to be rooted out. Unfortunately, that's going to eventually require violence. I think it's eventually going to be armed conflict, but it could also be an Atlas Shrugged sort of thing where the productive normals shut off the electricity, water, food, and fuel just by walking away.

Silicon Valley needs us far more than we need them.

It's funny to see how Silicon Valley, in its social media incarnation rather than its original hardware and useful software version, has evolved its business plan. They went from 19th Century Newspaper -- selling advertising -- to 1930s Fascism right damn quick in a hurry.

Posted by: Lickmuffin at September 15, 2019 01:00 PM (m/owh)

63 >
They do so far. Look at how they all scramble for crumbs from their leftist paymasters' table.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 15, 2019 12:59 PM (ZYB2s)

I read that in a Scottish accent as "fighting over scraps from Long Shank's table."

Posted by: Muad'dib at September 15, 2019 01:00 PM (uDh3k)

64 50. I could laugh about my low rating on my life, but I suspect it has stopped potential employers from interviewing me. Those cocksuckers even have my one arrest noted - from 30 years ago. Who authorized them to divulge anything at all about me?

Posted by: kallisto at September 15, 2019 01:00 PM (OxYQ1)

65 It's censorship only if you allow yourself to be censored. Right now the carriers aren't censoring anyone. FiOS, etc. are all wide open, and thus you can go to any site that you want.

You still using Facebook? You're an idiot. Shift to a competitor. You don't like WalMart? Don't buy from them, online or otherwise. If you're not using DuckDuckGo instead of Google, then you really ARE a moron. If you can't see that Microsoft Mail is safer than GMail, then you get what you deserve. Microsoft is far less "SJW" than our "Do No Evil" friends. Can you trust them? Of course not - but they are better.

We talk a good show here about not using Gillette blades or reading the New York Times, but the internet is wide open and wide open to build your own versions of these multi-billion dollar sites.

Ace built this very location out of whole cloth. Nobody "gave him permission."

You want a new Twitter? Learn to Code. Build one. I don't know how many morons are here, but we'd certainly use it - unless, again, we really ARE morons.

Just like you say about all of the other countries with sheeple who won't fight: either fight, or quit your bellyaching.

Posted by: RobM1981 at September 15, 2019 01:01 PM (CZzj4)

66
A recent news story outlined how many apps send information to Facebook, whether you are subscribed to Facebook or not, or ever.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 15, 2019 12:58 PM (oVJmc)

One of the tricks with all the newest OSs is to make their function so opaque to make it impossible to root out malware / spyware.

I use an android tablet only for surfing the net, never used any other apps and am constantly getting update requests for all kinds of crap I never used... every app on this thing is malware / spyware as far as I am concerned.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 15, 2019 01:03 PM (1g7ch)

67
Those cocksuckers even have my one arrest noted - from 30 years ago.

Whatever happened to "ban the box?"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 15, 2019 01:03 PM (aKsyK)

68 60
A recent news story outlined how many apps send information to Facebook, whether you are subscribed to Facebook or not, or ever.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 15, 2019 12:58 PM (oVJmc)

A great many websites use Google trackers and won't work properly if you block them.

Posted by: rickl at September 15, 2019 01:03 PM (sdi6R)

69 My co-worker told me any of the snooper sites have to remove a person at their own request.

Posted by: kallisto at September 15, 2019 01:03 PM (OxYQ1)

70 Access to the banking system is less problematic, but never forget the law of unintended consequences: it will always bite you in the ass!

And never forget, sometimes it doesn't bother with the ass part and goes straight for the jugular!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at September 15, 2019 01:04 PM (BiNEL)

71 >>>A recent news story outlined how many apps send information to Facebook, whether you are subscribed to Facebook or not, or ever.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 15, 2019 12:58 PM (oVJmc)

NoScript allows you to see the various sites that tag onto your log on. You'd be surprised at the websites that tag on to your favorite web sites.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:05 PM (HOFbR)

72

Don't like the atmosphere? Make your own air.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 15, 2019 01:05 PM (aKsyK)

73 My co-worker told me any of the snooper sites have to remove a person at their own request.
Posted by: kallisto

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For the sake of argument, let's assume that is true.

How would most of us even be aware of all the shitty sites that track us? The general pop is even worse off than we are - most of us are reasonably intelligent and online savvy.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 15, 2019 01:07 PM (Y4EXg)

74 They went from 19th Century Newspaper -- selling advertising -- to 1930s Fascism right damn quick in a hurry.

Posted by: Lickmuffin at September 15, 2019 01:00 PM (m/owh)

The Fascist pay is better, until...

the lamp-posts are back in vogue!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at September 15, 2019 01:07 PM (BiNEL)

75 "China reformed nothing in response to the efforts of Nixon. In fact one
gets the impression that Nixon was okay with China's murderous ways"

one of the reasons for Nixon "opening the door" for China was supposedly to keep China/Russia from becoming more unified. I've heard that is one of the long term goals for US, but at this point at least, we'd be better aligned (in detente style perhaps) with Russia/India/US ... not with China/Pakistan/US ... which is what WallStreet and ??? shadow men seemed to like.

But I haven't seen real authoritative sources speak on that old "dilemma". Interesting though that Clinton sold out tech to China (covertly ... in the 90s and maybe more recently with most favored nation status, and tech secrets stolen) ... but Clinton also sold Uranium and Skolkovo tech to Russia ... then tried to make sure Trump had trouble with talking with Putin.

If there is a grand plan, it is not clear to me. We got way too close to China, which I think was a globalist plan to marginalize USA sovereignty patriots (deplorables).

Posted by: illiniwek at September 15, 2019 01:08 PM (Cus5s)

76 67. I don't know what 'ban the box' means.

Posted by: kallisto at September 15, 2019 01:08 PM (OxYQ1)

77 The disguntled are the cloth. Not everyone is suitable for the tip of the spear.

Posted by: pawn at September 15, 2019 01:09 PM (IlM5L)

78
A great many websites use Google trackers and won't work properly if you block them.

Google bought Captcha, which means if you want access to a lot of sites on the internet, you have to grant access to Google to your browser and all the other history it encompasses.

This is why they need to be broken up, to keep their reach avoidable if you so choose.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 15, 2019 01:09 PM (oVJmc)

79 Just got overflown by a very low flying B-24 or B-25. Sweet!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 15, 2019 01:10 PM (49oQe)

80 Bring it on, Corn Pop!
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 15, 2019 12:25 PM (trLrb)
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I cut you, mofo!

Posted by: Chex Mix at September 15, 2019 01:10 PM (Dh1wo)

81 65
Ace built this very location out of whole cloth. Nobody "gave him permission."

Posted by: RobM1981 at September 15, 2019 01:01 PM (CZzj4)

Yes, and he was talking not so very long ago about maybe having to shut it down if he lost too much ad revenue.

Posted by: rickl at September 15, 2019 01:11 PM (sdi6R)

82 The Thug's Veto is as much censorship as anything the government might do since it is one of the jobs of government to protect their citizens from the thugs.

Posted by:
Grump928(C)
Native Texan and Alabama Alumn
Twice as Smug as You
at September 15, 2019 01:11 PM (WAJor)

83 Every time you load Youtube you also load goolgevideo, among other things.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:11 PM (HOFbR)

84 B-25 on further review.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 15, 2019 01:11 PM (49oQe)

85 As much as the idea of defining internet and social media access as a civil right makes me queasy, it may be the only way around the pinch-faced scolds of Silicon Valley. "

At first, I also scoffed at the idea of seeing access as "a right". But now I see demonstrated every day how the power to control access is turned into the power to control people, and votes. And now I don't scoff at any of it anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 15, 2019 01:11 PM (V2Yro)

86 Once the censorship and job loss gets to be too much to bear, people will start moving to the places where it either doesn't happen as much or where its against the law.

Unless Congress takes steps now to stop or slow this.

This will be the foundation of the future conflict between the right and the left.

The right or the left will move to areas where they can express themselves the way they wish without penalty and eventually this will cause conflicts between these areas.

Just as California bans certain goods from certain states they will do the same for other causes.

This may not be statewide. I figure in rural PA, I'll be relatively okay because I'm retired and am surrounded by ppl who live the old fashioned way of live and let live. You know, like it was 20 years ago.

But there will be lines drawn so that the larger and Democrat controlled cities will force out those who cannot live under their rules. And vice versa.

We have little crime here in my small town because all the criminals go to Pittsburgh or Philly if they want to try and make it. Crime does not pay in a small town. Everyone knows your business and thus so do the police. Only the occasional stranger crime gets away with it and even that is less because there is little action late at night so marauding criminals are more easily spotted.

I know it's not fair that some have to move to get their guaranteed rights but hey that's the breaks. Politically you may not be able to overcome them and you will have to put up with it or move.

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at September 15, 2019 01:11 PM (cxIsI)

87 China reformed nothing in response to the efforts of Nixon.

Nixon got us out of VN by it and put strategic uncertainty in the China piece of US-USSR MAD. Problems have priorities, follow-up D stupidity isn't a new problem.

Posted by: DaveA at September 15, 2019 01:12 PM (FhXTo)

88 Dishwasher broke this morning. I fixed it.
Posted by: Muad'dib at September 15, 2019 12:44 PM (uDh3k)
-----
So, you're telling us of the waters of your dishwasher?

Posted by: Captain Obvious at September 15, 2019 01:12 PM (iB1oa)

89 >
So, you're telling us of the waters of your dishwasher?
Posted by: Captain Obvious at September 15

I did exactly that this morning on the ONT.

Posted by: Muad'dib at September 15, 2019 01:13 PM (uDh3k)

90 73. she is kind of a tech geek, she said pipl and spokeo are the other busybody sites. I just need to get off the main players. I'm not applying for any tech related jobs where the hiring manager would know how to do a deep dive on me.

Posted by: kallisto at September 15, 2019 01:13 PM (OxYQ1)

91 Nixon opened the door to China as part of an exit strategy from Vietnam. He had first hand experience with China intervening in a war in Asia and wanted to preclude a repeat of Korea.

Posted by:
Grump928(C)
Native Texan and Alabama Alumn
Twice as Smug as You
at September 15, 2019 01:13 PM (WAJor)

92 Nixon thought it would be better to have China pissing outside from inside the tent than outside and pissing into the Tent.

He was wrong.

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at September 15, 2019 01:16 PM (cxIsI)

93 Speaking of commies

(AP) Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is canceling some campaign events to rest his voice.

Campaign spokesman Mike Casca says that while addressing a rally in
Denver last Monday, the senator began to lose his voice. He sounded
strained during Thursday night's Democratic debate.

The next Dem debate should be at the Sunnyvale Rest Home

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 15, 2019 01:16 PM (ouNbr)

94 So I popped a cap in corn pop raped his boo and drank 2 of his 40s

Damn i be bad

Posted by: Handsy uncle joe at September 15, 2019 01:16 PM (ZHmnt)

95

China and the chinese can go horsefuck.

I'm sick of their shit.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at September 15, 2019 01:16 PM (U8cIC)

96 "Breaking up Google into separate search, cloud, apps, etc. divisions or
companies will do nothing. The same poisoned mindset will run all of
those companies."

the (liberal) guy that did analysis on how many votes Google influenced, and showed that their searches were indeed biased (Bing was not, but Bing is 2% of the search market) ... that liberal guy says he (and Google has it)has the ability to analyze and see if searches are programmed with bias.

So we would need oversight to make sure they do NOT give political advantage via "Go Vote" messages sent only to liberals, for example. Also the whole search itself, that pushes an agenda in results, rather than true results ... would be a breach of their "contract" to be a neutral participant. (just a provider, not an editor).

Also they have lied to Congress .. lock them up for the lies they told ... many ways to crack this nut, but the GOPe is not on our side.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 15, 2019 01:17 PM (Cus5s)

97
I don't know what 'ban the box' means.
Posted by: kallisto

http://bantheboxcampaign.org/

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 15, 2019 01:17 PM (aKsyK)

98
China is ficking with us in N Korea, too. Probably in Iran, too.

And I KNOW the Democrats are Colluding with China to hurt the US economy.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at September 15, 2019 01:17 PM (U8cIC)

99 It's an insanity where everything we do or say is held as valuable information.

What we do and how we perform in public is important. No human or machine is competent to accumulate all our words and judge them.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:19 PM (HOFbR)

100 Now that kaboom mofo

He be bad

Carries a damn switchblade like some Puerto Rican in a bad play

Posted by: Handsy uncle joe at September 15, 2019 01:19 PM (ZHmnt)

101 86. you must be really remote because NY and NJ are infesting Lancaster County and the Lehigh Valley.

Posted by: kallisto at September 15, 2019 01:20 PM (OxYQ1)

102 And I KNOW the Democrats are Colluding with China to hurt the US economy.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at September 15, 2019 01:17 PM (U8cIC)

And (Nancy & Friends) personal enrichment.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:20 PM (HOFbR)

103 China is ficking with us in N Korea, too. Probably in Iran, too.

And I KNOW the Democrats are Colluding with China to hurt the US economy.
Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at September 15, 2019 01:17 PM (U8cIC)

I'll bet John Fuckin' Kerry is colluding with Iran.

Posted by: JoeF. at September 15, 2019 01:20 PM (NFEMn)

104 I can't blame Nixon for opening up China, as the Soviet Union was a much greater threat at the time. He may well have been looking to drive a wedge between them so as to keep them from joining forces against us.

20-20 hindsight and all that.

Posted by: rickl at September 15, 2019 01:20 PM (sdi6R)

105 or quit your bellyaching.

Please read up on network effect repeatedly until the point stops going over your head.

Posted by: DaveA at September 15, 2019 01:20 PM (FhXTo)

106
I wonder how a lot of the spam-type messages in one of my e-mail get there. Likely search engines selling my queries to marketers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 15, 2019 01:22 PM (7rVsF)

107 "And when banks (with government licenses!) limit speech and behavior"

Note that they 1) technically fall under the "public accommodations" category, and 2) have gov't licenses and are therefore regulated under other civil rights legislation.

They are doubly liable under the law as to discrimination - they can't discriminate, and a lot more than the "protected categories" should apply to them (i.e., Bill of Rights issues).

Personally, I want to start a Gun Owners Credit Union. Instead of $50 when you open your account, you get a box of ammo. Oh, and you have to bring your gun to open your account. (Also, all bank employees may open or concealed carry on the bank premises. Guarantee we will *never* be robbed.)

Posted by: GWB at September 15, 2019 01:23 PM (mRtYs)

108 The theft by Chinese in the US is more than 500 Billion per year.

They steal medicine medical devices anything they can.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 15, 2019 01:23 PM (ZHmnt)

109 Their talking points are not just arguments, but the
gospel.

Posted by: Harlan at September 15, 2019 12:24 PM (suaaH)

Always remember and never forget: Progressivism is a religion. (Specifically, it's a cult.)

Posted by: GWB at September 15, 2019 01:24 PM (mRtYs)

110 I'm kind of surprised that on blogs and in the US generally, so little attention is being paid to the attacks on the Saudi Oil facilities yesterday. Maybe because it wasn't the typical terrorist attacks that kill a bunch of people.

I know what guides the news, if it bleeds, it leads. BUT as sad as it is when 100 civilians get killed for no reason in Afghanistan or any other mid eastern shithole, strategically attacks like that are meaningless. They have no significance other than to add to the general ongoing misery of the region.

BUT - an attack, sponsored by Iran, on the heart of the Saudi supply apparatus (which is the main supply line to Europe, China, and Japan) is Huge. This is how Wars start, not little wars, but World Wars. This may not be getting attention, but a LOT of dominoes around the world are starting to fall because of this.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 15, 2019 01:25 PM (V2Yro)

111 Yang is Rice Krispies

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 15, 2019 12:27 PM (aKsyK)

*throws whiskey in the campfire*

Posted by: GWB at September 15, 2019 01:26 PM (mRtYs)

112
BUT - an attack, sponsored by Iran, on the heart of the Saudi supply apparatus (which is the main supply line to Europe, China, and Japan) is Huge.

The EU war machine will clean out the mullahs posthaste.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 15, 2019 01:28 PM (7rVsF)

113 97. Thanks BCJ

Posted by: kallisto at September 15, 2019 01:28 PM (OxYQ1)

114
I watched a little of abc fake news this morning with fake "chief anchor" george stuffitupmyass (really, that's his official title, "chief anchor." No, really.)

The first guest was mayor fag. First, pete buttgig has some weird facial ticks AND he's got this constant swallowing thing going on, like he's choking on his own words.

So mayor homo gets these questions on Iran and Syria, which he responds to quickly and knowledgeably. It was so OBVIOUS he got the questions before today and prepared and rehearsed his answers.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at September 15, 2019 01:29 PM (U8cIC)

115 The Chinese, as the Soviets did, come here H1b, work, become citizens, marry, and participate in civic life; but all the while be agents of the Communist State from which they came.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:29 PM (HOFbR)

116 We deplorables will be made to suffer.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 15, 2019 01:29 PM (NWiLs)

117 >
The EU war machine will clean out the mullahs posthaste.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 15, 2019 01:28 PM (7rVsF)

Oh yes. Instead of rank insignia they wear patches declaring their pronouns.

Posted by: Muad'dib at September 15, 2019 01:29 PM (uDh3k)

118 Wait until we import the Chinese Social Credit Shock Collars...

Then we'll see the populace shape up rather quickly!

Posted by: Commissar Bernie at September 15, 2019 01:31 PM (BiNEL)

119 115 The Chinese, as the Soviets did, come here H1b, work, become citizens, marry, and participate in civic life; but all the while be agents of the Communist State from which they came.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:29 PM (HOFbR)

I have read that every Chinese student in a US college is working for the government in some capacity, because they would not be allowed to travel outside China otherwise.

Posted by: rickl at September 15, 2019 01:31 PM (sdi6R)

120 The first guest was mayor fag. First, pete buttgig has some weird facial ticks AND he's got this constant swallowing thing going on, like he's choking on his own words.

Or a hair tickling his throat.

Posted by: dartist at September 15, 2019 01:32 PM (K22Va)

121 >>>This is how Wars start, not little wars, but World Wars. This may not be getting attention, but a LOT of dominoes around the world are starting to fall because of this.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 15, 2019 01:25 PM (V2Yro)

It has been published that this may be the beginning of a shooting war between SA and Iran.

It's going to be a big deal when gas goes up a dollar.
Oh, second thoughts: they are quiet so that they may lay blame of the price increase on Big Oil.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:32 PM (HOFbR)

122 The EU war machine will clean out the mullahs posthaste.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 15, 2019 01:28 PM (7rVsF)

What I imagine is that the Saudi's and the Israelis (they are now military allies against Iran) are now planning a counterstrike, and the US will be trying to talk them out of it because we really do not want to see the proverbial Shit hit the Fan in a big way.

But, with our National Security Adviser position in complete chaos at the moment, we may not be able to do a lot to influence events.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 15, 2019 01:33 PM (V2Yro)

123 The EU war machine will clean out the mullahs posthaste.

I'd never considered before that, following Brexit, the EU's military 'might' will be only the French.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 15, 2019 01:33 PM (oVJmc)

124
I'd never considered before that, following Brexit, the EU's military 'might' will be only the French.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles

Whose force projection reaches to, say, Luxembourg.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 15, 2019 01:35 PM (7rVsF)

125 NoScript allows you to see the various sites that tag onto your log on. You'd be surprised at the websites that tag on to your favorite web sites.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:05 PM (HOFbR)

Yeah, it's a real eye opener. And I stubbornly resist granting more than temp approvals when signing up for logins at new sites.

You will discover quickly that fartbook and google has scripts on damn near every site.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 15, 2019 01:35 PM (Z4rgH)

126 I'd never considered before that, following Brexit, the EU's military 'might' will be only the French.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 15, 2019 01:33 PM (oVJmc)

Paging muldoon

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:35 PM (HOFbR)

127 Sugar Smack > Corn Pop

Posted by: Archer at September 15, 2019 01:37 PM (0E35O)

128 The danger is that Saudi and Israel launch counterstrikes to disable the Iranian oil fields, and then the Iranians launch all of their missiles to annhilate the Saudi facilities which they can do, except at the price of getting themselves destroyed, and then Europe, China, Japan and the US all enter the 2nd great depression together as all of the economies collapse simultaneously.

Those are the stakes at play right now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 15, 2019 01:39 PM (V2Yro)

129 Shotgun Willie sits around in his underwear
Bitin' on a bullet and pullin' out all of his hair
Shotgun Willie's got all his family there

Well you can't make a record if you ain't got nothing to say
You can't make a record if you ain't got nothing to say
You can't play music if you don't know nothing to play
Shotgun Willie sits around in his underwear
Bitin' on a bullet and pullin' out all of his hair

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:39 PM (HOFbR)

130 Saudis couldn't fight their way out of a box of Corn Pops.

Posted by: Archer at September 15, 2019 01:41 PM (0E35O)

131 Our pastor stopped me before Mass and thanked me for the gift cards I
sent him and the curate for International Buy A Priest A Beer Day.

It was nice of him to do so but I was rather surprised by this. 1)
if I wanted to be thanked I shouldn't have done it. 2) if he spent his
time thanking parishoners for stuff they do for him, he'd never get
anything else done. 3) I hadn't thought he even knew who I was since I'm
just an anonymous pew sitter who never talks to him or anyone.

=======================
I bet Edmund Campion blessed and thanked the people who hid him from QE I's horde of spies. You're a good man, Hadrian, but a bit harsh on a good priest.

Posted by: mrp at September 15, 2019 01:42 PM (Pqytn)

132 You want a new Twitter? Learn to Code. Build one.
I don't know how many morons are here, but we'd certainly use it -
unless, again, we really ARE morons.

Posted by: RobM1981 at September 15, 2019 01:01 PM (CZzj4)

Then you don't understand what Twitter is. It's a *platform*, not a piece of software to be used independently. You would have to pry everyone's fingers off of Twitter (not so much the users as all the folks who embed the code on their sites) to make it work. Which means you have to overcome the addiction.
This is why the bigs killing off all their competition (like Google and FB buying up everything in sight) is so important. They have to have a monopoly to be a platform, and they have to be a platform to avoid monopoly legal problems.

Posted by: GWB at September 15, 2019 01:42 PM (mRtYs)

133 118 Wait until we import the Chinese Social Credit Shock Collars...

Then we'll see the populace shape up rather quickly!

Posted by: Commissar Bernie at September 15, 2019 01:31 PM (BiNEL)

On the bright side, maybe it will work as well as other Chinese technology like dams and bridges.

Posted by: rickl at September 15, 2019 01:42 PM (sdi6R)

134 I watched a little of abc fake news this morning with fake "chief anchor" george stuffitupmyass (really, that's his official title, "chief anchor." No, really.)

You misheard. They said he's the "chief wanker," not "anchor."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 15, 2019 01:42 PM (dPSi6)

135 Those are the stakes at play right now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 15, 2019 01:39 PM (V2Yro)

I think states that are self sufficient will do well.
US, Israel,Canada, Mexico, one or two South American countries, and maybe Japan, .

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:43 PM (HOFbR)

136 except at the price of getting themselves destroyed, and then Europe, China, Japan and the US all enter the 2nd great depression together as all of the economies collapse simultaneously.

Or the Glorious Restoration of Sanity in terms of the Global Climate Change.

Once this generation has access to power for only a few hours each day, they will BBQ eagles, club baby seals and hunt whales if necessary if that means a few more hours of Mac Book time for social media.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 15, 2019 01:43 PM (lD3vL)

137 And (Nancy & Friends) personal enrichment.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:20 PM (HOFbR)

Well, after all, we are your betters!

Posted by: Commissar ChiDiFi at September 15, 2019 01:43 PM (BiNEL)

138 Which means you have to overcome the addiction.

Solution: Vape Dopamine.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 15, 2019 01:44 PM (lD3vL)

139 No one fucks with me. Joe knows that.

Posted by: Mr Peanut at September 15, 2019 01:44 PM (Dh1wo)

140 I think states that are self sufficient will do well.
US, Israel,Canada, Mexico, one or two South American countries, and maybe Japan, .

And China will definitely take over, in toto, Venezuela.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 15, 2019 01:45 PM (lD3vL)

141 The first man came out of China, the English language is from China, they are the center of the universe.

And those in (red) China better not speak up against Mao or any current China politics, or they can easily be "disappeared".

From the ADV China guys, "so the opium wars were really China fighting against themselves". The video is "China Wants everything -- Gives Nothing".

https://tinyurl.com/y2cwbyhq

Posted by: illiniwek at September 15, 2019 01:46 PM (Cus5s)

142 I'd never considered before that, following Brexit, the EU's military 'might' will be only the French.

You would think Putin would get behind Brexit.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 15, 2019 01:46 PM (lD3vL)

143 And China will definitely take over, in toto, Venezuela.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 15, 2019 01:45 PM (lD3vL)

And we're going to take over Pakistan.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:47 PM (HOFbR)

144
You're a good man, Hadrian, but a bit harsh on a good priest.

Posted by: mrp

He is a good priest. He helped me return to the Faith. And I'm touched that he should have thanked me. God forbid I should be hard on him or any hard-working cleric.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 15, 2019 01:47 PM (7rVsF)

145 Tom Servo,
re no big US media attention on the drone strike:

Don't discount the fact that only People of Color are involved. And that both sides are Muslim. Yeah, I know that our media elite pretend to be against the evil House of Saud, but lots of our elites get lots of dollars from the Kingdom.

Truly a puzzle for the big-time media to pick a villain, and without a villain, what's the storyline?

Posted by: Gref at September 15, 2019 01:48 PM (AMIL/)

146 Only in 21st century America can a top Clintonista can become a prime media outlet Chief Anchor

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2019 01:48 PM (ZCEU2)

147 This is how Wars start, not little wars, but World Wars. This may not be getting attention, but a LOT of dominoes around the world are starting to fall because of this.

That assumes that there are enough men of character who see beyond themselves.

As it stands, much of the youth has been raised to hate their country and fine if half their countrymen are slaughtered through pestilence, famine, plague or war.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 15, 2019 01:48 PM (lD3vL)

148 130 Saudis couldn't fight their way out of a box of Corn Pops.
Posted by: Archer at September 15, 2019 01:41 PM (0E35O)

Which is why the Saudi's, under MBS, have been working so hard to build a military alliance with Israel. Israel rightly sees the Iranian regime as the biggest existential threat to them in the world today, especially if they get nukes, and so Israel will jump at the opportunity to be part of an Arab led effort to destroy the Iranian government.

Of course once Israel attacks Iran, then Lebanon explodes with missiles and attacks down into the Galilee region. But Israel may welcome the opportunity to finally eliminate that threat once and for all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 15, 2019 01:49 PM (V2Yro)

149
And we're going to take over Pakistan.

Posted by: Billy Cole

No, not that!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 15, 2019 01:49 PM (7rVsF)

150 On my Word as a Biden. Corn Pop was there with his entire gang.

His Lieutenant Captain Crunch and his enforcer Apple Jack were both their. They'll testify to that.

Posted by: garrett at September 15, 2019 01:50 PM (VNDVN)

151 To me, nothing is imported. It's homegrown. If anything, the Chinese system is much more socially responsible. In time it may not be, but for now? It's mostly used against people who cheat subway fares and declare bankruptcy. I am an OG against Chinese hegemony and love Donald Trump fighting them, but be real. Their society is far less fascist than liberals are.

Posted by: trev006 at September 15, 2019 01:50 PM (AIfDi)

152 And we're going to take over Pakistan.

The former US can't even take over its own border.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 15, 2019 01:51 PM (lD3vL)

153 Cap'n Crunch>Corn Pops

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at September 15, 2019 01:51 PM (PUmDY)

154
Truly a puzzle for the big-time media to pick a villain, and without a villain, what's the storyline?

Posted by: Gref at September 15, 2019 01:48 PM (AMIL/)

Sadly you are completely right. They are like little children who only want to hear entertaining stories that make them feel good; the idea of actually being "reporters" who relate "news" does nothing but irritate them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 15, 2019 01:51 PM (V2Yro)

155

As it stands, much of the youth has been raised to hate their country and fine if half their countrymen are slaughtered through pestilence, famine, plague or war.

All of which would clear out the inner cities pretty nicely.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 15, 2019 01:51 PM (oVJmc)

156 >>Cap'n Crunch>Corn Pops

It depends how much you like the flesh on your pallette

Posted by: garrett at September 15, 2019 01:52 PM (VNDVN)

157 "wait until we import the Chinese Social Credit Shock Collars..."

like that Cheers episode, where Cliff wears a shock device, but Carla gets hold of the control and hilarity ensues.

That is what we have now ... SJW 25 year old jerks have the social media (and search engine, and more) controls and are shocking any sane patriotic American if they ever display patriotism or any common sense that defies the KrazyKommies.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 15, 2019 01:52 PM (Cus5s)

158 Posted by: Tom Servo at September 15, 2019 01:49 PM (V2Yro)

They buy their equipment from us and contract maintenance, upkeep, and training to us.
Then they contract with the Israelis to do combat for them.

No irony here, nah ah.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:52 PM (HOFbR)

159 Two words for you, Joe: "sword cane".

Posted by: Mr Peanut at September 15, 2019 01:52 PM (Dh1wo)

160 Truly a puzzle for the big-time media to pick a villain, and without a villain, what's the storyline?

Its Trumps Fault

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 15, 2019 01:53 PM (lD3vL)

161 I think someone needs to propose an amendment to the constitution expanding the First Amendment to all private and non profit entities.

Also, finally, a conservative gets what needs to be done. Michelle Mallon organized a rally a few days ago in Rockville, Maryland, the county seat of Montgomery County, opposing the county executive's sanctuary policies, which has resulted in a number of illegal aliens raping women. Malkin even confronted the County Executive to his face, but unsurprisingly, he did not respond.

This is a good start, but people in Maryland who oppose these policies - and local people have to be the ones to do this - must knock on the doors of their neighbors and talk to them about the county's sanctuary policies. Even if it means confronting hard to convince leftist voters.

I recall that in 1994, I did volunteer work for George Pataki, who was running for Governor of New York, who eventually upset Mario Cuomo. I was doing cold calls, and one of them was to a woman in The Bronx, who yelled at me for calling her, saying that she would never vote for a Republican. I apologized and hung up, but in retrospect, I should have firmly disagreed with her. This is what committed people on our side are going to have to do to stop leftism from winning.

Posted by: mercenary13 at September 15, 2019 01:53 PM (gzUYd)

162 The main function of journalism/journalists is copy and paste.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 15, 2019 01:54 PM (Sf7dd)

163 They buy their equipment from us and contract maintenance, upkeep, and training to us.
Then they contract with the Israelis to do combat for them.

No irony here, nah ah.
Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:52 PM (HOFbR)

And who profits the most from that arrangement - them, or us? Well, that's what makes the world go round.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 15, 2019 01:54 PM (V2Yro)

164 heir society is far less fascist than liberals are.

Posted by: trev006

Tell that to the Uighurs.

Posted by: DaveA at September 15, 2019 01:55 PM (FhXTo)

165 Saudis couldn't fight their way out of a box of Corn Pops.

Other than Saudis are estranged from actual work, their military leadership is formed of a caste of aristocracy, not of merit.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 15, 2019 01:55 PM (lD3vL)

166 I heard a story last night that Chinese screws have filler.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at September 15, 2019 01:56 PM (PUmDY)

167 Pakistan is the same as Afghanistan, Muzzy Hell holes, best not to get anyone stuck there longer than you have to.

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2019 01:56 PM (ZCEU2)

168 Pakistan is the same as Afghanistan, Muzzy Hell holes, best not to get anyone stuck there longer than you have to.

Pakis are much better educated.. and they have nukes.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 15, 2019 01:57 PM (lD3vL)

169 The left never pay for the things they do. There are never any consequences. We are David French'ing our way to Totalitarian society. Does anyone believe leftist unrestricted Twitter use will be allowed to exist after the right is finally crushed once and for all? The majority of progressives simply don't care. They want us eliminated at all costs.

We never force them to think twice before attacking us. Therefore, there will be a lot more of it.

Posted by: Quilp at September 15, 2019 01:59 PM (Bf3hj)

170 I didn't grow up during the depression or WWII, but my spidey senses are tingling.

Posted by: Infidel at September 15, 2019 02:02 PM (BLFnH)

171 "Then they contract with the Israelis to do combat for them.
No irony here, nah ah."

It is hard (impossible?) to define "The Saudis" or the Israelis ... or many of these countries as any one thing. Many of them are as divided as US, or more so. The USA concept of liberty for all (Americans) is rather unique ... we hope other Western countries have it, but I'm not sure if any of them have a Bill of Rights like ours.

The Saudi elite are heavily invested in our markets, and our politics (Hillary, Bush ?) ... but despite all their revenue, they had bin Laden and the factions that were in constant rebellion. We hope some MENA "NATO" emerges that works for US (Jordan/Egypt/Israel/Saudis/?) ... and that seems to be what we have for now, with our back seat leadership I guess.

But all those countries have various degrees of intense internal struggle ... we hope to get out guys in power everywhere (Iran, Ukraine, Venezuela) ... but that can be tricky ColonialismLite business. imo though, we need to prevent ChinaMob or RussianMob from getting greater hold in our hemisphere ... many things come to a head before 2020 election, probably.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 15, 2019 02:03 PM (Cus5s)

172

Now in the United States, according to Israeli sources, the security breach of Gantz's mobile phone was more severe than published for the first time, the Iranian regime was able to collect personal information and addresses from Ganz's phone, the Iranian regime broke into Ganz's Gmail account in 2014. And removed some very embarrassing things from him.

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 15, 2019 02:05 PM (BqBId)

173 TDS is everywhere. Mom has been hospitalized since Wednesday. While visiting her this morning the doctor came in to check on her. She has confusion caused by a prescription drug interaction. He asks her every time he sees her who the president is. She answers Reagan every time.
Anyway. After the doc leaves she asks me who the president is. I tell her. The nurse pops up with "I hate it when I have to tell patients it's Trump". Jeebus, do your job with out the commentary. I wish mom was leaving today as planned so that i could have asked her what her problem was with PDT. As nutty as these people are I was afraid she might take it out on my confused 94 year old mother.
And so I can keep on topic. We need to begin manufacturing in the US again. Our economy is booming and it only took 3 years to fire it up. If things keep going this way the consumer can absorb the additional cost of product made here instead of by slave labor in China. Just have to control the unions.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 15, 2019 02:07 PM (N3JsI)

174 5 NoScript allows you to see the various sites that tag onto your log on. You'd be surprised at the websites that tag on to your favorite web sites.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 01:05 PM (HOFbR)
*******
uMatrix is better

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 15, 2019 02:09 PM (BqBId)

175
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Join us September 20 & 21 in the greater metropolitan area of Chelsea, Michigan for the festivities.

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During the day on Saturday, we'll be hanging out at the cabin, whittling entire trees into toothpicks & just generally relaxing. The roundtable discussion topic this year is "IKEA Shelving: Threat or Menace?", followed by small unit tactics practice.

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Posted by: AltonJackson
The MiMoMe is 21SEP19 in Chelsea, MI
Friday night we dine in Hell
at September 15, 2019 02:09 PM (KCxzN)

176 Just have to control the unions.

neverenoughcaffeine

Good luck with that.

Posted by: Infidel at September 15, 2019 02:09 PM (BLFnH)

177 Buying American would be a good idea.

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2019 02:11 PM (ZCEU2)

178 Preventing the establishment of a Chinese-style social credit system is worthy any level of ideological discomfort.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at September 15, 2019 02:11 PM (O4K4J)

179 So...anybody still think my concept of a "Digital Bill of Rights" is still think it's 'crazy - silly talk'?

Posted by: CPT. Charles at September 15, 2019 02:11 PM (W+kMI)

180 "And who profits the most from that arrangement - them, or us? Well, that's what makes the world go round."Posted by Servo

What do you mean "US", white man? That's the Lone Ranger joke, but in this case, the globalist hedge fund billionaires don't necessarily think middle America is them ... the rich got richer sure, but the millionaires became billionaires at Middle America's expense. And the FreeTrade Super Economy became more important than "Liberty and Justice for All (Americans)" ... the pledge was dropped for Global Economy Trillions ... and our currencies were debased ... now infinite debt is the way out, till something breaks.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 15, 2019 02:11 PM (Cus5s)

181 Heard the Dramatics' What You See Is What You Get yesterday, for the first time in a long while.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at September 15, 2019 02:12 PM (PUmDY)

182 Tell that to the Uighurs.

Posted by: DaveA at September 15, 2019 01:55 PM (FhXTo)

Unlike the Dem elites, the Chinese are too smart to relentlessly attack the dominant ethnic group of their nation. Maybe the Uighurs are just so darn innocent the Chinese want them dead: maybe not. Either way, not my circus.

Posted by: trev006 at September 15, 2019 02:12 PM (AIfDi)

183 173
After the doc leaves she asks me who the president is. I tell her. The nurse pops up with "I hate it when I have to tell patients it's Trump". Jeebus, do your job with out the commentary. I wish mom was leaving today as planned so that i could have asked her what her problem was with PDT. As nutty as these people are I was afraid she might take it out on my confused 94 year old mother.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 15, 2019 02:07 PM (N3JsI)

So far my doctors and nurses haven't brought up politics yet and I hope it stays that way. They've been doing a fine job without it. I'm not real good at biting my tongue.

Yeah, government-run health care is going to be soooo wonderful.

Posted by: rickl at September 15, 2019 02:14 PM (sdi6R)

184 Whoa! This global warming is getting out of hand!

Fire breaks out on the field at Titans game in Nashville

https://bit.ly/2lVda5W

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 15, 2019 02:14 PM (+y/Ru)

185
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
3m
Can't let Brett Kavanaugh give Radical Left Democrat (Liberal Plus) Opinions based on threats of Impeaching him over made up stories (sound familiar?), false allegations, and lies. This is the game they play. Fake and Corrupt News is working overtime!

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 15, 2019 02:14 PM (BqBId)

186
Well, enough of solving the world's problems, I got thick ribeyes to grill.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 15, 2019 02:15 PM (7rVsF)

187 You want a new Twitter? Learn to Code. Build one. I don't know how many morons are here, but we'd certainly use it - unless, again, we really ARE morons.

It's been done multiple times, and nobody goes there. The principles you and Cap'n Bill thought always worked have been rendered inoperable by technology and the Left.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 15, 2019 02:16 PM (6XLoz)

188 Yo Y'all! Democrats' new Kavanaugh hit job attempt #23,456 to set up counter media narrative to keep anti-Democrat Deep State story out out of prominence in national discourse. Expect more.

In fact, there will be a plethora of such stories in the coming days and weeks as the Media coordinates to see what story they can all arrive upon as the latest Outrage! Moment (TM) to be pushed ad nauseam to the purpose of providing Media excuses to cover the actual real news about Obama's Deep State disintegration and recompense. Yawwwwwwn.

Do they think ordinary people buy their BS? Apparently, the dying Media business and universal disgust about modern media practices continues to fail to get through to the players in said business.

Posted by: RichardWindsor at September 15, 2019 02:19 PM (DRgs8)

189 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
3m
Can't let Brett Kavanaugh give Radical Left Democrat (Liberal Plus) Opinions based on threats of Impeaching him over made up stories (sound familiar?), false allegations, and lies. This is the game they play. Fake and Corrupt News is working overtime!
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 15, 2019 02:14 PM (BqBId)

He's right. This is why they do what they do. They try to make conservatives "prove" they aren't as bad as they say they are--by doing the Left's bidding.

Posted by: JoeF. at September 15, 2019 02:20 PM (NFEMn)

190 173
TDS is everywhere. Mom has been hospitalized since Wednesday. While
visiting her this morning the doctor came in to check on her. She has
confusion caused by a prescription drug interaction. He asks her every
time he sees her who the president is. She answers Reagan every time.
Anyway.
After the doc leaves she asks me who the president is. I tell her. The
nurse pops up with "I hate it when I have to tell patients it's Trump".
Jeebus, do your job with out the commentary. I wish mom was leaving
today as planned so that i could have asked her what her problem was
with PDT. As nutty as these people are I was afraid she might take it
out on my confused 94 year old mother.
And so I can keep on topic. We
need to begin manufacturing in the US again. Our economy is booming and
it only took 3 years to fire it up. If things keep going this way the
consumer can absorb the additional cost of product made here instead of
by slave labor in China. Just have to control the unions.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 15, 2019 02:07 PM (N3JsI)

++++
When employees simply do not have the good enough sense to keep all politics out of the workplace, I have to question their abilities in all other aspects of their jobs.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 15, 2019 02:20 PM (9+jnX)

191 Nood.

Posted by: Infidel at September 15, 2019 02:21 PM (BLFnH)

192 The nurse pops up with "I hate it when I have to tell patients it's Trump".

"I hate to have to tell her about the public sector unions, especially the nurses' union."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 15, 2019 02:22 PM (dPSi6)

193 >>> ... we hope to get out guys in power everywhere (Iran, Ukraine, Venezuela) ... but that can be tricky ColonialismLite business. imo though, we need to prevent ChinaMob or RussianMob from getting greater hold in our hemisphere ... many things come to a head before 2020 election, probably.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 15, 2019 02:03 PM (Cus5s)

Imperialism is the answer.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 15, 2019 02:22 PM (HOFbR)

194 #185 The NYT reported and tweeted and then retracted a false allegation about Kavanaugh at a frat party, omitting from the story that the alleged victim denied it happened. There's a link at Insty's.

Posted by: andycanuck at September 15, 2019 02:23 PM (Dh1wo)

195 then Europe, China, Japan and the US all enter the 2nd great depression together as all of the economies collapse simultaneously.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 15, 2019 01:39 PM (V2Yro)

Sorry, but the US is self-sufficient for now in fossil fuel supply.
That depression won't be happening here.

Posted by: GWB at September 15, 2019 02:29 PM (mRtYs)

196
I think one of the main purposes of the snitch system in totalitarian governments is so that nobody will trust anybody else. It's all right if it's inefficient and wastes resources on false leads. More employment for the snitch management agency.

The tyrants don't want their subjects comparing notes.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 15, 2019 02:32 PM (t5m5e)

197 uMatrix is better

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 15, 2019 02:09 PM (BqBId)

Running eMatrix on Pale Moon. Is there a significant difference?

Posted by: Commissar ChiDiFi at September 15, 2019 02:34 PM (BiNEL)

198 Fire breaks out on the field at Titans game in Nashville

https://bit.ly/2lVda5W

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 15, 2019 02:14 PM (+y/Ru)

OMG. This is one of those "Only In America" things, isn't it? Either here or a third world hellhole would you have flamethrowers delaying the start of a local sports event. *smh*

Posted by: GWB at September 15, 2019 02:46 PM (mRtYs)

199 BUT - an attack, sponsored by Iran, on the heart of the Saudi supply apparatus (which is the main supply line to Europe, China, and Japan) is Huge. This is how Wars start, not little wars, but World Wars. This may not be getting attention, but a LOT of dominoes around the world are starting to fall because of this

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It would be nice if China went all Tianamin Square on the mullahs over this. The Japanese have that constitutional provision forbidding this, the Eurofags need a microscope to find their balls much less being able to sack up and do anything useful, and we are infested with Democrats and presstitutes.

Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at September 15, 2019 02:48 PM (dmoiP)

200 Garrett, Wikipedia says Slave had Pete Townshend backing vocals. Who knew?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at September 15, 2019 03:02 PM (PUmDY)

201 "As much as the idea of defining internet and social media access as a civil right makes me queasy.."

This is easy. A or B.

A. Either everyone has to bake the cake, or nobody has to bake the cake, while enforcing the existing laws prohibiting conspiracy to retaliate against individuals for exercising their enumerated rights.

B. Fuck you, into the helicopters. Problem solved for another couple of generations.

Posted by: lurker (the other one, but spelled with a P) at September 15, 2019 04:09 PM (67XdO)

202 "Importing Chinese Consumer Goods Is One Thing...Importing Their Authoritarian "Social Credit System" Is Something Entirely Different"

Buying Chinese consumer goods nevertheless supports the Communist regime and their army. So, I do my best to not buy Chinese.

Posted by: Ilion at September 15, 2019 04:16 PM (viTHX)

203 "[N]ever forget the law of unintended consequences: it will always bite you in the ass!"

CBD, these pinch faced scolds control ALL the levers of power - government, big business, news, entetainment - and they know this will never bite them in the ass under the current rules.

Come the Burning Times, a reckoning will occur.

Posted by: butch at September 15, 2019 05:33 PM (hXu8T)

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